Historical Legends of the New Wai in Kansai

Xu Laosi opened a pawnshop in longnan county. His service attitude is excellent and won the hearts of the people. His business is thriving. As the saying goes, peers are enemies. Xu Laosi's business is so hot that the rich man who runs a pawnshop in the same street is red-eyed and tries his best to beat Xu Laosi. There was a custom of opening a pawnshop in ancient times. After the pawnbroker evaluates the goods, regardless of whether the goods are expensive or cheap, the pawnbroker must pay the pawnbroker money immediately. Therefore, people who open pawn shops must have sufficient liquidity.

Lai is also a local rich man with a lot of money. In order to squeeze out Xu Laosi, he took out a pure gold toad hidden at home, worth 202,000 silver. He secretly found a distant friend Wang, pretending to be a pawn in Xu Laosi's pawnshop. On the one hand, he wants to explore Xu Laosi's family, on the other hand, he wants to squeeze Xu Laosi out. Wang took out pure gold toad and asked the shop assistant to pawn two hundred and two thousand pieces of silver. That day, Xu Laosi happened to be on a business trip. The man was furious and said that boss Xu had returned to his hometown and would come tomorrow. Wang had no choice but to go back. The clerk turned and flew to Xu Laosi. Xu Laosi was in no hurry after hearing this, and told the waiter to buy 50 vats quickly and put them on the boat quietly. Early the next morning, Xu Laosi called seven or eight guys, transported the vats to the pawnshop one by one, and let people out with great fanfare, saying that Xu Laosi had shipped a shipment of money. After listening to the servant's story, the rich man Lai was dubious and sent someone to inquire. Lai rich man's officers hid not far from the dock and watched secretly. I saw people coming and going on the dock, and Xu Laosi personally escorted them, and the servants watched closely. Suddenly there was a bang from the dock. It turned out that the servant was careless, and the rope fell and broke a jar. I saw shiny money all over the floor. Shocked, the poor man from the rich family hurried back to report to him. The rich man lai listened to the messenger's description and never dared to pawn the golden toad again. When Xu Laosi was doing the raft business, he borrowed a large sum of money from his old friend Li Huijian, a rich man in Xinfeng County, because of insufficient capital turnover. Later, his assets grew bigger and bigger, and he became rich, so he chose the base to build another closed house. Because the scale of the new enclosed house is huge, it has almost spent Xu Laosi's life savings.

One day, there was a foreigner at the east gate of the newly-built paddock, looking around, giving a thumbs-up and muttering. The housekeeper hurried him into the living room, made tea and settled down, and went to report to Xu Laosi who was working in the field.

In a short time, Xu Laosi came back, covered in mud and sweating all over his face. Under the guidance of his family, he came to the living room. Li Huijian, who was chatting with the housekeeper, looked up and saw that Xu Laosi, a farmer covered in mud and barefoot, had returned. Li Shifu couldn't believe his eyes. During the greeting, Xu Laosi ordered his family to kill pigs and hold a banquet.

Less than three packs of cigarettes, there was a meat feast on the table: braised pork with sauerkraut, braised trotters, braised heart and lungs ... This is Li Shifu's favorite Hakka cuisine in his life. At the dinner table, Xu Laosi told Li Huijian that his business depended entirely on Li Shifu's support. He wanted to pay back the loan early, but with so many brothers, the old house became more and more crowded. He made up his mind to build a new house and spent all his life's financial resources. ...

Li Huijian didn't expect Xu Laosi, a well-known wealthy businessman, to be so thrifty and frugal, without any extravagance and waste. He even killed chickens and pigs and gave a big banquet when he came. Li Huijian was moved by Xu Laosi's kindness and stopped talking about debts. After Li Huijian went back, he crossed off Xu Laosi's debt without telling his family.

A few years later, Xu Laosi sent someone to Xinfeng to pay back the money. Li Huijian is no longer alive. The son took out the bill and found that his father had crossed out the bill owed by Xu Laosi. I saw that his father wrote on the bill: I have worked hard all my life and still don't forget my roots. I have written off all my debts. With this friend, life is enough. Xu Laosi worked hard for many years and accumulated some capital. With the increase of population and looking at the crowded old paddock, he wants to build a durable paddock that integrates life, defense and entertainment. So I asked for help everywhere and finally found a famous brick-burning master named Luo in Xingning, Guangdong. Xu Laosi kindly invited him to his home, made it clear to him, and told him to hurry up and try to build a kiln and burn bricks as soon as possible. That year, it was Jiazi year, and the climate changed abnormally. It has been raining for several months, and the Guangdong master who burned the kiln can't work in the fields. One day, the bricklayer returned to his room and sighed at the rain outside the window. He thought: it's been more than half a year, and not a brick or tile has been burned. This is really a disgrace to Oriental Taoism. The Chinese New Year is coming, and he wants to go home, but the bricks haven't been burned yet. How can he ask the host for a salary? The more the kiln owner thought about it, the more unhappy he became. He wrote a note with a pen and left it on the table for Xu Laosi. The note reads:

Jiazi year, Jiazi year, rainy day. After eating the master's meal, I dug the master's field, and the blue bricks didn't smoke. As the festival approaches, the festival is coming, and I want to lose face, so I have to sell the meat of the cow as a travel expense. If you want to find it, please go to Xialongtian, Xingning, Guangdong.

The kiln owner sold the ground beef and left without saying goodbye. When Xu Laosi came back from downtown, after reading the note from the kiln-burning master, he immediately sent someone to bring money to Master Luo's hometown in Guangdong, saying that it was the weather, and he didn't blame him for not burning bricks. Master Luo thanked Xu Laosi for his generosity. After the New Year, he returned to Kansai with his wife and children to visit Xu Laosi. Later, he passed on the skill of burning bricks to his son. After his son got married in Kansai, he gave birth to two sons and mastered the technology of brick burning. Sun Ye III built a brick house for Xu Laosi, and it took 19 years to complete the bricks needed for the whole house.