The old shopkeeper Gu looked at Xia Xiaodong's face and said with a smile: "The girl is spoiled by her father, so she doesn't care much about the family's affairs, right?" ”

Looking at Xia Xiaodong's dress, at most it is a well-off family, and if you can't figure out the Tao, you are naturally used to it by your family.

As for Miss Everyone, I shouldn't know about it.

"How?" Xia Xiaodong was implied that he was not familiar with the world and was not annoyed, so he just continued to ask.

"It is extremely difficult for everything to arise, and it is very fast to collapse." Gu Lao's shopkeeper sighed: "Don't talk about Gu Si, it's those big sons and sons, who have a huge family business, it's not that they will be defeated if they are defeated, and they will beg for food in the end." ”

"That's," Xia Xiaodong echoed: "It's just that those sons and brothers don't understand it in the first place, they grew up in fine clothes and jade food, so when they encounter an accident at home, or are led by bad people, they will lose quickly." But Gu Si ......, their family has been defeated for several generations......"

It's not easy to go down step by step from generation to generation.

"Does the girl think that since there is a shop, even if she sits and eats, or simply rents the shop to others, she can live with the rent?" Gu Lao's shopkeeper is old and refined, and he guessed Xia Xiaodong's thoughts at a guess.

"Isn't it?"

"If you can get by, then you can." The old shopkeeper sighed: "But the old Gu family, even the family can't live." I don't know much about running a business, and I don't want to rent to others. If you say that you rent it to someone else, you won't have a place to put your own craft! ”

"Who wouldn't bully such a stupid person? Not to mention the heavy taxation, everything cannot be exempted from the fire consumption. ”

"Those Dingjia errand soldiers, if they don't agree with each other, they will smash things if they say a few more words! Gu Si felt sorry for his plays, for fear of being smashed, so he hurriedly took out the silver money and used it indiscriminately. ”

"Hehe, what is the result? There are more and more flies! In the end, I had to sell even the shop! It's okay now, with the Lu family's cover, it's much easier. This is actually last year's thing, and now, in addition to coming over once a month to check the accounts, it is also in the summer when the old lady is too old, so Gu Si deliberately made a Guanyin statue. ”

"Everyone's life is easy." The old shopkeeper Gu finally sighed.

Such a small shop, in the eyes of the Lu family, really won't take it very seriously.

"That Gu Si, now he is the master invited by the shop?" Xia Xiaodong remembered that among the few deeds given by the fifth lady of the Lu family, there was a deed to invite a master, and the two masters were indeed surnamed Gu.

"Yes, Gu Si, as well as his eldest son, all pay money from the shop on a monthly basis." The old shopkeeper nodded: "So, this shop can't make a lot of money seriously, maybe people won't want it that day, and then sell it." ”

Hehe. In fact, it has changed hands.

It's almost time to talk here, and the guy over there has come out of it.

There was another one behind him.

At a glance, I only felt that the man had a big beard, and half of his face was almost covered. It's just that the color of this beard is weird, and if you look closely, it turns out that there are a lot of wood chips on it.

It should be Gu Si.

What's even more speechless is that Gu Si is still holding an extremely sharp carving knife in his hand. It's just that the carving knife seemed to be a part of his body, and he didn't notice that he was talking and wielding the carving knife at the same time, drawing cold light from time to time.

"That's just the Zen seedlings you bought from me?" Gu Si asked, casually, what the carving knife blade was pointing at, of course, was Xia Xiaodong.

Zen seedlings? Xia Xiaodong looked at the little monks on the table, and it seemed quite appropriate. It does have something to do with Zen, and it is indeed a seedling.

"What are you buying for?" Gu Si continued to ask.

What does it matter to you what I buy it for? It's better than dusting the shelves here.

"If you give it to any temple, then you should not buy it." Gu Si's words made the old shopkeeper who was standing so angry that he sat down.

"In those temples, there are real monks?" Gu Si said disapprerovingly: "A bunch of fake monks who cheat money, in addition to ringing the bell and chanting scriptures to get silver, how many of them are sincere to the Buddha?" Not worthy of my stuff at all. ”

The problem is that it doesn't seem to be your thing anymore.

"I think these little monks are agile and natural, especially when they are placed together...... Xia Xiaodong stretched out his fingers, followed the posture of the little monks on the table, and swiped over like flowing water: "It looks meaningful." So if you are ready to buy it and take a look at it from time to time, it should also be regarded as self-cultivation. ”

"Oh?" Gu Si's eyes were sheng: "You see it?" It's a set! You see, this hand, from here to there, that foot, so transposition......"

Gu Si met his bosom friend, said and danced, compared with the figure of the little monks, and explained his thoughts.

"Well, this set of little monks used the same piece of cypress wood, as if it was bought for five taels of silver. Sell goods and know your home, just ...... I'll sell it to you for ten taels of silver. Gu Si scratched his head as he spoke, turned his head and asked the old shopkeeper: "This has doubled, is it okay?" ”

Xia Xiaodong finally completely understood why this shop had changed owners.

The old shopkeeper didn't bother to pay attention to him at all, twisted his head, and only stared at the door, looking at the passers-by outside.

The guy secretly pulled Gu Siyi, hinting that he should not speak, and said with a dry smile: "Yes, yes, yes, ten taels and one, isn't it ten or two!" ”

A set of ten taels and a set of ten taels are two different things, okay.

Xia Xiaodong smiled slightly. Anyway, it's the silver ticket in your left pocket, and you move it to your right pocket, it doesn't matter.

Gu Si 'huh', and as soon as he opened his mouth, he was pulled behind him by the guy.

"Okay, let's put the little one in the box for the girl." The man was so attentive that he was almost like two people before, and as he spoke, he put the rectangular box he was holding on the table.

The box was also divided into six small compartments, and the size was exactly one compartment for each little monk, as if it was tailor-made.

After a closer look, the sawdust and trimmed small shavings on the side of the box have not yet been cleaned, and I think they were freshly made just now.

No wonder the guy went in for so long.

Gu Si watched as if he was in pain, and the guy didn't dare to be sloppy, so he wiped each ornament with a silk cloth, and then wrapped it in two layers of fine cotton paper that he didn't know where it turned out, wrapped it properly, and then put it into the lattice.

When the fourth one was installed, the door suddenly darkened, and someone came.

The guy took a beating, looked up, was stunned for a moment, pulled out a big smile when he landed, and the things were not wrapped, first put them back on the table, and then walked around from behind the table, took three steps and two steps over, bowed down and said with a smile: "Second Master Huang!" Why are you free today, come and have a look? ”

The old shopkeeper Gu also stood up behind the counter.

Gu Si snorted coldly, turned around and turned back.

(To be continued.) )