Chapter 187: On Poetry Competition
"Le Gongzi ......"
When Le Wen heard this familiar old voice, it was as if he had met a great savior, and at this critical moment, the pair of sinful Qianqian jade hands also stopped moving. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Master Shangguan, you came just in time, Le Mou is trying to go to your mansion to find you."
Shangguan Xue saw her father coming, but she just gave his father a slight look, and gave Lewen a fierce look, then turned around and left.
She originally wanted to deliberately tease Lewen to destroy the brotherly relationship between Lewen and Zheng Liangcai, but she didn't expect the appearance of Master Shangguan to ruin her plan, but even if she tried her best, Lewen would not be fooled, and it would only make Lewen very disgusted.
At that time, Shangguan Xue was not married to Zheng Liangcai, and Le Wen couldn't look down on her, not to mention that she was now married to a wife, and she was also the woman of his third brother Zheng Liangcai, even if Lewen died, Lewen would not take a step beyond Lei Chi, but it is easy to dodge the open gun and difficult to defend against the dark arrow, so it is better to be more careful in the future.
"Young Master Le, what did you just say to the little girl?" Master Shangguan was stunned and did not move, as if he was thinking about something, so he asked a little strangely.
"Oh, nothing." Le Wen smiled faintly and said as if nothing happened.
"Alas, I heard that Le Xie Yuan was dismissed from his official position by the imperial court, and the old man was very sorry, but why didn't Le Gongzi give up literature and engage in business, as the saying goes, money can make ghosts grind, just like the old man, even if he is an official, he has to let the old man get three points."
This Shangguan master really doesn't open which pot to mention, since Lewen was dismissed and returned to his hometown, he has not been asked such a sentence, Lewen's ears are almost calloused when he listens, I didn't expect the old fritters in this shopping mall to be so uninteresting, but he wanted to expose his scars, which really made Lewen roll his eyes speechlessly.
Where does Ke Lewen know, this Shangguan master is to hit Lewen's self-confidence, and then pull Lewen from the officialdom to the shopping mall, with Lewen can invent such a good thing as shampoo, if he can help him do business together, then he is not far from the richest man in the Ming Dynasty, but now Lewen doesn't do anything, only needs to provide raw materials to get half of the profit share every year, he is really a little unwilling, but if there is no raw materials provided by Lewen, he is even less of a big industry with great potential.
Lewen now just wants to be famous and become a big official, where will he want to do business, he is not too interested in money, as long as he doesn't let his family and himself worry about money, he doesn't think too much about anything else.
So, Le Wen just smiled faintly and politely refused: "Le Mouzhi is not here, I disappointed Master Shangguan, I'm sorry." ”
"Alas, it's a pity, it's just that the shampoo industry is getting bigger and bigger, the old man's old bones are busy sleeping and forgetting to eat every day, and he can't sleep at night, and he is almost tired of the old man's old bones, and Le Gongzi only needs to provide raw materials, don't do anything, and can extract fifty percent of the profits every year for no reason, isn't it too much to say?"
Master Shangguan is an old fox who has been in the mall all his life, and every year he sees a large amount of wealth that he has worked hard to get, and he wants to share half of it with others, how can he bear it, it was okay at the beginning, only a thousand taels of silver, and now it is often thousands of taels, and even tens of thousands of taels are distributed to others, which is simply cutting his flesh.
Le Wen looked at the trace of cunning and treacherous in the eyes of this old fox, and he couldn't help but secretly said: "My day, this old fox doesn't want to cut his own flesh, and is ready to cut Lao Tzu's flesh with a knife, do you think Lao Tzu is easy to bully." ”
scolded the old fox in his heart, but there was no wave on Ke Lewen's face, he just said indifferently: "Master Shangguan's words are wrong, if Master Shangguan doesn't want to cooperate with Le, then there is no need for Le to provide raw materials for your mansion, anyway, Le doesn't care about that bit of silver, so let's break up." ”
You have to say cruel things to this old fox, use cruel tricks, or he will think that you are easy to talk to, and it will be strange if he doesn't kill you.
Master Shangguan thought that Le Wen was deliberately scaring him, so he said haha: "Haha, don't be rash, don't you want to discuss with Le Gongzi, the old man thinks that we are the most fair to divide into four or six, if Le Gongzi thinks it is inappropriate, it doesn't matter, the old man has a lot of properties under his name, and it is not bad for one industry, so why be thankless?" ”
"Thankless? Hehe, okay, since Master Shangguan's words have come to this, and Le has nothing to say, then let's break up, why do you have to let Master Shangguan do your hard work, what do you say? ”
Le Wen said and put on a posture of turning around to leave, Le Wen also expected that this old boy would definitely not let him go, and sure enough, when Master Shangguan saw that Le Wen really wanted to break up, he hurriedly grabbed Le Wen, put on a smile and said: "Eh, Le Gongzi don't be angry, make money with anger, if Le Gongzi thinks it's inappropriate, then let's just divide it according to the original fifty-fifty." ”
This old boy is a needle, and he wants to cut off a piece of meat on Lewen's body when he has a chance, but he can't let Lewen's fat slip away, since he can't put this piece of meat on hold now, he will talk about it later, if it really collapses, there will be no meat to cut.
