After that, he ignored Yu Wenzhi's pleas, jumped on his mount, and headed back home.
Although he had said everything, he still felt uncomfortable being deceived into being a thug by a close friend for no reason. Therefore, he had no intention of provoking Bai Yuzhi again, and went straight to his home with a few personal servants.
It was already mid-autumn, and the sky was getting dark very quickly. When the group arrived at the ancestral home in Chongrenfang, lanterns had been hung up in front of each house. The bright lanterns were shining one by one, colorful, filling the sky.
The brilliance of the stars was outshone.
The ancestral residence of the Wang family has only five entrances. It is not too large in the Chongrenfang area, but it has a long history and auspicious feng shui. It is said that this residence was built in the early years of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. Later, it experienced the Zhou and Sui dynasties, and then passed through the Sui, Zuo and Tang dynasties.
During the Wude period of Emperor Gaozu, it was bought by Wang Xun's great-grandfather Wang Qiang and has been passed down to this day (Note 1).
Perhaps because there were too many people killed in the late Sui Dynasty, the number of members of the Wang family has always been very thin. Therefore, no one asked Wang Xun’s grandfather and father to split up the family. And Wang Xun’s grandfather and father both had a contented character.
, over the years, the title has only been lowered but not promoted, so there was no opportunity to light up the lintel. However, this also allowed the Wang family to avoid the complicated formations during the "Yongchang", "Tianshou" and "Jingyun" years, and was always safe.
Unlike the Cheng family, Xu family and Gao family in Chongrenfang, they have changed their owners countless times. Only the swallows on the beams remain the same year after year. (Note 2)
At the end of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, Wang Xun's father, Zhi Gong, finally realized that the court had returned to normal. If his family did not produce another unicorn, he would probably become a commoner again in his great-grandson's generation. That's why he hired celebrities with high salaries.
He came to the Wang family to guide his son to become a successful person. However, Wang Zizhi himself was an informal person, and the friends he made were of course more indulgent than the others. Therefore, when he taught Wang Xun, he also had low standards and broad requirements. Therefore, Wang Xun grew up reading books from a young age to a big one.
He studied hard for a long time and paid homage to famous teachers, but what he learned was incompetent in both writing and martial arts. He could only work with a group of aristocrats to dominate the eastern and western cities, but he didn't have any skills that could be sold to the emperor's family.
Fortunately, the world has been at peace for a long time. Many of the old rules set by the great ancestors at the beginning of the founding of the country have been implemented by the government with a blind eye. Therefore, although Wang Xun only has the hat of viscount on his head,
However, the family property has expanded to several times what it was when his great-grandfather was alive. With the good connections his father made during his lifetime, he also contacted Qin Guozhen, the descendant of Qin Shubao, the Duke of Hu State, the two brothers of Qin State, and Yu Wenzhi, the descendant of Duke Yu of Ying State.
, Ma Fang, a descendant of Gongma Zhou in Gaotang County, and others, jointly opened Changlefang and Baishengguan, two famous cockfighting venues in the capital. In addition, Linfeng Tower, Jinxiuxuan, Baochangyuan, etc. on the East Market
The owners behind the prosperous restaurants, silk shops and pawn shops are also the Wang family.
Guarding these properties and shops that he had squandered for several lifetimes, Wang Xun's little life was very comfortable. He was a favor to local officials, and he never visited all the shops in person. Every once in a while, he would
A shopkeeper came to explain the recent specific business conditions. His father's concubine, Aunt Yun, was the eldest daughter of a merchant family. She was born with a pair of discerning eyes. Therefore, although Wang Xun's father had been dead for four or five years, the Wang family's business
But it is becoming more and more popular.
A lot of copper coins were earned by Aunt Yun every year, and then scattered out through Wang Xun's hands. Wang Xun and Wang Mingyun were very prosperous in Chang'an City. The only flaw was that he had never been able to enter the official career.
When Aunt Yun was in charge of the family business, she used the connections left over from her father to arrange a lot of errands for him. He spent three days fishing and two days drying nets, but all of them were lost. Now that he is in charge of the house, it is even more...
He didn't seek advancement and didn't want to pursue an official career at all. As a result, Aunt Yun chased him around every day and said that she had failed to fulfill Wang Xun's father's instructions and was unworthy of the ancestors of the Wang family.
Wang Xun came home earlier than usual today. Aunt Yun finally caught an opportunity and of course she was not willing to miss it easily. She found an excuse and hurried over to have dinner with Wang Xun eagerly. She didn't swallow a few grains of rice and opened her mouth.
It started but never stopped. From how Wang Xun’s father and son Zhi Gong hoped that their son would become a successful person when he was still alive, to how Wang Xun’s great-grandfather Xiangru Gong struggled to start a business. Fortunately, Wang Xun’s great-grandfather Wang Qiang and Wang Xiangru were born in a very humble background.
The previous generation can only be traced back to his biological father, the coolie Wang Sanzhu, and his grandfather, the farmer Wang Wujin. Otherwise, the topic of this family history would not be finished until late at night.