Li Feibai said goodbye to Xie Fuda and walked towards the shop, thinking that he had an eyebrow about making a thousand stone lions a year, and couldn't help but whistle. When he arrived at the shop, he saw that it was dark, and was about to close the door, Ma Kun hurriedly entered, first looked around, and saw that there was no stone lion in the empty house, and arched his hand and smiled: "Congratulations to Brother Li for making a fortune, congratulations to Brother Li for making a fortune!" ”

Li Feibai said politely and asked, "Brother Ma has come back from Kejing Township?" How's the errand going? ”

Ma Kun said: "The errand did not go well. He added, "Don't talk about these unhappy people, go, my brother invites you to drink!" With that, he grabbed Li Feibai's arm and dragged it out.

Li Feibai smiled: "It's okay to drink, but I have to invite you!" ”

Ma Kun said: "I told you to drink, how can I let you invite!" ”

Li Feibai said: "I made a lot of money today, and I should be invited!" ”

Ma Kun said: "You invite it another day, and there is another good thing, so you have to invite two meals." But I must invite you for this meal today! He smiled and said, "Actually, today's meal is not my invitation." Brother doesn't hide it from you, someone wants to make amends with you today and asked me to invite you to drink? ”

Li Feibai asked, "Who is it?" ”

Ma Kun said: "You'll know when you go!" Anyway, regardless of Li Feibai's suspicions, he came to Tianxianglou with a hard pull.

Tianxiang Building is extremely deserted today, and there is no table of guests upstairs and downstairs. The shopkeeper Yuan Guigui was not worried, and when he saw the two coming, he greeted him with a happy face, and said, "Welcome to the two distinguished guests!" ”

Li Fei Baihu was even more suspicious, how could today's incident reveal the weirdness, and quipped: "Yuan shopkeeper, the business has been done like this, why are you not worried, but so happy?" ”

Yuan Guigui smiled: "Li Gongzi said that he was laughing!" Today, Tianxianglou was wrapped by the horse leader, and the small one earned more than usual, why worry! ”

Li Feibai said secretly in his heart: "With the popularity of Tianxianglou's business on weekdays, plus wine, it should be able to sell for about fifty taels a night, who is so generous that he actually chartered the entire Tianxianglou to invite him to dinner!" He couldn't help frowning, and said, "If Wang Wu or Zhao Jian invite me to dinner, I won't go." ”

Ma Kun said: "Wang Wu stays at home and doesn't know what bad water he is holding, Zhao Jian has been taken to prison by the county order, how can it be that they invite you to dinner?" ”

Li Feibai thought about it, and at present, in Jiyuan City, the only ones he is unwilling to forgive are these two. Since it wasn't the two of them, it didn't matter, and said with a smile: "Brother Ma, don't torture me, tell me who it is!" ”

Ma Kun smiled: "You'll know in a while!" ”

While talking, the two came to Tianzi's No. 1 private room and sat down at a table of eight immortals. Yuan Guigui sighed and said, "The two distinguished guests sit down for a while, and I'll go get the menu." ”

When Yuan Guigui went out, Ma Kun clapped his hands and said, "Come out!" At this moment, a man came out from behind the screen in the house.

Li Feibai almost went through the people he knew, but he still couldn't guess who was going to invite him to dinner. When he saw someone coming, he was surprised and asked, "Mao Economy, why are you?" ”

Mao Qing was extremely embarrassed, and made a gesture at Li Feibai, and said, "Uncle Li, forgive me for being clumsy, I don't know that you are my uncle's brother." I have offended a lot before, and I hope that your boss has a lot of them, let me go. ”

Li Feibai is a few years younger than Mao Qing, but at this time he is called uncle by the other party. He couldn't laugh or cry, waved his hand and said, "Why do you ask me if my name is uncle?" No way! ”

Ma Kun said: "Make! Why not? You and I are brothers, I am his uncle, he doesn't ask you what your name is? You can't mess with the generations! ”

Li Feibai said: "He is your nephew?" Why haven't I heard you mention it before! ”

Ma Kun said: "He is my sister's son and my nephew. The reason why I didn't mention it to my brother before was because even I didn't know that he had left the country and entered the city. ”

Li Feibai let out an "oh", Ma Kun knew that he wanted to continue listening, so he continued: "This kid doesn't know what to think, knowing that I am the head of the county government but I don't want to take refuge, so I went to the tooth industry to become an economy. If you hadn't offended my brother this time, and you knew that you had caused a catastrophe, you wouldn't have come to me? ”

