Pei Guanying said with a smile: "I see that Wei Qian is an ambitious person, you think about his safety, he wants to make a name for himself, otherwise he would not be so desperate as a recruit." ”

Thinking of Lou Chenglan's miserable encounter with Pei and then thinking of Wei Qian's embarrassing life experience, Lou Yuzhu also sighed secretly in her heart, it can be seen that people are forced out.

Wei Qian's matter was put aside, Pei Guanying waved his hand and asked Brother Nu'er who was waiting to go down and close the doors and windows, and then whispered: "The court is preparing to start construction of a sea mouth in Linnan Bay this year to undertake north-south sea freight, and at the same time, an official road will be built from Nanyang City to Linnan Bay." ”

Lou Yuzhu's heart jumped. He had read the gazetteer and knew that Linnan Bay was a jurisdiction of Linhai District and Fenyang Prefecture next door, and it took five days to take a carriage from Nanyang City, and it took four days to ride a fast horse, because the road was difficult to walk and sometimes had to take a detour, so few people went there to pass the freight. And now the court has decreed the construction of Haikou, just wait for Haikou to be built, and the entire Linnan Bay will undergo earth-shaking changes, and then it will not be a poor town but a well-known rich town!

Zhou Cheng's eyes narrowed slightly. "What does the young master mean?"

Pei Guanying picked up the teacup and flicked the floating tea leaves with the tea lid, and said: "Horizontal and vertical are all making money, others are earning, we are also earning, since they are all earning, why don't we make some money?" ”

Lou Yuzhu smiled: "Second brother, don't sell Guanzi, let's talk about what the court is planning." ”

"The court allocated eight million taels to levy forced prisoners, and prepared to start construction after the autumn harvest, which took two years to complete." Pei Guanying smiled: "Linnan Bay will change, I want to sell some real estate at a low price before it changes, and we will sell it when the price rises." Don't make much, just double or triple it! ”

Buy at a low price and sell at a high price, this is trying to turn up real estate?

Lou Yuzhu thought about the operability of it, squinted his eyes and said: "Since the court wants to build Haikou, it will definitely stare at this piece, too greedy for fear of attracting the attention of the superiors, if you make twice the money, you will immediately change hands and put the money into the inn near the road, so that the water will flow for a long time, and the money you will make will not show that it will not fall into the water, and it will not cause dissatisfaction from the above." Seeing that the two were still considering, Lou Yuzhu said: "Nanyang City to Linnan Bay even if the official road is repaired, it will take three days, which is enough for us to build three inns, these three inns we can build bigger, including eating, including living, there are separate rooms for businessmen to rest their feet, and there are also separate courtyards for caravans to rest their feet and put goods, these three inns must prepare the needs of everyone, but also realize resource sharing, and make it convenient for past customers!" ”

Zhou Cheng understood Lou Yuzhu's meaning, and his eyes lit up and said: "Brother Yu'er wants to cut off the line from Nanyang City to Linnan Bay?" ”

Lou Yuzhu nodded. "As long as we calculate the road break, give customers enough convenience and give some help, it is not a problem to break this line." Modern hotel chains can hold customers from all over the world, and they don't believe that they can't hold on this line, with time, geography, and people!

Pei Guanying shook his head and said, "I just want to make a handful and leave, Brother Yu, you are good, you are ready to turn it into a rooster that lays golden eggs?!" ”

"It doesn't matter if it's a rooster or a hen, as long as it can lay golden eggs, it's a good chicken!" Lou Yuzhu took the conversation with a smile, and said to Zhou Chengle: "Brother Zhou also thinks this business is successful, right?" ”

Zhou Cheng nodded: "It's successful, but I'm afraid it will be slower to recover the funds." ”

"It doesn't matter if you're slow, it's important to be safe." Lou Yuzhu glanced at Pei Guanying, he knew that the other party's identity was special. "After talking about it for so long, how much money does the second brother do?"

