Although these things in Lao Jiang's family should not be publicized, it is inevitable that the neighbors and parents will be jealous.
The original owner, Liu Qiao, wore crotchless pants and hung out in this area. He had a wide network of hidden contacts. He also paid careful attention and often inquired, so he knew everything.
"The Jiang and Shang couple are very poor, but it has to be said that their sworn brother, Song Taigong, is quite a man, he is rich and kind.
It’s a pity that the original owner didn’t pay attention to these things before and didn’t deliberately interact with Song Taigong and develop a relationship. Otherwise, if something leaked out from the fingers of Old Song, the original owner wouldn’t have lived such a miserable life, haha..."
Liu Qiao was carrying firewood and walking on Chaoge Street. When he saw more than twenty newly opened "Jiang's Restaurants" inns, teahouses, etc., he couldn't help but admire Song Taigong.
However, in recent days, Song Taigong purchased many properties for Jiang Shang. In Chaoge City, where every inch of land was extremely valuable, he built dozens of pavilions for Jiang Shang, and asked Jiang Shang to kill pigs and sheep every day.
restaurant.
The Taigong of the Song Dynasty was Jiang Shangyi's brother. He had little courage, liked to make friends with righteous people, and spread wealth through righteousness. He had a family fortune of tens of millions. Therefore, he was broad-minded and different from ordinary people, so he was nicknamed "Song Yiren" in his early years.
In Chaoge City, where the capital of the country is located, every inch of land is of great value. If an ordinary family owns one of these three-story buildings, they can rely on it as their ancestral property and pass it on from generation to generation. If it is taken care of carefully, the family can survive for many generations.
As for Song Yiren, he was afraid that Jiang Shang would easily suffer losses when he first got involved in business, so he bought dozens of pavilions for him in one fell swoop and said:
"My dear brother, let's try this. If there is any money in the account, use it to spend it. If there is a loss, it is only a few dollars, so you can run it freely..."
Sometimes Liu Qiao wonders whether this Song Yiren is also a time traveler. Knowing that Jiang Shang will become rich in the future, he fawns over him in advance so that he can work as an official in the Tiangong in the future.
It's strange to say that this is a prosperous area with a constant flow of people, but Fan Jiang Shang runs a wine and meat shop, but the business is bleak.
Except for Liu Qiao who occasionally spent money to order two plates of side dishes because of his pain, there were no other customers.
Summer is here, and the food and wine prepared in the store, especially raw meat, such as pork, sheep, chicken and other dried meats, gradually become smelly. It can be smelled from a long way away, so no one goes there, and even pedestrians passing by take a detour.
Walk.
When Jiang Shang saw that slaughtering raw meat was not an option, he consulted with Song Yiren and went directly to buy hundreds of live pigs, chickens, ducks, fish, etc., and set them up in various stores.
Jiang Shang thought proudly: "Although the business is bleak and the minced meat is rotting, there is a clever plan. This time, it is raised with live animals, which saves money on slaughtering and prevents rotting. How good..."
However, human calculations are not as good as heaven's calculations, and it is in vain that Jiang Shang is proficient in Dunjia Qimen and Bagua numerology.
But they did not expect that the summer was hot, and seeing not a drop of rain fall for the whole month, the officials of Qin Tian Prison became anxious. They all wrote to Emperor Xin, asking the king to offer sacrifices to heaven in person, and to grant amnesty to the prison, ban slaughter, and encourage the release of animals.
Although it was just a premonition and there was no real drought, this kind of thing should not be taken carelessly. The dissolute Emperor Xin was so annoyed by the officials that he had no choice but to issue orders according to his words.
After a few days of complacency, Lao Jiang started playing with the calves again, and the sheep and pigs were forcibly released.
Dozens of palaces and pavilions were sealed, and even his own family was almost imprisoned. Fortunately, Song Taigong spent a lot of money to get him out.
These days, although Liu Qiao paid attention to Jiang Shang, he did not communicate more with him, and used his hot face to burn his cold butt.
In addition to cutting and selling firewood to meet food and clothing needs, I also want to make new friends or do something meaningful.
For example, when the neighbor had a dispute, he went to seek justice, helped the lonely old man plant crops, repaired the door of the widow's house, helped the government catch bandits, etc. They all did some righteous deeds.
In this way, after a few months, not only the folks in the village agreed that Liu Wazi, who used to be honest, had changed, but even in Chaoge City, he gradually gained some reputation.
Until that day, Liu Qiao was carrying firewood into the city again. Suddenly he saw the people in front of him gathered around him, and he couldn't help but be surprised.
