Zhu Caizhu found it amusing Shi Qi and said, "She is your insider?" Do you know what it means to be an insider? At a young age, I still know that there is a royal law, and since you know that there is a royal law, why don't you stop your master from opening a tavern on my ground without permission? I won't break the law, it's just an expedient idea to give you, to exchange a subordinate for a maid, if you don't agree, you can only pick up the tavern, there is no way to eat, you will go together to work for me as a long-term worker, go to one disagree, then all go. Zhu Caizhu looked at Jiang Nanshan very confidently, he thought that Jiang Nanshan was an adult, and he was the boss in Shi Qi's mouth, so he would definitely be able to weigh the pros and cons.

Since Jiang Nanshan left the Jiang family, he has always been afraid of things, he has always been an angry lord in the woman's family, until he was all gone, he became the lord of his daughter when he was drunk. Now, he was a little hesitant and told Zhu Caizhu that he would wait for his younger brother Dongfeng to come back before discussing. Zhu Caizhu said: "Jiang Dongfeng's house was also sent to him to live, look at him pitiful, he still owes me money and has not paid it back, I am here for him today, and when he comes back, we will calculate the new account and the old account together." He kept saying that someone from their family would come back, and by that time, the Jiang family might prosper again, and I wanted to see how it prospered today, so it turned out that he ran to my ground and started trading. ”

Jiang Dongfeng saw the rich man Zhu from a distance, and shouted loudly: "Master Zhu, I was about to invite you to come and enjoy the light, but I didn't expect you to come over in person, sit down, Shi Qi, and serve wine." Zhu Caizhu said with a cold face: "I'm not here to look for wine to drink, they are from outside, and you don't know the rules, why did you open the tavern here without permission?" Whose ground is this, you don't know? ”

Jiang Dongfeng said: "The land here has been idle, weeds, dead tree roots are everywhere, and I can't grow crops, so I want to take advantage of it, and a family must always have something to eat." Zhu Caizhu said: "You have lived here for a long time, and our people here have always been good, and I found that the business was okay, and I didn't want to embarrass your livelihood." It's just that it's not appropriate to let a little girl welcome guests here, I want to change someone with you, she is here, in case something happens to the drunken bastard, our years of rural customs will not let you be ruined. ”

Jiang Dongfeng knows the personality of the rich man, he is a fortune teller, he relies on a big mouth, and likes to turn evil into good fortune for big girls and little women. He has no other hobbies in his life, as long as there are women, he can smell them, and he always has to move forward. A few years ago, he happened to travel to Jiangnan, saw the notice, and heard that Ouyang Yanzhao's wife had a strange disease, because there was a heavy reward, he took the initiative to come to the door to cheat some money to spend. Unexpectedly, I don't know what strange method he used when he arrived at the house, but after a few days, Ouyang Yanzhao's wife actually made Ouyang Yanzhao's wife much sicker. Ouyang Yanzhao not only gave him a sum of money, but also agreed that he would take away a girl from the house who decocted medicine.

After returning to his hometown, Zhu Caizhu's hexagram was not counted, and he advertised everywhere that he had married a nobleman from Ouyang's mansion, and the squires near Qingshi Town heard that Zhu fortune teller and Ouyang Yanzhao climbed into relatives, and good things happened one after another. not only provided him with the convenience of buying land, but also allowed him to transfer the dying Jiang Mansion to his hands, because of Zhu's exaggerated preaching, he soon had the proximity of the power of the government, which did not want to get closer to the powerful people of the dynasty. Soon, a down-and-out Zhu fortune teller became a local famous Zhu rich man, his sex was difficult to change, and after he was rich and powerful, he became more ill when he was out of the house, but it was different from before, and he was more afraid that he couldn't let the ladies in his house know.

Thinking of these experiences of the rich man Zhu, Jiang Dongfeng knew that the local officials were not willing to offend him, in case his wife could really find the Ouyang Mansion, no matter how big the official was, he would not be as big as the girl in the mansion. Because as big as the master, the slave is as big as the slave, as long as the tiger is in the back, and the fox in front is fine. Jiang Dongfeng said with a smile on his face: "Master Zhu, my niece is still young and can't wait for people, besides, she has already promised to be married to this guy, and I am afraid it is not appropriate to send it to your mansion." ”

The rich man Zhu said: "It's okay if people don't give it to me, but I have to pay three taels of silver every month, which is considered land rent, don't you say that she is still young?" I can also wait, and when I grow up in two years, I will come back to my house. I heard that he had to pay three taels of silver every month, Jiang Dongfeng knew that this was too big a number for his tavern, but he didn't dare to disobey, and he couldn't agree, he looked at Jiang Xianglian, she was really a girl who made outsiders tempted, he was an uncle, of course he couldn't push her to the tiger's mouth.

