Chapter Fifty-Seven: Write and Sell in the Green Mountains

"Good day? Where are these good days? This kind of talk is only for deceiving me, a girl who is not deeply involved, and in front of me, this kind of talk must not be mentioned. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info thought that even if you couldn't get a reputation in this subject, you could earn a few full meals. Who knows, now even the food gap has been lost, and let's talk about it, just a few taels of silver in your hand, can you support the provincial capital for a few days? ”

Hu Butcher, who drank too much wine, was a loud voice, making a lot of noise in the courtyard, and the drunken people wanted to gag, and Sister Hu was shy and anxious, wanting to pull her father but didn't dare.

Brother Liang Pandi was still supporting the dog meat shop, and there were only Fan Jin, Sister Hu's father and daughter, and the widow Liu in the courtyard. Liu didn't throw his face at Fan Jin, but turned left and right.

"Jinzai, don't blame your uncle for having a bad temper, we are a small family, and when we open our eyes, we have to think about how to eat. You can't stand hunger when you talk about friendship, let alone being a parent, you naturally want your daughter to marry well without being wronged. I thought you had a food difference, and you could sit on the ground and distribute fertilizer from the tooth line, and you would not have to worry about food and clothing, but if you are good, the food difference has also been waived, what can the eldest sister do? In my opinion, it is better to go my way and become a lawyer. Your aunt knows the ability to sue Yang San's father for a lawsuit, if you are willing to make a knife and pen, you can buy a house in Guangzhou in a few years with your means. ”

Fan Jin shook his head and said: "I can't do a knife and pen, I have to continue to take the exam, if I do a knife and pen, my reputation will be hindered, and the word fame will not be easy to think about." Besides, even if you make a knife and pen, you must first have a talent identity, otherwise if the incident happens, you will have to go to the yamen to eat the board. ”

Hu Butcher said: "Then you will go home and live." The expenses in the provincial capital are so big, Lao Tzu is tired and tired every day to kill pigs and sell meat, I am afraid it is not enough for you to live in the provincial capital for two days. My daughter's private room has been given to you in full aid, and I don't know it? Going back to the countryside will at least save you the cost here. ”

"Daddy, Mr. Hong and Brother Jin are so stiff, why did he go back to the countryside?"

"Whoever makes him bad for himself, he can't read, and he wants to offend the general A, so he has to come forward and invite a few characters with a face to come out and say something. He broke out some silver, set up a few tables of banquets, and apologized in front of Old Man Hong, thinking that Mr. Hong was not an unreasonable person, and he would never be unkind. ”

Fan Jin shook his head again, "This can't be done." I am a scholar, why should I admit my mistake to Hong Chengen, a fellow villager? If I admit my mistake, Fan Zhuang will be eaten by Hongjiazhuang, and what I finally fought for will be lost back. I don't recognize this fault. ”

"If you can't recognize it, you have to admit it! The people of the Hong family are both masters and scholars in the yamen, and Young Master Hong is the head of the government examination, and he is about to show his talent and become the prime minister. What's more, if you have hated the great grandmaster, even if you have tried it, the Dao test will not be recorded, and you will be more than one step behind others in terms of merit and fame. Don't bow your head at this time and admit your mistakes, and when you want to bow your head, I'm afraid it's too late! Let's just say that right now, I have added a lot of common practices for honoring several yamen fathers, and it's not all thanks to you? ”

Sister Hu hurriedly said: "Dad, you are unreasonable, a few days ago, you relied on your brother's face, and you didn't have to pay a penny of filial piety, why didn't you say it at that time." ”

Liu said: "Eldest sister, don't raise the bar with your father, it's not good." Jinzai, listen to your uncle, a man can't eat a woman's meal, even if the third sister is willing to support you, can you eat this meal with peace of mind? Even if you want to stay in a provincial town, you have to have a way to make a living. ”

Fan Jin said: "The skills to make a living are naturally there, so don't you have to go to the streets." As he spoke, he pointed to the bookcase in the courtyard and the cloth sticks held up with a wooden stick. Hu Butcher was illiterate, so he only asked, "What is written on it and how do you make a living?" ”

