The servant went to the bank to get money, and Lin Yuan packed up in the ruined temple. In fact, there was nothing to pack, mainly because Lin Yuan was in a hurry.
He is weak now, and when he passed through, it was the time when the original owner burned the most. The original owner didn't get through it, and he continued to boil it again. Although he boiled down, he didn't have good measures to keep him warm. , you can only fill your stomach, don't even think about drinking medicine.
Lin Yuan was still a little fortunate, because cotton textiles only existed in the Yuan Dynasty. If we pushed forward another dynasty, I am afraid that the original owner and the servants would not be able to find the broken temple at all, and they would have frozen to death on the road.
"Master!" The little servant ran back quickly, and he also redeemed two cotton jackets, one of his own and one of Lin Yuan's. Lin Yuan's one used more cotton, and more thick.
After putting the cotton jacket on, Lin Yuan rubbed his hands and finally dared to open the quilt.
They had been sleeping on the ground before, the quilts were so dirty, and the temple was broken and no one cleaned it. Because of the strong wind, the beggars were unwilling to come over. After putting on his clothes, Lin Yuan was supported by the servant and limped away. Find an inn, and then go to buy a property after you have recovered your health.
Two hundred taels is really not a small amount. For an ordinary family of three, the annual expenses are only about two taels of silver. This is considered a small wealthy family.
In fact, Lin Yuan is a little fortunate that he did not wear it until the early years of the Yuan Dynasty. That year was hell. At that time, almost all officials of the Yuan Dynasty were illiterate. They just got off the horse when they arrived in the Central Plains. The youngest child can be an official, and the lower officials will try their best to mess around, accumulating money and planting stolen goods, and the smog is dirty.
It's tough now, but it's pretty good compared to back then.
"I've already inquired about it. There is an inn in the north of the city. It is said to be the largest and cleanest."
Lin Yuan shook his head: "If you can't go to the room, how much will you go down?"
Servant: "Eighty words."
Lin Yuan: "Let's get out of the room, let's squeeze each other."
Anyway, it's been so crowded for more than a week.
This small town is called Wucheng, which is a bit close to Jiangnan. When Lin Yuan is ready to cultivate, he will buy property there. Jiangnan cannot go there. Chen Youliang, Zhang Shicheng and Fang Guozhen are all in Jiangnan. Still be careful.
The lower room of the inn was not big, but it was cleaned up fairly well. Xiao Er also gave them a pot of hot water for the master and servant to clean up. Lin Yuan ordered a meal and gave Xiao Er a little money. , let him help buy two pieces of ready-to-wear.
"I'm sure you're satisfied." Little Er happily went down and bought two ready-to-wear clothes. He could still be greedy a little bit, but not too much, but it was still a stash of money.
The food came soon. One plate of fried vegetables and one plate of fried shredded pork. Because there are few people who grow rapeseed flowers, the green vegetables are fried with lard. To clump.
Although there are only two dishes, the portion is still quite large, and Lin Yuan stopped after eating it with rice.
The servant went to grab a few doses of medicine and let the inn boil it up and brought it up. They all said that the disease was like a mountain, and the disease was like a thread. However, after the thermal conditions and dietary conditions kept up, Lin Yuan got better very quickly, only three You can go out for a walk today.
Wucheng is not big, the total population is estimated to be 10,000 or 20,000 people, and there are not many street vendors. In the cold winter and the twelfth lunar month, the people do not go out very much. They are all stocked up with enough food for the winter, one meal a day, in the house. Live, but there are also hard workers and beggars, walking on the road without clothes, shivering from the cold wind blowing.
I don't know if they will survive this winter.
"Guest officer, come to a bowl of tofu brain! It's hot! Warm the stomach!"
"Guest officer, my cakes are famous and delicious in Wucheng, you can try one."
The hawkers were laughing, their cheeks flushed with cold, and they were still hawking.
Lin Yuan and the servant were walking on the road, and they were out of tune with the poor people around. After all, he was from a landlord family. The original owner had never suffered or suffered since he was a child, and his ten fingers did not touch the spring water. They all stay indoors and don't go out to bask in the sun very much. He is a rich young master with red lips and white teeth.
Although the little servant was born in a family and was born as a servant, he followed Lin Yuan at the age of seven, and his daily life was to take care of Lin Yuan's affairs. Even better.
The two of them appeared on the street wearing a sign with three big characters "Rich Man".
"Master!"
Lin Yuan was just passing by a street when a woman in a basket of clothes hugged her legs. She was dirty and smelly, her hair was greasy and dusty, and she could see fleas when she looked closely. Her clothes were like rags, filled with stuffing inside. Holding the hay to keep warm, she grabbed Lin Yuan's leg with one hand and pulled the child behind her with the other.
"Master!" the woman cried, "you bought him, you bought him, no money!"
"He can do it! He will work for you! He has strength!"
As he spoke, he kowtowed to Lin Yuan, repeatedly, without any discount, he banged on the ground, blood oozing from his forehead, and shouted, "Master, I bought him, bought him!"
