Smuggling Daming

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Seeing Steward Xu leave, the people in the teahouse were a little disappointed. The new Journey to the West, which is completely different from the past, has already hooked their souls away. Now everyone is eager to know the following story, so in the following For a while, the entire teahouse was discussing the possible next episodes of Journey to the West.

The first three manuscripts brought by Zhou Zhong were divided among the three by Zheng Jing. Among them, Li Zheng took away the most critical first manuscript because of his young age, while Zhang Kuang and Zheng Jing got the last two manuscripts respectively, and they It was agreed that after returning home, each person would copy the manuscript they had received twice, and then everyone would exchange it separately.It's just that what Zheng Jing and the others didn't expect was that after a hundred years, someone was willing to pay tens of thousands of taels of silver to buy the original manuscripts of the first three chapters of Journey to the West in the hands of their descendants, but their descendants all refused, and declared that these manuscripts would be sold to the public. As a heirloom for future generations, it will never be sold.

After Zhou Zhong bid farewell to Zheng Jing and the other three, he was about to go back to celebrate Steward Xu's achievements, but he didn't expect a person to chase after him, shouting while running, "Young Master Zhou, please stay!"

Hearing the sound, Zhou Zhong turned his head to look, only to find that the person who called him was the shopkeeper Liu of Fengyou Tea House. He saw the other party running over and took out a few pieces of silver and offered it with both hands, and said with a smile on his face: "Mr. Butler Xu’s tip was too heavy to carry, so I exchanged it for silver, so please help me bring it back!”

After hearing this, Zhou Zhong stretched out his hand to take the silver and weighed it. He estimated that it was about five or six dollars. In addition, I will also notify him and let him go to the teahouse to tell a story on time tomorrow."

Shopkeeper Liu was waiting for Zhou Zhong's last words. After hearing that, his old face burst into smiles. At that moment, Zhou Zhong exchanged some greetings with the other party before turning around and leaving.But when Zhou Zhong returned home, he saw a strange scene.

When Zhou Zhong entered the gate and came to the front yard, he saw the butcher Wu Shan standing in the yard pushing a cart full of bricks. Butler Xu was holding a pot of tea, drinking and talking to the other party while Wu Shan nodded repeatedly. .

"Butler Xu, what are you doing? Why did Brother Wu Shan bring so many bricks?" Zhou Zhong walked over and asked with a smile.Steward Xu earned five or six renminbi in two book sessions today, which put him in a good mood, and he seemed to feel more relaxed.

Seeing Zhou Zhong coming back, Steward Xu hurriedly bowed and said, "Master, Wu Shan wants to build a stove in his yard, that's why he brought so many bricks, but I think..."

Before Steward Xu finished speaking, Zhou Zhong frowned and said, "Housekeeper Xu, this is your fault. We rented the house to Brother Wu Shan, so naturally we have to eat here. He builds a house in his yard. The stove is also a normal thing, how can you stop it?"

Zhou Zhong knew that Butler Xu discriminated against Wu Shan's identity as a butcher. For example, when he gave Zhao Er the leftovers that day, he was the first to suspect that Wu Shan stole the food.Now seeing Steward Xu stopping Wu Shan to pull Brick's car, he immediately thought that he didn't want Wu Shan to cook in the yard, which made Zhou Zhong a little angry. After all, he paid the rent, so it was natural for him to cook. It is the right of the other party.

But Zhou Zhong obviously misunderstood Steward Xu. Before Steward Xu could explain, Wu Shan next to him smiled and said, "Master Zhou, you have misunderstood. Uncle Xu is not trying to stop me from building a stove, but to discuss with me. One thing, it's just that he can't make the decision, so he and I waited for you to come back in the yard with me."

"Eh?" Zhou Zhong was taken aback when he heard this, and then he looked at the aggrieved Butler Xu with embarrassment, "This...haha~, what... I'm sorry, Uncle Xu, it's all my fault, you guys What are you discussing, why don't you wait for me to come back?"

Zhou Zhong is also a person who corrects when he knows his mistakes, and he even changed the name of Steward Xu.Butler Xu naturally wouldn't blame Zhou Zhong, and immediately told him what he had discussed with Wu Shan.

It turned out that after Steward Xu escaped from Fengyou Teahouse, he happened to meet Wu Shan pushing a cart of bricks in. After asking about the situation and knowing that he wanted to build a stove in his yard, his heart moved.Zhou's kitchen is in the front yard, and Aunt Wang and Zhuan'er often help with the cooking, which was fine before, but now the family rents out the front yard, especially with a big man like Wu Shan living here. It seems inconvenient.So Butler Xu discussed with Wu Shan and asked him to help build a stove in the inner house of the Zhou Mansion. As for himself, he could use the kitchen in the front yard of the mansion.

Wu Shan was also very happy after hearing this. After all, he had also seen the kitchen of the Zhou Mansion, and it was big and tidy. agreed, so the two stayed in the yard until Zhou Zhong came back.