"Fifty-fifty? Le Mou felt that Master Shangguan's proposal just now was very good, four or six points made four or six points, but these four were Shangguan Master's, and six was Le's. ”
Lewen is really fed up with this cunning old fox, this old fox always wants to kill him, and now he wants the peasants to turn over and become the master, he wants to kill this old boy with a knife, see if this old boy dares to exploit him again in the future.
"Huh?! …… You...... How can you do that,...... Let's do it, let's treat this matter as if no one has mentioned it, this is fifty percent of this year's profit, you take it, and the old man will never mention it again in the future, what do you think? ”
Master Shangguan didn't expect that this Lewen would fight back, and instead of stealing chickens, he was stolen, how could this work, he hurriedly took out a silver ticket of five thousand taels from his sleeve and handed it to Lewen, and stopped fighting and suing for peace.
"No, this matter is not negotiable, the silver ticket Le accepted it, but Lewen will not provide this raw material in the future, you can cooperate with whoever you want."
Le Wen unceremoniously took the five thousand taels of silver tickets from Master Shangguan, stuffed them into his arms, and then turned around to leave.
Master Shangguan saw that this Lewen had received the silver ticket, he still looked unpolite, put down the cruel words, turned around and walked towards the intersection, he is now repentant in his intestines, and now this shampoo is just a little slight, if Lewen doesn't cooperate with him, find someone else to cooperate, or go it alone, it will be a big loss.
He looked at the back of Le Wen who was about to leave the alley, gritted his teeth, and hurriedly ran forward to chase after him and shouted, "Slow, Le Gongzi, four...... Alas, four six is four six! ”
"It's so good, it's just that the words are unfounded, the original contract is gone, and now we have to make another contract, and the contract states that the term is ten years, and no changes are allowed before the expiration date."
Forty or six points, Lewen only needs to provide raw materials, you can get sixty percent of the profit every year, and he doesn't have to take care of the shampoo business, if it is an ordinary business, I'm afraid no business will agree.
But the profit of this business is huge, and forty percent is also very tempting for a big merchant like Shangguan Master, because the businessman's vision is very long-term, although the current forty percent does not have too many silver taels, but in the future, the forty percent of the silver taels, I am afraid that he can wake up with a smile when he is dreaming.
In this way, Master Shangguan signed a new contract with Lewen with a very complicated mentality, although it is not much, it is equivalent to cleaning up this old fox well, and letting him know that Lewen is not easy to mess with.
Le Wen gave the raw materials of the shampoo to the Shangguan family, and then set off towards Zhending Mansion with his wife Ding Ke'er, sworn brothers Cui Zhi and Zheng Liangcai.
"Big brother, you can really do it, you can take away one percent of the profits from the old man Shangguan, the third brother has not been angry since he joined the Shangguan family, especially the old man Shangguan has always been cunning and slammed the door, the third brother I have contributed a lot in the Shangguan family, but the old man Shangguan only wants the cattle to plow the land, and does not want the cattle to eat grass, the third brother, I really have suffering." Zheng Liangcai acted like an angry little daughter-in-law, telling the bitterness in her heart.
It turned out that in order to be able to marry Shangguan Xue, Zheng Liangcai agreed to Shangguan Xue's conditions and joined Shangguan's family, even if he had a child at that time, he had to be surnamed Shangguan, not Zheng, and when he arrived at Shangguan's house, he had to take care of Shangguan's business, and he couldn't have any complaints, which was almost the same as a long-term worker who didn't pay wages and only gave food and shelter.
Master Shangguan often brainwashed Zheng Liangcai, saying that his sons were not promising, and after a hundred years of him, the property in this family would be handed over to him, and Zheng Liangcai also knew that it was Master Shangguan who lured him with this piece of pastry and asked him to work hard for the Shangguan family.
The only difference is that you can help Shangguan Xue solve her needs when Shangguan Xue needs it, if Shangguan Xue is not interested, it is difficult for Zheng Liang to touch one of Shangguan Xue's fingers, and this is also thanks to Zheng Liang to endure it, if it were someone else, I am afraid that it would have been withdrawn long ago.
Originally, Lewen thought that this Shangguan Xue had a affection for him, so he deliberately pestered him, but in fact, how did Lewen know that this Shangguan Xue had hooked up with others before, and she was born a red apricot with water-based poplars.
