Chapter 21 The Fall of the Family
In Dong's Mansion, Liu Sanzhong carried a lantern dragon and came to the side courtyard where Dong Ce lived, just in time to see the young son alone, sitting in the courtyard in the moonlight.
Liu Sanzhong took a few steps forward, restrained the sorrow on his face, and squeezed out a smile and said, "Young boy, the master is awake, call you over!" ”
"Well, it's late at night, Steward Liu, you better go to sleep quickly, don't worry about these trivial things, if it's gone, it's gone, it's not a big deal, people will live to be successful!" With that, Dong Ce got up and strode away.
Looking at the slender and steady back of the young man, Liu Sanzhong's old eyes finally regained some brilliance.
"Yes, people can be made when they live, and they will be made when they live!" Liu San muttered two sentences heavily, suddenly smiled, hammered his numb waist pole with his back hand, and walked slowly towards his room.
When Dong Ce came to Dong Yuanchang's bedroom and saw Dong Yuanchang on the bed, he found that this guy was older than when he met in the dungeon!
"Ce'er is here!" Dong Yuanchang struggled to prop up his body, leaned on the bed and said weakly.
Dong Ce walked to the side of the bed, pulled a stool and sat down, and asked, "Don't tell me that you want to leave a will." ”
"Huh...... Ahem, ahem, ahem, ......! Dong Yuanchang just opened his mouth and laughed twice, followed by a cough, and when he calmed down, he smiled bitterly: "I am afraid that you are the only one in the world who dares to have such a dialogue with my father!" ”
"That's because you're lonely and weak, there are many people in the world who are worse than me, less nonsense, say something quickly." Dong Ce didn't have a good airway.
Dong Yuanchang sighed heavily and said: "It's not a big deal, I just hope you go to Gusu Mansion and go to Cao's house to withdraw your marriage, we can't drag people down!" ”
"No problem." Dong Ce replied casually, and then asked, "Then what are you going to do about the matter here?" ”
As soon as Dong Yuanchang heard this, the last wry smile on his face was gone, but he was not melancholy and decadent, but said very calmly: "It's very simple, in exchange for a light body!" ”
Dong Ce was shocked when he heard this, and said, "You want to sell all the Dong family's own?" ”
"Yes, it's sold, it's all sold, even this old house is going to be sold, but you don't have to worry about not having a place to live, if you don't dislike it, you can live in Yu Niang's small building, as for what you fancy in the house, just take what you can take, and wait until tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, it will become someone else's!"
Dong Ce was silent for a while, and then said: "Indeed, this is the only way to do it for now, you grab the money, others will arrest you, so sooner or later, it is better to be beaten by someone, it is better to get a light body!" ”
When Dong Yuanchang heard this, he glanced at Dong Ce quite unexpectedly, and said in surprise: "I didn't expect you to be able to see it and have such an opinion!" ”
"I can see better than you!" If it was in the previous life, Dong Ce would never be able to watch it, but for this, he paid the price of his life, and in this life, what else could he not see?
Yes! At present, there is, and he will never be able to give up!
"I want the tea plantation in Shizigang." Dong Ce said suddenly.
Dong Yuanchang was stunned when he heard this, frowned, and then nodded and said, "Okay, but you can solve it yourself, gardener!" ”
Dong Ce smiled and said, "No problem!" ”
The next day, early in the morning, a notice was posted outside Dong's mansion to sell his belongings, which immediately caused the whole city to shake!
The Dong family, the family that has achieved the pinnacle of business in Jinling Mansion, fell in a blink of an eye! How many people were shocked, sighed, and sighed.
As soon as the Dong family fell, the merchant association naturally dispersed, so a series of debt disputes began, and the ugly faces of the merchants were also exposed.
All this, although it is related to Dong Ce, but in his heart, it does not matter much, he is busy with moving at the moment, although he has no interest in the things of Dong Mansion, but after all, he has been here for more than a year, and he has made a lot of some broken and chattering gadgets, so he is also half an artist, woodwork, seal carving, stone carving, painting, everything, the gadgets made this year naturally have to be taken away, in addition, there is also the tea set that he spent a lot of money to let the imperial porcelain workshop burn can never be cheap others!
