"Hongnong Yang Anxuan", the tea cup hit the ground hard and broke into pieces. A small gold ingot fell from the table, bounced on the ground a few times, and rolled under the flower table.
Diao Feng cursed angrily: "You idiot, you are more likely to fail than succeed. With the contract in hand, since Huang Heizi can't repay the debt, he just robs people, why do you want to make a fuss on the street and ruin the Diao family?" reputation."
Diao Ping lay on the ground and begged: "That Huang Heizi and his family wanted to sneak away, but his servants stopped him on the street. His mother-in-law cried and cursed, which attracted passers-by to watch."
"Come here, pull this useless thing down, tie it to a tree and give it twenty lashes." Diao Feng said angrily.
Screams came from the courtyard. Diao Feng was still angry and paced back and forth in the room.
A few days ago, Diao Yun, a clan nephew, came across the river to see him. He mentioned that he and Yang Anxuan had lost more than 200 gold in a bet with Yang Anxuan.
In Diao's family, his nephew's gambling skills were no less than his own, and he actually lost so miserably. This made Diao Feng very interested in Yang Anxuan.
Diao Feng was the chief secretary of Princess Tangyi, and he knew all about the predicament of the prefect Yang Quanqi after he took office. Official letters of reprimand came one after another from Shangshu Province and Zhongshu Province. Yang Quanqi frowned all day long, and the whole yamen The atmosphere was depressing.
Too busy to take care of himself and meddling in other people's business, to see how it would end, Diao Feng picked up the gold ingot on the ground and turned around angrily and returned to the study.
In the back house of the government office, Yang Anxuan felt this depressing atmosphere.
His mother, Mrs. Yuan, was very happy to see him, but she frowned from time to time when asking questions. Yang Anxuan asked, "Is there anything troubling you?"
"Alas, your father has only lived a comfortable life for a few days since he came to Tangyi. He has a sad face all day long." Mrs. Yuan said worriedly.
Yang Anxuan knew full well that Wang Guobao and Wang Xun respectively instigated Zhongshu Sheng and Shangshu Sheng to secretly suppress him. You can imagine the pressure on his father.
At the end of Shen Dynasty, Yang Quanqi returned to the back house, and Yang Anxuan was surprised to see his father. It had only been a few months since we last saw Yang Quanqi. There were a few strands of silver hair on his temples, his face was haggard, and his eyes were bloodshot.
Seeing Yang Anxuan, Yang Quanqi's tense face showed a smile. Yuan ordered people to set up wine for the father and son to drink and talk.
After asking a few questions about Yang Anxuan's studies, Yang Quanqi began to drink one cup after another with a frown on his face.
Yang Anxuan blurted out: "Father, why don't you ask to go?"
Yang Quanqi was startled and shouted: "What nonsense are you talking about? If you want to revive the Yang family's business, how can you ask for it?"
Yang Anxuan smiled and said: "My father is a fan of the authorities. How can I, the Yang family, rely on it?"
Yang Quanqi put down his wine glass and looked at Yang Anxuan with twinkling eyes. He knew that the third son was no longer a playboy in Luoyang City. He acted thoughtfully and thought deeply, and was not inferior to him.
Yang Anxuan talked about it: "I, Hongnong, have a distinguished Yang family, and I have passed down my family with integrity and knowledge. Unfortunately, I crossed the river a little late, and was deliberately suppressed by the court and the scholar family, so that Wang Guobao and Wang Xuxu could be proud."
Yang Quanqi's eyes flashed with anger, he slapped the table heavily and said nothing.
"Since my grandfather, the Yang family has changed from civil society to martial arts. The way to establish our Yang family is through martial arts. My father needs to change at any time." Yang Anxuan said solemnly.
Yang Quanqi wanted to rebuke loudly, but the words were blocked in his throat and turned into a sigh.
"Now my father is in charge of the military affairs of Stone City in Tangyi, my uncle is guarding Huainan, and my uncle is guarding Mengjinguan. They are all dangerous places. This shows that the court relies heavily on my Yang family."
Yang Quanqi nodded and said, "That's right. It's just that the villains in the court deliberately made things difficult for my father, which made my father very depressed."
"That's why the child asked his father to go." Seeing that Yang Quanqi was still puzzled, Yang Anxuan explained: "The court relies on the Yang family. In addition to the bravery and fighting skills of my father and brother, there is also my Yang family army. As long as the clan army is here, who dares to despise me, Yang?" Home."
Yang Quanqi thought for a moment and said, "Xuan'er's intention is for the father to retreat in order to advance."
