Chapter 35 Yang Liwu's abacus
Liu Ming saw that it was right, the tall and thin yellow-faced man who came out of the back room was Yang Liwu, the classic history.
He walked to the shopkeeper Xu with his hands behind his back, walked to the shopkeeper Xu without hurrying, waved his hand at him and said, "You go down first......
Shopkeeper Xu nodded respectfully, glanced at Liu Ming again, and then turned around and walked out of the inner hall without saying a word.
"Sit down, Young Master Liu." Yang Liwu seemed to be quite familiar with this peace hall.
He crossed his hands, rested on his lap, looked at Liu Ming with a smile, and said, "Little Master Liu, I know, you must be very strange, and you have many questions in your heart. Why didn't this shopkeeper Xu rush back to Liufu to report on his work like other shopkeepers? Why does this peace hall look so strange? Why...... I, Yang Liwu, will appear in this Peace Hall? β
Liu Ming sat down and looked at each other silently, slowly sorting out his thoughts in his heart. The appearance of Yang Liwu just explains why this Xu shopkeeper's waist is so hard, could it be ......
"Actually......" Yang Liwu's snake eyes glowed with blue, "Ming'er, when you denounce your uncle at the marriage banquet, you not only knocked your uncle down, but in fact, it also made your Uncle Yang unhappy at the same time." β
Yang Liwu's eyes were gloomy and glanced at Liu Ming.
These words made Liu Ming feel a little chilled in his heart.
"Why?" Yang Liwu played with the jade wrench on his finger, "Because I am doing business in partnership with your uncle Liu Xianda." This peace hall, that is, I also entered the share. Tell me about you telling this in front of everyone, as a canonical history, I have to enforce the law impartially, and those people are all in their eyes. β
Liu Ming sighed in his heart, thinking that this was Ping'an Hall and had such a relationship with Yang Liwu, this was really a tricky thing.
He originally wanted to dissolve all the ties with Yang Liwu by withdrawing from the marriage, and there would be no intersection with this name from now on.
But now, Liu Ming feels that he is thinking too naΓ―ve. He should have thought that his uncle had a close relationship with this classic history, and he had spent so much effort before, and if he wanted to marry Xing'er to the other party, he must have been implicated. Liu Ming is not a person who is too proactive, he just wants to keep his own one-third of an acre of land and use his little wisdom to seek certain benefits for his family. However, I didn't expect to send one away, which led to a bigger trouble.
Now, the opponent he is facing is not at all the same weight as before. Since ancient times, the people have not fought with officials. As the third-in-command in the county, the other party controls the arrest power of the official office, and it is completely easy to wipe out everything he owns.
Moreover, the background of this Lord Yang is more profound than ordinary classical history. Just from the fact that the other party has been operating a casino for many years, it can be seen from the profits comparable to that of giant merchants.
With so much information popping up suddenly, Liu Ming was a little out of idea for a while.
"Of course...... Ming'er, you don't have to be nervous. Yang Liwu bared his mouth full of yellow teeth and said, "If I can tell you this, it means that we are all our own people." My cooperation with your Liu family has always been good. I don't want this cooperation to be interrupted because of Yoo's imprisonment, you understand? β
He looked at Liu Ming meaningfully: "Do you know why I agreed to withdraw Xing'er's marriage contract?" β
Liu Ming raised his eyebrows, and wanted to say something but didn't say anything.
Yang Liwu's snake eyes shone with insight, he stretched out his hand to rub the purple sand teapot, and said to himself: "Mu Shaoai Ai, Ming'er, I naturally know your thoughts." You and Xing'er live under the same roof, and it is natural for you to have feelings. β
Liu Ming shouted in his heart that it was not good. He didn't want to be a direct enemy of this history. Therefore, for his relationship with Xing'er, he did not stab his family. Except for the father and uncle, other people don't know. However, this Yang Dianshi had only met him once, and he could guess his mind clearly, which made Liu Ming feel a chill down his spine.
"I, Yang Liwu, have always attached importance to the relationship with your Liu family." Yang Liwu smiled slightly and said, "Since you have an apricot in your heart, how can I, a bad old man who is nearly half a hundred years old, snatch love with a sword?" Ming'er, I won't participate. β
ββ¦β¦ Thank you, sir, for your success. Liu Ming responded.
"I, Yang, am just an adult beauty...... Yang Liwu stroked a few strands of his beard, "You Liufu are an important partner in my business, how can I not be an adult beauty?" β
He stood up, looked at the gloomy sky outside the window and said: "In the future, you will get married, your husband will sing and your wife will follow, the cowherd and the weaver girl, and live a happy life, which is also what I Yang is happy to see." It's just that...... Ming'er, I don't know if you are willing to make your Uncle Yang happy? β
Yang Liwu's words explained why he agreed to withdraw from the marriage so easily.
