These days, Ye Xiaotian has a thorough understanding of the situation inside and outside Hu County. He also believes that at least people like Li Yuncong, Su Xuntian, and Luo Xiaoye will not object to his leaving. He even made up the idea of killing everyone with everyone, and the matter was a little trickier than he imagined.
Although Ye Xiaotian planned to leave in secret, he remained calm on the surface. In order to numb the eyes and ears that might be staring at him secretly, he even sneaked a trip to the tycoon's grocery store to meet this cheap brother.
When Ye Xiaotian walked to Shizi Street, the tycoon was lying on the counter leisurely, chatting with the girl Niuniu who happened to pass by here. The store is very quiet, there are no customers, only these two people are talking nonsense with each other.
"Miss Niuniu, I'm actually not fat, I'm just too lazy to be thin. Speaking of which, it's good to be healthy. How can my skinny appearance be worthy of my status as a shopkeeper?" The two talked very harmoniously, Tycoon took the opportunity to bring up his biggest flaw lightly.
Ye Xiaotian walked into the grocery store, staring in astonishment at this extremely grand grocery store that he had never seen before, he was speechless for a moment. He hasn't been here for a while, and he never expected that the tycoon is really a prodigal. Can't live.
Tycoon and Niu Niu leaned over the counter with lingering and affectionate eyes, completely oblivious to the presence of people entering the store.
"Yeah, you really want to lose weight, but... in your next life!" Niuniu preempted the tycoon, held her chin in thought, rolled her eyeballs, and suddenly asked with great interest: "If there is any In the next life, what do you want to do, are you still a human being?"
The tycoon said: "It's boring to be a human being. If there is a next life, I want to be a duck and swim around the whole world along the great rivers!"
Niuniu's eyes lit up, and she said, "Wow! It's so romantic!"
The tycoon asked: "What about you, if there is an afterlife, what would you like to do?"
Niuniu thought for a while, and then said excitedly: "If there is an afterlife, I want to be a chicken. Every morning, wake up everyone!"
The tycoon laughed and said, "This is so boring."
Niu Niu said: "I'm just doing it because it's boring. You don't know. The chicken my neighbor raises starts to crow every day before dawn. It's so noisy. They like to sleep late."
The tycoon held his round chin and teased him happily: "Then do you like sleeping naked? I really like sleeping naked, and sleeping naked is the most comfortable..."
"cough!"
Ye Xiaotian coughed, interrupting the shameless conversation between the boys and girls.
"Ah! Brother! What a rare customer! Since my shop was completed, you haven't been here twice, hahaha..." The tycoon has a thick skin, seeing Ye Xiaotian is not shy, and immediately greets him with a haha, Niuniu is embarrassed , blushing and said to the tycoon: "You talk, I'll go first."
The tycoon said: "Okay, come again when you have time!"
Niuniu made a face at him, and when she passed by Ye Xiaotian, a well-known figure in the county, she gave him a respectful and fearful look, tiptoed and walked past him lightly, then stuck out her tongue secretly, and walked away in a hurry up.
As soon as Niuniu left, Ye Xiaotian frowned into a big pimple, and asked, "Why are there no customers in the shop?"
The tycoon said: "Yes! But there are usually no customers in the morning, and there are more customers in the afternoon. There are three or five people visiting every day."
"Three or five..."
Ye Xiaotian took a look at this magnificent, elegant and luxurious "grocery store", picked up a fan from the shelf, opened it with a "swipe", looked at the fan with a unique style, and said: "Grocery store, come in." Just sell a bunch of cattail fans, it’s so exquisite that it’s worth more than a dozen coins, does anyone buy it?”
The tycoon said: "Brother, this fan costs two hundred taels of silver."
Ye Xiaotian was taken aback, quickly closed the fan, and respectfully put it back on the shelf: "Two hundred taels of a fan? Tycoon, are you cheating or being tricked?"
The tycoon smiled and said: "Of course the purchase price is not that expensive. I bought it in bundles of twenty taels, but this is a fan from the Fusang Kingdom in Japan, and it is coated with spices from the Tianfang Kingdom. Of course, the price increase will be more severe."
Ye Xiaotian was very helpless in his heart. Although he had no hope for the tycoon to open the store, he never thought that the tycoon would open the store like this. Ye Xiaotian asked: "Three thousand taels of silver can't beat these things in your store, right?"
