这天，老张公带着武大郎来到张夫人父母的聚居地。一下车，武大郎就开始抱怨：“这个地方所有的店铺都是那个女人（妈祖）家的，我们到这里来干什么？”
老张公领着武大郎走进了一家店铺，里面的掌柜的向他打招呼，是故人重逢。接着，他们俩依次走进了每一家店铺。里面的老板都向老张公打招呼。
One day, Publican Zhang took Martial Big Wolf to the place where Mrs.
Zhang's parents lived. As soon as he got off the car, Martial Big Wolf started
complaining: "All the shops in this place belong to that woman (Mazu), why
are we here?"
Old Zhang Publican led Martial Big Wolf into a store, and the shopkeeper
inside greeted him as an old friend reunited. Then the two of them went into
each store in turn. The bosses inside all greeted Old Zhang Publican.
武大郎问：“爷爷！为什么你认识这里的每一位老板？”
老张公回答：“这些店铺以前都是我的，是我送给他们张家的！”
武大郎问：“你为什么送给他们家这么多的店铺？”
Martial Big Wolf asked, “Grandpa! Why do you know every boss here?”
Old Zhang Publican replied, “All these stores used to be mine, I gave
them to the Zhang family!”
Martial Big Wolf asked, “Why did you give so many stores to their
family?”
老张公回答：“我们邓人喜欢娶大个子女人做媳妇。在你爸爸向她求婚的三年前，我买下了她们家周围的所有店铺，并且立了一个特别的规矩，‘顾客每次买东西，可以问一个商业方面的问题’。你妈妈喜欢做生意。她的生意经就是从每次买东西问一个问题学来的。当你爸爸向她求婚时，我买通了所有她认识的人替你爸爸说好话！”
武大郎问：“那她不感觉这事奇怪吗？”
Old Zhang Publican replied, “We Deng people like to marry big women as
daughters-in-law. Three years before your father proposed to her, I bought all
the stores around their house and made a special rule, 'Customers can ask one
question about business every time they buy something’. Your mom loved
business. She learned her business lessons from asking one question per
purchase. When your dad asked her to marry him, I bribed everyone she knew to
put in a good word for your dad!”
Martial Big Wolf asked, “Doesn't she think it's strange?”
老张公回答：“她问这个问题啦！我的店铺老板回答，‘我们张公做生意是以服务社会为宗旨的。他在全世界有三千多家店铺，第一目的都是为顾客提供方便，利益顾客，而不是以寻求经济利益为第一目的的。为此，国王赐予了他 ‘公’的爵位。”（注，“公”在公爵高低排位上相当于“王”，是最高的爵位）。
Old Zhang Publican replied, “She asked this question! My store owner
replied, 'Our Zhang Publican does business to serve the society. He has more
than 3,000 stores all over the world, all with the first purpose of providing
convenience and benefit to his customers, rather than seeking financial gain as
his first purpose. For this reason, the king bestowed upon him the title of
'Publican'.” (Note that “Publican” is
equivalent to “King” in the hierarchy of dukes and is the highest nobility rank
in Chinese Culture.)
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在一个十字路口，老张公又说：“我知道关于你妈妈的每一件事，例如，她扣衣服纽扣的顺序和你爸爸不一样！” 说着他面对武大郎站着，解开了上衣的扣子，然后按照张夫人系扣的顺序又把衣服扣上了。老张公又说，“这种系纽扣的顺序，你有必要记下来。” 说着，他让武大郎把他自己的衣服扣子解开，按照她妈系扣的顺序把衣服扣好。张公还蹲下来为武大郎纠正错误的系扣姿势和顺序。
武大郎问：“那我爸爸是怎么系扣的？”
At a crossroads, Old Zhang Publican said, “I know every single thing
about your mother, for example, she buttons her clothes in a different order
than your father!” Saying this he stood facing Martial Big Wolf, unbuttoned his
blouse, and then buttoned his clothes again in the order in which Mrs. Zhang
had buttoned them. Old Zhang Publican added, “This order of button fastening is
necessary for you to memorize.” Saying this, he asked Martial Big Wolf to
unbutton his own clothes and button them up in the order in which her mother
had buttoned them up. Zhang Publican also squatted down to correct Martial Big
Wolf's wrong button fastening posture and order.
Martial Big Wolf asked, “Then how did my father fasten the buttons?”
老张公又站到了武大郎的面前，解开了衣服扣子，说：“你爸爸系扣的方式简单！他就从上向下，一顺地扣下来了！”说着，他开始模仿礼敬公的系扣动作。
武大郎问：“为什么她这么系扣子？”
Old Zhang Publican stood in front of Martial Big Wolf again, unbuttoned
his shirt, and said, “Your father has a simple way of fastening buttons! He
just buttoned it from the top down, in one smooth motion!” Saying this, he
began to imitate the button fastening action of Etiquette-salutation Publican.
