Everyone was enjoying their meal when Xiao Pinshi suddenly asked: "Brother, is your business going well today? How do you have money to buy so much food?"
Xue Poye is twenty-three this year and Xiao Pinshi is twenty-one, two years younger, so Xiao Pinshi calls Xue Poye his eldest brother.
Xue Poye just stuffed a piece of beef into his mouth and ate it deliciously. He replied: "Today I met a pig-headed young man. He was so stupid that he asked me to help him become a god and gave him some money."
"Become a god?" Everyone was stunned.
Xue Poye laughed and touched his nose: "Only pigs think there are gods."
A child shouted: "Brother Po Ye, you can also tell me my fortune. What can I do when I grow up?"
"You?"
"of course it's true!"
"Brother Poye, what about me?" "And me, and me!"
The other children started shouting.
"You, Prime Minister! You, Censor, and you, you can be the governor...!" Xue Poye looked at these little guys lovingly.
The children were all very happy and excited, which made Yuezhu and Pinshi burst into laughter.
"A life was lost by the lake today, do you know?" Xiao Pinshi took a sip of wine and suddenly said: "I heard that a woman was killed by an old man, and then a group of government officials came, and a man was even arrested.
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The lakeside naturally refers to the West Lake.
Xue Poye was shocked when he heard Pinshi mentioning this matter, but he looked like he was fine and just said "oh" casually.
A worried look appeared on Yuezhu's face, and he whispered: "Brother, do you know who he is?"
Xiao Pinshi looked a little sad and whispered: "I heard they were Qinglianzhao's people. They seemed to want to assassinate the old man, but he was injured instead."
"Oh!" Yuezhu sighed softly, and her small red lips moved, as if she wanted to say something, but in the end she still couldn't.
Hearing the words "Green Lotus Photo", several children actually sang in unison: "Green Lotus Photo, the sky shines, the emperor was so angry that he jumped!"
"My little ancestors, what are you singing nonsense!" Yuezhu hurriedly stopped, this is a song of rebellion, how can it be sung casually.
Although Qinglianzhao was regarded as a thorn in the flesh by the government, she was quite loved by the people because she had done many good deeds in robbing the rich and helping the poor.
Of course, this kind of love can only be done secretly. Anyone who publicly supports Qinglianzhao will naturally be labeled as a traitor to the party.
"Who is that old man? Is he very powerful?" Yue Zhu asked again.
Pinshi tore up a piece of beef and put it into his mouth, shook his head and said, "I don't know, but he must be a high official, maybe someone from Kyoto. Those government officials all knelt down when they saw him." After a pause,
He chuckled and said, "But I heard what others said, so I don't know if it's true or not!"
"Oh! By the way, Pinshi, how is your business there?" Xue Poye changed the subject.
Xiao Pinshi does manual labor for a rice store and carries and delivers goods all day long.
"It's okay, but something strange happened in the past two days!" Pinshi became interested and came closer and said, "There is a Hongyan Pagoda in Nancheng, do you know about it?"
Yuezhu and the children all nodded. Although Xue Poye had never been there, he had heard about it and nodded: "I know!"
The Hongyan Pagoda is located in Funan City, Hangzhou. There are already a few people there, and it can’t compare to the bustling traffic in the center of the city.
In the second year of the Later Zhou Dynasty, the Chu princes in the northwest launched an army to attack the Later Zhou Dynasty. The soldiers were invincible, but the generals in Hangzhou resisted desperately. All sixteen generals and lieutenants were killed in the battle. It was really heartwarming. Although the Great Chu State was later established, the generals
His deeds are still widely circulated. In order to appease the people and commend the loyal martyrs, His Majesty the Great Chu built the Hongyan Pagoda in the south city of Hangzhou to worship the loyal soul.
Although the Hongyan Pagoda has been built, not many people really dare to go to worship. Except for those who are extremely courageous and have a very upright temperament, ordinary people rarely go there.
