A mahjong game was rubbed to the end, and Lou Yuzhu finally maintained a winning ending without a single note.

Steward Hu, Pei Guanying, and Zhou Cheng were all angry and whitened their eyes, and went to rest with a sense of unwillingness. After breakfast on the second day, the three of them said goodbye, and Lou Chengyi sent the three of them to the entrance of the village before turning around.

Seeing the carriage disappear, Lou Yuzhu touched Lou Ming's head and said in her heart, this golden thigh is hugged tightly! Although they can't keep the three rooms for a lifetime, as long as Pei Guanying is in Huya Town, they will be safe and sound. I don't need much help from the other party, but as long as the friendship is there, those big heads in Huya Town have to weigh it, so it's much more stable for Sanfang to do something.

Thinking so in my heart, as soon as my nerves relaxed, a wave of exhaustion floated up. Yawning and stretching his waist, Lou Yuzhu rushed to Lou Hua and went to sleep, and turned around, and as soon as the door was closed, the quilt was covered, and he only slept until he missed lunch.

I felt the kitchen and opened the lid of the stove, and I felt the steaming food in the bowl, and walked forward while eating. I just saw that there was no one in the study and no one in the yard, and I saw that Fu Linshu was cutting children's clothes with needles and threads in the main house.

"What about them?" Lou Yuzhu sat next to her with a bowl, glanced at the children's things in Zhulou, and found that they were quite exquisite.

Fu Linshu put down the needle and thread and glared at him: "Your eldest brother and second brother went out to see the sheep with your father early, and you are too lazy to get up until now." ”

Lou Yuzhu was not annoyed by the two words, he smiled and sent the bowl into the kitchen after picking up the rice, and when he turned around, Lou Chengyi's father and son also drove the first ewe back.

There are also ready-made sheep sheds, and the miscellaneous sheds next to the cowsheds can be cleaned up.

While Lou Chengyi went to clean up the sheep shed, Lou Hua and Lou Ming pulled Lou Yuzhu into the study, Lou Ming gloated and said: "I heard that the uncle and the uncle quarreled fiercely two days ago, saying that the uncle wanted to go to the town with the uncle to rent a room to live, and it was better to take care of the uncle and the lobby brother to study nearby, but the uncle didn't let him hear about it and beat the uncle." ”

Lou Yuzhu hooked her lips and was happy, knowing that it was her previous words that made Xu Chunting suspicious, and she wanted to follow her to the town to stare at people? It's not stupid.

Lou Hua's expression was uncertain: "Uncle really has an outer room in the town?" ”

"Even if it's not an outer room, it's good." I was able to discover this secret because I accidentally saw Lou Chengzu enter Wutong Alley before, and the expression on his face was not a visiting friend, and which friend would buy beads when he came to the door?

"Does the lobby know?" Lou Ming asked with a glare.

"Then I don't know." Lou Yuzhu looked at Lou Hua after speaking. Lou Chengzu will disappear every three or five days, and Lou Wenhui, who lives with him, doesn't know? Ghosts don't believe it! "Second brother hasn't practiced today's words, go and practice words. The private affairs of the elders are rarely talked about. ”

When Lou Ming was sent to practice calligraphy, Lou Hua shook his head with laughter: "What did he picture?" ”

"It's just my own interests." So this is the disgusting thing about Lou Wen, for his own interests, he didn't even tell the family about his father's good things outside, tsk, Xu Chunting was afraid that he felt sorry for this son. Therefore, the wicked have their own wicked grinding, and Xu Chunting has been waiting for so many years until the day the matter is exposed, but it will be lively. "Don't worry about the affairs of the old house, big brother in the future, don't waste your mind. The important thing for you now is to study with peace of mind, enter Yishan College in the spring of next year, keep up with the progress, and then come back after three years for the exam! ”

Lou Hua smiled: "I haven't thought about it myself, you have to think about it first." If Xiucai is really so good at taking the test, there will not be so many lonely children in the world. ”

"Have faith in yourself! In short, I believe that the eldest brother will definitely be able to pass the test! ”

"Heh, accept your auspicious words, if you really pass the test, I will give you a big red envelope when the time comes!"

