The daily routine of wearing a book and abusing literature to cultivate a scholar and Xiaoxianggong

Chapter 79 Lao Shan Chang and Wan Yu Shan

Pei Zhiqi was a little surprised when he heard this passage from his husband: "Oh? Hasn't your husband ever met Boss Wan himself?"

Xie Youqi smiled and shook his head: "In the entire academy, except for the head of the school, no one has ever seen Boss Wan. After all, Boss Wan gets a headache whenever he sees a scholar, so there is no chance, ha..." Xie Youqi laughed heartily.

Pei Zhiqi also smiled slightly. He bowed and said goodbye to the teacher: "Mr. Hardworking is waiting here. The students are going to the kitchen first."

Xie Youqi nodded: "Go! The head of the mountain should be back soon. In previous years, he came back quite early. I don't know what caused the delay this year."

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What Xie Youqi didn't know was that Mr. Elder Shan's delay in not coming back for so long was actually because of that strange blank paper.

At noon on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, when Jingde Academy held the opening lecture, business leaders from Southeast Province also held a sumptuous lunch in their mansion in the provincial capital, but the only guests invited were One person is the head of Jingde Academy.

Lao Shanchang is old, his hair and beard are gray, and he walks tremblingly. He wears a loose cloth robe, a wooden hairpin on his head is casually tied in a bun, and a roll of paper is held under his arm. He got off the carriage at the gate of the mansion, and walked for a long time with the support of the family members of the Wan family, before reaching the place to eat.

"Oh...you are old, you are old! At this age, I still want you to go to the banquet in person, oops! Just send a young man to come next year. As for the bill, just leave it to the young man Already!"

As soon as Shan Chang stepped into the door of the banquet hall, there was a short, fat, round-eyed, middle-aged man in a blue cloth with a wooden hairpin, who greeted him with a smile on his face. He hastened to personally help the head of the mountain to sit in the main seat facing the gate.

After Mr. Elder Shan sat down, he coughed twice, leaned closer to Wan Yushan and said, "Boss Wan treats guests, as long as this old man can move his legs, he must come in person. Otherwise..."

Wan Yushan also sat down, approached the head of the mountain and replied, "Otherwise what?"

"Otherwise, how can it be called sincerity? The old man has to rely on this sincerity to ask for some living expenses for the children on the mountain."

"Hahaha..." Wan Yushan laughed loudly and said, "The head of the mountain is worrying too much. It is an ancestor's precept to support Jingde Academy. The Wan family has obeyed it for a hundred years. Even if the head of the mountain doesn't come to the banquet, I will still pay a fee. There will be no shortage of copper plates."

"Well... the old man knows, but Boss Wan is generous, and the old man knows it, so we're in harmony, right? And, you, the stubborn... stubborn disease that gives you headaches when you see scholars, I remember it, I don't want you to have a headache , so I'll do it myself."

Wan Yushan said with a smile: "Shan Zhang, please don't laugh at me. My headache is not so exaggerated. It's just mild. It's just that it has been rumored for a long time, and it has become like this. Since Mr. Shan Zhang has already Here we go, shall we have a banquet?"

The old mountain chief nodded: "Let's open it! Last year, I said that for the two of us, three dishes and one soup are enough. Why...why did you make such a big table?"

"Hey, don't be disgusted if you are old. I promise, if you can't finish eating, there is a way to deal with it. If you don't touch your chopsticks, you will reward the servants, and if you use your chopsticks, you will reward the livestock. How about it?"

Mr. Shan Elder then picked up the chopsticks with slightly trembling hands, squinted his dim eyes to look left and then again, thinking that it is better to keep the chopsticks as much as possible for the dishes you don’t want to eat, so that it would be less wasteful for others to eat. Some.

Wan Yushan also picked up the chopsticks, ate two bites, and took care of the head of the mountain, and quickly moved to the head of the mountain for any dishes that were out of reach.

"Oh... that's right... I asked someone to send over this year's expense account book this morning. Have you read it?"

Wan Yushan replied with a smile: "I've seen it, I've seen it! There is no problem at all! Master Shanzhang has done a detailed account. I will also send someone to send up the mountain for next year's expenses. When you go back, you can count them. See if there are enough. Oh, yes——” Wan Yushan took out a piece of paper from his arms, which seemed to be a list, and handed it to the head of the mountain. How much money is there, how much are all kinds of things, I remember clearly."

The head of the mountain took the paper, stuffed it into his bosom, and murmured: "I can't see such small characters with my eyes, I'll ask someone to read it when I go back."

Wan Yushan nodded with a smile, and helped the head of the mountain pick up some chopsticks.

After eating for a while and chatting for a while, the head of the mountain seemed to have no intention of asking: "You sent someone to ask me if anyone in the academy knew Fanyu. At that time, no one in the academy learned it. How is it? These days have passed. Yes, have you found anyone?"

Speaking of this, Wan Yushan sighed and said: "I first sent someone to the Siyi Hall in the capital to inquire, but after I finished my studies, I would either work for the court, or stay in the capital and be a teacher at home for the princes and masters. I ran to this poor southeast province. Later, I sent people to post notices in several nearby provinces inside and outside the province, asking for talents with a lot of money. Well, a lot of people came, but few of them could be used! Hey!"

"Oh...it's really bumpy..." Mr. Elder Shan replied.

"Now I barely use one person, but he can only translate the words written on paper, and the translation is incomplete. If you want to communicate directly with foreigners, it still doesn't work. You have to write what you want to say on paper, and it takes a long time to do it. Squeeze out a word."

"Is that so...that..."

Wan Yushan is so shrewd. As soon as the head of the mountain asked him, he knew that there must be a new situation before he brought up the matter. He hurriedly said: "What? Old head? Someone in your courtyard understands this now? Then quickly introduce it. Give it to me, so that I can solve my urgent need! Ever since some people's ships arrived on the shore more than ten years ago, my sea business has fallen behind those two rivals. I don't know where the He and Fang got the communication I can communicate with foreigners, if I can't find a good one, I will be far behind in earning money at sea!"

The head of the mountain just nodded and didn't interrupt. He knew that Wan Yushan hadn't finished speaking.

Sure enough, Boss Wan said again: "I can only deal with a small part of the goods directly with Fanren, but now I don't know much about it, and I don't know what the price is, whether I have suffered a loss, and how much I have eaten. I don’t even know what to lose! Now if I want to buy Fanren’s goods, I have to buy many things from He and Fang, and if they transfer them, I will earn a lot less. It’s really not going to work like this!”

The head of the mountain nodded again.

Wan Yushan then sighed and said: "Just take the fact that people from Beijing came to hold a birthday gift for the Queen Mother this time. When there were no such people before, all the masters in Beijing came to my house for running errands and shopping. Visiting, ask if there are any rare good things, what about this year? After I came to my house to ask, I didn’t have anything to say, and I went to Heji and Fangji to inquire. This business is really getting harder and harder. So Laoshanchang, if you have any clues, please speak out and listen, and help me quickly, ah?"

(End of this chapter)