Er Lengzi replied again, "Brother Ling, twenty taels is enough."
After thinking for a while, he gritted his teeth and continued, "Brother Ling, if there are not twenty taels, ten taels is fine."
If he was surprised just now, then Ling Yun will be shocked now, and the only thing left is panic.
Twenty taels, ten taels, these numbers are really like a piece of cake to Ling Yun, not worth mentioning at all.
However, for a seemingly inconspicuous amount of ten or twenty taels of silver, Erlunzi still had to speak to him. You can imagine what kind of trouble Erluzi encountered.
"Brother Liu, what happened?"
"Brother Ling, let me tell you the truth! Brother Yu has been looking for a house these two days, but the house in the capital is really beyond my expectation. I didn't expect that renting a small house would cost thirty taels of silver, not to mention...
Count the 20 taels deposit."
The Erlunzi sighed softly and said with emotion, "Hey! The most important thing is that Brother Yu has no financial resources at hand recently. If he pays the rent, he will not be able to make ends meet in terms of food and drink."
"Besides, I also heard that the imperial court has a backlog of salary payments and it often takes three months to issue the first month's salary. I had no choice but to ask Brother Ling."
Ling Yun was deeply moved when Erluozi explained the details. He remembered that when the Ling family was in difficulty, he could not tell the story of his suffering, but he still gritted his teeth and managed to get through it.
Now that he has his own store, he is no longer short-term, but because he has experienced it before, he can particularly feel the mood of Erluzi.
"Brother Liu, I don't have twenty taels, but I do have two hundred taels. Of course, it's not free. You have to bleed a lot and come up with something decent."
Erluzi hesitated and said, "Brother Ling, is this... two hundred taels too much?"
Ling Yun shook his head and pointed out, "Not much, not much, these two hundred taels are just right, but Brother Liu also needs to give something of equal value to Brother Yu!"
Hearing this, Er Lunzi's face froze, he sighed softly, and said with a wry smile, "Huh? Brother Ling, to tell you the truth, Foolish Brother has nothing decent except for spare clothes and some books."
Ling Yun smiled and said mysteriously, "Brother Liu, don't worry, Yu brother said you have it, you have it. Besides, Yu brother still made the two hundred taels."
"oh?"
Erluzi looked at him in surprise, frowning and thinking deeply, thinking about it, but still couldn't think of anything else of value to him. He looked at Ling Yun solemnly, but he didn't know that the latter was looking at him with a smile at this time.
Seeing Ling Yun staring at him nakedly as if he wanted to devour something, Er Lengzi was startled, and unconsciously took two steps back. He suddenly became vigilant and said incomparably, "Brother Ling, even though I am a bit depressed, the truth is not true.
Well, if you don't want the money anymore, you'd better find someone else!"
"Um?"
Ling Yun frowned, obviously not expecting that before he could say anything, he would be rejected in public by Er Lengzi. Er Lengzi was appointed by Emperor Qianxi as a prodigy, and his literary talent was quite impressive. He had written more than two hundred taels.
Ling Yun gave two hundred silver taels, not for any reason, but just to prevent the idiot from having to bear the psychological burden of borrowing money, so he came up with a way, which was to spend two hundred silver taels to buy his reading notes from childhood to adulthood.
Tanhua's reading notes may not be worth two hundred taels in the eyes of ordinary people, but in Ling Yun's eyes, they are definitely worth the money.
After all, Yang Yun is not young anymore, and it is time for him to study. With the experience of his predecessors and his careful teaching, he will definitely achieve good results in the future.
Furthermore, reading notes are not only for your own family, but can also be used by private schools in Guangping Village.
I have to mention that the private school in Guangping Village is no longer the Li family private school, but a newly built private school funded by Lingyun. The name is Guangping Village Primary School. It is located under the big tree at the bottom of the hillside of the Ling family, where it was where I was a child.
The place where Ling Yun often stays in a daze.
Although Li Chuan was still in charge of the private school, all the expenses for the primary school were paid by the Ling family. In order for the scholar to teach, he did not hesitate to offer a salary of twenty taels a year.
So much so that the students who went to Guangping Village Primary School became a hot job in Lingshan County, and some talented people who could not make ends meet were vying to apply.
All school-age children in Guangping Village can go to school for free. This seemingly simple benefit has become a unique village in Lingshan County and even Anzhou Prefecture.
In fact, Ling Yun had no intention of building a primary school in the village, but in the year of mourning for his grandfather Ling Dashan, one day his grandmother Liang saw the children in the village attending private schools and said that she felt like she had seen him going to school when he was a child.
, I feel happy when I look at it.
It is precisely because of Liang's careless words that it was imprinted in Ling Yun's heart. Thinking of his grandfather's death, Liang refused to live in the county. In addition, he has been away from home all year round. In order to let you remember him,
I was thinking about building a free primary school in the village.
In this way, children in the village can also go to school, and Ms. Liang can see them from time to time, which makes her feel a little happier.
Because of Liang's simple words, Guangping Village Primary School came into being.
In fact, Lingyun did not need to pay for this money out of his own pocket, because most of the expenses came from the taxes generated by the properties in his name.
Because all the expenses for schooling, including paper, ink, pen and inkstone, are all free, so when you are still a candidate, you still need to subsidize some expenses.
But now that he has been awarded the Jinshi title, the amount of land he can name has increased a lot. He thought that this tax alone would be enough to support the expenses of primary school for a whole year. If the harvest in the fields is good, there may be a surplus.
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Ling Yun also spent a lot of energy on Guangping Village Primary School. All the books in his bookstore are kept there. Whenever he collects some useful articles and sends letters home, he will also send them back.
Therefore, out of consideration and to take care of Er Lunzi's feelings, Ling Yun planned to use two hundred taels to buy his reading notes. However, Er Lunzi's action of stepping back and saying forget it made him frown.
"Brother Liu, if you don't want two hundred taels, how about three hundred taels?"
Regarding Ling Yun's price increase, Erluzi was flustered and worried. Is it a matter of money?
"Brother Ling, this is not a matter of money. Brother Yu really doesn't like this, so I can only say that there is nothing I can do."
Ling Yun was even more confused now. He hadn't even seen the truth being spoken out, so he noticed that there was something abnormal in Er Lengzi's eyes. It was a cautious and complicated look with a little bit of disappointment, which made him confused.
"Brother Liu, I haven't explained this yet, why do you look like you are rejecting people thousands of miles away?"
The second idiot sighed softly and said helplessly, "Hey! Brother Ling, I really didn't expect that after knowing you for so long, you would be so good at talking to me."
Ling Yun was ashamed and said speechlessly, "No, Brother Liu, have you misunderstood something? What I want is your study notes and I have no other ideas."