When he found Gao Xiaosan in the warehouse, Gao Xiaosan was in a hurry, and saw him being led into the backyard full of goods by the apprentice of the warehouse, and Gao Xiaosan, who was surprised, almost tripped over the sack under his feet.

After drawing a mark on the warehouse and meeting the chief and deputy steward of the pack team, Shang Cheng realized how much of a mistake there was in the words that Yue'er relayed to him. However, the mistake has nothing to do with Yue'er, it is Gao Xiaosan who did not interrogate the matter clearly in the first place. This pack team is not the day after tomorrow, but will leave early tomorrow morning, if Shang Chengzhen will come to the warehouse early tomorrow morning as Gao Xiaosan told Yue'er, then he can only come how to come and how to go back. What's worse is that the warehouse has already handed over the record to Shang Cheng, who is a village warrior, according to Gao Xiaosan's statement, and paid a late fee of 80 Wen, if Shang Cheng can't catch up, Gao Xiaosan will have to pay for the overdue fee by himself, maybe it will affect his future in the warehouse because of this matter One by one, the evaluation of "I don't know people" will definitely fall on his head......

Seeing that Gao Xiaosan still wanted to find a place for him to sleep and rest in the place where the handyman lived in the warehouse, Shang Cheng hurriedly stopped him and said, "No, anyway, I only rest for one night, and I am not a noble person, I can stretch my feet wherever I can, even if I can sleep in the stable and cattle pen." Besides, you can only rest for half a night anyway, so don't bother others. As he spoke, he rubbed his stomach and said with a smile, "If you really understand me, just find me something to eat......" He ate vegetable soup and wheat cakes at noon, without any meat, and walked more than ten miles under the sun and sweated a lot, and he was already a little hungry.

Gao Xiaosan hurriedly took him to the stove, asked the master of the stove to cook him a big bowl of noodles, and specially told the master to put more sesame oil. Shang Cheng, who was accompanied by the guy from the warehouse, made the kitchen master confused. Looking at Shang Cheng's dress, he is almost the same as the handyman in the warehouse, and he looks like a hard-working hard man, Gao Xiaosan also shouted affectionately with his eldest brother, so the master not only gave the amount of noodles to the fullest, but also flatteringly knocked two eggs in the bowl and sprinkled half more sesame oil than usual. This bowl of solid noodles made Shang Cheng sweat all over his face, and he kept smacking his tongue one by one, which was really fragrant. Not only did he scoop up a piece of the noodles left, but also under the master's surprised gaze, he soaked the bottom of the bowl with boiling noodles and drank all the soup with a large amount of oil flowers floating on the surface, and then staggered to Gao Xiaosan with a full burp and a satisfied look to see if there was any way he could help out......

Gao Xiaosan was with a person who looked like a steward, while the two stewards of the pack team led a few handymen to inspect the goods one last time. There were too many goods, and hundreds of bulging sacks were stacked in almost half of the yard, and even under the corridor. The sacks were written with the words A, B, B, C, and San, and every time the miscellaneous servants checked one, the steward of the pack team would read out these big black characters, and then Gao Xiaosan and the people next to him would compare the number with the account books in their respective hands, and each pair of one, they would dip a pen in the dansha and make a red tick. Seeing such a scene, Shang Chengcheng knew that there was nothing to do here, and when he looked left and right, he saw that there were still twenty people sitting and lying under the big cypress trees outside the courtyard gate, all of them in short coats and high trousers, and barefoot and double bast shoes. These people seem to be blind to the busyness of the yard, some are whispering and laughing, some are closing their eyes and pretending to sleep, some are snoring like thunder, some are catching insects on the trees to feed the ants, and a few guys are still hiding in the shade behind the trees to play with money.

Suddenly, someone in the shade against the wall beckoned to him. When Shang Cheng fixed his eyes, he was a tall descendant, his face was quite familiar but he didn't know it, he only knew that the person was also a village warrior, and vaguely remembered that the person seemed to be a person from the Li family Zhuangzi at the foot of the mountain.

He walked over and said with a smile, "The eldest brother of the Li family is also here?" ”

"It's coming, it's coming. The merchant brother sits. The man moved to the side, gave Shang Cheng a place, and took his own water bladder to invite Shang Cheng to drink, then he gritted his missing front teeth and said, "I don't dare to be the eldest brother of the merchant, I am only twenty-four years old." I don't have the surname Li ......," the two people next to him laughed.

