The two of them must have felt a lot more at ease, and then they went to get busy with a few polite words, Lou Yuzhu and Lou Chengyi rented an ox cart and rushed home.

When I got home, it was still early, so I settled people in the backyard miscellaneous house and let them make up their own salutes and then greet them in the main hall.

A quarter of an hour later, a family of four came to the main hall to kneel in a row. "I've seen the master, I've seen Jun Fulang, I've seen the eldest young master, the second young master, and I've seen the young brother."

Lou Chengyi was a little nervous and at a loss, and his eyes looked straight at Fu Linshu as if he was asking for help.

Fu Linshu is worthy of being a child of an official family, and although he was young when he left home, he still has some memories. "You should report to yourself first."

The head man in the family of four kowtowed: "Hui Junfulang, the slave's surname is Huang, his name is Huangshan, and he is thirty-four years old this Chinese New Year's Eve." This is the slave daughter-in-law, named Liu Kui, who is Chinese New Year's Eve one year old today. Next to him is the slave son, named Huangshi, who is fourteen years old this year. The other is a slave brother, named Huang Ying, who is ten years old this year. ”

The family of four in Huangshan used to have a master, but the main family was going to move away, and it was inconvenient to bring so many people, so the honest family of four was resold back to Yaxing. There are representatives of the main family who have passed through before□□ don't bother them, it is not a moral loss that the representative will be honest, Lou Yuzhu looks at these points.

"What's going on?" Seeing that Huang Shan was about to answer again, Fu Linshu raised his chin. "Every one of you speaks."

Huang Shan kowtowed and replied: "Back to the words of the gentleman, the slaves can do farm work, repair houses, drive cars, and repair some furniture. ”

"Well, literate?"

"If you return to Junfulang, you can't read."

Fu Linshu nodded reservedly and looked at Liu Kui.

"If you go back to Junfulang, the slave will be able to cook, repair the yard, do laundry, and do some needlework." Remembering what he asked before, he replied spontaneously: "I can't read." ”

"If you go back to Junfulang, the little Huangshi will drive and do some rough work. Illiterate. ”

Huang Shi kowtowed, and Huang Ying also kowtowed solemnly: "If you go back to Jun Fulang, the slave will clean the house with some needlework and thread, and will also wash clothes." ”

Ten years old was originally the most free and easy age, but he was forced by life but had to learn to answer in a decent manner, how to deal with the master's family, how to please the master's family, and how to learn to work without being disliked and useless by the master's family. Thinking of this, Lou Yuzhu had to sigh, this is the shadow behind the highly centralized monarchy, and the cruel cold is helpless and irreversible.

After the family of four finished speaking, Lou Yuzhu opened his mouth and asked the two small ones: "Your name was taken by the previous master's family?" ”

Huang Shi raised his head: "Back to the young brother's words, our name was taken by my father." ”

Huang Shan hurriedly replied: "Young brother can change it at any time if he wants to." ”

Generally, the newly bought servants like to change their previous names, firstly, to be careful, and secondly, to give the servants a hint that they must listen to them. It's not a high measure, but most people love to use it.

It's sad enough to be inferior, and it's tragic to ask your father to keep his name! Lou Yuzhu thought about it and shook her head and said, "You don't need to change it, just call it that." After all, it was taken by the elders, and it was also a blessing. ”

The family of four hurriedly kowtowed, and said in unison: "Thank you for your kindness." ”

Fu Linshu saw that Lou Yuzhu had finished asking, so he said as before: "Huangshan, you will follow the master in the future, and you will be instructed if you have anything, and you will take care of the cattle and sheep in the vegetable garden and backyard if you have nothing to do." Seeing that Huangshan replied, he said to Liu Kui again: "You from the Huangshan family will follow me in the future, mainly doing some housework and kitchen work." Then he said to the two little ones: "Huang Shi, you will follow the two young masters to be scholars in the future, and Huang Ying will follow the young brother." If there is anything else, it will be arranged separately. "The work is arranged, and then it's the benefits." You are a family, I will not separate this month, every month 100 Wen at the beginning of the month, do a good job or the main family has a happy event and another reward, the same bad work will be punished if you make a mistake. Two sets of clothes and two pairs of shoes in a quarter, when the time comes, I will cut the cloth, and you will do it yourself in Huangshan. ”