"It's a deal!" Lou Yuzhu smiled and bent her eyes, as if she had received the red envelope. Three years later, Lou Yuzhu became a prophecy, and Lou Hua really gave Lou Yuzhu a red envelope with all the private money he had saved for three years! That amount was nothing to the third room at that time, but Lou Yuzhu still held the red envelope for three days. Later, he even told Lou Hua's daughter-in-law about it as a joke, and immediately amused the other party.

Of course, this is a later story, and I will not mention it. The next day, when it was time to make an appointment with Renyazi, Lou Yuzhu and Lou Chengyi came to see the candidates, and unfortunately they met Zhou Cheng with the same goal.

It's just that the other party has changed greatly, which makes Lou Yuzhu suspect that she was wrong, obviously she only saw it yesterday. "Brother Zhou."

Zhou Cheng turned his head and smiled at the father and son: "You guys are also here to buy people?" ”

Lou Chengyi nodded innocently, and Lou Yuzhu's eyes rolled: "Brother Zhou came to buy people, but there is a shortage of people around the young master?" ”

"It's not that the young master wants to buy it, it's that I want to buy it."

Hearing this, Lou Yuzhu was stunned, and looked at Zhou Cheng carefully, no wonder he felt that he had changed a lot before, and it turned out that his outfit had changed. In the past, I used to dress up as a little girl, wearing a short hair tied with a cotton cloth bag, but now I have changed into a long shirt, and my hair is tied with a hair crown, and the rest hangs down on my shoulders, giving people the feeling of a little adult. Zhou Cheng has always felt calm, but at the age of fourteen or fifteen, he is solid and like an adult, but now he feels more and more old when he changes his clothes. "Let me guess, Brother Zhou has redeemed himself and changed his household registration?"

It is not surprising that Lou Yuzhu can guess it, Zhou Cheng nodded generously: "Yesterday, the young master asked me to redeem the deed of purchase with one hundred taels." ”

"Congratulations to Brother Zhou for regaining his freedom." After speaking, he hooked his lips and quipped: "But if it were me, one hundred taels would be less, at least add two zeros at the back, because Brother Zhou is definitely worth the price!" ”

Lou Chengyi was about to break out in a cold sweat when he heard this, for fear that Zhou Cheng would be angry when he heard it, and he didn't want the other party to be angry but grinned for a while.

At this time, the people came up: "How many people do you know?" So it's good to be in a hurry, I'll let a few people come out to look at each other together? ”

Lou Yuzhu and Zhou Cheng looked at each other, nodded and said, "Cheng, then let's look at each other together." Taking advantage of people's teeth to arrange people, Lou Yuzhu said to Zhou Cheng: "Brother Zhou is more familiar than us in terms of buying people, please help us check it when the time comes." ”

Zhou Cheng nodded: "What do you want to buy?" ”

"A scholar, a strong laborer, and a young slave. The scholar should be clean and honest, and the strong labor force is arranged for my father, and it is best to be able to bear hardships and stand hard work and know some farm work, and the slave brother should be diligent and able to do housework, and the best cooking skills should be good. The price, it is best not to exceed seventy taels. ”

As far as the current market is concerned, seventy taels is not the best to buy, but the above conditions should be met.

"You might as well buy a family in this situation." Seeing Lou Yuzhu putting on a deferential appearance, he said: "Most of the honest people are worried about their relatives, so they let them live together if they think about reunion every day, and they won't think about things when they are at ease." ”

Lou Yuzhu thought for a while, and felt that this was something to consider.

Soon Renyazi arranged for someone to come, Zhou Cheng picked two adult men dressed Zhou Zheng for his needs, and then it was Lou Yuzhu's turn, and there were two households that met the requirements, but the slave brother in one family was too tall and raised his eyebrows, and he looked at it honestly, but he bought such a person and put it at home unless his brain was in water; Another family, the conditions are all met, the only flaw is that the other party has a 13-year-old son and a 10-year-old brother. It's a little unbearable to separate this family, after all, that brother is still young, or if he is with his relatives, he may not be sold to somewhere, but if he wants to buy it, the price exceeds the budget by ten taels of silver. Since I bought the field, the family doesn't have much money left, so I don't have to spend it like this.

Zhou Cheng probably knew the situation of the third room, and beckoned someone to talk about the price.

