Chapter 143: Second Uncle is pitiful
"Bai Zhi, you are well-informed, the second uncle's nervous heart and liver are pounding, do you have a way to cure it?"
"Yes."
"Speak quickly, speak quickly."
"Isn't there a lake next to it? The second uncle jumped down to take a cold shower, and he was not nervous. ”
There is an unnamed lake in the back mountain of Xinghuazhuang, there is a spacious pavilion on the lake, only entertain the ladies of the noble stomach who come to play on weekdays, the pavilion is surrounded by water, fishing, enjoying the scenery, talking about the wind and the moon is a good place, but today this pavilion is wrapped up by the people of the government, and other guests are not allowed to approach.
In the pavilion, a tea house is set up not far away, and there are more than a dozen pairs in total, all of which are used to entertain the representatives of the new imperial merchants.
On an inconspicuous tea party, the representatives of the wine merchant Xu Fuji, Xu Baizhi of the Xu family and Xu Hongyao, the second uncle, sat down next to each other, and chatted a few words before the adults of the household department arrived.
Xu Hongyao is dressed brightly today, wearing a purple gown, with cloud patterns embroidered with gold thread on the cuffs, and he looks like a wealthy man.
Especially with the hair he specially asked someone to comb this morning, I don't know what was mixed with that hair, it looks oily and shiny, and the two mustaches have also been trimmed by someone.
In short, the second uncle Xu Hongyao came to the banquet today, and he dressed up carefully.
On the other hand, Xu Baizhi beside him is still dressed as usual.
Wearing a long blue dress, her face is covered with makeup, and her hair is like a waterfall, tied behind her waist and tied with strips of cyan cloth.
"Bai Zhi is also joking? It's really strange hey, she must have learned badly from Bai Lu's girl. Xu Hongyao was teased by his eldest niece, and he was not angry, but he felt that it was very novel.
After all, in the past years, Xu Baizhi gave him the impression of the kind of female shopkeeper who said the same, did things vigorously and resolutely, did not smile, and would not make such jokes easily.
Fold his hands on his knees, knelt on the cushion, and Xu Baizhi behind the tea party thought about it...... yes, when did you learn to joke too? It's never been like this before.
Could it be that this month has been too idle?
Xu Fu remembered that the matter of entering the imperial merchant was irreversible, after Xu Baizhi knew, he gave full authority to the second uncle to deal with, for more than a month, the second uncle was busy, dealing with the officials of the household department, she has been at home, and there is nothing to worry about on weekdays, she writes and writes in her spare time, embroiders and embroiders, and then she accompanies her father to play chess and see the scenery.
"Why is the second uncle nervous?" Xu Baizhi turned his head strangely and looked at the second uncle beside him who was trembling up and down.
Xu Hongyao took a sip of the teacup in front of him, the hand holding the teacup was trembling, looking very nervous, he swallowed a breath and whispered: "Second Uncle doesn't know what's wrong, excited, scared, and nervous, I guess I haven't participated in such a big scene before." ”
Xu Baizhi listened, and suddenly felt a feeling of pity for the second uncle in his heart.
Xu Hongyao is Xu Baizhi's second uncle, who has been dull since he was a child.
On the other hand, Master Xu is a good man with first-class business ability, starting from scratch, and opening Xu Fuji's shops all over the streets and alleys of the capital.
People often compare Master Xu with Second Uncle Xu, saying that they were both born from the same mother, why is the difference so big.
Since childhood, Xu Baizhi has looked down on his second uncle in the gossip of others, since he was a child, the relationship between the uncle and nephew is not close, it is not far away, only when the solar term is together, there is no communication on weekdays, and after Xu Baizhi took power, he often dealt with the second uncle Xu.
Second Uncle Xu was either covered by his eldest brother's light, his heart was twisted, and he always wanted to prove himself from Xu Baizhi, Xu Baizhi served as the big shopkeeper of Xu Fuji in the past few years, and Second Uncle Xu was like a clown jumping off the beam, jumping blindly and annoying.
In the past, the relationship between the uncle and nephew was not close, but now, it is even farther away, and Xu Baizhi dislikes Second Uncle Xu from the bottom of his heart.
But today, somehow, Xu Baizhi seems to suddenly understand that it is not easy for Second Uncle Xu.
Second Uncle Xu is in his thirties and forties, but it is the first time for him to participate in such a scene, and he is even nervous.
Xu Baizhi saw it in his eyes, but he didn't feel it in his heart.
"If the second uncle is nervous, it is better to take a few deep breaths, look at others, just stare at the teacup in front of him, and think about something that was happy before, which may relieve the tension." Xu Baizhi suggested, picked up the teacup on the tea eucalyptus, covered his sleeve and took a sip.
Xu Hongyao listened to it and tried to do it.
After a quarter of an hour, he was really not so nervous, so he raised his eyebrows and looked at his niece beside him: "Hey, it's really true......"
Xu Baizhi chuckled: "In the future, the second uncle will experience more, so he won't be too nervous." ”
"Okay, second uncle listen to Bai Zhi's ......"
While he was talking, several household lords wearing crimson official robes slowly entered the pavilion along the wooden plank road on the lake, and more than a dozen representatives of the imperial merchants hurriedly got up and knelt down with their hands on their foreheads.
"Get up, we will all be a family in the future, no need to be polite." The household official in charge lifted his sleeves and sat down on the main seat.
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Then the crowd got up and sat down again.
Everyone knows the household officials in charge, and they have no less dealings with this person.
This person was also privately nicknamed by the merchants, called "Yellow Pickpocket".
Huang Lirong, as the head of the household, is the intermediary agent of more than a dozen private businessmen to enter the imperial business, this is a fat difference, I heard that in this more than a month, he asked each family for a favor fee that adds up to tens of thousands of taels, enough for him to earn for more than ten years.
Everyone dared to be angry but didn't dare to speak, just as the last difficulty before entering the imperial business. Isn't it just money, just give it, as long as this hurdle is passed, everyone will have the identity of an imperial merchant in the future, and they will always be able to spit it out and earn it back.
Huang Lirong sat in the first place, and first drank a cup of tea to moisten his throat.
Then with a wave of his hand, his own clerk stepped forward with the documents that had been prepared long ago and gave one to each merchant.
When all the merchants saw it, they were all smiling...... It's finally coming to an end, as long as you sign your name on the paperwork, everyone will be imperial businessmen in the future, which is not comparable to those private businessmen.
Before Huang Lirong could speak, an anxious businessman grabbed his sleeves, put pen to paperwork, and signed his name with a few strokes.
"In the future, we are all a family, and we should be of one heart and one mind......"
Huang Lirong said some beautiful words in his mouth, put the teacup back on the table, and wiped his mouth with his hand.
In fact, the affairs of the imperial business should not be in charge of the household department, but the affairs of several princes, after all, the money earned in the future will go into the royal private treasury, but who made several princes busy, so they entrusted this matter to the household department, and the princes only need one result in the end.
Huang Lirong took over this errand in order to take over this errand, but it took a lot of effort, just to give gifts to the above, he gave half of his life savings into it, and he was waiting to make a lot of money in this matter.
Now that he has made enough money and the matter has come to an end, he can finally breathe a sigh of relief.
"My lord, isn't this paperwork?"
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