There are a lot of gold shops in the imperial capital city, each gold shop has its own characteristics, there is a century-old shop on the street of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty - treasure room, the step shake in the workshop is not only exquisite workmanship, and there are many fancy styles, the birds and beasts are vivid, the women lining the action are mostly coquettish, and the noblewomen and ladies in the city are basically a handful.

The gold-lettered signboard Treasure Pavilion in Kouzi Lane, where the arm is also a must in Kyoto, I heard that Princess Chengde was married far away, and the flowing dowry was carried with the five-color arm of the treasure pavilion hand-made by the big treasurer.

There are also the peony workshop at the end of the blue and white street, the water show building on the lion avenue, the Jianbao Zhai in the T-shaped lane, etc., each gold store is unique in terms of marketing methods and main jewelry, and there is no similarity.

But, there is one thing, they are exactly the same.

That is, all the gold shops that have a foothold in the imperial capital have a high-powered, unfathomable owner behind them.

I remember when I was still wearing pigtails, I heard someone say, "Officials have official roads, and business has business routes." The two are entangled, and it's not a good thing. The Chamber of Commerce has become profiteers, and officials have become corrupt officials. ”

This is very clear, and the person who said it is an illiterate sugar man peddler.

When I was young, I liked sugar people the most, and the best candy man in Kyoto City was an old man with a sixtieth birthday, Liu Sanye.

In spring and summer, I never saw Liu Sanye's figure, as soon as the weather turned cold, Liu Sanye would carry the stove, walking the streets and alleys to sell, as long as I heard his voice, I ran out of the house, closely chasing his sugar man stall.

I don't have much pocket money every month, but most of it basically goes into Liu Sanye's purse, even if I have no money, as long as I smell the sweet and greasy sugar juice in the iron pot, I am satisfied.

Liu Sanye is very righteous, thinking that we have a friendship for two or three years, and he can't help but look at me looking at sugar to stop my hunger, so he pulled the bellows and wanted to give me a candy man to eat for free.

Liu Sanye pulled the bellows with one hand, stirred the reddish-brown sweet sugar juice in the iron pot with the other, and smiled and pulled homely with me, "Little girl Ye Zhen, I heard that the treasure shop on West Street was seized some time ago, and the movement was not small. I don't know what the treasure shop has done, and several gold shops have not been able to live in peace, and now the city is very tight, and the shopkeeper of Lu Da of the Liren Pavilion was invited to the yamen for questioning last night. That's right! Don't you also have a gold shop? Has anyone disturbed your purity lately? ”

I bit my sleeve and stared at the crystal clear sugar juice in the pot, the cuffs were wet with saliva, I swallowed the saliva with difficulty, and replied without raising my head, "No, however, I heard the girl in the house chew her tongue and say that the young owner of the treasure decoration workshop seems to have something to do with the Taichang Temple Qing in the court, and the officials are involved with the merchants, so the rules are broken, so the treasure decoration workshop was seized." ”

"I said why such a big move, it turns out that there is collusion with the official family." Liu Sanye took out a small shovel and took out some hot sugar juice, quickly rubbed his hands, and blew lightly, a reddish-brown sugar bubble appeared, his hands looked rough, but he was very flexible when he pinched the sugar man, I saw him pinch left and right on the sugar bubble, and a sugar man became.

"Na! Sun Monkey is here! ”

I happily held the candy man, looked left and right, and was still reluctant to put my mouth down, so I had to take the golden hoop stick off the shoulder of Sun Monkey and lick it lightly.

Liu Sanye sat on the creaking Mazha stool, took a deep breath with a big cigarette pouch, squinted his eyes and enjoyed it very much, he spit out the smoke ring and said to me, "Now in this world, the road is chaotic, I am afraid that few people remember the rules of the ancestors, the gold shops in this city are harder than the back mountains, what is the difference between those disgraceful money and the stones in the dung pit, why are so many people like it, and they are not too dirty!" ”

I don't understand Liu Sanye's words, isn't it still money when it's dirty?

I once accidentally dropped my pocket money into the flower bed, it had just rained, I lay on the grass and looked for the old man for a long time, and when I found it, my body was full of mud, and my mother punished me, but I was still happy in my heart.

Seeing that my face was full of doubts, Liu Sanye knocked the cigarette bag and pot with a smile and sighed.