You say that these people know how to do it, he will cherish this set of tea sets, and the price should be very high, but if you don't understand, it's not a waste, and how can anyone in this world understand his postmodern way of tasting tea!
"Young boy, don't you want any of these?" Liu Fu looked at the furniture in Dong Ce's room and basically didn't move, and couldn't help but say with pity.
"It's just a burden, what to take away, you can sell it for some money here." Dong Ce said, hugged his tea set and rushed out of the door.
Liu Fu sighed, tightened the burden on his back, and followed him out.
At this time, the people in the Dong Mansion were all gone, but Liu Sanzhong and Song Geng stayed.
The Liu family started from Liu Sanchong, and followed the Dong family all the way to today, in fact, they have long been able to break away from the Dong family, but Liu Sanzhong has always refused, not only him, but Liu Feng, who is the head of the caravan in the Western Regions, that is, his son, and Liu Fu, the little rabbit cub, none of their grandparents and grandchildren are willing to leave the Dong family for three generations, because for them, this is their home!
Of course, it is not because of a house, but because of their respect for the Dong family as a servant, they are like brothers and have the same feelings as father and son!
Whether it is Mrs. Dong or Dong Yuanchang, they do not regard them as slaves, and they have long intended to let them start anew, but some emotions cannot be parted!
And Song Geng, his relationship with Dong Yuanchang is like Liu Sanzhong and Mrs. Dong, the master and servant have lived together, and they have been saddled for forty years, and no one is willing to do it.
What's more, Song Geng and his younger brother Song Cong died of their father at the age of four, and their mother was unable to raise them, so the mother and son voluntarily went to Dong's Mansion to sell themselves as slaves, and the old lady Dong took good care of them, and let them learn to do business, as long as they have the ability to be promoted immediately, but this old lady seems to like to meddle in other people's marriages the most, and even the marriage of these two brothers was arranged by him, but they are different from Dong Yuanchang, they are extremely satisfied, and naturally they have long regarded this place as their own home!
As soon as Dong Ce came out of the back door of Dong's mansion, he saw a handsome woman riding on the back of a yellow-maned horse, this woman was dressed in a black brocade, and her head was wrapped in green silk on the top of her head, showing a refreshing and capable, dignified and majestic style.
Who else can have such a dress and bearing, besides Fang Shuwei?
At this moment, Fang Shuwei was still like a man, holding a horsewhip, lowering her body and lying on the horse's back, staring at Dong Ce with a playful gaze, with a sneer!
"You seem to be very happy to see me fall into this field!" Dong Ce said indifferently.
"Hehehe, yes, I'm so happy that I can't sleep all night!" Fang Shuwei chuckled.
"In this way, you have missed me all night!" When Dong Ce said this, his face was not red and his heart was not beating, it seemed that it should be like this.
"You!" Fang Shuwei's face turned red instantly when she heard this, and she was about to have a seizure, but when she thought of her father's warning, she couldn't help but snort, pouted and said: "My father knows that your Dong family has failed, considering that you can't do laundry and cooking, second, you can't serve tea and water, third, you can't go to the field to farm, and fourth, you can't carry ......."
"Yes!" Without waiting for Fang Shuwei to finish speaking, Dong Ce interrupted: "You don't want me to go to the Yamen Torture Room to do things, do you?" ”
"It's not me, it's my dad!" Fang Shuwei immediately corrected.
"Then please go back and tell your father that I have thanked him for his kindness, but unfortunately I am used to being lazy and can't be restrained, so I can only let him down!"
"It's really shameless, who scares about you." Fang Shuwei felt an inexplicable sense of loss in her heart after hearing this, but she quickly turned into anger, snorted coldly, threw up her horsewhip and left, as always, she came and went in a hurry.
"Young boy, why did you refuse?" Liu Fu felt strange and pity, after all, it was the Yamen Torture and Arrest Room, how majestic it was to be arrested.
"Didn't you just say that?" Dong Ce said casually and put the tea set on the carriage.
"But you have to find a job in the future, otherwise what are we going to eat?" Liu Fu reminded.
