Chapter 125 How can the poor be at ease when they are rich?
Chapter 125: How can a poor person be happy when he suddenly becomes rich?
Looking at the Wenqi in his hand and thinking that the man in green shirt had secretly left a gambling house for himself, Ning Que was shocked and felt some strange warmth in his chest, and asked, "Where is he now?"
"When I received his last letter, he said he was going to Mount Tai to watch the sunrise." Fourth Master Qi replied.
The warm shock gradually subsided. Ning Que's cheeks felt a little hot as he thought about Qi Si's sarcastic words earlier and how he had cheated and defrauded money into his own gambling house. After all, he was a young man, how could he bear such a loss?
In order to resolve the embarrassment of his status, he said angrily: "No one from the Yulong Gang informed me about this."
Fourth Master Qi raised his eyebrows, glared at him and said angrily: "Before I left, my eldest brother took a few of us to Lin 47 Lane to meet you. He said at that time that you can come to him if you have anything.
Me, it’s been a few months, when did you come to see me? Now that you have that identity on your body, how can I take the initiative to find you?”
Only then did Ning Que remember his other identity. Commander Xu Chongshan met him once, threw him a black wooden sign, and never contacted him again. He had long forgotten that he was still a secret guard of the empire.
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He was lamenting over there to cover up his shame, but Fourth Master Qi remembered something strange about this matter. His eyebrows that had just calmed down suddenly raised, he looked at the young man in shock and said: "You... are a practitioner? I
I know you are very capable of killing people, but when did you actually become able to practice and enter the real state?"
"What happened just two days ago is just a first-time acquaintance, and it is still far from the reality." Ning Que didn't know the talisman gold layer in the black dice cup at Gouxing Casino, so he answered honestly.
: "I originally wanted to take advantage of this great opportunity that no one knows about and earn more money. Although I can't earn it now, please help me keep it a secret."
Fourth Master Qi's voice became shrill and troubled: "You won more than 10,000 taels of silver from Gouxing. How can you keep this secret? Although Chang'an City is big, there are not many people who run away with a little black-haired maid. As long as
With a little inquiry, I can find you out."
Ning Que smiled and said gently: "You are the boss of Chang'an City now, why don't you just let go of such a trivial matter? Do Gouxing Gambling House still dare to go against your wishes and continue to investigate me?"
Fourth Master Qi was unable to refuse his flattery, which was neither light nor serious. He frowned and thought for a while, then said: "It's not difficult to hide it, but what does it mean to hide the identity of a practitioner? Is it possible?
Do you still expect this matter to get bigger and bigger, and eventually earn you some fame in the empire? If that's what you mean, I advise you not to think so. After all, Chang'an City is not a rural place, and you can easily find thousands of people.
When eight hundred practitioners come out, you can't stand out too much. In my opinion, you might as well explain it to the academy teachers honestly, it's more important to get some real benefits."
Ning Que thought about the legendary second floor of the academy that might be opened next year, and about General Xiahou who was opening up territory for the empire in the distant frontier at this time. After a moment of silence, he replied with a smile: "Just because I know that I am too ordinary.
So there is no need to say it out just to cause trouble. One day in the future, if you can walk on this road more steadily and further, there is no harm in saying it out."
"You are not a member of our Yulong Gang. You can do whatever you want with your own affairs. However, since it is rare to see you today, some things must be completed quickly."
Fourth Master Qi stretched out his slender fingers, tapped the land deed document in front of him, and said: "There is a transfer agreement that requires your signature. From now on, this gambling house will be transferred to your hands. I no longer have to expend energy on your behalf."
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Ning Que thought to himself that this was not possible. Opening a gambling house required people, money, and background. He had to study in an academy. There was no way he could let little Sang Sang look at the dozens of gambling tables in a dealer uniform. His eyes twitched slightly.
Turning around, he said with a shy smile: "Good brother, please spend more energy on it. I really don't have the ability and I don't have the time."
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After a dispute, Fourth Master Qi finally failed to resist Ning Que's continuous flattery and sleazy spirit, so he reluctantly agreed to his conditions. The gambling house still belonged to Ning Que, but it was entrusted to the Yulong Gang.
You don’t need to do anything, just get dividends every month according to the ratio agreed upon by both parties.
After the discussion, Ning Que took Sang Sang and left the newly opened gambling shop in the west city as soon as possible, without eating supper or calling the girl over to play. He left in such a hurry, as if he was running away, even
When I returned home to Lin 47 Lane, I realized that I didn’t even remember the name of that gambling shop.
Sangsang took out the thick stack of banknotes from his belt, put it in the box and spread it out. He looked around the simple bedroom. Liu Ye's eyes kept wandering between the beams and pillars and mouse holes, and his mind kept wandering.
, thinking about the safest place to put it, she finally followed the old method of opening the bed board and carefully hiding the box inside.
Looking back, she saw Ning Que sitting in an armchair in a daze. The expression on his face was very complicated and strange, as if he had been stunned by a cornucopia in the sky, or as if he had been hit so hard that he wanted to cry in pain.
"Master, you are a little weird today." Sangsang looked at him and asked curiously: "Just now, when you left the gambling house, you seemed to owe someone eight hundred taels of silver. You were in such a mess."
