Chapter 120: It’s even worse to count money

Butler Zhang said a few more words, leaving Zhang Liang to serve him, hurried home, and wrote down the appearance of the woman who always had to care about him.

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan were playing checkers with Zhang Wang. There were three people, each with a color, and they were carved out of wood and killed on the chessboard. Since Zhang Wang saw the checkers, it took only a few days to get worse than Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan. Now this game has a slight advantage.

Zhang Xiaobao sat cross-legged there, with one hand on his legs, ready to get checkers at any time, holding his chin with the other hand, frowned, and carefully calculating, Wang Juan also muttered in a low voice about how many steps it took, while Zhang Wangshi slowly looked at her son and daughter-in-law's cute appearance from time to time.

When Mr. Zhang came, Zhang Wang finished his journey in five steps. If Wang Juan didn't move the sixth step away in advance, he could also use her chess to complete it with five steps, and then Wang Juan lost.

Wang Juan looked at Zhang Xiaobao's nervous look, laughed, and reached for the chess piece. Zhang Xiaobao hurriedly said, "You should know how to sacrifice yourself and cover your teammates."

"I understand, but you are not my friend. Now you are a separation of powers. I'll just be in the middle. You can walk eight steps slowly, ah." Wang Juan still picked up the chess piece.

"Madam, are you here? There are also young masters and young ladys? Today, when I went there, in addition to the adult I met last time, I also met a person who looked in his fifties and had a small scar under the corner of his eyes on his left. When he was talking, the right eye would blink twice every time, tie his hair up, and insert it with a wooden hairpin. Feng Chaotian's hairstyle, his right hand always touched the index finger and nose of his left hand..."

"Needless to say, I know, I came so early? I thought I could only come after the master passed the exam. Butler Zhang, go and let someone serve him well. Don't let the master know. It will disturb the master's study. Do you remember?"

Before Mr. Zhang could finish his words, Zhang Wang knew who it was. He closed his eyes and took a breath, then returned to his calmness just now, asking Mr. Zhang not to tell his father.

Butler Zhang immediately responded: "I know Mrs. I won't let the master know, but the paper can't keep the fire. Madam, there is another thing. The adult said he wanted to celebrate the New Year here, so that the guy in our Shuiyunjian Restaurant would continue to do things there. He couldn't go home even if he was thirty years old, and he didn't dare to agree."

"Oh, in this matter, there are not only people in the water and clouds who do things, but also from the Zhang and Wang family, but also from the Ge family. How many people have they come?" Zhang Wang thought about it, but he also felt it was difficult to deal with. She already knew who the adult was, but she didn't want to go there immediately. It would be better to delay it until the imperial examination was over.

"Mom, it's still a few days before the New Year. Don't worry. Think slowly, even if there are no people from the Ge family, there will be enough people from the Zhang and Wang families. It's just that they won't let them go home for the New Year. This is a bit bad, so I have to do it carefully."

Zhang Xiaobao spoke at this time. He did not ask his mother who was here or what it had to do with the family. He just saw that his mother had some inner conflicts in this matter, so he didn't want to raise it.

Wang Juan also nodded from the side, and at the same time reached out to stop Zhang Xiaobao's hand that wanted to mess up the chessboard.

"Madam, why not just do what the young master said and wait a few more days. Oh, there were fifty-five people in total. I wonder if there were anyone else who would come."

Butler Zhang originally wanted to tell the young master, but now he has saved the time to go there.

Zhang Wang nodded, "Then do it, butler Zhang is working so hard."

Butler Zhang said modestly and turned to make arrangements. Zhang Wangshi was stunned for a few seconds at the chessboard. Just as he was about to get it off, Zhang Xiaobao suddenly said, "Mom, Juanjuan and I are tired, so we won't get it off anymore. Mom, let's go and have a rest."

Mrs. Zhang looked at her son, touched her head, and said, "Okay, Xiaobao and Juanjuan go to rest, and my mother will take a nap. My mother has a good son and a good daughter-in-law. She won't worry about it anymore, so she won't fuck her anymore."

"Well, don't worry, our family has money, land, and officials. When my father passes the exam, see who dares to look down on our family, mom, Juanjuan and I are back."

Zhang Xiaobao seemed to say something casually, and pulled Wang Juan out the door and headed towards his yard.

"Xiaobao is so smart." Looking at his son and his future daughter-in-law, Zhang Wang breathed a sigh of relief. He felt worried just now, and as his son said the last sentence, it disappeared.

"Xiaobao, the person who came is your relative? Your mother doesn't want to see them. Have you bullied your family before?" Wang Juan asked as she followed Zhang Xiaobao on the road.

"Who knows, it doesn't matter who it is. What's important is that this is the place where Zhang and Wang families are. No matter who comes, they have to do things according to our rules."

Zhang Xiaobao said disdainfully, who will come? Zhangjiazhuang is Zhangjiazhuang. Even if the emperor comes, you can't force it.