After listening to Zhou Zhong, he thought about it, nodded quickly and said with a smile: "Okay, butler Xu, you are more thoughtful, but I don't know if you are free, brother Wu Shan, let's go to the backyard and build the stove together?"

"Young Master Zhou is too polite. You can just keep me Wu Shan or Lao Wu. I was going to build a stove this afternoon. If you think it's right now, I'll help you build a stove." Wu Shan has already lived in the Zhou Mansion. For a few days, I often met with Zhou Zhong and Butler Xu, so I lost my original restraint and talked more.

"Okay, then I'll call you Old Wu from now on, let's go to the inner house now, choose a yard to build the stove." Zhou Zhong also smiled after hearing this, and after he and Steward Xu led the way, Wu Shan pushed the car Come to the inner house.

There are seven courtyards in total including the inner house and the back garden. Except for the people living in the courtyard of Aunt Wang and Zhou Zhong, the rest are empty. Zhou Zhong and Butler Xu discussed it on the road, and finally decided to build the stove next to Aunt Wang’s courtyard. In the yard, this yard was originally lived by Aunt Zhao, Duo'er's mother. In the past, in order to take care of Duo'er, there was a simple stove in the right wing of the yard. Now it only needs to be repaired and strengthened.

Building a stove is a technical job. Zhou Zhong and Butler Xu are laymen at this point, otherwise they would have built a stove by themselves in the inner house. After all, it is very inconvenient to run around the front and back yards every day.Fortunately, Wu Shan is an expert in this field, and he is proficient in making bricks with mud, while Zhou Zhong and Butler Xu can only help with water and bricks.

It took nearly an afternoon, and the new stove was finally built. Wu Shan helped Zhou Zhong and the others move some utensils from the front kitchen to the new kitchen in the inner house, and filled the water tank with water. Strength, which made Zhou Zhong also like Wu Shan, a simple and straightforward man. At the same time, he gave him some cooking utensils that were not needed in the front kitchen, and Wu Shan thanked him again and again.

After sending Wu Shan away, Zhou Zhong and Steward Xu came to the yard where Aunt Wang lived, Bracelet and Duoer were there, just now when they were building the stove, Duoer went to play, Bracelet was a big girl, So I hid in the yard and couldn't come out.

"Crack!" Zhou Zhong put the rewards Steward Xu earned from storytelling on the table today, and then said to Aunt Wang and Bracelet around him with some pride, "This is the money Steward Xu earned from storytelling today. Five or six silver coins, although I added an extra game, but today I also made a name for myself. I believe that by tomorrow, more guests will come, and the income will definitely be a lot more. Calculated in this way, one month is More than a dozen taels of silver, excluding these two months of expenses, we should be able to save 30 taels of silver by the end of the year, and when we have these 30 taels of silver as a bottom line, our family life will not have to worry about it for the time being!"

This is the first time that Zhou Zhong has expressed his feelings in front of his family. Aunt Wang is a person who has no idea. Now that Zhou Zhong is so confident, she is also infected, and she is so excited that she can't speak; Hehe smirked, imagining that he was famous in Songjiang, and the good days of eating and drinking hot food in the past would come again soon; although Duo'er was ignorant, she was happy with her brother.

Only Zhuan'er looked at her elder brother very complicatedly, her eyes were reddish and she didn't speak.In her opinion, her elder brother should have sat at home and studied hard, and then prepared for the next year's exam, but now he has to give up studying because of the burden of their family members. The income of money and silver is so happy to be like this, which makes Zhuo'er really feel sad for her brother.

Speaking of which, Biao'er used to be the same as Zhou Zhong, she had studied with the gentleman invited by her family, and although Biao'er's talent and learning were not as good as Zhou Zhong's before, she was still very extraordinary. It's not difficult.

Bracelet'er was unable to take the imperial examination, but this did not affect her love of reading. In addition, she especially liked drawing and composing poems. She used to form a poetry club with a few ladies from Songjiang Mansion. Miss Qianjin often gathers together to recite poems, draw pictures and play the piano to entertain herself.In the words of later generations, Biao'er is actually a standard literary young woman, with romantic thoughts in her mind, but she doesn't care much about reality.

Bracelet has always regarded Zhou as her idol, imagining that one day her elder brother would pass the imperial examination and become a young handsome man, but now because of family reasons, Zhou Zhong is running around every day to earn a living. It is much more interesting than reading, and he is not the original Zhou Zhong, and he has no interest in imperial examinations.

Biao'er has always been aware of Zhou Zhong's changes. At first she thought it was because her brother was hit by his father's death and the family's decline, so his personality changed drastically and he was no longer interested in imperial examinations. The matter of making money made Zhuan'er see her brother's talent again, which gave her a new idea, thinking that it's not that her brother didn't want to study, but was dragged down by their family members, so she had to give up studying and turn to those who Dealing with tacky firewood, rice, oil and salt.

It is precisely because of the above thoughts that Zhuaner feels so sad when seeing her brother getting so excited for a few coins. At the same time, she secretly blames herself for being useless and unable to share the worries of her brother. Hold on.Thinking of this, Biao'er felt her nose sore, and tears almost fell out.

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