Chapter Twenty-Five: The First Pot of Gold
Tie Xinyuan decided never to inquire about his mother's past again.
Once inquired, the mother will be sad once, and this is really not a son of man.
thinks that he can rely on extraordinary wisdom and decent response to gain the favor of people like Xia Zhu, but now it seems that it is his wishful thinking at all.
If it weren't for the fact that her mother was Wang Dan's granddaughter, it was estimated that she wouldn't even be able to get into Xia Zhu's side, so what would she talk about apprenticeship.
The probability of such a thing happening is too low, so as long as one happens, it will be missed by people for a long time.
Tie Xinyuan actually looks down on his current self very much, and after the Niu Er incident, he understood a truth, that is, in the spring when the flowers are in full bloom, the dog's tail flower also has the power to bloom.
As for what I look like, it's none of your business to be like a dog's tail.
Thinking of the set arranged by Xia Zhu, he was angry, if he was still dressed in rags, he might not refuse to be his student.
When he sat on the brocade couch in court clothes and arranged everything, this practice made Tie Xinyuan vomit a little.
They are all smart people, so they don't need to set down the rules first when they are apprentices, right? Moreover, these rules were not set by himself, but it was obvious that he had to follow the three outlines and five constants.
Under the constraints of such rules, what freedom do you have in the future?
I have been a money slave for a lifetime in my last life, do I have to put this life on again for the sake of status and money?
Mother's discipline can have, why can't I have it?
Wang Rouhua saw that her son was wiping the table hard, but the child was just playing the same table, and he was still wiping it hard.
This kid has been thinking from all his heart, and he doesn't know what he's thinking now.
"Can you give me some more bones? Xiao Liuzi hasn't eaten for a day. β
A timid voice pulled Tie Xinyuan out of his anger, and when he looked up, he found that it was still the little beggar who asked him for a sackcloth to cover Niu Er's face.
His appearance today is very miserable, his nose is blue and his face is swollen, it seems that Tie Xinyuan understands that this matter was beaten by other beggars.
The beggars in the city of Tokyo have a strong sense of territory, and the beggars of Higashidajo must not go to Nishidajo to beg, if they cross the line, they will be beaten at least and will have to go to the sewers to find the corpse.
It's not that there are no orphanages in the city of Tokyo, but it's better not to go in those orphanages, especially beautiful children.
If it is a beautiful girl, it will be sent to the Qinglou to be raised by the ** son, if it is a handsome boy, it is not impossible to enter Longyang Courtyard or become a little scholar trained by a rich and noble family since childhood.
Children who are ugly and scary, or who are disabled, will be taken away by the beggars, and such children are most likely to arouse the sympathy of others, and of course, in order to increase this sympathy, they do not mind making the child more sympathetic.
The most unlucky ones are actually those who look average, and if they don't face each other, they can only fend for themselves.
This is the truth of the orphanage, as for those Great Song Dynasty nursing homes that have been praised for thousands of years in history, that is, orphanage homes and Futian homes, which one is not dark and bloody?
Every day, you can see a group of old men and women sweeping the streets, and this kind of work is still good, at least you can have the opportunity to ask for a bowl of gruel to drink from a nearby store.
Tie Xinyuan once saw a few old people collecting the clean buckets from their homes, while holding half of the cooking cake given by others and eating sweetly......
After waiting for two days, I finally waited for this group of little beggars to come back.
Tie Xinyuan fished a piece of meat from the pot, wrapped it in lotus leaves, took four or five sun-dried cooking cakes and wrapped them in linen, handed it to the little beggar and said, "In the future, you will live in the abandoned garden in the east." β
The little beggar hugged a bag of food and said with some embarrassment: "We have not been allowed to enter that abandoned garden recently, and I heard that there are nobles who are there to participate in meditation and enlightenment. β
"The noble man is gone, I will ask the soldiers of Xishuimen to help you, and no other beggars are allowed to harass you, rest assured, and I will go to see it in a few days."
Because Tie Xinyuan had just given him a large bag of food, the little beggar naturally recognized Tie Xinyuan's authority, nodded again and again, turned around, and ran away.
"Tsk tsk, my stupid son is full of compassion today? But this is not a good thing or a bad thing, do you want our soup cake shop to have no way to live? β
Wang Rouhua sat on the side and looked at it with a smile when Tie Xinyuan gave food to the little beggar, this kid was in a bad mood just now, if he could make his mood better through charity, those meals would be worth it, but this kind of behavior can only be one, not two, otherwise it will attract all the beggars in Tokyo.
Tie Xinyuan said with a smile: "Mother, there is no useless person in this world, it just depends on how you find out the usefulness of this person, once you find it, the money will flow back to our house like a stream." β
Wang Rouhua's smile trembled, and she pulled her son's tail and said, "That's good, anyway, you are the only man in the family, so you can make less money for your mother, and see how you make money with those little beggars." β
The mother and son were talking, and they happened to see a group of students wearing round-necked green shirts pacing from Mahang Street, and they didn't know who pointed out the signboard of the Seventh Brother Soup Cake Shop.