Seeing the calm expressions on the faces of the family of four, Fu Linshu said again: "Our family is a Zhuang family, and it is impossible to be as thin and harsh as the rich families in the town, and it is good to do your part without many rules, but there is one thing you need to remember." Our forgiveness does not mean that we condone our servants to cheat and deceive. Your deed of sale is always in my hands, and I can get back as much as I can give you, and if you do that deceitful thing, you must be prepared to bear the consequences, and when the time comes, don't blame our lord for being unsympathetic. ”

After the whip was given, the candy was also given, and Lou Yuzhu gave Fu Linshu a look.

"Of course, as long as you do well, we will not treat you badly, and after twenty years, the situation will allow the deed of sale to be returned to you, and you will be allowed to settle down as a good citizen."

Huang Shan raised his head violently, and looked at Fu Linshu without daring to send a letter: "Really? ”

Lou Hua frowned, and his stern eyebrow line stared at the family of four. "Since we have said that we will keep our promises, but the premise is that you are honest and willing to do things for our family." Twenty years later, the dust settled, and the three rooms were settled, and I was afraid that I wouldn't want to let them go when the time came.

"Thank you, young master, the minions will do their best, never be half-hearted!"

Huang Shan led the family to say thank you, and made up his mind to do his best. Not for yourself, for future generations.

After the lecture, he turned around and the Huangshan family began to work. At this time, it showed that the benefits of the Huangshan family being □□ came, and they did the work well on their own without the instructions of the master.

At noon, Liu Kui's cooking tasted good, Lou Yuzhu discussed with Fu Linshuyi, and immediately called someone to mention the family's monthly case for twenty wen, and Liu Kui, who was happy, knelt down again to thank him.

"This is the reward for your good cooking, and you deserve it." Fu Linshu said that he knelt down steadily, and then beckoned him to get busy.

Waiting for people to leave, Lou Yuzhu gave Fu Linshu a thumbs up. "Daddy is really fantastic!"

"Tsk, eat your meal!" Fu Linshu didn't bother to roll his eyes, turned his head and saw Lou Chengyi staring at him stunned, his cheeks were slightly hot, but he stretched out his foot and kicked under the table: "What do you see?" Dine! ”

Lou Chengyi was cold, and he hurriedly lowered his head to pick up food.

Lou Yuzhu looked at it, and a hint of a secret smile flashed in her eyes. He can accept the range of warmth between the three rooms and the three rooms so quickly, the father and son have deep filial piety, and the warmth of the pulse is never declared in the mouth, only in the bits and pieces of life, which is very comfortable and makes people feel very warm, it is the blood and family affection that he once had but lost. After losing it, I got it again, and I cherish it extraordinarily.

After the meal, the family chatted a few words of homely and dispersed, Lou Yuzhu went back to the room to spread out the paper and ink, and silently wrote the advantages of modern hot pot restaurants on paper, and then picked up and wrote a new sealed envelope on oily paper. On the second day, he took the envelope to visit Pei Guanying first, and stayed in Lou Lou Ming to study with him, but he led Huang Ying to find Zhou Cheng's newly rented house. The road was not far, and as soon as he arrived at the door, he saw that Zhou Cheng was instructing the servants to pack their bags.

"Brother Zhou."

Zhou Cheng looked back when he heard the voice, and laughed one by one: "Why is Brother Yu'er here?" ”

"I'll come over and take a look, and I want to tell you about business when I see off Brother Zhou."

