Chapter 10: Money Makes Money
Li Yuexi and Yang Xingchen walked aimlessly on the street, attracting the whispers of countless pedestrians, everyone didn't understand that this eldest young master of the Chu family walked majestically and sideways on weekdays, why did he look so embarrassed today? Could it be that he was driven out of the house by Master Chu for something lawless?
The pedestrians on the road all knew Chu Yi's usual style, and only when Chu Yi walked by them did they dare to secretly gather together and whisper, how could Yang Xingchen not know the small movements of the pedestrians, just pretending not to see it, and he felt ashamed in his heart, so he secretly picked up his sleeves and wiped them on his face again, but the dust on his sleeves made his already somewhat dusty face more like a big cat.
A person and a cat walked aimlessly and briskly under the gaze of passers-by, Yang Xingchen was gray at the moment and had no former demeanor, what he was most afraid of now was to meet his former acquaintances, think about it, take Li Yuexi to the other courtyard of Chu Mansion on the outskirts of the city, at least let him change his clothes and take a bath first. But the more you are afraid of something, the more you will come! If you want to go to the courtyard of Chu Mansion - Guanyue Xiaozhu, you must pass by the market and then go out from the main gate of Yancheng, walk less than a few minutes away, the market of Yancheng is the center of the whole city, the most lively place, especially today is still the day of the market, the people in the small county town and small villages on the side want to take advantage of the market day once a month to sell more goods, or buy some food with less money than usual, Yang Xingchen and Li Yuexi have long forgotten that today is the market day after these messy things, As soon as the two of them arrived at the entrance of the market, they were dumbfounded when they saw the crowded scene, and suddenly remembered that today was the market day, and one person and one cat looked at each other stupidly, not knowing whether they should walk over, and after being stunned for a while, Li Yuexi took the lead and said, "Otherwise, let's ...... Go back to Chu Mansion, right? Yang Xingchen was also a little hesitant, but when he thought that his cheap daughter-in-law was still waiting for him in his room with an affectionate face, he was excited, and his head shook like a rattle and said, "No, no, no, let's not go back for the time being!" Get out and take shelter! Li Yuexi covered her mouth and snickered: "You can hide from the first day of junior high school, you can't hide from fifteen, sooner or later, your mother will have to force you to have a baby, you might as well ignore them now!" Yang Xingchen's eyes widened angrily, and a pair of Danfeng eyes were about to stare into copper bell eyes, and he said in an angry tone: "Li Yuexi, you have been a little too much recently!" You watch me laugh every day! You still stand and talk without backache! Li Yuexi couldn't help but laugh a few more times: "I didn't hurt my waist when I stood and talked!" Watching Yang Xingchen gradually collapse with a bitter face, he said, "Okay, okay, I was wrong, I was wrong, so what do you say?" Yang Xingchen bit his lip and was silent, the sun shone on his dusty but still handsome face, his skin was fair as if he could see through the light, his eyes were bright and a little melancholy because he had something on his mind, Li Yuexi stared at his face and couldn't help but be a little dazed, Yang Xingchen's face now is really stunning, if he gets the modern and proper school grass level, he can be tapped by talent scouts to be a star on the road, no wonder now these women are fascinated by him, desperately trying to marry him, Because people are really pure and pure rich and handsome now!
Thinking about it, Li Yuexi began to miss the previous Yang Xingchen again, no matter how handsome Yang Xingchen is now, she is not the childhood sweetheart in her mind, wearing black-framed glasses, always wearing washed white jeans, clean white shirt Yang Xingchen, the original Yang Xingchen will refuse all the girls who confess to him, there is only her "best friend" by her side, although the current Yang Xingchen is still Yang Xingchen, but there are so many warblers and Yanyan around him, sooner or later he will meet the person he likes, This is a question that Li Yuexi has never thought about in modern times, in her heart she has always felt that they will be best friends, their friendship can not be broken by anyone, and it has always been like this, even if the two of them find their own home and have children in the future, they will still visit the door, walk the baby together, and get together for a meal every three or five days, because the two families have always been closer than relatives after decades of neighborly relations. But everything has changed when he comes here, Yang Xingchen will definitely meet his true destiny, and she doesn't want her true destiny to be a cat, but she is a cat! How can there be a pervert in the world who would marry a cat!? The more she thought about it, the more sad she felt, and when sadness was about to permeate her entire heart, Yang Xingchen's heart pulled back her thoughts: "I know what to do, we still have to go to the moon watching Xiaozhu to hide for a few days, I will block my face for a while and leave quickly, there are so many people in the market now, it is estimated that no one will notice me." Yang Xingchen concentrated on finding a way and didn't listen carefully to Li Yuexi's heart, so naturally he didn't know what Li Yuexi was thinking just now, Li Yuexi quickly retracted his thoughts and said, "What do you use to cover your face?" Yang Xingchen looked himself up and down, there was indeed nothing to block, and finally he set his eyes on Li Yuexi's body, Li Yuexi felt Yang Xingchen's scorching gaze fall on his body, and instantly felt a chill, and her hair was about to explode.
