"Talk about righteousness, serve wine. Talk about business and set up tea. "On a thunderstorm day, a square table was set up in front of the dark hall, and two people sat in front of the other and one behind the other, old and young.

Qin Shengzhu did look much older after what happened a year ago, his temples were white and the corners of his eyes were wrinkled, and he didn't look as good as when Shen Yigong first saw him.

He glanced at the two cups on the table with contempt: "The rules left by the ancestors." ”

Shen Yigong sat upright, his wet gown was still dripping, which was really undignified - even cold.

"I'm not here to do business with Old Man Qin. My master is dead, and he is your disciple, so the person I will honor from now on is you. ”

Qin Shengzhu didn't answer, but just asked in a weird way: "How do you know that your master is dead?" ”

"I saw Ma Weisan take my master away. They also saw the fire in the patrol room, and they brought out a charred corpse from it. Who is it if it's not my master? ”

"I don't think so."

Shen Yigong raised his head and looked at him with a straight gaze.

The old man narrowed his eyes, took a sip of his pipe, and snorted: "Why do you think I want to use a little-known stinky boy like you?" A man like you, who tries to worship under my door one hundred and eighty times a day, must bring out the gold no matter what. What about you, what can you take? ”

As he spoke, his gaze swept over his embarrassed dress like a knife.

He said: "You are a broken cart, even if you have been with Huo Zuo for a few days, you are still a broken cart. ”

Shen Yigong was not in a hurry: "Master, if you think I'm just a broken cart, you won't sit here with me to set tea." ”

Qin Shengzhu didn't speak, leaving the blank silence for the young man to fill in by himself.

Shen Yigong said: "Others misunderstand you. I feel that this game is a trick you have set for my master, I don't think. If you have a disagreement with my master, you should have attacked Old Man Huo when he left, so why wait so long. Brother Changyu, I will persuade you to come back. ”

He didn't listen. He must still hate me because of Huo Zuo's affairs. ”

"Then he misunderstood you. Old man, you eat fasting and chant Buddha with a kind heart, how can you do such a thing. What's more, if you really did it, how could you let the people in the French Concession catch the handle and get caught in the end? Shen Yigong said righteously, "So I believe in you, no matter what, I will follow you!" Brother Changyu and your misunderstanding, I will solve it for you. ”

"What if it can't be solved?"

"My master said that there is no problem in this world that cannot be solved by two knives."

Qin Shengzhu's withered hands pressed on the tea lid of the blue and white porcelain, and looked at him with empty eyes: "With the original territory? ”

"As long as you say a word, what my master can do, I will definitely be able to do it for you."

"That's good. I'm going to give you this opportunity. Qin Shengzhu pushed another cup of tea in front of Shen Yigong slightly, "Kneel down and serve tea." ”

After Shen Yigong and Qin Shengzhu had saluted tea and bowed to the door, they came out of the hall, but they saw a person standing in the gloomy and dark corridor. It is a woman, Qin Shengzhu's daughter.

Shen Yigong stood in front of the door, and subconsciously wanted to salute after seeing her, but saw that the other party walked straight over, and slapped him hard without saying anything.

Shen Yi bowed his head to the side, frowned slightly, and heard her grit her teeth and say, "Another beggar, you are really shameless." ”

"Miss. Shen Yigong doesn't have the technology of your reincarnation, and he has no worries about food and clothing since he was a child, so he can only rely on the means of begging for food to climb up little by little. It doesn't matter if you look down on me today, one day, when I climb up, you will look at me differently. ”

"Climbed up by your master's death, what are you?" Qin Mingyue spit on him, "I'll never look down on you!" How could Brother Azuo accept such an apprentice as you......"

She was dressed in a black cheongsam, as if she was mourning for someone. Yes, how could Shen Yigong forget the undisguised emotions of the girl in front of him towards his master. If, as she said, he is indeed hateful, he should be hated. That can only make her hate, after all, in the end, it is she who conspires with the master to know the truth, not her.

Thinking of this, Shen Yigong felt a subtle and happy feeling in his heart, and he didn't want to care about Qin Mingyue's slap at all. He just respectfully bowed his hand to her: "If there is nothing to do, I will step back first." ”

When they passed by, Shen Yigong listened to the girl stubbornly behind him: "You wait, I will find evidence to prove that my Azuo brother is by no means a person who will commit suicide cowardly." ”

"If you find it, tell me. If Master is harmed, I will do my best to avenge him. ”

After speaking, he stepped back into the rain, and walked farther and farther away from the girl in the corridor, and even her crying was gradually lost through the long rain curtain.

What the master instructed was done-Shen Yigong sent a letter to Qin Shengzhu in a thunderstorm, took Cheng Changyu and the Deutsche Bank behind him as a vote, and cooperated with You Yiman within half a year to collect the sixteen shops that were originally lost in the hands of others due to Huo Zuozhi's "death", and fought a beautiful turnaround battle for his new master.

To become famous at a young age, the key is the word "name". Fame can make a person, but it can also ruin a person. The young man can't hold up the life of this rich and noble, and no one can stop him if he wants to do his best.

