Depressed time goes slowly, but there is always a passing tense.

It was almost dinner time, and Li Shifu looked listless, holding his chin and sitting in his own place in the study at home. Li Shifu's eyes were straight, his face was demented, and it was obvious that he had not yet come out of that depressed state.

It is said that the school style of Qingwan Township is indeed good, and the general family is a slightly better family, and there is a corner of the study room. In addition to placing the books in the house, the main purpose is to let the family have a fixed and clean place to read and write. As the richest man in the village, Li Xian has many children in the family, so he naturally has a big study house, which has a special desk for the seven children in the family, and the four treasures of the study.

Although not everyone likes to read, everyone in Qingwan Township knows that it is necessary to know a certain amount of words and be able to do general arithmetic. In the hearts of the villagers, you should never want to get too much respect, even if you are a rich and wealthy family. In addition, it is almost free to study a small Mongolian and middle Mongolian classes in the township, so the villagers will work hard to master a certain amount of knowledge when they are children.

Then the hour before dinner is the study time stipulated by Li Shifu's family.

"Look at your ghostly appearance of a lost soul, I can know with my toes that you are being bullied by that little lady of the Chen family again!" Li Shihua, the second brother who likes to confront himself the most, but is the closest in temperament and has the closest relationship, sneered at each other.

"Your little Mengban is simply a shame for our Qingtan Village. And your classmate Li Shifu often bullies a little girl, which is a shame in shame. Don't say I'm your second brother in the future, I can't afford to lose this face. ”

Hearing the second brother's merciless and chattering counts, Li Shifu temporarily forgot about his loss, so he sneered:

"Humph! Thought I didn't know? When you were in Xiaomeng and Zhongmeng, you didn't let the second brother of the little lady crush you to be a man with your tail between your legs. Now it's just that Chen Hu rarely returns to the Mongolian Academy, and your tail is gradually standing up, what are you proud of here? ”

"You??? You fart! Me, have I ever bullied a little girl like you? Li Shihua poked his sore foot, and retorted with a red face: "That's because Young Master Ben just figured it out this year, what is the true meaning of the power of many people." ”

"In the past, I couldn't fight that Chen Hu, but now it's different from the past, if he provokes me, the buddies I organized will guarantee that he can't eat and walk around. Hmph, it's because he doesn't know each other and doesn't come to the Mongol Academy, otherwise I'll prove it to him and see who the real boss is. The more Li Shihua spoke, the more excited he became, and his voice was loud.

"You two like to compete all day! This is the study room, what are you yelling about? Don't let people read books! Someone in the room protested, and the protester was the third lady Li Shifang.

Li Xian married a wife and a concubine, and the big house produced Li Shiyu and Li Shiyun, the eldest and second ladies, followed by the three brothers Shirong, Shihua and Shifu. There is a daughter and a son in the second room, the child's name is Shigui, and he is the last in the family, only four or five years old, and he has not yet reached school age. The eldest daughter in the second room is the third sister of Shifang who protested, she is half a year older than Shihua, and she is also studying in the Dameng class.

"Shut up!" The two brothers shouted in unison.

They were repulsed by the pair of sisters and brothers in the second room, and they were talking about their hearts, so how could they allow the third sister who didn't want to see them to interfere and stop them.

Li Shifang was blocked by the tone of these two little brothers for a while, and thought in his heart: Why is it that Shihua and Shifu are fierce and ruthless in the family? It's still the eldest sister, the second sister, and the eldest brother, but it's a pity that the eldest sister and the second sister have married away from home, and the eldest brother is also newly married, and he hasn't set foot in this study room for a long time. I can't suppress these two ruthless people, I'm afraid that the study room will not be my paradise!

Before she could stop thinking about it, the old man in the family pushed the door in, opened his mouth and said, "Sister, I really can't find your handkerchief." ”

"I only lent it to you yesterday, and I can't find it so soon?" The arrival of the younger brother broke the situation of the three of them, and they didn't have to directly fight against the ruthless two, which made Shifang secretly relieved in her heart.

"I really forgot where to put it!" The younger brother Shigui spread his hands and shrugged his shoulders helplessly.

With a "snap", Li Shifu next to him suddenly became angry, slapped this noble on the head, and scolded angrily: "It's nothing, what are you shrugging your shoulders?" What shoulders? What shoulders? ”

"Li Shifu, what kind of nerves do you have, beating people indiscriminately." Li Shifang rushed over, pulled his crying brother and said, "Let's go, let's go tell Dad." ”

Looking at the pair of sisters and brothers in the second room who were angry and left, the second brother Shihua came back to his senses from surprise and asked, "Shifu, did you really take the wrong medicine today?" Don't be angry and beat your little brother like this! ”

"Alas! I don't know, when I see my little brother's shrugging action, I can't help but be very angry, I can't help but go crazy. ”

"Alas! I have a sequelae of shrugging my shoulders! Second brother, don't you know, I wasn't bullied by Chen Fenglan this time, but ??????"

"That's it, I can't get angry if I want to, do you think I'm depressed? Now, the hard one has beaten Chen Fenglan very well. I wanted to prove myself softly, but I was unconsciously defeated by Li Wen, and I was so depressed that I was about to vomit blood. I really don't have the shame to go back to the Mongolian Academy. Li Shifu told his second brother about the recent events one by one, and he was even more depressed after speaking.

"Don't you always think you're smart? Why don't you understand the truth of both rigidity and softness, and don't know how to combine civil and military? ”

"Rigidity and softness? Civil and military? ”

"You listen to me???"

??????

