Chapter 2 How to take dates

The man turned his head and looked at Li Xiaoyao and replied enthusiastically, "Song Gongsheng, the governor of Chizhou, Lord Song. You don't know that at the end of last year, South Vietnam fought with our State of Wu again. Song Gongsheng guarded Chizhou Prefecture and was directly beaten in more than a hundred miles by the Nanyue people. The emperor had to send Lord Qu to control again, not only He beat back the South Vietnamese and entered the South Vietnamese for dozens of miles. The emperor was angry and said that Lord Song missed the fighter and pulled it out to kill his head.

"Well, have you heard? Song Gongsheng is still the emperor's relative. His sister is the eldest son of the emperor and a serious emperor's relative. I heard that the eldest son knelt down outside the Meridian Gate for most of the day in order to plead for him, but the emperor did not agree. A man next to him squeezed over and said mysteriously:

"Hey, you don't know, do you? I heard that Wu Guifei doesn't like the eldest son of the emperor, and Wu Guifei can be half of the emperor's family! Alas, I heard that Wu Guifei looks like a fairy. When she smiled, even the immortals had to fall off the cloud!"

"No matter how beautiful it is, it's a mother-in-law in her thirties, and the immortal who can still laugh falls down?! You are talking nonsense!"

Li Xiaoyao listened to the guys' gossip happily and took his toes for a long time. Seeing that he couldn't see anything, he squeezed all the way past the wall of the store and turned into Panlou Street.

In the copy room behind the Zhu family's bookstore, Wei Shuisheng sat in front of the copy case and copied the book one by one. Li Xiaoyao greeted him all the way in. Wei Shuisheng put down the pen in his hand, moved a bench from the side, motioned Li Xiaoyao to sit down, and got up and poured a cup of hot tea on the tea table next to him and handed it to Li Xiaoyao.

The bookstore provides good tea for bookmakers. Li Xiaoyao eats enough in Changfeng Building every day, and then goes to Zhu's bookstore to drink a few cups of tea and read afternoon books. Even under limited conditions, he must take advantage of all available conditions to make his life quality and taste. Li Xiaoyao drank half a cup of tea, turned his head and looked at the servant bookmaker who quietly copied the house. He leaned over to Wei Shuisheng and said in a low voice, "Brother Shuisheng, when I came just now, I saw Song Gongsheng, the governor of Chizhou, being taken to kill his head."

Wei Shuisheng was about to speak when a white-bearded servant bookmaker next to him frowned and looked at Li Xiaoyao. Li Xiaoyao spit out his tongue, shrank back, and dared not speak again. Wei Shuisheng rubbed Li Xiaoyao's head with a gentle smile, sat down and continued to copy the book. Li Xiaoyao looked at the books piled up on several cases, turned over, took one, leaned back against the wall, drank tea, and read the book.

I heard that the books sent here are extremely precious. Some of them are copied and given away, some are borrowed books, copy a copy of them by themselves, and some of them are collected by themselves, and then copy one or two copies, in case. Li Xiaoyao looked intently at the books in her hand. She could read a book in the afternoon. Each of these soft and quaint thread-packed books was very thin and not thick. After copying a page of the book, Wei Shuisheng turned his head to look at Li Xiaoyao's cup. Seeing that the cup was empty, he got up and helped her fill it.

When the sun set, Wei Shuisheng put away the paper and ink, washed the pen and inkstone, wiped his hands, took off his blue cloth gown, carefully folded it and put it away, and called Li Xiaoyao: "Xiaoyao, it's time to go."

Li Xiaoyao came to his senses, quickly put down the book in his hand, picked up the cup, drank the tea, jumped up, and took Wei Shuisheng's hand: "Let's go! Go home!" Li Xiaoyao took Wei Shuisheng out of the door and took him to Jinliangqiao Street: "Brother Shuisheng, let's go back from Jinliangqiao Street. I made a small fortune today. A guest, an Ajiao jujube, actually gave me two taels of silver! Let's go to Chengji to buy a catty of lychee kidneys for you to eat, and then buy a catty of white-cut meat from Hudian for your brother, and then go to Zhangji to buy two or three catties of raw stir-fried lungs for Erhuai to eat enough! Well, buy another catty of lion candy, and my brother Guizi and I will eat it!"

Wei Shuisheng laughed at what Li Xiaoyao said: "It seems that you are going to spend all these two taels of silver?"

"Two taels of silver! Where did you spend it! Brother Shuisheng, you can accompany me to Wen's fruit shop again. Let's talk to Mrs. Wen about taking the goods again. Li Xiaoyao narrowed his eyes with a smile. Wei Shuisheng looked down at Li Xiaoyao and asked strangely, "Didn't we agree to let you pay on credit in ten days? What else should we say?"

"We have money now, so we don't need to pay on credit. I'll give her the money first. I want to pick up the dates one by one."

"What's the price?"

"Of course, the price remains unchanged! I'd like to make it cheaper, but I'm afraid she won't!" Li Xiaoyao said confidently, and Wei Shuisheng laughed: "Do you still want to be cheap? For this purchase, choose the price line one by one, and take a large amount of price one by one. If you want to pick dates one by one, they are willing to say nothing but also willing, and the price has also gone up.

