The Chinese New Year's Eve of the sixth year of the Great Tomorrow has passed, and Xu Liang ushered in the second year of crossing over to the Ming Dynasty. After the fifteenth day of the first month of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the patrol battalion camp was also completed, and the newly recruited 260 recruits were led by Dai Feng of the Ximen Dart Bureau to conduct various trainings.

To the surprise of everyone in the patrol battalion, Xu Liang and Lord Xu of the patrol battalion actually took Jia Ding Ah Liang to stand in the recruit team and receive training. Dai Feng asked the reason curiously, and Xu Liang said: "Look at my bones, can I succeed if I don't train?" Dai Feng listened, didn't say a word, raised his throat and pointed at Xu Liang and shouted: "You, run twenty laps around the school field, go quickly!" ”

The patrol battalion, from the generals to the soldiers, thought in their hearts that the patrol envoys were curious, and they would never be able to hold on to it for three days.

As a result, Xu Liang has been training with the recruits for twenty-one days in a row for 21 consecutive days.

Now Xu Liang looks stronger, and his slightly darkened face has a more ruddy color of a healthy person.

On this day, Xu Liang had just completed a round of weight-bearing long-distance running with the soldiers back to the camp, and saw Yahuan Xia'er walking around the camp gate from a distance, looking anxiously at the end of the road at the camp gate.

When she saw the soldiers running back, Xia Er's anxious expression gradually calmed down. She saw Xu Liang running behind the team clearly, and greeted her and beckoned, "Young Master!" ”

When Xu Liang saw her, he stopped on the side of the road, panting on his knees, and asked for a while, "Xia'er, why are you here?" ”

Xia Er looked around and saw that the soldiers who had returned to the camp were resting and chatting around, so she leaned over to Xu Liang and whispered in her ear.

Xu Liang's eyes suddenly widened after hearing this.

"Let's go, go back to Xu's Mansion immediately!" Xu Liang shouted, he shouted loudly into the camp, called the little servant Ah Liang out, prepared a carriage, took Xia Er and hurried to Jianchang City.

On the carriage, Xu Liang pulled Xia Er to ask in detail, and after being convinced, Xu Liang couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly. Although, although he had already learned the benefits and disadvantages of human imitation of copycat brands in later generations, he would never have thought that not long after he came to the Ming Dynasty, Liang Ji soappaste had just been produced for less than half a year, and there was a copycat version of soappaste in Jianchang City.

A carriage took Xu Liang back to Xu's mansion on the west side of Dongmen Street in Jianchang City.

In the soap room in the backyard of Xu's mansion, Feng Suqin, Tietou, Chun'er and others had long been waiting for Xu Liang together. Xu Liang entered the house and rushed to the table in the middle of the crowd, staring straight at the three gray cottage soapsticks on the table, the size of the soappaste is almost the same as the authentic Liang Ji soap, but the color is gray, different from the waxy yellow and translucent Liang Ji soap, the gray shell of the cottage soap paste is densely glued with many small black spots, if the authentic Liang Ji is a beautiful swan, then this copycat is simply not as good as an ugly duckling. Xu Liang carefully pinched a piece and put it on the tip of his nose and sniffed it, and an unknown strange smell came to his nose.

"Early this morning, a farmer came to the door with these three pieces of soap paste to return it, Xia Er saw at a glance that it was wrong, but in order to leave evidence, we still replaced the family with our own soap cream." Feng Suqin explained on the side.

"Did you ask where he bought it from?" Xu Liang threw the soap paste on the table and asked.

"No, according to him, someone bought it and thought it was not easy to use it and gave it to him, and this family happened to know that we produced Liang Ji soap paste here, so he wanted to exchange it for three new pieces." Feng Suqin said.

"Young master, this must be someone counterfeiting our products, it's really hateful." Iron Head clenched his fists and said hatefully.

"Is our recipe out there?" Xia Er tilted her head and muttered to herself.

Xu Liang listened, looked up at her, nodded and said, "Very likely, Suqin, has anyone in our soap room resigned recently?" ”

"There are three of them." Feng Suqin thought for a while and said: "Uncle Zhang, who is in charge of gray water, said that he has had back pain recently and can't come, Lin Youcai, who is in charge of saponification, said that there is a funeral in his hometown and wants to go back to the funeral. ”

"Where is that Lin Youcai's hometown?"

Feng Suqin shook her head, "We don't know about this, he was also introduced by someone else, he worked in the soap room for almost two months, and he didn't come after receiving his salary after the year." ”

"Young master, in my opinion, nine times out of ten, it is this Lin Youcai who has made the ghost, and only this Lin Youcai has the opportunity to understand the whole process of our production among the few people who left." Tietou said hatefully, "This Lin Youcai usually doesn't hum or ha, I can't imagine being so insidious." ”

"Without evidence, you can't just guess." Xu Liang said: "In this way, we will go to the street for a turn and ask who is selling fake soap paste and ruining the reputation of our Liang Ji." ”

On Ximen Street in Jianchang City, the sun in winter is still lazy and does not wake up, and it will not feel warm when it shines on people. The streets are still very lively, the sound of bargaining between the shops and customers, the shouting and selling of small merchants and vendors on the street, the sound of wheels of wheelbarrows driving on the blue brick street, and the ladies who are rarely going out, the surprise sound of Xiaojia Jasper seeing favorite objects, and all kinds of sounds constitute the unique sound of Ximen Street. Xu Liang was dressed in a gray robe, covered with a piece of armor, and put a pair of cowhide boots with a very warm effect on his feet, and was admiring the free beauties on the street with great interest. Behind him, Ah Liang was like a little daughter-in-law who had been exhausted, with two gloves into the thick sleeve cage, and followed carefully with her head shrunk.