Martial Big Wolf asked, “Why does she fasten her buttons like that?”
老张公回答：“我从她小的时候就开始研究她。她很小的时候就这样系纽扣，直到现在。自从她们家的佣人告诉我她这个与众不同的系扣方式，我就开始研究，到现在我也没琢磨明白她为什么那样系扣子！”
Old Zhang Publican replied, “I have been studying her since she was
small. She tied her buttons like this when she was very young until now. Ever
since their maid told me about this unusual way of fastening her buttons, I
started to study her, and to this day I haven't been able to figure out why she
fastens her buttons that way!”
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张夫人发现自从武大郎从他爷爷家回来，总找借口，进入她和礼敬的卧室看她和礼敬穿衣服。一天，外出之前，她故意等他来偷看时，匆忙地穿上外套儿，一边向外走，一边匆忙地系纽扣。她发现武大郎在直瞪瞪地看着她系纽扣，百思不得其解。
Mrs. Zhang noticed that
since Martial Big Wolf had returned from his grandfather's house, he always
found excuses to enter her and Etiquette Salutation's bedroom to watch her and
Etiquette Salutation dress. One day, before going out, she deliberately waited
for him to peek in, hurriedly put on her coat, and hurriedly fastened her
buttons as she walked out the door. She realized that Martial Big Wolf was
staring straight at her as she fastened her buttons and was puzzled.
一天，张夫人在帮武大郎整理房间的时候，翻出了一件他的旧校服。她发现领口已经被撕烂了，就扔到了地上，准备随后扔掉。武大郎急忙过去捡了起来，说，“这件衣服是我巫毒学院的校服，我想留着作纪念。”
张夫人再次查看衣服，说：“既然你要留作纪念，那我帮你把它修好。”
One day, while helping Martial Big Wolf organize his room, Mrs. Zhang
rummaged through one of his old school uniforms.
Noticing that the collar had been torn, she threw it to the floor, ready to
throw it away later. Martial Big Wolf hurried over and picked it up, saying,
“This is my voodoo uniform. I want to keep it as a souvenir.”
Mrs. Zhang looked at the
uniform again and said, “Since you want to keep it as a souvenir, I'll help you
fix it.”
武大郎指着领口处已经严重损茬的布料说：“补不了了，这儿都已经损茬到接缝了，布料不够用了。”
张夫人说：“补这件衣服，得先把这布料织出来，然后再补。”
Martial Big Wolf pointed to
the badly stubbled fabric at the neckline and said, “It can't be mended, it's
all stubbled to the seams here, and there's not enough fabric to go around.”
Mrs. Zhang said, “To mend
this uniform, we must first weave this fabric and then mend it.”
武大郎奇怪地叨咕：“衣服上的布，怎么织？”
张夫人说：“能织！你跟我去裁缝铺看看，就明白了。我得先让他们帮我画个样儿，他们画得又快又好。”
Martial Big Wolf strangely
chattered, “How do you weave the cloth on the clothes?”
Mrs. Zhang said, “It can be
woven! You'll understand if you come with me to the tailor's store. I must ask
them to draw a pattern for me first, and they do it fast and well.”
到了裁缝铺后，张夫人先说武大郎要看 “织补”，请裁缝店的人示范给他看。然后她就和一位裁缝开始研究如何修补武大郎的巫毒学院校服。
当裁缝铺把他的校服送了回来，武大郎惊奇地发现他的校服的领口处被织多了好多布，迷惑不解，但没问。武大郎常去看他的校服，在焦急地等待着张夫人去补他的校服。
Upon arriving at the tailor
store, Mrs. Zhang first said that Martial Big Wolf wanted to see “weaving
mending” and asked the tailor store to demonstrate it to him. And then she and
one of the tailors began to work on how to mend Martial Big Wolf's Voodoo Academy uniform.
When the tailor's store
returned his uniform, Martial Big Wolf was surprised to find so much extra
cloth woven into the neckline of his uniform, confused, but didn't ask. Martial
Big Wolf often visited his school uniform and waited anxiously for Mrs. Zhang
to mend it.
这天，张夫人修补完了校服后，就出去了。她回来后，发现武大郎已经把校服穿在了身上，正在捉摸着系纽扣。这件修补后的校服的领口和以前的有些不同。武大郎琢磨着，还是把纽扣系上了。张夫人在一边看着，没出声。随后，她拿出了一个金元宝让武二郎给裁缝铺送过去，把剩下的钱拿回来。
On this day, Mrs. Zhang went
out after mending the school uniform. When she came back, she found that
Martial Big Wolf had already put the school uniform on and was catching at
fastening the buttons. The buttons on this mended uniform were a bit different
from the previous ones. Martial Big Wolf fumbled with it and still fastened the
buttons. Mrs. Zhang watched from the side without making a sound. She then took
out a gold dumpling and asked Martial Second Wolf to send it to the tailor
store and get the rest of the money back.
