In the afternoon, Zhang Yuan and Yang Shixiang, Lu Tao, Hong Daotai set up a contract for the shares of the Hanshe Bookstore, twelve shareholders each hold a bond, the bookstore is temporarily managed by Yang Shixiang, Lu Tao and Hong Daotai, and the three of them will discuss together, they will hire people who are proficient in doing the dragon gate account and the four-legged account to be responsible for accounting for the money in and out of the Hanshe Bookstore, and regularly compile the "payment table" and "deposit the table", and the major shareholders gather to audit every year, I thought I was quite a businessman, but I contacted Zhang Yuan, and found that Zhang Yuan's knowledge in business was far better than him, Yang Shixiang's family bookstore only had one book in and out of the account, "payment form" and "deposit table" he had heard, this is the old official who manages the money and grain and the bookkeeper hired by the big businessman has the ability, it is a new type of bookkeeping that has only appeared since Wanli, I didn't expect Zhang Yuan to be able to say the truth, Zhang Yuan explained that this is to register both "to account" and "to account" for each account, in order to reflect the ins and outs of the same account, so, the bookstore's income and expenditure are clear at a glance - Yang Shixiang said in his heart: "The so-called talent and unfathomable nature refers to people like Zhang Jiezi, such a genius I have only seen in Yang Shixiang's life. ”

In the same way, Lu Tao made it clear to his father Lu Zhaoshen that he and Shanyin Zhang's co-founded the "Shengmei Firm", operating cotton, silk, weaving and embroidery, and wanted to open branches in Huating, Shanghai, Suzhou, Nanjing, and Hangzhou. ”

If you want to do business and make a fortune, no one in the court will not work, and the big businessmen are all invited to teach their children to study, hoping that their families will be officials through the imperial examination, and there will be a large amount of money to climb the high-ranking officials in the court, and at the critical moment, there will be a letter from the high-ranking officials to support them, and they will be able to tide over the crisis, otherwise, no matter how much money there is, it will be a fat sheep for people to slaughter, so some big businessmen with hundreds of millions of dollars of wealth have spokespersons in the court, Lu Zhaoshen originally thought that he had a reputation and could barely hold it down, but he didn't expect to be invaded by the Dong family, and his family was almost ruined. The lesson of blood, so I heard my son Lu Tao say that he wanted to partner with the Zhang family in Shanyin to start a cloth business, of course, he was in favor of it - Zhang Cao now also knows that Zhang Yuan made a fortune from the Dong shipwreck, although Zhang Cao is straightforward, but he is not a fool, and he also knows the stakes of this matter, of course he will not talk nonsense in front of outsiders, Zhang Yuan's investment in Hanshe Bookstore and Shengmei Cloth Store is in the name of his three brothers, which makes Zhang Cao very satisfied, and Jie Zi still cares about brotherhood - May 28, the joint stock contract of "Shengmei Firm" has also been concluded, Zhang Yuan handed over 10,000 taels of silver to his sister Zhang Ruoxi, these silver will be used to buy silk, purchase looms, and recruit weavers, according to Zhang Yuan's meaning, Shengmei firm will also design a logo, that is, a trademark, there should be a striking sign in front of the store, and the cloth head of each piece of cloth sold should also be printed with this trademark, of course, the trademark in front of the store should be large, and the trademark printed on the cloth head can be the size of a melon seed. Don't change the logo after two years, that's stupid - that volume of the anthology has also been selected and evaluated, just to be published and printed, this will be the first book engraved by Hanshe Bookstore, Songjiang is roughly over, Zhang Yuan and the eldest brother Zhang Dai, the third brother Zhang Cao are going to Nanjing Guozijian to study, they set off from Shanyin after the Dragon Boat Festival, this is already the end of May, and there will be a delay in Suzhou for a few days, so we must hurry up and get on the road, Zong Yishan went to Nanjing with Zhang Yuan, Zhang Yuan studied in Nanjing, he went to help Jiao Taishi sort out the bibliography of the library, Zong Yishan's parents stayed in Qingpu temporarily, and when Zhang Yuan returned to Shaoxing at the end of the year, Zong Yishan took his parents again, Qingpu was too close to Huating, Zong Yishan was not at ease, and still wanted his parents to settle down in Shanyin - Zhang Yuan rewarded Liu Jingting with fifty taels of silver, but Liu Jingting was only willing to ask for twenty taels, only when Zhang Yuan asked him to speak, and every time he said that the honorarium was one or two silver, Zhang Yuan gave up, and sent Liu Jingting and the attendant to return to Hangzhou early in the morning of the 28th, and made an appointment to meet in Hangzhou next time - in the evening, the three Zhang Yuan brothers packed their bags, Preparing to leave early in the morning, Zhang Dai asked Zhang Yuan: "Jiezi, do you want to send someone to Dongshe Mountain to inform Chen Meigong, and say that I will leave tomorrow, if Wang Weigu, the female disciple of Meigong, wants to go with us, please come to Qingpu early in the morning, how about it?" ”

Zhang Cao hurriedly asked, "What female disciple?" ”

Zhang Dai smiled: "It's the girl who looks like a fox and a ghost and a fairy last time I met on a moonlit night in West Lake, but it's Chen Meigong's female disciple——"

Zhang Cao jumped up violently and shouted: "Wow, Zhang Zongzi, Zhang Jiezi, you two hide it from me so hard, where are these brothers, it's just bad!" ”

Zhang Yuan smiled: "Who is this complaint, it is you who refuse to visit Chen Meigong with us——"

