It's hard to be a prodigal

"Really or not." Jiang Zong ruthlessly tugged at his pretty face, if he woke up and found himself still soaking in the cold sea water, wouldn't it be a waste of joy.

The door panel was knocked suddenly, and the second uncle of the Jiang family pushed the door open, with a layer of drunken red on his cheeks, carrying three jars of daughter red, dragging his slightly fat body, staggered into the room, and said with a smile: "Nephew, today is your birthday party, Second Uncle asked you to have a drink or two. Look, the good Nurhong is not our Jinzhou Jiajiu."

As soon as the second uncle sat on the chair, the third uncle also squeezed in the door with mischievous eyes, looked around the door, sent Jiang Heng outside to organize a dinner, and quietly closed the door.

When Jiang Zong saw these two uncles, he had a headache. When he was a libertine in his previous life, these two uncles often took advantage of their ignorance and took advantage of the opportunity to cheat and occupy the land and shops left by their father.

After Jiang Zong's ship sank into the sea and Jiang Heng died in the government prison, Jiang Zong's second uncle and third uncle tried their best to collect and divide up the millions of taels of silver and the market property that Jiang Zong earned almost from scratch.

"Second Uncle and Third Uncle, I'm a little over the top, I can't drink anymore." Jiang Zong rubbed his temples, lying on the table drunkenly, raised his phoenix eyes and glanced at Second Uncle.

"That's not to give the second uncle face. On a happy day, be happy." The second uncle said exactly what he said, and put down the wine cup to serve Jiang Zongman.

The corners of Jiang Zong's mouth twitched, he leaned his legs on the grand master's chair, and picked up the wine cup: "My nephew can't drink, let's have a drink with my uncles."

The third uncle laughed hurriedly, picked up the wine cup and drank it all in one gulp: "One cup is not enough, three cups and three cups."

"Then respect is worse than obedience." Jiang Zong drank a glass, and his daughter's red wine was strong and warmed his throat. He traveled all over the world to do business in his previous life, and practiced on the wine table for more than ten years. This little wine is meaningless.

After three cups of drinking, Jiang Zong opened another jar and filled it up for the two uncles, and said with a smile, "Come on, uncle, our family will get drunk together today, and we will be rich together tomorrow. Let's do it."

I don't think I can deal with you anymore.

"Hey, hey, good." The second uncle looked at the cup in front of him with a little embarrassment. Today, he drank three or four taels, and if he drank any more, he would drink to death.

Another three or two drinks.

The redness on the second uncle's face spread to his neck, and he was a little awkward in speaking. He almost fell under the table a few times, but the third uncle barely supported him. In front of Jiang Zong.

Jiang Zong glanced at it, and saw that it was a 2 tael bank note.

The second uncle took Jiang Zong's hand, a little confused, and murmured: "Second uncle, hiccup, I know that you two brothers are in trouble now, the eldest brother went, and didn't leave much money for you two brothers, Xiao Heng still has to study and take the exam Juren, like this... You give the Zongheng shop to the second uncle. The place is far away from home, and it is still abandoned. There is nothing there, but it is just a shop. Zonger, this 2 taels of silver is enough for you to spend for many years. gone."

Jiang Zong almost laughed out loud. 2 taels just wanted to change to a pawn shop. In the previous life, it was just the cost of Jiang Zong's invitation to a few friends for a meal, and it was barely worth the land money for the shop.

The Zongheng pawnshop is the property left by the elder of the Jiang family. Once the elder died, the pawnshop had no one to take care of it, and it was indeed in depression.

But there are a lot of treasures in the pawnshop, and they are all put in the warehouse to eat ashes. A large number of disaster victims flooded into Jinzhou in the past few years. After being resettled, they were placed in the shabby courtyard on the street of the Zongheng pawnshop. Over the past few years, the victims of the disaster have become residents and settled down in Jinzhou to live. As long as the pawnshop opens, the business will not be bad. At least 6000 taels of silver.

In the past, Jiang Zong really agreed to sign and pledge for 2 taels of silver. At that time, he was stupid and didn't know how to do it.

"2 taels, that's quite a lot." The third uncle laughed at the side, "It's enough for Xiao Heng to pass the exam, and then we will all be in the honor of Xiao Heng. If you can't do it in a year, you can take the exam for ten years. Although Xiao Heng is stupid A little bit, but also hardworking."

