However, generally no government will refuse, and the business tax of Daqi is not low.

The small grain merchants said yes again and again.

When it came time to negotiate the price, they didn't dare to resist when the Xiaocai military food officer lowered the price, but Lu Xu couldn't look at it and raised the price for them to ensure that they had a little profit.

"My lord, if the price of food rises next year, they will have to lose money, how can the money-losing business last? If you defeat them, you can only trade with the big grain merchants, and those big grain merchants with backers and backgrounds are not as easy to talk as we are. ”

At least they won't be given full credit by the cavalry.

The grain officer also understands, but this group of small traders is timid and afraid, how does he know that the price has been cut?

In normal times, he is reluctant to trade with a bunch of small merchants and hawkers, it is not too cheap, and it is troublesome, but now that life is forced and the conditions are limited, they don't have to pay for this trip.

The grain officer felt that this was a good deal, so he didn't cut it any more.

Both parties are basically satisfied, and Lu Xu is the east in the evening, and everyone is invited to eat barbecue.

In the barren mountains and mountains, this bonfire, that bonfire, Lu Xu ran back and forth to do technical guidance, and took care of Lu Jiusheng's wife and children by the way.

A woman whose life trajectory has only been active between her mother's village and her husband's village is very nervous to sleep in the wilderness, even though she knows that everyone nearby is a companion, she is the only woman, and she is among so many strangers with two children, she still can't sleep peacefully.

Not long after he came out, he was visibly emaciated.

Lu Xu regretted very much, she shouldn't have taken them around in the winter, but she insisted on going to Qinglong City to find Lu Jiusheng this time, and Grandma Lu also said that he should take them, Lu Jiusheng was not at home, and their orphans and widows would not have a good time staying at home.

When they slept at night, they set up their own tents, and the Xiao cavalry lent the big tents they had set up to Lu Jiusheng's wife and children and the grain merchants, and the little grain merchants were moved to tears.

On the second day, Lu Xu was going to Qinglong City with the Xiao cavalry, and the small grain merchants in Guanyang were going to Chongning to collect some mountain goods.

It's all here, and you can't go back empty-handed.

Lu Xu said goodbye to them, and gave the bandits at the door beam some silver to resupply the goods.

These people from the north and south, their little food has long been eaten up.

Sending them away, the Menliang bandits also sent people to follow the Guanyang grain merchants to Chongning to purchase.

Lu Xu left two empty carts for them, and they pushed the carts and then took the shortcut path they had taken before, so it was more convenient to take the avenue.

Along the way, they chatted with the grain merchants, "Next time you will use someone to lead the way, just come by yourself, our inn is almost built, next time you don't need to live in a tent, you can live directly in our inn, and the people of Guanyang will come to live, and the best room will be arranged." ”

The grain merchants in Guanyang also inquired about the situation in Shuozhou, and they were all stunned to learn that Lu Xu had bought a street in Dengzhou.

"If you don't want to go too far, open a grain store in Dengzhou! Our owner said no rent for the first three years. ”

"Really?"

"Really! There is a grocery store in Guanyang that has passed, I don't believe you go back and inquire. ”

……

On the other side, Lu Xu Ping'an delivered Lu Jiusheng's wife and children to Qinglong City and "replaced" Lu Xuan.

Lu Jiusheng was caught off guard and saw his wife and children, and everyone was stupid.

The family looked at each other at the door of the grocery store, and they didn't dare to recognize each other for a moment, Lu Jiusheng didn't expect to see them in Qinglong City, they didn't expect that the journey was really over, they really saw Lu Jiusheng.

Under the impact of the huge surprise, the family hugged each other and cried.

Relatives have been separated for a long time, and they meet peacefully in other places, and others look at their adults and children crying so freely, and they sigh one by one.

Lu Xu asked Lu Jiusheng to take them to the residence to rest, "I'll come with Lu Xuan earlier, you can take your sister-in-law to rest, she hasn't slept well all the way." ”

Lu Jiusheng responded, looking at his wife's dark and swollen eyes, distressed and funny, holding the two children in both hands, and leading his wife to walk back.

"Come on in." Lu Jiusheng led them through the shop and took the key to open the back door.

After passing through a small courtyard where cars can pass, we arrived at his residence.

"This was originally someone else's yard, and they changed it into a shop, and the big house in the backyard is a warehouse, Xiao Xuan and I live next to it, and we will clean it up in a while, enough for our family to live."

He pushed open the door, entered the side room, and let the two children go down to play.

His wife looked around with her baggage, and said again and again: "Spacious!" It's so spacious! This is a tiled house! ”

"Yes!" Lu Jiusheng took the burden and put it beside the bed, "If we don't catch up with the good time, we don't know how long it will take to live in such a good tiled house." ”

The two children stood on the ground and looked up, with bricks under their feet and tiles above their heads.

"We're going to have a good life." His wife couldn't stop her tears.

"Have a good life! It's going to be! Lu Jiusheng wiped her tears with his sleeve, but his eyes were wet, "I will work here in a down-to-earth manner from now on, and I will never let you suffer from hunger again." ”

He raised his hand to wipe himself, and asked in a nasal voice: "Are you hungry, I'll buy you food, there are buns and baked cakes on the street, what do you want to eat?" ”

His daughter-in-law shook her head: "Don't, no, I'll make it for you where the kitchen is." ”

Lu Jiusheng: "No, you rest, I have a salary!" ”

He took out a small money bag from under the pillow, "Our family is reunited, we want to have a good meal, doll, can Dad take you to eat crispy cakes and drink broth?" ”

The two children cheered.

