Great Imperial Merchant

Danluo is the county capital of Los Angeles County. It is naturally not as good as the prosperous capital of Huizhou, but it is considered a rich place in Los Angeles County.

There are many large and small shops here, and there are many merchants, and there are not a few who have cooperated with the Cheng family.

The ones invited to the engagement banquet were of course the shops with the best relationship with the Cheng family, but the farce that happened later made many people laugh, but also felt a little bit dissatisfied.

In this world, how many people are born with a golden spoon in their mouths?

Like Cheng Weishu, when he was born, he was well-clothed and well-fed. From childhood to adulthood, he can get things that ordinary people expect infinitely and work hard for. How many people are like him?

The answer is naturally no.

There are so many businessmen in Danluo, at least more than half of them start from scratch by themselves, accumulate wealth little by little through hard work, and finally add rich robes and achieve their careers and dreams.

Many of these people sat there in person that day. After hearing what Cheng Weishu said, they were naturally very unhappy.

The beginning of my business, which I used to talk about, was criticized by these rich men as worthless. Even these old fritters in the mall can hardly put on a good face.

So no matter how Cheng Yao and Bai Xiaozhu smoothed things over that day, most of the guests left after Cheng Weizhe left, and some of the remaining guests were embarrassed to leave because of their feelings, and some wanted to continue watching the fun.

Seeing this kind of scene, Cheng Yao and Bai Xiaozhu no longer forced to say things against their will, but put on a stiff smile and sent all the shopkeepers away, and then closed the door to discuss.

But the merchants they invited this time accounted for almost half of Danluo, and people's mouths are the fastest. From the moment they stepped out of this door, all the rumors and rumors could no longer be controlled, as if a little spark burned in an instant Dan Luo up and down.

When Cheng's family opened the door again the next day, rumors about their family had spread all over the streets of Danluo, and even Huang Kou'er knew that their second wife was bullying others and ran the eldest son away.

What's more, there are good people who arrange the disputes between Bai Xiaozhu and Cheng He vividly. The words are extremely obscene and the story is very absurd.This time, Bai Xiaozhu was so angry that he fell ill. He has been famous for decades, and has been praised by others since he was a child. Now he is suddenly notorious, how can he be comfortable?He was sick here, and Cheng Weishu wanted to wait on him, but when he saw this unrestrained son, he was so angry that he sent him to his own room, and shut himself up for thirty days and couldn't come out.

In the end, only Bai Yousu was left to do his filial piety in front of him, but he was dissatisfied with this and that, making Bai Yousu haggard all over.

Things in their inner house were relatively easy to handle, but Cheng Yao couldn't stand it outside.

People who can start from scratch have their own temperament.

They can be considered to have worked hard to make a fortune on their own, but now they are despised by a yellow-mouthed child of the Cheng family, so they are naturally unhappy.Most of them are happy people. If they are not happy, they will stop doing business, so there is no need to force them.

So in just a few days, the business of the Cheng family's rice shop dropped by [-]%, and the newly harvested rice was piled up in the warehouse, which became Cheng Yao's heartache.

He even lowered the price of rice for the [-]% of the shops, but those masters are very spine-chilling, maybe it’s not sure, and I can’t afford it even if you give it away for nothing.

If I eat your rice, won't I be looked down upon by your kids?So say the bosses.

This is not the worst thing, the most disturbing thing is that no matter where he goes, people and friends look at him as if he has a green cap on his head, and the things that are obviously nonsense are told to be true the same.

Cheng Yao has been under a lot of pressure these days, wishing he could go back and beat Cheng Weishu to death, so as to relieve his hatred.

Cheng He had the same difficult life as him.

Because that day he was impulsive and said the wrong thing regardless of the occasion, so Cheng Yao was really angry this time.

He ordered the gate of the bamboo garden to be closed, and ordered his servants to give him only green vegetables and radishes with steamed buns for three meals a day, to boil the bath water by himself, and to wash the clothes by himself, so that he could remember the lesson.

For the first time, Cheng He truly realized the bitter fruit of not being in charge of the family.

He is in his fifties, and he has never eaten bran-swallowed vegetables in his life. Cheng Yao treats him fairly well. The buns are made with the thinnest corn flour and chestnut flour. It tastes very sweet and tastes very fragrant. .

But he just doesn't like it, he doesn't want to eat this, but he will be hungry if he doesn't eat it, and he will want to eat chicken, duck and fish even more, but this is the only thing that the servant brings over every day, and it has never changed.

Cheng He thought it was nothing at first, he was just hungry and dirty, but as the days went by, he couldn't bear it more and more.

Being fussy, he couldn't get enough to eat.Also because of laziness, he almost ran out of new clothes.What's more, because he doesn't know how to make a fire, he can't bear it anymore, so he can only take a cold bath, and freeze himself to typhoid at the end of autumn.

At first he was quite uncomfortable when he had typhoid fever, but after thinking about it later, when he was sick, his younger brother would naturally have to take good care of him, and the punishment should also go.

Unexpectedly, the doctor who came saw him and prescribed medicine, but he still ate the same food, and there was only one more servant to boil hot water for him, and he had to wash the clothes by himself.

