The dog's father, Boss Zhao, whose real name is Zhao Wensheng, is nicknamed Zhao Foye. It is not because he recites scriptures and eats fasting, but because Boss Zhao is wide and fat, and he wears a smiling face everywhere he goes, making a harmonious appearance, comparable to the big-bellied Maitreya Buddha.

The family runs a storefront and is the largest grocery store in Changtu. It's said to be a grocery store, just because it just opened with the name of "groceries on the same street", but no one really used it as a grocery store. There are few retail sales in this store, and most of them negotiate a good price in the store, and go to the backyard warehouse to pick up and move the goods. What to do? Do anything! The largest case was table salt.

Since ancient times, in the official camp of salt and iron, Zhao Buddha had a good father, who left him a golden rice bowl that could not be shaken. Since beating Boss Zhao's father's generation, the Zhao family has been connected with the government, and since then, the villages and towns directly under the jurisdiction of the Guanyan Changtu Mansion have only recognized this family. Zhao Buddha has finished buying goods from the government, and in these places, such as Heron, Guyu, Shuangmiao, Daxing, Bamian, Simiancheng, etc., if you want to eat salt, you have to buy from Zhao Buddha's house. Zhao Buddha is also particular about doing business, and he is facing the water gap with the government, and he will never buy "overlord salt", so the business can be regarded as long-lasting.

But then again, the old saying goes, "Seven things to open the door: firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea". No salt for three days, tasteless in the mouth; He did not eat salt for ten days, and he was tired and weak; If you don't eat salt for more than a month, the swelling will be difficult to go away, which shows how important salt is to people. Moreover, the winter in Kanto is bitterly cold, and the wintering depends on potatoes, radish, mish, and sauerkraut, the latter two of which are large salt consumers.

This kind of business, even if it is a crack in the water of the yamen, it must be a lot of money! Zhao Foye can afford to buy a house and raise his subordinates, and he is also the richest person in Changtu Mansion.

Zhao Xiaopu, as the only son of Zhao Buddha, is really spoiled by Buddha. Zhao Xiaogou, who has been stretching out his hands for food since he was a child, doesn't know the hardships of the family business, and as a child, spending money is quite a kind of "don't take money as money". It is not uncommon to give two or three copper coins to someone who asks for food, and it is not uncommon for someone to give more than a dozen yuan when you meet an artist. It is said that the more than 30 schoolchildren who studied in the private school all took the food bought by Zhao Xiaogou and played with it.

Before the Chinese New Year, Huzi had never made friends with such a generous amount of money, and after making friends with the dog, he was also startled by the dog's lavish spending. Xiao Jiu didn't think so, he told Huzi that he followed Chen Banzhu to Shengjing to sing a meeting for the rich man. It is said that a plate of pastries at that meeting costs dozens of yuan, which is made of melons and fruits transported from the sea, and a large dish is a few dollars of silver, but the guests don't touch a bite, and in the end they are all cheaper to do these jobs!

These words sounded unrealistic to Huzi as if they were supernatural legends. There is a children's rhyme in Kanto that says how the poor live: "Three cow hairs weave a horse coat, the old man wears eight winters, the old lady wears eight summers, ants bite insects and eats hundreds of holes, don't throw them, you can also scratch and pull." It is indeed exaggerated and unrealistic to say this in the nursery rhyme, but it is true that poor families are eager to break a penny in half and spend it. Huzi listened to the scene described by Xiao Jiu and thought: When can I live like that?

Just now I saw a master with a few apprentices practicing on the street, and the two of them sang the jokes in "Splashing Water in Front of the Horse". When Huzi, Xiaojiu, and Gouzi came, there was already a circle of people on the street, and when the song was at the end. The harlequin is the same as Huzi and Xiao Jiu, and he sings in costumes: "Sure enough, she is Cui's daughter, and the past comes to her heart." I think she was ruthless and determined to break it! Why did she kneel down in front of her unkempt horse today, smiling all over her face? Call Cui, look up, and see that I am Zhu Maichen, who you drove out of the house three years ago! ”

Everyone around them could hear the loud applause. The dog threw more than a dozen big sons into the upside-down gong on the ground, Xiao Jiu glanced at the dog, and also took out eight or nine copper coins and threw them into the gong and turned away.

