Late at night, in the three entrances behind the shop, all the rooms were dark, only the window paper of the main house in the west reflected the pale yellow candlelight, in the room, Zhao Dongjia was lying on the pear wood rocking chair in a sweatshirt, a pair of soft wattles were gently pressed on his forehead, the old wounds on his body and face were faintly painful from time to time, and his brain was sometimes extremely uncomfortable.

Zhao Dongjia didn't see the usual fierce appearance at all, and the scar on his face seemed to be stretched a little, he squinted comfortably and said, "Wan Niang, your skills are getting better and better." ”

"No matter how good these micro skills are, the master walks on the waves, earning this family foundation in the shadow of the sword and sword, if you can't even do these well, how can you be worthy of the master's hard work."

"What's so hard about going to sea, it's hard for Lao Tzu to stay in the shop all day."

Na Wan Niang looked more than thirty years old, her forehead was already a little wrinkled, but her hands were still as smooth and white as a girl, she sat behind Zhao Dong's house, and said leisurely while massaging: "I just hope that one day you don't have to go to sea, don't worry about you every day, and then wait for Xiang'er to marry and raise a little grandson for us, and I will be content." ”

", what are you doing if you don't go to sea, you can have this yard if you don't go to sea, and you can raise so many maids? Lao Tzu was born to walk the sea, although most of them are earned by those dog officials, but it is better than selling something in the store every day. ”

Wan Niang sighed: "Every time you say that, I don't expect anything else, I just hope that Xiang'er will get married as soon as possible and give us a grandson." ”

"Why did you get it early, what you are looking for is a door-to-door son-in-law, this doesn't want the ancestor's business, it's a gangster in the market, and a few can be willing. You still have to be a reader, which is good, but I haven't found it for three years. ”

Wan Niang lowered her head and her eyes were slightly red, and she waited for a while and said softly: "If the righteousness is still there, how can it be so difficult, otherwise it is better to pass over my sister's youngest son and follow the surname Zhao, we have a hope, Xiang'er is seventeen years old in a blink of an eye, and it is also a loss to our daughter to drag it out." ”

Zhao Dongjia said impatiently: "You can do it, tell your snobbish sister about the succession, and quickly find a matchmaker for Xiang'er to tell her in-laws, don't just know and say, say, it has not been done for three years." ”

Wan Niang was quite aggrieved in her heart, originally Zhao Dong's family had a wife and two concubines, the first two died, Zhao Dong's family was going to marry again, and was injured when she went to sea once, and then she never mentioned it again. She is actually willing to recruit a door-to-door son-in-law for her daughter, this Zhao Dongjia has to go out at both ends of three days, and if she recruits a door-to-door son-in-law, she can keep her daughter at home, and there is always someone to talk to. So she hasn't paid much attention to the matter of succession, and her sister is very eager to give her a son to herself, but she just looks at her own money.

But it's really hard to find a suitable son-in-law, and in a blink of an eye, this Xiang'er will be seventeen, and she doesn't dare to delay it any longer, so she mentioned the matter of succession again. Hearing that Zhao Dongjia agreed, he began to plan Xiang'er's marriage, and immediately said to Zhao Dongjia: "Master, when will you go to sea next time?" I haven't left yet, so let's talk to the matchmaker first. ”

"I can't set the date, I'm still waiting for a batch of goods, and I'll leave when I get there. I don't care about the affairs of these three aunts and six women, you can do it first, and I'll see it when I come back. ”

Wan Niang had no choice but to say: "Okay, who will you take in the shop this time?" ”

"It's still Lao Cai, there are all the goods on the ship, don't mess up, you can't do it without a financial vice-president, only he can rest assured, after we leave, you have to watch more things on the shop, the new account room still doesn't know the bottom, and you have to count the money every day."

"I know, but it's also troublesome to guard against it every day, even if you don't know the bottom, the master can try him."

"Well, that's easy, too."

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"Get up!"

Before dawn, Chen Xin began to kick the door again, the three followers helped during the banquet yesterday, they were tired enough, they still couldn't hide in the morning, they got up with sleepy eyes, and stood in the courtyard, waiting to practice the queue.

Lu Donkey and Ertun also got up early, they are like this these days, they began to look at the novelty, and then they felt that the queue training was really boring, just as a joke, they still felt useful when practicing physical fitness, Lu Donkey also did it together, in addition to push-ups and sit-ups, and played two pairs of dumbbells in the blacksmith shop, adding one.

