Chapter 9 Protection Fees
Author: Next door Lao Huang 007
"Master, I just make too many cakes at home, so I can't talk about setting up a stall." Song Yiren originally thought that it was a government official who wanted to collect taxes.
Song Yiren looked up and found that this man was extremely tall, probably 1.9 meters tall by modern measurements. This man had thick eyebrows, deep eye sockets, a high nose bridge, and sharp edges on the lower half of his face.
Although she looks very good-looking, she still looks like a child with no open arms! Song Yiren thought to herself.
Seeing Song Yiren in a daze, the visitor raised an eyebrow, raised one foot and stepped on the steps next to Song Yiren, and said unhappily: "What? Are you planning to default on your debt, little lady?"
Song Yiren didn't know who this person was and didn't dare to offend him, but she also didn't want to agree to the "stall tax".
"May I ask who you are working for, young hero?" Song Yiren looked at the handsome man in well-dressed clothes in front of her and could only ask a nondescript question.
"Tsk! What? I have never heard of my name, Gu Yanfeng, and you still want to set up a stall on my site? I'm tired of living with you!"
Song Yiren: Gu Yanfeng? He is Gu Yanfeng! He is the young man Gu Yanfeng who was trampled to death by a horse in the original work to save a child? On that speeding carriage, it was Fu Chunyao and Sima Jiangye!
Song Yiren looked Gu Yanfeng up and down. He was indeed as handsome as in the original book, but the way he collected the protection money did not look like a hero who could save children at all!
"What are you looking at? Sir, I am as beautiful as a flower. If you look again, please pay me one more penny!"
"Pfft!" Song Yiren couldn't help but laugh out loud. She was afraid that the young master's temperament would misunderstand her and laugh at him, so she quickly explained: "Ruhuahuaruyu is used to describe girls!"
"You're a village girl, are you laughing at me for being uneducated?" It was better not to explain. After explaining, Master Gu seemed to be even more angry.
At this time, an elder brother who had just bought pancakes came up and whispered to Song Yiren: "Sister-in-law, this is the son of our county magistrate! Don't offend me! Both streets here are his territory!"
Song Yiren gave her elder brother a grateful smile, then raised her head and asked Gu Yanfeng: "How do you calculate the money?"
"Assuming you know the truth, ten cents a month, eight cents a month, and one cent a day!" After saying that, he raised his chin arrogantly and stopped looking at Song Yiren.
Song Yiren was curious, was this eighteen-year-old kid collecting protection money really the one who saved children on the street?
I can't say it's completely different, I can only say it has nothing to do with it.
After some calculations, Song Yiren found that she had just sold eight white flour pancakes, nine corn flour pancakes, and fifteen packs of pig meat, earning a total of 39 cents.
I have to buy some noodles and eggs when I go back today. It’s ten coppers a month. It’s still painful to hand it over all at once!
Besides, the method of making this cake may soon be learned by others. Then she will have to find other tricks, and the stall may not be set up here!
"Six coppers for half a month, okay?"
"No, the price is the same!"
"Liu Wen, I'll give you your life!"
Now Gu Yanfeng was not calm anymore. He jumped one meter away and shouted loudly: "You don't want to pay, but you want to blackmail me? You are a vicious woman!"
"Misunderstanding, misunderstanding, what I mean is that there are red tendons on the bridge of your nose and blue in the hall. There may be a bloody disaster recently." Song Yiren approached him and whispered. "If you believe me, that stall tax is six copper coins a month. I'll give you a solution, maybe it can save your life."
Gu Yanfeng also started to look Song Yiren up and down, and even laughed angrily: "Are you a scoundrel who wants to cheat the stall tax, or a rogue who wants to cheat money? I can't tell for a moment!"
"The sky and the earth are dark and yellow, the universe is vast and desolate. The sun and moon are waxing and waning, and the stars and stars are arrayed. You can't believe it!"
Two-quarters of an hour later, Gu Yanfeng took out his ears and found that she had no choice but to agree to the stall tax of six cents.
Gu Yanfeng took six coins and wanted to run away, but Song Yiren grabbed her sleeve. Seeing that Song Yiren seemed to have two bodies, he didn't dare to push her, so he could only let her pull her.
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"Let me tell you, you really have a bloody disaster. My mother is a goddess, and I have been able to do it since I was a child."
