Chapter 21: Military Family Girl

"Young Master, you are so amazing! I said before that Third Master Du kowtowing didn't scare him, but you said a bunch of things about Confucius and customs, and then he didn't even dare to breathe! What was that tongue-twister? Something strange gods?" little Ah Wu asked Wang Yang excitedly.

Wang Yang smiled: "Confucius did not speak of strange powers and chaotic gods."

"Right, right, right! That's it, strange powers and chaotic gods!"

"This is not a tongue-twister, it's a saying from the 'Analects'."

"What is the 'Analects'?"

"The 'Analects' is a book. If you memorize the 'Analects,' you can talk like I just did and make the village head unable to refute. How about it? Want to learn?" Wang Yang tempted her.

Little Ah Wu nodded excitedly at first, but suddenly thought of something and started shaking her head.

"What's wrong?" Wang Yang asked in surprise.

"Young Master Wang, Ah Wu is a military family girl, and I will have to serve in the military in the future." The Black Man explained from the side, a sense of expectation rising in his heart. If Young Master could help Ah Wu get out of the military register, that would be great!

The descendants of military households remain military households, and this is no exception for women. However, female military households are generally responsible for logistics and other corvee labor, and except for some special circumstances, they don't have to go to the battlefield. As for reading, it's even more useless.

Ah Wu's expression dimmed, and then she quickly showed a smile: "Ah Wu already knows how to cook, and after practicing needlework, it will be fine!"

Wang Yang sighed secretly, patted Ah Wu's head, and didn't continue this topic. Problems must be solved one by one, and the most urgent thing now is the problem of paying back the money.

Making money is a technical job.

Invent something to sell like in the novels?

Firstly, it involves business qualifications. Yes, doing business in ancient times is not without a threshold. For example, if you want to operate in the market, you must first obtain a "market register." The market register, like the military register, belongs to the category of cheap registers, and once you enter the market register, your upward path is basically cut off.

However, big merchants who "sit and sell in the market" or big nobles who control business behind the scenes don't have to be limited by the market register, but the former requires capital, and the latter requires bloodline.

If Wang Yang were really a member of the gentry, he would possess tax exemption rights, and could cooperate with merchants, that is, merchants would transfer goods to his name to avoid taxes and then give him a commission after the transaction.

Although this method is low-class, it can always scrape some oil and water. Unfortunately, his identity is fake, and he has no documents to prove it. Besides, Wang Yang is a newcomer, and he hasn't thought of this kind of "side-door" method yet.

Secondly, time is too tight. There are only three days, which is too hasty for either promoting products or opening up sales, not to mention thinking of any inventions!

Although he read to a doctorate, he read a literature doctorate! He is duty-bound to write; but asking him to make glass or refine steel is overestimating him.

After Zhang Lisi sent the pen, ink, and paper, Wang Yang started writing. He wrote very quickly, and the content was what he had carefully considered beforehand. After writing, he sat on the clay kang and asked the Black Man: "What can 13,200 coins buy?"

"Buy what?" The Black Man was puzzled.

"I rarely go out, so I don't know the prices. I mean, is this 10,000 coins a lot? Is it a large sum of money for the rich?"

So Young Master doesn't even know how much 10,000 coins is!

He dared to sign as a guarantor without knowing, he has guts!

But this really looks like a master with big money.

The Black Man scratched his head: "For me, even if I sold myself, it wouldn't be worth 10,000 coins! But for the rich, it shouldn't be anything. Building a slightly more spacious tile house also costs 10,000 or 20,000."

"Good." Wang Yang was thoughtful.

The Black Man's words made him feel more at ease. After all, if 10,000 coins couldn't even be taken out by the rich, then the success rate of his plan would be greatly reduced.

But suddenly he felt something was wrong!

But he couldn't say where it was wrong.

He thought for a while, didn't understand the source of this feeling of wrongness, so he had to put this doubt aside and concentrate on thinking about the plan to make money.

Ah Wu poked her little head out from outside the room: "Did Young Master think of a way to make money?"

Wang Yang nodded and closed his eyes, starting to ponder and deliberate in his mind. Ah Wu walked into the room, squatted on the ground, and silently cleaned the straw sandals for Wang Yang.

