Big businessman and little fisherman

Chapter 189
Outside the Jixiang Building, shopkeeper Li personally sent Lu Yange to the car.

Except for the driver who is the usual person of Shopkeeper Li, even Tao Shan was sent by Shopkeeper Li to escort Lu Xingge back.

Shopkeeper Li did not forget to graciously tell Tao Shan to drive carefully on the road and only hope to arrive safely.

Waiting until the figure of Lu Yange got on the old carriage, and the carriage disappeared at one end of the road, shopkeeper Li stomped his feet and looked up at the snowy sky, sighing softly: "The sky in this capital is about to change again!"

The house that Lu Zhai bought in the capital was managed by shopkeeper Li, and it was just an alley away from shopkeeper Li's house.

From the back door of Lu's house, you can see the gate of Li's house within a few tens of meters.

In the carriage that Lu Yange was sitting in, the curtains were raised so that he could ride in the carriage without delay to see the scenery on both sides of the road.

Tao Shan is no longer the enthusiastic and shy guy he used to be. In the past few years in the capital, he has been familiar with almost every place in the capital. He is sitting on the shaft of the car while driving and introducing the buildings on both sides to Lu Yange.

"Jixianglou and Ruyizhai are not among the best in the capital, but they are also very few..."

When Tao Shan talked about the restaurant, his face was full of smiles.

Lu Yange raised the curtain of the car and looked out: "There are many high-ranking officials and dignitaries in Beijing. If you want to open a top-notch restaurant, you can't just rely on financial resources, you have to be powerful."

"Yes, that's what Dad said too." Tao Shan leaned against the side of the carriage, and sighed, "When I first met you five years ago, I was still a boy, and you were a little boy. I didn't expect..."

Unexpectedly, he would be favored by shopkeeper Li and recruited as his son-in-law.

What is even more unexpected is that the little boy who followed his mother to sell recipes in Lai Fushun five years ago has now become the biggest help of the Li family.

As the son-in-law of the Li family, Tao Shan naturally knew that all the restaurants opened by the Li family received dividends from Lu's Xiaosi.

It can be said that without Lu Xiaosi, the current Li family would not exist.

Without Lu Xiaosi, there would not be dozens of restaurant chains all over the country.

Lu Yange smiled and changed the subject: "Brother Tao Shan, I heard that you and your eldest sister have given birth to two sons."

"Yes."

When mentioning his wife and children, Tao Shan was delighted.

When he entered the Li family, his father-in-law once said that he would let the second son be named Tao after him.

But when the second son landed, Tao Shan immediately asked his father-in-law to give the family tree of the Li family.

His surname is not Tao or Li now, and his son takes his surname, of course he also has the surname Li.

Because of this, his own father rushed to the capital to make a fuss before Tao Shan's son was full moon, and took a hemp rope to hang him at the gate of Li's house.

But Tao Shan is stubborn, and even if his father comes, what he decides is useless.

He just asked his father with a cold face, Da Shun and Xiao Shun are both his sons, if Xiao Shun follows Tao's family name, will the Tao family have property to share with Xiao Shun?If so, he would change Xiaoshun's surname to Tao.

Papa Tao, who was blocked by a single sentence, was speechless.

The Tao family's new house was built by Tao Shan with the money he earned as a buddy. The poor lived in the thatched cottages, and the land was leased from the rich for farming.Later, Tao Shan joined the Li family, and the Li family gave the bride price and the Tao family bought dozens of acres of fertile land.

The current Tao family has a new house and fertile land, and they can be regarded as a wealthy household in the village.

Father Tao didn't even like Tao Shan, his own son, so how could he leave the family property to Tao Shan's son, Xiao Shun.

Apart from Tao Shan, the son born to his ex-wife, the daughter-in-law he married later gave him three sons and four daughters.

Talking about Li Taoshan’s smile back then was a bit bitter: “I just felt that filial piety to my parents is my Taoshan’s business, and it has nothing to do with my wife and children. For the bride price, my own father and stepmother were not even willing to give me six taels of money. They only brought the old quilt as a dowry, let alone make new clothes and shoes for me. When I entered Li’s house that day, I could only wear old clothes from the past. My stepmother won’t say anything about it, but my dear father really didn’t give me any face. They never thought that I would go to Li like this. Home, will you be ridiculed and looked down upon?"

"On the way, I threw the old quilts and old clothes to the beggars. Except for the things that the Li family gave me, which belonged to the Tao family, I didn't even want a pair of old cloth socks. I made up my mind at that time, and I will belong to the Li family from now on. Son, he has nothing to do with the Tao family. The 66 taels of dowry and the wages I earned in the past few years should be regarded as repaying the kindness of my father and stepmother for raising me. Even if I sell bones and sell meat, I, Tao Shan, will be considered a seller. The best price, what else are they not satisfied with?"

Frozen three feet is not a day's cold, and Li Taoshan's heart has gradually become cold in hope and disappointment.

"Xiao Si, do you think I did the right thing?"

Some people say that he is wolf-hearted and forgets the grace of childbirth, and he will regret it sooner or later.

Why should he regret it, let alone the future, even if he is allowed to die now, he will not regret it.

Facing Li Taoshan's questioning gaze, Lu Yange replied firmly: "You did the right thing."

"I knew that I did nothing wrong. Over the years, the eldest lady has treated me well, and the younger sisters in the family also respect me, respecting me like a brother, and my parents love me like a son..."

Speaking of this, Li Taoshan wiped away tears, "Xiao Si, don't laugh at me for being worthless. I just think... that I, Li Taoshan, can marry the eldest lady and be the son of the Li family's parents in this lifetime. It is because I burned high incense in my previous life that I am today."

Silently falling snow, stretching with the wind, people's hearts are like this white snow, pure and thorough.

The further you go, the more pedestrians there are on both sides of the road.Tao Shan also calmed down, and started talking to Lu Yange about the street scenes on both sides.

"Did you see the Yueyue Tower in front of it? This is the most famous building in the entire capital..."

Tao Shan's carriage slowed down a little so that Lu Yange could see the Yaoyue Tower not far away.

"It was burned down in the previous dynasty, and it was just built five years ago. I heard that this is the last masterpiece of the craftsmen of the previous dynasty's Ministry of Industry..."

In the following words, Tao Shan was vague, but full of praise.

The new dynasty has only been established for five years, and compared with the previous dynasty in many places, it is not as brilliant as the previous dynasty's century-old brilliance.

Fortunately, the pace of history is accelerating, and dynasties have changed from generation to generation. When new things come out, old dross will naturally be discarded.

What can be left behind is the essence that has been condensed through the painstaking efforts of several generations.

Lu Yangge raised the curtain of the car on the side, and looked at the Yaoyue Tower not far away.

At the place where the snow falls, there is a powder wall, carved and embroidered sills, and flying buildings on both sides are inserted into the air. The green glazed tiles are covered with white snow.

The building is four stories high, and the four huge gateposts stand straight in front of the door, which are extremely eye-catching.The roof is built with cornices and steep roofs. Among the two-story or one-story buildings everywhere, this small four-story building with a large area looks more resplendent and dignified.

It's really beautiful, if you can ignore the towering figure on the roof.

The horseshoes ticked, and the wheels rolled over the bluestone slabs.

Lu Yange was sitting in the four-box carriage with the curtains raised, with a brocade quilt on his knees, and a stove filled with new carbon in his hands. He could see the prosperity of the world as far as he could see.

On the top of the building, Zhou Yang looked far and wide, covered with snow everywhere, bicycle shops, dirty water and falling snow mixed together, covered and trampled.

(End of this chapter)