When the two brothers were chatting hotly, the old butler pushed the door in and said, "Rich young master, the old man called you to his room." ”

"Okay, I'll go!" Li Shifu responded, he knew what was going on, but he didn't take it to heart. First, he is usually favored by his father, so he is not afraid; Second, he had just agreed with his second brother, and at this moment he was temporarily sick and in a good mood.

"Second brother, it's decided, if you help me do it as usual, I will definitely hold two hundred copper coins." When Li Shifu was about to go out, he didn't forget to confirm with his second brother.

When Li Shifu entered the door of his father's study, he heard a fast and dense crackling sound, which was the sound of the beads he was about to dial. Looking at his father's five fat fingers like a small radish flying like a fly, and the beads like a shadow, Li Shifu proudly thought that in terms of the level of abacus alone, his father recognized the second, and no one in this township dared to recognize the first.

After a while, Li Xian gently pushed the abacus in front of the table and sighed to himself: "I have three out of ten fertile fields in the township, but the gross harvest from this trip is only more than three hundred taels." Pure profit, less than half of the more than ten Shu brocades that Chen Chaoshun brought back. ”

At this time, he stroked the clothes cut from the exquisite Shu brocade on his body, and sighed again: "This Shu brocade is exquisite and comfortable, but it is too expensive and expensive, and one foot will top me a few stone valleys." One day, I will come back with a thousand horses, so that I will no longer have to compete with these tenants in the country. ”

This is just Li Xian's self-consolation, you know, the four famous brocades in the world in later generations are produced in Chengdu Shu brocade, which has the longest history (Yun brocade - produced in Nanjing, Song Jin - produced in Suzhou at the end of the Song Dynasty, Zhuang brocade - produced in Guangxi in the Song Dynasty). Chengdu, in the Han Dynasty because of the development of brocade industry and set up a special Jinguan management, so there is the "Jinguan City" said, five dynasties and ten kingdoms because of the variety of hibiscus, so it is also called "Furong City", referred to as "Rong".

Chengdu is subordinate to the former Shu Kingdom, while Qingwan Township is located in the territory of Dachanghe State. Although the two places are not too far apart, but the southwest is mostly big rivers and high mountains, if you want to buy Shu Jin, you have to wade through the evil water and climb the mountains for a long time, and the most dangerous thing is that the mountain bandits and road thieves who are haunted by ghosts at the junction of the two countries. So now Dachang and the domestic Shu brocade, the price of thieves is expensive, and the "thief is expensive" has its "thief expensive" reason, in addition to the beauty of the goods, but also because there are really thieves.

Li Xian also knew that it was a business of licking blood on the knife edge, and only Chen Chao and Li Xing, who had experienced the life of licking blood and had the background of the military, had the ability to eat this bowl of rice. If you are delicate and expensive, you are just making trouble here.

"Alas! The distance between me and Chen Chao is getting farther and farther! Li Xian, who still hadn't noticed his son coming in, sighed to himself.

"Dad, don't you often say that our family's ancestral tomb has good feng shui, both prosperous and prosperous, and the best in the township? But why do I always feel that my family is inferior to the Chen family everywhere? ”

As soon as Li Shifu's words fell, he was shocked by a muffled sound of "bang".

It was Li Xian who slammed his palm on the table. Li Xian's palms are thick and thick, and the table wood is thick, and when the two collide, the sound is muffled rather than crisp. But the heaviness contained in the muffled sound is even more disturbing.

Li Xian is fat and round, with a thick waist and a short neck and a round head; The chubby palm is accompanied by five fat fingers like small radish; On the garlic nose with a hole in the sky, a pair of big eyes of mung bean dices shine shrewdly. Seeing it, the happy people praised it, and they looked so happy. Those who don't like it, naturally there is a thing to be slaughtered in the animal house that jumps into the brain.

Li Shifu almost broke out in a cold sweat, he didn't know why his father suddenly became angry, he didn't know if he said the wrong thing, or because he beat his younger brother, he provoked his father Huwei? In his surprise, it didn't seem to be as bad as he imagined, because he didn't see anger on his father's face.

Li Xian not only did not get angry, but his eyebrows showed joy, and he waved his hand and said, "Good son, come here, come here!" Not only do you look like your father the most, but you are also like your father, and you are also a blessing for your father. Your words have woken me up in my dreams! Today I'm going to reward you well. ”

Li Xian smiled, grabbed more than a dozen copper plates and stuffed them into the hands of his baby son, as if talking to himself, and as if to say to his son:

"As the saying goes, feng shui takes turns, thirty years to the east of the river, thirty years to the west of the river. Now that my family has been in business for nearly 80 years, and feng shui is about to run out, it is time to find another feng shui treasure hole. Otherwise, how could my family be pulled further and further away by Chen Chao's guy in the past ten years. Fortunately, I got your son's reminder today. ”

"Your eldest sister's father-in-law is a school student, he may have come into contact with that kind of feng shui talent, next month is the Mid-Autumn Festival August 15, it's time to take a long trip to your eldest sister's house to visit."

"Shifu, you go out first, let your father think about this matter quietly."

Li Shifu saw that his father was muttering there, and he didn't mention the matter of beating his younger brother, and he won a lot of rewards. When he heard his father's command, he didn't say anything more and went away happily.

"Dad is partial to you, and the same person doesn't have the same life!"

Returning to the big study, Li Shifu proudly tossed the copper plate in his hand, he didn't care about the second brother's sour words at all, his heart was full of the words "unfair" on the gray faces of the pair of sisters and brothers.

Li Shifu really wanted to look up to the sky and roar at this moment: Although misfortune came unexpectedly, happiness - he-- came faster, cool!