Chapter 8 Rongying Lane
Rongying Lane is a well-known poor area in Gusu, connecting the front and back streets, the houses are dilapidated and in disrepair year after year, and the people who live in this neighborhood are doing the most inferior work, such as pulpping laundry and pouring night incense.
Rongying Lane is also the so-called beggar lane, in the late autumn of the previous year, there were a few days of chaos in the city, a large group of homeless people who came from nowhere, as soon as they entered the city, they rushed to grab food, and ran away when they got their hands, people couldn't catch it at all, there were too many homeless people pouring in, and there were only a dozen soldiers in the government, which was basically useless.
Seeing that there were fewer and fewer pedestrians on the street, and the old men who were doing business were in a hurry, the eldest young master of the Zhang family proposed to go to Baifu, thinking of coming up with ideas together.
Bai Yanfei gave an idea, arrange a place for the displaced people to live, it is good to be able to shelter from the wind and rain without being too good, everyone raises some food, divides some work within their ability, and allows them to exchange labor for food, so that the phenomenon of grabbing food can be solved, and the people's hearts can be reassured, and this problem will be solved without using knives and guns.
It's just that when these old men heard that they were going to give money and food, they hesitated, and looking at everyone's reaction, Bai Yanfei couldn't help but chuckle
"Haha~ Solve the displaced people as soon as possible, everyone's business will be profitable, if this matter is allowed to continue, heh, everyone will not benefit. These pros and cons, everyone is the boss, which is more important, right? ”
The rich old man sitting there, you look at me, I look at you, or the eldest young master of the Zhang family opened his mouth first
"Brother Bai is right, the store will make an extra day of money if it opens one day early, it is enough for each of us to give a small share, and we will definitely come back after opening for a few days."
The Zhang family and the Bai family did not have much contact in the early years, and after Bai Yanfei took over the Bai family, there was some intersection, and the Zhang family has been in business for generations, and it has been a well-known family decades ago.
With the help of his wife Liu's mother's family, Mr. Bai struggled for ten years to make a name for himself in the prosperous Gusu at that time, and later Liu died due to dystocia, Mr. Bai became more and more uninterested in business, and when Bai Qianqian was three years old, he officially handed over the Bai family to Bai Yanfei to take over, Bai Yanfei was only 17 years old that year, and it took him only five years to run the declining Bai family into one of the largest households in Gusu, and now to mention Gusu Baifu, no one in this city does not know.
The young master of the Zhang family appreciated Bai Yanfei's talent in business, and deliberately befriended him, and after the two became close friends, they found that they were both people who loved painting, and since then they have been regarded as confidants.
"Since Young Master Zhang said so, then I agree"
"I also agree"
"I, I agree"
“......”
Under the joint promotion of Zhang Bai's family, the displaced people were arranged in Rongying Lane, and some of them were hardworking and unwilling to do so, so they worked hard and moved away. But some people are unwilling to contribute to their own depravity, they just want to reach out and eat white food and become beggars, and slowly the original homeless area becomes a beggar area, and Rongying Lane becomes a beggar lane.
After the housekeeper Rongying Lane, he frowned, a bad smell came out of nowhere, the houses here are dilapidated and old, and they are very dirty, and a beggar who can't see his age leans on the door and sits on the ground in front of the broken door, he leaned forward and asked
"Is there a guy named Ergou here?" The beggar looked the butler up and down, and asked rhetorically
"Are you from the White Mansion?" The butler smiled
"How do you know? Am I from the White House? There was no expression on the beggar's dirty face, and there was helplessness in his eyes
"In the whole Gusu, only the people of Baifu will come to our beggar alley, not to mention that you are looking for Ergou, Ergou's grandfather was rescued by the second miss of the Bai family, I guess you must have been sent by the second miss to deliver medicine, right?" The butler smiled innocently
"Almost, do you know, where is the second dog?"
"Is it really from the White Mansion?" When the beggar heard this, he stood up
"Come on, I'll take you to Ergou" said and stretched out his hand to grab his sleeve, he saw his dirty hands, and then looked at the housekeeper's clean clothes, his hands were a little overwhelmed, so he had to rub his torn clothes, and then pointed ahead
"You come with me"
The butler always maintained a peaceful smile, he took in the beggar's small movements, did not show the slightest sound, and only followed him silently
Rongying Lane is not much big, but it is all tattered and can't distinguish the door, and there are very few outsiders here.