Chapter 39: Covetousness
"In addition to the Taiping Sect, I heard that there were also water bandits on the Canglan River, who robbed the materials transported from the county seat to the counties several times, and the commercial houses from the counties to the county town were also robbed, and now the waters have begun to be patrolled."
"What's the use of just patrolling in the nearby waters, unless it's a full support, otherwise, from Qingshui County to the county seat, but it takes two days and one night, such a long section of water, it is possible for water bandits to appear anywhere."
"The county town mobilized garrisons to suppress bandits everywhere, how do you feel that the effect is not very great, but some small mountain bandits have been destroyed along the way, and the really fierce bandit army is still making chaos everywhere."
"The main reason is that these bandit troops are too cunning, they will run away immediately after grabbing a place, and they will never stop, and when the garrison of the bandits arrives, they will run away long ago, unless they can block the bandit army in advance, or know the route of action of the bandit army."
"I heard that some of the mountain bandits killed by the garrison are homeless people who fled from Yishui County and can't survive."
"You mean, killing good and risking merit?"
"Shhhh
"Don't talk about this, now that the price of pork has risen again, you can only eat fish every day, or those dignitaries will enjoy it, and go to Jufulou every day to eat medicinal food and medicinal wine."
"The medicinal food in Jufulou is really delicious, I went to eat it once, but the price is too expensive."
"The captain is here."
"Good morning, Captain."
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When the people from the logistics institute saw Chen Xuan, they all opened their mouths to say hello and stopped talking.
Seeing someone greeting him, Chen Xuanmu nodded his head, but his face was full of thoughts.
After a few months of calm, the Taiping Sect people reappeared, and they were also pretending to be the head of the Changchun Taoist Temple, secretly spreading the teachings of the Taiping Sect, purchasing grain, and water bandits appeared on the Canglan River, and the garrison suppressed the bandits suspected of killing good and risking merit.
"How long has it been quiet, and is it going to be chaotic again?"
Chen Xuan sighed in his heart.
The restaurant is now on the right track, because there is a county lieutenant in the background, and the medicinal diet of Jufulou is the best in Qingshui County, so the business naturally has nothing to say, a few days ago, the restaurant paid dividends, and he took three thousand taels of silver.
Now I go to work every day, I practice martial arts in the logistics institute, and when I am tired, I read medical books and medicine books, and the chef of the restaurant comes to train every few days.
Some medicinal materials that are difficult to buy on the market are purchased through the logistics institute, and he secretly intercepts some of them, and returns to the secret house to refine medicine and alchemy after work, and his proficiency is improved, and everything is developing in a good direction.
This kind of life is beautiful.
If this is chaotic, it will not be so comfortable.
The only good news is that he is now staying in the logistics institute, and even if there is a real fight, the first to be mobilized is the patrol team, the county army, the city guard army, etc., and the logistics institute is responsible for logistics in the rear.
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Tianxiang Restaurant.
Since the opening of Jufu Building, the business of Tianxiang Restaurant has been getting worse and worse.
Tianxiang Restaurant was originally positioned as a high-end restaurant, but now the market is all occupied by Jufu Building, and guests are all to Jufu Building, whether it is a dignitary or a businessman who invites guests to come and go, they are all to Jufu Building, and no one comes to Tianxiang Restaurant.
Jufu Building is now the signboard of Qingshui County.
If you don't go to Jufulou, you will look down on each other.
As for the ordinary people, it's okay to go to the restaurant to eat.
Therefore, Tianxiang Restaurant is getting worse and worse, and the money every day is getting less and less, and in the end, even the salary is not enough to pay.
In this case, Ling Ye can only close the restaurant, send everyone home, and hang up the sign for sale, he can't open the restaurant at a loss, he opened the restaurant just to make money.
Now that it has lost money, the restaurant will naturally not continue to open.
"Without the income of the restaurant, relying on the filial piety of the gangs in the East District, it is only 300 taels a month, which is not enough to spend."
After dismissing everyone, Ling Ye sat alone in the empty restaurant with a sad face.
He is a martial artist of the Quenching Bone Realm, and one Purple Jade Bone Cleansing Pill costs five taels of silver, even if he only takes one a day, it will cost one hundred and fifty taels a month, and there are other expenses.
The house he lives in now was bought when he was a head catcher, and the tooth shop saw that he was a head catcher, so he agreed to pay one hundred taels a month, as well as more than a dozen servants and maids, and several concubines he married, which added up to three hundred taels a month was not enough to spend.
As for the head-catcher, it is almost negligible.
It is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift.
In the past, he had to run around every month to earn money to buy secret medicines, what house, servants, maids, and concubines, these didn't even think about it, there was no extra spare money at all.
But now, Ling Ye has all this, he has enjoyed it, and he is used to being lavish, and if he wants him to return to his previous life, he can't do it, and he doesn't want to go back to the poor life he used to have.
"Silver, I need a lot of silver, where can I get it."
Ling Ye pondered hard.
"It's all to blame on that damn Chen Xuan."
Ling Ye cursed in his heart.
If it weren't for the other party to make a Jufu Building, his Tianxiang Restaurant would have opened well, and three or four hundred taels of silver would have come in every month, plus the filial piety of the gang in the Eastern District, he would have six or seven hundred taels of silver every month.
That Jufulou is really profitable, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a daily progress.
That is, the county lieutenant standing behind him can cover such a big business.
Moreover, Jufulou's business is good, and the sales of the business with medicinal materials have also risen sharply, because not only Jufulou has to use medicinal materials, but other forces are also secretly researching medicinal food.
The market in Qingshui County has been preempted, but Yingchuan County is more than one county.
The business of those big forces is medicinal materials, since the medicinal materials business has not been affected, this is naturally a happy one, even if the medicinal diet is good, it cannot replace the secret medicine.
"By the way, this kid has dividends in Jufu Building, and he took three thousand taels of silver from Jufu Building a few days ago."
Thinking of this, Ling Ye's eyes couldn't help but light up, revealing a look of greed.
If he could get these three thousand taels of silver, it would be enough for him to spend a few months.
This is not the first time he has done this murder and robbery.
When the bandits broke through the county town and killed and looted in the rich area, he took advantage of the chaos to rob several shops, so that he had the money to buy Tianxiang Restaurant.
"It's not proper, if you kill this kid, you can only get three thousand taels of silver, and it's a lot of trouble to kill him, the county lieutenant will definitely investigate this matter thoroughly, keep this kid's life, and you can rob it once a month." Ling Ye secretly said in his heart: "If only I could control this kid and be obedient." ”
"This kid's parents have already returned to the West, and there is no rest of the family, so controlling the family will not work." Ling Ye looked thoughtful, "In this case, it can only be controlled with poison." ”
Just do it.
Ling Ye left the restaurant and went to find someone to get poison.