The pages are yellowed, and in some places there are signs of repair.

Xiao Chai flipped through it casually, the dust was raised, he was choked and coughed twice, Ah Da hurriedly came over to take the book away, Xiao Chai stretched out his hand to block him, and said with disgust: "I heard that these broken books are very expensive, and Young Master Ben wants to see where they are." ”

Oh my God, the sixth young master wants to read a book!

Ah Da dusted the dust, Ah Xiao picked up the lamp, Ah Da dusted off, and took the lantern to the yard for a turn, blasted away all the birds and cats who came out to hang out while it was dark, and then went to the kitchen again.

"My young master picks up the lamp to read at night, asks for chicken soup wontons for supper, puts some shiitake mushrooms in the wonton filling, less meat, don't put sesame oil, it's too greasy, just sprinkle a few green onions."

The Bai family sells beef, although it is rich but not exquisite, the whole family does not have the habit of eating supper, whether it is male or female, when they are hungry in the middle of the night, they go to the kitchen to cut a piece of bacon beef and chew it, nothing else, how much cured beef wants, the beef is delicious and full, what is supper? Hungry with beef?

So it is conceivable that Young Master Chai picked up the lamp to read at night, and the matter of wanting to eat supper soon spread throughout the Bai family.

Old Man Bai hadn't slept yet, he was boxing in the yard, Old Lady Bai came to tell him about it, he wiped the sweat on his head with his sleeves, and he didn't even wear a leather cloak, so he went to knock on the door of Master Wen's house next door, so after a stick of incense, the Wen family also knew.

"Lao Wen, your handwriting is good, you write a letter to Grandpa Guo and tell him the good news." Master Bai said excitedly.

Master Wen glanced at him with the corner of his eye, and said lukewarmly: "You are too calm, where is this, in case he throws those books aside again tomorrow, how should you tell Grandpa Guo?" ”

Master Bai was stunned, touched his beard, and laughed dryly: "But what if he is addicted to reading?" Those books are all about marching and fighting, how funny it is. ”

Master Wen glanced at him again, and continued lukewarmly: "You think it's funny, why don't you read it?" ”

"I ...... I can't use it even if I read it. Master Bai said embarrassedly.

"Do you think the Sixth Young Master can use it? Do you think the Sixth Young Master is like a person who can lead troops to fight? Master Wen's voice was gloomy and compassionate, like a basin of cold water splashed on Master Bai's head.

Old Man Bai's straight back instantly slumped, and he said curtly: "Isn't it because of these books I am looking for?" ”

"That's right, these books are better than the Four Books and Five Classics, maybe the Sixth Young Master can be interested." Master Wen sighed in his heart, whether the sixth young master was born to Grandpa Guo, is it, we don't know, and we don't dare to ask.

A bowl of chicken soup wontons went down, Chai Yun burped, and picked up the book again.

"Ah Da, tomorrow you go around and see if there are any crystal mirrors sold, this word is too small." I knew that when he left Beijing, he came out of the old man's study with a crystal mirror.

"That toy is a Western product, and it's expensive." Ah Da said in embarrassment, although the three masters and servants now do not worry about food and housing, they rely on the salary of the sixth young master for daily expenses, and they also have to repay their debts.

"Oh, yes, forget it then." Chai Yun didn't say anything more and continued to read.

......

The next day, in the largest store in Xi'an City, which specializes in Western goods, the only two crystal mirrors were sold.

But this crystal mirror was placed on Master Bai's desk, together with a pile of account books.

The crystal mirror was bought, but how to send it to the sixth young master?

Master Bai thinks that since Grandpa Guo handed over this errand to him, his white hair and white beard have been popping out.

Raising other people's children is much more tiring than raising your own children.

......

In Yulin City, with the return of Fan Guiying, the city became more and more stable, and in the first month, the Chen family, known as the richest man in Yulin, moved back.

On the day the Chen family came back, most of the people in Yulin went to the street to see, and the same as when they left, the carriage in front entered the Chen family's mansion, and the carriage in the back had not yet entered the city.

No one saw that the eldest man of the Chen family had dropped his mouth full of white teeth. No one noticed that several of the Chen family's chief stewards had changed.

The Chen family was forced back by Xiao Ren with real knives and real guns.

The Chen family and the Fan family in Fan County are old friends, and they can't talk about world friendships, but they have frequent exchanges in private, and the Chen family also relies on General Fan to get wind and rain in Yulin.

A few months ago, Mr. Yubai, a Qingke beside Mrs. Fan, quietly came to Yulin. Although Master Chen has his back against the big tree of the Fan family, he is a businessman, and he has long divided the Fan family into three, six, nine and so on, and the third master Fan can't get into his eyes, so he originally didn't want to see Mr. Yubai.

However, Mr. Yubai said to the steward who came to receive him: "Please tell Master Chen that the building is about to fall, how can it be finished, please make plans as soon as possible." ”

If these words came out of someone else's mouth, Master Chen wouldn't care, but after all, Mr. Yu Bai was the Qing guest of Third Master Fan, and Third Master Fan was the younger brother of General Fan after all.

Mr. Yubai told Master Chen that within three months, the Fan family would have a big disaster, and he hoped that Master Chen would make plans as soon as possible.

What happened next can be imagined, and this is also the follow-up of the Chen family moving out of Yulin, causing unrest among the people of Yulin.

Master Chen met Xiao Ren on the way, he thought there would be a rhetoric, but he didn't expect Xiao Ren's people to say a word, they came up and beat him violently, although the Chen family invited two dart bureaus and brought dozens of people to escort them, but these people encountered officers and soldiers, where did they dare to fight back, and watched Master Chen being beaten into a pig's head.

In the end, the Chen family returned to Yulin with a gray face, and they had to hold out the flowers, beaming with joy, and secretly could only smash their teeth and swallow it.

The day after the Chen family returned to Yulin, Fan Guiying came to visit and took 50,000 taels of grain, grass and silver with him when he left.

After King Qin received Fan Guiying's letter, he laughed and said to Xiao Ren: "Xiao Qi has done a good job, tell General Fan that from now on, she will temporarily command the Yulin Guard, and this king has gone to the court to ask for a seal for her, and the 50,000 taels of silver given by the Chen family will be used to appease the people of the border pass and Yulin." ”

King Qin thought about it, let people study ink, personally inscribed a plaque for the Chen family "Hou De Zaifu", the plaque was sent to Yulin, the Chen family went out of the city to greet each other, and the businessmen who did business in Yulin followed suit, boxes of silver, and a cart of grain and grass were sent to the camp of the Western Qin army, which became a good story for a while.

What happened in Yulin in the past two months spread like wings all over Daqi and into the capital.

The memorabilia from the Yulin Prefect and the Qin Wangfu were placed on the desk of Yang Feng, the prince of the old town.