Zhou Rui was sent to Jiangcheng Tea House as a shopkeeper, which not only won the glory of his career, but also aroused the spark of love of a young girl.

There is a tea farmer in Jiangcheng County, who specializes in picking and selling tea for a living. Her husband's name is Huang Ji, who is honest and honest; His wife's name is Jiang Yun, but she is a little snobbish and calculating. They have a daughter named Huang Chu, who has clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, a good figure, and Chu Chu is beautiful. Huang Chu is in his prime this year and has not yet married. There was an endless stream of people who came to the matchmaking and stepped through the threshold. Huang Chu's marriage is decided by his parents, because his mother Jiang Yun's vision is too high, so Huang Chu is not high or low, and he has never found a suitable husband.

One day, Huang Ji and Jiang Yun went out to pick flowers, and Huang Chu was the only one in the family, drying tea leaves in his yard. Suddenly, a young man walked in from outside the door, with a skull, a large mouth, sword eyebrows, thick lips, high nose and cheeks, thick earlobes, a face as peachy and jade, and lips as if smeared with cream. Seeing that Huang Chu was concentrating on scattering tea leaves on the ground, tossing back and forth in the sun, he did not immediately greet Huang Chu, but secretly admired Huang Chu's beautiful back. After a long while, Huang Chu seemed to sense that someone was standing not far behind her, so he turned around and saw that the young man was staring at her. Although Huang Chu was seen to have hot ears, he was not shy, but stared at each other and looked at each other hotly, which made the young man embarrassed and hurriedly avoided his gaze. To avoid embarrassment, the young man asked bluntly, "Do you want to sell your tea?" I bought all the catties of tea. ”

Huang Chu was taken aback, knowing that it was a big buyer who came to the door, so he replied: "Well, of course the tea has to be sold, we originally made a living by picking tea." There aren't many catties, the spot is what I dried, but we can pick it again. The young man said, "Yes!" Then you can sell these to me now. It can be sent directly to Jiangcha Tea House, and I will wait for you there. "With that, leave in a hurry.

Huang Ji and Jiang Yun returned, and Huang Chugu sued him. Huang Ji was overjoyed and said: "Jiangcheng Tea House is quite famous, and it is credible, and it will not suffer a loss if you send the tea there to sell." Tomorrow, I will pull the tea leaves with you in a horse-drawn cart to the Jiangcheng Tea House. Jiang Yun didn't allow his daughter to go, but Huang Chu wanted to see who the young man was, so he stubbornly insisted on going. Jiang Yun was helpless, and sighed, the woman couldn't help herself, but it wasn't a big deal, so she had to go by Huang Chu. But Jiang Yun still manages Huang Chu, always wary of his daughter's interaction with people, worried about meeting those who are indiscreet, or intersecting with those poor. The next day, Huang Ji and Huang Chu used a carriage to send the tea to Jiangcheng Tea House as instructed. When you go inside, there are a lot of people, and there are many tea farmers who come to sell tea. A huge acquisition hall was crowded with buyers and sellers. Tea farmers are forming a long line and are slowly moving forward. Talking to each other, the voices of people are boiling, and the noise is endless. Huang Chu had been searching for the young man he met yesterday, and saw him sitting in the shopkeeper's room, talking to someone. The young man saw Huang Chu coming, and hurriedly came out to say hello. Huang Chu smiled at him and said, "I brought the tea leaves!" The young man told a fellow next to him to hurry over the scales without arranging the wheels. The guy agreed and said, "Yes, Shopkeeper Zhou!" Huang Chu knew that the young man was the shopkeeper of the tea house. Huang Chu later inquired about this young man's name Zhou Rui. I thought, this Zhou Rui is really not simple, he became the shopkeeper at a young age, and he couldn't help but admire it in his heart, which set off a ripple in the girl's heart, and his admiration arose.