This tooth shop has never bargained for a monopoly in Huya Town, but for the sake of Zhou Cheng's face and the fact that he spent one hundred and sixty taels to buy two people, he reduced Lou Yuzhu by five taels.

The drop of five taels is more than five taels, but it is much better than ten taels, and Lou Yuzhu doesn't want to buy it. There is also Zhou Cheng's affection in this, he has helped to reduce the price, if he doesn't buy it, it won't look good.

After paying the money and taking over the deed of sale for a family of four, Lou Yuzhu asked Lou Chengyi to lead the four of them to handle the household registration, turned his head and smiled at Zhou Cheng: "Brother Zhou is looking for me something?" Looking for a quiet conversation? ”

"I can't hide anything from you." Zhou Cheng looked at Lou Yuzhu with deep meaning: "It's still early, how about going to Jufulou for a cup of tea?" ”

"Listen to Brother Zhou's arrangement."

Zhou Cheng led people to Jufu Building, arranged for two new buyers to wait on the first floor, and asked for a box with Shopkeeper Jiao, and ordered a pot of tea and a few snacks. After the dim sum and hot tea were delivered, the Yuzhu Chong Lou opened the shelf to talk about business. didn't beat around the bush, and went straight to the topic: "I'll spend two hundred taels to buy that hot pot with you." ”

Lou Yuzhu didn't answer and asked: "Brother Zhou wants to open a hot pot restaurant in Huya Town?" ”

"I'm not in Huya Town, I'm going to Fucheng."

Hearing this, Lou Yuzhu looked at Zhou Cheng appreciatively: "Brother Zhou has a good eye." "Hot pot is a common food in modern times, but it is rare and expensive here, because the ingredients are scarce, the best example is beef, who has not eaten beef in modern times? But here, ordinary people may not be able to eat it for the rest of their lives. "There are few markets in Huya Town, and it is already the limit to accommodate a restaurant like Jufulou, but Fucheng is different. It is the center of the talent gathering of the entire Nanyang Mansion, and the dignitaries and nobles plus the rich and noble, I can already expect that Brother Zhou will definitely make a lot of money. ”

"Promise your good words." Good words start with the point, and then the point comes.

Sure enough, the next carved Lou Yuzhu smiled and said: "Don't hide it from Brother Zhou, I originally wanted to keep the hot pot method to open a store by myself, but you also know the situation of our family, it may not be difficult to open a hot pot restaurant in Huya Town, but in this way, the market is limited, and our family has a good relationship with the Jiao shopkeeper, so there is no reason to rob other people's business, so I can give the recipe, but not sell it." I use it to participate in shares, and I don't want more, just one percent of the net profit, and the term is three years. ”

Zhou Cheng raised his eyebrows.

Lou Yuzhu was not in a hurry, and said slowly: "Hot pot is suitable for winter and spring, and as soon as the temperature rises in summer, the hot pot business will plummet, and at this time it will be replaced." I also have alternative food recipes here, and if it is well managed, it may not be worse than hot pot. ”

"I admit that the hot pot method is a good one, but Brother Yu doesn't want cash but takes one percent of the profit that hasn't been filmed, and I'm not afraid of losing?"

"Since Brother Zhou is ready to do it, he must have thought it through. Besides, opening a food restaurant in Fucheng is not so simple, the financial, manpower and energy invested must be a lot, I just have a simple food recipe, and if I lose it, it will have little impact on our family, but if it is earned, Lou Yuzhu looked at Zhou Cheng, pursed her lips and smiled: "But it is far from being comparable to the money of a prescription." You say, don't you? Brother Zhou? ”

Lou Yuzhu looked at Zhou Cheng with a smile on his face. Two hundred taels is a lot of ways to buy a piece of food, but compared with the profits of this business, it is a drop in the bucket, although he is not intended, but he does want to fool Lou Yuzhu to sell the method. "Since Brother Yu has thought about it, then do as you say. One percent of the profit for a period of three years. ”

"Okay, it's a testament."

When Zhou Cheng called Xiao Er to send a pen and paper, carefully wrote the final clapper treaty, and then made three copies, and waited for the Hu steward to sign it as a guarantor, and the matter was decided.