Chapter 8 Li Shanren
The Bingtan Hutong in Erdao Street, Weidongmen, Tianjin, was originally one of the countless alleys that were unknown and unknown, but since the housewarming of a luggage, it has ushered in a rising period of career, and has become a celebrity in the alley for a while, and a leader in the peers.
Where did Qian Duoduo know this, but in the spirit of having a lively mentality of not looking at nothing, he followed everyone to run here, and asked a middle-aged man who was dressed neatly in the middle.
"This brother is invited." Qian Duoduo learned the scene on TV, and saluted the rich middle-aged man in front of him and said.
The guy was also warm-hearted, and immediately returned the salute, and couldn't stop saying, "Good to say, easy to say." ”
Qian Duoduo walked side by side with him, and then asked gossipingly: "This brother Ren, everyone is running over there, is there something wrong?" ”
When the rich middle-aged man heard Qian Duoduo ask, he immediately glanced at him strangely, and said in surprise: "This brother is the first time to come to our Tianjin Wei." ”
"Damn, such a hidden thing has been seen by you, at first glance, the brother is a talented and agile person, and he has been taught, yes, the master is indeed the first time to come to Tianjin Wei, what, what else is there to talk about?" Qian Duoduo was also very puzzled, and said interjectedly.
The rich middle-aged man nodded with a smile, looked like he was quick-witted, and raised his head and said: "That's natural, if it's not the first time for Brother Tai, how can it be that Li Shanren, one of the eight major families in Tianjin, has never heard of it." ”
Qian Duoduo asked curiously, "Li Fanren?" Eunuch? ”
The middle-aged man was stunned when he heard this, and said with a wry smile: "Brother Tai said that it was a joke, it was Li Shanren, the kindness of a kind person, and one of the eight richest families in our Tianjin Weili." ”
As soon as he heard the word rich, Qian Duoduo's glasses turned green, and he subconsciously asked, "The richest man?" ”
The middle-aged man smiled when he heard this: "The richest man can't talk about it, we Tianjin Wei have a paragraph that said this: Tianjin Wei, there is a rich family, and the street is so prosperous." The wealth is big, and the Bian family counts him, and Donghan Ximu also counts him. Zhende Huang, Yide Wang, Yizhao Linyuan Yang. High steps, Huajia Gate, Ice Cellar Hutong Li Shanren. Therefore, the richest thing in Tianjin Wei is the Bian family. ”
Qian Duoduo sighed disapprerovingly, and muttered in a low voice: "It turned out to be the end of the eight families, cut, I thought it was something terrible." ”
The middle-aged man immediately laughed when he heard Qian Duoduo's words, and wanted to say a few words to him, but when he saw that Qian Duoduo's mouth was still hairy, he shook his head and sighed in his heart: This is the so-called newborn calf is not afraid of tigers. But even he couldn't imagine that just a few months later, when he saw the young photo in front of him again, how surprised and remorseful he was, why didn't he hug this thick thigh at that time? Of course, this is all for later, so let's not mention it for now.
Seeing the middle-aged man shaking his head and striding away, when he left, the small eyes were clearly full of disdain and pity, leaning on, and this look, grandma's, and the pawnshop shopkeeper who had been in contact with him before, he was angry in his heart, and he didn't want to stick a hot face to a cold ass, so he followed the flow of people towards the alley by himself.
To say that this Li Shanren's family is really a good person, often boil some porridge when there is nothing to do, send some steamed buns or something to the vast number of poor people to eat, so there is, as soon as I heard that there was something wrong in the ice cellar alley, everyone ran here to see if Li Shanren was kind enough to improve the food for everyone.
Wait for Qian Duoduo to work hard, pass five levels and cut six generals, in a group of stinky old men in the middle of the encirclement, squeezed to the front desk, sure enough, see a very powerful and domineering compound, see this courtyard, Qian Duoduo can deeply understand what is called 'high gate compound', two meters high courtyard wall, all the same color of green bricks and green tiles, the gate initially looks five meters wide, there are two majestic stone lions lying at the door, the carving is good, at a glance is the fierce god and evil, the bad lion that frightens the children, used to ward off evil spirits, it is definitely exceeded.
