Autumn and winter are followed by spring, and the end of the year is in the blink of an eye. The monkeys have already built a house in the city, Tang Xuansong makes some calligraphy and paintings on weekdays and goes out to sell, and the night quicksand also sells tricks, at first he sells art in Hutian City, and later goes to the streets of some nearby cities and counties. The two made a lot of money, and Wu Liuqi followed them to learn skills for a few months, but he didn't learn a spell except for some self-defense moves, but he was very good at cooking, so he became the cook at home.

The monkey did encounter a lot of elves and monsters in this city, and he also heard a lot of strange things. One of the things that attracted the most attention of the monkey was that the current king of Hades found that there were more than 200 ghosts in the underworld that were not recorded in the life and death book, so he went to the heavenly realm to report to the emperor.

The monkey also went to the underworld for a walk, but found no suspicious place, but the ghost world has no Hades, and the little ghosts make trouble all day long, but those ghosts are miserable.

After the New Year, half of the spring passed, Tao Sheng just came back with some rare flowers from the south in a car, opened a flower shop in the city, sold out in ten days, and still came back to cultivate chrysanthemums.

Some buyers bought chrysanthemums from Tao Sheng's house last year and retained the flower roots, but the next year they all became inferior seeds, so they came to Tao Sheng to buy them again. Tao Sheng has been getting richer day by day.

In the first year, he built more houses, and in the second year he built a tall house, and he built whatever he wanted, without consulting his master. Slowly, the old flowers and furrows were all built. Tao Sheng bought a piece of land outside the wall, built an earthen wall around it, and planted chrysanthemums all of it.

In the autumn, I took the flowers with the cart and left, and the next spring passed and did not come back.

This year, Ma Zicai's wife fell ill and died. Ma Zicai took a fancy to Huang Ying, so he asked someone to show Huang Ying a little tone, Huang Ying smiled, and it seemed that the meaning was agreed, but he was just waiting for Tao Sheng to come back.

After more than a year, Tao Sheng still did not return, and Huang Ying instructed the servants to plant chrysanthemums, just as Tao Sheng did when he was at home. With the money from the sale, he joined hands with the merchants to make a joint sale, and he also bought 20 hectares of fertile land outside the village, and the mansion was built even more magnificently.

One day, a guest suddenly came from out of town and brought a letter from Tao Sheng. Ma Zicai opened it and saw that it was Tao Sheng who asked his sister to marry Ma Zicai. Looking at the date of the letter, it was the day his wife died. He recalled that when he drank in the garden, it was exactly forty-three months now, and Ma Zi was very surprised. So he showed the letter to Huang Ying and asked her where the dowry was delivered. Huang Ying refused to accept the bride price, and because Ma Zicai's old house was too simple, he wanted him to live in his own house, like a son-in-law. Ma Zicai disagreed, and chose an auspicious day to marry Huang Ying to the family.

After Huang Ying married Ma Zicai, she opened a door on the wall to the south house, and went over every day to supervise the servants to do their work. Ma Zicai felt that it was disgraceful to live on his wife's wealth, and often instructed Huang Ying to set up accounts in the north and south houses to prevent confusion. However, what is needed at home, Huang Ying always takes it from the South Mansion and uses it.

But for half a year, the home was full of Tao family's belongings. Ma Zicai immediately sent people back one by one, and warned the servants not to bring the things of the South Mansion again. But in less than ten days, it was mixed again. After sending it several times like this, Ma Zi was very troubled. Huang Ying smiled and said, "You are so honest and honest, don't you feel too tired?" Ma Zicai felt ashamed, so he didn't ask anymore, and listened to Huang Ying.

Huang Ying then gathered craftsmen, prepared building materials, and built a large number of buildings. Ma Zicai couldn't stop it, and in just a few months, the buildings were connected, and the two houses merged into one, and there was no longer a boundary.

But Huang Ying also listened to Ma Zicai's advice, closed the door and no longer cultivated and sold chrysanthemums, but the enjoyment of life exceeded that of the rich and noble. Ma Zicai felt uneasy and said: "I have been honest and self-disciplined for thirty years, and I have been implicated by you. Now living in the world, relying on his wife to eat is really not a bit of manly man's anger, others pray to be rich, but I pray that we will be poor!"

Huang Ying said firmly: "I am not a greedy and despicable person, but I don't have any wealth, and I will make future generations say that Tao Yuanming, who loves chrysanthemums, is poor and can't make a fortune in a hundred years, so I gave our Tao Gong this breath." But it is very difficult to go from poor to rich, but it is very easy to go from rich to poor. I will not spare the money at your bedside. ”

Ma Zicai still shook his head and said: "It's also a shame to spend other people's money." ”

Huang Ying sneered: "You don't want to be rich, and I can't be poor, so I have no other way but to live separately from you." In this way, the self is high. The muddy self is muddy, and it does no harm to anyone. ”

So, she built a thatched house in the garden for Ma Zicai to live in, and chose a beautiful slave to serve him, so that Ma Zi lived in peace. But after a few days, I missed Huang Ying bitterly and asked someone to call her, but she refused to come, so she had no choice but to go back to her. I went every other night, and I got used to it.

