There is a person named Ma Zicai in Hutian City, his family has liked chrysanthemums for generations, and Ma Zicai's generation has loved it even more. As long as you hear that there is a good variety, you must want to buy it, and you are not afraid of a long way.

A few days ago, an out-of-town guest stayed at his house and said that one of his cousins had one or two kinds of chrysanthemums, which were not available in Totenjo. Ma Zicai was happily moved, and immediately prepared to pack up and go to the field with the guests. The guests tried everything possible to seek for him, only to get two young shoots. The horse was wrapped up and hidden as if it had been treasured.

On the way home, Zicai met a young man, riding a little donkey, following behind a gorgeous car, handsome and chic, and generous.

Ma Zicai slowly came to the young man and started talking, and the young man looked at Ma Zicai and reported his surname and said, "My surname is Tao, and my name is Tao Sheng." ”

Tao Sheng spoke elegantly, and asked where Ma Zicai came from, and Ma Zicai told him truthfully.

The two chatted while walking, and Tao Sheng saw the chrysanthemum seeds that Ma Zicai was fiddling with, so he said: "There is nothing bad about chrysanthemum varieties, they are all cultivated and irrigated by people." ”

As he spoke, he talked about the skill of planting chrysanthemums, and Ma Zicai was very happy and asked, "Where are you going?"

Tao Sheng said: "My sister is tired of living at home, and wants to find a place to live north of the Changhe River. ”

Ma Zicai said happily: "Although my family is very poor, there is a thatched house to live in. If you don't think it's ugly, don't look anywhere else. ”

Tao Sheng walked quickly to the car to discuss with his sister, the person in the car opened the curtain and spoke, it turned out to be a beautiful girl in her twenties, she looked at her brother and said gently: "I don't care if the house is good or bad, but the yard must be spacious." ”

Ma Zicai came over and hurriedly agreed for Tao Sheng, so the three of them went home together.

On the same day, six monkeys descended from the sky and came to the gates of Toten Castle. In order to avoid trouble, the monkey took on the form of an ordinary man. Several people packed up their clothes and planned to enter the city. It's just that the quicksand at night is more embarrassing, and the whole body is covered by that rag, and the passers-by who enter and exit the city gate all pay attention or peek a few times when they see him, and the rate of turning back is extremely high.

"Xiao Tang, how much silver do you still have on you, can you buy me a dress to wear, it's too embarrassing to be stared at like this. Night Quicksand said with a smile.

Looking at the embarrassed appearance of the night quicksand, everyone else couldn't help but laugh.

Tang Xuansong said: "Let's go into the city and have a look, if there are cheap clothes, I will buy you one." ”

"As long as I can wear it, I'm not picky. Night Quicksand said with a laugh.

And so, the six entered the city.

Not long after the six of them entered the city, Tao Sheng's sister and brother also followed Ma Zicai into the city and came to Ma Zicai's house.

There was a barren garden to the south of the Ma family's house, with only three or four small rooms, and Tao Sheng took a fancy to it and lived there.

After the sister and brother settled down, Tao Sheng went to the north courtyard every day to manage chrysanthemums for Ma Zicai. Those chrysanthemums that have withered are once they are set aside by him and replanted, and there is nothing that does not live.

Tao Sheng was very poor after settling in Totenjo City, eating and drinking with Ma Zicai every day, and his family never seemed to burn a fire to cook.

Ma Zicai's wife, Lu Shi, loved Tao Sheng's sister very much, and often gave them a liter and a half of grain. Tao Sheng's sister maggot, whose nickname is Huang Ying, is very good at talking, and often goes to Lu's room to do needlework with her.

At this time, Tao Sheng was chatting with Ma Zicai, and Tao Sheng said to Ma Zicai: "Your family's life is not rich in the first place, and we have two mouths to drag you down, how can it be a long-term way? ”

Ma Zicai has always been upright, listened to Tao Sheng's words, and said with contempt: "I thought you were a merry man who could be content with poverty, and today you actually said such a thing, and used the place where chrysanthemums are planted as a market, which is an insult to chrysanthemums." ”

Tao Sheng said with a smile: "Self-reliance is not greed, selling flowers for business is not vulgar; although a person cannot use improper means to make profits, he also does not have to pursue poverty." ”

Ma Zicai didn't speak, Tao Sheng stood up and shook his head and left.

From this day on, Tao Sheng picked up the stumps and inferior seeds that Ma Zi had just thrown away, and he did not go back to Ma's house to eat. Ma Zi called him, and he only went once.

Soon after, the chrysanthemums were about to bloom, and Ma Zi heard the noise in front of Tao Sheng's door like a market, and felt very strange, so he secretly went over to take a look, and saw that the people who came to Tao's house to buy flowers, with cars, with shoulders, in an endless stream. The flowers he bought were all bizarre varieties, all of which he had never seen before.

Ma Zicai hated Tao Sheng's greed for money, wanted to break off his friendship with him, and hated him for hiding good breeds and not letting him know, so he walked to his door and called the door, wanting to reproach him.

Tao Sheng came out, took his hand and entered the door, and Ma Zi saw that the original half acre of wasteland was all planted with chrysanthemums, except for those few houses, there was no vacant land. Dig out the place of the chrysanthemum, and break off other branches and plug them, none of the budding chrysanthemums in the furrow are not a peculiar variety, carefully identify, all of them were set aside and thrown away before.

Tao Sheng entered the house, brought out the wine and food and placed them next to the chrysanthemum furrow, and said: "Because I am poor, I can't keep the rules, but I was fortunate to get a little money for a few days in a row, enough for us to get drunk." ”

After a while, listening to the sister in the room shouting "San Lang" again and again, Tao Sheng agreed, and soon brought some good dishes, Ma Zicai asked curiously: "Why is your sister still not married?"

"Not then. Tao Sheng simply said these four words.

Ma Zicai asked again: "When will it be?"

Tao Sheng said: "Forty-three months. ”

Ma Zicai asked, "What does this mean?"

Tao Sheng smiled mysteriously and did not speak, until he was full of wine and food, and the two of them dispersed happily.

After a night, Ma Zicai went to Tao's house again, and was very surprised to see that the newly planted chrysanthemums had grown to more than a foot high, and asked Tao Sheng to teach him planting techniques.

Tao Sheng shook his head and said, "This is not something that can be said in the first place, and besides, you don't need it to make a living, so why bother learning it?"

After a few more days, the courtyard was a little quieter, so Tao Sheng wrapped the chrysanthemums with a pu mat and tied them up, loaded several carts and pulled them away.

In the past few days, the six monkeys have settled in the city, and I don't know what the monkeys have found, so they decided to stay in the city and not leave.

"Monkey, this little bit of pestering on us will soon be spent, and now that you have decided to live here, how can you afford to pay for the inn?" Tang Xuansong complained to the monkey.

The monkey laughed and said, "In two days, I will find a vacant land and build a house myself, which will be enough for us to live in." Everyone has hands and feet, and they can make money by doing any errand, and they won't starve to death. I saw that this city is full of spiritual energy, and it is a place where dragons and crouching tigers are hidden, so I want to stay here for a while, and maybe there will be unexpected discoveries. ”

Seeing the monkey tell like this, Tang Xuansong no longer complained, after all, the monkey was the backbone of several of them, and the monkey had a plan, so they could only comply.