Chapter 497: Awe-inspiring
"Judging people by their appearance, losing their son Yu, scolding your wealthy family slave before, dog fighting people, I am disrespectful."
Although he first apologized in front of Zhang Shou just now, then expressed his chest directly, and finally bowed his head to admit his mistake, but when Li San'er learned from Hua Siye's mouth that he let the dog bite two people, he was already frightened in his heart, and he was chased out by Fang Qing at this time, he was ready to kowtow again and admit his mistake if it didn't work, but he didn't expect that people would be ...... Apologized to him in turn!
The little bit of unhappiness that was pressed in the bottom of my heart disappeared, and was replaced by sincere fear. After all, although he is now prosperous and rich, in front of famous scholars, Li San'er still feels a little shorter.
Knowing that he was also at fault, or a big mistake, he hurriedly replied with a deep bow: "Fang Gongzi's words are serious, it is the villain who got carried away for a while, and forgot to restrain Da Hei." And Fang Gongzi is actually right to scold the dog for fighting people, Da Hei is not favored by villains, these years he always regards himself as a Yezi Hutong tyrant? In short, don't apologize again, it's the villain who should apologize! ”
Fang Qing was already mentally prepared to be ridiculed or even abused, but at this time, when he heard this extremely sincere apology, he unconsciously straightened his waist, and he suddenly looked a little stunned. He stared at Li San'er with mixed feelings, and finally made another gesture, and then turned around and left.
Don't judge people by their clothes and appearance, and don't think that the kind of people who seem to be fierce and evil must be vulgar. Don't even look at the elegant people and break for it...... He had obviously taught many times, but why had he been obsessed with it before, and it wasn't until he came to the capital this time that he finally woke up?
Is it just as Song Bastard told him, in the past, his division commanders were taking advantage of his impulsive and reckless characteristics, so they let him be a pawn in front? Or is Song Bastard just talking nonsense and slandering those teachers and commanders he once loved very much?
Li San'er saw that Fang Qing just turned around and left, he suddenly felt a little weak when he didn't have time to bow down to people just now, and after looking around, he subconsciously stopped Little Peanut, took out a handful of copper coins from his pocket and handed it over. However, the invincible move to deal with the local snakes in the outer city and the soldiers and horses in the southern city completely hit a wall in front of Xiao Peanut.
Seeing that Xiao Peanut resolutely stretched out his hands and pushed his handful of money back, Li San'er could only smile hard: "Little brother, this is just a little bit of my gratitude to you for mentioning me...... Okay, okay, I'll take it back, take it back, right? But I have one more thing to ask, this young man...... Was he true or false? Does he really care about my sins? ”
"Everyone has apologized, what else are you going to do?" Little Peanut glanced at Li San'er with a little disdain, then shrugged his shoulders and said, "Although Fang Gongzi's temper is a little bad, and he often speaks with thorns, he still has a good heart, but his eyesight is not very good...... It's not what I said, it's what my young master said, so this matter must have passed, and he can be regarded as a lesson. ”
"If you still feel that you can't get too bad...... the clever young man's eyes rolled, and he suddenly had a very bold idea, "I heard that today at the Xinglong Tea Society, the young master and Mr. Lu Saijiu Liu proposed to set up a public school in the outer city, and what age to enroll students." Since you are a well-known and rich man, why don't you donate a little money? ”
"I heard that the emperor will also inscribe a plaque to that school, and there are many people who donate to the school today, and a monument will be erected to commemorate it when the time comes. With Li Sanye's net worth, I don't think it needs to be too much, just donate fifty or one hundred yuan. ”
When Li San'er heard the words donating to education, he once remembered the old story of some guys in the Nancheng Terracotta Division who forced people to donate money in the name of music, although his heart hurt, but he was also ready to hemorrhage.
But he never expected that Little Peanut would tell him that he only needed to pay a number of fifty or one hundred, and he could also leave a name on the stone tablet set up in the public school with the emperor's own inscription!
He had already saved a fortune of several thousand, of course he would not put the number of fifty hundred in his eyes, and immediately nodded like a peck: "This is a first-class good deed, of course I am willing to make up a number." It's just that, just donate a little bit, will it be too little? ”
"Second Master Zhu tried his best to only take out 300 yuan of private money, Huaiqinghou's top nobles donated 1,000 yuan, and Hua Siye's rich businessmen who were rich at the top were 800, Li Sanye, why are you slapping a swollen face and being fat? What you want is this heart, not how much money you have. Little Peanut nodded at Li San'er with a heartfelt voice, and when he saw people nodding again and again, he suddenly became even more proud.
