Chapter 249

Yam and jujube together to make a snack, a little sweet and not too sweet, taste good, can also be regarded as a tonic.

Butterfly cake is only made of flour, but because the store is willing to put oil into it when it is made, the cake expands when it is baked, and the smell is crisp. When it is eaten, it is crisp and tastes good. After being made into a butterfly like shape, sprinkled with a layer of sugar, it is very suitable for eating with slightly bitter tea.

In particular, butterfly crisp can smell a touch of sweetness, which is more attractive than the regular jujube mud yam cake.

Shi Xiaorui saw the young fruit seller standing aside with a basket. She felt a little pity for him. She thought that pomegranate had a good taste before and said to him, "sell me all the fruit you have left. It's hard to carry these things. I'll take all the money you need for your basket."

The young man was overjoyed and counted the fruits in the basket twice. There were 11 pears and 16 pomegranates in total, plus the two pomegranates peeled off before. Without blinking an eye, he immediately worked out the price: "the fruit is 123 Wen in total. The basket is made by my family. It's not worth any money, so he gave it to the two ladies."

Yu Qingzhan asked in surprise: "you can't make a mistake if you calculate so fast."

"No, no, it's definitely the price. It won't be much." Said the boy anxiously.

Shi Xiaorui calculated in his heart: "Qingzhan. It's 123 Wen. He's very accurate. "

"Oh, you are so good!" Yu Qingzhan looks at the young man. He is not very old. He is so good at arithmetic.

Shi Xiaorui took out the money and gave it to him. In ancient times, there was no one who specialized in mathematics. This young man either specialized in mathematics or was sensitive to numbers. Anyway, he was also a good seedling. Unfortunately, in good times, he wandered around the street to buy fruit.

The boy took the money and left happily.

Dianxiaoer just left a table next to him to clean up the dishes. He saw that Shi Xiaorui was interested in the boy, so he said to Shi Xiaorui, "isn't madam a local?"

Shi Xiaorui is not shy: "yes, we just moved to the capital."

"No wonder, madam, I'm afraid you don't know that our common people living in the Imperial City have a bad life," the shop boy said. "The suburbs of Beijing are just like that. The good farmland is basically divided up by the adults above. The best one left to us is Nakata, and the most is Xiatian."

"But life is better than no land. It's hard to work on the crops. It takes several years to turn the wasteland. Before long, the tax and grain will double and go up. After one year's hard work, you have to pay for the land. How can you live this life?"

Shi Xiaorui doesn't feel deeply about what Xiao er said. After all, she hasn't been in touch with farm work in the past few years. Shi's father is a farmer, but after she earns money, Shi Xiaorui is in the psychology of compensation and doesn't treat her biological father badly, so Shi's life is not bad.

Shi Xiaorui has some feelings. Several years have passed in a twinkling of an eye. She didn't expect to encounter so many troubles when she was crossing. At the beginning, if Xu Xin hadn't been appointed as the local magistrate, she didn't know how to be unlucky when she fell into the hands of the former magistrate. It was also her own luck to meet such a good official as Xu Xin.

If you can, I really hope that Xu Xin's good sense will be a little more, a little more, and stand in a position of lifting heavy weights like light in the court, so that people can live a better life.

The waiter's words interrupted Shi Xiaorui's Thoughts: "the little brother who sold fruit just now is Zhao. His family used to have about ten acres of medium-sized land. Their family has a small population. The harvest in one year was enough to live."

"Then why is it like this?"

"It's not the land. Their land was close to that of Uncle Qian's and was sandwiched between the two Chuang Tzu's. uncle Qian wanted to connect his land, so he ordered the government to register the land of the Zhao family as a good farmland. When the grain to be paid in autumn suddenly rose by 45%, the Zhao family couldn't get it out, and the government urged them to do so. Then the black hearted cheated them into borrowing money. Within half a year, Don't say the land is gone. I can't eat any more. "

The shop boy sighed as he spoke. They were all common people. What else could he do when he met such a thing besides knocking off his teeth and swallowing blood?

Yinziqian, which appeared in many ancient literary works, is a form of usury in ancient times.

It's similar to the modern campus loan. No matter how nice it is said at the beginning and how low the interest is, once it's borrowed and opened, there is basically no day to pay it off!

When the Zhao family borrowed money, they didn't even think that what they borrowed was printing money. Otherwise, they might as well simply sell the land to repay the money. They would save the time to cut meat with such a blunt knife as they do now. I don't know when it will be the end.

However, it should be illegal to release the printing money. Even if the common people release the printing money, they may not be able to get it back, or even be caught by someone to sue the official. Therefore, those who dare to release the printing money but are not afraid of not getting it back can be said to be "someone behind".

Wang Xifeng in a dream of Red Mansions let go of the money. What's her background? Four kings and eight gongs, a serious Xun GUI, and the empress Yuanchun in the palace, so they don't take printing money seriously.

"Is uncle Qian the brother of the empress?" Asked Shi Xiaorui.

"No, our serious uncle's surname is Zhang. Uncle Qian is the younger brother of the emperor's favorite concubine Qian. Because concubine Qian is favored, the Qian family also rises with the tide. Although the title is lower than that of the Queen's family, the reward in the palace is almost more than that of the Queen's family every year."

"Then he still..." Yu Qingzhan said angrily.

The second kid said, "let's fight against the common people. How can we guess what these noble people think?"

"If you have money, you will want more money. That's not enough." Shi Xiaorui sighs.

Zhao Xiaoge's story makes people feel heavy. Even when they chew snacks in their mouth, they don't taste as fragrant as before.

When a pot of tea was cold, they didn't eat half of it.

In line with the principle of not willing to waste, Shi Xiaorui and Yu Qingzhan pack the unfinished snacks, carry a basket of fruit, and walk back home.

The story of the Zhao family greatly inspired Shi Xiaorui's sense of urgency, but it also brought her new inspiration.

Everyone knows that drugstores earn money. Now there are many drugstores with different names. Sometimes there are three or four drugstores in one street. But Shi Xiaorui didn't dare to make pills to take out after she opened a hospital.