Chapter 41: The Son-in-law
Three days have passed, and at first Li Zhang was worried that the master thief that night would come again, so he couldn't sleep well all night, but after not seeing the other party's figure for a few days, Li Zhang slowly put his mind at ease, not to mention that there was a wild dog humanoid radar at home, as long as there was a little wind and grass at night, it would wake him up.
Of course, the humanoid radar like the wild dog sometimes has some negative effects, such as Li Zhang stayed up for two nights and didn't sleep well, but when he finally relaxed and was ready to sleep on the third night, he was barked by the wild dog to listen to the little couple next door "fighting", but unfortunately Li Zhang's sleepy eyes couldn't open at this time, where is this mood?
"Brother Li, let's talk about it, starting tomorrow, I'll let the guy pick it up every morning!" On this morning, the landlord Li said to Li Zhang with a smile.
"Thank you Shopkeeper Li for taking care of our business, I will definitely prepare it for you tomorrow!" Li Zhang immediately smiled, and then he high-fived and swore with Shopkeeper Li, and then Shopkeeper Li said goodbye with a smile.
Sent away the shopkeeper Li, Li Zhang also breathed a sigh of relief, and then returned to the counter to record an account again, in just a few days, the business in the store has been on the right track, and Li Zhang found that the money earned by the retail in the store is very limited, and the real money is actually outsourcing wholesale, such as today's shopkeeper Li, he likes Li Zhang's braised meat very much, and today is to make an agreement with Li Zhang, so that Li Zhang will provide them with twenty catties of braised meat every day in the restaurant, as a special cold dish in the restaurant.
Of course, Li shopkeeper is only one of them, and there are some other restaurants, as well as Li Yonghe's hook bar, etc., these places are in large demand, you can order dozens of catties at a time, and it is the biggest customer in the store, the most surprising thing for Li Zhang is that the Jinshan is also in the name of the casino, and comes to take fifty catties of braised pork every day, in addition to eating it himself, it is also sold to the guests of the casino, after all, their casino is not only used for gambling, but also for three meals a day.
Just when Li Zhang was settling the accounts, he suddenly saw Lu Wu striding in from outside the store, then picked up the kettle in front of Li Zhang, and drank it in one go, and then said in a low voice: "Did you find anything abnormal?" ”
"It's business as usual, isn't that person afraid to come?" Li Zhang looked at Lu Wu and replied in the same low voice, Lu Wu has also worked very hard these days, and he has been staying in the courtyard next to him every night, although he is taking turns to rest, but Lu Wu is not worried about others, so he has hardly slept in the past few days, and the dark circles on his face have come out.
"Not necessarily, during this period of time, we investigated and found that the cloth merchant who was destroyed before had a connection with the party in the northwest, and Yanzhou is also facing the party people's sphere of influence, although the party people seem to be honest in recent years, but the small actions behind the scenes have not been broken, this time it is likely that they bought the people in the court to get this map, and the cloth merchant is likely to be the fine work they sent!" Lu Wu snorted coldly at this time, and when he mentioned the party members, a look of disgust flashed on his face.
Li Zhang was also shocked when he heard this, now the leader of the party is named Li Deming, that is, the father of Li Yuanhao, who later established the Western Xia, although Li Deming is ambitious, but he knows how to forbear, at least when he was the leader, the party people in the northwest have been nominally subservient to the Great Song Dynasty, but he has also been expanding westward, while solving the threat of the Tubo people in the west, while accumulating strength for himself.
Li Deming's son Li Yuanhao is ambitious, Li Yuanhao seems to be almost an adult this year, and when he succeeds to the throne, Li Deming has laid a solid foundation for him, coupled with his ambitions, the party will definitely rebel as in history, so as to establish the Western Xia, then the Great Song Dynasty will also lose an important horse-producing area, and after losing the horses, the Great Song Dynasty also has to maintain a huge infantry to fight against the Western Xia and Northern Liao, and the annual military expenditure even accounts for seventy percent of the national tax revenue, which is unimaginable in later generations.
"Okay, it's inconvenient for me to stay with you for a long time, you supervise the wild dogs to stand on the pile, two hours a day, and give me another five catties of braised meat, these days just gnawing dry food is about to spoil those guys!" Lu Wu spoke again at this time, and he had deliberately reduced the number of times he came to Li Zhang's place in the past few days, so as not to be seen by others.
"Uncle Wu, don't worry, wild dogs don't want to die if they practice martial arts, you don't need to say it at all, you only have a lot more time to stand on the pile every day." Li Zhang also smiled while packing Lu Wu at the moment, although Lu Wu didn't come often these days, the wild dog didn't relax at all, and he worked hard every day.
"It's good not to be lazy, you usually pay more attention, the other party is likely to step on the plate during the day, and you should pay more attention to any strange people you encounter." Lu Wu nodded with satisfaction when he heard this, and then told Li Zhang a few more words, and then left with the braised pork.
sent Lu Wu away, and it was almost noon at this time, when I saw a little girl about the same age as a raccoon dog jumping into the store, and when she saw Li Zhang, she immediately said crisply: "Brother Li, your soup cake has been cooked, do you want to send it over now?" ”
This little girl is Li Zhang, the little girl who rode on the wall when they first moved in, and told Li Zhang that they were haunted here, but now Li Zhang has guessed that the so-called haunted is probably that before they moved here, the black shadow also ran to find the map, but Cai Niang heard the movement and thought that the yard was haunted.
