The dishes have five flavors, and the wine has passed three rounds.

Ma Kun raised the wine bowl again and said, "Doctor Li ......"

Li Feibai didn't know medical skills at all, but he was afraid that if this nickname spread, many people would come to him for medical treatment in the future, but at that time, he would be embarrassed, and stopped: "Leader Ma, please don't call me a miracle doctor in the future." ”

Ma Kun said: "What's that called?" ”

Li Feibai didn't think much about it, anyway, before he crossed over, the older one called him Xiaobai, and the older one called him Feibai, so he said: "Feibai, Xiaobai, it's okay." You look at it. ”

Ma Kun was surprised and delighted, people at that time, especially in the officialdom, usually called the official name. For example, Zheng Haoran raised his points, and his colleagues called Zheng points when they saw them. Unless the relationship between the two is really good, they will be called by name. He secretly admired the value of his wine today, and got a lot closer to Li Feibai, and said: "Then I will make a loud noise, and I will call you Brother Feibai in the future!" After a pause, he said, "Don't ask me if I'm the leader of the horse, it sounds like it's life-threatening." It's better to call me Brother Ma, it sounds kind. ”

Li Feibai smiled: "Brother Ma! ”

Ma Kun smiled even more happily and said, "Brother Feibai, I heard Lord Zhenfu say that you took a few days off to come out and see what business you could do?" ”

Li Feibai said: "I have almost considered the business, and I want to ask my father if I can see it when I go home this time." Whether it works out or not, you have to buy a storefront in the city when you come back. Without a façade, there is no business. ”

Ma Kun groaned for a moment and said, "Speaking of the façade, I know a place. Lao Guo's family in the east of the city, his son killed someone by mistake, the lawsuit has been fought a few times, Lao Guo has been up and down, and the considerable family business has almost failed, I heard that he recently intends to sell two facades in the east of the city. The location there is not bad, not far from the city gates, and there is an endless stream of people entering and leaving the city. All people from Huaiqing Mansion or Henan Mansion who come to Jiyuan to do business will enter the city through this gate, and no matter what business they do, it should not be bad. ”

Li Feibai couldn't help but be moved, and asked, "How is the size?" ”

Ma Kun said: "There are two rooms upstairs and downstairs, just upstairs to sleep and downstairs to do business, and there is also an independent courtyard that can store goods." ”

Although Li Feibai has not slept in Zheng Haoran's house for one night, Zheng Haoran has already married a family, and it is really inconvenient to go in and out. After listening to Ma Kun's words, he was even more moved and said, "I don't know what the price is?" ”

Ma Kun said: "According to the price on the market, it is in the early twenties. But don't worry, Brother Feibai, your business is my business, my brother doesn't have any other skills, but he has the ability to negotiate prices. I'll go talk to him, and I should be able to take seven or eight taels. ”

Li Feibai's face couldn't help but sink, and he said in his heart: "What kind of ability do you have, it's just relying on your identity as the head of the government to intimidate and threaten." ”

Ma Kun didn't know what Li Feibai was thinking, and thought that Li Feibai thought that the price was high, so he patted his chest and promised: "Brother Feibai, you can look at my methods, and see how I can press the price to three or five taels for him." ”

Li Feibai said: "If you press him so much, I don't want these two facades." ”

Ma Kun was stunned and said, "Why?" ”

Li Feibai said: "Lao Guo got into a lawsuit, it is the time to use money, if I take the opportunity to win it at a low price, isn't it taking advantage of the danger of others?" Doing business should pay attention to integrity, and when this news spreads, who would dare to do business with me? How can my business grow? Buy as much as you can on the market, or I'd rather not. ”

It was the first time Ma Kun had seen someone buy something at a low price, so he had to buy it at a high price. However, he was also impressed by Li Feibai's righteous words, and said secretly: "I still think that he is the same as everyone else, he is a greedy and cheap master, I thought that using means to reduce the price to the lowest will make him think that I am okay to do things, but I didn't expect the horse's fart to be slapped on the horse's leg, people are not greedy for small and cheap at all, and they are very upright masters!" Although my old horse can't be this kind of person, I also admire this kind of person very much, whether it is for my own interests or not, I have made this friend! Said: "Okay, everything depends on Brother Feibai." ”

