It's already the third watch, and the sound of the watch on the street is not a little lonely in this night. At this moment, the Nanyang City Gate, which had long been closed, suddenly moved. A black figure under the city wall quietly walked along the root of the wall, looked up at the sergeant on duty on the city wall, and saw the man in black take out an iron rod from his arms and knock it on the city wall.

The garrison captain on the city tower moved his ears, and when the sound stopped, he turned around and said, "It's about to change the guard, get ready to drink some wine and warm up first." ”

When the soldiers heard this, they smiled and quipped: "General, the sun is coming out in the west, and today you actually invite us to eat and drink, hurry up and leave, otherwise you will regret it again in a while." The soldiers laughed and came down from the city tower, and the captain smiled and saw the soldiers walking away, his face instantly turned cold, and with a wave of his arm, he saw that more than a dozen people suddenly poured out of the shadows.

After seeing that everyone had arrived, the captain said: "Open the city gate later, and wait for the convoy to disperse." ”

"Yes, General." A group of people whispered.

Day and night, Zhao Yu took this tripod all the way without resting, and it took several months to rush back from Beiliang, but Zhao Yu only took a month to rush back. Looking up at the dark Nanyang city wall, Zhao Yu breathed a sigh of relief at this moment.

Putting his hand on his mouth and blowing a whistle, after a while, I saw that the city gate began to open slowly, and a whistle came from inside the city gate, and Zhao Yu waved his hand and quickly entered the city with the convoy.

The captain arched his hand to Zhao Yu on the horse and said, "The head of the family is still waiting, please hurry back." "Zhao Yu and the captain don't know each other, this is the rule of the Xue family, but when there is any communication in private that should not be had, they often can't see the sun the next day.

Zhao Yu returned the salute without saying much, and with a wave of his hand, he led the convoy towards the Xue family's mansion. did not walk in from the main entrance, after all, the movement was too big, Zhao Yu led people to the west gate closest to the small courtyard where the head of the Xue family lived and entered the Xue family. Eight people walked towards the small courtyard with logs on their shoulders.

The housekeeper outside the door saw Zhao Yu coming back at this moment, and hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Did you bring something back?" ”

Zhao Yu nodded, turned sideways and exposed the wooden box that was being carried behind him, only to see the butler's eyes widen instantly, his face became flushed, and he said excitedly: "Quick, hurry up and bring it in." After speaking, he didn't bother to report it, and directly pushed the door of the small courtyard open and ordered everyone to carry things in.

"Sir! Master! Stuff is back, come out and take a look! The butler pointed to a place for people to get down to the east and west, and then hurriedly turned around and ran outside the house and shouted.

There was a sound of things knocking over in the house, and after a rush of footsteps, the door was slammed open. I saw an old man in a white robe running out with excitement on his face.

The old man should be in his seventies, with a slumped body, but the snow-white beard on his face looks a little fairy-like. The old man's name is Xue Yong, and the word is Jieshan. He has been in charge of the Xue family for more than 40 years, and after three dynasties, he is one of the few family heads in the Great Zhou Dynasty who has survived to the present.

Xue Yong walked out of the house quickly, and the housekeeper hurriedly reached out to help him, but Xue Yong suddenly stopped his body and took a deep breath to calm himself down as much as possible. After a while, Xue Yongzhen opened his eyes and glanced at the housekeeper beside him, and opened his mouth to say, "What about things?" ”

The housekeeper hurriedly pointed to the wooden box in the middle of the courtyard, Xue Yong's eyes flashed with excitement, and he came to the wooden box with the help of the housekeeper.

Seeing Xue Yong coming over, Zhao Yu suddenly knelt on the ground and said, "My subordinates are fortunate not to be dishonored." ”

Xue Yong glanced at Zhao Yu with satisfaction, nodded and said, "Things are doing well, get up." ”

Zhao Yu stood up at this time and motioned for his subordinates to open the box. I saw a few people inserting the iron chisel into the gap of the wooden box, and with a little force, the box was opened, and the satin and cotton cloth wrapped on it was removed, and a large tripod appeared in front of Xue Yong.

Stretching out his hand with some trembling, Xue Yong slowly put his hand on the ding, and a cold feeling instantly spread all over his body. snatched the lantern from Xiao Tong's hand, Xue Yong got rid of the butler's support, and began to check it carefully by holding Dading himself.

The candlelight shone inch by inch, and Xue Yong warned himself in his heart over and over again that he was worried that it was fake, but the more he looked back, the more excited he became, and Xue Yong didn't find anything wrong after a circle. He muttered, "It's the same as what is written in the book, and it is the same as what is written in the book." The words were repeated over and over again, making the housekeeper on the side a little worried.

Xue Yong beckoned, Zhao Yu was a little puzzled, seeing the housekeeper's eyes signaling him to go over, Zhao Yu hesitated for a moment and came to Xue Yong's side to see what he wanted.

"Get on your knees." Xue Yong said. Zhao Yu was a little strange but didn't dare to hesitate at all, and hurriedly knelt on the ground, Xue Yong raised his leg and was about to step on Zhao Yu's body, seeing this, the housekeeper hurriedly ran over to support Xue Yong. Feeling the weight of the arrow standing, Zhao Yu didn't dare to make a small move.

