Chapter 12: My First Occupation
Zhang Wei glanced at Wen Tingyun, Wen Tingyun smiled slightly, and his face showed an imperceptible smugness. Obviously, this trip to Chang'an was not in vain, and Zhang Wei's matter seems to be eyebrow-raising.
Sure enough, Ling Huyun thought about it and said to Wen Tingyun: "Brother Wen, my house has a grocery store in Xishi, why don't you let this brother go where to help first, and by the way, he will also learn from the guys, it will be good for him to do business in the future, I don't know what you think?" β
Going to the grocery store to learn to do business?
Zhang Wei couldn't help but chuckle in his heart, thinking that what was not done in the real society was finally realized after the crossing. You must know that in the real society, his father has told him this more than once, if he can't study and can't be admitted to Peking University or Tsinghua University, then he can only go to work in a restaurant or sell things in a supermarket.
Isn't this grocery store of the Tang Dynasty the supermarket of later generations?
Hey---, my life is so miserable!
A thousand years have passed, and he still hasn't gotten rid of his life as a buddy. Come on, be a buddy, be a buddy, who doesn't go up step by step from being a buddy.
Wen Tingyun didn't answer Ling Hu's words, but looked at Zhang Wei and said, "Ling Hu Gongzi plans to let you go to his grocery store as an apprentice, I don't know what you think?" β
What do you think?
Zhang Wei thought to himself, what can I think? If you want to be a civil official, your own poetry is not good, when you want to be a general, your own martial arts can't work, and if you want to be a gangster, you are afraid of bricks; In addition, I am still a little greedy for life and afraid of death, in case I meet someone who is not going to die, won't my life be gone?
The only way to go to the grocery store is to be a buddy. Ability determines everything, otherwise how can modern society have the ability to panic like this?
It seems that studying is so important!
Whether it is modern or ancient, it is very useful.
Let's go, since this is fate, it's a hard time to be a buddy!
So Zhang Wei said to Ling Hulu and Wen Tingyun: "Zhang Wei has neither poetry nor martial arts, so he only has to go to the grocery store to be a buddy, I am willing to go." β
"Okay---, then it's decided, I'll give you a post, and you'll go to my shop in three days, and the shopkeeper will give you an errand." Ling Hu said happily.
Then, Ling Hulu got up, took a pen and paper, and wrote a post and handed it to Zhang Wei.
Zhang Wei took the post, and he was very happy in his heart, he knew very well that this post was actually equivalent to today's letter of introduction, not to mention that it was still a letter of recommendation from the boss, so he must be pretended!
After getting Ling Hujiao's post, Zhang Wei was relieved, although he didn't know what kind of store he would face in the grocery store in the future, but he was also a working person at the moment, so he should be relieved.
Zhang Wei's matter was handled like this, and Ling Hu Jian immediately changed his look, and said to Wen Tingyun with a smile: "Brother Wen, please take a seat." β
After Wen Tingyun sat down on the couch close to Ling Huxuan, Ling Huxuan continued: "Brother Wen hasn't seen you for a long time, I don't know if there are any articles coming out recently?" β
For Ling Huyun, befriending a talent like Wen Tingyun is actually just to decorate the faΓ§ade, when drinking and chatting, call a literati like Wen Tingyun to talk and write poems together, enliven the atmosphere of the scene, improve the taste of his wine bureau, if he can become famous, maybe he can leave a good story in history.
I have a fame, money, and identity, and I can leave a name in history. There is such a good thing in the world, why not do it? Anyway, there is nothing more than an extra pair of chopsticks on the wine table!
Just as many rich people today like to make friends with literati and like celebrity calligraphy and painting, as for what is painted on the painting, can you understand it? It doesn't matter whether the words of the celebrity can be recognized or not, and what they mean.
Anyway, making friends with celebrities can improve your taste, especially those who are self-made and have a low level of knowledge.
Then again, for literati like Wen Tingyun, they also like this, first, they can make friends with powerful people, and if there is something in the future, they can more or less block it for themselves; the second is also able to use such occasions to spread his poems and expand his fame and influence; The three can also eat and drink together, so as not to go hungry.
Since it is a good thing that both parties need, a great literati like Wen Tingyun and a gangster like Ling Huyun have come together.
Now that Ling Hu asked, Wen Tingyun thought for a while and said: "I have nothing to do these days, and I occasionally write a poem, and today I will ask the fox boy to point out." β
"Hmm---" Ling Hulu nodded slightly, "I knew that Brother Wen was a great talent in the world, and there would definitely be a masterpiece." Listen to it. β
Wen Tingyun stood up, twisted his beard, shook his head slightly, and his expression became solemn, "Journey to the West." β
Zhang Wei knew that this should be the name of the poem.
"Journey to the West, well---, good name." Ling Hu praised it.
Weichuan Tongyeshu,
There is a mulberry on the road.
The solitary bird is in the twilight,
Shocking red burn remnants.
Gao Qiu resigned from his homeland,
Yesterday dreamed of Chang'an.
Guest-minded,
It is difficult to travel.
Wen Tingyun finished reading his poem in one breath, then returned to his position, closed his eyes slightly, and waited for Ling Huxuan and Zhang Wei's reaction.