On the gate, a long plaque, with four gold lacquer characters on the book 'Li Family Mansion', and a few servants in green clothes and small hats standing below, one wearing a black silk cotton jacket, a yellow horse coat, wearing a 'landlord's hat', and a pair of black cotton shoes, similar to the rich people on TV, about forty years old, with a capable face, fair skin, and two mustaches on his mouth, so the words 'dog-headed military division' inadvertently crawled into Qian Duoduo's mind.
Sure enough, this person opened his mouth, and Qian Duoduo sighed that he was wise, because this old man in brocade clothes claimed to be the Huang Butler of the Li Mansion, and this time he called everyone here to ask everyone for a favor, the reason was that the grandson of the eldest house of his own family, Li Shunian, who was just three years old (apocryphal, could not find information about Li Baoxun's descendants), suffered from tuberculosis (the ancients had tuberculosis and pneumonia, anyway, as long as it was about lung disease, cough and fever would be contagious, it was called tuberculosis), and the famous Chinese and Western doctors invited them all, but it had no effect at all. This time, I invite everyone to come, just for the sake of the old Li family's conscience in the past, to help post notices, according to the supreme instructions of the head of the Li family, it will be overnight, and the notices will be posted all over Tianjin.
But in the face of such a vast project, it is impossible to do it by the Li family alone, of course, we will not let you do it in vain, a notice of ten cents, the notice has been written, ready-made, and the paste is also ready, as long as all the fathers and villagers are willing to help, you can come to get the notice now.
Speaking, more than 20 people came out of the door, carrying three or four large vats, opened it and looked, it was all confused (that is, with flour and stirred together, Chinese-style glue), and moved out several large stacks of sea bowls, which were used to support people's paste, but the yellow housekeeper was not a fool, and also said that after everyone received it, the specific division of labor, to listen to the Li family, and when the brush came back, the Li family was going to check. In this way, it will prevent some hungry mud legs from stealing their own paste, or some people who are stealing their own money.
But even so, the scene is chaotic for a while, nonsense, this year, a pound of white noodles is only nine dollars, this paste is a pound of noodles, you get a hundred and eighty sheets, isn't it nearly a stone noodles? This job has no technical content, it is purely manual labor, and it is also a slight manual labor, tsk, Li Shanren is Li Shanren, isn't this a free face for us?
Looking at the excited crowd, listening to the thank you of these mud-legged people, Steward Huang also sighed slightly in his heart, as long as his own practice is useful, what is the money? Think about the resolute and mighty old man on weekdays, in just a few months, as if he was thirty years old, as a Huang steward who has been a slave all his life, how can he not be anxious? I really hope that this method will be useful, and when the time comes, some apricot forest masters or reclusive weird hermits can see it and help the little young master withstand this catastrophe.
Looking at his precious grandson's heart, constantly losing his fat, the second-generation Li Shanren, the contemporary head of the Li family, Li Shiming's anxious tears fell down, but not to mention that the famous doctor of Tianjin Wei is useless, even the blonde and blue-eyed Western doctor can't help.
In the end, a lot of Taoist monks, nuns, and goddesses were invited, and even the Boxer Rebellion's Zhang Jiao Capital was invited, and the money was not spent, but it was useless except for the aggravation of the disease.
The eldest prince Li Baoxun was anxious to fill his mouth with a bubble, and the young lady had hanged herself several times, if it weren't for the fact that the family saw that she looked wrong and stepped up their care for her, maybe she would have been buried by now.
Going out with a child, the maid who harmed the little young master with tuberculosis had disappeared as early as a month after the incident, and this matter was handled by himself, hemp eggs, dare to let the little young master be infected with tuberculosis, you are a daughter of a broken family, it is simply too cheap to be beaten to death, thinking of this, Steward Huang was angry, I really want that little girl skin is not dead, and I will kill it again.
