Chapter 13: Focus on making money
"Child, don't be so sad! Don't worry about the spiritual stones. I won't ask you to pay the debt. What are you afraid of?" After Wang Ergou finished recording the accounts, he patted Ye Fei's shoulder, who had a livid face, and comforted him: "I will settle the accounts with your father later!"
"Hehe..." Ye Fei smiled and said nothing.
What else can he say when he encounters such a cunning and treacherous person?
"Okay, I don't think it's necessary to continue looking at other houses. You can just live here. This house has good feng shui. You should hurry up and clean up the house. Clear out all the things you don't want or that are broken, and clean the floor. Otherwise, how will you sleep at night? I have to go back and make dinner!"
After Wang Ergou finished speaking, he turned around and strode away, leaving Ye Fei standing at the door in a daze.
Ye Fei looked at the broken wooden door that he had pushed down, feeling a mixture of emotions in his heart.
Where did Ye Liting get the courage to leave me here to learn skills?
With the way Ergou keeps accounts, you still can't support me even if you sell your blood.
Not to mention him alone, I will study here for ten or eight years. Even if I am not kicked out by the Ye family, the entire Ye family will have to follow Ergouzi and take the surname Wang.
With this method of defrauding people, Musk would be defrauded of everything if he came here, let alone me?
No!
We must get out of here as soon as possible!
This old man is obviously a charlatan who is trying to cheat you out of your money.
Ye Liting must have been deceived by him.
There's no way I'd learn anything by staying here.
Besides, can you afford to learn it?
A bowl of poisonous porridge costs twenty spirit stones, which is Ye Liting's monthly salary in the Ye family.
If he teaches me a martial art, wouldn't it cost me tens of thousands of dollars?
go!
Must go tonight!
In order to reduce Wang Ergou's defensiveness, Ye Fei put his backpack at the door and started to clean up the house.
Although no one has lived in this house for a long time, it has everything you need, including a bed, a table, a bench, etc., except that there is no door...
Ye Fei is now full of energy and much more energetic than in the past few days.
He worked alone for two or three hours and didn't feel tired at all.
evening.
When it was almost dark, he finally tidied up the house.
Just then, Wang Ergou came over with his hands behind his back.
He first walked around the room, checked it, and nodded with satisfaction: "Well, it's well cleaned!"
After saying that, he walked out the door, took out a small notebook, and came to the pile of broken tables and benches that Ye Fei had thrown out when he cleaned the house: "Three five-hundred-year-old pearwood chairs with backrests were damaged, thirty spirit stones each, a total of ninety spirit stones for compensation!"
"Fuck!" Ye Fei was stunned for a moment: "Master, you were the one who told me to throw out all the broken things before. These stools were broken in the first place, so I threw them out. Now you want me to pay for it, isn't that a bit unreasonable!"
"It was broken originally?" Wang Ergou looked at Ye Fei with some suspicion.
"Yes, they are bad!" Ye Fei said contemptuously.
Damn, luckily I was careful and didn’t throw away those nice furniture that I didn’t like, otherwise I would have lost a lot of money.
"Who can help you prove that they are bad?" Wang Ergou suddenly asked.
Ye Fei: “…”
What the hell...
“Hey, what’s going on here? Tell me…” Wang Ergou sighed, looking embarrassed. “If you found out they were broken, you shouldn’t have touched them! If you saw they were broken, why didn’t you tell me first? I came over to confirm that they were broken a long time ago. If I didn’t want you to pay for it, I wouldn’t want you to pay for it!”
Ye Fei: “…”
"Write it down, write it down everything!" Ye Fei pointed at Wang Ergou's small notebook.
What else could he say except asking him to remember?
"If you damage a piece of eight hundred year old ironwood tabletop, you will be compensated with fifty spirit stones!"
"If you damage a thousand-year-old red sandalwood box, you will be compensated with 200 spirit stones!"
……
Ye Fei stood aside and simply listened to Wang Ergou's accounting. Another five or six hundred spirit stones were added to the account.
father!
You'd better bless me to escape safely!
