Two hundred shares is ten thousand dollars! How come my wife has so much money? Aren’t she and I living quite frugally on weekdays?
So much so that Zhang Yue almost forgot that his wife was a rich young lady from an official family.
"Guardian, how much does two hundred shares mean?"
After hearing the question from Seventeenth Mother Versailles, Zhang Yue almost threw his hat and got angry. Why should I be a bird official? I went home to eat soft food.
This is the origin of our family education.
Zhang Yue said: "Two hundred shares are ten thousand guan. Madam, it's so hard for you to hide this from me. I never know how much gold and silver there is in the house."
The Seventeenth Mother heard the words and smiled happily: "Officials are responsible for big things, how can they care about these yellow and white things? Besides, our family manages the farm and rents out the shops. I also told you about it, but you didn't pay attention.
. If I tell the officials these trivial household matters, it will not distract the officials."
Zhang Yue heard this and said: "What Madam said seems to make some sense, but even though I am not in this family, I still have to know what to do."
Seventeen Niang said with a smile: "Okay, official, I will tell you slowly later how many shares there are in this exchange. I will ask my mother, brother and sister-in-law. This is the first thing for the official. Our family
You must always support someone, so that if someone else robs you, it will seem rare and valuable."
Zhang Yue nodded and said: "That's fine, I will have to rely more on your family for salt matters in the future."
Zhang Yue left Ouyang Xiu's house after talking to Qi Niang.
The Seventeenth Mother was riding in the carriage, and Zhang Yue was riding beside the carriage. The two of them walked slowly on the streets of Bianjing.
In the midsummer, hundreds of shops are open on the streets of Bianjing. Citizens wearing ge robes and summer shirts go in and out. When the steamer is lifted in the cake shop, the steam rises hotly, covering half of the street. People buying cakes rush in, making a lot of noise.
It exploded next to the carriage in an instant.
Zhang Yue saw something interesting happening in the market, so he talked to Qi Niang through the car curtain.
On a summer night, the cool breeze blows very cool on your body.
"Sir, I'm pregnant."
"What?" Zhang Yue was stunned for a moment, then his heart started pounding.
Zhang Yue couldn't see Qi Niang's expression through the car curtain, but he was very happy in his heart.
"Well, just take good care of yourself." Zhang Yue said this after thinking for a while.
Seventeenth Mother smiled and said: "I searched for a long time and found out that the officials would say something nice, but it was still an ordinary sentence."
Zhang Yue chuckled and said, "I'll just say a few words this time. I'll tell you nice things next time."
Zhang Yue heard the sound of the seventeenth mother inside the curtain, and then burst into laughter. Then she turned her head sideways and looked at Zhang Yue through the car curtain with tender eyes.
Zhang Yue smiled and said: "Madam, what can you eat? The cooking cakes here must be good with so many people buying them. Why don't we buy some and eat some."
“It’s okay, but you don’t need to buy too much.”
The carriage stopped on the street, and people lined up to buy pancakes.
Soon after others bought the cooking cakes, Zhang Yue picked them up and handed them to Qi Niang through the curtain of the car.
Seventeen Niang took one look at it, broke off half of the cooking cake in her hand and handed it to Zhang Yue.
Zhang Yue took a bite and said with a smile: "It's really delicious."
Seventeenth Mother snorted softly in the car.
Immediately, the carriage moved forward again. Zhang Yue sat on the horse and ate half a piece of cooking cake. He raised his head and saw a sky full of stars hanging upside down on the streets of Bianjing. He thought that if he could remember this scene decades later in his life, what would he do?
good.
As the carriage approached the Imperial Street, someone shouted: "Sanlang!"
Zhang Yue heard the voice sound somewhat familiar and turned his head to look, only to see a man in brocade attire waving to him from the street-watching building in a mansion next to the street.
Zhang Yue was a little confused at first sight, but after careful inspection, he recognized it and said, "Isn't this brother Xiang?"
The man laughed loudly and said immediately: "Sanlang, wait for me."
The Seventeenth Mother on the carriage asked: "Who is this official?"
Zhang Yue said: "This is Xiang Qi whom I told you before. He was transferred to another official after he was admitted as a Jinshi. Now he has been transferred to Jingzhaohu Cao. His demeanor is indeed different from that of back then."
Seventeen Niang also heard some things about Xiang Qi from Zhang Yue's mouth, so she said: "Official, don't interact with such a person."
Zhang Yue said: "At least we were classmates, and we had some feelings for each other back then. It's hard not to recognize them."
Xiang Qi went downstairs, but saw several people following him. Xiang Qi smiled and said to Zhang Yue: "Sanlang, I haven't seen you since we parted ways with Imperial College. You really want to make me angry. When I get to the officialdom, I have to address you as Zhang Yue."
Now that I am a bachelor, you won’t blame me if I call you privately.”
Zhang Yue smiled and said, "You and I are former classmates, you can call me whatever you want. We haven't seen each other for a few years. Brother Xiang is really a surprise to me."
Zhang Yue saw that Xiang Qi had been living as an official in recent years and was able to nourish his energy and body. He recalled that it was really different when he was at the end of Taixue. In fact, it was not the same for him.
Xiang Qilang laughed loudly and said: "Sanlang, I have only been in Beijing for a few days and I haven't had time to pay a visit to your house. This is a newly bought house for me by my in-laws' family. I am inviting some friends to sit here today."
Zhang Yue knew that the luxurious house next to the imperial street could not be acquired without more than five thousand guan.
Zhang Yue smiled and said, "Okay, you have truly shown your strength today."
Xiang Qi laughed, and then said to the people around him: "This is the Zhuangyuan Gong who I usually tell you about. The two of us were the best friends in Taixue back then. He was the most interested in friendship. I got to know you."
