Chapter 186: Good News
Taking advantage of the fact that the shop was not busy after the Midyear Festival, early in the morning of this day, after the young couple entrusted Zhengzheng to the Qian family, they drove the ox cart to the county.
With their previous experience in choosing shops in the town, the young couple planned to walk around this time and familiarize themselves with the streets and locations in the county before going to the town.
Now it has been more than six months, you can eat some soft food such as rice cereal, the little two are not afraid of coming out for too long, and the fat son will be hungry at home.
Soon after entering the county, Chu Yi found an inn, drove the ox cart in, gave the shopkeeper some money, and parked the ox cart in the inn's Masi, and then the little couple went into battle lightly, intending to take a good look at the prosperity of the county.
Although he grew up in Xing'an County when he was a child, Shen Luzhu came to the county seat only a handful of times, the first time he was arrested by Ding An and a group of county officials, and at that time he only felt that there was a cold wind everywhere, and it was lonely and depressed.
The second time was the Lantern Festival the year before last, and Chu Yi also drove the ox cart like this today, and took everyone to visit the Lantern Festival, and all kinds of colorful lights on the street were dazzling.
And this third time is now, unlike the previous two midwinter seasons, or bleak or lively winter street scenes, Xing'an County in the summer has more market gas and vitality, and the small vendors along the street and the shops that open their doors to welcome customers can be seen everywhere, warm and orderly.
The little couple also has no purpose, all the way, see that this snack is good and buy a copy, see that there are new things to sell and run to see, after paying the money and chat with the boss a few words, so after a morning, when the little couple randomly found a roadside stall for lunch, which place in the county is the most prosperous, which street is about some shops, it was the little couple to understand a seven, seven, eighty, eight.
After a brief bite, the little couple was about to ask the boss about where there was a shop nearby, when they were attracted by a noise on the street.
"Catch him, don't let him run!"
"If the government catches the thief, let it go!"
Before Shen Luzhu could react to what the situation was, he saw a man holding something in his arms, and he was running from a distance at a very fast speed, chasing a group of people behind him, and the person who was being chased was still waving his arm on one side to drive away the onlookers on the side of the road, while deliberately bringing down a large piece of things on the roadside stall, trying to stop the pursuit of the people behind him.
The man got closer and closer, and saw that he was about to bump into Shen Luzhu, who was standing on the side, but fortunately, Chu Yi hurriedly reached out and took the person back into his arms, and kicked a small stool placed by the stall owner on the side of the road.
At the same time, a person in pursuit not far away also picked up a tea bowl from a stall and smashed it, and the man who escaped was hit by a double blow, and his body shook and he lost his balance and fell to the ground, and then was instantly overwhelmed by several officials who were chasing him behind him.
Chu Yi didn't care to go forward to see the excitement like everyone else, and when he saw the man being subdued, he hurriedly checked his wife's condition: "Ah Zhu, how are you, did I meet you just now?"
Shen Luzhu shook his head, opened his hands and turned around to show Chu Yi: "I'm fine, he didn't touch me, it was really dangerous just now, I was stupid there, fortunately Chu Yi pulled me!"
"That's good ......", Chu Yi finally breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to propose that the two of them leave to find Lingxing, when he was suddenly stopped
"Brother of the Chu family? But Brother Chu Yi?"
When the little couple heard the sound, they turned around and looked back, and saw Ding An standing in front of the arrested man, looking sideways at them, and when they saw the two of them turning around, they smiled and said, "Sure enough, it's you, Brother Chu Yi, don't come here and be fine!"
The two sides said hello, and Ding An asked the official behind him to bring the people and the stolen goods back to the yamen first, while he stayed and continued to talk to the young couple: "Why did you come to the county at this time, but you came to do business?"
Although the acquaintance at the beginning was not good, for Ding An, the young couple has always been grateful and trusting, and there is nothing to say about their family wanting to move to the county to do business, so they told their plans and plates.
Ding An also really didn't expect that he hadn't seen him for more than half a year, and this little couple was actually going to sell from the village to the county now, which was really amazing.
"That's a good feeling, I really want to congratulate Brother Chu and my brother
Sister, how about it, do you need my help, how does the shop look, are you satisfied?"
Chu Yi waved his hand and said humbly: "The eight characters haven't been skimmed yet, but there is nothing to worry about Brother Ding, now you just need to find a shop to help find a satisfactory shop."
Ding An nodded and smiled, "You two husband and wife must be fine! But I still have to remind you, don't believe the words of the man, or know more about yourself, so that you can have the bottom of your heart. I don't think it's as good as this, if you don't hurry back, I'll take you around, and find a guy to talk to?"
If there were people like Ding An who lived in the county to lead the way, things would naturally be much smoother than if they were wandering around by themselves, but Shen Luzhu didn't want to delay Ding An's errand because of his own trivial matters: "Why don't you forget it, Brother Ding, don't you still have official business?"
