Early the next morning, Huang Jinmian ate the breakfast sent by the next person, took the words he wrote last night, looked at it again, walked to the front to find Fang Jinshi, she turned around the lake in the courtyard, and saw Fang Jinshi and several Mianxian Village's partner shopkeepers walking towards the gate together.

Deng An stood in the distance and looked at each other, Huang Jinmian walked up to Deng An and asked, "Where is he going?" ”

Deng An turned around and saw that it was her, and hurriedly saluted and replied: "Gongzi said that he can't wait for this Mr. Meng Da to come to see him, he wants to take the initiative to visit Mr. Meng Da in Pingjiang Mansion." ”

Huang Jinmian snorted, didn't catch up with him to show this word, she was a little disappointed in her heart, she slowly turned her head back, and when she walked to the door of the courtyard where Fang Jinshi lived, Huang Jinmian thought that she could put this word on his desk, and he could see it when he came back.

She walked in, the courtyard where Fang Jinshi lived was still loess and stones, and the ground was also very uneven, the mansion was built early, this courtyard was only built with the main house, and there was no decoration to repair the attached side house and the flowers and trees in the yard, and there were a few wooden pillars in the side house or the original color of wood, not painted.

An old woman was cleaning in the study of the main room, Huang Jinmian walked over, the old woman didn't pay attention to her, she cleaned up the tables and chairs, as soon as Huang Jinmian entered the room, she smelled a smell of tar, which was lit for a long time The candle was not circulated in the air, a large wooden table was placed in the center, and the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone were placed on the table, but the inkstone was overturned, and the black ink flowed on the desktop mess and lost a few paper balls with ink, and a few books were spread out on the table, and two books were dropped on the ground.

There are as many as seventeen or eighteen stools in this room, there are several kinds of high and low styles, Huang Jinmian can imagine that last night Fang Jinshi summoned the people who came with him to discuss here, maybe until dawn, although this house is big, but it may not be able to gather the stools and chairs of the uniform style that these people sit on all at once, maybe he didn't sleep all night, and set off to Pingjiang Mansion at dawn.

Huang Jinmian walked to the table, bent down to pick up the book on the ground, she was a little curious about what kind of books Fang Jinshi would find on his desk, flipped over and wrote, only to see that it was printed with the six characters of "Pingjiang Mansion City Atlas", which was a local chronicle of Pingjiang Mansion, and she looked at the other books, all of which were local chronicles of several states and counties on Huainan East Road.

Huang Jinmian put the books neatly on the table, a few paper balls with ink aroused her interest, Huang Jinmian opened a paper ball, only to see that there were three crooked big characters written on it, and she opened a few more, some only had these three words, and some had a few more words "Tianxingjian gentleman to self-improvement", Huang Jinmian opened the last piece of paper, and there was still this sentence on it, but followed by this sentence and wrote a few small words: "Forget later." "And then there were a few dots of ink on the paper.

Huang Jinmian couldn't help but feel happy in her heart, she flattened the paper on the desktop, took the brush and looked at it, cleaned up the inkstone, poured water to grind the ink, sat down, and added a sentence in the blank space behind the paper with neat small block letters: "The terrain Kun gentleman carries things with virtue." ”

These words she wrote very neatly and attentively, compared to the line of words left on the paper before, there is really a world of difference, the previous words and ink are thick and thick, just like a child has just learned to write, the back of the golden cotton of this line of words, but it is mentioned that the press is also thick and fine, just then the iron painting is charming like a silver hook, a good book with great skills.

After Huang Jinmian finished writing, she picked it up and looked at it, she was very satisfied, she put it down and took the pen again, and wrote four small words of the same size after the four small words "forget behind": "I will teach you".

Huang Jinmian watched the old woman pack up the stool and chair and go out of the room, put the word she wrote in the middle of the table, and pressed it with a paperweight, so that Fang Jinshi could see it as soon as she came back, she admired her font again, imagining Fang Jinshi's expression when she came back and picked up the paper, she felt complacent in her heart, in the past, she would never do such a boring thing.

Huang Jinmian cleaned up the tabletop, saw the knife rice paper, took out a sheet of it and spread it out, put a pen and thought about it, and wrote the most famous thin gold characters of the court official family "How can you sweep the world if you don't sweep a house", this sentence is from the "Book of the Later Han Dynasty", Huang Jinmian is teasing the messy in his house, in essence, it is still showing off the handwriting that is tens of thousands of times stronger than him.

Huang Jinmian pressed the word she wrote later on the previous paper, clapped her hands and walked out of the study, she walked to the middle of the courtyard, looked up at the blue sky and white clouds overhead, and felt as if she had never been so happy in the past few years.

Fang Jinshi brought the shopkeeper Hu and a few guys from Mianxian Village to walk on the street in Pingjiang Fucheng, and when he passed by a cloth village, the shopkeeper Hu said casually: "I don't know what the color of the fabric here is." ”

Fang Jinshi listened to it and stopped, looked up at the signboard of this cloth village, which read "Lake Splendor" four big characters, the door is also very high, it seems to be a big cloth village, Fang Jinshi said: "Go in and have a look." ”

A few shopkeeper partners were born in the cloth village, of course, they also have the heart to understand the market of the same industry in the south of the Yangtze River, Fang Jinshi took a few people into the lake, the cloth village partners have already greeted him, Fang Jinshi knows that he doesn't understand and doesn't talk much, all by the Hu shopkeeper and the guys of Mianxian Zhuang came out and talked to the guys in the store, and after looking at the store for a while, Fang Jinshi quietly asked the shopkeeper: "How?" ”

The shopkeeper Hu said in a low voice: "There are some good materials, but the craftsmanship of embroidery is not good." ”

Fang Jinshi nodded after hearing this, and said, "Then buy a few good fabrics and go back." The shopkeeper Hu didn't know what he was doing with these fabrics, so he picked out a few pieces of cloth according to his words, Fang Jinshi asked the guys in the Huguang Jinxiu store about the location of Sihai Qianzhuang, and a few people came out with the fabrics and went straight to Sihai Qianzhuang.

