Standing at the window, overlooking the West Lake in the smoke and rain, the boat painting boat appears and disappears in the rain curtain, and there is occasionally a curling piano sound, intermittently. There is no more fairyland than this.

At the moment when Lin Muzhi was out of his mind, the fat man rushed up from downstairs in a hurry.

"Hurry, hurry! Alas! I'm dripping mom! Scalding, scalding..."

Entering the wing, Huang Guan put the soup in his hand on the table, then pinched his hands on the hammer of his ears and continued:

"Little Master, come and try it, it's three fresh! Suzhou was in a hurry that day, but I didn't catch up with the Taihu Lake Sanbai at that time, but it doesn't matter, it's a coincidence, we also have it, Taihu Lake whitebait! ”

was teased by the fat man, and washed away the feeling that he dared to hurt for no reason.

"Calm down! Wipe your mouth first! ”

Hearing Lin Muzhi's words, he was stunned for a moment.

"Huh! That one... I tasted a little bit in the back kitchen, just a little. There are also a few dishes, and Uncle Liu will serve them later. ”

After a while, Shopkeeper Liu's shopkeeper and Xiaoer brought a few more dishes, but Shopkeeper Liu, who was about to leave, was stopped by Huang Guan.

"Uncle Liu, sit down and eat together, there are no outsiders today."

Shopkeeper Liu was just about to resign, but Huang Guan continued:

"Uncle Liu, don't say that I, the young owner, is not good at talking!"

Seeing that he couldn't shirk it, Shopkeeper Liu replied:

"Okay, you and Mr. Lin will wait for a while, and I'll go to the wine cellar to get two jars of flower carvings."

As soon as Huang Guan heard the wine, he immediately became excited.

"Yes, yes, yes! Uncle Liu still understands me, I have been hungry for my father's cellar for not a day or two, twenty years of Chen, at least twenty years! ”

Shopkeeper Liu shook his head helplessly, twenty years Chen! What can two hairy boys taste? But it's the master of the Shaodong family who came today, and since the Shaodong family ordered it, it can't be said if you don't take it out.

"Got it!"

Shopkeeper Liu just turned around and was stopped by Lin Muzhi.

Lin Muzhi got up.

"Uncle Liu, don't bother, don't drink."

When I heard that I didn't drink, the fat man was anxious.

"Little Master, twenty years Chen, twenty years! Older than the two of us, I'm just stained with you today, if I sneak it on weekdays, I won't let my father be disabled when I go home! Don't you know, my father has two treasures, and my mother still has his wine! ”

Lin Muzhi looked at Huang Guan and smiled.

"Then your mother is just a big living treasure of yours, right?!"

Huang Guan smiled hesitantly.

"Uncle Liu, I'm not studying (going to school), I can't drink, I'll stay first! Be sure to have it left! ”

The little master can drink, Huang Guan knows, when the little master and the master were separated that day, the little master drank. As for not drinking it now, it may have something to do with the morning.

Hearing that there was no need to get the wine, Shopkeeper Liu frowned slightly. If you don't drink, it's not very literati!

Thinking about the literati, there are as many people as carp crossing the river, how many people are not gentlemen in the cup? Don't talk about it far away, just say Mr. Dongpo, if you don't drink? Where is the famous saying "ask the wine to the sky"? The previous generation of Wenzong even called himself a "drunkard".

Lin Muzhi didn't know what Shopkeeper Liu was thinking, otherwise he would have to knock his brain open, and he would have to see how this drinking and Wencai were related?

The two sat down, and the fat man had already begun to eat Hus.

Shopkeeper Liu looked at the fat man and said to Lin Muzhi:

"The old man is busy with business on weekdays, and he neglects to teach the young owner, which makes Mr. Lin smile."

As soon as these words came out, Lin Muzhi probably guessed how today's dinner came about.

Huang Guan's family has countless assets, but he is an only son, and if he doesn't get ahead in his typical studies, he will go home to inherit his father's family wealth. Now that I am idle, how can my family rest assured? It is used by the shopkeeper Liu. The words spoken by the elders of the fat man, I am afraid that his seniority in the Huang family is not low.

This is also human nature, Lin Muzhi and Huang Guan are of the same age, but they are Huang Guan's teacher, no matter how miraculous the outside world is, he is still just a teenager, after all, he is too young.

Lin Muzhi smiled.

"Uncle Liu, are you saying that I am not strict in teaching?"

Shopkeeper Liu replied:

"There, there, just..."

Before Shopkeeper Liu could say anything more, Huang Guan interrupted what Shopkeeper Liu was about to say with a vague opening.

"Uncle Liu, the little master is my master, and he is not an outsider, my father is also a single passer, and I also take you as my own uncle, why do you have a family meal and still see outsiders? Uncle, don't talk about it yet, I'm still waiting for Lao Shi to explain my doubts! ”

Swallowing the food in his mouth, Huang Guan continued:

"Lao Shi, you should tell me now, why did my father send me to the academy?"

