The Taoist priest stood in the middle of the street and cursed for a long time, but no one paid attention to him, so he had to pick up his shoes without putting them on, and left with his bare feet.
After finishing the bowl of fish soup, Fang Jinshi asked the waiter when paying the bill: "The noble young man just now looks familiar. I wonder if he is a former friend. Second brother, does he come here often?"
The shopkeeper said: "There are many young men from famous families in Bianjing City. I have no impression of this young man if he has been here before." Fang Jinshi saw that the shopkeeper had a very strict mouth, so he stopped asking. When he left the shop, I found my way back to Shi Quan's Jinxianzhuang branch.
On the second day, Wei Chong and Deng An had already arrived here in a carriage. Shi Quan invited them to stay. Fang Jinshi saw that Shi Quan seemed as if nothing had happened. He not only called the shopkeepers of each branch to a meeting, inspected the branch, and dealt with While the store was doing business, they also held wine and banquets to entertain old friends.
He strongly invited Fang Jinshi to join him. Fang Jinshi knew that this was Shi Quan asking him to make more friends. He wanted to help Shi Quan do something, but Shi Quan refused and asked him to play in Kaifeng City for a while first. .
Wei Chong went to find the residence of King Xiu. Zhao Zicheng's land was in Huaidong, but there was also a house in the capital. Just because the girl Xing he married was the daughter of the minister of the Ministry of Industry, and the royal officials who took care of all aspects were For the recent celebration, I chose to hold the wedding ceremony in the capital and then return to the fiefdom.
Zhao Zicheng was very busy at this time and had no time to meet Fang Jinshi. Uncle Shao Yunshao and Wei Chong came together. He sent a message for Zhao Zicheng and sent a wedding invitation and asked him to attend the banquet three days later.
Zhao Zicheng and Fang Jinshi came to Bianliang City in Kaifeng to congratulate him, but he didn't buy it in his heart. Although Fang Jinshi was able to persuade the county and achieved his request to take Yinmatan, he failed to gain a firm foothold in the army and gave up. When he quit, an angry Zhao Zichen scolded him, "You bastard! How can you do big things if you can't stand a little anger!"
But now that they are all here, Zhao Zicheng doesn¡¯t say anything anymore. The gifts given by Fang Jinshi are of average value, but the gifts Zhao Zicheng received in return are quite expensive. Naturally, he is the one who wants to win over and take care of Fang Jinshi.
For Fang Jinshi, King Xiu's wedding, he was just a spectator. He had no job and no rank. On that day, he was arranged to sit in a side hall with some of Zhao Zicheng's friends in the world. There were always officials and members of the Zhao family. When he came to congratulate him, Fang Jinshi sat far away. He didn't know anyone who came, and he didn't bother to inquire. He just went to Zhao Mansion with Wei Chong and Deng An to have a meal.
Zhao Zicheng took the time to meet with him the next day, comforted him a few words, and wrote two letters of recommendation for him, one to the Souchongjing Luexiangong Zhongshidao of the Wuyuan Army, and the other to Dengzhou Tong. Fang Zongze asked him to choose one of the two to join him. This was also a common practice in the officialdom to recommend talents. However, Fang Jinshi had no ambitions and promised on the surface. In fact, he shelved the two letters as soon as he returned. He was not interested in making a big deal. He went all the way to Dengzhou or Wuyuan to find a small job. The last thing he wanted to do was be angry with others.
Tokyo Bianliang City is blooming with flowers, and he hasn¡¯t had enough fun yet.
" If other people get the recommendation letter from Prince Xiu, they will wake up from their dreams with laughter. But Fang Jinshi only does what he likes. He once had the ambition to do something in his career, but now it has faded.
Zhao Zicheng was eager to return to his fiefdom and invite local officials. The wedding of a close relative like him would not be trivial, so he hurried back to Huaidong.
