Lu Xu smiled reluctantly: "Okay, it's me who is abrupt." ”

Several families who had a good relationship with him looked at each other, and the boatman surnamed Hao immediately said: "If Lu Dangjia wants to do this mutton hot pot business, Hao is willing to support one or two." ”

The others also said: "Yes, we are all interested in hot pot, if there is any inconvenience at hand, Lu Dangjia can ask us for help." ”

Lu Xu smiled, "I'll think about it again." ”

He sidestepped the subject, "Come, you can try my sister's new dim sum, and if it's delicious, welcome to my sister's shop." ”

Seeing that he took the initiative to change the topic, everyone was also happy to taste the pastry.

The cakes made by Hanlu and Xiaoxia are exquisite and delicious, and they are indeed a major feature of Guanyang today.

However, the store has only been open for a short time, and many people still don't know it.

This time it can be regarded as a good publicity.

Lu Xu didn't ask for money for the treat, and they ate rare mutton, so they were naturally embarrassed to eat and drink in vain, so they went home and let the family go to the Lu family's dim sum shop and ready-to-wear shop to shop more, which was regarded as compensation.

Hanlu and Xiaoxia suddenly have a lot of customers who are not bad for money.

However, Lu Xu was still very depressed.

All along, although he has done hard, it has been smooth, and there is nothing he can't do if he wants to do it, and this time he hit the south wall hard.

Privately talking about finding people, pulling people in, and then feasting on mutton hot pot, it has been half a year before and after, and no one has loosened.

Lu Xu said depressedly: "It seems that if you want to move these people, you can't just draw cakes." ”

Yan Junqi: "They are also businessmen, and they invest a lot, but they can't see the return, so they are naturally unwilling." If you can see the benefits......"

Lu Xu: "If there are ready-made benefits, I still need to beg them, and they beg me for the same!" ”

Yan Junqi smiled and said nothing.

But Lu Xu was depressed for several days and didn't think of a way, and people were not as energetic as usual.

He sometimes sat by the window in a daze, rarely a little confused.

On the day of rest, Lu Xu didn't have the spirit to go home, and after sending Yuan Manniang and them on the boat, he walked back to his home in the county to make up for sleep.

He had nightmares for several nights that he had lost his family, that he had not paid his debts, and that he had encountered bandits who wanted to rob him.

Lu Xu was depressed and made up for sleep, and he didn't want to dream about it, and the gang of bandits began to chase him again, chasing him all over the mountain, seeing the edge of the cliff, Lu Xu was angry, and roared "I'll fight with you" and jumped up to fight with people.

As a result, he jumped up from the quilt suddenly, startling Yan Junqi, who was sitting on the edge of the bed reading a book.

Yan Junqi: "What's wrong?" ”

Lu Xu was stunned, took away the magic power to fight with someone, sat down, puffed out his cheeks and put on his shoes, "It's okay." ”

"Nightmares?"

"Hmm."

"Fight?"

Lu Xu said angrily: "Damn, a few bandits want to rob me!" Robbed me twice! ”

Yan Junqi smiled and asked, "Then did you win?" ”

Lu Xu exhaled: "I woke up before I fought." ”

This breath made him unable to get up and down, he was already depressed, and now he is even more depressed.

Yan Junqi put away the book, "Go out for a walk?" ”

Lu Xu: "Hmm...... It's good. ”

Chapter 122: Standing Up

The two of them walked on the road and never said anything.

Yan Junqi led the way, and Lu Xu walked side by side with him.

Walking all the way, looking at the street scene all the way, just casually walking and relaxing, but as he walked, Lu Xu found that the route Yan Junqi took him happened to pass through all the stores of the Guanyang Alliance.

Tan Shishi's grocery store and mountain goods store left to him, the shop where others joined their alliance and hung the flag, the shop where Yuan Manniang and Hanlu did not hang the flag, and finally, the Lu Ji food shop that he ran by himself.

Today, Hanlu and the others also went home with Yuan Manniang, and the third aunt in the restaurant was not there, and the two families of Gouzi and Lu Yong were busy in the shop, and the food shop was still as busy from morning to evening as when it first opened.

Lu Xu stood across the street, stunned for a while.

Yan Junqi asked, "Do you want to go over and eat something?" ”

Lu Xu hadn't thought about it yet, but he was first seen by Lu Yong, who came out to give them away, and Lu Yong hurriedly beckoned them to sit in.

Lu Yong asked him what he was eating, Lu Xu thought about it, asked for a fried snail, a rice dumpling and fried fritters, and then two bowls of soy milk, and Yan Junqi ate it slowly.

During this period, the old customers and neighbors in the store ridiculed him, "Now Xiao Lu doesn't have to cook, just sit down and eat." ”

Lu Xu also smiled: "I'm all mixed up as a boss!" ”

They teased that Lu Xu gave each table a small plate of snails.

Nowadays, fried snails are not only spicy, but also have five spices and sauce flavors, taking care of guests who can't eat spicy, but the mainstream is still spicy.

In addition to the snails, they also fried some small river shrimp, Qinghe's specialty small river shrimp, the largest is less than two knuckles long, the whole body is transparent and blue, the shell is crisp and thin, wrapped in flour fried or fried directly in hot oil, are very good side dishes.

The children in the neighborhood love to buy, and the dog's daughter-in-law is patient, and they only need a penny, and she also sells it.

The left and right are just to go to the river to beat the reed leaves to drag a little more, and use the washed and dried flattened reed leaves instead of oil paper, which does not cost money.

