Chapter 56

Yongtai three years, the sixteenth day of the first month.

In the morning, the sky was blue and cloudless.

Jinling East City, Pingyue Pawnshop, the door is dark and crowded with people, but most of them are men.

Standing on tiptoe, they looked into the high counter of the pawnshop. Everyone came to the pawnshop with their treasures in their hands. In fact, they all just wanted to see Li Shishi, the treasurer inside the counter, and to have a chat with him. Even if you give it to a god, you won't change it.

The reason why the counter of the pawn shop is so high is that such a design can create a sense of oppression for those pawning items outside, and the people inside the counter are condescending, which will make the pawning items involuntarily feel awe in their hearts.

This design has many advantages. Most people who come to pawn items are in urgent need of money, so they take out the treasures at the bottom of the box and get them to pawnshops.

I didn’t have much confidence in my heart at first, but I still had to raise my head, stand on tiptoes, and hand the items to be pawned with high hands to the counter. I felt even less confident. The pawn shop owner could lower the valuation of the items.

In addition, the pawn shop is very high, and with the fence, it can effectively prevent criminals from robbing the pawn shop, so that the shopkeepers inside are very safe.

In front of the tall pawnshop counter, there is a big word pawn written on it. The pawnshop counter is surrounded by a wooden fence, and there is only one oval window sill. A man in a gorgeous brocade is holding a string of crystal The clear pearl necklace was handed to the counter window.

Inside the pawn shop, Li Shishi had a delicate silver hairpin pinned to her smooth black hair. She was wearing a light emerald green one-piece pleated skirt with a smoked ribbon around her waist.

Beside her was her personal maid, Jin'er, standing by her side.

Li Shishi took the string of pearl necklaces that the man in the gorgeous brocade clothes handed over to the counter. The pearls were crystal clear, round and plump. She took a closer look and knew that it was a large pearl from the South China Sea, which was very valuable.

But she had no expression on her face, and said lightly, "A string of dark and unclear broken pearls, the price is 50 taels of silver, do you want a pawn?"

"Okay, as much money as Miss Shishi says." The young man in gorgeous brocade clothes raised his face, tiptoed, poked his head, and said to Li Shishi: "It's worth it if you can see Miss Master Shishi. "

Li Shishi handed the string of pearls in his hand to Jin'er beside him to put it away, and lowered his head to take the brush, dipped ink into the inkstone, wrote a few lines on the pawn paper, and handed it to the customer outside the counter: "... …Guest officer, this is 50 taels of silver and your pawn ticket, the interest fee is one tael a month, the current period is one month, if the current period is not redeemed, the items will belong to the pawnshop.”

As soon as the customer standing in front of the counter took the 50 taels of silver and the pawn ticket, the people behind rushed up eagerly.

In just two hours, the originally empty pawn shop shelves were filled with all kinds of rare antiques, emerald agate, silk clothes, and other pawned items.

In the morning, the people around the pawnshop gradually decreased.

Now that he had some free time, Master Li wiped the sweat off his forehead with a silk handkerchief and said to Su Jin'er beside him: "Jin'er, go to the kitchen in the backyard to make lunch. Mr. Su will come to the pawn shop tonight. After lunch, , you go out and buy some wine and food in the afternoon."

"Young Master Su is coming tonight? Yes, Miss." Su Jin'er nodded in agreement, and walked towards the backyard of the pawn shop.

Su Ping'an slept on the cloud couch in the wing of the house until he woke up naturally and washed himself.

Seeing the flower pond in the courtyard, two sisters, Liu Xiaohui and Mengdie, were practicing swords, and beside them were twins Han Linger and Han Xueer, who were watching intently, clapping their hands from time to time.

Su Pingan stood far away at the door of the wing room, looked at the pair of twin girls, seemed to be very interested in martial arts, smiled, and walked over.

Han Ling'er and Han Xue'er heard the footsteps, turned their heads quickly, and saluted Su Ping'an who was walking, "Master, you are awake."

Su Ping'an nodded, glanced at Han Ling'er and Han Xue'er, and said with a smile, "Well, do you two also want to learn martial arts?"

Han Ling'er said obsequiously: "Young master...the servant girl and the sisters are just two sisters who look good at playing with swords..."

"..." Han Xueer didn't dare to say anything, and stood aside with her head bowed.

Su Pingan said: "It's okay, you sisters want to learn martial arts, so tell me, there is nothing to be embarrassed about."

Mengdie and Liu Xiaohui, who were practicing swords, glanced at Su Pingan. Mengdie glanced at Su Pingan and said, "Sleep now, you pig."

"..." Su Ping'an had a black line on his forehead, "I had something to do last night, and I was a little drunk. If these two little girls want to learn martial arts, you can teach them two moves in your spare time, which can also be used for self-defense. .”

Mengdie glanced at Su Ping'an and continued to practice swords.

Liu Xiaohui put the sword back into its sheath, glanced sideways at Han Ling'er and Han Xue'er, and said to Su Pingan: "Okay, Mr. Su, this is a good idea, but they have passed the age of martial arts, and at most they can only learn some self-defense skills." Kung fu is good for dealing with people who don't know martial arts, but it's not good when you meet villains who know martial arts."

Su Ping'an waved his hand and said: "Well, it's okay, just teach them some self-defense skills and simple sword skills. I think these two girls are also very clever and well-behaved. If you have nothing to do, teach them two tricks. I'll go to the pawn shop."

After that, he walked towards the front door of the house.

After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the street market was still extremely lively, with bustling crowds. There were also some refugees who had fled, their clothes were in tatters, and they were begging on the street with bamboo poles and broken and dirty porcelain bowls in their hands.

Because Shenggong Fangla in the south was about to hit Lin'an, coupled with natural disasters of famine and flood, a large number of refugees fled to Jinling.

The prefect of Jinling County saw that the situation was wrong and ordered the gates of Jinling City to be closed and not a single refugee to be allowed in.

The people who fled in were miserable and destitute, sitting on the side of the street. Because their clothes were thin, and they were hungry and cold, some people couldn't bear it and fell down on the street and never got up again.

Seeing this scene, Su Pingan couldn't bear it, so he came to Mipu and bought all the rice noodles at Mipu for 1 taels of silver.

Then, he set up a stove in front of the Su residence, bought two large iron pots, hired three or four staff members temporarily, cooked two large pots of rice porridge, and gave free porridge to the refugees in front of the Su residence.

When the refugees heard that the Su family was giving away rice porridge, they all thought of Su Ping'an's kindness. They all rushed over, holding bowls and chopsticks, and formed a long queue outside the Su's house.

Liu Xiaohui and Mengdie, as well as Su Pingyue, Han Linger, and Han Xueer, also came to help serve rice and porridge in front of the Su Mansion and give rice porridge to the refugees.

"Brother, Yue'er is also here to help." Yue'er held a porcelain bowl in her hand and distributed it to refugees who did not have a bowl.

In front of the Su Mansion, Su Ping'an held a big iron spoon and served food to the long queue of refugees. The refugees burst into tears of gratitude.

"Thank you Mr. Su, you are such a kind person."

"Yes, Mr. Su Dashan, you are really the Guanyin Bodhisattva who saves suffering and suffering."

(End of this chapter)

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