To go or not to go?

Standing across the street from Shifu, Wu Cai couldn't help but feel a little stumbling, two and a half months ago, standing here, he still hadn't taken that step after all. Now that he is living in his hometown, he struggled again, and once again appeared the scene after leaving the restaurant that day.

The silver is very hot!

Wu Cai, who was carrying ten taels of silver, was so confused that he didn't even know how to walk home.

Why is this happening?

What does he mean?

Isn't he afraid......

"I don't care......"

Again, Shi Yiwen's indifferent words appeared in his mind.

Unconsciously, back at home, Wu Cai looked up at the dilapidated courtyard gate, which was a dilapidated and narrow courtyard, the courtyard wall was low and broken, and there were weeds growing on the walls and between the bricks. In this alley, there is no more dilapidated yard than this.

It was already very dark, and by the faint oil lamp in the hall, I could see that there was a woman in the courtyard who was about to wash clothes with a wooden basin in her hand.

"Xianggong, I'm back, the meal is ready, it's in the pot......"

As she spoke, the woman put the wooden basin in her hand on the ground and walked towards the kitchen, looking at the woman's background, Wu Cai sighed and sat in the courtyard without saying a word for a long time.

The meal was brought to the table.

A bowl of gruel, a plate of pickles.

Looking at the extremely simple meals on the table, looking at the half-thin and half-thick porridge in the bowl, he knew that the woman must have eaten porridge similar to shabu-shabu water today, and the family was out of food again!

Looking up at the woman's thin figure, Wu Cai sighed, and he touched the ingot of silver again.

As he touched the silver, countless thoughts flashed in his eyes, and his brows furrowed and tightened.

Sleepless night!

Wu Cai, who had not slept all night, had dark eyes, and he stood on the side of the road with his hands behind his back, his swollen eyes staring at the courtyard gate opposite. He is no stranger to this courtyard, a few days ago, he figured out the raw materials needed to make soap, although he didn't know what those raw materials were for, but he believed that he could also earn a sum of money with this discovery. After almost an hour of struggle that day, he still didn't take that step.

Now, standing on the side of the road again, looking at the gate of the Shi family over there, even Wu Cai, who thought about it all night yesterday and seemed to have made up his mind, hesitated again.

Is this step a step or not?

Life is a person's best teacher, twenty years of failing in the imperial examination, the exhaustion of family property, so that Wu Cai can be said to have suffered a lot, although he can always rely on the pit to get some silver, but deep down, he is also eager to live a good life, after all, his daughter-in-law has suffered a lot with him over the years, and even his daughter's side, because of his own side, has no status in his mother's family. If he was a lifter, how could he ......

Of course, he had already given up his career in the imperial examination, and he even felt disheartened that even if he was given another twenty years, it would be difficult to be admitted to the Jinshi.

Originally, Wu Cai may have lived by selling calligraphy and paintings, writing letters, and occasionally cheating people to make a living, but his inadvertent "acquaintance" with Shi Yiwen set off a thousand waves in his heart.

One hundred taels of silver!

Just give it to him directly, and if he wants, he can go to this man's house and get the remaining ninety taels.

And then what?

Trade?

Doing business?

Making soap?

If I had made soap, I am afraid that I would have made soap a long time ago.

What if you make soap?

Naturally, Wu Cai thought of the Tang family, and thought of the earlier conflict between the Tang family's soap factory and the unity soap factory, and then suddenly, the Tang family withdrew from the soap market.

Did they really quit?

It doesn't matter, what matters is that this hundred taels of silver.

…… Perhaps, you can take the one hundred taels of silver to study, maybe you can pass the exam.

But...... Now, is it possible to take the rest of the silver?

It's been so long, and besides...... Shall the silver be easy to take?

With a long sigh, Wu Cai's eyes stared at the door of the Shi family, in the past two and a half months, he had thought a lot, at first he was still a little arrogant, but slowly he clearly realized what he needed.

