Chapter 14 Meritorious Service
"Yikes! This class contains birds and monkeys! Brother Mu, why do you say I'm a military household? Shao Tingda sat on the tavern bench irregularly, stepped on the stool with his right leg bent, sandwiched two slices of golden suckling pork, took two sips of the northern soju, slapped the chopsticks on the table, shook his head unhappily and said to Chen Mu: "If we are a common people, wouldn't it be beautiful to see the prosperity in this mansion in Guangzhou?" Alas! β
The house price in the Ming Dynasty was not expensive, even in Guangzhou Mansion, forty or fifty taels of silver could buy a two-story house with four or five good lots, if it was bought and lived for eleven or twelve years, even only ten taels of silver was enough; If you rent a house, it's even cheaper.
As soon as Shao Tingda's words came out, Ding Fu Yuan on the wine table showed a look of envy, he didn't win a single battle in the night battle of Heiling and almost died under the thieves and soldiers, now looking at Shao Tingda's rich and generous appearance, how can he not envy him? Wei Balang, the dead kid, couldn't understand what Shao Tingda was saying at all, and he was a little confused when he took a sip of southern wine with a small wine glass, and filled himself with Shao Tingda's shochu jug, so spicy that he stuck out his tongue.
However, there was also a captured Shi Qi with a yearning on his face, and then sighed again, drank all the wine in the cup, and snatched the wine jug from Kohachiro's hand with a disgraced look.
"You just want to spend it if you have two dollars!" Chen Mu shook his head and smiled, seeing Fu Yuan's envy and Shi Qi's thoughts, he held the wine glass and sighed: "This time, I am already lucky to have escaped death, and I am glad to have won the reward again, come, brothers have a drink together!" β
Guangzhou Mansion's reward for the Black Ridge group of thieves is four taels of silver and a head, Chen Mu handed over all the eight heads and a captive to Zhang Yongshou in exchange for more than 30 taels of silver, these silver Chen Mu got 20 taels, Shao Tingda also got 12 taels, this time it made Shao Tingda, who had never seen silver, very happy, so he almost hugged Chen Mu and cried bitterly, and Shiqi, who killed a thief, was also divided into four taels, and everyone's waists were bulging.
This money is in the hands of a big businessman, maybe it is just the money for a meal, just like in the previous life, in the "Golden Vase Plum", the Ximen officials casually rewarded the princess who pulled the fiber for ten taels of silver, but in fact, the purchasing power was not false at all, and it caught up with the magistrate for more than half a year.
Of course, this is also because the officials of the Ming Dynasty are not high.
Everyone drank a cup together, Chen Mu smiled and took out a tael of silver and put it on the table, pointed at Fu Yuan and said: "Although you didn't get it, but you didn't run away either, I saw you scuffle with the thief, you take these two silver, and go back to Qingyuan to subsidize your family." β
Saying that, Chen Mu slapped the back of the head of the dead child who was holding the wine glass and drinking in a daze, and also gave one or two silvers, and said: "I am a great law, two people kill a thief together, the master will be promoted to the real award, and the servant will be rewarded with silver." Kohachiro has a meritorious charge, hide it and go back to buy rice to eat! β
Wei Balang listened to Chen Mu's words and stupidly put the silver into his arms, looking like he really planned to go back to buy rice to eat. Fu Yuan's eyes widened and he looked at the silver on the table, and was stunned for a few breaths before swallowing his saliva and asked in disbelief: "Chen Xiaoqi, this, this is mine?" β
"Take it, it's not this time to get rich, next time you encounter the enemy, try to cut off your head." Chen Mu ignored Fu Yuan's surprise, just waved his hand to let him accept the silver, and then said: "After eating, you go and ask a doctor to come over and see if Old Man Zheng's leg is cured, medicine ...... I'll pay for it. β
Fu Yuan nodded hurriedly, didn't even drink the wine without saying a word, took the silver into his arms, said hello to Chen Mu, and walked out. To say that Fu Yuan was not moved by excitement at this moment, Chen Mu would not believe it, but to say that this emotion could last until three days later, Chen Mu would not believe it.