武二郎发现拿回来的剩下来的金子很少，要查账，是什么东西花费了那么多的金子。裁缝给他解释，那件校服所用的线是重庆那地方产的蝉丝线，很贵。而张夫人要用含丝量更高的金丝线来修补，金丝线更贵，所以才花费了一个金元宝。
Martial Second Wolf realizes
that there is very little gold left in the take back and wants to check the
account as to what cost so much gold. The tailor explained to him that the
thread used for that school uniform was the cicada silk thread produced in
Chong’qing, which was very expensive. And Mrs. Zhang wanted to use gold silk
thread with higher silk content to repair it, which was even more expensive,
that's why it cost a gold dumpling.
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张夫人听见武二郎和武大郎又在屋里打起来了，跑了过来，看见武二郎正在撕扯武大郎的衣服领子。她过去就打了武二郎两巴掌。武二郎哭着跑了。武大郎一边哭一边系扣子，还叨咕，“又被他给扯坏了”。张夫人蹲了下来，一边说 “没坏，是你系得顺序不对！” 一边解开他系上的扣子。武大郎推开了张夫人的手，一边叨咕着
“这怎么没坏呢！？” 一边琢磨着自己系扣子，但他怎么也扣不上。
Mrs. Zhang heard Martial
Second Wolf and Martial Big Wolf fighting again in the house and ran over to
see Martial Second Wolf tearing the Martial Big Wolf’s collar. He went over and
slapped Martial Second Wolf twice. Martial Second Wolf cried and ran away. As
he cried, Martial Big Wolf tied his buttons and muttered, “He tore it again.”
Mrs. Zhang squatted down and said, “It's not broken, it's just that you tied
the buttons in the wrong order”, while undoing the buttons he had fastened.
Martial Big Wolf pushed away Mrs. Zhang's hands, while muttering “How come it's
not broken! He fumbled with his own buttons, but he couldn't fasten them.
张夫人又蹲下了，说：
“这是咱们家祖传的 ‘将军扣儿’, 是双层扣儿。我来教你怎么系！ 你得先系上里面层的一半，然后以这个顺序系外面层扣子，然后在底下一拉！” 校服果然没坏，被张夫人给系上了。
武大郎要解开扣子，自己练习一下系将军扣儿，可他怎么也解不开，就说：“妈你帮我解开，我再练习一下系将军扣！”
Mrs. Zhang squatted down
again and said, “This is our family's ancestral ‘General's Button’ which is a
double layer button. I'll teach you how to fasten it! You must fasten half of
the inner layer first, then fasten the outer layer buttons in this order, and
then pull at the bottom!” The school uniform really wasn't broken and was tied
by Mrs. Zhang.
Martial Big Wolf wanted to
undo the buttons and practice tying the general's buttons himself, but he
couldn't get it undone, so he said, “Mom, you help me undo it, and I'll
practice tying the general's buttons again!”
张夫人（妈祖）听后，一边流泪一边说：“要解开将军扣儿，你得先在上面拉一下，然后再解扣子！” 这时，她听见在一边偷看的武二郎跑了，就追了出来。
武二郎哭着说：“那个孙猴子叫你一声妈，你就高兴地哭了！我总叫你妈，也没见你笑过！”
Upon hearing this, Mrs.
Zhang (Mazu) shed tears and said, “To undo the general's buttons, you must pull
up them a little before you undo them!” At that moment, she heard Martial
Second Wolf, who was peeping from the side, run away and chased after him.
Martial Second Wolf cried,
“That Sun Monkey called you mom, and you cried with joy! I always call you mom,
and I've never seen you smile!”
张夫人带他来到了金库，指着储备区的架子说，“你还记得这里以前是什么样吧！我们家的储备资金是三年的收入，全花没了。刚才那个金元宝是我在流动资金架子上拿的。你若再打你大哥，咱家就要破产了！那咱们都得像那家姓孙的马戏团的人似地，住在大街上了。”
武二郎害怕了，说：“妈！以后我再也不打大哥了！”
Mrs. Zhang took him to the
vault and pointed to the shelves in the reserve area, saying, “You remember
what this place used to be like! Our family's reserve fund was three years'
worth of income, and it was all spent. That gold dumpling just now was taken by
me from the liquidity shelf. If you hit your big brother again, our family will
go bankrupt! Then we'll all have to live on the street like that circus people
surnamed Sun.”
Martial Second Wolf got
scared and said, “Mom! I'll never hit my big brother again!”
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