"Well, it's a good deal. But the Zongheng Bank has already been taken by your elders, so it's unreasonable not to leave an estate for our brothers." Jiang Zong held his chin, and a drunken blush appeared on his cheeks.

With a fart, Jiang Zong secretly scolded Jiang Heng for not being up to date, that little trash didn't get a fart in the exam until my father died, but if he was a little bit up to date, he wouldn't let his second and third uncles use him as a pawn all day long. Joke said.

The second uncle said with a smile: "Why are we going? You and your brother are still young. The business in this bank is too big for you to handle well. In this way, when you get married and have children, the Zongheng Bank will still be yours."

The vertical and horizontal bank has been defeated, and closed its doors because it couldn't continue to operate. The second uncle is still procrastinating and refuses to return.Jiang Zong sneered: "Okay. Second Uncle still loves us."

The third uncle urged him to get the land deed, Jiang Zong agreed, went to the small cabinet in the back room to get a few pages of old deed papers, and turned around and asked, "Uncle, it's the shop on Zongheng Street, right?"

"Yes, yes, yes." The second uncle rubbed his hands, he couldn't sit still because he was so drunk, he rubbed his dazzled eyes and watched Jiang Zong write the contract and get his handprints.

The second uncle hiccupped, took it from Jiang Zong's hand and wanted to take a closer look, his eyes were dizzy and a bit recalcitrant, and wanted to pass it to the third uncle.

Jiang Zongying had a smile on his face: "Uncle, come and have another drink."

At this time, Jiang Heng pushed the door in with sober tea and saw his second uncle holding a contract with his handprints in his hand, and his face immediately turned pale. He, the prodigal brother, knew to sell his property when he came back after spending a lot of time. They are the lifeblood left by parents!

If Jiang Heng didn't get angry, he couldn't care less about being a gentleman. After putting down the tea, he went to grab the contract from his second uncle. When he saw the words vertical and horizontal on the contract, he turned back anxiously and begged Jiang Zong: "Jiang Zong, you It’s always so absurd, the Zongheng pawnshop was left to us by father’s hard work for half his life, how can you just sell it!"

Brat, I have read all the sage books to the dog's stomach, and I called my brother by his first name. Jiang Zong wanted to beat him more than once in his previous life because of this incident.

Jiang Zong leaned lazily in the teacher's chair, took a small file to sharpen his beautiful nails, and lazily said: "Since I am your eldest brother, I can sell whatever I want, I have the final say."

When the second uncle saw that the little one didn't agree, he was afraid that there would be trouble, so he quickly accepted it, printed his handprint on the contract, put it in his sleeve, and let the maid help him back to the banquet drunkenly.

Jiang Heng grabbed his second uncle's sleeve and begged bitterly: "Second uncle! Second uncle!" Second uncle threw away his hand and pushed him back.

The door was closed with a slam, and Jiang Heng stood there for a while, then returned to Jiang Zong, pointed at him, and said angrily, "You! What else are you doing except being a prodigal? Do you look like a big brother! Ridiculous !outrageous!"

Jiang Zong hiccupped, was too sleepy to open his eyes, lay down on the table, and looked at the little scholar jumping anxiously with his chin resting on his hands.

Jiang Heng cursed and cursed, his eyes filled with water, turned around in the eye sockets, his voice was choked up, he couldn't speak a whole sentence, and the tip of his little nose was red.

In the previous life, the relationship between the two brothers was actually very cold, but they never thought that this pedantic little scholar would fight against the entire Jiang family compound for himself, and die alone in the official prison holding Jiang Zong's tablet. But it is the one who protects him the most.

Thinking of this, Jiang Zong still felt sorry for him.

"Why are you crying?" Jiang Zong subdued his smile when he saw his younger brother's aggrieved appearance, and threw a cloth towel to him, "Look at you, you're a book reader, I haven't talked to you before, a man can't babble and shed tears." ?”

Which pot does not open and which pot is lifted, Jiang Heng heard, tears rolled down his eyes.

Jiang Zong had no choice but to stand up unsteadily, took out two pieces of paper from his sleeve, and brought them to Jiang Heng.

Jiang Heng sniffed and took a look, his eyes widened.

