Be a master through ancient times

When Chu Ci returned to the residence, the lights were on inside, and the warm yellow candlelight came out from the window, making everyone feel warm.

"Brother Jing, I didn't expect you to come back earlier than me." Chu Ci got out of the carriage and said loudly as he walked in.

Three pairs of eyes in the room looked at him at the same time, Chu Ci was startled, so many people?

Kou Jing looked at the two followers with a dark face. He just went to give some orders, but he was entangled. When they heard that he was coming here, the two of them insisted on coming.

"Second Brother Chu."/"Uncle Shi."

The other two greeted Chu Ci with a smile, and Chu Ci responded reflexively.

"Brother Ci, sit down and rest for a while. I brought some wine and food and put them in the kitchen."

"Dahu, do you hear me? Clean up the food and drink and bring them up." After sitting down, Chu Ci shouted to the outside.

"Okay." Zhang Hu replied.

Chu Ci turned his head, looked at Qin Zhao and Xu Qiaonan, and asked, "How can you two little soldiers walk around?"

"Why can't we? We live in the post house of the Ministry of War. Compared with other post houses, there is really nothing to say. We all sleep in Datong bunk, twenty people share a room, and when we take off our shoes at night, it feels so bad." My son smells so bad, I feel like throwing up. Uncle Shi, you must let me stay with you for a few days." Xu Qiaonan let off a firecracker, pouring out bitter water crackling.

"Can you live outside alone?" Chu Ci was a little curious, isn't the military order like a mountain?

"We Shangguan all live here, so we can just get the same treatment as the bodyguards." Xu Qiaonan laughed, it seemed that he had made up his mind to live here.

"However, my yard is relatively small, and there are only three bedrooms. One for me, one for Duhu, and one for Brother Jing. Where do you two live?"

Zhang Hu was putting the dishes on the table, and said, "Master, then I'll go to the kitchen and sleep. The room is reserved for the two young masters."

"If I'm used to them, how can I live in the kitchen? Don't move if you stay here. If it's not possible, let them build a floor in my room."

"Brother Ci, I'll sleep with you, it's just right to let the two of them sleep in my room." Kou Jing immediately proposed a solution.

"also--"

"No! Uncle Shi, let me sleep with you, I won't sleep with him."

Kou Jing glared at him and said, "Obey orders."

"It's not in the barracks now..." Xu Qiaonan's mumbling voice became smaller and smaller under Kou Jing's stare, and he finally resigned to his fate.

The two were secretly fighting, but Chu Ci chatted happily with Qin Zhao on the sidelines.

"...Tell me, how did you get into the military camp?" Chu Ci was still particularly interested in this dramatic coincidence.

"Hey, that's actually the same thing. My uncle and I went for a business trip. We passed a mountain road and saw a group of people fighting. While wearing official uniforms and looking fierce, I knew it was supposed to be suppressing bandits. At that time, I drew the arrow and shot it, wounding the hand of the thief who was wielding the knife. In the end, they were very grateful to me, and said to my uncle, I am very talented, and I should be a soldier. My uncle has always I think hunting is dangerous, and I will see that there is a place that wants me, so I agree immediately."

To make a long story short, Qin Zhao explained the ins and outs of his joining the army.

"So that's how it is. Brother Qin, your chivalrous heart is still as good as before, and you draw your sword to help when the road is uneven." Chu Ci praised.

"Where is it?" Qin Zhao smiled embarrassedly.

"Brother Ci, the food and drinks are already hot, let's eat first and talk later." Kou Jing saw the needle and reminded at the right time.

Kou Jing bought a lot of things and set up a large table. While Chuci was feasting, she inevitably thought of the people at the Charity Institute, so she shared what she had learned today with them.

"It turns out that there are really such bitter people. I thought it was just written in a book." Xu Qiaonan was very emotional.

"You are a young master. If you go out in a car or a sedan chair, how can you see the suffering in the world." Qin Zhao thought it was okay, his parents died early, and he experienced the coldness of the world early.

