was busy until dark, Lu Xu was so hungry that his chest was pressed against his back, and he was about to close the store, and there were still customers in the store who wanted to buy things.

Lu Xu closed the door first, settled the accounts for the last few people in the store, and pulled over the bench to sit down to rest.

Lu Xuan was leading people to clean up the warehouse in the back, and when he saw that the front was closed, he also locked the warehouse and asked Lu Xu to go back to the inn for dinner.

Lu Xu took a few bites of food and asked, "Do you remember the couplet posted in my house?" ”

Lu Xuan thought carefully with chopsticks, "Couplet? ”

Lu Xu: "It's not in the county, it's in the village!" ”

Lu Xuan thought for a while, "There is an impression." ”

Lu Xu smiled, he knew that Lu Xuan's memory was better than his, "You write that couplet." ”

Lu Xuan: "......??? ”

He put down his chopsticks and wanted to reach out and touch Lu Xu's forehead.

Lu Xu dodged away and said in disgust: "What are you doing?" ”

Lu Xuan: "I still have to ask you!" It's been almost a year, can I remember? How many times have you watched it, how many times have I watched it, and you don't remember me, can I remember? ”

Lu Xu: "......"

Lu Xuan picked up the chopsticks and continued to eat: "The one in your house looks like a painting, how do I know it?" I don't know as many words as you do. ”

Lu Xu hated it: "Can't you recognize it more?" ”

Lu Xuan was also angry: "You should be Yan Shulang?" Wouldn't it be over if you go back and ask him? ”

Lu Xu: "......"

It's not like he didn't ask.

That's right, he asked, why didn't Junqi say it?

Lu Xu held his chopsticks and fell into deep thought.

Lu Xuan muttered, "Okay, what do you want to do with the couplet?" ”

Could it be that when you see a nearby cultural play shop, you think of Yan Shulang?

Lu Xuan didn't understand, he knocked on the table with his knuckles, "Come back to your senses, big brother, think about my shop first, what do you think about opening a grocery store in Qinglong City by ourselves?" ”

Speaking of the grocery store, Lu Xu's mind began to buzz with math problems again, and he complained: "Why did you open a grocery store?" ”

According to his plan, these things were shipped to Qinglong City to find a few big customers to wholesale and dump the goods, so why bother with retail?

Lu Xuan disagreed: "I see, Qinglong City lacks these, even the price of chopsticks is a lot higher than that of Guanyang, and they are unwilling to bid when the whole vehicle is sold to the merchants. ”

Lu Xu pondered, it seems that the monopoly of commerce and trade in Qinglong City is also very serious, he sighed: "But we are short of manpower at the moment, you open a store, who cares?" ”

Lu Xuan: "Just hire someone." ”

Lu Xu: "Who to hire?" ”

Lu Xuan: "Jiusheng." ”

Lu Xu: "Who?" ”

Lu Xuan said incredulously: "Lu Jiusheng! Do you remember the couplet or do you remember the long life? ”

Lu Xu was annoyed and ashamed and wanted to beat people: "I remember! …… If you go back and you're not afraid of being beaten, you let Jiusheng stay. ”

Lu Xuan snorted: "If I tell Qiuyun's sister-in-law Jiusheng to be the shopkeeper here, she will have to kowtow to me, and I will have to hold the child to find Jiusheng." ”

Lu Xu thought about it, it was really possible.

Although Lu Jiusheng's surname is Lu, he is not Lu Xu's family.

He has a lot of children, there are eleven brothers and sisters together, the children in front are still treasures, and they are worthless in the back, and his father named him, all of them are blindly improvised for a long life - when he was born, the time was very long.

Of the eleven children, he was the youngest, a few years younger than his eldest nephews. The previous brothers and sisters had already married a family, and when the brothers broke up, he was only eight years old, an eight-year-old little child, and he was not valued at home, so naturally Qian Hetian had no share in him.

His father and mother took him to live in the brothers' houses in turn, and it was okay at first, but when the children at his brother's house increased, everyone thought he was a burden.

When he was about to get married, his mother was gone, and his father was confused, and he didn't remember him at all.

No one spoke for him, and his brother and sister-in-law were naturally unwilling to give him a good look.

There were no houses, there were not many fields, and no one from the nearby village was willing to go to his house.

The last person to talk about is also a poor family in a small village in a neighboring town.

The young couple got married, and they lived in a dilapidated house that his eldest brother's family didn't want, with wind and rain leaks, and the wall had already been eaten by snakes and rats. His daughter-in-law was cleaning up the house at home and was almost bitten by a snake.

In the end, Li Zheng couldn't look at it, so he asked his brothers for a circle of money for him, and took some money from the Lu family ancestral hall to let him build a house again.

Lu Jiusheng didn't dare to build a big house, the couple didn't hire anyone, they built two thatched houses on the edge of the village, opened up the wasteland and farmed the land by themselves, and the farmer and his wife both worked for people as part-time workers, and now they have two children, and their lives are still passable.

When Lu Xu bought a mountain and hired people to go up the mountain to cut down trees, his family was the first to sign up.

Lu Xu recruited people this time, and Lu Jiusheng was also the first batch to sign up, he wanted to make more money, rebuild a house, and let the children live more spacious.

Lu Xu thought about it, and still had to ask Lu Jiusheng to come over and talk.

It's hard to be away from home.

Especially since he has no experience in doing business, he will definitely encounter all kinds of unexpected difficulties, and no one can say anything about being wronged.

Lu Jiusheng is seven or eight years older than Lu Xu and Lu Xuan, but he looks like he is in his thirties, and he is also a little wooden.

