Chen Xu walked into the foothouse again, and at this time the family was almost crying, and when they saw Chen Xu coming in, they kowtowed together to thank them.

"Don't be polite, get up, Lu Dong, let me ask you, how much does your foot house earn a year?" Chen Xu sat on the low couch and asked.

The shopkeeper Lu Dong was stunned for a moment and hurriedly said: "Lord Hui, last year's income was about 3,000 yuan!" ”

"So little?" Chen Xu asked in surprise.

Lu Dong nodded with a wry smile and said: "This income is quite passable, it can ensure that the family has no worries about food and clothing, in fact, because the tax is quite high, in addition to paying half of the money tax on weekdays, there is also a Ding Kou tax and buying off the conscription, so it is good to have 30% in the hand, and our family is busy to the end of the year, and there is still a surplus after a year's hard work, in fact, we are already very satisfied!" ”

"No, it's too little, it's a pity that it's such a good place!" Chen Xu shook his head, "Lu Dong, I want to partner with you to run this foot house, can you accept it if I pay you a thousand yuan a month?" ”

"What? Monthly...... 1,000 yuan a month......" Lu Dong, who had just stood up, almost fell to the ground with a weak leg, and the family standing behind him also looked at Chen Xu dumbfounded.

"Too little?" Chen Xu frowned.

"No...... No...... It's not too little, it's too ...... It's too much......" Lu Dong quickly stammered his head.

"Lord Lidian, there are indeed too many, our family can't earn so much in half a year!" The owner's wife also hurriedly said.

"Don't be afraid, as long as you don't have too little, so let's do it, if you agree to cooperate with me, the foot house will not be opened first, I will renovate and open a store, and when I have enough money, I will transform your foot house into a big restaurant, if you want, you will work as a helper in the store first, and give money and food every month, if you don't want to, you can also do something else!"

"My lord, you are the life-saving benefactor of our family, I am willing to arrange anything, as long as you give us a mouthful of food to eat, I dare not ask for money and food......"

"I have already said that what happened to your family was caused by me, and now this can be regarded as a little compensation, don't use excuses, not to mention that I will not stay in Wancheng for a long time, and many things have to be done by you, but don't worry, no one will come to trouble you in the future!"

"Thank you for taking care of me!" Lu Dong's tears of excitement flowed out, after more than three months of inhuman torture, he had seen too many slaves in the workshop who could not bear the torture of the sick and starved to death and burned to death, and they could survive and reunite with their families, so that he no longer dared to ask for anything else, and Chen Xu's words also completely dispelled the fear in his heart, and he could not give birth to any resentment except gratitude.

"So be it! Your whole family is finally reunited, so let's recuperate for a while, and I just arranged for someone to renovate the foothouse, so go ahead! ”

"Thank you, sir!" After a family of five thanked each other, they went to the back of the foothouse to wash and rest, Chen Xu also stood up and took a closer look at the foothouse upstairs and downstairs, and found that although the house was slightly old, the structure was quite solid, and several houses were still spacious, and they only needed a little renovation to open.

"Chen Lidian, what do you want to get, the two of us don't have the money, but we still have the strength!" Wang Wu and Wang Qi came up and said.

"You don't need to be involved in this matter, lest the old general trouble me when the time comes! Wang Qi, you go to the post house to help me get the pen, ink, paper and inkstone, I want to design a decoration drawing! ”

"Okay!" Wang Qi had no choice but to agree and turn around and go to the post house, Chen Xu looked at the entire post house inside and outside again, this kind of front shop and backyard store model is also very common in later generations, and it is not complicated to transform, and after Chen Xu has a plan in his heart, Wang Qi has also returned from the post house, but he is followed by an unruly girl Jiang Chuyue.

"Why are you here too?" Chen Xu asked with a slight toothache.

"Why can't I come, I heard that you don't want to be a pawn, and you want to open a house in Wancheng?" Jiang Chuyue puffed out her cheeks and said.

