The next day, Li Qing found the grocery store early in the morning, this is the largest store in Yilong County, just under the farewell bridge, there is a self-built wharf, several semi-new cargo ships up and down with the waves, from the revetment along the stone steps up more than a dozen steps, Huo Ran is three bright shops, a flagpole is erected high in front of the store, the flag with black edge and red background is waving in the wind, on the book' Wang Ji grocery store's five big characters, Li Qing entered the store, but saw three shops running through the front and back, which were full of all kinds of items, from clothes, shoes and hats to hoes and iron rakes, everything, more than a dozen farmers were selecting farm tools, noisy and shouting, the sound rushed to the sky, almost collapsed the roof.

Li Qing saw that Xiao Er was busy, so he looked for it himself, but he searched for it three times in a row, and there was everything here, but he didn't see the saltpeter he wanted.

The shopkeeper who was settling accounts on the counter saw that he was looking for it hard, so he dropped the account book and greeted him with a smile: "What do you want to buy?" We have some things in the warehouse that we can't put here. ”

Li Qingzheng was disappointed, and when he heard the shopkeeper say this, he had a little hope, and hurriedly said, "I want to buy some saltpeter, I don't know if you have it here?" ”

"Saltpeter?" The shopkeeper shook his head and said: "The customer doesn't know, generally what the guest wants, what we enter, this store has been opened, no one wants to buy any saltpeter, so it never enters it, the customer's request is really difficult for me." ”

"Then I'll go to another store."

The shopkeeper smiled and said, "You can't buy it in my store, and you can't buy it in other stores." ”

"Why is that?"

"Several shops selling daily groceries in Yilong County are opened by the proprietor of my family, and the goods are the same, just for the convenience of everyone, I have opened a few in various places in the city, I don't have it here, and I naturally don't have it anywhere else."

"Supermarket chains!" Li Qing's mind suddenly jumped out of this word, unified purchase, unified sales, isn't this the prototype of a supermarket chain? He suddenly thought of Sam, the richest man in the world who founded the Wal-Mart Kingdom. Didn't Walton also grow in a small town in Arkansas? Why didn't he build such a commercial kingdom in the Tang Dynasty, thinking of this, Li Qing's heart was agitated, and his eyes radiated a strange look, and he looked at the flag blankly, as if he was stupid.

"Guest? Guest! The shopkeeper saw that the face of the person who came was red for a while, white for a while, looked at the flag in a daze, and muttered secretly in his heart: "Is this person sick?" ”

Li Qing suddenly came back to his senses and smiled apologetically: "I just thought of one thing, and I lost my temper!" Shopkeeper, do you know where to buy saltpeter? "It's too far to open a supermarket, and the top priority is to make the ice first and earn the first pot of gold.

The shopkeeper thought about it and said: "I don't think there is anything in the state, I'm afraid I have to go to Chengdu Mansion, or leave some deposits for the customers, I will find a way to buy them for the customers, it may be more expensive." ”

Li Qing was overjoyed: "It's okay to be more expensive, but how long does it take to get the goods?" ”

The shopkeeper pondered for a moment, then gestured two fingers and said: "Two months, after two months, the customer can come to the store to pick up the goods, if not, I can return the deposit twice." ”

"Two months!" Li Qing cried out in a lost voice, and when that time came, it was cold, what kind of ice was he selling!

He walked out of the store in frustration, it was easy to think of a way to make money, but there were no raw materials, it was difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, no saltpeter, no ice, no money, how did he open a supermarket, all things are interlocked, if you want to untie this knot, it seems that the only way to go to Chengdu first, but Chengdu, that is a big city! Is this money enough? A hint of timidity suddenly grew in his heart.

Suddenly, he slapped himself in the mouth, "You're afraid of a fart!" You have lived more than a thousand years longer than them, have you been to the heavens, you have drilled into the earth, have they ever sat down? You know five hundred years, five hundred years down, do they know? ”

Li Qing looked up at the blue sky and white clouds in the sky, only to feel a sense of pride in his chest and abdomen, he took two steps back, roared, and rushed onto the parting bridge in one breath, attracting everyone's sideways, and a few people who knew him turned their heads to each other: "He is the lottery person who was arrested by the government, pitiful!" Let it out like this, alas! Everyone shook their heads and sighed at the darkness of the official mansion.

Li Qing rushed down from the bridge like a gust of wind, and suddenly saw a few officials on the street corner, and suddenly remembered something, he promised to paint the method of the prison head, which had been written last night, and he happened to take it with him, but he could give it to him by the way, Yilong County was small, Li Qing only turned a corner and saw the place that he could not forget in his life.

When the head of the prison heard him coming, he greeted him with a smile, and his two greasy hands rubbed his body vigorously, and then he happily took the lottery cheats handed over by Li Qing, and only turned two pages casually, and his eyes slowly glowed, and his expression was as if he had won the grand prize of five million, and his mouth was like three white eggs, and he was so happy that he couldn't close it.

"Childe is really a believer, and he actually gave away such a way to make a lot of money, so that I can't repay it, I don't boast elsewhere, there is nothing I can't do in Yilong County, what difficulties does Childe have, but just tell me." Now that he has the cheats, he never mentions cooperation again.

Li Qing secretly sneered: "The toad yawns, what a big breath, do you know where there is saltpeter?" Then he asked casually: "Does the king know how much saltpeter is found in this county?" ”

"Saltpeter?"

Li Qing said lightly: "It's saltpeter, I want to make saltpeter for Huoyao, but I can't buy it in this county, so I'm going to go to Chengdu Mansion to buy it." ”

I just wanted to scare his tone and let him know that there were things he couldn't do in this Yilong County, but the head of the Wang Prison laughed and said: "If the son asks about other things, I may not know, but saltpeter, I just know where there is saltpeter in this county, and it is pure nitrate." ”

"Is that serious?" Li Qing couldn't help but be overjoyed, this was really a nowhere to find the iron shoes, it didn't take any effort to get it, and there was no way to find it, but he inadvertently asked, he grabbed his clothes and asked urgently: "Where is it?" Tell me! ”

Wang Prison glanced at Li Qing's hand and said with a smile: "It's nearby, or I'll take Gongzi there?" ”

Li Qing let go of his hand and smiled apologetically.

The two walked along the river, and the head of the Wang prison said while walking: "The prison closed a craftsman who made fire, originally from Yinping County, and then moved to Yilong County to do small business, and was arrested for tax arrears, I also went to his house last month to search, and saw with my own eyes a lot of refined nitrate, his wife wanted to use these nitrate to offset taxes, but the lord did not agree, this is a month, I don't know if she sold it?" ”

The last words of the prison boss lifted Li Qing's heart again, and he hurriedly clasped his hands together and prayed in a low voice: "Bodhisattva bless me!" Let's hope it's still there. ”

The head of the prison looked at him with a strange expression, and suddenly smiled dumbly: "It is better for the prince to beg the Bodhisattva than to beg me!" Even if this nitrate is gone, I will ask his mother-in-law to get it back! ”