The reeds used in the store were all beaten by the dog's father, and now the dog doesn't let him do heavy work, so the couple not only takes money to repair the house, but also helps their son and daughter-in-law.

The reed leaves are not yet at their maximum, but they can already be picked to wrap zongzi.

Wrapping zongzi does not need to be in the store, soak the glutinous rice at home before going out in the morning, close the store at night and go home, the dog's father and mother have prepared the reed leaves, wheat straw, dates, and brown sugar, and the couple brought dinner back, and the family began to wrap after eating.

The same is true for Lu Yong's family, Lu Yong's grandmother is not in good health, and Lu Yong took the reed leaves home from the store.

Now both of them can make zongzi.

Now that there are enough people, Lu Xu is full, and he instructed two apprentices who learned cooking skills in stir-frying, and he didn't stay in the store to help, so he rubbed his stomach and walked away with Yan Junqi.

After the meal, Lu Xu smiled again, and seemed to have regained his spirits.

"I've figured it out!" Sure enough, before he arrived at the door, Lu Xu was already in high spirits again, "They don't do it myself, anyway, I came from poverty and nothing, no matter how miserable it is, it won't be as miserable as it was at the beginning, it's a big deal that I will sell snails from scratch!" ”

Yan Junqi laughed.

Lu Xu said it with pride, and as soon as he got home, he began to rummage through the cabinets.

Seeing that his spirit was back, Yan Junqi silently picked up the book he hadn't finished reading in the morning and continued to read.

By the time he read the remaining half of the book, Lu Xu had already gone back and forth several times.

After a while, Lu Xu put a thick cloth bag heavily in front of Yan Junqi, and the sack fell to the side of the bed with a muffled "bang".

Lu Xu: "Jun Qi, you hide this silver for me." ”

Yan Junqi looked down at the silver in the bag, and waited for him to continue in surprise.

Lu Xu: "This is our life-saving money, in case I really don't go out of business, I will rely on you to support me." ”

Yan Junqi was stunned: "I'll raise you?" ”

Lu Xu nodded heavily, taking care of things, and was deeply aware of his ability to make bad money, "Of course, it also prevents me from spending money lavistly, if I don't pay attention to the money and spend it again, you have to watch me." After that, I made money, and I earned 100 yuan for you, and you collected it for me. ”

Yan Junqi stared at his clear, clear, transparent and simple eyes, as if he could go to the bottom at once, and suddenly smiled, "Okay." ”

He took Lu Xu's money bag away, "The money is handed over every day, if you don't give it, I will urge you." ”

Lu Xu was stupid.

He looked at Yan Junqi blankly, as if he had reacquainted with him again.

Then scratched his head, obediently said "oh", he was not afraid that Yan Junqi would swallow his silver and run away without paying it back, and began to pry Yan Junqi to help him come up with ideas.

"I thought about it, the merchants in Guanyang are mainly waterways, from Guanyang to the north, to the state capital will come to an end, and then they will go west along the river, and it seems impossible to move them to unload the ship and go north by land." Lu Xu sighed.

Yan Junqi nodded, he knew that Lu Xu was not depressed and decadent these days.

Lu Xu: "So I think it's better for me to form a group of people to go by land." ”

Yan Junqi raised his eyebrows.

Seeing that he didn't object, Lu Xu automatically acquiesced that Yan Junqi agreed with his idea, his interest rose a little more, and his tone was unconsciously and briskly, "Brother Tiger and Shishi, aren't they just walking by land, which means that they can definitely get to Shuobei by road." I just don't know if it's a long detour. ”

Yan Junqi nodded, "I'll go to the county school tomorrow to see if I can borrow some local chronicles and help you take a look." ”

Lu Xu nodded.

Yan Junqi: "When the second uncle comes back, you can ask him again." ”

Lu Xu: "Well, the second uncle must be familiar, hey, I asked him so much, I forgot to ask him which way he took last time." ”

Yan Junqi comforted him with a smile: "It is most convenient to go north from Guanyang to the natural waterway, everyone will think so, no wonder you are not thoughtful." ”

Lu Xu nodded carelessly, holding his chin and biting his lip and thinking nonsense, "It's definitely not easy for me to put together a team of people on my own, even if I can spend money to hire people, it's not easy to trust, you help me think about it, except for those who rejected me, is there anyone else who can join the gang?" ”

Putting all the money and goods in the hands of strangers, Lu Xu thinks he trusts people, and he doesn't dare to challenge human nature like this, if he takes the money himself and finds a group of unfamiliar people as companions, he doesn't have the guts.

Two fists are hard to beat four hands, no matter how hard he fights, when he arrives in a strange place, there are still strangers around him, and he has to be afraid.

This is also one of the reasons why Lu Xufei wants to pull others along.

Those shippers and merchants, even if they don't have enough money, always have many more trustworthy people at their hands than him.

To put it bluntly, he is still too short to make a fortune and his foundation is too shallow.

In addition to a few friends who can be trusted, they are basically clan relatives, so in such an era, everyone values clan relatives so much.

But he is the boss of the family, no matter how capable Lu Xuan and Lu Wen are, there is no reason to let them go together.

Lu Xu fell into trouble again for a while.

Thinking about it, "Why don't I go with my second uncle?" ”

Isn't it good to always let the second uncle escort the car?

The second uncle has no opinion, and his grandparents, uncles and aunts should also have a good chat with him.