Chapter 40 The Father and Daughter by the Wuzhang River
For Han people, eating is the best way to get closer to each other.
Look, after the five masters and servants had lunch, their relationship with each other was eased a lot. At least Chen Buer had a decent conversation and made jokes from time to time to coax Pan Mingyue, making everyone's relationship more harmonious.
After the meal was full, the waiter came over.
"Master Seven, how well you eat?"
"Well, okay, Fenglelou's craftsmanship is always trustworthy."
The waiter was amused when he heard this, bowed repeatedly to thank him, and then reported today's bill: "Master Qi, you have spent a total of 10,500 yuan. Do you think this is the account or the cash bank?"
Chen Buer now has money in his pocket. Isn’t it humiliating a “rich man” like him: “Fatty, go to the counter to check out.”
When Pan Mingyue heard that the money was 100% off for meals, she was secretly surprised. You should know that a young lady like her had a monthly fee of only 150% off for herself, which was only enough for a meal.
And just now when Chen Pang took out the silver from a wooden box he was carrying casually, there were obviously a lot of them inside.
Where did he get so much money?
Pan Mingyue couldn't figure it out, so she pretended to shut up inadvertently: "Brother Qi, I heard from my brother that several batches of Jingshitang medicinal materials have been robbed by criminals recently. Is the Chen family's capital turnover difficult?"
Seeing that he was not an outsider, Chen Buer whispered:
"Who said no? Just this month, another batch of medicinal materials from the southwest was robbed. My father said that the loss was at least more than 10,000 taels. Now the cost of my family has been reduced."
Pan Mingyue pretended to be like a silly white sweet and continued to ask ignorantly:
"Then, then we ate seven brothers ten taels of silver in one meal, wouldn't it cost seven brothers a lot? Otherwise, my little sister still has some silver here..."
When Chen Buer heard this, he felt warm. Those who are willing to borrow money these days are definitely real friends.
Before he could answer, the thin man next to him took the initiative to answer for him:
"Young lady, don't worry. My young master has his own way to make money. So we made more than 100 taels of silver in the morning."
In fact, it is not that the thin man is not strict. He is really the woman in front of him, but his future mistress will have an extraordinary identity.
People say they want to lend money to their young master. If they are misunderstood that their young master has gone bankrupt and their family is so poor that they are being looked down upon by others.
If you meet a bad-hearted girl who likes the poor and loves the rich, and then you will break off the engagement directly, then your seventh young master will be completely thrown to the ground and become a big joke in Bianliang City.
I have to say that the thin man has watched too many operas in the washes. In the plays, the men's family is in trouble and the women's family is in trouble, so he is very worried about the reputation and face of his young master.
The problem is that the thin man has done bad things this time.
When Pan Mingyue heard this, she suddenly realized it and thought:
"Okay, it turns out that this guy can make extra money, and he can make more than 100 taels in one morning. He has a very strong income-generating ability. It seems that he must ask carefully in the future and force out all his money."
Chen Buer didn't think so much, and his follower explained it to him, so he saved the argument.
"By the way, Mingyue, what are your arrangements in the afternoon? If it's okay, I will take you to the Nanxie Street Washe. Today there is a special shadow puppetry show by Cao Baoyi, and it's a rare opportunity."
When Pan Mingyue and Zhi'er heard that they could watch shadow puppets, the girl's mind became alive again.
Anyway, he was about to treat Chen Buer as a "tool guy" for a day, so he agreed to go with him with a smile.
When Chen Buer got up, he looked at the table of guests next to him and found that the pair of glass had left. He smiled and felt that the Great Zhou Dynasty was so big that it was really amazing.
After coming out of Fengle Tower, Chen Buer and his friends walked east along the Wuzhang River, crossed Caomen and headed towards Nanxi Street.
At this time, they found a large group of people surrounded by the river, and there seemed to be quarrels inside.
As an excellent Bianliang person, how could he miss this kind of excitement? So, as the fat man and the thin man squeezed around, Chen Buer and Pan Mingyue found a front position.
The quarrel seemed to be a father and daughter.
In fact, it shouldn't be a quarrel, it should be the father scolding his daughter.
"You lose money, now I have lost all the money and have owed a lot of debts outside. But people said that if I don't pay back the money today, I will break my legs and fall into this five-foot river.
If you have no legs for your father, how do you work? How do you make money? How do you support your family? Now that you are in trouble for your father, you will not be willing to sell yourself to save your father. Why are you so cruel? Push your father into the fire pit?"
The little girl squatting on the ground and crying, she looked about fifteen or sixteen years old. Although she didn't grow up, she looked quite beautiful, and she looked like a beauty.
Even though they were wearing thick linen shirts, and those pair of torn shoes had a hole in their feet. Judging from the clothes of the father and daughter, they knew they were poor families.
I saw the girl crying while explaining softly:
"Dad, please don't sell me. My daughter will definitely go out to work hard and give all the wages she earned. Dad, my daughter doesn't want to go to brothels, my daughter doesn't want to leave her parents and brother, wuwu~~~~~"
"What's wrong with the brothel? Look at the girls in the brothel on the other side, they are all wearing silk and satin, eating delicacies, and they don't have to work every day. They just sell them with laughter and singing, aren't you good at singing songs at home?
You go today, and you have to go if you don’t. Your father, I raised you so big, and you won’t receive a lot of bride money after marrying you. If you sell you to a brothel, you can still get a fifty tael of silver. Fifty taels are enough for your father to pay off the debt and make some good clothes for your mother and brother.”
As soon as the father finished speaking, he pulled his daughter to walk towards the brothel.
When the people from Bianliang next to him heard this, they were all pointing fingers and couldn't calm down.
But what if you are angry? If the villain is forced, the Bianliang people can stand up and stand up for something.
But there was a father and daughter in front of us. According to the unspoken social rules of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the father had the right to deal with his daughter. Whether to marry or sell, outsiders could not interfere with it.
Could it be that you would buy this girl for fifty taels?
Help, fifty taels of silver, for ordinary people in Bianliang, is it a big sum of money? Is it okay? I can't afford it.
When Pan Mingyue heard this, she became angry and cursed in a low voice: "There is such a cruel father in this world. Isn't this pushing his daughter into the fire pit alive?"
Zhi'er also nodded fiercely: "This old man is so bad. He sells his daughter just to pay off his gambling debts. The gambling products are so bad, so he is far inferior to our eldest son."
When Pan Mingyue heard this, she gave her maid a blank look.
Chen Buer felt very uncomfortable when he heard this. He just ate a meal in Fenglelou and spent about fifteen stag, which was equivalent to half of the life of this girl.
Chapter completed!