One afternoon a week after the market opened, Li Ersan ran back to Chaoyang Temple from the checkpoint and told me, who was sitting under the eaves with Li Xuefeng, that a carriage had come from the direction of Qingfeng City and indicated that he wanted to see me.

I smiled when I heard this, and said to Li Xuefeng, "Miss Tao has sent a silver dollar." ”

When I went down to the checkpoint, sure enough, it was Tao Linzhi, accompanied by Tao Wu and Tao Jiu, who was standing next to the official road, watching the crowded market.

I walked forward, smiled and said, "Hello, Miss Tao." ”

Tao Linzhi looked at me expressionlessly and said, "Your stall is really big." ”

I smiled and said, "This is just the first phase of the project." ”

She looked at the first settlement on the right and said, "What's that?"

I smiled and said, "It's a settlement for the villageless mountain people. ”

She nodded and didn't speak.

I smiled and arched my hand to Tao Wu and Tao Jiu, Tao Wu smiled and saluted me back, but Tao Jiu looked at me with his nostrils and "hummed".

I smiled and didn't care.

I only heard Tao Linzhi say: "Xu Er's family takes in the evolution of the beast clan, aren't you afraid of Taoyuan Town tracking down?"

I smiled and said noncommittally: "Miss Tao is interested in visiting the market, and I will be a tour guide for Miss Tao." ”

"Tour guide?"

Tao Linzhi repeated the word strangely, but she instantly understood, smiled, and said, "Okay, Xu Er is in charge, please." ”

I stood to the side, held out my hand and said, "Please." ”

When I walked into the farmers' market, I saw that the business on the stalls was very good.

All kinds of grains, vegetables, dried fruits, and meat are available.

Tao Linzhi reached out and took out an embroidered handkerchief from his pocket and covered her mouth and nose.

Tao Jiu was about to speak, but saw Tao Linzhi smile and said to me: "The smell of this place is indeed a little unpleasant. ”

I smiled and said, "Indeed, Miss Tao, please come with me to the shop area, here is all cooked food and dry goods." ”

The first shop is a lap-mei shop run by the mountain tribe.

Before Tao Linzhi could speak, Tao Wu looked at the row of cured meat hanging on the bone hook in front of the window, and asked in surprise, "This meat is so colored?"

I smiled, and before I could speak, a mountain woman carried a huge kitchen knife and shouted: "A few guest officials, ham, bacon, bacon, smoked fish, authentic Chaoyang Temple Trading Company, what do you want?"

After speaking, he slammed the kitchen knife into the ironwood cutting board.

Tao Jiu was so frightened that he was about to draw his sword, but he saw Tao Wu holding his hand and said, "It's just a butcher." ”

The mountain woman said loudly: "This eldest brother is laughing, I'm just a guy in the cured meat shop, this bacon and bacon, from catching to slaughtering to making, there are more than a dozen processes, it's delicious, let's have two lumps?"

Seeing me in a blink of an eye, he hurriedly bent down and saluted: "Yo, Second Brother Xu, your friend?"

I smiled and nodded, she hurriedly cut off a large piece of bacon from a pig's hind leg, wrapped it in lotus leaves, tied it with twine, and stuffed it into the hands of Tao Wu, who was still prevaricating, and said in a stacked voice: "Big brother take it and taste it, Second Brother Xu's friend is my friend of the mountain clan, I did this master." ”

Tao Linzhi covered her mouth and laughed, and said to me, "Your popularity is quite good. ”

Of course, I felt a little smug in my heart.

Ever since I forcibly forbade everyone in the Mountain Clan to call me the God King, and I was no longer allowed to call Xu Er in charge, everyone knew that I liked them to call me Second Brother Xu.

And the new term "friend" that they learned from me and Li Xuefeng quickly became popular among the mountain tribe and other mountain people.

Walking through the lap-mei shop, I saw a huge solid wood signboard with the three big characters "Tao Ranju" written on it, but it was selling some spices, spices and dry goods.

Tao Linzhi covered her mouth in surprise.

When the guys in the store saw Tao Linzhi, they hurriedly came out to greet her.

Tao Linzhi asked, "Why did Tao Ranju also open a store here?"

A guy looked at me, a little embarrassed, and said, "Master Tao said ......"

Tao Linzhi smiled slightly and said, "Tell the truth." ”

The guy had no choice but to say: "Master Tao said: Dog Day was deceived by the surname Xu again, and asked Lao Tzu to cut the ribbon, which is a disguised proof that I admit that his market is legitimate." No, he can't earn this money alone. ”

After saying that, he peeked at me again, and then whispered: "Then he asked the little ones to occupy a shop, saying that it was a public one, so it was necessary to enter the first shop in the market." ”

Tao Linzhi was already smiling, but she still asked strangely, "But why are you in the second room?"

The guy said helplessly: "Second Master Xu said that this is the office of the market management office, who knew that after we opened, we found out that this place has become the cured meat shop of Chaoyang Temple Trading Company." ”

Tao Linzhi turned her head and asked me with some disgust: "You dare to deceive Tao Zhiran? This is a public business." ”

I coughed twice and said righteously: "I was originally going to be the market management office, but I didn't expect the business to be so good, which caused a shortage of management manpower, so I had to add some more people." You see that this place is so small, you can't sit at all, so you have to change to the commercial area above. ”

"Business district?" Tao Linzhi said strangely.

I smiled, thinking to myself that you're probably going to fall into the trap now.

At the moment, he said: "Miss Tao, the soup in this market is very good, and the taste is unpleasant, let's go to the top and have a look." ”

Immediately led the three of them out of the bazaar and went up the road on the left.

I saw a horse-drawn carriage on the road, parked in two columns, all waiting to enter and exit the warehouse to unload and pull goods. We had to pass by the side of the road.

