Wu Haogu's business in Xuzhou suffered some setbacks, and Wu Zhiwu Yuanwai, who invited him to Pengcheng, turned out to be a liar. Wu Haogu and Ximen Qing went to Linsi Street in Pengcheng to look for it according to the address given by Wu Zhi, but they found the Wu family painting that Wu Zhi said, but they didn't know anything about Wu Zhi and Wu Yuan.

There is no such person at all!

After returning to Ximen Hall, Ximen Qing and Wu Haogu analyzed it, and felt that the one who came to Pengcheng from Gou Wu Haogu was a good man in Liangshanbo seven or eight times out of ten, and it was likely that Wu Yong, who was known as Zhiduoxing.

However, Wu Yong did not show up this time, obviously giving up chasing Wu Haogu for the time being.

Because the heroes of Liangshan suffered a big loss in Daze Township, they now have a mess to clean up, and they can't spare their hands to deal with Wu Haogu.

Moreover, Liang Shan and Wu Haogu don't have much enmity at all, they just earn money and do things for others.

Although the matter has not been done now, Liang Shan has done his best, and he has broken a leader, and even the big leader Chao Gai has been disfigured, and it is impossible to say whether a life can be saved.

So it is worthy of the first payment given by Chen Youwen, according to the rules of the rivers and lakes, the matter was done, but if it was unsuccessful, the final payment would not be taken.

If Chen Youwen still wants to ask Liang Shan to make a move, not to mention whether Chao Gai and Song Jiang's guarantee in Ximen Hall counts, it is the battle of Daze Township, which also makes the head of Wuhao Guxiang several times more valuable in the rivers and lakes!

Without a down payment of tens of thousands, Liang Shan would not make another move anyway.

After a few days in Pengcheng, he sold hundreds of calligraphy and paintings, and played around with Pan Qiaolian and Ximenqing.

The day of Wu Dalang and Ximenqing's parting has finally arrived.

Although he will see him again in Haizhou soon, Wu Dalang is still a little reluctant. Ximen Qing sent him all the way out of Pengcheng more than ten miles away. Wu Haogu and Ximen Qing both led the horses and walked in front of everyone, chatting as they walked, and seemed to have endless words.

"Brother Xiaoyi, can Chao Gai's injury really be healed?"

"It's all hurt like that, it's good that it's not good, it's just a matter of whether you can survive."

"Will you survive?"

"Perhaps." Ximen Qing smiled, "Da Lang is worried that Liang Shanbo will find your bad luck again because of Chao Gai's death?" ”

Wu Haogu nodded, "I'm always worried about Liangshan, it really makes Brother Ximen laugh." ”

"What's funny?"

Ximen Qing shook his head and looked at Wu Haogu, "Dalang, you are the first time to go to the rivers and lakes, and there is no strong clan behind you to rely on, all by your own ability, it is not easy to go back and forth, without losing much." ”

Business turned out to be very difficult to do!

Wu Haogu is still doing family calligraphy and painting this time, and it is not easy. came out of Kaifeng Mansion and traveled hundreds of miles, almost losing his life, but he didn't make a lot of money. It's really better to stay in Kaifeng Mansion to paint portraits for nobles, with his current name, a painting will inevitably be in short supply. If you can draw a few pieces of paper for the official family and the queen mother, you can get the painting title immediately.

But to be a painter in Kaifeng Mansion, let alone redeem the heavens after more than 20 years, it is not easy to be alone in the great disaster.

Now it is still a peaceful and prosperous era, and when I came out, I almost called the heroes of Liangshan to chop. If it is in the Jingkang period, do you still want to take the rich woman from Kaifeng to Jiangnan in peace?

If you don't bring your goods, how can you live in Jiangnan? In the peaceful and prosperous era, it is naturally easy for painters to make money, but when the world is in turmoil, can the life of painters still be like this?

Wu Haogu vaguely remembered that Li Tang, who is now chic and comfortable on Panlou Street, lived in Jiangnan after the Jingkang disaster and was depressed for a long time, until Song Gaozong Zhao Gou rebuilt the painting academy.

So this business has to be done no matter how difficult it is. No matter how good Kaifeng Mansion is, I'm afraid it is not a place to live for a long time......

"Brother Xiao Yi is right," Wu Haogu nodded, "The next business is indeed just beginning, except for calligraphy and painting, I don't even know about it." ”

"It's not that you don't know everything," Ximen Qing said with a smile, "Didn't you hire the head of the Lao Lin sect, the head of the Xiaolin sect and the head of the Lu sect?"

They all have real kung fu, and with them to protect them, a few days ago in Daze Township, you didn't meet me and Wudutou, and you can get out of the way. ”

The battle in Daze Township actually crushed the heroes of Liangshan! If there were no men and horses under Ximen Qing and Wu Song, only Lin Wancheng, Lin Chong and Lu Qian would have been able to save Wu Haogu from escaping, at most he would have lost some goods.

Ximenqing paused, and then said, "If you are deficient in anything, it means that there is no one around you to use."

