The remnant sun was like blood, and a round of red sun fell in the west, smearing the last afterglow on the stream of Dongxi Village, and the smoke of the cooking rose in Xixi Village not far away.

The time has passed the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month of the first year of Zhenghe, but the weather has not warmed up in the slightest, and the cold is still cold.

Under the big willow tree, Chao Gai is concentrating on practicing boxing, punching like a tiger, kicking like a dragon, a punch and a leg seem to be ordinary, but it seems to have infinite power. The last red light of the sun also disappeared, and not far away, two sturdy juniors each held a whistle stick, one in his twenties, tall and thin, and the other seventeen or eighteen, short and fat, two. Whispering.

The younger one said: "The owner of the village has not been in a good mood lately, you see that he broke the little willow tree with one punch." You said that our owner has food and drink, what else can he be unhappy about. ”

"What do you kid know, the owner's business is not for us to consider. However, there are rumors of evil wolves entering the village and hurting people from time to time, and now that it is just dark, we have to be cautious. The tall, thin man said.

At this time, a thunderous voice suddenly sounded: "Chao Zhang, Chao Ran, what are you two muttering, you understood a little bit of my martial arts practice just now." "It turned out that Chao Gai had collected the move and came over.

The thin and tall man is called Chao Zhang, and the short and fat man is called Chao Ran, and the two of them were startled when they heard it, and they both knelt down: "The owner of the village is angry, we don't dare to steal the martial arts of the owner." ”

"Oh, hehe." Chao Gai was stunned for a moment, and then understood that in this Great Song Dynasty, martial arts were easily not passed on to outsiders, Chao Zhang and Chao Ran were just Chao Gai's own family, and they knew some simple martial arts, but they were not instructed and taught by Chao Gai.

"Okay, the two of you get up, one will go and inform the leaders of Zhuang Ding to go to the backyard to discuss the martial arts in the backyard, including the leaders of the blacksmiths and carpenters who are grazing cattle and sheep, and the other will go to inform the kitchen to kill two sheep and get some wine and food." Chao Gai said.

"Then we're all leaving, the owner should pay attention to safety." Chao Zhang said.

"Haha, what danger can there be at the entrance of this village, and how do you not know how my iron fist martial arts are, don't talk about wolves, even if there is a bear, I can kill it." Chao Gai laughed.

Chao Zhang and Chao Ran knew that the owner's temper didn't say much, and they went to get busy. Chao Gai also stopped practicing boxing, and after a violent practice just now, he also broke a tree with a thick bowl mouth, and his fist felt a faint pain.

Today's Chao Gai is not the original Chao Gai, although the body is still the body, but the soul is no longer there, today's Chao Gai is a retired officer of the Agricultural Reclamation Corps, whose name is also Chao Gai Shandong Liangshan, after retiring from the army, he mixed with Beipiao, worked as an actor in Hengdian, served as a bodyguard for the rich, and finally built a cattle and sheep farm at home, and contracted more than 200 acres of land to live a prosperous life. After the Chinese New Year, a truckload of seeds was trafficked, which were sold not only for their own families but also for the villagers. As a result, he walked to a cliff and overturned, and 10,000 catties of corn and 10,000 catties of cotton seeds all fell off the cliff. When he woke up, Chao Gai found that he had become a big Baozheng Chao Gai in Dongxi Village, Yuncheng County, Jeju Prefecture. The car was nowhere to be found, but 10,000 catties of corn seeds, 10,000 cotton seeds were still there, and there were 500 catties of peanuts, 20 catties of pepper seeds, a tape measure, and an encyclopedia of ancient ships.

After five or six days of adjustment, Chao Gai gradually adapted to the current life, no electricity, no network, no mobile phone, but there is a family, brothers, and more blood, you must know that now Huizong of the Northern Song Dynasty has just succeeded to the throne, and the world will not be peaceful in a few years, this water is about to become a battlefield, followed by Jin Bing to go south to arrest the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, at that time it was the era when heroes were born.

"Lao Tzu must be cautious, he can't go down the old road of Chao Gai and be overshadowed by Song Jiang's real villain." Chao Gai secretly thought, now is the Lantern Festival in the first year of Zhenghe, Gao Yu still has half a year to become a captain, and Wang Jin will be forced away at that time, and there is still more than a year before Lu Ti's fist attack on the Guanxi Water Margin officially begins. At this time, Luda was still his tishi, and Lin Chong and his wife were in love. Song Jiang Heizaburo spent money to buy the official of the Charge Division. In the past two years, we must develop well, strive to build our own team, and create our own stage.

A martial arts arena in the backyard of the Chao family covers an area of more than one acre, and there are eighteen kinds of weapons such as knives, guns, swords, halberds, etc., which are slowed down on the swords, guns, swords, halberds, etc., and there are plum blossom piles, stone locks and other objects in the corner.

Four tables were set up in the courtyard, and several bonfires were set up with large iron pots. When Chao Gai arrived, everyone had already arrived, and everyone got up to say hello to Chao Gai when Chao Gai came in.

Chao Gai arched his hand and said: "Let everyone wait for a long time, I will call everyone over in the evening to discuss important matters, which is related to the prosperity and development of my Chao family." ”

"Oh, what's the matter, are you going to fight with Xixi Village again?"

"It could be about wolves in the spring." Everyone muttered and guessed.

Chao Gai sat down, next to Chao Gai's big housekeeper Chao Xun, in his fifties, with a thin figure and a long beard. It was a person rescued by Chao Gai's father, who kept the Chao family for decades, changed his surname to Chao, and entered the genealogy of the Chao family.