Keeping up with Xiao Jiu, the dog asked, "Brother Jiu, why are you so generous today?" ”

Xiao Jiu is also a child of a rich family, and he is also a master who is willing to spend money, but he has never spent money without a shadow. When I met a showman who asked for food, I didn't see him out of his pocket.

Xiao Jiu smiled: "Can it be the same?" They're not the ones who sell strong pills! 'A word of peace on the stage, ten years of hard work off the stage', this is the original singing figure, they are all peers, apprentices who came out to practice their faces, what's wrong with having a show? ”

"Yo! Co-authored young class master, you are quite righteous! Huzi laughed and said, "People who sing and turn two people know that they bring their disciples out to practice their faces, so as not to have stage fright in the future, why don't you see Chen Shao's class master, you bring the brothers and sisters who studied drama together to come out and perform a play to open our eyes?" ”

"Can I be like them?" Far away from the densely walled place, Xiao Jiu suddenly raised his voice, "I am the young class master of the Drum Tower!" What does it mean to be a young class master? I'm going to be a horn in the future! Wait for me to get out of school...... No, when I open my voice, the brothers and sisters in the drama troupe who sit with me will have to feed me the drama. Come to a play like "The Peony Pavilion", I come to Tsing Yi, and everyone else has to hold me. ”

"Brother Jiu, you have to sing well," Gouzi Yijin nosed, "When the time comes, I will go to your garden to listen to the play, if you sing well, I want to enjoy the play, you just want the head of the silver cast, I will give you a set of my father!" ”

"Dog, what you said is not right," Huzi listened to it, "Is that your enjoyment of the drama or your father Zhao Foye's appreciation?" If you have the ability, the money you pay for the show is earned by yourself. ”

"What's wrong with that? Then wait a few years! The dog blew up his hair, jumped to his feet and said, "My father said, when I can recognize all the words in a few years, I will go to the counter to settle the account." After a few years, my father will be free at home and enjoy happiness, and I will run my family's business! At that time, I will give Brother Jiu a play and reward him with a silver cast...... The head of the gold hit! ”

"That's a good feeling!" Xiao Jiu joked and said in a serious tone, "Then I will point to Boss Zhao for dinner in the future!" ”

"Well said, easy to say...... That's not a big deal! The dog saw that Xiao Jiu was stubble, and he also had a real tone. Then the little brother laughed.

Tired of laughing, Xiao Jiu said: "I want to take over my father's class, continue to be a corner, and be the head of the opera drum tower." The dog is also going to take his father's shift and spread out the groceries. Huzi, when the time comes, you will still be an immortal master of the Demon Destroyer Guardian Dao. We've been doing it for fifteen years...... No, five years later, all of them are famous and famous figures in Changtufu! ”

Huzi was a little embarrassed when he heard this, he took a long breath and said: "You want to be the horn of the famous Kanto, and the dog wants to be the number one rich man in Fengtianxing Province!" Me...... I don't know what I want to do yet. ”

"Brother Huzi, what else do you have to think about!" The dog said, "How good is that skill you learned from Mr. Peng?" Whoever disobeys will clean up! Demons and monsters are afraid of you, how beautiful. Let me tell you Brother Huzi, I can't even think of going to a private school, so I went to Mr. Peng to apprentice. You're just going to be a watcher, that's good! ”

Huzi shook his head, didn't bother much, and said, "You just think so, your old man has to talk to my master." You are a young master from a rich and noble family, don't suffer from this. Moreover, my master said that teaching me an apprentice is tired enough, and I don't want to accept any more apprentices, if you have to enter my house, there are only two ways to go. ”

"Which two?" When the dog heard this, he was still excited, "Tell me." ”

Huzi scratched his chin and groaned for a while, and said, "First, worship my uncle Li Lintang as his teacher, he is the heir of kung fu outside our ghost family, and he has not inherited his skills." ”

"I don't learn foreign kung fu," the dog waved his hand, "I want to learn the ability to catch ghosts and eliminate demons like you." ”

