The rich families in the city will come to decide any happy events and lively events. Especially related to children and the elderly, this thing doesn't need any teeth, and it is fragrant and sweet, and young and old love to eat it.

It's a pity that fresh snacks can't be put away, and they can't be stored for a few days in winter.

Hanlu Xiaoxia hadn't thought about when the door would close, and someone asked when it would open.

If you use these snacks to entertain relatives, the host will have a lot of face.

As a result, the opening date of their dessert shop was moved from 18 to 16, from 16 to 15, and from 15 to 8.

As long as there is no blizzard before the eighth day of the new year, they can walk the mountain road to open the door.

……

Everyone is busy, and so are the restaurants and hot pot restaurants.

The only idlers left in the family are Lu Xu, Yan Junqi, Lu Zhou, and Layue, Wenzhen, and Lu Rui, who can't do any work.

Layue, who is more than six years old, has to take care of her younger brother, so there is one less idler.

Lu Wen found Yan Junqi and Lu Zhou to write Spring Festival couplets on vacation, and sold them at a grocery store in two days.

Two more idlers.

Lu Xu looked at this trend, and the time for them to go home would not be delayed until the twentieth day of the lunar month.

If he came back to see the store on the eighth day of the first month, then he would not see Yan Junqi for eighteen days.

More than half a month!

At the beginning of spring next year, he will have to go north to deliver grain and grass, and it will take more than three months to leave......

"I obviously want everyone to have an easier life." Lu Xu couldn't help but sigh, and he was a little depressed after thinking about it.

Yan Junqi smiled: "But everyone is very happy." ”

Although busy, everyone is busy and happy, and every hard work they put in, they will be rewarded more.

Even in the cold winter, everyone's days are full of life.

And coaxing, cheating, rushing, and bringing everyone this vitality is disgusted with Lu Xu, who can't be lazy.

"It's just talking, the most idle person is you."

The author has something to say:

Lu Xu: How do you look at it, it's just me a salted fish??

Lu Wen: I hope you think about it yourself and reflect on it.

Chapter 187: Career

At the end of the year, Yan Junqi's family still chose to return to their hometown with the Lu family for the New Year.

However, the Yan family's house is close to the mountain, and it has long been used by Lu Hui as a storage warehouse to store hay and grain.

The Yan family decided to come back temporarily, and they didn't bother Lu Hui to clean up, so they simply lived in Lu Xu's house.

The two families ate and lived together, kept vigil together, and when it came to the New Year's greetings, except for not going to the Lu family ancestral hall to worship their ancestors, they acted together at other times.

On the first day of junior high school, I went to pay New Year's greetings to Grandpa Lu and Grandma Lu, and on the second day of junior high school, I helped entertain my aunt who returned to my parents' house, went to relatives, and went out to play, Yan Junqi and Yan Wenzhen were mixed in the Lu family brothers, and those who were not familiar with them had to be regarded as the Lu family.

Not only this year, but in the next three years, the Yan family also lived with the Lu family.

In the past three years, Lu Xu, the second uncle, Lu Xuan and the Luo family finally ran through the trade route, and Guanyang also changed greatly in business.

The former Guanyang county town has become an inner city, and the outer city has been expanded around it, and the wharf has doubled in size compared to before, and there is a tendency to continue to expand.

The entire Guanyang is seizing the new city, and Lu Xu, who was once in the limelight and the first in momentum, unexpectedly kept a low profile.

It took him two years to pay off the money he owed, and then he only slowly bought the house and rented warehouse he was used to, and he no longer bought real estate in the city.

When the outer city was built, he only bought two shops and a warehouse, and one shop was near the wharf, opening a branch to sell mutton soup. The other shop is close to the north gate and close to his warehouse, which is convenient for the loading and unloading of goods on the trade route.

When the squires in the towns near Guanyang went to the outer city to spend money to buy a house, Lu Xu's behavior was really incomprehensible, and many people wondered if he had lost money and debts in the north.

