After Shao Song

Chapter 185 Extra: The Ambition of the Oil Seller
Zhu Dalang and Zhu Chong are the young owners of "Zhu Ji Oil Shop" in Panlou Street, Tokyo.After that, he had a great dream, which was to earn a hundred dollars and go to the Xin family who owned a dried fruit shop in Yulin Lane to propose marriage to their daughter Xin Yaoqin.

It should be noted here that this hundred thousand dollars is not a betrothal gift. In fact, the two elders of the Shen family are willing to marry their daughter to him, and the girl of the Shen family is even more willing to help him purchase a betrothal gift.But his adoptive father Zhu Shilao disagreed unless he could make the money himself to prove that he could stand up in the family.

It is said that during the Jingkang period, the Jin people swept across the two rivers and captured the capital Bianliang.The biggest scandal for the scholar-bureaucrats was naturally the two saints Beishou.But in fact, many people in Tokyo have lost their lives because of these two things.

This Zhu Dalang was originally called Qin Chong in Hangzhou where he fled from Bianjing. His mother died early and his father Qin Liang sold him to the general when he was 12 years old and went to Tianzhu to make incense.Because Zhu Shilao was old and had no heirs, and his old wife died recently, he regarded Qin Zhong as his own son, so he changed his name to Zhu Chong and learned the psychology of selling oil in his shop.

So 13-year-old Zhu Dalang's dream is to return to Tokyo and visit his mother's grave. Of course, this dream cannot be achieved through his efforts, so he only dares to cry before going to bed.

He never expected that his unachievable dream would be realized by the new official family.In the first year of Jianyan, he changed his surname, and in the third year of Jianyan, the official family returned to the old capital.I heard that he also killed [-] to [-] gold slaves by the way, and the adoptive father happily took his adopted son to Jingshan Temple to add sesame oil to the official's house-one son and two daughters of his old man died at the hands of the gold men.

Of course, Zhu Dalang was also very grateful to the officials, but he felt that the officials probably didn’t need so much sesame oil—because when he fled from Huaibei, he saw Zhang Xianggong take the gold powder off the Buddha statues with his own eyes as military expenses.

But soon, Yaoshan was victorious, and now even small businessmen knew that the world was stable.Zhu Chong also followed Zhu Shilao back to Tokyo that year.

In fact, Zhu Shi did not want to leave Hangzhou.Although he is from the north, he has no relatives and has been doing business in Hangzhou for many years.Returning to Yingtianfu and reopening would require a lot of capital.But there was nothing he could do. His concubine Lanhua disliked his old age and ran away with his man.Zhu Shilao lost half of his old face.He really had no shame staying near Qingbo Gate.

Although his hometown was in Yingtianfu, Nanjing, it was a sad place. Thinking about how many wealthy old customers had returned to the old capital, he simply went back to Tokyo to do business.

Facts have proved that his decision was extremely correct.The officials are wise, and Tokyo no longer has the risk of overthrowing the city. Many high-ranking families have returned with their relatives, and they need endless food and oil. Anyway, they earn more than in Hangzhou, and their adopted son is growing up and giving to himself. After his mother visited the grave, she never mentioned the past events, which made him feel that he had hope for retirement.

After the Second Saint returned to the Yuetai Festival, the market in Jinghua became more and more lively. Zhu Shilao planned to save money to find a daughter-in-law. He was optimistic about the daughter-in-law. She was the female envoy of the Meihua Han family, and she was almost [-] years old when she bought her from Yangzhou. , but he is good at needlework and he is also tall.If the Han family hadn't offended the officials and didn't dare to behave like they used to, they wouldn't have agreed to marry the envoy for ten thousand dollars.

However, Zhu Chong disagreed, saying that he had taken a fancy to the good-natured female envoy of the Tianbomen Yangtong family. She came from an old Tokyo family and her parents were both there. No betrothal gift was needed, as long as the young man was good-natured.

Zhu Shilao had been in business all his life and became a mature man. He instinctively felt that there was no such good thing, so he went to find out about it without telling his son.The result almost pissed him off.

The little bastard usually does business honestly, and doesn't take a drop of oil. How can he learn the skills of a matchmaker when talking to his father? Zhu Zhong didn't lie, but the girl from the Xin family has this background, but she ran away before. I went to Yangzhou, but was tricked into going to a brothel for two years. Jianyan was bought by Zhang Taiwei in three years, and then given to Yang Tongzhi. How do you think this experience makes Zhu Shilao, a businessman who thinks he is decent, accept it? .

Not to mention that the two elders of the Xin family had no sons, so they wanted to recruit a son-in-law just to support them in their old age. It would be strange for Mr. Zhu Shi to be willing.

