Li Sangrou returned to Fried Rice Lane, sat under the porch, went out for a long time, ate lunch, and looked carefully at the simple map of mountains and rivers for an afternoon.

After dinner, Li Sangrou ordered to smoke the mosquitoes again, the golden retriever made tea, four people, one person and a pu fan fluttered, Li Sangrou pointed to the mountain and river map, "Post post matter, I plan to take the line of Wuwei first, along the way through Chenzhou, Yingzhou, Shouzhou, to Wuwei, what do you see?" ”

"I'll see it!" The dark horse looked pensive and answered quickly.

The golden retriever pouted hard and leaned at him, almost wanting to smack him in the face.

In terms of pretending to have opinions behind the boss, this cheekiness, he is really not as good as a dark horse.

"It's time to go to Yangzhou," Da Chang said in a sullen voice: "Over the day, Bozhou, Suzhou, Sizhou." Next to Yangzhou, Zhenzhou and Taizhou are not far away, and they are more lively than the line of Wuwei. ”

"If you want to do business, you should really go to Yangzhou, not only is the land route convenient, but there is also a canal, and there are big wharves everywhere along the way.

But it is too convenient, from the waterway to Yangzhou, smooth sailing, it can be arrived in six or seven days fast, take the land route to catch up, four or five days can arrive, along the way there are piles of merchant ships, caravans are in groups, it is very convenient to entrust people to bring letters, and there is no need to spend money to deliver letters.

Also, on this line in Yangzhou, most of them are businessmen, businessmen don't like to write letters, there is something wrong, some of them are people who carry letters.

Those who write long letters when they have nothing to do are all readers, and they can write, but the way to find someone to carry the letter is far worse than that of a businessman.

Also, the line of Yangzhou, except for Ying Tianfu, in other places, the style of writing is not as good as the line of Wuwei, and the number of people who lift people and jinshi in the examination is not as much as the line of Wuwei.

There are definitely more people on the line of Wuweifu than those on the line of Yangzhou.

In our business, we must start with officials and scholars. ”

Li Sangrou looked at Da Chang, patiently explained, paused, and added, "Your boss has always done things on a case-by-case basis, one by one, and he won't talk nonsense." ”

"Well, then do nothing." Dachang nodded dryly.

"The first step, let's just do urgent foot delivery, three hundred miles a day, from nothing to a round trip, ten days."

Li Sangrou continued:

"In Chenzhou, Yingzhou, Shouzhou, Shouzhou and Wuwei middle, as well as Wuwei Mansion, each set up a handshop. If we don't borrow the delivery shop of the imperial court, we have to have our own place and manpower.

Tomorrow I will take the Golden Retriever to these four states, build the delivery shop, and see how it is delivered locally, and find the local delivery manpower.

You stay in Jianle City with the dark horse, first, see what the price of the horse is, what kind of horse is suitable for us, buy it back when you see it, remember, it is best to avoid those horse breeds that are suitable for charging.

Second, go to Shizi and ask him to help recommend riders who can run at least 300 miles a day, as well as grooms, let's find twenty or thirty first;

Second, look at where the readers on this line like to go, and then ask about the tabloids in Jianle City, which one sells how much a day, who buys it, and these come out once a few days. ”

Dachang nodded.

The next day, when he first entered the city, when Ruyi was ordered to invite Li Sangrou, Li Sangrou had already taken the golden retriever and drove the cart, and he had already gone out of the city for dozens of miles.

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Li Sangrou and Golden Retriever, the two of them, returned to Jianle City the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Li Sangrou had just washed and cleaned up, and before she finished drinking a cup of tea, Ruyi's voice sounded outside the courtyard gate.

The dark horse jumped up, and before Li Sangrou could speak, he had already rushed out of the second door.

In the blink of an eye, the dark horse's black face shone red, and he rushed straight in, "Boss, boss!" Lord Shizi! It's the prince! It's time for us to give us a Boxing gift! ”

Li Sangrou just took a sip of tea, and was given a gift by the dark horse, and choked on a mouthful of tea and coughed wildly.

