The sky is sunny, the clouds are like being steamed dry, cloudless, the earth is bright, making the weather a little hot, but fortunately there is a light breeze blowing, the roadside willow swaying with the wind, such as a young girl’s graceful and delicate waist. .
Zhu Pingan led the little loli Niu Niu with one hand, and led the bouncing bear child Rui Ge’er with the other hand, and walked slowly along the willow shade at the base of the wall on the streets of the capital city.
Although the weather is hot, but the streets are not at all crowded, crowded, pedestrians like weaving, sedan chair, horse carriage endless, running busy with their own life. The shops on both sides of the street are lined up, there are selling cloth and silk, there are selling rouge and water powder, there are selling calligraphy, painting and ink, all kinds of shops cover every building on the street, the vendors along the street as well as the business of the roadside shops are all very good, a thriving scene.
Zhu Ping An walked slowly while observing the shops on both sides of the street, observing how the shops were located, observing what business they were doing, what the price of the goods was, how the shop traffic was, and how the marketing methods were.
The thriving commercial scene in the capital city makes Zhu Ping An very satisfied, worthy of being the period of the birth of the sprout of capitalism, the degree of development of the commercial market is really surprising. The purchasing power of the people of the capital let Zhu Pingan is also very satisfied, the capital when the economic and political centre of the Ming Dynasty, most of the people living here are relatively affluent, the concept of consumption flung down the river village a few hundred streets, the degree of capitalisation of wealth exceeded the expectations of Zhu Pingan.
Not bad, not bad Zhu Pingan more and more satisfied.
Some people may think that the ancient ban on officials in business, this view is one-sided, it is true that the ancient Confucianism is opposed to competing with the people for profit, but the ban on officials in business has never been realised, successive generations of officials in the business of prosperity, the wealth of the family, has never been commonplace, especially in the Ming Dynasty, the officials in the business is more than ever the most of all generations, the officials in the business of the people such as crucian carp, a natural trend.
Zhu Pingan is not worried about being discovered or attacked for engaging in some side business.
Because the Daming Law prohibited officials above the fourth rank from engaging in business, and did not prohibit officials below the fourth rank from engaging in business. Engage in their own side business was discovered, at most by some self-proclaimed noble colleagues contempt, just, the scholar, agriculture, industry and commerce, business is in the last, for the scholar despised.
Of course, to engage in their own side business, we must pay attention to the integrity of the business.
Can’t be like some “compete with the people for profit” officials like the use of power, oppression of the people, to obtain profiteering.
“Big watermelon, big sweet and tasty watermelon.”
In Zhu Pingan market observation, a footman drove a donkey cart from their front leisurely sailed past, donkey cart full of a car watermelon, big and round, like a big ball, emerald green watermelon rind inlaid with a stripe of tiger skin white lines. There was a half-cut watermelon on the donkey cart, revealing the watery, red flesh of the melon, and the red watermelon juice flowed out along the rind, exuding an enticing sweet smell.
“Gu~”
The bear child had long been craving for a mouthful of water, his mouth swallowed hard, and he couldn’t wait to pounce on the donkey cart to hold the watermelon and go up for a bite.
However, the bear child knew that the things outside needed to be bought with money, and he didn’t have any money with him. He is the young master of Linhuai Marquis House, he can have whatever he wants in the house, he doesn’t need money at all, so he doesn’t have the habit of bringing money. Today, when he went with Niu Niu to Zhu Pingan’s place, it was in order to hide from his big sister who had returned to Ning, and as for being able to come out to play, it was a complete surprise, so he hadn’t brought any money with him at all.
If he had known that he was going out to play in the mansion today, the bear child would have definitely brought enough pocket money, after all, he still had quite a bit of his own personal money, but he just didn’t bring it.
So, he could only rely on his disliked brother-in-law.
“Earthen brother-in-law, do you think the watermelon in his car is good?”
The bear child swallowed a mouthful of saliva with force, raised his little fat face, obviously wanting it, but put on a broken expression of disinterest, tugged and tugged, looked at Zhu Pingan and asked, the name of the dirt bag brother-in-law almost came out of his mouth, said the word dirt before he realised that it wasn’t right, and now that he had a request to make, he couldn’t call out the dirt bag brother-in-law, and hurriedly changed his tone to call out his brother-in-law.
