Uncle Mao regarded Wang Laoshi as his son, and his own son naturally got along with Wang Laoshi like a brother.

"Brother Yonghe is here." Wang Laoshi let Uncle Mao's youngest son in.

"Honestly, my dad is in there, right?" Yonghe asked this, and he was already eighty or ninety percent sure in his heart.

"Yes, Yong and Brother also had dinner together before leaving." Wang said honestly.

Yonghe looked unexpected, and complained as he walked inside: "My mother cooked a meal at home, and if she doesn't come back, she guessed that it was you." ”

Wang honestly smiled: "It's the same everywhere you eat, I just happened to ask my uncle for help." ”

Yonghe entered the back room with Wang Laoshi, and greeted Wang Siniang again, calling him "Fourth Sister". Small families don't have so many courtesies, and they are good for families, so there is no need to avoid them.

Wang Siniang went to the kitchen and brought a pair of dishes and chopsticks out, and wanted to stay Yonghe to eat.

"No, no, I'm going back soon. My mother is still waiting for news. Yonghe excused.

Uncle Mao said: "Seeing that I didn't go back, I ate first, and I looked for it." ”

Yonghe was helpless: "Although I know that most of them are here, I always feel uneasy when I don't see people." When he saw the deed in front of his father, he was curious: "What is so much paper?" ”

"Deed of Employment." Uncle Mao said.

Yonghe sat down opposite Wang Laoshi, and Wang Laoshi also poured him full wine. Although he is a heavy drinker, Uncle Mao's sons are not keen on it. Yonghe just thanked him and asked about the deed again.

Uncle Mao thought that Wang was too verbose to speak honestly, and he cleanly explained the whole thing. Yonghe also had a tacit understanding with his father, and he basically understood it with just a few words and eyebrows. just took into account Wang Siniang's face, and did not break the fact that Xu Yuanzuo might fall in love with Wang Siniang.

Yonghe took a sip of wine and said, "How simple is this? Honest. You were willing to sell all the ancestral land in the countryside, so what is there to be reluctant about this shop now? I went to work for a year and came back with everything. ”

"I'm afraid it's easy to get out of the past." Wang honestly hung his head.

Yonghe smiled: "If the wind is really not in the right direction, you just run away secretly, and he can still chase you to Huzhou to arrest you?" If you are so unscrupulous, why bother to use the deed to scold you in the past? ”

- I'm afraid that if I can run, the monk won't be able to run the temple!

Wang honestly hung his head. Frustrated.

"I'm afraid that Siniang will be inconvenient." Uncle Mao said softly.

Yonghe was stunned, thinking about it, how can there be a reason for husband and wife to be separated for many years? As soon as Wang Laoshi leaves, Siniang will definitely have to follow. He said: "It's also convenient, you just tell him: The fourth sister is sick on the way, and the central people send her home to recuperate." You look at the limelight over there first, if you can really do it for a long time, won't you just pick up the fourth sister? ”

Wang Laoshi's eyes lit up: This method is good! Even if the little white face surnamed Xu has any thoughts, he will find fault and dismiss himself. The three hundred taels of the store were also obtained.

He actually bought this house for fifty taels, and the household goods and goods in it can be moved. Three hundred taels, hehe, it's too much money!

Yonghe saw that Wang Laoshi's face was shining, and he knew that he had solved the problem, so he picked up the wine and said with a smile: "What a big deal, look at your sad face just now." By the way, just say that the salary is high. How tall? ”

"Two hundred taels." Wang said honestly.

"Sell yourself!?" Yonghe was taken aback.

"One year." Wang said honestly.

Yonghe's hand holding the wine glass trembled slightly, and it took a long time before he put it down. "Can you take me?" ”

Wang honestly looked at Uncle Mao.

Uncle Mao's two daughters have already married and had children, and there is nothing for him to worry about. Among the three sons, the third child is the least worry-free, whether he starts a family or a career, he is tormented to death. It's not good to pick other girls, and it's not good to pick other people's girls when you start a business, and pick the stingy and black heart of the owner in starting a business.

Now there are more than thirty people. If you don't achieve anything, you're about to become a laughing stock in the neighborhood!

"Why do people want you? Why do you want people to take you? Uncle Mao said unhappily.

Yonghe was not convinced: "How am I more honest than I?" I know more than him, I can walk farther than him, and I can fight better than him. ”

Wang Laoshi didn't think it was wrong, and nodded and said, "What Brother Yonghe said is true." I'm not as much as him. ”

Uncle Mao's eyes widened: "Honest can do things in a down-to-earth manner." Can you? That's it, you're far from him! ”

Yonghe was still a little unconvinced, but just tilted his head to look at Wang Laoshi, waiting for him to make a statement.

