125: Human debt, heavy as a mountain (plus)
Cheng Qing’s nose was itchy.
When he walked out of the He family, he kept sighing secretly.
Just travel through time. It’s easy to turn a woman into a man. Who would marry is not a marriage? For the sake of Mr. He and his affection, she must have married He Wan without hesitation.
The little girl speaks straightforwardly and is quite cute. She keeps her around her worry-free. She doesn’t have to worry about the plot of the person next to her. The more she thinks about it, the more suitable she is.
But I didn't change my daughter into a man, so I pretended to be a man and married the little girl home, and suddenly became a scumbag who cheated on her marriage.
Cheng Qing, who didn't want to be a scum, rejected Mr. He's favor. When he walked out of the gate of He's mansion, he felt that his friendship with Mr. He was probably going to be over.
Si Yan didn't know what Mr. He said to Cheng Qing at the table, so Cheng Qing went to take the college entrance examination, but Si Yan didn't even go with him.
It is secondary to rushing goods at the wharf. As a servant, the first thing to do is to serve his young master. It is also very important that Cheng Qing does not allow Si Yan to follow him.
Si Yan's business is related to the He family. Seeing Cheng Qing coming out of He's mansion with a serious look on his face, Si Yan carefully reminded:
"Young master, there are many people who want to do business at the wharf. You said that spring is a good time to sell silk. The young man had no experience in the past. Thanks to the secret care of the fifth master and Mr. He, the young man, was not cheated of his capital..."
The fifth master won’t say it.
Mr. He is really nice to the young master.
Nanyi has many waters and mountains, and there are few fields that can grow rice, so the people choose to plant mulberry trees and raise silkworms.
When raising silkworms with mulberry leaves, silkworms sprinkle silk, silk can weave silk cloth. Silk cloth is more expensive than native cloth, and silk can also replace grain taxes. The people in every place have their own way of survival.
Nanyi has a prosperous academic style. Every household wants male students to study, but they have to pay for money to study. Where does the money come from?
A rough man who works hard to serve the fields is not as profitable as a woman with skilled hands. He can have a few looms at home to provide school for men. He can save a house business and buy a house for land.
Cheng also has his own mulberry fields, weaving factories, and cloth stores.
The He family also started by collecting silk and weaving cloth, and is now a famous cloth merchant in Xuandu Prefecture.
It was the house that Cheng Qing's family rented in Yangliu Lane, which was originally a villa of Wangbu merchants in the county. Wangbu merchants had a lot of money. A few years ago, the silk woven by the Wang family's cloth shop was even purchased by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and it became a tribute. The Wang family also showed the style of an imperial merchant. Unexpectedly, Xiao He failed. In the fifth year of Chengping, there was a problem with the silk supply of the Wang family. Not only did the Wang family get back to its original form, but the colleagues seized the opportunity to run the money. The Wang family's property was hit until one ten was sold. All the houses could be sold, and those that were not sold for a while were rented out.
The silk cloth in Xuandu Prefecture is very famous, and Nanyi County is one of the raw materials and primary processing bases of Xuandu Prefecture silk.
Nanyi County has well-connected waterways, and merchants from other places dock every day on the large wharf. Merchants sell silk and collect cloth from here. The local market is basically monopolized by several major households in the county, and the remaining bits of scraps are not so easy to swallow. Cheng Qing exchanged the imperial court's pension into silver, of which 500 taels were given to Si Yan as capital, and sent Si Yan to the countryside to collect silk.
The collected silk was not sold immediately, but was used to pawn shop and exchanged for silver, and then continued to collect the silk.
According to what Cheng Qing said, Si Yan hired two helpers to select and organize the collected silk bit by bit, and the last load was all top-quality. Such silk was rushing to acquire by foreign merchants.
The capital of 500 taels of silver was only two months old, and it had doubled. This is why Cheng Qing had the confidence to promise to give the Liu family fifty taels a month.
Is this money easy to make?
Actually, it's not easy to make money.
