12. Be convinced
Yu Yiqin wiped the sweat from his forehead, and the eighteen white wax rods seemed to be still shaking in front of him, making him sweat like pulp.
"Old Five...... What do you think? He looked at his brother beside him and asked in a low voice.
"It's okay, victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, I'm just unprepared for a while, and I am ...... for children" Yu Yixuan's face turned pale: "In another month, I will train my hands well, and then I will compete with him!" ”
As soon as Yu Yiqin wanted to say something, he saw two teenagers running out of the town, both seventeen or eighteen years old, and stopped when he saw them.
"Father, fifth uncle!"
These two people are a pair of twin sons of Yu Yiqin, Yu Guoning and Yu Guoan, they heard that the family of the fifth grandson Yinglian was going to perform with the teenager of the cousin Yinglian, so they ran out with great interest to see the excitement, but they didn't expect that their father and uncle had already returned.
"Fifth uncle, have you won, did you beat Guozhen to the ground?" Yu Guoning, who was in a hurry, said.
"That's inevitable, what Guo Zhen brings is just some street gangsters, what's the use!" Yu Guoan said.
Seeing them, Yu Yiqin's heart suddenly moved.
His two sons can't study or do things, they are just mediocre people, good-looking, lively, playful, and entertaining, if it is usual, Yu Yiqin is not worried at all, as long as they are older and more sensible, the authority of the Yu family will still be in their hands.
But not now, Yu Guozhen's sudden rise made Yu Yiqin realize that his two sons were tied together, and they were not Yu Guozhen's opponents.
He is an old man, he is nearly half a hundred years old, and it will be great to have a good life in another one or two decades, what kind of situation should his two sons face Guozhen at that time?
"Go back, if I see you messing around outside, I'll just break your legs!" The more he thought about it, the more angry he became, Yu Yiqin shouted.
Why don't any of his sons have any success?
Angry to the extreme, it is natural to find a solution, Yu Yiqin thought of the white wax pole stretched out to him, and his heart suddenly moved.
He and Guozhen did not tear their faces, and after the death of his parents, he still helped himself in the funeral, and in addition, although he received a three-bedroom house, he never moved in to live, but just piled up some sundries in it......
There is still room for redemption, at most it is just to give up the clan power to the third room, with the ability of Guozhen, the lintel is a sure thing!
Thinking about it from another angle, he found that there was no need for him to fight with Yu Guozhen at all - when it came to intimacy, the fourth room that died was his cousin, but Yu Guozhen's father was also his cousin!
"Old five, I can figure it out, Guozhen has a future, which is a great thing for our Yu family!" After drinking the two sons away, he slapped his thigh: "Our generation has you to support the portal, and in the next generation, we will rely on Guozhen to light the lintel, and now the world is in chaos, and thieves are everywhere in Shaanxi and Jin...... Guozhen is so capable, our Yu family has no worries! ”
The more he thought about it, the more excited he became, he grabbed Yu Yixuan and was about to turn around, Yu Yixuan was sulking, after all, he lost to Yu Guozhen, especially those teenagers won cleanly, so that his face was gone, and for a while, where could he let go!
"What is the second brother doing with me?" He asked.
"Go back, go back and talk to Guo Zhen well, he trained the money and food of the family, and our clan came out, and the other family members were all handed over to him to practice." Yu Yiqin rushed to the tunnel.
"What, what does the second brother mean, to let that junior ride on our heads?"
"Old Five, I have always admired your resourcefulness, but today you are wrong, your juniors are better than your elders, isn't it what you often say that the blue is better than the blue, why don't you have today's thoughts?"
"You can reach it, I can't reach it, I want to go to you!" Yu Yixuan flicked his sleeves and strode into the town.
The two broke up unhappily and did not get Yu Yixuan's support, Yu Yiqin did not rush to find Yu Guozhen after all, so he could only persuade Yu Yixuan again. After persuading for two days, seeing that Yu Yixuan was still unmoved, Yu Yiqin was also annoyed, so he came to Yu Guozhen's house alone.
The last time he came, he was in a hurry to watch the performance, and he didn't pay attention to how Yu Guozhen's house was built, but now that he looked carefully, he couldn't help but praise it secretly.
It was only a month's work, and the wall was completely up, and there was a watchtower at each of the four corners of the wall, but now there were few people, and there was no one on duty on the watchtower. This construction speed far exceeded Yu Yiqin's imagination, and he originally thought that it would not be completed in the second half of the year.
The new houses built in the courtyard walls have now begun to take shape, and a few of them can be inhabited by people. Yu Yiqin walked to the door and looked inside, and immediately someone asked, "What for?" ”
"Are you dead, crow, that you don't even recognize me?" Yu Yiqin rolled his eyes and scolded.
It was Ye Crow who was asking, he was standing behind the door with a white wax pole, and when he heard the scolding, he sneered and said: "The second master is not strange, this is the rule of petty officials, no matter who comes in, they have to ask questions first." ”
"This kid, do you really think that you are here in the Willow Camp?" Yu Yiqin was not angry, on the contrary, at this time, he wished that Yu Guozhen's skills were as big as possible, and the greater his skills, the greater his vision, of course, he would not compete with him for the position of the patriarch in the second room, on the contrary, it would be of great help to the family!
