Chapter 21 Not Dead
The employees in Changle Building are very mobile, so they are not paid monthly wages but once every ten-day. Because the accounts are messy, Xu Xian will sort them out for one or two days. Therefore, the third day of the third day, thirteenth and twenty-three of each month are the days of paying wages.
Today is November 13th. As soon as the sky is dawn, Changle Building is full of people. No customers are all Liuhewan neighborhoods who work here for a hundred years.
Xu Xian stood behind the counter and held the account book and recited: "Da Kui worked hard for ten days and one hundred documents!"
Dakui came up happily and took a small string of fragrant money from Xu Xian with a string of hemp rope. "I'm not doing it today. I'm going to buy a few feet of cloth for my girl to make a jacket."
"Slowly, this ten cent is your bonus." Xu Xian is never stingy with excellent employees. As long as Da Kui works, he can always attract customers from the street. "Remember, you will only give you a day off and continue working tomorrow."
"Jiubao worked for eight days and fifty cents!"
Jiubao immediately jumped, "Don't bully me and don't know how to count. I've been working for eight days and you have to give me eighty cents."
"Hmph! You have been working for eight days, but you have been complained by the customer twenty times. That thirty cents are fines."
Jiubao pointed at Xu Xian's nose and said, "You are cruel! I won't come here!"
"I wish you didn't come! Muggles worked for eight days and their wages were forty cents!"
Muggle stood up and said, "Why do I have to be less than Jiubao!"
A woman next to him reached out to pat his big head, "You can speak human language now. It's good to have forty quotations. I don't know how many guests you scared away."
"Aunt Huang understands that Aunt Huang's skill in fried tofu is getting better and better. This is your 200 document." Xu Xian put the 200 document on the table and took another penny of money on the side. "I'm going to have to ask Aunt Huang to go there again."
"The wife of the Wang family lives next to my house. What's the problem? Brother Xian is just kind and righteous. He blames the tiger head for being ignorant. Brother Xian spared his life, and he deserved it if he didn't give up. Now Brother Xian still raises his wife and children, where can I go to make sense."
"Who said no? Wang Hutou's shit comrade didn't ask, and even made Brother Xian almost beheaded. If I told Brother Xian, he shouldn't help his family."
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Everyone was talking nonsense, and Lao Zhang shouted loudly, "Don't nag. If you really want to do good to Brother Xian, you should talk to the wife of the Wang family earlier. Brother Xian, it's time for me to get the money. How much can I get in this lunar month?"
Xu Xian took out the account book and said, "You have thirty-eight cents." Lao Zhang has the most wages here and doesn't have to do anything. He sits at the door of the store every day and costs fifty cents, which should be five hundred cents after one tenth.
With his old face, he could talk to the imperial guards patrolling the streets, and he could get them paid by giving them dozens of cents of wine.
"Why are there so many missing again? I haven't been missing for a day."
"Uncle Zhang, I remember it clearly for you. You need a pot of old wine every day. In addition to working meals, you can't afford one or two dishes every day. Originally, you didn't have enough money to visit the brothel. You even paid two hundred yuan in advance from me, and you forgot."
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Aunt Liu poked Lao Zhang with her elbow, "What are you thinking all day long? There are food, drinks and people talking here, which is a hundred times better than you before. The market is in a downturn, and it is not easy for Brother Xian to support so many people here, so you can't understand it. Brother Xian, how much money I have in the early months."
"Aunt Liu, you worked for nine days in the early part of the month, totaling 180 cents. If you can cut the meat into smaller pieces in the future, you will also give you another bonus..."
Before Xu Xian finished speaking, a sound of horse hooves galloped past his ears, followed by footsteps.
"There are quite a lot of people!" Old Zhang's face tightened, and he immediately walked out of the store with crutches. Xu Xian didn't send any money and left the counter. Looking at Yujie, he saw a team of hundreds of cavalrymen galloping past, and then a group of neatly dressed infantry headed straight for the city gate.