But if you look at the Guanyang Alliance, it's not like that at all!

The banner of their Guanyang Alliance has been hung all over the entire trade route, and now they have begun to expand to the south of Guanyang, but Lu Xu, the big leader of the Guanyang Alliance, is becoming more and more low-key.

It's not that he can't see others, since he handed over the business to Lu Xuan half a year ago, he has led Lu Rui to wander around Guanyang all day long, living like an idler who has nothing to do to watch his children. Even his mother and sister are busier than him.

Not to mention Lu Wen, who is just sixteen years old, he has grown into a businessman who is known to everyone in Guanyang, replacing Lu Xu and truly controlling all the industries of the Lu family and the Guanyang Alliance. There are few nearby counties and towns and entire trade routes that don't know his name.

Nowadays, the children in the family have their own things to do according to their interests, the fourth uncle's Xiaoman, and Lu Xu's Layue, have all joined the dessert shop of Hanlu and Xiaoxia, doubling the size of the shop, and the third uncle's Xiaoyu followed Yuan Manniang to learn to make clothes and run a ready-to-wear shop.

Lu Fu, who is the same age as Layue, followed his brother Lu Hui and his father to stay in the village to manage the fields and livestock, and at the age of ten, he also looks like him.

The fourth uncle's family added another baby, named Lu Xiao, who was only three years old and a chubby little boy.

The family has increased the population, and even the fourth uncle of the Buddhist department has grown up to be ambitious, saying that he has to make money to build a house for his younger son and buy land, but he is actually afraid that Lu Xuan will not be able to run the business road alone.

Otherwise, Lu Xu would not have retired with his front foot, and he would have been on top of his back foot.

Before Lu Xuan could express his position, he first asked his son to make his attitude clear - I will give you a hand, and you will take me to make money.

Lu Xuan couldn't cry or laugh.

Lu Xiao grew up, and the fourth aunt came out of the rivers and lakes again, taking care of their chickens, ducks and geese, vegetables and fruits on the Four Seasons Mountain.

The third aunt hid her merit and fame as she wished, handed over Guanyang's food shop to the dog and the relatives of the Lu family who later went to help her, returned to the village to take care of the elderly, and helped Lu Hui's father and son, and the fourth aunt.

Lu Hui is older, she has to choose a daughter-in-law for Lu Hui.

Now that the conditions of their family are good, the matchmaker kicks through the threshold, but his Xiaohui people are not enlightened, squatting in the mountains with cattle and sheep all day long, and even figured out how to deliver cattle and sheep, and he is stunned that he doesn't know how to find a daughter-in-law, and the third aunt is worried......

……

Their whole family, Lu Xu is becoming more and more idle.

When the whole city of Yamen raised funds to expand the outer city, it gave the locals very good conditions - those who donated money gave priority to choosing land, building houses, and buying shops. After the Guanyang people have finished picking, outsiders can pick.

The yamen has a good relationship with Lu Xu, except for the Luo family, Lu Xu is the second pick, but Lu Xu is willing to give money, but he doesn't choose a shop very much.

Lu Wen was angry to death.

According to his idea, throw all the money into it and buy it, buy as much as you can, and if you can't buy half a street, you have to buy half of it, and you have to pick up a good location.

Lu Xu blocked him back with a word: "Our family already eats and drinks without worrying, do it still have an impact on what you eat and wear?" ”

Mu Xiu will be destroyed by the forest wind, they have developed fast enough, they have enough, and what everyone in the family can do has already been saturated.

Lu Xu persuaded him, "Let it be given to others." ”

Lu Wen pondered for a night, and finally listened to Lu Xu.

However, he refused to be as silent and low-key as Lu Xu, but asked the people of the Guanyang Alliance, especially his cronies, if they wanted to buy a house or a shop.

He also very sensationally blew Lu Xu's "let it be to others" argument for a while, which made him and his brother benevolent and righteous, and even he himself was almost moved.

Finally, ask who is tight on money and can borrow money from him.

Can't do business?

