Chapter 15 The House of Peacemakers
For various reasons, Yu Mingli couldn't stay in Meier's room for too long, and he reluctantly said goodbye before dark. After the pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info Yu Mingli left, Yishan did not leave in a hurry, but waited for Xiaoye and Xiaoniao to return to the room to rest, and stared at Qiqi standing behind Meier with dark brown eyes for a while before getting up to leave.
The next morning, Liang Yuecheng's negotiation team set off from Nami Castle. Before leaving, Yu Mingli ignored Yan He's disdainful gaze, walked through the people of the negotiating group to Maier, and invited him to do business in the twenty-nine villages.
In yesterday's conversation, Yu Mingli learned that Maier is now a merchant. In that case, as long as she was willing to invite Maier to come to Twenty-Nine Village to do business, she could ask Maier about Gray at any time? Byrons's intelligence.
"My cousin still has important things to do in Liangyue City, so he won't be here for the time being."
Before Maier could reply, Yishan's voice cut through the crowd and into the ears of both of them.
I still have important things to do in Liangyue City?
How did I not know about such an important matter!
Maier spat in his heart, but did not refute Yishan's words. His reaction made Yu Mingli feel very disappointed, not only Yu Mingli, but also a middle-aged man standing in the send-off procession also showed a disappointed expression.
After the negotiators departed, Maier urged the horse to Yishan's carriage and knocked on the window frame.
"Hey, why did you just say that I have something important to do in Liangyue City?"
Yishan opened the curtain and gave him a blank look.
"Do you really want to go to Twenty-Nine Village?"
"Well, I didn't think so, what's wrong?"
"Then stay in Liangyue City honestly, don't run around."
"I'm a trader, how can I make money if I don't run around?"
"You want to make money?"
"Of course!"
Yishan frowned and hesitated, as if she wanted to say something, but she didn't speak.
"Anyway, you just stay in Liangyue City! Don't go outside and get wet—"
At this point, there was no movement. Maier leaned down and looked through the window, but the light in the car was too dark for him to make out Yishan's expression.
"Stained? Stained with what? ”
"I'm sick of it! Don't talk to me! ”
Yishan directly closed the curtain and slammed the chair under her in a huff.
In fact, Yishan didn't know Yu Mingli's thoughts, she only cared about Gray when she was with Meier? The matter of Byron is not like it is interesting to Myer. But Yishan is worried and doesn't want Meier to get too close to other women.
Just now, in order to keep Maier in Liangyue City, she wanted to introduce the biggest merchant and Yan family in Liangyue City to him. But she suddenly remembered that there were many girls in the Heyan family, among which the daughter of the head of the family and Yan Ruizhi, who was fourteen years old this year, was a famous beauty in Liangyue City, and when she thought of this, she immediately dispelled this idea.
But the reality is that the more you are afraid of something, the more you will come.
When the negotiation team was about to arrive in Liangyue City, the convoy suddenly stopped. Because Maier was riding a horse, he had a high degree of freedom, so as soon as the convoy stopped, he drove to the front to check on the situation.
By the time he got to the front, the convoy had already started moving again. He asked the knight in charge of the team about what had just happened, and learned that one of the wagons in front of the negotiator had a broken axle, and in order not to obstruct traffic, the caravan decided to give way to the people behind first, and then return to the main road after the axle was repaired.
"The leader of this caravan is a good man."
Mel complimented him from the bottom of his heart, and the knight looked at him with a complicated look for a moment, and said with a wry smile.
"My lord, of course, because this caravan belongs to the Heyan family."
"And the Yan family?"
Maier had been a merchant for more than a month, but he had been receiving goods in the village and rarely had activities in Liangyue City, so he had never heard of the name of the Heyan family.
But the knight did not know this, he only knew that Mel had been forced by the lord of the city to become a trader. In Liangyue City, anyone who is in business will know about the Heyan family, but Maier looks like he has heard of the Heyan family for the first time.
If it were someone else, he would definitely laugh at the other party's lack of knowledge. But he was dealing with no one else, but Myer. Is he the cousin of the lord of the city, the nephew of the lord, or the great Gree? Son of Byrons. The knight didn't dare to offend him, so he could only suppress his true emotions and patiently tell him about the Heyan family.
The Heyan family became the head of the merchants in Liangyue City about thirty years ago. But the history of the Kazuyan family is much older than that, dating back to shortly after the cataclysm.
At that time, the first head of the Heyan family, Ping Dai, was still a small merchant and didn't even have a surname. He is honest in business, undeceiving, and very kind-hearted. It is said that he never lied, so everyone believed everything he said.
Heidai relied on receiving goods from the surrounding villages and selling them in Liangyuecheng to earn the difference, and finally saved enough money to buy a store after twenty years. He bought a small shop in the business district, and relied on the credibility he had accumulated over the past 20 years to get a steady stream of customers. He named his small shop "Wayanya", which means "shop where you can talk in harmony".
Heiyo never quarrels with people when he is doing business, and even when he encounters a customer with a tricky temperament, he will talk to each other amicably. He often said that signboards are not just used to see, what is written on them, you have to do something, otherwise you are deceiving people, losing integrity, and immoral.
Many people persuaded him to take out a loan to expand the store, but he insisted on not borrowing, and he saved enough money to expand the store before he died. The sons of Heidai inherited his legacy: to operate in harmony and never borrow.
When Heidai and before he died, he built a soup kitchen outside the door of Heyan's house to provide a porridge meal every day for those who could not afford to eat. The sons of Heidai enlarged the soup kitchen, but still provided one meal of porridge a day.
Heidai also has a habit of never asking for interest on the money lent out, and never forcing others to repay the money. Before his death, Heidai once lent a friend Wuguan Tairong money, and he didn't even keep an account. His friend, who had not been able to pay back the money until he died, told his sons about it before he died, asking them to remember the "grace of the Yan family".