After a rain, Kaifeng City in Bianliang became colder, and the plains of eastern Henan entered the early winter season. Fang Jinshi had been in Bianliang City for nearly 20 days.
He had nothing to do these days. He traveled around Kaifeng City and made a few rogue friends. Sometimes he went to Daxiangguo Temple to watch others play chess and practice boxing. Sometimes he went to the west of the city to watch a Cuju competition. He felt that Cuju was much more difficult than football. Yeah, the goal scorer's eye is so small, it's really not easy to score a goal.
Wei Chong and Deng An both went to Shi Quan's semicolon to help. Fang Jinshi wanted to go at first, but Shi Quan refused to let him go, because although the businessman could make money, his social status was very low, and Shi Quan didn't want him to join this company. Okay, even though Fang Jinshi didn't care about other people's opinions, Shi Quan patted his chest and said, "Second brother, you don't have any money to spend on me, but you are not allowed to do business in this business."
When encountering such a big brother, Fang Jinshi had nothing to do. Shi Quan would give him ten or twenty guan every now and then. He suggested that Fang Jinshi go to school so that he could get a merit degree in the future. He just asked Fang Jinshi to read the Four Books and Five Classics and do some work. Learning was really harder than killing him. Although he wanted to go to school reluctantly, he couldn't let go of his face when he saw those enlightened and childish children attending a private school.
Bianliang City is full of flowers and everything is good, but there is one thing that makes Fang Jinshi unhappy, and that is the late-night curfew. He sneaked out at night and was caught by an official. He was caught and squatted in the Kaifeng government office until dawn. Shi Quan asked someone to be his guarantee. It took some money to release it, and since then he no longer dared to wander the streets late at night.
There is money in your pocket, it¡¯s lateThere was no place to go. Under the instigation of some naughty friends, Fang Jinshi learned to drink flower wine. He was originally a person with many problems. Although he would think of Liang Cuirong when he hugged the girl from Goulan Courtyard, the wine had a strong effect on the intestines. He was poisoned, sex was like a steel knife for scraping bones, and in front of wine and sex, he began to sink.
Fang Jinshi didn't get up until noon that day. Just as he was about to go out, Deng An ran over and said, "Master, Er Shaodong has something to ask you."
Fang Jinshi thought that he hadn't seen Shi Quan for two or three days and didn't know what happened to him. Shi Quan lived in the front hall. He lazily arrived at the front hall and before he entered the door, he heard the sound of fists and feet blowing in the wind. Fang Jinshi opened the door and saw that Shi Quan was practicing boxing in the house. His leg injury had healed. Fang Jinshi looked over and said with a smile, "Brother is very skilled."
Shi Quan stopped and waved him in, saying, "You have been in Bianliang for a while, right? What are your plans?" Fang Jinshi said, "I want to do business with my elder brother, but he refuses. I will go back to Shaanxi in two days." .¡±
Shi Quandao: "It's as if I'm driving you back. If you want to go back, I won't stop you. If you want to stay in Bianliang and bring your younger siblings over, I'll buy you a house. But you have nothing to do every day. No."
Fang Jinshi said: "Then I will find a gentleman to study seriously tomorrow." Shi Quan laughed and said: "It's weird for me to believe you. Today I will entertain a distinguished guest at the Huibin Building and help you find an errand in the Yamen. How about doing it first?¡±
Fang Jinshi was very reluctant in his heart, but he didn't want to waste Shi Quan's good intentions, so he had to agree first. As the two of them were talking, there was a sound of footsteps, and Feng Wan hurriedly walked in from outside.
She walked straight to the stool without saying a word and sat down angrily. Shi Quan looked at her and said, "What's wrong? Who messed with you again?"
Feng Wan pouted and said, "No!"
Fang Jinshi looked at the situation and knew that it was difficult to talk because he was present, so he stepped forward and said: "Brother, I will go to the reception building and wait. You will come over when you are done."