Zhang Cao said: "Then you should tell me as soon as you come back, it's annoying to hide it until now!" Hateful! ”

Zhang Dai said: "Didn't you go to Huating right after, who is impatient to talk to you about this at that moment." ”

Zhang Cao rolled his eyes and said to the sky: "That's it, my brother is also unreliable, and I am forgetful when I see it-" complained for a while, but then said: "Brother, quickly tell me about the matter carefully, there is such an affair, it is really a coincidence, then I chased to the tomb of King Yue and fell, and when I got up to look, I was nowhere to be seen, I really thought it was a ghost." ”

Zhang Dai said that he went to visit Chen Meigong in Dongsheshan, and said that Jie Zi and Chen Meigong and Wang Weigu played against each other, and Zhang Cao shouted: "Wonderful, wonderful, it turns out that the girl is not a good family, so she just hooks up." He sighed with emotion: "The beauties in this world are hidden in the courtyard of the deep house, and it is difficult for us to take a look. ”

Zhang Dai shook his head and smiled: "Yanke, you are not ashamed to speak and dare to be called a genius." ”

Zhang Cao said: "Do you write some stinky eight strands, crooked poems are talents, I Bo Lu Dou card, archery and horses, Lao drum singing, plucking Ruan pitching pots, everything comes, can't you be called a genius, by the way, the West Lake fox fairy chanted two lines of poetry 'How much do men know now, the best official is the fairy', isn't this just a secret praise of me, I regard fame as dung, not like the two of you who are immortals, and only think about becoming famous in the imperial examination. ”

Zhang Yuan and Zhang Dai glanced at each other, and the two were speechless.

Zhang Cao said enthusiastically: "I'll go to Dongsheshan to inform that Wang Weigu and invite her to set off with us." "After that, let Lu Dayou lead the way, and rushed with Nengzhu and Feng Huxing.

Zhang Dai said helplessly: "Jiezi, you look at Yanke's hungry and thirsty appearance, I'm afraid don't frighten that girl, I'm afraid that the girl won't be in the same boat with us." ”

Zhang Yuan said with a smile: "The third brother is still measured, he seems to be vulgar but has true anger, well, he said innocently." ”

Zhang Dai also laughed.

From Qingpu Lufu to Dongsheshan Meigong Mountain Residence has more than 30 miles round trip, Zhang Cao is in a hurry, he doesn't care about calling the rattan sedan chair, starting from the beginning of the evening, and coming back at the end of the day, seeing Zhang Dai and Zhang Yuan, he shouted: "The legs are about to break, the legs are about to break." Sitting on the drunkard's chair, the little maid Fu'er hurriedly came over to beat the legs of the third young master, and the Lu servant served tea.

Zhang Dai smiled and asked, "Yanke, how is it, have you seen the fox fairy?" ”

Zhang Cao took a few sips of tea and said: "Bad luck, I didn't see a beautiful woman, I talked nonsense with a sour Confucian and a bald donkey for a long time, talking about the convergence of Confucianism and interpretation." ”

Zhang Yuan and Zhang Dai laughed and asked where did the monk come from? Zhang Cao said: "Said that it was a monk of Baohua Temple, I heard the monk say that Buddhism is endless, and I was impatient to listen, so I asked the monk if he knew Chen Binzhu, and the monk said that he didn't know, and asked me who Chen Binzhu was, Chen Meigong was displeased, and said that it was dark, let me come back quickly - this sour Confucian, did not remember the friendship between the father and him at all, and did not leave me overnight. ”

Zhang Dai couldn't help but smile and asked: "So if you run for nothing, I know that it will be bad if you go, and now the fox fairy will not go with us." ”

Zhang Cao was also very depressed, running back and forth for more than 30 miles, he had never suffered such hardships since he was a child, he scolded the bald donkey and the sour Confucian, took a bath and went to sleep, today he is really tired.

Zhang Ruoxi came over and asked, "Who is Yan Ke scolding, what bald donkey, what beauty?" ”

Zhang Yuan and Zhang Dai glanced at each other, the two of them couldn't help laughing, and said in unison: "Yanke has always talked nonsense, my sister doesn't want to hear him." ”

Zhang Ruoxi sat in her younger brother Zhang Yuan's room for a while, watching her brother write a letter to her mother, thinking that her younger brother and his party would leave Qingpu early in the morning, Zhang Ruoxi was very reluctant, and when Zhang Yuan wrote a good letter, she took it and looked at it, and said with a smile: "The matter of Huating downturning Dong is so lightly, if you are bold, you have to let your mother scold you." He grinned and said, "I don't know if my father has set off from Kaifeng to return to his hometown, you should pay attention to inquire when you arrive in Nanjing, if your father comes back, he must pass through Nanjing." ”

Zhang Yuan said: "I know, after I arrived in Nanjing, I sent a letter to Zhou Wangfu to ask, did I see if my father left?" ”

The sister and brother talked for a while, Zhang Ruoxi saw that it was late at night, and his younger brother said that he would have to hurry early in the morning, so he told his younger brother to rest early and get up to leave.

At the beginning of May 29, Zhang Yuan and his party of 20 people came to the big Huangpu Wharf in the south of Qingpu City, ready to take a boat to Xuedian Lake, and then transfer to the Grand Canal to Suzhou - there are dozens of Qingpu Zhusheng who came to the wharf to see off the three Zhang Yuan brothers, and it takes some time to say goodbye to each other. ”

(To be continued)