Li Siye waved his hand: "No need, wealth should not be exposed to outsiders. I also know this truth. When I need your help in the future, you must not shirk it."
Zhang Gui patted his chest carelessly: "President, please rest assured, I will definitely do my best to contribute."
"Ha." Li Siye didn't expect this to be the case, so he had no choice but to nod.
Zhang Gui left with satisfaction.
Gao Shi raised objections from the side, pointed at him and said: "I wanted to talk to you just now, but I didn't say it because there were so many people. How can you use wealth as a contribution point? This is laughing at the poor and getting rich. This Zhang
Come on, I can tell there's something wrong with it."
Li Siye knew that he was indeed a little abrupt, so he laughed and said: "I will definitely find a difficult task in the future, even if he has money, he can't do it."
"Actually, I'm here to invite you. How can you, a scholar, sell pancakes here? Leave the green onion pancake shop to Shali to take care of it. Come teach at my house. I'll give you eight hundred dollars a month to take care of food and housing.
How about it."
Upon hearing this, Gao Shi reluctantly nodded in agreement, and then asked: "Who should I teach? If I teach you, I can't teach you."
"It's not me. It's my sister-in-law. She's only nine years old this year. You teach her some poetry, books, articles, moral etiquette."
When Gao Shi heard this, he immediately bowed his hands to Li Siye in admiration: "I just said that you are not a simple person. Other families educate boys in order to gain fame in the future, but you asked me to teach girls."
Li Siye immediately shook his head and said: "Reading and learning to write is not necessarily for fame. It is just for her to be edified in culture. Feel free to teach her your poems, articles, etc."
Gao Shi didn't hold back, he just did what he said, sold the shop to Mi Li, and followed Li Siye back to Xuanyangfang.
He led Gao Shi into the house and saw that there was no Mei'er in the yard. He asked the two old maids, "Where is the second lady?"
"No, he ran up the tree." The old maids pointed upwards at him. Li Siye looked up and saw that Li Meier was squatting on the high branch of the mulberry tree, picking mulberries.
"Hurry, come down quickly!"
Li Siye was afraid that she would fall and fall, so he said softly: "Slow down, um, be careful. Brother bought you candy, yes, yes, yes."
Li Meier slid down the tree trunk with a squeak, and Li Siye breathed a long sigh of relief. She trotted up to Li Siye and stretched out her fingers: "Brother, where is my candy?"
Li Siye responded angrily when he was given candy: "Eat candy, and I'll ask you to eat fried meat on bamboo boards!"
He immediately pulled out a stick from the corner, aimed it at Li Meier's buttocks and slapped it hard. The pain made the little girl cry loudly, and then fled around the yard. Two old maids hurriedly tried to dissuade her, and encouraged her to escape from the clutches of the devil.
, a hen from an unknown family flew into the yard, and it made a clucking sound. Then it was so frightened by the scene that it fluttered its wings and flew out of the chicken feathers all over the yard. The neighbor lady was alarmed and wore a newly bought green dress.
The skirt stood in front of Li Siye, and the waves under the tube top were the best defensive weapon. The new teacher, Gao Shi, stood awkwardly in the courtyard, and was used as a pillar by them to chase around.
Gao Shi began to regret a little. He should not have agreed to Li Siye coming to his home to be such a teacher. It was really too bad.
"Hey, this is really lively."
There was a sudden sound outside the door, and everyone in the yard fell silent immediately, like living sculptures.
Li Siye raised the stick in his hand, and Madam Xu fought with him like a hen protecting its young. Li Meier wiped away her tears and hid behind Madam Xu. Two old maids stretched out their hands to persuade Gao Shizheng, who looked disgusted.
With his eyes closed, the clucking old hen had already jumped over the wall.
Gao Lishi, wearing a black robe, stepped aside, only to see a middle-aged greasy man wearing a light yellow robe, standing at the door with a slightly bulging belly, looking at the yard, and nodded happily.
Li Siye was frightened in his heart. Why is this man here? He didn't know what kind of etiquette he should use to welcome him, and he stood still for a moment.
Madam Xu couldn't see the situation. She thought it was Li Siye's colleagues visiting. Then she realized that she was a woman, in the neighbor's yard, and she and Li Siye were in a posture of fighting for a stick, and this posture
Still very ambiguous.
She quickly put her hand away and said with a smile to the two uninvited guests: "Don't misunderstand me, gentlemen. The slave family and Mr. Si Ye are just neighbors. If he beats his child, I will come over to persuade him. I have no other meaning."
After saying that, she quickly walked around the two uninvited guests and walked out of the yard with small steps. Li Longji turned his head and glanced at Madam Xu, with some admiration in his eyes, and then coughed.
Knowing Li Siye's embarrassment, Gao Lishi took the initiative and said, "Si Yelang, my colleague Sanlang and I are here to be guests. It's a bit presumptuous. Please forgive me."
When Li Siye heard this, he didn't understand what it meant. He quickly said: "No, no, no, please welcome the guests in immediately."
"The humble house is a bit crude, so don't blame me if you ask me."
He welcomed the guests into the main hall, took the initiative to place tables and spread futons. In fact, he should have bought two futon beds, so he could only force the noble man in front of him to sit lower.
Li Siye and Gao Lishi both knelt down, Li Longji sat cross-legged, and Gao Shi knelt down on the other side of the mat with a scroll in his hands, a look of suspicion on his face.
Li Siye immediately ordered Li Meier to make tea. Although the little girl still had tears hanging from the corners of her eyes, she just raised her hand to wipe it, glared at her brother angrily, and then started to prepare charcoal to light the fire.
Li Siye pretended not to see it and just waited anxiously for the emperor to ask questions.
During the time that Mei'er and Wen Ran lived together, she learned the art of making tea. She even learned Wen Ran's graceful movements and began to grind tea powder and boil water.
Li Longji looked through the eaves at the scenery in the courtyard. He was used to living in spacious palaces like the Daming Palace. He occasionally came to this small house and courtyard and found it quite exquisite.
Two old maids took the initiative to come in to serve them. Li Longji frowned slightly, and Li Siye quickly asked them to go out. They were a little bit ugly, and even the guests didn't like them.
"You should change to two maids." Li Longji said calmly.
"It's indeed an eyesore, but the advantage is that the labor is cheap and it's hardworking."
Li Longji didn't know that it would cost money to hire a maid, so he changed the subject and asked him: "Is that woman just now your neighbor? Is she already married?"
"Indeed, she is a woman, and her husband has been away on business all year round."
Li Longji glanced at Li Siye with a strange look. Li Siye thought he would give a warning in this regard, but the other party ignored him and turned to watch Li Meier make tea, and then he became interested: "I learned how to make tea at a young age.
, it seems that you are good at teaching your sister."
Li Mei'er didn't show any timidity when facing strangers. She put on a smile and said, "Thank you, Mr. Lang, for the compliment, but he didn't teach you these things. I learned them from Sister Wen Ran."