Chapter Nine: The Skin of the Iris
At night, Fan Li slept in Xi Shi's room.
"My lord, you haven't been to the eldest sister and second sister for a long time." You don't have to accompany me tonight. Xi Shi said.
"Hmm. I was thinking that in the future we should start a new life and say goodbye to the past days completely. You and I should change our names. Fan Li said.
"We're going to have to support ourselves with our hands." What are your plans? Xi Shi always obeyed Fan Li and admired him very much.
Fan Li said to himself, "From now on, I will be called 'I'll call it 'Yizi Pi'!" ”
"Iris skin?" Xi Shi's face was red.
"Zipi was your name when you were a child. It seems that you were a naughty ghost when you were a child. ”
"Then why did you use my nickname?" Xi Shi asked knowingly, and she loved to listen.
"I'm going to love you for the rest of my life." Fan Li said affectionately, "It's just that I'm old and my love doesn't move." ”
. Xi Shi said tolerantly, "You should leave some spirit for Yue Nu, I see that she wants a child." ”
"My Yiguang is really a good woman who is reasonable." Fan Li sighed.
The bird is a large bird, a harrier eagle, which can hover in the air for a long time to find prey, aim at the target and then swoop down quickly and hit. The Qi people call it "strike right", which means that the target of the attack is accurate. Yi yi, meaning "skin bag", because Wu Zixu's body was thrown into a leather bag by fu cha into the Yangtze River, Fan Li took The yiyi as his surname in honor of Wu Zixu; and Zipi means naughty child, which was the name of Xi Shi when he was a child, and Fan Li used it as his own name.
It is a leather bag. Coincidentally, Yi is also the name of Xi Shi. Fan Li revealed a warm smile on his lips.
Why the name, Fan Li has a deeper meaning.
What does it mean? The Southern Song Dynasty Xin Renjie has a poem "A Thousand Thoughts":
When the wine is poured to the people,
And the qi pours first.
Most of all, Cocoa,
All the best.
Sit on the throne,
More smiling at the owl.
It is a raw cowhide bag for wine, and in layman's terms, it is a cowhide wine sac.
Fan Li gave himself such a strange name to express his nostalgia for a person, who was his lifelong enemy- Wu Zixu.
Fan Li and Wu Zixu are both Chu people, Wu Zixu is the Xiangguo of the Wu Kingdom, fan Li is the Xiangguo of the Yue Kingdom, and although the two are their masters, they both have a sense of pity for each other. Fan Li used the divisive meter to get rid of Wu Zixu, which was the master of each of them and had to do it as a last resort.
Fan Li got rid of Wu Zixu, and his heart was full of guilt and regret. Naming himself Yizipi, in addition to the meaning of nostalgia for Wu Zixu, in fact, Fan Li is more intended to show that he is a big leather bag with wine. However, this "wine bag" is not a "wine bag rice bag", but contains a higher level of the concept: wealth is like water, and he is like that big leather bag, soft and not fixed shape, according to local conditions, go with the flow, only in this way, the wealth of the world can be contained in it. What better name could there be for a person who aspires to pursue a career in business for the rest of his life? At the same time, Fan Li wants to remind himself that he should never go down Wu Zixu's old road again, and he should not let wu Zixu's life tragedy repeat itself.
Of course, this is just a means for Taoguang to cultivate obscurity. Under the superficial meaning, there is actually a deeper meaning: wealth is like water, and in order to firmly grasp wealth in your hands, you must have the cowhide sac that Youyi does this, and put it into it as much as you want. And once it overflows, you have to take the initiative to untie the bag and let the wine inside flow out. Otherwise, even the strongest cowhide sac will be broken one day.
From this moment on, the strange name "Iriszipi" was born.
Fan Li must not have thought that this strange name had become a golden signboard circulated through the centuries in the business world.
Fan Li gathered the whole family together for a meeting and told everyone that his name would be "Yizi Pi" in the future. ”
Everyone thought it was incredible, the name was so weird. Fan Li did not explain, only Xi Shi understood in his heart, and it was a burst of sweetness.
Fan Tun looked at Fan Li and then at Xi Shi, his face full of doubts.
"Dad," Fan Tun asked, "what should we do next?" ”
"We just stayed here. Here is bordering bohai bay, far away from the country, Gou Jian would not have dreamed that we would be buried in anonymity on this distant seashore. Di Yizipi said to everyone, "We want to live a new life here." ”
"What new life?" The crowd asked in unison.
"Doing business!" Iris zipi said.
"Doing business?"
"Yes, abandon the official to do business." Yizipi said, "Here is on the verge of the sea, the sea has inexhaustible fishery resources, sea salt resources, the commerce of the Country of Qi has always been very developed." Guan Zhong, the prime minister of the State of Qi at that time, relied on the profits of fishing and salt to lead the State of Qi on the road of a rich country and a strong army, and helped Duke Huan of Qi to become the first hegemon of the Spring and Autumn Period. ”
Yi Zipi led the people to inspect the terrain separately, find the village officials, visit the people, use the property and gold coins brought from the country of Vietnam, buy a large piece of land by the sea, hire local people, build two huts, and circle a large courtyard, and officially settle down on the seashore. Di Yi Zi Pi also gave the new residence an elegant name: Di Yi Palace.
One evening, Di Yizipi sat on a stone by the sea, looking at the sea, but his heart was drawing a blueprint for the future: planting mulberry silkworms on the hillside and developing the silk reeling industry; using rich pasture resources to develop animal husbandry; using the rich sea resources, drying salt, boiling salt, and carrying out salt-based commodity trade.
At this time, Xi Shi quietly walked over and asked softly, "Zi Pi, what is a person sitting here thinking?" By that name, she wanted to laugh.
Di Yizipi moved his body, gave Xi Shi a seat, asked her to sit down, and then asked with concern, "How's it going, are you still used to it?" ”
"With you there, get used to it everywhere." Xi Shi said.
"Alas!" Di Yizipi said, "I can't stand you and let you run to the beach to suffer." ”
"Stop saying that." Xi Shi said, "I heard that the second sister is pregnant?" ”
Iriszipi nodded.
Xi Shi rested his head on Zipi's arm, "Zipi you are really good, the sword is not old." ”
"Naughty again." ZiPi gently scraped Xi Shi's nose.
Zi Pi stood up. Although he was 68 years old, the years did not seem to have left many marks on him, he was still in a strong figure, smooth skin, clear vision, only the white hair of the sideburns revealed his age.
Xi Shi stood up and stood next to zipi. They look at the sea. The skin of the bird is bound to break new ground in the Chinese business community and leave a new legend.