"I don't want to go crookedly in the escort team, and in the future, we will do business without the blessing of force." Li Dan leaned back on the chair with both hands on the back of his head:

"I used to live in the house too restrictively, and someone took care of everything, and it was very annoying to point fingers.

Now they're going to split up and kick us out, okay! Now I can return to the rivers and lakes, and I am free. ”

He turned his face and assured them, "Don't worry, Saburo has a good idea in his head. After we finish making trucks, we can also make cars, so that the rich people in the world can pay obediently.

Take your time, it's not difficult to earn money, there are opportunities! The couple smiled as he spoke.

"Hey, Master, when did you come back? What about Aunt Song? Li Dan suddenly remembered.

Su Siniang remembered the matter at this time, and clapped her hands and said: "It's really Ruobin who said it, and he is in Liuhe Nunnery."

She didn't have any money with her when she went out, so she had to use some hairpin ring jewelry. Thinking that Jing Zhenguan was more familiar with her, and that there were few people who knew her outside the city, she ran to the east first.

Who knew that those Kun Dao people were all very snobbish, and when they heard about her family's situation, they refused to take her in.

Aunt Song had no choice but to drag her body back to the city. Fortunately, the sister-in-law of Liuhe'an accepted it kindly, otherwise she would have planned to go to the City God Temple to crowd in a pile with homeless people and beggars! ”

Han An sighed when he heard this, and Li Dan gritted his teeth and frowned. Moon Shadow anxiously asked, "Then, what about her?" She was pregnant, and only two or three people in the family knew about it. ”

"Don't worry, girl, I've seen her.

At first, she was afraid and refused to go with me, but I told her that Li Sanlang asked me to look for her, and said that my man would go to the county office to save Moon Shadow at the same time.

She just believed it, and she had to kowtow to me, I couldn't stand it.

However, it is really inappropriate for her to come out like this in the middle of the day, so I agreed with Liuhe'an, let's hire a car in the evening and quietly pick her up at home, unaware and unaware. ”

Su Siniang shook her head proudly: "Master, you say this is good?" ”

Han An hurriedly nodded. Li Dan said: "That's it, if you bring Moon Shadow in the evening, she will be more down-to-earth when she sees Moon Shadow." ”

After saying that, he got up to leave, Han An wanted to leave him to finish eating, Li Dan told him that he had to discuss with Liu Yuansheng about dry food, and would eat at his house, and asked him to go and talk to Chen Gang and his son as soon as possible about the matter of investing in shares and building cars.

"This car is built, and with its speed and capacity, we don't have to carry too much dry food, and we can get supplies at any time anyway."

Li Dan said that he asked Moon Shadow to live here with peace of mind, and then hide out of the city together when the manor was repaired.

When he went out, Yang Dayi came back and saw him hurriedly greeting: "Li Sanlang, where are you going?" ”

Li Dan pulled him aside and said that he was going to take the people to Wannian: "I feel that this mining chaos is menacing, and it will affect this side."

Raozhou and Guangxin Mansion are next to each other, who can guarantee that there are no bandits?

It's really not safe on this way, so I want to train this group of people in the next ten days before leaving.

Every day, let everyone practice their muscles and bones, and then I want to teach them how to form a formation to protect themselves and how to retreat, and when I am busy with these two days, I will come to ask you for advice. ”

"Okay, good, I'll help you in the future. Why don't I go on this business trip with you? ”

Seeing Yang Dayi's appearance, Li Dan couldn't help but smile: "You ask Mr. Han's opinion first, I'll do something and come back." ”

Yang Da thought that he was busy leaving, so he had to send him off with his fists, and then went in to discuss with Han An himself.

Li Dan first went to Liu Da to talk about the dry food, asked him to buy ten stone rice noodles for later use, as well as pickles, dried meat, sausages, etc., and asked him to go to Su Siniang to receive twenty taels of silver for later use, and then returned to the sugar water shop at the gate of the West Market, where he made an appointment with Song Xiaoniu to meet.

When I entered the door, I saw that the calf was sitting inside. "To be brief, what's the takeaway this morning?" He sat down and asked as he drank the herbal tea.