Shang Cheng was also a little embarrassed, put down the water bladder in his hand, and didn't know how to phrase it for a while, so he had to ask vaguely: "That...... Excuse me, big brother, what is your surname......"

Listening to Shang Cheng's words, the man almost stood up to salute and speak, but there were many people sitting and lying down in this shady land, he struggled twice and couldn't stand up, his black face turned red, almost purple, and his mouth said repeatedly: "Don't dare to be, don't dare to be...... Free of noble, surname Xie. The eldest brother of the merchant can call me a mountain baby......"

The people around were still laughing when they saw Shang Cheng admitting the wrong person and saying the wrong thing, but there were also two or three people in the crowd who had met Shang Cheng and knew the story of his origin, so they quietly reminded their companions. One by one, the people quieted down when they didn't move. "Shang monk bare hands fighting wolves" is the most sensational thing in the local two years, the county and the county's three major market towns in the restaurant restaurant has long been a flower drum artist in the lyrics and singing, almost everyone has heard of it, now the bare-handed wolf fighting person is in front of him, even the most greasy guy, seeing Shang Cheng's tall and strong body, can not help but have some admiration.

Shang Cheng didn't notice the admiration and fear in the eyes of the people around him when they looked at him, and he only talked to the mountain baby and had nothing to say. When I asked, I found out that he was indeed not mistaken, Shanwazi was indeed the person from Lijiazhuang at the foot of Yanshan, but he was not surnamed Li. In addition, in fact, the two of them had been facing each other for a long time, and when he passed by Lijiazhuang that night, he accompanied the old man surnamed Li in the village to come out to examine the corpses of two wolves.

Speaking of the scene that night, Shan Wazi was still a little sorry, because the place that was most harmed by the two wolves was Lijiazhuang. During that time, even if the people in the village went out of the enclosure and went to the ground, several people had to follow each other all the way, otherwise they might be taken away and eaten by wolves. Shang became a great scourge for them, but they kept their benefactor out of Zhuangzi, and they didn't even ask the benefactor to drink a sip of water, which is really embarrassing to say.

Shang Cheng didn't take this seriously, waved his hand and said, "There are bandits in the mountains, you should be careful." If the bandits impersonate the name of the village opened, the result will be much worse than the scourge of the two wolves......"

The people around them who listened to them had a lot of complaints about what Li Jiazhuang had done before, and when they heard Shang Cheng say this, they felt that his words were not wrong - at that time, it was dark and the night was dark, and it was definitely not wrong for the people on Li Jiazhuang to be cautious, even if Shang Cheng was scolded behind his back for a few words, it was much better than being bumped into the village by bandits. If the village is not broken by bandits, then the men and women of the village, young and old, will suffer. Some people couldn't help but glance at Shang Chenggao, and secretly admired in their hearts: The story of Shang Monk killing the wolf with his bare hands was sung by the drum artist, and the song said that he escaped several times under the wolf's kiss, and finally rose up bravely to kill the two evil wolves.

Suddenly, someone outside the crowd screamed: "Oh, you are the great monk who killed two evil wolves with his bare hands?" ”

Shang Cheng turned his face to look at the person who spoke. The man was about thirty years old, with a white and clean round face, a neatly trimmed black velvet mustache, a black hat on his head that I don't know what to weave a grid with, a crystal clear green jade hairpin to fix the hat and bun, a brown cardigan on his body, a pair of plain gauze trousers, and a pair of black satin platform shoes. The whole body is neatly cleaned up.

"Monk, this is the Yuan Da merchant of Shangjing Plain Mansion." A man in his fifties who was next to the man said. The speaker's attire was about the same as that of the Yuan Da merchant he was called, but the color was slightly different, and there was a black silver-edged belt around his waist, and a silk ribbon made of jade wrapped in gold wire hung from his belt. He knows that this yarn is also called "Ping An Knot", and some time ago, the eldest girl also used red velvet thread to weave one for him, saying that he could keep him safe, but he thought that the red hung on his body was too eye-catching, so he kept pressing under the pillow. But who is this talker? Looking at the past again, the big shopkeeper of the warehouse that I had seen just now when I was drawing a table in the account room was actually behind these two people. Even the big shopkeeper can't stand side by side with these two people, and the identity of the speaker is about to come out, and one by one can only be the owner of the warehouse.