"Then there is only a second way," Huzi pointed to the tip of his nose, "You worship me as a teacher!" I see that your qualifications are poor, so in the future, you will pinch my legs and beat my back or something, wash my feet, fold quilts, and cook, and when I am happy, I will teach you some introductory kung fu, and it will not be that you call me 'Master' in vain. ”

"Brother Huzi, you stink, shameless!" Zhao Xiaogou stretched out his tongue and scratched his eyelids and made a grimace at Huzi, "I don't care if you call Master!" ”

During the conversation and laughter, the three of them returned to the gate of the Drum Tower, but saw a small stall not far from the main entrance, and there was a couplet on the flag. The upper link writes: Extrapolating the past and the present, accounting for the cause and effect of the past, and the next link: Bu comes and goes, counting good fortune and bad luck. A piece of cloth hung down on the table, and the gossip shape was drawn in the center, with "face measurement" written on one side on both sides, and "palmistry birthday" written on the other side, and a bamboo stool for people to sit on in front of the table - it was actually a small stall for fortune telling. The fortune teller at the back of the stall slept soundly in his chair, his head tilted back, his face covered with a copy of the Book of Changes, and a slight snoring could be heard.

The dog patted Huzi on the back and said, "Brother Huzi, you go along!" ”

Huzi's eyes glared: "Who is walking with such a person!" Then he turned his head to Xiao Jiu and said, "At your doorstep, you don't care?" ”

Xiao Jiu listened, stepped forward and knocked on the fortune teller's table, and said loudly: "Hey, fortune teller!" Spiritual spirit! ”

The fortune teller woke up in shock, shuddered, and slammed the book on his face to the ground. As soon as he saw the three children standing in front of his hexagram stall, he spoke with a voice that didn't wake up: "Three masters, do you measure words, or do you look at your appearance?" Is it considered academic, or marriage? ”

The three of them looked at the man across the table and couldn't help but smile. It turned out that the fortune teller's beard was pulled on his face, and half of it fell off, and it was actually glued on! The fortune teller saw the three children laughing, touched his face, was stunned at first, then ripped the whole beard off his face, and asked a little angrily, "What are you little things doing?" Fortune tellers will report eight characters, eight characters and thirty words and one hexagram, and if you don't tell fortunes, get out of here! ”

This fortune teller took off his beard and looked at it closely, he was actually quite young, at most in his early twenties, his eyebrows were the posture of a middle-aged person, but his mouth was very large, and his facial features did not look like a person.

"Hey! Let me ask you," Xiao Jiu couldn't help but smile and slapped the table twice, pointing to the plaque of the Drum Tower, "Who let you set up a stall here?" This is our doorstep! ”

As soon as he heard this, the fortune teller's face changed: "Three masters, my name is Zhang Li!" As for me, I am a foreigner, from Liaoyang Mansion, and I didn't come to Changtu for a long time, and I ate with my mouth. Pick up your feng shui treasure and set up a stall for a living. You see that your announcement also said that the gong will start at four o'clock, and I will be gone by that time. Besides, I have left eight feet away from your door, just to find shade under your eaves, and definitely not delay your business! A few masters, raise your noble hands! ”

This fortune teller has a good mouth, and he has such a big mouth in vain, if he doesn't know, he thinks he memorized this set of words. After a set of words, I didn't even take a breath. Xiao Jiu played with the tips of his braids and said, "That's not possible, this is the best place to do business in the city!" It's okay if you borrow my shade, you have to pay some rent, right? ”

"Master, you are embarrassed for me!" The fortune teller said with a bitter face, "My little book is open on the first day today." Counting in the morning until now, I have not beaten my teeth for a day, and I really can't afford to rent a few masters! ”

"That won't work!" Huzi hurriedly said, "The Drum Tower of Changtu Mansion is a block size!" The governor of Fengtianxing Province invited his father to sing in the Drum Tower, and today I promised you to practice here, and tomorrow there may be farmers from the countryside to buy vegetables here. I can't afford to pay the rent, hehe, please leave! ”

"Or ...... Shall I count each of the three masters? ”