The tycoon said: "Of course, I have a lot of goods on credit!"
Ye Xiaotian said: "Will someone give you credit?"
The tycoon said complacently: "Originally I refused, but when they heard that my father is a kind person, they agreed."
Ye Xiaotian said desperately: "It's almost January? Your father will go crazy by then."
The tycoon laughed loudly: "I think so too. Heh heh, I always feel that I can't do it. When he hears that I have earned so much money, he will be crazy about it."
Ye Xiaotian's eyes widened suddenly, and he said in astonishment, "You made money?"
The tycoon said as a matter of course: "Of course! I only started to make money three days ago, and I've probably made a profit of one thousand taels so far."
Ye Xiaotian's eyes were so wide that they almost fell to the ground: "You only started making money three days ago, and you only made one thousand taels? You used to rob it!"
The tycoon said: "Why do you want to rob? People are crying and shouting to give me money, and I'm too embarrassed not to accept it, right?"
Ye Xiaotian: "..."
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"What is this?"
"Bird cage."
"Brass? It's pretty."
"Who said copper? This is gold."
"Gold? Use gold to make bird cages, you..."
"Brother, you don't understand the psychology of rich people."
"Hey, I really never understand the psychology of people like you."
In the grocery store, the tycoon introduced his business experience to Ye Xiaotian with relish: "Just buy a big storefront? That would cost a lot of money, brother, my father only gave me three thousand taels, and I put together two small stores. The storefronts are equally big enough, but the price is much different between buying separately and buying directly from a big store. Besides, people who are willing to sell in such a big store on this street are hard to come by. "
Ye Xiaotian narrowed his eyes slightly, and stared at the fat man in front of him as if he just recognized him: "So, you deliberately want to open a grocery store next to the grocery store?"
"Hush..."
Luo Daheng hurriedly looked around, twisted his fingers coyly and said: "At that time, I didn't like Niu Niu, otherwise I wouldn't have set my mind on them."
Ye Xiaotian let out a sigh of relief, and said, "You wanted to open a 'grocery store' like this from the very beginning?"
Luo Daheng spread his hands, and said helplessly: "Otherwise, what should I do? Could it be that I really opened a small grocery store? How much money can I make? The money I earn in a month is not as much as my pocket money in a month. But inns and restaurants , brothels, and gambling halls have all been opened, and the most profitable one is of course the post road, which belonged to Qi Mu at that time. I can't make money from passing merchants, so I have to make money from them."
Ye Xiaotian said in admiration: "Good idea! They set up all kinds of industries to earn money from passing merchants. But how do they spend the money they earn? So you opened such a big grocery store for local wealthy people. ', earning their money?"
The tycoon clapped his hands and said, "That's right! Brother, isn't that a good idea?"
Ye Xiaotian stroked his chin, and said slowly: "I heard a story before, saying that gold was found in the mountains, so many gold diggers went to the mountains to pan for gold. But gold panning is hard work, and life is in danger. It may not be possible to pan for gold.
At this time, there was a shrewd man who opened a shop at the foot of the mountain to sell things to gold diggers. Later, many gold diggers did not make a fortune, and even died. When everyone's eyes were on the yellow gold, he focused on their pockets. Tycoon, you can compete with him. "
The tycoon is indeed a "grocery store", because he doesn't specialize in silk, tea, or jewelry, but he sells everything. What is it if it's not a "grocery store"? However, he only sells the rarest and most expensive things. His "grocery store" is not open to ordinary people, but to sell luxury goods to the rich, and huge profits are inevitable. No wonder his business is so deserted. It turns out that what he does is not opening for three years, but opening for three years. Even if he only makes one deal in a day, he can earn more than others who work hard for a month.
The tycoon also followed Ye Xiaotian's example, stroking his fat chin: "Well, I haven't heard this story, but it sounds like this person really thinks the same as me."
Ye Xiaotian shook his head, and said with some incomprehension: "It is a skill to show your sharpness, but if you are wise and stupid, that is the realm. Tycoon, you have such a great ability, usually you are so wise and stupid, so stupid that even your father is heartbroken?"
The tycoon looked bewildered, and said, "Brother, why am I so wise and stupid?"
Ye Xiaotian said: "You are usually so out of tune..."
