[Red Chamber] I just want to be a dummy

"Xu Daru? The old uncle of the West Mansion?" Cang Zhu asked.

The shopkeeper patted his forehead, and suddenly remembered that the Xu family and the Jia family were still kissing each other.Wherever you need to come to his small bookstore to buy Xu Daru's annotations, you can go to Shandong to ask Xu Daru for advice in person.

"I'm a dandy, what kind of Lao Zi's Four Books and Five Classics do I buy, I'm here to sell the Chinese language books." Jia Jing naturally put on the dandy appearance he learned from others outside the mansion.

However, Jia Jing did not learn the essence. Instead, he was like a child pretending to be an adult. Not only was he not disgusted at all, but he found it a bit funny.

Of course, it was the bystanders who thought it was funny, but the shopkeeper of the bookstore couldn't laugh at all.What the hell?What did Second Lord Jing say just now?To sell storybooks?

Aren't those down-and-out scholars who come to sell the scripts?When did the dandies from the capital come to do this business?The shopkeeper of the bookstore felt inexplicably that his future life might not be so easy.

"Come on, shopkeeper, can you see how much this book written by the master is worth?" Jia Jing confidently handed the book that he had written to the shopkeeper.

What can you do, what can a half-grown boy write, has he ever been in a red silk tent?How can a person who has never even seen a beautiful woman write a book about talented scholars and beautiful ladies?

But the shopkeeper didn't dare to say this in front of Jia Jing, what would he do if he became angry and knocked down his small bookstore.

The shopkeeper thought, even if it was not good, he had to give the Duke's House a face and pretend to say yes.

Hey, isn't she a gifted scholar and beautiful lady?Still a cultivator?These days, everyone started to go to Buddhist temples even for ordinary things, and Taoism has not fallen a lot, let alone this kind of novel about cultivating immortals?

After the shopkeeper saw the theme, he had already crossed Jia Jing's storybook from the bottom of his heart, so he didn't care whether Jia Jing's writing was good or not.

Unexpectedly, the servant brought by Second Master Jing was still urging loudly, "Ah, ah, how does the shopkeeper think? What price can you give me?"

The shopkeeper didn't bother to look behind, although he knew that selling this book to him would definitely lose money, but he thought it was spending money to avoid disaster, so he estimated a price in his heart that would not easily offend Jia Jing.

"Twelve."

In order to save the face of her second master, Cang Zhu had originally arranged for the shopkeeper in advance, so it was natural that she had inquired about the price of ordinary people's writing books early on.

What's more, looking at the pained expression on the shopkeeper's face, Cang Zhu could tell that the shopkeeper must have given a rather generous price for the sake of Ningguo Mansion's face.

So Cang Zhu didn't make any sound at the moment.

"Only ten taels?" Jia Jing asked in disbelief?For ordinary peasant families, ten taels of silver is enough for a small family to live a nourishing life for a year.

However, from Jia Jing's point of view, that's a little less, not to mention that in his previous life, Jia Jing was the head of the Ningguo Mansion, a second-class Jinshi, and ten taels of silver was a drop in the bucket for him.

It is said that Jia Jing in this life does not look down on these ten taels of silver. The Ningguo Mansion started out by fighting, so Xian Ning Guogong and Jia Daihua naturally made a huge amount of war money when they fought.

There are also silver coins rewarded by the emperor after making military exploits.At this time, Jia's family was in a period of raging fire and oil, and there was no noble concubine who wanted to build a big garden to save his relatives.Today, like his stingy son, he didn't reveal the money he owed the ministers to pay off his debts.

Not to mention other things, there are several boxes of gold in the private treasury of Ningguo Mansion.

However, the population of Ningguo Mansion is small, even Jia Jing Jia Fu and Jia Daihua are only three people.Therefore, Jia Daihua gave his son a monthly allowance of money because he gave too much.

Just Jia Jing's monthly allowance is 20 taels a month.

So Jia Jing really couldn't believe it. If he had been busy for several months, even his monthly allowance for a month would not be enough.

Cang Zhu didn't dare to look at their second master's deeply shocked face, and kept winking at the shopkeeper.When he came out, he was sponsored by Jia Fu with a large sum of money, Cang Zhu thought, the shopkeeper should understand what he meant.

Let's fool the second master first, and then he will replenish the money to the shopkeeper later.

Jia Fu is a really good brother, he actually disagrees with Jia Daihua making Jia Jing a dude in order not to embarrass the Jia family.

After all, Jia Jing is still younger and has an unstable temper.It's easy for him to pretend to be a dude now, but what if he can't get back in the future.

It is indeed not a decent thing for Jia Jing to write a storybook nowadays, but it is better than following other people's, drinking flower wine, and visiting brothels.

Jia Fu can roughly guess the price of a book of Chinese stories now.Jia Fu was afraid that Jia Jing would be hit, so he turned to other bad directions to develop.

Therefore, before he came out, he specially gave Cang Zhu a bank note to let him play by ear.

The eyes of Cang Zhu winked almost twitched, but the shopkeeper, who is usually very clever, didn't receive the wink from Cang Zhu at all, and was almost seen by Jia Jing.

Cang Zhu was thinking about the uncle's entrustment in her heart, so she simply pretended to be a wicked slave, and said aggressively, "It's just this little money? It's not enough for our second master to go to Zhiweiguan for a meal, and add a little more .”

Cang Zhu secretly showed the bank note in Jia Jing's hand to the shopkeeper behind Jia Jing's back.

Seeing Cang Zhu's sudden change of face, the shopkeeper was stunned for a moment, and seeing the bank note Cang Zhu showed, he felt that he might have understood brother Cang Zhu's meaning.

It was probably because this Second Master Jing had a sudden convulsion again, and he didn't plan to be a dandy, but planned to act like a local hooligan.

It's really hard to guess the thoughts of the young man of the big family.

The shopkeeper saw with a good look that the bank note in Cang Zhu's hand was 100 taels.Ning Guogong has always been strict in family management. If he knew that some servants of the Ning Mansion had blackmailed and blackmailed them in the name of Ning Guo Mansion, they would definitely be rewarded with military sticks and sold.

Therefore, Ningguo Mansion has a good reputation among businessmen like them.

The shopkeeper thought, probably this is the scene where Jing Erye wanted to play with the local hooligans and asked for protection money.The master of the Ning Manor must have known about it, that's why the servant next to Jia Jing brought a bank note with him to deal with the aftermath.

It's just to accompany Second Lord Jing in the Ning Mansion to perform in a show, even if you give him the money, someone will definitely return it when the time comes.If the shopkeeper thinks it will be a show, let's do it.