"As long as you know." Xu Qiaonan rolled his eyes at him, then turned his head and said to Chu Ci, "Uncle Shi, when I went out, my grandmother gave me two silver tickets, and I have everything in the barracks. You don’t need to spend money, just buy something for me and give it to the people in the Charity House.”

He took out a purse from his body, and there were two crumpled bank notes in it, a total of 200 taels.

"I took your wish for them. You will stay in the capital for a while, so how can you not leave a penny. I already have a way to help them in my heart. After all, it is better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish."

"What method? Uncle Shi, tell me quickly." Xu Qiaonan was very curious.

"There are a lot of women and children in the charity house, and everyone has a pair of skillful hands. I wonder if I can draw some pictures for them and let them make some weird toys. By then, they will benefit more than they mend tattered clothes. "Chu Ci put forward his own ideas, and he observed them all afternoon.

The group of women are not too old, and their hands are very skillful when mending, and basically there are no traces.Like they sew these clothes, about two pieces of clothes can earn a penny. Sitting there all afternoon, staring at them almost blindly, they only earn a few meat buns.The money was immediately invested in the daily expenses of the Charity House.Compared with the huge expenses, this little money is simply a drop in the bucket.

"Brother Ci is kind-hearted, and I must have thought about it for a long time. This idea is very good. When the time comes, I can sell their things in my shop." Kou Jing suggested.

"Brother Jing, does your family still have a shop in the capital?" Isn't most of their family's business in Ganzhou Prefecture?

"Yes, it's my father's ancestral property, but it's not many, just three or four. It was managed by my elder sister before, and since she passed away, it has been transferred to my name."

Seeing Kou Jing lightly saying that there are not many, only three or four, Chu Ci couldn't help but shed tears of poverty.This is the capital city, and a remote area like Wenxingfang costs seven taels of silver a month in rent, and the shops outside are even more expensive.

In fact, Chu Ci secretly inquired about housing prices in the capital, thinking that it would be best if he had a house.At the beginning, the Zhang family gave him a house in the inner circle of the county town, a yard with two entrances, and the price ranged from 220 to 260 taels.

The courtyard of the same size in the capital is about two thousand two thousand and three hundred.Compared with a small county on the 300th line, the housing price in the capital has increased by about ten times, which is reasonable.It's not too expensive, but with Chuci's salary, he can afford it for about three years without eating or drinking.

Just like the saying that modern people often say: Expensive things are not its shortcoming, but your shortcoming.Sometimes Chu Ci also wants to start a sideline business to subsidize it, but it has never been suitable, so he has to give up.

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At the same time, in Yuanshan County, which is about two or three thousand miles away from the capital, the Chu family was gathering to talk.The place where they live is the two courtyards given to Chu Ci by the Zhang family. There are about a dozen rooms in front and back of the house.

"Oh, I don't know how Xiao Er is doing in the capital." Mother Chu hugged Chu Shanshan and patted her carefully, but her eyes were looking out the window, as if she wanted to see the capital all the time.

"Mother, Xiao Er must be fine. Didn't you hear the county magistrate a few days ago? Xiao Er won the first prize, and he can still go to see the emperor! What a blessing!"

Chu Guang remembered the scene when the county magistrate brought people all the way to Changxi Village five days ago and told them the good news, and he was still a little excited now!

It turned out that the county magistrate who felt his legs were weak just by his name, let alone how amiable he was.Calling old lady to his mother is also polite to him.

The county magistrate said that if Xiao Er won the first prize, he would stay in the capital and become a high official.After the announcement of this news, many people will come to entertain them recently. In order to facilitate the banquet, they are asked to move to the county town for a period of time.

On the first night when they moved into the county, Master Qin came to the door.First, he expressed his joy that Chu Ci had won the first prize, and then sat down again, teaching them some things to pay attention to when going to the banquet.

Of course, the most important thing is to remind them not to agree to those people's requests.No matter what, they can't let go of their promises, so that they can use Chuci's reputation to do some messy things.

The Chu family listened very carefully, which was related to Chu Ci's reputation.Chu Ci won the first prize, and they, as family members, did not help him at all. The only thing they could guarantee was that they would not hold him back.