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Mother took the herring and bread that Su Shi handed over, with a little smile on her sallow face:

"If you add up the herring from the previous two days, you should be able to exchange for some oats."

She broke off a quarter of the bread, poured a quarter of the ale in the wine bag into a pottery cup, then mixed it with water, handed it to Su Shi together, and went to get him another slice cheese.

Su Shi took out the copper coins in his shirt pocket and wanted to hand them to his mother.

Mother shook her head: "Give it to your father at night."

Su Shi also had a noon prayer in the afternoon.

Like the Morning Prayer, the Noon Prayer is also a mode of "storytelling, performance, reading, concert and art exhibition", but the sacred object has become a low-profile version: the legendary Kieran's toenails.

And poor Brother Thomas was dragged out and beaten again.

When the bell for noon prayers rings, the housewives know it's time to prepare today's dinner.

The Great Temple is in the center of the city, about an hour's walk away from Su Shi's home. After noon prayers were over, Su Shi walked home on foot, and it was almost in time for dinner at four or five o'clock in the afternoon.

Dinner was oatmeal with feta and bread crumbs.Less than two loaves of bread were enough for one person, but now they have to be shared among four people.The goat's milk is also thin and tasteless, it just adds some color to the porridge - fresh cow's and goat's milk is not uncommon, because it is easy to spoil, but poor people will drink it.Oats have a poor taste and are occasionally mixed with barley to make wine, but they are mainly used to feed livestock. Nobles like to use oats to feed horses.

The dishes were all on the table, but Eric hadn't returned yet.

The father was the first to get impatient and said, "Let's eat first, don't wait for him."

He still has some resentment towards Eric, after all, he worked so hard to train this son to learn the keyboard, but he failed to live up to his expectations.

Halfway through the meal, I heard someone shouting at the door:

"Dak! Dak!"

Panting for breath, a man leaned on the door of Dake's house with one hand, and said to the family:

"Go and see! Eric is about to be killed!"

The whole family was taken aback, and the mother asked eagerly, "What's going on? What happened?"

The man said "hey" twice: "I don't know, I heard someone beside me saying that Eric stole the dog from Master Bolgu's house, and someone said that he wanted to eat the dog's meat..."

Hearing the three words Borgu, his father turned pale.

The Borgu family is the most famous banking family in Luang.

Trade in Europe in the Middle Ages already had a strong international nature.

The British exported wool, the Italians exported cloth, the French exported wine, the Arabs brought spices, the armor of Milan is the most famous, and the merchants of Quanzhou in China shipped porcelain to Europe...

Merchants from different countries carried different currencies, which made transactions difficult. At that time, there were many pirates and robbers, and there were often murders and robberies. Merchants had to be afraid once before transporting their goods to the market. They sold their goods and left the market. After the market, you have to worry again, and coins are obviously easier to rob than goods...

From this the money changer was born.

Originally, money changers were only custodians of money, and they charged their customers a storage fee.

Gradually, some money changers' businesses developed and expanded, and the first family-run banks appeared.Famous companies such as Giovanni de Medici in Rome, whose branches in different countries may be named after other people in the family, can be collectively referred to as the Medici company.

The Borgou family originally made their fortune through currency exchange, but not only that, they are also the agent of Baron Ondo in Luang.The grain and other agricultural products produced by the baronial manor can be exchanged directly from Borgou for equivalent money without having to sell them.

And his father was previously employed by the Borg family.

The father hurriedly asked: "What happened to the dog?!"

The man said: "It's a cute little white dog, it looks like it's about to die, it's lying on the ground and barking mournfully..."

The father was sweating on his forehead, he sat back on the chair, and muttered:

"I know that dog. It's a Papillon. Its fur is curly and white. It was specially brought back from Italy by Master Borgou for Miss Catherine. It costs more than two gold coins to buy one..."

Mother was taken aback - two gold coins, before the city was closed, were enough to live alone for more than half a year.

"Think of a way..." She finally just pleaded, pulling her father's sleeve, "You have been a keyboard player in Borgu's house for so long, maybe Master Borgu will see it for your sake..."

"Ha!" My father exhaled angrily, "My face! That idiot has lost my face! Being a guard is no longer enough for him, he has already been promoted to become a thief!"

Father dropped the spoon and went upstairs angrily.

The mother lost her mind for a while, she cared about her son, but she didn't dare to go to him - she was afraid that the Borgou family would catch her and ask her to pay two gold coins, and she was instinctively afraid of this family.And Duck is right, it is really shameful to recognize a son who was caught as a thief in public...

Su Shi held the spoon, and was slightly lost in thought for a moment. For some reason, he remembered the scene of the night before yesterday.

