Steward Zhang said two more words, leaving Zhang Liang to wait here, hurried home, and noted the appearance of the woman who always had to take care of him.
Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan are playing checkers with Zhang Wang's family. Three people, each with one color, were carved out of wood on the chessboard. It was so dark and dark. Since Zhang Wang's saw the checkers, it didn't take a few days to compare Zhang Xiaobao's work. It's worse than Wang Juan, and now this game has a slight upper hand.
Zhang Xiaobao sat there with one hand on his lap, ready to take checkers at any time, with one hand supporting his chin, frowning, and carefully calculating there, Wang Juan also whispered a few steps in his mouth, Zhang Wang clan slowly, watching the lovely appearance of his son and daughter-in-law from time to time.
When Steward Zhang arrives, Wang Wang will have five moves to complete. If Wang Juan doesn’t move the sixth move ahead of time, Zhang Xiaobao can also use her five moves to complete the move. That way, Wang Juan lost.
Wang Juan looked at Zhang Xiaobao's nervous look, laughed, and reached for the chess piece. Zhang Xiaobao quickly said: "You should know how to sacrifice yourself and cover your teammates."
"Understood, but you are not my friend. Now it belongs to the separation of powers. I can do it in the middle. You can take eight steps slowly, ah." Wang Juan picked up the chess piece anyway.
"Madam, are you here? There are also little sons and little ladies? The little one went over there today, besides the adult I met last time, he also met someone who looked fifty years old, and there was a little under the corner of his left eye. When I speak, my right eye blinks twice every time, my hair is curled up and inserted with a wooden hairpin, Feng Chaotian’s hairstyle, my right hand always touches the index finger of the left hand, nose..."
"Needless to say, I know, I came so early? I thought I could only come after the master passed the exam, Mr. Zhang, you go and wait for a living. Don’t let the master know, it will disturb the master’s study, remember Live?"
Zhang Wang didn't wait for Steward Zhang to finish, and he knew who it was. He closed his eyes and took a breath, and then recovered his calmness, telling Steward Zhang not to tell Father Zhang.
Steward Zhang immediately responded: "I know, Madam, don’t let the master know, but paper can’t keep the fire. Madam, there’s one more thing. That adult said he wanted to spend the Chinese New Year here. Let the guys from the Shuiyunjian restaurant wait. People continue to do things there, and they can’t go home at thirty, and the younger ones dare not accept it."
"Oh, in this matter, the people who do things in the water and cloud are not only me, but also the people from the Ge family. How many people have they come?" Zhang Wang thought for a while, but he didn't think so. It's easy to handle. She already knows who that adult is, but she doesn't want to go there right away. It's best to postpone it until the imperial examination is over.
"Mother, there are still a few days to celebrate the New Year. Don't worry, and think slowly. Even if there are no people from the Ge family, there will be enough people from the Zhang family. It's just not letting them go home for the New Year. This is a bit bad. , You have to figure it out."
Zhang Xiaobao spoke at this moment. He didn't ask his mother who came here or what it had to do with the family. He just saw that he felt that his mother had some inner conflicts on this matter, so he didn't want to raise it.
Wang Juan also nodded aside, and at the same time stretched out his hand to stop Zhang Xiaobao's hand that wanted to mess up the chessboard.
"Madam, it's better to just do what the little son said, wait a few days, oh, they have fifty-five people in total, I don't know if anyone else will come."
Steward Zhang had originally asked the young man to talk to him, but now he saves the time of an extra trip.
Zhang Wang nodded: "Then do this, but Mr. Zhang will have to work harder."
Steward Zhang humbled and turned around to make arrangements. Wang Wang stared at the chessboard for a few seconds. Just as he was about to play, Zhang Xiaobao suddenly said: "Mother, I am tired with the cuckoo, so I won't play anymore, and my mother also goes to rest. Come on."
Zhang Wang glanced at his son, touched his son's head, and said, "Okay, Xiaobao and the cuckoo go to rest, and my mother will take a nap. My mother has a good son and a good daughter-in-law, so don’t worry so much. Stop fucking."
"Well, don't worry, our family has money, land, and officials. When Dad is admitted, let's see who dares to look down on our family, mother, and I went back with the cuckoo."
Zhang Xiaobao seemed to say something casually, and took Wang Juan out of the door to his yard.
"Little Treasure is really smart." Looking at his son and future daughter-in-law, Zhang Wangshi breathed a sigh of relief, only to feel anxious, as his son said the last words, it disappeared.
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"Xiaobao, are you relatives who came here? Your mother didn't want to see them, did she bully your house?" Wang Juan asked as she followed Zhang Xiaobao on the road.
"Who knows, it doesn't matter who it is, what's important is that this is the place of Zhang Wang's two Zhuangzi, no matter who is here, he must do things according to our rules."
