I have to say that Xu Ning and Tang Shubai are really good eaters. Jiang Yifeng didn't eat much of the food on the table, and they both ate it all.
After dinner, Jiang Yifeng called the restaurant waiter and raised his hand to sign the IOU.
"Mr. Jiang, please spare the little one!"
Seeing this, the restaurant clerk hurriedly stopped Jiang Yifeng and said with a bitter face: "You have already signed five IOUs with me. If you sign again, I won't be able to account for it."
With that said, the restaurant clerk took out five IOUs and placed them in front of Jiang Yifeng.
"So there are so many!"
Jiang Yifeng was too embarrassed to continue signing the IOU and asked, "How much do you think the total amount will be? I'll settle it for you today."
The restaurant clerk didn't dare to hesitate, so he quickly found an abacus and added up the total amount of the five IOUs.
"A total of nine hundred and eighty-five copper coins."
"I have been eating in vain for so long, and I don't even have a tael of silver."
Jiang Yifeng was a little surprised, and then looked at Xu Ning and Tang Shubai, considering whether to reduce their salaries.
After all, as long as two people tighten their belts, two taels of silver is enough, and if they tighten their necks, one tael is about the same.
If it's not enough, you can make big cakes to satisfy their hunger.
"Mr. Jiang, Mr. Jiang..."
The restaurant clerk stopped Jiang Yifeng from thinking and handed the IOU forward.
"I'll give you a tael of silver. You don't have to find the extra. You can keep it for yourself." Jiang Yifeng generously took out a tael of silver and threw it over.
"Thank you Mr. Jiang, this is your IOU."
The restaurant waiter was even happier than sleeping with the old madam, and kept thanking Jiang Yifeng.
More than ten copper coins may not seem like much, but for a restaurant clerk whose monthly salary is only one tael of silver, it is equivalent to half a day's salary.
"Um!"
Jiang Yifeng took the IOU and held it in his hand without tearing it up. He looked at Xu Ning and Tang Shubai and asked, "What do you think of the food here?"
"tasty!"
Xu Ning and Tang Shubai answered in unison.
They used to barely feed themselves, but the food in the restaurant was simply delicacies to them.
Jiang Yifeng saw that the two of them liked the food in the restaurant, so he handed over the IOU, "Take it, if you want to have a good meal in the future, or if you want to take your family to have a good meal, just use this to spend."
Restaurant waiter: "..."
He thought that signing the IOU was over, but he didn't expect that Jiang Yifeng changed hands and gave the IOU to someone else.
The problem is, when Jiang Yifeng checked out just now, he saw that there were at least dozens of taels of silver in his wallet, so there was no need to sign an IOU!
However, he did not dare to say these words.
Jiang Yifeng is the sworn elder brother of his young master. If he offends Jiang Yifeng, the young master will definitely not let him go.
"thank you boss."
Xu Ning and Tang Shubai saw Jiang Yifeng eating with IOUs and knew that these IOUs could really get something to eat, so they readily accepted them.
…
After Jiang Yifeng left the restaurant with Xu Ning and Tang Shubai, he did not go to Meishan immediately. Instead, he purchased two oxcarts of items in Su City, spending more than eighty taels of silver earned from selling poems.
When Tang Shubai knew that these items were prepared for the victims of the Meishan disaster, he completely admired Jiang Yifeng.
With conscience in mind, if he were Jiang Yifeng, he would not be willing to spend so much money for others.
What?
Thousands of gold is gone and come back again?
They will say this when they don’t have a daughter. Ask those who really have a daughter, who would like the daughter to scatter?
Anyway, he was unwilling to part with any of the several IOUs Jiang Yifeng gave him.
When he was about to arrive at Meishan, Xu Ning suddenly thought of something. He took out two books and said, "Boss, this is the second volume of Water Margin and Jin Ping Mei. The rest of the content will take two days to be written."
Jiang Yifeng flipped through it casually and nodded with satisfaction, "Divide the second volume of Water Margin into upper, middle and lower volumes, and then you can find some scholars to copy the book."
Xu Ning raised her eyebrows, "This second volume only has sixty pages in total, divided into three volumes: upper, middle and lower. Isn't it true that one volume only has twenty pages, which is too little content!"
Scholars are too pedantic.
Jiang Yifeng looked at Xu Ning, "When you ask someone to copy the book, make the characters larger so that twenty pages can be turned into twenty-five pages. Leave a blank page for every five pages. Then we can find some painters to make them The content in the book is drawn, and it doesn’t have to be exquisite, but it must be wonderful, and this is designed by Xiao Tang.”
At present, Water Margin has not been fully spread, so it is mainly sold to the rich second generation of Yuelu Academy.
Since they are the second generation of rich people, they naturally don't care about how much content a book contains, nor what price it sells for. It's all small money to them anyway.
It's possible that when they saw that the Water Margin they bought had illustrations, they thought it was a hardcover version, and they were all very happy.
"correct!"
Jiang Yifeng thought of something and looked at Tang Shubai, "You not only draw illustrations for Water Margin, but you also draw illustrations for Jin Ping Mei. Do you know how to draw?"
Tang Shubai's face turned red, "No... I don't know."
He has read the book Jin Ping Mei.
Of course, Xu Ning didn't take the initiative to show it to him, but he accidentally saw it when he went to visit Xu Ning one day when he was suffering from hunger.
The first time he saw it, he almost exploded with anger. He didn't expect that Xu Ning, who cared about the world, would write such a dirty book.
But as he looked at it, he was attracted.
Bravo!
So exciting!
You can dream it when you dream!
Jiang Yifeng saw Tang Shubai blushing, raised his eyebrows, and asked with a wicked smile: "You haven't...opened it yet?"
Tang Shubai blushed and nodded hesitantly.
"And you?"
Jiang Yifeng looked at Xu Ning again.
"Ahem..."
Xu Ning coughed twice and said sternly: "I have not heard anything outside the window since I was a child. I only read books about sages and things between men and women..."
Jiang Yifeng raised his hand to interrupt Xu Ning and said contemptuously: "If it's not opened, it's not opened. Explaining so much can only show that you have a guilty conscience."
Xu Ning's face also turned red.
The boss is serious, can't he be more tactful?
Besides, boss, you are younger than us, I don’t believe you opened the seal.
However, at this moment, Jiang Yifeng said: "I will give you the Water Margin and Jin Ping Mei books. As long as you two finish well, I will take you to the brothel."
"Borthello!"
Xu Ning and Tang Shubai were shocked when they heard this.
In fact, scholars do not reject brothels very much. In fact, many scholars are very fond of brothels. There are many novels about scholars and brothel women, all of which are adapted from real stories.
It's a pity that brothels are not something only poor men like them can afford.
"Boss, have you been to a brothel?"
Tang Shubai was not as serious as Xu Ning, and asked with an urgent look on his face.
"Of course."
Jiang Yifeng did not shy away from it and said proudly: "I just went there once not long ago and ordered the Chunxiao Loutou brand poems. It cost twenty-two taels, which was what my fiancée paid."
As soon as this statement came out, Xu Ning and Tang Shubai were stunned on the spot. The amount of information in this sentence was too great!
First of all, the top brand of Chunxiao Tower is Shishi... the name is really nice.
Secondly, it costs twenty-two taels to find Shishi. According to their current salary, they can go there once every six months.
Finally, when the boss went to the brothel, it was the boss’s wife who paid for it.
Oh My God……
Is the boss’s family status so high?