"What kind of gift does the prince give us!" Da Chang slapped the black horse on the head, and bowed his hand to Ruyi who followed behind, "He has no knowledge, he can't speak, you have a lot." ”

"Chang Ye is polite."

Ruyi didn't finish a word, but laughed.

Of Miss Li's three subordinates, his favorite is this dark horse, such an honest person is really rare.

Ruyi looked at Li Sangrou, who was coughing wildly, laughed, bowed his hand, pointed to the little guys behind him who were carrying boxes and holding wine jars, and said with a smile:

"Our prince said that the girl had just come back, but I was afraid that I wouldn't have time to prepare everything for the festival, so I picked some with my own hands and ordered the little ones to send them to the girl and a few masters."

Li Sangrou was still coughing, stood up while coughing, and thanked Ruyi, "Thank you, thank you." ”

Ruyi couldn't stop laughing, and he retreated.

Seeing a group of little guys following Ruyi out of the second door, Li Sangrou coughed for a while before relieving her breath.

The black horse shrunk his neck and didn't dare to say a word, he was a little too excited just now.

"The day after the boss left, the prince set off, saying what kind of cha it was, as if he had just come back a few days ago." Dachang explained while carrying the boxes one by one to Li Sangrou.

The Golden Retriever crouched over and lifted the suitcase.

The black horse looked at Dachang from Li Sangrou, moved over while aiming, stretched his neck to look into the suitcase, and stared at the two big eyes, but he didn't dare to say anything more.

Li Sangrou leaned over, watched the golden retriever take out pomegranates, grapes, oranges, oranges, chestnuts, pears and jujubes from the suitcase layer by layer, piled them up, and then opened another suitcase, and took out a box full of fat crabs one by one.

There are also two suitcases, one containing half a fresh sheep, and the other stuffed with sauced duck, cured chicken, and salted goose.

Then there are five or six jars of new wine, and the name of the wine is pasted on the jar, all of which are jade.

"Eat these for dinner, steam the crab, this mutton is good, cut two legs and stew, sprinkle a little salt on the lamb belly in the middle, roast it at noon tomorrow, and then mix it with mixed vegetables.

The dark horse went to buy some flax cakes. Li Sangrou picked up the bunch of grapes, tasted them, and ordered with satisfaction.

"And perilla leaves!" The dark horse jumped up, "What about Dachang?" What's missing? ”

"Buy bundles of green onions, and green garlic." Da Chang talked about it, and stepped forward to mention the half of the sheep.

Dachang steamed the crab first, Li Sangrou ate it slowly, and the golden retriever sat next to him, sharpened a chopstick, and took the chopsticks to remove the crab powder.

This crab, eating one has to be busy for a long time, but in the end, you can eat in your mouth, at most there is only one bite of meat, the meat is still very fishy, he doesn't like to eat, and the dark horse often doesn't like it.

Li Sangrou ate two crabs, stewed mutton, chopped two ducks in sauce, steamed a cured chicken, torn into shreds, mixed with spinach, carrots, shredded coriander, and sprinkled with a large handful of crushed peanuts.

Li Sangrou took a bowl of mutton soup, sprinkled a handful of green garlic, rolled crab roe in flax cakes, and ate cold vegetables, and the meal was very pleasant.

After eating, the black horse opened a jar of new wine, and four people, one person poured a large bowl of wine, and just drank half a bowl, and the sound of Ruyi sounded outside the courtyard gate again.

The dark horse is still rushing in and out quickly, but he doesn't dare to talk nonsense.

"Boss, boss, it is said that the prince of the world invited you to admire the moon."

Li Sangrou hummed, raised her head and drank the wine in the bowl, stood up and walked out of the courtyard.

Outside the alley, a few small maids led five or six horses, Ruyi pointed to the horses and said with a smile: "The prince said that the autumn is high and cool, and it is better to ride a horse than to ride a horse, so let the little one pick a horse to invite the girl." ”

"Your family is thoughtful." Li Sangrou took the reins from the little guy's hand, saw the little guy half-kneeling on the ground, flashed a step to the side, and said with a smile: "No, thank you." ”

As he spoke, he stepped on his pedal and turned over on his horse.