It took just over a month for the Sihai Money Village in Pingjiang Mansion to make the people of Pingjiang Mansion a household name, Fang Jinshi They came to the Sihai Money Village to take a look, and several partners stood at the door to guide the guests to enter the house, Fang Jinshi only said to come and see, and let the guy in front of the door bring him into the hall.

The lobby of this office is very large, full of people, and there is a long table in the middle, even extending to the courtyard, Fang Jinshi looks at the business of this Sihai Money Village is so good, and feels that this Mr. Meng Da and his subordinates are really good at business.

He turned around, and was about to find the shopkeeper of Sihai Qianzhuang to ask Ji Chang'an, when a guy came over and said, "This is Fang Gongzi from Bianliang?" ”

Fang Jinshi said: "Exactly." The guy said, "The big shopkeeper is please." ”

Fang Jinshi was about to ask who the big shopkeeper was, the guy raised his hand and asked him to look upstairs, Fang Jinshi looked at him according to his gesture, and saw Ji Changan standing on the second floor of this money village and beckoned to him.

Fang Jinshi went down the stairs under the guidance of the guy and went up to the second floor, and the shopkeeper Hu behind him was a little dissatisfied: "Although this money village is big, there are no rules. ”

Fang Jinshi turned around and said, "What do you say?" ”

Shopkeeper Hu said: "Gongzi Fang is in charge of the four seas business, and this season, as a subordinate, the shopkeeper did not come down to greet him, but let Gongzi Fang go up by himself." ”

Fang Jinshi didn't answer him, and led them up to the second floor, and Ji Changan greeted him and said, "Why didn't Fang Gongzi say anything first, let me pick you up." ”

Fang Jinshi said: "Shopkeeper Ji is busy, business is important, I can come by myself." ”

There are a few tables on the second floor, which are set up for particularly distinguished guests, and there are no distinguished guests here at this time, Ji Changan let Fang Jinshi to the table, and a girl served fragrant tea, after greetings, Fang Jinshi said: "I see that the business here is very good, is it all the money exchange of merchants from all over the world?" ”

Ji Changan said: "Mostly, there are also other businesses that come to mortgage and pawn, and there are also some silver as collateral." ”

Fang Jinshi said: "I was ordered to come to Huaidong to take charge of the collection and transportation of tea, can the shopkeeper Ji know?" ”

Ji Changan said: "Before Gongzi Fang arrived, Ji had already received official news. ”

Fang Jinshi said: "Doing business naturally has to have capital, Zhao Sange told me before I came, when I arrived, I naturally had some capital transferred to me by the rich village in Huaidong, I don't know how much I can adjust." ”

Ji Changan hesitated for a while before saying, "This ...... This can only be done if Mr. Meng Da and Fang Gongzi discuss, and Ji can't be the master. ”

Fang Jinshi had already guessed that he would say this, but he didn't care, took a sip of tea and said, "I don't know where Mr. Meng Da is now, can Shopkeeper Ji take me to visit Mr. Meng Da?" I haven't met Mr. Meng Da after coming for a while, so it's rude to think about it. ”

Ji Chang'an said: "Mr. Meng Da is busy with business all day long, running around, it is ......good to arrange it in advance" He changed his words, and the other party entered the stone and said: "In fact, before the arrival of Fang Gongzi, Mr. Meng Da has arranged to cooperate with a local Zhou shopkeeper to collect tea, Fang Gongzi only needs to drink with Zhou's shopkeeper from time to time, and the matter of collecting tea is done by Zhou Shopkeeper, Fang Gongzi is also happy to be at ease, this Jiangnan is rich, there are many fun places, Fang Gongzi is not in a hurry to do these mundane things for a while, right?" ”

The meaning of his words is already obvious, that is, to exclude Fang Jinshi, nominally to let him enjoy the mountains and rivers, but in fact to let him have no rights, Fang Jinshi was a little angry, and said to Ji Changan: "In this way, I want to open a tea house to collect tea, can't I do it?" ”

Ji Changan said: "It's not true, but Mr. Meng Da has already made arrangements, it's not easy to change, Fang Gongzi wants to open a tea house, it's better to talk to Mr. Meng Da." ”

Fang Jinshi said: "If Mr. Meng Da doesn't nod, is it a copper plate that I can't call from this Sihai Money Village?" ”

He said this suddenly, Ji Changan didn't know how to answer him for a while so as not to be too offended, he thought about it before saying: "Ji also knows the difficulties of Fang Gongzi, so it's okay, Ji will let Fang Gongzi's house call 500 yuan to subsidize the family, and I will discuss it with Mr. Meng Da later?" ”

Fang Jinshi lowered his head and thought for a while, picked up the tea in front of him and drank it all, and immediately changed his smile and said to Ji Changan: "Thank you so much for Shopkeeper Ji." He turned his head to the shopkeeper Hu and said, "There is a shopkeeper and a few brothers who go down to get the money." ”

He made a decision immediately, he didn't suspect that this mere 500 yuan was too little, Ji Changan had already thought about his rhetoric, but he didn't expect him to be clean and neat, and he accepted it generously.