Otherwise, next time you come to pick me up, even if you compensate me yourself, this won’t be enough!
Don’t even think about taking me away when the time comes. You can’t even think about leaving.
"Okay, let's go and eat!" Wang Ergou put away the small notebook and said to Ye Fei, "I have prepared the food and am waiting for you to eat!"
"Hmm..." Ye Fei shook his head: "I'm afraid of being poisoned!"
"It's not like we're having thousand-treasure porridge for dinner, it's not poisonous!" Wang Ergou said disdainfully.
"I can't afford it!" Ye Fei continued to shake his head.
"The meal is free! You drank Qianbao Congee this morning, so you've already paid for today's meal!" Wang Ergou said with disdain: "Kid, who do you think your master is? I don't charge you for everything!"
"Really?" Ye Fei said in disbelief.
"After all, I am a famous master of my generation. I always keep my word. Would I joke with you like this?" Wang Ergou said, and turned around and walked away with his hands behind his back: "Eat it or not!"
When Ye Fei saw Wang Ergou leaving, his stomach suddenly growled.
After cleaning the house for the whole afternoon, he was indeed a little hungry.
Damn it, go eat something. If you don’t eat enough, you won’t have the energy to run away at night.
Ye Fei hurriedly chased after him and followed behind Wang Ergou.
Wang Ergou looked back at him and said, "Why, you figured it out again?"
"We agreed that dinner is free!" Ye Fei said disdainfully.
The reason why he wanted to settle accounts with him even though he was clearly planning to escape was because, on the one hand, he was worried that he would not be able to escape, and on the other hand, he was afraid that even if he escaped, the old man would come down the mountain to ask Ye Liting for debts.
Ye Liting was still very good to him, he couldn't let him down.
Following Wang Ergou into the house, he found that Wang Ergou had indeed prepared four dishes and the rice was served.
Zheng Dao had already been sitting at the table, drooling over the food.
It is so tall that sitting on the ground is like an adult sitting on a stool.
But this dog seemed to be quite human-like. It sat at the table very obediently and did not steal any food.
"Hurry up and sit down to eat!" Wang Ergou said, "Today is your first day here, and you were bitten a few times by Zhengdao, plus you were cleaning the house this afternoon, so I didn't teach you martial arts. After dinner, you should rest early. Tomorrow morning, I will start teaching you martial arts."
I want you to pass me a dick, I'm going to run away tonight...
Ye Fei thought to himself, picked up a bowl of rice, picked up an unknown vegetable and stuffed it into his mouth.
This green vegetable is just like the stir-fried choy sum, each one is whole.
It's crispy and refreshing when you take a bite.
This vegetable is really delicious. When you eat it, you will feel a cool feeling that goes down your throat and reaches your internal organs.
"Zhengdao, come, eat too!" Wang Ergou also picked up a vegetable and threw it on the ground, and Zhengdao immediately lowered his head to eat.
Ye Fei had to admit that Wang Ergou's cooking skills were really great.
Even ordinary cabbage and local chicken were made into exquisite delicacies by him.
Four dishes, two meat and two vegetarian, all very delicious.
Ye Fei ate three bowls of rice before he touched his stomach and put down his bowl and chopsticks.
"Master, I'm full. You take your time eating. I'm going back to my room to rest first!" Ye Fei thought that since Wang Ergou and Zhengdao had not finished eating yet, it would be the best time for him to slip away.
As soon as he finished speaking, he turned around and left.
However, just after taking a step, Wang Ergou suddenly said, "Wait a minute, why are you in such a hurry? Let's settle the accounts first!"
"Ah?" Ye Fei was stunned for a moment: "Didn't you say that dinner is free?"
"I did say dinner is free! But I only said the meal is free. Who made you greedy and want to eat my food?" Wang Ergou looked disdainful.
Ye Fei: “…”
Eat food? No vegetables?
How the hell do I eat?
Who knew that you calculated the meals separately!