Wang Juan was not in a hurry to see Zhang Xiaobao involved her affairs, and she was not in a hurry. She gave a small stone on the road to the side and asked again: "Then have you decided to let who will stay in the water and clouds to serve people? Didn't two sixth-rank officials come to ask for your father's things last time? It should be the efforts of the old man."

"I didn't think about it, don't worry, there are so many days left. Sometimes when an inspiration comes, I have an idea. Don't always let me think about it alone. You can also think about it for me." Zhang Xiaobao was also thinking about how to do this.

The old man had some skills. He was so old that he ran here to celebrate the New Year. It would be really impossible not to serve him. If he served him, who would he arrange for him? Who would he be the New Year?

"Yes, Xiaobao, so let's let the people in Shuiyun take turns, for example, on the night of thirty, just like we did last year, go to my house to eat first and then come back. The guys can do it too. When they are thirty, they will pay New Year's greetings, but those who don't pay New Year's greetings come back."

Wang Juan gave an idea. She thought it was good to do this, which was here. If it were the past, who would care about the New Year, there were always people in the unit who were willing to stay.

Zhang Xiaobao thought about it and was about to nod, but stopped again, "No, there should be a better way. Let's go back and think slowly. I like to eat while thinking about things, and I think about it as I eat."

When Zhang Xiaobao was thinking about how to celebrate the New Year, County Magistrate Jia was thinking about how to make Zhangjiazhuang have a bad New Year. Yesterday, he heard about the firecrackers and calculated the money he might make, and he finally couldn't hold back.

When I got up this morning, I asked some of the yamen runners he bought to join with other yamen runners, and loaded them into Tuqiao Village with the things he bought from Zhangjiazhuangzi.

In the afternoon, when there was still a distance from Tuqiao Village, a sound of firecrackers sounded. County Magistrate Jia picked up the curtain of the car and looked over there. He saw that there was an adult in front of a small village, and there was a little boy playing with his whip. The firecrackers were so long that they hung from the tree and turned back and forth for a few times before they could just pull them to the ground.

The crackling sound made my ears buzzing. The car walked out dozens of feet away, and the movement had not stopped.

"Tong Yabo, tell me how much firecracker sounded just now?" County Magistrate Jia waited for the end of the firecrackers, pressed his ears with his hand, retching for a moment, and shouted to the outside.

He didn't call Song Yang, thinking that he should hide it and use the bribed people in key places. If he usually acts too close to him, it will easily make people suspicious.

The boy yamen came to the car and said respectfully to the car: "Sir, the younger one thinks it is 20,000 yuan, which is cheaper. The more you buy, the cheaper it is. There are 300,000 yuan in the yamen this year, and there are some things that can explode in the sky. If you are willing to put it, you can light the fire yourself."

"Ah, it's cheap, so it's a lot of money to put it like this. How many buckets of rice can be exchanged for a whip, right?" County Magistrate Jia felt a little more comfortable this time, and he estimated how much firecrackers could be exchanged for.

"What the lord said is that you can indeed exchange a lot of rice, but that farm has some spare money and is willing to buy it and put it in. You must let them put it in? If you don't put it on, you will have to burn firecrackers at that time. One thousand sounds will cost twenty-two cents, and one thousand sounds will cost only one hundred and ninety cents, and the one twenty-thousand sounds will probably cost about three hundred and fifty and sixty cents."

The Tong Yabo continued to say and estimated the price of firecrackers.

After hearing this, County Magistrate Jia felt even more uncomfortable and silently calculated that ordinary families would buy at least one hundred times during the Chinese New Year, right? That was three cents. How many families in the county were there? There were registered offices in this yamen and more than nine thousand households. How much money can their Zhangjiazhuang make? If you can earn half a penny for one hundred, that would be four cents.

What about those who buy more? And those restaurants are now used to setting off firecrackers. When the New Year opens, they have to set off a lot. According to this estimate, just this firecracker can make thousands of guan. If the Zhang family's firecrackers are estimated to make less, people outside come to buy them.

The firecrackers in Zhangjiazhuang are constantly transported out. How are firecrackers made? After taking apart, there should be sulfur and charcoal, and there should be saltpeter. But the problem is that I found someone to make them, but it didn't sound at all. This prescription seems to be the most important thing, and there must be something else in it.

No, we can't let Zhangjiazhuang continue to make money. We should find a way quickly and wait for people from other places to find out about this thing next year and come and buy it together. Wouldn't they make more money?

"Children's yamen runners, make people speed up. It's so slow, how can I have time to deliver things to others when I get there?" I was anxious, and County Magistrate Jia urged him.

The team's speed soon became faster, and Tong Yabos also followed him to the magistrate Jia in the car and advised him, "Don't worry, sir, don't you say you'll stay here for one night today? It's okay to send it in the daytime tomorrow."
Chapter completed!