Chapter 543： Gentlemen love fortune, in a proper way

Chapter 543: A gentleman loves money and gets it in a wise way

Mr. Wen looked familiar and asked, "Is this the bodyguard of the Hou Mansion?"

Li Laoer smiled and nodded, "Yes, I was looking through the roster the day before yesterday, and suddenly I remembered that there were too many famous flowers here, and I was afraid of offending Xiaoxiao, so I went to the Hou Mansion and discussed with the housekeeper to temporarily hire some helpers. Unexpectedly, it really came in handy!”

Mr. Wen heard clearly but didn’t believe a word.

After all, the person who kept him up half the night was waiting for this moment. No matter how you looked at it, it couldn't be a temporary move? !

Li Laoer smiled, and regardless of what he thought, he directly asked a few guards, "Excuse me, brothers, help me ask, whose family these people belong to, and why did they come to the door in the middle of the night?"

"Yes, uncle, don't worry, we will keep it for you to ask clearly!" the leading guard replied.

Then he asked Old Man Cao to find an empty room, and took the man in black in...

Li Laoer and Mr. Wen only drank a bowl of tea and ate a few snacks for a late night snack, and the results came out.

The leading guard came to report, "Uncle, these people are the guardians of the Wang family. They all carry scissors and sickles with them, just to come in and destroy all the famous flowers. We don't want Baiyuan Garden to open smoothly tomorrow."

Mr. Wen frowned, "The Wang family is really good at calculating, but the people they chose are too poor..."

The leading guard explained: "Mr. Wen doesn't know something. These people are all skilled in martial arts. If they are not prepared, it will be easy for them to enter the courtyard and destroy them and then escape unscathed.

“But the courtyard has never been guarded before, and we have been hiding in secret. When they came to inquire in advance, they found nothing, so they relaxed their vigilance, so we took it down so easily.”

Li Laoer nodded, "Thank you for your hard work. Take good care of these people and don't die. I also keep the scissors and sickles. Their master may come over tomorrow, and I will return them to their original owners."

The guard understood and retreated.

Li Laoer asked Old Man Cao, "Prepare some food for the guards. After all, they have to stay for half the night. Don't stay up all night hungry."

“Yes, boss!” Old Man Cao responded immediately.

When he thought about how the flowers in the yard were almost ruined, Old Man Cao broke into a cold sweat on his back.

He is ten thousand grateful to these guards who protected his "darling".

Immediately, he helped to light the fire and asked the old woman to roll out the noodles and cook them. He also cut up the bacon brought by his relatives from his hometown, mixed it with chopped beans, and fried the toppings.

The guards were full and asked the four members of the Cao family to go to bed quickly, and then continued to guard the peace of the Baiyuan Garden.

Early on the next morning, as soon as it got dark, Old Man Cao got up and looked around inside and outside the courtyard. He couldn't help but curse in a low voice.

“These **** things, my roses, many of them have been trampled down!”

Finally, he called his son, quickly got the ladder, and rearranged the rose vines.

So when passersby passed by, they saw bright flowers on the wall again.

At three o'clock in the morning, Mrs. Li was the first to arrive in a carriage with Tao Hongying and Jiayin.

Today there are only male guests, so it is not convenient for them to come here.

But Jiayin wanted to join in the fun, almost all the flowers here were made by her hands, so how could she be absent during the opening? !

So Li Laoer placed them in the west room of the main house in the backyard.

The room is spacious and has a kang, which is convenient for taking a nap when you are tired.

Moreover, there is a small door leading to the penthouse, making it easy for the Cao family to come in and out to serve.

Of course Grandma He and Shuiyun Shuiling also followed. Grandma He stayed in the room, while Shui Ling and Shui Yun helped Cao's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law take care of the tea and snacks for the guests.

Soon, the first batch of guests arrived.

It was Dean Zhou, Mr. Peng and Mr. Tang, together with a few gentlemen from the academy who had no classes today, and their accompanying book boys, a dozen or so people, who immediately made the small courtyard lively.

Li Lao'er stepped on the auspicious occasion and asked Mr. Cao to set off a firecracker outside the gate to celebrate the opening, which was very low-key and unobtrusive.

But the outer skin of the firecrackers shattered and fell like red snowflakes in front of the door and under the wall. There was a different kind of beauty against the rose flowers on the wall.

This makes the flower appreciators who come one after another feel amazed before they even enter the door.

Everyone has a love for beauty, and the embodiment of beauty in plants falls on flowers!

Being among the flowers, even the most cold-hearted person can't help but smile and relax.

Visitors include colleagues from the DPRK and China, famous celebrities from Xindu who love flowers, gentlemen from the academy, and even relatives and friends of the Li family such as Mrs. Liu and Liu Zhiheng.

There are all kinds of distinguished guests who have received the invitation post, as well as the idlers who have not received the invitation post and come to join in the fun. There are a hundred or ten people in total.

So many people want to drink tea, eat snacks and cut jade melons, which is no small project.

Mama He soon went out to help, and together with Zheng Feng and Zheng He, she was barely able to take care of her.

Li Laoer simply asked people to place chairs under the eaves of the corridor, and parasols like those in the academy canteen had been planted everywhere in the courtyard.

In this way, the guests each chose familiar friends to gather together and sit down, blowing in the wind, eating melons, and admiring the flowers. It was so comfortable!

Li Laoer let everyone wander around and took a clear look at all the potted flowers in the courtyard. Then he stood in front of the steps, smiled with everyone and said, "Dear guests, my brother's restaurant used to have famous flowers on display. Many friends complained to me that they didn’t have a chance to appreciate it.

“So, I thought about a place full of flowers for everyone to enjoy. Will no one say that our family is stingy in the future? I am really relieved!”

Everyone also laughed and returned the favor one after another.

Li Laoer smiled and said: "However, this is a business after all, and I still hope that the business will be prosperous. Everyone is happy to see it. They want to take their favorite flowers home and enjoy them all the time, so they still have to give money. Yes, and the more, the merrier!”

This time everyone laughed louder.

It stands to reason that businessmen always pursue profit with shrewd calculations, which is not pleasing to people.

But it was quite magnanimous for Li Laoer to put it out so clearly.

Li Laoer pointed to a pot of blooming rhododendrons in front of him and said: "Everyone knows that our family is blessed with the emperor's grace and has a geomantic treasure like Broken Gold Beach to settle down. Now we have no worries about food and clothing.

“Our whole family is extremely grateful to the emperor and Tianwu, so we often think about repaying the favor with our little power.

“This time, when Baiyuan Garden opened, our family made a rule that from now on, half of the proceeds from Baiyuan Garden should be used for charity.

"Take this pot of cuckoos as an example. If it is sold for ten taels of silver, five taels of it will be counted as capital, and the remaining five taels will be taken out, exchanged for food, clothing, supplies, and medicinal materials, and sent to the Relief Department to relieve the old, weak, and sick. Disabled, to reduce the burden on the court.

"So, if you like the famous flowers we have here, you don't have to buy them with money. You can also buy them with grain, cotton, medicinal seedlings and medicinal roots! In short, as long as we take out what we need , you can exchange the flowers..."



(End of this chapter)