"Uncle Xun, are you all here?" Chao Gai asked.

"It's all there."

Chao Gai looked around, Chao Xiong, the leader of Zhuang Ding, who sold illegal salt, Li Han, the leader of iron sales, Xu Hai, the shopkeeper of the hotel in Yuncheng County, and Liu Liang, the shopkeeper of the grain store, these four are all important people under Chao Gai, and they have always won Chao Gai's trust. The few people sitting at the other table were a little restrained, obviously a little nervous. There was a man with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, and his thick hands were full of calluses. This is the supervisor of Chao Gai's field, called Liu Youtian, a villager recruited by the Chao family in the early years, and has a little experience in planting and harvesting various crops. A man next to him, wearing a sheepskin jacket and a sheepskin hat, and a sheepskin smell, was responsible for grazing cattle and sheep for the Chao family. Next to it is the carpenter Lu Tam of the carpenter shop, and Zhang Tiehan of the blacksmith shop. Although these four people have contributed a lot to the Chao family, the original Chao Gai Haowu doesn't care much about these things at all, and everything is handled by the head of Chao Xun, so they don't have the opportunity to drink with the owner of Chao Gai.

The other dozen or so people are all young descendants of Chao Gai's own family, and Twenty Lang was the main force of Chao Gai's family selling salt and iron.

"Haha, it's rare for everyone to get together tonight, eat and drink enough before talking about things and having a banquet." Chao Gai waved his hand, and Chao Zhang, Chao Ran and others arranged it, and it was quickly served, stewed rooster with radish, boiled vermicelli with pork, and the main thing is that there is a large pot of fragrant mutton soup on each table. The black porcelain jar of wine was moved one jar after another.

Others said that they often participated in the Chaogai banquet, and the oil and water were relatively sufficient, but Liu Youtian, the farmland supervisor, Li Qingzi, the cattle and sheep supervisor, Lu Tham, the carpenter, and Zhang Tiehan, the blacksmith, had not been very important, so there were few opportunities to eat and drink so much. There are not many dishes, but Shandong cuisine is real, the big plate is full of meat, fragrant, everyone shook off their cheeks and ate it. The wine in the big jar, everyone drank it in a big gulp, the degree of the wine was very low in these years, and it was okay for ordinary people to drink three or five bowls of wine.

Chao Gai and Chao Xiong drank for a while and came to the table of Liu Youtian, who was drinking happily, and everyone stood up one by one when they saw Chao Gai coming and said: "Owner, owner." ”

"Come, come, sit down, eat meat and drink wine." Saying that, Chao Gai filled everyone with wine, and said, "Arita, Qingzi, Lu Tam, Tiehan, I used to patronize the exercises, and I didn't take good care of you, and I hope you will forgive me a lot." I'll do this bowl first, you feel free. ”

Li Qingzi said: "The owner of the village can drink with me as a sheep herder, and I will do it." ”

In these years, the status of the craftsman is low, and Chao Gai came to toast definitely to give a big face.

"What's wrong with the carpenter and blacksmith who farms the land, herds sheep and raises cattle, the same is talent. Starting tomorrow, each of the four of you will have an annual salary of 30 yuan, 20 stone of grain, and a dividend at the end of the year. Chao Gai said.

The four of them were dumbfounded in an instant, except for Liu Youtian, who controlled thousands of acres of land for sowing and harvesting, and although the other three were small supervisors, there were nothing more than three or two people under their hands. This year, the county order is only fifty or sixty a year, but the owner of the village is not like drinking high jokes, and everyone is not good to ask.

The wine had been drunk for more than an hour, and after he was full of wine and food, Chao Gai arranged for Chao Xiong and Li Han to lead 30 villagers to patrol the periphery of the village to prevent wild wolves from entering the village and hurting people. Everyone else followed Chao Gai to the conference hall, and Chao Gai sat in the center, next to the chief manager Chao Xun, and there was a bookkeeper with an abacus.

Chao Gai said: "Now let's get down to business, although our Chao family has been nourishing over the years, it has been stagnant, and I have spent a large part of the little money I have earned, and now I can't go on like this, otherwise the huge family business will be ruined." Let's not talk about the business of private salt and ironware, let's talk about the regular business first. ”

Xu Hai said with a wry smile: "Although our business in the county seat Chaojialou is good, there are also a lot of people who eat white food, except for Lei Heng and Zhu Tong, the two heads of the two heads of the owner of the village, and the friends on the rivers and lakes have not paid for dinner, and not only did not earn a penny last year, but also lost 500 yuan." ”

"What Shopkeeper Xu said is that the friends on the rivers and lakes of Chaojialou in Yuncheng County know that it is the owner's industry, although it is said that it does not make money every year, but it invisibly enhances the reputation of our owner." Liu Liang said.

When it comes to Tota Heavenly King Chao Gai, he is definitely well-known in Jingdong, a pair of iron fists invincible, and he is also righteous and wealthy, and his chivalrous reputation is far and wide.

Chao Gai said: "This Chao family building still has to be opened, as long as it continues like this." Shopkeeper Xu then chose a new location and chose a store to open a store in a larger village or a bustling intersection around our Shuibo. The new store is called Tianya Inn, which provides accommodation and dining in the middle of the block, provides parking services for carts and horses in the backyard, and is equipped with patrol officers to ensure the safety of the store. ”

Xu Hai was relieved when he heard this, and said, "The owner plans to let me open a few such Tianya Inns?" ”