"I'm a good guy!" As soon as Zheng Baocai's words were finished, Yue Xi opened his mouth with a smile: "Brother Zheng, look at the bones of the little brother, does it seem that he is doing murder and stealing goods?" ”

"Brother, I'll talk to you about serious things, don't be hippie and smiley!" Zheng Baocai pushed her, and then walked around the yard: "How is it?" This yard isn't bad, is it? ”

"Not bad." Yue Xi entered the kitchen, lit firewood, and prepared to boil water and make tea: "The bedding in the house was all purchased by Brother Zheng, right?" I have received the heart, and I will give you the silver. ”

"Whew!" Zheng Baocai sneered and said disapprerovingly: "The quilt pillow can cost a few silver, wouldn't it be too much to tell me about this?" ”

"If Brother Zheng is a single person, I won't say much if I spend more." Yue Xi walked around the kitchen and didn't see the teapot, after thinking about it, it seemed that he had seen it in the main room, and when he went in, he saw that there was a teapot and a teapot and a plate on the table.

"But Brother Zheng is now a dragger, brothers eat you more, you have to tighten your belt a button!"

"That's not bad for your two futons!"

Yue Xi's words were the truth, Zheng Baocai listened to it and felt more and more that this Yue brother was intimate and sensible, and followed Yue Xi into the kitchen together, he looked around again, pointed to the neatly stacked seasoning jars on the bowl rack and said with a smile: "Yo he! Did you start a fire here and cook? ”

Yue Xi listened to Zheng Baocai's words and just pursed his lips and smiled, did not speak, put the teapot, tea plate and a few cups into the wooden basin in his hand, and prepared the water in the pot to boil and blanch it before using it.

"That's not what a man should do." Zheng Baocai glanced at it and saw the two shallots on the table, so he peeled one and put it in his mouth and chewed it......

Yue Xi raised his eyebrows when he saw it, and he only felt that eating green onions with such a white mouth would cause heartburn.

"Hey!" Zheng Baocai walked around the kitchen, and when he saw that there was nothing to eat, he had to give up: "Didn't you see that my brother prepared two beds for you?" ”

"See." Yue Xi nodded: "It's just covered when it's cold in winter, it's still Brother Zheng, you think about it thoroughly." ”

"!" Zheng Baocai rubbed his hands and squeezed his eyebrows at Yue Xi: "Brother, everything has been thought of for you, why don't you bring that fat girl?" ”

This time, Yue Xi was silent again.

Zheng Baocai stood at the door of the kitchen, observing his words and expressions, and muttered in his heart: Could it be that I am thinking too much? Brother Yue really doesn't have that kind of heart for that fat girl? If that's the case, I'm not going to be a brother anymore......

The water in the pot was boiling, Yue Xi scooped a full scoop and poured it into the wooden basin, and carefully scalded the tea set inside and out twice before washing it and making a pot of tea: "Brother Zheng, come and drink tea." ”

"I've been talking for a long time, and I'm really thirsty." Seeing that Yue Xi didn't pick what he was saying, Zheng Baocai also relaxed, walked into the kitchen briskly, pulled a chair and sat down at the table: "Didn't the main house also pick it up for you?" How do you serve guests in the kitchen? ”

"The deed of this house is written with the surname Chu's name, Chu Yingzhi called me the head of the house, you say, I am no matter how black my heart is, can I seek my brother's family property?" Yue Xi also sat down, poured a cup of tea and handed it to Zheng Baocai: "Now I am temporarily placed here, after waiting for a while, no one will come to find trouble, and this house has to be given to Chu Yingzhi." ”

Zheng Baocai took the tea, and looked at Yue Xi's smile with a pair of eyes, although he didn't say anything, his eyes were full of appreciation.

"Besides, Brother Zheng, you and my brother, talking in someone's house, where is the difference?"

"That's right!" Zheng Baocai nodded heavily, took a sip of hot tea to his lips and said before saying: "Silver is not bad, there is no one in the world who is not greedy for money, but we can't do things with black hearts, brother, you do this, brother admires!" ”

Yue Xi shook his head and smiled without saying a word.