But Zhu Chong, who has always been obedient, made up his mind, knelt outside the room for the whole night, and begged: "Father, you gave me a bite of food when I escaped. As long as my son is alive, I will definitely give you a pension and die, otherwise the sky will be struck by lightning. But I like Jiuniang (Yaoqin) when I see her, and I don’t like anyone in this life except her.” After a pause, he said, “We’ve agreed.” Zhu Shilao was also a little moved when he heard this, and remembered Back then, he was deceived by Lanhua, thinking that his adopted son was inconsiderate and almost drove him out. His words were so mean, but Lanhua really ran away and he fell ill in a fit of anger. Zhu Zhong didn't complain at all. That's it.

However, he sighed and said: "I'm not looking down on anyone. The world has been in such chaos in the past two years, and anything can happen to you when you flee. Just one thing, the people in Tokyo said that Yang Tongzhi did it because the officials didn't like him. Those who just send people away are different from ordinary maids. Although Yang Zongzhi has a bad reputation, civil servants are not afraid of him. How can we ordinary people not be afraid? What if he wants to get people back again in the past? If you can go to the Imperial City with a few lives, do you still want me to collect your body when you are old?"

Yang Yizhong, who had been asked to be executed by the minister of civil and military affairs all day long, never expected that he was such a person among the common people. Apparently it was not just Zhu Shilao who thought so, because Zhu Zhong was also dumbfounded for a moment, bit his lip and said: "Dad, let's wait for two years. If during this period... I will obey you whoever you want me to marry. If she is not married after two years, I will marry her back and raise you and her parents together in old age."

Zhu Shilaowan didn't expect that his adopted son would come back again. He didn't want to kill him when he was so old. More importantly, it was really dangerous if he didn't allow him to see him secretly now.So he reluctantly took a step back and asked his son to pick up oil and sell it to earn a hundred dollars in two years. He was only responsible for the capital and the rest was on his own. However, he was not allowed to go to Shen's house during this period, otherwise the relationship between father and son would be severed.

Zhu Chong also knew that his father had compromised, so he quickly agreed.Since then, major national events have continued. Zhu Shilao, the oil bearer, gave his adopted son a son, and from then on he looked after the oil shop every day.And Zhu Chong just carried the oil drum and walked through the streets day after day.

Because Zhu Chong was an honest boy, he had a good reputation for buying and selling oil in the past. Others did not know about the dispute between father and son. They just thought that his old boss wanted to train his son, so the oil shop was willing to support him.Every day, he would only give him pure and pure oil, and he would be given more on the lot.Zhu Zhong got these advantages and resold them to others, but he was also more lenient, so his oil was sold better than others.The interest earned every day can be accumulated into three points or two points, no matter how little it is, one point is accumulated. He counts all the copper coins he collects. Zhu Shilao sees that he is honest and obedient, so he can't say anything to himself, so he has to wait and see. Yaoqin quickly got married and gave up on this silly boy's thoughts.

But as the saying goes, wishful thinking does not exist between Zhu Chong and Xin Yaoqin.Yao Qin is also a daughter of an old family in Tokyo, and her family owns a six-storey shop.Although they lived on rice, they had everything from wheat, beans, tea, wine, oil, salt and groceries, so the family of three was quite happy.When she was 12 years old, she was already proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting.If the subject of female workers is mentioned, the thread will fly, which is unexpected.Otherwise, the parents would not want to recruit.

But once Jingkang was humiliated and the country was destroyed for a hundred years, the people inside and outside the city were so frightened that they abandoned their homes and fled for their lives, carrying the old and the young.

Xin's father was not spared either. He led his wife Ruan and her daughter, carrying their bags on their backs, and left in a group like other refugees.The Jin people and the Tatars had never met each other, but they met a group of defeated officers and soldiers in Huaibei, and it happened that Liu Guangshi had escaped.In this way, the generals and soldiers were not good at all, so they set a fire along the way.At this time, it was getting dark, which scared the people into running around, so he took the opportunity to plunder.If you refuse to be with him, you will be killed.This is chaos amidst chaos, adding suffering to suffering.

Poor Xin Yaoqin was caught in a fight with the rebels. After she fell, she lost sight of her parents and did not dare to call out. She happened to be picked up by Wu Gui and her mother at a local brothel in Xuzhou. She thought she had met a good family, but she fell. hell.

Because of her beauty, she didn't get beaten or scolded much. Moreover, the local Jiaofang Secretary in Xuzhou had deserted the army for a long time. Sometimes, as long as they were naturalized, these deserters would have to accompany the officials at banquets.Once, Zhang Jun, the governor of both towns, invited the brothers in the right army to drink wine. Seeing that the young man was good at singing and poetry, he remembered that there were not enough people in his monthly shift to meet Zhang Taiwei's entertainment requirements, so he gave him to him on the spot. When I have the money, I buy it and take it home as a female singer.

Zhang Jun was the one who led the troops against the puppet Qi back then, and no one in Xuzhou would offend him because of this matter.After staying in the Zhang family for less than three months, when Zhang Jun returned to Tokyo for a banquet, he thought that the official family wanted to "release military power with a glass of wine", because Yang Yizhong was from his old ministry, and gave him a beautiful concubine named Yaoqin. .

Yang Yizhong didn't think much about it, so he handed it over to his wife.He still had to go on duty.

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