Chapter 90: Zhang Dacai and Huang Wenbiao
With Xiao Er's experience, Qi Zhen naturally had no reason to delay time, and a blood wheel eye illusion was released towards the other party.
Zhang Dacai has always felt that his life is quite happy.
As a standard merchant family, the family has money enough to eat and drink without worry, but they are not rich enough to allow themselves to lie down and eat nothing, which makes him admire his father.
Poverty and hunger are the driving force behind everything.
In the years when Zhang Dacai grew up, in addition to reading and reading, he traveled with his father to learn the way of business.
According to Zhang Dacai's father, the so-called business is nothing more than making money by doing things that others are unwilling to do.
The simplest is the merchants, Suzhou embroidery, Sichuan and Chongqing areas do not have, the merchants will buy the east of the Suzhou embroidery, sell to the west, as long as there is demand, they are not afraid of not making money.
The more difficult thing is to sit in the business, the fabric from Suzhou was transported to Sichuan and Chongqing, and the local tailor shop could be used to dilute the purchase price of the cloth by relying on a large amount, as long as the tailor's craftsmanship was said to be in the past, it could also be sold after processing to make money.
The other is to provide food and lodging for these merchants and tourists, which can naturally make money.
Compared with sitting in the business, the merchant is more interested in the breadth of a businessman's network and understanding of the goods, so that he can buy better goods at a cheaper price in the place of acquisition.
Regardless of the form, in short, businessmen are profit-seeking, always holding in their hands what others want but don't have, and others have their own things but cheaper, then they can make money.
The things here may be firewood, rice, oil and salt, real estate, or connections.
Zhang Dacai thought so.
Over the years, Zhang Dacai felt that although his small life was hard, he had a good life.
There is a wife and a concubine in the clip, and he has enjoyed the blessings of all people, and he has not run the goods himself for a long time.
According to Zhang Dacai's words, this person can't always lie on the merit book and eat the old book, now all the business in the family is still the ones left by his father, even if the income is still good, but the wealth of this family is far from the time when he needs Zhang Dacai to guard the world.
Since his father died and left behind orphans and widows, the uncles and uncles who watched Zhang Dacai grow up slowly cut off contact after his father's death, and even the family business has decreased a lot.
Zhang Dacai doesn't blame others, after all, this situation at home does not allow people to walk around with their homes often, and they will be poked in the backbone by others.
When Zhang Dacai thought of this, he felt more and more that he should work hard, and never go out to run again, which is not like words.
After raising for a long time, Zhang Dacai finally decided to sell cigarettes.
Tobacco is also divided into raw and cooked, raw tobacco leaves are not easy to preserve, perishable, and for the soil and water and growth conditions of tobacco origins, we must have a certain understanding, generally tobacco merchants directly collect enough from farmers in the local area, and then directly select and process them locally.
Naturally, a trader like Zhang Dacai buys cooked tobacco directly from local tobacco dealers and sells them to his hometown.
After an acquaintance's introduction, he contacted a cigarette merchant in Ningbo, and the two lost their temper and hit it off.
After exchanging many letters, this was his first attempt at tobacco reselling.
Zhang Dacai also has an excellent quality, that is, he is very cautious in doing business, because he is afraid of pressing the goods, he does not want many goods this time, and he only plans to sell them to his hometown, and he is ready to promote them in the places he is familiar with first.
The advantage of this is that you can do business first through your own relationship, and you are not afraid of making less money, as long as there is a market, and then word of mouth, you will not worry about the next business.
This is the case with the so-called abundant financial resources.
Business is business, relationship is relationship.
After drinking a few times with the cigarette merchant in Ningbo, he finally won the car at the price in his heart.
Zhang Dacai is not worried about the delivery of goods.
As long as he passes through Hangzhou, Zhang Dacai is a flat trip.
This road was his father's earliest merchant route, and he was very familiar with several government offices and bandits and grass bandits on the road.
I arrived in Yixing without any surprise or danger all the way, and drank a few drinks with the head of the bandit village passing by the mountain.
It's just that when I passed through Huzhou, I heard that Taihu Lake was not restless, so I gave up the arrangement of watching the lake.
When I arrived in Yixing Mansion, I naturally had to visit the tea market and the Tao market, and buy some gifts for the two beautiful wives and concubines in my family.
When I was eating at the restaurant at noon, I happened to meet such a person.
This restaurant is the most famous time-honored restaurant in Yixing Mansion, and it is naturally overcrowded when it comes to meals.
Zhang Dacai is only one person, and Xiao Er is not worth opening a table for him, so he asked him if you can see the two of you sharing a table?
Zhang Dacai said that what can't be done, as long as people have no opinions, I naturally don't care.
He is a person who makes a lot of friends, don't say that he eats at the same table, as long as he loses his temper, why not eat together?
The person who shared the table with himself was sturdy, and his dress temperament was three or four points similar to his own, and it seemed that he was also a merchant who ran goods.
The two sat together, from "this restaurant is really hot" as a greeting, the more they talked, the more they fell in love, from the business to the men and women, and from the men and women to the bed, and finally drank the top wine of the two jars of the restaurant, but it was still unfinished.
This old brother Huang not only fell in love, but also made generous moves, and actually settled the money for food and wine.
Hey! Go on the road!
