Gongsun Jian hurriedly got up and helped Wei Meng up.

"Fool Wei, that knife didn't kill me, and you can fucking kill you who look like a bear? Don't mention it again in the future, if you talk too much, it's boring for your brother to talk too much. As he spoke, he bent down and patted the dust on Wei Meng's knees.

Watching Gongsun Jian make a scene, Ding Feng was the first to can't help it, and he also stepped forward and knelt on one knee.

"My lord, although I Ding Feng is useless, I hope to follow my lord in the future. Even if the sword mountain and the sea of fire will never frown. ”

"Brother Ding, what are you doing here? Hurry up. Look at what you said, whether it chopped you up or roasted you. Can you eat that piece of meat? From now on, they are all their own brothers, and these words are not allowed to be said again. My father-in-law Jian hereby swears that from today on, as long as there is a hot mouthful of my father-in-law, your share will definitely be indispensable. As he spoke, Gongsun Jian reached out to help Ding Feng again.

Ma Teng and Qi Shi glanced at each other, and they also stood up and clasped their fists.

"My lord, I, Ma (Qi), will be sent by my adult in the future. No regrets. ”

Gongsun Jian smiled slightly, nodded, waved his hand at everyone and said, "Okay, I know that everyone has a heart, and my Gongsun Jian will never treat everyone badly in the future." Sit down and get down to business. ”

After all four of them were seated, Gongsun Jian spoke again.

"According to what I just said, Lao Qi took my official certificate and took Ding Feng to take office, don't take power, don't ask about things, just watch from the sidelines. Build relationships with your colleagues. Then write down the people and things you come into contact with every day, Lao Qi, you can't remember it, Ding Feng is on the side to help remember. In short, remember one sentence and make others think you are a piece of waste. ”

After hearing this, Qi Shi rubbed his head fiercely with his hand, and then asked, "My lord means that I want to lurk among them to collect information and secretly win over people, right?" ”

"Hahaha. The word latent is well used. Gongsun Jian laughed and said, "Old Qi, you will be my Yu Zecheng in the future." ”

"Yu Zecheng?" Lao Qi looked confused.

Gongsun Jian waved his hand,

"Forget that, remember to write down all the people and things you've met, and then tell me." After that, he turned his head and said to Ma Teng: "Old Ma, I have to work hard for you again." Who made you the only one among us who was born as a scout? In the county, you can find a temporary worker to fight, mainly to collect intelligence. Learn about the business dealings of the four families and the relationship between the county and the main bookkeeper. ”

Ma Teng nodded,

"None of this is difficult. Don't worry, don't say it's the four, at most a month, I'll give you a clear picture of every household in this county. ”

Gongsun Jian smiled and stopped talking, but looked at Wei Meng.

"Wei Meng, don't go anywhere, stay in my small shop to do chores."

Wei Meng was stunned, clenched his fist and slammed the tabletop hard.

"My lord, you look down on me Wei Meng, right? It's not a problem for me to go into battle and face four or five enemies casually, not to mention this small county town, believe it or not, as long as you give me a good armor and a weapon at hand, I can kill from the east of the city to the west of the city. ”

"It's because you're fierce that you have to do chores in my small shop. lest it spoil the good of all. Besides, Nan Nan likes to learn martial arts with you the most, are you embarrassed not to teach? ”

Speaking of Nannan, the tall and sturdy Wei Meng scratched his head embarrassedly.

"I also like this girl."

The rest of the crowd burst into laughter. Who doesn't like that girl!

The noodle shop was opened by a broken west wall, the door is not big, and the environment is not very lively, so the business has not been good.

Behind the shop is a two-entry house. The west wall of the first entrance was connected to the wing, and the east wing was basically a pile of sundries. A relatively large room was where the handyman named Wei Meng lived. The main hall is basically not used, because few people usually come to visit the house. The main entrance is to the south, but there are very few people walking. In addition to the stout man named Wei Meng, there are only two father and daughter in this family. I moved from a foreign country.

A rockery fish pond in the backyard is the little girl's favorite, the little girl lives on the second floor, the father lives downstairs, and the cottage in the northwest corner is the father's study, but it never lets people in.

The family is not small but not small, but there are no servants. It's just that occasionally Daddy will regularly invite some ladies from the nearby alleys to clean up. The more frequent one is Aunt Cheng. said that it was the eldest mother, but in fact, she was about twenty-six or seventeen years old at most. I heard that it was a widow whose husband had died in the army a few years ago. Only she and a son remained, and the boy was a year older than the little girl.

"Hello, look at the big yellow eel I caught today." The little boy was shirtless, barefoot in a pair of shorts made of rags, and he was holding a yellow eel with the thickness of a wine glass more than two feet long and waving it in his hand.

"Ah, Brother Yun is amazing!" The little girl jumped up and ran to the south gate. Rare look at this big long worm-like yellow eel.

"For you." The boy handed over the eel in his hand.

The little girl was not afraid at all, and stretched out her right hand and firmly pinched the soft place behind the yellow eel's head. He smiled and said: "What a big yellow eel, Brother Yun, don't be in a hurry to go, I'll ask my father to make a 'big burning saddle bridge' for us to eat together." ”

The little boy swallowed, and then whispered a little shyly, "No need, I'll catch another bigger one another day." ”

The little girl handed the eel out again.

"Then forget it, Daddy said that you can't be favored for no reason, unless it's a good friend to share it with. Brother Yun, every time you give me something good, you don't want me to give you money. Isn't it okay to share together? ”

The boy was stunned, scratched his head with his hand in embarrassment, and didn't know how to answer for a while.