The tycoon said: "That's what I am! Otherwise, what should I do? Is it obvious that I am a teenager, but I still have to pretend to be an old man? It doesn't matter what I usually do with my business. I am not a fool. Can't you do business?"
Ye Xiaotian smiled wryly: "But you usually behave like that, so that everyone thinks you... I also think of you that way. Your father worries about you all day, isn't it also because of this reason?"
The tycoon fell silent suddenly, Ye Xiaotian sharply said: "Do you have something on your mind?"
After the tycoon returned to the counter, he slowly lay down on the counter, his chin resting on his hands, his fat face suddenly deformed upwards, he looked like a fat Garfield smiling, but he didn't smile, instead his expression was somewhat Lonely: "In front of my father, I am indeed a little... Pretentious, but it's not really a pretense, it can only be said to be a broken pot."
Ye Xiaotian sat down opposite him and listened quietly. The tycoon sighed softly, and said sadly: "My mother died early. It is said that she died of dystocia when she gave birth to me. I...too fat..."
This sentence sounds a little funny, but Ye Xiaotian couldn't laugh. The tycoon said: "I heard that my mother left a last word when she was dying. She didn't want me to grow up and run around like my father. She wanted me to study and become an official. So, My father has spared no effort to let me study since I was a child. I used to work very hard, really... "
Seeing the tycoon's sad appearance, Ye Xiaotian suddenly felt sad.
The tycoon sighed again, and said: "But I'm really not that material. I used to work very hard, but I just couldn't make it in my studies. I'm afraid my father will be disappointed, but if I continue to study, I will definitely let him Disappointed, I have no other choice but to play truant and drop out of school. I want my father to die early. Maybe he won't spend all his time on my studies, and I don't have to see him disappointed every day. Face… "
Every parent hopes to arrange everything for their child, so that his life will follow the path he has appointed. It seems that he will be happy in this way, but who knows if their child likes the path they choose for him? Well, can we continue on this road
Too much hope turned into heavy pressure. The tycoon's father was worried and sad all day long, and in the tycoon's heart, it became a mountainous burden that made him breathless. Although Ye Xiaotian had never experienced such an experience, but seeing Seeing the tycoon's sad face, he could imagine how tortured the tycoon had been. If the tycoon himself is willing to not give up and continue on the road of studying and seeking an official, Hong Baichuan will of course never give up. The torture that this father and son will endure may be a hundred times heavier than now.
Ye Xiaotian looked at him quietly for a long time, then suddenly smiled and said: "Three hundred and sixty lines, every line is the number one. Anyway, you have proved that you have the talent for business, you are not a waste, you can get Tell your father with the account book that you are a genius, but it is not reflected in studying, but in business, your father will be happy."
"Um!"
The tycoon's small eyes suddenly lit up: "I'm counting, there are two more days, and in two days my father will come to check the account. I am so happy that I can't sleep at night, so I just wait for my father to come. He was a surprise."
Ye Xiaotian said: "Why wait another two days, since you have fulfilled your father's conditions ahead of time, why don't you tell him now to make him happy?"
After all, the tycoon is a young man. He may have a talent for doing business and has a unique way of thinking about making money, but his temperament is eccentric and even a little funny. When Ye Xiaotian encouraged him, he couldn't hold back immediately: "Then I Go and tell my dad now?"
Ye Xiaotian said: "Go now, I will accompany you!"
"good!"
Tycoon jumped to his feet, in high spirits.
Ye Xiaotian hesitated: "But your shop..."
The tycoon said: "It's okay, it's closed. You don't have to worry about the business. The richer the more expensive the more they want to buy, and the less they can't buy it, the more they think it's worth buying. Let's close! If someone comes and meets General Tie at the door, He will definitely come back tomorrow!"
Ye Xiaotian shook his head and said with a smile: "Success! I don't understand this aspect like you, I'll listen to you."
Immediately, the tycoon put all the valuables into a heavy iron box, locked them in a large cash drawer fixed on the ground, locked the door of the shop again, and happily went home.
Seeing him carrying his schoolbag on his back habitually, almost treating it as a unique accessory, Ye Xiaotian couldn't help being a little bit attractive. The obese boy who was full of worries and wisdom just now faded away in his heart. The tycoon is still a tycoon. An unfocused middle school boy.