"Li Biao found a tooth man surnamed Sun, that person just took me to see a small courtyard in Xianren, I think it's good, it's very similar to what San Lang asked for, it's just ......."

"Just what?"

"The courtyards are facing east, not south, and there are no shadow walls in front of ...... door."

"What do you want that thing to do? Isn't it when my father was alive, what kind of high-gate compound was installed? It's a good place for this small door! ”

Li Dan waved his hand inadvertently: "Let's go, take me to have a look, and call that tooth too." I don't have time to pick slowly, if it's right, I will order it today! After saying that, the two of them will settle the account.

Song Xiaoniu went to call the tooth man, and the three of them hurried to Xianrenli. This place is already on the edge of the northern city, and the street beyond is the southern city.

Yugan South City is irregular trapezoidal because of the lake and river channel, but the North City is relatively square, it is said that the North City is earlier, and the South City was later expanded to form.

This Xianrenli is next to the county school, and many of the renters are businessmen or Confucian students attached to the school, the houses are relatively old, and the courtyard is narrow.

The place that Sun Yaren refers to is two large houses on the north side, three wings next to the stove room on the west side, and two and a half rooms in the south room.

The yard is not big, there is a camphor tree in the northeast corner, and there are stone tables and stone benches under the trees. Looking at the house, it was empty, probably because it had been uninhabited for a long time, and the gray and white walls had fallen off.

"What does the owner of this house do, and why do you want to sell it?" Li Dan asked.

Unexpectedly, Sun Yaren sighed gloomily: "This family's original surname is Gu, and he opened a small coal mine in the mountains, and he has a lot of savings, so he bought this yard more than ten years ago.

Unexpectedly, the imperial court suddenly said that mining would not be allowed, and Mr. Gu almost suffered a lawsuit for this.

After checking up and down, he finally got rid of the crime, but he was also disheartened and decided to go back to his hometown in Fujian to farm. This house is being taken care of by a friend of his, Mr. Ye, and he only pawns it and does not rent it. ”

He looked at Li Dan's expression: "San Lang, look, this courtyard is quite quiet in the middle of the alley, and to the north is the sweet water well, and then you will go to the West Market."

Three hundred steps further to that place is Xichenggen, which is the deepest place in the county.

To put it mildly, the fall of the previous dynasty and the destruction of the city by the two wars of the current dynasty did not affect here, treasure land! ”

"Oh? So Mr. Gu only pawns and doesn't rent, does he still plan to make a comeback? Li Dan smiled bitterly and joked.

He knew in his heart the reason why the so-called two city breaks and did not suffer from the war here, and outside the west city wall is the Xinjiang River.

It is difficult to reach the city wall from the river, and eighty paces below the wall is a soft and impassable tidal swamp, which can neither be encamped nor attacked;

It is far from the north of the castle, so it will not be affected by any attack, and there are natural barriers to Higashiyama and Lake Biwa to the south.

Li Dan thought that he was out of tolerance this time because of the mine chaos, but he didn't expect that the owner of this family was also a mine owner, and he was quite fateful.

Asked again, saying that the full price of this yard was sixty-five taels, and the two sides competed, and finally sixty taels were sold.

But in the end, Li Dan spent a total of sixty-eight taels, because he needed Sun Yaren's help to find someone to open a side door next to it, so that the donkey cart could directly enter the half of the converted livestock shed;

The remaining six taels are the tooth money (one percent) that should have been collected, and the other fifty taxes on the deed fee handed over to the government are one, that is, one or two taels of silver, which cannot be escaped.

"Dare to ask the head of the household, but write the name of the child?" Sun Yazi asked.

Li Dan thought about it, shook his head and told him, "It's good to write Li Qian's." ”

"You really want to come with me?"

After breaking up with Sun Yazi, Li Dan chatted with Song Xiaoniu about asking Gu Da and Yang Yi to recruit people while walking.

Looking at the calf who nodded vigorously, he shook his head helplessly: "Then you will follow and be a calmer." ”

"What does a pacifier do?"

"Protect me and maintain military discipline."

"Okay, I'll do this!" Song Xiaoniu said firmly.