Wang Laoshi just came up with an idea, if he refused, wouldn't it seem like unloading the mill and killing the donkey to cross the river and tear down the bridge? He said: "I don't know what Xu Xianggong said over there. I'm going to talk to him about the deed in two days, or will I ask him again? ”

Yonghe hurriedly said: "Very good, very good!" Call me when you talk, and when you are too embarrassed to speak, I beg him myself. ”

Uncle Ah Mao had the intention to reprimand him, but he thought that this might also be his son's fate, so he endured it and said, "Honestly, you can ask him to Wanghu Tower." You are also a person with a net worth of hundreds of taels, so you should have some status. He paused, and then said, "Take your unsuccessful brother, and I'll give you the money." ”

Wang Laoshi was actually a little weak-hearted, for fear that the silver would be lost, but he still nodded.

Yonghe did not go back to report the news, but had dinner with Uncle Mao at Wang Laoshi's house. Aunt Mao saw that her son did not come back, so she knew that the father and son must have eaten at Wang Laoshi's house. Although they are no longer worried, they will have to scold again when they come back.

After all, Wang Laoshi begged Uncle Mao to tell him the entire deed. Yonghe was also listening, more excited than Wang Laoshi. He felt that this kind of generous and thoughtful owner was the one who was truly worthy of his service.

After Wang Laoshi listened, he became more and more confused. Xu Xianggong gave him a very high salary, but the work to be done was very simple, that is, he was to collect silk from all over the world. If you use 200 taels a year to hire silk guests, you can find 100! Or even more, because silk guests do not refer to the annuity to eat, but make a profit by changing hands on raw silk. As long as the purchase price is raised, someone will naturally come to the door to ship.

This cloud of doubt is also the source of the cloud in his heart: if it wasn't for his wife, why would anyone be willing to do this loss-making business?

Xu Yuanzuo didn't know that the opportunity he provided was like a poisoned meatloaf: it was terrifying, and he was reluctant to let go.

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Receiving Wang Laoshi's invitation, Xu Yuanzuo was quite satisfied. The garden he rented was near Wanghu Tower, which was very convenient in the past. As for the people Wang Laoshi mentioned about applying for jobs. Naturally, there is no such thing. When the time comes, if you can use it, you can use it, and if you can't use it, you will throw it to Wang Laoshi as an assistant, so that he can feel at ease.

For a wealthy businessman with a net worth of tens of thousands, spending an extra three or four taels of silver every month is really not a big deal.

Wanghu Tower looks at Taihu Lake, outside the county seat. It is about that the matter of the black master of Shangtao Town has not reached Huzhou, so the people's sense of security is still high. And I felt that it was dangerous to go out of town.

Xu Yuanzuo's sense of security comes from Gan Chengze around him and the Zhejiang soldiers he led.

The shopkeeper of Wangyunlou inexplicably found that on such an ordinary day, the restaurant was full.

Twenty or thirty strong men came to the lobby downstairs, filling every table. There are also people with guys between them, who look like quacks, but the meals they order are exactly the same, and they are obviously a group of people. This made him full of anxiety, for fear that they would suddenly burst out and smash his restaurant.

Xu Yuanzuo glanced at the guards as he entered the door. As previously arranged, there was no recognition. He turned his head to take care of Gan Chengze and added an extra meat dish to each table, and went upstairs.

Wang Laoshi and Liu Yonghe had been waiting in the private room for a long time.

"Xu Xianggong." Wang Laoshi got up to salute, and Liu Yonghe immediately followed.

Xu Yuanzuo glanced at Liu Yonghe, frowning slightly: This person does not have the slightest calm temperament, just like a mountain stone that has not been polished.

"Sit down, don't see outside." Xu Yuanzuo sat down first.

Gan Chengze went down to order, and Qi Miao washed the dishes for him. Be in apple-pie order.

Wang Laoshi didn't know how to speak, so he said for a long time: "Xu Xianggong." There is no problem with the deed, it's just ...... Xiao had a doubt in his heart, it was a little disrespectful to ask, and it was really uncomfortable not to ask. ”

"You say." Xu Yuanzuo raised his chin, and sure enough, he was out of sight.

"You're paying too much." Wang honestly said.

Xu Yuanzuo closed his eyes slightly. He said slowly: "If you just find a hired worker, two hundred taels a year is indeed too high." ”

But in fact, Wang Laoshi is not a hired worker!

He is an entrepreneur.

Successful entrepreneurs don't have to be at the top of their lives. Like Wang Laoshi, a person who started from scratch as an apprentice and then lived a well-off life step by step is also a successful person.

If such a person is compared with Xu Yuanzuo and Ma Ali. It seems to be far inferior, but he is taking the basic path of one force to ten meetings, there is no advanced concept, no advanced thinking, and the difficulty is higher! What's more, today's social class is beyond imagination, and it can surpass 99% of the people around it, and it can already be regarded as an elite.

Now, this elite was wearing a white-washed cotton coat, his fingers were interlocked, and he looked at Xu Yuanzuo nervously.