Li Feibai said: "Brother Ma also said that Lao Guo's son was killed by mistake, not intentionally. Within the scope of Brother Ma's ability, I hope Brother Ma can help Lao Guo. ”

Ma Kun, these officials, have very little money for their monthly work, and they are not even enough to eat a meal. In order to support their families, they eat the plaintiff and the defendant, and turn small crimes into major crimes and major crimes into capital crimes, which is an innate ability. Originally, Lao Guo's son's crime was not enough for the death penalty, at most he was a stream to fill the army, but for the sake of silver, their hearts had already darkened, and they put Lao Guo's son on the capital crime, in order to scrape more silver. At this time, after listening to Li Feibai's words, he smiled and said: "I didn't expect Lao Guo to meet a nobleman when he sold his house, since Brother Feibai opened his mouth, how dare I disobey it." ”

Li Feibai said: "Then I will thank my brother for Lao Guo." ”

Zheng Haoran has always wanted Li Feibai to do business, but hopes that Li Feibai will go to the yamen on an errand. In fact, it can't be said that Li Feibai just came to the county seat and went to the Yin Hotel to serve as a servant, he still hoped that Li Feibai would do business, and even thought about what business to do for Li Feibai. But now is different from the past, Li Feibai has healed the injuries of the magistrate, and he has a lot of face in front of the county magistrate, and it is very easy to find an errand in the yamen. Although Li Feibai had already expressed his attitude before that he was unwilling to do business on an errand, he still wanted to find a time to persuade him to make Li Feibai change his mind. But now, Li Feibai has even negotiated the façade, which has become a situation where it is difficult to recover, and it is in vain to persuade him. So, he interjected: "What business does my brother want to do?" ”

Li Feibai said: "My brother studied before, and my father could still provide for it, why couldn't he afford it later?" ”

Zheng Haoran said: "We produce a kind of stone on the mountain of Xiapan Village, which is as black as jade, and the stone lion stone steps carved out are like black jade, which is very popular with large families. The land in our Xiapan Village is thin, and we can't produce much food in a year, but everyone knows how to carve strong laborers in the village, and carving some stone lions in the slack time can be exchanged for a lot of money. Later, the shops in the city thought that the mountain road there was far away and not easy to walk, and the freight was a large piece of expenditure. As soon as the people in the village totaled, a family of several people, first went up the mountain to quarry, and then carried it to the village on their shoulders, and then spent several months of work to carve and shape, tired and tired but could not earn two or three taels of silver, it was really not cost-effective, so they broke off this business. Our Xiapan Village is getting poorer and poorer, and I heard that now we can't even get together the imperial grain. ”

Li Feibai said: "I left the Yin Hotel, walked around the street, and really found a shop selling stone carvings. Their carving skills can't be compared with ours, and the stone used is even more different, but a small lion can be sold for five taels, and a big lion is nearly a hundred taels. And the big lion of our zhang Xu was sold to the merchants for no more than ten taels, and in the end they were crushed into two taels. If I open a stone carving shop in the city, not to mention selling it higher than them, I can make a lot of money by selling it at the same price as them. Then the stone lion is purchased from the village according to the method of fifty-fifty shares, and the people in our village can also make a lot of money. Brother, you are a good learner, calculate for me, how much money can be earned by the people in the village, and how much money can I make. ”

Zheng Haoran studied Confucius and Mencius before, and his arithmetic is not necessarily better than ordinary people. Rao was like this, and he quickly settled the account clearly. Eleven households in Xiapan Village, not counting others, only counting the big lion in Zhangxu, a family can carve two to three a year during the slack season, if it is sold for one hundred taels, removing freight and taxation, a big lion earns about eighty taels. Eighty taels and fifty-five are divided, which is forty taels. In this way, a family's annual income is between eighty taels and one hundred and twenty taels. If this is the case, Xiapan Village will not be the poorest village in Jiyuan County, but the richest. This is just the income of the people in the village, Li Feibai's income is even bigger, it will be above one thousand taels a year, plus the little lion or something, it is likely to exceed two thousand taels.