"Hey, since you know that Xin Liu's miscellaneous pieces will come here to stir up, you can spare him lightly according to your brother's temper?" Zheng Baocai brought up the old matter again, but what he said was quite subtle: "It's not that my brother is too talkative, when I entered the city today, Li Zhutou specially sued me, saying that Liu Ju's daughter had sued the people who lived in this house......"

"Humph!" Yue Xi snorted coldly, raised his eyes and looked at Zheng Baocai and said: "He did shout and curse in front of this door yesterday, but before I could go out, he wanted to steal my donkey, but he was kicked out by my family's treasure, and he shut up before Lao Tzu made a move, Brother Zheng, you say, is it necessary for me to take his life again?" ”

"Haha! Ha ha! When Zheng Baocai heard this, he slapped his slap on the table and laughed: "No wonder you named that donkey Baoqi, brother, I don't want to listen to it, but now I feel that it is not bad, it is worthy of going out of my Zheng family, and it has a temper!" ”

"But ......" After laughing, he was worried again: "But the lady of the Liu family sued the person who lives here, isn't the person who lives here you?" Wait for the government to come, brother, what are you talking about? ”

"Why don't you run?" Zheng Baocai is really worried about Yue Xi's safety, he himself is from a gangster, if he has a little scruples, he is afraid of the people in the yamen wearing armor and green clothes, and when he sees these people, he also retreats.

Therefore, there is only one way he can think of to help Yue Xi: run away quickly!

"Run? Why should I run? Yue Xi said in a relaxed tone: "That woman must have evidence to sue her." The bastard surnamed Liu has done a lot of evil, and there are more people who hate him, how can he sue Lao Tzu? Even if the people from the government come, I'm not afraid, and if you dare to say that I killed someone without any evidence, I will sue her for false accusation! Brother Zheng, you don't have to worry at all. ”

"Hey, that's the way to go, brother, my heart is not solid after all......" Zheng Baocai picked up the teacup and drank the leftover tea inside, squatted the cup on the table and got up, and was about to go out in a hurry: "Cheng, then, my brother brought it, I still have something to ......"

"Sit down if there's anything to do." Yue Xi intercepted

Sit down first. Yue Xi intercepted his words and raised the teapot again to fill the empty teacup: "Now there is a way to make money, do you want to listen to Brother Zheng?" ”

"Oh?" Zheng Baocai sat down again without saying a word: "Brother, I will also find a way to exchange money when I go out, brother, since you have another way to make money here, then listen to you first!" ”

"Okay."

Yue Xi told him about the carriage and horse shop, and finally looked at him and asked, "What does Brother Zheng mean?" ”

"It's a good thing, and it's a serious way, but ......" Zheng Baocai rubbed his face with a frown: "But this also has to invest a lot of silver, right?" ”

The carriage and horse shop, as the name suggests, has a car and a horse, Zheng Baocai made a rough calculation in his mind, he couldn't do it without five hundred taels of silver, and all his own belongings were put together at about three hundred taels, and he was not a single person, how could he dare to invest all his family funds into it?

"Brother Zheng doesn't have to worry about the matter of silver." Yue Xi opened her mouth unhurriedly, she never thought about letting others plug in the money for doing business. "I want Brother Zheng to do something else."

This is just like doing business in modern society, there is still an essential difference between sole proprietorship and joint-stock system.

She wants to have an absolute say in this business, so she doesn't plan to let outsiders invest money in.

"Don't pay for it? Is it to let my brother and me contribute? Zheng Baocai stared at Yue Xi with big eyes.

"Exactly." Yue Xi stared at him and nodded.

From Cixian to the imperial capital, this journey takes a day without stopping. When the carriage and horse shop opens, and the customers in the car pull a car, it is necessary to ensure the safety of the people.

Nowadays, most of the pedestrians along the road carry the carriages of passing merchants, although this costs more silver, but the caravans are accompanied by guards, which can also ensure the safety of the hitchhikers.