Fan Jin pointed to the cloth label and read it word by word: "If you don't refine the gold pill, you don't sit in meditation, you don't plough the fields for businessmen, you write and sell them in the green mountains when you're free, and you don't make money in the world." Fan Jin, the head of the South China Sea case, sold paintings with this. This signboard plus the four treasures of the study room is the capital of the little nephew to make a living. ”

Hu Butcher and the other three people don't know how to write and ink, so they naturally don't know that this is Tang Yin's poem, but it is only written by Fan Jin, Sister Hu looked at Fan Jin, her face was full of admiration, "I just said that I can only learn well when I enter my brother, this poem is so good, this painting will definitely sell well." ”

"Hmph, what's the use of good poetry, it has to be tested for fame to be useful. If you look at the young master of the Zhang family, because of the fame of his ancestors, even the government has to give him face, and this military food business is said to be done. Selling paintings? Who knows if it will work. ”

Fan Jin smiled and picked up the bookcase, "Okay, I only know if I do it, in short, I will neither use the money of the eldest sister, nor will I rely on the third sister to support me, I have the confidence to make a living by selling paintings, and I don't have to worry about you." ”

There were no valuable objects in his courtyard, so there was no need to specifically order anything, he lifted the signboard and walked out, Hu Butcher looked at Fan Jin's back and spit,

"Poor sour! Since I was a child, I knew that he was a wasteless waste, unwilling to find a way to make a fortune, only thinking about selling paintings, and sooner or later he would be reduced to selling words on the street. Thanks to this family affair, it was never decided, otherwise it would have been a big loss. Eldest sister, come home with me, and you are not allowed to come to Fan Jin's courtyard in the future. ”

While speaking, Hu Butcher had already dragged Sister Hu out, Liu Shi rolled his eyes behind him, and suddenly said: "Slow down, you might as well wait for him to come back in the next two days, see how the painting business is, and then make plans." ”

In the city of Guangzhou, it was already quite hot at this time. The climate in the south is humid, the air becomes viscous, and the wind does not make people feel cool, but feels that the clothes and skin have to stick together. My chest was like a stone, and I couldn't breathe well. The salty smell of the sea water and the rotting fish and shrimp in the wind makes you feel sick.

The young scholar walked through the streets with signs held aloft and the young man had no choice but to sacrifice his throat to shout loudly because there were still many people who could not read. In this kind of weather, the more you sweat, the faster the water is lost.

Before walking to a tea stall, Fan Jin stopped, handed over a few pennies, and bought herbal tea to drink. The owner of the tea stall is also from the South China Sea, listening to his shouting, he knows that he is the head of the South China Sea case, and now he has fallen to the point of selling paintings on the long street, which is very embarrassing. asked, "Childe, how do you sell this painting?" ”

"If you have a painting of fifty pieces, if it is a temporary painting, you have to negotiate the price. If the old man wants it, this first painting will not take a penny. ”

"How can you do it without taking a penny? Although the business here is not big, it can still be taken for a few pennies. The shopkeeper said as he took out the money box and counted fifty copper coins out, but Fan Jin refused to take it, so he only asked for a bowl of herbal tea to eat.

"The herbal tea of the old man is very good, as long as you have this to eat, it is enough to pay for the painting. I don't think it's a good painting, you old man laughs. ”

While speaking, Fan Jin took a painting scroll from the bookcase and handed it to the old man, the old man took the painting, and in the distance, several strong men in short beats looked at this side, and one said: "Hong Shuban has something to say over there, you want us to teach Fan Jin a good lesson, when will we do it?" ”

"What's the hurry? He shouted everywhere that he was the head of the Nanhai case, and if we did this, it would be troublesome if we caused a street patrol, so we still had to find a place where no one was around. Besides, Liang Sanmei is not a character to mess with, Daddy Hong is not easy to offend, and Liang Sanmei, the fat guy king, is not easy to deal with. Once the treatment is damaged, it is not the truth of mixing the dock, and it is always good to cut the tofu on both sides. Let's see what Fan Jin is painting, if the painting is not good enough, we don't need to beat him, let him starve to death. ”

While a few people were talking, the old man had already unfolded the painting, and came to the outside of the tea shed, looking for a nail, to hang the painting outside the tea shed, the wind blew the painting, and several strong men looked over, and then froze.