"I have a lot of money on me, but it's unrealistic to invest it all." Pei Guanying thought for a moment and said, "Why don't you invest 50,000 taels." ”

"Xinyi Building and the restaurant are already profitable, but Zhuangzi is afraid that he will have to invest some," Zhou Cheng calculated the amount of money in his heart, and said, "Then I will draw 30,000 taels." ”

After the two finished speaking, they looked at Lou Yuzhu, and Lou Yuzhu said angrily: "Look at what I'm doing?" Our family is from a Zhuang family, and it is not as rich as the two of them. ”

Pei Guanying snickered: "Brother Yu'er, are you crying poor?" It's as if I just gave a silver ticket of 1,200 taels, right? Li Shang's leisure hall opened and asked you to sit in the town and didn't win money? ”

Zhou Cheng said with a rare joke: "Young master, don't listen to his nonsense. Just came to Nanyang City on the second day with Li Yue played a game, won nearly a thousand taels, and then the leisure hall opened Li Shang sealed a hundred taels of red seals, and then sat in the town for a few days and won a thousand three or four hundred taels, Li Shang did not take a penny, so there are two thousand five hundred taels in the hands of the single mahjong! plus the thousand two hundred taels brought back by the young master, Brother Yu has three thousand seven hundred taels of silver tickets in his hand! This is only cash silver, there are dividends from shock absorbers, dividends from ice cellars, dividends from Xinyi Building, dividends from red shrimp restaurants, dividends from these four businesses A month income of 1,000 taels is certain! ”

Lou Yuzhu pretended to smile and said, "Listening to Brother Zhou's calculations, how did I become a rich man?" ”

Pei Guanying pretended to be surprised and asked, "Isn't Brother Yu still conscious of being a rich man?" ”

"Compared with the second brother and Brother Zhou, what kind of rich man am I?" Saying that, Lou Yuzhu laughed to herself, and after laughing, she thought for a while and said, "Then I'll vote four thousand taels." ”

After discussing the investment, we will discuss the details and disperse. On the second day, Zhou Cheng and Hu went to Linnanwan to seize the opportunity, Pei Guanying and Li Shang accompanied Mu Lao back to Huya Town after dinner, Lou Yuzhu stayed to watch the business, and after half a month, he was sure to be on the right track before returning, which took time to go to Yangliu Town to visit Lou Chenglan, but stayed in the other party's new house for one night, and set off back to Yanjia Village as soon as the day dawned.

It's just that when they arrived at the door, it was not Lou Chengyi and his wife who greeted him, but Ji Xiaorong cried and scolded Sanfang for losing his conscience.

Lou Yuzhu got out of the carriage, glanced at the onlookers, and said to the second uncle: "What is the second uncle doing?" In broad daylight, everyone is watching, but the second uncle is lying in front of our house? ”

Ji Xiaorong has always been a shameless person, and yelled at Lou Yuzhu: "What's wrong with me just lying here?" If you don't give me an explanation, I won't leave here! ”

"Say?" Lou Yuzhu was suspicious, and the Huangshan family inside the door heard the movement, flashed out of the door and gave Lou Yuzhu a salute first, and then quietly said the matter.

Last night, someone stole five shrimp nets in the third room, and Lou Chengyi found Li Zheng in the morning, and Li Zheng notified the villagers to hold a meeting to let the person who stole the shrimp net take the initiative to stand up and admit his mistake, otherwise the three rooms will be reported to the official. If ordinary people are scared out, but the thief seems to have something to rely on, and did not stand up, and then the third room reported to the official, and found five shrimp nets and six or seven catties of red shrimp from the second room of the building. The funny thing is that Lou Chengli only knew that he was afraid at this time, and he never admitted it to death and said that it was Lou Chengyi who sent him, but the official was not so good at talking, and he took the person to the yamen as soon as he tied it up. Ji Xiaorong couldn't keep up, so he ran to the front door of the third room and scolded, scolding the third room for losing his conscience if he was rich, and even harming his own brothers! It's just that the third room went to Zhang's house early in the morning, and the house was watched by Huangshan and Huangshan's family.

