“...... Ten thousand taels! Just a business?"

The little fat man Chen Shi was really frightened, and after thinking for a long time, he said:

"Then I'm afraid I have to discuss this matter with my grandfather and father. After all, this business is done by the two of us together, and if something goes wrong, it will also be lost by the two families. Ah Chang, you can afford it, but I'm afraid our family can't withstand it. ”

Huang Chang nodded, what Chen Shi said was also the truth. After all, this business is completely beyond their previous experience, and the first consideration of a businessman is always sound.

In fact, Huang Chang didn't care about the original three melons and two dates in the Chen family's shop, but he needed someone to help him take care of this piece. If the family wants to develop rapidly in the future, it must need a lot of financial support, and doing business is always the fastest way to get money. With the resources at hand, he could directly throw away a large amount of money and build a brand new merchant pavilion. It's just that it's easy to invest, but it's hard to operate. There is no talent in this area within the Huang family, on the contrary, the Chen family is professional in this.

So if you can bring the Chen family in as a whole, of course, it would be best, but it really can't, just rely on your cousin and the people in these shops in front of you...... It's inevitably a little thinner.

It seems that it is really necessary to talk to my grandfather's house...... It just so happened that Huang Mu had planned to go back to her parents' house. As a grandson who has been away for many years and has recently returned home, Huang Chang of course also needs to visit the two old people.

............

A few days later, Huang Chang, Huang Xu, and Huang Zhao followed their mother, seventh aunt, and of course, Chen Shi to Chenjiazhuang, which is sixty miles away from Baonan City, to visit their grandfather, grandmother and other people.

Although the Huang and Chen families were a little disagreeable at first, in the last decade or so, as the Chen family has worked hard to repair the relationship, the rift has long since been resolved. Now the two relatives are still more diligent in moving. They can also help each other, and the relationship is probably closer than that of most in-laws in the world.

However, Huang's father, eldest brother Huang Yang, and second sister Huang Xin did not come - when Huang's father came to marry the eldest lady of the Chen family, he suffered a little bit of wretchedness. Scholars, who have a lot of temperament, vowed never to set foot in Chenjiazhuang again. Later, although the relationship between the two families was repaired, Huang's father has always remembered this angry sentence when he was young, even if he occasionally sent his wife back to her parents' house in person, he only went to the outside of the village, even if he wanted to spend the night, he would rather find a thatched hut outside to live and shelter temporarily, and refused to step into Chenjiazhuang half a step.

But later, he actually broke the vow - when he and Huang Chang's mother fell out for a concubine, Huang's mother was also ruthless after returning to her parents' house, and she had to apologize in person to the negative man, otherwise never come!

So that time, Huang's father, who knew that he was at a loss, relented and honestly led the ox cart to pick up his wife. However, the Chen family, as a businessman, is naturally very discerning, and will definitely not be unforgiving at such a time - at that time, Huang's father's official son was not small. So later, he not only helped persuade Huang's mother to go back, but also let him pull back a daughter of the Chen family, which can be regarded as making amends for the rudeness of the year - of course, he won't say it explicitly, everyone just knows it.

But only that time made an exception, and after that, Huang's father still refused to come to the door, and Huang's mother couldn't find a suitable reason and didn't want to force him too much, so she had to let him go.

Huang Yang, as the eldest son of his father, usually takes his father as an example everywhere, and he is older, he was deeply impressed by the snobbery and indifference of the Chen family when he was a child, and he has always kept it in his heart, so in this regard, he has always been very cold to his grandfather's family with his father.

The second sister Huang Xin used to be quite close to her grandfather, but since she married Huang's father's protégé, Feng Ziming must be on the teacher's side, so Huang Xin had no choice but to marry a chicken.

That is, when it came to Huang Chang's side, he was completely unaffected by the old events and the grievances between the elders - "It is better to treat historical issues than to be detailed", Huang Chang absolutely agrees with this sentence. Although he still remembers a lot about the Chen family, he may even remember it more clearly than his eldest brother in some aspects - did he have adult thinking when he was a child? But no matter what, both sides are relatives after all, and he, as a junior, must try his best to bridge in the middle, rather than expand the rift.

Besides, Huang Chang has always admired his grandfather - Mr. Chen started as a basket vendor walking the streets and alleys, and after decades of struggle, he created a fairly large family business from scratch. That is to say, the world is solidified, and it is too difficult for ordinary people to climb up. Not only does being an official depend on family background, but also in business, if there is no corresponding backstage support after reaching a certain level, it will be taken by the superiors, so it is limited to a certain level.

If it were in Huang Chang's previous life, where business was developed, there were many opportunities, at least there was no blatant discrimination and suppression of businessmen, such as Hong Kong and other places, this old man's achievements may not be worse than Li Chaoren and Huo Chuanwang.

In addition, Old Man Chen also has a skill that also convinces Huang Chang - he has eight wives, one more than the famous Lord Wei. But the family actually gets along well. Over the past few decades, more than 20 children have been born before and after, and none of them have died young, all of them have grown up safely - the Chen family is ranked separately for men and women, and Huang Chang's "seventh aunt" is actually the thirteenth or fourteenth daughter of the old man.

Of course, in this regard, the eldest lady of the Chen family, that is, Huang Chang's grandmother, is even more credited, if she does not manage the Chen family's back house and deal with all kinds of contradictions in this big family, it is difficult to say whether the old man Chen can achieve this achievement.

Even Huang Chang, the proudest mother, admired her own mother very much, especially after her own men also began to take concubines - although there are only two aunts in the back house of the Huang Mansion, they are not threatening, which has already made her head extremely big, pushing herself and others, and she is even more envious of the old lady of the Chen family's ability to manage the back house.

............

Riding on a horse, you can see the solid walls of Chenjiazhuang and the tall watchtower from a distance—in this world, the villages that can exist outside the city walls are all deep ditches and high walls, and have strong defenses, similar to military fortresses, otherwise it is difficult to ensure safety.

- After all, even in densely populated places, there are occasionally monsters, monsters, and even zombies and ghosts. Ferocious beasts are even more common, and if a village in the wild does not have a certain ability to protect itself, it will not be able to exist for long.

Huang Chang's eyesight was better, and when others only saw a vague shadow, he had already turned back to his mother in the car and smiled:

"Uncle, they're here to greet you. ”