In the end, there was a strange scene on the Yancheng Grand Gathering, a man dressed in fancy clothes but covered in dust made by himself, with a cat on his head, the cat's tail drooped on his right cheek, blocking half of his face, his mouth was also blocked, and the tail was still wrapped around his neck, leaving only the left eye on the whole face to look around vigilantly, and when he saw someone less, he "swished" over. Fortunately, there were many people in the bazaar, and everyone's attention was attracted by the shouting small merchants and vendors, and few people could notice this strange man, even if the people who noticed were shocked by his strange dress, and wanted to chase after him to take a look, they were also squeezed forward by the crowding people who kept moving forward, shouting as they walked: "Don't squeeze don't squeeze!" I don't want to go over there, let me out! But the footsteps couldn't stop moving forward, and when I looked back, I saw that the "weird man" had been annihilated by the flow of people.
I don't know how long it took to walk, Yang Xingchen finally walked out of Yancheng Daji with Li Yuexi on his head, passing through this crowded flow of people, Yang Xingchen felt as if his skin was about to be peeled off, he gasped for breath, thinking in his heart, he has never been so ashamed since he was a child, and since he became Chu Yi, he felt that he had never wanted to be faced.
At this time, about half of the distance has been walked, and the remaining half will take less than half the time to reach the moon viewing Xiaozhu because there is no crowding, Yang Xingchen gasped for a while, and immediately stood up and prepared to continue walking, but as soon as he raised his leg and took a step forward, he heard someone shouting behind him: "Brother Chu Xian!" Yang Xingchen's footsteps paused slightly, he didn't dare to turn his head, and hurriedly stepped up his steps to move forward, mother! I'm really afraid of anything! The more I didn't want to meet an acquaintance, I just did, although Yang Xingchen didn't hear who this person was. I only heard the people behind me continue to shout: "Hey! Brother Chu Xian! Slow down, wait for me! Yang Xingchen still ignored him, only to hear the man shouting louder and louder: "Brother Chu Xian!" Chu Xiaoliu! Chu Liuzi!! Chu Dahua! This shouted louder than the other, and the shouts were more exaggerated than the other, forcing Yang Xingchen to stop, for fear that if he shouted his name directly, then the whole street would be able to see his stupid appearance. At this moment, Yang Xingchen had already identified who this thing was from the memory in his mind. Li Yuexi also jumped off the top of Yang Xingchen's head and fell into his arms, Yang Xingchen turned around a little bit stiff like a puppet in embarrassment, Li Yuexi seemed to be able to hear the sound of the puppet "clicking" and turning his body, and he could see how much Yang Xingchen didn't want to see the person behind him, one person and one cat looked at the person who ran towards them quickly, only to see the person running over one by one, the image of the two trails that ran was like seeing the owner happily wagging his tail Erha, Yang Xingchen took a closer look, that's right, Isn't this Qian Shengqian, the second son of Qian Shang, and Chu Yi's best friend from childhood to adulthood.