Fortunately, the girl's family is also sensible, knowing that her girl has caused a catastrophe, and she didn't dare to ask for an explanation even when the girl disappeared, fuck, if you dare to come, see how Lao Tzu cleans you up, there are many valuables at home, and your girl will take a few pieces, and it is not impossible for the girl to escape from the owner, when the time comes, hum.
What Steward Huang didn't know was that just when he was worried about his young master, there was a person in the crowd opposite who was about to blossom with joy in his heart.
Tuberculosis is pneumonia, tuberculosis and the like, anyway, penicillin can be treated (he doesn't know, penicillin is not very effective on tuberculosis, almost useless), you must know that penicillin will not be discovered until 1928, but it was not mass-produced until 1942, what age is it now 1900, oh mom, Qian Duoduo suddenly felt that happiness came too suddenly.
Immediately tidied up his clothes, and then Qian Duoduo, who was arrogant, appeared in front of Steward Huang, and said to him with his nostrils: "I heard that your little master has tuberculosis?" ”
Steward Huang looked at the young man in front of him who didn't have any hair, his eyes were full of brilliance, and he sneered in his heart, boy, don't pretend, the hair hasn't grown, it's like coming to our Li family to fight the autumn wind, see if I don't break your legs.
Of course, I want to think so, but now the Li family is confused by the illness of the little young master, and even if there is a glimmer of hope, they will not let go, in case they beat this person out indiscriminately, and they will know about it, and they will not end well, although they can be sure that the young man in front of him who is like twenty-five or eighty-thousand is a liar.
Seeing that his subordinates were all looking towards him, he suddenly sulked: "What do you see, why don't you go and let someone post a notice, if you delay the master's business, see if Lao Tzu doesn't break your legs." ”
Everyone was scolded inexplicably, but they didn't dare to resist, and continued to do what they were doing.
"Hey, I said Lao Huang, let me ask you, who are you sending this temper to? Fuck, don't you look down on people, if you look down on people, you guys will leave immediately, fuck, Lao Tzu is finally in a good mood for that time, and he ran into something like you who looks down on people, it's really bad, damn, let's go. ”
What is Fearlessness? Qian Duoduo performed it perfectly, grasping the mentality of the yellow butler in front of him who did not dare to do anything to himself, plus knowing that he was too young, in view of the characteristic that Chinese always like to find older doctors, the more arrogant he only showed, the more he could not take the proportion, the more he could not take the proportion, the sooner he would report to the top, and he could also meet the right lord earlier, the so-called 'King Yan is good, the little devil is difficult.' 'Just kidding, is it good to have hundreds of thousands of dollars a minute now, how can you have the time to chat with your dog-legged housekeeper, do you think you are the third brother?
Don't say it, or say that everyone is cheap, just after Qian Duoduo's squirting, the naked distrust and contempt in Steward Huang's eyes, coupled with the ruthless ferocity, disappeared in an instant, and was replaced by caution and surprise.
Needless to say, this Huang Butler was fooled by the sentence "No this diamond diamond, don't take this porcelain work", seeing that there is a lot of money to be fearless, and he said that he was going to leave, it was really out of proportion, on the one hand, he didn't believe in his heart that this young man who didn't have any hair could save the little master.
But on the other hand, he was stunned by his arrogant and domineering attitude, who is Steward Huang? As the chief butler of the eight major families in Tianjin, what bullshit and charming characters have not been seen? Steward Huang is confident that as long as he is a liar, he will never be able to escape his eyes.
But the kid in front of him is obviously not, when he just spoke, his eyes were full of excitement, disdain and ridicule, but only less weak heart and timidity, if it wasn't for the fact that he was too tired in the past two days to get dizzy with old eyes, then this young man must have something dry.
Although I'm not sure if this dry goods will be useful to my little master, but as the old saying goes, if you are not afraid of 10,000, you are afraid of what if, what if it is useful? No, it's better to stabilize it first, and then say, I have to report to the master as soon as possible, and let the old man make his own decision.