Lao Zhang's face was already three points dark, and he pushed Xu Xian back to the store, "Close the door!"
Xu Xian bolted the door and asked, "What's wrong with Uncle Zhang?"
"How could I know that those are the guards in the palace and those who don't easily leave the palace with such a large formation must have had something fatal to do."
Lao Zhang sat on the stool and said, "Don't go out, don't do business anymore. Everyone rests here and go home after the work is over. Zhuzi's mother cooks me a few dishes, and Xiao Silkworm brings me a pot of wine. I want to celebrate."
"There is no business to be done, what do you want to celebrate!"
"What do you know, a woman? Judging from my experience, this is a new emperor. This emperor is not good at winning, making Bianliang messy. It is not easy to even trade. It is better to change to a decent one."
Xu Xian sat next to Lao Zhang, "How did Uncle Zhang know that he was going to change the emperor?"
"Isn't this common sense? First, a good emperor conquered the world, then a bastard emperor destroyed the country. This has not been done like this for decades, but only four years have passed, this Han country is considered short-lived."
While speaking, he heard a faint shouting and screaming from the northwest direction. Old Zhang laughed and said, "Have you heard it? We are right, we are already killing. We are all waiting for a long time. The country name will be changed in the afternoon. I hope this new emperor is a good person."
Lao Zhang obviously looked like he was watching the fun, and the other women were calm, probably seeing it a lot. However, a few naughty children were very excited and looked out through the gaps in the window.
Xu Xian was worried. Where did the new emperor come from? Guo Weiren is still in Yedu. If he was not wrong, it should be the emperor who killed the powerful ministers and their families, including Guo Wei's family, and they were all massacred in this coup. In the end, Guo Wei rebelled and attacked Kaifeng to ascend the throne and become emperor.
Thinking of this, Xu Xian felt a little uncomfortable. After all, he owed a favor from the Guo family. If the Guo family had not recognized the jade pendant, he might have been chopped and fed to the dog now.
It was not that he had thought of reminding the Guo family, but he was afraid that they would not believe it. The relationship between the monarch and the ministers was already sensitive and suspicious. At that time, in order to show his loyalty, the family of the Guo family would be charged with provoking the monarch and the ministers and send them to Shi Hongzhao, which would be really boring.
Now the emperor suddenly took action quietly, and it was too late to report the news. I was afraid that the Guo family would be full of corpses at this time. Forget it, I am just a little person and can't take care of so much. I will burn more paper money for the Guo family on the Middle Yuan Festival next year to make myself feel at ease.
In fact, it didn't take long to wait, and the shouts of killing stopped. Officials began to post the list texts all over the streets, and gradually some people began to look around.
Old Zhang couldn't help but say, "You guys are all sitting in the house and don't want to go out. I'll go find out which soldier is the emperor."
He walked out of the door with a cane and came back in less than half of the incense stick. He sighed: "It's bad, it turned out that the emperor won the powerful and died. There are not many examples of this. It seems that the emperor still has some tricks."
Jiubao digged into his mouth and asked, "Which powerful minister died?"
"Who told you one, it's three! The three tribes of Yi, and no family left. Being a high-ranking official is a glorious thing, but the risk is quite considerable."
Xu Xian said strangely: "Isn't it the four families?"
"I really think that I can't recognize words. When I was a child, I had memorized thousands of characters, otherwise I could do it any more!" Lao Zhang said with his fingers: "It is written clearly on the list, the three rebellions are punished, Yang Fen, Wang Zhang, and Shi Hongqing!" He was embarrassed to say that he could recognize words, but there were only three names in total, and he misunderstood two.
Xu Xian widened his eyes, "Isn't there Guo Wei?"
"I know the Daming of Guo Taiwei. Isn't he in Hebei? He is not mentioned on the list!"
"Then his family didn't kill him?"
"The court was stupid and killed his family, so he wouldn't rebel yet!"
Chapter completed!