Chapter 216: The Mu Family
Yangzhou City is famous for its gardens, large and small gardens are more than thousands, in Liuyun Town outside Yangzhou City, there is a garden covering an area of more than 100,000 square meters, named Heyuan!
He Yuan lives a Yangzhou business family Mu family, it is said that this Mu family, is the Ming Dynasty Hongwu years, relocated from Huizhou, in the Huizhou merchants all over the south of the Yangtze River, it is also a very successful family!
Since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, it has been operating salt, iron, timber and brocade business in Yangzhou, despite the vicissitudes of life and the changes of the times, the Mu family is still a wealthy family in Yangzhou, but now the Mu family is no longer doing salt and iron business, and has turned to real estate and shipping business.
The head of the Mu family's generation is the old man Mu Yi, the old man is seventy years old, although the spirit is very good, but he no longer manages the business of the Mu family, but hands over the business to his two sons to take care of, and he and his wife live in the garden to live in Heyuan!
Mr. Mu Yi has three sons and one daughter, the eldest son, Mu Huixing, is in charge of the family's real estate and shipping business, and is the successor of the family appointed by Mr. Mu!
The second son, the wood trading firm, manages the other businesses in the family, such as weaving and embroidery, goldsmithing and some investment businesses!
Sanzimu gradually walked, did not run a family business, but a special soldier, with two bars and two stars on his back!
But there is also a rumor, just because the young master is a concubine, that is, born to the second wife, he has no qualifications to manage the family business at all, when Mu gradually went twelve, he left the family and went alone, learned martial arts outside, and later joined the army, with a tenacity, he made a name for himself!
The old man Mu Yi also has a daughter, whose name is Mu Wan'er!
It is said that this Miss Wan'er married very early and never returned to the Mu family after that, but some people say that this daughter of the Mu family has long broken off relations with the Mu family, but this rumor, and even Mu Wan'er's name, are the taboo of the Mu family, and no one dares to mention it.
In front of the wooden house in Liuyun Town, a bunch of busy servants gathered!
Put new couplets on the doorway, clean a pair of stone lions in front of the door, and replace them with old lanterns and other decorations!
Just because in a few days, it will be the 70th birthday of the old man Mu, and it is rare for people to live for 70 years, and a big business family like the Mu family will definitely have to do a big job!
There was a table next to the corner of the wall, and in the table sat an elite martial artist about forty years old!
The martial artist's name is Yuan Hai, he has been doing hard qigong since elementary school, and when he was in his twenties, he had won several Sanda championships, and then when he was older, he was summoned to the house by the old man Mu, who was not only to take care of the family but also to take care of the family!
Yuan Hai was bored knocking on the paper and pen on the table, looking back at the people next to him busy, and behind Yuan Hai, there was a poster recruiting boxers, and a group of pedestrians walked by, stopped one after another, glanced at the recruitment poster, and then shook their heads and left.
It's not that the remuneration on the poster is not attractive, on the contrary, the high remuneration on the poster is scary, but because the Mu family's requirements for boxers are too high, everyone can only shake their heads and sigh, and they dare not come forward to apply!
Anyway, half a year ago, this poster had just been posted, and many boxers came to apply, but after competing with the Mu family's big housekeeper, no one had survived three moves in the hands of the housekeeper!
It turned out that the big housekeeper's name was Qiu Xing, and when he was young, he used to go south and north with a golden bell jar and an iron cloth shirt, kicked countless martial arts halls, and defeated countless strong enemies!
It was only because he was too ostentatious that he was finally plotted, and he was later saved by Old Man Mu, so he willingly came to the Mu family and took charge of the Mu family's affairs!
Although Qiu Xing is only the butler of the Mu family, everyone in the Mu family, including the three young masters of the Mu family, dare not be disrespectful to this housekeeper Qiu, and can only be called Uncle Xing!