"Today's sea seals give the order, the whole team."

"Yes, sir, align to the right."

Commander Chen Xin took the root strip and looked at the team of three people with satisfaction, he was not even a military commander, he used to be a half-hung military fan, and he knew nothing about the army in the era of cold weapons, but now he had to use the little thing of university military training first, although this kind of queue training can not improve personal ability, it is the most effective for the formation of discipline and obedience.

"Lizheng, please instruct the chief."

The three of them stood up straight, waiting for Chen Xin to start the queue training.

"Take a break, let's start your workout."

The fur dog said loudly: "Yes, start physical, physical training." ”

Zhang Dahui was immediately dumbfounded, a few days ago, he took advantage of Liu Min's soft-heartedness and stole a lot of laziness, today Chen Xin put his physical fitness in front, but he couldn't escape. After Chen Xin heard what Liu Minyou said last night, he decisively let Liu Minyou rest in the morning and keep them practicing physical fitness first.

Do push-ups first, Chen Xin asked to do ten groups, twenty in each group, Zhang Da and the two brothers worked hard, did five groups of 100, and it was already very difficult to reach the sixth group.

"One, two...... Eleven ......"

Zhang Da was sweating profusely, his arms were sore and numb, although his upper body was propped up, his lower body was on the ground, and he couldn't move, and the sweat flowed down his cheeks and into his eyes, and he couldn't free his hands to rub it.

There was a "snap", and the strip hit the bare back. Zhang Da was in pain, and his lower body was immediately raised, and he was now more afraid of this strip than of a knife.

"Twelve"

"Smack"

Zhang Dahui was beaten like this, and after doing twenty of them, he just finished it, and he threw himself on the ground and couldn't move, Zhang Erhui was only slightly better than him.

Chen Xin saw that they couldn't do it anymore, so he ordered to change to sit-ups.

After a few people started practicing again, Chen Xin said to Lu Donkey: "Sect inheritance, please have something for my brother." ”

Lu Donkey hurriedly said: "Brother Chen, please say, never frown in the fire and water." ”

"That's not true, just please follow the method I just did, supervise their training, push-ups can't do it, just change to sit-ups, and then change push-ups or dumbbells when you're tired, within an hour and a half, do ten sets of everything, every action must be in place, and finally queue training, just follow the way of the day, and if you don't get it, use the strips to play."

When Lu Donkey heard this, he was a little embarrassed: "Brother Chen, isn't it too hard for these little brothers to practice like this, or let me teach them the stick method, or the kind that the eldest brother taught us." ”

"Yes, but I have to finish the things I said."

"But doesn't that exhaust them......

"Don't you remember the day you fought with Tang Caokou?"

"Of course I do."

"Is that green hand powerful?"

"It's powerful, but the green hand has a knife, if he doesn't use a knife, we won't be afraid of him."

"If you practice it with my method, it's still those people that day, and no matter how many more green hands hold knives, you won't be afraid of him."

Lu Chuanzong was skeptical: "Can this method beat that green hand?" ”

"Yes, you don't need to be a person with natural divine power like your eldest brother."

"Then, I'll try it and help Brother Chen watch them."

"No, it's not looking at them, you're saving their lives."

"Huh!? Brother Chen, this ......"

Chen Xin wanted to fool Lu Donkey to supervise carefully, and said with a stern face: "If they touch people like Qingshou in the future, their results will depend on how you supervise their training, if you are strict, they can live, if you are not strict, they will either die or be disabled." So their lives are in your hands. ”

When Lu Chuanzong heard this, he also became nervous, he was still convinced by Chen Xin's words, so he had to let go of that bit of sympathy: "Since the eldest brother said so, Chuanzong knows how to do it." After that, he arched his hand to the three followers, "Three little brothers, you have also heard what Brother Chen said, there is a punishment for offense, so I can only ask the three of you to forgive me." ”

Chen Xin nodded with satisfaction, handed over the strip to Lu Chuanzong, and watched him direct the training, until the three of them were beaten by Lu Chuanzong, then they put their minds at ease, went out and called Lu You, and went to work in the shop together.

As usual, when the Cai family father and son opened the door and hung up the store banner, Chen Xin and Cai Shenju went to the warehouse to wipe the Japanese knives and fans, and Cai Shenju complained to Chen Xin while doing it.

