"Not much." Li Shang calculated that the mold needed to build a good model for Wulin Village was about 50,000 gold. He and Shan Si sold Meng Yuling for 20,000 gold, and then sold Fang Kuo to get together with the money of the eleven families, which was definitely enough.

Ostentatious! Lu Yao looked at the little girl who was sleeping on the kang couch with jealousy, how could you be so reincarnated? He also wants to have a rich father.

"When weeding begins, I'll oversee the work." Qi Jian poured himself a cup of tea, two hundred wen a day, he had to stare at it with his own eyes, otherwise he would not be at ease.

Lu Yao pulled the upper hand and smiled: "We are two recruits." "He must look at his face, don't be cheating and playing tricks.

"It's better to recruit workers who don't live in the city." Feng smiled and said, "It's okay to live in the city, but you have to have horses." Otherwise, I would go to Shengran Mountain every day to pull a few clumps of grass, and I would have to go home. ”

"Recruit 200 people, divide each person into one acre of land every day, and then leave when they are done. In this way, it only takes two months, and the area of Shengran Mountain is clean. Li Shang demanded: "The grassroots must be uprooted." ”

"That's a good idea." Lu Yaozu thought to himself, some people really deserve to be rich. The ruler sword blinked, not overseeing... Then he will be in charge of inspecting the place.

Xin Shansi added: "We will give us the loss of the equipment used for weeding." ”

If it weren't suitable, Lu Yaozu would have wanted to sign up for this job. Two hundred wen a day, just weed, where to find it? One day of work is worth a month.

Knocking on the table, Lu Yao was colorful: "Wulin Village is feasible." "The world is like this, who doesn't want to find a place to be stable? There is his nephew in the village, coupled with the identity of Jiujiu's mother, Sheng Ranshan's proximity to Tantra is no longer a big disadvantage. It is also a place where it is easy to make a living, and anyone with a little vision can see the great advantages of Wulin Village.

"No, I won't bother to think about it." Li Shang said: "In a few days, Shansi's grandfather's family should come, and I will have a good talk with my grandfather." ”

Lu Yao swallowed, it is not enough to have martial arts, but also to have a text. In the future, if the imperial examination is revived, then their martial arts village will definitely be even more prosperous. Just thinking about it made his heart surge, he said solemnly: "I must take care of the villagers." ”

Xin Shansi calculated the days: "It's September 12 today, let's write a recruitment notice in a while, go to the east city gate or the north city gate tomorrow to find a sticker, and the day after tomorrow we will move a table and wait for people to sign up under the notice." Let's try to clean up Sheng Ran Mountain before winter. When the land comes out, the streets and residential land of Wulin Village can also be divided according to the specific landform. ”

"Then don't procrastinate..."Lu Yao looked at everyone present: "Then start writing a recruitment notice." "I got up and went to my room to get pen, ink, paper, and inkstone.

Xue Bingning leaned on the table: "Sister Yan Qing, you find me a business, and I will also do some small business." She thought about it for a long time, but she couldn't figure out what she could do.

"You can write and calculate, you can hire two cooks, open a small restaurant and be your own shopkeeper." Ruler sword suggestion. Xin Shansi nodded: "When Wulin Village is built, let's see if we can form a few caravans." ”

Feng Xiao laughed: "With the caravan, there will be more business that can be done in the village." He also didn't expect that at this age, he would still be able to follow the Lord to do great things.

"It's coming, it's coming." Lu Yao took a pen, ink, paper, and inkstone: "Let's talk about how to write this notice." ”

Li Shangdao: "Frame the age between eighteen and forty-five, men, to bear hardships and stand hard work. The remuneration can be settled on a daily basis, or on a five-day or ten-day basis. ”

"Weeding in Shengran Mountain must be uprooted, one acre of land a day, regardless of working hours." Xin Shansi picked up.

Lu Yao typed the draft, and after studying the ink, he dipped the pen in the ink and wrote. His handwriting is beautiful, vigorous and fluent, and his personality is obvious. Seeing that Xin Shansi was a little embarrassed, he silently decided to play less and practice more calligraphy in the future.

The next day, Feng Xiao led the ruler sword to the east gate of Chongzhou, dotted the city guards, and posted the notice. After only two hours, there was an uproar.

