Li Yi had a deep impression of this young man named Qian Duoduo.
Ever since he came to this world, he had only worried about money twice.
The first time was when he first arrived at Willow Leaf Village. In order to feed his family, he ran around every day and tried all kinds of methods. The second time was when he was in Fengzhou. Miss.Liu was injured. They were penniless and needed tens of thousands of taels of silver to buy medicine.
Fortunately, they survived both crises safely. The first time was because he thought of many ways to make money, including selling paintings, candied fruits, and Ruyi nectar. The second time was because he met the Boy of Wealth.
The Boy of Wealth.
If Qian Duoduo hadn't been so generous, he wouldn't have had so much money to buy those precious herbs. Miss.Liu's illness wouldn't have recovered so quickly.
Even though they had exchanged the goods and money at the time, Li Yi still owed him a copper coin in cash.
He owed him for five years.
He didn't like to owe favors, especially to men. He didn't like to owe money either.
At first, Qian Duoduo only felt that the young man was familiar. Although he had never seen him before, he felt a sense of familiarity at first sight. It seemed that they had known each other for many years.
Until he heard his voice, until he caught the coin.
He finally understood that the person in front of him was the brother who had a great impact on his life and pulled him from the wrong path to the right path.
In this life, there were two people who had a great impact on him.
The first was his father, who had given birth to him and raised him. He had taught him how to be a qualified businessman.
The second was the brother in front of him. He had helped him regain his confidence when he was at the lowest point of his life. He had helped him find the direction of his life. From then on, he had stepped into a new world.
He sat down opposite Li Yi and looked at the copper coin in his hand. He thought for a moment and suddenly asked, "Brother, have you heard of the saying 'nine out and thirteen back'?"
In a pawnshop, the pawnshop would only pay nine taels for an item worth ten taels. Three months later, the pawnbroker would have to pay thirteen taels to redeem the item, which was called 'Thirteen Return'.
What Qian Duoduo meant was that when he owed them, it was one copper coin. Five years later, it would be more than one copper coin.
Li Yi looked at him and asked, "Do you know what happens when a fatty falls from a building?"
"Become what?" Qian Duoduo shook his head in confusion.
"Damn fatty."
After Li Yi explained it to him, he looked at Qian Duoduo again and asked, "Have you heard of the nine out and thirteen returns?"
Qian Duoduo shook his head. "Never heard of it."
…
The relationship between the Lin family and the Li family was only known to a limited number of people.
However, the relationship between the Lin family and the Qian family was known to almost everyone in the Qi Kingdom.
It was not clear to outsiders whether the Lin family or the Qian family was wealthier. In any case, there were not many families that were wealthier than both of them. Starting from a small Feng State City, the Lin family and the Qian family had been supporting each other for the past few years. To be precise, when the Lin family was still a small family, the Qian family had started to use their family's resources to support the Lin family. Later on, the two families advanced side by side and benefited from each other. Step by step, they became the two giants in the business world of the Qi Kingdom …
Feng State, where the Lin family was located, was Zhao Yi's territory. Back then, Li Yi had only asked him to take care of the Lin family. He did not expect him to be so honest. In just a few years, he had pushed the Lin family to where they were today.
The Qian family had contributed a lot to this.
Li Yi had long heard from Lin Wanru that the Qian family had provided a lot of support to the Lin family from the beginning. The God of Wealth, Qian, lived up to his reputation. Five or six years ago, he had made his business the largest in Feng State. In recent years, he had followed the Third Prince to the capital and made his business the largest in the Qi Kingdom. Even the current Lin family was not as rich as the Qian family.
As the only son of the God of Wealth, Qian Duoduo naturally attracted a lot of attention.
However, what attracted the most attention was not the background of the Qian family, nor was it his extraordinary talent in business.
It was the fact that every time he went to a place, the local scholars would tremble with fear. Some of the more famous ones would even avoid him and not appear within a ten-mile radius of him.