After that, Zhou Rui often took the opportunity to buy tea and came to Huang Chu's house to chat. Huang Chu also hopes that Zhou Rui will often come to her house, if she doesn't see Zhou Rui come for a few days, she will have nothing to do, always make excuses, go to the tea house to sit down, and see what Zhou Rui is doing, is he busy? If you're busy, you can even help out sometimes. Come and go, get acquainted. They can talk to each other, and they talk speculatively. In the hearts of the two young people, there is an indescribable and inexplicable feeling, maybe it is called love. Daughter Huang Chu frequently corresponded with Zhou Rui, so naturally she couldn't escape the eyes of her mother Jiang Yun. Jiang Yun quietly investigated Zhou Rui's details, and she learned through others that Zhou Rui was the shopkeeper of the tea house, unmarried, an only son, and a mother at home, so the burden was not heavy. If Huang Chu can marry Zhou Rui, it is also very good, just turn a blind eye and let Huang Chu have a natural relationship with him.

I have been dating for a while, but I saw that Zhou Rui did not come to propose. Jiang Yun muttered in his heart, so he kept dragging it out, his daughter was getting older, and if she didn't pick it out, I was afraid that there would be variables in the future, which would be unfavorable to her daughter. So he called Huang Chu to the room and said directly: "Girl, you are not too young, it's time to get married!" Have you thought about it, what is the situation with Shopkeeper Zhou, and he has not come to propose marriage so far? Is he playing around with you? You'll have to ask! ”

Jiang Yun's question was very direct, where could Huang Chu, the yellow flower girl, stand it, and suddenly her cheeks were flushed, and she lowered her head and was speechless. Seeing that Huang Chu didn't speak, Jiang Yun thought that Huang Chu didn't agree, or that he wasn't confident, so he said angrily: "This Zhou Rui, I look at a talent, and when he becomes the shopkeeper of a tea house, he can be said to be young and promising." However, my daughter is also well-behaved, and she is more than enough for Zhou Rui. When he said this, a red cloud went straight up to Huang Chu's eyebrows, like a blooming flower bud, extremely delicate.

Huang Chu said in a low voice: "Mother, don't worry! I'll ask him tomorrow what he thinks. But, no matter what, I listened to my mother for everything. After saying that, he turned around and said go. From the next day, Huang Chu came to the tea house to see Zhou Rui, wanting to talk to Zhou Rui alone about marriage. But every time it is not a coincidence, I always feel that Zhou Rui is very busy, either in the store or outside to buy tea. Even when he was in the shop, there were too many people, and he couldn't talk to Zhou Rui about such a secret thing at all. Seeing this, Huang Chu felt that he had to wait for the opportunity to talk about it. The Spring Festival is approaching, and he is getting busier and busier, and he can't see Zhou Rui's shadow. At this time, Huang Ji was overworked and unfortunately contracted a cold and was bedridden all the time, and later died with a whimper. The family has lost its roof and pillars, and it seems that it is about to collapse. Jiang Yun and Huang Chu were in pain, washing their faces with tears all day long, and the Spring Festival was spent in a sad atmosphere.

It is said that since Zhou Rui called Jiangcheng Tea House, he has thought of many promotional methods, which has caused the business to become more and more prosperous, attracting Zhou Jiang and Zhang Xiong to send people to check the reality and reality. The man sent was named Shi Fan, with a fat head and big ears, and was short and fat. When Zhou Rui heard this, he hurried to the welcome pavilion ten miles away to greet him. After waiting for more than an hour, I saw the carriage that Shi Fan was sitting in flying over. Zhou Rui hurriedly stepped forward to greet him and saluted the carriage. Shi Fan relied on himself to be an envoy sent by the headquarters of the merchant group, and he was very arrogant. Sitting in the carriage, he lifted the curtain, pointed at Zhou Rui and said, "I won't come down, you lead the way in front." ”

Zheng Jian and Ma Biao were very angry when they saw Shi Fan's appearance, but they didn't have an immediate attack in their hearts, but accompanied each other patiently with a smile. When he arrived at the door of the thatched hut of the tea house, Shi Fan got out of the car, went straight inside, and sat down unceremoniously. Zhou Rui stood next to him and waited, Zheng Jian and Ma Biao didn't want to see Shi Fan's disgusting appearance, so they excused themselves and walked away. Cui Xi hurriedly brewed the best flower tea in the store as a teacup and put it on the tea table in front of Shi Fan. There was steaming hot in the teacup, Shi Fan picked it up, sipped his lips and blew it, and then took a shallow sip, his lips moved up and down a few times, smacking, smacking, as if he was tasting tea. Shi Fan drank it in his mouth, the tea was a little bitter, with a painful expression on his face, and he felt that the tea was not very good. Zhou Rui looked at Shi Fan, secretly amused in his heart, but he didn't dare to laugh, just waiting for Shi Fan to speak. But Shi Fan didn't say a word for a long time. In this way, the indoor air is as if it is solidified. "Shopkeeper Zhou, how is the tea house doing recently?" It took a long time for this sentence to come out of between Shi Fan's teeth, and that arrogant tone was unacceptable.