Lou Yuzhu, who knew the beginning of the wipe, was speechless. What does it mean that brothers are harmful? If Lou Chengli hadn't stolen the shrimp net with bad intentions, he wouldn't have been able to catch him even if he reported to the official!

"Second Uncle has something to say, go in and say."

"No, just say it right here!"

Ji Xiaorong wanted to borrow the villagers to seek benefits for himself, but Lou Yuzhu would not let him succeed. On the surface, he was going to help, but he actually approached and whispered: "Since the second uncle knows that it is the official we reported, aren't you afraid that I will turn my head and let people break the second uncle's legs?" Also, the more the second uncle makes trouble, the worse his reputation will become, so won't he pit Brother Ming when the time comes? ”

Taking advantage of Ji Xiaorong's startle, Lou Yuzhu gave the Huangshan family a look, and half-supported and half-forced people into the courtyard. Sent away to see the lively villagers, Lou Yuzhu turned around and didn't look at Ji Xiaorong, and instructed: "Huangshan, you go and bring in the things in the carriage, Huang Ying, you wrap a red envelope for the coachman, and you from Huangshan's family go and prepare some warm water for me to wash my face." After two quarters of an hour, Huangshan, you go to the yamen to take my second uncle out and send him to the old house, and then you will be busy with your own business. After driving for so long, Lulou Yuzhu really didn't want to pay attention to these bad things, seeing Ji Xiaorong's trembling anger, he felt funny and said: "The second uncle was used as a gun here to fight with us, why don't you go to the person who stole the shrimp net to settle the account, hide behind the person, and jump out to share the result and become a turtle with a shrunken head when something happens, how can there be such a good thing in the world?" Second uncle? ”

Ji Xiaorong's face changed from blue to white to red, and he didn't know how to react when he stood in the courtyard for a while.

Lou Yuzhu laughed secretly in her heart, and went to rest. When he woke up, Ji Xiaorong had naturally left, Huang Ying came in and sent warm water to Lou Yuzhu to wipe his face, and Lou Chengli had been picked up. Because no one came forward in the third room, the official family slapped Lou Chengli 20 boards, and was originally going to be locked up for a few days, but then Huangshan went to get people and let them go.

"When my father sent people over, the old lady of the old house asked the old man to go after he came back."

Mr. Lou, this is trying to settle accounts? Lou Yuzhu smiled in her heart, wiped her hands and handed the towel to Huang Ying. "Did my dad say when they would be back?"

"The master said he would come back in the evening."

Lou Chengyi's husband went to Zhang's house, probably because Lou Hua branched out, in order not to want the two husbands to be involved in this matter, but this method is not a bit blunt, after all, such a big thing happened at home, why are the two husbands still in the mood to go to relatives, and no one stays? With that transparent blink of an eye, you can think that this is intentional.

In the evening, Lou Hua and Lou Ming returned before Lou Chengyi and his wife, and the question was indeed intentional by them. When the shrimp net was released in Huangshan at night, he vaguely saw Lou Chengli hiding behind, but at that time he didn't think that it was a coincidence, but when he turned around, there were five less, and everyone knew who stole it.

Lou Hua asked Huang Shi to inquire and knew that Lou Chengli had been beaten with 20 boards, and said: "I hope these 20 boards can teach the second uncle a lesson." ”

Lou Yuzhu smiled: "The country is easy to change, and the nature is difficult to change. The second uncle is used to cheating and playing tricks in his life, and there is an uncle who is a hypocrite behind his back, if the two are not separated, it is estimated that there will be a wolf bèi for adultery! ”

Lou Ming didn't understand: "What's the matter with Uncle Guan?" ”

"Why don't you do anything else?" Lou Yuzhu and Lou Hua looked at each other and said with a smile: "The idea of the second uncle stealing the shrimp net is □□ from the uncle, I tried it before, and the second uncle knew that it was really the case when he looked at his expression." ”

Lou Ming was even more puzzled: "Isn't the uncle a showman?" Is he still short of money? ”

Lou Yuzhu touched Lou Ming and said with a smile: "This is the lack of people's hearts, if you have ten taels, you will think about twenty taels, and if you have twenty taels, you will think about thirty taels." Therefore, the second brother must not learn in the future, how much ability he can eat, how many bowls of rice he wears, how many good clothes he wears, how many good days, and don't remember other people's families, because it is never his own. Learn to be thankful and content. ”

The brothers stayed in the study and chatted quietly, and the guard came to report the news out of breath, saying that Lou Chengyi and his husband were intercepted by the two brothers Lou Yuan and Lou Wu at the gate of the village and went to the old house.