"The female doll is still young and does not understand the world. I'll tell you! When the third master was young, business was business, officials were officials, mud and water, and it could be seen at a glance. This official has an official way, and a business has a business route. The two are entangled, and it's not a good thing. The Chamber of Commerce has become profiteers, and officials have become corrupt officials. You are the only doll in the family, and you are from a descendant, and you may not have to inherit your own gold shop in the future, you have to remember the words of the third master, and you must not make a wrong decision, although there are many imperial merchants in Kyoto, but I am afraid that only your Yuxiu Pavilion is clean. ”

At that time, I was really young and couldn't understand the words of the third master at all, but seeing him with a serious face, in order to reassure the old man and for the sake of my future sugar man, I patted my chest and responded.

Liu Sanye carried the stove and sold it for two more spring and autumn periods, and I never saw him again, and I happened to see a sugar man stall at the door, I happily squeezed in from the children's pile, and squeezed out happily.

My mother always said that I was a bad character, a tendon to the end, there are so many sugar vendors in Kyoto, why do I always look forward to one, other people's may be more delicious.

I stiffened my neck and didn't say a word, I didn't understand the reason my mother said, but I recognized Liu Sanye's sugar man in my heart, and the sugar juice in other people's big iron pot was crystal clear, and I couldn't give birth to the slightest desire to eat.

That's it, it's better not to eat, when the third master comes back, I will pester the third master to be a carload of sugar people, eat every day, it doesn't matter if you have tooth decay.

However, the third master's stall never appeared again. And I don't know if it's because of the long wait, or because I've grown up, and the sugar man in my heart is gradually fading.

Later, I can't remember the appearance of the third master. I only know that there is an old man surnamed Liu in the depths of my memory, and the candy man he pinched is the best in the entire Kyoto city.

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There are many gold shops in the imperial capital, and Yuxiu Pavilion is the first gold shop in the entire imperial capital, the reason why Yuxiu Pavilion can become the first gold medal is very simple, because the plaque hanging high at the door of the store is given by the saint today, and the imperial merchants in the entire imperial capital, only Yuxiu Pavilion has the gold medal plaque given by the saint.

Having said that, Yuxiu Pavilion was able to successfully go from an ordinary trader to an imperial merchant, and got a cornucopia-like imperial gold plaque, the reason for which has nothing to do with Zi'er's business.

The Ye Da shopkeeper and proprietor of Yuxiu Pavilion is my father, he learned a few tricks from the sworn brother of the rivers and lakes when he was young, and he played very majestic, but if he really started to do it, he was afraid that he would not even be able to beat a porter.

Who would have thought that such a useless silver-like pewter gun head would go through a lot of shit luck and make the Ye family successfully jump from an insignificant small trader to an imperial merchant.

I heard the maid in my mother's room say that it was the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, and it was the Begging Festival.

She accompanied the mother who had not yet left the pavilion to worship the Seventh Sister in the Weaver Girl Temple, the road was very lively, and the jugglers also took the opportunity to beat the gongs and drums to shout vigorously, and the two were walking beside them and suddenly broke out a few black-clothed men, and cut into the crowd with a big knife for no reason.

People fled around with their heads in their hands, and the man in black didn't know whether he wanted to make money or kill him, chasing after a well-dressed boy, looking at the cold machete about to see blood, the mother's frightened legs were weak and completely paralyzed on the ground, and she couldn't get up even if she was pulled desperately.

At this critical moment, suddenly a black shadow flashed in front of him, and he saw the young man in white flying over, kicking the big man with a knife a few meters away, and successfully saved the boy's brother, and the boy's house slave took the opportunity to rush up and beat the black-clothed man and fled.

The young man left quietly, although his mother had never seen his true face from beginning to end, but the girl's heart that had just opened her love was secretly promised to him the moment he flew away.

My mother picked up the jade pendant he left behind, and knew that he was the young owner of Yuxiu Pavilion, so she wandered around the door of Yuxiu Pavilion all day long, hoping to see my father.

My grandfather saw the pain of my mother's lovesickness, so he took the opportunity of the exchange of the Chamber of Commerce to match my mother and my father to complete this good story of the marriage of the Chamber of Commerce.

I always feel that what Cai Su said is a bit exaggerated, as far as my father's five big and three thick body is concerned, it has nothing to do with the word white-clothed young man, if it is said that it is white-clothed Zhang Fei, it is almost the same.

After my mother and my father got married, suddenly a father-in-law came to my father with a holy decree, it turned out that on the day of the begging festival, my father saved the son-in-law brother is the current saint, and the saint is grateful to my father for being able to stand up and reward my father when he was assassinated in his private visit.

