The back door of Chen's house.

Chen Huaiyu reluctantly boarded Li Zhaoji's carriage, Chen Zizhuang hugged his fists and said: "Zhaoji, Huaiyu is stubborn, but his nature is not bad, you take care of it." ”

Li Zhaoji smiled slightly: "Master Chen, don't worry, with me Li Zhaoji here, I will definitely not let him lose a single hair." ”

"With your words, I am relieved." Chen Zizhuang said solemnly, his eyes kept glancing at the carriage, obviously he was also a little uneasy, but he also knew that if his young son did not experience something, he would never be able to grow up.

Moreover, in the future, whether it is a bank or a group exercise, as long as it is carried out, it will be a big deal, and if he does not arrange people in advance, these key positions will have to be done by others in the future, and even be controlled by Li Zhaoji's people, which is absolutely unacceptable to him.

The housekeeper of the Chen family stuffed a bag full of silver into the carriage, and Li Zhaoji boarded the carriage, and the carriage slowly left.

"Master, why are you crying?" The housekeeper looked back and saw his master crying, and asked carefully.

"Huaiyu is spoiled by us, this time, I don't know how much hardship I have to suffer, although Li Zhaoji has real skills, but he is fierce, even Lin Cha's hand dares to cut off, and I don't know how to deal with Huaiyu. Ah Fu, you said that I arranged it this way, is it wrong? Chen Zizhuang sighed and said, his face full of remorse.

The housekeeper said: "The master is right to arrange it this way, the fourth master really needs to experience it, but the master doesn't have to worry too much about the fourth master will suffer, I think that Li Zhaoji dares to be disrespectful to Lin Zongbing, because the two sides have a conflict, but with you, they are working in partnership and their interests are bound, so he doesn't dare to do anything to the fourth master." ”

on the carriage.

Chen Huaiyu sat with his legs open, occupying most of the position, he suddenly raised Erlang's legs again, and his boots swept over Li Zhaoji's face, Chen Huaiyu glanced at Li Zhaoji, and said lightly: "The surname is Li, where are we going?" ”

Li Zhaoji smiled and hooked his hand at Chen Huaiyu, Chen Huaiyu was puzzled: "What do you mean?" ”

Li Zhaoji said: "Come over here and raise your face." ”

Chen Huaiyu squinted: "What are you going to do?" ”

He didn't do what Li Zhaoji said, but when he was arrogant, he always held his head high when he talked to Li Zhaoji, so he did the same as Li Zhaoji's instructions.

Li Zhaoji was unceremonious, slapped him in the face, and directly slapped Chen Huaiyu again, this slap was very loud, and a blood-red slap mark suddenly appeared on Chen Huaiyu's face.

"The surname is Li, you dare to hit me!" Chen Huaiyu covered half of his face and shouted.

Li Zhaoji didn't care, and slapped Chen Huaiyu on the left side of his face with his backhand, Li Zhaoji said: "You will follow me in the future, I will teach you the rules first." I'm here, no matter where I come from, I just look at my ability, if you are so unruly and yelling, I will beat you again.

Also, don't call me Li, call me the big shopkeeper. ”

"My dad looks up to you and partners with you to do business, but you have a tail, and you really treat yourself as a thing...... Chen Huaiyu scolded, but Li Zhaoji didn't give him a chance to show his eloquence at all, and slapped Chen Huaiyu seven or eight times in a row, causing Chen Huaiyu's cheeks to swell.

"Tang Mu!" Li Zhaoji shouted loudly.

Tang Mu, who was outside the carriage, poked his head in, and Li Zhaoji said: "I'm tired, Chen Huaiyu's rules, you come to teach, if he owes his mouth, he will slap him, and if his hand owes, he will cut off his fingers." He didn't go to be an official, there were fewer bits and pieces, and he didn't get in the way. ”

"Yes, Shopkeeper." Tang Mu was about to come in.

"I ...... I'm not making a fuss, I was wrong. Chen Huaiyu was beaten violently, and it was the first time he had been beaten like this when he grew so big, but seeing Li Zhaoji's ruthless appearance, Chen Huaiyu knew that if he continued to make trouble, it would not be as simple as being beaten.

Chen Huaiyu sat honestly in the corner of the carriage, didn't dare to shout or stilt Erlang's legs, covered his painful face, and didn't say a word.

"Didn't you just ask where we were going?" Li Zhaoji said.

Chen Huaiyu immediately raised his hand to signal that he didn't dare: "Don't ask, listen to you, listen to the big shopkeeper." ”

Li Zhaoji lifted the curtain and said, "I still need your guidance, let's go to the place where you slept last night, Yuxiang Building." ”

"Yuxiang Building!" When Chen Huaiyu heard this word, his whole body was shocked: "Don't dare, don't dare, I don't dare to do those things anymore, the big shopkeeper doesn't have to test me, I'm under the big shopkeeper, let me do whatever I want." ”

Chen Huaiyu is a person who can bend and stretch, he is now thinking about stabilizing Li Zhaoji and finding an opportunity to escape immediately, just with his face that was beaten into a pig's head, his father can no longer let himself follow Li Zhaoji.

Li Zhaoji pinched his neck directly, pushed his head out of the carriage, and said, "Look, where are you going." ”

Chen Huaiyu immediately pointed the way, Li Zhaoji ordered the coachman to go to Yuxianglou, Chen Huaiyu was surprised: "You really want to go there." ”

Li Zhaoji nodded slightly, Chen Huaiyu thought about it, and said: "It's to hide from someone to assassinate, I heard people on the street say that the chief soldier Lin Cha has a lot of grudges with you." Some time ago, when the Oriental Trading Company opened a shop in Guangzhou, Lin Zongbing's subordinates still went to make trouble, and if it weren't for the presence of Mr. Zhao Wenji, the governor's guest, I am afraid it would be difficult to do. ”

"Yes, I have the handle to kill him, but I'm afraid that this old boy Lin Cha will not follow the rules of the rivers and lakes." Li Zhaoji closed his eyes and said lightly.

