After the Shaolin disciple left, Zhou An used his hidden power to escape into nothingness and entered Fang Sheng's home.
At this time, because it was noon, Fang Sheng's family was having dinner, and Fang Sheng was not at home. Fang Sheng's mother was sitting on the edge of the bed, sitting there blankly, while Fang Sheng's daughter-in-law Liu Caihua was cooking in the kitchen.
However, in Zhou An's eyes, the rice he cooked was a bit unbearable. It was because Liu Caihua cooked the rice too cleanly. He put a large pot of water into the cooked rice and only put three or four grains of rice in it.
, what is the difference between this and drinking water.
And after finishing the meal, she cooked the vegetables. These vegetables looked like weeds on the roadside outside, and she still ignored a lot of weeds and boiled them in the water in the pot, and it was a dish.
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Liu Caihua just cooked the rice and dishes and put them on the table. Then Liu Caihua called her blind mother-in-law out to eat. In this way, Liu Caihua and her blind mother-in-law drank the rice and ate the vegetables.
After eating, the blind mother-in-law returned to sit by the bed, while Liu Caihua went to take care of the baby.
Not long after, Fang Sheng was carrying a broken basket with some pens and papers in it.
Seeing Fang Sheng like this, Zhou An knew that Fang Sheng had gone out to write letters for others.
Now Fang Sheng makes a living by writing letters on his behalf.
After Fang Sheng came back, he picked up the rice on the table, started drinking, and then ate all the dishes in one bite.
After Fang Sheng finished eating, he talked to Liu Caihua for a while, chatted with his mother for a while, then spent some time with the baby, and then went out again with the basket on his back.
Zhou An looked at the situation of his family and really didn't know what to say, but it seemed that Fang Sheng's family was used to such poverty.
Then Zhou An left Fang Sheng's family. He almost understood the situation of Fang Sheng's family. Now if Zhou An wanted to make him rich, since he didn't need to give him money, he would have to work hard elsewhere.
So Zhou An wanted to walk around the entire village where Fang Sheng lived to see if he could find a way to get rich for him.
Then Zhou An spent a day touring the village.
This village is called Tianwang Village.
The reason why it is called this is because there used to be a hero named Tianwang Laozi in Tianwang Village. He was a chivalrous and righteous man who acted for heaven. He once gathered countless heroes and heroes together to form the One Hundred and Thirty-Six Generals of Haoshan Mountain, which was a powerful force.
No one in the world has heard of it, no one has known it, and it is famous all over the world.
It's a pity that they were attacked by the Yuan Dynasty army just one year after they were established. Although the Yuan Dynasty conquered three places and wiped out millions of troops, one hundred and thirty-six generals of Haoshan were also killed.
In the end, the Yuan Dynasty once again sent out millions of troops, led by five masters of the Yuan Dynasty. They scattered corpses all over the fields of Haoshan, and the sky was full of flames. They killed all the 136 generals of Haoshan, leaving only the King of Heaven.
Fighting, but the five masters of the Yuan Dynasty were too strong and nailed the King of Heaven to Haoshan Mountain alive with five coffin nails.
And Tianwang Village is the hometown of Tianwang Laozi. Originally, Tianwang Village was a county town, and it was still very prosperous. Because Tianwang Laozi came out, it was disliked by the Yuan Dynasty, so it gradually declined and became a poor small town.
Village.
After seeing it in Zhou An, to be honest, Tianwang Village is very large, with many vacant houses. There is also a small lake to the east, and to the west, north, and south are vast stretches of land. Some of the land is occupied by Tianwang Village.
Some villagers have grown vegetables and grains, but some land has not been cultivated.
Seeing such terrain, Zhou An thought of two ways to make Fang Sheng rich.
I just want Fang Sheng to believe in himself.
Zhou An thought of a way, which was to pretend to be Fang Sheng's relative, live in Fang Sheng's home, and help Fang Sheng get rich.
Then Zhou An came to Fang Sheng's thatched house. Seeing Zhou An come in, Liu Caihua said: "Who are you and why are you coming to my house?"
"I am the distant nephew of Aunt Zheng Dahong. I came here to seek refuge. I wonder if my aunt is here," Zhou An said.
Liu Caihua naturally knows the name Zheng Dahong, which is the blind mother-in-law. Only three of them can name the blind mother-in-law. In fact, because of her blindness, no one knows her name for a long time. People outside call her the blind old lady.
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"I'll take you to meet your mother-in-law." Liu Caihua said.
"I heard that I have a cousin. You must be my cousin-in-law. Please forgive me." Zhou An said.
"My cousin is feeling strange." Liu Caihua said hurriedly.
In fact, Zhou An was dressed in scholar's clothes, looked polite, and exuded the temperament of a Confucian scholar, which made people fear him at first sight.
right.
It's fear.
Liu Caihua was just a woman from an ordinary family. She had never seen a talented young man like Zhou An. People like him were born into wealthy families, so they were not the kind of people that ordinary women could provoke.
Even if he was Fang Sheng's cousin, she couldn't treat him like normal if he was related.
Liu Caihua brought Zhou An to her blind mother-in-law, told her about Zhou An's origins, and then left to take care of the baby.
After all, Liu Caihua is a woman and cannot stay with strange men. She has to observe the etiquette of women, so she stops talking to Zhou An and retreats. 52
The blind mother-in-law touched the stick in her hand, which she used as a crutch. The blind mother-in-law said: "You are not my nephew, tell me who you are." She said this with a stern tone.