If Le Wen knew that Shangguan Xue was this kind of red apricot, then he would not let Zheng Liangcai marry Shangguan Xue, but then again, Zheng Liangcai's treatment of feelings is a tendon, since he was lost to the Nine Souls and Seven Tricks by Shangguan Xue, he made up his mind to marry Shangguan Xue as his wife, even if Le Wen really knew that Shangguan Xue was this kind of woman, then Le Wen probably wouldn't be able to say anything, if he said too much, he would turn against him if he didn't do it, and he didn't even have to be a brother.
Le Wen saw that Zheng Liangcai seemed to have a deep grudge against the old man Shangguan, so he put down the burden in his heart, originally he was afraid that Zheng Liang would be unhappy because he wanted more profits from the Shangguan family, but now it seems that he wants more profits, which is right.
So he joked to Zheng Liangcai: "It seems that the third brother wants to go to Zhending Mansion with Brother Wei this time, also to escape the exploitation of the Shangguan family." ”
Le Wen's words caused Ding Ke'er to giggle.
Cui Zhi said awe-inspiringly: "The third brother is so miserable in the Shangguan family, why should he join the Shangguan family, it is better to stand on his own than to suffer from the bird in the Shangguan family." ”
Cui Zhi is a big bully in Tang County, he is notorious, and there are many ruffians and hooligans under him, so he naturally knows a lot of things about the Shangguan family, but he is now Zheng Liangcai's second brother, of course, he has to be upset for his third brother.
But Zheng Liangcai shook his head helplessly, and said with a wry smile: "Every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, and my third brother is really difficult to read. ”
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Lewen and a few people rode fast horses, talking and laughing all the way, originally going to Zhending Mansion, but on the way, they saw many scholars and talents rushing towards Shuntian Mansion, and only after inquiring did they know that Shuntian Mansion was going to hold a poetry contest three days later.
This conference is very special, it is specially organized by the imperial court to select civil and military all-rounders, not only to compare the literary talent, but also to compare the martial arts, the top three winners can not only be canonized by the imperial court, but also have the special honorary seal issued by the imperial court, because this conference is extraordinary, not like the imperial examination is held every three years, but a rare opportunity to promote and make a fortune, so many scholars are flocking to Shuntianfu.
Most of these scholars have no fame, some are not even children, and the imperial court does not stipulate what fame is needed, so they all think about whether they can meet the dead mouse blindly, and accidentally run into good luck, so that as long as there is a little ink in the stomach, they want to try it.
There are also some martial artists who have come to participate, and these martial artists have read some poetry books, but compared with their martial arts, they are very different, and there are not many real all-rounders in civil and military affairs.
The imperial court does not set any threshold, most of the people who read are nerds who are powerless, and they are usually afraid of killing a chicken, let alone a martial arts competition, they also think that most of them don't know martial arts anyway, and when the time comes, the competition will be a nonsense, just like a woman fighting, to see who can hold on to the least.
Generally speaking, most of the real civil and military all-rounders are the children of famous families, these people have been cultivated by the family since childhood, and they are not worried about being officials, but I heard that the top three can get a special honorary seal, and the person who holds this seal can write to the emperor at any time, which is a supreme honor and is also extremely exciting.
So, Lewen and the others changed their destination and drove their horses towards Shuntianfu.
"Xianggong, people also want to participate in this poetry competition."
Le Wen and Ding Ke'er rode the same horse, it was the black horse, Ding Ke'er sat behind, hugging Le Wen tightly, thinking that there was no threshold for this conference held by the imperial court, so he also wanted to give it a try.
"Lady, how can you go to a girl's house?" In Lewen's eyes, Ding Keer will always be his little girl.
"Hmph, how can you go, after you help people change their appearance, won't they be able to go?" Ding Ke'er wants to disguise herself as a man, so she can naturally participate.
But Cui Zhi, who was riding a horse next to him, heard this, and he said a little strangely: "Yi Rong? Big brother, do you still know how to disguise? ”
Cui Zhi had also heard that there was a mysterious disguise technique on the rivers and lakes, but it seemed that it had been lost for a long time, but he didn't expect Le Wen to have this kind of secret technique.
Of course, Le Wen would not say that this is a secret technique scavenged in the White Lotus Sect, and it is also the ancestral secret technique of the hall master who has already become a dead ghost, that hall master not only relies on flattery to get to the top, but he also relies on this ancestral secretary to become the hall master of the White Lotus Sect, otherwise with his martial arts, even if he can pat himself again, it is impossible to become the hall master.
It's a pity that he didn't have good luck, not long after the hall master, and before he enjoyed it for a few days, he was cleaned up by Lewen, and his ancestral secret techniques were looted away......
(To be continued.) )