"Brother Chen, will you teach me to do accounts when you're empty?"

"Of course you can, but I still learned from your father, why do you guard Baoshan every day empty-handed?"

"I can't write, so when he teaches me, he will scold me, saying that I didn't take my private school seriously. I can't learn from him. ”

Chen Xin smiled, this is like learning from my father, so I had to agree, but looking at this Cai Shenju's monkey-like personality, it is difficult to say that he can learn a few words.

"You don't have to learn the account room, you see that I don't have to do odd jobs in this account room."

"It's better to do odd jobs than to go to sea, my dad said let me prepare, maybe I have to go to sea with the owner. My mother was so worried. ”

Chen Xin remained silent and said with a smile: "It's not good to go to sea, find a daughter-in-law of the Japanese country for your mother to come back." ”

"I don't want to go to the Wa Kingdom, I just rely on a boat at sea, and if it capsizes, I don't know how to water. I'm scary when I think about it. ”

"Did your dad say when he was going? I can also teach you to swim when I have time. ”

"I didn't say it, I just said it was soon. Don't tell anyone else, my father told me, and I will just say a few words to Brother Chen......"

As the two were talking, they heard Lao Cai shouting Chen Xin in the courtyard with a broken gong.

Chen Xin opened the window and said to Lao Cai: "Mr. called me?" ”

"Yes, come to the shop, the owner is looking for you to do something."

Chen Xin hurriedly went out, and when he arrived at the shop, Zhao Dongjia stood proudly in the middle, saw him coming, beckoned Chen Xin to the front, and took out a bag of things.

"Take this bag of broken silver to the dumping shop in Liye Fang (note: the shop that exchanged the broken silver for silver ingots, also known as the dumping silver shop) to exchange it, I will use it in the afternoon. Lao Cai, you are busy and come to the second first, there is something. ”

He didn't say how much silver he had, but went back to the second with his hands behind his back.

Chen Xin was slightly surprised in his heart, usually a little more silver is handled by Lao Cai, but today there is so much silver, but let him do it, I don't know what urgency this owner has to find Lao Cai.

Surprised, things still have to be done, Chen Xin weighed in front of several people, and said to Cai's shopkeeper: "Sir, a total of twenty-one two six dollars and six cents, roughly four cents after the points." ”

Lao Cai nodded and instructed him: "It doesn't matter, go early and return early, if you go, you will say that it is from the Dongyuan store, and they don't dare to do anything." ”

"Yes, Mr. Xie instructed."

At the moment, I collected the broken silver, and found the dumping shop all the way to Liye Fang, and a big cloth at the door was written with the word "dumping silver".

"Childe poured silver or exchanged money?"

"Dump silver, I'm from the TECO store, please weigh it with a balance first." Chen Xin took out the cloth bag and spread it out on the counter, and the shopkeeper sitting at the counter heard that it was Dongyuan, came over to look at the amount, and put out some Dharma and weigh it on a scale, showing Chen Xin that it was 2126 cents and 6 cents and 7 cents, which was more than Chen Xin's own weighing.

weighed too much, and the shopkeeper asked Chen Xin: "How does the son lean?" ”

Chen Xin didn't quite understand, and thought about it: "How do you generally do it?" ”

"Childe can make two ten-tael silver ingots, and one tael or six coins to make a small ingot. If you pay the fire money for five or six cents, the son can still get a penny of hard-earned money. The shopkeeper said respectfully.

Suddenly, he leaned into Chen Xin's ear and lowered his voice: "We don't dare to adulterate the silver in the Dongyuan store, but with a little technique, there are always two or three coins of silver saved per ingot, the fineness remains the same, and the weight is a lot, and no one can see it." As long as the son agrees, you and I will divide the two families equally. ”

The shopkeeper was about forty years old, dark-skinned, rugged, and his attitude could be said to be very kind, but it always made people feel awkward.