He stopped at the door, waved his hand, and said, "Crow, you go and talk to Guozhen, and say that I came to see him." ”
Ye Crow responded with a smile, and before leaving, he turned his head and said: "Second master, the little official thinks the name crow is not good, so he changed his name to me, and in the future, the second master will call me Ye Wuya, the martial arts of writing and martial arts, and the cliff of the cliff...... The petty official also said, my name has a different meaning, that cliff is also the cliff of Yashan. ”
After finishing speaking, Ye Wuya trotted towards the house, Yu Yiqin was bored waiting, pondering his name: "The cliff of Yashan...... Yashan, Yashan, this word is so familiar...... But why can't you remember? ”
He didn't wait long before he saw Yu Guozhen walking out after Ye Wuya, Yu Guozhen was wearing a neatly ironed new clothes, his face was mature and not quite equal to his age, and he looked extremely heroic.
"Second uncle, please come in and speak."
Seeing that there was only the second uncle, Yu Guozhen could roughly guess his intention, and a smile appeared on his face. invited Yu Yiqin into the courtyard, and Yu Guozhen said while walking: "At this time, what are the instructions for the second uncle to come to me?" ”
"Command?" Yu Yiqin laughed, where did he dare to tell Yu Guozhen, if it wasn't for broad daylight and in front of many people, he wouldn't even dare to walk into this courtyard, and he now decided in his heart that the matter of the fourth room was done by his bold nephew!
Since he came, he wasn't going to ask for any face, and said very simply: "Guozhen, how much silver and grain do you need to spend every month to train these teenagers, and the clan will pay you expenses." ”
Yu Guozhen smiled faintly.
"No need, I can afford this bit of silver grain, and the pearls I used to make before were exchanged for some silver, which is enough for me to use for a year."
Hearing him say this, Yu Yiqin stopped, stretched out his hand and handed over a cloth bag: "Take it." ”
Yu Guozhen took it and pinched it, and said in amazement: "What does this mean by the second uncle?" ”
"The IOU of the fourth room was fake, and I didn't know what was going on at the time, so I made a mistake, so I paid for the pearl to redeem it." Yu Yiqin was very satisfied with his reaction, and said with a smile: "There is also the mansion left by your father, I was afraid that you would not be able to manage the family business when you were young, but now that you have grown up and are very disciplined, this mansion can also be handed back to you." ”
Yu Guozhen pondered slightly for a while, what this second uncle did made him a little impressed.
The mansion was worth four or five hundred taels of silver, and the pearls were worth more than a thousand taels of silver, and when the two were combined, nearly two thousand taels of silver were handed over to him. Although the Yu family is considered a wealthy family in Xiang'an, and the second room is the patriarch with the most abundant industry, this is also a large expense.
"I will accept the title deed of the house, and as for these pearls, let the second uncle dispose of them." After thinking for a while, Yu Guozhen handed the pearl back to the past: "If the second uncle has the heart, exchange it for silver grain, and by the way, help me recruit some innocent homeless people, now there are only eighteen people, and it is not of much use." ”
"Rest assured, rest assured!" Yu Yiqin received Yu Guozhen's understanding, and his spirits were lifted, and he secretly praised himself for being a nephew. However, the more generous Yu Guozhen is, the more he knows that he has to do it more beautifully, and he has an idea in his heart, after those pearls are exchanged for silver taels, not only can he not be harsh, but he also has to paste some upside down.
"If the second uncle is fine, you can see how I train these teenagers." Seeing that Yu Yiqin hadn't gotten his mind yet, Yu Guozhen said.
"Just going to see!" Yu Yiqin was even more happy in his heart, which made him completely unseen, he came to mend the relationship with Sanfang this time, which seemed to be right.
He didn't quite understand Yu Guozhen's practice method, but at least he still understood the "order and prohibition", seeing that these teenagers, who were originally naughty children on the street, could do this in just one month, Yu Yiqin respected his cousin and nephew even more in his heart.
The morning drill lasted for an hour and a half, plus a quarter of an hour of rest every half hour, and the teenagers repeated the same movements over and over again, although it was boring, but they did it very seriously. For them to do this, the smell of fish and meat from the kitchen plays a key role.
Yu Yiqin watched it with relish, and at noon he also had lunch with these teenagers, their food was quite good, two vegetables and two vegetables per group of eight people, all of which were packed on large plates, that is, Yu Yiqin, as the head of the Yu family, was not like this.
Halfway through the meal, the second senior high school pillar who was on duty outside ran over, he looked a little strange, and said a few words in Yu Guozhen's ear, Yu Guozhen raised his head and glanced at Yu Yiqin.
"What's wrong?" Yu Yiqin was stunned in his heart, because Yu Guozhen's eyes were murderous!
"Someone saw Li Jinbao, it was the missing steward in the fourth room, squatting in the river with a group of people." Yu Guozhen finished picking up the last grain of rice in the bowl and said slowly: "Second uncle, do you want to go with us to take a look?" ”
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