He pinched his thigh again, and it hurt.

So......

He didn't have to go to the conscription, and he didn't have to travel long distances to the north, just to open a tea shed in front of his house?

Lu Xu saw his expression change back and forth, and hurriedly said: "If you really don't want to, I can change to someone else, a few of them are willing, but it's not as convenient as you when their home is far away......

Scarface hurriedly said, "I do!" ”

Lu Xu couldn't see any willingness on his face, and said understandingly: "Do it for three years first, if you really don't want to, I will change people after three years." ”

Scarface: "...... Good. ”

It's a big deal that there are no guests, and it's better for him to keep an empty house for three years than to serve as a coolie!

Seeing that the personnel were also in order, Lu Xu began to divide the labor among them, "I will leave some food and silver taels for you, and you will bring water from nearby every day to boil some white water and tea." If the wood is cheap, you can harvest it, and when the food runs out, you can buy it from the neighborhood, and if you can't buy it, you can sell it. ”

Several people nodded.

Lu Xu: "White water is a penny, tea is a penny, most of the military households passing by, thousands of miles away, it is convenient." Oh, the sergeants on patrol, or the errand officers of the government office, don't pay for tea, just charge a fee for food. ”

A few people nodded again.

Lu Xu asked the key: "You know how to cook, right?" ”

A few people couldn't stop nodding.

Lu Xu: "Steamed steamed buns and boiled noodles, will you?" ”

In the empty room, even the wind was bleak.

Lu Xu was speechless: "Then how do you eat on the mountain?" ”

One person scratched his head embarrassedly: "We, we can roast rabbits, we can roast chickens." ”

Lu Xu: "What about the staple food?" ”

He said, "Bring it from home, or cook some wild vegetables and tree roots to make do." ”

Lu Xu: "......"

Good guys, with this kind of life, there are still so many people who are willing to be bandits? Lu Xu was full of despair.

After a while, Scarface said, "My mother-in-law will do it, or will I call her?" ”

Lu Xu was stunned: "Uh, is it convenient?" ”

Scarface was puzzled: "Inconvenient? ”

Lu Xu said implicitly: "If my sister-in-law doesn't mind seeing many outsiders every day......"

Several people still looked at Lu Xu blankly, Lu Xu understood, it seems that this place is more open than their Guanyang folk customs, and there is not such a serious defense of men and women.

He changed his words, "Then it's up to my sister-in-law, so I'll give her thirty literary wages a day, right?" ”

Several people were stunned, and their eyes suddenly sharpened.

Lu Xu was startled, "What's the matter?" ”

One said: "Little brother, oh, no, the owner, my mother is also quite good at cooking, you can come for twenty wen!" ”

Lu Xu: "......"

The author has something to say:

Lu Xu: I see that you have a clear skeleton and rich management experience, so you are definitely suitable for being a shopkeeper!

Brigand:......?

Chapter 140: Dengzhou City

On the second day, it was bright, and in the tea shop where Lu Xu was still ventilated on all sides, eight interviewers came.

There are men and women, old and young, and they are the relatives of Scarface.

Several of them had red eyes.

Scarface introduced them one by one, and finally pointed to a woman with small eyes and said, "This is my mother-in-law." ”

Lu Xu: "Hello sister-in-law." ”

The woman clenched her fingers stiffly, sighed twice, and hurriedly said, "The owner is good." ”

After that, the red and swollen eyes glared at Scarface, full of shame.

He came back yesterday quietly with a few sweet cakes, touched all over his body and left her dozens of dollars, and dealt with two mouthfuls of food casually, and then left him again, and said that he would come back in three years.

Three years?

Three years, who knows where he will die?

She held her breath and told him to get out of here, so that she could remarry a good family and save him from being afraid.

But he was really gone, and she didn't feel good about coaxing the child to sleep at night, sitting alone at the door wiping her tears, crying and crying, and in the middle of the night he pushed the door and ran back.

She thought about all the things she had done when she was a child, and she was crying sadly, and Scarface pushed the door and pushed her and the small bench to the ground, and she fell and squatted with tears in her eyes.

Scarface pushed open the door and was stunned when he saw his wife sitting on the ground, "What are you doing sitting at the door?" ”

His wife was so angry that she picked up the bench and beat him, "Won't you knock on the door first?!" ”

There was a burst of chickens and dogs, and the scar-faced wife hurriedly packed up and came over for an interview in the middle of the night.

It's all to blame for this unlucky husband, who caused her eyes to cry and swell, her eyes were already small, but now they can't see!

Fortunately, Lu Xu didn't judge people by their appearance, they all knew each other, and explained the matter of the tea shed to them at ease, explaining that these people were also serving in the tea shed and had no wages.

Lu Xu: "But if they do a good job, I will personally give them bonuses, and if they are willing to work after three years, I will also pay salaries and bonuses." ”

Several families also knew the situation on the way here, and said again and again: "It is cheap enough for them to stay at the door of their homes without having to go to the city wall to do coolies!" ”

Chen Lian, who was supporting the scene on the side, heard this, put his official authority in full swing, and nodded in style.

Then, it's time to try your craft.

Lu Xu prepared mixed noodles and thick noodles, and they also brought their own kitchenware and soba noodles, and began to cook with noodles.