The brothers were shocked.

It's hot, and Wei Ah Mo can't care about wiping his sweat and says: "I only knew it when I heard the baby's cry, but my family is not helping much, you brothers go and take a look." ”

Lou Hua and Lou Ming got up and were about to run, but Lou Yuzhu instructed Huang Ying to beckon Wei Ah Mo to turn around and let Huang Shan and Liu Kui follow. As soon as I arrived at the old house, I heard Lou Chen's hoarse cry from outside the door, and the brothers immediately felt their hearts, and broke in directly, and saw the two husbands kneeling there, Lou Chengzu Lou Wen pressed Lou Chengyi, Ji Xiaorong and Lou Mingzhu and Lou Yinzhu went to snatch Lou Chen in Fu Linshu's arms, and Lou Yuzhu's head was about to explode at that time. Running over and rushing at Ji Xiaorong is heart and feet, tearing open Lou Mingzhu and Lou Yinzhu is two slaps.

Ji Xiaorong's cry of pain and the sound of two slaps slapping down made the old man stunned for a while and didn't even react.

Lou Yuzhu's eyes swept around, and he shouted coldly: "Huangshan, come here!" Whoever dares to step forward again, don't worry, even if you kill our three rooms, you will be compensated! ”

Liu Ah gasped angrily, and the old man Lou breathed angrily. It's just that no matter how angry he is, he seems to be afraid of Lou Yuzhu's momentum and the meaning of his words, and no one dares to move.

Taking a deep breath, he motioned to Lou Hua and Lou Ming to help Lou Chengyi and his husband up, and said to Liu Kui: "You of the Huangshan family are waiting for Jun Fulang to go back with the little master." Second brother, you go to Lizheng, and say that we are going to open an ancestral hall, and there are some words to be broken in front of the ancestors! ”

There is an ancestral hall in Yanjia Village where everyone pooled money to repair, and there are ancestral tablets of people in the village. Because it is not an ancestral hall, there is nothing in the village to open an ancestral hall to break up, after all, even if you lose face in front of your own ancestors, you have to lose face in front of other people's ancestors, and in the end, it is too strict to even take your own ancestors to be ridiculed. Lou Yuzhu doesn't believe in ghosts and gods, she didn't open it before because of trouble, but now she can't bear it!

Lou Ming turned around and was about to run, but Old Man Lou angrily dropped the cup in his hand: "Who dares!" ”

"What would you not dare? Since grandpa dares to do it, why is he not afraid that the ancestors will listen? Yes, you are grandpa, you are the biggest in this family, even if our three rooms are separated, we will still be subject to your checks and balances, but grandpa, don't forget that the Lou family still has ancestors, and there are ancestral tablets! We can't control it, our ancestors can always manage it, let's see if our ancestors will come down and split after listening to what you did! ”

Lou Hua's eyes were clear, and his hand quickly covered Lou Yuzhu's mouth.

Old Man Lou's angry eyes were red: "You let him say, Lou Hua, you let him say!" You let this unscrupulous descendant say! Say what comes next! ”

Lou Yuzhu took a deep breath, and said in his heart that he was going crazy, but fortunately, Lou Hua covered his mouth with wit, otherwise the second half of the sentence 'Kill you!' As soon as you say it, it's a big deal!

Seeing that Lou Yuzhu had calmed down, Lou Hua let go of his hand and said to the old man Lou: "If grandpa doesn't open the ancestral hall, then please Lizheng, and even invite a few elderly people in the village to come and let them evaluate who is right and who is wrong in this matter." ”

"No, you don't!"