Chen Xin's heart moved slightly, and then he smiled: "Oh? Do you know that I am the owner of the TECO store, how can my own money be divided equally with you? ”

The shopkeeper showed some ridicule in his eyes, and blurted out: "Childe is laughing, you are obviously ......", suddenly realized that he was speechless, and stopped before turning the conversation back: "You obviously can't be, I have seen the Dongyuan Shaodong family, where is you." ”

Chen Xin smiled and pointed at the shopkeeper: "It's really a joke, I'm also a shopkeeper of TECO like him, but the owner treats me with the grace of knowing things, how can I bear him, my brother is also kind, but I only have my heart." According to what you said just now, two ten-tael colors, one is one or two or six coins, and you have a lot of fire money, and you must not adulterate at all, and please return all the remaining cents and cents of broken silver to me, so that I can return it to the owner. ”

The shopkeeper and the shopkeeper were stunned, as if they didn't expect Chen Xin to be like this, and seeing that he was resolute, there was no way, so they had to weigh it carefully according to what Chen Xin said, and divided the weight of two silver ingots, and the shopkeeper came over to collect the fire money, and the remaining bit of broken silver was returned to Chen Xin.

Chen Xin has been carefully watching the operation of the shopkeeper, his eyes are not blinking, and he is more serious than looking at the thief when he puts the broken silver into the melter to make silver ingots. The shopkeeper was furious by his eyes.

Finally, two big silver ingots and a water wire were done, Chen Xin put them in his arms and put them away, the two of them breathed a sigh of relief at the same time, the shopkeeper was because he didn't have to be monitored, Chen Xin was because he had done this, he had heard Lao Cai say that the means of dumping shops, if they didn't pay attention, they would be mixed with lead and copper, and there were people in this industry who had specialized in forging real silver lines, so that connoisseurs couldn't tell the difference, so he had to use a stupid way to monitor the shopkeeper all the way.

At the moment, I put away the silver ingots, all the way back to the shop, it was not yet lunch time, although the owner did not say who the silver was for, but it was the silver money, of course, it must be handed over to the owner, and after greeting other people, I passed through the store and knocked directly on the door of the second entrance.

The one who opened the door was Lao Wang, who guarded the shop at night, Lao Wang was a type who didn't eat oil and salt, and he only listened to Zhao Dong's family for everything. He listened to Chen Xin's request to meet the owner in person, but he didn't speak, and closed the door coldly, and Chen Xin had to wait outside the door stupidly. After a long bang, the door opened again, and Zhao Dongjia walked out.

Chen Xin handed the silver ingot and the broken silver in the cloth bag to Zhao Dongjia with both hands, and said respectfully: "The broken silver that the owner gave me is a total of 2126 coins and 6 cents and 7 cents, and I poured ten taels of ingots, 126 coins and one ingot, five cents and 6 cents of fire money, and the remaining one cent, all here." ”

Zhao Dongjia took it, checked it with his hand, and didn't look at the color, he turned around and went back with a hum in his mouth.

When he returned to the second entrance, a person came in from the side door, and it was the shopkeeper of the dumping shop, he went to Zhao Dongjia, his expression was faint, and he seemed to be very familiar with Zhao Dongjia, Zhao Dongjia handed him the cloth bag, he opened it, nodded to Zhao Dongjia, and said that it was not bad.

"Brother Zhao, your account room is a dead eye, don't talk about the benefits, the remaining little silver will be returned to you, where to find such an account, now you can rest assured."

"It could also be a traitor."

"That's not something that my little brother can try. Every time you come here, Lao Cai will ask for a lot of greedy ink spots, you never say that he is a traitor, but he is not greedy. ”

When Zhao Dongjia heard this, a little smile appeared on his ugly face, and he sighed to himself: "If it was really a big traitor, he would not come to our small temple." It seems that he should be an honest man. ”

"He doesn't say anything honestly, but the eldest brother can't say such depressing words, we rely on the sea to eat, although there are not many people, and I have never been afraid of anyone coming, the eldest brother is now a big family, and his courage is small."

"Well said, Han Yong, you have arranged your store in the next few days, and then notify the scar and the black cannon, at most half a month, I'm afraid we will go to sea again."

The shopkeeper of the silver shop, who was called Han Yong, said happily: "Yes, I have been waiting for the eldest brother to greet me, I have to hold my breath when I do this business on weekdays, and I have tried my best to cheat a few loose money, and it is better to go to sea for a few years, so I will prepare." ”

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Chen Xin returned to the store, sat behind the counter alone, made up the account sold in the morning, and when there was no one around, a smile suddenly appeared on his face, and he whispered to himself: "Lao Cai has never seen the young owner, how can you see it as an outsider, but you know how many people I have interviewed and how many people I have inspected, and I am embarrassed to use a bad trick to fool me." ”