"Xiao Yun, call your mother to eat together at dinner. Let's just say that my uncle said it. How can a manly man be unhappy at all. My family has invited you several times. ”

As she spoke, a man in a gray shirt stood behind the little girl.

The boy was stunned for a moment, and then learned the Confucian etiquette of dissimilarity and gave the man a salute.

"Uncle Gong, the kid doesn't ask for anything in return, but since the uncle said it, then the kid will go back and report to his mother. If the mother agrees, she will come back in the evening. With that, the boy turned and walked away through the gate.

"Daddy, you're scaring people away again." The little girl hugged the man's waist and shook it, and said angrily: "Nan Nan doesn't have many friends, and you don't let me go out to play alone." This Brother Yun is one, but he can only play with me for a while every time he comes to our house with his mother to clean. And he seems to be scared every time he sees you. ”

The man bent down, rubbed the little girl's head lovingly, and whispered to himself, "Children's education seems to be a problem. I haven't fucking studied. The stinky boy in the family used to be brought by his mother. ”

After shaking his head, the man said to the little girl, "You can play in the alley in the future, but you are not allowed to go out of the alley." The children at the door can bring our family to play. Candied pastries can be shared among children, and they can be bought if they don't have a father. The only one who is not allowed to bring people into the backyard daddy's study. ”

"Uh-huh." The little girl smiled and bent her eyebrows and nodded fiercely, and then shouted: "Long live Daddy!" He ran out like the wind.

The man looked at the little girl who ran away and shook his head helplessly again, and at this moment a black and strong man stood behind the man and smiled.

"This girl in our family is just different. Runs faster than the average kid. The wind is the same! Good! ”

The man looked at the afterimage in the distance and asked in a low voice, "What's the matter?" ”

"Oh." The stout man lowered his head and said, "The old horse is here, saying that there are some things for the boss to call the shots." ”

In the study room in the northwest corner of the second courtyard.

"What's the matter?"

The man asked before he could sit down.

"My lord, I have recently found out some things in my humble position, but I don't want it to be related to 'Wu Guo'."

"Oh?" The man frowned, then poured a cup of tea for the other party and motioned for the other party to continue.

"My lord, the 'Wu Kingdom' is not close to the sea, so it does not produce salt. Therefore, most of the salt is obtained from the trade of my 'Great Zhou'. However, it was found that the amount of salt exported from our Linshui County to the 'Wu Kingdom' every year was almost equal to the amount of imperial court trade. ”

The man didn't say anything for a long time. After about a quarter of an hour, he said slowly: "Old Ma, the most important road from the northwest of 'Da Zhou' to 'Wu Kingdom' is the waterway, and Linshui County is just stuck in it. It's hard not to get rich! No wonder those people ......"

"My lord, do you have any plans?"

"Don't worry, you first find out who is behind the salt export. This time it's small, and I can't make any money. It may also expose and hurt ourselves, and if it gets bigger, I'm afraid that we don't have the ability to afford it. So I had to come up with a foolproof solution. Either you don't do it, or you want to make it bigger. The money that cannot be eaten in a few lifetimes cannot be coveted. Nima, it's hard! ”

The man shook his head as he spoke, and said to himself: "Do you have to call Lao Tzu the king and stand on his own?" It's still unsafe in troubled times. Think again, think again. ”

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It was a wonderful dinner time, and it was a big table in the broken shop on the west side of the small courtyard. There are seven or eight large porcelain basins filled with vegetables. There were more than twenty people sitting around the table, among whom were seven or eight children, from five or six to eleven or twelve.

A young man dressed in coarse cloth, stroked the head of a little girl about five or six years old with his left hand, and said loudly with a bowl of wine in his right hand: "Fellow villagers, when Gong first arrived in your place, he has been busy with business and has not greeted everyone much. However, the little girl made friends with many children in the alley. It shows that she is better than me, a father, who can socialize and behave. Hahaha. ”

The man looked at the little girl beside him dotingly, rubbed the little girl's head with his hand and said, "Please come here today, first, to thank you for your care during this time, and second, to ask these children to play with this crazy girl in my family more in the future." I really don't have much time and energy to take care of her when I own a small shop. Besides, the children can only play with each other. Unlike you and me, adults can't spend all day throwing stones with mud. ”

Before the man finished speaking, a five-short man present stood up with a smile and said, "Boss, look at what you said, everyone is here to make a living, and it is fate to be able to live in an alley." The children are playing and making noise among themselves, and we adults are also happy. ”

The man smiled and raised the bowl in his right hand.

"Okay, let's not say too much, let's eat and drink well tonight. Especially children, they can eat whatever they want, and I will do it when it is not enough. ”

For a while, both adults and children were all happy, and the children were frolicking, and they didn't care about any etiquette and directly grabbed their favorite food with their hands. The adults watched from the side, talking and drinking, and scolded their own children from time to time.

When the wine was half-drunk, the man who spoke on behalf of everyone at first smiled bitterly, looked at the group of noisy children with a wine bowl and said: "The children are all good children, but they don't have a chance to study!" When I was young, I was happy for a few days, and after a few years, I had to help the family work. Ay! If you don't have the opportunity to study, you can only live a miserable life for the rest of your life! ”

The five short men said a word, and everyone else lamented, and for a while, except for the noisy children, the adults were dull.

The man picked up the wine bowl in front of him without moving and took a shallow sip.