Lin Muzhi did not answer Huang Guan's question, but asked another question.

"How much did you pay for that handful of grass that was given to you in the morning?"

Looking at Uncle Liu's questioning face, Huang Guan first talked to Uncle Liu about it, and then replied:

"It's the roadside, the flower... No, no! The three lines of green vegetables and the five lines of leeks are like the fish and the sweet water bought for the little sister, and it took two big sons before and after! I get it! I get it! ”

Lin Muzhi smiled.

"Enlightened?"

Huang Guan still has some questions.

"Understand, it's almost like the mud bodhisattva in the temple, just a layer of gold. But it's still mud in nature!? It's the same when I study in college, but it doesn't change that I'm still a straw bag when I study! ”

If there is a business school or a financial management department now, it will be proper, and the fat man is a top student. It's just that I have to study in a literature department, and the major is not right!

"You only see the appearance, the difference in the price of the grass is the key, its value lies in what it is bundled on, not on its own value. Think about it ten years later, probably you will go home to inherit the family business, but what about your classmates? Either a Qing scholar or a parental official, as long as the students who come out of the academy can more or less climb the relationship, and the identity of the academy disciple will also be a very good guiding stone for you in the future. ”

With such an explanation, Huang Guan completely understood.

"Now I feel a little sorry for my father! Alas! Lao Tzu is tired of making money and breaks his legs, and his son spends money like running water. It seems that the loser thing still has to continue! ”

After listening to the conversation between the two, Shopkeeper Liu admired Lin Muzhi's wisdom a little, regardless of Wencai or anything, at least at this age, it is rare to be able to guess his master's intentions.

Listening to Huang Guan's exclamation, Lin Muzhi asked:

"How much money do you spend on poetry every year?"

The fat man made a thoughtful face.

"A thousand? Two thousand? Well... About three thousand... Right!? One or two songs on weekdays, all of them are small money, no demerits, three thousand! Almost. ”

Exercise! About three cadres, but also add a "bar". Millions of oceans are gone! Except to say that it's good to be rich! What else can I say?

"And what do they do about you?"

As soon as he said this, the fat man was angry!

"Don't mention it, what do you say about painstaking efforts, in fact, it's all unwritten limerick poems, you say that even I can see good and bad poems, can it be good poems? Eighty percent is saying behind my back that I'm a fool and I'm giving them money again, but I still have to be stupid! Alas! ”

After speaking, Huang Guan took a sip of the tea at hand, and held it in his mouth and babbled. It's like drinking, and it doesn't look like a taste.

"Do you want to lose the next big one?"

Shaking the teacup in his hand, the fat man replied:

"So be it! What about losing 100,000 at a time? Except that it makes me look more like a fool! ”

The meal was actually almost eaten, and Lin Muzhi also took a sip of tea.

"Ask a different question! Do you want to go down in history?

Hearing this, Huang Guan came to his senses again.

"Yes! Little master, you must have a way, of course, you can spend money, not a loser, and you will be defeated to go down in history. ”

Seeing that the fat man was in the spirit again, Lin Muzhi said:

"Absolutely! I've told you how. ”

Huang Guan thought about it.

"No?! Well, old wet, how can you also learn from that literati son, going around and around, and talking is not cool at all. ”

The little fat man's temperament is not funny.

"Remember the library you told you about?"

Huang Guan, who had just come to the spirit, withered again.

"It's just a bookstore, it's useless, even if I don't collect money, I'm just a vassal and elegant if I die."

It seems that the fat man still doesn't understand the key.

"Fatty, not collecting money is not the key, the key is that the library is not only those books of strange gods and immortals, the romance of the rivers and lakes, but also all the books related to scientific research such as "Analects", "Spring and Autumn", "University", etc., in short, as long as it is not a book banned by the Celestial Empire and a book on the military art of war, all books in the world can be stored."

I don't know when, Shopkeeper Liu burst into tears, got up and came to Lin Muzhi's body, bowed his head.

"Scholar Liu Xiuchen thanked Mr. Lin for the poor students in the world!"

This worship stunned Lin Muzhi, but Huang Guan was enlightened!

Lin Muzhi helped up the shopkeeper Liu.

"Uncle Liu, this can't be done, the kid can't deserve such a big gift."

Huang Guan also came to the shopkeeper Liu to help the shopkeeper Liu.

"Teacher, Uncle Liu used to be a talent, but due to the limitations of resources, he couldn't make every step forward and go further. In the end, I was desperate to buy myself and came to the Huang family, I think, there are still many people like Uncle Liu in the world. Now I understand that even if I don't go down in history for fame, I have to fight for someone like Uncle Liu, and if I fail, I will go home to inherit my father's family property. ”

Huang Guan straightened his body, straightened his clothes, took two steps back, clenched his fists, and seriously performed a disciple salute.

"Please ask the teacher to teach me."

The most unbearable thing is this red tape, this time even the fat man has started!