Zhang Xiaobao said disdainfully, whoever comes, Zhangjiazhuangzi is Zhangjiazhuangzi, even if the emperor comes, he can't take it hard.
Wang Juan saw that Zhang Xiaobao was not in a hurry when it came to her own affairs, and she was not in a hurry. She gave a small stone on the road aside, and asked: "Then who do you want to stay in the water and cloud to serve people? Wasn't it because two sixth-rank officials came over to ask for your father's things, it should be the old man's effort."
"I didn't think about it, don't worry, there are still so many days, sometimes an inspiration comes, then you have an idea, don't always let me think about it, you also help me think about it." Zhang Xiaobao was also talking. In the calculation, how to do this thing.
The old man is a little capable, and he is so old, and he ran here to celebrate the New Year. If he doesn't wait for him, he won't be able to do it. If he waits, who will be arranged? Who is not young
"Yes, Xiaobao, in this way, let's let the people between Shuiyun go in rotation, such as Thirty Nights, just like we did last year, first come to my house to eat, and then come back, guys can do it, too. At that time, the New Year’s greetings are over, but those who have not visited the New Year come back."
Wang Juan gave an idea, and she thought it was a good idea to do this, that is, here, before replacing it, who cared about the New Year, there were always people in the unit willing to stay.
Zhang Xiaobao thought for a while and just nodded, but stopped again, "No, there should be a better way. Go, go back and think slowly. I like to think about things while eating, and I think about it when I eat."
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While Zhang Xiaobao was thinking about how to spend the new year well, the county magistrate Jia was thinking about how to make Zhangjiazhuang a bad year. He heard about the firecrackers yesterday and calculated the possible money. He was finally Shen Shen. Can't help it.
Coming together this morning, I asked him to buy some of the government officials to join with other government officials, and load the trucks toward Tuqiao Village with the things he bought from Zhangjiazhuang.
In the afternoon, when there was still a section of road from Tuqiao Village, there was a burst of firecrackers. The magistrate Jia picked up the curtain of the car and looked over there. He saw that there was an adult with a little baby in front of a small village. Playing with the whip, that firecracker is called a long one, hung from a tree, and after a few turns, it just fell to the ground.
There was a crackling sound, the trembling ears buzzed, and the car went out dozens of feet away, and the movement had not stopped.
"Tong Yajie, tell the officer, how loud is the firecracker just now?" County magistrate Jia waited for the sound of the firecrackers to end, pressed his ears with his hands, retched, and shouted to the outside.
He didn't call Song Yang, he felt that he should hide it and use the briber in key places. If he usually behaves too close to him, it is easy to doubt it.
Tong Yaya came to the car and said respectfully to the car: "Sir, the younger thinks it is 20,000 rang, which is cheaper. The more you buy, the cheaper it is. There are 300,000 rang at the Yamen side this year, and Something that can be exploded in the sky, adults are willing to let go, and you can light it yourself."
"Ah, it's cheap. It's also money to put it like this. How can you get a few buckets of meters with a whip?" County magistrate Jia made his ears more comfortable this time, and estimated how many things can be exchanged for firecrackers.
"What the adults said is that they can indeed exchange a lot of rice, but the dealer has some spare money and is willing to buy it, so I can’t stop them from letting it go? If you don’t let it go, you will have to burn firecrackers at that time. For twelve cents, only one hundred and ninety cents for ten thousand jingles, and about three hundred fifty or sixty cents for 20,000 jingles."
Tong Yayue continued speaking, and gave an estimate of the price of firecrackers.
The county magistrate Jia felt even more uncomfortable after listening to it, and silently calculated that ordinary people would buy at least one for the New Year, right? That's three money, how many households are there in the county? There are registered in this office. There are more than 9,000 households. How much money can Zhangjiazhuang make? If you pay a hundred and make half a pen, that is four consistent money.
What about those who buy too much? There are also those restaurants that are used to setting off firecrackers. When they open in the new year, they will have to put a lot of them. According to this estimate, this firecracker alone can earn thousands of times. It is still estimated that Zhang’s firecrackers earn. In rare cases, people outside also come to buy it.
Zhangjiazhuang’s firecrackers are constantly being shipped out. How are firecrackers made? Taken apart, there should be sulfur and charcoal, and the other should be saltpeter, but the problem is that I found someone to do it, and it doesn’t sound at all. This recipe seems to be the most important, and there must be something else in it. thing.
If it doesn't work, you can't let Zhangjiazhuangzi continue to make money. You have to find a way quickly and wait for people from other places to come over and buy it next year. Wouldn't they make more money
"Tong Ya, let people speed up, so slow, how can there be time to give people things when they arrive?" Anxious in his heart, the county magistrate Jia urged.
The speed of the team quickly picked up, and Tong Yaye also followed by and persuaded the county magistrate Jia in the car, "Don’t worry, don’t you mean staying here for one night today? It’s okay to send it off tomorrow day."