The drums patrolling the streets were all on the third watch, and there were no pedestrians on the street, so there was a leopard who squinted his eyes to look at the road, and returned to the small corner gate behind the entrance of the main gate of the fire with a drunken body.

Pulling the thin cow tendon rope on the door frame of the small corner door, and then gently holding the foot against an inconspicuous piece of live wood on the threshold, Xiang Youbao stretched out his hand and pushed towards the small corner door, accompanied by a slight bell behind the small corner door, the small corner door that was originally closed tightly opened in response.

Although it was already the dead of night at this time, at the moment when Xiang Youbao had just pushed open the small corner door, the voice of the nine monkeys who was a little drowsy and confused came from behind the small corner door: "Senior brother? ”

was not in a hurry to enter the door, but Xiang Youbao lowered his voice and shouted with a smile towards the small corner door: "My Nine Monkey Master, you have worked hard to keep the door for me!" ”

Hehe chuckled, and the nine monkeys waiting behind the small corner door seemed to be moving something, and bumped into some slight movements: "Senior brother, wait a minute, I'll clean up these guys, senior brother, come in!" ”

Stepping into the small corner gate, Xiang Youbao turned over and closed the door of the small corner door, while looking at a few upside-down bench-like objects that had been moved aside by the nine monkeys: "Can you make such a big formation?" Aren't there a few cow tendon wires and a few copper bells hanging on the back corner door on weekdays? Why did you even move out the stakes today? ”

Rearranged the cow tendon thread that had just been wrapped around his wrist close to the small corner gate, and the nine monkeys seemed to have come to their senses, and smiled at Xiang Youbao with a smile: "Senior brother, you haven't seen the posture of the head of the house today!" Good fellow, it's like going out to fight wolves, cow tendon threads, brass bells, knife stakes, everything you can think of is shouted by the master. If Senior Sister Nalan hadn't stopped her, I'm afraid that this knife stake would have to be installed with a sharp knife! ”

Crying and laughing, he looked at the two or three layers of knife stakes placed in a circle against the root of the wall, as well as the copper bells hanging on the cow tendon lines that were densely tied around the stakes, and Xiang Youbao whispered helplessly: "What is this for?" Zuo is just making a passable scene today, is it worth being so guarded? If we put a flap, a trap, a crossbow or something in the entrance of the hall, then we will really have to change the font size here! ”

Carefully hung the last copper bell in his hand on the cow tendon line. Nine Monkeys turned his head to look at Xiang Youbao with some confusion: "Change the font size?" That's not called the fire main gate. What are we called? ”

"Trap Island!"

"Then senior brother, you will go to the front of the gate tomorrow to remove the signboard and change the name - I can't enter the courtyard in Sanjin, but I moved the dozen or so crossbows to the gate of Sanjin courtyard with my own hands."

"What a crossbow?!"

"Isn't that how?! Uncle Xie has been back since he came back today, and the work in his hands has not stopped! Even Uncle Xie's aunt is also"

With a gentle cough, Nalan who was wearing a moon-white jacket and a thick coat with a water orchid pattern seemed to hear the movement. As if he had just come out of his room, he whispered to Xiang Youbao and the Nine Monkeys, who were standing by the door in the back corner, "What time is this?" Still talking nonsense here?! I still can't sleep?! ”

Sticking out his tongue towards Xiang Youbao, the nine monkeys wrapped themselves in thick clothes while whispering to Xiang Youbao: "This is amazing! Mu Guiying visited the military camp at night and saw Yang Zongbao coming back from the flower building, which must be the sin of being beaten with 200 military sticks."

While talking nonsense. The nine monkeys ran along the wall for a while, but they left Xiang Youbao and Nalan in the courtyard.

Hehe chuckled, and Xiang Youbao bowed to Nalan who was standing in the dark: "Senior Sister Laojia is waiting late at night, how dare you do this?" ”

Wrinkling his small nose slightly, Nalan whispered with a bit of obvious coquettishness: "There is no shame in it! I'm just listening to you two messing around in the middle of the night, and you're woken up."

Pointing to the thick clothes with water orchid patterns on Nalan's body, he squeezed his eyebrows and leaned in front of Nalan: "Then this is even more mine!" Look at the thick clothes on my sister's body, and they can form frost flowers in the room. I'm so heartless as a senior brother. can call me this precious junior sister cold like this in the house"

His face suddenly turned red, and Nalan, who had been told by Xiang Youbao that he had been waiting for the truth in the yard for most of the night, stomped his feet angrily: "You don't have a serious time!" ”

Stretched out his hand and grabbed Nalan, who was about to leave. Xiang Youbao hurriedly smiled at each other: "It's mine, no, junior sister, don't be angry"

Shaking his arm reluctantly, Nalan was still angry: "Sensei dragged me!" It's comfortable enough to stay in the flower building and study room outside, and when you come back, you are still looking for someone else's cheapness, how can you be like this? How can you bully people like this? ”

Maybe it's a grievance, maybe it's getting used to the coquettishness that involuntarily springs up from the bottom of his heart when facing a leopard, Nalan said and spoke, and his voice was already filled with a bit of half-truth.