Obviously, he wanted to make an exchange, first fulfill Liu Ming, and then partner with the Liu family to achieve his goal.
"Ming'er, you're a smart young man." Yang Liwu's snake eyes stared at Liu Mingdao, "From the way you run that medicine shop, you are different from ordinary people. It doesn't look like a sixteen-year-old would have done it. I suspect you're possessed by Deng Tong...... Hahaha......"
Yang Liwu's laughter revealed a cold feeling, even if it was dog days, it was a little chilling.
"Ming'er, as long as you and I cooperate happily, I will ensure that you become the leading wealthy businessman in Qingzhou." Yang Liwu promised, "You don't have to worry about gold, silver, jewelry, beautiful wives and concubines, and so on." He smiled, "You're a smart guy and you should know how to judge." β
Liu Ming could only continue to try Yang Liwu's purpose now, and he opened his mouth and asked, "My lord, what do you need me to do?" β
"It's simple." Yang Liwu touched his beard and said, "Don't listen, don't look, don't ask." All the things in this Ping'an Hall are handled by me Yang, and you only need to hang your name. What I want you to do, that's as simple as that......"
Simple?
Liu Ming thought to himself, this is tantamount to treating our Liu family as a puppet, at your mercy. This Ping'an Hall is several times larger than the scale of ordinary pharmacies, with four entrances and four exits, who knows what tricks you are doing?
He had heard the conversation between Yang Liwu and the six monkeys in the casino, if the other party was really involved in the rebellion, it would be to copy the nine clans.
"My lord, what if I don't cooperate?" Liu Ming asked rhetorically.
"Oh? If you don't cooperate...... It's okay......" Yang Liwu showed a rogue expression on his face, and said with a sneer, "The Liu family, as a family of medicine, abuses poison and endangers the family. Such pharmacies cannot be self-disciplined, and they should be banned. If the magistrate is angry, I, Yang, can't stop it. β
If it weren't for the fact that the other party was a classic history, Liu Ming really wanted to punch him.
Now, there are two roads in front of him, and Yang Liwu cooperates, although it is not worrying about development, but this peace hall is like a time bomb, and it may explode one day.
If he didn't cooperate with him, then Liufu might immediately face the collapse of the family business, and dozens of people in the whole mansion would immediately have no food.
Now, we can only temporarily delay the army and find another way.
Liu Ming pretended to be frightened and said, "I am very grateful that my adult can fulfill me and Xing'er." I, Liu Ming, actually don't have any other ideas, I just want to be a rich businessman, as long as I can keep myself safe and rich for a lifetime. Liu is willing to follow in the footsteps of adults, so I will go back and inform my father and let him do what adults want. β
"Not bad...... Not bad. A smile squeezed out of Yang Liwu's yellow face, "Those who know the times are Junjie." As the saying goes, people die for money, and birds die for food. Liu Ming, you are a smart person, and you have also chosen a shortcut, you can rest assured, with me, your Liufu business is absolutely worry-free. β
Liu Ming tried his best to hide his disgust, and promised Yang Liwu to have a dinner together in the restaurant. That Yang Liwu took out a few jars of daughter red, and pushed the cup with Liu Ming to change them. During this period, he also continued to test Liu Ming's hole cards, which made Liu Ming eat in shock.
Liu Ming finally realized the problem of eating with customers in his previous life. When eating with customers, you must really drink alcohol and not offend the other party, but after getting drunk, you can't say anything wrong. Talking to that Yang Liwu is really laborious, true and false, false and real. seems to be a true confession, but accidentally fell into another pit.
On the wine table, Liu Ming tried his best, including using Liu Bei's chopsticks method of cooking wine with green plums, trying to pretend that he was a cowardly and timid person.
Finally, after the meal, Liu Ming rejected Yang Liwu's invitation to go to the flower boat to drink, and said that he was unwell, so he returned to the inn to rest early.
The night is peaceful.
The moonlight seeped in through the window lattice, and the clear light sprinkled into the room, illuminating Liu Ming's figure lying on the couch.
Being alone in a foreign land as a stranger, a sense of loneliness and powerlessness rises from my heart.
I think of apricots, I think of my father, I think of my uncle, I think of a lot. Liu Ming suddenly felt that the burden on his shoulders was very heavy......
With the feeling of dizziness and vomiting after drinking, Liu Ming never stopped thinking for a moment in his mind.
This peace hall is like a roundworm that lives in the Liufu. Although he has received Yang Liwu's care, gold and silver money are not a problem. However, Liu Ming knew that in the long run, it would definitely not work. He had to come up with a solution to the problem. Since ancient times, the people did not fight with the officials, how could they break this threat without harming the Liufu itself?
This night, Liu Ming stayed awake all night......