This saved Lu Xu the trouble of cooking on the fire, and a group of people scored while eating.

In the end, Lu Xu hired two people, one was a scar-faced daughter-in-law, and the other was a woman about her age.

The salary has also been changed to 25 bunges a day for one person.

The two of them almost jumped up with joy, and immediately shouted to get to work.

Lu Xu hadn't seen such a cool woman for a long time, and he was very satisfied with the new female employees, paid them in advance, and hired six other people to do a day of short-term work, so that people didn't want to run from home in the middle of the night.

A group of people happily began to clean up, one of Scarface ran back to the village to transport thatch, Lu Xu took people to cut down trees, and Scarface's relatives also came at noon, taking tools to help saw wood, make tables, and make benches, and by the evening, the tea shed was already in shape.

The boxy room was filled with floors that were still not too flat, new tables, benches, thatched roofs, straw mat curtains, and freshly built stoves.

At the door, on the wood-colored square plank, there is a signboard written by Lu Xu himself, and a big "tea" word is hanging upright at the door.

Lu Xu looked at his Mobao, and sighed silently that his broken words that he couldn't handle were really ugly, and he pondered that he must ask Yan Junqi to write him a few signs to bring him next time.

The small tea shed has six tables at a time, and a bench can squeeze two people, which can accommodate forty-eight people, Lu Xu's caravan, and the two military households passing by experienced it in batches, and the noodles that Lu Xu moved out were almost empty.

Lu Xu had to unload the millet, wheat, and beans that had not yet been grinded, and let Scarface and them go back and grind it themselves.

In the evening, Lu Xu and the others thanked Scarface for the invitation, and did not go to their village to spend the night, but stayed on the side of the road for another night, and traveled north the next morning.

When they set off, the tea shop had already started, and the Scarface couple had brought a cart from their home to carry water from the stream to the tea shop.

After today, at least pedestrians who walk here will have a place to rest, drink water and eat, and replenish their strength.

Later, they did the same, as long as there were people in the team whose hometowns were nearby, Lu Xu would build a tea shed on the side of the road.

After coming and going, they didn't go to Dengzhou County for more than ten days, but the efficiency of building a house skyrocketed.

The military households and patrolmen who chased after them suddenly realized when they saw them: "You also built those tea sheds in front, right?" ”

Lu Xu: "Yes, yes, that's us, welcome to patronize!" ”

So, the latest one didn't even have the beams and pillars set up, so the guests had dinner first.

Chen Lian became famous in the patrol barracks, and he was unique for a while, and he had a lot of relationships with him along the way.

Chen Lian, who didn't trust Lu Xu before, gradually developed some affection for Lu Xu.

In any case, the food that Lu Xu unloaded all the way was real, and he did not charge the patrol soldiers for tea and water, and only charged the cost of food, which was also real.

When the tea shop reached the fifth, Lu Xu was cheeky and cried with Chen Lian that he was poor and miserable, saying that "it is easy to start a business and difficult to keep a business, and it depends on Brother Chen whether to lose or earn", Chen Lian also said boldly: "Don't worry, I'll ask someone to watch it for you." ”

After a long delay, they finally arrived at the county seat of Dengzhou.

Lu Xu is running out of cash on hand, and it's time to resell some goods for some money.

But when he arrived at Dengzhou County, looking at the dilapidated and low city tower and the dusty plaque, Lu Xu's heart sank.

When he entered the city, he saw that this Dengzhou City was not as lively as their Drinking Horse Town, and his heart was even colder.

However, Lu Xu and his entourage received a particularly warm reception in Dengzhou - the county magistrate of Dengzhou personally greeted them on the street.

Lu Xu had never enjoyed this kind of treatment along the way, and he was very frightened to enter the county office with this young county order, and his caravan also temporarily borrowed the post station in the county.

"Brother Lu has heard about what Brother Lu has done all the way, and he has worked hard all the way."

Lu Xu was taken aback, he was not a pure novice who didn't understand the routines at all, and hurriedly said: "The county commander praises the adult, but the small people don't dare." ”

Cui County Ling smiled heroically, "Brother Lu doesn't have to be polite, I am different from other county orders, Cui is a native of Dengzhou, and he should welcome Brother Lu for the people of Dengzhou." ”

"Dengzhou people?" Lu Xu was surprised, "Didn't Daqi not allow local officials to take up their posts locally?" ”

Cui Xianling laughed, "It's a long story, when Cui was in office, it coincided with the use of troops in Shuozhou, and the predecessor of Lord Liu died of old age and illness in office, and the court had no one familiar with Dengzhou for a while, so he made an exception and sent me back. ”

He said it tactfully and nicely, but in fact, it happened that Shuozhou County was in danger at that time, and the counties could be lost at any time, and those who had money, power and access were unwilling to come to Shuozhou to take risks, and in the end, he, a Shuozhou native, was thrown back.

During the scientific expedition, he not only returned to Shuozhou County, but also went directly back to his hometown Dengzhou County, and Cui County's mood was also very complicated.

He digested it himself for a while, others didn't dare to come, could he be afraid of a Dengzhou person? If he is scared away, how will the people of Dengzhou live?

After figuring it out, he took office with the enthusiasm to build his hometown.