Chapter Fifty-Four(1/2)
Yang Jin had long been paying attention to these people at the entrance of the alley. At this time, he walked to the street and waved to a thin-faced young man with a few patches but clean clothes to come over:
“I just moved here, and I don’t have the manpower to go shopping in the East Market.
How much does it cost in total for you to take a trip for me and buy everything?"
"Look, sir, what do you want to buy?"
"You look like a well-educated person dressed up, are you literate?"
"I know a few."
"Then you come in with me!"
Yang Jin led the young man to the concierge, pointed to the four treasures of the study on the concierge's table and said:
"I told you to memorize it, and then look at it after you've memorized it.
Take a look and see if you can buy these things?
If you can, please help me buy all these things and send them over.
Also, later you can calculate the extra fees and I will give you the money!"
Although Yang Jin studied with Zhang Youfu for a few days, he knew a lot of words.
But to ask him to write now as soon as he picks up the pen is still a bit high on him.
He can read well now, but he can't write with the brush yet.
Yang Jin can read and write very quickly now because of the help of Chinese Pinyin.
After seven or eight days, I knew almost 1,500 or 600 Chinese characters.
To put it into perspective, the speed of character recognition can be said to be very fast, considering that the number of commonly used characters is only about 4,000.
With Yang Jin's current literacy speed, she can learn all the commonly used characters in a month.
After that, in this world, at least he won't have any problem with basic reading and writing.
In other words, if you master the reading and writing of all common words, you will have the level of primary school education in this world.
It’s almost as good as the average person in this world who knows words.
The reason why Yang Jin can recognize characters so quickly is that, first, the characters in this world are also hieroglyphics.
They are also divided into radicals, which have similar physical and phonetic characteristics, and are very similar to traditional Chinese characters in ancient China.
Based on Yang Jin's college level in his previous life, there is logic to follow when mastering it, and it is not so groundless to follow when learning.
Another thing is that Yang Jin has a cheating artifact, which is the Chinese Pinyin that the primary school students in her previous life knew.
He now annotates every word he has learned with the Chinese pinyin and the synonymous simplified Chinese characters.
Regarding the use of simple Chinese characters, he is no longer afraid of being suspected.
Because everyone may have his or her own method of literacy, it is not surprising that he uses this method to learn.
With the help of Chinese pinyin and simplified Chinese characters, he almost had a Chinese character dictionary of the world of martial arts.
Yang Jin also admired his ability to learn and apply it flexibly. Mr. Xin was very proud of himself. He, Yang, was truly a clever little guy!
Although Yang Jin is literate, she cannot write a word well.
In his previous life, he rarely wrote with handwriting, and he mostly typed on computers for office work.
Not to mention brush calligraphy, which is a highly professional soft-pen calligraphy. Except for those who have specially practiced it, few people can write it.
The young man seems to have read a lot. Not only is his hand writing with a brush, but he is also very energetic.
He could also shoot left and right, so he could do two things at once. He held a brush in each hand and kept writing what Yang Jin said on the paper.
It took a full time to write a stick of incense before the young man finished writing all the things Yang Jin said. He wrote a total of six pieces of paper.
He handed three of them to Yang Jin and said: "Sir, I have written all the things you want to buy on these. Please keep these three for your records."
These three pictures are for me to buy things and wait for them to be delivered.
Let’s reconcile the accounts again, what do you think?”
Young people are very cautious and considerate of things.
However, he seemed to have thought of something difficult, and said with some embarrassment:
"Sir, you have a lot to buy.
It's getting late today. If I want to buy something and send it back today, I'm afraid I won't be able to make it by myself.
I still have to ask one more person to come with me in time, and the foot money totals one hundred and twenty dollars."
The young man glanced at Yang Jin and was a little worried about exaggerating the foot power money.
"We need to buy all these things. We have to travel to several places, and you are in a hurry to use them!"
“Okay, I’ll do as you say!
I need something urgently here, so it doesn’t matter if it’s a little more expensive, as long as I keep good records!
You go buy the things for me first, and I will pay you the remaining money when you come back."
Yang Jin handed a twelve-weight silver ingot to the young man.
Cheng Yang, Dai Bin, and Jiang Feng continued to clean the yard inside.
As a woman, Cheng Qing was weak and could not do heavy work, so Yang Jin asked her to stay with him and serve him.
This was something he planned to cultivate himself and become a candidate for assistant secretary in the future.
Cheng Qing couldn't help but feel worried when she saw Yang Jin standing in front of the concierge, handing a twelve-weight silver ingot to a stranger so casually to buy something.
When the idle young men walked out of the door, they couldn't help but come over and remind Yang Jin in a low voice:
"Sir, do you trust this person too much?
Why aren't you worried that he won't come back after taking the money?
Besides, he was not asked to write a receipt for taking the money. What if he took the money and refused to acknowledge it?
He may not be able to earn so much money in half a year!
There are also these helpers in the west of the city.
I usually earn some running money, but sometimes I get bold and do things like theft and robbery, which are no different from bandits.
Most of them are in cliques, and we don’t even have their identities or addresses.
He just turned around and squeezed our money, and we had nowhere to look for him.
Even if we find him later and he insists that we never gave him any money, we can't do anything to him?"
Yang Jin glanced at Cheng Qing in surprise. He didn't expect this teenage girl to be so thoughtful.
Although he had already made plans in his mind, he still pretended to be innocent.
Just listen to what he said: "As the saying goes, don't use the people you doubt, but don't trust the people you employ!
Just because the other party is a stranger we meet for the first time, naturally we cannot be suspicious casually."
Yang Jin’s words were beautiful, but she thought to herself: “What I’m waiting for is that he will miss the money and never get it back!
If you dare to squander Mr. Yang’s money, it depends on whether you can withstand Mr. Yang’s next tactics!”
Cheng Qing was a little speechless, thinking that Yang Jin had really gotten lucky and became a member of the Divine Catcher. It is true that the situation is easy to change, but the nature is hard to change!
When he was a beggar, he was timid and cowardly. Every time he got into a group fight, he would be the slowest and the fastest, and he would always get bullied.
Now I have become a person who is caught by the gods. I didn't expect to be so cowardly and naive. It is really easy to change the situation and the nature is hard to change!
But then I thought, "Yang Jin dared to let a stranger take the money and leave. Could it be that he was relying on the Shenzamen brand?"
But why didn’t you see him just now? Why didn’t you show the young man the Shenzaimen’s waistband?
However, even if you want to scare people with the sign of God catching the door, you still have to find that person!
When Cheng Qing saw Yang Jin holding a pen and looking like he was about to practice calligraphy, she left angrily and ran to the main house in the backyard.
I saw Cheng Yang, Dai Bin and the others still cleaning and tidying up the yard.
She knew that Dai Bin had always been smart and smart, so she told him what had just happened.
Cheng Qing said with some worry: "Master, how come he doesn't know how to guard against others?
Even if you become a member of the Divine Catcher, you will receive a salary.
But there are so many of us, and there are so many mouths, it costs a lot to chew them all.
It’s too late to live a careful and prudent life, why are you so careless and deceived by others!”
When Dai Bin heard this, he knew what Cheng Qing meant by telling him this, so he put down what he was doing.
"You guys do it first, I'll go find the young master in front and see what's going on."
Dai Bin came to the gatehouse in the front yard and saw Yang Jin squatting on horseback and practicing calligraphy with his arms hanging.
He walked over and asked Yang Jin in a low voice: "Sir, Cheng Qing is a little worried that that person is unreliable. Do you want me to go out and follow him?
To be continued...