The weather is hot and sultry, and after a set of punches, it is inevitable that the whole body will sweat, Han Ruzi and Du's grandson will sit in the pavilion to enjoy the coolness, Zhang Youcai will stand next to them, and the four of them will taste the fresh melons and fruits that have just been taken out of the well water, talking and laughing, so comfortable.

The old eunuch He Yi came from a distance, entered the pavilion and greeted the tired marquis, and said with a smile: "Is the master free now?" ”

Han Ruzi hurriedly asked He Yi to sit down and invited him to eat melons, "Look at my memory, it's been several times, if you want to talk to me, I forgot about it." ”

"The owner is busy, and there are some who can't remember it for a while."

Tihou is indeed very busy, he is busy going to Guozijian every day to order Mao and practice at home, and the rest of the time is wandering around, buying whatever he likes.

"I'm just idle now, so you can tell me something."

"Uh......" He Yi wanted to say and stopped.

Du touched the sky and looked at the words, got up and said, "I'll go back to the room to sleep, wear the clouds, and follow me." ”

Du Chuanyun was eating happily, and he snorted, reluctant to get up.

Han Ruzi pulled Du Motian to sit down, "Don't worry, I still want to listen to the old sect leader to say some anecdotes about the rivers and lakes." It's all your own family, you don't need to avoid it, Lao He, you can say something if you have something. ”

Du touched the sky and didn't move again, Du Chuanyun continued to gnaw on the melon, the old eunuch He Yi smiled, whether there were outsiders or not, he had to talk to the master, this is the duty of the account room.

"That...... Master, let's ...... It's a bit ......."

"What's missing? I'm going to buy it. ”

He Yi shook his head with a smile, "There are only a lot of things in the house, but there is one thing missing." ”

"What?"

"Money."

"Money?" Han Ruzi smiled and turned to Du Motian, "The prince's house." There are times when there is a shortage of money. ”

Du Motian smiled and said nothing. Du Chuanyun wiped his mouth. "What's this, I heard that the emperor still has a time when he is short of money."

In the Tired Marquis Mansion, "emperor" is an anachronistic word, only Du Chuanyun can say it if he wants to, not because he is bolder, but because he has long forgotten that the Tired Marquis once was an emperor.

He Yi smiled awkwardly, "That, it's not just that the house is tight. It's a bit of a stretch. ”

"How is that possible?" Han Ruzi put away his smile, he was really a little surprised, "Don't I have thousands of households?" Zongzheng Mansion has a lot of regular rewards, and there are a total of more than 100 people in the mansion, so it won't be used up so quickly, right? ”

He Yi scratched his head, "Things are not the same as the master thinks." ”

"Tell me."

He Yi coughed a few times, "The Hou Mansion has a lot of income, but it also has a lot of expenses, basically three or four percent of it is used to worship the ancestors, several times a year, ......."

"So much?"

"The lord is more than the princes and kings. When worshipping ancestors, it is natural to have a standard with the princes and kings, but people have state-owned land. The income is much higher than ours......"

"I understand, that's still six or seven percent, and it's a lot."

"There are still three or four percent of the income to be used for personal exchanges between the clans."

"Hey, I've never had anything to do with other princes."

"Yes, yes, but people don't exchange, gifts have to be exchanged, the practice is like this, for example, last month's wedding of the prince of Jinan, we sent ten catties of gold, ten pieces of silk and satin, and ten pairs of jade ......"

"Why didn't I hear about it?"

"I put the gift list on the host's table, and the host wrote 'read'."

"Oh, maybe I didn't look closely. Can't you not give? I don't even know who the king of Jinan is, let alone his son. ”

He Yi scratched his head again, "I'm afraid not, the rules are set by the Zongzheng Mansion, and there are precedents for each case, and you can't violate them." ”

Han Ruzi also scratched his head, "Then I'll buy less things in the future." ”

"There are enough things in the house, the owner really doesn't need to buy any more, but that won't save much, and it's best that we can have a few weddings and funerals...... If it's wrong, it's wrong, look at my broken mouth, punish it...... Punish it ......"

