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Xie An went to kick Liu Ming's door early in the morning.

The middle-aged and elderly people already felt less, and coupled with the fright, Xie An basically didn't sleep all night.

When Liu Ming opened the door, he went into the house, closed the door, and whispered: "Shopkeeper, the old man reminds you again, we didn't go anywhere last night, and you have been negotiating with me in my house about selling wine next year, do you know?"

Liu Ming thought that Xie An was worried that he would betray him, so he said casually, "Don't worry, I'm very tight-lipped."

Xie An grabbed his shoulders and said seriously, "I'm not joking with you, no matter who it is, even if it's the government, catch you quickly, or a stranger asks you, you have to answer like this, understand?"

"Not really, right?" Liu Ming was quite surprised: "Could it be that someone died yesterday?"

Xie An nodded with a solemn expression.

Liu Ming sighed a little, immediately slapped his mouth, and said, "Master Cao Yun, we were in the mansion last night, and we haven't been anywhere."

"It's good to understand."

Xie An breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Yesterday at the dock, when you were selling noodles, I mentioned to the dock brothers, I want to go to Mingyang with you today, let's pack up and set off in my carriage."

After Liu Ming got dressed, Xie An immediately dragged him and boarded his own carriage.

The carriage walked a little, and he deliberately stopped the carriage, bought some cooking cakes on the side of the road, and chatted with the vendor Ke Jin for a while about his going to Mingyang.

After that, the carriage set off again and headed towards Mingyang.

Along the way, Xie Anxin had a lot of trouble, and he didn't stop when he passed by Liu Ji, but went directly to the direction of Crazy Knife Village.

Before he could go up the mountain, two strong men jumped out, with a steel knife in one hand, and stopped directly in front of the carriage.

"What are you doing here?"

Facing the bandits' interrogation, Xie An stuck his head out of the carriage window and said, "Cao gang Xie An, come and talk to the seventh master."

Xie An sent a letter yesterday, and the village naturally knew about it.

However, the two bandits said, "The owner of the village is meeting guests, if you want to see the owner of the village, please wait."

"How long will it take?" Xie An asked.

"I don't know, but the guests have been in for half an hour, and it's almost time to come out."

While he was talking, a carriage came down from the mountain.

The carriage was rickety and looked quite shabby.

It's like the car of Mingyang's group of coachmen.

The two bandits saw the carriage and immediately got out of the way: "The guest has come out, please Cao Yunye go up the mountain!"

The two of them roared like bells, and the carriage on the opposite side sensibly deflected to the side of the road.

Xie An leaned into the carriage and closed his eyes.

Soon, the coachman pulled the car up the mountain, and Liu Ming jumped out of the car first.

When he saw this cottage, Liu Ming suddenly exclaimed.

If the previous bandits, the cottage was considered a.

Then this cottage is a village!

The wooden fence alone is made of thick logs with a thickness of two inches, tied together and inserted into the ground.

The sharpened top has a feeling that you will be disemboweled.

The gate is also made of rough wood tied together.

On the right side of the stockade, there is a tuntian that cannot be seen at a glance.

Many bandit-like people are working in the fields.

Once inside, you can see many wooden houses.

These wooden houses are even more elaborate than those made by the current farmers of the Willow Kee Restaurant.

In comparison, the wooden house of Liu Kee Restaurant can only be regarded as habitable.

And the wooden house of Crazy Knife Village can be called a house.

In the center of the wooden house, there is a large open space.

In the clearing, there was a group of bandits, holding a sharpened straight log, stabbing repeatedly at the sound of the trumpet.

Doing stabbing exercises.

Bandits, they still have to train soldiers?

Liu Ming was stunned.

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When Xie An arrived outside the meeting hall of Hurricane Village, Liu Ming saw Qiu Laoqi from afar.

Qiu Laoqi *** put off his shirt, and his tendons and flesh trembled, looking really burly.

"Brother Qiu!"

Xie An arched his hand as he walked inside, "Long time no see."

"Big brother!"

Qiu Laoqi trotted over, hugged Xie An, and said happily, "I was just looking for you to drink."

"Oh? Am I right?"

Xie An smiled, "What's the matter, did you get any new wine?"

"That's not it," Qiu Laoqi looked proud: "This wine I made, it's really powerful......

Halfway through speaking, he suddenly pointed at Liu Ming in surprise and said, "You, you, you...... Aren't you the shopkeeper of Willow Kee's Restaurant?"

Liu Ming stood still and made a gesture to him: "Seventh Master, Liu Ming of Liu Ji Restaurant came to pay a visit."

"Hey......

Qiu Laoqi sighed, took two ingots of silver from the table casually, and handed them to Liu Ming: "I drank too much that day, I didn't pay attention, and I forgot to give you the silver, you won't be surprised, right?"

He actually thought that the purpose of his visit was to ask for silver?

What kind of fool is this?

Liu Ming smiled awkwardly, pushed the silver back, and said, "Seventh Master, I came here this time to discuss some business with you?"

"Oh? Talk to me about business?"

He was not polite, and after taking back the money, he sat down on a chair and said, "Say, who are you going to kill, and how much money to give?" I decide the price depending on the situation."

He was so natural, but he couldn't fix Liu Ming, and quickly explained, "It's not this business, it's another business."

"Then you can wait, I'll have a drink with my old brother."

With that, he brought up the jar of wine.

took out two more bowls, poured a bowl for Xie An, and said happily, "Brother, try?"

"I won't try this," Xie An smiled and pushed away the wine bowl: "This wine, the old man is selling, ten taels of silver a catty."

"What? Are you selling?"

Qiu Laoqi raised his head in shock: "Or ten taels of silver a catty? So expensive?"

Xie An nodded at Liu Mingyi: "Working with him, I earned more than a thousand taels of silver this year, it's a bit interesting, right?"

"He?"

Qiu Laoqi looked at Liu Ming carefully at this time, and said suspiciously, "You are a restaurant owner, and you can also make wine?"

"Don't underestimate him, he may be making money," Xie An accosted, "He said he wanted to talk to you about business, so I took him up the mountain."

As soon as he heard that he was making money, Qiu Laoqi sat up straight: "Then let's talk about your business first, let's talk, what business are you going to do with me?"

"I want to invite you, and your brothers in the whole village, to go to my Liu Kee Etorium, and be our security."

"What's that?" Qiu Laoqi was puzzled: "What is security?"

"That is, responsible for the safety of everyone in our Liu Kee Restaurant area."

Syllable!

A wine bowl smashed directly at Liu Ming's feet.

Qiu Laoqi stood up with an angry face, pointed at Liu Ming and said, "What about the pastime of ***? Let Lao Tzu make you a nursing home?"

"It's not a nursing home!"

Liu Ming hurriedly explained: "First, we don't sign a slave contract, you are free to come and go, and second, if you want, I can give you half of Liu Ji's profits, as for how you and your brothers divide it, that's your business, I won't interfere."

"Get out! Otherwise, Lao Tzu will kill you!"

Qiu Laoqi roared wildly.

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