Chapter 94 If you are poor, you will want to change (please subscribe)
After being away from Nanjing for so long, the five brothers had enough to eat and drink for the first time, and they ate so well.
After the meal, Zhu Ji also brewed homemade Kuding tea, and the brothers sat around the embers in the stove with endless satisfaction, holding teacups, eating and talking.
Mainly to listen to the fourth child brag about today's scenery.
"Hahaha, those guys who only want to have sex for free, just let Lao Liu tell me to pay for the coins." Zhu Di patted Zhu Zhen on the shoulder and laughed: "You don't know what Lao Liu's mouth is?
I don’t know who I learned it from, but I have such a sharp tongue!”
"Actually, there is something more cruel that I dare not say." Zhu Zhen also raised his tail proudly.
"What? Say, say." the second brother asked curiously.
"Today there is a funeral at a friend's house. I won't say who it is. Just leave. We will definitely not blame you." Zhu Zhen said in a playful tone: "You can also say, 'Have you heard? There is a funeral at a friend's house today.
My wife is stealing from a man, so go back and catch him as soon as possible. If it's too late, you won't be able to see her!'"
"Hahahaha..." Regardless of age, men still like this kind of colorful jokes, and the brothers burst into laughter.
laugh.
The second brother was stunned for a while, and then he realized what he was doing. He held his belly in his hands and laughed like a pig. "No, no, don't tell jokes, your belly is bloated."
"Then, why didn't you say anything?" Fourth brother asked regretfully. If it was his nature, he would say whatever it takes to hurt him.
"As a performer, you still have to be harmonious to make money. You still have to support and coax your parents, and try to say nice things. If you really meet someone who doesn't want to go to whoring for nothing, it's not too late to talk to him." Zhu Zhen said with deep feeling.
"Listen, Third Brother, Sixth Brother is much more powerful than you!" Zhu Di did not miss any opportunity to provoke Third Brother.
"We are pretty good too. Now we have someone to greet us in every village we go to, and we also take care of the meals. Doctors come to you on your own, so you don't have to walk around the streets anymore." Naturally, the third child would not soften his voice.
"I just can't see any money all day long," Zhu Di said in shock.
"Isn't this normal? The people in the village don't have much money! Who usually uses money? They just exchange it for things." Zhu Que always had a reason.
"That's true." Zhu Di did not continue to refute.
He also knew that before they were sold, their brothers had never seen any money. The shortcomings of oil, salt, sauce and vinegar were all exchanged for crude drugs at the market.
"So we still have to make money from rich people." Zhu Zi reflected: "But rich people hire famous doctors. We are now in the word-of-mouth stage. When the reputation spreads throughout the township, rich people will naturally hire us.
Went to see a doctor."
"You're too greedy for money, why don't you treat the common people?" Zhu Di immediately disagreed.
"Rich people don't have to worry about not having doctors to see them. The poor, who look down on doctors, are the ones who need help the most." Zhu Ru nodded and said with deep understanding.
"You are the one who is obsessed with money!" Zhu ignored Zhu Ju and said to Zhu Di: "Forgot what are we doing here? To entertain people? To see a doctor?"
"Experience, cultivate the land, check the hidden fields, and investigate illegal activities." Zhu Di suddenly understood that he had indeed been blinded by life these days.
All day long I was just thinking about how to make money to support my family, and I forgot about my father's mission.
Zhu, who had won back the victory, showed an expression of "Fortunately I am reliable" and said proudly:
"I have been following Lao Wu through the streets and alleys for a while, and I have been paying close attention to the investigation, and I have found that the situation in hidden fields is widespread. It can be said that every household conceals and under-reports, and no one can match the household stickers."
"You're bragging." Zhu Di didn't believe it: "We don't have a copy of the household sticker, how can you compare it?"
Zhu pointed to his heart and said lightly, "I've recorded it all here."
"Okay, you are awesome..." Zhu Di shrank his neck, thinking that all good students should be killed.
"But I heard that compared to Fengyang County, Linhuai County can only be regarded as a small witch." But Zhu heard a change of topic.
All the brothers nodded, this was the intended meaning of the question.
They had already passed the stage when they first came to Guizhou and their eyes dimmed. They would have known that since the imperial court began to build Zhongdu City and built mansions for ministers in the city, all the wealthy families in Linhuai would go to Fengyang County to buy property.
Because Linhuai has natural defects. Due to the impact of the Yellow River taking away the Huaihe River, the Huaihe River system has been greatly damaged. The new sea channel is simply not enough to carry the huge amount of water in the flood season. Therefore, it is silted up and flooded every year, and the sea channel gradually becomes an above-ground water channel.
river.
Linhuai County, located at the junction of the Huaihe River and the Haohe River, has been the hardest hit area by nine floods in ten years since the Yuan Dynasty. When the flood came, the poor took up their burdens, carrying their babies on one end and their meager belongings on the other, and fled.
The homes and properties of the rich will all be ruined.
Therefore, the Zhongdu City was not built in Linhuai, the real imperial hometown, but twenty miles away, south of the higher Fenghuang Mountain, because it could not be flooded there.
Moreover, the elders of the Imperial City firmly believe that when Zhongdu City is completed, it will be the day when Emperor Hongwu moves the capital. By then, Fengyang will be more prosperous than Nanjing and Suzhou, with a population of one million and land prices a hundred times higher. Those who have the conditions will of course rush to get there.
Buy a property and wait for the value to rise.
So at present, in Linhuai, only the Tang He family and the Hu Xian family are still alive.
Of course, several of their highnesses vowed to give their father a satisfactory answer, but this little gain was far from satisfying them.
After much discussion, Lao Si finally concluded:
"No matter what, let's earn enough for living expenses first, and then we will stop and concentrate on taking care of the crops and complete the mission of our father!"
"No, nothing's wrong." The second child yawned and got up to go back to the house to sleep.
"It's up to you to make money." The third child patted the sixth child encouragingly and pulled him up to wash up. If he didn't pull him, he would always get on the kang without being too lazy to wash up.
"Lao Wu, don't be stressed. I'll leave the money-making business to my brother!" Zhu Di confidently encouraged Zhu Ju: "You can see a doctor with peace of mind, and you can show it to whoever you want."
"Okay brother." Zhu Ru nodded and smiled happily.
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In short, the brothers were all full of hope that night.
But in life, things often go wrong...
After several performances in the county, Zhu Zhen still yelled hard and asked for money shamelessly. The performances of the two brothers became more and more natural, but fewer and fewer people came to see them, so the money they got was naturally only a fraction of what before.
.
After a performance, the harvest was bleak again. The second child finally couldn't help it, grabbed an old onlooker who was passing by, and asked loudly:
"Hey, why don't you watch it?"
The passerby was so frightened that he trembled and said: "No matter how beautiful Xie's tricks are, it will be boring if you watch them too much. Besides, brother Xie is desperate for money. If we look at it, we will not survive, right?"
"Oh, this, that's it." Zhu Ming let go of his hand, and the man walked away as if he was running away.
"Close the stall and go home." Zhu Di was also a little depressed. If things didn't get better, let alone saving for living expenses, he would have to go back to the time when it was difficult to make ends meet.
"Hey, it's really hard to sell it." Zhu Xiang said with his head drooped.
"Let me think about it. If you are poor and want to change, there will always be a way." Zhu Zhen sat cross-legged on the back of the cow and started thinking hard.