"Can I not be embarrassed? I feel very embarrassed today. I have never done such a stupid thing in my life." Ning Que replied angrily, and suddenly he thought about the box of banknotes under the bed board, and the embarrassment on his face
His expression was immediately replaced by a look of joy: "But if you can earn so much money every time, I would be willing to keep doing it."
After saying these words, he suppressed the smile on his face, stretched out his hand to signal Sangsang to sit on the small bench in front of him, and said in a very serious tone: "I think it is necessary to hold a family meeting."
For Ning Que, family meetings were one of the most unforgettable and uncomfortable experiences in his previous life. It may have been severely affected subconsciously. Although the small family in this life has always only consisted of him and Sangsang, the master and servant.
People, but whether in Minshan Caoju or Weicheng courtyard, he would often invite family meetings.
Sangsang knew that the young master was going to start talking nonsense again, so he went to get the sewing bag with great experience, then changed into a pair of comfortable slippers made of cotton, then sat on the small bench in front of him and waited respectfully for the lecture.
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"In the middle of the windows of every study room in the college, there are some famous quotes from the past sages hanging. Although I think the writing is not very good, the meaning of those famous quotes is not too wrong."
Sang Sang lowered her head and concentrated on picking up the insoles. She didn't even raise her head after listening to these words. She just hummed softly with her little nose, indicating that she heard and asked the young master to continue. Ning Que glanced at her and shook his head.
She behaved like this every time she held a family meeting. He had said it many times to no avail. There was really nothing he could do to her, so he ignored her and continued talking, just begging the only audience not to slip away.
"Actually, there is a saying that goes like this - environment changes a person's temperament, and support changes a person's constitution. What does this sentence mean? It just tells us that when you have two thousand taels of silver in your hand, you can't do things like this
Being stingy and stingy when you only had twenty taels of silver, you can't always eat leftovers..."
Hearing this, Sangsang raised her head and glanced at him, her face full of grievances and dissatisfaction.
"Well, frugality is indeed a virtue, but you have to think about it, we are really not short of money now. We have more than 10,000 taels of silver in our hands, and the gambling house pays dividends every month. We can't
If you continue to live with the mentality of a poor person, you can't be like a poor man who is desperate and crazy and pounces on the way to make money when he sees it."
Ning Que said with emotion: "In other words, the affairs of scholars are the affairs of scholars, and the affairs of practitioners are also the affairs of practitioners. You should be more noble and self-respecting, and don't always think about making money from these things.
That always feels like a shame... So I decided not to go to the casino to cheat and win money again. I'm worried that the teachers in the college will be mad when they find out. At the same time, I decided to publish all my masterpieces from the front from tomorrow on.
After withdrawing from the library, as for business, just collect some cheap books from poor scholars from Xiangfang and sell them to earn some price difference."
Sangsang threaded the needle and thread through the end of the insole, pulled hard, opened her mouth, bit the end of the thread and tore it off, then asked with doubtful eyes: "You don't want to sell even one piece? Master, doesn't this seem a bit strange?"
The poor suddenly become rich?"
Ning Que was stunned by what she said, coughed twice, and said: "The adjective you used is not too pretentious. This is not called a poor man suddenly getting rich, it should be called a small rich man who is at ease... Of course, it is not good-looking to be a poor man suddenly become rich, and being a small rich man is not good-looking.
Even if it is not advisable, I will still hang a few copies of my calligraphy in the front shop, but the price will have to be raised, and it will cost a lot of gold to sell it."
Sangsang thought to himself, Master, your most expensive painting in the middle hall only sold for twenty taels of silver, and the most expensive one was only sold for that one piece. That day, you specially ordered me to stew a pot of braised pork to celebrate that you finally killed a bastard.
, Now you say that your scroll cannot be sold for a thousand pieces of gold. Although Chang'an City does have a lot of stupid people and a lot of money, how can there be so many people who have been taken advantage of?
Seeing the intense doubt in the little girl's dark eyes, Ning Que raised his brows and explained with a smile: "Remember, we are too rich now, if we don't lack that much, this is like buying a horse bone for a thousand gold, it can be raised
Reputation."
According to his wishes, the next day Sangsang removed most of the books he had written from the old pen studio, then went to Xiangfang to buy a lot of new works by calligraphers, and met a guest who liked the works written by Ning Que.
When inquiring about the price of a book, she would honestly tell the other party: The book written by the proprietor is extremely precious, so it is worth a thousand pieces of gold.
The development of the situation was different from what Ning Que had guessed. Putting his calligraphy works at a price of thousands of gold did not make Lao Bizhai's reputation skyrocket. Instead, the business in the shop became worse and worse. In addition to gaining another harvest
Apart from a lot of cynicism and comments like "Is the owner of this shop crazy for being poor?", nothing else was gained.
But now the master and the servant have suddenly changed from poor people to extremely rich people. It's really like a poor man suddenly getting rich. Even Sangsang doesn't care much about the income of Lao Bi Zhai, and Ning Que is busy in the academy every day.
In order to review my lessons, I was busy boarding the old school to ask my friend for advice on many methods in the world of spiritual practice, not to mention paying attention to them.