Chapter 49: Playing games when you have nothing to do

The newly built ships are still sailing often. Compared to Xiner who only likes some fun things, the old man pays more attention to those local specialties. The area of ​​Luzhou, including the surrounding states, is now known to anyone who is willing to inquire about the disaster.

According to time estimates, these things were transported for the second time. The old man knew that the things transported back there were also specialties, which were secretly left by some local officials. But this time was obviously different from the last time. Not only were there specialties from Luzhou, but also from the surrounding states.

If it were someone else, the old man would think that these things were obtained by chance and sent them, but the Zhang family basically had nothing by chance, which means that the people in those states should have lived well. The old man knew Zhang Zhong's personality and his family would not ignore others after he made money.

From this point of view, it won’t take long to submit the merits of the five states around you. Let’s put forward the merits. The greater the merits, the more discerning people will think that Zhang Zhong is more powerful. Who doesn’t know what’s happening there? Even if you praise the people of the five states on the surface, you will value Zhang Zhong more in your heart.

"Grandpa, there are still paintings. There are words written under the painting. I will read them to my grandpa. On June 17th, it rained heavily, and there was a vast ocean around it. The houses were rushing down, and the trees were rafting into land, rippling with the waves. On June 19th, floating corpses flowed by. I felt anxious and sent the thriving team of Miao Zero to search against the current.

A baby was lying on the back on the water and rushed to the edge of the wood strip. He thought that a floating corpse was floating. Xiaobao entered the water and helped the baby come up, blowing air and pressing his chest to open the lung meridian. Then a cry came. The person he saw was extremely happy and shouted. The baby was spreading his hands and whispering in his mouth.

On June 22, people from the upper prefectures came to the upper reaches to rescue them. Later, there were more people and the mountain people were waiting for help again. Unfortunately, there were too few people in the throne and could not expand the search range. I wonder how many people in the sea were rushed. On June 24, the rain did not stop..."

Xin'er opens a page and reads it again. As she recites it, she can't continue reading it anymore. Tears are left drop by drop. Among the things she has seen, there are sorrow, helplessness, sadness, joy, and expectation, which makes her mood move with her. Although she is young, she also knows that life is precious.

The old man took the book with the picture, looked at the special painting method on it, looked at the clear scene in the painting, and said to his granddaughter: "Xin'er, this is really great wisdom and courage. Your Uncle Zhang has no tree. Even though some people died, there are more people who survived because of him. Without the wooden rafting array that fluctuates with the waves, it will add more unjust souls there."

Xin'er was still sad, nodded and asked, "Grandpa, why didn't Uncle Zhang divide the wooden raft into small pieces? That way the blocking place can be larger. Why don't you make more wooden rafts?"

"Silly girl, the wind and waves on the beach are so strong that even if they are connected together, they will rise and fall. Look at this picture. There are big stones on it to press the wooden rafts. The impact of the waves in the good place is, even if the wooden rafts are sometimes lifted up. If the ropes were not tied up, the people on the wooden rafts would have fallen into the water long ago.

He also wanted to set up early, but he didn't have that long time to give it to him. At that time, he had just arrived and had no time to do it. If he had given him half a year, nothing would have happened there. Look at this painting, which said it was about to dig two rivers, and I think it had been digging now."

The old man naturally knew more than his granddaughter. From these paintings, you can see what happened there. Not only the rafts, but also the big ships there to help block the wind and waves. You can imagine what the situation was like at that time. For this flood, the Zhang family did everything they could do.

Xin'er understood it now, and snatched the picture book back and continued reading. After reading the last page, she asked again: "Grandpa, what would happen if Uncle Zhang's family were there?"

"No? It won't be so here, but many people will die there. Even after the disaster, some people will die, and more people will flee. Your Uncle Zhang's family is unusual. Although there is only one state, it has supported the surrounding five states. Without him there, the six states will be over.

There are fewer people, and without the Zhang family, there will be fewer people there. For the country and the people, this is the real way. Don’t worry, when we get there, you will see a Luzhou that is different from the one drawn in the picture.”

The old man looked at the river ahead and said to Xin'er with emotion. He believed in the Zhang family's ability to do things. A lot of money had been transported here. Others thought it was a dilapidated place. If it were the Zhang family, they would have the ability to make money at that time.

Xin'er didn't care about anything different at all. As long as she was not dead, she would be satisfied when she could see Sister Liu'er, Wang Juan and Zhang Xiaobao when she arrived, and shook the illustration book in her hand.

"Grandpa, this thing is really fun, with pictures."

