The wooden door creaked open from inside, and out came a young man about twenty years old. 【Book by】

The young man was dressed in a dark cloth robe, and he glanced at me who was following Jia Laoliu with sharp eyes, and looked up and down for a while before saying, "Come in with me." ”

I followed behind Jia Lao Liu and slowly walked into this mansion that looked very deep.

If I was surprised when I went to the backyard of the pharmacy in the morning, the backyard I saw this time was even more surpassed.

In the border town, there is such an exquisite house, whether it is from the vegetation in the courtyard to the flower rockery, and even a small pavilion is full of a pleasing feeling.

Definitely a big deal!

I sighed in my heart, such a handwriting is not something that a simple nouveau riche can do, it is obvious that the other party has an unusual background.

I straightened my clothes, and turned my head to see that the two men were staring at me, and we were in the backyard of the mansion at the moment, and the place I was going to was nothing more than a temporary warehouse where people were loaned to pile up medicinal herbs.

But when I walked in and saw the view, I couldn't help but be distracted, and stood on the path with admiration, not realizing that they had come to a distance of ten feet or so from me.

I smiled awkwardly, and Jia Laoliu, who had never paid much attention to me, glared at me fiercely, very dissatisfied with what I had just done.

He turned his head to the young man with a somewhat strange expression and explained: "This kid is a newcomer, he has never seen the world, and he is stunned for a while. ”

It was he who brought me into the yard, so naturally he had to make a round, and if he messed things up, he would also have a loss, right?!

The young man waved his hand, and without saying a word, he lowered his voice and said, "Come with me, don't take a fork in the road this time." ”

I hurriedly trotted all the way up, and he walked quickly through half of the secluded courtyard to a gravel path. In a few moments, we were on our way to our destination.

In front of him was a row of warehouses, and the boy led the two of us to the door of one of them.

"This is it." The boy stood in the doorway and opened the door to the warehouse with the keychain he was carrying.

A strong aroma of medicinal herbs wafted in, and I inhaled deeply through my nose. I smelled that there seemed to be a mixture of several medicinal herbs, more varieties than I had guessed, and if I guessed again, the medicinal herb merchant had to rush all the way to Sealand through the border, probably to deliver goods to a large pharmacy in Sealand.

After all, I didn't stop, and followed him to the warehouse.

Jia Lao Liu turned around the door of the other two rooms, and soon followed our footsteps to come in, and saw the large and small boxes stacked in the warehouse, without waiting for him to say hello. I stepped forward to open one of them.

The teenager didn't stop me.

I opened several boxes one after the other, looked at the contents and roughly counted the quantities of them.

I'm going to have to spend the whole night tidying up tonight to complete the task they've given me.

The moment I entered the warehouse just now, I actually understood, my previous guess was still too conservative, looking at the size of the box here. It's not just the total labor cost in my heart, on the contrary, there are several more.

This means that Jia Laoliu's next business can make a lot of money.

But I can only slander it in my heart, and I can't show it on my face.

Who told me that I was in urgent need of money, and that I was in a situation where I was exhausted and my donkey skills were exhausted?

People have the resources in their hands. Of course, you can be opportunistic, or you can sit on the ground and start the price.

I frowned and looked at it for a while, and the young man who was moving the box turned his head to see me dumbfounded, and said in a low voice: "There is only one guy to help, and there is no one in the pharmacy?!" ”

Jia Lao Liu glanced at me, walked over and muttered a few words in his ear. The voices were too soft for me to hear, but I could guess the general meaning by looking at the shape of their mouths.

Jia Laoliu laboriously explained, roughly because the rain delayed the delivery of medicinal materials from the town's pharmacy. Now I have just arrived at a large number of medicine boxes, and the shopkeeper of the pharmacy has instructed the young men to tidy up overnight, and in this case, it will be difficult for him to find such a person as me.

The young man frowned and said, "Are you sure he can complete the task of sorting out the medicinal herbs overnight, but the master will have to pass the checkpoint tomorrow morning?" ”

Speaking of which, I understood the identity of the young man, it turned out that it was not the nurse or steward of this house, but the guy brought by the medicinal herb merchant.

I was a little more curious about him, or rather about the herb merchant.

Jia Lao Liu turned around and gestured at me a few more times, meaning to ask me to pack the ticket to reassure the young man, I shook my head, and did not say what he wanted me to say.

"Boss Jia, I have something to tell you."

I bowed apologetically to the boy and walked out the door.

