"Big brother doesn't have to go out to send it off, our father and son know the way out, and since then the end of the world has been separated and never seen again. Leave! ”

Zhang Zhou's father and son, one holding a torch and the other carrying a fire fold, walked out of the mansion with their heads held high.

The housekeeper of the Zhang family walked in, came to Zhang Ye and said, "Master, just give him the money?" ”

Zhang Ye said angrily: "Otherwise? Do you let that bastard set fire to the house, or do you burn me? ”

"The second master shouldn't be that guts, right?" The steward disagreed.

Just Zhang Zhou?

That nest of bags, dare to set fire to the house and burn people? I didn't dare to lend him a hundred dares.

Zhang Ye said: "Are you asking the master to bet that he doesn't dare?" Why didn't you stop him at the door? ”

"Ah......h

Now even the steward is wilted.

"Keep an eye on the door in the future, whether he comes to set fire or give gifts, he will be kicked out, and this master should only be this younger brother! Let Lao Tzu see him again in the future, Lao Tzu must pull his tendons and pick his skin! ”

"Then master, if the second master is lifted in the future, he will not be seen?"

"Middle-lifted? Why don't you say that he is the champion? Does he have that life? ”

"What did the eldest lady say?"

"If anyone dares to tell his wife, I will also strip his skin! My two hundred dollars! ”

……

……

"Dad, you are really capable, you got 200 wen from your uncle at once, but why don't you ask him for more? I look at the uncle, I'm afraid of you. ”

Out of the door, Zhang Jun had already admired his father to the ground.

Zhang Zhoudao: "To do things, you must know how to do what you can, and you must also judge the situation, Uncle Ling has no status in the family, he is pressed by his mother-in-law, he has a son for so many years, and he can't ask for a concubine." The amount of money he can dispose of is estimated to be less than one tael of silver. ”

"Then it's a tael." Zhang Jun added.

Zhang Zhou glared at his son and said: "You kid remember, we are here to borrow money, not to be bandits, you have to leave some for him, don't let him feel too distressed, otherwise he may really die with us!" ”

"Isn't this called a bandit? Hey. ”

Zhang Jun muttered and said with a smile: "Dad, shall we go home now?" ”

Zhang Zhoudao: "It's only 200 Wen, just go home?" Go to your grandfather's house, this time I know where his door is, you just follow behind. ”

Zhang Jun was surprised: "Then Dad, are we still going to set fire?" Is there enough to bring? ”

After an arson success, the son thought that his father would have to repeat his old tricks.

"When you go to your grandfather's house, you have to change your position. After throwing everything away, let's go and eat lunch first, eat and drink to your heart's content, otherwise your grandfather will think that we are going to beg for food. ”

……

The father and son finished lunch at the roadside stall, and Zhang Jun had a lot of appetite and ate a bowl of lo mein.

Zhang Zhou also put a part of himself into his son's bowl.

"Da Lang, eat more in the future, grow tall and strong, protect your mother, aunt, and sister, and be a man!"

"Dad, isn't there you?"

"I'm not enough, this family needs men."

Zhang Zhou probably felt that he would leave at any time, so it was necessary to cultivate his son.

The father and son had a full meal and went to the gate of Zhang Zhou's old father-in-law, Jiang Dezhong, together.

Unlike the cold reception at the door of Zhangye's house, the Jiang family directly invited the father and son to the door, but did not bring them to the main courtyard, and led the father and son to a side hall in the West Chamber, and there were no refreshments for reception.

"Tell your master, I'm here to talk to him about business, and I don't have this store in this village if I miss it!"

Zhang Zhou said a word to the Jiang family.

The next person leaves.

Zhang Jun asked, "Dad, what business do you want to talk to your grandfather?" ”

Zhang Zhou sat down and looked around, there was not even anything valuable in this room, probably Lao Taishan was afraid that others would be poor and short-lived, and his hands and feet would not be clean, so he deliberately found such a room with nothing to greet him, unless Zhang Zhou was going to move out the table, chairs, cabinets and other things to sell, otherwise he would never be able to take anything from this room for realization.

"Your grandfather wants to take you and your mother back to live, would you like to come?" Zhang Zhou asked.

