Li Qing reacted suddenly, this lucky dealer is the head of the king's prison, if he promotes a few words for himself when the lottery is drawn, isn't this effect like a strong push on the book at the starting point?

Li Qing felt sorry for himself, and the mule driver rushed back to stock up, and when he came back, it was almost noon, seeing that the morning game was about to disperse, he hurriedly squeezed into the crowd, and found the head of the Wang Prison in the corner of the podium, since yesterday his grinning mouth has not been closed, and his two eyes smiled into two Kaiyuan Tongbao, and suddenly saw Li Qing, he pulled him over and thanked him in a low voice: "If it weren't for the method given by my brother, how could I have Wang Dajiang today, I am ready to resign from the post of prison head, and I will come to do the lottery in the future." ”

Li Qing was startled and said hurriedly: "No! Without the backstage of the government, some people will be red-eyed. ”

"Brother is right!" He pointed to the lottery master of ceremonies who was screaming and the jailer who was maintaining order: "This time it was my brother-in-law who came forward, someone came to smash the field yesterday, if the brothers hadn't arrived in time, things would have been in trouble." ”

He was just talking, although this prison chief was small, but he had a bit of real power, and there were a lot of people who stammered, how could he give up being a businessman with low social status, and he saw that Li Qing didn't seem to be here to draw lottery, so he asked: "What?" Is there any trouble with the brothers? Tell my brother that I'll stand up for you. ”

"Is there something to ask Brother Wang for help?" He whispered a few words in the ear of the head of the king's prison, and said, "Why don't you ask Brother Wang to help me this time." ”

The head of the prison laughed and said, "This little sesame thing, do you still need to use the word please?" The brother commanded. He got up and patted Li Qing on the shoulder, "You hurry up and prepare, and I'll arrange it for you." ”

As soon as Li Qing walked back to the stall, there were already more than a dozen people queuing up to buy popsicles, and the curtain was collecting money and picking up the goods, and he was very busy, but it was the mule driver who sold the ice dew to make a cameo, and before Li Qing could speak, the curtain had already exclaimed: "Son, look, you are behind!" ”

When he looked back, he was so shocked that his jaw was about to fall, only to see the crowd behind him, hundreds of people staring at him with hungry eyes, rushing straight to his side, Li Qing was surprised and delighted, jumped into the stall, grabbed the mule driver and shouted: "Uncle, you also come to help, I will pay you." ”

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"Today, I have a total income of 350 yuan, used up 100 yuan of nitrate, 150 yuan of fruits and sugar, amortized 50 yuan of fixed assets in advance, hired mule carts and mule drivers of 100 yuan, paid 30 yuan in taxes, 2 yuan for the nutrition of yellow dogs, 800 yuan for the labor cost of curtains, and 500 yuan for Li Qing's labor costs, which is a net income of 1,620 yuan." After dinner, Li Qing began to settle accounts, he looked in his eyes, read in his mouth, held a pen in his left hand and an abacus in his right hand, as if he had returned to the bank, only to hang a pair of reading glasses on his face.

Two urns full of yellow copper coins were piled up on the table like a hill, and he even counted the yellow dog's bone money, which made the curtain smile and bend over: "Where am I worth so much wages, and I don't want money." ”

Li Qing laughed, took away the two beads and said with a smile: "Yes, I am the big owner, you are the second owner, you don't need to enter the cost, then change it, and make a net profit." ”

"If this is the case every day, we can earn 180 yuan this summer, and we can buy dozens of acres of good land to live." She spoke naturally, without pretentiousness, her eyes were full of longing, and a faint flush appeared on her face, but she heard Li Qing's heart flutter, 'live', what did she mean by this? Through the light, he found that this little girl looked so charming and lovely, smiling and beautiful, he couldn't bear it anymore, and slowly came to her with his face salivating.

When the curtain saw him get up, he suddenly realized that he had revealed his mouth, and he couldn't help but be ashamed and wanted to run, but he was caught by Li Qingyi, only to hear him smile evilly: "Since you talked about living a life, then let's discuss it specifically, how to live this life?" ”

"Childe! You, you—" The curtain suddenly felt that she had no strength in her body, and she buried her head softly in his chest, her ears were hot, she sighed, and said quietly: "Since the concubine body is with you, it is natural to live with you, but I want to keep filial piety for my grandfather for three years, and when the filial piety is completed for three years, the concubine body will obey you." ”

"Three years!" Li Qing screamed out in a lost voice, he had to wait for three years, wouldn't this be to suffocate him?

"Three years refers to the gift of marriage!" Li Qing reacted the fastest to this kind of thing, and the heart that had just fallen into the ice cave suddenly rejuvenated and crawled out, and he couldn't help laughing.

Hearing him laugh dirty, and seeing his eyes sweeping all over his body, how could he not understand this guy's bad thoughts, and even his cheeks and ears were red, and he raised his pink fist and slammed his chest, and said angrily: "What are you thinking, you damn thing!" ”

Li Qingse's heart moved, grabbed her wrist, hugged her tightly, and suddenly remembered an extremely important thing that he had forgotten to ask.

"Curtain, how old are you?"

Curtain Er's heart is like a deer, I don't know what to do, but when she heard Li Qing ask such a sentence without a beginning or an end, she thought about it: "Grandpa said that I was born in the sixteenth year of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, and I will be fifteen by the end of the year." ”

"God, she's only fourteen!"

