Chapter 17: Rouge

Chen Mu bought a war horse, which was still an inferior war horse from the north. Although this sounds quite majestic, as a sixteen-year-old war horse, it is no longer suitable for appearing on the battlefield, so it changed hands several times and finally fell into Chen Mu's hands at a price of five taels and seven dollars.

Just like Bai Yuanjie said, the businessmen of Guangzhou Mansion have a good personality, and they don't make much money when the situation is clear, this horse was collected in Yangzhou for three taels and six dollars, and it was raised for three months with good forage every day, and now it is sold out for five taels and seven dollars, and the merchants can earn three percent.

Chen Mu stopped and walked around the livestock market, asked many traders, and not only found out the price of horses in Guangzhou, but also inquired about the price of horses in the northwest market. The horses and mules of the pack are only one or two taels, two or three taels of inferior horses, five or six taels of medium horses, eight or nine taels of superior horses, and thirteen or four taels of superior horses. The price of horses in Guangzhou is generally more than 30% more expensive than in the north.

Of course, this is just a general price based on posture. In the mouth of the talkative horse merchants, Chen Mu also knew that there would always be a few BMWs in the commercial markets around the country, and the BMWs in good condition could even be sold for thousands of taels of silver, but that kind of horses were difficult to see even if they were in Guangzhou all year round, and they were usually sent to dignitaries and nobles early, where would it be their turn to sell these brazen horse dealers in the commercial market.

Chen Mu's favorite horse has a bright coat, most of its body is white, and the horse's buttocks and tail are red, and it was named Huoyun by Chen Mu. Back at the hotel, Chen Mu didn't want to sleep in the stable with the horse, on the contrary, he really wanted the horse to sleep in the guest room with him, but the store didn't let him.

The inn's stables were already tethered to a few horses, and there were two of them in better condition than his Fire Cloud, which also made him a little relieved that he didn't have much to worry about the safety of the horses.

Sending Chen Mu back to the hotel, Shao Tingda said to Chen Mu, and then called Shiqi and Fu Yuan to see what kind of scenery the Goolan courtyard of Guangzhou Mansion was. However, one of these two people was unwilling to spend their money in Goolan Courtyard, and the other was shy and powerless, so in the end, Shao Tingda ran out at night, and Chen Mu didn't care about him.

The Yuan Dynasty destroyed the rich commodity economy of the Song Dynasty, forming a historical regression and imposing a curfew policy. The Ming Dynasty followed the Yuan Dynasty, although the commodity economy became increasingly prosperous, but there were often police on the border of the empty economic aggregate, so that the Ming Dynasty always implemented a night ban. The overnight ban is mainly in the city, and the outside of the city is much more relaxed, such as the Goolan courtyard and the gambling stalls are mostly opened outside the city, so the outside of the city in the Ming Dynasty is more prosperous than the inside of the city.

Chen Mu didn't really dislike Goolan Courtyard so much, he really wanted to see the flowers of the Ming Dynasty like Shao Tingda, but it was really useful for his remaining money, and it was inconvenient to spend it on such inconsequential places. When you make money in the future, why rush for a while?

Sleeping in a daze until midnight, Chen Mu vaguely heard Shao Tingda's voice coming back, and it was already noon when he fell asleep and opened his eyes again. Last night, he remembered his newly bought horse, and he really didn't sleep well all night. However, there is a little flag bearer under Wei Balang, a child like Wei Balang who is fascinated but diligent in his hands and feet, and when Chen Mu goes down to the stable, Wei Balang has already fed the horses enough forage in the inn, and is patiently cleaning the horses with a brush, and when he saw Chen Mu coming over to say hello, he continued to devote himself to the great cause of washing the horses.

However, Shao Tingda and Shi Qi, who were chatting on the side of the stable, waited to see Chen Mu come out and stop what they were doing and come over, especially Shao Tingda's voice was the loudest, "Brother, you have slept enough, this is all three poles a day!" ”

Shi Qi was not as close as Shao Tingda, although it was difficult to say anything, but he also looked at Chen Mu eagerly. Fu Yuan asked with a smiling face, "Xiaoqi, let's go out for a bite to eat?" ”

Chen Mu couldn't help but wonder when he started to see them waiting for him, Lao Tzu took a nap and cared about your, and he was very enthusiastic to wait here one by one. Then I realized that they didn't wake up and they didn't dare to eat by themselves.

This made Chen Mu feel very strange, these people could move freely outside the hotel, but they didn't know that they were going to eat, so they were waiting to bring them?

He still didn't really understand the relationship between superiors and subordinates in the feudal era.

Although I didn't understand, but to be honest, this feeling of being waited and surrounded by his subordinates was really good, Chen Mu didn't say more, grabbed Wei Balang's shoulder and dragged him out of the stable, and waved his hand: "Let's go, go eat some wine and food!" ”

As soon as he walked out of the hotel, Shao Tingda came up and said, "Brother Mu, last night I saw a good wine shop in the east, and there are storytellers and singers in it, let's take a look?" ”

Chen Mu glanced at him, this guy is five big and three rough, he slept in a daze last night and stared at him until he came back very late, but today he woke up earlier than him, and he was full of energy, and he couldn't help waving his hand to let him lead the way: "Which Qinglou I went to last night got up earlier than me!" ”

Shao Tingda blushed and smiled and didn't speak, which surprised Chen Mu, this is not like the reckless worm who rubbed his crotch with his five fingers open when he walked around the courtyard of Qingyuanwei, there must be something wrong here!

Chen Mu didn't ask, someone else asked, Fu Yuan rubbed his hands and smiled and asked Shao Tingda: "Brother Shao, is that Qinglou sister good-looking?" ”

Fu Yuan was a thief before he was confiscated into the army, and he had a good hand of empty kung fu that he didn't learn from home, Chen Mu had never seen it, but he expected that kung fu would not be at home, otherwise he would not be caught. Shao Tingda looked down on him the most, and he was often asked to work on the plough on weekdays, and when he raised his foot, he kicked a big footprint on his buttocks, and said angrily: "It's not good-looking, can you call it sister?" ”

Then there was a series of words in his mouth, such as 'the hands are crispy and the breasts are crispy', praising the prostitutes who stayed last night, and reciting a sentence that people improvised last night into a poem. Fu Yuan was fascinated by what he heard, and Wei Balang was even more red-faced, but Chen Mu heard something different: If the girl in the Qinglou was really so good, why did Shao Tingda come back last night?

Anyway, I should be back this morning!

Then I heard Shao Tingda boast to Fu Yuan and the others, saying that he had been chatting with others for a long time, and he would come back by himself when it was late, Chen Mu came back to his senses and scolded with a smile: "Hey! How much money did you spend on this stupid dick? ”

Shao Tingda didn't speak, and said to Chen Mu for a long time: "Five...... Five taels. ”

"Five taels!?" Chen Mu's eyes widened, and he tried his best to suppress the idea of slapping this fool to the ground, and scolded: "Five taels is enough for you to eat and drink for nine mouthfuls without worrying about the moon!" You're going to talk to someone for two hours? ”

Five taels of silver can buy ten stones and thousands of catties of rice, and the one chatting with him is a golden mouth!

"No, the little lady didn't ask for money, so she charged five dollars of silver for wine and food, and later asked the little maid to take me to the East Street to buy rouge for the Hun family, and the rouge cost more than four taels." Shao Tingda talked to Fu Yuan angrily, but Chen Mu stuttered as soon as he glared, as if to prove that he had not wasted money, he looked back and pointed to the hotel and said: "I bought a lot, all of them are the most fashionable in Guangzhou now, I must be happy to go back to my Hun house to see it!" ”