Not to mention how hard it is to go to the countryside to collect silk threads, the villagers who raise silk threads are not all honest and honest. They add water and sand to the silk to increase the weight. They also use inferior products as good ones and bury bad wires underneath. Those who collect silk threads will be deceived if they are not careful!
Cheng Qing repeatedly reminded him that Si Yan had no experience at the beginning and was deceived several times.
Later, Si Yan sent silk to the pawn shop again, and he got the guidance of the pawn shopkeeper. Si Yan combined with Cheng Qing's teachings and slowly got to know the trick. He made a lot of profit in just two months. Cheng Qing's mansion and the college examination were the busiest times for silk sales, so Si Yan did not follow Cheng Qing to Xuandu.
There is no businessman without any traitor. Why do other pawn shop owners have good intentions to guide Si Yan’s business? The pawn shop owner’s surname is He, and it goes without saying who is helping Cheng Qing.
It can be said that Mr. He really took care of Cheng Qing everywhere. Si Yan felt that his young master seemed unhappy when he left the He Mansion, so he couldn't help but persuade him.
Cheng Qing's head hurt even more.
Si Yan really doesn’t open any pot, just the pawn shop at the dock. Mr. He just mentioned it and said that it was one of He Wan’s future dowry... Is Cheng Qing willing to recommend this kind of good thing that both wealth and sex?
She doesn't care about money because she is confident that she can make money, but it doesn't mean she thinks she has too much money!
--well!
"Stop talking, go to Wuxin Town first."
He still needs to find a way to repair his relationship with Mr. He. Cheng Qinggang refused to marry someone's granddaughter. Before Mr. He was relieved, he had to leave the He family affairs and go to the Zhou family as he originally planned.
As the name suggests, the largest surname in Wuxin Town is the surname "Wu". Zhou Heng's family is a foreigner. He has not a deep foundation in Wuxin Town. He has dozens of acres of thin land in his family and also grows mulberry trees and silkworms. His family is quite similar to Cheng Qing's family. Zhou Heng has only one son, and the others are daughters. Zhou's mother takes her daughters to raise silkworms and weave cloth to support Zhou Heng's schooling. Zhou's father is also an old scholar. He taught children in the village and taught them some to support family income. He has no great prospects in his life. The most proudest thing is probably to teach Zhou Heng?
The Zhou family is not well off, and you can be a dignified person when you go out, because Zhou’s father’s profession is very decent, unlike the Cui family who is a merchant!
If Zhou Heng didn't get close to Cui Yan, he would not be discriminated against in the academy.
On the way to Wuxin Town, Cheng Qing sorted out Zhou Heng’s situation.
As for why Zhou Heng wanted to be a follower for Cui Yan, the reason was very simple. Zhou Heng was very short of money, and Cui Yan was generous. In terms of face and benefits, Zhou Heng chose the latter - Cheng Qing did not discriminate at all. Her family had not yet been too short of money and had to overturn the verdict. If she really couldn't eat enough food and couldn't wear a shirt, she wouldn't think that she was a businessman in the Wei Dynasty and was determined to take the imperial examination. It was the most realistic to be a low-status vendor first!
Therefore, Cheng Qing’s definition of Zhou Heng is a sensible person.
If they don’t be a follower for nothing, they will just take care of Cui Yan’s benefits. The equivalent exchange of silver and goods is the most familiar way of getting along with each other.
When I arrived in the countryside of Wuxin Town, I soon found out about the Zhou family.
The Zhou family is holding a funeral.
The smell of medicine had not yet dissipated, the Zhou family hung a white lantern, Zhou Heng was wearing a mourning uniform, and a black cloth strip was wrapped around his arms, and he was swollen and weak.
"I haven't congratulated Junior Brother Cheng for winning three consecutive years... Thank you for helping me, Brother Yu can only see my father for the last time!"
The good doctor invited by Cheng Qing from Xuandu Mansion still failed to save Zhou Heng's father's life. Zhou's father's illness was delayed for more than a month and had reached the point where the oil was exhausted.
Chapter completed!