I thought: "Is there something unfair again? Let me go up and take a look. If I can help, I might as well lend a hand..."
Immediately he threw down the firewood, rolled up his sleeves, and pushed his way into the crowd. Many of the people around him knew Liu Qiao or knew his humble name.
Seeing him squeezing in, knowing that he was a warm-hearted person, he was not upset and instead made way for a passage.
As soon as Liu Qiao squeezed into the crowd, someone said: "This old man has such a big breath, the universe is huge in his sleeves, and the sun and moon are long in the pot. Could it be that he even scorns the sky into a palm? He is simply arrogant..."
When he looked up, he saw a white-faced scribe taunting a Gua Gua Guan in the street. Many people around him were illiterate. When they heard that the scribe had read the couplets on the door of the Gua Gua Guan, they started shouting.
They all say that fortune-tellers are so arrogant that their sleeves are only half a foot long, so how can they contain the heaven and earth (cosmos).
The gourd has a narrow neck and a mouth no bigger than half an inch. How it can contain the bright sun and bright moon is nonsense.
But the fortune teller didn't panic when he heard the noise outside. After experiencing many fatal blows, he had long been as calm as water and still sat behind the curtain with his eyes closed.
When Liu Qiao saw it, he couldn't help but feel happy. Isn't this Jiang Shang? He was also very happy. He had been paying attention to Jiang Shang's movements for several months.
I have been looking for an opportunity, a legitimate opportunity.
An opportunity for Jiang Shang to owe him a favor, or for him to owe Jiang Shang a favor.
Owing favors is not scary; what is scary is not having favors.
Don’t you see, in future generations, the confidants who are supported by the leaders will not often repay the friendship with the leaders by extorting favors or returning favors under the pretense of getting closer to each other.
This wait lasted for several months, especially when Jiang Shang failed to open a restaurant and was quiet for a while. Liu Qiao was so frightened that he thought Lao Jiang had left Chaoge.
If he hadn't made a lot of friends, friends from the Song Family Village would have been keeping an eye on Jiang Shang. He was really afraid that Jiang Shang wouldn't be able to bear the blow and would just sneak away to do business in other princes' territories.
At this time, seeing everyone laughing and hesitating, I made up my mind, thinking that my family also had some prestige, so I would just give it to Jiang Shang to build a prestige and build a memorial arch, so as to spread Jiang Taigong's reputation.
Wouldn't it be nice to take the opportunity to get closer? He immediately walked out of the crowd with his head held high and his chest held high.
Seeing that he had attracted the attention of the people around him, Liu Qiao smiled and pretended to be unfamiliar with Jiang Shang. He pointed at him and shouted: "Fortune teller, stop dozing off. What's your last name? How dare you have such a loud tone?"
Jiang Shang opened his eyes and glanced at Liu Qiao. In fact, they were not familiar with each other in the first place, but Liu Qiao had become familiar with him. He immediately said: "Jiang Shang, a poor Taoist, also known as Ziya, also known as Fei Xiong, brother,
What do you want to count?"
"Mo Saxu, let me ask you, what does this couplet of yours mean?" Liu Qiao asked, holding his hands.
Jiang Shang twirled his beard and smiled, looked into Liu Qiao's eyes and said: "There is a vast world in your sleeves, you can know the past and the future, it encompasses everything."
After that, he paused, looked at Liu Qiao again, and said solemnly, almost word by word: "The sun and the moon are long in the pot, and there is the art of immortality..."
Hearing him talk about immortality, Liu Qiao's pupils shrank and his eyes were bright. He looked at Jiang Shang's eyes as deep as the abyss. He was stunned for a long time before turning around.
Suppressing the turbulent thoughts in his heart, he continued to pretend to be stupid and said rashly: "Since you dare to make such big claims and say that you know the past and the future, you must be extremely accurate in starting the lesson. Do you dare to bet with me? If the calculation is accurate, two
Shi Wen Gua Jin.
If the calculation is not accurate, I think you are old, so I will only give you a few punches, but this stall will be destroyed by you."
Jiang Shang smiled slightly, took out the lottery tube, and said to Liu Qiao: "Brother, please take the hexagram by yourself."
Liu Qiao, a time-traveler, wanted to test whether Jiang Shang was really that good at calculating, so he immediately pulled out the lottery ticket and threw it on the table without looking at it.
"This hexagram is only accurate if my brother has to do something with me," Jiang Shang said.
Seeing that Liu Qiao agreed, he wrote four sentences on the post and said to Liu Qiao: "You keep walking south, there is an old man in the shade of the tree, one hundred and twenty coins of green clams, four snacks, and a bowl of wine."