For Chen Mu, this matter is nothing more than breaking the fortune to avoid disasters, one or two pieces of silver is not a small amount of money, but there is always something more important than money, and it is easy to cause trouble if the interests are not evenly distributed. To put it bluntly, Qing Yuanwei, except for his younger brother Shao Tingda, who is somewhat related by blood, and Wei Balang, a dead child who doesn't know anything but knows how to be obedient, no one in the world can make Chen Mu believe it.
Give Wei Balang silver, Chen Mu will treat it as pocket money for the child, and he really didn't think that Fu Yuan could help him do something, as long as it can make people not feel bad about him.
As for Old Man Zheng, there is no way to do it, you can't ignore the injuries of your subordinates, otherwise who will dare to fight next time. It's just that to be honest, Chen Mu thinks that Old Man Zheng is choked enough, and asking Fu Yuan to find a doctor is just doing his best to obey the fate of heaven to see if he can bring Old Man Zheng back alive, even if he can bring him back, most of them will not live for more than two months in Qingyuan.
Seriously, it's like throwing money everywhere...... It's good!
After drinking a few more glasses of wine, Shi Qi saluted Chen Mu and said that it was 'righteousness', and then went back to the room to take care of Old Man Zheng, only Shao Tingda and Xiao Hachiro were left on the table, seeing Shao Tingda's preoccupied appearance, Chen Mu asked: "What do you want to make a bitter face?" β
Shao Tingda drank a lot of soju, his eyes were red, and he thought for a long time, and then he expelled five taels of silver from his waist bag as if he had made up his mind, and said to Chen Mu: "Brother Mu, if we don't make up ten taels, you can take the time to send it to Bai Baihu...... Hundreds of households are very good to us, we have to be sensible to be filial. β
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Chen Mu laughed when he heard this, then he was stunned and thought for a while, then he smiled again, and his heart was full of twists and turns, and then he stretched out his hand and pushed the silver back, and said: "Bai Baihu is a person who does great things, and he doesn't look down on this bit of silver." Those who should be filial have already been honored, otherwise why do you think my brother is only three stones from the seventh grade? β
Zhang Yongshou made a first-class transaction for nearly forty taels of silver, Bai Yuanjie's family background is not worse at all, can the hereditary hundred households be short of these ten taels of silver? Instead of giving ten taels of silver, it is better to be like this. What's more, even if he wants to bribe, it should be him Chen Mu who pays for the bribe, how can there be any reason to take Shao Tingda's money to bribe.
This trip Chen Mu knows that the poor military households are really poor, and the officers have silver that is also really silver, especially those who have been the commanders of the guards like Zhang and Bai, and the thousands of military households in the guards are like domestic servants, and half of the military fields are private by officers, so it is strange that they can be poor!
"You take the money steadily, what he wants is not money, it is the life of you and my brother." Chen Mu said softly, and then said two words heavily, "Sell your life." β
Shao Tingda pursed his lips, although he took the silver back, his eyes were red but he couldn't see a little drunkenness, and whispered to Chen Mu: "Bai Baihu is good, brother, don't say that." If it weren't for the hundreds of households in the way, our brothers might not have survived until now. β
Seeing Chen Mu's puzzled face, Shao Tingda whispered: "Let's take eight heads, I didn't dare to sleep that night, Zhang Xiaoqi and those people looked at us like wolves at night, I saw what Bai Baihu said to Zhang Xiaoqi, and then Zhang Xiaoqi said to buy the first grade from you, the feeling of panic was gone, and the next day Zhang Xiaoqi sent someone to drag a military household into the forest and kill it...... Brother, you didn't count, we killed fifteen thieves, the chariot and horse carried twenty-one corpses, and Chen Guan and the five military households they died had their heads credited. β
Concentrate:
The house price and the price of the pawn house are from the book "Golden Vase Plum" written in the Ming Dynasty from Longqing to Wanli and the "Red Deed of Yao Shijie Reselling the House at a Higher Price in Xiuning County in the Second Year of Tomorrow Qi", "Wu Changfu and Other White Deeds for Selling Houses in Xiuning County in the First Year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty", etc., which are only estimates, and the actual house prices depend on the quality, location, orientation, area, faΓ§ade and other standards.