Chapter 524

Several people first looked at Mr. Zhuang and then took over. The middle-aged man headed by him simply grabbed a piece of Nang cake and sat opposite Mr. Zhuang. He smiled and said, "unexpectedly, we met twice today. My surname is Li. I'm the second in my family. I don't know what to call you?"

Mr. Zhuang smiled and said, "Mr. Li Er, the only son of Zhuang's family, if you don't mind, call me Zhuang Dalang."

Man Bao also sat back in his position. While eating Nang cakes, he quietly said to his two partners, "it's the same as Bai Er Pai."

Bai Shanbao nodded, "people are almost the same."

Mr. Zhuang who heard the whisper:

Seeing that he stopped, Li Erlang looked up at him suspiciously. Mr. Zhuang smiled at him and asked, "isn't Mr. Li Er in a hurry to do business all the way?"

Li Erlang said with a smile, "there is no end to business in this world, so I sometimes slow down and walk slowly. Listen to what I said in the daytime, sir, I'm going to Yizhou to allow students to take an examination of government schools? "

His eyes slipped over man Bao and finally settled on Bai Shanbao. He smiled and asked, "is it the young man?"

Mr. Zhuang smiled and nodded.

Li Erlang couldn't help praising, "look, the child is only twelve or three years old. Can he take the examination of the government school?"

He noticed Bai Shanbao when he was in chaliao. First, the meaning of their conversation; Second, because the child was reading in the chaliao with a book, he could see that the other party really saw it.

It was hard to talk in chaliao before. Now it's convenient.

Li Erlang simply took the examination of Bai Shanbao's homework.

Bai Shanbao answered one by one. Later, the questions became more and more difficult. He couldn't help but go to see Mr. Zhuang, but Mr. Zhuang smiled and didn't speak, so he had to rack his brains to think.

But in my heart, I still can't help but make complaints about it.

Who is ignorant?

Man Bao listened with interest. Bai Shanbao couldn't help hitting her with his elbow.

Man Bao thought for a moment and quietly reminded him, "what he said is the silent teaching in the Tao Te Ching."

Bai Shanbao understood as soon as he heard it, and then answered calmly.

Li Erlang then looked at man Bao and said with a smile to Mr. Zhuang, "Mr. Zhuang has two..." as soon as he lowered his head to Bai Erlang's eyes, he paused slightly and changed his mouth: "there are three good disciples."

Mr. Zhuang is naturally modest.

Li Erlang ate the Nang cake in his hand. After drinking water, he went to talk to the farmer on the other side, "what's in the basket on the father's back?"

"It's the lotus root dug out of the mud pond," the farmer explained to him when he saw what was in the basket. "There are still few green vegetables in his son's house. The lotus root left last winter was not dug up. It was just dug and sold in the city."

"Is this not sold?"

"Sold out, sold out, there are only a few sections left," the farmer said with a smile. "It's just that it's hard to stay in the city, so I went out of the city to live in the Taoist temple."

Li Erlang said with a smile, "this family has a good Taoist outlook. It has specially left a quiet room for passers-by to rest."

"Yes, this quiet room didn't exist before. It was only built a few years ago, so we dared to stay in the city very late and wait until we finished the evening market," the farmer said with a smile: "in the past, we would go home as soon as the application time passed."

Man Bao asked curiously, "can't you hurry all night? It's dark. You can light a torch. "

"Oh, I dare not. The mountains are deep and the forests are dense. Even if one or two people are together, they dare not take the mountain road in the middle of the night."

Bai Shanbao was also interested and asked excitedly, "are there mountain bandits?"

Li Erlang:

The farmer laughed and said, "I haven't heard of mountain bandits, but the night road is not safe, that is, there are no villains. What if I hit a sneaker?"

"Is your home far from here?" Fearing that Bai Shanbao would ask anything strange, Li Erlang quickly brought the topic back.

"It's far away. It's been nearly two hours."

Li Erlang: "so long?"

"Yes, so we have to go out at dawn. When we get to the county, we can't catch up with the morning market. We can only wait for the afternoon market. But there are few people buying vegetables in the afternoon market, but there are many people picking up bargains in the evening market. Although the price has been pressed down, at least it has been sold, isn't it?"

Li Erlang asked, "have you had a hard time at home these two years? I heard that Maozhou was also affected by the flood in Yizhou two years ago. "

"Oh, it's because of the flood that everyone is now earning their lives," said the farmer. "Nahuizi owes a lot of money to survive. Fortunately, the weather has been good in the past two years. I guess I can pay off the debt in another two years. I just hope God can enjoy food in the next few years."

"What debt do you owe? You have to pay it back for so many years?"

"Two bags of millet."

Li Erlang opened his eyes slightly and asked, "can't your whole family have two bags of millet left after a year's work and removing their own food? Should it be paid back in four years? "

"I borrowed the millet in the disaster year. At that meeting, the millet was thirty Wen and a bucket. I should borrow it on credit and have interest. Afterwards, whether it is to repay the money or the millet, I have to follow the market price." The farmer said, "the money owed is rolling with interest. The food price is not high in the past two years. Isn't it more and more? I specially invited what Li Zheng had calculated. It is estimated that it will take four years to pay off. "

Man Bao blinked and said, "it's like the money lent by the casino to gamblers."

Bai Shanbao: "is it illegal to roll profits?"

Bai Erlang asked, "will the government take care of it?"

"It depends," man Bao said while eating the Nang cake. "If Lord Yang knows, he'll probably take care of it. If county magistrate Fu doesn't hear it."

"County magistrate Fu has been away for several years. Why haven't you forgotten him?" Bai Shanbao felt that magistrate Fu was also very poor.

Man Bao said, "how can I forget that I received a letter from sister Fu Er only last month, saying that she has been engaged and is now in the marriage negotiation period. Maybe she will get married this autumn or next spring. I'm still thinking about what gift to give sister Fu Er."

Li Erlang wanted to continue talking to the farmer and ask man Bao, so he paused and asked man Bao, "which county are you from?"

"We are from Luojiang county."

"Luojiang county?" Li Erlang thought about it and remembered it with a smile: "is your county magistrate Yang Heshu?"

"Yes, yes, do you know Lord Yang?"

"Yes, how about that adult Yang as an official?"

"Not bad," man Bao said. "We all like Lord Yang's very much."

"Oh? Why? " Li Erlang asked with a smile, "listen to your voice. The former county magistrate of Luojiang county is Fu. Why, isn't he good?"

Mr. Zhuang put down the bamboo tube and gave a light cough.

Man Bao thought and said, "that's not true. When magistrate Fu left, we went to see him off. Mr. Fu said that without the efforts of county magistrate Fu at that time, our county could not have been exempt from tax for one year. "

As soon as the farmer heard this, he immediately asked, "is your county duty-free?"