When everyone was deadlocked, Shi Qi said: "Master Zhu, we will give three taels of silver on time, and ask the master to come over often to enjoy the light and take care of the business of the store." Zhu fortune teller said: "Don't worry, I won't eat and drink for nothing, don't ask, Dongfeng knows, I can always be a fair deal, don't take advantage of others, I come to eat and drink, and I will deduct three taels of silver." He glanced at Jiang Xianglian, who was dripping with water, and then looked at the scale of the shop, he knew in his heart, three taels of silver? They can't earn it, and sooner or later this girl will come to her house to be obedient.

Master Zhu went back after drinking a few bowls of wine, Shi Qi's frowns have not been showing, Jiang Dongfeng told them that Zhu fortune telling has tenacity, and his previous profession has made him accustomed to persistence. Fortune telling, hexagrams, not afraid of no business, as long as he encounters one, it may be enough to eat for half a year, he Zhu fortune teller encountered something in Ouyang's mansion, only once, enough for him to eat for several lifetimes.

Jiang Xianglian asked at dinner: "Shi Qi, you don't listen to your uncle, where are we going to send him three taels of silver every month?" Can you go back to Grandpa and ask for it? Shi Qi said: "I promised, I will finish it, I don't want you to worry, I don't want you to give money, you can rest assured to open a good tavern, I want to read at night, and when someone comes in the evening, I will ask my uncle to help me run the hall, and I will go home to review my homework." He pretended to have nothing to do, and then went home.

The tavern was closed, and after seeing that they had slept all after a tired day, Shi Qi gently dressed himself up and ran in the direction he asked during the day. Zhu's fortune teller is not far away, the night is already deep, and there are not many lights in the Zhu family's compound, so it seems that he is a small rich man who can live. Shi Qi had never experienced climbing over the wall or crossing the courtyard before, but when he suddenly saw the high wall, he only went up to the top of the wall. Without the help of any tools, he reached the center of the courtyard, and in the order of his home he was at home, he came to the main hall, and of course there was no one in the hall. He sat for a while to adjust his breathing, looking at the dimly lit courtyard and the high walls, and really couldn't imagine that he could enter and exit as freely as he walked on the ground.

He carefully found the study, there was no one inside, he fumbled to open the ink cartridge, grinded a little ink, without the help of the light outside, he wrote a paragraph by feeling: "The tavern in the west of the village, the store is Xianglian, the flower is good and has the owner early, if you meet a bad person, the study becomes a torture room, and it is easy to live a good life, and the hexagram cannot live." Shi Qi put the neat Xiaokai on the table, and drew a flute on it, and then calmly left the courtyard of Zhu's fortune teller, without forgetting to put the ink cartridge on the top of the courtyard wall where he went out.

The next day, Shi Qi came to the tavern normally, and in the afternoon, Zhu Fortune Teller brought a few family members to the tavern, and he had lost the momentum of yesterday, he looked indoors, and Shi Qi enthusiastically ushered them into the seat. Zhu fortune teller asked, "What about the boss of the Jiang family?" I have something to say to him, please come out for a moment. Jiang Nanshan came out of the back kitchen, Shi Qi returned to the back of the counter with interest, Zhu fortune teller looked at Jiang Nanshan and said: "I know, there are no three handfuls of Shensha, I dare not reverse Xiqi, originally I wondered why you have neither money nor power, and suddenly come back and open a tavern, it turns out that it is a matter of learning." Thank you for your mercy, you didn't hurt anyone, and you didn't let me lose my money, the folks in my hometown, if you have something to say, you can say it directly, I won't embarrass you, why bother with such a big thing? The words are good, the sentences are smooth, and they are considered famous after all. ”

Jiang Nanshan didn't understand at all, Zhu fortune teller thought he was pretending to be confused, such a person, with his fortune teller's eyes, was even more incomprehensible. He then said to the people who brought it: "Whoever gives my congratulatory gift to the shopkeeper Jiang, you will all listen to it in the future, and you are not allowed to pay credit when you come to drink, the matter of three taels of silver I said yesterday has caused the wind to blow away, and you can speak on my ground in the future." As he spoke, he put a piece of silver in Jiang Nanshan's hand, and floated away in his surprised eyes, leaving Jiang Nanshan with a stomach full of doubts.

Only Shi Qi knew it in his heart, of course he didn't want to break it, after last night's test, he knew that the kung fu on his feet could move freely. After exercising in the mountains, and then to the plains, the small courtyard wall was not at all difficult for him. Jiang Xianglian asked, "Uncle, why did he send money again and didn't want three taels of silver?" Much better attitude towards you than yesterday? Jiang Nanshan said: "I don't know, it's like a dream, it's really incomprehensible, wait for your uncle to come back and ask, maybe he knows." Shi Qi said: "Uncle probably doesn't know, I think it may be that he went back to calculate a hexagram and found that it was not good to bully us, Xianglian is a precious life, so he came to offer it in advance." Jiang Xianglian glanced at him shyly and stopped talking.

