"You must not offend anyone, and if someone offends you, it is also a feud!"

Coming out of Li Yonghe's house, Xu Ping has been pondering this sentence, and he has a feeling of sudden enlightenment, and many things that he couldn't open up before suddenly became transparent.

In the officialdom, unless you just make up your mind to mess around, and you can't be offended if you don't do things, how can you have less enmity with others? Who did Feng Zheng offend back then? Just because he was looked down upon by Kou Zhun, he was bullied, and if he recognized it like that, he might be a gangster and a petty official in the local area for the rest of his life. was unwilling, and with a counterattack, he pulled Zai Zhikou Zhun off the horse, and he had the capital to sit and watch the changes in the officialdom.

Unless it is a cabinet minister, a Taiwanese counselor, who is from a Qing important background, and other officials who are determined to forge ahead and ascend to a high position, which one is not a thorn in the side of Taiwan? That's what they do, and if you don't sin them, they will come and sin against you.

Once he figured it out, Xu Ping's heart was much more relaxed. Having experience in a past life is sometimes a burden, and for no reason you are worried about leaving an infamy in the next life, and sometimes you will hold back when doing things.

In fact, no matter what they do, the merits and demerits will also be commented on by future generations.

After leaving the Li family, Xu Ping went to Donghua Gate, and some good colleagues today made an appointment to have a drink in the restaurant there.

The food industry in Tokyo is thriving, and many families do not turn on the fire on these days at the beginning of the new year, and gather with family and friends to celebrate and drink at various restaurants. There are many officials in the capital, many of them have not settled in the capital, the traffic is slow in this era, and the seven-day holiday of the New Year is not enough to go home to save relatives, but also every day this family drinks that family.

Xu Ping went to Donghua Gate to find colleagues, and at this time, Xu Chang also went to the city to find his group of friends to party.

As the saying goes, things gather by like, people by groups, Xu Ping has his own circle of friends, and Xu Chang naturally has it. Now the Xu family has become a wealthy family in the capital, and as a big housekeeper, Xu Chang's identity is not as good as before.

In the wealthy family, there are many slaves, and two of them have a special status. One is to help the master manage the chores in the house, called "Zhizhai" and "Zhiyuan", which is the housekeeper in later generations. There is also a kind of business that helps the master's family run all kinds of business, called "dry people".

The income of the steward mainly comes from the wages and rewards given by the master, mainly from close relations, while the income of the steward comes from the dividends of the business, mainly from the ability. Of course, housekeepers also take bribes, but in any case, their income is manageable. The income of the cadres comes from business dividends, and if they are well managed, the income is very considerable, and can even be compared to the rich businessmen in the capital.

Xu Chang has both the identity of a housekeeper and a cadre in the Xu family, unlike Liu Xiaoyi, who is purely a cadre and basically does not participate in the affairs of the Xu family's inner house. Holding two positions makes Xu Chang quite confident in front of his peers.

When I arrived at the Bianhe River, I didn't go far, and I saw a restaurant in front of me, only one wine sign was picked outside, and there was no door plaque, and there was no color building, and there was no female prostitute who recruited customers outside the door, which looked extremely shabby.

Xu Chang wondered in his heart, he now has some identity in the capital, and his companions invited him to drink, why did he find such an inconspicuous restaurant? Not to mention going to Fanlou to compete for seats with those officials and nobles, you have to find a store.

Xu Chang was wandering outside the restaurant, hesitating whether to go in, and the people inside had already seen it.

A person dressed as a rich man came out of the restaurant, came up and grabbed Xu Chang, and said: "Xu Shilang arrived at the door, why did he pacing here and there, not sitting inside?" ”

Xu Chang took out his hand and said: "This restaurant looks too shabby, it's not that I'm greedy for luxury, it's just that we drink in this kind of restaurant on New Year's Day, and it doesn't look good when it comes out!" If you are short on money, this meal is mine. Not far from here, there is Qingfeng Lou Zhengdian, we still go there, so as not to lose face! ”

The white-faced man laughed out loud: "Brother, alas, although it is often said that people rely on clothes, and Buddha relies on gold, everything in the world must look at their faces." But those of us who have their faces grown on their own masters, and our own families are just a little cheap, so why care about those vanity? You look shabby in this restaurant, there are not many people in the capital who can drink in it, the so-called cave sky, you will know when you go in, and you will never insult your identity as a waiter. ”

The Xu family is newly wealthy, whether it is the master or the servant, they cannot be compared with those who have been rich and noble in the capital for many years. Xu Chang also didn't know the doorway here, and he was suspicious, and followed the white-faced man into the restaurant.

There is no difference between the restaurant hall and the general foot shop, and there are even a few tables of guests, at first glance, it is an ordinary family in the capital, even if it is indulged in the New Year's Festival, it is possible to enter this kind of restaurant.

Seeing Xu Chang staring at the guests, the white-faced man smiled mysteriously: "Don't hide it from my brother, these guests are all subordinates of our family, and they do eyeliner here." In the future, you will know as the days go by. ”

There are still slaves in the slave's house, there are still servants in the family, and even some of the servants in the family's house have more slaves than in the master's family, anyway, they are all hired, as long as the family has money, this era is commonplace.

Xu Chang hired a few people to take care of him at home, so he nodded and continued to walk with the white-faced staff.

Passing through the hall of the restaurant, there was an inconspicuous small door behind the pillar, and the white-faced man took Xu Chang's hand and walked straight into the door.

Behind this small door is a corridor, and there is nothing special about it.

The white-faced man did not stop at his feet, and kept pulling Xu Chang across the corridor, and he arrived in the back garden as soon as he turned around.

As soon as he arrived in the back garden, it was suddenly like a different world, Xu Chang was stunned, and stopped in place.

I saw that there was a fine Shu brocade hanging on the trees in the garden in front of me, and there was a sound of bamboo behind the curtain, and I could vaguely see a graceful figure dancing. In this silk bamboo song and dance, bursts of unbridled laughter were heard from time to time.

Xu Chang turned around and looked behind him, and then looked at the front of him, his spirit was a little trance. You just came in from that façade? Or is it like the entertainer in the tile said, and suddenly entered the fairyland?

The white-faced man looked at Xu Chang with a smile on his face. Waiting for Xu Chang's expression to calm down, he said, "Zhang Shilang, please inside." Although rest assured, no matter what you eat, drink, listen, watch, play, and keep here, it is even more exciting than the inside of Fanlou! ”

Xu Changqiang calmed down and walked towards the garden behind the staff behind.

After walking a short distance, I saw three people drinking behind the curtain separated by Shu brocade. The oldest of the three is sixty or seventy years old, with white beard and hair, and the young one is only in his thirties, with oily hair and powdered face.

Beside the three of them, there were two little prostitutes playing songs and singing lyrics, and three people with heavy makeup leaning on the three of them, serving wine and food to the people around them, and their faces were full of spring love.

Bai Yuanwai introduced: "Zhang Fu shot the mansion, Duan Taiwei, Liu Taiwei, and the chai envoy from the prime minister's mansion, Tan Situ." ”

Listening to the introduction of the white-faced staff, Xu Chang had a sense of absurdity. The servants of these various officials' families have created an atmosphere full of princes in this small world of their own. Xu Chang has been by Xu Ping's side for many years, and he has never seen Xu Ping experience this kind of scene, but he didn't expect to see it, as if he had arrived in the ghost world in the underworld. (To be continued.) )