"In the past few days, you have been guarding the west end of Hongwu Street in the county. If you see a child wandering alone on the street, you have to carry him to the side of the road. Remember, you must take the child down as soon as he walks onto the street.
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Gu Yanfeng suppressed his impatience. After Song Yiren finished speaking, he called his younger brother and ran away.
After Song Yiren made money, he met Gu Yanfeng, who was about to die tragically, and tried to persuade him. Even if he couldn't save him, it was still a good deed!
So she was in a good mood, straddling the two baskets, humming a little tune, and went to the town.
Last time she went to the market, she inquired about the location of the shops selling rice, noodles and pork, and she had to go shopping today!
I bought two kilograms of flour and one kilogram of cornmeal for five copper coins. Then I spent five copper coins and bought one kilogram of eggs. I remembered that I didn’t even have a bowl or basin to hold vegetables at home, so I spent another six cents and bought another five kilograms of eggs.
I bought ten small pottery bowls, and asked the boss to grind out a pair of long chopsticks as a gift! I also bought a small palm-sized jar of the cheapest soju, which cost another three pennies!
After leaving the rice noodle shop, the largest commercial street in the town is at the door, with constant hawking sounds on the street.
Song Yiren looked at the man carrying a load selling caramel and stopped him without any hesitation. "Brother, how do you sell caramel?"
"Sister-in-law, I made this with real materials at my home. It's not expensive and it's sweet! It costs only a penny."
Song Yiren was about to ask how big a dime was when she saw the candy seller take out a small stick, of the same length and thickness, and pulled one out and gestured towards her.
Song Yiren: Oh, it turned out to be such a mess!
"Give me four cents!" The three children each have one piece, and she has already thought of a new dish for the remaining piece!
Song Yiren filled the caramel in the pottery bowl she bought, put it in the basket, and walked all the way back to the village. She returned to her home at the entrance of the village to put down her things, and walked quickly to Aunt Li's house with the bowl of caramel in her hands!
"Cui Xi, Er Niu, Yin Yin, come quickly!" Song Yiren opened the door and called into the room.
"Sister, come to pick up Yinyin!" Sister-in-law Sujuan put down the small clothes she was sewing and came up to her. "Mom took the three children to my field, but it's time to go back. You sit down and rest.
rest!"
Sister-in-law Sujuan poured a bowl of water for Song Yiren and saw the candy in her hand.
"Sister, did you buy this? Such an expensive thing..."
"It's nothing to give third brother's child a dental gift! Sister-in-law, don't refuse! You've already done me a huge favor by looking after my child!"
While they were talking, Aunt Li came in from outside with her three children, chirping.
"Mom! You're here!" As soon as Xiaotuanzi entered the house, he saw Song Yiren and jumped on Song Yiren's lap. "Look, Grandma Li took us to pick a lot of melon seeds! Eat them."
Xiaotuanzi opened a melon seed with his little hands and stuffed it into Song Yiren's mouth.
In fact, Song Yiren was not used to the taste of unfried and raw melon seeds. But in order not to spoil the taste of the dumplings, Song Yiren still ate them happily.
"You three, come quickly!" Song Yiren ate the melon seeds and quickly waved to the three children.
"It's caramel!" Cui Xi, the oldest, was the first to cheer! After taking it, she took a lick and her eyes narrowed with laughter.
"Li Cuixi! Don't you know how to say thank you?" Sujuan's sister-in-law said with an angry face.
"Sister-in-law Sujuan, it's okay, you're not an outsider!" Song Yiren smoothed things over. In her opinion, Cuixi was the eldest of the three children, Li, who was only six years old.
Cui Xi reluctantly took out the candy from her mouth and thanked Song Yiren: "Thank you, Aunt Song!"
Erniu and Xiaotuanzi also followed the same example, shouting "Thank you Aunt Song".
Xiaotuanzi’s behavior made everyone laugh, so they just let the children eat the sweets.
"Yiren, please don't spend so much money in the future. Taking care of a child is not a big deal, otherwise I will have two monkey cubs to look after at home!" Aunt Li scolded.
"This has already done me a huge favor!" Song Yiren pulled Aunt Li.
"Besides, I have something else to ask Auntie!"
"No need to ask for anything, I can still watch if you can help me!"
Chapter completed!