Happy Little Scholar

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 he first arrived at Liuye Village. In order to have enough food for his family, he ran around every day and tried all kinds of ways; the second time was in Fengzhou, when Miss Liu was injured. When they were penniless, they needed thousands of taels of silver to buy medicine.

Fortunately, he survived both crises. The first time, he thought of many ways to make money, including selling paintings, candied haws, Ruyi Dew, etc. The second time was because he met Shancai Tongzi.

The boy who scattered money.

If Qian Duoduo hadn't spent money lavishly, he wouldn't have had so much money to buy those precious herbs, and Miss Liu's illness wouldn't have been cured so quickly.

Although they exchanged money and goods at that time, Li Yi still owed him a penny in cash.

This debt lasted for five years.

He didn't like to owe favors to people, especially to men, and he didn't like to owe money either.

Qian Duoduo initially felt that the young man looked familiar. Although he had never seen him before, he felt a sense of intimacy the first time he saw him, as if they had known each other for many years.

Until he heard his voice, until he took 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.

There were two people who had a huge influence on him in his life.

The first was his father, who gave birth to him, raised him, and taught him how to be a qualified businessman.

The second was the brother in front of him, who helped him regain his confidence at the lowest point in his life, helped him find the direction of his life, and from then on, he had a broad mind and entered a new world.

He sat down opposite Li Yi, looked at the penny in his hand, thought about it, and suddenly asked: "Brother, have you heard of nine out and thirteen back?"

In a pawnshop, the monthly interest rate is 10%, and the pawnshop only gives out nine taels of something worth ten taels, which is called "nine out"; three months later, the pawner has to use thirteen taels to redeem it, which is called "thirteen back".

Qian Duoduo meant that when he owed it, it was one cent, but after five years, he would have to pay more than one cent.

Li Yi looked at him and asked, "Do you know what a fat man will become if he falls from a building?"

"What?" Qian Duoduo shook his head in confusion.

"Fatty."

After Li Yi explained it to him, he looked at Qian Duoduo again and asked, "Have you heard of nine departures and thirteen returns?"

Qian Duoduo shook his head: "No."

...

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 known to almost everyone in the whole Qi State.

Outsiders don't know who is richer, the Lin family or the Qian family. Anyway, few families are richer than them. As a small Fengzhou city, they have overcome all difficulties and made their business one of the best in the whole Qi State. The Lin family and the Qian family have supported each other in recent years. To be precise, when the Lin family was still a small family, the Qian family began to use family resources to support the Lin family with all their strength. Later, the two families went hand in hand, mutually beneficial, and gradually became two giants in the Qi State market...

Fengzhou, where the Lin family is located, is Zhao Yi's territory. Li Yi originally just asked him to take care of the Lin family. Unexpectedly, he was so honest that he pushed the Lin family to this position in a few years.

Among them, the Qian family has made an indispensable contribution.

Li Yi had heard from Lin Wanru that the Qian family had provided a lot of assistance to the Lin family from the beginning. The name of Qian Caishen was well-deserved. Five or six years ago, he made his business the largest in Fengzhou. In the past few years, he followed the third prince to the capital and 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 Qian Caishen, naturally attracted much attention.

However, what attracted the most attention to him was not the background of the Qian family, nor his extraordinary business talent.

But whenever he went to a place, the famous local talented scholars and writers would be trembling with fear, and some famous ones would directly retreat and not appear within a ten-mile radius of him.

On the contrary, brothels and Chuguans in various places were particularly welcoming to him.

This was not only because he was generous and often spent a lot of money, but also because he knew the legendary "First Talent of Jingguo". This matter had become a consensus in Qi.

Qian Duoduo was once famous in Qi because of 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 first talent in Jing State. His poems were not only widely circulated in Jing State, but also well-known in Qi State.

Zhao Xiuwen, the poet of Qi State, once said in public: "Today, there is only one stone of talent in the world. Li Yi alone occupies eight buckets. I get one bucket, and the world shares one bucket."

Although it is not ruled out that Zhao Xiuwen may have boasted after drinking, Zhao Xiuwen, who has always been very conceited about his talent, said such words, which shows how much he admired the "first talent in Jing State".

What's more, almost every scholar in Qi State has a copy of Li Yi's poetry book. Before someone makes more and better poems 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 "big idiot", "plagiarism dog" and "shameless".

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 nine outings and thirteen returns on 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 when he was in Fengzhou. Everyone looked down upon him. He was the joke of Fengzhou City..."

"I don't know what happened after that. 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, but now there are no poems. When it comes to diction, he will dig in wherever there are scholars..."

Generally speaking, human personality is not static, but it does not change without reason.

Suffering major setbacks or encountering major turning points in life will lead to sudden changes in personality.

Or he meets a mentor in life, who guides him in the direction of life, lights a lamp, 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...

It seems obvious that even the most qualified scholar is like this. Zhao Yi has only focused on fighting for the throne these 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...