The four people on the street looked up at the four people at the railing.
"Waving fans in this freezing weather, are you trying to make sure people don't know you're scholars?" Ling Ran shouted disdainfully.
The expressions of Zhao Fugui and the other three immediately changed.
With a snap, the folding fan was closed, held tightly in his hand, and tucked behind his back.
Fan He and Hu Wenhua immediately included Ling Ran as one of their own!
Anyone who stands by their side and helps them is one of our own!
"Well said!"
Ling Ran raised an eyebrow; this family is truly united.
He had previously thought that Hu Wenhua was Fan Jin's eldest son, and seeing that he was in charge of the most important task of collecting money, he assumed that Hu Wenhua was the one in charge of the family. He never expected that he had misjudged him.
It turned out to be his brother-in-law.
However, the fact that the brother-in-law entrusted his brother-in-law with the most important money shows that he truly trusts him. Now it seems that this trust was built on a mutual basis.
Hu Wenhua also strongly defended his brother-in-law, Fan Jin!
Not only Hu Wenhua, but Fan He also strongly defended his father.
This family has a very good family tradition, a completely different atmosphere from his family....
"Hey! What are you yelling about upstairs? If you've got the guts, come down and fight!" Hu Wenhua shouted, hands on his hips.
He single-handedly took on those four weaklings!
Seeing Hu Wenhua, who was as tall and imposing as a small mountain, Zhao Fugui and Zheng Pingsheng certainly had no intention of going down.
"Vulgar! All you know is fighting and killing, what skills do you have?" Zhou Wenzhang spat and said.
Fan He and the other three all showed expressions of disgust.
"If you don't come down, we're leaving," Hu Wenhua continued to shout.
We can't keep arguing with those dogs upstairs.
He's a man who cares about his reputation.
"Are you feeling guilty? Fan Jin, aren't you going to explain your relationship with the Bai family?"
"For a scholar, brewing wine is one thing, and drinking wine is also a refined pursuit. But to put this wine out to sell and earn some money, don't you think that's an insult to the status of a scholar?" Zheng Pingsheng said righteously and sternly.
Fan Jin frowned.
Qin Wanyue said that her family's house was pitifully small, and Zheng Pingsheng didn't think about earning more money to buy a bigger house and improve the family's meals, but instead complained about others earning money?
How dare he say such things and even look down on people who earn money?
Hu Wenhua thought he had touched a nerve with his brother-in-law, a scholar, and retorted, "My brother-in-law doesn't sell alcohol, I do! What, you want to argue with me?"
With his hands on his hips and a fierce look on his face, not to mention Zheng Pingsheng alone, even the four of them wouldn't dare to argue with such a seemingly unapproachable villain.
"Brother Fan, didn't you hitch a ride on the Bai family's coattails? The Bai family invited you to their home to be a tutor. You should be able to earn at least a hundred or eighty taels of silver a year, right?" Zheng Pingsheng said sourly.
At the same time, he realized that Fan Jin must have been secretly doing some manual labor business to earn a little money, and had not been involved with the Bai family at all.
If we get on the good side with the Bai family, why would we need to earn a penny or two by selling rice wine?
The Bai family is wealthy and powerful. Even a little bit of their wealth is enough for Fan Jin's entire family to live comfortably without having to worry about food and drink. Moreover, they don't have to endure the elements, and it's a respectable thing to do. Why would he give up the Bai family's coattails to come and sell rice wine?
That's really crazy.
Zhao Fugui sneered: "Brother Pingsheng, you think too highly of him! Do you think he passed the imperial examination at a young age like you, Brother Pingsheng, and became a scholar?"
Why would the Bai family hire someone who isn't even a scholar as a tutor?
Although the Bai family were businessmen, they were extremely wealthy. They could even hire a Hanlin scholar from the capital who had returned to his roots to tutor their only son. How could they let a mere student jeopardize their son's future?
He didn't get involved with the Bai family, but he still knew a little about their affairs.
Fan Jin was thinking that the boy who had taught him was actually an old scholar from the Hanlin Academy in the capital who had retired and returned to his hometown. No wonder his insights on the knowledge in books were so unique when they discussed them.
Ling Ran had already gained some understanding of Fan Jin's situation from the words of the people above.
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