Sure enough, Ling Hu pretended to be shocked and said loudly: "Good poetry, good poetry!" Brother Wen is worthy of being a great talent in the world, this poem is different from others! Others are talking about things, but Brother Wen can metaphorize his emotions in his poems, he is really a god! β
I vomited, and there is such a disgusting performance, Wen Tingyun's poems, can someone like you understand them?
Looking at this disgusting performance, Zhang Wei felt that he was about to vomit, but for the sake of his future and career, he still couldn't help but not vomit.
I thought, if you really regard Wen Tingyun as a great talent in the world, how can Wen Tingyun still be a commoner in his forties?
Doing practical things is what you really like, and liking is just pleasing you!
Just when Zhang Wei couldn't bear it and didn't spit it out, Ling Hulu continued to speak, "Brother Wen's poem can be said to be showing his scheming to the imperial court!" It's hard to get off the road! This is not right, thinking that now that the government is harmonious, the saints are sage, the court is stable, and all talents have the opportunity to show their talents, how can there be a sigh of difficulty in traveling. If Brother Wen is willing, why not conduct a scientific expedition again next year and become famous in one fell swoop? β
After listening to Ling Huyun's words, Wen Tingyun's originally slightly closed eyes opened, "Hey, the eldest son's words are wrong, it's not that I don't want to participate in the scientific examination, it's just that this year has passed, and the white hair is white, if you don't see Jiangdong's father again!" β
Looking at Wen Tingyun's open eyes, Zhang Wei knew that he was already moved and wanted to participate in the scientific expedition again.
After listening to Wen Tingyun's words, Ling Hu said with a faint smile: "Brother Wen, just go, with your great talent, this time you will definitely succeed." β
"Oh?" From Ling Hu's words, Wen Tingyun heard a different taste, "Ling Hu Gongzi is saying that I will succeed this time?" β
The eight kings of the mixed world are all like monkeys.
Who is Ling Huyun, although his age is not necessarily older than Wen Tingyun, but he has experienced a lot more things than Wen Tingyun, as soon as he heard Wen Tingyun ask him like this, he immediately became vigilant, "I mean Brother Wen should have confidence in himself?" Looking at today, how many people's talents dare to compare with Brother Wen? If you don't succeed in taking the expedition again, who will? Have faith in yourself. β
Having said so much, it is equivalent to not saying anything.
In the end, you have to rely on your own efforts.
Hearing this, Zhang Wei really couldn't listen to it, so he said to Ling Huzhu and Wen Tingyun: "Linghu Gongzi, Brother Wen, you talk about business first, I came to the Prime Minister's Mansion for the first time and wanted to go out for a walk." β
"Oh---, too, I will tell the housekeeper to take you around the house, by the way, recognize the road, and if you do things for the house in the future, you will also know some rules." Ling Huxuan immediately instructed the housekeeper to take Zhang Wei around the house, not only to lead the way for Zhang Wei, but also to monitor him by the way, so as not to see what he shouldn't see, listen to what he shouldn't hear, walk into places that shouldn't be walked in, and bump into things that shouldn't be bumped into.
Of course, people are not afraid that you will steal things in the Prime Minister's Mansion, one is that they have this confidence, and the other is where Wen Tingyun's face is resting, and it will not hurt you anywhere.
This is the real purpose of others, where is to lead the way for him!
Of course, with Zhang Wei's shrewdness, he can certainly understand the profound meaning of Linghu Gongzi, and under the leadership of the butler of the Prime Minister's Mansion, Zhang Wei honestly walked around the mansion.
The person who can be a housekeeper in the Prime Minister's Mansion is also a monkey spirit and a monkey spirit, and it can be said that he can pinch out the water. In front of Zhang Wei, a young man who has just arrived, he put on a shelf.
"This is the Prime Minister's Mansion, not more than other mansions, not even those small places of small mansions, if you want to do things here in the future, you must learn to open your eyes, but also learn to speak; Say what should be said, don't say what shouldn't be said, and can't say it even if you are killed. You know? β
"I know, I know, the housekeeper has a golden mouth, and every word he says has benefited Zhang Wei a lot, this little one has been written down, and he will definitely be able to use it in the future." People can't help but bow their heads under the eaves, and they must learn to pretend to be grandchildren when it's time to pretend to be grandchildren.
Since Zhang Wei has come to this Tang Dynasty and come to the mansion of the prime minister of Linghu, flattering people is a skill that must be learned.
What's more, don't look at Zhang Wei's reading in the real society, flattering people, stammering people, watching people cook, talking to people, talking nonsense when he sees people, and talking nonsense when he sees people, the level of talking nonsense is not worse than those children who study well, and even much stronger.
Today I met the butler of the Prime Minister's Mansion, an important person second only to the lord and the son in this mansion, Zhang Wei suddenly took out the highest state of his life.
After a few words, the butler of the Prime Minister's Mansion was stunned, and he drifted slightly, this feeling of being touted is really wonderful, much better than the feeling of drinking.
Since ancient times, who has not wanted to listen to nice words, who has not had a little vanity and weakness? As long as you hit his soft underbelly in one fell swoop, the road ahead will definitely be smooth.