Xu Yuanzuo said: "I want you to help me collect silk, not to hire a few silk guests." He paused and said, "Or, you can use your two hundred taels to hire silk guests, but I just need to see that Xu's cloth shop can receive enough silk." ”

Wang honestly understood something in a trance. There are also such silk heads among their silk guests, between the silk line and the silk guests. At the beginning of the year, he lent money to the silk guests, and when the silk came down, he used the silk to offset it. Xu Xianggong is equivalent to giving out two hundred taels and letting him be the silk head.

"If that's the case, I'm afraid two hundred taels is not enough." Wang Laoshi whispered an account for Xu Yuanzuo: "The price of a load of silk is between thirty and forty taels, and it depends on the year." Two hundred taels, less than ten quintals of silk ......"

"The silver that will be collected will be allocated to you separately. This money is for you to use to recruit troops and horses, so that you can collect more silk. Xu Yuanzuo knew that this king was honestly thinking about the left, and explained.

Wang Laoshi hadn't reacted yet, Liu Yonghe had already understood. He pulled Wang Honest and said: "Xianggong means that the price of silk should be how it is, and the two hundred taels of silver will be given to you, and you will use it to broaden your contacts, make friends, and let silk guests and silkworm households sell silk to you at the same price!" ”

Xu Yuanzuo looked at this Liu Yonghe with his eyes for the second time, and it seemed that this person's brain was quite bright.

"If you can make friends without those two hundred taels, it will be better." Xu Yuanzuo emphasized: "I only care about how much silk is received and how good the quality is, I don't care about the rest." ”

Wang nodded honestly, and said secretly in his heart: When he went to the countryside to collect silk, he didn't even have a person to lead the way, so he also learned it. Now that there is money by your side, how can there be a reason why you can't do it?

Liu Yonghe looked at Xu Yuanzuo with hope, hoping that Xu Xianggong would speak out and leave him to work.

Xu Yuanzuo's heart was like electricity, and he said: "If you don't have any other doubts, let's go to the yamen to sign the deed after lunch." If you want to hire people, I will only assign you an account room, and you will find the rest by yourself. If there is a very capable person, I will also sign a deed with him, and I will be regarded as a person of Xu's cloth shop. ”

Liu Yonghe's heart sank, knowing that this was Xu Yuanzuo who wanted to see his ability. He didn't know that Xu Yuanzuo had already planned to hire one more person, and it was a big deal of a few taels of silver. But Liu Yonghe deliberately stole Wang Honest's limelight just now, but Xu Yuanzuo saw the villain in his heart.

People who are not down-to-earth but have a little cleverness often have more than enough success and more failure. Because only smart people can do those stupid things that are fresh and thoughtful...... Fools will only follow the established track, but it is not easy to go wrong.

After Xu Yuanzuo finished talking, he took out a piece of broken silver and put it on the table, which was as much as two or three taels: "Please have dinner with your friends, you don't have to be polite." I'll go first, and I'll see you at the tea shop outside the government in the afternoon. "With that, get up and go.

Wang Laoshi and Liu Yonghe had no choice but to get up and send each other.

Xu Yuanzuo ate the dishes of Wanghulou once, but he didn't think it was delicious, so he preferred the fresh fish soup soup from the fishermen by the lake. Especially when the weather is cold, a large bowl of milky white fish soup is poured down, and the whole body is hot. Qi Miao came to the lake early in the morning to watch the fish and ordered, and he could drink it after noon.

It's just that the condiment used to add spiciness nowadays is dogwood.

"Dogwood is just a little too bitter, but I'm used to drinking too much." Xu Yuanzuo put down the soup bowl and gently wiped the slight sweat on his forehead.

Qi Miao was sweating profusely and said, "It's better not to let it go." ”

Xu Yuanzuo smiled: "Don't let go enough!" When there are chili peppers in the future, the taste will be better. ”

Now that it is still 30 years before chili peppers enter China as an ornamental plant, Xu Yuanzuo, no matter how good his skills are, cannot speed up this progress. Well, maybe you can find a few plants in Macau, but the cost is enough to make him sweat.

"Chili?" Qi Miao asked curiously.

"Well, a kind of grass and trees overseas." Xu Yuanzuo took a sentence and shouted to the fisherman: "Shopkeeper, have another bowl." ”

Lake fresh and river fresh are both freshwater aquatic products. In addition to the extremely high requirements for water quality, Huxian pays attention to "big water", and Jiangxian pays attention to "water urgency". The fresh lake in the big lake is better than the fresh lake in the small lake; The river fresh in the turbulent place of the river is better than the river fresh in the gentle place.

For foodies who know how to eat, a Taihu Lake and a Yangtze River have a hundred tastes, and leaving this section is another taste. The rich of later generations could fish from Huzhou and transport them to Songjiang to eat, which was called a quality of life. Now if Xu Yuanzuo does this kind of thing, he will become brain-dead, so he can only have a complete experience before leaving.

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