When he crossed the fortress, Tao Jiu sneered: "Xu Er is in charge, you are going to rebel, and you even dare to build a military fortress." ”

I smiled and said, "Thief-proof, thief-proof." ”

Tao Linzhi smiled and said, "Aren't you a thief?"

I hurriedly said: "We have changed our minds and become human beings again, and we don't bother to do the kind of unpromising job of the bandits." ”

Tao Linzhi lowered her head and snickered for a while, and the business area arrived.

I took the three of them into the business district, starting with a three-story building with stone walls and thatched roofs, and there was a wooden sign with black letters on a white background hanging on the door, with "Chaoyang Temple Bazaar Management Office" written on it.

The mountain tribesmen with red sleeves on their arms and animal skin bags on their backs kept coming in and out of the door.

At the entrance of the market management office, there are two mountain tribesmen standing upright with spears in their hands, wearing uniform short-placket jacket-style clothing, and the word "guard" written on their chests.

When the two of them saw me, they put their feet together, raised their spears with both hands and saluted me, and shouted together, "Second Brother Xu is good." ”

I stretched out my hand and saluted in front of my eyebrows, and replied, "Comrades have worked hard. ”

The two guards shouted together, "Serve the people." ”

With that, he threw his spear on the ground and stared straight ahead without squinting, as if we were all air.

Tao Linzhi and Tao Jiu were dumbfounded, but Tao Wu stared at the two guards with interest.

I looked at Tao Wu's expression, and hurriedly said, "The business area is in front, everyone, please." ”

The three of them followed me through the market management office, and a three-story small building in front of me was the signboard of Tao Ranju.

The Tao Ranju store here is actually a ready-to-wear store.

I smiled and introduced: "Tao Ranju is currently the only ready-to-wear store in Chaoyang City's commercial street, and the business is a hot mess. ”

Tao Linzhi nodded, walked in and saw that several mountain women were choosing clothes in the women's clothing department, and they kept comparing their bodies while choosing.

Tao Linzhi walked over and looked at her clothes and pouted.

I saw her expression and said with a smile: "Of course, Miss Tao looks down on these things, after all, the purchasing power of the mountain people is limited. But it's cheap, the low-end market, the main thing is to go volume!"

Tao Linzhi lowered her head thoughtfully and thought about it, but did not speak.

The third three-storey building was a trinket shop, selling mainly wooden and bone ornaments, but also a small amount of iron, gold and silver ornaments.

Tao Linzhi walked into the store, picked up a few necklaces and earrings, looked at them, shook her head, and turned around and walked out of the store.

The rest of the shops were just some cloth, shoes and socks, and Tao Zhilin just looked at them and left the store.

Standing on the street, Tao Linzhi thought for a while and said to me: "Xu Er is in charge, how about I open a shop here in Cuifang?"

I was ecstatic in my heart, but I didn't show it on my face, I just said: "This, at present, this commercial street is still in the grass stage, there are only a few buildings, if Miss Tao wants to come, of course Chaoyang Temple is full of splendor, just ......"

"Just what?" Tao Linzhi asked a little eagerly, but quickly returned to the appearance just now, and said lightly: "Could it be that Xu Er is in charge, and I am not welcome?"

I hurriedly laughed and said: "Where is it, it's just that we here, the rent is calculated according to the sales volume, and this Cuifang sells gold, silver and jade ornaments, mountain people, where can you afford it?"

Tao Linzhi said expressionlessly: "I don't just sell high-end jewelry, rouge gouache, men's and women's ready-to-wear, and even swords, guns, swords, and halberds. Since it is a volume, I am confident that I can produce more exquisite and beautiful items with the same cost. ”

I smiled and said, "Okay, I wonder if Miss Tao has any special requirements for the size and form of the store?"

Tao Linzhi said: "I will send someone to build the shop, but your rent is ......."

I hurriedly said: "The rent is free for the first three months, and from the fourth month, the market management office will monitor the account book on a monthly basis and approve the rent, and then it will be reconciled once a year." ”

Tao Linzhi nodded and said, "Okay, it's decided, I'll bet one and pay three, I hope you will release the line of the plot as soon as possible." ”

I sneered and said, "Then it's a good cooperation." ”

Tao Linzhi turned to Tao Jiu and said, "Tell the coachman to catch up with the car, and we will pay in Chaoyang Temple." ”

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I, Li Xuefeng, and Xiao Bottler are in the Treasure Pavilion on the second floor of the main hall of Chaoyang Temple.

Well, this is the name given by Li Xuefeng, although this is indeed the place where he stacks up ordinary treasures, but this room made of ten-centimeter-thick wooden boards, called the Treasure Pavilion, is indeed a bit cold.

These are secondary, though.

At this time, the three of us stared at the silver dollar like a hill in front of us, and we were all a little stunned.

"Three thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine pieces in all. ”

I muttered.

"I didn't expect those jewels to be so valuable. ”

Li Xuefeng muttered.

"How many meters do you have to buy?"

The vial smacked its lips.

Li Xuefeng and I looked at the vial together and said, "It's not promising." ”

Then we looked at each other again and laughed.

This time, Tao Linzhi didn't bring any more jewelry, she said that there were so many new jewelry in Qingfeng City at once, and it would take a while to digest it, so the next time she came back, she would come back to pick up the new goods.

I looked at Li Xuefeng, who was also looking at me.

What I thought to myself was: the special one is really the most profitable business without capital.

What Li Xuefeng was thinking was......

Forget it, this guy must be the same as I thought, now lying on the ground with me and the vial, and his demeanor is gone, he must be trying to kill people and sell goods.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but bury my head and laugh.