"At this price, I'll pay first and let me pick it up one by one. Brother Shuisheng, let's try it. Maybe they are willing to do it. How can they know if they don't try?" Li Xiaoyao shook Wei Shuisheng's hand and said, "I only take five catties of dates a day, and it's not much. It's not a big deal to pick them one by one."

Wei Shuisheng raised his hand and stroked his forehead and promised helplessly: "Well, let's mention it. If they don't, we can't say more. It's our fault to take other people's goods like this."

"Uh-huh." Li Xiaoyao agreed repeatedly, and her eyes were full of smiles. She didn't pay attention to it. Beautiful men and handsome men were not for nothing!

The two bought food, Wei Shuisheng carried it, and Li Xiaoyao kept talking all the way and entered the Wen family's fruit industry. Mrs. Wen was holding the tent inside. Hearing Li Xiaoyao's loud and affectionate cry, she hurriedly came out and saw Wei Shuisheng. She was stunned and subconsciously raised her hand to close her hair.

Li Xiaoyao smiled with bent eyes, fell on the counter, and stretched out the small silver in his hand: "Sister Wen, this is the fruit money for these ten days, a total of two taels of silver, you call it." Mrs. Wen took the silver and weighed the silver with a small scale. She was unnatural but tried her best to say and laugh as if nothing had happened: "Xiao Yao came early today. What good things have you bought?"

Li Xiaoyao looked at Mrs. Wen with a smile and didn't answer her words. She just asked herself, "Is it enough?"

"Enough! Half more money, I'll give it to you. Mrs. Wen put down the scale and turned around looking for the scissors. Li Xiaoyao hurriedly waved his hand and smiled and said, "No, my brother said that Sister Wen is the best. If this fruit is enough money, it can only be more, but not less!"

Mrs. Wen put down the silver and tried to look at Wei Shuisheng generously and thanked him, "Thank you. It's not easy for Xiaoyao to sell some fruits. Don't give more next time."

Wei Shuisheng smiled politely, hesitated for a moment, and thanked sincerely: "Thank you for the credit these days. Now that Xiaoyao has earned the capital, there will be no need to pay credit in the future." Mrs. Wen's face flashed a trace of disappointment. Wei Shuisheng coughed in embarrassment and continued vaguely, "Thanks to your credit a while ago. Now that we have the capital, we will pay the fruit money in advance, and we will pay it every five days. It is still five catties of dates every day, that is, Wei Shuisheng coughed a few more times: "Xiao Yao wants to pick up the dates one by one, and the price remains unchanged."

Wen Niangzi blinked her eyes and looked at Wei Shuisheng in a daze. Li Xiaoyao hurried over and explained with a smile, "Sister, you know, I'm just in a serious illness. As soon as I sell fruits, people can't stand it. My brother loves me and is afraid that I will be tired when I sell fruits. Sister, if my fruit is better than others, it will sell much faster, and I won't be tired. My brother is also relieved. I only take five catties of fruit a day, and I can't pick it. I don't think it's right for your hundreds of catties of dates.

"That's not the case..." Mrs. Wen looked at Wei Shuisheng with a blush on his face, which was more difficult than Wei Shuisheng. Li Xiaoyao took the bag of lion candy from Wei Shuisheng's hand and pushed it to Mrs. Wen: "Sister Wen, this is what my brother bought for you."

Wei Shuisheng's eyes suddenly widened and was about to speak, but he was trampled hard by Li Xiaoyao. Li Xiaoyao stepped on him fiercely and said anxiously, "Sister, I will come to pick dates at this hour. At this time, no one is convenient. If my brother is free, let him come and follow me. Let's choose together, and it will be picked in a moment. Nothing will delay you. My sister is good to me, and my brother remembers it in his heart.

Wei Shuisheng looked at Li Xiaoyao depressedly, and he couldn't figure out why this little sister became slippery after she survived a serious illness? Full of ghost thoughts! Li Xiaoyao stuffed the silver in his hand into Wei Shuisheng's empty hand and sent it forward: "Sister, this is a taels of silver, not enough. I'll give you ten more big money." Mrs. Wen involuntarily reached out to take the silver in Wei Shuisheng's hand. Li Xiaoyao quickly discharged ten big money on the counter and thanked him with a smile on her face: "Thank you, Sister Wen." Mrs. Wen picked up the copper coins one by one and looked at Li Xiaoyao and said, "I have never done such a business. Don't talk about it outside. If people know, I can't do this business."

"Sister, don't worry! No matter what, you can't embarrass your sister!" Li Xiaoyao smiled and bent his eyes into a crescent moon. While waving his hand with Mrs. Wen, he was pulled out of the Wen family fruit line and out of the Wen family fruit line by Wei Shuisheng. Li Xiaoyao cheered in a low voice, shook off Wei Shuisheng, held his toes, and circled in front of Wei Shuisheng and jumped back. Wei Shuisheng looked at the happy Li Xiaoyao and swallowed back the rebuke. Forget it, let the eldest brother discipline her. This girl is becoming more and more unsical.

Li Xiaoyao and several brothers rented a large miscellaneous courtyard with five people. They rented two bright and dark rooms near the courtyard wall. Curtains were hung for Li Xiaoyao to live in, and the four brothers lived outside.

They are not from Taiping Prefecture. They are sad to escape from Chizhou Prefecture because of the battle between South Vietnam and Wu last year. This matter is a long story.