After Wang Yang entered the military camp, he changed into Captain Xue's clothes. Only the shoes, because they didn't fit, were still the straw sandals he had on his feet when he first crossed over.

After a while, Wang Yang opened his eyes and asked the Black Man: "How much does a slightly better set of clothes and shoes, suitable for me to wear, cost?"

With the previous matter of asking how much 10,000 coins was, this question didn't have such a big impact on the Black Man. Besides, many big family children could make clothes at home and didn't need to buy clothes on the street, so even if Wang Yang didn't know the price, there was nothing strange about it.

"What kind of clothes does Young Master usually wear?"

"You don't need to ask me, just the kind that ordinary gentry children wear."

This was difficult for the Black Man. He hadn't seen other gentry children and hadn't been to a clothing store, but he knew a little about the price of cloth: "I don't know much about this, but better cloth costs at least 700 or 800 coins per bolt, and making it into clothes might cost over a thousand..."

"Let's count it as 2,000 coins." Wang Yang raised the price directly by double.

Good guy!

2,000 coins!

That would probably be enough to buy silk material!

The Black Man thought secretly.

Wang Yang asked directly: "I need 2,000 coins, how much can you scrape together?"

"2... 2,000 coins!" Both father and daughter were startled.

"Young... Young Master, you... you want to buy clothes?" The Black Man stammered, never expecting that the Young Master didn't think about the money first, but wanted to change clothes!

"Yes, and buy good clothes. Why, are you reluctant?" Wang Yang asked jokingly.

The Black Man's eyes hardened, and he said solemnly: "How could that be, Young Master—"

Before he finished, little Ah Wu suddenly put down the straw sandals and ran out.

The Black Man guessed that his daughter should be annoyed that Young Master didn't think about serious matters, but wanted to borrow money to buy clothes, his expression a bit awkward:

"The child doesn't understand, I'll teach her a lesson later! Young Master saved Ah Wu yesterday, which is saving my life! Whatever request Young Master makes, I will do it!"

He paused and gritted his teeth: "My family still has some money saved, and if I sell some items, I should be able to scrape together 300 coins..."

"It's 500 coins!" little Ah Wu ran back, holding a hairpin in her hand.

"How could this be with you!" The Black Man was shocked to see the hairpin.

"After that woman came back, I was afraid she would run away again, so I secretly hid this piece of jewelry. What was in that wooden box was actually chopsticks!" little Ah Wu laughed, "It's a pity that pair of jade bracelets was too conspicuous, otherwise I would have traded them too!"

Wang Yang asked Ah Wu curiously: "I don't think of a way to pay back the money, but instead ask your father for money to buy clothes, aren't you angry?"

Ah Wu had a very serious expression: "First, this money wasn't owed by Young Master to begin with. Young Master helped us stand up for ourselves yesterday and delayed it for three days, which is already a great kindness. Even if we can't pay it back, we are grateful to you and won't be angry with you."

"Second, Young Master helped us, so we have to return the favor. Only that old jerk Lisi would let my dad do free work and give nothing! Although 2,000 coins is a bit much, we still have to try our best to scrape it together!"

"Third," little Ah Wu smiled slyly when she said this, "I think Young Master wanting money is not for wearing good things, but related to paying back the money. Dad said that if you want a harvest, you must be willing to pay the price. Our 2,000 coins are the price, and Young Master's good clothes are also the price!"

Wang Yang and the Black Man were both surprised. Wang Yang smiled at the Black Man: "This girl is amazing, I wasn't as clever as her when I was young."

"Military family girl, little cleverness, how can she compare to Young Master." The Black Man was modest in his mouth, but he was incomparably proud in his heart.

Little Ah Wu raised her head, very proud. Wang Yang teased her: "Maybe I didn't want to help you pay back the money at all, just wanted to wear good things."

"You wouldn't! If you didn't want to help us, you would have left this morning."

Wang Yang pretended to be deep and said slowly: "You're wrong. What if I stayed just to cheat you out of 2,000 coins and then left?"

Little Ah Wu was struck by lightning!

She obviously hadn't considered this possibility. Her eyes were wide open, her mouth was in an 'o' shape, and then she suddenly pounced on Wang Yang's arm like a little frog, crying and making a scene: "Young Master, you have such great ability! Please don't cheat us out of our money!" ===== CHAPTER 22 =====