Who knows if the Hongyan Pagoda is a tool used by the imperial court to identify good people? The imperial court has many tricks.
"There is a small restaurant next to the Hongyan Pagoda. It always buys rice from us. I have given it away several times. It didn't open for a long time, but it suddenly closed yesterday. I heard that the boss spent hundreds of taels of silver to buy it.
This shop doesn't make any money now, but instead owes a lot of money. Today our shopkeeper brought us to collect debts. Unexpectedly, a large group of people have gathered inside, all of them are debtors!" Xiao Pinshi spat and said with some frustration:
"We can't even squeeze in."
Xue Poye's eyes suddenly lit up and he asked: "Do you want a debt? How much money do you owe?"
"Why, there are three or four hundred taels!" Xiao Pinshi took a sip of wine and said, "The boss can't leave now even if he wants to. There are people guarding outside the store."
"Oh!" Xue Poye became more and more interested: "Is business so bad?"
Xiao Pinshi shook his head and said with some regret: "The layout of the restaurant is very beautiful, but the place is a bit remote. If a restaurant like that is in a prosperous area, if you don't have a few thousand taels of silver, you can't get it off. Then the boss is just trying to get it.
It was cheap, so I bought it and spent a lot of money to decorate it. However, after it opened, the business was so bad that the clerks and the restaurant’s daily expenses couldn’t make any money!”
"Then the boss isn't ready?" Xue Poye moved his body and got closer.
"Still doing it?" Xiao Pinshi laughed and said: "Those debtors said that if they can't pay back the money within three days, they will smash the store and take the things. The boss is now as scared as his grandson, hiding in the store and not daring to come out. Where can he go?"
Dare to do business."
"Okay!" Xue Poye slapped his thigh and shouted, extremely excited, which scared everyone and looked at him in surprise.
Xue Poye chuckled and said, "Our opportunity to make a fortune has come!"
"Brother Poye, you...what did you say?" Yuezhu asked doubtfully, "What kind of wealth?"
Xue Poye got up and stretched for a while, touched his nose leisurely, and said to Xiao Pinshi: "Pinshi, take me to that restaurant tomorrow!"
Xiao Pinshi was stunned for a moment, opened his mouth, and asked: "Brother...brother, what are you going to do there?"
"What to do?"
"Take over the restaurant?" Yuezhu and Pinshi exclaimed in unison.
This is really a great idea, but for Xue Poye now, why should he accept the restaurant? Although the boss owes a lot of debt, the restaurant is genuine and worth a lot of money.
He was a little surprised, but Pinshi thought Xue Poye was joking. He was stunned for a moment, and he laughed and said: "Brother, when we make enough money, we will open a restaurant by ourselves. Now, haha, now...!"
Now I'm so poor that I don't even have food and clothing, and yet I'm taking over a shitty restaurant.
Xue Poye didn't take it seriously, grabbed the wine jar and took a sip, saying: "Don't worry about it so much, just take me there tomorrow."
Only then did Xiao Pinshi realize that Xue Poye was serious. He frowned and said, "Brother, I want more tomorrow...!"
Everyone looked surprised, and Xue Poye suddenly took out a few banknotes from his arms and put them on the table.
The children didn't understand anything and still ate large chunks of meat. When Yuezhu and Pinshi saw the banknotes, they were both horrified and looked at Xue Poye in shock.
"There are a total of three hundred and forty taels of silver here, which are the rewards from those pig-headed young men these days. Although it is not much, but...!" Xue Poye smiled and said: "The restaurant under the plate should be about the same!"
Xiao Pinshi shook his head hard and regained consciousness. After a moment of silence, he still said: "Brother, although there are more than three hundred taels of silver, the restaurant is extremely luxuriously decorated. If you want to buy the whole deal, I'm afraid you won't be able to do it without five hundred taels of silver."
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Xue Poye smiled mysteriously, stroked the little head of a child next to him, and said leisurely: "Maybe the boss will give us two hundred taels of silver?" dd