The next morning, the snow began to fall after ten days of snow. Today, I learned that Yang Fan was going to open a shed under the overpass to give porridge, and the people and refugees in the city came over one after another. For them, it doesn't matter who gives the porridge, as long as they eat and drink for nothing, they don't care about cats and dogs. Originally, after Laba, these refugees were worried that they had no food to eat, and Yang Fan's appearance was also a surprise to these people in the city.

Some women and children even carried a small clay pot, ready to bring food back to the whole family. Yang Fan looked at the market that had not yet opened the stove, and shook his head helplessly. Here, Yang Fan can see that many people are residents of the city, although they are not rich and noble, but the basic food and clothing can still be solved.

Gu Zhiqing's father and son stood at the door of their pawnshop. Looking at the team gathered over there to give porridge, Gu Zhiqing asked suspiciously, "Yizhou, have you inquired clearly?" ”

"Father, rest assured, within three days, this Yang Fan will have no more rice to give, and the situation will be in our hands at that time, so he can't help but bow his head."

Gu Zhiqing's eyes narrowed, and he said: "You still can't underestimate this Yang Fan, if you can win the favor of the saint, the means will definitely be good." But now the saint doesn't dare to smash the next hot potato on his Yang Fan's head, that is the blessing of innocence, and there will be a disaster of innocence. In his Gu Zhiqing's eyes, this Yang Fan is knighted, and if he is not favored by so many people, it is a blessing without vain, and the cycle of cause and effect is a matter of time, and now the time has come.

"Yizhou, my father has witnessed the rise and fall of such a family. At that time, so many famous families in the Shi family and Lianghuai, the richer they were, they wanted their heirs to take the meritorious and famous examination, but the fame was admitted, but the family collapsed. Dad knows that you are also talented, but your business mind is still bright, so sooner or later, the Gu family's Tianzi No. 8 will be completely handed over to you, and you have to learn more. Don't force it! ”

"Got it, Dad." Gu Yizhou looked at the steaming porridge shed and nodded.

The water from more than a dozen cauldrons in the market finally boiled, bubbling and bubbling, and the guys behind carried the sacks and began to pour "rice" into the pot. The portions are quite sufficient, and there are three scoops of "rice" in one pot, but when you look at it so closely, the people around you immediately lose the interest in eating.

"This ...... What is this? "It turns out that the sorghum in the sack still has no shelling, this thing can be delicious, but it is too rough. A few of the city's residents lost their appetite for food and walked away scolding. "You're doing this, are you giving it to people or pigs? It is said that the lord is righteous and thin, I see, I am really blind. I really don't treat people as human beings. ”

"This Lord Yang is really ruthless, he takes out such things to open a shed and soup porridge, and he is not afraid of others poking his backbone. Alas, I walked away and went home to wash rice and cook. Today's free meal is a soup. ”

Seeing the same food as the chaff fed to the pigs, most of the inhabitants of the city lost their appetites, took pots and pans, and returned disappointed. There was more in his mouth, which was the scolding of Yang Fan. Scold him for being a black-hearted ghost and scolding him for an iron rooster. The remaining one or two thousand people were still waiting for the rice bran in this pot to be cooked. Others can be willful and go home and eat their own white rice, but they can't. If you don't eat it, you'll starve to death. But when he saw the millet grains that went into the pot like pig food, he suddenly couldn't hold a smile on his face, and thought about them one by one, thinking about the white rice porridge of the Gu family yesterday, and thinking about the rice soaked rice of the Liu family the day before yesterday, at least they were all for people to eat.

And this Lord Yang, what is this thing, to insult people? They really had to eat, how ugly their faces were, intentionally or unintentionally, they glanced at Yang Fan, who was sitting at the back. Zhang Yao looked at the complaining crowd, bent down, and said, "Sir, it's not good to do this." Your reputation is not going to be saved. ”

"Fame? What reputation can I have? Was it the gangster leader who gathered the crowd to make trouble that day, or the gentleman who fought a few days ago? ”

"That's not what I mean, I gathered a crowd to make trouble that day, and the saint also understood that you did it on purpose to show him, otherwise your head would have been gone, sir." Zhang Yao said.

Liu Hui on the side also echoed: "As for this Luo family, it was they who provoked trouble first, not to mention ......" Liu Hui stared at Yang Fan's eyes, "They are the rebels of the White Lotus Sect, and they should be killed!" ”

Yang Fan pretended to be taken aback and said, "White Lotus Sect? And what's going on? Liu Hui retracted his eyes, nodded and said, "That's right, this Luo Qingchuan is a big leader, and he happened to be accidentally bumped into by the lord." But sir, this time you opened a kitchen to give porridge, but these leftover millet from brewing are used to fill rice, if those scholars know about this matter, they will have to criticize you again. This is a great sin. ”

"Sin? I didn't eat more than them, and I didn't poison the pot, so why did he criticize him. Since Ming'er, the pots outside the city have been mixed with rice bran, and they love to eat and don't eat and pull down. Yang Fan took a sip of tea, looked at the remaining one or two thousand people, and muttered: "Even if you are infamous on your back, it is better than asking for tens of thousands more food in Shuntian Mansion." ”

Liu Hui and Zhang Yao didn't understand the meaning of Yang Fan's words, thinking that it was better to say that it was better to have food than not to eat, so they had to stop talking. More than a dozen cauldrons were revealed, and the porridge was thick, all of them were corn husks, could it be thick. Chewing on the unpalatable, yellowed rice bran, some of them were about to fall into their eyes.

In order to live, no matter how hard it is to swallow, you have to swallow it desperately. After this bowl, my stomach is full, and I have more disgust for Yang Fan, and the one who scolds the loudest is also the one who eats the most, why, it's unpalatable.