Fortunately, Shen Yi bowed and he held on. In other words, this "fame" and this "profit" are no more or less to him, and there is a person who is far more important than fame and fortune pressing on his heart, so that he does not need to be bothered by these things.

It was the fourteenth year of the Republic of China, and because of the leap April, 385 days could pass in a year. So this year has really been a long one.

With money and power, Qin Sheng seemed to acquiesce to Shen Yigong's right to speak in the sixteenth shop. After he took charge of the sixteenth shop again, the first thing he did was to ban all the tobacco houses and gambling halls there. You Yiman was surprised when he heard that he was going to do it, but he also chuckled and said, "Ah Zuo seems to know you quite well. ”

Shen Yigong was puzzled. She replied: "He said a long time ago that you can find other ways to make a fortune for your brothers besides these businesses." Then I'll see how you, little 'big brother', are going to make money for us. ”

He was given another business card, with only the name and phone number of the company written on it: South China Foreign Goods Company. You Yiman printed a lipstick on his back and told him: "Make this call, and an old man will help you." ”

Shen Yigong did what You Yiman said suspiciously, in the final analysis, he knew the relationship between Aunt You and Master, and he would not harm him. The call was answered by a young female secretary, and when he reported his name, he said that the boss had asked him to meet him at the Bella Cafe on Nanjing East Road tomorrow afternoon.

Shen Yigong went to the appointment on time, stayed at the café, and watched the man in the crimson suit and top hat in the booth in the corner. Just a glance at the smile on the corner of the young man's mouth could not be restrained, he quickened his pace and walked over, and sat down in front of this person: "Teacher-"

"Shhhh

The man raised his hand, pressed his fingertips to his lips, and a smile curled into the corners of his mouth. He pushed a business card in front of Shen Yigong, and the name on it was written "Chu You".

"I've heard you're going to build a farmer's market at Sixteenshop. I can invest, but there is a requirement. Huo Zuo put down the coffee in his hand and raised his eyebrows with Shen Yigong, "I'm going to borrow your site to open a steel mill next door to your farmers' market."

Shen Yigong shrugged: "I'm afraid I have no reason to refuse, Boss Chu." Does Boss Chu have any arrangements for tonight? ”

"Huh?"

"I'll invite you to dinner."

He laughed and said, "Okay." ”

Inviting Huo Zuo to dinner, this is the first time in the world. But Shen Yigong didn't take him to any great restaurants and restaurants, nor did he go to his home to find Xu's mother to cook. It's just that "Boss Chu" in a crimson suit went around the winding alleys on the banks of the Suzhou Creek.

Finally, I sat down in a wonton shop.

The old woman greeted after the steam, "What do you eat?" ”

Shen Yigong looked at her and said, "Two baskets of xiaolongbao, two bowls of wontons, Aunt Wu." ”

The figure behind the heat was stunned for a while, and a gust of wind came and blew the heat away. The woman looked at the two young masters at the table blankly, and her eyes turned red for a moment: "Oops...... One bow, one bow......"

"Aunt Wu, don't cry."

"It's fine. Wontons and xiao long bao, right? I'll do it for you! ”

Huo Zuo looked at the old woman's back and turned around to be busy, and asked Shen Yigong, "Do you know?" ”

"My family used to live in the back of here."

"Sheds?"

"Or else? Where do you think our family can stay? Shen Yigong smiled bitterly, "Aunt Wu used to take good care of me." I'm thinking I'm waiting for the farmer's market to open, so why don't you ...... Find her a shop and open a wonton shop. ”

Huo Zuo looked at him carefully, and after a while, he said, "Okay." ”

Aunt Wu brought up the wontons and xiaolongbao, and after eating, Huo Zuolian praised the deliciousness, and the money left behind when he left was far more than he should have paid. Aunt Wu had tears in her eyes when she saw Shen Yigong, and she didn't say much, but she stuffed two more hot meat buns into his hands before he left. Seeing this, Shen Yigong thought about it and asked her about her son Dayong.

He said, "If Dayong comes back and has nothing else to do, come to me." ”

took Huo Zuo to the shed area.

He told Huo Zuo that it was poor and chaotic here, and if he only opened a gambling hall and a tobacco restaurant, it would only get poorer and more chaotic. The poorer and more chaotic a place will only make less and less money, and this will certainly not work.

Huo Zuo asked, "That's why you want to open a farmer's market?" ”

"There are few people here who have read books, they have no money, no conditions, and no one is willing to pay here. But they are all willing to do and willing to do. What's the point of us opening a casino and winning the farmer's money? Why not let them take the money to buy and sell and make more money? Shen Yigong actually said the simplest truth, "What's the use of a gambler getting rich?" If you want this place to be rich, you have to make people who do their jobs honestly rich. ”

Shen Yigong stopped in front of a dilapidated shack that had long since collapsed, looked down at the dirt under his feet, turned to Huo Zuo and said: "I used to think that our family is not unable to make money, my mother makes knitting for people, I pull rickshaws, and the money I get back is at least enough for the family to eat and drink, but my father wants to gamble, as long as he gambles, the money will never be enough." That's why I really hate gambling halls, Master. ”

He sighed in frustration and moved his feet to the ground.

"I still feel like my mother's blood is still oozing from the mud under my feet."