Chapter 217 The Great Accident
"Isn't it just to do things for a friend? People like us! They have no status and no status, and they can't do big things. They are all busy with these friends all day long. After they have finished their work, they are busy with other families, and they don't have time to spare any time." Wang Wenyan said with a smile. It seems that he should be doing well in Beijing. When he said this, he obviously had a bit of pride in spring.
The three of them walked and chatted, and soon arrived at Wang Wenyan's home.
The Wang family is not big, with only one yard, three inches, and more than a dozen houses. As soon as they stepped into the door, they heard the noisy inside the house, and there seemed to be many people.
When Wang Wenyan came back, seven or eight people had already come out of the hall, some called Big Brother and some called Master Wang, and some were in a mess. Wang Wenyan nodded with everyone with a smile, "Why are you all here?"
"I heard that my brother is back, so we will take a look."
Some people also said, "Let me see if there is something we have to do with you."
Wang Wenyan nodded and walked into the house with everyone.
Yu Ren watched coldly. The characters sitting in the Wang family looked like they were all gangsters. Judging from their clothes, there were constables, clerks, street gangsters in short shirts, some people wearing extramarital clothes, and a Taoist priest. Although the characters were mixed, all of them were people with low social status.
Wang Wenyan sat down and talked to the Taoist priest first, "Brother Yang has always been in Taihu Lake! Why did he run to his brothers for a while?"
The Taoist Yang showed a look of shame on his face.
"I'm really hiding Brother Wang, this year's season is not very good. Our brothers have been doing a little bad recently and have been a little tight recently. This time,..."
Before Taoist Yang could finish speaking, Wang Wenyan raised his hand to stop him.
"Brother Yang understands what he meant." After Wang Wenyan said that, he raised his hand to a family member behind him. "Wang Yun, go and ask your wife to get a hundred taels of silver and hand it over to Brother Yang."
When Taoist Yang heard this, he hurriedly thanked Wang Wenyan.
After a while, Wang Yun took a small cloth bag and handed it to Taoist Maestro Yang. The Taoist Maestro took the silver, but was not long-winded, and only bowed to Wang Wenyan, bowed, thanked him, and turned around and left.
On this side, Wang Wenyan talked to others. Most of the people who came to him had something to do, and only a few came purely to see him. Wang Wenyan almost always responded to them. Among these people, some were pleaded for mercy, some were pleaded for trouble, and some were pursuing money like Taoist Yang. But no matter what they asked for, Wang Wenyan could almost satisfy them.
This made Yu Ren admire Wang Wenyan. He finally knew why Wang Wenyan was just a minor official in the government office, and his reputation in Suzhou City was so famous. He was simply a realistic version of timely rain!
After almost all the people were sent away, a young man stood up in the end.
This man is quite tall, but very thin and has a very shabby dress. Seeing that everyone was leaving, he also got up and wanted to leave. Wang Wenyan saw him at first sight.
"This guy looks very good, I wonder if there is anything?"
The man was asked by Wang Wenyan and had to stop and his face turned red first. He clasped his fists at Wang Wenyan, "Yan Peiwei is a weaver from Jiangxi. Because he had just arrived in Suzhou, he couldn't find something for the time being, and he happened to be sick. The few taels of free silver in his hand were exhausted and now he was desperate. I heard that Mr. Wang is a man who is eager for success and righteousness, so I came to the door with shamelessness and wanted to borrow some taels of silver from him to solve the urgent problem."
When Wang Wenyan heard this, she didn't think much about it, so she waved her hand to ask her family to get the money. Zhao Rui, who was beside her, suddenly winked and stopped him.
Wang Wenyan didn't know what her cousin was thinking, so she put down her raised hand and just looked at Zhao Rui.
"Is Mr. Yan very good at weaving and his team?" Zhao Rui asked in anger.
"I dare not be a good person. The villain dares not say that there is any extraordinary talent in weaving and weaving technology, but my family has been a weaver for generations. I made a loom in my hometown a few years ago." Speaking of this, Yan Peiwei looked anxious. He was obviously worried that Zhao Rui would not lend him money because she had no skills.
"Oh!" Yu Ren heard that Yan Peiwei had actually made a loom that could be pushed without human power, and he couldn't help but become interested.
“What kind of loom is it?”
Yan Peiwei glanced at Yu Ren. He thought that Yu Ren's words meant not to believe what he said just now. He didn't know who the young man in front of him was, but he came to borrow money today. Although he was not happy with the young man's suspicion of himself, he also knew that he could not offend him.