Li Qing suddenly deflated like a ball, her mind and behavior were no different from that of an adult, and she actually gave herself the illusion that she was an adult, if it weren't for the sudden feeling that her wrist bones were as thin as a hemp rod, and her body was flat and slender at the waist, she was really, really going to spoil an underage girl who had not yet developed, Li Qing couldn't help but feel a trace of shame, and the desire in her heart gradually extinguished.

The curtain found the shame in his eyes, and his heart suddenly relaxed, and he gently leaned his head on his chest and said with a smile: "Besides, I have worshiped my father-in-law, and I am also an official daughter, you have to work hard to be worthy of me." ”

Li Qing naturally knew that she said this to encourage herself to be motivated, but her face deliberately fell, and she arched her hand and said, "In this case, Xiaosheng is not worthy of Miss, so I took my leave." Then he opened the door to leave, but the curtain panicked, grabbed him and wailed: "Childe, don't go!" ”

Li Qing saw that the fear in her eyes was revealed, and there was a faint sense of crystal, and suddenly realized that he was joking too much, turned around and hugged her and laughed: "Where can I go?" There is food, drink and sleep here, and I am reluctant to leave! ”

When Lian'er heard him say this, he knew that he was just joking, and his heart was relaxed, but he secretly thought: "These three years are too long, and I have to think of ways to keep his heart." She was a very smart girl, and she knew in her heart that only by sharing hardships with him would she win his respect, so she rolled up her sleeves, revealing a white lotus-like jade arm, picked up a bucket and a flat shoulder and said with a smile: "There is one day left tomorrow to touch the prize, our reputation has been played, and we need to work harder, now that it's dark, hurry up and do it!" ”

Li Qing snatched the bucket and said, "You go to squeeze the juice, and I'll carry the water." ”

Before dawn the next day, the two had already arrived at the gate of the city, stuffed more than a dozen dollars, and the guards secretly let them into the city. ’

"Let's have a popsicle! I was in a hurry, so I borrowed a popsicle to suppress the fire. Before the mule cart stopped, Li Qing shouted at those impatient touchers, this business has to talk about the morning market early, and it is best to have a full supply of customers before it opens, which is a good sign.

As I said, some of the people who had eaten it yesterday remembered the sweet taste of the popsicle, so they couldn't help but take out a handful of money from their pockets, pick out two, and walk straight under the willow tree.

"Childe, will we put it now?" Seeing that a few people had already paid for it, Lian'er asked Li Qingdao urgently.

"Don't worry, sell them a few popsicles first." Li Qing said that he would have taken out the urn containing the money, and he liked to listen to the sound of the copper money jingling into the urn.

"Get me one too!" The voice was very familiar, Li Qing suddenly turned around, and the person who came was in a green coat and a small hat, thin and long-bearded, and was looking at him with a smile, not Xian Yu Zhongtong.

"Daddy!" Curtain threw down the popsicle in his hand and screamed in surprise, although it was the old lady's meaning to think that she was a woman, but Xian Yu Zhongtong liked that Curtain Er was pure and upright, especially this 'Daddy' called him excited, he gently patted her head and said to Li Qing: "I will go back to Chengdu tomorrow, but this time I came for Curtain Er." ”

Li Qing hurriedly sent out a few popsicles, and then turned around and smiled: "How did Mr. know that we were here?" But I saw that there was a woman behind Xian Yu Zhongtong, she was slender and tall, dressed in a pink saro, wearing a bamboo hat, and she couldn't see her face, but Li Qing felt that she was vaguely familiar, as if she had seen it somewhere.

"I didn't know, so I went to my sister-in-law's house to inquire, and they didn't know, but Zhang Lu said that he saw you here yesterday and bought your popsicle, so before the sun rose, I came over to take a look, no, I just saw you."

Li Qing's old face was slightly red, presumably Zhang Lu came to buy it at noon yesterday, when the crowd was surging, he only cared about the money, but he didn't care who the buyer was.

But I heard Xian Yu Zhongtong continue: "Although you have just started, you have a good entry point, you are very business-minded, and you will naturally be very hard, I am afraid that the curtain is thin and I can't hold it, so I will send a maid to take care of her." After speaking, he turned back and beckoned to the girl wearing the bamboo hat, "Come here!" ”

Hearing the two words of the maid, Li Qing suddenly woke up, he knew who this girl was, no wonder it was so familiar, sure enough, the girl took off the bamboo hat and revealed a sweet face, it was Xiaoyu who had served Li Qing.

I saw Xiaoyu glance at Li Qing slightly, his face immediately turned crimson, his eyes were extremely flustered, and he hurriedly lowered his head, "Plop!" He knelt down and said, "Miss, Xiaoyu, see Miss!" ”

"Hurry up!" The curtain hurriedly pulled Xiaoyu up, seeing that she looked sweet, she liked it a little in her heart, although she also found that Xiaoyu looked at Li Qing a little strangely, but after all, the city is not deep, she didn't think much about it, she only felt that she had multiple sisters, took her hand and asked the long and short, Xiaoyu also deliberately welcomed, two girls of the same age together, became intimate in a moment, as if they had been friends for many years, and Li Qing was stunned, secretly calling the magic of the word fate, but there was nothing to be done, and he had another burden.

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The origin of the abacus is unknown, and it should be earlier than the Northern Song Dynasty.