Da Ming Tai Shi

Chapter 178 Tongfu Inn
A new inn opened in Suzhou Prefecture, Wuzhong County, and north of the city.

"Tongfu Inn."

The sound of firecrackers gathered a lot of people watching the excitement, but when the smoke and dust cleared, only a few people stepped into the store to try something new.

The owner of the shop is a young couple. The man looks like he has not yet reached the crown, and the woman is also young, with a very handsome appearance and a slightly bulging lower abdomen, which seems to be pregnant.

Who could this couple be? Naturally, they were the young couple Chen Yunfu and Shao Ning who were 'distributed' from Jinling City to Wuzhong County.

There are also two helpers dressed as maids in the inn, each of whom is young and tight. These two maids are Qiaoer brought by Shao Ning and Yanran, the maid Zhu Wei gave to Chen Yunfu.

As for the other servants, they were all dismissed long before Chen Yunfu left Jinling, re-registered, and converted into slaves.

There was a notice posted outside the inn, which said recruitment in two big characters. Specifically, it was recruiting kitchen apprentices, waiter and accountant.

Except for the first errand, which did not pay wages, the other two positions paid very generously, one tael a month.

"Sir, why do you think our inn is called Tongfu?"

After the young couple greeted the few tables of guests in the store, Shao Ning lay on the counter with her hands on her chin, not knowing why.

Chen Yunfu bent down and wiped the table, without looking back, he said, "Don't you think the meaning of this name is very beautiful?"

"Too."

Shao Ning nodded, then smiled and rolled her eyes: "Master, guess how much money we made at noon today."

"There are only six tables of guests in total, how much can you earn?"

"More than 100 texts."

Shao Ning was very excited as she chirped and reported today's results.

"We made 110 and 40 taels of silver for only six tables. If we opened sixty tables a day, wouldn't we earn more than one or two taels of silver? One tael a day, or three or forty taels a month. It's even higher than your salary when you were an official. Woolen cloth."

"Table sixty? You're killing me."

After finishing wiping the table, Chen Yunfu threw the rag onto the cash register and said angrily, "If there are sixty tables of guests a day, you man and I will be exhausted like a grandson."

"Hee hee, that can't, how can I tire my good husband."

The couple were lying crookedly, and a weak student outside the shop came in a white-faced scholar, with a thin and weak body and a little shy.

"This guest officer, do you stay at the top or stay at the hotel?"

Chen Yunfu left Shao Ning and came forward to ask. The little scholar hesitated with shame on his face, but just pointed to the recruitment notice outside the store, and Chen Yunfu immediately understood.

This is for the job.

"Are you here to apply for Mr. Accountant?"

The scholar raised his head to look at Chen Yunfu in surprise, and asked incredulously, "How do you know?"

"Of course it depends on your attire." Chen Yunfu pointed at the scholar's attire, and said with a smile: "Your face is like a crown jade, your lips are red and your teeth are white, and you have both weak and weak writing skills. There is no one but scholars. If you can’t do it, you can’t look down on the fireworks in the kitchen, so there is only one accountant left for you to apply for.”

The scholar was very surprised, never thought that this little innkeeper could have such vicious tricks.

"The shopkeeper has also read books?"

"Well, I've read it before."

Chen Yunfu greeted the white-faced scholar to sit down, and said with a smile: "It's impossible now, I'm busy with my livelihood all day, I'm afraid I don't have time to study."

"How can you not study." The scholar said anxiously: "If you don't study, how can you get fame? You, the shopkeeper of Xiaoshengguan, are also young people. You can't just stay in this inn and do nothing. You should work hard and strive to get fame as soon as possible. It’s good to serve the country.”

"Pfft!"

Shao Ning behind the counter couldn't hold back and laughed out loud, and saw the two of them turned their heads to look at him, and waved their hands quickly: "You talk about yours, I thought of something happy just now."