"But the matter of donating money and keeping accounts, now Lu Sangongzi is in charge, you just go directly to him, don't listen to others, and go back and be blackmailed. Okay, okay, I'm going to go back and talk back to the young master, don't send you, go slowly! ”
Seeing that Xiao Peanut smiled and arched his hand to him, and then turned around to leave, Li San'er was stunned for a moment, then immediately came back to his senses, and hurriedly stepped forward to stop him, and then asked earnestly: "Little brother, you give me some guidance, I haven't asked your name yet?" I'd better make friends, otherwise I won't have the fate to make friends with Wan Ye, let's make friends too? ”
Little Peanut glanced at Li San'er with some surprise, but he didn't care if people wanted to make friends with him because of Zhang Shou, or if they really wanted to make friends because of their own guidance, and said with a smile: "The young master and others call me Little Peanut." ”
If a few months ago, Li San'er, who had never heard of the word peanut, would still think that this name was really strange, but now things like peanuts and potatoes are like thunder in Nancheng.
So he knew that the peanuts that appeared in the first imperial chef selection competition in the past were an ingredient from overseas, which was said to be fragrant and crispy, and now they are priceless in Nancheng, and they can only be eaten in Xinglong Tea House, and the rest of the restaurants or restaurants opened by the old building restaurant are not at all.
Therefore, he instantly aweed the little peanut with such a name: "It turned out to be Brother Hua." I have written down your little affection today, and when you come to Japan just in time, I will find an old shop on Qianmen Street and invite you to drink! ”
Seeing that Li San'er solemnly thanked him, he then turned around and strode away, and the little peanut couldn't help but reach out to wipe the sweat on his forehead.
Who is the flower brother! His real name is Shuisheng, since his parents died, after living with the old salted fish, this uncle took it upon himself to change his name to Little Peanut, so Zhang Shou has also been used to this day, but he is not surnamed Hua!
Forget it, anyway, no one knows now, his real name is Luo Shuisheng. If someone calls me a little brother, just let me spend my brother......
Since Hua Siye specially rushed over because of Fang Qing and Song Juren's affairs, Zhang Shou certainly wouldn't treat the richest man in Suzhou slowly, so he left someone to have dinner in Zhang Yuan at the moment. And Hua Siye is also very willing, when Little Peanut came back, Zhang Shou ordered someone to take him around Zhang Yuan first, and he claimed to go to see his adoptive mother Wu first, he quickly got up and sent people out, and he was very happy.
Walking in this Zhang Garden, which has an obvious Soviet-style garden style, he will not make an allied comparison with his own back garden like Jiang Dashao - although the Hua family's garden in Suzhou and Zhang Yuan were designed by the same famous garden master at that time, but the master never mentioned the garden after the rebellion of the king, and he would not mention it.
After a mess, Hua Siye found that the huge Zhang Yuan was obviously understaffed, and although many courtyards were open, the houses inside were guarded by General Tie.
And for this, Xiao Peanut is not shy about it: "The young master often said that in a place as big as Zhang Yuan, if you want to fill all the houses, you must have at least twice as many people as you do now, but in that case, I am afraid that the monthly expenses will be several times more." So before you make that much money, the house should be empty, and if there are fewer people, there will be fewer people, and there is no need to put on such a show. ”
Hua Siye has long known that Zhang Shou was born in a small village outside the capital, and said that he was married to Zhu Ying, the daughter of Zhao Guogong, since he was a child, but all kinds of rumors are flying all over the sky, and even how Zhu Ying and Zhang Shou fell in love at first sight are vivid, and there is even a sweet and greasy legend like "Butterfly Love Flower", but he was born in a wealthy family since he was a child, but he knows that the so-called legendary story has never been reliable.
The stories of all kinds of handsome scholars and rich daughters in dramas and legends who meet in the back garden to make a private life are just the wishful thinking of down-and-out literati, and even if there is no toad in ten thousand who really eats swan meat, the beauty of the moon before the flower generally does not last long.
Just like after Zhuo Wenjun sold wine, it was Sima Xiangru's final vision. The poor boy knows that he is not worthy of the eldest lady, and because of his low self-esteem after marriage, he will often intensify his pursuit of fame and fortune, or become a prestige. He has witnessed several marriages in Suzhou that seemed happy at first, but later ended in two and two.
thought that Zhang Shou and Zhu Ying were most likely the same, but since he had seen Zhang Shou once, he knew that he was wrong.
And now walking in Zhang Yuan, who is said to be sold cheaply by the emperor, but in fact it is obviously a generous gift from the Son of Heaven, hearing the cronies beside Zhang Shou repeating the master's words as if chatting, he can even perceive Zhang Shou's open-mindedness when he said this.
