In the courtyard, an eight- or nine-year-old boy was playing there, it was Zheng Chengde's son Zheng Yunfu, who originally spent money to send him to the county school to study, hoping to grow up and make a name for himself.

After a group of naughty children in the county school learned about his family background, they were either called "Zheng Baozi" or "Zheng Lame", beating and scolding him, and humiliating him in every way, Zheng Yunfu refused to go to the school again after he came back, and Zheng Chengde stopped caring about him after beating him once, and now he is wasting his time at home.

Zheng Yunfu saw his father and mother coming back, and hurriedly asked, "Dad, mother, why did you come back so early today?"

Zheng Chengde and the others were not in the mood to pay attention to him, and they entered the house and looked at each other speechlessly, and they were stunned for a while but couldn't come up with any ideas.

Sister-in-law Zheng looked at her son playing in the yard, and remembered the Yizhen Taoist chief of the Qinzhen Pavilion next door, their master and apprentice are all capable people, and after opening a shop here for so many years, no gangster dares to come to the door to make trouble, if his son can really worship him as a teacher, he can get some shelter if he wants to come.

Some time ago, he also talked to the righteous and true Taoist about this, and he said that the master was not afraid to accept apprentices, but two days ago, his master had come back, and he went to see what to say.

Sister-in-law Zheng thought of this, said to Zheng Chengde, pulled her son out of the door in a hurry, and came to the next door to see, but the door of the store was closed......

Xie Mingzhou was making tea in the front hall at this time, and as soon as he drank a few sips of tea, he saw Yizhen come in with a bitter face and said to him: "Master, that sister-in-law Zheng took her son to the door and said that she wanted to come to see you." Yesterday she told me about apprenticeship again, and I said that I wanted you to be the master, and I didn't want her to come over today. ”

Xie Mingzhou said: "Since you have arrived at the door, it is not easy to drive people away, so call in to meet them." Yizhen responded and turned around and went out to call someone, and brought Sister-in-law Zheng and his son in a moment.

Sister-in-law Zheng saw Xie Mingzhou sitting in the hall, and hurriedly brought her son over to kowtow, and told her about apprenticeship, Xie Mingzhou looked at it twice and already understood what was going on, but he still asked softly: "Why do you want your son to learn the Tao?"

The woman had made an excuse, but when she saw that the eyes of the Qingxi Daoist seemed to be able to see through people's hearts, she swallowed the excuse back into her stomach and told the truth.

This sister-in-law Zheng broke his leg when he was young, leaving a disability, fortunately there is a store left by his ancestors at home, so he relies on this store to sell some buns, pastries, porridge and rice for a living, because the store is lively, Zheng's sister-in-law has good craftsmanship, this business is becoming more and more prosperous, sometimes too busy, the daughter who has been married will also come to help, and the family is living a good life.

Who wants to change the county last year, this county's brother-in-law Jiao Xingbao is a prankster, he bullies and is good in Luoyang on weekdays, and causes trouble for no reason, and now that his brother-in-law has gained power, he has intensified it, and he is almost brazen to rob it.

He saw that Sister-in-law Zheng's shop had a good business, and there was no backstage, and the man in the family was a cripple, so he wanted to think of a clever trick to take it away, so he found a poor official and a local ruffian, and came to this shop every day to find trouble, eat and drink for nothing, and the neighbors were afraid of getting into trouble, so they didn't dare to come to her store to eat.

The brother-in-law of the county saw that they were already unbearable, so he found someone to buy her shop at a very low price, and the couple naturally refused, but the family wanted to eat and drink, and they were forced to be unable to live, and they couldn't even live.

Thinking about it, I feel that the Qinzhen Pavilion opened by Yizhen next door has never dared to disturb the ruffians, and none of the people on the official face have gone to be verbose, either they are high-ranking people, or there is a backstage, I wanted to ask him for help, but if there is no reason for a relationship, people will not come to help you.

So I thought of this way, worshiped my son to Yizhen as a teacher, and then told this matter and asked the master for help, and I could learn a skill, which was really the best of both worlds.

Xie Mingzhou was very angry when he heard this, and felt that this sister-in-law Zheng's family was also pitiful, so he wanted to help her with this favor, he thought for a while and said: "Although this matter is not big, it is also troublesome, even if it is blocked by Jiao Xingbao now, but I often go out to travel, if I leave, he will have an incident again, how do you deal with it?"

Sister-in-law Zheng thought that this was indeed the truth, if Jiao Xingbao came back in the future, she would still be unthinkable.

At this time, Xie Mingzhou said again: "For today's plan, the only way to cut off the root cause is to ask you, if you pay enough money, will your store sell it?"

Sister-in-law Zheng said: "Why don't you want to sell it? They only pay fifty taels of silver, and now they are about to drive people crazy, how can my store get four or five hundred taels of silver." But how can you survive after you sell it?"

Xie Mingzhou said: "Since you are willing to sell, then it is easy to do, I will add another twenty taels, five hundred and twenty taels, you sell it to me, as for the future life of your family, I have two ways, you listen to it and then make a calculation."

One is to go to this courtyard to manage trivial affairs, and I will give you a salary of five taels of silver a month, and the food and consumption will be here. The second is that you are still doing your own business in the original store, and you only need to pay the rent money every year, which method do you think is feasible?"

Sister-in-law Zheng thought for a while before saying: "I am willing to sell five hundred and twenty taels of silver, but I have to talk to the family, I am afraid that it is not possible to stay in the store to do business, that person does not dare to provoke you, only come to me for trouble, but what should I do? ”

She figured it out, since she opened the store, she only earned three or four taels of silver a month, but now she can get five taels a month, so a fool doesn't go.

After the discussion, Zheng's sister-in-law went back to the city to discuss with the men in the family, and in the afternoon, she called her son-in-law to invite, Xie Mingzhou called Yizhen to do this, invited the Chinese guarantor, set up a note and paid the silver taels, and this store became an industry under Xie Mingzhou's name.

When Yizhen returned home, he said to Master, "Master, what are you doing with this store? Didn't you say that you will build a Taoist temple in the future, and then we will all go to the temple, who will take care of this place?"

Xie Mingzhou said: "I have no one to take care of it, and I can't rent it out? At that time, the cashier will be, and if there are too many people in the future, will you tell them not to eat or drink and cultivate with you? I think I will have to buy a few more places, which can be regarded as a permanent industry." ”

Yizhen was very embarrassed, he felt that Master was always thoughtful and long-term in doing things, which led to him not using his brain when he was with Master now.

He said to Xie Mingzhou: "Master, why don't I go and ask about the store I rent now tomorrow, and if I sell it, I will buy it and connect it with Sister-in-law Zheng next door, otherwise the only one is too small." ”

As soon as I said it, I saw Zheng's sister-in-law and son-in-law running in in a hurry, shouting as they ran: "Dao Chief, Dao Chief, those splashes went to the door of the store again, saying that they were going to smash the door and go in, we can't stop it, you guys go over and have a look." ”

Both the master and apprentice are angry, these splashes are really too deceitful, it seems that they want to give them something powerful!