Li Yi was deeply impressed by this young man named Qian Duoduo.
After coming to this world, he only worried about money twice.
The first time was when I first arrived in Liuyezhai. In order for my family to have enough to eat, I ran around every day and tried every means; the second time was when I was in Fengzhou, Miss Liu Er was injured and they were unable to survive.
With only a penny, tens of thousands of taels of silver are needed to buy medicine.
Fortunately, both crises were passed safely. The first time he thought of many ways to make money, including selling paintings, candied haws, wishful dew, etc., and the second time it was because he met a good boy.
The boy who scattered wealth.
If he didn't spend a lot of money, he wouldn't have had so much money to buy those precious herbs, and Miss Liu Er's illness wouldn't have healed so quickly.
Although they paid with one hand and delivered the goods with the other hand at that time, Li Yi still owed him a penny in cash back.
This debt is five years.
He doesn't like to owe favors, especially favors to men, and he doesn't like to owe money.
At first, Qian Duoduo just thought that this young man looked familiar. Although he had never seen him before, when he saw him for the first time, he felt a sense of intimacy, as if they had known each other for many years.
Until he heard his voice, until he caught the penny.
He finally understood that the man in front of him was the brother who had a great influence on his life and pulled him from the wrong path to the right path.
In this life, there were two people who had a huge influence on him.
The first one is his father, who gave birth to him and raised him, and taught him how to be a qualified businessman.
The second one is the brother in front of him. He helped him regain his confidence at the lowest point in his life and helped him find the direction of his life. From then on, the sky was brighter and he entered a new world.
He sat down opposite Li Yi, looked at the penny in his hand, thought for a while, and suddenly asked: "Brother, have you ever heard of nine departures and thirteen returns?"
Pawning in a pawn shop, the monthly interest rate is 10%, and the pawn shop only gives out nine taels for something worth ten taels, which is called "nine outs"; after three months, the pawn will have to spend thirteen taels to redeem it, which is called "thirteen taels".
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Qian Duoduo means that when he owed money, he owed one penny, but five years later, he would have to pay back more than one penny.
Li Yi looked at him and asked, "Do you know what will happen to a fat man if he falls from the building?"
"What did it become?" Qian Duoduo shook his head in confusion.
"Fatty."
After Li Yi explained to him, he looked at Qian Duoduo again and asked, "Have you ever heard of Nine Outs and Thirteen Returns?"
Qian Duoduo shook his head: "I've never heard of it."
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Except for a limited number of people, no one knows about the relationship between the Lin family and the Li family.
But the relationship between the Lin family and the Qian family is well known to almost everyone in the entire Qi State.
It is not clear to outsiders who is richer, the Lin family or the Qian family. Anyway, there are not many families richer than these two families. In recent years, from the small Fengzhou City, they have overcome all obstacles and made their business one of the best in the entire Qi State.
To a certain extent, the Lin family and the Qian family have supported each other in the past few years. To be precise, when the Lin family was still a small family, the Qian family began to use family resources and spared no effort to support the Lin family. Later, the two families even went hand in hand for mutual benefit.
Step by step, they have become two giants in the national market...
Fengzhou, where the Lin family is located, is Zhao Yi's territory. Li Yi only asked him to take care of the Lin family at first, but he didn't expect that he would be so honest. In a few years, he would push the Lin family to this position.
The Qian family contributed a lot to this.
Li Yi had long heard Lin Wanru say that the Qian family had provided a lot of assistance to the Lin family from the beginning. The name of the God of Money was well-deserved. Five or six years ago, he made his business the largest in Fengzhou. In recent years, he has
When the third prince arrived in the capital, he made his business the largest in Qi. Even the current Lin family is not as rich as the Qian family.
Qian Duoduo, as the only son of the God of Money, naturally attracted much attention.
However, what attracts the most attention to him is not his Qian family background or his extraordinary business talent.
But every time he went to a place, the famous local talents and literati would be trembling with fear. Some famous people would even stay away and not appear within a ten-mile radius of him.
On the contrary, brothels and brothels all over the country welcomed him very much.
This is not only because he is generous and often spends a lot of money, but also because he knows the legendary "the most talented man in Jingguo". This matter has become a consensus in Qi State.
Qian Duoduo once became famous in the Qi Kingdom for more than ten excellent poems. Although it was later learned that those poems were written by others, this "other person" was not just anyone.
He was the most talented man in Jingguo. His poems were not only widely circulated in Jingguo, but also everyone in Qiguo knew about him.
Zhao Xiuwen, the poet sage of the State of Qi, once said bluntly in public: "Today, the world has only one stone, and Li Yi has eight buckets. I have one bucket, and the world has one bucket."
Although the possibility of Zhao Xiuwen boasting after drinking could not be ruled out, the fact that Zhao Xiuwen, who had always been extremely conceited about his talent, could say such a thing showed how much he admired the "number one talented man in Jingguo".
What's more, almost every scholar in Qi has a copy of Li Yi's poems. Until someone writes more poems with better quality than him, no one is qualified to refute Zhao Xiuwen's words.
Of course, this has nothing to do with Qian Duoduo, because his poems were all given by others.
At first, many scholars expressed a very disdainful attitude towards this, labeling Qian Duoduo a "shameless plagiarist".
Later, for some unknown reason, no one dared to say that. Now, in the hearts of scholars, Qian Duoduo is no less than a monster that can stop a child from crying at night. It is said that several famous talents in Liuzhou heard that he had arrived.
After Liuzhou, he escaped from the city overnight and settled in a cottage...
Li Yi only found out about this later.
In the end, Qian Duoduo didn't dare to play the trick of going out and returning thirteen times to him, and was discussing something with Lin Wanru on the other side.
Lin Yong looked over there, then looked back after a moment, shook his head, and said, "This Mr. Qian is really strange..."
Lao Fang also looked over there and said in surprise: "Why is it weird? Apart from being a little fatter, what's weird about you?"
"You don't know..." Lin Yong looked at him, shook his head and said, "Mr. Qian was always the object of ridicule among scholars in Fengzhou at that time. Everyone looked down upon him. He was the joke of Fengzhou City..."
"Then I don't know what happened. When those scholars saw him, they were like a cat seeing a mouse. They hid when they walked. His whole personality seemed to have changed. He used to hate scholars the most. Now where are the poems?
When it comes to speaking skills, wherever there are scholars, he will go there..."
Generally speaking, a person's personality is not static, but it does not change without reason.
Suffering a major setback or encountering a major turning point in life will lead to a sudden change in personality.
Or he meets a mentor in life, who guides him in the direction of life, lights up a beacon, and illuminates the way forward...
Li Yi didn't know why Qian Duoduo's character became like this, but looking at him now, it was much better than being bullied and swallowing his anger.
As for the sudden change of attitude of those scholars towards him, I don't know if it has anything to do with other things.
In the early years, Lin Wanru wrote to him and occasionally mentioned some strange things in Fengzhou City.
For example, a famous talented man was found in the street in the early morning. He was naked, with only a loincloth covering his body. His nose was bruised and his face was swollen, and his body was covered with footprints.
Not to mention, during those days, the overall quality of scholars in Fengzhou City declined. Almost every day, talented people who visited brothels without paying were caught in public at poetry gatherings; they abandoned their wives and children and were found by their original spouses with their children.
Door-to-door visits are not uncommon...
Even the most highly qualified scholar is like this. Zhao Yi has only focused on fighting for the throne in recent years and neglected the management of Fengzhou...
Running naked in the streets, visiting prostitutes without paying them, abandoning their wives and children...
The world is getting worse, the world is getting worse...