Chen Xu took the pocket containing the pen, ink, paper and inkstone from Wang Qi's hand, twitched a few times and said angrily: "Who said that I shouldn't be a pawn, I just want to earn more money to marry my mother-in-law!" ”

"Huh?!" This time it was Jiang Chuyue's turn to be in a daze, and after being stunned for a while, she whispered with a crimson face: "Actually...... In fact, marrying a mother-in-law is not a ...... No money! ”

"Who said that!" Chen Xu poured some water into the inkstone, and then said while grinding ink, "To marry a mother-in-law, you must first buy a big house, and you have to buy a horse and a carriage, and if you have a horse and a carriage, you have to hire a groom and a coachman, and then you have to buy a few servants to do laundry, cook and clean up the house, and when you have a child, you have to hire a nanny, and you have to ask your husband to teach you to read and write, alas, it takes a lot of money, how can I do it if I don't make money, you are a woman naturally don't need to worry about these, don't bother me, go and play on the side!" ”

"Hmm~" Jiang Chuyue's cheeks were red and she hummed softly and walked out obediently, but after only a few steps, she suddenly turned around and suddenly asked, "Who are you going to marry?" ”

"Water Girl, of course!" Chen Xu said without raising his head.

"Choking~~" Chen Xu only felt a golden light flash in front of him, and then a sharp short sword against his chest was cold in his neck, Jiang Chuyue's little face was red with shame, and her silver teeth were broken and said word by word: "Who is the water girl?" ”

Chen Xu gently brushed away the short sword on his chest with the brocade tail brush in his hand, pouted and said, "What are children doing so much, what does it matter to me to marry my mother-in-law?" ”

"You ......" Jiang Chuyue was angry for a while, but she didn't know how to speak, she was stunned for a long time and chopped down with a sword, and a piece of inkstone that Chen Xu had finally polished was split in half, and the ink inside splashed him.

"You ......" Chen Xu jumped up angrily, but Jiang Chuyue turned around and strode out of the door, turned over and rode the horse, and the sound of horses' hooves disappeared in an instant.

I'll go, it's all a special artillery battle, Lao Tzu provoked you!

Chen Xu's cheeks twitched a few times and he couldn't cry or laugh, so he had to use a rag to wipe the ink on his face indiscriminately, and then found an old pottery bowl to polish the ink again.

In the post house, Jiangbei Pavilion was arranging a few soldiers to pack up their things, and when they saw their daughter going and returning angrily, they pulled their beards and asked in surprise: "Yue'er, didn't you go to see Chen Xu?" How did you come back so quickly? ”

Jiang Chuyue shouted angrily: "Daddy, let's hurry back to Pheasant County, that shameless man is going to open a house in Wancheng, don't go back to pawn!" ”

"What?" Jiang Beiting shook his hand and tore off a few whiskers, his face was instantly dull, but he quickly shook his head and said with a wry smile: "How is this possible, you must have misunderstood him!" ”

"How can I misunderstand, what he told me in person just now, he wants to open a foot here to make money and marry a lady surnamed Shui as a mother-in-law, and he also has to buy a big house, buy a car, a horse, a slave, and give birth to a ...... Giving birth to a baby, I ...... I ......" Jiang Chuyue's eyes turned red when she said this, and tears began to roll in her eyes.

Jiang Beiting's face also became ugly, and after being silent for a long time, he asked, "Did he really say that?" ”

"I just asked him to his face, and that's what he said!" Jiang Chuyue's tears still couldn't be held back, and finally rolled down her cheeks.

Jiang Beiting sighed silently and touched his daughter's hair and said, "Yue'er, do you really like him?" ”

"Daughter...... The daughter didn't know either, but when she saw him...... It's annoying, and it's ...... when you can't see it. I miss it a little again......" Jiang Chuyue said with a sob.

