That afternoon, as soon as Zhao Chongyang was taken home by his second sister, his uncle, aunt and cousin arrived at his house in a donkey cart.

They are close relatives to each other, and they often help each other, so the relationship between the two families is naturally excellent. After entering the door, the family welcomed the guests into the house, and after the servants offered tea, the owner ordered more meals to be prepared for dinner to entertain the uncle's family......

After dinner, the second lady accompanied the cousin to the side to talk about herself, and the uncle and aunt explained their intentions.

Master Zhao Zhuang listened to his brother-in-law's speech, frowned, and said: "Brother in-law, even we adults feel that things are tricky, but you are pinning your hopes on a seven or eight-year-old Huangkou child, doesn't it make people feel too panicked?" ”

Zhao Chongyang said on the side: "My father's words are wrong, as the saying goes: If you have ambition, you are not old, and if you have no ambition, you will live to be 100 years old." In fact, this sentence can also be said in this way, that is, the "zhi" of ambition is replaced by the "wisdom" of wisdom, that is, "wisdom is not old, and wisdom is empty to live a hundred years." You forget, the spinning wheel I designed last year, one person spun yarn a day, which is equivalent to six people, saving a lot of labor costs. Or I'll make a bet with you, dad, if I help my cousin through this time, our family's affairs will be up to me in the future. ””

Zhao Zhuang said in his heart: Lao Tzu knows that you are different from ordinary people, if you want the right, I will give it to you. So he said, "Good! No problem, as long as you find a way to help your cousin successfully dissolve the marriage contract this time, you will have the final say in all matters of our family in the future. ”

"Mother, you can hear me clearly, don't when I want to do something, my father says I'm a little nonsense."

"It doesn't matter, as long as you get this matter done this time, if your father cheats at that time, your mother will be the master for you."

Zhao Chongyang said: "Okay, uncle, aunt and cousin will stay at our house tonight, I have to work this matter together with the master, and there will be good news tomorrow morning." Now, the memories of Zhao Chongyang's previous life have almost all awakened, and he has a lot of advanced technology and insight more than a thousand years later, but because he is now soft-spoken, not many people believe it. Therefore, Zhao Chongyang wanted to take this opportunity to increase his voice at home. In fact, Zhao Chongyang himself didn't feel that his voice in this family had long surpassed that of his mother, second only to his father.

Early the next morning, Zhao Chongyang told everyone what he and his master had come up with. When everyone heard this, it was indeed a good plan. asked the master and apprentice to hurry up and follow the plan.

After breakfast, the servant drove the cart to the river. When they arrived at the docks, the servants, with the help of the boatmen, brought their luggage onto the ship. Two servants came with them, one accompanied them to Nanking, and the other drove the donkey cart back.

Along the way, Master Zhou sat on the deck and told Zhao Chongyang some interesting anecdotes about the rivers and lakes. At three or four o'clock in the afternoon, their ship arrived in Nanjing. After the boat docked, the two disembarked. The big shopkeeper of the Zhao family in the city has received a message from the flying pigeon of the owner, knowing that the young owner and Master Zhou are going to Fucheng to do business, and he has already sent someone to wait on the dock in advance with a carriage.

A few people went ashore, got in the car and rushed to their shop.

Nanjing is the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, with a long history, and is a prosperous place second only to Bian Liang in Kyoto, with a population of nearly one million at this time. The carriage drove very smoothly along the wide bluestone streets. The streets are full of tall gatehouses, developed commerce, and the market is prosperous, which is different from the general prefecture and county seats.

The Zhao family's head office is on South Street, and there are only three shops in front of it, one selling paper from the paper mill, one selling yarn, and the other selling cloth. Behind the shop is a backyard, a separate two-story building, with a dining hall and kitchen downstairs, and the shopkeeper's family living upstairs. The other is a larger, three-storey wooden building, with the lower ground floor used as a storehouse, the second floor for the men, and the third floor for the owner's accommodation when he came to Nanjing, and in addition, important business partners came and sometimes let them stay here.

After the spinning wheel of Zhao's spinning wheel was improved by the drawings drawn by Zhao Chongyang, it was changed to a foot pedal as a power, and the efficiency was increased several times. The Zhao family's cotton yarn and linen yarn are one percent less than the selling price of others, and the sales volume has increased significantly, several times that of previous years. And the profit is more than ten times that of previous years. Therefore, after the shopkeeper brought the young master and Master Zhou, he asked the servant to take the luggage into the room for the two of them, and directly took them to the room where they were talking about large transactions. Without waiting for the servant to offer tea, Zhao Wuxian said excitedly: "Since your little master changed the spinning wheel, the price of our yarn has been reduced by 10%, and our cotton yarn and linen yarn have been in short supply. ”

Zhao Chongyang said: "Then add another 50 spinning wheels, not more, otherwise we will rob other people's businesses, and those families will unite to trap us." ”

Hearing this, Shopkeeper Zhao nodded. Zhao shopkeeper is Zhao Wuji's distant cousin, because of his low status, he is not treated well at home, he worked at Zhao Chongyang's house at the age of twelve, and later went to Nanjing City as a shop man. After Zhao Wuji took over the business, he saw that he was honest and reliable, so he asked the old shopkeeper to train him. Later, after the old shopkeeper passed away, he became the shopkeeper.