A bank note of 2 taels, and a land deed from a pawn shop.

"You didn't sell it?" Jiang Heng was about to take the title deed with red eyes, and Jiang Zong pulled it out again, folded it and stuffed it into his cuff, and raised the corner of his mouth: "Sold it. Sold it next to the Zongheng pawnshop A small piece of land is only worth 1000 taels of silver, and the second uncle drank too much, and you just came to grab it, so he can't care less about it."

"Oh..." The grievance in Jiang Heng's heart has not yet passed, and he is at a loss for what to do by grabbing the corner of his clothes.

"Okay, cry a fart." Jiang Zong took Jiang Heng over, stroked his hair comfortingly, and wiped his tears with his sleeve, "Go and bring me some tea."

The elder brother's attitude was unprecedentedly gentle, Jiang Heng was stunned, stood there blankly, staring at Jiang Zong with wide eyes.

Jiang Zong had already sat back firmly in the grand master's chair, crossed his legs, and supported the table with his hand, his fingertips suddenly felt prickly, and a burr got stuck between his nails.

"Ouch, hiss..." Jiang Zong pulled his hand back in pain, bit out the small wooden thorns on his fingertips, and squeezed the blood from his fingertips.

He was taken aback for a moment, "A disaster of blood and light."

Thinking about it carefully, since in this life he has to do different things from his previous life, or else he would have to die tragically in the deep sea, then wouldn't it be the same as in his previous life when he was so deliberate in grabbing money from his second and third uncles.

Jiang Zong frowned and thought about it, and suddenly his brows relaxed. He took the small purple sand pot from the little scholar who was looking at him stupidly, sucked at the spout, raised his chin and smiled and asked Jiang Heng: "Recently, the book has been read. How's it going?"

Jiang Heng came back to his senses, and replied tremblingly: "It's, it's okay."

The elder brother never asked him about his homework before, and he never thought about how to answer it.My parents forced me to study at the beginning, my elder brother couldn't support me, and I didn't know anything about business, so I had to study hard, and in the future I would get a good name in the exam and get a salary to support my elder brother.Anyway, Jiang Zong is also his brother, so he can't watch his brother starve to death.

Jiang Zong knocked on the table: "It's okay, is it good or not?"

Jiang Heng was momentarily at a loss for words.

"Okay, you don't need to read those Four Books and Five Classics anymore, it's useless, and besides, you can't hold these silly words in your head." Jiang Zong said impatiently.

Jiang Heng frowned: "This statement is wrong..."

"That's not bad." Jiang Zong raised his chin and motioned Jiang Heng to get a pen and paper from the table, "Listen, "Ji Ran Pian", "Business Classics", "The World's Water and Land Journey", "Scholars and Merchants" ", I will buy these books tomorrow, recite word by word, ten pages a day, come to me to recite them for me, if I can't recite them, my family will take care of me."

"What kind of books are those..." Jiang Heng has never dabbled in the business industry, and these titles are even more unheard of.

Jiang Zong put down the teapot: "Can I still hurt you? We won't take the exam for academic achievement, do you hear me?"

This fell right into Jiang Heng's arms.

He has been unable to study for a long time, and he also hopes that his elders can point him in the direction, so that no matter whether he succeeds or fails, there will be no room for retreat.

But the eldest brother of his family is really unreliable, and he wants to give advice to others before he understands it.

"You, you take care of yourself first." Jiang Heng threw away the pen and paper, turned around and left the inner room angrily.

Jiang Zong didn't bother to argue with him. Scholar is pedantic, and he couldn't explain it clearly.

Since he himself can't make money blatantly, he sent this little guy to do it. Anyway, in his previous life, he supported his younger brother without worrying about food and clothing, so he should pay it back in this life.

You have to enjoy yourself in this life and be serious about being a prodigal son.

I was thinking about it in my heart, and in a blink of an eye, I saw the gemstone earrings that I threw casually by the table.

"Tsk..." Jiang Zong reached out to pick it up and fiddled with it in front of him.In his previous life, Lelian was very promising at such a young age. Although Jiang Zong was hostile to his opponent, he appreciated Xiaolelian's talent.

Remembering that Le Lian is also the youngest son of the Le family, and there is an eldest young master named Le He above him, Jiang Zong sighed bitterly, "Oh, look at other people's younger brother."