If you want to say that the richest man in this Ming Yu country is Chu Hongjie, the second richest person should be regarded as this money merchant, the richest man of the Chu family is the accumulation of many years of ancestors, and the money merchant is really from his own business, why is this money merchant so powerful, in fact, the money merchant family and the Chu family have a lot of origins, Chu Hongjie is the noble man of the money merchant, and he has been a friend for many years, why the two families are so friendly, the reason for this has to start from 25 years ago: this money merchant's real name is Qian Youkang, and he changed his name after doing businessThe funniest thing is that he named one of his two sons, Qian Shengcai and Qian Shengqian (homonym: Qian Shengqian), and even his daughter's name was not spared: called Qian Keduo. Okay! This family has fallen into the pile of money, and it is difficult to estimate whether there is any money! To say that this money is also powerful, he was originally a farmer in a small village on the edge of Yancheng, he was used to living a poor life, and several poor brothers in their family couldn't marry a daughter-in-law at all when they reached the age, and then there was no way for his father to sell his only sister to a big family as a maid, and his sister had just turned thirteen years old at that time, and Qian Duo loved his sister very much, but he didn't expect his parents to be so ruthless that he could do such a thing as selling his daughter for money, and ran away from home to find his sister in a fit of anger. As a result, he found that his sister was sold to the Chu family, and he also entered the Chu Mansion as a servant in order to redeem his sister, and finally met his sister, because the brother and sister were very capable, they were noticed by the Zheng steward next to Chu Hongjie, Chu Hongjie had not yet started a family at that time, but had already begun to manage their family's property. Once Steward Zheng came out of the study after discussing things with Chu Hongjie, and happened to meet Qian Youkang who was cleaning the courtyard, gossiping, Steward Zheng pointed to Qian Youkang who was cleaning, and told Chu Hongjie his story while walking, Chu Hongjie was a busy person who was already busy, how could he remember the story of an ordinary little guy looking for relatives in his heart, but it was a coincidence, the old lady Chu at that time, that is, Chu Hongjie's grandfather was still alive, that day the old man was greedy to eat cherries, and one was careless, The cherry was stuck in the throat, everyone panicked, the whole house became a pot of porridge, the maids and aunts patted their backs and cried and called for someone to call the doctor, seeing that the old lady Chu's face was gradually turning blue, and the person was about to suffocate to death, Qian Youkang, who was cleaning near the door and heard the movement, jumped over in three or two steps, pushed everyone away and hugged the old lady Chu from behind, squeezed his abdomen, and after squeezing it a few times, half a cherry spit out of the mouth of the old lady Chu, Old Lady Chu's face returned to normal after a while, and when everyone was in a state of nervous tension but suddenly relaxed, Qian Youkang silently left Old Lady Chu's room and continued to clean the courtyard. Chu Hongjie, who returned home, heard about this and hurriedly came to Old Lady Chu's room, and when he saw that Old Lady Chu was fine, he was relieved. After learning that it was Qian Youkang who saved his grandfather, he found him alone, gave him a large sum of money, and allowed him to leave Chu Mansion with his sister to make a living. A few years later, Qian Youkang changed his name to Qian Duoyou, married a wife and had children, he used the money Chu Hongjie gave him to open a Qian garment shop in the city, the business of the garment shop was not booming, and he could only barely make a living. Not only to do cloth business but also to do garment and rouge gouache business, after going back, Zheng Steward told Chu Hongjie about it, although the old man Chu had passed away two years ago, but Qian Duoyou saved the life of the old man Chu Hongjie will not forget, Chu Hongjie personally went to see Qian Duoyou, and decided to help Qian Duoyou to do the rouge gouache business in the store next door to him, the only requirement is that the fabric of the garment shop and the raw materials of the rouge gouache shop are provided by the Chu family, and Qian Duoyou only needs to pay for the raw materials, and sent embroidery workers excellent embroidery, embroidery girls excellent embroidery workers made the clothes instantly up a grade, but also sent people everywhere to promote the Chu family and Qian cooperation, re-made the plaque, selected a zodiac auspicious time and reopened, the first week of opening there are gift activities, buy three pieces of ready-to-wear to give one, the first day of opening was overcrowded, less than three months to return to the capital. Qian Duoyou particularly admired Chu Hongjie, and Chu Hongjie also felt that although Qian Duoyou was an uneducated farmer, he was honest and bold, and this person was worthy of his friendship, so the two became friends and best business partners.
Later, when Qian Shengqian was born, Xuanyuan Cixin had just conceived Chu Yi. When making a full moon wine for the child, Xuanyuan Cixin and Mrs. Qian chatted together, and the two also said that if Xuanyuan Cixin was pregnant with a girl in her belly, the two families would become in-laws, and as a result, Chu Yi was born. The two children grew up wearing open crotch pants together, although Qian Shengqian was older than Chu Yi for nearly nine months in terms of age, but Qian Shengqian always ran after Chu Yi, just like his younger brother. Every time Chu Yi was in trouble, Qian Shengqian wiped his ass in the back, he couldn't understand it, and asked Chu Hongjie and Xuanyuan to wipe it, so Chu Hongjie often told Qian Shengqian to be optimistic about Chu Yi and press him a little before he was about to get into trouble. This is also the reason why Chu Yi's first reaction when he heard his voice was to run away quickly, it was purely instinctive!