He needed silver to change his life, which he desperately needed.

The Wu family itself is an ordinary person, and after reading books for decades, he has long exhausted his family wealth, and in the early years, there was a small amount of money occasionally from the same clan of the family. Therefore, his life became more and more poor, and he even had to rely on women to do needlework and his daughter's money from her in-laws.

It's been a hard time.

Thinking about the conversation with Shi Yiwen that day, Wu Cai believed that as long as he could devote himself to him, even if it was poor, he would always have no worries about food and clothing.

Although he didn't know much about Shi Yiwen, Wu Cai knew for sure that Shi Yiwen was not from a big family, and he had just made a fortune, not because he knew him, but because he didn't even follow a scholar around him, just followed him. The big family will be surrounded by a maid, but there is also a book.

Thinking that most of the people in the factory were from the Song family, Wu Cai believed that the most lacking thing around Shi Yiwen now was people, of course, this person was not a scholar, a servant, or a house slave, but a person who gave him advice.

Wu Cai believes that he can be such a person!

Hope......

It's a rare opportunity right now, and if you miss it, you don't know when you will have such an opportunity next time.

Taking a deep breath, Wu Cai walked towards the gate of the Shi Mansion.

"He doesn't want silver?"

Just finished breakfast, hearing Uncle De's report, Shi Yiwen was stunned. He didn't expect that Wu Cai, who had not heard from him for a long time, actually came to the door at this time, and as soon as Uncle De heard that it was him, he gave him ninety taels of silver as he had previously instructed.

However, he refused.

"Young master, that man said that he didn't want the silver, he just wanted to see the young master."

"Oh."

The corners of his lips were lightly raised, and Shi Yiwen smiled.

"Let him in!"

Entering the house with his front foot, Wu Cai waved to Shi Yiwen.

"Wu has only seen Gongzi."

casually took his hand, returned the salute, and then Shi Yiwen said.

"Why do you want to see me, as long as you take the silver, you can leave."

Shi Yiwen put on a look of unknown reason.

"Childe, I'm here to pay back the money."

After that, Wu Cai took out a silver ingot of ten taels, and then put the silver on the table.

Looking at the silver on the table, Shi Yiwen smiled.

"Money? If I'm not mistaken, I'm afraid it's more than that! ”

Regarding Shi Yiwen's rehashing of old things, Wu Cai didn't think there was anything, but just said with a smile.

"The ingot of silver is earned by ability, but this silver is useless and cannot be wanted."

"Oh?"

Looking at Wu Cai, Shi Yiwen was happy in his heart.

The so-called "boiling eagle", boiling is a pleasure, this guy in front of him is not a pure reader, a person who even liars people say so justifiably, if he can "boil up", he can come in handy.

Giving him the silver is to "boil the eagle", originally he didn't come the next day, he just thought he had seen it, but now he came to repay the silver, but it aroused Shi Yiwen's interest in "boiling the eagle", thinking about it, in the past two months, Wu Cai himself has not been less "boiling" himself.

"Well, in that case, then let this money go here!"

After that, Shi Yiwen put on a send-off appearance.

Belch......

Wu Cai's eyes widened.

No, how can this be?

This Shi Gongzi shouldn't be retained, he is polite and polite, and then he is reluctant to be driven by him, why now...... Seeing that Shi Yiwen had no intention of keeping it at all, Wu Cai, who secretly felt sorry for the ingot of silver, was also a bachelor, and asked directly.

"Why didn't you keep me?"

"Why should I keep you?"

Shi Yiwenle is happy, this thing was still full of arrogance before, why has it changed now.

"Because, I, I ......"

When the words came to his lips, Wu became stammering.

Indeed, why did he keep himself?

After the rhetorical question, Wu Cai's hesitation and stuttering fell in Shi Yiwen's eyes, making him sigh in his heart.

Isn't it an eagle...... It's already soft before it can be boiled.

This eagle really doesn't have a sense of accomplishment!