The official road of the farmer

There are three great blessings in life: when you are named on the gold list, when you are in the bridal chamber, and when you meet an old acquaintance in a foreign land.

He has not had the chance to experience the first two, but he has just experienced the last one, and he is really overjoyed.

After the excited reunion after a long absence, Ye Junshu's mood calmed down.

He looked at Ye Junhao, and couldn't hide his smile.

He wanted to ask, how have you been all these years?Where did you go?Can you go home and have a look?There are still many, many things to ask, but thousands of words, just staring at each other silently.

Ye Junhao also had a lot to say, but his mood was the same as Ye Junshu's, at this moment silence speaks louder.

Ye Junshu carefully looked at Ye Junhao. He was taller and stronger. He used to have an immature face, but now he has grown into a handsome line. If he could not still see some of his youthful appearance, Ye Junshu would not dare to recognize him.

I haven't seen you for many years, brother Haozi, he has grown into a mature and handsome man.

"Brother Haozi, I didn't expect it was really you. I thought I had the wrong person."

Ye Junhao strode forward, hugged Ye Junshu, patted him on the shoulder, and showed his teeth with a smile, "What a boy, he's as tall as me! I almost didn't recognize him."

Ye Junshu smiled and said nothing, not exposing the fact that he was actually a little bit taller than him.

The grand wish of growing tall in childhood has come true, and Ye Junshu is even more elated.

"Brother Hao, who is this?"

Ye Junhao held Ye Junshu's shoulders, and introduced to his brothers: "This is my younger brother, Ye Junshu."

Ye Junshu nodded in greeting, his eyes showed gratitude, "Hello, my brother has been taken care of by you all these years."

Although Ye Junshu was dressed in ordinary clothes, he had been immersed in books and ink for many years, and he had a bookish air. Even in simple words, he sounded like a knowledgeable person, which was very different from their rashness.

Dayong straightened his back unconsciously, and stammered: "You... hello, it's... you should take care of Brother Hao."

Ye Junshu's smile deepened. He caught a glimpse of the crowd outside looking at the hill curiously, and waved to them, "Xiao Shan, come here."

Ye Junhao looked over, and saw a half-grown boy walking over, with a simple and honest face, he was half or half like Uncle Jiu in his vague impression.

"Brother." Ye Junshan called out, and secretly glanced curiously at a vaguely familiar person beside him.

Ye Junshu said softly: "Xiaoshan, this is brother Haozi, the eldest brother told you before."

When Ye Junhao left that year, Xiao Shan was only eight years old, and the child had a great forgetfulness, so he probably didn't have much impression of Ye Junhao.

In fact, Ye Junshan vaguely remembered that there was a time when an elder brother often came to their house to play with his brothers, but then he disappeared suddenly and was never seen again.

Is this the brother Haozi from back then?

Ye Junshan showed a naive smile, "Brother Haozi."

"This is a hill? It's grown so big!" Ye Junhao said with emotion.

Xiao Shan touched the back of his head.

But the trading market is not a place to reminisce, Ye Junshu is not in the mood to find sources of goods at the moment, Ye Junhao is also in the same mind, he explained to his brothers, and then left with Ye Junshu.

After leaving Xiaonanfang, Ye Junshu directly brought Ye Junshu back to Fangfu.

On the way, Ye Junshu took the initiative to explain why he appeared here.

"I passed the provincial examination this year, and I came to Beijing in advance to prepare for the general examination next year, hoping to get a good ranking in one fell swoop."

Ye Junhao exclaimed: "I knew, Zizhou, you are promising, and now you are the master of Juren haha! You will definitely be named on the gold list in the coming year!"

"I hope so too."

Ye Junshu looked at Ye Junhao and said, "Brother Haozi, how about you? How have you been these years? Why did you appear here?"

"It's a long story," Ye Junhao said with a smile, "Since we left home, Uncle Dong and I have formed a caravan. We have traveled all over the world and experienced many things..."

Ye Junhao picked up some of his own experience, talked about the interesting things, and basically mentioned all the bad things.