Yang Fan listened to this scolding and sneered: "These people were all raised by the mouths of several masters under this overpass a few days ago, and they forgot that they were hungry before, right?" He saw that it was almost there, and got up and left. After inquiring about the information here, Gu Yizhou jumped back to the No. 8 pawnshop and shouted, "Dad, this Yang Fan is finished!" I couldn't get the rice, but the millet came out and mixed it with chaff to feed the pigs. Now there is a lot of scolding under the overpass, haha. ”

"Shut up! Little brute. ”

"Master...... Grandpa ......, "Gu Yizhou didn't meet his father, but provoked the old lady Gu Xucheng, "You don't stay at home at ease, what are you doing here?" ”

"What? If it weren't for the housekeeper's gossip, I would have been kept in the dark. Why, you two fathers and sons have the ability, don't you dare to fight in the ring! See if I don't kill you little brute! The old lady's crutch swept over and hit Gu Yizhou's ass directly.

Gu Zhiqing, who came from outside with a smile, was stunned, and saw his old man's angry appearance, so he hurriedly dissuaded: "Dad, what are you doing." Erxi, quickly, bring the old lady back to the house, so as not to get angry. ”

"Zhiqing, you're so old, and you're still messing around with a little one?" Old lady Gu was on crutches with both hands, panting, and said, "Hurry up and get this troublesome ring, are you going to lose the reputation of others, or are you going to lose the patronage family's industry?" ”

"Ahh Don't worry, Erxi, you kid, don't take the old lady back soon. Gu Zhiqing slapped the back of the head of the person next to him.

On the second day after Yang Fan's soup kitchen, the Gu family continued to open the shed to give porridge. This time, the porridge was even thicker, and the people who drank it all over the city praised the Gu family's benevolence and righteousness. People are always easy to heal their scars and forget the pain, a few days ago, the price of the Gu family's goods was so low, and as a result, the price of the people rose up, and the city was full of black-hearted ghosts who scolded the Gu family.

Now that Gu Jiacai has been giving porridge for two days, the whole city says that Gu Zhiqing is benevolent and righteous, and even a few old Xiucai in the west of the city have put down their "noble" figures, and made an exception to write a few couplets for the New Year to be used in the Tianzi No. 8 pawnshop. Most of them are cheesy couplets such as "business is prosperous and leads to the four seas, and the wealth is wide and reaches the three rivers".

In the next few days, Yang Fan was busy preparing the things to be used to go to sea, and under the overpass, only a few pots were symbolically propped up, and the Gu family's followers were too much to set up a porridge shed opposite when they were giving porridge to the people. Uncle Liang couldn't stand it, and even the suburbs of the city complained, and the whole city poked Yang Fan's backbone and scolded him, scolding Yang Fan for being an unscrupulous profiteer, and not treating people as human beings abounded. From the Manchu courtiers to the common people, there are those who have been grudging for a long time in the past, and there are also those who can't eat white rice porridge and ridicule them.

There are also many angry young people who have been instigated by some people.

At present, several scholars in the capital raised their arms and shouted, asking Yang Fan for an explanation. Ordinary scholars, how dare they act so boldly, even if they are empty lords, they are not something that these scholars who have not entered the top three can provoke. However, Yang Fan seemed to have been silent for several days, so that these people thought that Yang Fan was weak-hearted, and the one who provoked the trouble was Fang Yiru, who had a broken hand.

Among the dozen or so people, most of them are the sons of the six subjects. Dragons give birth to dragons and phoenixes, and old trolls raise little trolls. For these noisy trolls, Yang Fan has no time to deal with them for the time being, because in that gloomy cellar, a curious baby is opening his brain, constantly asking questions accumulated in the past few days.

Seeing Sun Yuanhua with dark circles under his eyes and constantly throwing out all kinds of questions, Yang Fan's head was about to explode, he really shouldn't listen to Liang Bo's words, come down and take a look. Sun Yuanhua's problem is all kinds of imagination anyway.

"Sir, do you say that the so-called element can be understood as a qi, which is the qi used to compose the texture of this substance."

"Sir, what is the little two under this symbol? Why not add two to the front? ”

"Sir......"

"Stop! Lord Sun, I am here to solve the problem, not to discuss the problem, and I will go to sea in two days, and I have come here to tell you that I will stay in the cellar so as not to be discovered. ”

"Out to sea? Go fishing? Sun Yuanhua put down the pen in his hand and asked. In his opinion, this empty lord should be idle all day long, and it would be good to be able to have a trace of interest in these "sideways" Western knowledge. "Catch you big-headed ghost, this time I went to sea to envoy Luzon."

"Envoy to Luzon?" In Sun Yuanhua's impression, this was a small island country that he hadn't been to for decades, so he asked, "Is it the Sheng's decision?" ”

Yang Fan nodded and said, "Otherwise, Lord Sun thinks that he is in a panic and goes overseas to play?" ”

Sun Yuanhua stopped and said, "The lord will not call Lord Sun and Lord Sun, but he is in trouble." By the way, when the lord goes to sea, won't there be no one to discuss these issues with? No, can we go to sea together? In case something happens to the lord, he can't come back. This is left for a lot of topics, but it's going to worry me to death. ”

"I said Sun Yuanhua, can you please me for something. If you open your mouth and close your mouth, you can't come back, what does it mean? ”

"Hehe, misunderstanding, misunderstanding, I don't mean to curse the lord, I just want to go to sea together. I have been in the dark cellar all day, and I have come to hold back a good thing, and I asked the lord to agree to this condition. ”

Yang Fan summed it up and said, "It's okay, but you have to change it if you are like this." ”

"How?"

Yang Fan smiled, "You'll know when the time comes." ”

Sun Yuanhua glanced at Yang Fan suspiciously, as if he was about to be cheated again.