Zhou Zhou Lang's eyes flicked past Man Bao, and he nodded when he saw her.
Zhou Zhoulang immediately became unconvinced, and said: "Let's not talk about Manbao, the family members can't compare with her, but among our brothers, I'm the smartest, right?"
Who knew that Bai Shan shook his head directly, and said with a smile: "Brother Zhou, none of the brothers is stupid, but everyone has their own strengths. Let me tell you, apart from Man Bao in your family, only your aunt is the wisest. Not only can you see inside a room, but you can also see outside.”
Man Bao nodded fiercely, agreeing again and again.
Seeing that Zhou Zhoulang was not convinced, Bai Shan said: "Brother Zhou, since you left our village, you have been pushed away by your own desires and the people around you. When your luck is good, everything will go smoothly. If it falls, it will overturn. This is because you can only see within a square inch, and you cannot see dangers or opportunities beyond the square inch."
"I'll just ask you four questions. In the future, will your branch be divided into merchants?"
Zhou Lang, who had never thought about breaking up his family, widened his eyes.
Zhou Zhoulang went on to ask the second question, "If one day someone pays you ten thousand taels of gold and asks you to transport salt and iron out of the customs, will you transport it or not?"
Zhou Zhoulang wants to directly say that he is unlucky. Is he the kind of person who sells his country for money
Man Bao fumbled in his sleeve, took out a golden ingot, put it in Zhou Zhoulang's palm, and said, "About two thousand ingots of this kind of gold."
Zhou Zhoulang swallowed his saliva while holding Jin Zi, and was speechless.
Bai Shan smiled, glanced at Man Bao and continued to ask the third question, "If one day the imperial court wants to expropriate your property and move you to another place, will you follow or not?"
Zhou Zhoulang asked directly, "Why did the imperial court relocate me?"
"For your money and power." Bai Shandao: "Even a family can be relocated, let alone your common people?"
Zhou Zhoulang frowned, feeling uncomfortable for the first time.
Bai Shan asked, "The last question is, what should you do if your descendants want to take the imperial examination?"
Zhou Zhoulang was stunned for a moment, he didn't know much, he didn't understand what Bai Shan said about forcibly confiscating his property and moving him away from his hometown, but he still knew about the fact that the merchant's son couldn't take the imperial examination.
Bai Shan nodded the book in his arms and said: "Although what is written in the book is not completely credible, it is the thinking of the ancestors and wise men. There are some merits. Brother Zhou might as well read it. People have no foresight. There must be near-term worries, you can try to look further afield, know what you want to leave in the future, and then you can determine the path you want to take now."
Man Bao nodded repeatedly, seeing that he was still holding her gold and did not let go, so he took it out forcefully and stuffed it into his sleeve.
Zhou Zhou Lang couldn't help following the gold, and asked with a frown, "How can you keep the gold in your sleeve? What if it falls?"
Man Bao firmly said: "It won't fall."
"You can't keep it on your body, what if you get robbed?" Zhou Zhoulang said: "You are not of much use, and it is enough to bring copper coins when you go out on weekdays."
Man Bao nodded perfunctorily, "I know, fourth brother, when did I lose money? If I hide money, sometimes even I can forget where I hid it, and no one else will find it."
Thursday Lang: ...
Her eyes fell on the book in his arms, and she said: "You'd better not change the subject, go back and read the book, and ask Li Zhong and others for words you don't know. There are many people in the family, and Li Xue and Li Gu go to and from school every day. At home, you can ask them."
This is a storybook in the Encyclopedia. It tells the legendary story of how a person in a country called Daming grew from nothing to the richest man in the country.
He did a lot of things in his life, good things and bad things, but in the end he didn't die from those bad things he did, but died from the jealousy of the emperor and the fear of officials.
Man Bao said to Zhou Zhou Lang meaningfully: "Look carefully, and experience his last psychology."
Zhou Zhoulang watched them turn and leave with an inexplicable expression on his face. He also heard Li Jun ask, "Sister-in-law, are you trying to make Fourth Uncle compare himself to Shen Wansan?"
Man Bao shook his head, "How can the fourth brother compare to him? So if he doesn't understand the reason, he will be worse than Shen Wansan, and then he will be implicated if I am his sister and you are her niece. Don't even think about it."
Zhou Lijun: "... Sister, you actually scare me. Although I don't study much, I know that the crime is worse than being a married woman. We are all married, so what does it have to do with us?"
"Pull it down, these statements are all lies to you, the emperor got angry and directly implicated the three clans, do you see if we are among them?"
Zhou Lijun: ... It's really scary!
Bai Shan smiled and said: "Don't scare people, except for treason and treason, other crimes and punishments will not implicate the three clans."
Zhou Lijun breathed a sigh of relief.
Man Bao asked quietly: "Then your parents, your younger brothers have been implicated, do you feel distressed?"
Zhou Lijun: "...Sister-in-law, if you have anything to say, just say it."
Man Bao said: "Take care of the money a little bit. Large expenditures must be approved by the whole family at a meeting. You can't let the fourth brother spend whatever he wants."
Man Bao thought of something, and asked, "By the way, is fourth brother's private money also with you?"
Zhou Lijun was taken aback. He looked around, but he didn't find his fourth aunt, so he asked in a low voice, "Sister-in-law, how do you know?"
Man Bao felt complacent, could there be anything in this family that she didn't know about
She doesn't need Keke's help, she can figure it out with her toes, "I heard the fourth sister-in-law and the eldest sister-in-law said that she was looking through the things of the fourth brother, but the fourth brother didn't have a few cents on him. Hiding private money, how can fourth brother not hide it? Fourth sister-in-law can't find it, the money must not be in fourth brother's hands, and he didn't hide it for me, it must be hidden for you. "
Since Manbao entered the palace, Friday Lang and Saturday Lang didn't put their private money with Manbao anymore. Even Zhou Lizhong and Zhou Ligu took out half of the money and hid it for themselves.
They were just afraid that Manbao would be in the palace when they needed money urgently, so they could only be in a hurry.
Not to mention Zhou Zhoulang, he took the money away early, and she thought he was handed over to the fourth sister-in-law for safekeeping at first.
Zhou Lijun breathed a sigh of relief, and said in a low voice, "Fourth Uncle's private house doesn't have much money, sister, don't tell Fourth Aunt, or they will definitely quarrel."
Man Bao nodded, "I'm not stupid."
She didn't tell her mother that her father hid money from his house.
Of course, she didn't tell her father about the private money her mother hid, hehehe...
Man Bao said: "Take care of his private money too, don't allow him to spend a lot of money."
Zhou Lijun: "... This is not good, the money is not mine, I just keep it for you."
"Just ask him if he has finished reading the book. If he has finished reading, ask him his final thoughts."
Zhou Lijun responded with a funny face.
At the entrance of the garden, Zhou Lijun went to the garden, while Man Bao and Bai Shan turned to go to the study in front.
Bai Shan smiled with her: "Brother Zhou Zhou and Princess Changyu, does it seem like you have affection and I have intentions, and it's in your arms?"
Man Bao understood what he meant, and said seriously: "They will not have good results."