"This is not fun, it is of great use. If something similar happens elsewhere, you can do it accordingly. The above talks about how to treat people who fall into the water, how to bandage the wound, and don't drink raw water, and eat more garlic. Think about it, if the Yellow River is flooded, can you do it accordingly?"

The old man saw more knowledge from such things.

"Yes." Xiner nodded and agreed.

"You can't take this book, you have to leave it to the people here and send it to the emperor." The old man stretched out his hand as he spoke.

Xin'er reluctantly handed over the beautiful books. Seeing her grandfather asking someone to send them away, she said reluctantly: "The beautiful pictures are gone, I will take a look at them with my own eyes when I get to the place."

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan didn't know that the old man had come here. The two of them had made the right accounts these days and found that Qi Dong would find a way to be greedy every day, just a lot of money. For ordinary people, it was a drop in the bucket for Zhang Xiaobao.

"I'm so greedy that I'm so greedy that I'm going to take action? Otherwise, others should be greedy if I see nothing." Wang Juan finally learned a lesson and found out that the account was so detailed. Seeing that Qi Dong had been greedy for a few days, he couldn't say that he was greedy. It should be for public power and private use. He kept the benefits himself, and he had tentatively kept, so he advised Zhang Xiaobao to clean up.

Zhang Xiaobao has been so easy these days, and he is playing games with Liu Shaoqing and the other four.

Two of the four people were directly calculated, while the other two were affected. The affected people did not suffer much loss, they offended people and earned less money for a few days.

Since Zhang Xiaobao raised the purchase price, shrimp paste has gone from being a regular multilateral to the current eight-pin jar. Cao Herui had already agreed to exchange shrimp for wages, and then the amount was divided by 46,000 yuan, and because of the price increase of shrimp paste, he also changed his mind.

If you do it well, thirty people can earn more than thirty jars of shrimp in a day, but Zhang Xiaobao is not going to let these thirty people do anything. He makes new clothes and three meals a day can be said to be full of wine every meal. After drinking, he still wants to work?

After barely following the team for a while, thirty people could only exchange their wages for five jars of shrimps a day. They didn't care. They ate and drank every day, even if they didn't have wages.

As a result, Cao Herui's hope was dashed. He thought that five jars of shrimp could make nearly two jars of shrimp paste, and one jar would sell for eight guan. If this continues, it would be sixteen guan a day. And looking at the price, it seems that there is a rising trend, when the shrimp paste is made, will it rise to more?

After he was thinking about it, he didn't want to send shrimps to Liu Shaoqing, but asked someone to send some money, saying that the thirty servants in the family were not good at doing things and had no wages these days, so the money he gave was used to buy shrimps and boats.

He couldn't say such words, so he had to let the person in charge of the family go over and say that after hearing the description of the manager, Liu Shaoqing's face turned gloomy after hearing this, but he still thanked him and collected the money.

Knowing that this shrimp paste could be sold at a high price, Cao Herui sent other servants out of the house and used wood to catch shrimps in the sea to make shrimp paste, so that they could be sold after they were ready.

Fan Jianxi and Jiang Huanshi also felt that sending people over would make less money, so they found reasons to transfer their servants back and followed them to the sea to catch shrimps.

Liu Shaoqing could no longer say anything. The benefits were to keep the three people who worked together away from him. He could not find other people’s problems. After all, his family members did not give others anything to eat. He said that he would still be the kind of fresh shrimps in the evening, and the servants at home made their own decisions and changed them.

Even if he told the truth, no one would believe it. The servant in the family would be beaten for a while every day, and would not kill him, and would beat him a whip a day. In fact, he would tell the people in the yard that the master would do whatever he told him, and wait for the whip after he did it himself.

When I was hitting people, I sent all my servants out to catch shrimps. At this time, there were already twenty-six jars, but the number of 200 jars was far from enough. If I really couldn't pay it, I would have to pay twice the money, which is 600 stalemates.

Liu Shaoqing also had a good idea, and wanted his family to make seventy or eighty jars. If they sell them, the money would be almost enough to pay.

As for the three righteous people who are jealous of money, they should make money by themselves. They won’t ask them if they have good things in the future. If there is charcoal in the snow, it is no different from putting in the wrong.

Thinking about the fact that the three of them were also debtors, it was reasonable to do so, Liu Shaoqing comforted himself.

He could think so, but other people would not think so, especially the servants in his family. When catching shrimps by the beach, they could see people from the other two families catching them every day, each of which was much faster than before.

It’s okay to have only these two families, but today Zhang Xiaobao gave Cao Herui’s family members a leave, and it was still paid leave for wages. They were fine, so they came here today.
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