Prime Minister

Chapter 81
A few days later, Zhang Ji opened.

A colorful building was built in front of the shop, with little servants standing on the left and right, and the shopkeepers were busy in and out.

Zhang Shi, wearing new clothes, stood in front of the door and clasped his fists to the guests from all directions: "Please come inside!"

"What kind of wind blows you in Xu Du's head."

"Although there is no alcohol, the food is enough."

"Zhou Daguan is gone, come back next time!"

"Third brother, go get a firecracker and put it away!"

Zhang Yue Yiyan picked up the incense stick and lit a bunch of firecrackers.

But hearing the bang bang bang, the left and right children covered their ears and smiled to avoid it.

"Third brother, these firecrackers are really good! Loud enough!" Zhang Shi sighed, "When the shop was set on fire, I thought my life was over, but I didn't expect to be able to stand here again."

Zhang Yue glanced back, the restaurant was full and said, "Brother, there are not enough seats!"

"What are you afraid of, we are afraid that there will be too many people when we open a store?" Zhang Shi's face was full of joy. "Call some of your good classmates here to cheer you up."

"That's not necessary."

"Store! Store!"

Zhang Yue said: "Brother, a table of guests is calling you."

Zhang Shi, Zhang Yue walked into the restaurant with a look of apprehension, but saw a few big-bellied men sitting on the table, each with chopsticks between the oily meat: "How is your pork so delicious? Give us a few. Eat mutton! Don't lie to us!"

Zhang Shi laughed loudly and said, "You can't get mutton, it's pork, as long as you like it."

"Okay, I will come here often with a few brothers in the future."

"Thank you so much, I'll toast you with tea instead of wine, and I'll give you a roasted eggplant." Zhang Shi immediately touched the other party with the teacup.

"The store owner is really nice."

The person at the table on the side said: "Shop, your cooking is really good! The master invited by Bianjing!"

Zhang Shi said haha, "No way, it's our own family."

"Look at this fragrant oil, I don't have to say, I will often come to take care of your business in the future."

"Thank you very much!"

Zhang Shi was busy here, but when he saw that there was already a queue at the door of the store, someone shouted.

"How can you be so gentle! I'm in a hurry!"

"If we don't let us in to eat, we will starve to death."

"Aren't you driving the guests out?"

The guy greeted him outside: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry everyone, our store is full, come back another day!"

"No!"

"No!"

The people who were still cursing just now refused immediately.

Zhang Shi was busy for most of the day, and finally sat in the back kitchen and couldn't move, but when he saw that people in the back kitchen of the food shop were still coming in and out, there was a smell of prosperity everywhere.

"Brother, it's time for our shop to close, but there are still customers waiting outside?" Zhang Yue said.

Zhang Shi said: "Then open the door again. It will take a long time to wait for the guests to have enough to eat and drink. Tell the guys to triple their wages today."

Zhang Yue shook his head and said, "Brother, if you go on like this, I'm afraid the store will have no oil and water..."

"I'm happy..." Zhang Shi interrupted Zhang Yue's words and wiped his tears with his hands, "Brother, I'm so happy today, do you know how I've been through this year?"

The two brothers sat side by side in the back kitchen, listening to the sound of a room full of spatulas and stoves.

"Do you know how angry my brother was when the old man came to the door a few days ago? I blame myself for being useless. I couldn't even keep my two younger brothers, and I watched you all leaving with others."

"Brother, don't say it, didn't I leave now?" Zhang Yue said.

"No, I would also like to say that I used to focus on my second brother's study and success, so that we can support our family, and we can jump into the dragon gate. Now I know that I was wrong, I was wrong, and it is better to rely on others than to rely on myself. You can't stand up to yourself, even if the official family supports you, you can't stand up. Now I finally have this shop to give my brother the confidence to stand. I want to run this shop with a good life, for you to study, and in the future, I will be admitted to Beijing for the jinshi examination. , the middle champion."

Zhang Yue was not very moved when he heard it, but said, "Brother, I'm a student, I can't get into the jinshi, let alone the champion."

"I'll win if I say it!"

Zhang Yue thought, brother, you are drunk!But you didn't drink!
"Third brother, I know you take everything to your heart, just like your second brother. You don't have to force yourself to do what you want because of a few words from others? What should we do or what? People look down on us, let's not hate us He, in the future, will be successful, and people will know that he is wrong, and then it will be the real struggle, for yourself and for the family, do you know?"

"Understood." Zhang Yue nodded silently as he looked at the burning flames under the pot.

"Brother, don't worry, I will fight for you for this family!"

……

Summer goes to autumn, and in a blink of an eye, winter comes.

Pucheng has been snowing for several days, and the houses and treetops are covered with snow powder.

As one of the four major families in Pucheng, the mansion of the Wu Mansion, although it is not comparable to their mansion in Bianjing, it is more spacious and covers an extremely wide area.

With more than 50 mu of land, water is diverted to form a lake, forming a scene of its own.At the beginning, the cost of setting up this pool alone was more than a thousand guan.

There was a thin layer of ice on the pond this morning.

The servants of Wu Mansion are very busy, some clean the snow on the stone paths in the courtyard, some use a ladder to brush off the snow on the blue tiles, and a little is left behind, which adds to the artistic conception.

