The rear office of the inspection department of the third watch.

A semi-circular moon hung in the night sky, and the cold moonlight gently shrouded the eaves of the main courtyard. The courtyard was quiet, only the diligent weaving girl in the corner was still chirping. A few birds were half-asleep in a small nest in an oak tree not far from the door of the study, and although the glowing light in the study did not illuminate their home, it still alerted them. The fifth day of the first month, who was standing outside the door of the study, was also like these birds, leaning on the doorrail and dozing off little by little.

Suddenly, a sound came from the open window, which woke up the fifth day of the new year outside the door, and the birds opened their eyes in fright.

I saw a slender figure walk to the window, patted the person who was holding his head and closing his eyes on the pestle next to the couch, and said, "Xiao Song, you can wait for your young master to go back to the room to sleep, and come back tomorrow morning to listen to the news." "This figure is the first year of junior high school.

Xiao Song opened his eyes and looked up in a daze, his spirit had not yet returned to his place, but Lu Tong on the couch suddenly turned over and sat up, and asked sleepily, "What time is it?" ”

"It's almost ugly."

Lu Tong wiped his face and said, "Why haven't they come back yet, Brother Mo, can't it be an accident on the road?" ”

At the other end of the carved partition, Lord Shen on the side of the pear wood bookcase, was still writing hard, and when he heard the words, he replied without raising his head: "Hengshan bends here, riding a horse, although it is less than two hours, but I don't know when they will start, and the mountain road can't run horses, and it takes nearly an hour to go down the mountain during the day, let alone the night road?" If you're sleepy, go back first. ”

Lu Tong shook his head: "Since it's almost ugly, it must be coming back soon." Besides, I can't sleep when I go back to my room. ”

Lord Shen glanced at the sleep marks on his face, raised his eyebrows to express doubt, but did not say more, but put down the pen and stood up, walked to the bookshelf hidden behind the Bogu shelf, picked out a book, and slowly walked back to the table.

As soon as he opened the book and read two pages, there was a sound outside the door, and then the fifth day of the middle school spoke: "Master, Master Mo, they are back." ”

After a while, two sturdy men in strong suits walked in.

"How's it going?" Lord Shen put down the book, and before he could speak, Lu Tong moved a stool and sat at the desk, looking at the visitor with blazing eyes.

One of the people who came stood before he was old, with a beard, thick eyebrows and a high nose, it was Mo Ye Mo Qi in the mouth of the fifth year of the first month, and the one next to him was two or three years younger than him, and the other of the four guards was named Lu Qi.

"When it was almost dark, there was a fight, and several people died, and the stockade on the other side of Hengshan Bend was taken over by them. However, the village was not large, about less than 50 people, and it was Ma Huaide who led the people, nearly 100 people. Chu Yi brought tea to the two of them, Mo Qi took the tea cup and drank it all, and said, "Indeed, as Lu Wujin said, the weapons in those people's hands are very neat, I don't know where they got them." It's a pity that Lu Wujin didn't appear, and the two of us couldn't bring back the news from them. ”

Lord Shen shook his head and asked, "There was an accident on the way, why did you delay until now?" ”

Mo Qi coughed, his face was slightly red, and said: "When the two of us went down the mountain, we met the person with He Leopard's head, and we were startling the snake, we were going around in a circle, delaying for nearly an hour. Luoxia Mountain is very large, and it is easy for unfamiliar people to get lost. Although we had been to Hengshan Bend, we took a fork in the road when it got dark......"

Lord Shen didn't care, but asked with a serious expression: "You two have seen their battle situation today, how do you evaluate it, our previous plan needs to be adjusted?" ”

Mo Qi was embarrassed, and said with a straight face: "There is no need to adjust." At present, we are still concentrating on training the manpower as soon as possible. A few days ago, I recruited more than 60 people, I and Lao Qi and the two of them selected again, and selected 30 to be the strikers, these 30 people, how long does it take for you to check the background here? ”

Lord Shen said: "When I first recruited in, I have already washed and checked, you give me the list, and I will check it again." ”

Lu Tong interjected: "This is simple, almost all of the ones we picked have worked as coolies at the docks, and their net worth is not complicated, as long as we focus on the more than 20 people who came from outside the town." Brother Mo, you wouldn't have chosen all twenty people so coincidentally, would you? ”

Several men talked about the deployment again, and it was not until the rooster first crowed that it dispersed.

With the change of the situation, the casual Lu Tong was no longer at ease. Xiao Song was arrested and went to help train the troops, and he was left alone to patrol the streets, and he didn't dare to be too careless, so he began to work seriously.

……

In other words, since Miss Meiyu sang a little song in the Lilai Teahouse, there were indeed tea guests who came to listen to the music, so the shopkeeper Wang arranged two time periods of Sizhong and Xushi, so that Meiyu sang casually for two quarters of an hour, although the response was not as hot as expected, but it was also very good.