"You're afraid that you won't have anything to eat with me!" Dong Ce seemed to have heard the funniest joke in the world, and looked at Liu Fu with a bright smile on his face, and said, "Don't worry, I'll buy this place back after a while, so you still have to pay for your meal!" ”
Liu Fu also seemed to hear the funniest joke in the world, but he didn't dare to laugh out loud when he endured it, just pursed his lips and nodded.
The master and servant drove to the small courtyard of the dead house, and in the surprise and astonishment of the neighbors, they moved the things in, and then they had to clean it again, and they were busy for a while and were about to rest, when suddenly, there was a knock on the door outside the courtyard.
"Huh? Who is it? Liu Fu asked curiously, it has only been more than an hour since they moved here, why are there people looking for ****?
"Ah Fu, open the door, it's me!"
This voice sounded very familiar, Liu Fu thought for a while, and suddenly remembered that this was Zhou Cong Zhou Gongzi's voice!
"Alas, here it is." Liu Fu hurriedly ran to open the door, and when he opened the door, he saw that it was Zhou Cong and Meng Feng and two middle-aged men who didn't know each other.
"Brother Dong is not, take me to see him." Zhou Cong said hurriedly.
"Yes, upstairs, please." Liu Fu waved his hand.
Zhou Cong and the others didn't talk nonsense, hurriedly rushed to the attic, pushed the door and took a look, and found that Dong Ce was kneeling on the mat very complacently, making tea in a strange tea set.
"Oh, it's all at this time, why do you still have this leisure." Zhou Cong rushed to Dong Ce and complained.
"What's wrong?" Dong Ce picked up the small cup and blew a breath and asked.
"What's the matter, your family has become like this, you don't seem to care!" Zhou Cong hurriedly stomped his feet again and again.
"Tap, or wear the floor!" Dong Ce said angrily, glanced at Meng Feng, Tu Ping and Zhang Dagui next to him, poured the tea into his mouth, smashed it twice, and then said, "Everyone has arranged it to Jinling." ”
"Well, I just arrived today, and the residence has not been arranged, so I heard the shocking news, and when I arrived at your house, I asked, and after learning that you came here, we hurried here, Brother Dong, such a big thing happened, have you thought about it later?" Meng Feng hurriedly finished speaking, but saw that Dong Ce was still as indifferent as ever, so depressed that he didn't know what to say.
"Let's drink some tea first, this is fried Yuhua tea, it is definitely not sold on the market, it is cheap for you today!" As he spoke, Dong Ce began to fill a few small teacups with hot tea.
"Oh, I said Brother Dong, you're ......!" Zhou Cong wanted to say something, but his shoulder was suddenly slapped twice by Meng Feng, signaling him to be restless, and then Meng Feng knelt down opposite Dong Ce across the desk, picked up the small teacup and looked at it carefully, and found that the cup was black on the outside and white on the inside, the black side was rough but it felt very good, the inner white was smooth as a mirror, extremely clean, and the tea was even clearer and thorough, like jasper.
Meng Feng paused, and then the tea was in his mouth, and suddenly, he was stunned!
"...... this?" Meng Feng stared at the teacup in surprise.
"How?" Dong Ce said, motioning for Meng Feng to put down the teacup, and then picked up the teapot and poured it for him.
Meng Feng didn't say anything, but drank another cup and savored it for a long time before taking a deep breath and saying: "Curious, this tea is fragrant and pleasant, plain and elegant, smooth in the mouth, and there is no dregs, the tea is clear and thorough, green and beautiful, how is this made?" ”
"It doesn't matter how it is made, do you think this business can be done?" Dong Ce asked.
Meng Feng shook his head and smiled bitterly for a while, and said, "Of course, and it will definitely be a big sale!" ”
"What's that?" Zhou Cong was very curious, squatted down and took a cup and tasted it, and immediately stuck out his tongue and said: "Drinking this thing is not as refreshing as drinking, I feel no different from the roadside tea stall." ”
As soon as they heard this, Dong Ce and Meng Feng rolled their eyes at the same time and sighed: "It's a waste!" ”
"Brother Dong, what are your plans?" Meng Feng asked.
Dong Ce lifted the copper kettle on the small charcoal stove, poured it into a large cup full of tea leaves, and said, "I want you to pay for it to help me buy Yang Yuanwai's cloth village!" ”