Because of Su Shi's indifference, Eric would always talk to his younger brother without saying anything, trying to break the deadlock between the two brothers.

Eric had nothing to say that night:

"Why do not you speak?"

"No strength."

On the one hand, Su Shi is really not full——Oatmeal, I don’t know if it’s too low in calories, or because it’s too rough to absorb. If you don’t mix it with other staple foods, if you eat it when you’re hungry, you’ll just eat it. The air was no different—and on the one hand, he didn't want to talk to Eric.

The food in the family is not evenly distributed, women and children share less, and Su Shi is classified as a child.He is small in stature and needs relatively little food, but he is in the process of growing up and cannot tolerate hunger.

Eric nudged Su Shi again: "What are you thinking?"

Su Shi said perfunctorily, "I'm hungry, I want to eat meat."

Eric said again, Su Shi ignored him.

The two brothers were lying on the same bed, Sue sleeping on the inside against the wall and Eric on the edge of the bed.Eric stood up, put one hand on Su Shi's side, leaned his upper body over Su Shi, and used a stone to draw pictures on the wall. After painting, he handed the stone to Su Shi.

When the tip of the stone is scratched on the wooden board, there will be an unpleasant scratching sound, and the mother's voice comes from the next door:

"There are mice."

So my father patted the bed board viciously, trying to scare the mice away.

Eric gave a low laugh.

Su Shi looked at the clump he drew on the wall, and barely recognized it as a roast chicken.He didn't pick up the small gravel that Eric handed him, but lay motionless, as if he was cultivating immortality, and spoke in a labor-saving voice: "What are you doing?"

Eric grabbed his hand, stuffed the stone into his hand, and said sympathetically:

"Be nice to yourself and draw more meat."

Su Shi heard the sound of his father's footsteps going upstairs, a drop of porridge fell from the spoon, and rippled in the ceramic bowl—as if disturbing the picture in his mind.

He put down the spoon and said to his mother, "I'll go and have a look."

Su Shi followed the person who came to inform him and rushed out. After a while, his mother chased him out and gave him a few paper tickets:

"Take this... it might be useful, God bless my poor Eric."

Su tried to look at the midday prayer tickets in his hand, there were sixty blank spaces under each midday prayer ticket, and these old midday prayer tickets were all circled.Each prayer ticket corresponds to the corresponding merit points, and after the prayer is completed, it means that the merit points have been obtained.These merit points can offset the crimes committed by a person. When he is tried by a secular court, he can apply for access to his "religious account" as evidence that he is an innocent person; if he is sentenced, then he can request Use a certain amount of merit to offset the punishment—you must know that the authority of religious courts is greater than that of secular courts. As for how much merit can offset how much crime, the priests inspired by God have their own comprehensive codes for comparison.

However, the secular court is equivalent to being opened by the nobles, while the religious court is opened by the church, and neither of them belongs to the common people.These few prayer tickets may not be of much use, but this is all the common people's hope to avoid being bullied by the powerful... Su Shi put the prayer tickets in his arms, hesitated for a moment, and comforted:

"Don't worry, I have a solution."

When Su Shi rushed to the bank of the Xianglanlu River, Master Borgu was still punching and kicking Eric, "You dare to kick Mina, you pariah!" The two tall guards looked like two stone lions, with arrogant expressions to guard the rear.And Eric lay powerlessly on the muddy ground, and the ground was wet with blood.

Su Shi struggled to push aside the crowd of onlookers, while the eyes of Master Borgu in front of him were red, and the anger was still lingering.

Su Shi walked up to him, knelt down on the ground, blocked his brother from being kicked and begged for forgiveness, and finally carried his brother home.

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Look at the main character of the others, the target of the attack has already been given up after three chapters, and I don't even have a single hair on my side... [Looking up at the sky

I feel that it should be able to keep updating every other day, and then strive for regular updates

By the way, this article has been rewritten (starting from Chapter 3), it seems that some readers don’t know it... But to tell you, these little fools don’t seem to feel that the plot is not connected (quietly)

I think my readers should be as bad at counting as I am... I miscalculated Su Ge’s salary in the last chapter, but no one found out

In fact, there was glass production technology in the Middle Ages, but it was monopolized (it seems to be on an island). Later, glass technicians escaped, and glass began to be widely produced and used.I really want to read it somewhere. Medieval farmers would cover windows with animal skins, and some people used cloth to cover them... Of course, I will not strictly follow the Middle Ages.I bought some information books on Double Eleven, but they haven’t shipped them yet, and half of the happiness disappeared suddenly (head bowed

Finally, I will push you a BBC video "Life in the Middle Ages", a total of eight episodes, each episode is quite short, and the style is more lively and interesting