"Well? Well? Did you just say that it was a family? Start seeing it now?! The method is not to tell you! ”

Huang Guan's seriousness is the same as Lin Muzhi's, he is often pretentious, but now he is sincere.

Of course, sometimes it's fun, isn't it?

The fat man returned to his nature and said:

"Teacher, I also want to do what you say, but my strength doesn't allow it! Those scientific examination books are all in the hands of those landlords and gentry, if my Huang family does what you say, it will be tantamount to offending all the landlords and gentry in the world. This is tantamount to a grasshopper shaking a tree, and the Huang family is at most a bigger grasshopper. Such a big piece of cake, the Huang family can't swallow it! ”

Forget it, send the Buddha to the west. Lin Muzhi walked to the coffee table and grabbed a handful of fennel beans from the plate, and then sprinkled them on the coffee table.

"This is equivalent to the landlords and gentry of the world."

took one and threw it to the fat man, and then said:

"It's really hard to want to be alone in the world, but I didn't say I have to be alone."

Lin Muzhi divided a part of the beans scattered on the coffee table.

"Your group of fox friends and dog friends in the academy and the small family attached to them behind them will be a big help, pull them to do it together, if you can't handle this, then you may not be suitable to be my disciple."

Huang Guan hurriedly said:

"If you can do it, it's definitely no problem, if you dare not listen to me, call Lao Xiao and Xiaobai tomorrow, and call them grandpa!"

Lin Muzhi pointed to the beans on the coffee table and said:

"Now it's a small group of people, against a large group of people."

Serve a whole plate of beans on the coffee table and place it in the middle of the two piles of beans.

"There is a story in mythology about a fish jumping over the dragon gate, saying that a group of koi fish, if you want to turn into a dragon, you have to jump over the dragon gate, I have heard the story, I will not tell. How similar is this to the world's poor scholars? Little fat man, you didn't plan to jump over the dragon gate, that is to say, your essence is different from them, obviously not a fish, but you want to pretend to be a fish, how can you melt in? Since you are not a fish and you can't pretend to be a fish, why not let yourself become water? How many fish in the world want to jump over the dragon gate and can't get a drop of water, and this is exactly what you don't lack the most! If you become the water of their leaping dragon gate? Will they swim towards you? What if they don't have rusty beans? ”

After speaking, Lin Muzhi put the small pile of fennel beans back on the plate.

"Do you still think you're less crowded?"

Huang Guan said excitedly:

"It's a lot, and now I think those scum should be trembling!"

Lin Muzhi didn't look at him, but picked up a plate of persimmons on the coffee table and put it behind the plate of fennel beans.

"Don't worry, you have a bigger help."

And help? Huang Guan didn't speak, waiting for the following.

"Use your little brain and think about it? Who will the dragon-transformed koi fish be used for? Belch... That is, who is the biggest beneficiary? ”

Huang Guan didn't think about it for too long, the boss with his mouth open.

"You mean..."

He didn't say any more, but pointed to the sky.

Lin Muzhi picked up a persimmon and took a bite.

"The braincase can be! In such a general trend, the rest..."

Lin Muzhi put one hand on the side of the pile of fennel beans on the coffee table and dusted it gently.

"It's all younger brothers!"

The Dahua Dynasty has two monthly magazines a month, and the shopkeeper Liu never loses one issue. But today, he was shocked beyond words!

There is a group of people who have quarreled for the New Deal for many years without results, but one person used a plate of beans in the restaurant, which affected the fate of the world's poor scholars.

There is nothing more than this.

The fat man shook the shopkeeper Liu.

"Uncle Liu, what do you think?"

Shopkeeper Liu, who came back to his senses, said:

"Huh?! Old, old! I think I should go to the cellar and get a pot of flowers to suppress the shock! Thirty years old! ”

is not an answer, and Huang Guan has already known the answer.

"That Uncle Liu, can you leave a pot of thirty-year-old Chen for me and the little master?"

Shopkeeper Liu said with a smile:

"Remaining! Thirty years old! ”

Looking at this uncle and nephew, there is some envy.

"Fatty, think about it! This will put you on the cusp. Everything is difficult at the beginning, and after surviving two spring festivals, you can almost return with honor. ”

The fat man smiled, with a slight cunning.

"I've already figured it out, what's the cusp? I only said that I would give money, but I didn't say that I would take the lead. Teacher, you are the master of the academy, wouldn't it be better to use yours? ”

For a moment, Lin Muzhi felt as if he had been overshadowed.

"Little fat man, are you yin me?"

Huang Guan has no fear.

"Little Master, I remember that someone said that they wanted to earn a bigger family business than his wife, how did you say that if you don't have a reputation, how can you earn so much family business?"

Lin Muzhi thought about it and sighed again.

"Well, whatever! It is for someone to say no to this unjust world! One more word, fuck it! ”

Although it is wrong to scold, Shopkeeper Liu feels that the scolding is so clear and beautiful, and it is so brilliant.