Zhu Chongba drew three circles on the receipt. After drawing, he carefully checked whether it was round or not. He took the receipt and put it in the distance and looked at it. Although it felt a little out of round, so be it!
These three circles can represent what he agrees to over a period of time.
The housekeeper was admiring Zhu Chongba's performance. He suddenly had an indescribable feeling. Is this person still Zhu Chongba?
"Butler, thank you! Prepare the ingredients according to my recipe. If no one has time to prepare it, I will prepare it tomorrow. Then I will leave first." Zhu Chongba took the gold ingot and weighed it. How heavy.
The housekeeper kept looking at the gold ingot until he couldn't see it anymore, then he looked at the note written by Zhu Chongba.
After reading it, the housekeeper said in his heart, boy, this is a contract of sale! If your kid's formula doesn't work, hey, what will you do?
Although he was not optimistic about Zhu Chongba's order, he did not dare not to follow it. The landlord Liu Fu was not an easy person to talk to. He sighed in his heart, life is really hard! However, he thought in his heart, Zhu Chongba, thank you very much! He can make a small fortune again. As long as there are transactions, he will have a way to make money.
Zhu Chongba left the landlord's house. He also knew that wealth should not be exposed. If he walked through the market with such a large gold ingot, someone would probably kill him before he could go a mile.
Zhu Chongba just remembered something about the Yuan Dynasty. During this period, the status of the Han people was basically the lowest.
If the Mongols see Zhu Chongba's gold ingot, they will kill him, that is, kill him. In the eyes of others, he is really not worth mentioning.
Therefore, Zhu Chongba was cautious along the way. He would not get into trouble. It seemed that risks and opportunities coexisted in everything.
He remembered a saying, this is the best of times and the worst of times.
After arriving at home, Zhu Chongba knocked on the door, and it took a long time before his father opened the door for him.
Zhu Chongba didn’t know what happened? He asked: "Dad, what's wrong? It's closed so early today?"
After his father opened the door, he immediately closed it again. Then he looked at Zhu Chongba, "My child, what's wrong with your mind? The door is always closed so early this afternoon! Don't you know?" Those Tatars drink wine and eat beef at night, and then they get drunk and act crazy. I don’t know how many decent women have been ruined by them, and I don’t know how many young men have been killed.”
After hearing this, Zhu Chongba realized the cruelty of the Yuan Dynasty's rule. It seems that Zhu Chongba was really forced to rebel later!
These things are not what Zhu Chongba, who has small hands and feet, should be concerned about now. Six members of his family are crowded into a thatched house. Not to mention, because there are so many people, it is really not very cold. Seeing this condition, Zhu Chongba Bacai remembered why he slept in the landlord's woodshed because there was really no room in his house.
Zhu Chongba's eldest brother is getting married soon and is building a new thatched house. This will be better in the future.
The hard life made these children realize the difficulty of life early. Zhu Chongba's brothers and sisters didn't look very good, and of course Zhu Chongba's face was the same.
How to change all this, of course, is to have money or someone to be an official.
"Father, mother, let me show you something." As he said that, Zhu Chongba took out the gold ingot. The modern Zhu Chongba had now accepted his fate. He had really looked at the thing in front of him. These two old people regarded him as his biological father and mother.
"What is it?" his mother said.
Under the dim light of the oil lamp in the room, the gold ingot also shone with golden light.
His mother has never seen this thing in person. His mother has seen it painted on the door painting.
Or his father had seen the world and snatched this gold ingot at one stroke, "Chongba, where did you get this? Did you steal it? If so, return it immediately, otherwise It’s really going to be decapitating.”
His mother also sat up from the floor, "My child will not steal other people's things. Chongba, can you tell me what's going on?"
Zhu Chongba was really angry just now when he heard his father said that he stole it. But when he heard what his mother said, he stopped being angry.
At this time, several of his brothers and sisters also gathered around. Before their parents, they were very well-behaved.
"I earned this from the landlord Liu Fu, and here is a piece of paper." Zhu Chongba took out his piece of paper and handed it to his father.
His father was the only one in the family who knew a few words, but he couldn't recognize them all. After looking at them for a long time, he didn't understand what they meant, but his attitude towards Zhu Chongba had changed, "That's good, Chongba." He's promising, he can make money, he's much better than us, hahaha..." His father couldn't help but laugh.
Seeing his father smile with wrinkles all over his face, he felt a little sad, but he swore that everything would be fine, and he would work hard to let his father and mother see the day when he became an emperor.
"Dad, how much do you think this piece of gold ingot really buys? Is it enough for my eldest brother's wedding?" Zhu Chongba said.
"Chongba! This piece of gold ingot can be exchanged for fifteen ingots of silver. If it is exchanged for copper coins, it will be even more. If your eldest brother gets married, it will not cost much to build a thatched house. This is enough for six of our family. He has been eating meat for over 10 years, and he eats meat every day," his father said.
After listening to his father's words, Zhu Chongba finally understood the value of this gold ingot.
"Chongba, you earned this, you have the right to control it, how do you spend it?" his father asked.
Zhu Chongba thought for a while and said, "Dad, brother, you can exchange it for silver ingots tomorrow and bring it here. Brother, you can use it to build a house when you get married, and keep part of it to improve the food at home. I will let you know the rest when the time comes." what to do."
His father looked at Zhu Chongba, as if he had gotten to know his child again, "I will do as you say, I won't sleep tonight, I will look at this gold ingot."
"No, Dad, you go to sleep and I'll watch over you and make sure nothing happens." His eldest brother said.
After listening to what his father and elder brother said, Zhu Chongba realized that the story he heard was quite right. It was about a poor farmer living next to the landlord's house. Although they had no money, they laughed every day. , the landlord's mother-in-law asked the landlord to find a way to stop them from laughing, so the landlord threw a piece of silver over and never heard their laughter again.
Zhu Chongba began to provide some profound ideological education to his father and eldest brother.