After Jiang Dongfeng came back, he listened to what Nanshan told him, of course, he didn't know the reason, he only believed in Shi Qi's explanation, Zhu Caizhu must have gone back to tell his fortune, and he didn't dare to embarrass them. Without interference from the outside world, Shi Qi's Lisuo, Jiang Xianglian's flowers, and there are no lively places nearby, Jiang Dongfeng's village west tavern began to flourish. One day, Shi Qi suddenly became interested, he proposed to give the tavern a name, and after thinking about it for a while, it was called Qingshi Restaurant, the name of the store that Shi Qi mentioned.

After the rich man Zhu came to the tavern again, he found that the handwriting of the tavern name was consistent with that of his study, and he admired Jiang Nanshan's steadiness and sophistication. He told Jiang Nanshan loudly that he would give Mrs. Ouyang Yanzhao, who had cracked from a serious illness, to celebrate her fortieth birthday soon, and he wanted to take his family to congratulate her. Originally, his woman was Mrs. Ouyang's decoction medicine, and he didn't want to break off such a relationship. When Shi Qi heard Ouyang Yanzhao, he knew that it was the third son of Ouyang who occupied Daozhen's Jiangnan Liu family. Shi Qi poured him wine and asked, "Master, is it the Governor Ouyang who lives in the Liu family's compound in Jiangnan now?" ”

Zhu told Shi Qi and asked, "At a young age, do you still know the Liu family compound in Jiangnan?" There is no Jiangnan Liu family for a long time, it is the mansion of Lord Ouyang, have you been there? How do you know? Shi Qi said: "It's just that I've heard people talk about it before, this is a tavern, there are many people in the past, I have heard a lot, and I am curious." Zhu Caizhu said: "If you hear anything about Lord Ouyang's family in the future, you should tell me in time, you outsiders may not know, my wife used to be in their house, and I have relatives with Lord Ouyang's family, no, I will send it over when I prepare a gift." ”

Zhu made a big move before he went, and the local county magistrate also dragged him to bring a lot of gifts to Lord Ouyang's wife, plus he asked for piggybacking from other officials and big households, he didn't spend a penny himself, and the gifts were already very rich. He knew that Lord Ouyang would not remember the names and surnames of these people, but he only knew that he Zhu fortune teller sent them. When he came back, he could tell the county master about them, just say that Lord Ouyang asked them to be good officials, dedicated to the people, and must support Ouyang Xiangye's changes and other clichés, before he went, he had already thought about Lord Ouyang's reply to each gift giver.

Because it was the fortieth birthday, Governor Ouyang held a banquet for his wife at home, and those who came in and out were both rich and expensive, of course Zhu fortune teller did not have a good seat to sit on, but because his gift list was passable, plus he could do things, and the housekeeper and fortune teller woman also prepared gifts for the subordinates who thought they had status in the house, and Zhu fortune teller was arranged to sit down closer to Lord Ouyang. As usual, it was a word of thanks, and then it was a drink, and the rich man Zhu had come before, and they were all light meals arranged by his woman's sister in the kitchen, and he had seen such a formation before, and he had never eaten most of the dishes.

He himself thought that he was a rich man, and the people around him called him master, but now he knew that he was really not as good as a subordinate in Ouyang Mansion. Ouyang Yanzhao had a little impression of Zhu's fortune-telling, and after a round of wine, his eyes found the rich man Zhu, he looked at Zhu's fortune-telling, he didn't know what to call it, and asked: "What a coincidence, it's counted locally again?" Have a few more drinks and stay in the house for a few days. He called the servants around him and asked them to arrange food and lodging for the rich man Zhu, and motioned to take him away from the banquet hall, he thought that the existence of Zhu's fortune teller in the hall was devoid of the majesty of the governor's mansion.

Zhu fortune teller is really reluctant, but he only left, and looked at the table before leaving, some dishes that he didn't have time to move the chopsticks, and he regretted dying. His wife wanted to say hello to Mrs. Ouyang in the backyard, but the steward disagreed, without Mrs. Madame's summons, people from other courtyards could not go in to meet, let alone relatives and friends from outside.

Zhu Caizhu did not stay overnight in Ouyang's mansion, because he experienced neglect and contempt, and on the way back, he did not have the same spirit as when he went. In the past, when there was no banquet in the house, when they came together, they were accompanied by a colleague of the fortune teller, which looked lively. Now that the house is lively, he doesn't take care of them, and he brings so many gifts and greetings from so many people, all of them are like throwing them into the water.