The little servant hurriedly stood up, got on his horse, followed behind, and went to Jinmingchi.

Dismounted at the gate of Jin Mingchi, Li Sangrou looked at the empty surroundings, and said with a smile with Ruyi: "Your prince has cleared this place too?" Such a big place? ”

"Not really." Ruyi wanted to laugh and soaked, "Jinmingchi is only in the winter solstice, the Spring Festival, and the time of martial arts, and everyone in the market is allowed to play. In a year, it's twenty or thirty days. ”

Li Sangrou sighed, this is another form of clearance.

Ruyi took Li Sangrou, followed the low lantern, and entered the water pavilion deep into the Jinming Pool.

Gu Xi was wearing a silver-white robe, standing by the railing, and when he heard the movement, he turned around, looked at Li Sangrou approaching, and said with a smile: "You just came back?" ”

"Hmm." Li Sangrou walked next to Gu Xi and saw the moon in the water from the sky to the moon.

"The night I came out of Jiangdu City, it was also such a good moonlight." Gu Xi's tone was full of emotion.

Li Sangrou glanced sideways at Gu Xi and said with a smile: "The moon that night was big and bright, and it was very annoying. ”

Gu Xi's eyebrows were raised, and after a moment, he laughed, and motioned to Li Sangrou while laughing, "This year's new wine is good." Let's try it? ”

"Yes, yes. Thank you for the wine, and for the lamb. Li Sangrou sat down, picked up the crystal cup next to her, raised it, looked at the moonlight, poured the wine, raised it and looked at it again, and took a sip.

"How's your business going?" Gu Xi took a sip of half a glass of wine, and between praising the moonlight and this question, he hesitated for half a glass of wine, but still asked about business.

"It's barely about the same, there are too few literate people, but anyone who can read a few big characters is especially doughy, and the shelves are full of shame, which is really hateful." Li Sangrou sighed a few times.

Gu Xi smiled, "Reading and literacy, knowing right and wrong, and being shameful, naturally have to be cheeky." Why look for literacy? ”

"How can you send a letter if you are illiterate? How do you know who this letter is addressed to and where you live? Li Sangrou glanced at Gu Xi.

When he said this, it was almost the same as Pan Dingbang's question.

Gu Xi was stunned, and then woke up, "If your letter is delivered to the door?" Also, you are in the business of family letters, so naturally you can't invest in the yamen.

If this is the case, it is indeed a bit difficult, and most of those who are literate and have read books will not be willing to do the work of this believer. ”

"You just came back, too?" Li Sangrou diverted the topic.

"Well, the day after you left, I received an envoy and returned two days before you.

In the middle of March, I took over the household department, and this year is a leap year, and it is necessary to check the households, remake the booklet, and exchange the granary with the old and new grain, alas, there are many drawbacks. Gu Xi also sighed.

Li Sangrou glanced at him and didn't answer.

"Don't talk about this, tomorrow the Mid-Autumn Festival, how will you spend it?" Gu Xi changed the subject.

"Tomorrow I plan to sleep well for the day, wake up and eat enough, and go back to sleep." Li Sangrou stretched back.

She had been running around outside for more than three months, exhausted and exhausted.

Gu Xi smiled, "Mid-Autumn Festival, you have to sleep for a day!" And what about the Mid-Autumn Festival before that? Also all sleep for a day? ”

"Before," Li Sangrou leaned back in her chair, her voice lazy, "Let me think about it, this year is my fourth Mid-Autumn Festival."

The first Mid-Autumn Festival, at that time, we had just really followed the night incense line, and for the first time we had spare money, more than 100 yuan, and several large boxes.

