After everyone chatted together, they knew each other.

The sturdy young man with a tiger head just now, with a immature baby face, was not much worse than Xu Chen, and Lu Hao was not much worse, but he was called by Lu Ying "little stone" and "little stone", but he was not annoyed.

Later, Xu Chen learned that he was only nine years old, younger than Lu Ying, who was ten years old.

The skinny skinny young man has a very "domineering" name, called Wang Tieniu.

And another honest boy is called Zhou Kang.

Of course, this qiē was all obtained by Xu Chen from Lu Ying's unstoppable little mouth.

They are all orphans and now live in a few vacant houses not far from the Imperial City Temple. It was the place where Chongrenfang was used to house these beggars and outcasts, called the "Relief Workshop", which was set up by the wealthy families in the Fangzheng of Chongrenfang.

And the Fang of Chongrenfang is the "good" Uncle Du just now, Du Rong.

When Xu Chen was in school, he knew that since the Southern Dynasties, officials have set up institutions similar to modern "aid stations" in the city to take in these orphans, abandoned babies and widowed old people.

Coupled with the gradual popularity of Buddhism, most of this kind of institutions are set up in temples in the city, but the situation of this Huangcheng Temple is a bit special, and Chongrenfang has to set up the "Healing Workshop" in a private house not far from here.

Xu Chen chatted with everyone a few more words, after all, he was in a strange time and space, and he felt a little sympathetic to these orphans.

However, Lu Hao obviously didn't want his sister to stay with this strange man for long, so he hurriedly pulled Lu Ying and everyone away.

"It seems that every brother who has a sister is the same. Xu Chen smiled helplessly.

Chongrenfang, where the Huangcheng Temple is located, is the site of the "Guancheng" built here by the order of Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, more than 900 years ago. There are always traces of millennia to be found in the streets and alleys.

It's a pity that at this time, there is no tertiary industry such as "tourism", and the ruins of "Guancheng" are left with a few adobe bricks, and adobe bricks cannot be eaten as food.

What's worse is that at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Yuzhang City moved westward, and built Hongdu City in the northwest direction of the original Guancheng, and the material of the city wall was also changed to Qingtian bricks. The yamen of the county office previously located in Guancheng was also moved to Xincheng in the tenth year of Zhenguan.

The name Chongrenfang is still left over from the previous dynasty, and it can be said that since the Tang Dynasty, the status of Chongrenfang is really "Wang Xiaoer's New Year - a year is not as good as a year". Up to now, it has been completely reduced to a market used by fishermen on the East Lake to load, unload and transfer live fish, and it is called the "Dongcheng Fish Market". If it weren't for the fact that the world has been peaceful since the beginning of the century, Yuzhang City has expanded several times, and I am afraid that this place will not be regarded as the "East City".

Even crabs have to climb from a basket of 18 yuan to a basket of 28 yuan and a pound, let alone a person.

And Chongrenfang's Fang Zheng Du Rong is obviously such a self-motivated person, it is said that this Du Rong's ancestor is a fisherman fishing on the East Lake, in his grandfather's generation, I don't know which generation of ancestors The grave of the ancestor smoked, when he once entered the lake to fish, a net went down, and there was a big mussel among the fish and shrimp. When I opened it, I found a huge lake pearl.

In other words, this East Lake is only a small inland lake, and the probability of such a large pearl is only small compared to five million in modern times.

Du Rong's grandfather is also a shrewd person who understands the truth of "wealth is not exposed". He returned home without moving, and then went to the jewelry store to sell the beads under the pretext of going to the city to sell fish.

Although he was shaved hard by unscrupulous profiteers, he knew that a little fisherman would never be able to keep this thing, and maybe it would lead to destruction.

After a moment of bargaining, Du Rong's grandfather exchanged the beads for a bag full of silver coins. And quickly came to the tooth shop, bought a house and land, and finally settled down after registering in the yamen.

I have to say that Du Rong's grandfather is a character, and in less than half a day, he turned a treasure that may lead to catastrophe into a real estate field, and took himself out before those big people reacted.

This determination and courage are not at all like an uninformed country man.

Sure enough, in the following years, Du Rong's grandfather relied on the capital accumulated this time to work hard in the business world all his life, and the family business became bigger and bigger.

Although Du Rong's father, the second ancestor, was defeated for decades, it was still rich in Du Rong's hands.

And this Du Rong is not an idle person, after reading books for a few years, he is deeply aware of the importance of power, and spends a lot of family wealth to sit on the square of this Chongrenfang. Although it's just a remote workshop, it's not a starting point.

Du Rong's biggest wish now is to be able to operate in the center of the city to be a fangzheng, Jinxianfang's current fangzheng just died two days ago, and his son is also a mediocre and incompetent person. And only he has the highest qualifications in several squares and vice-squares in the city, and he has recently had an extra hole card in his hand.

It can be said that Jinxianfang Xinfang is one of the people who is bound to win.

Thinking that after going to Jinxianfang, the county government will be in Jinxianfang, and you can get closer to the county lord in the future, even if you can't go further, you can make more money.

At this moment, Du Rong is kneeling reverently in front of the Gongtai in his study, and the platform is not a god and Buddha like ordinary people, but a large clam with a bronze and gold body the size of a basin.

At this moment, Du Rong is much more serious and careful than before.

It is said that Du Rong's grandfather made a fortune because of the big clam shell, and the fishing business has not been discarded since then, but since then, the fishermen of the Du family have only beaten mussel shells, and each mussel shell will be broken one by one by the Du family before it is sold, and then sold after inspection.