More than thirty years ago, the descendant of this friend of the Ping Dynasty became a retainer of the Xiaohu family and was reused. The Xiaohu family appointed him to be the city lord of Liangyue City, and when he came to Liangyue City to take office, he found that the Heyan family was already the most prestigious store in Liangyue City. He followed the teachings of his ancestors and helped the Heyan family become the head of the merchants in Liangyuecheng, and repaid the "five graces" of the Heyan family in his way.
After becoming the head of the merchants in Liangyue City, the Heyan family still maintained their fine traditions.
Sincerity-based, Tong Su is not bullied; Speak kindly to everyone; Never borrow, no interest on the money lent, and no pressure on others to repay the money; Set up a soup kitchen in front of the store to provide one porridge a day for those who can't afford to eat; Be humble and take the initiative to give in; As soon as the words come out, they must be done.
After this, the city lord of Liangyue City changed several times, but the Heyan family was still the head of the merchants, and won the hearts of the people, and these traditions were indispensable.
When Yishan was not the city lord of Liangyue City, such an incident happened. At that time, Yan Ruizhi's father was still the head of the Yan family, and Yan Ruizhi's two elder brothers went to Shangjin County to negotiate with local businessmen. On their return, the two hitchhiked on a local caravan, which was robbed by a small group of robbers on the way.
The two brothers of the Heyan family persuaded the caravan leader to let him give up the goods and save everyone's lives. The leader of the caravan thought that the two brothers of the He Yan family were too timid, relying on their own guards, and wanted to fight the robbers. As a result, he underestimated the intelligence of the robbers, and although there were only a dozen robbers in front of them, there were hundreds of robbers in ambush in places they could not see - if not, how could these dozen robbers dare to rob a caravan with dozens of guards?
The caravan leader and his guards were killed, and the two brothers of the Yan family also died in the chaos. One of the guys in the caravan took advantage of the chaos to escape, ran to Liangyue City, and informed the Heyan family of the news.
He Yan Ruizhi's father fainted when he got the news, and the young He Yan Ruizhi was also at a loss. At this moment, the merchant group of Liang Yue City learned the news. Before the Yan family could make any moves, they took the initiative to put together 500 Tairong money as a bounty to buy the heads of this gang of robbers.
As the saying goes, there must be a brave man under the heavy reward, not to mention that the object of the reward is still the wicked man who killed the two brothers of the Heyan family. The bounty hunters of Quanliang Moon City sprang into action on the same day, and with their efforts, the bandits' lair was quickly found.
According to the habit of bounty hunters, in order to avoid unnecessary losses, they usually crush the target, kill about half of the robbers, and then burn the robbers' lair, and then they can go to the bounty hunters' guild to get the bounty.
But this time the bounty hunters didn't do that. They first caught a few live mouths, figured out the exact number of robbers, and then counted the heads according to this number. As long as there are not enough heads, the task is not over.
The difficulty of this quest will increase by dozens of times, so this quest was uncovered after hanging in the Bounty Hunter Guild for a year and a half. The most surprising thing is that after the last robber was killed, the bounty hunters, who usually offered a bounty for licking blood from the knife edge, actually refused to accept the bounty and sent the bounty to Heyan's house.
The high popularity of the Heyan family in Liangyue City can be seen from this.
At that time, He Yan Ruizhi's father was sick in bed because of the loss of his son and was unable to preside over family affairs. So he held a family meeting with the Yan family, wanting to elect a representative head of the family to preside over family affairs. He Yan Ruizhi's father recommended He Yan Ruizhi to become the acting head of the family, but He Yan Ruizhi was too young, and the family elders did not dare to hand over this important task to him.
He Yan Ruizhi's father gave the money sent by the bounty hunter to He Yan Ruizhi and asked him to handle the money. After Heyan Ruizhi got the money, he used the money to build an official soup kitchen in Liangyue City, and banned all the soup kitchens in front of the Heyan family's shop, but he still provided one porridge a day to the poor who could not afford to eat.
The elders asked him why he did this, and he replied, "This is a sum of money with blood, and the Heyan family can't accept it, so they can only return it to Liang Yuecheng." The ancestors set up soup kitchens in the Ping Dynasty, one is to do good, and the other is to attract customers. Now that the Heyan family has become famous in Liangyue City, there is no need to set up a soup kitchen in front of the store, and the relevant personnel can be used centrally to improve work efficiency. The ancestors of the Ping Dynasty stipulated that the soup kitchen only provided one porridge a day, not because they were stingy, but because they were afraid that the poor would be lazy and not work because of the Yan family, so I did not change this rule. ”
So the elders of the family followed the advice of He Yan Ruizhi's father and chose He Yan Ruizhi as the acting head of the family. Later, Yan Ruizhi's father died, and Yan Ruizhi was chosen as the head of the family. After Yishan came to Liang Yuecheng to take office, the first thing she did was to follow her father's instructions to visit Heyan's family and Yan's Ruizhi.
"I see."
After listening to the deeds of the Heyan family, Meier nodded thoughtfully.
"I have a question that I don't know if to ask."
"Excuse me." The knight smiled wryly.
"The deeds of the Heyan family, does everyone in Liang Yuecheng know about it?"
"Of course." The knight nodded, "I came to Liangyue City with the City Lord, and it has only been more than a year now. Even I know so much about the Yan family, let alone the locals. ”
"That's weird." Maier shook his head in confusion, "Since everyone knows about the Heyan family and how they succeeded, the method is not too difficult. But why haven't you mentioned anyone who had a similar experience, or even an imitator, except for the Kazuyans? ”
The knight was speechless, not knowing how to answer.