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Seeing Steward Xu leave, the people in the teahouse were a little disappointed, the new Journey to the West, which was completely different from the past, had already hooked their souls, and now everyone was eager to know the story below, so in the next time, the entire teahouse was discussing the plot that might happen next in Journey to the West.

The first three manuscripts brought by Zhou Zhong were divided by Zheng Jing and the three of them, among which Li Zheng took away the most critical first one by virtue of his young age, and Zhang Guo and Zheng Jing got the last two respectively, and they agreed that after going back, each person copied the manuscript he got twice, and everyone exchanged them separately. It's just that what Zheng Jing and the three didn't expect was that a hundred years later, someone was willing to pay 10,000 taels of silver to buy the first three original manuscripts of Journey to the West in the hands of their descendants, but their descendants all refused, and declared that these manuscripts would be left to future generations as heirlooms and would never be sold.

After saying goodbye to Zheng Jing and the others, Zhou Zhong just wanted to go back to celebrate Steward Xu, but he didn't expect a person to chase after him, and shouted while running: "Gongzi Zhou, please stay!" ”

Zhou Chong turned his head to look when he heard the sound, and found that it was the Liu shopkeeper of Fengyou Teahouse who called him, only to see the other party running over and taking out a few pieces of broken silver and offering them with both hands, and said with a smile: "Zhou Gongzi, this is the reward given by the guest to Steward Xu today, the copper coin is too heavy to take it, so I will change it to silver, you can help bring it back!" ”

After hearing this, Zhou Chong reached out and took the silver, estimating that it was about five or six dollars, which made him happy, and he also smiled and said to the shopkeeper Liu: "There is the shopkeeper of Lao Liu, I thank you on behalf of Xu Boxie, and I will also inform him and let him go to the teahouse on time tomorrow to tell the story." ”

Shopkeeper Liu waited for Zhou Chong's last sentence, and after hearing it, his old face smiled, and when Zhou Chong said a few words to the other party, he turned around and said goodbye. But when Zhou Chong returned home, he saw a strange scene.

When Zhou Zhong entered the gate and came to the front yard, he saw the butcher Wu Shan standing in the yard pushing a cart of bricks, and Steward Xu was holding a pot of tea in his hand, drinking something with the other party, and Wu Shan nodded again and again.

"Steward Xu, what are you doing here, why did Brother Wushan pull so many bricks?" Zhou Zhong walked over and asked with a smile. Today, Steward Xu earned five or six dollars of silver in two books, which made him feel very good, and the whole person seemed to be relaxed.

Seeing Zhou Zhong coming back, Steward Xu hurriedly bowed down and said, "Young Master, Wu Shan wants to build a stove in his yard, that's why he brought so many bricks, but I think it's ......."

Without waiting for Steward Xu to finish speaking, Zhou Chong frowned and said: "Steward Xu, this is your fault, let's rent the house to Brother Wushan, naturally we have to eat here, it is normal for him to build a stove in his yard, how can you stop it?" ”

Zhou Chongzhi said that Steward Xu had some discrimination against the identity of Wu Shan's butcher, for example, he gave Zhao Er the leftovers that day, and he was the first to suspect that Wu Shan had eaten it secretly. Now I saw Steward Xu stopping Wu Shan's car pulling bricks, and immediately thought that he didn't want Wu Shan to cook in the yard, which made Zhou Chong a little angry, no matter how he said that people also paid rent, cooking and raising the fire is naturally the right of the other party.

However, Zhou Zhong obviously misunderstood Steward Xu, and before Steward Xu could explain, Wu Shan next to him said with a smile: "Gongzi Zhou, you misunderstood, Uncle Xu didn't want to stop me from building a stove, but he was discussing one thing with me, but he couldn't be the master, so he waited with me in the courtyard for Gongzi to come back." ”

"Huh?" Zhou Chong was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and then looked at Steward Xu with an aggrieved face with some embarrassment, "This...... Ha Lu Ha~, what is that...... I'm sorry Uncle Xu, it's all my fault, what are you discussing, do you have to wait for me to come back? ”

Zhou Zhong is also a person who changes when he knows his mistakes, and he even changes his title to Steward Xu. Steward Xu naturally didn't blame Zhou Chong, and immediately opened his mouth to tell him about the matter he discussed with Wu Shan.

It turned out that after Steward Xu escaped back from Fengyou Teahouse, he happened to meet Wu Shan pushing a cart of bricks in, and after asking about the situation and knowing that he wanted to build a stove in his yard, his heart was moved. The kitchen of the Zhou Mansion is in the front yard, and Aunt Wang and Bang'er often help cook, which used to be fine, but now the family rents out the yard in the front yard, especially the big man Wu Shan lives here, which is inconvenient. So Steward Xu discussed with Wu Shan and asked him to help build a stove in the house in the Zhou Mansion, and as for himself, he could use the kitchen in the front yard of the mansion.

Wu Shan was also very happy after hearing this, after all, he had also seen the kitchen of the Zhou Mansion, it was big and tidy, it was much better than the stove he built, so he also agreed, but he had to go through Zhou Chong's consent to enter the inner house, so the two of them stayed in the courtyard and waited for Zhou Zhong to come back.