Brother Ye Junshu listened intently, unknowingly time passed quickly.

When the carriage stopped, they looked out and found that they had already returned.

A group of people got off the carriage.

"I'm currently staying at my brother's house. When I was studying in Yongzhou, I paid homage to a teacher. My brother was kind and willing to lend me his house."

Ye Junhao nodded and responded.

He thought so too, the cost of Zizhou's study was a lot of money, no matter how good he was, he couldn't earn a lot of money.

Ye Junhao felt very distressed when he thought about how Zizhou was still devoted to studying despite all these years of hardship.

When they entered the mansion, Xiao Shan and Nan Chenghe left consciously, leaving room for the two elder brothers to catch up on the past.

Ye Junshu took Ye Junhao to the study.

Tea and snacks were put aside, as if to have a long talk.

Ye Junshu thought that he only noticed it because of the excitement, otherwise he might miss meeting Brother Haozi, so he cut to the chase and asked, "Why do you have conflicts with people at Xiaonanfang?"

Hearing this, Ye Junhao smiled wryly, but didn't hide anything, and said directly: "Over the years, we have accumulated some contacts, and the caravan has gradually grown, but we have never had a backer.

In a place like Shangjing, there are countless caravans similar to ours, and it was hard to establish a relationship and cooperation.In the end, it still didn't work. Instead, all the funds on hand were used to buy those luxurious and unsalable leather goods.But so what?Even if the contract is torn up unilaterally, we cannot seek justice. "

Since ancient times, the people do not fight with the rich, and the rich do not fight with the officials.

Their caravan is rich but powerless, any powerful family with some status, trying to crush them to death is like crushing an ant.

They have grown and grown cautiously over the years, and have finally achieved their current scale, but they do not have the protection of powerful people.Once something goes wrong, you can only swallow the bitter fruit yourself. There is no place or way to give them justice, such as now.

Although he was hit again, Ye Junhao's eyes were still bright. The more setbacks he experienced, the more resilient he was.

Ye Junshu frowned and said nothing.

This is indeed a serious problem.

There is no absolute fairness in this world. Laws also serve those in power. This dynasty has distinct classes, and only those who stand in high positions have the right to speak.

The bigger Haozi's caravan develops, the easier it is to be targeted, "Haven't you thought about seeking asylum?"

Ye Junhao said helplessly, "How could it not be possible? We have tried to find many powerful families over the years, but either they didn't like our offerings, or they were greedy and wanted to squeeze us dry. It is difficult to find a good partner. .”

This is true, generally the businessmen who are officials or powerful families, and basically protected, are either related or well-paid.

If Brother Haozi's caravan cannot meet the other party's requirements, he will not consider supporting their caravan at all.

Ye Junhao and the others were also helpless. It wasn't that they were reluctant to part with the money, but that they worked so hard to earn a sum of money throughout the year, and others would re-export more than half of it. They still had so many brothers to share, how could that fraction be enough?

The ones they hook up with are too greedy, Ye Junhao would rather slowly accumulate power windows by himself than fatten those blood-sucking insects.

"Zizhou, let's cooperate!"

Ye Junhao said suddenly, his eyes burning.

"Cooperation?"

"Correct!"

"Zizhou, since you are going to be an official, you must work hard to climb up. In the future, you will provide us with shelter, and we will worship and honor you. Let us cooperate, and together with Uncle Dong, we will share [-]% of the net profit with you every year."

"Look at what Brother Haozi said, I don't need you to share with me, I will protect you, as long as you don't do anything harmful, I will always stand by your side." Leaving aside the friendship between the two, they belonged to the same clan. One wins and one loses.

And Ye Junhao is still his cousin.

If he becomes an official in the court in the future, then he will be the backstage of the entire Ye family village.Yejia Village is his root, and only when the root is well established can a towering tree with luxuriant branches and leaves grow.

Ye Junhao is also within his wings, and he can act in his name when he walks outside, but if Ye Junhao does something bullying...

Ye Junshu believed in brother Haozi, he would not change.