"No, we want to be together as a family!"

"Then if you bring your aunt and sister with you, would you like to?"

"Uh...... No, Dad, you have to be together! ”

Zhang Jun thought about it for a while, as if he felt that his father was very important, but as for how important it was, he couldn't describe it himself.

Zhang Zhou smiled and touched Zhang Jun's head: "I finally didn't hurt you in vain, I told your grandfather that I wanted to do business, he thought it was to talk about the business of selling your mother and son, only in this way will he show up, otherwise we can only wait here!" ”

"Daddy, don't sell us."

"No, your father and I have a way to deal with your grandfather."

……

……

As Zhang Zhou expected, after the tea, Zhang Zhou's old father-in-law, Jiang Dezhong, appeared in the courtyard of the West Wing.

The little old man with a goatee looks shrewd at first glance, but he looks more like an old and unscrupulous man.

"My son-in-law has seen my father-in-law." Zhang Zhou took his son out to salute, "Dalang, hurry up and salute your grandfather." ”

"I've seen my grandfather."

Jiang Dezhong put on a stinky face: "You still have a face?" The old man has a lot of sons, but just a baby daughter, but he blindly chose you as a loser, and now he can't even eat, so he came to borrow money from the old man, right? ”

Zhang Zhoudao: "No, my father-in-law misunderstood, my son-in-law recently learned a little rumor, and I want to come to do a business with you and make money." ”

Jiang Dezhong almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood.

"I've seen shameless, I've never seen you so shameless, just you're still in business? Will you be in business? Jiang Dezhong didn't give his son-in-law any face, and even scolded.

Zhang Zhou was not surprised, and said with a smile: "Father-in-law, I heard that after the Yellow River was diverted in the north, it broke again in August, coupled with the wind disaster in the southeast, in the next period of time, the price of firewood, rice, oil and salt in Nanjing will skyrocket, you are in the brewing business, why don't you take the opportunity to sweep the goods and make a profit?" ”

Jiang Dezhong said disdainfully: "The Yellow River burst? Xia Xun has passed, and I haven't heard of the break, and what happened to the southeast wind disaster in Nanjing? Less nonsense here! ”

Zhang Zhou is really not talking nonsense.

In the autumn of the 11th year of Hongzhi, after the Yellow River was diverted to the Huai River, there was indeed a big breach, so that all parts of the Central Plains were starving, and the price of rice in Nanjing and other places was expensive, and the price rose two or three times in a month, until October, after the imperial court allocated relief grain from Huguang, Jiangjiang and other places, the price of rice in Nanjing returned to normal.

The price increase of living materials in Nanjing this time is not because of scarcity, but because of a wave of panic hoarding in the market, driven by bad news.

Chinese people are probably like this, they lack a sense of security, they have a strong sense of crisis, and they always like to do this kind of thing.

Jiang Dezhong's family has been in the brewing business for generations, and when he came to Jiang Dezhong, he was admitted to Xiucai, but since then, he has failed to take the examination several times, and then he does not dream of the imperial examination, but the Jiang family regards himself as a scholarly family, and Zhang Zhou's grandfather was born as a scholar, and he has been a magistrate for two terms and a general judge, and Zhang Zhou's father is also a tribute.

"Father-in-law, how can you be so distrustful of your son-in-law? The son-in-law really didn't lie to you, otherwise, you lend me fifty stone of grain, and I will pay you back in two months, at your own risk, what do you think? ”

Zhang Zhou put forward his own business experience.

The market price of a pound of ordinary grain is about three or four yuan, one stone is more than 400 yuan, fifty stone is twenty yuan, and when converted into silver, it is about 23 taels, and the market price of copper money is 850 yuan can be exchanged for one or two plain silver.

Jiang Dezhong almost jumped up on the spot: "You erection, my daughter has been reduced from a young lady to a peasant woman, I haven't settled accounts with you yet, you come to the door, I will entertain you, you still have the idea of beating my family's rice grain?" ”

"Don't say I won't give you a chance, I make wine at home, one person and two jars of wine, if you can drink the old man, the old man will lend you this grain, if you drink it or dare not drink it, get out of it as soon as possible!"