After receiving Gan Fu's approval, Huo Guang returned home extremely happy.
Gan Fu was a man who cherished his talents. After discovering Huo Guang's huge Qi, he was determined to recruit a disciple, but he had to test Huo Guang's character. After all, from the outside, Huo Guang didn't look like a good young man in the traditional sense, but
After getting in touch with him, he found that although Huo Guang was as slippery as a loach, his character was not bad, and he could even be said to be very good.
Today I discovered again that he has a tough mind and can endure things that ordinary people cannot. His last words were from the bottom of his heart and he was frank and pure. He must accept him as his disciple.
He jumped into the house and saw someone seemed to be visiting. Huo Guang took Zhang Jiaqi and walked in together.
As soon as they entered the middle hall, they saw Huo Zhongru preparing a table of wine and food and entertaining two distinguished guests. The two distinguished guests, Huo Guang and Zhang Jiaqi looked at each other, feeling awkward for a moment.
It was none other than Zhang Jiabo and Li Yi who met Zhang Jiabo and Li Yi in the Nulu House before.
Of course, what was more embarrassing was the other party. Huo Guang sat down at the table nonchalantly and asked Zhang Jiaqi to sit down as well.
Huo Zhongru enthusiastically introduced to Huo Guang: "Aguang, let me introduce you. This is Zhang Jiabo, a brother of Jiaqi. He is a well-known talent. He is known as the first of the four talented people in Hedong County."
Huo Zhongru's face was full of smiles, but the head of the four great talents in Hedong County seemed to have slapped Zhang Jiabo hard on the face. He had just lost to Huo Guang today.
"This man is also a great talent, and he is also a member of the Li family in Zhao County. Their family is amazing. The ancestor of the Li family is Wu'an Lord Li Mu, a famous figure. Now he is also a first-class big family in Zhao County. This person
The young master’s name is Li Yi, and he is a direct descendant of the Zong family. His family’s salt business in Zhao County is very large, and this time he came to discuss the matter of pearl salt with you.”
Li Yi looked with embarrassment at Zhang Jiaqi, who had slapped him before, and his backer Huo Guang. He never thought that this was the Huo Guang he was looking for. In other words, he was Huo Qubing's younger brother. Didn't he offend the wrong person?
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For a moment, I felt like I was sitting on pins and needles, like awns piercing my back, and like a lump in my throat. I can't describe how uncomfortable I was.
His face twitched, he squeezed out a smile and said, "It's my second time to meet Brother Huo today. It's a pleasure to meet you."
"Oh? Have you seen it?"
Huo Guang had been chatting with Luan'er for nearly two hours. This female literary youth was so annoying that she was hungry now, so she put the food into her mouth and said: "This person deliberately angered Zhang Jiaqi with his words before, and led Zhang Jiaqi to take action.
, and then another one took action and knocked Zhang Jiaqi down. When I saw an injustice, I drew my sword to help, showing the chivalrous manner my father taught me, and Zhang Jiaqi slapped him."
After a straightforward narration, Zhang Jiabo and Li Yi's faces turned blue and black, making them extremely ugly.
Huo Zhongru turned pale in surprise. He had been chatting happily with the two of them just now, but suddenly his face turned livid and showed no good intentions.
The most surprised person was Zhang Jiaqi. How could he say such a thing so directly in front of his father and the other party? You must know that he usually went to his grandfather to complain when he had conflicts with Zhang Jiabo, but every time he got it, it was his grandfather's fault.
After scolding and favoring the other party, over time Zhang Jiaqi became too lazy to file a complaint.
After he finished speaking, everyone stopped moving their chopsticks. Huo Guang greeted Li Yi and Zhang Jiabo enthusiastically: "Eat, why don't you eat? Isn't it to your liking? I'll ask the cook to cook it some more."
Li Yi forced himself to hold back his anger and unwillingness. This time he came to discuss the pearl salt matter under the orders of his family. If he failed, he would inevitably be scolded when he went back. There are many people in every generation of a big family like theirs, even if they are direct descendants of the clan.
There are a lot of people, and Pearl Salt is very critical now. He can't lose the opportunity rashly, so he has to endure it.
"Brother Huo Guang, what happened today can be regarded as the fate between you and me. It is better to have a relationship than to have a grudge. I will give Brother Huo Guang a gift and apologize, and please Brother Huo Guang not to worry about it." The posture was very low, but this also made Zhang Jiabo
It's even more embarrassing, what is he doing now?
"Oh, you're welcome. I'm a very simple person. If someone treats me as a friend, I will treat them as a friend. If someone punches me, I will return seven, eight or ninety punches. Since Brother Li said this is a bond,
, then let’s eat and drink well.”
Li Yi forced a smile and put some food into his mouth.
Zhang Jiabo's face was full of embarrassment. He sat aside and couldn't get anything to say or eat. It was rare for Zhang Jiaqi to see Zhang Jiabo so exhausted, so he was in a good mood and ate two more bowls of rice.
After they had eaten and drank enough, the Huo family left no guests behind. Li Yi stood up knowingly: "It's getting late today. I'll visit Brother Huo the next day."
"Brother Li is so polite."
Huo Guang also brought Zhang Jiaqi to the door for the two of them. Zhang Jiaqi looked at the deflated Zhang Jiabo's back with excitement: "It's so great, I can finally cure this kid."
"But Brother Guang, how can he really not care if I beat Li Yi?"
"Can you not care if you are slapped?"
"That's definitely not possible."
"That's it, he definitely can't do it. Even if he endures it, I have no intention of cooperating with him. Since we have already made enemies, I will not cooperate with him unless there are special circumstances."
Then Zhang Jiaqi pestered Huo Guang and asked: "Brother Guang, how did you do it? Tell the matter so straightforwardly, and your father won't blame you."
"I am responsible. As long as I am responsible, my father will not blame me and will help me."
Zhang Jiaqi's face became depressed, and he said aggrievedly: "It's better for you to be your father. My grandfather knows how to favor others."
"How can any of our elders not favor their own children and grandchildren?" Huo Guang said and looked at Zhang Jiaqi. It was obvious that Zhang Jiaqi was far inferior to Zhang Jiabo in these superficial skills. This was also the reason why he suffered a loss this time. As the elder of the Zhang family, County Magistrate Zhang
Even if you deliberately favor him, what else can you do if he doesn't live up to expectations, can't compete with you, and doesn't take the right approach?
Huo Guang thought that this was his younger brother after all, so he gave him a few words of advice: "From now on, don't be impulsive whenever you encounter someone outside, and try your best to be the reasonable party. If you are really unreasonable, you guys
For a big family with at least a hundred members in total, you have to find a way to tie your behavior to the interests of the family. Just like today, if Zhang Jiabo dares to file a complaint and someone in your clan gets angry, you can call me Huo Qubing.
My brother, for the sake of the good relationship between the family and Huo Qubing, talk about the future development and so on, and then say what will happen if Zhang Jiabo offends me, and then talk about it a lot more. As long as what you say makes sense, your grandfather will definitely help you.
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Zhang Jiaqi nodded as if he understood. He had never thought that there were so many ways to complain about these things. No wonder he suffered a loss every time. He had to reflect deeply.
After giving Zhang Jiaqi a lesson, Huo Guang said with a smile: "Do you have any gold? Lend me some?"
"how?"
Huo Guang scratched his head: "Well, Jiaqi, I have a lot of money to spend now. The salt industry company has to be established. I just bought a house before. I don't have any change now. You can lend me some first."
Zhang Jiaqi took out all his money very generously. They were all broken pieces of silver and gold, but the total weight was not small.