"Two hundred wen a day?" Many people did not believe it, and they all ran to the gate of the east city to see. Even Ma Hao was shocked, and raised his finger at his wife, and only after a long time did he confide in his heart: "If Li Shang and Yan Qing are as easy to handle as the Xu family, we will be big." ”

"Stop dreaming." The big-bellied woman who was looking at the account book didn't raise her eyes: "The wall of our house is high, but Yan Qing can touch it." Li Shang can also make us die in vain. ”

"You know, I just think about it."

"Just don't be delusional."

"That certainly can't." Ma Hao didn't dare to make trouble for the old father-in-law, so he brought the tea to his mouth and smelled the sound of eager footsteps.

The doorman came to report: "My lord, Master Datai is visiting." ”

And what about the master? Ma Hao took two sips of tea slowly, put the teacup back on the table, and did not intend to get up to greet him: "This official is busy with affairs, you apologize to the master on behalf of the official, and then take the master to his daughter's place in the guest house." "Tan Siyu has been eating and drinking in his house for half a month, and his silver has also been scraped out of his mind.

"Yes." The doorman took two steps back, turned and walked out of the main courtyard.

Taking off his black and gold robe, Datai's clothes are no different from those of the sixteen warrior monks. Waiting outside the house, Ansheng waited. In the past, he didn't have such patience, just a Daru Huachi mansion, who would dare to stop him if he wanted to enter?

The doorman returned: "Your Excellency is busy, I hope the master will forgive me." "Sideways please," said the girl in the guest house, and the little one will lead you over. ”

Datai's eyes were cold, his cheeks stirred, and he calmly turned around and said to the warrior monk: "You wait here for a while, and I will go back." ”

"Okay." Unaware of this, the monk retreated to the open space next to the gate, sat cross-legged on the ground, and recited the sutra with his hands closed and his eyes closed.

In the guest house, Tan Siyu, who was practicing, suddenly became restless, frowned slightly, and forcibly swept away distracting thoughts, but it was difficult to calm his mind, and he had to restrain the cold air that was scattered outside. Open your eyes and feel the emptiness around you. The servant girl who was waiting for her was gone again, and she could not speak. Walk out of the room and stand under the eaves. I don't know where Abba is?

Will he forgive her?

She didn't know that there was loneliness on her face.

When Datai saw the gate of the guest house, he abandoned the doorman, and when he arrived at the door, he saw the loneliness under the eaves.

Suddenly, Tan Siyu's heart twitched suddenly, she shook her body in pain, hurried over and knelt on the ground, tears broke like beads: "Abba, Ayu is sorry for you, Ayu disappointed you." ”

The tail of his left eyebrow twitched, and Datai held the Buddha bead tightly in his right hand, suppressing his galloping anger, trying his best not to move, and only then did he open his mouth and spit out two words: "Get up." ”

"Abba..."Tan Siyu raised her head with teary eyes: "You hit me..."

Almost as soon as he blurted out these words, Datai slapped him and slapped him crisp and loudly. Tan Siyu screamed in pain, his face was deflected, and the slap marks on his cheeks burst out.

"I'll get you up." Datai looked down, didn't she want to become the second Han Lingshu? In his memory, Han Lingshu had never cried.

Not daring to be disobedient anymore, Tan Siyu slowly got up, shrugging her shoulders. Datai turned around: "Wipe away the tears from your eyes and ... Leave for the Father. ”

"Yes." Everything is over, Tan Siyu exhaled, tried to relax the tense body, raised his hand to wipe his tears with his sleeve, and started to keep up with his father.

Datai said in a deep voice: "For my father's return to the Central Plains this time, Xifolong Temple sent sixteen warrior monks to follow. You should know what to say, what you can say, and not a word of your words can be spit out. ”

"My daughter knows."

"Don't let your father down anymore."

"Yes." After walking a few steps, Tan Siyu's mood settled: "Abba, Ma Yu sold the hundred hectares of wasteland in Shengran Mountain to Li Shang and Yan Qing. ”

After a pause, Datai looked back: "What? ”

"My daughter tried every means to obstruct it, but..."Tan Siyu pursed her lips: "Ma Yu reprimanded her daughter." ”

You're a good man! Datai took a deep breath, turned his head and continued walking. The father and daughter did not go to say goodbye to the Ma Hao couple, but went directly out of the house and went to the east gate with the sixteen monks.

The entrance of the east city was crowded with people, and under the recruitment notice, there were literate people standing in pairs, who read aloud the words on the notice and gave explanations.