Huang Ying smiled and said to him: "You eat in the east and sleep in the west, an honest person should not be like this." Ma Zicai smiled to himself, and had no words to answer, so he had to move back and live together as before.

On this day, Ma Zi went to the field because of something, and it was the autumn when the chrysanthemums were in full bloom. One morning he passed by the flower market and saw that there were many pots of chrysanthemums in the flower market, and the varieties were strange and beautiful. Ma Zicai's heart moved, suspecting that it was cultivated by Tao Sheng.

Not long after, the owner of the flower came out, and Ma Zi saw that it was indeed Tao Sheng. Ma Zicai was very happy, and talked about his longing after a long absence, and lived in Tao Sheng's flower shop at night. He asked Tao Sheng to go home together, and Tao Sheng said, "This is my homeland, and I want to get married and have children here." I've saved up a little money to give it to my sister, and I'll be staying at your house for a few days at the end of the year. ”

Ma Zicai did not listen, and begged him to go back, and said: "The family is fortunate to be rich, so you can only sit at home and enjoy the blessings, and there is no need to do business anymore." As I said, Ma Zicai sat in the flower shop, asked the servant to sell the flowers for Tao Sheng, and sold them all out in a few days, and immediately forced Tao Sheng to prepare his bags, rented a boat and went north.

As soon as the two entered the house, they saw that Huang Ying had cleaned a house, and the beds and bedding were ready, as if they knew in advance that their brother would return.

After Tao Sheng came back, he put down his luggage and instructed the servants to overhaul the pavilion. Only play chess and drink with Ma Zicai every day, and never make a friend. Ma Zicai wanted to choose a mate and marry a wife for him, but Tao Sheng was unwilling. Huang Ying sent two maidservants to serve him.

Tao Sheng has always been very good at drinking, and he has never been seen drunk. Ma Zicai has a friend named Zeng Qing, and he drinks so much that he has no opponent.

Zeng Qing came to Ma's house, and Ma Zicai asked him to compare the amount of wine with Tao Sheng, and the two of them drank a lot, and drank very happily, only hating to know too late. From the time of Chen to the fourth watch of the night, each person drank a hundred pots, Zeng Qing was so drunk that he slept in his seat.

Tao Sheng got up and went back to the room to sleep, just went out and stepped on the chrysanthemum, one of his heels fell, his clothes were scattered aside, and his body immediately turned into a chrysanthemum, as tall as a person, with more than a dozen flowers, all of which were bigger than a fist.

Ma Zicai was frightened and hurriedly went to tell Huang Ying. Huang Ying hurried to Juqi. He pulled out the chrysanthemum and put it on the ground and said, "Why are you so drunk?"

She put her clothes on the chrysanthemum, told Ma Zicai to go back with her, and told him not to come and see it again. After dawn, Ma Zicai and Huang Ying came to Juqi together, and saw Tao Sheng sleeping beside him, Ma Zicai knew that the Tao family sisters and brothers were all chrysanthemum spirits, so he loved them even more.

Since Tao Sheng exposed the truth, he has become more arrogant in drinking, and often writes invitations to Zeng Qinglai in person, and the two have become inseparable friends.

On the 15th Flower Festival of February, Zeng Qing took two servants to visit Tao Sheng with a jar of medicinal liquor, and agreed that the two of them would drink it together.

A jar of wine was almost finished, and the two of them were not much drunk, so Ma Zicai secretly took another bottle of wine and poured it into the altar. After the two drank it all, Zeng Qing was so drunk that he couldn't wake up, and the two servants carried him back. Tao Sheng lay on the ground and turned into a chrysanthemum again.

Ma Zicai didn't panic when he saw a lot, so he pulled him out with Huang Ying's method and stayed by to observe his changes.

After staying for a long time, seeing that the flowers and leaves were getting more and more withered, Ma Zi became afraid, so he went to tell Huang Ying. Huang Ying was very surprised when she heard this, and said, "You killed my brother!" and hurriedly ran to see the chrysanthemum, the roots of which had dried up. Huang Ying was so grief-stricken that she pinched its stem, buried it in a basin, brought it back to her room, and watered it every day. Ma Zicai was remorseful and resentful of Zeng Qing.

A few days later, I heard that Zeng Qing was drunk to death. The flower stalks in the pot gradually germinate, and the flowers bloom in September, the branches are very short, and the flowers are pink. Smell it has the aroma of wine, and call it "drunken Tao". and pour it on wine, and it will grow more luxuriantly.

The monkey has been in Totenjo Castle for two years, in fact, just to wait for the appearance of "drunkenness". Because he discovered early on that Tao Sheng's aura was much richer than that of other elves, and he was a good material who could become a demon immortal.