In front of the store, Lu Xu moved the newly shipped goods directly into the store from the front door.

This time, it was mainly small items, the biggest being cloth, which was almost sold in the store, and there was no need to put it in the warehouse.

This time, their "supermarket" is not as crowded as it was when it first opened, but it is still quite lively.

The guys in the shop also got started smoothly, and they were skilled and neat.

Even unloading and placing goods, the main force is them.

Lu Xuan mentioned them to Lu Xu in private, and he couldn't help but admire them for a while.

"At first, there were five people who could read, and then the store had to post the price code, and Mr. Chen, the account office, taught everyone to read, and it only took three days for them to memorize all the words and prices posted in the store."

Rote.

The guy who was a scout even used the words as a map, memorized and memorized, and memorized them all in one day.

Lu Xuan still had palpitations when he mentioned it.

At the beginning, in order to teach them to read, Lu Xu and Yan Junqi drew pictures all over the wall, pasted physical objects, and gave rewards from time to time.

Even Lu Jiusheng was stimulated, and after closing the door at night, he went back to the bedroom and muttered about the words and prices, and he was settling accounts in his dreams, and he forgot what words and how to write them, and how much they were in the middle of the night.

Lu Xuan has always felt that he is very capable of hardship, and he can count the perseverance among his brothers, but compared with them, he feels that he is still far behind, and he is nothing.

He seemed to have turned back into a child.

Lu Xu didn't expect them to live like this in Qinglong City.

Lu Xuan: "Big brother, where is your Mengshu, lend me a look?" ”

Lu Xu: "Stay in Guanyang, Junqi said that the book is not practical, and then make up a practical book for me, wait until I go back, you can learn it with me." ”

Lu Xuan nodded.

He had to learn.

You can't just dump the boss with a random guy in their store.

Lu Xuan: "Not only can you read and write, but you also have to learn to keep accounts and learn to write." Jiusheng said that you calculate accounts very quickly and don't need an abacus, how did you calculate? Teach me! ”

Lu Xu: "......"

He vaguely remembered that in the past, it was more difficult to let Lu Xuan learn words than to urge Lu Wen.

Sure enough, those who are close to Zhu are red, and those who are close to ink are black!

That night, Lu Xuan moved out of the hut where he used to live, and went to the guest house with Lu Xu...... Three-fifty-five, four-five-twenty ......"

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Lu Xu: Our Xiao Xuan learned the ninety-nine multiplication table, which is as cute as Rui Rui learning to count, you see that finger breaking, fast!

Chapter 185: Selling New Year's Goods

When I returned to Dengzhou, I had already entered the moon.

The two brothers of the Luo family have already given all the guys and long-term workers red envelopes for the New Year, each of them is not much, fifty yuan, a small bag of sugar, a pound of rice, a pound of noodles, a pound of meat, everyone has it.

Whether it's working as a buddy in their shop or building a house for them, it's all there.

Several cobblers received a lot of annual bonuses because their whole families worked here, and they were afraid that the meat would spoil, so they resold a little.

Luo Dan and Luo Guang were going back to Guanyang with Lu Xu for the New Year, but the grocery store shopkeeper who came from Guanyang with Lu Xu decided to stay.

His hometown is in the south, and he went to his aunt's house when he returned to Guanyang, and his uncle just asked Lu Xu to bring a cart of cloth, which was the climax of sales a year ago, especially groceries, and there are always people who forget to buy this and forget to buy that, and he doesn't want to miss it.

Their family has been a businessman for generations, and they don't have to pay attention to family reunions during the New Year's holidays, he has been eating and drinking at the inn for so long, and he decided to open the door for Lu Xu and the Luo family to do business.

Anyway, the shops are next to each other, and the local guys in Dengzhou are not in a hurry to take a holiday.

"Give me the key, and I'll sell it for you."

Lu Xu didn't have anything to worry about, and asked Rodin to give him the key to the warehouse, and the leather shop was also entrusted to the cobbler's family to take care of it temporarily.

I heard that some people have no money for the New Year, so they will hunt and sell meat and sell skins under the foundation of the New Year, and their leather shops are open, and they can also collect some skins.

After giving a good account of the business, they decided to leave.

Before leaving, Lu Xu went to Cui Xianling to say goodbye, and Cui Xianling personally sent them outside the city.

At this time, there were no military households moving north on the entire official road, and the soldiers patrolling no longer came out.

The tea sheds along the way should have been collected a long time ago, but they were all waiting for Lu Xu and them, and after they passed, they officially closed the stalls and went home for the New Year.

Lu Xu left the principal for opening the tea shed next year, took the remaining profits, and sent them the New Year's gifts and red envelopes prepared in advance.

The Scarface family was especially rich.

He didn't have to worry about the tea sheds in Dengzhou and Baoshan, they were all close to home, and only the bandits who were still on the old official road in Wuling Peak were left.

When they returned, it was snowing heavily on Wuling Peak, and it was extremely difficult to walk up and down the mountain.

Fortunately, they didn't bring much on the way back, so they were careful not to encounter danger along the way, and there was nothing to lose.

Lu Xu asked the bandits to go to Dengzhou for the New Year, "When the weather improves, you can go to Dengzhou when the mountain road is good, and no one lives in the New Year's inn, which is better than in this barren mountain and wilderness." ”

Menliang bandits: "We're also an inn here!" ”