"Everyone has his own aspirations, you can't force them." Chen Yunfu waved his hands with a smile, and asked again: "What about you, have you ever obtained fame in the exams?"

"A small student who is not talented, but last year's replacement scholar."

There was a hint of complacency on the scholar's face, but Chen Yunfu was confused by what he heard.

"This scholar, is there a backup?"

Chen Yunfu pinched his chin when he heard that he would be a Hanlin Lang, a magistrate, and a county magistrate, and it was the first time he heard that he was a scholar.

Could it be a professional term that was newly invented by the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Rites during my journey to Suzhou?

The scholar showed embarrassment on his face, and murmured: "It's just that I missed the exam by one."

"Cough cough cough."

Chen Yunfu choked to death with a sip of tea.

"Xiaosheng's family is poor. All these years, he has become a poor family because of the examination for his fame. He has no choice but to go out to work, which makes the shopkeeper laugh."

Speaking of the fact that he was forced to come out to earn a living, the scholar was still a little ashamed to speak out, as if it was some big useless thing.

"What's so funny about it, self-reliance is admirable. By the way, I haven't asked what your name is yet."

"Xiaosheng Lu Dengwen."

Surname Lu? 'Back-up' scholar, isn't that Lu Xiucai?

Chen Yunfu smiled even more comfortably, and immediately said: "Okay, you have been hired."

Lu Dengwen never thought it would be so easy to come out and find a job, so he said abruptly, "Why don't the shopkeeper take the exam first?"

"It's just an account, what kind of method do you use to test the school?"

Chen Yunfu waved his hands indifferently and said, "What is fifteen plus eighteen?"

"33."

"Look, isn't this very smart, you are good enough for this job."

Lu Dengwen was greatly frustrated. Isn't such a simple question easy to understand?

"What's the matter, why don't I recruit an accountant and test your Four Books and Five Classics?"

Chen Yunfu slapped the table, making Lu Dengwen jump.

"One tael of silver per month, double salary plus commission at the end of the year, do you want to do it?"

"Dry, dry, dry."

Lu Dengwen nodded quickly, and then became confused again: "Shopkeeper, what do you mean double salary and commission?"

"Double salary means that the salary in the month of the twelfth lunar month is doubled. The commission depends on the profit of the store for a year. If I earn more, I will share with you. If I earn less, you will share less."

"Oh."

Lu Dengwen suddenly realized, and then cupped his hands and bowed to Chen Yunfu: "Xiaosheng thanked the shopkeeper for taking him in."

"This is an inn, don't be so polite."

Chen Yunfu stood up and went to the account desk to fetch the account book and put it in front of Lu Dengwen.

"Now, let me teach you how to keep accounts."

Lu Dengwen glanced at it, and pointed to a line of strange symbols on the account book in confusion. The garbled '195' looked like ghostly symbols in Lu Dengwen's eyes.

"Boss, what does this mean?"

"Number, I created it myself."

Chen Yunfu unceremoniously took the credit for himself. Seriously speaking, the Ming Dynasty already had such numbers in this period, and it was the Arabs who brought them in during Kublai Khan's period.

However, the original translation was thrown into the Huiqin Tianjian by Lao Hu, and the calculations from the Song Dynasty were still used. When the Ming and Yuan Dynasties were destroyed, Zhu Yuanzhang reset Huiqin Tianjian, and this translation was left in the Yuan History Museum of Tianjie Temple. , Chen Yunfu has seen it.

But he couldn't be so clear here, otherwise Lu Dengwen would doubt his identity.

"Come on, let me teach you what is mathematics, what is addition, subtraction, multiplication and division."

Outside the store, Wuzhong County was full of traffic, and the young shopkeeper and post-graduate scholar in the inn studied mathematics.

Shao Ning at the counter rested her chin and looked at her husband's back affectionately.

Qiao'er and Yanran ran down the street from under the plaque of Tongfu Inn, chatting and holding hands, discussing how to buy some rouge and gouache.

One is stable and peaceful.

(End of this chapter)