"If you are less than 18 and 45 are higher, people don't want it. How the wages are settled, it depends on you. Whether you want to tie the knot a day or make a whole piece, you can do it. One acre of land a day, uproot the grass, and after pulling it out, you can go about your own business. You must be able to punch and kick, and you can protect yourself when you encounter wild beasts. Tomorrow, I'll sign up here. People want to look at people, people can't do it, don't. ”

Several people in the crowd were asking, "Is it really 200 wen a day?" ”

"Yes, one acre a day."

Before Datai and his entourage arrived at the city gate, they heard about it. Although the sixteen warrior monks often look at the Xiwang Mountain, they are not ignorant of the affairs of the world. For Yan Qing, who is suspected of being a disciple of Xuanling Ancestor, the temple pays more attention. When he left the mountain, the host privately explained that he must test whether Yan Qingxiu was the "Thirteen Chapters of the Mixed Yuan Sutra" if he had the opportunity? If so, they should salute and immediately send a message back to Mount Xiwang.

Chapter 91

Outside the city gate, Datai did not want to stay, but the sixteen warrior monks invariably turned to the recruitment notice. The notices were posted in high letters, and they didn't have to squeeze into them to see them. Xifolong Temple has a map of Damengdi, where Shengran Mountain is, the warrior monks are clear. However, compared to Datai, they didn't think that Li Shang Yan Qing bought a piece of Sheng Ran Mountain for Tantra.

"What if we do the work and the other party can't pay the money?"

Before he blurted out this question, a young man retorted: "What are you kidding, open your eyes and see who is the one who employs labor?" Li Shang Dr. Li, Baicaotang was built by him. Will he send those two sons of yours? ”

Several people chimed in: "Two hundred people will work for Dr. Li for two months, and it will be more than 2,000 taels of silver." Dr. Li asked Qinfeng Lou for a consultation fee in Tanzhou, and the opening was 10,000 gold. Brother, you don't have to worry about him having an empty pocket, but you still have to worry about whether your own strength can get into the eyes of others. ”

"That's it."

As he listened, the look on his face became worse and worse. Without that robe, he stood in the crowd of beings, and he was not as eye-catching as Tan Siyu who followed him. Except for one or two people who recognized him, they walked away from the point, and the people next to him only thought he was an ordinary old monk.

After reading the recruitment notice, the warrior monk left the city gate, his face was not revealed, and he continued to travel east with Datai's father and daughter.

Tan Siyu said as if he was unintentional: "The piece of Shengran Mountain that has always been barren and strange is a pity, but now it is in the hands of Li Shang Yan Qing, the two masters with vision and courage, it must not be long, and we don't have to hurry to Chongzhou when we go out of the demon Hui Linxi." ”

"The more peace there is in the world, the less suffering there will be." The broad-faced monk who walked in front of the warrior monk spoke in a gentle tone: "Amitabha." ”

As soon as his heart sank, Tan Siyu heard the sound. Although these warrior monks entered the Central Plains with her father, they had their own opinions, and they did not want to obey her father or the Tantras.

The crowd outside the city gate has been around for a long time, and it has gone in waves and more and more. The response to the job postings was extraordinary, and there were fewer people until the evening.

It was dark and the gates were closed. A middle-aged man in a gray monk's robe and with inch-long hair came to the job poster after loading and unloading coolies at several Zhoujiangkou wharves. The heads of the coolies were tall but not burly men, most of his face was covered by a beard, and his calm eyes were full of experience, and he looked up.

"Brother Ye, is it really written on the notice that two hundred wen a day?" The man, who was not tall but stockier than the other four, had a sweat towel tied around his wrist and was illiterate, but he still stood on tiptoe and squinted at the sign.

The bearded man known as Brother Ye fixed his eyes on the payment, and he said: "Li Shang recruits people to go to Shengran Mountain to weed, one acre a day, two hundred yuan, to be able to fist and feet not afraid of wild beasts, we are all within the range of age." If you want to go, come here tomorrow to sign up. They recruited only two hundred men. ”

"Two hundred wen a day, call two hundred people, and at the end of that day, it will be..." The round-faced boy behind Brother Ye snapped his fingers.

"Forty taels of silver." The last monk spoke up.

"Yes, yes, it's forty taels of silver." The round-faced boy looked at his four fingers, with a look of envy and jealousy: "I don't know if Dr. Li lacks a son?" ”

"With your appearance, you can't cast eighteen times into his knees." The big eyes on the side smiled haha.