The child who was brought out saw his mother kneeling, so he also knelt and kowtowed together.
The eight-year-old child already knew what happened. His family was originally a farmer. Last year, when his father committed an accident, the landlord took back his land, and his father was beaten to death, so his mother took them to escape. Two of his brothers died on the road, one starved to death, the other starved and couldn't bear to go to other people's fields to steal vegetables, and was beaten to death by the villagers there.
He and his mother wandered all the way, and when they arrived in this small town, they really couldn't move, so they became beggars here.
But the mother's health is getting worse and worse. The food he wants every day can only keep their mother alive, and they can't eat enough every day.
The owner of a grain shop originally gave him some food, but now that grain shop is closed, they have no last hope.
Last night, his mother said to him, "My dear, my mother sold you to a good family so that you can eat enough."
He asked: "Mother sold it too, let's go eat together."
His mother just laughed.
She is this age, has given birth to three children, is thick-handed, and has no looks. Even if she wants to sell it to a secret door, people will not accept her. Those rich people may buy an eight-year-old child to go back, but I won't buy a female beggar who can't live long after a single glance.
She remembered that when she still had a home, her husband was an honest man and always worked hard. The eldest son was the same as her husband. He was the dumbest, but the most obedient and sensible. Do some small business, then take over the whole family and live a good life.
A home, if it is gone, it will be gone.
If it wasn't for her young son, she didn't know how she would survive.
At the worst time, she even wanted to die with her younger son, find a stone, crush the younger son to death first, and then hit her to death.
But looking at her younger son's eyes, she couldn't do anything, so she could only wipe away her tears and continue on the road.
"Stop knocking!" Lin Yuan stopped a few times, but didn't stop, he could only shout.
The woman and the child stopped now, the blood on the woman's head, and her eyes were full of despair, she said in a hoarse voice: "Master, he really has the strength, he can work, he can work, he doesn't want wages. , I will sell him to you, and I will sign a contract of sale for you, and he will do whatever you ask him to do, young master, buy him young master!"
She is not begging Lin Yuan to buy her son, she is begging Lin Yuan to give her son a chance to live.
"Get up first." Lin Yuan held his forehead and said with a headache, "Get up and talk."
The woman's knee was frostbitten. She gritted her teeth and stood up with difficulty. The boy also stood beside the woman, not daring to look up at Lin Yuan.
Lin Yuan asked, "What will you do?"
The woman's eyes lit up, and she hurriedly said, "The dog can herd cattle! He can farm! He can do rough work!"
Lin Yuan asked again, "Are you literate?"
The woman's shoulders slumped: "No, illiterate..."
Lin Yuan actually wanted to be a good person, but God didn't give him the opportunity to be a good person before. After graduating from college, he joined a company. The tossing, in addition to their own work, but also to help the seniors.
Done well, seniors and bosses are praised and rewarded.
If he didn't do it well, he was the only one who was criticized for his salary deduction.
He also thought about changing jobs, but he couldn't find a better job. His major in college was originally unpopular, so he could only stay in the company.
He took a chance and made a mistake in the data for the senior, and it belonged only to the senior's name. Later, he was discovered by the upper management. When the senior wanted to talk to him, because the company knew that this senior always bullied him. , coupled with the illusion that he has always been submissive, no one believed him at all, and the senior was dismissed.
The boss is that he got drunk while working on a project, and sent a leaking text message to the boss of a competing company with his phone and tone, and the boss also fell.
He was promoted from junior staff to department manager.
In the workplace, Lin Yuan got along like a duck to water, wined over his subordinates, fawned on his boss, and overthrown his opponents. He really wasn't a good person. Even Lin Yuan felt that if he was a good person, he wouldn't want to be friends with such a self.
"Do you know how to farm?" Lin Yuan asked the woman.
The woman was a little dazed, and her son said quickly, "Master, my mother knows, my mother can farm! You bought my mother together!"
"Just one bite! No money! Young master! We'll make you a cow and a horse!"
"Okay." Lin Yuan asked the servant to take out ten pennies, "Go buy something to eat, and wait for me here at noon in three days."
The woman and the boy kneeled again.
"Thank you young master, thank you young master."
The young servant was already used to the kindness of his young master. He just asked curiously, "Master, why are you giving them ten pennies? What if they don't come? Then we will lose money."
Lin Yuan: "If they don't come, I will give them alms."
After all, it was not enough for him and the little servant to run alone when buying property in the early stage. The ancients signed the deed of selling themselves and became the master of the family. They would not be able to run for the rest of their lives, and they were not afraid of being disobedient.
And he also hopes to accumulate some merit for the original owner, so that he can cast a good birth, and in the next life, he can be reborn into the modern age and be a good person with good rewards.
This is also some psychological comfort.
The author has something to say: Lin Yuan is not a hard-hearted person. If you want to see the protagonist with a cold heart and a cold lung, you can read Qiqi's other article, "Dangerous Water".