As soon as the little song of Lilai Teahouse became famous, Liniang, the mother of Manchun Courtyard, was not happy and offered to add money, but Shopkeeper Wang thought that his back hand had not been done yet, and he did not dare to offend Manchun Courtyard, so he sent Jiang Han to coordinate. In the end, Li Niang looked at the face of the shopkeeper Zeng and agreed that the two families would add 50 wen to Meiyu every day.

After another two days, Mr. Xu really invited two masters to play words, and decided to come to the store every other day to play words, and the reward was 150 yuan.

This cost is more expensive than inviting a beautiful jade alone, and it is not stationed every day, so the shopkeeper Wang is immediately a little unhappy. But under the joint persuasion of Song Yaozu and Mr. Xu, he was dragged to the Mingyuan Teahouse in Dongzhen to listen to it once, and nodded without hesitation when he came back.

On the sixteenth day of July, Jiang Han sent Meiyu back to Manchun Courtyard with more than one or two silver coins, and said euphemistically: "This month, Meiyu has been troublesome at both ends, today is the last day of our teahouse activities, tomorrow I will rest, my mother might as well let Meiyu girl rest for two days, and after a while, maybe I will invite the girl to the store again!" ”

Although the shopkeeper Wang unloaded the mill and killed the donkey, depriving her of the right to participate in the decision-making of the Lilai Teahouse, she really wanted to leave it alone, but she always felt in her heart that the current state of the shopkeeper Wang was very similar to her before - patting her head casually and taking it for granted at every turn. And, in her opinion, there is no need to choose between lyrics and singing!

Leave a line in everything.

She still did as the king's shopkeeper instructed, don't talk to death, lest it be too difficult to do when she is dragged out to clean up the mess in the future.

As the mother of Manchun Courtyard, if Li Niang didn't have the skills to know people, she wouldn't be able to mix up such a status. She only glanced at Jiang Han's face with a little too much smile on his chest, and then snorted coldly: "Little brother of the Jiang family, you don't have to be embarrassed, my Meiyu is now a little famous in Luoxia Town, and this is thanks to your teahouse." She glanced at Meiyu, who was sitting quietly on the side, and said, "Mom, I really ignored this girl too much before, I didn't expect her to have such skills!" This is the best, Mom, I don't have to worry about when I will be able to get back from this girl. The teahouse is a place that does not match our identity, and she will stay in Manchun Courtyard in the future, singing a little song to the guests in the lobby! ”

Well, she can finally consider the back road now, but this back road is blocked by the other party......

Jiang Han's mind suddenly flashed, and the scene of the shopkeeper Wang urging her to hurry up and find a way with a sad face.

Hopefully this never happens again.

……

The next day's Mu Xiu was exchanged for Jiang Han's remaining influence.

She suggested that they should rest for three days before starting a new event to get better results, otherwise the guests would not be able to tell the difference between the before and after activities, and there would be no sensational effect like June 16.

Song Yaozu and Mr. Xu were full of confidence in their planning, for fear that the activities that Jiang Han came up with before would overshadow the limelight, so they agreed without thinking about it, and Shopkeeper Wang wanted the store to be a sensation forever, so he agreed without thinking.

Jiang Han immediately put forward a request for each person to take a day off, and Song Xu and Xu were still busy with propaganda and took the initiative to refuse.

So, Jiang Han was lucky enough to get the opportunity to take a three-day break, and he only needed to send steamed cakes and milk tea and honey tea to the teahouse twice a day at the end of the morning.

Six days after the auction, the Zhou family has already begun to launch baked cakes. They only put up a notice at the door of the shop, and business was booming. Maybe they have other propaganda methods and channels, which is not something that Jiang Han can know.

It was precisely because of this, the steamed cakes in the teahouse sold much worse than Jiang Han expected, but fortunately, they could sell one or two hundred per day, and in the past few days, they have begun to buy and take away orders, which made her maintain her face and not take it for granted.

And the shopkeeper Wang, who originally thought that the cake could make a lot of money, was busy with the next event and had not yet reacted.

As for milk tea and honey tea, the response was very average at first. Most of the customers who enter the store are not young old men, and no one likes to drink that kind of thing, so every afternoon, Aunt Tian and Aunt Hua will still push the cart to Dongzhen to sell. In the past two or three days, as more people came to the store to buy steamed cakes, some people began to ask for two kinds of tea, so Jiang Han hung twenty or thirty cups into the well of the teahouse every day.

Although things are different from imagination everywhere, they are still on the right track.

That night, as soon as Jiang Han returned home from Manchun Courtyard, he asked Yun Niang to move the account books to her father's main house.

"One hundred and thirty taels, seventy taels were given to the king's shopkeeper, and we still have thirty taels left, plus the income of these days, we now have a total of nearly thirty-five taels of silver." Yun Niang Bala finished the Liu family's abacus and looked up at the father and daughter in front of her.

