Tong Jia anecdote

<August [-]>

"Shall we go into the house too?" Hong Xiao put the carrot in her hand on the snowman, looked at it for a while, shook Jing Fu's cold hand, and said.

When the two entered the room, Hong Xiao asked the little maid to add new charcoal to the charcoal basin, and then took the hand stove to stuff Jing Fu, and then went to make tea, and asked, "You haven't said it yet, where did you find it?" Snow?"

"On the lake in the garden behind." Jing Fu replied.

"It's so cold, don't do these stupid things anymore." Hong Xiao specially brewed ginger tea, brought it to Jing Fu, and said, "Although you martial arts practitioners are in good health, you are a daughter after all. Regardless of the cold and heat, what kind of illness can be cured.”

"I can also make snowmen." Jing Fu replied again.

Hong Xiao looked at her, thinking about how she could say such a sentence so gracefully.Jing Fu rarely speaks on weekdays, and it can be said that he cherishes words like gold. Even when he gets along with Hongxiao, it is mostly Hongxiao who speaks.

She must have heard the complaints she had heard from herself in the daytime because she was angry with Tong Jiu, and she had been wronged with Tong Jiu when she was a child, and she had called Tong Jiu a white-eyed wolf.

When both of them were ten years old, because Tong Jiu was stubborn and messed up, he was implicated and punished by his master and mother.Whenever she was severely beaten, she didn't want to pay attention to the culprit who caused her to be beaten and suffered, and just ignored her all day long.

But that evil spirit, who always changed the law every time, followed him to please him, and made a vow to himself that he would never do it again.But I forgave her, and within a few days she forgot all about it.

One winter, Tong Jiu refused to listen to persuasion because of his ability to ride a horse without a saddle, so he fell off the horse.Fortunately, Fu Daming didn't break his arms and legs, but just touched his face and nose with ashes. This incident alarmed Mrs. Tai and his wife, and he was so tired that he was beaten by Tong Jiu's chaperoning mother, Ye Heshi.

Since that day, I haven't given Tong Jiu a good face for half a month. It happened to be my birthday on the fifteenth day, and there was a lot of snow.Tong Jiu piled up two snowmen, one tall and one short, at the door of her room. The tall snowman was wearing a red fox scarf, which was a birthday present from her, and the short one was wearing a hat crookedly. nine.

Thinking of the long-lost feeling that day was the same as when she saw Jing Fu’s snowman just now, Hong Xiao smiled lightly, and said gratefully to Jing Fu who was silently drinking tea, "Jing Fu, thank you."

Jing Fu smiled and said nothing.

Hongxiao still looked at her, and asked hesitantly, "You—why are you treating me so well?"

"Because you treated me well." Jing Fu buried his head and looked at the pattern on the hand stove, unable to see his expression.

"Then, if I treat you badly in the future, you won't treat me like this, will you?" Hong Xiao frowned, feeling a little unhappy in her heart, blurting out a few tones, and asked .

"Alright." Jing Fu only spit out two words.

"Then why?" Hong Xiao asked, feeling a little more comfortable after hearing this.

"Because you treated me better." Jing Fu responded.

After hearing this, Hongxiao smiled, and said, "Fool."

Besides, Tong Jiu and Ji Lan in the main room got up and drank some water after being happy, and then lay down hugging each other again.

"Jiu'er, there is something I want to hear from you." Ji Lan snuggled lazily into Tong Jiu's arms and closed her eyes.

"Yeah." Tong Jiu waited for her to continue.

"My sister came over to the house today and told me about Su Le." Ji Lan said, "Her son Yongxi Baylor is going to enroll in the Left Wing School this year. Su Le will be eleven after this year. Although we are not considered family members , but it would be fine to follow him as a companion. Wait a few years for him to grow up, and then enter the Xianghuang Banner official school, what do you think?"

"I think, he's only ten years old, he's going to serve as a coat slave for those Baylor shellfish, just to see his face. It's like being at home with Jin Ming, and asking a gentleman to come back and learn to be safe." Tong Jiu thought for a while and said, "Besides , both of our houses are doing business, and we don’t expect him to go to the imperial examination in the future and come back with some merit.”

"Having said that, even if you don't take the test of fame, you still have to learn some knowledge. How can you not suffer a lot? The gentlemen in that school must be famous scholars. He has been influenced by his ears and eyes, so he naturally follows Make progress. Besides, it won't hurt to make more friends with Prince Baylor." Ji Lan said.

Tong Jiu shook his head, "Which of those who can enter Zongxue need to take the test of merit? Following those people and learning the domineering habits of a prince, they will appear out of place in the business field in the future. What I mean is to invite a gentleman back. Let him and Jin Ming learn first, after two years he will grow up and his temper will be settled, and I will not stop him from entering the official school of Xianghuangqi."

Seeing that Ji Lan was silent, Tong Jiu turned her head to look at her, and said, "You and I both learned from private schools at home, so it's not necessarily worse than those from religious and government schools, right? Of course, it depends. Your plan, if you want Su Le to take over Yangzhengtang in the future, if you don’t have the time to make amends with those princes Baylor, you might as well let him read more medical books.”

Seeing that Ji Lan was still silent, Tong Jiu said again, "I learned to calculate accounts from Mr. Han since I was a child, and I naturally became interested in business and learned something about it. A family like ours is no better than a clan, and the whole Qing Dynasty is the same. It’s from others. Our children should learn some personal skills, whether it’s business or medical treatment, no matter how the world changes, there is food to eat.”