With this big housekeeper Qiu personally checking the checks, the poster has been posted for more than half a year, but no boxer has been recruited, and Yuan Hai can only sit here every day, waiting for the boxer to come to the door!
From morning till night, continue the next day.
Just when Yuan Hai turned around and was enjoying the afternoon sun, he suddenly felt a figure in front of him, raised his head and looked, there were two men and a woman standing in front of him, and six pairs of eyes were staring at the recruitment poster behind him!
These three young people are all less than twenty years old, and the man in the front is a little younger, holding a little white fox in his arms, and the little fox also raised his head and carefully looked at the recruitment poster, which was really a little weird.
"Hey, you boys, you're blocking me from basking in the sun!" Yuan Hai glanced at the three of them and said unceremoniously!
Just kidding, a few boys who haven't grown up yet, dare to come to the Mu family to apply for a boxer?
The young man with the fox in his arms is Changsheng, and the men and women behind him are Feng Ju and Xiao Wu!
Changsheng smiled faintly, pointed to the poster behind Yuan Hai, and said, "You are recruiting boxers?"
"Yes, what's the matter? You also want to apply?" It is estimated that Yuan Hai is also bored, knowing that there is no result, he still replied, and he laughed when he said that he was in the back!
Changsheng glanced at the poster again and said with a smile, "I have to ask about the remuneration first, and then decide whether I want to be your family's boxer!"
"Haha......" Yuan Hai laughed and replied, "Isn't it clearly written on it? As long as you become a boxer of the Mu family, you will be paid 8,000 yuan a month for food and shelter!"
"What about eight thousand yuan?" The servants who were busy next to him also noticed the three Changsheng, and they all stopped their work to watch the excitement, and one of them replied with a smile, "It's higher than our annual salary!"
"Eight thousand yuan a month, it's okay, right?" Changsheng lowered his head and thought about it, then looked back at Feng Ji and Xiao Wu, it seemed that he was discussing with the two!
Neither of them could figure out what Changsheng meant, so they looked at each other and said, "It's okay!"
Seeing the pretending posture of the three of them, Yuan Hai was also a little speechless, and shouted, "You guys hurry up, don't make trouble here!"
"Senior, why did the Mu family recruit boxers?"
"Huh?" Maybe it was the word 'senior' that moved Yuan Hai, maybe Yuan Hai was bored for too long, and he didn't catch up with the three of them anymore, he glanced at the servants who were busy again, and said in a low voice, "There are two young masters and a young lady in the Mu family, who happened to be old enough last year to participate in a martial arts competition! ...... I have been negotiating with the organizer of the martial arts competition for a long time, but the organizer has not given us the slightest face, and said that he will not be accommodating! In a fit of anger, the old man put up this poster recruiting boxers, just to find a few famous boxing masters for the two young masters......"
"How old is your little master?"
"Eight or nine years old, do you really want to apply for a boxer?"
Changsheng nodded secretly, a big family like the Mu family, which has been inherited for a long time, is very likely to know the existence of the Mo family, and it is also possible to have a connection with the outer courtyard of the Mo family, so it makes sense for the Mu family to let the disciples of the family enter the Mo family and practice advanced martial arts!
It is very likely that the Mo family's outer courtyard did not choose the young master of the Mu family, so the old man Mu would be angry and recruit boxers with high salaries to teach the children of the Mu family.
"I'm here with them!" Changsheng smiled slightly, "The two of them want to apply for a boxer!"
"Uh, we!" The two of them were stunned at the same time, and then they saw that Changsheng didn't seem to be joking, and said stiffly, "Yes, we want to apply for the Mu family's boxer!"
"Are you sure you're not joking?" Yuan Hai was startled, and his voice was a few decibels higher!
attracted the people next to him to look at it again, stopped what they were doing, and prepared to watch the excitement.
"What do you need to apply for your Mu family's boxer?" Feng Ju asked hesitantly!
"As long as you can support twenty moves in the hands of our big butler, you won't be able to fail!" Yuan Hai stood up and carefully looked at the three immortals!
