In order to take care of his old comrade-in-arms Duan Deming, Zhu Daolin paid him an advance payment of 5 million yuan without mentioning a single piece of goods, plus the previous advance payment of 10 million, the total amount was as high as 15 million.

Duan Deming was naturally satisfied, and his mouth couldn't close with joy.

But Zhu Daolin returned to his home in Nanjing to settle the accounts only to find that he had become poor again, and the balance in the three bank cards added up to only 28,379 yuan.

Fortunately, before he went to Hong Kong a few days ago, he made a card for his right-hand man Lu Jianmin and transferred 10 million yuan of purchase money to the card.

The diligent and down-to-earth Lu Jianmin transported 3,500 sets of carriage axles, 50 tons of H90 brass plates, and 320 tons of copper back to the warehouse, paid all the money for the goods, and also paid all the payments for 100 boxes of crystal craft products, 200 Tang knives, 500 tons of sea salt, 800 boxes of soap, 600 sets of Polaris pendulum clock movements, 10 hydraulic rice mills, 100 large boxes of glass and mirrors, etc.

It's just that after paying for these goods, Lu Jianmin now only has more than 3,000 yuan left in his card.

In desperation, Zhu Daolin had to bite the bullet and borrow money from Song Shaojun, paying off the balance of 5,000 sets of bone china and 5,500 jacquard silk cloths, and the remaining 320,000 yuan simply bought gold and silver jewelry inlaid with synthetic gemstones.

On the first night of the May Day Golden Week, Zhu Daolin went home to have a reunion dinner with his parents, accompanied Chu Mei to watch a movie, and drove back to Heshan Villa at 11 o'clock in the evening.

Zhu Daolin knocked on the door for a minute and did not respond, and climbed the wall to enter in confusion, he knew that the warehouse director Lu Jianmin went home at night because his wife was pregnant, but there were two young men on duty in the warehouse. It shouldn't be nobody.

After a turn in the warehouse, Zhu Daolin found that one of the people on duty had quietly slipped away, and the remaining one was drunk and slept like a dead pig, which made Zhu Daolin angry, but he didn't notice that the eight police dogs in the kennel didn't dare to bark after hearing his footsteps and smelling his scent. If someone else came in, those eight police dogs alone would be enough to make people shy away.

Zhu Daolin shook his head and sighed, left a note, then took off the key hanging on the wall of the duty room, and went directly to open the warehouse door. Take it easy.

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In the fifth year of Chongzhen, March 10, in the early morning.

Jinling City, which is about to usher in the beginning of the summer solar term, suddenly fell with goose feathers and heavy snow within a radius of 100 miles.

Zhu Daolin, who was thinly dressed, stood between the two large warehouses in the depths of Shangyuan Wharf, stretched out his hands, caught the cold snowflakes falling one after another, and raised his head in shock. Looking up at the dark sky for a long time, the snowflakes that fell on his face turned into water droplets and flowed to his neck. He dared to believe that this was not a dream, but that it was really snowing.

Zhu Daolin's two large warehouses, located at the foot of the mountain, with their backs to the mountain and facing the wharf, are special warehouses that he specially built to store "goods transported from the waterway", in addition to the five-meter-long and wide gate facing the wharf. The north and south sides and the west side are all five-meter-high double-layered brick walls, and the east side is directly walled by the foot of the shogunate mountain, and there is a hidden mountain road behind the warehouse, leading to the tiger mountain in the south, from which Zhu Daolin returns to the main courtyard of the tiger mountain.

The porter, who is in his fifties, is also surnamed Gu. is the uncle of the same clan of the big housekeeper Gu Sancai, Gu Mei girl has to call him an old man's uncle and grandfather, so he is also related to Zhu Daolin, who took in Mei Ya, so Zhu Daolin respects this tough and conscientious old man very much.

Uncle Gu was very happy to see Zhu Daolin coming back, closed the door and whispered to Zhu Daolin: "Owner, there are little cubs in the middle of the night on the fifth day of the first month of Mulan, there are six at once, all of them are healthy and healthy, very likable!" ”

Hearing the good news, Zhu Daolin was overjoyed, said "thank you" and turned around and left, braving the fluttering snowflakes, through the garden, into the main hall, and soon came to the small wooden house built for Mulan under the eaves of the corridor on the left side of the back study garden.

Feeling Zhu Daolin's breath, the police dog Mulan had already pushed away the six little cubs in her arms, drilled out of the small door, pounced on Zhu Daolin's outstretched left palm, and let out a childlike whimper in her mouth.

Zhu Daolin's eyes were full of love, and he kept caressing Mulan's head, as if he was treating a child who had been absent for a long time, and whispered to it: "I'm sorry!" Because there are too many things to deal with in my hands, I couldn't come back in time, when I entered the door, Uncle Gu told me, you gave birth to six healthy children, I was surprised and happy to hear it, and immediately rushed to see you, don't be surprised! ”

"It's snowing outside, go inside, it's too cold to let your kids get cold...... Be obedient and go inside! I'll come back to see you tomorrow morning, and I'll change the recipe for you, adding half a pound of meat and two raw eggs every day. ”

The police dog Mulan was very obedient, whimpered a few times in her mouth, rubbed Zhu Daolin's body a few times, and then reluctantly raised her head and looked at Zhu Daolin a few times, and then slowly got back into the cabin, the six puppies shook their heads, squeezed into their mother's arms, and then looked around for milk to eat.

Zhu Daolin's heart was full of warmth, waved his hand to Mulan, and returned to the front room unhurriedly, just sat down on the chair, the little shadow who heard the movement in the back room put on his coat, raised the candlestick and walked out, seeing that it was Zhu Daolin, he immediately showed a sweet smile.

Zhu Daolin sighed, stood up and said apologetically to Xiaoying, "I didn't expect to wake you up." ”

Xiaoying smiled softly: "It's okay, my husband is wet all over, take it off quickly...... I woke up the two little girls, and there was hot water in the backyard. ”

"Don't ......"

Zhu Daolin grabbed her: "It's still early, don't call the two little girls, you help me find out the ** and nightgown, I'll just go to the backyard to take a bath by myself, at this time it suddenly snowed heavily, the weather was cold and damp, don't let the two little girls catch a cold." ”

Xiaoying nodded meekly, helped Zhu Daolin back to the back room, and took out the replacement ** and nightgown from the closet, Zhu Daolin took the neatly folded robe, whispered a few words in her ear, and then went to the backyard lightly.

Xiaoying tightened the front of her fur coat, and her face was full of happy smiles.

In her memory, even if he was a gentle and polite father, he didn't have the broad-mindedness of her husband, let alone be so considerate as her husband.

Although the husband has a cold appearance, he has never been smiling in front of outsiders, and he is extremely serious in doing things, one is one, two is two, and he is never ambiguous, but he knows how to respect others better than anyone else, and he is more humble than anyone else.

Whether it is a humble subordinate, or an ordinary merchant farmer, his husband can treat each other equally, without any frame, the most commendable thing is that he does not understand and ask, whether the other party is an old craftsman, or a young apprentice, as long as it is reasonable, he will humbly thank you, even if others say it is wrong, the husband will never despise anyone, but discuss and discuss together.

Perhaps because of this, no matter where he goes, he can gain everyone's trust and support.

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