Zhou Rui said: "The tea house has made a lot of profits this year, much better than in the past......" Before Zhou Rui could finish speaking, Shi Fan interrupted him, his tone full of anger. Shi Fan said: "Don't brag, don't be complacent. Director Zhang and Director Zhou of the business group headquarters sent me to inspect and supervise you, to put it bluntly, I am looking for your fault. ”

Zhou Rui kept in mind Zhou Yun's warning before leaving, and spoke and acted cautiously. Wronged, enduring Shi Fan's arrogant appearance, he said vigorously: "Yes, yes, yes." ”

Shi Fan said: "I'm a little tired, so I'll go back to the building to rest first." Check back tomorrow. Zhou Rui immediately arranged the most high-end hotel accommodation for Shi Fan in Jiangcheng County, and personally delivered it to the hotel. I picked a VIP room that only the rich can afford to live in, put fruits in the room, and use high-end toiletries. I left after everything was arranged. Zhou Rui returned, and Cui Xi quietly told Zhou Rui, saying: "Shi Fan came this time, deliberately playing prestige, and didn't take the shopkeeper in his eyes, just to ask for some silver." ”

Zhou Rui asked: "How should that be?" ”

Cui Xi said: "In the past, the shopkeeper of Zong Kai was framed and expelled because he did not send a bribe to the merchant group. Therefore, the shopkeeper of Zhou should act according to his eyes, so as not to incur unnecessary trouble and even be dismissed. ”

Zhou Rui said: "I do things for the business group, I am clean, and I don't want to make money in my pocket in the past." There are accounts for taking goods from the headquarters, how much to buy, and how much to sell, and all the money for selling goods must be handed over on time every month. After a pause, Zhou Rui said again, as if talking to himself: "Although I am now the shopkeeper, I am only a small shopkeeper, and my monthly salary is not much, so I can't compare with the big shopkeeper." If he has a limited income and lives a tight life, where can he have spare money for him? ”

Cui Xi looked at Zhou Rui and signaled with his eyes to be more flexible. Zhou Rui understood the meaning and said, "You mean, use public money to give gifts, right?" Cui Xi nodded and said, "It is absolutely appropriate to spend it from the public account." Zheng Jian is now in charge of the accounts, and you asked him to close the accounts, no matter how much you check, you can't see it. Zhou Rui said: "You asked me to make a fake account, it is impossible, I can't do it anyway." Cui Xi said: "Shopkeeper Zhou, if you don't do this, I'm afraid you won't be able to pass this hurdle." I don't think that Shi Fan is a good type. He may want to check you and try his best to find your handle. No matter how innocent you are, Shi Fan always thinks of a way. Zhou Rui said: "I'm not afraid, I'll see what Shi Fan can do to me?" ”

Although Zhou Rui said so, he had no bottom in his heart, and he was always worried that Shi Fan would find fault out of thin air. So he thought of a way to tie the knot, so that Shi Fan could let himself go. What should I do if I don't have any money to give to Shi Fan? Zhou Rui thought of another way - to do what he liked.

One day, Zhou Rui heard that Shi Fan loved fishing, and there happened to be fish in a weir pond in his hometown, Zhou Rui invited Shi Fan to his hometown to fish, and Shi Fan readily agreed. Mother Long Yun was very happy when she saw her son Zhou Rui come back, and her illness was much better. Knowing that it was his son's boss who came, he naturally didn't dare to slack off, and poured everything he had into his family and asked Yahuan to cook a few dishes. Long Yun also followed to help in the kitchen. Without much effort, I made a big table of good dishes: stewed taro with chicken, duck soup with sour radith, fried eggs, braised crucian carp, mapo tofu...... These are all farmhouse dishes and absolutely fresh and tasty. Zhou Rui also took out the wine and drank it slowly with Shi Fan. Shi Fan praised while eating, feeling that a seasonal vegetable was missing from the ointment. Looking around, he saw a pile of wild vegetables piled up in the corner, so he said, "This wild vegetable is a pure natural green food, which is rarely eaten in the city, can you fry some and taste it?" ”