After listening to this, Zhou Zhong thought about it for a while, and quickly nodded and smiled: "Okay, it's still Steward Xu, you think about it, but I don't know if you are free now, Brother Wushan, let's go to the backyard and build the stove together?" ”

"Zhou Gongzi is too polite, you can use my old Wu Shan or old Wu, I was going to build a stove this afternoon, if you think it's appropriate now, I'll help you build a stove." Wu Shan has lived in Zhou's Mansion for a few days, and he usually meets Zhou Zhong and Steward Xu often, so he has lost his initial restraint and has become more talkative.

"Okay, then I'll call you Lao Wu in the future, let's go to the inner house now, choose a yard and build the stove." Zhou Zhong also smiled after hearing this, and after speaking, he and Steward Xu led the way in front, and Wu Shan pushed the car to the inner house.

There are a total of seven yards in the inner house plus the back garden, except for Aunt Wang and Zhou Chong's yard where people live, the others are empty, Zhou Zhong and Steward Xu discussed it on the road, and finally decided to put the stove in the yard next to Aunt Wang's yard, this yard was originally lived by Duo'er's mother, Aunt Zhao, in order to take care of Duo'er, there was a simple stove in the right wing of this yard, and now it only needs to be repaired and reinforced.

The stove is a technical job, which Zhou Zhong and Steward Xu are laymen, otherwise they would have built a stove in the house by themselves, after all, it is very inconvenient to run in the front yard and backyard every day. Fortunately, Wu Shan is a good hand in this area, and he is proficient in everything and mud bricks, while Zhou Zhong and Steward Xu can only help carry water and move bricks.

It took nearly an afternoon to build a new stove, and Wu Shan helped Zhou Zhong to move some of the utensils in the front kitchen to the new kitchen in the inner house, and also filled the water tank with water, which really made Zhou Chong Wu Shan, a straightforward man, have a good impression, and at the same time gave some unused cooking utensils in the front kitchen to the other party, and Wu Shan was thanked again and again.

After sending Wu Shan away, Zhou Zhong and Steward Xu came to the courtyard where Aunt Wang lived, Bang'er and Duo'er were there, just now when they were building the stove, Duo'er also ran to play, and Bang'er was a big girl, so she hid in the yard and didn't come out.

"Smack!" Zhou Zhong put the reward that Steward Xu got from telling the book on the table today, and then said to Aunt Wang and Bang'er around him a little proudly, "This is the money that Steward Xu earned by telling the book today, which is enough to have five or six dollars of silver, although it has added one more, but today it has also knocked out the fame, I believe that by tomorrow, there will be more guests coming, and the income will definitely be only a lot more, so calculated, it is more than a dozen taels of silver a month, excluding the expenses of these two months, at the end of the year, you should be able to save thirty taels of silver, When we have these thirty taels of silver as the foundation, our family's life will not be worried for the time being! ”

This is the first time Zhou Chong has revealed his heart in front of his family, Aunt Wang is a person who has no idea, and now seeing Zhou Chong so confident, he is also infected, and he is speechless with excitement all of a sudden; Steward Xu smirked, fantasizing that he was famous in Songjiang, and the good days of eating and drinking spicy food in the past would soon come again; Although Duo'er is not sensible, she is also happy with her brother.

Only the bracelet glanced at the elder brother very complicatedly, and his eyes were slightly red and he didn't speak. In her opinion, her brother should have sat at home and studied hard, and then prepared for the next year's exam, but now because of the drag of their family, they have to give up studying, and run around for the life of the family every day, and even because of the income of a few dollars of silver, they are happy to be like this, which makes Bang'er really sad for her brother.

Speaking of Bang'er, like Zhou Chong before, she studied with the husband invited by the family, and although Bang'er's talent is not as good as the original Zhou Chong, it is also very extraordinary.

Bang'er could not participate in the imperial examination, but this did not affect her love of reading, in addition, she also especially likes to paint and compose poetry, used to be with a few ladies in Songjiang Mansion, and also formed a poetry club, several teenage daughters often get together to chant poems, paint and play the piano to entertain themselves. In the words of later generations, Bang'er is actually a standard literary young woman, with some thoughts in her head, but she doesn't care much about reality.

Bang'er has always valued Zhou as his idol, fantasizing that one day his brother will jump into the dragon gate through the imperial examination and become a young handsome man who attracts the attention of everyone, but now Zhou Chong is running around every day for a living because of family reasons, although Zhou Chong himself thinks that this is much more interesting than reading, and he is not the original Zhou Chong, and he has no interest in the imperial examination.

At first, she thought that her brother was hit by the death of her father and the decline of the family, so her personality changed greatly and she was no longer interested in the imperial examination, but through Zhou Chong's book to make money, Bang'er saw her brother's talent again, which made her have a new idea, thinking that her brother did not want to study, but was dragged down by their family members, so she had to give up reading and deal with those cheesy firewood, rice, oil and salt.

It is precisely with the above ideas that Bang'er felt so sad when she saw her brother so excited for a few coins of silver, and at the same time secretly blamed herself for being useless and unable to share her brother's worries, and she relied on her brother alone to support her at home and abroad. Thinking of this, Bang'er felt a sour nose and tears almost fell out.