Chen Huaiyu said in his heart, no wonder Li Zhaoji dares to beat himself at every turn, this is a master who is not even afraid of the general army, on the ground in Guangzhou, what else dare not do?

Li Zhaoji said again: "When you arrive at Yuxiang Building, you can find a girl to play, this thing is for you to use, but if you dare to run, or contact the outside world, I will break your legs." Ten days later, we will leave, and if during this period, the Chen family knows that you were beaten by me, then you will be unlucky.

Because it would break my cooperation with your father, do you know the consequences? ”

Chen Huaiyu shrunk his neck in fright, if the Chen family broke off the cooperation with the Oriental Trading Company, the interests involved would be too great. I just didn't give Li Zhaoji a good face, so I was beaten up by this guy, obviously he is a person who will be revenged, if he spoils such a big deal, I am afraid that he will directly kill himself.

Chen Huaiyu nodded immediately, not daring to think about running away anymore.

He took the box handed to him by Li Zhaoji, and when he opened it, there were several pieces of bark inside, which seemed to smell strange.

"Big shopkeeper, what is this?" Chen Huaiyu asked.

Lee Siu-ji said: "Cabinda. ”

"What is Cabinda?" Chen Huaiyu was puzzled.

Li Zhaoji said: "Foreign medicine, from Africa, use it, let you change small guns for guns, and show your strength again." ”

In this era of underdeveloped medicine, there are some plants with special medicines, such as cabinda, which are especially effective for men, such as cinchona bark, which is a special medicine for malaria.

And the Cabinda that Lee Siu Kee had in hand was given to him by the Governor of Macau, Shi Luobao, which is a special medicine produced in Africa and only produced in the Portuguese colonies.

The reason why Li Zhaoji gave it to Chen Huaiyu was to let him have fun with peace of mind and not to provoke right and wrong. As for personal use, Li Zhaoji has proved in practice that he doesn't need it for the time being. And the ladies are not around, and Li Zhaoji can't use it.

Zhaoqing, Liangguang Governor's Palace, backyard study.

Shen Youlong sat at the desk and finished his breakfast, he had already begun to cherish his blessings and health, his life was very regular, breakfast was very simple, and even ordinary gentry ate better than him.

"Master, this is the newspaper that arrived yesterday afternoon." Song Bao came in from outside the door and placed the yellow pamphlet he was holding on the table in front of Shen Youlong.

When Songbao was cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks, Shen Youlong looked at the newspaper, and his face became more and more solemn.

Songbao put down his chopsticks, pinched his shoulder, and said, "Master, don't be sad, look at everything, you are not in good health now." ”

You don't need to read the Di Bao, Song Bao knows that there is no good news above, since his own lord became the governor, there is nothing good about the Di Bao from the capital, either the East captives entered the Kou border wall, broke the city for dozens, and captured millions of people and livestock, or the thieves jumped off the beam in the Central Plains and slaughtered the city to exterminate the clan.

He felt that this time was no exception, but who would have thought that Shen Youlong would actually burst into tears.

"Master, master, what's wrong with you?" Song Bao was startled and hurriedly asked.

Shen Youlong didn't speak, just cried, Songbao hurriedly ran out of the study, and as soon as he went out, he saw Zhao Wenhe hurrying over, and hurriedly said: "Mr. Zhao, hurry up and take a look, my lord read the Di newspaper, and he was sad and crying, and he couldn't help himself." ”

Zhao Wenji asked as he walked: "Could it be that something big happened in the north?" ”

The voice of this was very loud, and Shen Youlong in the study also heard it, and when he saw Zhao Wenji, he blurted out: "Mr. Zhao, the thief entered Huguang, then Li Zicheng became arrogant and self-reliant." ”

Zhao Wenji picked up the newspaper, looked at it carefully, and was shocked, it was written that Li Zicheng had established the Dashun regime and was self-reliant.

"Alas, it's finally come to this uncontrollable step." Zhao Wenji said with emotion.

Since the Apocalypse Dynasty, Shaanxi and Gansu began to make trouble, the war between the court and the thieves has lasted for 20 years, and in the past 20 years, the court has sometimes soothed and sometimes suppressed, but under the internal and external difficulties, the thieves are getting bigger and bigger, and now everyone knows that the thieves are out of control.

And the Battle of Songjin has also ended, and the field army of the Ming Dynasty was sent by Hong Chengchou, everyone knows that for the thieves, they can only be cared for.

But now that Li Zicheng is self-reliant and founded the country, he will not give the imperial court this opportunity.

"Dong Weng Mo wants to be like this, things thousands of miles away are not something you and I can decide, what can you do if you are sad, can you cry Li Zicheng to death?" Zhao Wenji said.

When Shen Youlong heard this, he nodded heavily: "What Mr. Zhao said is that now the chaos of the Eight Pai Yao has come to an end, and the two Guang are coarse, and it is the time for the old man to work hard and save grain and grass for the imperial court." The old man must not have a trace of chaos, if the two Guang can't support the imperial court, then the thieves and thieves will become bigger, I am ....... I'm going to give it well. ”

"What Dong Weng said is, come, come, don't sit still, the student has just come back from Guangzhou, things in Guangzhou have changed greatly, and Chen Zizhuang is going to do group training."