Yingying pushed the door in and threw herself into Liu Yong's arms, exuding the squeamishness unique to a little girl. The old woman of the landlord at the door looked at it with a smile. In fact, she likes children very much. Why can't she have children, she wanted her husband to marry again, but the landlord was unwilling. In fact, the main reason is economic problems, life is tight, who wants to get married. This drags people to get old.

In her eyes, Liu Yong will give her the illusion that Liu Yong is her son and Yingying is her granddaughter. Every time I wake up from my delusion, I am full of sorrow and sorrow, and I feel sorry for this injustice of God.

But where is there so much fairness in the vast world?

"Official, the old man will make dinner, don't forget to go downstairs to eat later." The old woman's warm words have the taste of mother. And her simple clothes and gentle face carry a warm home fireworks. It's soothing

Liu Yong smiled and nodded.

When the old woman left, Yingying hugged Liu Yong's face and kissed her, expressing her love for her uncle. A child's love is always so direct and innocent. The word hypocrisy never seems to occupy the child's pure heart.

Liu Yong picked up Yingying and turned around and stood in front of the window.

The soft warm breeze of early spring passed through the window and blew Liu Yong and Yingying's hair. The horizon had darkened, and the red glow was a little deep. The dark red light shone on the quiet faces of the uncle and nephew, and they looked refreshed, as if bathed in divine light.

The next day, the mysterious woman left with her two children, and Yingying cried profusely. Liu Yong also felt bitter, and he could only give Yingying more care. But there is no way to give all the time to Yingying, he has more important things to do.

In the past two days, he has not gone to set up a stall again, he wants to find a source of goods and plan a big business. Every day is an early departure and a late return. Yingying had to be taken care of by the landlord's mother-in-law. The old man was very happy, but Yingying was a little lonely.

When Liu Yong came back in the sunset, he could always see Yingying squatting somewhere in the yard, playing with the mud and sand alone. Looking at this scene, Liu Yong felt sorry for Yingying. Actually, Yingying is playing while waiting for her uncle to come back.

As soon as she saw Liu Yong, Yingying was like a chick seeing an old hen, and she flew over with her immature little wings and hugged one of Liu Yong's legs tightly. It's also the happiest moment of every day.

Liu Yong suddenly conjured a piece of sugar cake from behind him, and Yingying was even happier.

But Liu Yong was embarrassed, if he went to Western Xia, what would Yingying do? You can't let her follow. The bitter cold and dangerous road is not something that a six-year-old child can bear at all. Yingying can only stay. Liu Yong's plan is to hand it over to the landlord's mother-in-law, which is also the only way Liu Yong can come up with.

But Liu Yong is still embarrassed, this time, it will take at least three or four months to go back and forth. How do you say it to Yingying before you leave? I'm really afraid that after he leaves, Yingying cries and shouts every day to find her uncle. And my mother is not around. When he thought of this, his heart ached.

This big business still needs to be planned. He drew up a list of goods: 1. Salt. Second, the tea industry. Three, cloth. Fourth, rouge gouache. Five, sauce. This Meizhou city is rich in sauce, and it can be sold for a lot of money in Western Xia. In addition to rouge gouache, he prepared five carts of salt, two carts of tea, and one cart of the others. This is not a wasted adventure of a long journey.

The next thing is to find a source. Sauce and cloth are good enough to say, you can buy them in private workshops. But this salt and tea industry are different. In the Song Dynasty, salt, tea, wine, alum, incense, etc. were all monopolized by the imperial court. If you want to buy goods, you have to deal with the monopoly of 'goods business', which belongs to the government department. And it has to be a cash transaction. This gave Liu Yong a big problem, first, Liu Yong did not have a large amount of funds in his hands, and second, he didn't know much about this 'cargo business'.

After inquiry, he learned that the goods were on Xinghua Street in the south of Meizhou. There is a master in charge. If you want to get into the two kinds of tea and salt, you have to deal with the superintendent. For this reason, Liu Yong also went to Zheng San, who opened a grocery store, to learn about the situation.

When Liu Yong took Lin Hualang and Niu Rong into his shop, Zheng San hurriedly pushed his wife to the back room and picked up a whistle stick. He thought that Liu Yong had come to take revenge.

When he learned that Liu Yong was here to inquire about things, he put the whistle stick away with an embarrassed face. In fact, after that unpleasant incident, the relatives and neighbors around him all persuaded him, saying that it was his fault. Slowly, he felt remorse in his heart, and he thought of finding an opportunity to apologize to Liu Yong. Of course, Liu Yong has people like Lin Hualang by his side, and he is also afraid that Liu Yong will retaliate again, so he prepared a whistle stick.

At this time, seeing the kindness of Liu Yong and the others, he took the opportunity to apologize to Liu Yong first, and then called out the lady to pour tea for the three of them. When the lady saw that it was Liu Yong, she blushed. Zheng Sanfang knew that something was wrong, and hurriedly took his wife away. He can care about his own lady Hongxing out of the wall, although she is already old.

In Zheng San's mouth, Liu Yong learned that the supervisor of the goods was named Guo Dequan, forty-five years old, and he was not a very good person to deal with. The salt that Zheng San sold came in from him. Zheng San told Liu Yong that if he wanted to buy salt, he first had to buy salt leads, and only with salt guides could he sell salt on the street.