"Punish it for a day and don't get drunk." Han Ruzi smiled and slapped twice on the stone table, "I understand, I'll solve the money matter, you just take care of the accounts." ”

"That's good, you're busy, master, I won't bother." He Yi retired.

Zhang Youcai said while chewing melons: "There are also difficulties in daring to love princes, there are many human contacts, and we can't refuse, the key is that we have no dealings, no wonder we can't make ends meet." ”

"Not all princes are so tight, other people's families either have state-owned land, or someone is an official, there is always a way to get money." Han Ruzi knew very well that he was not as wealthy as an ordinary county marquis or township marquis.

"What to do? Also to buy land, money lending? "Zhang Youcai didn't forget to eat melons and fruits, and it was like a game with Du Chuanyun.

"Hey, whatever, the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge, and I won't be hungry anyway."

Du Chuanyun had eaten enough, burped, and wiped his hands stained with juice on his clothes twice, "You are so poor, and you always reward our grandfather, it's really too generous, we still have a dozen taels of gold and dozens of taels of silver left, grandpa, let's pay it back to the tired marquis first." ”

Du Motian scolded with a smile: "That bit of gold and silver is not enough for the Hou Mansion to go to favor once." ”

Zhang Youcai is still gnawing on melons, "The master has given you a lot of rewards, and I haven't seen you buy things back, why is there so much left?" ”

"The people in the rivers and lakes are more important, they are all brothers in the four seas, of course everyone has to spend a piece of money if they are rich, is it difficult to keep their cubs?" Du Chuanyun was very disdainful, in his eyes, accumulating wealth was a shameful act.

Han Ruzi didn't like to talk about money either, so he waved his hand and said: "Don't talk about these unhappy things, Old Sect Leader Du, I've always wanted to ask you, if I believed in Lin Kunshan and went to the Dark Fragrance Garden of Xiaonan Mountain, what would happen next?" ”

"It's hard to say, deception is ever-changing, and people who often go to the rivers and lakes have times when they are blind......"

"What's so eye-catching, no matter how much deception there is, it boils down to three tricks." Du Chuanyun didn't know what modesty was, and when he talked about the deeds of the rivers and lakes, he was even more gushing, "It's not money, it's color, and then it's power, what turns copper into gold, lead into silver, setting up a game of gambling, secret art in the house, transferring to become an official, etc., depending on what you are interested in." ”

"If it were me, I would be interested in turning copper into gold." Zhang Youcai finally ate enough, and looked at the few pieces of melon left on the plate with reluctance.

"If you are a eunuch, you will be interested in gold and silver." Du Chuanyun said coldly, and said to the tired marquis: "I have inquired." Lin Kunshan is not a simple person. A whole bunch of names. The most commonly used is Lin Beiyou, who understands yin and yang, can tell hexagrams, and can look at qi, and the people he targets are ruined or killed. ”

"I have no money, no power, why is he targeting me?"

"Then I don't know, if I guess, I think the person he will end up fooling may not be you. It's about using your status and identity to deceive people who are really rich, and anyway, the purpose of scammers is always one, that is, money. ”

"Go, you know a lot." Du Motian shouted, pushing his grandson away from the stone bench, "Don't take it to heart, the matter has been resolved, as long as our grandfather and son are still in the mansion, no liar dares to target you." ”

Han Ruzi smiled. I talked about other things, but I didn't forget about this topic in my heart.

Studying in Guozijian is not at all as hard as you imagined. Nearly ten days after entering the school, Han Ruzi had not seen other disciples, nor had he sat down to listen to a class, and he went to show up every day, and the little official passed on the news that the homework was canceled for various reasons, and then Han Ruzi could go home.

At first, he thought that Guozijian was unwilling to accept the deposed emperor, but later learned from Fu Cheng that Guozijian has always been like this, and many noble children are sent servants to order Mao, and only when the Ministry of Rites inspects, he will only go once, at most ten times a year.