Although this method of waiting for the rabbit has also harvested a few small beads in the following days, it is not worth much.

Also two days ago, when Du Rong went to the dock to check the goods, he accidentally found a huge mussel shell.

When I went home and opened it, I saw that the house was full of jewels, and I saw two lake beads, one large and one small, lying quietly in the mussels.

The end of the orb is as clean as jade, smooth as clotted fat, and under the illumination of the light, the room is like a dreamy fairyland.

Du Rong is also a decisive person, and after calming down, a trace of ecstasy welled up in his heart.

Du Rong heard that the birthday of the Taishou of Yuzhang County was approaching, and recently, the county lord had turned several gray hairs in order to give the birthday gift to the Taishou.

Now, this Taishou's birthday gift can be regarded as a fall. When the time comes, these two pearls will be sent to the county, a small one will be left to the county for himself, and the big one will be sent to the Taishou Lord by the county.

In this way, he helped the county to curry favor in front of Lord Taishou, and a small Jinxian Fangfang was not yet caught. When the time comes, with this relationship and the county Zunduoduo, are you still worried that the Du family will not be able to prosper?

If the county lord could mention himself in front of Lord Taishou, the thought that even Lord Taishou might remember him, Du Rong was really as transparent as drinking elixir and jade dew.

As for the idea of personally going to Taishou to present the pearl, Du Rong didn't even think about it, he wasn't so stupid as to be so stupid.

After Du Rong bowed, he straightened up and looked at his son Du Tian, who was still angry behind him, and sighed deeply.

"Is that slap in the morning still not convinced?"

"Hmph!" Du Tian turned his nostrils to the sky and tilted his head.

"Bastard, how many times have I told you, you are not allowed to mess around in the Imperial City Temple!" Du Rong looked at his son's appearance and slapped the desk heavily.

"Isn't it just a monk's temple, what's so remarkable!" Du Tian was unconvinced.

"Don't think that your name is Du Tian, you can really be lawless!" Du Rong slapped again angrily.

Looking at his son's appearance, Du Rong shook his head helplessly, thinking that he had patronized the business all these years and neglected to discipline his son, and if he continued like this, something would happen sooner or later.

From Du Rong's grandfather, it can be seen that the Du family is not some uninformed people, although Du Rong's father is a little mediocre, but Du Rong has the demeanor of an ancestor.

Naturally, I know that young people are arrogant and domineering, which is not only detrimental to themselves, but may also cause great disasters to the family.

"It seems that we will have to discipline him well after this matter is over," Du Rong thought to himself.

"Alas... How many times have I told you, Huangcheng Temple is not an ordinary temple, not to mention you and me, it is the county lord, and even our Lord Taishou of Yuzhang County has to treat each other with salutes when he sees the abbot Master Huineng. ”

Du Rong also saw the county lord by chance standing at the gate of the Huangcheng Temple with a middle-aged man waiting, and only entered after the monk reported it.

At this moment, Du Rong deeply realized that this temple at his doorstep had such an amazing energy.

The middle-aged man Du Rong didn't know, but there were few people in Manyuzhang City who could make the county lord willing to be his companion. And those people are big people that Du Rong can't even think of.

The abbot, who can make so many big people treat each other with courtesy, is as far away as the stars in the sky.

After being surprised, Du Rong immediately realized that this was a great opportunity, such a true god was at the doorstep, if he didn't go to meet him, then he would be an idiot.

So from that day on, Du Rong, who never believed in Buddhism in his life, had to go to the Huangcheng Temple every morning to put the first pillar of incense, so many years, no matter spring, summer, autumn and winter, no matter what the weather, Du Rong must go every day.

In order to grab the first incense, it was really painstaking, and he didn't dare to use it, otherwise with his identity as a fangzheng and his prestige among the surrounding fishermen. In this temple close to the outskirts of the city, there is no incense, let alone grabbing the first incense, I am afraid that if he gives an order, no one around the Huangcheng Temple will dare to come.

Therefore, since then, it has become a necessary lesson for him to often tell his unconscious son not to go to the Huangcheng Temple to make trouble.

Today, after he finished the incense, he actually met Master Huineng who came out of the bamboo garden, and immediately stepped forward to salute after being excited, and after successfully talking a few words, he was about to discuss a few Buddhist scriptures with the abbot over the years.

Suddenly, he heard his son's voice from the front yard, and he was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat. After hurriedly bidding farewell to the master, he hurried to the front yard in three steps and two steps, thinking that his hard work over the years had finally gained a little today, and now he was all ruined by this unfilial son, and it almost backfired, he was furious, and slapped him mercilessly. and threatened to ask Du Tianxia to kneel down and admit his mistakes, he really wanted to use this method to redeem his opinion in the heart of Master Huineng.

Tianxin didn't do anything to that girl today, otherwise not only would it be useless to go to Jinxianfang this time, but I am afraid it would cause a big disaster to the Du family.

Even if Du Rong wants to come now, he is still afraid.

Looking at his son's stubborn eyes, Du Rong was helpless for a while, skimming his son's face, which was still swollen and red, and couldn't bear to say anything more.

"Alas... Even if you really have a crush on that little girl, you shouldn't do it in the temple. As long as she's in the 'Clinic' for a day, sooner or later it will be yours. ”

Du Rong's heart softened, and after a slap, he gave a date.

But if he had known what was going to happen, he would have smashed his son's brain with the big bronze shell.

However, it can only be ...... No one can be unpredictable, can they?