Seeing that Nalan seemed to be really angry and sad, he turned around quickly and grabbed Nalan's face: "I know that my junior sister is distressed, I really know!" Accompanying Duan Ye and Xiong Ye to visit the study apartment this big night, isn't this also for the sake of our Tangkou's business to prosper, and there can be fewer people who come to find trouble? Besides, you see that your senior brother is still rushing home after the third watch, if I really have fun in the book, can I still remember to go home? ”

Hurriedly stretched out his hand to his arms, Xiang Youbao quickly took out a flat oiled paper bag, and stuffed it into Nalan's hand without saying anything: "Walking on the street, I still think that you like to eat jujube paste made by picking small stalls, isn't this a special detour to buy it back for you?" I'm afraid that you'll hurt your appetite by eating cold, and this has always been warm in your arms."

Pinching the oiled paper bag with a little body temperature in his hand, Nalan couldn't help but have a trace of red on his face again, lowered his head slightly and whispered: "Then you can't talk to people well, you have to pick up those who don't have it, and make people feel uncomfortable, aren't you?" ”

Hehe chuckled, Xiang Youbao bowed to Nalan and smiled at Nalan in a low voice: "Isn't this your senior brother's mouth used to being cheap, hurry up and taste it while it's hot, don't you like that taste?" ”

Turning around and sitting on the stone bench in the courtyard of Erjin, Nalan gently tore open the oiled paper bag, and slowly ate the still warm jujube paste in small bites. But he whispered to Xiang Youbao, who was standing beside him with a salivating face, and said, "Everything is done?" ”

He sat down beside Nalan. Xiang Youbao smiled at Nalan with a big grin: "Is there anything else that your senior brother can't do?" Just that gold-inlaid jade brand, a piece of two thousand oceans out, we only get eight hundred! According to my estimates, this brand will have to be sold clean before the Chinese New Year! ”

With a sneer, Nalan glanced at Xiang Youbao lightly: "It's a loss that you can figure it out?!" When I was about to turn the lamp today, Mr. Hong, who made the gold-inlaid jade brand for us, took a look and told my father, cheap jade, gold-filled inlay. A gold-inlaid jade brand is converted into more than an ocean. Do you dare to sell brass for real gold?! ”

straightened his face, and said to Nalan in a serious manner: "Our business is real money, Tong Su is not deceitful, what we sell is a craft money!" My master has also told me over the years that he was stubborn back then, looking at those rich people who don't treat the masters in our fire gate as people, so he is not willing to deal with those high-ranking families! But if he could turn this corner back then, how prosperous would the main gate of the fire be a few years later. Let's not talk about that! ”

Glaring in surprise, Nalan looked at Xiang Youbao very curiously and asked, "What did my uncle say?" ”

Rolling up his sleeves with his eyebrows fluttering, Xiang Youbao stretched out his hand and drew out a horizontal bar on the frost flower condensed on the stone table beside him, and then drew a circle on the section of the horizontal bar: "My master said that there are three kinds of customers in this fire main gate, one is the friends he made back then. has the heart, the ability, and the number of roads, but there is no money to serve those expensive things. ”

Nodding slightly, Nalan stretched out his slender fingers. At the end of the horizontal bar that Xiang Youbao had just drawn out on the frost flower on the stone table, he nodded: "There is another kind." It should be those rich people that my uncle is not willing to deal with! Everything is a money to smash at the top, piggybacking on people, and looking down on people"

Hehe, a leopard drew a villain in the middle of the horizontal bar: "This is like our fire main gate." As long as you can pick this flat shoulder well, you will not snub those friends who have the ability, and you will not let go of the stupid mallets who have money to burn bags, and there will be some customers who can come to the door from time to time! After three or five years, there are two eldest sons in the 49th City, and they all have to hold the patron brand of our fire main gate in their hands, and this business is really big! ”

I don't know if I remembered something, Nalan lowered his head suddenly, and said to Xiang Youbao in a thin voice: "Then when the business of the Fire Main Gate has been done all over the Forty-Nine City, what are you going to do?" ”

Slightly stunned, Xiang Youbao stretched out his hand and scratched the back of his head: "After doing all over Sijiu City, you have to go to Tianjin!" There are many ports in that place, and if the ships from the south to the north can also do the business of our fire gate."

"Then what if Tianjin has done it all?"

"Outside the mouth? And then do the trading out of the customs? And then bring my master back? ”

"Then what about taking Uncle Shi back to Sijiu City?"

Rolling his eyes, Xiang Youbao groaned as if he was completely confused: "I really haven't thought about this."

Indignantly threw the oil paper bag in his hand into Xiangyoubao's arms, Nalan stood up abruptly and walked towards his room: "Then you can think about it slowly!" ”

Looking at Nalan's back dumbfounded, Xiang Youbao grabbed the oiled paper bag that Nalan threw over, and shouted in a stunned voice: "Why are you so angry again?" ”

Without looking back, Nalan threw a sentence at Xiang Youbao: "There is still a pot of porridge sitting in the room"

Before the words fell, a series of crisp copper bells were already heard on the roof of the courtyard of Sanjin. With the crisp sound of the copper bell, a miserable scream also rang out in the courtyard of Sanjin!

With a bang, the door of the house where the god Xie Men lived suddenly opened. Holding a thick medicine pestle in his hand, Xie Menshen jumped into the courtyard with bare feet and only a pair of calf nose pants, and rushed towards the courtyard with his legs drawn, shouting loudly towards the house where Na Jiuye lived: "Senior brother, there are small locks!" It's still going to ring the bell! (To be continued.) )