Yue Xi wants to drive a horse shop, but also wants to do a long-term business, the escort with the car is indispensable, otherwise just the car and horses on the road, it is inevitable that they will not be red by those people along the way, especially those unscrupulous ruffians who open shops on the side of the road, Yue Xi's move is to cut off their financial route, so it is impossible to prevent it!

And to deal with these ruffians, Zheng Bao is the most suitable candidate.

"Good thing! Meddlesome! ”

Zheng Baocai listened to Yue Xi's thoughts and thoughts, and nodded a few times in a row: "My brother is really not on the stage for these livelihoods under his hands now, if I take over your work from my brother, then I can be regarded as a serious business." ”

"That's it." Yue Xi continued: "Although begging is a business without capital, it is not a business after all, Brother Zheng takes a group of brothers to beg for a living, and he always has to bring it to a safe place. ”

"Good!" Zheng Baocai lowered his head and muttered for a moment, and then immediately made a decision: "Brother, let's go back and pick people, and let them get familiar with the road from the city to Cixian, and find out the terrain along the way!" ”

"Not in a hurry in this half-day." This time, Yue Xi didn't stop him again, got up together and said with a smile: "When I came last time, didn't Brother Zheng say that there was a way to make a fortune? Why don't we go over and have a look? ”

"Huh?" Zheng Baocai was stunned for a moment, and then patted his head: "Do you still remember?" But brother, are you made of bones? ”

"It depends on what you do!" Yue Xi answered with a smile on his face.

The two went out of the kitchen together, Zheng Baocai stood in the courtyard and looked at the sky, and said with some embarrassment: "Otherwise, brother, I'll go home first." You can't get into that place without money. ”

"Let's go." Yue Xi took out the key in his arms and threw it to him: "Brother Zheng went out from the courtyard gate, locked the door outside, and I went to the backyard to set up a car." ”

A moment later, the two met in the alley, Zheng Bao got into the car, and the two of them muttered all the way to drive the donkey cart away.

Yue Xi had only been gone for a while, and two yacha in soap clothes came to the door. Seeing the copper lock hanging on the door, he circled around the Chu family's house again, and left quietly after making sure that there was indeed no one in the courtyard.

Half an hour later, Yue Xi and Zheng Baocai had already traveled from the west city of the imperial capital to the east city, and the donkey cart stopped in front of a large gate.

"Look at this house, tsk!" Standing in front of the heavily walled courtyard, Zheng Baocai unconsciously bent over and hunched over, as if he was bent over by the momentum of the house: "Those who can live in this realm are either rich or expensive, and I haven't been here a few times, brother." ”

"Haven't been here a few times?" Yue Xi jumped off the donkey cart, looked at the several magnificent carriages parked on the side of the road, and couldn't help but think: My family treasure will not be bullied by those big men, right......

"Hey, hey!" Zheng Baocai smiled embarrassedly: "Actually...... This is my brother's second visit. ”

Yue Xi nodded, and walked towards the two closed black lacquer gates, not surprisingly, the two tall and strong men standing outside the gate stretched out their hands to stop him at the same time, and without even saying a word, they waved their hands directly at Yue Xi.

"Brother, we have to go in from the back, and those who enter in front will have to take silver." Zheng Baocai chased after him, grabbed Yue Xi and whispered.

"Oh?" Yue Xi responded lightly. Reaching into his arms, he took out a stack of neatly folded papers, took out one as if at random, and shook it in front of the two strong men with two fingers, and did not speak.

The two strong men stretched their necks together to look at it, and immediately knocked on the door without saying a word, and shouted loudly: "Your Excellency has arrived!" ”

The black lacquer door opened in response, and a handsome woman was dressed in the most fashionable Yuehua satin Bafu skirt of the current imperial capital, wearing a green jacket on her upper body, covered with a white tulle coat, and greeted her with a smile on her eyebrows, but the woman's eyes only glanced at Yue Xi and Zheng Baocai and walked over: "Who is the distinguished guest?" So that the slaves can take a look......"

"Blind!" The strong man standing at the door grabbed the woman who was about to go out and whispered: "That boy in black is a silver ticket of five thousand taels as soon as he makes a move!" ”

"Oops! Take a look

Oops! Look at my eyes...... "The woman reached out and touched the crotch of the strong man, and then threw a wink at the other man, turned around and trotted back......