“His car watermelon head and large and round, clear lines, dark and light, the tip of the curly coiled, cut the flesh of the melon is watery red, naturally eat a mouthful of sweet, cool silk, moist throat, flow into the heart, certainly especially cool” Zhu Pingan swept the bear child a glance, slightly hooked the corner of the lips, with comparable to the “Tongue on the tip of the ChinaThe voice that was as melodious and magnetic as that exaggeratedly described.
“Gudong.”
This description was too graphic, and the voice was just right, instantly seducing the gluttony in the deepest part of the bear child’s tongue and stomach, so that the bear child couldn’t help but gulp a mouthful of water again.
“Cough cough cough, let’s taste it then.”
The bear child gulped a mouthful of saliva and tugged casually, but his fat face was looking at Zhu Pingan with bated breath.
“It’s a pity I don’t have any money with me,” Zhu Pingan shrugged his shoulders, spread his hands and said slowly.
“You’re lying, how can someone go out without money.”The bear child threw his fat face and grunted, looking at the donkey cart parked not far away hawking watermelons, couldn’t walk, not believing at all that Zhu Pingan, an adult, would go out without money, threw his fat face and hugged his arms and didn’t go.
“Are you a human being?”Zhu Pingan glanced at the bear child and asked indifferently.
“Of course I’m human.”The bear child raised his fat face with a look of being infuriated by Zhu Pingan.
“Then have you brought money?”Zhu Pingan asked leisurely.
“I didn’t,” the bear child said under his breath, but in the next second he raised his fat face again, “I’m a child, children don’t count if they don’t bring money. You are an adult, how can an adult go out without money.”
“But I just don’t have money with me.”
Zhu Pingan squatted down, stretched out his hand and pressed the bear child’s shoulder, said with a frank face.
“If you don’t believe me, search.”After Zhu Pingan finished speaking, he stood up holding the bear child’s waist and stretched out his hands.
“You’re lying, I don’t believe you.”
The bear child shook his fat face vigorously and shook his head repeatedly before he began to search Zhu Ping An.
The bear child first searched Zhu Pingan’s sleeve, turned it over and over, and indeed did not find any money, then he searched Zhu Pingan’s waist, and also did not find a money bag, and then turned it over and over several times, and as a result, he did not find anything.
“Why don’t you bring money.”
The bear child had a disappointed look on his face, so he had to give up and honestly followed.
After walking for a few moments, a bare-chested peddler carrying a straw target of brightly coloured ice-coloured sugar gourds, walked towards him.
Sugar-coated sugar gourds, on the straw target with the peddler’s footsteps, trembling and trembling, particularly attractive.
The little loli Niu Niu looked at the trembling sugar gourds, her eyes lit up, her fingers were placed in her little mouth and sucked on them, just like a greedy kitten.
“Want to eat it Niu Niu?”Zhu Pingan asked with a slight smile.
The little loli subconsciously nodded, then shook her head knowingly, she knew that Zhu Pingan didn’t have any money with him.
“Seller of ice-sugar gourds, come,” Zhu Pingan waved his hand towards the vendor selling ice-sugar gourds.
“Ok le.”
The vendor answered and carried the ice sugar gourds over.
“Come one string.”Zhu Pingan took a string of the most tempting sugar gourd from the straw target and put it into the hands of the little loli Niu Niu.
“You don’t have any money with you,” the bear child tugged on Zhu Pingan’s sleeve and warned in a low voice.
However, the next second, the bear child watched as Zhu Pingan squatted down, touched the side of the bear child’s waist, removed a money bag embroidered with a fat duck, and then pulled out money from it.
Instantly, the bear child felt I sky is dark.
“How do you put the money bag on my waist, you you how to be so cheeky, obviously have the money but not for me to buy” the bear child threw a fat face, with a mad bulldog like.
“Usually people who do great things are so cheeky.”
Zhu Pingan hooked his lips without a care in the world and smiled as he stroked the bear child’s head.
“You really,” the bear child all but exploded.
“Do you want it?”
Zhu Pingan took another sugar gourd and waved it in front of the bear child, the corner of his mouth hooked up in an arc.
“Want.”
The bear child stretched out his paw.
Zhu Pingan’s hand holding the sugar gourd shifted to avoid the bear child’s fat paw, looked at the bear child with a smile and asked, “What did you just say about me really”
“You’re really a good brother-in-law!”The bear child gritted his teeth.
“So good.”
Zhu Pingan gave the sugar gourd to the bear child, and pinched the bear child’s little fat face in passing, smiling with a sunny face.