This kind of open-mindedness that doesn't care about his background and doesn't shy away from saying that he used to be in the past is normal for people who have been weathered, but when it appears in a young man like Zhang Shou, he can't help but feel surprised. Therefore, he couldn't help but try the little peanut.
"Is it possible that Dr. Zhang has always planned to keep these rooms empty? You know, the house will only be popular if it is inhabited by people, if no one lives in it for a long time, the furnishings in the house, whether it is the house itself, are easy to break, and the cost of repairing it may not be less than buying more and hiring a few more people. ”
"If Dr. Zhang is worried that outsiders are unreliable, why not send someone to find a reliable source to buy a batch of children? These children who have been raised at home since childhood are the most reliable and often loyal, and most of the descendants of wealthy families come from this. ”
"Besides, even if you consider that some children may have come from the flower party and don't know where they came from, if you think about it from another angle, these children are much better than selling them to some shady places, right?"
Xiao Peanut originally only regarded Hua Siye as a wealthy businessman who wanted Zhang Shou, but when he heard Hua Siye's words, he couldn't help but feel that the young richest man in Suzhou had some vision.
Although Jiang Dashao, the successor of the richest man in Cangzhou, the richest man in Xicheng, is now praised by Cangzhou people as a capable boy Yunyun, in his eyes, he is a former waste wood that needs Zhang Shou's attention to wake up. The eldest prince is still the son of the Son of Heaven, but he is cruel and greedy in front, and he is playing behind.
So just like Fang Qing used to think that a noble son from a poor family and a rich family raised a delicate child, Little Peanut can't look down on those rich children who are smooth sailing - of course, Zhang Chen and Zhu Er, etc., such prodigal sons don't count. And in his opinion, they all got better because they were close to Zhu Zhechi and were taught by Zhang Shou.
Therefore, he felt that Fourth Master Hua was indeed quite insightful at the moment, so he nodded at the person, and then said solemnly: "Fourth Master Hua's words are also reasonable, I will go back and tell Sixth Brother about it." ”
Seeing that Little Peanut obviously listened, Fourth Master Hua was overjoyed at first, and then couldn't help but ask, "Why didn't you tell Dr. Zhang?" ”
"Sixth brother is a housekeeper!" Xiao Peanut said this seriously, and when he saw Fourth Master Hua's expression that his eyes were about to fall to the ground, he smiled honestly and said, "How can I go to the young master to mutter in front of the young master about everything, and let the sixth brother say it." Don't look at the sixth brother who seems to only follow the young master out of the house, in fact, he takes care of everything from the young master's diet to the defense of the family. ”
"Even the accounts of the family are all in charge of the sixth brother." When Little Peanut said this, he added in his heart - even if Ah Liu is not good at this, he can't stand the fact that he can't ask for too much foreign aid. From Lu Saburo to the other students of Jiuzhangtang, there are a bunch of masters who are good at accounts. Besides, now it is Mrs. Xu's wife and writer in the tent room, and Wu Anren is also literate and can read and read accounts.
Fourth Master Hua could only smile bitterly: "I was very curious about who Zhang Yuan's housekeeper was, but I didn't know what to do." ”
When Little Peanut took Hua Siye to the Little Flower Hall, Ah Liu, who was coming out, found that Hua Siye's gaze at him was a little different from before. And when he just gestured to invite Hua Siye in, Xiao Peanut stepped forward and whispered to him what Hua Siye had just said, he turned around and glanced at the curtain that had fallen at the door of the flower hall, and then smiled.
"It's unfounded."
Seeing that Little Peanut looked at him with some surprise, Ah Liu shrugged his shoulders and said, "With the character of the young master, he is definitely unwilling to buy children for training, because this is tantamount to promoting human trafficking." Besides, the village we used to live in had a large population. ”
The reason why all of them were not summoned to the capital is because many people are accustomed to the rural life of men and women weaving, and they may not like to come to the wealthy families in the capital to live a life full of rules, and Zhang Shou is not reluctant. However, many five or six-year-old children actually want to come to the Zhang Garden in the capital, or Zhang Shou considered that there were not enough people in the house to see so many children, so he directly invited a teacher to send them to Rongshui Village.
In the flower hall, Hua Siye, who originally planned to use a roundabout strategy to brush his favorability in front of Zhang Shou, saw an unexpected strong man as soon as he entered the door. At first glance, he didn't recognize the other party, but when he found that there was a bit of unconcealable discoloration in the eyes of people looking at him, he felt that something was wrong. And the next moment, Zhang Shou revealed the mystery to him.
"This is Cao Wu, the chief dart head of the Cangzhou Shunhe Dart Bureau, Fourth Master Hua, you should know him."
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