"My child, it's not that Master is unreasonable! Look..." Wang Ergou pointed at the four dishes on the table with his chopsticks: "Each of these four dishes is not something that ordinary people can eat. I spent a lot of effort to get them. Do you want to eat them for free?"
After Wang Ergou finished speaking, he took out a small notebook and pointed with a pen at the plate of green vegetables that Ye Fei thought were particularly delicious: "You ate five of the fifty-year-old Tianqin, each one is twenty spirit stones, a total of one hundred."
What the hell...
"Is it calculated by roots?" Ye Fei was almost going crazy.
"Of course!" Wang Ergou pointed to a plate of meat that Ye Fei didn't know the name of: "This meat has to be calculated by the slice!"
Ye Fei: “…”
Fortunately, I didn’t stir-fry the minced meat today, otherwise this old beast would have charged me per grain.
Wang Ergou pointed at the plate of meat and said, "You ate fifteen slices of hundred-year-old snow fox meat, which costs a total of one hundred and fifty spirit stones."
"You ate three pieces of sixty-year-old Lingshan Jade Cabbage, sixty spirit stones."
"This is just ordinary cabbage. What sixty-year-old Lingshan Jade Cabbage? Who are you trying to fool?"
"I planted this cabbage myself on the sacred mountain behind me when I was twenty years old. It was grown by absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and the essence of the sun and the moon. I am eighty years old this year, which is exactly sixty years. How could I remember it wrongly?"
"Okay, remember it!" Ye Fei pointed at the plate of fried chicken with shredded ginger angrily: "Then this plate should be ordinary chicken, right?"
"Well, this dish is relatively ordinary!" Wang Ergou nodded and wrote a few words in his notebook: "You ate ten pieces of wild thirty-year-old Feiyun chicken, so I'll give you five spirit stones for each piece, for a total of fifty spirit stones."
"Ah?" Ye Fei was almost mad: "You are obviously a domestic hen, what kind of wild Feiyun chicken? Why don't you say wild Phoenix!"
"How can you talk nonsense, kid?" Wang Ergou suddenly put on a stern face, acting like an elder teaching a younger one, and said seriously, "A chicken is just a chicken, how can it be called a phoenix? I'm not telling you to be upright. You can't behave like this. When you go out into the world, you'll be looked down upon. You have to change!"
Ye Fei: “…”
"My character is bad? I want to change it?" Ye Fei's face turned green with anger: "Master, you have to understand that you are the one who is cheating me out of my money, not me! How dare you say that I have a bad character? And you said that I will be looked down upon if I go out to venture into the world? Do you think anyone will look up to you if you go out to venture into the world?"
"Traveling around in the world is what you young people like to do. I'm already so old, why should I venture into the world? I don't care anymore!" Wang Ergou looked disdainful.
Ye Fei: “…”
He, he doesn’t care anymore?
At this moment, Wang Ergou added with a look of disdain: "I just want to make money now! To provide for my retirement!"
Ye Fei: “…”
Just focusing on making money?
Pension?
You decide whether to die or not.
Ye Fei suddenly felt that he had walked right into his gunpoint this time.
No wonder. When I came here yesterday, I saw so many people collecting debts. My father happened to send him an apprentice, so he would definitely trick me to death, right?
"Don't worry, your master is a principled person. I treat everyone fairly and honestly. Whatever you give is what you get. I won't charge you anything you don't want!" Wang Ergou pointed at the chicken in the bowl and said seriously, "I bought this chicken and released it when I was fifty years old. Since then, it has been living on the cliffs behind the mountain. I have always called it Feiyun Chicken. Is there a problem?"
"No problem, fine, remember it..." Ye Fei suppressed his anger and suddenly pointed at the big black dog that was still gnawing on the ground: "Zheng Dao also ate so much just now. I eat one piece and you throw one piece to it. Why don't you ask it for money!"
Wang Ergou glanced at Zheng Dao, and immediately curled his lips at Ye Fei with disdain: "I will naturally ask Zheng Dao to pay for what he eats. He doesn't want you to pay for it, so why do you care about him? You are his father, right?"
Ye Fei: “…”