"Then what did grandpa say about this? It is a fact that the second uncle stole our family's shrimp net, and my grandfather did not investigate the fault of the second uncle to punish my father and father, and it didn't make sense to say it. ”

Lou Chengli, who was lying there, shouted angrily: "Why didn't you pay attention to this? Have I suffered the sins of these twenty boards in vain? If you have money, you forget your brother?! ”

Lou Yuzhu pouted: "When the second uncle was stealing the shrimp net, he didn't think that my father and you were brothers?" ”

"Who told you not to give,"

"If you don't give it to the second uncle, you can steal it? Then what else do you need to do in the world? Lou Yuzhu looked at Lou Chengli coldly, and deeply felt that the twenty boards were missing, and the forty boards should be played!" Also, as for why our family doesn't give this matter has been said several times before, I believe that the second uncle also knows it in his heart, and our family doesn't give any business, but the second uncle doesn't look down on the business of instigating snails. Who is to blame for this? ”

Liu Ah angrily grabbed the teacup and smashed it, and scolded in his mouth: "Is it reasonable to hurt your second uncle like this?" ”

Lou Yuzhu raised her foot to avoid the teacup, and said with a smile: "Ah Mo is not so unreasonable, and he is not so unreasonable. It's about the shrimp network and our family's business, it's impossible for our family not to investigate, it's only to blame the second uncle for not listening to slander to steal, let alone pretending not to know when Li Zheng asked, to know early and not stealing, or to stand up and take the initiative to admit when Li Zheng asked, our family will not report to the official, and the second uncle will not suffer from these twenty rods, right? ”

In the end, the ancestral hall was not opened, and Li Zheng brought a few old people to the door to talk about it. The result is also that one to agree that the second room is wrong, and then first. When Li Zheng asked, Lou Chengli would not report to the official if he wanted to take the initiative to stand up and Sanfang, so it is no wonder that Sanfang does not talk about brotherhood, after all, who knows that his brother will steal his brother's things, right? Lou Chengli was taught a lesson and beaten on the board, and the matter was over. But then again, the second room and the third room are brothers, the conditions of the third room are good, and the conditions of the second room are not good.

Having said this, Lou Yuzhu stood up and said: "We can give out the silver money, but we only pay seven taels of silver for the medicine." Glancing at a few old people, Lou Yuzhu said: "Our family's shrimp net is our family's monopoly, the second uncle stole it and was taken as evidence by the official, and this evidence has not been brought back so far. So our family will not pay a penny except for the medicine money. ”

Li Zheng discussed with a few old people, and felt that Lou Yuzhu's words were reasonable, so he agreed.

Liu Ah Mo objected: "The second child of the third evil has to lie in bed for a month or two, how much work does this delay?" Doesn't the sin you suffer make up for it? Didn't you just say that you killed the third room and paid for it? At this time, crying and having no money?! Less than fifty taels is not enough! ”

Lou Hua smiled: "Ah, no one's money is stolen by the wind, and we don't have to worry about losing money." ”

Lou Yuzhu also said with a smile: "If you want to say this, then our shrimp net is exposed, and the loss caused to our family is not dozens of taels, but hundreds of taels or even hundreds of taels, and the second uncle will pay for it?" ”

In the end, the old mansion resisted to no avail, Lou Yuzhu asked Lou Hua to take out seven taels of silver and hand it over to Ji Xiaorong, and told the other party to take it away, don't be left behind.

Hearing this, Liu Ah's eyes darkened with anger.

Coming out of the old house, Lou Yuzhu invited Li Zheng and several old people to the third room for dinner.

Lou Yuzhu arranged for Liu Kui to buy a chicken from someone else's house, scrambled a few eggs, and raised fish in the water tank, as well as some fresh food that Lou Yuzhu brought back from Fucheng. After the good students entertained and ate, they then put on the ox cart and sent them back one by one, and the snacks made by the chef of Jufulou in the suitcase were really polite and thoughtful to the extreme. The so-called cannibalistic mouth is short and soft, and none of the old people who were treated with grace said that the third room was bad, even though the second room was cleaned up this time!