In a small restaurant, an old Taoist priest who was eating and drinking and cheating made a living by cheating was asked what his ambitions had in his life, and what was his son-in-law who was famous for his cowardly was like this scene. How strange and inexplicable is it.

"My ambition..." Xiao Fan looked up, his eyes gradually changed from confusion to perseverance: "...it means to become the richest man in Jiangpu County within one month!"

——The premise is that you are lucky and no longer meet ancient scammers.

Taixu was dumbfounded: "Is this your ambition?"

Xiao Fan nodded firmly and seemed full of confidence: "Not bad! Even if the richest man now is my father-in-law, I will squeeze him down mercilessly and replace him!"

Taixu stared at Xiao Fan with wide eyes and said nothing for a long time.

After a long time, Taixu finally murmured and sighed: "... Others say that the Chen son-in-law became a madman after he became seriously ill. Seeing that your words and deeds are no different from those of ordinary people, I didn't believe such rumors. Now it seems... the reason why rumors can become rumors is still somewhat reasonable. I have a little more understanding of the world..."

Xiao Fan happily bowed and said, "The Taoist master entered the world to practice. Today's cultivation skills have deepened. It is really gratifying to be promoted to immortality soon..."

Taixu showed signs of going crazy: "I heard that you were originally a peasant child?"

"That's right."

"And you want to go to the business now?"

"right."

Taixu looked disappointed: "I divided the fourth grade of 'scholars, farmers, industry and commerce' to the people. You are not good at second grade farmers, but you just went to be the last-grade businessman. You are not called ambition at all, but you are called self-deprecating degeneration!"

Xiao Fan was a little stunned. Even the scammers who were so miserable looked down on the profession of merchants. The status of merchants in the Ming Dynasty was so low?

It seems that the saying "we are rich and we are the master" did not apply in the Ming Dynasty.

Money is a good thing, and it is a good thing in any dynasty, but the businessman who has the most good things is pressed at the bottom of the social framework. This is really a very strange phenomenon. It is simply nonsense to determine the superstructure of the economic foundation.

After chatting with the old Taoist priest for a long time, it was not very speculative, but he was the first person Xiao Fan talked to the most since time traveling through time. He could be regarded as a friend, even though this friend was a liar.

After drinking and eating, several dishes on the table were licked by the old Taoist priest with his tongue. It was obvious to others. Xiao Fan ignored the sincere look of the old Taoist priest "A few more dishes" and waved to the client to check out.

The meal cost fifty cents, which was not expensive. Xiao Fan carefully took out a small piece of silver from his close-fitting purse. The guy took it to the counter. The shopkeeper weighed the silver with a small scale, and then found dozens of cents for Xiao Fan.

After leaving the restaurant door, Xiao Fan bowed farewell to the old Taoist priest. The old Taoist priest seemed very reluctant. He followed Xiao Fan for a long time and kept talking behind him, saying that he had taken root in Jiangpu County recently. He hoped that Xiao Fan could come out to meet and talk to him every day. The two of them worked together to gather ideas and modify Xiao Fan's self-degenerate ambition...

Xiao Fan ignored him. He had seen through the sinister intentions of the old Taoist priest at first sight. Isn’t it just that I’m going to care about your meal every day? It’s enough to be a sucker once.

Taixu followed him halfway before stopping in disappointment, then held up the banner that was "breaking the iron mouth" and turned around to deceive other suckers.

Walking back to Chen's mansion, Xiao Fan's mind kept turning. The process of getting to know the old Taoist priest made him feel frustrated. He always thought he was very smart, but now he carefully recalled the various experiences he had experienced during the time travel. He was almost buried, then recognized the wrong person, accidentally molested the maid, and then almost kicked out of the house. Now, he was cheated of a meal by a liar in the world...

These encounters are not said or felt. When they talk about them, they felt very frustrated. When people are in trouble, they became suspicious of their confidence. Within a month, their dream of becoming the richest man in Jiangpu County began to shake.

You should be down-to-earth in life! Xiao Fan began to self-examination. In ancient times, people were not as stupid as they imagined. After comparing, the real stupid person seemed to be himself. The goal of becoming the richest man in Jiangpu within a month was too unrealistic.

...It's about two months!

Another thing is strange. He is said to be very cautious about strangers, but why did this old Taoist priest easily deceive him for a meal? Xiao Fan was not very disgusted with it, but instead felt a sense of intimacy towards the old Taoist priest?

Could it be that this old Taoist priest is not a human at all?

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It was already evening when I returned to Chen's mansion. When I stepped into the side door next to me, Xiao Fan found that the atmosphere in Chen's mansion was a bit strange today.

In the past, there were always a few servants gathered in the gatehouse, sometimes drinking and bragging, sometimes throwing dice to make money, and fighting for a penny or two, but today the gatehouse was extremely quiet. The old man guarding the gatehouse sat alone inside, calmly with a little fear, and carefully aimed at the front yard from time to time, and he didn't even notice Xiao Fan entering the door.

Xiao Fan frowned, what's wrong today?

Just as he was secretly strange, he saw Butler Chen walking towards him. Xiao Fan was shocked and hurriedly asked to the side. Seeing Butler Chen, Xiao Fan suddenly remembered that he seemed to fool him when he went out in the morning. Judging from the current results, it seemed that he had been fooling him very successfully. - Butler Chen's white and clean face was printed on two bright red slap marks on his white face, and he became much more depressed. His dog-eyed look on his usual low momentum was obviously restrained.

It was a great sin to sneak a glance at the head of the family's wife's chest. Xiao Fan was secretly surprised. This guy wouldn't be so stupid. He really went to explain to Chen Siliu? If this is true, it would be really not unfair to be beaten by these two slaps.

Despite this, Xiao Fan was somewhat guilty. He had to be more low-key when he did bad things, especially when facing the victim.

I thought Butler Chen would get angry when he saw that he was angry, and accused Xiao Fan of squirting with blood, but he didn't expect that Butler Chen ignored Xiao Fan at all. He just glanced at him casually, and then hurried out to the gate. His eyebrows were quite anxious and he didn't know what to do.

Xiao Fan became more and more surprised. What happened in this mansion today? What happened?

Now Xiao Fan regrets a little. The disadvantages of poor popularity are now reflected. He should make friends with the servants of the Chen family, especially those who like to spread gossip and current news.

It is really regrettable to not be able to grasp the news information in time as soon as possible.

If the mountain doesn’t come, I will go to the mountain. Xiao Fan decided to ask someone for advice on his own initiative.

Xiao Fan's way of asking someone to ask questions is a bit rude and is not worthy of advocacy.

Still the old method, he found a gray corner of "Called Tiantian, called Tiandi, called Tiandi, and didn't work" in the garden on the west side of the front yard of Chen Mansion and squatted down, and then he was like a hunter waiting for the stupid rabbit to hit the wooden stake by himself, waiting patiently to beat the unlucky servants passing by, and he would catch anyone he would.

The first unlucky servant was the uncle mute who was responsible for trimming the garden every day. Xiao Fan pressed the uncle to the ground tightly, and then began to ask what happened to the Chen family.

Unfortunately, Xiao Fan caught the wrong person. The reason why Uncle Mute called Uncle Mute was of course a mute who could not speak...

Under Xiao Fan's apologetic eyes, Uncle Mute wiped the tears of happiness and ran away... It was really a blessing to be a mute in this life that his ancestors accumulated virtue...

So Xiao Fan had to squat down again, like a scout who went deep into the enemy's back and touched the enemy's checkpoint, and continued to wait for the next unlucky servant.

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