Knowing the identity of the person who came, it would be rude for him to sit in the place like this again, Shang Cheng hurriedly stood up and wanted to give a salute, but Yuan Da Keshang grabbed him and said, "You are the one who eliminates harm in the township, where can you let you give us a salute?" But in the end, he couldn't stop it, so Shang Cheng bowed slightly and made a flat salute. The merchant Yuan Da and the innkeeper both turned sideways slightly, did not accept his full salute, and returned him a half salute, Yuan Da merchant shook his wrist, shook his head and said with a smile, "The monk has so much strength!" I heard your story in Duanzhou, and I wanted to come to Yixian to see the heroes of fighting wolves with my bare hands, but some mundane affairs were delayed, so I never made the trip. Originally, he said that he would come back to visit when things had an eyebrow, but I didn't expect to meet you here when I first came to Yixian......" He glanced at Shang Cheng's outfit, and then at the cowering farmers, turned his head and said to the owner of Liu Ji's warehouse, "Liu Dongjia is willing to cut love?" ”

Liu Dongjia smiled and said: "Since Yuan Dongjia has spoken, where do I dare to refuse?" After a pause, he continued, "But the monk is actually not a person with a contempt, he is just helping on the counter temporarily, whether he is willing or not, and what he says can't count." ”

As soon as the merchant Yuan heard this, he understood, and immediately turned his head to Shang Cheng and said: "Monk, I have a family temple at home in the Beijing Plain Mansion, but I have never found a monk with high virtue and good cultivation. Seeing that Shang Cheng just smiled and didn't speak, he groaned for a while, and suddenly said with a smile, "Monk, don't worry too much. In the era of my Yuan family, I lived in Shangjing, and there were many relatives and friends, and the worries of monks were just trivial matters, and there was still a world of the old in the hands of the hand......"

His words made twenty or thirty laborers hear the clouds and mountains and fog covers, but Shang Cheng heard them clearly. This guy surnamed Yuan has already seen that he is a criminal monk who has lost his degree and is afraid of the official sona, so he will make it clear to him in a few words, as long as he is willing to go to Yuan's house to be the abbot of the family temple, the loss of Du Mu is just a trivial matter with a big sesame seed, and blowing a breath can help him solve it. If he is really a monk, he will naturally be undesirable when he encounters such a good thing, but his identity as a monk is fake, if Yuan Da Merchant really wants to exercise for him in the official mansion, his identity as a monk will be revealed in a moment, and he will not know what kind of encounter awaits him at that time...... If you want to come to the Yuan Mansion Temple, the future of the abbot will definitely come to naught, right?

However, he can't directly refuse the kindness of Yuan Da merchants, even if he politely refuses, he has to use good words, otherwise he will offend this guy with hands and eyes, and he is afraid that disaster will befall him in the blink of an eye. But in this short period of time, he couldn't think of what to say. Can't go? Don't want to go? Still is......

Seeing Shang Cheng standing in the ground without saying a word, Yuan Da Merchant and Liu Dongjia exchanged a look. Both of them are businessmen, and they both move around frequently in the government, and they have long been trained to understand the world's affairs and human feelings, since they can see at a glance that Shang Cheng has lost his degree and is afraid of sin and vulgarity, it can also be seen that he has no intention of admiring the Buddha now. The proprietor of Liu Ji Inn, Guan Er, smiled, and was about to persuade a few words from the side, but Yuan Da merchant opened his mouth first: "Monk, if you don't want to live in the temple, then follow me." I'll buy you a good house in Shangjing, and promise you another 50 acres of good land, as long as you follow me for three years, these houses and land will be yours, and I will give you another 100,000 yuan......"

