This is the second year after the founding of the Great Qi Dynasty, and the weather is good everywhere. With tax reductions and exemptions, land reclamation and land allocation, persuading farmers and mulberry and other favorable agricultural policies, the people everywhere have a chance to breathe. Spread the grain all over the central, southern and western regions, broadcast the grain seeds, and have the sowing manual issued by the imperial court. Even if there are droughts and waterlogged areas, there will be no harvest. When the new year comes, everyone will meet to go shopping The market exchanges New Year's goods.

The same is true in southern Qianzhou. On the day of the new year, people from the towns and villages under Juzhou flocked into Juzhou city carrying things to exchange for new year's goods.

Money is a rare thing, and the money in the whole Daqi is only exchanged and used by one-third of the people, and nearly two-thirds of the bottom-level people are used to bartering, and some people may never see it in their entire lives. What does copper plate look like, let alone silver.

So when a piece of silver came to him, Zhao Gen'er's eyes widened and he was stunned. Seeing that he didn't take the silver, Little Bear pouted and asked, "Aren't you going to sell the basket?"

Zhao Gen'er waved his hands in a panic, and said, "No, it's not for sale, no, this thing can't be counted as money." He picked up the small pannier and stuffed it into the little bear's hand, rubbing his hands in a panic, "This is a small thing, it's not worth much. , you take it, take it."

Zhao Gen'er's daughter hid behind her father and stared at it, whispering: "My father made this up for me."

Zhao Gen'er pulled his daughter, and looked at the servant behind Xiao Xiong in a panic. It was his first time entering the city, and it was the first time he saw such a noble son. of.

Little Xiong struggled for a while, and said regretfully: "It turned out to be a gift from your father, so you won't sell it." He wouldn't sell the gift his father gave him.

Little Xiong put down the little back basket dejectedly, and a young servant was about to go forward to break up, but was stopped by a pillar. He was from a farmer's family, and he knew that the little girl didn't need the little back basket, and the young servant would inevitably ruin his master's reputation if he came forward. , so he leaned into Little Bear's ear and said, "My lord, we can exchange things with her."

Little Bear's eyes lit up, "What to exchange?"

Dan'er immediately pointed to the candied haws hanging on the side, and shouted: "Use that, use that."

Little Bear gave him a sidelong glance, "Do you think everyone likes to eat like you?"

Who knew that little girl was drooling staring at the candied haws, the bear was clever, waved her little hand, and said, "Buy!"

Dan'er immediately ran over happily, took out a small coin the size of a fingernail from her small purse and handed it to the peddler, drooling: "Buy a lot."

Little Xiong also swallowed, but he felt that he was the master and should be steady, so he only watched from the corner of his eyes and did not run forward.

That dime can buy a lot of candied haws. Dan'er first gave Little Bear two bunches, and then divided them one by one. The little girl also got two bunches. Even Zhao Gen'er took a bunch. Dan'er said: " If you eat our food, you have to give us the small pannier."

There are quite a few such panniers in her family, and the little girl gave the little panniers to the little bears without hesitation, and gnawed the candied haws till her face was covered with sugar scum.

Little Xiong gnawed on a bunch, and seeing that she had finished eating one but put the other away, he said, "It won't taste good if you keep it."

The little girl whispered: "I will leave it for my brother to eat."

Little Xiong tilted his head and asked suspiciously, "Your brother can just buy it if he wants to eat it."

The little girl widened her eyes and said, "Our family has no money."

Little Bear asked curiously, "Why is there no money?"

But the little girl asked back of course: "Why is there money?"

The two children stared at each other, Zhao Gen'er was anxious, and said in a low voice: "Young master, we have no skills, we can't earn money, so we have no money."

Little Xiong looked at him sympathetically and said, "So you're a fool, you don't know how to make money."

The little girl blushed and said angrily, "Why are you scolding my father?"

"I didn't scold your father," Little Bear was at a loss. He felt that he was just stating the facts, and he said, "I'll give you money to buy your pannier. If you don't want it, you want it in exchange for candied haws, but buying it is the same as buying it." Yes, money is more expensive than candied haws, you can buy candied haws, but candied haws may not be able to be exchanged for money, you are so stupid, stupider than eggs."

Dan'er nodded repeatedly, and said while eating candied haws: "Stupid than me."

Because the speech was very long, what Xiaoxiong said was a little confused, the little girl didn't understand, and Zhao Gen'er was also a little confused, but Luo Zhan, who had been paying attention to the development of the situation, understood.

He glanced at the little bear in surprise. He didn't expect that the child would have such insight when he was only three years old. His father's wisdom can be seen. He lowered his eyes and thought for a moment, then smiled and said: "Young master, ordinary people are dull and unreasonable." , I don’t understand what you mean, since they are willing to exchange with you, you just take it.”

Little Xiong stared at him with wide eyes, wanting to tell him that he didn't understand what he said before, but thinking of what his father said, everything can be weak outside, but the momentum cannot be weak. The momentum that Little Bear understands is to hold your head up , so he straightened his chest and stared at Luo Zhan.

Luo Zhan thought that he didn't agree with his words, so he asked in surprise: "Young master, do you have other opinions?" He glanced at Zhao Gen'er, and said with a smile: "I'm afraid that even if the young master explains it, he may not understand it."

Little Xiong didn't like his gaze very much. Seeing Zhao Gen'er blushed and lowered his head in shame, he said, "If you don't understand, you have to teach. How can you understand if you don't teach?" Teach him very carefully, and let him be patient with Dan'er, not to teach twice at a time, not to teach three times twice...

Luo Zhan raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "It's just that ordinary people can't afford to go to school, who will teach them?"

Little Xiong was at a loss, knowing that the pillar of his family's level immediately approached his ear and said: "He is talking about educating the people..."

With a wave of his little hand, Xiaoxiong interrupted the words of the pillar domineeringly, and said: "Isn't it the responsibility of an official to educate the people? They haven't fulfilled their responsibility, so they are dragged down to beat the board."

The smile on Luo Zhan's face faded away, he took a meaningful look at Little Bear, and said, "Young Master is right, it is indeed the responsibility of all officials to educate the people, and Luo has been educated."

After finishing speaking, he turned around and left.

Zhu Zi frowned to see his leaving back, the chief guard behind Xiao Xiong winked at the people behind him, and two of them left the team quietly, following the people in front.

The little bear touched his head inexplicably, he didn't understand what happened just now, just like his father, he never struggled with things that he couldn't figure out, so the little bear let go quickly, turned around and said to the little girl: "I want to hunt, come in The mountain is going to be carried in a basket, do you still have a small basket? If you have one, sell it to me, and I will give you money, so that your family will have money, and you can buy as many candied haws as you want.”

After talking with Xiaoxiong for a long time, Zhao Gen'er also noticed that this young man is not as hateful as the villagers said, he hesitated, and said: "There are carrying baskets, but it doesn't need so much money, just look at how much money you can give them." Just a copper plate," he explained, "It doesn't take much work to weave a pannier. The one you want is small, so it's better to weave it. The bamboo is all cut from the mountain, so it doesn't cost money, but what you want is a small pannier, which is worth it." It took me two days to make it up."

Little Xiong remembered what his mother said about the deposit, so he untied his purse, poured out all the money from it, chose the smallest silver peas for him, and said, "This is the deposit, you make it up." Alright, send it to my house, and I'll pay you later."

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