Landlord of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 10 Buying a Donkey
Xu Qingzheng and the maidservant Xiao Wu were making a fuss, when suddenly a tenor voice came out, and the girl Xiao Wu turned into the big guy from last night, Xu Qing was so frightened that he shivered, "Hoo~".

Xu Qing got up with a depressed face. He knew that the big man went crazy yesterday, and he didn't know why there were so many people in Zhechong Mansion and no one was upholding justice.At this time, the sky was already bright, and at this time, everyone in Zhechong Mansion should have already taken their positions, drinking tea and chatting.

Therefore, Xu Qing is not afraid of big men, he does not believe that a white man can beat the imperial court official in public!Xu Qing swiftly changed into the official uniform delivered yesterday, opened the door and went out.

"Grandson, finally came out, let's see what I do..." No matter how big the big guy is, he can always recognize him in his official uniform, so he stuttered for a moment, and asked stammeringly, "You...you are, my lord?"

"Misunderstanding, misunderstanding, Mr. Xu, it's all a misunderstanding." A clever person had already seen the whole story, and ran in to report to the housekeeper.

"Misunderstanding? I was blocked in the door last night. I'm afraid this misunderstanding is difficult to explain?" Xu Qing said with a straight face, and he couldn't be a good person at this time.

"My lord, it's not me blocking you..." The big man knelt down in a panic and said, "It's you who can't come out by yourself..."

"Ok?"

"You bastard, confess your mistake to Mr. Xu!" The owner of the official house patted the big man's head, and the big man kowtowed immediately, and then tears and snot flowed out. Xu Qing said: "Master Xu, what do you think?"

To be honest, although the chief secretary is not a low-level official, he has an acre of land here, but Xu Qingzheng, the eighth-rank official, is a loose official with no real power. To put it bluntly, he only has a scary reputation.The official house owner is not afraid of Xu Qing, and intends to protect his hometown.

Xu Qing didn't want to make a big fuss, so he went down the donkey and waved his hands. The big man thanked Dade and went out.Then he turned around and asked the master: "I don't know how many days it will take for the horses and vehicles rewarded by the emperor to arrive? My younger brother will inevitably bother..."

The master looked at Xu Qing as if he had discovered the New World: "Master Xu, this carriage and servants have been delivered directly to your residence..."

"Your residence? Ah, I'm sending you off to Luonan! I think it's..." Xu Qing slapped his forehead and blushed.

Hearing that the servants in the carriage had already been sent to Luonan, Xu Qing didn't want to delay in Boxing, so he packed up his things and went to the county seat. After thinking about it, he decided to buy something for transportation.Although he didn't know where Luonan was, at least it was in Henan Province in the later generations, and he was in Shandong now, so it was a long way across the province. With his No. [-] bus, he might have to die before he left.

Moreover, I have more than ten pieces of cloth, which cannot be carried by myself. Fortunately, the cloth can be used as currency.So Xu Qing went to the streets to find out where the mules and horses were located. Fortunately, Boxing is still a big county, and there really are mules and horses.

According to the instructions, Xu Qing held a piece of silk cloth. Silk cloth was worth more than cotton cloth, but it was definitely not worth a horse, but it could be used as a deposit.

The mules and horses were relatively deserted. When they saw a visitor coming in, they hurriedly greeted them warmly. A servant led Xu Qing through a large courtyard. There were many ragged people squatting in the courtyard with grass on their heads. There were men and women. , There are big and small, this is "inserting labels and selling first".

Among these people, there are poor people who suffered from natural disasters and man-made disasters, some prisoners of war who were captured privately, and some liars, all with false household registration names, who escaped without paying attention.No one sold their sons and daughters. There have been few natural disasters in these years.

Xu Qing glanced slowly, just now he was feeling relieved to sell his sons and daughters, when he saw an old man coming to the gate, skinny as a stick, holding a little girl in his hand, he timidly explored the surroundings, about seven or eight years old, the same thin.

Xu Qing just glanced at it, and the servant led him to the backyard. There were five or six horses, more than a dozen donkeys, and seven or eight mules, and a stench filled the place.

In the early days of the Tang Dynasty, wars broke out frequently, and horses were very expensive. The better ones cost more than ten taels, and donkeys and mules were a little cheaper. Xu Qing thought about it for a while and decided to buy a donkey. Used as cattle.

"Eight taels! Buy it now!"

"Four taels, I won't buy even one cent more!"

"Seven taels! One point less is not enough!"

"Forget it, five taels of silver, it can't be higher."

"Young man, we have to eat too. In this case, 6 taels of silver."

"Two bolts of silk and one bolt of cotton..."

"Hiss~ deal!"

Xu Qing didn't know how to haggle the price, but he had the courage to raise the price of other people's seats... He didn't know what the price of the silk cloth was, anyway, he still had more.

He led the donkey to the front yard and made a deposit for the piece of silk cloth. The shopkeeper asked a young man and Xu Qing to pay the balance. Just as he was about to leave, he saw a woman in the room beating someone viciously with a wicker. A slave, and the one who was whipped was the little girl I saw just now. The little girl was crying, it was a dark day.

Xu Qing felt a pain in his heart, so he asked the shopkeeper, "Say, what's the origin of that?"

The shopkeeper replied: "Yazi brought it here, the family suffered from illness..."

Xu Qing pondered for a moment, hey, forget it, who told me to be so kind?
"Shopkeeper, how about adding a piece of silk cloth to me?"

"One...a piece of silk cloth? Okay! It's just that I haven't trained it well, I'm afraid it will offend the guest officer..." In the early Tang Dynasty, a grown man was cheaper than a horse, and a female doll that had just been brought in was changed hands. Silk cloth, the shopkeeper's is not to mention how beautiful it is.

"Little sister, where is your home?" Xu Qing walked to the side of the little girl.

"Bad guys! Woooooooooo...all bad guys...no one hurts Qiqi... blah blah blah..."

"Uh, your name is Qiqi, how about this, go find your mother with your brother?" Xu Qing pretended to be harmless to humans and animals.

"Mom? Mom is dead... woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo..."

"Ah~" Xu Qing instructed the boy to buy some things and handed them to the girl named Qiqi.Qiqi hesitated for a moment, then suddenly made up her mind and started to gobble it up.Xu Qing stopped her several times for fear of hurting her stomach.

Qiqi suddenly said: "My mother died after eating this, and I ate it too, so I can go to find my mother." Xu Qing felt distressed again, and showed her speech ability supernormally, telling a story about a tadpole looking for her mother. I don't know if Qiqi understood the story, but I saw her lying on the table and falling asleep.It seems that Qiqi's life experience still needs to be considered.

Xu Qing carried Qiqi back to the inn, settled the bill, reported another piece of cloth to the inn proprietress and said she wanted to cut some clothes for Qiqi, and went to the street to buy some pastries and other snacks. A piece of paper, folded a small windmill, fixed it on the chopsticks, inserted it into the window, and whirled around.

After finishing this, he greeted the innkeeper, and then planned to pawn the cloths. This is very familiar, he has been here with Zhang Zhong before.Five bolts of silk cloth, four bolts of cotton cloth, one bolt of cotton cloth nine renminbi of silver, and silk cloth two taels of four qian, a total of 15 taels and 6 qian.

There are still two bolts of silk cloth Xu Qing doesn't plan to pawn. They can keep them for their own use or give them away as gifts.Xu Qing checked the money bag, the silver was about 20 taels, and there were some loose coins that were not in strings. There were also ten copper coins at home, which were put in baskets, weighing 64 catties!
(End of this chapter)