Chapter 17: Doing good deeds and accumulating virtue Xu Gongzi
The Xu family ushered in a distinguished guest today, Xu Chang was happy in his heart, and personally lit a firecracker in the yard, in the east wing house, Zhao Mengting sat in front of the couch, sewing a few pieces of Xu Qian's old clothes, this pair of father and son is too pit, Zhao Mengting has not been moved by Xu Qian's 'standing up' for a long time, because he was injured, he asked Deng Jian to go to the market to buy some meat to boil soup for Xu Qian to nourish his body. Who knew that it was because of the purchase of meat that it was suddenly exposed.
Xu Chang looked at her now, just like he had seen a gold ingot.
What's even more hateful is that Xu Qian's guy recognized that she must have hidden a lot of private money, and he whispered in her ear every day what trading and investment, and said that he was going to buy an inn, and he would have ten times the profit in a few days.
Zhao Mengting is from a family of businessmen, and her ears and eyes are all about business, don't look at her as a weak woman on the surface, but she also knows a lot about this business, buying an inn, and earning ten or a hundred times the profit in a few days, this is a joke.
Xu Qian, this guy obviously wanted to fool Zhao Mengting with a lollipop, when Zhao Mengting was a three-year-old girl.
Thinking of this, Zhao Mengting flew with her slender hands and knitted a coat, but she didn't show the expression of disgust that she used to be, people always have shortcomings, Xu Qian doesn't look like a reliable person no matter how you look at it, but at least ......
At least Zhao Mengting remembers that day, the courage and courage shown by the guy who was not athletic are still unforgettable.
Men should protect women, Zhao Mengting is the daughter of a businessman, a businessman has a low status, and it looks like a beautiful woman with fresh clothes and angry horses, but she knows the bitterness of this, and that feeling of precariousness makes her hope that someone can protect herself regardless of a single thing.
Naturally, this kind of protection does not necessarily come from the love of men and women, but is an instinct, without any selfishness.
It is precisely because of this that Zhao Mengting was fooled, she secretly hid ten taels of silver when she entered Xu's house, but she was fooled by Xu Qian and bought an inn? It is clearly a trap and abduction.
Pushing the cup outside, the atmosphere is very lively, Zhao Mengting is a woman, so it is naturally inconvenient to show her head, but the wing room is separated from the living room outside, the Xu family is not a big place, and the banquet can only be carried out in the living room.
Master Huang looks like an old boy in his forties, although he is quite decent in a Confucian shirt, but the facial features are crowded together, but he always seems to have a deep grudge with others. This Master Huang and Xu Chang don't have much friendship, but recently there have been rumors about the father and son of the Xu family in the yamen, and I feel curious, and today Xu Qian came to invite again, saying that he was going to resign in a while, which aroused Master Huang's curiosity even more.
Xu Chang was about to say goodbye to the county government under the guise that he was about to say goodbye to the county government, and Master Huang felt that there was something greasy here, so he finally agreed to come, no matter what, he couldn't save people's face.
But when it comes to this, Master Huang is reserved, the Xu family father and son are too enthusiastic, it stands to reason that he is also the number one person in the yamen, and Xu Bantou is also regarded as an errand under him, and the enthusiasm is certain. But didn't this surnamed Xu claim to quit his errand? I usually don't have too much to do with myself, but today I am here to be courteous, and things are abnormal, so I naturally have to be careful.
When he arrived at someone's house, he had to ask someone's son, Master Huang first looked at Xu Qian, and he couldn't avoid vulgarity, so he asked very casually: "The virtuous nephew is very angry, and he will definitely be able to develop in the future." ”
This is a very polite word, even Master Huang feels that he has said a little too much, the father and son surnamed Huang are lowly, and they have been engaged in lowly business for generations. Germinal? If it can be born, then it will be ghostly.
Xu Qian was very well-behaved today, but he was very flattered and nodded at Master Huang.
Xu Chang's eyebrows fluttered, and he said: "Don't hide it from the master, my son has no other skills, but he is quite good at reading." ”
"It turns out that he is following the right path of sages." Master Huang's face suddenly became solemn, and he praised: "Yes, yes, the children can be taught." But I couldn't help but think in my heart, what is the use of a cheap person? Fang Cai's words were just polite.
Xu Chang sighed: "Yes, the only way in this world is to study, my Xu family is fortunate, fortunately thanks to the emperor's edict to rehabilitate ......"
