[Chu Fan has already begun to show his strength, all book friends have also helped to foil it, collections, recommendation votes, and evaluation votes just smash it! ] I also hope that book friends will point out the lack of crabs in the book review area, so that "Battle of Liaodong" will become more and more exciting :)]

Seeing off Chen Shangren, Chu Fan found his third uncle Chu Ning and went to Hou Yuanwai's house to see the venue.

His third uncle Chu Ning is Chinese New Year's Eve seven today, and his temperament is the most loyal and calm, and he often has a humble smile on his face full of fine wrinkles.

They entered the house, accompanied by the housekeeper Fang outside the Hou Yuan, and walked around the whole house, and at this moment let the uncle and nephew go to the flower hall, drinking tea and negotiating prices.

This is a two-entry yard, which is quite elegantly tied, and a pond has been dug in the back garden and a water pavilion has been built.

However, what made Chu Fan excited was not these, but the threshing floor the size of more than half a football field connected to the house.

"Brother Jing," after the greetings were over, Steward Fang called Chu Ning's expression and asked, "Are you still satisfied with this house?" ”

Chu Ning didn't speak, he looked at Chu Fan, who hurriedly responded, "Satisfied, very satisfied!" Please also ask Shibo to bother and Yucheng to do this. ”

Steward Fang smiled and said, "Nephew Xian is polite...... That being the case, Fang immediately left for Huang County and told the staff to ...... I don't know how long the nephew wants to rent? ”

Chu Fan had already calculated his life, and arched his hand, "More than a month is enough." ”

"If you say a month......" His words made Steward Fang frown, and he looked at Chu Ning and said, "It's not easy for me to speak to the outside staff." ”

Seeing that this matter was going to be yellow, Chu Ning couldn't help but panic a little, Chu Fan had already calculated in his heart - renting this house for the whole house, at least forty or fifty taels of silver a month, but what about renting a threshing floor alone? If you can save money, you must save it.

So he asked tentatively unhurriedly, "Shibo, in fact, the little nephew rented this mansion not to live, but for another purpose...... Can I rent only the threshing floor? ”

Fang Cunmeng's eyes lit up, and he muttered, "Only rent for one month? …… If so, there is no need to tell the staff. ”

Sure enough, as Chu Fan judged, with the authority of this steward, it still doesn't matter if he uses the threshing floor. He didn't bend around, got up and put a letter of ten taels of silver on the table next to Fang Cunmeng, and arched his hand, "Please also ask Shibo to make it convenient." ”

Steward Fang picked up the silver and checked it, and immediately smiled so much that he couldn't see his face.

"Well said, well said! I'll let people clean it up in the afternoon, and tomorrow the nephew will just come over. ”

After finalizing the venue, the next step is to recruit people, Chu Fan didn't even return home, and went straight to Shahe, he was going to find Xia Guozhu who was saved that day - to recruit people from tens of thousands of displaced people, there is no more suitable middleman than Xia Guozhu.

Halfway through, he remembered that it was Liu Zhongwen's face that saved Xia Guozhu, so he turned a corner and called Liu Zhongwen together.

Along the way, Chu Fan told Liu Zhongwen about his plan to recruit people from the Liaodong refugees, Liu Zhongwen was not interested in recruiting cigarette workers and sailors on the ship, but he coveted the guards and volunteered to be the head of the guards.

Chu Fan also has this intention, no matter in which aspect, Liu Zhongwen, who is strong in martial arts, is the natural leader of the guard.

However, after chatting with Liu Zhongwen for a while about how to train the guards, Chu Fan began to have a headache - this guy is just a soldier on paper, if he really wants to hand over the guards to him, he may not be able to train them; And the most annoying thing is that Liu Zhongwen is quite confident in military training, and he can't listen to Chu Fan's opinions at all.

Chu Fan listened absentmindedly to Liu Zhongwen's ambitious drill plan, but secretly made up his mind in his heart: he must find a way to instill PLA's advanced training methods into this stubborn cow!