Li Feibai asked Mao Qing and said, "Why don't you want to take refuge with your uncle?" ”

Mao Qingdao: "When the food silver of the government servants is too low, like my uncle is the leader of the government officials, the food silver for a day is only ten yuan, and the other government officials are even less, and some even only have two yuan." I can't get enough of the food, what are you doing there? ”

It was the first time that Li Feibai had heard that the work and food of the officials were so low, no wonder these officials exploited the people at every opportunity. If the work and food of the officials are raised, so that they can earn enough to support their families, I wonder if the officials will change their image of cool officials in the past, and become the protectors that the people rely on. However, he also changed his mind, after all, he didn't have the ability to do this now, and said with a smile: "Although the work and food of the government servants are low, they have other incomes, and in a year, they will earn a lot more than you as an economy!" ”

Mao Qingzheng said: "My family is also a farmer, and my uncle is the leader of the officials, and the officials dare not bully." But in the countryside, he was also accustomed to all kinds of bad deeds of the officials, and he felt that he couldn't do such things, so he didn't want to be a government officer. ”

Li Feibai secretly said in his heart that Mao Qing didn't say anything too ugly because of Ma Kun being by his side. However, it can also be proved that this person's essence is not bad, and everything is forced by the situation.

Ma Kun said: "You kid, you are not very capable and proud, but you dare to look down on our servants." If it weren't for Brother Li here, look at me slapping you two big mouths! After speaking, he said to Li Feibai again, "My nephew doesn't know the relationship between you and me, so he did to report to Wang Wu, and did something to Zhao Jian and the tiger, the so-called ignorant is not guilty, see if you can spare him once." ”

Li Feibai laughed and said, "If I don't spare him, I won't let him be an economist for me today, and I will discuss business with Mr. Tang's shopkeeper." ”

Mao Qing was overjoyed and said, "Thank you, Uncle Li!" ”

Li Feibai said: "Don't ask me to call me uncle, it sounds weird, let's call me shopkeeper Li in the future!" ”

Mao Qing didn't dare to agree, and turned his head to look at Ma Kun. Ma Kun smiled: "Whatever Brother Li says, you can do." In the future, I will do my best for Brother Li! Brother Li is by no means a person who has lived under the people for a long time, and one day he will soar, and you will have inexhaustible benefits in the future. ”

Mao Qing hurriedly said, "It's uncle!" He patted his chest again and said, "Shopkeeper Li, you will see my performance in the future!" ”

Li Feibai said: "You go to my place tomorrow, take six hundred and forty taels of silver, deduct the ninety-six taels you deserve, and hand over the rest to the Tax Bureau!" ”

Mao Qing waved his hand and said: "I didn't do anything today, the ninety-six taels are still kept by the shopkeeper Li, and I will hand over the rest to the Tax Bureau." ”

Li Feibai said: "I am very satisfied with the price you negotiated, this is what you deserve, if you don't want to refuse, you just look down on me and don't want to be an economy for me!" ”

Mao Qing hurriedly shook his face and said, "It's better to be respectful than to obey your fate, thank you for shopkeeper Li." He secretly said in his heart, "Uncle is right, follow Shopkeeper Li, and the benefits will not be exhausted." On the first day, I earned ninety-six taels, and I didn't earn nine hundred and sixty taels at the end of the year. ”

Ma Kun groaned slightly, and said, "Brother Li, do you want me to talk to the county magistrate and hang your shop in his name, so that you can be exempted from this expense in the future." ”

Li Feibai waved his hand and said, "It is natural to do business and pay taxes. If everyone does not pay taxes, how can the imperial court pay the army and pay the officials. But he said in his heart: "I hung the shop under the name of the county order, and one day he turned his face, won't my shop belong to him?" Besides, not paying taxes is equivalent to falling into a trick, and if I settle accounts in the future, I won't be able to pick up a sesame seed now and lose a watermelon. ”

Ma Kun saw that Li Feibai was unwilling, so he gave up. Turning his head to Mao Qingdao: "Brother Li forgave you, which is equivalent to the absolution of the capital crime." But the sin is unforgivable, you invite this meal today. After a pause, he said, "Originally, I thought that I would pay for your meal today." Whoever tells you to earn money today is up to you. ”

Mao Qing was very refreshed and said, "I please!" ”