After Yuxiu Pavilion was promoted by the emperor to the imperial businessman, the emperor felt that these gifts still could not reflect the gratitude in his heart, so he directly asked my father what he wanted.

My father said that he was a folk goldsmith and wanted to learn the method of dotting green in the palace.

The emperor waved his hand and was right.

In addition, he was given a set of three in and three out of the big house, so my father can not only enter the palace to learn some cui, but also go out of the palace to do business, this fairy-like treatment can be regarded as the first person in ancient and modern times.

On this matter, the ministers of the court did not play less, saying that it was not in accordance with the rules, and it was their duty to protect the safety of the people. The emperor was on the rise at that time, how could he go along with them, the more they played, the more the emperor regarded my father as a life-saving benefactor.

Three days and two ends of the reward Ye Mansion, that fanfare for fear that people would not know, and later personally ordered someone to make a pure gold plaque and send it to the gate of Yuxiu Pavilion.

The bright golden light illuminated the door of Yuxiu Pavilion, and for a while, my mother was always worried about whether the golden plaque would attract the thieves in the mountain nest.

With this golden signboard given by the emperor, coupled with the relationship between the saint's life-saving benefactor, the business of Yuxiu Pavilion is thriving, and the position of the first imperial merchant in the city is more stable than diamond polishing.

The so-called people are afraid of being famous, and pigs are afraid of being strong. I don't know when the wind and rain blew in the city, some said that the Ye family was rich and rivaled the country, some said that the Ye family secretly interfered in the trade of illicit salt, and some said that the people of the Ye family were all wearing gold silk clothes, all with gold and jade, and even the most inferior Huansha maid could take out a few gold leaves at any time.

This rumor became more and more fierce in the crowd, and the merchants in the city all stared at Yuxiu Pavilion with red eyes, and the sparks in their eyes almost burned Yuxiu Pavilion to the ground.

My mother was very worried about this, because my father was an authentic goldsmith, and God gave him a pair of skillful hands, but his temperament and brain circuits were inversely proportional to his talent.

This situation is better to say, but it is not good at words, and it is straightforward.

My mother was worried that the emperor would listen to the rumors and suspect the Ye family, so if he tested my father in private. The best case scenario is that my dad doesn't explain. If the emperor is angry, it will be the end of confiscation of family property. If my father opens his mouth to explain, he is vague and unclear, but because of a certain gaffe, the emperor will be angry, if so, our entire Ye family is afraid that the family tree will be erased from the country.

My father's eldest lady of the back house, that is, my mother, once said, "It was originally a one-sentence thing, and three-year-old children can speak more clearly than your father." If he doesn't open his mouth, he will definitely be able to twist the simple truth into a complicated and complex truth. If he is sent to negotiate in front of the battle, and the enemy sits still, he himself can stun himself. ”

My father is not good at talking, and my mother is a beautiful girl, and it is okay to live in the backyard town, if she goes to the store to take care of business, it is really difficult for her, so in the Ye family, our division of labor is very clear.

My father's palace Ye Mansion runs at both ends, my mother manages the backyard, and occasionally asks three or five noble ladies to drink tea together, chatting about homely things. As for Yuxiu Pavilion, it was handed over to the second aunt Qingluan to take care of, the second aunt was originally the daughter of a merchant, and the way of doing business is the basic skill of playing small, with an abacus in hand, and she has never missed an account for many years.

The second aunt was also a wealthy family, there are not a lot of branches in the north and south of the river, but she suffered a catastrophe, and finally she could only sell herself to bury her father, my father saw that it was pitiful, so he helped pay off the debts and dealt with the aftermath, she was very grateful, and insisted on staying in the Ye family to repay the favor, and the mother saw that she had a bold temperament, and she was very fated, so she was the master and accepted her into the house as a concubine.

I often hear Amin nagging, saying that her mother and several aunts are always talking and laughing in front of people, and the relationship is a little deeper than that of Empress E. But as long as they enter the back house, they don't like each other, and their central machine is more exciting than the excerpts on the stage.

And our home is really an exception within an exception, a wonder within a wonder.

I've seen it more than once, and my mother said that she would coax the busy second aunt out of the store, and ask a few ladies to play leaf play, and the two of them partnered to pit the dealer and win. 's skillful posture and flawless cooperation are a little more cunning than the well-known oil boss on the rivers and lakes.