The three of them held their heads high and were calm, and they really looked like a practitioner, but looking at the age of the three of them, to say that the three of them were masters, Yuan Hai really didn't believe it, and said with a reminding tone, "Our big housekeeper practiced the hard qigong of the golden bell jar and the iron cloth shirt, when he was young, he was a well-known master in the south of the Yellow River, and the hard qigong is different from other martial arts moves, focusing on actual combat and resisting hard with hard, you will definitely be injured......"
"Don't talk about these things, hurry up and take us to the big housekeeper!" Changsheng interrupted Yuan Hai's words angrily!
In this way, Yuan Hai didn't believe that the three of Changsheng had this strength, so he turned back to the lively people and shouted, "You, go and ask the big housekeeper to come out, just say that there are two people who want to apply for a boxer!"
The person who was called smiled and rushed into the garden, presumably this little brother also wanted to see the big housekeeper make a move.
"Changsheng, what are we doing?" Feng Jue walked over to Changsheng's side and whispered in a low voice!
"I have important things to do, you can deal with that big butler casually!" Changsheng didn't say anything, and said with a faint smile.
Not long after, a man in his fifties walked out of the garden, the man had gray hair, but his body was very strong, his temples were bulging high, and his two big hands were full of green tendons, which was indeed the appearance of a hard qigong master!
Without waiting for the man to speak, Yuan Hai trotted forward and said with a smile, "Big butler, there are two boxers here, come and see!"
The chief butler nodded majestically, his eyes swept over Xiao Wu and Fengju's faces in turn, stopping on Changsheng's face, his pupils shrank suddenly, and he was moving forward, subconsciously stopped, stared at Changsheng's face, and said angrily, "You, who are you?"
Changsheng looked at the look of the chief butler in his eyes, and said secretly, sure enough, he came to the right place, and said with a smile, "Who are you?"
"The old man is Qiu Xing, the housekeeper of the Mu family, what is your name?"
"What my name is has nothing to do with you!" Changsheng smiled slightly, pointed to the two behind him and said, "The two of them are the ones who applied for the boxer, I just came to see the excitement!"
The big housekeeper looked at Feng Ju and Xiao Wu suspiciously, and saw that the two of them had a long and soothing breath, which was clearly a sign of having superior internal kung fu, and then looked at the two of them who were exceptionally young, and couldn't help but be short, and hugged their fists and said, "The two of you came out of the mountains?"
What kind of mountain? Yuan Hai next to him looked at the look of the big butler and said secretly, what is this?
Feng Ju and Xiao Wu were also a little embarrassed, not because of the application for a boxer, but because of the thought of having to fight with this fifty-year-old uncle, it was really a bit difficult to wipe his face, the elite of the inner door of the Mo family, the waiter of the Xuangong Building, bullying an outer martial artist, if this is transmitted back to the Mo family's main courtyard, do you want this face?
"What do you think I'm doing?" Seeing that Feng Ju and Xiao Wu were all looking at him, even San'er had a grinning expression, and Changsheng said speechlessly, "Didn't you say that you want to go to the Mu family to be a boxer?"
"Huh? Did we say that?"
"Didn't you say it, don't you know?" Changsheng turned around and squeezed his eyes at the two!
"Ah, yes, we did!" Feng Ji stepped forward and clenched his fists, "That'...... In the wind and wind, I want to come to your Mu family as a boxer, please advise!"
Listening to the conversation between Changsheng and Feng Jiao, Qiu Xing was even more convinced that these three people were most likely masters of the inner door from the Mo family, could it be that they came to find the master and deliberately joked with themselves?
He hugged his fists and saluted back, "Don't joke with the three adults, I have only learned crude moves for a few years, how dare I make a move with the two? I will take the three adults to meet my master!"
"That's fine!" Changsheng replied lightly!
Hearing Changsheng say this, Feng Jue secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly retreated behind Changsheng, finally without having to compete with this old man.