Jiang Han nodded with satisfaction and said, "Well, leave five taels to turn, and we will divide the rest in half." ”

Yun Niang looked at her in surprise and said, "What's it?" Aren't you going to use this money to pay off your debts? ”

Father Jiang didn't speak, but his gaze at Jiang Han was also scrutinized.

Jiang Han hurriedly said: "Pay it back, this silver was originally meant to be used to pay off debts!" It's just that I said at the beginning, let's do a food business together, and the money we earn is half ......."

As soon as she said this, Yun Niang glanced at her, cut off her words, and said: "Don't you say it so righteously—— I am now eating and living in the Jiang family, the Jiang family is carrying a bunch of debts, but I am brazen to divide the money, my conscience can't get by!" She paused to speak, her expression became a little serious, and she said, "Before, because of my identity, I was a little annoyed with my sister, but I am not a person who can't tell the difference between black and white......" She stood up, folded her hands at her side and bowed, "Sister and uncle, and Brother Liu, you have done so much for our sister and brother, this friendship, Yun Niang will remember it for a lifetime." ”

This gift made Jiang Han embarrassed, and he was dumbfounded for a while.

She just wanted to fulfill her promise, and she didn't mean anything else......

The exposure of her identity was originally something she did wrong, Yun Niang blamed her, she didn't think it shouldn't be!

Father Jiang took over the conversation and said, "Yun Niang, uncle is here to thank you first!" However, one thing is one thing, and half of the points were discussed between you and Yueya at the beginning, and you can take your money with peace of mind. However, the top priority of our family is to clear the foreign debts owed first, even if the uncle asks you to borrow the money, and then repay you in the future! ”

The matter is settled.

The next day, Jiang Han went to the teahouse early in the morning to deliver the cake, then carried the remaining cake, first repaid the remaining compensation for the ox cart and cattle destroyed in Shili Pavilion, and then knocked on the door of the ** creditor. Each family didn't pay much, some one tael, some five taels, and one went down, and three or four small creditors were cleared, and they also listened to a basket of good words about not wanting money.

Those uncles and aunts all smiled and asked her not to forget them if she had good things in the future, and some even pushed back the money she had returned, saying, "What else is this money for?" Just think of it as an uncle to add a molecule, and at the end of the year, you can just look at it and give some money! Jiang Han sweated profusely, and it was fruitless to say anything, and in the end he had to promise that if he opened a shop in the future, he would definitely come to them to make up for it if he didn't have enough money, so he was released.

The treatment before and after this is really bad, a few months ago, she was still caught by everyone and had to teach a few undesirable people.

After coming out of the house of seven or eight creditors, she went to Uncle Niu's house with her own cakes, milk tea, dry goods and meat bought on the street.

This time it was only thirty taels, and her father picked half of them from more than a dozen creditors, and the relationship was not particularly good, and the family background was average. But Uncle Niu is kind to her, and he cares for her father sincerely, if the money is not returned, people should go to see it, and the things should be sent. It's a pity that she rarely understood the etiquette once, but she ran into Uncle Niu who was not at home when he went out to dart, and Aunt Niu also went out to help. She had no choice but to put her things down, teased the five or six-year-old calf, and went home after a few awkward chats with the grandmother.

After appeasing the creditors, all that remains is the salary of Aunt Huatian.

At the beginning, I promised that in addition to the monthly salary of 150 Wen, there would be an additional bonus for doing well. However, because she turned over and destroyed the warehouse of the shopkeeper Wang, she had to pay 100 taels, and the bonuses of the two aunts were also delayed for two months. But these two have been working hard and complaining, and they have contributed to her everywhere, without any signs of negative slacking off, which made Jiang Han very moved.

"Aunt Tian, this is yours, Aunt Hua, this is yours!" Jiang Han wrapped the two strings of heavy copper coins in red paper, handed them to the two aunts, and said with a smile, "If it weren't for the two of you, I'm afraid our Jiang family's stall would have been unable to open a long time ago." It's not a lot of money, but you can do it without worry, and I will never treat you badly in the future! ”

"That's a lot, we can't earn it when we're out there! Xiaodong, you have a good brain, you are driving me away now, and I will not leave! Aunt Hua said angrily.

Aunt Tian, who was not smiling, made a Buddhist salute, looked sincere, and said: "Don't say that, the little proprietor, on weekdays, the ingredients we bring home are worth a lot of money, and these bonuses should not be asked for anymore......"

Jiang Han saw that she was going to hand back the string of money, and immediately stopped: "Don't, don't, you have to talk about it, I said that I would give a bonus, and I won't find a reason to talk back-I'm not testing you, you can take the money!" ”

Seeing her serious, the two aunts didn't say anything more, and happily went back with the money.

In the evening, Liu Dakang, who had not been to Jiang's house for a long time, appeared.