Long Yun was a little hesitant when she heard this, and then looked at Shi Fan's serious appearance, so she said to Yahuan: "If the guest wants to eat, then fry some." Yahuan went immediately, washed the wild vegetables with water, stir-fried them with clear oil, and brought them out after a while. Shi Fan is used to eating delicious food in the city, where has he ever eaten such wild vegetables in the countryside, crisp, crisp, green, which makes him have a great appetite, and he praised it again and again for saying that it is delicious, and asked Long Yun to dig some more in the ground, and bring it back to the city to eat again. Long Yun agreed and asked Yahuan to dig. After Shi Fan was full of wine and food, he got off the wine table and picked his teeth with a toothpick while pacing around the courtyard. Suddenly, I heard a pig crying "oh" in the pigsty.

Shi Fan walked over curiously, and Zhou Rui followed. At a glance, he found that Long Yun was beating a big fat pig with a wooden stick, and scolded while whipping: "You brute, you are too picky, this wild vegetable, the guests from the city say it is delicious, but you are picky, see if I don't teach you a lesson!" When Shi Fan heard this, he felt very uncomfortable. Zhou Rui thought to himself, this is what happened, it was originally a treat, but he didn't expect his mother's words, but it was self-defeating. Before leaving, Na Yahuan dug up the wild vegetables, but Shi Fan did not take them away.

Sure enough, after going back, Shi Fan found fault. He investigated in Jiangcheng Tea House for several days, but he couldn't find the fact that Zhou Rui had violated the rules, so he threatened Cui Xi to come out and give false testimony. If Cui Xi didn't comply, Shi Fan threatened Cui Xi and said that he would be kicked out of Jiangcheng Tea House. Cui Xi was scared when he heard this, thinking of a family that lived on his salary alone, if he lost this salary, how should he live? After thinking about it, although I was sorry for Zhou Rui, I finally agreed to succumb to Shi Fan's obscenity. A few days later, Shi Fan thought he had a lot of evidence. He then notified Zhou Rui to go to the hotel where he was staying to report the violation. When Zheng Jian heard this, he said that he wanted to accompany Zhou Rui to go together, but Zhou Rui stopped him and said, "Don't go, I'll go alone, see if he eats me?" After saying that, he turned around and left, Zheng Jian said in the back: "If I see that you don't come back for a long time, I will come." Zhou Rui came to Shi Fan's room, Shi Fan didn't let Zhou Rui sit down and talk, but let him stand, just like a teacher reprimanding a student, Shi Fan didn't beat around the bush, he was straightforward, pointed at Zhou Rui's nose, and asked: "Shopkeeper Zhou, let's open the skylight and say something." How much money have you embezzled? It's not too late to tell. ”

Zhou Rui was not afraid, and said: "I, as a person, have always been principled in doing things, and I will not take any of my property that does not belong to me, I can use my conscience to guarantee it." ”

Shi Fan sneered and said, "Hmph, your conscience is worth a few dollars." There are all human and material evidence, what is there to quibble? Then he asked his entourage to call an old man out, pointed at him and asked Zhou Rui, "Do you know him?" ”

Zhou Rui looked at it and remembered, isn't this the old man who asked him to sell tea?

This old man's name is Long Guo. That morning, Zhou Rui was greeting customers in the store. I saw Long Guolai, holding a box of tea, and suddenly knelt in front of Zhou Rui. Zhou Rui was startled, and hurriedly helped Long Guo up: "What's the matter with the old man, get up and talk slowly!" ”

Long Guo made a gesture: "My wife is sick, she has no money to see a doctor, and her family is so poor that she is tinkling. Now there is only a box of tea that is worth a little money, Zhou shopkeeper is good, I will put the tea here with you, please sell it, sell some life-saving money. Please! ”

Ma Biao came out to stop it, saying, "It is illegal to sell smuggled goods." ”

Zhou Rui agreed very righteously: "What's the solution, see if he has difficulties, I'll help him." I'll take care of something! ”

Before leaving, he also gave Long Guo three taels of silver, and asked him to see his wife first, and when the tea was sold, he would send the money over. Later, the tea was sold for a few pennies, and Long Guo took the initiative to get it.

