In order not to enter the city in the middle of the night, Liu Yong found a village and spent the night, and set off before dawn the next day.

When we were about to reach Meizhou City, the sun just jumped above the horizon.

At this time, several houses appeared on the roadside to attract Liu Yong's attention, and these large and small houses all had the same name: "Sauce Fang". It's just that the font size in front of the sauce shop is different. It was early in the morning, and some people were gathered in front of most of the sauce shops, and some men in coarse cloth clothes carried bags and jars. In and out of the door, busy and happy, the atmosphere is quite lively.

However, in the middle of this row of houses, there is a sauce shop in front of the deserted birds. Liu Yong asked the old man to stop. At first glance, this is a large-scale mansion, similar to the large mansions in the back. It's just that there is a big copper lock hanging on the door, and the paint is peeling off. The tops of the walls on both sides were broken in places like children's teeth. It looks like no one has been to this house in a long time.

The plaque on the gate hung crookedly on the beam, covered with dust, and a large spider was leisurely weaving a web under the eaves. The plaque is mottled with lacquer, and there is only one sauce word left in the four words, which explains its identity.

Such a dilapidated house, in the surrounding glamorous and lively atmosphere, it looks like a sparrow in a magpie pile, which looks out of place.

Liu Yong looked at it and asked the old man why there were so many sauce shops here. The old man said that the sauce in Meizhou is famous, and it is sold to several surrounding states and counties, so there are many shops to make sauce, and there is no place to make factories in the city, and some large households have built factories outside the city. After listening, Liu Yong's eyes suddenly lit up. Then let the old man set up his horse and move forward. But Liu Yong's eyes never left the dilapidated sauce shop.

Walked about 30 meters and another sauce shop, this is amazing, Liu Yong looked, it is the largest here, the most imposing sauce shop in the gatehouse. And there are many guys working in front of this house, and there are many cars and horses parked. Liu Yong was curious and asked the old man to stop the car again. Looks with interest.

Although there were three or four sauce shops that seemed to be larger, they were still slightly inferior to this one. I saw four big characters gilded on the door plaque of the pitch-black door of this sauce shop: "Ma Ji Sauce Fang". The newborn locust trees are neatly lined up outside the high walls of green bricks. The sun is pouring down, giving the whole house a layer of gold and vitality. It is in stark contrast to the dilapidated sauce shop dozens of meters away.

"Lang Jun, I have heard that Ma Ji Sauce Shop is the most famous sauce shop in Meizhou, and it is the first time I have seen it, it is really magnificent." The old man who was driving the car couldn't help but sigh deeply.

"Then the other sauce shops aren't famous?" Liu Yong asked.

"I don't know much about this old man, and a good sauce like this is not something that we poor people can eat very often. That is, buy some food for the New Year's Festival. We usually eat some sauce from a small workshop. Cheap. The old man explained.

Liu Yong nodded, squinted his eyes, touched his chin with his hand, and seemed to be thoughtful. At this time, a young man in white walked out of the gate of Ma Ji Sauce Factory, directing the guys to work in a gesture. Then, a pink-shirted girl jumped out of the gate, looking to be only a teenager.

I saw that the girl was secretly hiding behind the white-clothed Langjun, trying to scare him. Sure enough, the girl suddenly patted the young man's shoulder, and the frightened young man in white jumped high, looking embarrassed. But the girl giggled and bent over. When those guys saw it, they all laughed, but they were scolded by the young man in white.

All this was also seen by Yingying, and she also giggled. The young man heard this, and put away his anger at the girl. When he saw that it was a pallet truck pulling goods, he walked over. The girl followed him. He also asked: "Hey, I said brother, didn't my father invite someone to go to the Lin family to ask for your marriage, did they reply to you?" The young man said, "You don't care about my business." The girl said angrily: "People just heard that the Lin family's girl is a long Sai Tianxian, are they curious?" He grabbed the young man and asked, "Brother, when will you go to the Lin family and take me there?" ”

The white-clothed gentleman shook off the girl's hand and said, "Okay sister, don't make trouble." The girl grabbed it again, this time with both hands, shaking it on the other hand, and begged, "Brother, will you take me there?" Please. ”

"Oh, I really can't help you, Mrs. Wang went to ask me, as long as the Lin family agrees, my brother will take you on a blind date. I heard that Miss Lin also has an older brother who has never married a wife, so I'll show you by the way. The young man burst out laughing. But the ashamed girl stamped her feet and wiped her tears.

The young man left his sister and walked to Liu Yong, first looked at Liu Yong and the others, and when he saw that Liu Yong was still like a person, he smiled slightly, and reluctantly arched his hand, and said: "Xiao Ke Ma Gan, is the young shopkeeper of this Ma Ji Sauce Shop, I don't know if this brother Tai came to patronize our Ma Ji Sauce Shop on purpose?" ”

Liu Yong saw that he had a delicate face, and his every move looked polite, but in fact he was very arrogant. also learned from him, sat in the car and didn't get up, and said: "It turned out to be a young shopkeeper, fortunately, I will be lucky." But he did not answer the young man's question.