"Forget it, I'll earn him ten taels of silver first." The round-faced boy lowered his hand, unbuttoned the loose belt of his trousers, lifted his trousers, and fastened the belt.

Brother Ye turned his head, his eyes swept over the monk, and looked at his five brothers: "Are they all gone?" ”

"That's for sure. Two hundred wen a day, thirty days a month, we can earn six taels of silver a month without falling a day. In the big eyes, the young man gestured: "I can do this work until I die." "They get up early and go to the dock to unload and load the ship to earn a few copper plates?

"Then I won't go to the docks tomorrow, get here early." Brother Ye reminded: "They only recruit two hundred. ”

"Okay." Five people in unison.

"Let's go back." Brother Ye stood still and waved his hand. The round-faced boy asked, "You're not going back?" ”

Brother Ye looked at the monk: "I still have something." The five of them followed their gaze and turned their heads to look behind them. The monk raised his hand: "Under Jiang Cheng, he and Cheng Ye are old acquaintances." ”

"Let's all go back and rest." Cheng Ye urged.

Old acquaintances are not old grudges, and the old man in his big eyes laughed: "Brother Ye, then let's go back, be careful yourself, don't be too late." Uncle Liang is still waiting at home. ”

When everyone left, Cheng Ye turned around and looked at the payment of the recruitment notice again. Dragons give birth to dragons and phoenixes give birth to phoenixes, and Li Shang should be looked up to like his grandfather and father.

"I didn't expect you and me to see you again, but at the Zhoujiangkou Wharf." Jiang Cheng took the first two steps, and the last time he saw him was twenty years ago, when he first went down to Shifeng Mountain, and Cheng Ye would also be seventeen years old when he just ran a business with his father. Cheng Ye's father, Cheng Yuliang, was the chief steward of the largest caravan of the Li family in Tanzhou.

He and Jiang Cheng met in Bian Guangcheng, and the second meeting was in Yuyang, and then ... It's today. The memory of the seventeen-year-old was surging in Cheng Ye's mind, and since he was a child, he longed for the life of his father leading the caravan to the north and south, and practiced kung fu until the age of seventeen.

But he never expected that the first run was the end. Their caravan traveled south, passed through the Seventeen Cities, and then returned to Yuyang, where they were attacked as they approached Longxi. The bandits were masked and fierce, and the caravan guards suffered heavy casualties. When his father saw that something was wrong, he escorted him to escape. But he dragged his father and escaped.

The caravan was robbed, and my father blamed himself, and was about to rush back to Tanzhou to ask the master's family for guilt, but he heard that the Li family in Tanzhou was destroyed overnight. He and his father didn't want to believe it, so they secretly infiltrated Tanzhou in disguise. When they arrived at Fanglin Alley, the bloody aura in the alley had not yet dissipated.

His father knelt on the ground and cried bitterly, his heart was like a knife, and the Li family was where he grew up. His mother died of illness when he was three years old, and since then he has lived in the Li family, eating food cooked in the Li family's big kitchen and reading Li family studies.

The Li family has the grace of knowing his father, and they are also kind to him. Over the years, their father and son have been hiding in the areas of Yuyang, Longxi, and Chongzhou to secretly find out who attacked their caravan, so as to track down the group of people who destroyed the Li family.

Dad has been the caravan steward for more than ten years, and he is as meticulous as a hair, and he has dug up a lot of things from some clues. Only the more I check... The more powerless their father and son became. The other party's power is too great, and it is difficult for them to avenge the Li family.

Later, Baicaotang spread out in various cities, and the name of Li Shang flowed into the rivers and lakes. His father was excited and said that this Li Shang was Bi Li Shang. He also deeply hopes that it is.

Li Shang is low-key and uncertain. He and his father couldn't find him, and they didn't dare to trust Baicaotang, after all, there was a Bai family behind Baicaotang. They didn't see it in person, and they didn't want to hand over what they had found. Recently, Li Shang came to Chongzhou with his wife and daughter, and his father was excited and timid.

When we finally met, Cheng Ye's eyes flashed: "I thought you would never cut your hair in your life." "A man who grew up in Shaolin is a rebel. When I first met, his father said that this kid couldn't eat Shaolin's bowl of vegetarian food.

"It's not just you, I'm surprised." It's just that he has gone with Qing, and it is only a trouble for him to keep three thousand silks. Jiang Cheng smiled faintly: "What about you, you stopped for a long time, are you missing?" ”