It doesn't matter, occupy it first, and then rent it to merchants from the south to the north!

For a while, the whole Guanyang forgot the notoriety of Lu Wen's profiteer vampire, and everyone praised Lu Wen for being kind-hearted and a philanthropist.

People really borrow money!

In those days, there were more small shops that joined the Guanyang Alliance, and many families in Lujia Village also bought small shops through the doors of Lu Xu and Lu Wen, and almost all the local shops that opened in the outer city joined the Guanyang Alliance.

Lu Wen borrowed a lot of debts from abroad, and for those who were obviously unable to repay the money for a while, Lu Wen also learned from Lu Xu to join the franchise, and asked for a small amount of money, two to three percent.

In this way, he finally had a large amount of cash left and had nowhere to spend, and smashed it all for Lu Xuan to go to the south to buy goods, he felt that the risk was too great, and he deposited it in the bank, and Lu Wen felt that he was losing money in his dreams at night.

He thought about it, and finally chose the old path that Lu Xu had walked - buying mountains.

Sixteen-year-old Lu Wen finally felt that his stupid and naïve eldest brother was quite far-sighted, and the land lived up to the toiling people, let alone managed well, even if he threw long miscellaneous trees, he would not starve them to death.

He no longer wants to go out to the north to trade with the barbarians like he did when he was a child, let Lu Xuan eat and sleep in the open, he wants to guard Guanyang, protect his brothers and sisters, take care of his parents, grandparents, and grandparents, and be the overlord of Guanyang soil comfortably, and strive to buy all the mountains from Lujia Village to the county seat as soon as possible.

And the most unsuccessful thing in the whole family is the only scholar Lu Zhou.

Lu Zhou took the exam for three years and was not admitted.

Even Lu Le, who studied a year later than him, was admitted, and his good friend Miao Hongyin Xiucai was admitted, and he was still a white man.

At the end of the autumn season, Yan Jun fulfilled his promise and was admitted to the lifting of people in three years, not only won the lifting of people, but also went to high school as Longxing Xie Yuan.

And this year, Lu Zhou still fell off the list.

He saw Miao Hongyin off first, sent Miao Hongyin to the state capital to study, and said goodbye at the dock, Miao Hongyin didn't know how to comfort him.

Seeing that Miao Hongyin was finally admitted, but he was even more depressed than his child, Lu Zhou encouraged him to study hard when he went to the state capital.

"My brother said that some people are naturally suitable for exams, and some people are not, maybe I am not the kind of person who is not suitable." Lu Zhou comforted his friend, "It's okay, my family doesn't expect me to study anyway." ”

He thought about it for a while, and asked Miao Hongyin for a travelogue recommended by the little fat man several times.

Miao Hongyin turned out the bookcase with red eyes and gave it to him.

Lu Zhou had never read idle books before.

Saying goodbye to Miao Hongyin, Lu Zhou took the book and went home from the dock alone.

Along the way, the merchants, porters, fish buyers, and people who sold goods all greeted him, and Lu Zhou replied quietly and politely as usual, and helped a grandmother who couldn't carry a basket to send the vegetables she bought home.

Coming out of the old grandmother's house, he walked alone in the deserted alley, took out the travelogue and flipped through a few pages, but he still couldn't stop crying.

Lu Zhou squatted in the corner of someone else's house, holding a book and covering his head, crying sadly and desperately.

On the second day, he calmly went to Lu Xu, "Brother, I want to drop out of the county school." ”

He has already thought about the reason, Brother Jun Qi is about to go to Beijing for the exam, and his brother will also accompany him to the capital, the family business is so busy, he can just write and calculate, and he can help Lu Wen.

I can usually spare more time to teach Rui Rui and Wenzhen, and it is also convenient to go home to take care of my grandparents.

But the eldest brother didn't ask for any reason, only asked: "Are you sure you don't want to miss it?" ”

Lu Zhou bit his lip and was silent for a long time, then nodded.

Lu Xu: "Then don't read it." ”