Ding An waved his hand and explained: "I was resting today, and I came out to buy some things after lunch, and I happened to see the scene just now, so I helped drive two streets, and I couldn't delay the official business in the yamen."
Even so, Ding An was very enthusiastic, and the little couple naturally had nothing to shirk, so they followed Ding An to go shopping again.
"The county is much larger than our Changshui Town, with a large area and a large population, and the streets like the ones we visited just now are among the most prosperous places, and most of the shops on the street have been opened into restaurants, teahouses, and theaters. Now this street is not as lively as before, but it is also the main street of the county, but because the yamen is on this street, the former county magistrate is a happy and quiet, lively shops are not allowed to open on this street, although there is no such thing now, but probably because of habit, those who are too lively are not opened on this street, so it is a little quieter. But it's a good thing for you, the county's Yizhuang is also around here, and buying paper money here will definitely be better than the business in the other place."
At this time, in addition to parking the corpses involved in the county government, Yizhuang will also store the coffin corpses that are unclaimed and need to be temporarily stored in the homes of nearby residents.
Ding An took the young couple to a neighborhood and continued to introduce: "Today's Xin County Commander is a good official who does practical things for the people, and our county has implemented the store stall registration system since the beginning of this year, the size of the shop stall and where it is located. The business content and the owner's surname are recorded one by one, which is not only easy to manage, but also provides a lot of convenience for the bosses of our shop. In the past, the stalls along the street were doing their own thing, either they were fighting each other all day long because of the need to grab a position, or they were in front of someone's house or in a position on the street, but now they are all right, and everyone is doing business at the specified time and place, and there is no delay in making money, and there are many fewer disputes."
Shen Luzhu sighed, "No wonder I feel like those stalls are all in order along the way."
"After you go back and set up a shop, it's best to go to the yamen as soon as possible to register for it, there is no harm!"
Saying that, Ding An took the two of them into a very large shop on the street, and the owner of the house saw that Ding An suddenly appeared in his own shop, and immediately got up with a smile and greeted him: "Yo, what kind of wind is blowing today, why did Ding Zhutou come to my small shop in person?"
Ding An said lightly: "These two are my friends, I want to rent or buy a shop in the county, and I want to ask the boss to help me find a suitable one."
When the boss heard this, he hurriedly bowed to the little couple behind Ding An and said, "What are the two bosses planning to do? You can tell me any requirements you have, and I will help you two find a satisfactory one!"
The young couple told each other about their needs, and the boss of the shop patted his chest again to promise that he had found a satisfactory one, and then asked, "I just don't know where to notify the two of you after finding a suitable shop?"
Chu Yi was just about to step forward and say a sentence that he could come over once every ten years, but Ding An on the side grabbed the first conversation: "Boss, do you know where my family lives?"
"That's nature, that's nature, if the villain has news, notify Ding Zhutou first?"
"That's what I mean." Ding An turned to Chu Yi and explained, "You are too far away, you can't
I came to the county every now and then, and I heard all the requests you just mentioned, and I will inform you when there is a real fit!"
"Then I'm going to bother Brother Ding!"
After paying the fee, it was already half of the afternoon when I came out of the line, although I was already able to eat some supplementary food now, but I still couldn't leave my father and mother for too long, and the little couple wanted to invite Ding An to dinner as a thank you, but now they can only put it aside for a while!
After separating from Ding An, the little couple hurriedly returned to the inn where the ox cart was kept, and hurried back with their own ox cart, much faster than when they came, and finally rushed back to the mountain village before dinner.
Shen Luzhu got off the ox cart in front of his yard, and he didn't have time to enter the yard, so he hurried to the grandfather's house next door, and as soon as he entered the yard, he saw Zhengzheng who was sitting in the cart and having fun with the raccoon flowers.
Hearing the movement, the raccoon flower tilted her head and meowed at Shen Luzhu, and then stopped playing with Zhengzheng, stretched as if she had completed the task, jumped off Zhengzheng's cart, ran forward, jumped on the wall between the two courtyards in a few steps, and disappeared into the wall with a whoosh.
Shen Luzhu walked to the side and squatted down, clapped his hands and beckoned to his fat son, "Zhengzheng, look who is back, do you want to think about me?"
But who knew that the Zhengzheng child turned his head to look at his aunt when he heard the sound, and then twisted his body back suddenly, looking angry and didn't want to deal with Shen Luzhu's small appearance.
Such a big little meat ball actually had a temper, and the adults were amused by the upright little appearance, Shen Luzhu, who knew that he was at a loss, had to come over and coax him again, and Chu Yi, who came later, also accompanied him to tease his son.
Fortunately, it was a child with a small temper, and after a while, he hugged his aunt's neck affectionately and amused his father.
I thought that this time the rental shop should be the same as the previous time in the town, and it would take a few days to complete, but I didn't think that a few days before the Mid-Autumn Festival, Ding An, who went back to his aunt's house in the village to visit relatives for the holiday, brought back good news to the little couple.