So, Yan Peiwei replied seriously, "It is a loom that uses the power of steam after water boils."
He thought Yu Ren must not understand, and was about to further answer the questions he asked, but he didn't expect Yu Ren to cry out, "Steam engine!"
Yan Peiwei was a little surprised, "Yes, it is a loom that is driven by steam. So I named it the steam loom."
Yu Ren still disbelief. He has always been deeply influenced by modern history and has always believed that steam cars should be the first invented by the West. In his own thoughts, he has always believed that without his own participation, no one in this world could have invented a steam engine at this time.
But now he heard an unexpected news, one that he had unexpectedly expected, and one that he could not believe.
He didn't know whether what the person named Yan Peiwei said was true or false. At least he didn't believe that this person could really build a steam engine.
"You said you made that thing?"
Yan Peiwei nodded. He didn't know why the strange young man in front of him suddenly seemed so excited after hearing the news.
"Then, can you draw out his picture and show me?"
Yan Peiwei shook his head.
Yu Ren was disappointed, and he was almost certain that this person was bragging about what he said just now.
"Why?"
Yan Peiwei's face suddenly turned red, "I, I can't read and can't use pen."
Yu Ren felt relieved suddenly, and a tolerant smile appeared on his face. "It doesn't matter, then just draw it roughly on the ground to show me. Then explain it to me in the picture."
Yan Peiwei saw that the young man suddenly became interested in the thing he made, but his face turned extremely ugly. "I, I won't borrow money."
After saying that, Yan Peiwei ran out the door.
"Catch him!" Yu Ren was shocked when he suddenly saw Yan Peiwei running away. This was an opportunity that had never been seen in a thousand years, so he would not let it go, so he couldn't help but shouting outside the Wang family.
Two servants from the Wang family ran forward, grabbed Yan Peiwei, and pushed him back to the house.
"Little husband, this kid is very dishonest. Should I tie him up with a rope? When I saw him in, I felt something was wrong. I saw that he didn't look like a serious person. I wanted to stop him from entering. But he followed Master Yang again. I thought he was brought by Master Yang, so I didn't stop him.
Unexpectedly, something happened."
The two servants pushed Yan Peiwei into the room and said.
"You are not aware of something, and don't look at what this place is. Take out your little husband's things!" a servant scolded.
Yu Ren was so scolded and laughed by these two foreign servants.
"Don't be rude!" Yu Ren shouted to the two servants. "I asked you to invite Mr. Yan back to discuss important matters. Who said he took my things?"
When the two servants heard that they were wrong, they turned out to be Yu Ren's distinguished guest, they were shocked and quickly apologized to Yan Peiwei.
Yan Peiwei twisted his arm that was so painful that they twisted, and waved to them. "It's okay."
The two servants bowed to Yan Peiwei again and retreated.
Wang Wenyan watched all this quietly, and didn't know what Yu Ren was doing with the man surnamed Yan. In his opinion, the man surnamed Yan was just an irrelevant weaver and he didn't want to associate with such a person. However, since he was asking for a visit, he was in trouble, and he would give him a few taels of silver to take advantage of the beauty of others. However, he would not take such a person to heart.
So Yu Ren's performance of this surname Yan made him unable to understand. He thought that wasting time on such a person was really not worth it. If he hadn't had some understanding of Yu Ren and knew that his prospective cousin's wife had a unique vision, he would have asked someone to send the surname Yan away. When he came back this time, time was very tight, and he didn't want to waste his already short time on such an insignificant little person. But due to Yu Ren's face, he still endured waiting until now.
But seeing that Yu Ren and this poor weaver were working endlessly, he finally couldn't bear it anymore. So Wang Wenyan bowed to Yu Ren.
"I'm going to the inner room to see how the inner person is cleaning up. Ruirui, please sit with Mr. Yu." After saying that, he turned around and went in.
Although Wang Wenyan's actions seemed a little rude, Yu Ren didn't care at all. His current attention was attracted by the man named Yan Peiwei in front of him.
"I just asked you to draw a picture. What are you running away? Do you think this is the result of your research? Don't you want to tell me!
That's all. I'll pay 50 taels to buy your research results. As long as you draw well and explain it clearly to me, no matter whether it works for me or not, I'll give you fifty taels of silver. How about it?"
Chapter completed!