"No, it's different, because of this, I can't let you suffer, Zizhou, you provide us with shelter, we provide you with money, this is the most stable and reliable cooperation.

I don't want to consume our friendship to maintain cooperation. "

Ye Junhao said it bluntly, but Ye Junshu was still a little hesitant. He didn't participate in the business, and he always felt ashamed to receive a share of the income for nothing.

But he also understands that this is a collusion between the government and the businessman... Cough, it is a form of the combination of the government and the businessman.

The powerful give protection to the rich, and the rich give money to the powerful.

Just like the collusion between officials and bandits in Linjiang Road back then, if the gangsters hadn't colluded with high-ranking officials, those gangsters would not have been rampant for many years. Although they eventually reaped the consequences, the families of those innocent lives who were killed could not be changed.

If Ye Junshu becomes an extremely personable official in the future, there will be businessmen who will take the initiative to attach to him. The difference is whether Ye Junshu will protect those merchants who have evil intentions.

But it's too early to tell.

Ye Junshu said, "I'm nothing now, let's talk about the cooperation later."

"Let's not talk about this, brother Haozi, you have been in business for so many years, do you have a trustworthy cloth spinning owner? I bought a shop a while ago and planned to use it to buy cloth, but I haven't been able to find a source of goods."

Ye Junhao's heart moved, and he sat up suddenly, "Do you have a shop?"

Ye Junshu nodded.

Ye Junhao immediately said seriously, "Zizhou, do you want to see the goods in my caravan?"

"yours?"

"We brought a large batch of goods from Outer Domain. Originally, all the goods were sold to the partner according to the contract, but since the other party has tore up the contract without authorization, we have the right to deal with the goods."

"Then I'll go and have a look some other day." Ye Junshu didn't agree.

It is definitely not a small batch of goods that can make Brother Haozi's caravan feel gloomy because the goods cannot be sold. Ye Junshu doesn't have much savings in his hands, and he can't swallow those goods at all.

Go see what's there first, maybe there are other ways.

Ye Junhao had no objection, "Okay, I'll take you to see it tomorrow."

Although I felt that there was still a lot to say, but judging by the weather, it was already evening, so Ye Junhao offered to leave.

Ye Junshu stayed and said, "Stay here for a few more nights!"

Ye Junhao hesitated for a moment. If this was Zizhou's house, he would have stayed here without saying a word, but Zizhou himself also borrowed...

"You haven't seen the other children for a long time."

Ye Junhao analyzed the meaning of Zizhou's words, and his eyes widened suddenly, "You brought all the younger brothers to Shangjing?!"

Ye Junshu nodded as a matter of course.

...Well, Zizhou's family is quite special. As the eldest son, he really has to shoulder the heavy responsibility of raising the younger brother.understandable.

When Ye Junhao thought of those soft and cute children, he was reluctant to leave, and he also missed those little bean dings.

Not long after the night fell, the twins ran in bouncing around. Behind them, Lu Geer led Qin Geer, and walked in with Nan Ama.

As soon as the twins entered the door, they shouted for big brother.

When he saw a strange elder brother standing next to Ye Junshu, he rushed to Ye Junshu, blinked his big curious eyes, and looked at him from left to right.

"Come on, this is brother Haozi from the second uncle's family. He used to come to our house to play."

The children yelled loudly, but Brother Qin and the twins didn't have the slightest impression.

Only Brother Lu still remembered, showing a big smile.

Ye Junshu introduced them to Ye Junhao one by one.

He could guess who was with whom according to the height of the children. Ye Junhao couldn't bear to blink his eyes when he looked at these healthy, lively and lovely children.

Ye Junhao still remembers that Ye Junshu himself was still a diced bean back then, with a bunch of smaller diced beans, it was really heartbreaking for others to see these children struggling to live.

Who would have imagined that this group of children without direct elders could grow into such an outstanding appearance today.

Um?The marks on Lu Ge'er's face seemed to be the sequelae of nettles. He was afraid of hurting people's hearts, so he didn't say it out loud. Usually, he communicated with the children with a friendly atmosphere, and he became familiar with them in a short time.