And the names of the two people have changed from Boss Zhang and Boss Huang to Big Brother Zhang and Brother Huang.
Brother Huang claimed to be Huang Wenbiao, and after learning that the other party's destination was Luzhou, he was very happy to Zhang Dacai, and the two made an appointment to go together.
Zhang Dacai has been in business for so many years, and he naturally has a heart to guard against people, and making friends does not mean that he will say everything openly.
The other party is obviously well versed in this, so until Liyang, the two of them still only talk about Fengyue and nothing else.
Zhang Dacai has a truckload of goods, Huang Wenbiao is empty-handed, saying that he is doing some small business, but he doesn't know what he is doing.
The two walked all the way along the official road, and finally came to Liyang before nightfall.
According to Zhang Dacai's consistent practice, Liyang is too small, and under normal circumstances, from Yixing Mansion to Wuhu, according to the foot of the carriage, one day is enough.
But since Brother Huang has something urgent and needs to hurry, Zhang Dacai doesn't care, anyway, the road is familiar, and he can't get out of trouble.
The two rushed to the Yuelai Inn before nightfall, and naturally they had to eat and drink again.
Zhang Dacai's eyes are naturally extremely poisonous, but he still can't see what the seven people at the next table are doing.
But seeing that Brother Huang was always absent-minded when he drank with himself, Zhang Dacai was a little puzzled, could it be that he knew those seven people?
The next man in white, his appearance is really unforgettable, the eyebrows, the nose, and the facial features may not match the word Fengshen handsome, but together they are extraordinarily heroic.
You look at this domineering appearance, I don't know, I think it's the noble son of the family who is patrolling in Weifu.
The two of them ate and drank and chatted until late.
Zhang Dacai didn't dare to let himself get drunk.
When the two returned to their rooms, they went to sleep.
Zhang Dacai, who was very vigilant when he went out, slept very sweetly for some reason.
It wasn't until I got up that I found that Huang Wenbiao was gone.
At this time, Zhang Dacai's first reaction was not to care about where Huang Wenbiao went, but to touch his arms.
Fortunately, the money is there.
He was drunk and had not yet sobered up, but at this time he was a little confused.
Where did this Huang brother go?
Zhang Dacai got up from the bed and came outside the house, and saw that the group of people who were obviously seven people yesterday were two less today.
"Little two! Do you see the man who is with me? Zhang Dacai sat at the table, ready to eat breakfast.
Xiao Er brought the gruel and pickles to the white steamed bun, and said apologetically: "Guest officer, I didn't see it." ”
Zhang Dacai was even more puzzled.
"Is my car still there?"
"It's here, just fed your horse, it's okay."
Zhang Dacai began to eat silently, but the confusion between his eyebrows lingered.
Qi Zhen had just released the illusion to him, but Zhang Dacai didn't know that he actually got up twice, but the memory from getting up to the door for the first time was erased by Qi Zhen with illusion.
Can't wait any longer, Qi Zhen glanced at Li Qiang.
Li Qiang nodded, walked to the door of the last room, and began to knock.
No one answered.
Li Qiang broke in again.
As a result, the white-clothed boy was also gone.
This series of actions stunned Zhang Dacai, who was eating, and said in his heart What is the origin of these people, why are they so violent?
Ignoring Zhang Dacai's consternation, the five of them had already returned to the second floor.
"What is the origin of this Huang Wenbiao?" Yu Liang asked.
Qi Zhen was silent.
"Is that him?" Li Qiang looked at the scenery outside the window at the back of the room and asked softly.
"But why did he search Lin Xiao's room?" Jiang Yan asked.
"I see!" Qi Zhen said suddenly.
"What do you know?" Yu Liang once again felt that his IQ had been crushed.
"He didn't search Lin Xiao's room, but Li San's room!" Qi Zhen said.
"Then why do you want to search Li San's room?!" Yu Liang asked again.
"IQ is in a hurry!" Qi Zhen patted her head.
"Because we've all been to Yixing." Li Qiang said.
"Why did he search Li San's room after all the people who had been to Yixing?" Yu Liang didn't understand it even more.
"Only Li San has bought something in Yixing, either it is the money in Li San's hand, or the thing that Li San bought, which must have made the other party covet it." Qi Zhen analyzed.
"Then if you say that, isn't it possible for the man in white to do the same?" Yu Liang asked again.
"If you think about the bearing of the man in white, do you think it's likely?" Qi Zhen said slowly.
Yu Liang thought about it and shook his head.
"Therefore, this Huang Wenbiao is extremely suspicious, but we haven't gotten much information about his identity from Zhang Dacai."
"Then why did he leave?" Meng Ran asked at this time.
"I have this conjecture, you see if it is reasonable. This person, in Yixing saw Li San's purchase, this thing happened to be what he had been thinking about for a long time, or he was bought by Li San when he just took a fancy to it, and then he wanted to get this thing in his hands, but blatantly following us may cause us to be suspicious, so he found Zhang Dacai, used to hide his true purpose, after arriving in Liyang, he felt that his opportunity had come, so in the middle of the night the third watch came to Li San's room, but found that Li San was gone, after searching for no result, He probably thought that he had been discovered by Li San, so after restoring the room to its original state, he chased it out along the window, but he didn't know that Lin Xiao had already changed rooms with Li San before he made a move! ”