On the contrary, the brothels all over the country were especially welcoming to him.
This was not only because he was generous and often spent a lot of money, but also because he was acquainted with the legendary "number one scholar in the Jing Kingdom". This matter had become a common knowledge in the Qi Kingdom.
Qian Duoduo had once become famous in the Qi Kingdom because of more than ten excellent poems. Although it was later found out that those poems were written by someone else, this "someone" was not just any random person.
He was the number one scholar in the Jing Kingdom. His poems were not only widely spread in the Jing Kingdom, but also known by everyone in the Qi Kingdom.
Zhao Xiuwen, the Sage of Poetry in the Qi Kingdom, once said bluntly in public, "Today, there is only one stone. Li Yi alone has eight stones. I have one stone, and the whole world has one stone."
Although the possibility of Zhao Xiuwen boasting after drinking could not be ruled out, for Zhao Xiuwen, who had always been extremely conceited about his talent, to say such words, it was clear to see how much he admired the "number one scholar in the Jing Kingdom".
Moreover, almost every scholar in the Qi Kingdom had a copy of Li Yi's book of poems. Before someone could produce more poems than him, and of better quality, no one had the right to refute Zhao Xiuwen's words.
Of course, this had nothing to do with Qian Duoduo, because his poems were all given to him by others.
In the beginning, many scholars expressed an extremely disdainful attitude towards this, labeling Qian Duoduo as a "big idiot", a "plagiarist", and "shameless".
Later on, for some unknown reason, no one dared to say such things. Now, in the hearts of scholars, Qian Duoduo was no less than a demon that could stop a child from crying at night. It was said that when a few famous scholars in Liu Province heard that he had arrived in Liu Province, they fled the state capital overnight and built a hut to live in …
These were all things that Li Yi only found out later.
In the end, Qian Duoduo did not dare to play the game of "nine out of thirteen returns" with him. He was discussing something with Lin Wanru on the other side.
Lin Yong looked over there, and after a moment, he retracted his gaze, shook his head, and said, "This Young Master Qian is really strange …"
Fang also looked over there, and said in surprise, "What's strange? Other than being a little fat, what's strange about him?"
"You don't know …" Lin Yong looked at him, shook his head, and said, "At that time in Feng Province, Young Master Qian had always been the target of ridicule by scholars. Everyone looked down on him, and he could be said to be the joke of Feng Province City …"
"Later on, I don't know what happened, but when those scholars saw him, they were like mice seeing a cat. When they walked, they would hide. His entire personality seemed to have changed. In the past, he hated scholars the most, but now, wherever there was a poetry meeting, wherever there was a scholar, he would go …"
Generally speaking, a person's personality wasn't the same, but it wasn't without reason that it would change at will.
Suffering a major setback, or encountering a major turning point in life, would lead to a sudden change in personality.
Or, he met a life mentor, who pointed out the direction of his life, and lit a lamp to illuminate the road ahead …
Li Yi did not know why Qian Duoduo's personality had changed like this, but looking at him now, it was much better than being bullied and swallowing his anger.
As for the sudden change in the scholars' attitude towards him, he did not know whether it was related to other things.
In the early years, Lin Wanru would occasionally write to him, and she would mention some strange things in Feng Province City.
For example, a famous scholar was found naked in the street in the morning, wearing only a crotch cloth. His nose was bruised, and his face was swollen, and his body was full of footprints.
That was not all. During that time, the overall quality of the scholars in Feng Province City had declined. Almost every day, scholars who visited brothels and did not pay were caught in public at poetry meetings. It was not uncommon for scholars to abandon their wives and children, and their first wives and children came to find them …
Even scholars with the highest quality were like this. In recent years, Zhao Yi only cared about fighting for the throne, and neglected the management of Feng Province …
Running naked in the street, visiting brothels without paying, abandoning his wife and children …
The moral degeneration of the world, the moral degeneration of the world …
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