At this time, Gao Xiaosan, who was checking the goods in the small courtyard and comparing the account books, had already arrived at the gate of the courtyard, and he listened to everything in his ears when Yuan Da was a merchant, and he was already stunned. Seeing that Shang Cheng was still frowning and frowning, he hurriedly came over to greet his owner and Yuan Da Ke first, and nodded slightly to the big shopkeeper, and said loudly: "The owner, the goods have been ordered, just wait for the big shopkeeper and Yuan Dongjia to seal ......" said and bowed down to let go, and his elbow hit Shang Cheng's waist silently. "Yuan Dongjia, please. Proprietor please. Big shopkeeper please. ”

Yuan Da Merchant didn't seem to hear it, he stood still and didn't move his steps, staring at Shang Cheng with blazing eyes and said: "If you don't believe me, today you and I can make a note in front of Liu Dongjia, if Yuan breaks his promise three years later, you can go to the government to judge with the note." As he spoke, he turned his gaze to Liu Dongjia. Liu Dongjia heard him say solemnly and nodded solemnly. Yuan Da Merchant said again, "Monk, you may think, with your identity, how dare you go to the official mansion to fight with me. Let me tell you one by one, since the time of my great-grandfather, the Yuan family has not had a lawsuit for 76 years, and Yuan still dare not self-destruct this reputation. ”

For the value of money in this era, Shang Cheng has not been too clear, how much is the difference between a Dongyuan Tongbao and a Jisheng Tongbao, he can only distinguish it from calligraphy and painting, but he has just earned seventy yuan by working in Lijiazhuang for more than ten days and carrying stones on his back, but Yuan Da Merchant promised him a house in the capital, as well as fifty acres of land and one hundred yuan, even if he doesn't understand the market, just look at the dumb appearance of the shopkeeper of the inn, and know that this is definitely a huge wealth. A fortune that even the big shopkeeper is thrilling! He only needs to pay for three years, and after three years, the house, land and money will be his......

It's only been three years......

To say yes or not to agree? In an instant, countless thoughts flashed through Shang Cheng's heart. Agreeing means that you will immediately have a real identity that can stand up to inspection, and you can also have a fairly good and stable job, and you will be able to be a leisurely small landlord in three years. Being a small landowner is exactly a way out for himself. Now the opportunity is in front of him, as long as he nods, he can save the long pain and toil, this is a pie falling from the sky! …… But here's the problem—this is a pie falling from the sky, how can a pie fall from the sky? Yuan Da's promise was so generous that one had to maliciously guess his purpose in doing so. Of course, it is impossible for Yuan Da to draw a cake to trick himself, and then go to the government to expose himself, because he can do this now, and there is no need to draw snakes to add to it. So what is he for? Is it to appreciate yourself? Heroes cherish heroes? reasons! What is there about you that deserves to be appreciated by others? But if it weren't for this reason, then why would he spend so much money to entrap himself? Could it be that this surnamed Yuan is also a tyrant in Beijing, and he needs someone to do some secret things for him behind his back from time to time? Thinking of this, he couldn't help but ridicule himself in his heart, one by one, you probably watched too many bullshit TV series, how could you guess like this? …… So what is he really for?

Shang Cheng thought in his heart, but said in his mouth: "Thank you Yuan Dongjia for your kindness." It's just that I can't make a claim for a while. In the past, I came to Yanshan to join my relatives, and I was taken care of by my relatives in danger, and I swore to heaven that all kinds of things need to be discussed with my relatives and fathers, and I will never disobey them. When this matter was over, I went home to discuss with my relatives, and after getting the consent of my family, I should serve in Yuan Dong's house. ”

His words were reasonable and untouchable, not only Yuan Da nodded again and again, but Liu Dongjia also bowed slightly, and Gao Xiaosan, who had dealt with him a lot, was even more shocked. Although Gao Xiaosan had long known that this Shang monk was really not an ordinary person, he had always thought that Shang Cheng was just a brave man with a little ability, and he never expected that Shang Cheng would be so thoughtful and meticulous when he received people and things, so he couldn't help but bow his head and look at Shang Cheng again.

Since Shang Cheng had already explained that Yuan Da could not be a strong merchant, he only told Shang Cheng that after returning from Quzhou, he must discuss the result with the elders in the family as soon as possible, and vaguely said that if the elders had doubts, he could send someone to persuade him to come forward.

The next day, as soon as the Yixian city gate was unlocked and released, a caravan consisting of more than 80 pack horses from more than 30 people winded out of the south city gate and went along the long official road leading to Nanzheng.