At this time, the girl in the pink shirt ran over and pointed at Liu Yong's nose and said, "Hey, why are you so rude, didn't you see my brother talking to you?" Why are you still sitting? ”

"I like to sit, can't I?" Liu Yong's smile was faint, but his words were powerful.

"You ......" The girl in the pink shirt was choked by Liu Yong and couldn't speak. A pretty face that was suffocated was flushed.

The young man glanced at Liu Yong and said to the girl: "It's just a village man who generally has no knowledge, sister, let's go." He took the girl and walked away.

Liu Yong looked at it with a smile, but saw that the girl in the pink shirt suddenly gave him a smile back. He froze. The girl looked like a pampered and unruly girl. Suddenly smiling at him made him feel incredible.

At this time, the old man urged, and Liu Yong didn't want to delay any longer, so he let him fight his horse and move forward.

"Lang Jun, if this person has money, he won't take others seriously." When the old man saw the arrogant expression of the young man just now, he couldn't help but feel emotional.

"I'm going to say that I went to his house to buy soy sauce, do you believe that he will treat me like an ancestor to me?" Liu Yong said with a smile.

But the old man didn't answer: "Lang Jun, what kind of soy sauce are you talking about?" ”

Liu Yong was stunned for a moment and asked, "What?" Doesn't this sauce shop make soy sauce? ”

The old man shook his head and said, "What they make is sauce, which is used to stick to eat or make vegetables, salty and fragrant." It's just sauce, not oil! ”

When Liu Yong heard this, he understood, it turned out that no one had created soy sauce at this time. Isn't that a huge business opportunity? In his later life, his grandmother's family made soy sauce, and he often went to play. So I still have a little understanding of the local method of making soy sauce.

The old horse walked very slowly, and when the old man saw that Liu Yong didn't answer, he asked again: "Lang Jun, you haven't told me what that soy sauce is." Liu Yong gave him a random explanation, which was very exaggerated. Let the old man be full of imagination and expectation for the deliciousness of soy sauce.

Walking through this house, a series of small hills appeared in front of you. The mountains are full of early spring green. A hill like this, which is more than 20 meters above sea level, is not a mountain for Liu Yong at all, but it can be regarded as an exclamation point in this plain.

"Lang Jun, the old man remembers that when he turned this mountain, it was Meizhou City. We're almost there. The old man saw that the task was about to be completed, and the money was about to be earned, and his words were relaxed and happy.

Liu Yong didn't answer, he was thinking about how to make a fuss about the sauce shop in his head. While he was groaning, the carriage suddenly stopped. I heard a person say: "I opened this road, I planted this tree, if you want to pass from here, leave the money to buy the road." ”

Liu Yong was taken aback, and his first thought was to meet a robber. Turning his head to look over, two black-clothed men with masked faces and only two green eyes stood in front of the carriage with their crossed arms to block them. The duo are petite and look like two children.

Then came the old man's begging for mercy: "Two good men, we are just village men, poor people, where is the money, please let the two good men go well." ”

"Don't be verbose, get me off." One of the black men stepped forward, drew his waist knife with a brush, and placed it horizontally in front of him. The frightened old man immediately fell out of the carriage. Xiao Yingying fell into Liu Yong's arms.

Liu Yong felt strange, this is not a deep mountain and old forest, this is a place close to the gate of Meizhou, how can there be robbers? At this moment, two more carriages came from behind, and several men carrying burdens into the city. Seeing this, they were so frightened that they didn't dare to come forward.

I only heard the man in black who took a step forward shout to the chariot and horse behind him in a somewhat immature voice: "You all go over, I will not rob you." As soon as those people and cars heard this, they dared to stay there longer, and they turned around the mountain and ran away.

Liu Yong was even more strange, and secretly thought: "Nima, this is really strange in the world." If you don't rob others and rob me Liu Yong, do these two little robbers know that I and the old man have four pieces of money? How do they know? ”

Just as he was thinking about it, the robber shouted again: "Hey, I told you to get out of the car, do you hear me?" Although he spoke in a deliberately deep voice, he still couldn't hide the immaturity of his voice.

Liu Yong judged that these two were fledgling little robbers, and it was likely that they had not done any cases yet. All that's left is a gamble.

"I said two little brothers, I don't think the two are very old, so let's quickly change their ways. After the province, when he entered the yamen, he had to endure hardships. Liu Yong said lightly, but his body didn't move.

As he said this, the two little robbers looked at each other with a little weakness. However, the little robber with the horizontal knife suddenly laughed in a childish voice, and laughed a little reluctantly.

"Two little brothers, I think so......" Liu Yong's words were interrupted by the little robber with a horizontal knife. The little robber quickly approached the carriage and stretched out his waist knife in front of Liu Yong.

"I told you to get out of the car, did you hear me?" The little robber's voice was a little torn because of his hurried words and because he was a little nervous, and it sounded like the sound made by rubbing an iron tool, which was a little harsh. But Liu Yong heard something strange, he felt that this little robber with a knife was not even a child.

Liu Yong pushed away the bright steel knife in front of him and said with a smile: "I said, little brother, do you have something to say, don't you just want money?" I'll give you that. While blocking Yingying behind him, he slowly got up at the same time. He suddenly reached out and tore off the little robber's face toil. I was taken aback.

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