"Okay, I'm already hungry, the wild dog will help serve it!" Li Zhang also smiled when he saw Cai Niang, Cai Niang and Tanuki are the same age, and the two have become acquainted these days, so Cai Niang often comes to play, as for Li Zhang, because he is too busy at noon, he has no time to cook lunch, so he usually buys it from Cai Niang's soup cake shop to eat.
The wild dog immediately agreed, and after a while, he came back with a large wooden bucket from the soup cake shop next to him, full of a large bucket of noodles, which was no choice, Li Zhang and his family have a lot of food, and half of this bucket of noodles has to go into his stomach.
"Brother Li, this is your bowl and chopsticks, just put them in the bucket after eating, I'll get them later!" At this moment, I saw a simple middle-aged man walk in and smiled.
I saw that the other party was wearing a blue coarse cloth short coat, looking very neat, he was Cai Niang's father, surnamed Zhou, honest and loyal, and the soup cakes he made were also delicious and full, so he was called Zhou Laoshi, he and the Hun family worked hard for half a lifetime to give birth to Cai Niang such a daughter, so he usually loves Cai Niang very much, and he is simply his own eyeballs, and he will look for someone everywhere if he doesn't see him for a while.
"Okay, thank you Uncle Zhou!" Li Zhang saw Zhou Laoshi come in, and hurriedly stood up and took the dishes and chopsticks in the other party's hands and said, Zhou Laoshi and his wife are good people, seeing that Li Zhang and they are all children, they also helped a lot openly and secretly, plus Cai Niang is lively and cute, and she gets along well with the raccoon dog, so Li Zhang still likes Zhou Laoshi's family very much.
The wild dog moved a bucket of soup cakes to the backyard, Li Zhang had already divided the group to take turns to eat, after all, the business in front still needs someone to take care of, and when the dishes and chopsticks were just put down, the ugly lady immediately began to preside over the meal, except for her, no one wants to touch the rice spoon, this is also a helpless thing, after all, there are too many people in the family, there is no rule, otherwise you have to fight when eating.
However, the ugly lady is only responsible for serving rice, and does not limit how much you eat, she will serve you as much as you can eat, such as a wild dog, the ugly lady helps him serve half the time, and there are several plates of cut braised pork on the table as side dishes, Cai Niang also sits with the raccoon, although she has eaten, but she keeps eating braised meat with a small mouth, Li Zhang did not treat her as an outsider, but made Zhou Laoshi next to him a little embarrassed.
Li Zhang took his soup cake and sandwiched the braised pork on the table, ready to go to the store to eat while settling accounts, but at this time, Zhou Laoshi secretly pulled him aside and said, "Little Brother Li, I have something I want to discuss with you!" ”
"Uncle Zhou, you also have a crush on our braised pork?" Li Zhang heard Zhou Laoshi's words and immediately said, he thought that Zhou Laoshi also wanted to wholesale some braised pork to his soup cake shop, after all, soup cakes and braised meat are also a perfect match.
"No, no, our two stores are next to each other, and the guests who come to my store want to eat braised pork can come to you to buy some, and I don't need to prepare again, I ...... I want to discuss something with you about Cai Niang. Zhou Laoshi hurriedly waved his hand, and in the end, he became a little stumbling.
"Cai Niang?" Li Zhang was even more confused when he heard this, what did Cai Niang need to discuss with him?
"This ......" I saw Zhou Laoshi rubbing his hands at this time, and hesitated for a moment before he said, "You also know, I just picked such a baby daughter as my mother, and naturally I was reluctant to let her marry, so I wanted to recruit a son-in-law for her, of course, this son-in-law can't be found casually, I see you ......"
"I can't, I still have a sister to take care of at home, I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint you, Uncle Zhou!" When Li Zhang heard this, he thought that Zhou Laoshi was going to recruit himself as a son-in-law, so he hurriedly waved his hand and said, in fact, he was not prejudiced against his son-in-law, if he really liked the other party, it would be nothing to be a son-in-law, but he was still young now, and he had no idea about Cai Niang, so he was naturally unwilling.
"Brother Li misunderstood, I know that you are a capable person, and I must not be so wronged by you, but I think your wild dog is very good, although he doesn't talk much, but he is a down-to-earth person, so I want to ask you to talk to him and see if he is willing?" Zhou Laoshi saw that Li Zhang had misunderstood, and he hurriedly explained at the moment.
"Huh?" Li Zhang also blushed when he heard this, although Zhou was honest and polite, but in fact, he still didn't take a fancy to him, and he was also amorous just now
But as long as it's not himself, Li Zhang also agreed at the moment, anyway, he just passed on a word, whether he was willing to depend on the attitude of the wild dog?
There were too many people during the day, Li Zhang never found a chance to talk to the wild dog about it, and after dinner, the wild dog stood in the yard as usual, Li Zhang came to the yard, but before he could speak, he saw the wild dog make a look at him, which made Li Zhang stunned for a moment.