Chapter 40: Monsters
Liu Yong looked at the sedan chair in the distance and only smiled bitterly.
"This official, please." The goatee waved his hand at Liu Yong towards the yamen.
"Oh. This official, villain Liu Yong, may I ask the official master's surname? Liu Yong smiled and calmed down, as if the snubbing just now had not happened to him at all. I didn't know that I thought it had happened to Lin Hualang, because he was looking at the sedan chair in the distance at the moment, his fists were clenched, his chest was bulging, his cheeks were undulating, and his eyes were burning with nameless fire. Niu Rong touched him, but he didn't move. was amused by Lin Hualang's appearance.
"Below is the clerk in the yamen, whose surname is Li Dongshan." The goatee stroked the goatee and smiled.
"Oh, it turned out to be Brother Li." Liu Yong said, handing the thing in his hand in front of Li Dongshan, "This little thing is not a tribute." ”
"This ......" Li Dongshan pretended to shirk.
"Please accept it from Brother Li, and the younger brother will not enter the yamen if he has something to do." After speaking, Liu Yong put the gift in Li Dongshan's hand, then arched his hand and turned away.
"Hey, Liu Guanren, aren't you going to buy salt?" Li Dongshan shouted.
Liu Yong came back to his senses and said, "Oh, I won't buy it today, I'll bother another day." Brother Li, please go back! ”
"What a weirdo, what do you do if you don't buy salt?" Li Dongshan shook his head, not knowing Liu Yong's intentions. Looking at the gift box in his hand again, he pulled off his goatee and smiled.
Zheng San said goodbye to Liu Yong and went back to the shop alone. Liu Yong and the three went to the tea shop. Sitting at the tea table, Lin Hualang was still angry.
Although Liu Yong complained a little about Lin Hualang's recklessness, he thought that he was also for himself, so he didn't take it to heart and poured him a bowl of tea to let him dissipate his anger. Lin Hualang picked up the tea bowl and drank it, but spit it out again, and the hot tea sprayed Niu Rong again.
This is the second time, Niu Rong glared at the bull's eye.
"What are you staring at me for, it's that this tea is too hot." Lin Hualang rolled his eyes, twisted his head to the side, and was angry.
Liu Yong patted Niu Rong's arm and signaled him not to be like Lin Hualang, but Lin Hualang was a victim of Niu Rong twice, which was really funny. This also made Liu Yong's heart feel a little easier. Although I don't have any clue about the business I want to plan, I at least have a general direction and know where the difficulties are. If there is a difficulty, solve it, and it is useless to complain about the loss. That's what Liu Yong thinks at the moment. No matter how difficult Guo Dequan is to deal with, he is just a person, and if he is a human being, he has weaknesses.
"Brother Hualang, are you still angry." Liu Yong poured tea for Lin Hualang again, and reminded him by the way, the water is hot, don't spray it again.
"Brother, you are generous, people treat you as a monkey!" Liu Yong is still fighting for Liu Yong.
"Forget it, are people officials, and it should be a big shelf. If you, Lin Hualang, also become an official, I'm afraid you will be more evil than him. Liu Yong joked with Lin Hualang to make him angry.
"Hmph, if I, Lin Hualang, become an official, the first thing to clean up is the guy who has no one in his eyes. I, Lin Hualang, have never been so angry since I was a child. Lin Hualang's delicate face relaxed slightly.
"Come on, let's have tea and get down to business." Liu Yong picked up the tea bowl as if he was toasting.
Lin Hualang also picked it up, suddenly put it down again, and said, "Brother, I want to eat wine, how about we talk about it at the wine table?" ”
Liu Yong shook his head and sighed: "It's a pity that your brother and I are shy." ”
Lin Hualang patted his chest and said: "What are you afraid of, I have money here, besides, just rely on my brother Hualang, do you need to pay for where to eat and drink?" Walk. After speaking, he threw down a few pennies and left with Liu Yong's hand.
The three of them found a small wine shop again, asked for a few side dishes, and chatted while drinking.
"Brother Hualang, brother, I'll give you a task, you find someone to keep an eye on that Guo Dequan for me, and tell me his whereabouts every day. In addition, I instructed two more people to inquire about Manmeizhou City to see how much salt and tea were stored in each grocery store. Liu Yong picked up his glass.
Lin Hualang held a wine glass and patted his chest to beat the package ticket.
"Okay, let's have a drink, then." Liu Yongdao.
Drinking dry wine, Niu Rong said unprecedentedly: "Official, what do you think I can do for you?" ”
Liu Yong looked at him with a smile, pondered for a moment, patted Niu Rong's broad shoulder, and said, "Niu Rong, you are like this, you can see if you can find me a few carriages in the surrounding villages." Be strong, able to walk long distances. It's not too expensive yet. ”
Niu Rong listened intently and nodded.
Lin Hualang continued: "Brother, I just look at the carriage, now that there is a war on the border, the court is still short of war horses." There are even fewer horses like this folk. If you find a few old horses, maybe there are still them, but don't think about the young and strong ones. ”
Liu Yong forgot about this stubble, and later generations did say this when he studied history, and the reason why the army of the Great Song Dynasty was weak in combat had a lot to do with their lack of cavalry.
"Brother Hua Lang is right, there are only three horses in the villages around us, and they are all old and can't walk." Niu Rong also said the same.