"Don't you think so?" Tong Jiu shook Ji Lan twice, who was still not responding, and saw Ji Lan burying her head in her arms in a dream.It turned out that at some point, Ji Lan had already fallen asleep.

The next day, Ji Lan saw that Tong Jiu asked Hong Xiao to wear a coarse robe, knowing that she was going to go out with Shen Jianping for a walk, and asked, "It's such a cold day, do you still want to go out?"

"How can I know the market situation if I don't go out and stay at home all day?" Tong Jiu smiled and pretended to be wronged and muttered, "Who told me that my business is not selling medicinal materials, and who told me that I don't have the ability to control the fluctuation of food prices. No more Go out frequently and take a look, you can’t just rely on the people below to do everything.”

Ji Lan knew that ever since the two of them started Huizhengsheng together, because they didn't know much about this industry and were both "laymen", Tong Jiu had always been uncertain.

Since she met Shen Jianping, Tong Jiu humbly followed Shen Jianping to learn the basic skills of Jinshang Exchange House, so as to understand the rules of the whole industry.

In their Jinshang exchange shop, the first thing for apprentices to do when they get started is to sit in the stalls and learn to count bank notes. They have to count for 30 days without making any mistakes before they are eligible to enter the shop as a clerk.

After Tong Jiu heard about it, she silently counted the bank notes in the study and practiced for several days at a stretch.

In fact, in my own opinion, as a boss, she has a few masters in front of her to take care of her. She doesn't need to learn the work of these little guys, but Tong Jiu is willing to learn.She always said that what she learned was actually the same reason that Ji Lan learned about the properties of medicinal materials.

The two had breakfast, before Tong Jiu went out, Ji Lan escorted her to the door, wrapped her scarf tightly, and said, "I thought about what we discussed last night."

Tong Jiu smelled the fragrance of her predecessor's medicine, and only after hearing Ji Lan say "last night", he recalled in his mind the appearance of Ji Lan's tenderness when the two of them were warm last night, and couldn't help looking straight at Ji Lan, feeling moved blushed.

"Just as you said, let's invite a teacher from a private school to teach at home first." Ji Lan adjusted the scarf on her hand, looked up at Tong Jiu, and saw that she was looking at him with ambiguous and hot eyes.Moreover, the man's beautiful eyes are full of his own shadow.

He pretended to straighten the scarf hanging in front of her lapel with his hands, but in reality he stroked her chest, and asked in a soft voice, "Aren't you leaving?"

"Jiuye, Mr. Shen is here." Tong Jiu felt a haunting hand on his chest, and as soon as he grabbed it, he was about to say something when someone shouted outside the door.

"Got it." Tong Jiu responded, rubbed the back of Ji Lan's hand, let go reluctantly, and walked out, saying, "Don't worry about Mr., I will invite you later. I, let's go." ah."

"Okay, come back earlier." As the curtain on the door was lifted, Ji Lan sniffed from the cold, but still watched Tong Jiu and Shen Jianping walk to the gate of the courtyard, and waved at him a few times to tell him to go back quickly. Fang smiled obediently, turned around and came back.

But as soon as he turned around, he saw sisters Fucha and Hongxiao standing behind him, all looking at him with complicated eyes.Thinking that they must have seen the intimate behavior of the two of them just now, Ji Lan pretended to be disapproving, cleared his throat, and walked quickly towards the warm pavilion in the inner room.

"Where are we going today?" Tong Jiu asked, no matter how thick the padded jacket was, it was not as warm as the usual mink cloak. When he went out, he put down the ear protectors on both sides of the hat.

"Go to Shibiju Restaurant." Shen Jianping said, "They want to use the back house as collateral to borrow money from us, and the shopkeeper sent me to see what kind of yard it is."

The two rode to the Shibiju Restaurant, and Shen Jianping was welcomed in by the waiter, while Tong Jiu was used to looking around in front of the shop, and did not follow them in.

After shopping around, she went into the store to sit down. The waiter just thought she was a fellow worker, cleared a table in the corner, made a pot of rough tea, and didn't say hello, but Tong Jiu was happy and quiet.

Because it was only after breakfast and the solar terms were cold, there were not many people in the shop to eat.Tong Jiu didn't mind the bad tea, poured himself a bowl, looked at the furnishings in the store, looked at the menu hanging on the wall, and drank tea.

Not long after, a man in a gray cotton robe came into the store with a wine jug in his hand. The person who came in was expressionless and just looked at Tong Jiu.

Presumably he was a regular customer, the little guy greeted him with a smile, took the jug in his hand, and said, "Yo, Mr. Zhang, I haven't seen you for a long time. You must be busy with business." He also turned towards Tong Jiu. He looked at it and said, "It's okay, this is the guy from the bank, if you want to sit at that table again, I'll just let him go."

The man called "Mr. Zhang" took off the cotton gloves on his hand and said, "No need, I'm alone, just sit together." Seeing Tong Jiu looking at them, he responded modestly and nodded slightly. greet.

"Then what would you like to eat today?" the man asked.

"Old rules." After Zhang Sanye finished speaking, he walked towards Tong Jiu's table, and graciously pulled a stool and sat opposite Tong Jiu.

Seeing that this person had a gentle temperament, although he was dressed plainly, he was quite refined, Tong Jiu also smiled at him politely, picked up the empty bowl at hand, and poured him a bowl of hot tea.