Two young girls walked under the eaves, one wearing a lake green shirt and the other wearing a moon-white dress. Although it was snowing, they were only covered with jackets. From a distance, they looked like they had stepped down from a portrait of a lady. of people in general.

"It seems that there are guests in the mansion today?" the girl in the lake green shirt asked.

The girl in the moon-white dress said, "Brother, today I invite the classmates from the county school to have a banquet in the mansion."

The girl in the green shirt pursed her lips and said with a smile: "Darang-Jun is really good, and he is not in the summer class in the capital, so that he can take the test again next year?"

The girl in the moon-colored dress said: "There are uncle and daddy in the capital, he is not at ease, not to mention his brother's ambition is not here, let's go to the study room and read."

After walking for a while, I suddenly felt that the other party didn't follow.

The girl couldn't help but stop and turned around and asked, "What's wrong?"

After a moment of silence, she seemed to hear the cheerful chatter and laughter of the young man, coming from far away from the lake.

"It's nothing." The girl in the lake green shirt covered her chest with red cheeks, but there was an indescribable smile on her face.

"You ah you!" The other party laughed angrily, "How about being seen by the servants?"

"What are you, you? So what?" The woman in the green shirt asked slyly.

The other party said earnestly: "Before the wedding, the daughter of Yasi in this county met a childhood friend, but she bumped into her fiance who is also a member of your Zhang family, so that the other party ran away from the marriage and humiliated her!"

"There was an escape from marriage, this matter? What should the family do if this person escaped marriage? It's really pitiful, and this uncle is really, how can there be such a narrow-minded person?"

"Seventeen mothers, don't go! I'm joking, don't take it seriously!" The green-shirted man persuaded.

The moon-white woman turned her head, and a smile suddenly appeared on her face: "Who said I took it seriously, let's go read."

The two walked side by side.

"Seventeen girls?"

"Ok?"

"You laughed so well just now. The ice and snow are melting, and the country and the city are all over the place, but it's a pity... It's a pity that no other handsome man has seen it except me. You say it's a pity not a pity."

"Look I don't twist your mouth."

The two women chased, blue and green dresses flying across the corridor.

Out of the eaves, the two of them held up their umbrellas and walked straight to the study.

Before reaching the study, the two patted their umbrellas on the stone steps, and then each helped the other to remove the snow powder before entering the study.

"I've seen Seventeen Mothers!"

"I'll go up with Sister Zhang, don't let idlers come in." Seventeenth Mother instructed.

"Yes, Mother Seventeen."

Looking to the north from the library, you can just see the lake view, and also see dozens of scholars on the waterside pavilion beside the lake, toasting and singing, talking about poetry and music.

The woman in the moon-white dress was looking down at the bookshelf, looking up, but the tulle curtains were flicking lightly, and the woman in the lake green shirt was leaning on the railing and looking out.

She couldn't help but curl her lips and said, "How is it good for you to be seen like this?"

"So what if I saw it, it caused a lovesickness, isn't it?" The other party chuckled.

"However, with your family background, how could your father betroth you to these county scholars?"

"What if I can't get married? Dad never forbids me, and I can't even watch it, right? Besides, isn't Dalang-kun also a county student?"

"I can't say enough about your clever mouth, I've read the book."

The woman in the green shirt walked back and said with a smile, "Don't talk about me, you don't look down on me, right?"

"When did I say that?"

"Hey, you don't say it with your mouth, you can say it in your heart."

"Think about your eldest brother marrying the daughter of Fan Zhen, and the second brother marrying Wang Anshi's daughter... There are only two of us here, so what if you don't hide your name... Having said that, although your Wu family married poorly Some, but marry well."

"The eldest sister married Ouyang Fa, the son of Ouyang Xiu, the second sister married Lu Xiji, the grandson of Lu Yijian, and the third sister married Xia Boqing, the grandson of Xia Ran. , Now it's your turn, if you want to marry better than your fourth sister, it must be a future prime minister."

After saying this, the woman in the green shirt smiled and leaned forward.

But seeing that the other party didn't speak, the book at hand was flipping page by page with the wind.

"I'm from a concubine, and I can't compare to a few older sisters. Even my name is not allowed on the family tree." Shiqi Niang said lightly, looking indifferent here.

While speaking, I suddenly heard a sound from downstairs in the book.

"This little gentleman, you can't enter, even if you have a note from Dalangjun."

"This old man, Dalang-Jun has promised me a face. I have some spare money here. How about a bowl of tea?"

Hearing this, the two women couldn't help but smile at each other.

"It's not about tea, it's not about tea...but...I can't tell the truth anyway."

"Old man, in the next chapter, he is a good friend of Dalang-Jun. Please don't be embarrassed, so Dalang-Jun doesn't look good."

The two listened by the window, their voices getting smaller.

"Let's listen."

The woman in the green shirt of the lake took Shishiniang to the east corner and looked down, but saw a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy in a half-new blue robe who was stuffing money to take care of the library.

The guard kept pushing back and said, "I can't, I can't."

But seeing that the young man is young, but he can be called a tall and beautiful body, but he is dressed a bit ordinary.In the snowy day, the other party didn't even cover an umbrella, and at this moment there was some snow powder between his brows.

(End of this chapter)