"So is this one." Zhang Bi put away his badge and patted Lin Linyou, who had a soft head on his head.
Manager Wang's body swayed again, and he held on to the desk to prevent him from falling softly.
But his concubine Yu'er still said: "What's so great about Jin Yiwei..."
"Has she always been so brave?" Zhang Ben asked.
"You still said that!" Manager Wang became more aggressive now and slapped Yu'er hard on the face, "Go back tonight and see how I deal with you!"
"Ah -" Yu'er screamed and covered her face. The scream was sweet, not like pain at all, but more like... Anyway, Zhang Bi and Lin Linyou both trembled when they heard it.
"Forget it, Mr. Wang." Lin Lin said, "We don't care about the girl's family. Let's do this. I'll give you two choices. One, you eat all these soft cakes on my head; two, see Are there those lumps floating on the water behind the elephant's butt in the river?" He glanced out the window.
Manager Wang also looked out the window and nodded obediently.
"Go down and put some on your head."
"This..." Chief Wang was stunned.
"Why, are you in trouble?"
Of course it was difficult. Whether it was eating the soft cake on Lin Linyou's head or going to the river to wipe the elephant's poop, if the news spread, could he, as the head of the Ministry of Etiquette, still have the face?
Especially for wiping elephant poop, it would be better to kill him! What's more, it's still under the watchful eyes of thousands of ordinary people!
Therefore, he neither wants nor can have either choice.
"The two court officials are showing their noble hands, but the concubine is unruly and stubborn, blind to the truth, and collides with the two court officials..." Principal Wang shouted sharply at Yu'er, "Come here! Why don't you apologize to these two adults!"
"No need." Lin Linyou raised his hand to stop.
"Master, please don't behave like a lowly concubine..." Mr. Wang was groveling, with a smile on his face.
"Are you familiar with her?" Lin Lin said, "She is unruly and stubborn because of your lax discipline. Do you have to take the responsibility?"
"I'll bear it, I'll bear it. When I get back soon, I'll punish her severely!" Principal Wang said, "The two officials...that's all I have on you..." As he spoke, Principal Wang secretly took out a piece of Zhang from his body. Put the banknote on the table.
Lin Linyou glanced at it and saw that it had a denomination of one hundred taels.
Seeing that Lin Linyou was unmoved, Chief Wang laughed awkwardly, took out a hundred-tael silver note from his arms, and placed it on top of the first one.
"Two?" Lin Linyou finally spoke, "Didn't you see there are four of us?"
Manager Wang had no choice but to take out two more.
Lin Linyou then waved his hand and let them go.
As if receiving a general amnesty, Mr. Wang thanked her profusely, took Yu'er and left quickly.
"Little sister, Miss Rong, come here, one for each!" Lin Linyou generously gave one hundred taels to each of the two girls. Zhang Bi stretched out his hand for a long time, but saw Lin Linyou flashing the banknote in front of his eyes. , and took the remaining two into his arms.
Depend on! It’s too early to reach out!
"Second brother, you are so unkind!" Zhang Bi said.
"Brother, please be considerate! You don't know that my second brother has been short of money recently." Lin Linyou said with a smile, "How about you give her a buck too?"
"Brother, this is how you earn your money!" Lin Long also joked with a smile.
"What are you talking about?" Lin Linyou said, "If money was so easy to make, I would stick my head out every day waiting for someone to put a plate on my head... Speaking of brother, I really didn't expect that a person in charge of the Ministry of Etiquette, a sixth-grade civil servant, could be so rich. where?"
Zhang Ben sipped his tea silently. You don't care about my money. I don't want to talk.
"If you have a chance, you have to raid his house." Lin Linyou smiled and patted Zhang Bi, and a piece of soft cake on his head fell on Zhang Bi's back.
"Can you go get a basin of water and clean up your head?" Zhang Bi shook off Lin Linyou's hand, "What a shame!"
"Look!" Lin Linyou suddenly pointed out the window and shouted.
"What are you looking at?" Zhang Ben stretched his neck in confusion.
"Isn't that third brother?"
I saw a familiar figure among a group of elephants, sweating profusely, leading an elephant to the shore...
"No wonder I said, why is my third brother always so dark-faced lately..."
“It turned out to be a tan!”
In fact, a month ago, Zhang Bi proposed that Yang Fang be transferred to his Zhongzhong Thousand Households Office. The three brothers could eat meat in large chunks and drink wine from large bowls. If they performed well in the future, they could share Yang Fang's share, but Yang Fang was rejected. Refused.
Yang Fang said that he wanted to rely on his own abilities and did not want to receive salary for nothing. He only relied on the relationship between the eldest brother and the second brother to rise and gain popularity, and he did not want to use deceit to hide the truth of the emperor!