"Let's say okay, first of all, you can't violate military law yourself, you know? Otherwise, the sin will be added to the first degree! Li Dan stretched out a finger and shook it viciously in front of him.

"I, I'll follow you, I won't break military law!" The calf shouted.

"You go to Sai Kuixing, find someone named Yang Lian Flails, and ask him how he was pacified in the army."

After Li Dan said this, before he heard the word "good" from the little cow, he felt that there was a figure in front of him.

As the saying goes, "As soon as the connoisseur stretches out his hand, he will know if there is one", which is absolutely true.

Ordinary people walk unconsciously swinging their arms and legs.

People who practice martial arts are different, they use the qi of Zhongyuan to control the strength of the waist, abdomen, and hips, so the amplitude of the swing of the arm or the amount of force is secondary.

The swing arm may not be large, but the span and pace frequency of each step are very different from ordinary people under years of training.

There is another type of foot that does not touch the ground with the heels like ordinary walking, but the forefoot touches the ground, generating abundant pedaling power, the pace is fast and light, and it looks the same after standing still, but the actual heartbeat and pulse have already exceeded normal.

Li Dan was conscripted into the army in his previous life, and now he is learning boxing and kicking with Ma Jiu, and he can recognize this kind of kung fu person who has kung fu on his body.

In fact, there are many people who study martial arts in this era, but Li Dan knows that there are bandits outside the city, and he understands that there are still mining riots in the south, so he is more vigilant in his heart.

Seeing a person practicing martial arts suddenly at the entrance of this West Market couldn't help but attract his attention.

"What is Saburo looking at?" Seeing that his expression was wrong, the calf hurriedly asked.

"Those three people, I think they're a little weird." Li Dan said.

Song Xiaoniu looked at him along the hint: "The one with a green flower cloth turban?" ”

"And two beside him, a blue tie-dye turban and a black linen turban. Of the three, at least the green turban is a martial arts practitioner, don't you think? ”

Song Xiaoniu glanced at it twice: "Well, but there are many people who practice martial arts, and it's not strange to see one or two in the city." Am I too? He laughed.

Li Dan shook his head: "These three muttered, their eyes neither looked at the goods nor lingered on the girls, and they swept around, is it to prevent being public?" I don't feel like a good person! ”

As he was talking, he saw the green turban wipe the sweat with the placket of his clothes, leaving the two at the gate of the West Market, and walked to the west by himself.

"You go to the city to find Gu Da, and ask him to find a few brothers and take these two excuses first. I'll follow that kid and see what he's going to do. ”

After speaking, without waiting for the calf to speak, Li Dan had already walked out. He was wearing a light-colored round-necked Songjiang cloth robe, tied with a rhombic sweat scarf around his waist, looking like a young brother.

The two men looked nervously around, but they didn't reassure him. This strengthened the judgment in Li Dan's heart.

After walking a distance, Li Dan suddenly quickened his pace on tiptoe, getting closer and closer to the green turban.

Seeing that he had reached a T-junction, he chased him to a distance of only one shoulder before and after the man, but he turned around and walked forward quickly on the diagonal stall, and asked the stall owner with a smile:

"How much is the longest rolling pin? Give me two. ”

With that, the stall owner reached for the noodle pin, and he glanced back casually.

Remembering the silhouette of the man, he confirmed his thoughts, and then put the four coins in his hand in the basket where he collected the money, and took the pin and pinned it to his waist.

After swaying for a while, I saw that the man and himself had pulled away for another twenty paces, staring at the green turban, and suddenly his feet sped up and followed.

In this way, he flickered left and right, near and far, and saw that he was under the city wall, and the man suddenly stopped. Li Dan flashed behind a wooden house.

Quietly looking over, the man looked up from under the city wall for a long time, then looked left and right, and then turned south.

Li Dan looked, a hundred steps away in that direction, there should be an east-west alley perpendicular to the city wall. He raised his breath and hurried over, intending to stop in front of the other party.

There was no one on the street, only the faint "rubbing" sound of the tips of the boots falling on the dirt road.

Li Dan came to the corner of the wall, waited for a while, but did not see the person appear, and couldn't help but be a little suspicious.