Hearing this, Zhou Cheng nodded: "Then let's talk inside." He led the man into the study, called the servant to serve tea, and said, "Sit." ”

Along the way, Lou Yuzhu had already finished looking at the courtyard he had entered, and Zhou Cheng only regarded this place as a temporary foothold, and he didn't want to waste that thought. "I went back yesterday and had some ideas, Brother Zhou can see if it's useful." As he spoke, he handed over the envelope, and then took a sip of the hot tea that the servant had just served.

Zhou Cheng took out the letter paper and looked.

Lou Yuzhu sipped tea. They have already communicated with the ingredients before, and now this letter is written on some software facilities and equipment, which is not useful but can avoid many small problems.

After reading the content of the letter, Zhou Cheng looked at Lou Yuzhu and shook his head and said: "If I didn't know that Brother Yu'er had never opened a store, I would have thought that this was the experience of some old shopkeepers." ”

"If you have nothing to do, if you don't use Brother Zhou's power, you haven't seen it."

"It's very useful, Brother Yu'er bothered." Zhou Cheng put away the letter and planned to look back.

"I have a share in this business, and I should bother with it."

The two talked about business, and Zhou Cheng said that he planned to go to Fucheng to make a Zhuangzi to supply the ingredients for the store, and Lou Yuzhu's heart moved when he heard this. "Brother Zhou also knows that hot pot is already hot, and meat is inevitably greasy, if there are some vegetarian foods, you can change the taste, not to mention that you can get some fire."

Zhou Cheng raised his eyebrows: "I thought about it before, but the cost of out-of-season vegetables is very high, and you need to have that hot spring Zhuangzi." ”

"I have a way here, maybe I don't need a hot spring village to grow out-of-season vegetables." Seeing Zhou Cheng's surprise, he smiled and said, "I don't know if it will be successful for the time being, so let's give it a try." It is a good business, whether it is used as ingredients in the store or sold to the rich. ”

"How sure are you?"

"Seventy percent."

Hearing this, Zhou Cheng's heart moved, and he converted the profits of off-season vegetables, feeling that this risk could be taken. "Brother Yu'er writes a recipe. What about the usual profit sharing? ”

That's exactly what I mean. However, this profit cannot be calculated at one percent. Lou Yuzhu looked at Zhou Cheng with a smile. Although the profit of opening a hot pot restaurant is large, the investment is also a lot, but the investment in off-season vegetables is not as big as that of a hot pot restaurant, but it is a lot of profits, and I am losing money by one percent. ”

"Three percent, three years as usual."

"Five percent, three years. I also set up some methods of feeding a lot of poultry. ”

Zhou Cheng thought for a moment and nodded: "Yes." ”

After the profit distribution was negotiated, Lou Yuzhu wrote the recipe for how to plant off-season vegetables with paper and ink, because she had planned to do so before, so she just wrote it in her heart. "It's written, Brother Zhou will take a look." Put down the pen, blew the ink on the paper, and then handed it to Zhou Cheng.

In order not to understand that Lou Yuzhu wrote in detail, from seed selection to budding to how to cultivate fertile soil and how to maintain temperature, there are clear methods. Zhou Cheng didn't know much about farming, and he couldn't be sure whether this method was useful or not, but he believed that Lou Yuzhu was not the one who opened his mouth, and since he said it, he must have some basis. "Did you think of it yourself?"

"When I'm not working, I wonder if crops can grow as usual if they need to keep warm in winter? After that, I asked my dad and my father, and after gaining a lot of experience and thinking of some ways to maintain the temperature, I can't pack the ticket for the time being, so I can try to gamble. Winning a million profits, losing is only a matter of a few acres of land. ”

"I don't know if Brother Yu is still a gambler."

"Just trying to make some money."

Zhou Cheng smiled, bowed his head to write the paperwork, and when he was about to write the third copy, Lou Yuzhu interrupted him.

"I can trust Brother Zhou's character, so I don't need to find a guarantor." The implication is that it is good to write two copies.

"Okay." Zhou Cheng didn't twist it, and immediately wrote two documents, two of them signed separately, and one of them kept one copy.

Lou Yuzhu

"It's a pleasure to work with."