Bai Erlang ran up from downstairs, "We've seen it from behind. It's almost the same as here, let alone bedding. Some rooms don't even have tables and chairs. There are still several missing chairs in the main room."
With a broken arm and leg, how long has it been since your inn has been empty of people?"
Ren Ergou could only smile in a flattering way, and Bai Shan pointed to the inn diagonally opposite and asked, "Is that inn opened by your Yi Cheng?"
"Yes," Ren Ergou said naively, "Sir, no one has lived in this post station for many years. Most of the officials who come here live in the inn opposite."
Bai Shan asked: "I see there is an inn next door, who runs it?"
Ren Ergou scratched his head and shook his head, "I don't know, but the person next door is the one who calls the shots."
When Bai Shan first arrived, how did he know who Shopkeeper Zhang was?
Man Bao asked directly, "Who is Shopkeeper Zhang?"
Ren Ergou, "Shopkeeper Zhang is shopkeeper Zhang. He is quite kind. Sometimes he will greet me when he sees me cleaning the door, so I will clean his house as well."
Everyone:......
Bai Shan was silent for a while and then asked: "Aren't you Yichen angry if you clean the front door for him?"
"Don't be angry, I swept the door of the inn opposite."
Man Bao looked at the honest-looking Ren Ergou and couldn't help bursting into laughter. The others also shook their heads and laughed, and started discussing, "What should we do? We can't really live here, right?"
They don't lack bedding, they already have it themselves, but what about the soldiers and guards?
And there is only one waiter in the whole store. Let alone eating, he may not even have enough hot water.
Bai Shan thought for a while and called Manager Li, "Go next door and ask about the relationship between their inn and the general guarding the city gate."
Manager Li was stunned, "Ask directly?"
"Ask directly. If we are unfamiliar with the place and don't have time to be polite to them, just ask directly."
Manager Li agreed, turned around and went out.
Bai Shan and Man Bao raised their heads to look at the inn again, and curiously asked Ren Ergou, "When did your inn stop doing business?"
Ren Ergou shook his head and expressed that he didn't know, and added: "I thought it was very busy before I came in. When I came in, I realized that I was the only one in the whole store. I only cleaned and scrubbed things every day, and there was no one else there. Okay.
My boss never owed me wages and gave me food, so I was happy."
Man Bao saw that the stones on the steps were still clean. It was mainly because no one had been there for a long time and they had been cleaned all the time. It was strange that they were not clean due to wind and rain. She simply sat down on the ground and waved to him to sit down and talk together.
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Ren Ergou declined and asked them to sit, while he squatted aside and said happily: "We like to squat when we chat."
Man Bao said: "We don't like it, our feet will go numb if we squat."
"That's because you don't know how to squat. Everyone in our village likes to squat."
Seeing that he was so stupid and not very old, Bai Shan smiled and asked, "How old are you this year?"
"Nineteen."
Bai Shan: "You're not much older than me. You don't have a wife?"
He shook his head and said happily: "My third brother just got married, and the family has no money. My mother told me to wait for another two years. By then I have saved some money, and if the family gives me more money, I can marry my wife."
Already."
"Is your home far away from here? Will you miss home if you don't go back for a long time?"
"Yes," Ren Ergou said, "My home is far away from here. It takes a whole day to walk. Usually I don't think about it, but after I finish working, I think about it. No one here talks to me. I just
When I could go out and sweep the ground outside the door, someone would say a few words to me."
"But the wages here are high, and food and accommodation are included. The boss treats me well and never asks me to work. He also said that it's okay if these houses are empty, but I can't be idle after I get the money. My mother said
, You have to work hard outside, so that your boss likes it. I have always been very hardworking." Ren Ergou vaguely knew that they were officials, so he racked his brains to praise himself, "Go to the room and see, I can't even
The dust in the corners has been wiped clean.”
Man Bao nodded, it was clean as far as it could be wiped, but he forgot to ventilate it, so there was a musty smell when he entered.
Ren Ergou saw that they listened attentively and even responded to him with a word or two from time to time. He was very happy. He hadn't talked so much to anyone for a long time. Even when his brothers came to see him, they couldn't talk much.
It's like "Be obedient, be diligent, don't spend money randomly, save your money to marry a wife".
But now these guests would not tell them this, but were very interested in his daily work. So in just a short time, Bai Shan and the others not only knew that there were four brothers and three sisters in his family, but also that he
The errand was obtained by his mother through the relationship between his third uncle's sister's second son and Yi Cheng.
For this purpose, their family also paid two sheep and two feet of saved good cloth.
With the money he earned, he had to first return the sheep and cloth at home before he could save his own money to marry a wife.
Bai Shan and the others also knew that his boss, oh, Yi Cheng, would not come here generally. They would only meet him at the door every few days, and then Yi Cheng would say a few words to him and then enter the opposite door.
Inn.
Of course, most of the time, Yi Cheng would not talk to him, but would just nod to him and go in. Therefore, shopkeeper Zhang next door could talk to him, and Ren Ergou was so happy to help him clear the way to the door.
Scanned.
Bai Erlang couldn't hold it back anymore and said to him: "Yi Cheng is not your employer, your employer is the imperial court. No, it should be said to be the county government or the governor's office. Do you understand?"
Ren Ergou shook his head blankly and said to him: "I was invited by Yi Cheng, and the salary was also given by Yi Cheng."
Bai Erlang said "Oh!" and shouted: "So what, the Yamen hasn't charged him with dereliction of duty yet."
Ren Ergou's heart tightened and he looked at them anxiously, "You, you want to arrest our boss?"
Although he is not very smart, he also knows that if the Yi Cheng is gone, then he probably won't be able to work in the inn anymore.
Bai Shan paused and asked, "Do you know the emperor?"
Ren Ergou nodded, "Who doesn't know this?"
"It's good to know," Bai Shan said with a serious face, "This inn belongs to the emperor."
Ren Ergou's eyes widened.
"The emperor is your boss, and the Yi Cheng is just hired by the emperor to manage the inn. He is just a shopkeeper, just like the shopkeeper Zhang next door." Bai Shan said: "So the emperor gave your salary to the Yi Cheng, and he will do it for you.
Everything given to you, including the food you eat, is also given by the emperor."
Ren Ergou was so excited that his mouth trembled, "I, my boss is the emperor?"
Man Bao and Bai Erlang turned to look at Bai Shan, seeing him nodding without changing his expression, "Yes, he is the emperor!"