"Alas......" Jiangbei Pavilion sighed faintly, "Yue'er, Chen Xu is smart and smart, and he is indeed a rare young man, because the Zhao family regrets the marriage, and your marriage father is also very helpless, so he also wants to marry you to him, but you are too rude and willful on weekdays, and his temperament is not harmonious, although his father has inadvertently mentioned this matter to him several times, according to his temperament, he should not know, but he has been all kinds of shirks, and the matter of marriage cannot be forced, since he already has a good person in his heart, the matter will be stopped, Daddy will help you find another husband with a simple temperament in the future......"

"Dad, I'm going home!" Jiang Chuyue hugged the horse's neck and cried.

"Okay, let's go back to Pheasant County now!" Jiang Beiting was helpless, and after comforting his daughter with a few words, he commanded the soldiers to set off in the carriage, and at the same time arranged for a soldier to go to the foot house to inform Chen Xu.

"The county order left first?" After listening to the soldier's report in the foot house, Chen Xu was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said: "That's okay, anyway, the weather has been sunny recently, so I will stay in Wancheng for another day or two, you wait a while, help me bring a letter back!" ”

Chen Xu wrote down a few simplified Chinese characters on a piece of hemp papyrus, 'Brother is very good, I will return in a few days', and after drying it, he took out ten copper coins and handed them to the soldiers and said: "Please send this letter to Qinghe Town tomorrow and hand it over to You Liu Po, and ask him to help send it to my house, this money is a thank you!" ”

"Chen Lidian, how can this work!" The soldiers resigned again and again.

"Take it, dozens of miles back and forth, you still need to eat some drinks and meals on the way, don't shirk!" Chen Xu stuffed the money into the hands of the soldier, and after thanking him, the soldier promised to bring the letter, and then happily rode after Jiang Beiting and the others.

Chen Xu then continued to draw decoration drawings with peace of mind.

An hour later, Chen Xu called Hu Kuan in, took the drawings and took him to the foot house next to each other, and carefully explained to him how to decorate.

"Got it?"

"Understood, understood~" Hu Kuan nodded again and again.

"Do you really understand?" Chen Xu was a little unconvinced.

"Lord Lidian rest assured, although the things made by the adults are wide and don't know the function, but the adults are very clear, and the drawings are intuitive, not just boasting, and when the time comes, it will be exactly the same as what Lidian envisioned!" Hu Kuan nodded affirmatively.

Chen Xu was even more strange, so he asked, "What did you do before?" ”

Hu Kuan blushed a little and said: "Don't hide it, when I was a child, my family opened a wood and stone workshop, and my family was quite rich, my father wanted me to have some interest, so he spent money to let me follow a famous local old gentleman to learn Confucianism and sage poetry, but unfortunately only half a year after the old gentleman died, and then he learned swordsmanship with a Mojia Fangshi, who knew that after only three months, the master was killed in a fight, and then the Qin Zhao War broke out, and the Qin Zhao army fought repeatedly in Jingcheng County, and Kuan's home was destroyed in the war. Both parents died, Kuan went to Handan to make a living, but a year later Handan was also captured by Qin, Kuan was displaced again and went to South Korea, two years later Korea was also destroyed by Qin, so Kuan wandered to Chu again, four years ago Chu was also destroyed, Kuan was ready to wander to Qi State, but was caught when passing by Wancheng, was going to be enslaved and sent to the northwest to build a straight road, but met Ma Teng Ma Gongzi, he saw that I was a little smart, and also some swordsmanship and literacy, so he left me behind, I have been staying in Wancheng, I help Ma Gongzi do some things on weekdays, and now that Ma Gongzi has returned to Xianyang, I have nowhere to go, but I am lucky and lucky, and I actually met Lord Lidian......"

Hu Kuan's words, Chen Xu's face twitched when he listened, others are just a mourning star, you are a broom star who is mourning and mourning the country, wherever you go, you can only destroy foreign countries.

Well, it looks like this guy is a good diplomat, and he's suitable to be sent out as a diplomatic undercover agent.