Lu Xu exhaled and told Lu Jiusheng about the difficulties and troubles he might encounter.

Qinglong City is not as complex as Guanyang, and its snobbery is not comparable to a small county.

If it was in Dengzhou or Guanyang, Lu Xu would definitely dare to let them come and do whatever they wanted, and he would be confident that he would be able to get to the bottom of whatever went wrong.

Keqing Dragon City......

He really can't.

He's been here a few times, and the local snakes in Qinglong City haven't looked at him squarely.

In such a place, let alone Lu Jiusheng, Lu Xuan and Lu Xu are not at ease.

Lu Xu: "Qinglong City is not as good as Guanyang, I don't have any way here, when we go back, if you encounter any trouble, we can't help you at all." ”

When Lu Jiusheng heard him say this, he also had some retreat, but after thinking about it for a long time, he still said: "I'm here to do some small business honestly, and I don't want to offend people." ”

In the past, in order to make money, he worked as a coolie, replaced others to do labor, he could do coolies, this sheltered business, is it more difficult than doing coolies?

Whether it's for himself or for the sake of his children, he wants to try it anyway.

Lu Xu has always liked clever and lively guys, but looking at Lu Jiusheng, he somehow thought of the first time he saw Lu Yong.

Lu Yong carried a basket to sell zongzi, he saw it, he was so frightened that he couldn't speak smoothly, he asked Lu Yong to set up a stall with him to sell zongzi and sell tofu, Lu Yong had to prepare in his stomach for half a day before he dared to speak......

People will change under pressure and motivation, some people can step over to get better, some people will be crushed by pressure, no one knows if they don't try.

Lu Xu frowned and pursed his lips and thought for a long time.

After a while, Lu Xu said: "Okay, you stay and open the store, and then you ask others to see if anyone is willing to stay and help you." I'll think about how to do that later. ”

Lu Jiusheng was overjoyed, and when he went out, he banged the door with his hands and feet.

Lu Xu laughed.

He didn't know if Lu Jiusheng could change like Lu Yong, but since Lu Jiusheng wanted to try, he always had to let him try, maybe such a determined person might be better than a smart and capable person.

But he can't just leave people here like this, he has to think carefully about how to stay in Qinglong City for a long time.

Lu Xuan: "Let's get rid of valuable things and only sell cheap ones in grocery stores, so that small business will not be targeted, right?" ”

Lu Xu thought to himself, your brother and I also thought so when we went to Guanyang County to sell snails.

He sold a few bowls of snails at that time, wasn't he still inexplicably targeted by Song Liu?

Lu Xu: "You go and call the guy from the inn." ”

With experience in Guanyang, Lu Xu now understands very well, it doesn't matter, there is no way, if you want to do business in a strange place, it is not impossible, it is very simple, pay protection money!

Didn't the Luo family secretly poke and poke at Guanyang to do this business?

However, you have to find the right person to pay for protection.

For example, if you want to open a store in Guanyang to ensure safety, the best choice is to find Luo's family, the price is not too high, and there is a guarantee; If you want to do a small business, find them Guanyang Alliance, which is cheap and affordable; Running boats, looking for Guanyang Alliance or Boat Gang, strong strength on the water; If you encounter any trouble, you don't want to alarm the government in the open, find the Ma family, in the entire Guanyang County, there is nothing unjust about the Ma family, and even the county order has to sell them a little face.

It's okay to open a store to find the Ma family, of course, the Ma family is out, no one will refute the face of the Ma family, but if you want to ask the Ma family to do this, the cost is not ordinarily expensive.

Lu Xu wanted to do business in Qinglong City, and he had to inquire about how many snakes and dragons there were in Qinglong City, who was good at spraying water, and who was good at igniting fire.

The guy was called, and he thought that Lu Xu wanted dinner, but when he heard this, he was a little confused, and he was embarrassed: "I still have to ask other guests if they have dinner......

Lu Xu: "Eat them all, and the livestock have to be fed, let the kitchen do it." ”

Dude: "......"

That's right, the people who live in their store today are all people brought by the Lu brothers.

Lu Xu: "You eat with us, let the kitchen cook what you want to eat, and I'll settle the bill." ”

The guy happily informed the kitchen to cook, and when he came back, he brought a pot of hot tea, which was well prepared, and came over to gossip.

How many forces and how many families there are in Qinglong City, man, this local can't understand, but everyone knows it, there are only eight families.

"Eight?" Lu Xu was stunned, so many?

The guys from big cities are also surprised, their Qinglong City is so big, there are not many of them? This is only known to everyone, and he has not counted those low-key and second-level ones.

Lu Xu motioned for him to hurry up.

After gossiping all night, Lu Xu figured out that this Qinglong City is a small family for everyone, a small family for everyone, and those small family snobbery are more or less related to the eight families.

And the eight families are even more complicated, there are in-laws, there are feuds, there are relatives who broke up later, there are originally enemies who later united, there are those whose families split and break their heads, there are natives, and there are those who made a fortune later, they marry each other, and they grab each other's territory, and the longest family has been entrenched in Qinglong City for hundreds of years, longer than the previous dynasty of Daqijia.

As for who is the strongest and has the most background, the local people are not very clear, and many of what the guy can tell Lu Xu are also gossip and gossip.

If you want to find a mountain to pay protection money, it seems that anyone can do it, and it seems that no one is particularly suitable.

Lu Xu was a little depressed, and asked for a long time, but it was actually still fur! These big families are really complicated and staggering, so there is no simple one to understand?

Lu Xu suddenly remembered what Chen Lian said when he introduced him to live here, this inn was covered by their general.

Lu Xu was inspired and asked curiously: "Which one is your store backing?" ”