"That's right." Yang Anxuan said with a smile, stroking his hands: "With my father's reputation for being brave and good at fighting, how could the court leave my father idle? They will soon entrust my father with important responsibilities. My father can also take this opportunity to leave the court and get rid of the disputes."
Yang Quanqi's eyes flashed brightly, and he said with hatred: "We will see how those who target the father will end up."
Moving the stone from his heart, Yang Quanqi relaxed his brows and said with a smile: "Xuan'er has made great progress in knowledge since coming to Beijing, which is a great comfort to his father. Come, you and I, father and son, have a drink together."
After taking two bites of the food, Yang Quanqi smiled and said: "Xuan'er earned a thousand taels of gold for the clan, and the clan is a little richer this year. The clan discussed and agreed to give a hundred taels of gold as a reward to Xuan'er. You can go to Grandpa Ming to get it tomorrow. "
Yang Ming is Yang Liang's younger brother and Yang Anxuan's great uncle. He is in charge of clan affairs.
Yang Anxuan smiled and said: "My child has won some, so I will give the money to my mother."
Yang Quanqi smiled, extremely satisfied. Xuan'er is capable of writing articles in literature, and of martial arts, he is capable of jumping on horseback to bring peace to the world. If he has a son like this, what more could he ask for.
Yang Anxuan thought about his encounter with Huang Heizi's family, and frowned slightly: "This time in Beijing, I bet on Yan Dai's victory. I heard that the betting amount exceeded hundreds of millions, and Yan's defeat and Dai's victory was beyond most people's expectations. I'm afraid many people will do it because of this." Being in debt makes it difficult to make ends meet.”
Yang Quanqi sighed and said: "Exactly, there are many families selling their children and women in Tangyi City. My father has ordered porridge and relief in the four cities, hoping to help them survive the new year."
After winning a thousand taels of gold, Yang Anxuan has been thinking about how to borrow money to make money. Nowadays, most people's concept is to ask for land and houses, but Yang Anxuan knows that once the war breaks out, these will be reduced to ashes.
He made good friends with the Yin family, sent Yuan He to Panlong Mountain, and Madam Wei and Miao Lan to Jingkou, all of which were based on opportunities on the chessboard, waiting for them to take root.
The best use is to use this money to help you compete in the world in the future.
"Has the clan ever thought of using the money to do business?" Yang Anxuan asked.
The Yang family army maintains about 400 people, and the wives, children, and children of these people total more than 2,000 people in one place. The food, drink, and toilet of these people must be arranged by the clan leader. Among the three Yang Quanqi brothers, he held the highest official position, and the position of clan leader accordingly fell on him.
As the Yang family held official positions in different places, the clan members also started doing business there, and a few people spread their wings and stayed in various places to take care of business.
This time Yang Guang took office as the governor of Huainan and took away half of the tribe's troops, followed by half of the tribe's people. This time the Tangyi clan won a thousand taels of gold, and the profit sharing among the clansmen brought by Yang Guang was less.
There is a dedicated person to take care of the clan's business, so Yang Quanqi didn't ask much and said, "I heard from Uncle Ming that he plans to buy some land in Tangyi after the new year and arrange farming for the clan."
Looking at Yang Anxuan meaningfully, Yang Quanqi added: "The Yin family's Bichun tea is very popular, and the price is 50% higher than in previous years. I heard that the tea making method was passed down by Xuan'er. My father intends to let the family buy it. There are some tea mountains, and Xuan'er can teach the people how to make tea."
Yang Anxuan didn't sell the method of making tea to the Yin family, so he could make the decision on his own and nodded in agreement.
Letting go of his worries for the time being, Yang Quanqi soon became drunk. Yang Anxuan had someone help him back to his room to rest and then returned to his residence.
It was just after Xu Shi, it was still early, the lights were on in the house, and the figures on the window paper were moving. Yang Anxuan knew that the girl Qiu'er was waiting for him in the house.
Seeing the third brother entering the room, Qiu'er jumped up from the table and was about to pounce on him when she smelled the smell of alcohol on Yang Anxuan's body. She wrinkled her nose and fanned it with her hand, and said angrily: "It smells really bad, third brother stinks to death. "
Yang Anxuan ignored Yang Qiu's objection, reached out and pinched her cheek, and said with a smile: "Qiu'er, it's getting late, why don't you go back to bed? Mother will talk to you again later."
Yang Qiu rolled his little eyes and said, "Brother, the Chinese New Year is coming soon, and there are a lot of things on the streets. You can take Qiu'er around tomorrow."
Since arriving in Tangyi, Yang Qiu has to go to Jiankang every half month to visit his brother and sister Yin. He always brings a lot of things with him when he goes back.