Master Huang was stunned for a moment, and the emperor rehabilitated him...... What is this allusion? He is a member of the public family, and he followed the county to this Qiantang County, although he is already familiar with the environment, but he may not understand many things, but he is an extremely experienced person, and immediately realized that there must be something greasy here, and said busily: "Oh? Rehabilitated, can the Xu family be unjustly imprisoned? ”
Xu Chang stroked the wine case and said with emotion: "Not at the moment, but the villain's ancestor was in the Tianshun period for the military department, because he was implicated in Yu Shaobao, so he lost his family background, and since then, Emperor Xianxiao has repeatedly issued edicts to rehabilitate, and now he has recently ascended the throne, and he is also edicted to give kindness, hey......"
Xu Qian looked at the old man and found that the old man's skills had risen a little more, especially the beautiful expression, the admiration that flashed when talking about the ancestors, and the kind of loss when the ancestors were in trouble, all of them were overflowing, admired, admired!
Master Huang was stunned for a moment, he hadn't heard of it at all before, and then he suddenly realized, no wonder Xu Chang said that he was going to resign, it turned out that there was such a famous hall, at this time he had to be in awe, and said: "Ancestor is Xu Wendao Xu Xianggong at that time?" ”
Xu Chang said: "Oh? It turns out that Master Huang also recognizes it? ”
Master Huang said with a straight face: "This is my Chao Zhongliang, how can Huang not hear it?" ”
In fact, although Master Huang showed great admiration, he didn't think so, although he was loyal, but you have been fucking loyal for I don't know how many generations, even if it is really his bloodline, it is also eight poles that can't be beaten, at most, the court will strip you of your lowly status, and your reputation is better, what do you want?
Xu Qian coughed, and suddenly said, "Actually, I really have something to ask for to invite my master to come to the cold house today." ”
Master Huang is already tasteless, this father and son are not a good thing, with Master Huang's eyesight, he has already seen the clues, but now he eats people with soft mouths, and after all, people are 'loyal and good', so he can't refuse with words, so he smiled: "I don't know what the virtuous nephew is?" ”
Xu Qian said solemnly: "The Xu family is deeply favored by the country, and the villain should strive for the ancestor Yu Zhong, so as to teach himself not to disgrace the ancestors, so the villain always does not forget to do some good deeds and contribute a little bit to the court, but the people are humble and weak, so they can't do anything big, so the villain thinks, doing good deeds does not necessarily have to be earth-shattering, just do your best, the Xu family has saved some money, the villain plans to open a good hall, Yizhuang, and now the father has laid down a deserted inn, but everything is difficult at the beginning, After all, doing good deeds must also talk about a face, the villain has heard for a long time that Master Huang is a master of books, so he wants Master Huang to raise his hand and write an inscription for the Xu family's good hall and Yizhuang. ”
The words were eloquent, and Master Huang also breathed a sigh of relief, he was afraid that the Xu family father and son would make some excessive requests, but just asking him to write an inscription made him relax, after all, it was a gesture, and someone invited him to look up to him, and Master Huang was quite fluttering.
What's more, what people are doing is doing good deeds, presumably the father and son of the Xu family have just stripped off their lowly status, and they want to take the opportunity to brush up their prestige, which is nothing more than giving up their names, and they can also use their own inscriptions to get rid of their own words.
He said happily: "This is a good deed, how can the old man be disrespectful, easy to say, easy to say." ”
At this time, anyway, he was already full of wine and food, Master Huang simply asked the father and son to withdraw from the banquet, went to the four treasures of the study, held the brush in his hand, and muttered for a while, and then danced on the spotless paper.
Xu Qian praised on the side: "The master is like a god, and the penmanship is exquisite, especially this good word, which is full of charm, and can be described as a high-grade masterpiece." ”
If it was an ordinary boast, Master Huang would just laugh at it, but Xu Qian was speaking jargon, looking at this tone, he was also proficient in the way of calligraphy, Master Huang couldn't help but look at this Xu Qian with admiration, nodded at him and said, "See laugh." ”
After saying that, he wrote the inscription again, and then said: "Doing good is not only a blessing, but also a worry for the officials, and the county government is fully supportive." ”
Xu Chang glanced at Xu Qian, Xu Qian understood, took out a piece of broken silver with a smile, and said, "The fee for moistening the pen, please also ask the master to smile." ”
Master Huang is not a noble person, and he can be regarded as an old fritter who is mixed with essence, but he is not polite, he casually took the broken silver, put it in his sleeve like no one else, and naturally smiled without hesitation.
After eating other people's wine, enjoying the pleasure of the inscription, and getting the money to polish the pen, Master Huang was in a good mood, and said with a smile: "It's easy to say, it's easy to say." After greeting for a while, he left satisfied.
Send Master Huang away.
The father and son looked at each other and smiled, smiling very treacherously, but this smile was seen by Zhao Mengting, who was peeking in the room, Zhao Mengting couldn't help but be in a trance, she had a premonition in her heart, that Master Huang seemed to be cheated by the father and son.