The two of them were talking and talking about the Shahe bridgehead, but Xia Guozhu was not there, and after asking the people next to him, he knew that he was leading the group of brothers to carry work at the dock.

The two of them rushed to the dock of Shuicheng again, and saw Xia Guozhu shirtless on a cold day, carrying four stacks of grain bags on his back, and walking towards the warehouse.

Chu Fan couldn't hold his tongue when he saw it, how could the grain bag look like it was a hundred catties, and these four grain bags added up, wouldn't there be four or five hundred catties?

And he was followed by several young men who were gathered outside his shack that day, all carrying food bales, two and three.

When they returned after this trip, Xia Guozhu recognized Chu and Liu from a distance, and ran over to hug his fist with a look of surprise, "Two sons, I haven't seen you for a long time...... But who came to find the pillars? ”

Chu Fan smiled and arched his hand, "It's just that there is something to disturb the pillar brothers." ”

Xia Guozhu nodded heavily, "No problem!" At the end, he hesitated a little, and looked at the sand boat full of grain on the dock, "Can the two sons wait for a while?" Let's finish this shipload of food...... Don't hide it from the two of you, the brothers are pointing to this job today. ”

Chu Fan nodded understandingly, looked around, and saw a big "noodle" on a fluttering move in the distance, so he pointed to the noodle restaurant and said, "We're waiting for you there, can you come over after you're done?" ”

Xia Guozhu answered, and Chu Fan and Liu Zhongwen came to the noodle restaurant to wait.

About an hour later, the sun was already setting in the west, Xia Guozhu and the others had finished carrying all the food, and a group of eight people came to the noodle restaurant.

"You're all hungry, aren't you? Come, come! Eat first," Chu Fan greeted with a smile, turned his head and shouted, "Shopkeeper, one person comes first and one bowl, it's all mine." ”

That Xia Guozhu hurriedly excused himself and said, "How can this be done?" Childe saved me once, I didn't repay it, I didn't say it, and I want Childe to ask us for bad money? There is no such reason in the world! …… Childe just eats, and I'll settle the account. ”

Chu Fan saw that it was really not easy for him to make money, where was he willing to let him invite, and after fighting for a long time, Chu Fan pretended to be angry, which made Xia Guozhu quiet.

While eating noodles and chatting, Chu Fan quickly understood Xia Guozhu's life experience - if you want to recruit people from the refugees in Liaodong, you must first find out the living conditions of the refugees.

It turned out that the eight of them used to be from Haizhou Wei, and after they settled here, they naturally gathered around Xia Guozhu, who dared to fight, but they didn't do anything to break the ban, mainly to make a living by carrying work on the dock, working hard all day, barely making ends meet.

Just like today's ship, there are 5,000 stone grains, and after moving them all, you can earn 25 big money.

According to the price of 6 yuan of Dengzhou doumi, you can't even buy 5 doumi! (Crab press: ancient measuring containers have changed greatly, this book takes 1 stone = 120 catties, then 1 bucket = 12 catties)

Chu Fan looked at the large bowl of three fresh dragon beard noodles served by the store, and felt very uncomfortable, this bowl of noodles costs 5 big money, that is to say, Xia Guozhu and they have been carrying a morning of work, and they can't spread a bowl of noodles alone!

As he spoke, Xia Guozhu had already finished pulling his noodles, and Chu Fan was a little dumbfounded-he hadn't eaten a few bites of his own noodles, and this pillar was pouring it into his mouth when he ate, and he didn't feel chewy.

Not only Xia Guozhu, but also several of his little brothers had already finished eating, and they were looking at the noodle bowl in Chu Fan's hand pitifully.

Chu Fan hurriedly asked the boss to continue the next article, looking at Xia Guozhu's apologetic smile, he suddenly felt a little sad.

are all honest and good men, why is it so difficult to even eat a full meal?

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