That year, mutton was very cheap, and the money could buy nearly two catties of mutton, and a sheep cost fifteen and sixteen yuan, and we bought four sheep, and bought more than ten jars of wine, more than 100 yuan, several large boxes, and a meal in the Mid-Autumn Festival, eating and drinking. ”

Li Sangrou sipped the wine, her eyes narrowed slightly, thinking about the excitement of that night, and smiling.

"It's hilarious to think about." Gu Xi looked sideways at Li Sangrou, who was smiling warmly, and leaned back into the chair, "What about the second year?" Is that the case too? ”

"In the Mid-Autumn Festival of the second year, we have eaten whatever we want, and we have been eating for a year.

That Mid-Autumn Festival, we set up a flowing water banquet, with mutton and wine, and the dark horse said that it was a beggar gang conference.

I sat on the roof and watched them eat flowing water mats, and later, I took a boat and floated on the river to admire the moon and drink, and then I saved someone. ”

"He Shuicai?" Gu Xi looked at Li Sangrou and asked.

"Well, He Shuicai is a natural water person, he was hit by an arrow in the shoulder, everyone fainted, and he could still float on his back on the water, Dachang carried him back, healed his injuries, and he followed me.

The third Mid-Autumn Festival, with you. Li Sangrou raised her glass to Gu Xi.

"What day was the Mid-Autumn Festival last year, I can't remember clearly, at that time, it seemed that my injury was not very good?" Gu Xi looked at Li Sangrou.

"Well, I still have a fever and I'm sleepy most of the time.

Last year, it was a cloudy day in the Mid-Autumn Festival, and in the evening, it was drizzling, but when the day was about to dawn, the rain passed through the clouds, and the moon was big and round.

At that time, the place where the boat was moored, there was an orchard on the shore, and when the sky was white, the moon was still clearly visible, and on the fruit trees on the shore, a flock of birds were chirping and quarreling.

During the day, you didn't have a fever for a day, and then you got better. ”

Gu Xi's eyebrows raised, "I remember that orchard, it was a pear orchard, the black horse went to buy two large baskets of crisp pears, you made pear meat and shrimp balls, and stewed a pot of pear meat and Chuanbei soup." ”

Gu Xi paused, and then said with a smile: "Every autumn, the palace has to stew Sydney Chuanbei, which is not as good as yours, far inferior." ”

Li Sangrou glanced at him obliquely, "The food in Pan Xiang's Mansion is better than that of the imperial chef in the sixth department, this is true." The food I cook is better than the one in the palace, it is certainly impossible.

If my cooking skills are really better than the imperial chef who cooks for you, then I will definitely go to open a restaurant, at this time, I should have been famous all over the world, maybe I have been summoned to the palace and become the imperial chef. ”

When Gu Xi heard that he had become the imperial chef, he laughed out loud, held back his laughter, and wanted to sip wine, but as soon as the cup was brought to his mouth, he laughed again, and the laughing cup was almost unstable, so he simply put the cup on the side table.

Li Sangrou finished drinking a glass of wine and poured another glass.

"Girl, yes, that's very reasonable!" Gu Xi smiled for a while, picked up the cup, and raised it to Li Sangrou.

"You've had a very interesting Mid-Autumn Festival.

My Mid-Autumn Festival is the same every year, except last year.

Every year is in the palace, when I was a child, when Queen Xianzhang was still there, the Mid-Autumn Festival wanted to worship the moon and step on the moon shadow, at that time the eldest brother was fine, the second master, the eldest brother, the three of us, I stepped on your shadow, you stepped on my shadow, and had a great time.

Later, the eldest brother fell ill, and then later, Queen Xianzhang was a big trip.

After that, every year in the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is a palace banquet, music, toasting, watching Qin Tianjian worship the Taiyin Star, which is extremely boring. ”

Gu Xi sighed.

"Tomorrow night will definitely be like this, listen to the palace music once, and watch the Qin Tianjian worship again, the emperor has not been in good health in the past few years, and the toast will be exempted.

However, this year's Mid-Autumn Festival has to be spent with you, and tonight is called the moon festival. Tomorrow night is the court meeting. Gu Xi raised his head and drank.