Xu Liang entered another grocery store, the thirteenth one he was looking for today.

When the shopkeeper saw that he looked like a rich man, he smiled kindly.

"What do you want, this guest officer? The small shop has groceries from the north and south, daily necessities, firewood, rice, oil and salt, everything you need! ”

Xu Liang turned his head and looked behind him carefully, poked his head out and asked in a low voice, "Little second brother, do you have any soap paste for sale?" ”

"Soap? Yes. A box of five cents, how many boxes do you want? ”

"Wuwen? So expensive? Xu Liang fussed and said, "Second brother, you are too unkind in doing business, yesterday my third uncle's sister-in-law's brother-in-law bought the soap paste for only three wen, you actually need five wen here?" What a lion's mouth! ”

"Hehe," the shopkeeper smiled, he took out a box of soap paste from the container, pointed to the big red mark on the soap paste and said: "Guest officer, you can see clearly, this is the authentic Liang Ji soap cream, don't say it's me here, it's the price of the whole Jianchang City, you, do you want love." ”

"Wuwen, it's too expensive, I don't want it." Xu Liang shook his head resolutely, he glanced at the store nervously, leaned his head and asked with a sly smile: "Little second brother, you are honest, you don't have a cheaper one here?" Hehe, I know that this Liang Ji soap paste is the same price for the whole city, five cents. Hehe, I won't tell you, my old man asked me to come out to buy supplies, that one, if I can get cheaper, I can also be reimbursed for five cents, hehe, you know this? ”

Xu Liang smiled and winked at the shopkeeper with deep meaning.

"Oh!" The shopkeeper really understood, he pulled the corner of Xu Liang's clothes, pulled it to the edge of the counter, took out a box of soap paste from the bottom cabinet, handed it to Xu Liang and said: "Guest officer, this is the cheapest soap cream, only selling for three cents a box." ”

Xu Liang fixed his eyes and saw that it was the kind of copycat soap paste he had seen before. He grinned in "surprise" and said with a smile: "Yes, yes, this is what my son wants, the cheaper the better!" Ha, Xiao Er, how many do you have in the store, I want a thousand boxes! ”

"Huh?" The shopkeeper said embarrassedly: "Objective, I won't hide it from you, I have just bought this soap paste not long ago, and there is not much stock in the store, only more than forty yuan, do you want to take it all?" ”

"Ah, it's only forty dollars, what's the matter?" When Xu Liang heard this, he was greatly disappointed, shook his head and said: "Forty yuan, if my son dies, I can quote an extra eighty yuan, which is not enough for my son's pot of tea, alas, it's too little, don't want it." ”

Xu Liang said, squeezed his eyes at Ah Liang, and shouted, "Ah Liang, let's go, let's find the next one." As he spoke, he was about to walk outside the store.

"Hey, hey, don't be in a hurry to leave." The shopkeeper was in a hurry, rushed out of the counter and ran to Xu Liang, squeezed a smile and said: "Guest officer, you really want it sincerely, so let's do it, this three-penny soap cream, I am the only one in Jianchang City who sells it, and you can't buy it if you want to buy it anywhere else." Well, we don't have much stock in stock, but the little one knows where to get this soap cream, and the little one can take you there to pick up the goods, and I think there should be a thousand boxes there. ”

"Good!" Xu Liang stroked his palms happily and smiled: "Then what are you waiting for, little second brother, take my son to go quickly." ”

The shopkeeper didn't move, and said with a smile: "Guest officer, it's okay to take you there, but you can't take it in vain." ”

"Hey, that's easy to say." Xu Liang turned around and nodded at Ah Liang, who stepped forward and put a tael of cash in the shop.

The shopkeeper immediately smiled, took the silver and shook it, carefully put it in his arms, and said to Xu Liang: "The little one knows that you are a cheerful person when he looks at the guest officer, and he didn't say it, the guest officer, the little one will take you there." ”

Xu Liang followed the shopkeeper out of Ximen Street, walked around Jianchang City, and finally stopped in front of a separate wooden house near the city wall. Xu Liang saw that there were two large vats in the courtyard of the wooden house, and there were some grass and wood ashes scattered in the haystacks on one side.

Xu Liang snorted coldly, and the secret way could be regarded as being caught by Lao Tzu.

"Guest, this is really unfortunate." The shopkeeper who led the way said apologetically behind him, "There's no one in this room today." ”

As soon as Xu Liang turned around, his face changed, and he said fiercely: "How come?" What about people? Where did you go? ”

The shopkeeper was taken aback by Xu Liang's suddenly ugly face, took a few steps back, and said again and again: "This, this little one doesn't know, I just know that it's right to get the goods here." He said in a panic: "The little one has been brought, it's nothing, the little one will leave first." ”

After speaking, the shopkeeper turned around and wanted to run, but ran into Ah Liang, who surrounded him viciously.

The shopkeeper suddenly had a sad face, turned back to Xu Liang, who was looking at him coldly, and shouted: "Guest officer, son, this uncle, what are you going to do, what are you doing?" ”