He is a strong man!
Zhang Bi and the others had no choice but to let him go. If they did this kind of thing reluctantly, it would only hurt Yang Fang's self-esteem.
What is puzzling is that Zhang Bi has not greeted Wang Qian from the Zhonghou Qianhu Institute. How come Yang Fang is reduced to going to the elephant training station to wash the elephant?
At this moment, the elephant slave transfer order was issued and the elephant washing was completed.
Zhang Ben and the others lost interest in watching, so they left the teahouse and prepared to go home.
Passing by a melon stall on the street, I saw that the watermelons were all round and green, which was really tempting. People in the Ming Dynasty said that watermelon is born in June and enjoys all the blessings!
"How much does your melon cost per pound?" Zhang Bi stepped forward and asked.
"Eleven cents per catty." The melon farmer wearing a straw hat spoke with a northern Anhui accent. Apparently, he was a fellow villager of Emperor Gaozu!
"Wochao, is this melon skin made of gold particles, or is it made of melon particles and gold?" Zhang Ben asked with a smile.
The melon farmer said: "The guests are really good at joking. These are authentic watermelons from Zhoupu Town, Songjiang. They are so sweet!"
"How sweet is it?" Lin Linyou asked.
"I'll cut a piece for you to try!" The melon farmer picked up the kitchen knife, "I guarantee you will be so sweet! Just as sweet as these two girls!"
Hey! This melon farmer can talk. If that melon farmer had been so good at talking, he wouldn't have been stabbed by Hua Qiang.
Originally, Lin Linyou wanted to ask if it was guaranteed to be cooked, but now he couldn't make fun of it anymore.
The melon farmer had cut a small piece of watermelon and handed it to Zhang Bi. Zhang Bi handed it to the little sister, who broke it in half and gave half to Yue Rong.
"Try it, is it sweet?" Zhang Ben looked at the little girl tenderly.
The little girl raised her sleeves to cover her face, took a small bite of watermelon, nodded and said, "Sweet——"
"Well, let's pick two!" Zhang Ben said proudly.
"Okay!" The melon farmer quickly picked out two large watermelons, "Will these two be enough? Twenty-one pounds...a total of two cents and nineteen cents."
Two watermelons cost two cents and nineteen cents. It's expensive, but it doesn't seem expensive to them...
For ordinary people, it must be extremely expensive.
However, during the Ming Dynasty, watermelons were grown in both the Forbidden Garden and the countryside. Watermelons were already a very popular fruit at that time. At that time, it was also called sweet melon or cold melon; the literati called it more elegantly, calling it "green water" or "green deep" and so on.
Ordinary people want to eat melons, and those with land will grow them themselves. The melons at this kind of melon stall are mainly for high-ranking officials, so they are expensive for a reason.
Zhang Bi looked at Lin Linyou: "What are you doing standing there? Pay for it!"
Lin Linyou took out the banknote he just got and handed it to the melon farmer.
The melon farmer was shocked: "Sir, if you buy my entire stall, I can't even find it!"
"Stop teasing people! Come out with the money!"
Lin Linyou smiled and took back the banknote. There was no broken silver, so he took out one or two ingots.
The melon farmer took a bite, put it on the scale and made an appointment. He neatly took out seven coins and eighty-one cents and gave it to Lin Linyou.
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Two large watermelons fell from the round well mouth, making two "plop" sounds, and the well water splashed clear and cold.
"Soak it for a long time, it's much better than freezing it in the refrigerator!" Zhang Ben blurted out.
The four of them looked at the watermelons floating in the well water. The well water also reflected the faces of the four people.
Green is green, these scholars call it appropriately!
"What is a refrigerator?" Lin Long asked.
"It's...a box filled with ice cubes." Lin Linyou explained.
During the Ming Dynasty, it was possible to make artificial ice and store ice. There were ice cellars in the palaces of princes and princes, which were used to store fresh fruits as tribute from the south or as gifts from the palace. For example, in the ice cellar of the Prince Zhou's Mansion in Kaifeng, Henan, there was "Ping Po" hidden in it. , fresh fruits and other things.”
However, Lin Linyou felt that the fruits that had been frozen in the well water were more delicious. Ice cellar, it's not that we don't have the strength, we just don't bother to have it.
"We'll eat one first and leave one for the third brother to eat when he comes back later," Zhang Bi said.
Lin Linyou nodded: "Why don't you see the third brother and his wife during this period?"
"Does the third brother have a wife?"
"It's just that Ren Ran Ren is the head hunter!"
"Oh... you said that, it's true! I haven't seen her for a long time." Zhang Ben nodded thoughtfully, "I still miss her a little bit!"
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