"Sluts!" The man who was touched laughed and scolded, turned around and closed the two heavy courtyard doors tightly.

"Childe, Childe, you two slow down, the slave family is slow, can't catch up with you two......" There was a woman's delicate cry behind him, Zheng Bao was immediately half a step slower when he heard it, and turned his head to see Yue Xi, who was still looking at the steady walking in front of him, and he immediately stepped up and followed.

"Hey, brother, what did you show them just now? If this gladiatorial pavilion does not have the capital of a thousand taels of silver, it will not be able to enter. ”

"Butt wipe." Yue Xi took out a piece of rice paper that she had brought with her and handed it to him.

"Huh?" Zheng Baocai looked at the rice paper in his hand back and forth and was confused: "That's it?" ”

"Oops, Childe! You're a slave who treats you with clumsiness, right? ”

The woman trotted all the way and finally stopped in front of Yue Xi, pouting her lip-grease-smeared red lips and standing sideways, a pair of large, godless eyes glancing at her, as if she was still not sure whether the other party could really come up with five thousand taels of silver tickets.

Yue Xi stopped and looked at her expressionlessly.

"Childe ......" The woman who was furious in Yue Xi's heart took out a silk handkerchief from her narrow sleeves, twisted her hands into twists, and opened her mouth delicately.

"Get out of the way." Yue Xi opened his mouth lightly: "Lao Tzu is not here to prostitute. ”

Don't hit people in the face, and don't expose their shortcomings when scolding. Yue Xi's words directly made the woman stand on the ground and didn't know what to say......

Although she is in the skin and meat business, she is also very popular in the gladiatorial pavilion of the gold hall, and she feels very embarrassed when the guests say this......

"Hehe......" A chuckle came from upstairs, she raised her head, and met the gloating eyes of another flowery woman, she immediately closed her gaze and spat on the ground: "Slut! ”

After scolding, he still lifted his skirt and chased after Yue Xi and Zheng Baocai: "Son, do you have a familiar girl waiting for you?" My name is Xiaofeng, if you call me Sister Feng, you will become a ......"

"Poof!" Yue Xi shook his head, and suddenly felt that the world was still too small......

Passing through the wooded courtyard and stepping on the cobblestone road, the two went straight to a two-story building: "This is it." Zheng Baocai stopped downstairs and whispered.

"Let's go inside." Yue Xi lifted his leg up the steps.

"Brother!" Zheng Baocai hurriedly stopped her and whispered: "This inside is not as good as the outside, it is ten taels of silver when you go in!" ”

"I please." Yue Xi smiled and went straight up the jade steps.

Since I want to make money from the sideways, I have walked to the door, so why should I go in and have a look. Yue Xi's idea was simple.

All the approval and registration matters of the carriage and horse shop have been handed over to Ye Miancheng to do, which is imperative, but until now, the capital and silver have not been settled, and Yue Xi is in a hurry to use the money, so as long as it is not a way to hurt the heavens and reason, she has to try.

The two hidden doors were opened by the two brocade-clothed boys standing in the door, and the two children saluted Yue Xi and Zheng Baocai in unison: "Two masters! ”

Zheng Baocai stood behind Yue Xi a little crampedly, while Yue Xi looked thoughtfully at the green jade steps under his feet.

"Brother?" Zheng Baocai stepped forward and stood beside Yue Xi and touched her with his elbow.

And Yue Xi raised his head and asked kindly, "The master of your place is a relative of the emperor?" ”

"If you go back to your son, this was originally the mansion of the virtuous prince, and later, the first emperor gave my old prince a mansion, and now it is under the care of our county king." The little boy standing on the right side of the door replied clearly.

"Oh." Yue Xi nodded, walked in with a step, and touched the little boy's head by the way: "Smart boy!" ”

The brocade-clothed boy smiled, revealing a pair of sharp tiger teeth.