Liu Yong thought that this matter was a little difficult to do, but he had an idea in his heart. There are dozens of grocery stores large and small in Meizhou City, and if each family takes some, they can always make up enough salt for five carriages. This time, he was counting on the salt to make him money. When it came to Western Xia, other things could not be sold, but salt could not be sold.

He asked Zheng San, but was disappointed. Zheng San said that a small store like theirs can only buy 50 catties every time, and if it is not sold, it will be close, and there will be more that cannot be entered. Liu Yong was puzzled and asked what was going on.

"Lang Jun, don't you know, salt is a necessity for people's lives, it's okay if you don't eat rice for a month, if you don't eat salt, then you have to walk hard. So, the sales of this salt are very large. The production and sale of salt were in the hands of the imperial court, and their efficiency was very low, which led to the shortage of salt and tea. Zheng San seems to be willing to open his heart to Liu Yong. The incident of passing through the yamen of the state capital, and after the different opinions of these days, he admired Liu Yong's personality a little.

After listening to this, Liu Yong felt that this matter was very tricky. It seems that if you want to get together the salt of these five carriages and the tea industry of the two carriages, you can only find a way to ask the supervisor of the goods business. So, Liu Yong wanted Zheng San to help introduce him.

Zheng San said, "It's okay to be introduced, but I can't guarantee that Lord Supervisor will be able to sell you so much salt." ”

"Zheng San, just take the little brother there." Liu Yong said with a smile.

"Okay, I'm still familiar with Master Guo, the superintendent, and there's no way to do it, every year in order to buy more salt and tea, as well as wine, brother, I have to stammer." Zheng San smiled wryly.

Liu Yong understands that this exclusive sale must break the market balance and form an invincible seller's market. And the buyer can only let people lead the nose and leave. Especially the exclusive sale of the imperial court, there is an additional layer of power in it. The superintendent Guo Dequan only controlled the sale of salt, tea, and wine in a state, and his rights should not be underestimated. If the small merchants and vendors below don't give him some goods, I'm afraid people won't even pay attention to you.

Liu Yong had to take out all his savings, in fact, there was not much, only six yuan, but he could only take out so much, leaving a total of one hundred and ten yuan as pocket money. Bought some gifts to take.

"Lang Jun, to be honest, just these you bought, I'm afraid they won't be in the eyes of the superintendent! You know, our family sends at least 20 times a year. Zheng San looked at a few porcelain vases that Liu Yong bought and said.

"But brother, that's all I can buy right now." Liu Yong is really helpless.

Lin Hualang said: "Isn't he just a little supervisor? Do you still dare to be courteous? Look at me and tell the governor to go. ”

"The governor can't manage others." Zheng Sandao.

"Then where do you say you can manage, I, Lin Hualang, will go and sue him." Lin Hualang came to the end.

"Yes, just sue him, being an official and accepting gifts is a violation of the law." Niu Rong also looked indignant.

Zheng San smiled and said, "Since people have the power, don't they seek some personal gain?" Actually, Lang Jun bought a lot of these, we thought that the amount of salt that Lang Jun wanted to buy was too large, so this gift should also be heavier. ”

Lin Hualang slapped the coffee table and said angrily: "What the hell is this world, it's so hard to do some business." ”

"Who told you to buy and sell tea and salt alone?" Zheng San smiled again.

Liu Yong pondered for a moment and said, "Don't talk about it, I'll see the superintendent who is not easy to deal with." ”

When he arrived at the gate of the Yamen of the Goods Department, Zheng San asked Liu Yong and the other three to wait, and he went in first to ask if the supervisor was there. Liu Yong nodded. But after waiting for a long time for Zheng San and not coming out, Lin Hualang was in a hurry, and he was about to break inside, Liu Yong grabbed him and said, "Brother, don't be reckless." ”

"Isn't your mother a salt seller? Still let Lao Tzu wait? One day, Lao Tzu set fire to this yamen. Lin Hualang scolded indignantly.

"Who's making a noise outside?" A crisp and deep voice. Then a middle-aged man with a fat figure walked out of the door, dressed in a dark green official uniform. With a round face and a round nose, he stared at Liu Yong and the other three with round eyes, and his gloomy round face swam with anger, obviously he heard Lin Hualang's scolding.

Then came out a green sedan chair carried by four people. Zheng San also followed, and hurriedly introduced: "Lord Guo, this is Liu Yong, who came to visit on purpose." He said to Liu Yong again: "This is Lord Guo, the superintendent." ”

Liu Yong hurriedly stepped forward and bowed: "The villain has seen the superintendent. Just now, the villain's brother offended the adult, and asked the adult to ignore the fault of the villain such as us. After speaking, he held the gift box in Niu Rong's hand in front of Guo Dequan.

Guo Dequan put his hands behind his back, pursed his mouth, lowered his eyes, and turned his face to the side with just one sweep of his eyelids. didn't look at Liu Yong, and said very arrogantly: "I heard Zheng Sanlang say that you kid want to buy salt and tea?" ”

"Yes, Lord Supervisor, please take care of me." Liu Yonggong replied respectfully.

"I'll give Zheng San some face. Ten catties of each kind, Dongshan, you take him to the yamen to pay for the goods. Guo Dequan shouted and got into the sedan chair. A man with a goatee ran out.

"My lord, my lord......" Liu Yong chased the sedan chair and walked a few steps, and the sedan chair stopped and went.

Lin Hualang scolded softly: "Ge Laozi, ten catties of each, you send it to ask for food!" ”

And in Liu Yong's heart, Guo Dequan clearly didn't want to sell him a catty.