"You actually know this? How could you tell?" Zhou An smiled and sat on the edge of the bed and said, not caring at all about the tone of his blind mother-in-law.
"Old lady, I am blind, but not blind. I have a sister, but the whole family died of the plague more than 20 years ago." The blind mother-in-law said.
"Okay, let me tell you my identity. I am from the Shaolin Temple. This time I was ordered by Master Yuankong to teach three people to get rid of poverty and become rich, and your family Fang Sheng is the one we selected." Zhou
An said.
"Does Shaolin Temple still care about this matter?" the blind mother-in-law asked.
In fact, the blind mother-in-law was very happy when she heard it at first, but it was too good to be true. Getting them rich for nothing was like pie in the sky, so it was unrealistic to think so.
"It's not about it, there are other reasons. It's related to the Shaolin Temple. I can't say more." Now that he recognized it, Zhou An put all the blame on the Shaolin Temple. Anyway, Zhou An was not wrong. This time it was
Hosted by Shaolin Temple.
"I apologize to you now. It's my old lady who talks too much. You came to help me get rid of poverty and become rich. I still doubt you. I shouldn't." The blind mother-in-law said to Zhou An.
While saying this, he also knelt down to Zhou An to express his apology.
Zhou An quickly helped her up and prevented her from kneeling down.
"It's nothing, as long as you don't suspect that I have ulterior motives." Zhou An said.
"No way, it's too late for me to be happy that you're here. Have you eaten now? If not, I'll ask my daughter-in-law to cook for you." said the blind mother-in-law.
"No, I've already eaten." When Zhou An thought about the water he drank and the grass he ate, Zhou An felt a stomachache.
"Also, when Fang Sheng arrives, you can say that I am your nephew, and don't say that I am a disciple of the Shaolin Temple." Zhou An said.
"You Shaolin Temple disciples all have no hair, right? They are still wearing monk's robes. Even my son can recognize them," said the blind mother-in-law.
"Don't worry, I am a lay disciple of Shaolin. I have hair and wear ordinary clothes." Zhou An said.
When the blind mother-in-law heard this, she moved her forehead slightly, felt relieved, and said, "Now that my son has not come back, we are chatting here."
"Okay, I also want to know about your family's situation and see how I can help you get rid of poverty and become rich." Zhou An said happily.
Zhou An has now figured out that although the blind mother-in-law is blind, as she said, although her eyes are blind, her heart is not blind and she is alert. After talking for a while, she gave him several
Trick, if Zhou An hadn't gone through too much, he would have fallen for it long ago.
Zhou An enthusiastically chatted with the blind mother-in-law. After chatting, Zhou An found out that the blind mother-in-law was also a young lady when she was young. She also attended a private school and studied the books of sages. It was only after her family fell into decline that she married
Fang Sheng's father.
The sun gradually set, and Liu Caihua started to cook again. Zhou An stopped her, took out a few plates of vegetarian dishes from the luggage outside the room, put them on the table, and invited them to eat.
The blind mother-in-law smelled the fragrance, and Liu Caihua swallowed when she saw several plates of food. It had been many years since they had eaten such beautiful and fragrant food.
At this moment, Fang Sheng came from outside. When he saw Zhou An in the room, he was startled. He didn't understand why there was a stranger here. Their family hadn't entertained guests for several years. His family was poor and no one wanted to come.
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The blind mother-in-law explained, saying that Zhou An was her distant relative who had come to seek refuge this time and would live at home from now on.
Fang Sheng was very enthusiastic when he heard this. In the past few years, his family had been so poor that no one wanted to befriend them. Now he was very happy to have a relative come. Fang Sheng swore that even if he couldn't eat, he would entertain Zhou An.
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Next, Fang Sheng ate and saw several plates of food on the table. He was puzzled. When did his family's conditions become so good? He bought several plates of high-end food. After hearing what his mother said, he realized that Zhou An had brought them.
, Fang Sheng was embarrassed to eat it at first, but Zhou An persuaded him to eat it.
Zhou An didn't eat much of these dishes, and they were all eaten up by Fang Sheng's family of three.
Then they rested separately. Because the thatched house Fang Sheng lived in was not big, Fang Sheng built a simple thatched house for Zhou An overnight and let Zhou An live in it.
Although Fang Sheng seemed to have done a lot when building thatched houses, most of them were built within an hour with Zhou An's help. Otherwise, Fang Sheng's weak appearance would have taken five hours to build.
It can’t be covered completely.
After building the thatched house, Zhou An went to sleep.
the next day.
Zhou An got up early and found Fang Sheng. He said that he wanted to do business here and wanted Fang Sheng to help him. He asked Fang Sheng to pay him two taels of silver every month.
Fang Sheng agreed without hesitation. He could only earn more than thirty copper coins a month for writing Yu's letter, but now Zhou An gave him twenty taels of silver, which was a lot more.
In fact, the reason why Zhou An said to give money a month is because he didn't want to break the rules set by Yuankong. Isn't it impossible to give money? Then I will give money a month and try to turn Fang Sheng into a wealthy family within a month.
Yuan Kong and Madman Gu didn't give him a long time. If it took a year and a half, it would be too long.
Zhou An thought of two ways to get rich quickly. The first one was to raise fish in the small lake to the east. Zhou An had already inquired about it. There were very few seafood in this area, and the price of a fish could even be sold for a dollar.
One hundred copper coins was a huge profit, so Zhou An wanted Fang Sheng to give it a try.