Yang Anxuan had just thought of doing business. He wanted to go to the market to see if there was anything suitable, and he agreed with a smile.
At nine o'clock the next day, Yang Anxuan was on time practicing boxing in the courtyard to stretch his muscles and bones. His martial arts were learned from the martial arts master hired by the clan when he was young. Later, he learned Dayan Gong from Master Huiyuan, and used his true energy to punch. The wind is fierce and powerful.
Yang Qiu broke into the courtyard and saw his brother practicing boxing. He didn't dare to disturb him and stood silently on the corridor watching. Seeing Yang Anxuan punch out, the branches of the trees a few feet away shook and the leaves fell, I couldn't help but secretly clicked my tongue.
When Yang Anxuan finished his work, Yang Qiu obediently handed over the scarf. Yang Anxuan smiled and said, "You have already eaten so early?"
Yang Qiu smiled sweetly and said: "There are food stalls (1) in the market, let's go out to eat."
After Yang Anxuan finished washing, Yang Qiu couldn't wait to pull Yang Anxuan out.
The prefect's mansion was in the middle of Tangyi City, and the market was near the city gate. Yang Qiu, who was familiar with the roads, took his third brother to the east gate.
There is an empty space on the east gate, which is the morning market in the city. Vendors carrying baskets and burdens are shouting loudly, and the sound is getting louder and louder.
"Cooking cakes, freshly baked drinking cakes, two yuan each", "Selling jujube cakes, sour and sweet jujube cakes, keep one piece and think about the next one", "Haggis soup, drink a bowl to warm it up"...
Various sounds, smells, and colors gathered in the market, causing Yang Qiu to walk faster and faster. If Yang Anxuan hadn't held her back, she would have started running.
Sitting at a stall, Yang Qiu slurped his teeth into the rice dumplings (fried rice dumplings and twists) while watching the stall owner bring the steaming soup cakes (stretched noodles) to the table with haggis on top. .
The haggis smelled very strong. Yang Anxuan frowned. Yang Qiu took a bite of the haggis, spit it out on the ground, picked up the noodles and sucked it into his mouth. He shook his head and said, "Brother, the Yangchun noodles you made are not as delicious."
After hearing this, the old man who owned the stall laughed and said: "My wife is from a wealthy family, so she can't get used to eating food from poor people. But this is not something the old man is boasting about. He has been making soup cakes for more than 30 years, and everyone who has eaten them says that he is good. What about craftsmanship?”
There were also steamed cakes (steamed buns) for sale at the stall. Yang Anxuan took one and broke it open in his hand. The noodles were unfermented, dead noodles, which were hard in the mouth and smelled of wheat, but not soft and delicious after fermentation.
Yang Anxuan, a scholar in Guozixue, ate fermented steamed cakes. There are records in history books that He, a man from the Western Jin Dynasty who spent thousands of dollars on a meal but had no place to put down chopsticks, once said that he would not eat steamed buns until they have cross cracks after steaming. Cross crack steamed buns are fermented and steamed buns. Flowering steamed buns.
Shu Xi of the Western Jin Dynasty once wrote "Bake Fu", in which there is a record of "Qixi", which means fermentation. More than a hundred years have passed, and people still don't know how to ferment pasta?
After chatting with the stall owner for a while, Yang Anxuan asked, "Old man Xu, I heard that someone can make steamed cakes with crosses. Can you make it?"
Old man Xu smiled bitterly and said: "Old man has also heard it before. To be honest with you, I have tried it many times in private, but I can't find the method. This method of making crosses with steamed cakes is a method only known by people with high surnames. This old man doesn't know how to do it." .”
Yang Qiu couldn't eat anymore, so he pushed the bowl away, stood up and said, "It's not delicious, Third Brother, let's go look elsewhere."
Steamed cakes cost two cents each, soup cakes cost four cents a bowl, and haggis cost two cents, a total of eight cents. Yang Anxuan left ten cents in the case and continued shopping with Yang Qiu.
Yang Qiu looked around excitedly, not only looking at this, touching that, but when he liked it, he asked Yang Anxuan to pay.
With little effort, Yang Anxuan took a lot of odds and ends in his hand, and simply spent money to buy a bamboo basket, carrying it in his hand and following Yang Qiu around the market.
Yang Qiu didn't know that the third brother who was accompanying her around had already thought about the business he wanted to do.
Business is inseparable from food, clothing, housing and transportation, and people depend on food. Qiu'er complained that the soup cakes were not as delicious as Yangchun noodles, which inspired Yang Anxuan to start a catering business.