A few people gossiped for a while, and the shopkeeper's wife and daughter-in-law finished the meal and asked a few people to go to the dining hall to eat. Zhao Chongyang saw that the meat was only stewed, not stir-fried. He asked, "Is there still meat or pork liver?" ”

The shopkeeper's wife said, "There is still a piece of meat that has not been fried." ”

"Then don't eat it yet, let me stir-fry a dish for everyone to eat. By the way, I will teach you how to use bean sauce, and my aunt and sister-in-law will pay attention to how I operate it, so you can try to use it in the future. ”

Zhao Chongyang walked into the kitchen, there were ginger, garlic and other ingredients, a few lettuce heads, cut the meat into slices, peeled the lettuce and cut it into slices, adjusted the meat slices with starch and bean paste, burned the wok, poured vegetable oil, burned until it was hot, put the ginger slices and garlic into it and fried the fragrance, poured the meat into it and stir-fried, and then poured the lettuce into it and fried it, put salt and pepper and other dishes on the plate. Zhao Chongyang explained while operating, there was like an eight-year-old child, like a hotel chef.

Zhao Chongyang divided the slices of green qi into two parts, one for them to eat and one for the guys at the next table.

When everyone saw the dishes made by the little master himself, they smelled a fragrance and couldn't help but have a great appetite. Shopkeeper Zhao said: "If you don't eat it, it will already smell very fragrant, and the taste will definitely not be wrong." Then I put a slice in my mouth and tasted it, only to feel mellow and delicious, it is the only taste in the world. Everyone also moved the bamboo chopsticks, and they all felt that the more they ate, the more fragrant they became.

Everyone said to Zhao Chongyang: "Little master, the food you make is so delicious, if you go to open a restaurant, the business will definitely be hot." ”

Zhao Chongyang said: "The reason why this taste is fragrant is mainly because of the spicy sauce, and the cooked green oil is fried in a wok, otherwise it is not so delicious." Second uncle, you said that if I tell a big restaurant about this method of stir-frying, how much is it appropriate to charge him? ”

"If it's all such a good way to cook, it's not too expensive to charge 100 yuan." Then pay 100 guan for a recipe, sell a few hundred guan and buy a store, which is specially used to buy spicy bean paste and soy sauce. ”

After hearing this, Zhu Xiu'er, the shopkeeper of Zhao, asked: "Little master, we have already tasted the taste of this spicy sauce, what is this soy sauce, isn't it also a seasoning?" ”

"My sister-in-law is right, it's another spice that I'm about to make out a lot of market. It is another kind of fragrance that is stir-fried by mixing it with meat, and it is delicious. ”

"Oh......"

After dinner, it was already evening, and the master and apprentice wandered around South Street for a while, and because of the fatigue of the boat, the two went back to the room to rest.

Early the next morning, after the two had breakfast, Zhou Daxing said to the shopkeeper that he should prepare a donkey cart and send them to Dongdajie. The two of them sat in front of a large compound on East Street, went down to the east, and asked the men to drive the donkey cart back.

Zhao Chongyang saw that there was a sugar gourd seller opposite the compound, and sold a few strings of sugar gourds in his hand. Zhao Chongyang didn't really want to eat sugar gourds, but just wanted to taste the difference in taste between the sugar gourds at this time and those of later generations.

Zhao Chongyang took the sugar gourd and followed the master into the courtyard. Master Zhou said to Zhao Chongyang as he walked: "This is the big courtyard of the Weiyuan Dart Bureau where I used to be a dart master, and then because I lost a dart and did not recover it, the head of the dart Wang Zhennan lost all his savings, and the dart game could not be opened, and finally it was disbanded." All assets are left in this compound, and if the dart master has a place to go, he will make a living, and if he has no place to go, Mr. Wang will give them two rooms each, let them live, and use the money they usually save to make a living by doing some small business. So, you see, it may be that the population of each family has increased now, and they can't live there, and they have built a lot of simple houses in the open space in the courtyard. ”

At this time, a five or six-year-old child found them and ran over and asked enthusiastically: "Who are you looking for, most of the adults have gone to the street to work and earn money, and only Grandpa Wang is upstairs in his house." If you look for him, I'll call you. ”

Zhao Chongyang saw that the little girl was smart and cute, so he handed her a string of sugar gourds and asked her to inform Grandpa Wang. At this time, more than a dozen children ran out of each room, all of whom stretched out their hands to ask for sugar gourds. Zhao Chongyang said in his heart: Oops! This time the score was not enough, so he had to take the two strings in his hand to the children who were close, run out of the door, and let the sugar gourd seller bring in the sugar gourd, and buy them all for him. The heart of buying sugar gourd said: Today is a good day, and I met such a big buyer.

After Zhao Chongyang finished distributing the sugar gourd, paid off the money, and looked back, Zhou Daxing and Wang Zhennan's old brother and son had already chatted on the side.

Zhou Daxing saw that Zhao Chongyang was done, so he shouted to his apprentice: "Chongyang, come and see Uncle Wang." ”

Zhao Chongyang ran over, saluted respectfully, and said in a loud voice: "Uncle Wang is good." ”

Wang Zhennan said: "Daxing, this eight-year-old disciple you accepted treats people like an adult. People say that he is a young man, but I think he is a child. How many years have you been practicing martial arts? ”

"I started learning at the age of five, and now it's been more than three years." Zhou Daxing replied.

"That should have some foundation." Wang Zhennan said, "Hey Zhao Chongyang, what have you learned, I'll take a look at the two tricks." ”

"How dare Chongyang be ugly in front of his uncle?"

"Uncle Wang wants you to compare a few times, you can show him a few tricks, if you don't practice right, your Uncle Wang can also point you out."

"Okay, then I'll be ugly, please ask Master Wang for advice." Zhao Chongyang played a set of Bohu boxing. This set of Tiger Fighting Boxing was taught to Zhou Daxing by Zhou Tong, and later passed on to him by Master Zhou. This set of punches is wide open and closed, the boxing method is tight, if the internal force is deep, the fight is vigorous, as if it is fighting with the tiger.