Zhou Rui thought of this, and when he saw Long Guo, he was originally helping him, but he actually came to accuse, he was very angry, and said with a sneer: "Yes, of course I know." Long Guo, is your wife's illness cured? Who helped you, the dog bit Lu Dongbin and didn't know the hearts of good people, and now he still bites me back, thinking that he shouldn't have helped you in the first place. ”

Long Guo stood there and said ashamedly: "Shopkeeper Zhou, I can't help it!" ”

Zhou Rui said: "The business group stipulates that selling private goods for personal gain is a violation. However, although I sold my goods, I did it to help others, not for personal gain. I didn't get a penny of the benefit fee, so I didn't count it as a violation. These words stunned Shi Fan and made Shi Fan feel uncomfortable. Shi Fan said, "You...... You quibble. He called Cui Xi out again and asked him to say that Zhou Rui was corrupt. Cui Xi made it up casually and talked nonsense. was so angry that Zhou Rui wanted to hit him: "Cui Xi, you have to talk about your conscience, I'm sorry for you, now you tell so many lies with your conscience, aren't you afraid of being hit by five thunders?" Cui Xi muttered in his mouth, stopped talking, lowered his head in shame, and said, "Shopkeeper Zhou, it's me...... I'm sorry for you! ”

But he said that Zheng Jian saw that Zhou Rui had been gone for a long time and did not return, so he came to the hotel to find Zhou Rui to see what was going on? When I arrived at the door, I heard the guy at the hotel say that Shi Fan had people give false testimony and frame good people for no reason. When Zheng Jian heard this, his eyes widened angrily, he gritted his teeth, and was furious in his heart, and went into the inner room to stop the doorman.

Zheng Jian saw Shi Fan, sitting on the chair, cocking Erlang's legs, but Zhou Rui stood in front of him, angry, and said, "You harmful spirit, do you recognize you Grandpa Zheng and me?" With that, he flew up and kicked Shi Fan to the ground. Before Shi Fan could speak, Zheng Jian grabbed Shi Fan's hair and pulled it out of the door. Go to the courtyard and tie it to a tree. Break off the branches and whip the stones hard. Dozens of branches were discounted in a row.

Zhou Rui was beside him, stunned. Suddenly came to his senses again, and hurriedly stepped forward to stop him, persuading Zheng Jian not to fight, there was a problem. Zheng Jian said angrily: "This person, the dog fights the power of the people, and shows off his might, he should be killed." Shi Fan hurriedly said to forgive: "Shopkeeper Zhou, please save me quickly!" At this time, Ma Biao rushed over, pointed at Shi Fan and scolded: "Since we came to the Zhou business group to do things, we have made a lot of contributions. Li Wen, Li Zhang and other bandits were all caught and killed by us, but they were not rewarded. What is the intention of dealing with my brother like this today? ”

When Shi Fan heard this, he cried and said, "It's no wonder I'm not guilty! ”

Ma Biao continued: "Now it's hard to become a small shopkeeper, and I see that the business is getting better, and I want to do a career. I didn't expect you dogs to make a fuss here, just do nothing, so we couldn't stay. ”

Zheng Jian said to Zhou Rui: "Yes, big brother, let's go!" It's not interesting to stay here. ”

Zhou Rui said: "Okay, let's go." After that, he took off his work clothes, hung them on Shi Fan's head, and said, "You are doing evil like this, bullying others, and I wanted to clean you up well." But we are soft-hearted, and I will spare you. Let me see you again next time, see you once, hit once. Go back and tell them that Lao Tzu has resigned and quit. ”。

Shi Fan went back to report to Zhang Xiong and Zhou Jiang. When the two heard this, they stared at each other dryly, looking at each other, helpless against Zhou Rui.

Zhou Rui, Ma Biao, and Zheng Jian resigned and went to Tongzhou to seek refuge with their distant uncle Zhou Yi.