Seeing that Li Meng is tall, although the clothes on his body are very old, they are very clean, and his demeanor is also gentle and polite, which is very different from the rough of those military households, this style suddenly gave a very good impression to the two shopkeepers, and the most afraid of doing business is to meet unreasonable people, since it is gentle and polite, it means that everything is discussed.

Li Meng stretched out his hand and asked for the two shopkeepers to sit down, the two shopkeepers were chefs hired by themselves, and saw that there was nothing more than a plate of peanuts, a plate of salted dried fish, and a pot of wine on the table, and the rest was wine cups and chopsticks, thinking to himself that this is really simple, you have at least earned three thousand taels of silver from us, and you are still so stingy.

"Thanks to the two shopkeepers for giving me Li Meng's care, I will toast first."

The two shopkeepers hurriedly raised their glasses, they were polite with a smile on their faces, and drank a glass of wine, Li Meng smacked his lips, this wine is really too light, for the people who came out of the army, this kind of light wine really doesn't mean much, put down the glass, and then said:

"Don't hide it from the two shopkeepers, the seaside is stormy, the year is not good, the life of the brothers in the military household is not easy, the two shopkeepers, do you see if you can raise the price?"

Finally got to the point, the faces of the two shopkeepers suddenly fell, thinking that it was really here, the two of them glanced at each other, and the shopkeeper Wang said in a slur manner:

"Brother Li, the life of Yanzhan is not easy, the silver money paid by taking the Jiaohe River will be doubled, and I won't hide it from you, the government and the horses have to be checked, and it is not easy for us, this is ......"

While he was talking, he suddenly heard some noise outside, and the two shopkeepers were a little surprised, Li Meng looked at the doors and windows and other exits, reached out and touched the short knife on his waist, and he moved the chair back to facilitate his own activities. I heard the sound of footsteps outside, and a person rushed in in a daze.

The two shopkeepers just looked back in amazement, Li Mengchao took a step back, stood up directly, and the person who came in knelt on the ground with a bang as soon as he entered the door, and the speed of the action was really dazzling, and the three people in the room didn't even see who it was, so they heard one of them crying and said:

"Uncle Li, I'm ashamed!"

Li Meng saw clearly that it was Zhang Butcher who was kneeling on the ground, this butcher was still arrogant and arrogant when he got up in the morning, and at this time he was full of remorse and pain, looking at Li Meng to look at him, Zhang Butcher did not stand up, and came to Li Meng on his knees, wiped his tears and said:

"The little one is really lard, my mother used to educate me to be a good person, but when I grew up, I was confused, today Uncle Li, your words are really a thunderclap, I woke up, uncle, you can contribute money for people, I am really ashamed of my dead heart!"

The atmosphere in the room was very strange, and the two shopkeepers didn't know what was going on, but Li Meng understood it, and said with a smile:

"It's good that Master Zhang has this heart, how much money you owe, I will pay it back for Ma Gang."

Zhang Butcher stood up abruptly, with an angry expression on his face, and said loudly:

"God is on it, Uncle Li, you have this kindness, why don't I have Lao Zhang, I have already brought it, when the young man played dice, he lost money, we have to give him a chance, no, I will return the money to Ma Gang."

"Two shopkeepers, you see, Master Zhang's mind is really loyal, and there are too few loyal people in our Daming, don't you say?"

Although the two shopkeepers don't go to the dice shop to play, they still know who this butcher is, such a bastard person, there is a relationship with the word loyalty, but the face in front of them is already confused, and they just smiled and nodded to cater to it.

Li Meng and Zhang Butcher said a few polite words, Zhang Butcher was doing justice and awe-struck, and left the house quickly, in fact, after Li Meng said those words to him, he turned around, and this Zhang Butcher went to find someone to inquire, and if he wanted to be a nosy person, he would teach him a lesson. After knowing who Li Meng was from the local salt sellers, Zhang Butcher almost scared the urine out, hurriedly released Ma Gang, and then looked for Li Meng everywhere in the town.

In the tavern, after Zhang Butcher went out, he found that although the weather was cold, his clothes were completely soaked in cold sweat, and Zhang Butcher was seriously ill after he went back, and he didn't know whether he was caught in the wind or frightened, in short, he didn't get out of bed for three days.

Disturbed by this episode, the words of the shopkeeper Wang didn't know how to continue, the three of them looked at each other, and they all smiled a little awkwardly, Li Meng rarely talked to people about things before, and the communication in the mall was not familiar, so he simply said straightforwardly:

"A load of salt is a tael and a half dollars of silver, not copper coins, those salt dices and salt farms are sold to you at this price, and I don't want much, what do you say?"

Zhang Butcher was impassioned just now, but as long as he is not a fool, he can see that he is already extremely afraid, there are many rumors and legends about Li Meng and Li Erlang in Fengmeng Town, and these two shopkeepers also understand in their hearts that this one in front of them is not easy to mess with, and the shopkeeper Kong pondered, hesitated and said:

"Isn't that a bit too expensive?"

The shopkeeper Wang on the side nodded again and again, Li Meng smiled, but sat down, picked up a peanut and threw it in his mouth, and said while chewing:

"These salts are four taels of silver a load when they get off the boat, and it is said that they can be sold higher if they are farther away, you say that I also put the boat on the Jiaohe River to the south......"

When these words came out, the two shopkeepers were shocked, thinking about how he knew these things, how to know, in fact, it was very simple, Hou Shan invited one of the shopkeepers of the king to eat a few times in the name of thanks, and gave a few hundred benefits, which became a good friend who said nothing.

Since the details of one's own family are known, it naturally becomes much more passive when bargaining......

When the two shopkeepers left the tavern, their faces were not good, and the price was finally set at one or two or five yuan a load, but Li Meng also made some concessions, that is, to ensure that Yanding and the salt farm would no longer sell those low-quality and high-priced salts to Fengmeng Town.

Li Meng came out a little later than the two shopkeepers, this bit of wine account has been settled by Zhang Butcher, and there was a listless young man sitting on the bench at the door, and the shopkeeper whispered when Li Meng checked out:

"This is that Ma Gang, and the Zhang butcher left him here."