Mr. Ge Yuan only did not hesitate to degrade himself for the livelihood of these people, and he also cut down the pig meat, which is a kind of realm.
We just need to learn from Mr.'s mind-mindedness, and if we don't eat the pork, we can just give some money. β
After speaking, he waved to Tie Xinyuan and motioned for him to come over.
Tie Xinyuan naturally ran over with a grin, he wanted to figure out what these guys were going to do.
Seeing that Tie Xinyuan was cleanly dressed and handsome, and the horse's tail on the back of his head was beating extremely cute, the hand that was originally covering his nose was put down, and he pointed at Tie Xinyuan and said to other scholars: "Look at it, this is the child of the Shangjia family, I don't know if you have seen anything from it?" β
Tie Xinyuan looked down at his clothes, yes, the clothes were clean, his hands were clean, and his shoes were not stained with mud.
Not only Tie Xinyuan was puzzled, but other scholars were also puzzled, and one of the white-shirted scholars arched his hand and said: "Brother Fanming, this child is lively and cute, there is nothing wrong with it." β
Brother Fanming happily shook the fan in his hand and said, "Brother Zelin's words are wrong, and the cunning of Shang Jia lies in this.
This little child seems to be innocent and lively, but in fact he is also full of calculations. β
Brother Zelin circled around Tie Xinyuan, and Tie Xinyuan hurriedly smiled and showed a few teeth to show that he was very honest.
Brother Zelin, who had found nothing, shook his head, not knowing what Li Fanming was referring to.
When a circle of people cast inquiring eyes, Li Fanming put the fan on his neck, held Tie Xinyuan's clean little hand for everyone to see, and then smiled: "Do you see it?" Don't you think this child is too clean? β
Brother Zelin shook his head and said: "This child is clean, doesn't it mean that his parents are hardworking and love this child, what does this mean?" β
Li Fanming shook his head and said: "Brother Zelin's words are wrong, you can't use the mentality of ordinary people to measure the heart of a businessman, you and I were dressed cleanly when we were young, which really shows that the hearts of my parents and sons are a lot."
But the merchant is not, the reason why this Qige soup cake shop is famous in Tokyo City, and Mr. Geyuan is full of praise, I am afraid that it depends on the word clean.
Brothers, imagine that pig meat is dirty meat, although there is no filth after slaughter, but it is still difficult to hide the essence of its dirty meat.
Therefore, this shop has made its faΓ§ade extremely clean, coupled with clean tea, fresh side dishes, mellow rice wine, and this clean child and neatly dressed servant woman, Mr. Ge Yuan eats pig meat in his mouth, drinks fine wine, tastes fresh side dishes, and looks at the cups, plates and dishes in his eyes are spotless, and it is precisely the soup cakes in the store that are well made to meet Mr. Ge Yuan's appetite.
Tell me, in this environment, Mr. Ge Yuan drank until he was half drunk, and he could still remember the essence of pig meat that you are dirty meat.
The cunning of the businessman mentioned below lies in this, and even Mr. Ge Yuan was tricked without noticing it for a while, which shows the hatefulness of the businessman. β
When all the scholars heard this, they all suddenly realized and bowed their hands to show their admiration.
Tie Xinyuan looked at the triumphant Li Fanming, and then looked at other scholars, his mouth was deflated and he immediately burst into tears, rubbing his eyes and saying: "My mother said that this is the secret of my family's shop, if it is known by other people, I will have no food to eat, and I will not have money to send a bundle to my husband." β
Li Fanming slapped Tie Xinyuan's head and said: "What are you crying about, is it that my lord and I will spread your family's trick of deceiving people everywhere, scholars eat sheep, and people eat pig meat This is a common practice, as long as you don't deceive my generation of scholars, who will be troublesome." β
Tie Xinyuan cried and pointed to the crowd around him and said, "They all heard it, I will run out of food, and I won't be able to go to the school." β
Li Fanming smiled, took out a purse from his sleeve and hung it around Tie Xinyuan's neck and said, "How can the master let your family have no food, take it, half a tael of silver." β
The scholars next to him also felt that it was not a gentleman's work for Li Fanming to expose other people's livelihoods on the street like this, so they took out money to stuff Tie Xinyuan, and when they saw that the people around him were gathering more and more, they waved their sleeves and walked away.
Wang Rouhua was lying on the counter with her hands on her cheeks to watch her son be naughty, but she didn't expect to see her son coming over with four or five purses, each of which was bulging, and there seemed to be a lot of money in it.
"In the future, the food money of those little beggars will come out of this." After Tie Xinyuan stuffed the purse to his mother, he looked thoughtfully at the departing scholar.
After counting the money, Wang Rouhua, who was very satisfied, patted her stunned son and said, "What do you want?" β
Tie Xinyuan said solemnly: "Why are the children so stupid, the money of these fools is the best to earn." "PS: Continue to beg for @ recommended votes, ask for collections, ask for clicks, and bow and thank you.