Lao Jia came out and stood in the courtyard at the door and asked me, "What's wrong with you?" Something? ”

I smiled slightly, paused in my tone, and said, "Yes." ”

I stretched out my hand and gestured three fingers and said, "I have repented of the previous agreement and want this number." ”

Lao Jia's face turned red, and his eyes stared at me fiercely and said, "Didn't you say it all?" ”

I looked at him and said calmly: "I didn't expect it to be so many boxes, you didn't make it clear before, I can guarantee to do a good job, but this price is too tricky, even if you invite someone in the town, it won't be such a low price." ”

I said neither humbly nor arrogantly: "If you want me, I will take it, if you don't want it, forget it, I will find another way." ”

With that, I lifted my feet and went away.

"You wait!" Jia Laoliu gritted his teeth and beckoned, "I promised you, three times." ”

"There is no basis for words." I shook my head, how can I just talk about it?

I don't trust him very much.

"And what are you going to do?!" Jia Laoliu's voice suddenly raised a few points, "You still have to make a note." ”

"That's not necessary, but in front of that guy, I have to tell you the price you gave me directly."

This is the method I came up with after thinking about it carefully, because I intuitively felt that the young man looked much more reliable than the contractor in front of me.

"No, no," he said embarrassedly, "how much labor do you have, how can I hide it from that herb merchant, how can I say it directly from his subordinates, it's hard to say!" ”

"Then there's another way." I had already thought of a plan to take a step back, and I said to him logically.

"How?"

Jia Lao Liu's eyes looked at me suspiciously, as if he suspected that I was going to set up a trap for him.

I have completely grasped the initiative in the negotiation, and said with a slight smile: "You pay me half of the silver first, and then go in and make it clear in front of that guy that there is still half of the silver and wait for him to accept it tomorrow, and you pay me." ”

"Then when you pay tomorrow, he won't see the price I gave you."

He immediately objected!

"Well, then you just say that you have paid eighty percent? Actually, I only paid half of it. ”

I said in a very considerate tone.

"You make me think about it." He squatted down, sat on the rockery and thought for a moment, but did not speak, and waited for a long time, when the young man inside shouted out the door, and then he stood up and agreed.

I went in with him, and in front of the young man, he claimed that he had paid eighty percent of the silver, and the young man looked at us in some surprise, and then heard that there were still twenty percent tomorrow, and when he asked him to pay after he accepted the pass, he agreed!

The matter is settled!

I stayed to do my work, and the boy carried the boxes that needed to be sorted out in one place, and after a few words of advice to me, he exited the door of the warehouse, and he walked as fast as he came, and I could see that the other man had kung fu.

When they were both gone, I took the silver from my bosom and weighed it in the palm of my hand, a smile on my face.

With this, even if I don't pay the other half of the silver tomorrow morning, I will have enough to buy.

Of course, collecting a deposit must be loyal, I didn't dare to delay for a moment, immediately rolled up my sleeves and opened the lid of the big medicine box, and started to tidy it up.

The reason why this batch of medicinal herbs had to be cleaned up by hand was because several of the boxes placed on them were still wet, and although they were blown by the mountain wind and the sun, the quality of those who had been flooded was greatly reduced.

The herb merchant ordered the defective products to be sorted out, and if there was no problem, they were gathered in one place.

I was busy in the warehouse, from noon until evening, a few boxes of the worst herbs were sorted out first, and the rest, and some needed to be sorted out.

The fire in my belly was burning, and I wiped the sweat from my head.

As soon as I stopped, I felt that I was so hungry that I was about to lose my strength, and I couldn't go on like this, I was doing physical work, but not reading and writing, and I was afraid that I would faint if I did it again, so I hesitated to go out of the warehouse, look for someone in the backyard of the house, and ask if there was anything to eat?

The door of the warehouse was suddenly pushed open, and the movement of the visitor was so light that I didn't even notice it when I walked to the door, or maybe I was too busy to be distracted.

The light in the warehouse was a little dim, but the person who came in was from outside the bright light, so when his figure appeared at the door, the whole person seemed to be carrying light.

I squinted my eyes to see that he was still the boy.

He walked up to me with a plate in his hand and handed it to me, "My master asked me to send it." “

I could smell the aroma before I could lift the lid, and I stared at the plate for a few seconds, letting the aroma linger in the room but was in no mood to pick it up. "Do you want to eat it or not? I sent it on purpose. “

The boy lost patience, placed the plate on a medicine box with the lid unopened, and walked away without looking back.

I slowly got up, opened the lid, and the sweet aroma of osmanthus came to my nose.

It seems to have been a long, long time ago, and the fragrant and soft filling is slowly swallowed with the refreshing breath and sweet fragrance in the mouth.

Putting down the bowl, I quickly pulled away from the low feeling I had just had, put the plate aside, and continued with the unfinished business at hand