"I don't like festivals, I don't like any festivals, it's because the festivals are too troublesome, there are too many rules, and I have to entertain this, entertain that, annoying!" Li Sangrou poured herself another wine.

Gu Xi smiled, poured the wine, and sipped it slowly.

After drinking a glass of wine, Gu Xi looked at Li Sangrou and asked with a smile: "You killed Qing Laizi, his daughter-in-law doesn't seem to hate you?" ”

"Well, Qing Laizi's daughter-in-law's surname is Zhang, her name is Zhang Mao, when her mother gave birth to her, a cat squatted on the windowsill, and her mother named her Mao'er.

Zhang Mao has a brother and a sister, and a younger brother and two sisters.

The two younger sisters were sold by her father and mother at the age of seven or eight, and when she was thirteen or fourteen years old and could take over the work of the family, her sister was sold to Nancheng Gen, got money, married her brother to a daughter-in-law, and bought more than ten acres of land.

Zhang Mao and her sister are both good-looking and can sell for a price.

When Zhang Mao went to Nanchenggen to look for her sister, she was taken by Qing Laizi, followed her home, gave her mother five taels of silver, took her deed of sale, and took it home to be a daughter-in-law.

Qing Laizi beat her, every day, without using her hands, saying that her hands hurt, she took things and hit her, she used what she caught, and she often bleed.

Just like that, in the first two years, she still felt that it was good to follow Qing Laizi, saying that she and Qing Laizi ate at the same table, and she ate whatever Qing Laizi ate.

She said that in those two years, she gained seven or eight pounds, and she felt that she was so blessed.

At least better than her sister, isn't it?

When Zhang Mao was brought home by Qing Laizi, her sister was still alive.

After two years, her sister was sick, Zhang Mao stole a piece of silver for two or three taels, and secretly gave it to her sister, and the next morning, Qing Laizi found out, beat her half to death, dragged her sister out, and whipped her on the street, and in the evening, her sister died.

On the day I killed Qing Laizi, in the middle of the night, Zhang Mao kowtowed to me outside.

Zhang Mao's scallion pancakes are delicious, and she also shakes a good mustard greens. ”

Li Sangrou squinted, looking nostalgic.

"Freshly shaken mustard greens are mixed with sesame oil and rolled with freshly cooked scallion pancakes, which is really delicious!"

Li Sangrou said, laughed, raised the cup, and took a sip of wine.

"Looks like you're not eating less?" Gu Xi glanced at Li Sangrou.

"Hmmm! I'll go if I want to eat it. Li Sangrou raised her voice at the end, looking very happy.

Gu Xi laughed.

"Why don't you ask, how do I know He Shuicai and this Zhang cat." Gu Xi looked sideways at Li Sangrou, and after a while, he asked slowly.

"When I came to Jianle City, the first thing I did was to try my best to inquire about you, and you naturally want to find out about me, do you still have to ask?" Li Sangrou glanced at Gu Xi.

Gu Xi sighed, stunned for a moment, and laughed out loud, "You, not me...... Well, I also checked, I didn't check so carefully, I only know He Shuicai.

Zhang Mao, these are the eldest brother's people to check, the eldest brother is meticulous and careful, and thinks about everything in the long term. ”

"Hmm." Li Sangrou hummed paradoxically.

She doesn't care about being checked, and she doesn't care who is checking her.

What she doesn't want to be known, she will hide it until there is nowhere to find it.

"I remember when I was on the boat, there was a time when the moonlight was so good, and you said it would be nice to have a flute, do you want to listen to it?" Gu Xi looked at Li Sangrou and asked.

Li Sangrou nodded.

Gu Xi signaled Ruyi, and for a moment, the clear flute sounded from nowhere.

Li Sangrou leaned back in her chair, sipped her wine, and looked at the full moon and the sparkling water in the distance, feeling a little trance.

This moonlight lake, the flute sound and the breeze, have traveled for thousands of miles, but there are no vicissitudes of life, and the face is fresh.