Han Ruzi felt that it was really unfair, when he was the emperor, he listened to lectures every day, rain or shine, and the nobles of the court were leisurely.

So he no longer went to Guozijian and let Zhang Youcai go to order alone.

The day after He Yi's affair in the accounting room, Han Ruzi was thinking about how to turn the topic to "deception" again, and Du Chuanyun came to the door first.

Zhang Youcai happened to go to Guozijian, Han Ruzi was reading in the study alone, Du Chuanyun knocked on the door and came in, looking at a room of books vigilantly, trying to be as unlucky as possible, "I want to discuss things with you." ”

"Hmm." Han Ruzi put down the book.

Du Chuanyun stared at Ti Hou for a while, and asked directly, "Do you want to make a lot of money?" ”

"I'm not a businessman......"

"But you're short of money." Du Chuanyun's eyes widened, he always called himself "Old Jianghu", and he couldn't calm down when persuading others.

"Tell me what's going on."

Du Chuanyun pulled over a stool, sat opposite the bookcase, and looked straight at the tired Hou, "In Fresh Vegetable Lane, in order to pass the level of the fifth monkey, I said that our two masters are also lying to you, earlier than Lin Kunshan." ”

"I was next door and heard it."

"The fifth master of the monkey believes it, according to the rules, Lin Kunshan can no longer contact the tired marquis. The gold and silver you rewarded, our two masters actually took it out and distributed it to the fellow Jianghu, telling them that it was a fraud. ”

"There's not enough money, is it? How much you need, you just ask. ”

Du Chuanyun shook his head vigorously, "Take more money from you, aren't we really liars?" I have an idea, I don't need your money, and I can give an explanation to my fellow villagers. ”

"You say."

"Lin Kunshan can get money through you, why can't we ourselves?"

"How can you get money from yourself?"

"Lin Kunshan must know, I'll go and arrest him, and the interrogation will be clear."

Han Ruzi shook his head, "No, I can't take any more risks, let me think about it." ”

"People like Lin Kunshan are all over the world, they are still in the capital today, and they may go to Jiangnan tomorrow, as soon as he leaves, the secret of cheating money will be taken away."

Han Ruzi understood in his heart that Lin Kunshan's "secret" was to lure the tired marquis to expose his ambition to be the emperor, and he pondered for a long time, he said: "You want to design a real scam to block the mouths of the people in the rivers and lakes?" ”

"That's right, otherwise they will say that the Du family is a liar." In Du Chuanyun's thinking, it is a shameful act to deceive princes and generals, but it is a shameful act to deceive fellow people in the rivers and lakes.

Han Ruzi groaned again, "What did Old Sect Leader Du say?" ”

"I told him, he wasn't interested, anyway, it was me who lied to the fifth master of the monkey, not him."

"But he doesn't stop you either?"

"Grandpa never stopped me from doing things, he often said that he could keep me for a while, but he couldn't protect me for a lifetime, and the rivers and lakes were broken out by himself, not brought out by grandpa."

Han Ruzi felt the same way, and Yang Feng did the same thing to him.

"I have an idea, I can get some money without Lin Kunshan."

"You?" Du Chuanyun didn't believe that Tired Hou would also deceive.

Han Ruzi actually thought about it for a few days, and if Du Chuanyun came a little later, he would take the initiative to find Du's grandson, "Do you gamble?" ”

"Of course, grandpa said I hadn't learned to walk yet, so I would roll the dice."

"Then you should be very good."

"It's not me who blows, in terms of light skills and swordsmanship, I'm second-rate at best, and playing dice is first-class, how many heroes have lost their pants in front of me."

Han Ruzi raised his hand and patted it lightly on the bookcase, "That's easy to do, I know a few nobles who are both rich and love to gamble, why don't you make a fortune from them?" ”

What Du Chuanyun wants to catch is gold and silver, but Han Ruzi's goal is a big fish.

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