I will benefit a lot in my life, why don’t I come to see you!"
Several people were busy singing their praises to Zhang Yue. Zhang Yue glanced at these people, looking like fair-weather friends.
Zhang Yue bowed his hands and said a few words in greeting, then turned to Xiang Qi and said, "Brother Xiang, it's too late. Let's reminisce about old times some other time."
Xiang Qidao: "Hey, Sanlang, it's better to choose a different day than to hit the sun. Everyone is busy and lively."
The other people also shouted loudly, and one person laughed and said: "I have admired the name of Duke Zhuangyuan for a long time. I can't wait to admire him. Now I would like to offer a glass of water and wine to Duke Zhuangyuan in Hu Caobao to show my respect!"
Zhang Yue asked: "Who are you?"
The other party smiled and said: "Xu Song, the little man, is doing some salt business. Today is the opportunity. I hope you can teach me more!"
Another person said: "I have admired you, Master Zhuangyuan, for a long time, but I have never had the opportunity to know you. I heard that the Exchange now delivers hundreds of thousands of dollars every day, which is really amazing!"
Zhang Yue smiled faintly after hearing this, but Xiang Qi coughed lightly.
The man immediately caught the opportunity and smiled, making a fool of himself.
At this time, I heard the seventeenth mother on the carriage say: "Sanlang, I'm going back first, don't be late."
Xiang Qiyi looked at the carriage blankly, and Zhang Yue explained: "The wife is in the car."
Xiang Qi said hurriedly: "Damn it, damn it, I forgot that my wife is here. Don't leave in a hurry until I see you. I'll tell you a few words about myself."
Zhang Yue smiled secretly, Qi Niang called him Sanlang, and it was hard to call Xiang Qi again. Zhang Yue knew that Qi Niang always judged people more accurately than himself, so he reminded himself tactfully.
Zhang Yue said: "Okay."
Xiang Qilazhang stepped aside and said with a smile: "I heard that you got married to the Wu family and married a lovely wife. The women in the boudoir of officials who have been officials for generations are very powerful."
Zhang Yue thought to himself, isn't it? My wife is very tight on money, and she doesn't even know how much money the family has.
Zhang Yue said: "Brother Xiang, isn't he also married to a woman from an official family?"
Xiang Qi sighed and said: "Just like a person who knows when he drinks water, I used to act based on the face of the Yue family when I was in the officialdom. But now that I have been appreciated by the nobles, the Yue family also has to look at my face, otherwise how can they give me anything?
Buying this house to please me is nothing more than this in the world."
"Du Zhi, do you know why you and I are so close to each other in Taixue? Because you and I are both from poor families, so I won't be afraid of you laughing at me if I tell my true feelings. Yes, do you know that Liu Zuo's family has been ruined?"
Zhang Yue was stunned when he heard this: "Liu Zuo?"
Xiang Qidao: "Du Zhi, you are a noble man and very busy. Although I have been working as an official outside these years, I have always cared about him."
"I heard that he had speculated on salt money. He not only gambled his fortune but also borrowed and misappropriated other people's money. As a result, debt collectors came to the door and broke his head. Now he is lying in bed unconscious. He also has
Old couple, alas..."
Xiang Qi didn't look at Zhang Yue's expression and said: "Back then, Liu Zuo was too rich and greedy. When he was in Imperial College, he bought winter vegetables and charcoal for the house, so they sent the two of us out, including himself and the store owner.
We secretly got countless benefits from our talks, but we were given away with just a bowl of soup cakes."
"When I was a classmate, I didn't want to expose him, so I let him go. In fact, I had expected that he would become what he is today, but I didn't expect it to be so miserable..."
Zhang Yue said: "Now that we are here, it is useless to talk about these things."
Xiang Qidao: "Du Zhi is right. Although I regard him as my best friend, he has never thought highly of me..."
"But we were classmates in the past. I'm asking you today to visit his house tomorrow and help him pay off his debt so that he can live a stable life for the rest of his life."
Zhang Yue said: "That's true. However, Liu Zuo has always been from a well-off family. This time he broke up his family and I'm afraid he will owe a lot of money."
Xiang Qidao: "My service as an official these years has not been in vain."
Zhang Yue glanced at Xiang Qi and asked, "What?"
Zhang Yue sighed: "Brother Xiang, you and I are from ordinary backgrounds, and we have to work hard to get where we are today. But why did you and I, our classmates, study in the past? It is for the sake of learning, and excellence leads to officialdom, but not for the sake of officialdom, excellence leads to greed!"
Xiang Qizuo said: "Du Zhi, you are here to teach me the truth like this. There is a golden house in the book, and there is a beauty like jade in the book. Isn't that why you and I study? Otherwise, why did you and I eat in the first place?
After so much suffering, it’s easy to be humble and look down on people’s faces.”
Zhang Yue said: "I never felt that it was hard to study. On the contrary, I enjoyed it, and I never looked down on others' faces. On the contrary, you asked for too much."
Xiang Qi waved his hand and said: "Duzhi, I know that you were born in the first imperial examination. When you first entered the officialdom, you were given a post and entered the Sutra banquet. Your path is different from mine. But I am different from you... The laughter in this world
Poor people don't laugh at prostitution! Whatever you want, you have to give up something in exchange for it."
"When I endured the humiliation from my in-law family and got married, the old Xiang Qi died."
Zhang Yue thought to himself that the reference office he ran might not be completely clean, so he stopped talking about it.
Xiang Qidao: "Duzhi, I know you don't like my friends, so I won't introduce you to them. Tomorrow you and I will go to Liu Zuo's house and settle down in his house to urinate. Other than that, I have no other intention."
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