With the help of the housekeeper, Xue Yong climbed up to the ding with some difficulty, and his body leaned in, holding the lantern in his hand, as if he was looking for something. The lantern crossed the inner wall of the ding, and suddenly a line of words attracted Xue Yong. Some excitedly stretched out his hand and touched it, only to see that there were only four words engraved in the ding: ordered by the sky.

"That's right, it's true." Xue Yong said a little happily, but he still tried his best to suppress the excitement in his heart. After taking a few deep breaths, Xue Yong turned to the housekeeper and Zhao Yu and said, "Blocking the news, you can't reveal a word about tonight's matter, you know?" ”

"I know the head of the house." Zhao Yu and the housekeeper hurriedly said.

Xue Yong nodded with satisfaction, and instructed Zhao Yu to let people put this thing in the secret room of his small courtyard. So he went back to the house alone.

Coming out of the small courtyard, Zhao Yu and the housekeeper glanced at each other, Zhao Yu pulled it out violently and slashed it backwards, but the eight people who had just followed Zhao Yu into the courtyard were killed by Zhao Yu, and after looking at the eight people lying on the ground, the housekeeper said: "Lord Zhao has worked hard." ”

"It's not hard to do things for your family." Zhao Yu bowed down and answered after putting away the knife.

"You can rest at home for a while tomorrow, and then you have a lot to do." Then he looked at the corpse on the ground and ordered: "Clean up this person, there should not be too much killing in the pure place of the head of the family." ”

"Got it, I'll arrange for someone to go." After speaking, Zhao Yu turned around and left.

The small courtyard of the Xue family has returned to its former quietness, as if nothing had happened before, plain, quiet and pleasant.

As soon as the morning dawned, Liu Wenxu commanded Xiao Er to open the door of the store, today is a big day for opening, but it is not allowed to be sloppy, because of the Nanyang prefect, the plan to open the store has been postponed for more than half a month, if it were not for the official letter of the Ministry of Rites brought by the young owner, I am afraid that the store will not be able to open until now.

"Don't be lazy, it's the first day to cheer me up." Liu Wenxu reminded him, and then turned around to look at the arrangements in other places.

Today, there are also a lot of Nanyang people waiting for the opening of this store, these days Nanyang Mansion has come to find fault again and again, this store is still open, so that many Nanyang people scribes are a little curious, after all, the store that can withstand the inspection of Nanyang Mansion is almost none, not to mention that this is still a foreigner. The backstage is so hard, maybe there will be some strange books in it.

As soon as the door of the store was opened, people couldn't wait to come around, the shopkeeper lit the two firecrackers inserted at the door, and after a burst of "crackling" firecrackers, Liu Wenxu walked out of the store, arched his hand to the onlookers and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, I Liu is polite here, the shop is open today, please enter the store to have a look." ”

As soon as the words fell, people used them, but the people who came first were stunned when they saw the furnishings in the store, and it was the first time they had seen a bookstore with such furnishings.

The opening of the bookstore was not a temporary idea, because he was worried that newspapers and periodicals would not sell, and in order to attract customers, Lin Yuan advanced the plan of the bookstore, which was also a reason why the store was delayed for half a month.

The bookstore is furnished with reference to the furnishings of the bookstore in the previous life, as soon as you walk into the store, there is a platform on which the weekly newspaper's own printed books are stacked, and the quality is the best work, the first issue of the weekly newspaper in the store is placed on the counter, and the other books are classified and marked on the shelves, and the price of the books is clearly printed on the back of the books.

There are new gadgets everywhere, and people are more or less attracted to it. Most of the people will buy a weekly newspaper by the way when they check out, and the left is only a little silver, which is affordable for ordinary people.

Seeing that the business in the store was booming, and even the main weekly newspaper was sold a lot, Liu Wenxu's face was happy at the moment, and he almost forgot his most important thing.

Greeting the second child who came to the store, Liu Wenxu instructed: "Go, count the number of weekly reports sold today." ”

"Got it, shopkeeper." The shopkeeper nodded and turned to leave.

As of the evening, looking at the numbers counted by the shopkeeper, Liu Wenxu confirmed many times before he was sure that there was no mistake, and after glancing at the shopkeeper, Liu Wenxu asked, "Do you have a statistical error?" ”

The shopkeeper smiled bitterly and said, "Shopkeeper, you've asked five times, this thing is right." ”

"It's incredible." Liu Wenxu muttered, and then seemed to remember something. Picking up the paper on the table and running outside, he needed to tell the news to the young owner as soon as possible.

Wang Ming has been thinking about the situation in the store today, and he just packed up and came to Liu Wenxu, but he was bumped into by Liu Wenxu before he entered the door.

Rubbing his chest, Wang Ming frowned and said, "What's so anxious?" ”

Liu Wenxu didn't feel the pain of being hit at all, he excitedly handed the paper in his hand to Wang Ming, and took it with some doubts, Wang Ming only glanced at it and looked at Liu Wenxu in disbelief.

"Is this true?"

"Shao Dongjia, it's true, a total of more than 1,000 books were sold today, and the gross profit was 1,500 taels, not counting the weekly report's earnings."

Wang Ming didn't pay much attention to the books, after all, the weekly newspaper was the main event. Wang Ming hurriedly asked, "How about the weekly sales?" ”

"The weekly report sold a total of 600 copies today, far exceeding our expectations." Liu Wenxu said.

Wang Ming breathed a sigh of relief, far exceeding his previous estimates, and it seemed to be a good start. The heart that I had been carrying for many days finally fell, and the task of the Yasukuni bus agent was finally not messed up.