Zheng Baocai followed Yue Xi and walked in, wanting to follow her example and touch the child's head, but who knew that the child had already avoided his palm when he turned his head, Zheng Baocai looked back at him: "Dog's ......"

The two boys stood again facing each other as if they had not heard.

Facing the door, there is a spacious place, there are two boys waiting at the staircase with a tray in their hands, Yue Xi stood at the door with his hands and looked left and right, only to see that the doors of the rooms on both sides of the downstairs were closed, and the scene inside was not visible at all.

"Childe, the one we are going to start here today is smooth sailing, which side are you going to sit on?"

Seeing the newcomer entering the door, the two boys walked over together, first saluted Yue Xi and Zheng Baocai, and then said crisply.

"Here's the money?" Yue Xi reached out and tapped the tray in the boy's hand, and asked Wen Sheng.

"Yes." The two children replied together: "Childe made a bet, and Mr. will write it down, no matter how much you win or lose, you can come down to settle the bill when you go back." ”

"How much is a bet? Who is the dealer? Yue Xi withdrew his hand, and secretly thought to himself: I said that it was awkward to look at these children, it turned out that they were all dwarfs like big ones! The tray he was holding in his hand was actually made of iron, and it must have been their weapon......

"Today, a game will determine life and death, and a thousand taels will be bet." The two boys replied in unison.

"What?!" Before Yue Xi could speak, Zheng Baocai had already exclaimed, and he grabbed Yue Xi's arm and walked back: "It's too scary!" Let's go, let's stop playing......"

"Huh!" Yue Xi chuckled, his body didn't move, and he only whispered to Zheng Baocai: "I'm afraid that this door is easy to enter and not easy to get out." ”

Sure enough, the two boys holding the tray said crisply together: "The people who came in the Golden Pavilion are all distinguished guests, and the gladiatorial hall is fighting for life and death, and the two masters will leave without trying their luck when they come in, is it possible that they will not give us the face of the county prince?" ”

"Yes

"But, it can't be so expensive! I thought it was ten taels or eight! Zheng Baocai glared at the two boys, but it had no effect at all, and the two of them were still blocking the front with their own trays, with a posture of not wanting to leave without paying.

"I've been talking for a long time and haven't said who the dealer is." Yue Xi took half a step forward, and blocked Zheng Baocai behind him without a trace, the hands of the two children holding the tray had already burst with green tendons, Zheng Baocai didn't know what she really knew, and the other party was ready to make a move at any time.

"Childe Xu is here for the first time, right? The dealers of the Golden Pavilion are all our county princes! ”

Yue Xi's heart jumped: I'm going to it! Walking here from the courtyard gate, Lao Tzu hurriedly looked, there are gambling houses, green buildings, gladiatorial fights, if all the people here have to sit in the village, let alone win or lose, then how much capital does he have a day here? !

Yue Xi thought about it and felt that his scalp was numb!

The world of the rich is really different from the common people......

She actually wanted to pay attention here in order to earn five hundred taels of silver?! Thinking of such a hasty decision, Yue Xi couldn't wait to smoke Zheng Baocai's ear scrapers!

I thought that the identity of the owner behind the place that he could enter according to his identity was also limited, but now it's good, these two brothers are good brothers, and they will die together!

No matter what he thought in his heart, Yue Xi's face was still peaceful.

After the two boys finished speaking, she unhurriedly took out the silver ticket from her arms, and said casually: "Then I will follow your county king and bet on it." ”

The two boys glanced at each other before explaining at the same time: "We don't know which side the prince of the county has bet on. ”

"Hah!" Yue Xi looked up to the sky and smiled, and then took the silver back into her arms, she shook her head and said, "How can there be such a villager?" The dealer is not in the light but in the dark, that is, we bet right, he turned his face and did not admit it, who do we find to reason? ”

"The Consumer Finance Pavilion has been open for almost a year, according to what you say, could it be that I am living by relying on my debts?" The voice behind him was soft and lazy, revealing leisure.

Yue Xi didn't hear the footsteps of the person who spoke, but first smelled a strong smell of smoke, which she couldn't help frowning: I'm going to smoke Lao Tzu to death!