Your current business is not small. But there is no account, no housekeeper, no copywriter, fourth, and no little servants, even the guards are not domesticated. ”

Wu Haogu nodded again and again, this Ximen Qing is really right!

Although the business of the samurai is not small, the calligraphy and painting shop has its own particularity, and it does not need to hire a large number of people.

But if Wu Haogu wants to make the business bigger and jump out of the small Kaifeng Mansion calligraphy and painting shop, then there must be talents.

Thinking of this, Wu Haogu turned his head and glanced at Ximen Qing, thinking: This Ximen Qing is a rare talent, if he can be the manager, it will be easy to carry out business in the future.

But his Simon family has its own big business, how can he be willing to help other families?

Ximen Qing seemed to find that Wu Haogu was looking at him, turned his head and glanced at him, and said softly: "You're not beating my idea, right?" ”

Wu Haogu was told to break his mind, shook his head with a wry smile and said, "How dare you, how dare you ......"

Ximen Qing smiled, "I can recommend you two stewards, surnamed Hua, full of names, and empty words." ”

"Hanako-xu!?" Wu Haogu was shocked when he heard this, and said in his heart: This Hua Zixu won't have a wife named Li Bei'er hooked up with Ximen Qing, right?

Ximen Qing has never watched "Golden Vase Plum", so naturally he will not guess Wu Haogu's thoughts. He said: "His family was originally a maritime merchant, doing business between Liao, Goryeo and Song, the year before last, the family's fleet was hit by a storm at sea, so it was broken, and now he is a tooth man in Haizhou, and he is very unsatisfactory."

If you go and invite him, he will follow you. ”

"Okay, okay." Wu Haogu nodded again and again, "What Brother Xiao Yi recommended must be a talent." ”

"Talent is everywhere, it just depends on how you use it." Ximen Qing said, "Another available person is the Zhang Xizai I met in Yucheng a few days ago. ”

"Zhang Xizai? Isn't he the shopkeeper himself? How can you be my steward? Wu Haogu clearly remembered that Zhang Xizai was the shopkeeper of the Zhang Family Inn, and the clan was still working as a guard.

"His fourth uncle, that is, Zhang Dubaozheng, asked Song Jiang's subordinates to kill him." Ximen Qing said softly, "Three of the good players in the clan have also died, and the position of Du Baozheng is also called another family, and this Zhang family is considered defeated."

His inn naturally can't be opened, and when he left Xuzhou a few days ago, he said that he was going to sell the store, and then came to my house.

You're short on manpower here, so why don't you call him to help you? Don't look at him as a businessman in a small place, he has actually studied, and a few years ago he passed the Ying Tianfu Liberation Exam and went to take the provincial exam, but he didn't have a high school. If you want, I'll take him to Haizhou. ”

Zhang Xizai, who opened an inn, is actually still a scholar. However, this was also common in the Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty's Shinong, industrial and commercial classes were very vague, and it was very common for the children of merchants to take the imperial examination and the children of officials and eunuchs to do business.

Wu Haogu said: "I have been to school, I have done business, and I can also socialize with people in the rivers and lakes, it seems that this Zhang Xizai is a talent, Brother Xiaoyi, thank you very much." ”

"Thank you?" Ximen Qing smiled, "Anyway, my family can't use him...... My family is also a big family, and there are hundreds of children in the clan!

It's you, the market has become bigger, and don't forget that the clansmen of the Baibo martial arts family are all descendants of the King of Taiyuan, and they are always more reliable than outsiders.

As he spoke, he turned his head and looked at the walls of Pengcheng, which were about to disappear on the horizon, "Send you a thousand miles, there will be a farewell, let's get here today."

Dalang, go all the way! ”

Wu Haogu arched his hand at Ximen Qingyi, "Okay, Brother Xiaoyi, let's see you in Haizhou!" ”

……

Wu Dalang had already left and disappeared on the official road leading to the Huaiyang Army. But Ximen Qing still rode his horse and stood on a high slope next to the official road, looking at the east.

A horse galloped over, and it was not until Ximen Qing stood up violently, because he stopped too quickly, a pair of front hooves of the horse were raised, and there was a neigh.

"San Lang, this is not Liaoguo, you gallop like this is eye-catching."

Ximen Qingtou didn't reply, so he knew that it was his family's guard Murong Sanlang.

"It's too stuffy, it's too stuffy, Uncle Ma ...... a sigh," Murong Saburo sighed, "It's also aggrieved in the Liao Kingdom, and it's still the same in the Great Song Dynasty, when will you be able to come out?" ”

"Coming out?" Ximen Qing just shook his head, "The letter to your family Lin Ya was sent?" ”

"Send it, Ma Shiyi will go in person, and you can go to Yanjing in twenty days at most." Murong Saburo paused, "It's just that Wu Dalang is just a painter, is it worth it?" ”

"Whether it's worth it or not, your family has its own say." Ximen Qing said coldly, "You quietly follow Wu Haogu and them, if you see Liangshan Wu Yong again, you don't need to say more, just kill them!" ”

"No!"