Shi Quan nodded in agreement, and Fang Jinshi closed the door and left the front hall, thinking: "This Miss Feng doesn't shy away from suspicion. It would be great for Brother Shi to marry her."
He suddenly became childlike and walked to the back window to hear what the two of them had to say.
Shi Quan saw Fang Jinshi go out and said, "What's wrong?"
Feng Wandao: "Mei'er sold the house by the river, do you know?"
Shi Quan nodded and said: "Someone told me that she has already married into the imperial envoy's palace, and there is no use in keeping her there."
Feng Wan asked angrily: "Does this house belong to her?" Shi Quan said calmly: "I gave it to her and it belongs to her."
Feng Wan said: "Okay, okay, no one else can care about who you want to give your things to. It's just that she is too ruthless and unjust, which makes people look down on her."
Shi Quan was silent for a moment and then said: "It will be a hundred times better for her to marry into an official family and be prosperous and wealthy from then on than to marry one of my military concubines with a gold seal on his face."
Feng Wandao: "If you hadn't helped her, she would have sold her brother to Goulan Courtyard as a prostitute. Well, this is nothing, but the second brother has been serving her for three years. Even if he is a stone-hearted person, he can't do it." It¡¯s time to be tempted, right? My second brother hasn¡¯t come back yet, so he¡¯s eager to get married. Can¡¯t he wait for three years?¡±
Shi Quan whispered: "Back then, when I was young and vigorous, I beat Tang Cheng to death. I deserved it by assassinating my wife. What does Guan Meier have to do with me?"
Feng Wan suddenly became excited and said: "Did you really beat Tang to death? Grandma Zhou from the front street told me yesterday that she saw with her own eyes that Wang Yumei beat him to death with a pointed stone on the roadside. Tang Cheng was already dead when we went there, and you took it for her, was she ever grateful?"
Shi Quandao: "How can this happen? How can Mei'er, a weak woman, beat Tang Cheng to death? Grandma Zhou is old and she is just talking nonsense."
Feng Wandao: "Why can't a weak woman kill someone? You gave Granny Zhou three hundred guan that day and asked her to give perjury. She told me everything. Is a drunken and weak scholar using you as a picker of stones?" "
Shi Quandao: "I didn't pick up stones to hit him. I pushed him onto the bridge pillar and killed him. The Kaifeng government office has recognized it. The old things are in the past, so why bother bringing them up again?"
Feng Wan said angrily: "Okay, you Shi Quan, but now I have become a villain. From now on, if I want to take care of anything you do, my surname will not be Feng!"
She hurriedly walked out and closed the door tightly. Shi Quan stayed in the room for a while and let out a long sigh.
Feng Wan suddenly walked in again. It turned out that she had forgotten to bring the key on the table. Shi Quan raised his head and glanced at her. Feng Wan couldn't help but said: "Let me tell you one more thing. When her brother died back then, I was afraid that she It has nothing to do with it. If you think I¡¯m slandering her, just pretend I didn¡¯t say anything.¡±
Feng Wan came in anger and left in anger. She rushed out of Jinxianzhuang Branch with a wave of resentment that could not be dispelled. She felt that everything in the world was gone.It was so unfair that Wang Yumei had such a good character, but Shi Quan could treat her like this. She and Shi Quan had known each other since childhood and grew up together. Compared to Wang Yumei, she asked herself, how bad was she? Why can't you get it?
Fang Jinshi stood blankly outside the window for a while, and couldn't help but think: Brother Shi is deeply and unswervingly devoted to Miss Wang. In comparison, I am really too much. I had no food or clothes before, but she didn't dislike me and followed me. But she was still not satisfied, making her angry and crying, me. . . . . . I'm so heartless.
Fang Jinshi made up his mind that from now on, he would never idle around again. No matter what errand Shi Quan asked him to do this time, he would do it well. In a few days, he would try to bring Liang Cuirong to the capital and do it well. To live the life of his little common people.