Now Cheng He, who was ill, went completely crazy. He wanted to run out of the bamboo garden and go to the main house to question his own brother, but found that the gate of the bamboo garden was locked. He couldn't even call the hot water boy, so he could only lie sickly in the dirty bedding, eating completely tasteless meals.

From the first day the bamboo garden was locked, he was no longer in the mood to read.

When there is no guarantee of life, those words of the master have become a trifling matter.

He was lying alone in the house, taking medicine every day besides eating, and simply washing his clothes with water when he couldn't take it anymore. Within ten days, he lost a lot of weight, and his eye sockets were deeply dug in. It doesn't look too scary.

But with his appearance, none of the other members of the Cheng family came to care about him, and none of them cared about his life.

Occasionally, when he was in a trance, he would still think of the past when he was just married to Lin Shaofeng. He didn't even like Lin Shaofeng, he was full of disgust. .Later, the two got married, and he was forced by Lin Shaofeng to have Cheng Weizhe, a child he didn't expect.

His feelings towards the father and son have never been very good. Cheng Weizhe seemed to dislike him by nature, and he always looked at him with hostility, and Lin Shaofeng gradually became too lazy to talk to him.He ran darts to make money by himself, and when he came back, he took Cheng Weizhe to study and practice martial arts. Without him, the life of father and son was still comfortable.

At first Cheng He was very dissatisfied, he would suddenly run to disturb the relationship between the two of them, he would not let Cheng Weizhe go fishing and horse riding with Lin Shaofeng, and he would ruin everything Cheng Weizhe liked.

But every time at this time, Lin Shaofeng would always take Cheng Weizhe away, and then say, "Weizhe is good, dad can give you something better."

It was the first time that Cheng He felt that he was very useless, he could only destroy everything about Cheng Weizhe, and he could only see hatred and indifference in his eyes.

But he doesn't care. What he cares about is when his younger brother's Zhengjun will come to accompany him in poetry and poetry. What he cares about is what new articles the eldest son of his younger brother's family learns. everything about him.

If someone asked him at this time, would he regret that Zheng Jun died early and the relationship between father and son was so indifferent, he would definitely say no regrets.

Yes, why should he regret it?He really didn't like Lin Shaofeng, and he also hated Cheng Weizhe. To this day, the only regret and dissatisfaction he has is that Bai Xiaozhu didn't choose him back then.

If he was the one who was betrothed to Bai Xiaozhu back then... then what will happen now?

In the empty bamboo garden, Cheng He laughed softly by himself.

Compared with the gloomy and gloomy Cheng family, where everyone is having a hard time, Cheng Weizhe and Yang Zhongyuan's business is extremely booming.

Probably everyone heard their rumors, so Cheng Weizhe's teahouse business was twice as good as before, and Yang Zhongyuan's noodle shop was already overcrowded, and it would be difficult to fill a stool.

Moreover, most of the people who will come to their side have good intentions.

People often give two extra copper coins after eating the noodles, and say to Yang Zhongyuan: "Young man, you are a good match, let's have a good time together."

At first, Yang Zhongyuan was very embarrassed, and he refused to accept it. Later, Cheng Weizhe thought of a way for him. The family got up early and made a few cages of meat buns. Whenever there were diners who gave more money, Xu Xiaotian would smile and send an extra bun. .

It is difficult for adults to refuse the innocent children's smiles, and the diners took the delicious buns away, and they praised the two young people even more in their hearts.

After coming and going, the big pork and cabbage buns at the noodle shop also became popular. Some people came here not to eat noodles, but they made a special trip to buy buns.

This stumped Yang Zhongyuan, his shop was almost running out of place to shop, and there were so many people buying buns, it was impossible to sell them.But the diners were very persistent, and he refused to leave even if he didn't sell. The noodle shop was completely blocked that day, and Yang Zhongyuan was so anxious that he couldn't help it. It was Cheng Weizhe who came to save the place and finally solved the problem.

What he meant was that buns were sold in the window next to the noodle shop in the tea shop. Since everyone insisted on buying them, they had to sell them at a fixed price, and they were much larger than the ones given away.

Yang Zhongyuan picks all the best pork, which is three points fat and seven points lean. The steamed buns are the most fragrant. He adds some pork skin jelly prepared in advance, mixes the cabbage in it, and waits until the steamed buns are cooked before biting them down. The fragrant broth will flow out, making your mouth full of delicious fragrance.

The meat buns he made are naturally thin skinned and filled with the freshest ingredients, so he set a price of eight yuan for one, and bought four for only thirty yuan, absolutely delicious and cheap.

The noodle shop's business was quite good, Yang Zhongyuan really didn't have the time to make buns, so he could only hand over this job to the tea shop's Master Baian. Master Baian had worked with Cheng Weizhe for several years. He was given [-]% of the profits, and he started selling steamed stuffed buns with a young apprentice in full swing.

This time, the business of the noodle shop and the tea house was better than any month before, and it also drove the business of other shops in Xueta Lane by the way.

Even Doctor Li, who came to deliver Zhou Quanxu's last dose of medicine, sighed: "If you leave, it will be a loss for the entire Xueta Lane."