Liu Yong took a sip of wine and said, "Then let's go to the ox cart." You find me someone willing to sell, and I'll negotiate with them. ”
"Brother, an ox cart is worth a lot of money, you don't even have enough money to buy goods, how can you have spare money to buy an ox cart?" Lin Hualang asked.
Liu Yong picked up the wine bowl with a smile and said, "Come, let's eat another bowl." He also followed the local customs, changing drinking to eating.
"Ah, it's a good wine." Liu Yong pursed his lips after drinking, "Brother Hualang, brother will be honest with you, don't say that your brother and I don't have the money to buy the ox cart, and I don't even have the money to buy the goods." The only furniture your brother and I have had today has been replaced by those two porcelain vases. ”
Hearing this, Lin Hualang was taken aback, "What? My good brother, you can't be kidding your brother. ”
Niu Rong's eyes widened in shock.
Liu Yong took a sip of wine easily and indifferently, took a bite of sliced braised pork and put it in his mouth, and chewed it carefully. Revel in the juicy and tender aroma of meat. Lin Hualang and Niu Rong could only be anxious on the sidelines.
"I said good brother, don't just care about eating, you tell your brother, how can you go to Xixia without a penny? Brothers can help you with other things, but I can't help my brother if I don't have money. Lin Hualang looked at the monster in front of him without blinking. Indeed, Liu Yong at this time was a monster in Lin Hualang's eyes, a monster who didn't know the height of the sky.
"Come, come, eat, drink." Liu Yong swallowed the last bite of minced meat, picked up the bowl and said to Lin Hualang and Niu Rong. But neither of them served a bowl, but just looked at him in a daze.
Liu Yong smiled, put down the wine bowl, and said, "Don't look at me like this, I'm embarrassed." Lin Hualang said: "You still know that you are embarrassed, you are really a strange ...... to plan such a big business without a penny Man. ”
"You just say I'm a monster." Liu Yongdao broke Lin Hualang's mind.
Lin Hualang smiled and said, "Brother, you are not a monster, you are a white wolf with empty gloves." ”
"Eh, brother, you're right, your brother and I just want empty gloves white wolf." Liu Yongyi pointed to Lin Hualang.
Lin Hualang immediately burst out laughing.
"Brother, strange brother, I have little knowledge, you are a white wolf, at least you have to have a trick."
"What are you going to do? Is that still called empty-handed? Liu Yong thought to himself, what kind of trick do you want, you want to cum inside. But he didn't say it. As the eldest brother in Lin Hualang's eyes, Niu Rong's master, how can he be so unstable.
Lin Hualang stopped laughing and asked stupidly, "Brother, you can't be serious, right?" ”
"What do you think my brother and I have to play, how good it is for me to set up a stall on the street at this time, earn a few hundred dollars a day, and have a beautiful lady to flirt, how beautiful it is!" Liu Yong said very seriously. Lin Hualang also believed it. But he frowned. said: "Brother, you are a little difficult here! ”
"Is it worth doing because it's difficult?" Although Liu Yong said this, he had no choice but to empty the white wolf.
"Okay." Lin Hualang slapped the wine table, "Brother, if you decide to set the white wolf, then I, Lin Hualang, will follow you." It's better to have a few more fucking sets. He said this sentence very boldly, and it meant that he would not give up on going to the soup.
"Official, that Niu Rong also follows you." Niu Rong was also infected by Lin Hualang's arrogance.
"Good. With the help of the two of you, I, Liu Yong, will definitely succeed. ”
The three of them had a drink together, talked and laughed and ate a good meal.
The next day, Liu Yong didn't do anything more, and he started setting up a stall again. He calculated the time, there were still five months before the half-year appointment, and he planned to spend a month to prepare the goods, and then spend four months to make a trip back and forth between Meizhou and Xixia to complete the business.
Everything is not done quickly, Liu Yong knows this truth, and now the weather is not yet warm, and the road to the north will not be easy to walk, and a month late seems to be more suitable for travel. Also, he hoped that Jin Bing would continue to harass him, and the longer it dragged on, the more valuable the goods he had.
After planning like this, Liu Yong also put his mind at ease and planned while setting up a stall.
Although there was a month to stock up, Liu Yong still didn't dare to delay. After closing the stall every day, I found Lin Hualang in the afternoon and asked him about the situation there.
This made Liu Yong learn the news that the chief supervisor, Guo Dequan, went to the place where the Qinglou Le Fang gathered in Nancheng almost every three or four days, and always went to a music building called Xianle Fang to have fun. Lin Hualang said that Xianle Fang is the largest music workshop in Meizhou City, with beautiful women like clouds, all of whom can sing and dance, and have excellent rhythms. It attracted the dignitaries and nobles of the entire Meizhou City to seek pleasure.
Liu Yong asked, "Then have you been there?" ”
Lin Hualang was stunned for a moment, and then said: "How can a good young man like me, Lin Hualang, go to that kind of place? Hey. ”
Liu Yong knew at a glance that Lin Hualang was lying. In an era where official prostitutes are allowed, let alone ordinary people, even the people of officialdom entering and leaving the Qinglou Lefang Division are not a harmless thing.
Liu Yong decided to go to the Xianle Fang that Lin Hualang said had many beauties.