Chapter 33: Finding a Shop
"You're saying you're not going to go any further!" Hearing Gu Jiu's words, Ling Yang stood up quite excitedly.
"Hmm." Gu Jiu nodded: "From now on, I will completely leave Gujia Village." ”
"So we can talk about it for a long time."
"Yes. I'm going to rent a shop. Look at ......" Gu Jiu said as he took out the paper he had drawn in advance from his arms, and conveyed his meaning more accurately with the help of patterns.
"It's not easy to find, but it's a good place to try." After listening to Gu Jiu's introduction, Ling Yang said: "We will go out tomorrow morning to look for it, but there is not much hope, generally restaurants with this geographical condition will be opened." ”
"Maybe we'll pick it up."
"Yes."
……
Early the next morning, Gu Jiu and Ling Yang went out early, and sure enough, as Ling Yang said last night, all the places where the flow of people and geography are in line are full, and there is not even a small gap.
"Xiao Jiu, what do you think will happen if we build it in a restaurant? Although the business of this restaurant is average, there are many customers who come and go. ”
Gu Jiu looked in the direction of Ling Yang's finger, and saw a two-story restaurant open ten meters away, although it was early in the morning, there were also a few customers here and there.
Gu Jiu didn't speak, and pulled Ling Yang to sit on the chaos stall opposite.
"What's wrong?"
"Let's eat something first, and by the way, let's see who the customers of this restaurant are."
The two of them asked for a bowl of chaos, eating while watching the guests who came and went more and more frequently.
Sitting from early morning to noon, Gu Jiu shook his head in the end: "It's not suitable." You see, these people are plain and simple, and they are relatively strong, and they look like they do heavy work. Then there is a high probability that they are also illiterate, both illiterate and work frequently, the probability of buying a book and reading it will be very low, this group of people is not our target. ”
Suzu nodded: "Then let's go look elsewhere." ”
"Hmm!"
Then Gu Jiu and Ling Yang went shopping for another afternoon, but either there was no spare shop to rent, or it was not suitable. The two of them were strolling around, and Gu Jiu suddenly remembered a place.
"I thought of a good place, you come with me!"
As the sun set and the sunset spread, Gu Jiu pulled Ling Yang through the alleys quickly, and finally stopped outside the Red Fragrance Pavilion out of breath.
"This ......" Ling Yang looked at Hongxiang Pavilion and was a little at a loss for a while: "Xiao Jiu, what are we doing here?" Although the women in the pavilion are literate, they don't have that much time to read the booklets. Those men are here to have fun, and they won't buy it. ”
"How not?" Gu Jiu pointed to the pharmacy opposite and said, "Look at the four big characters of the aphrodisiac elixir, I noticed this pharmacy the first time I came, there are less than a dozen pharmacy stores in the whole city, but this is the best business!" ”
"But there aren't many people around here?" Lingyang looked around, and the location here was obviously not as good as near the restaurant.
"But there it is!" Gu Jiu looked at the Red Incense Pavilion and continued: "Everyone who comes here has a high probability of becoming its guests, so that business will not only come up, but also a stable group of guests!" ”
Ling Yang looked at the Red Fragrance Pavilion, then at the pharmacy, and said entangledly: "Can ...... We bought brochures. Many of the people who came here were studying, and those people were very thin-faced, would they ......?"
"No!" Gu Jiu waved his hand at her firmly: "The four words of this aphrodisiac elixir are so big, they all dare to go in, why can't the bookstore." And it's because they're thin-faced, so they're sneaky here, but if we sell some normal books in the bookstore, wouldn't that give them a reasonable reason to come here? ”
Ling Yang looked at Gu Jiu and nodded as if he understood whether he understood or not.
"There's a shop that's renting out here, let's try it first, and if it doesn't work, we'll change places." Gu Jiu pointed to a small room next to the pharmacy and said.
"It's okay, you have to give it a try." And that's where my sister disappeared in the first place, what if...... If my sister is still here, I will definitely come here to find her!
Gu Jiu stepped forward and knocked on the door, and after a while, a man opened the door from the inside, but when he saw Gu Jiu and Ling Yang, he slammed the door again.
"I didn't see the sign at the door! If you lose money and don't sell it, you have to buy clothes and buy them elsewhere. The shopkeeper's voice came out of it angrily.
Gu Jiu knocked on the door again helplessly: "Boss, we are here to rent a shop." ”
Hearing this, the door was opened again from the inside in an uproar, and although they were still a little skeptical when they saw Gu Jiu and the two of them this time, their attitudes were much better.
"My monthly rent here is three taels of silver, and I have to rent it for half a year. Are you two rich? The boss looked at Suzu and asked suspiciously.
Suzu nodded, and the boss let go of the door and turned sideways to let the two of them in.
After entering, Gu Jiu noticed that there were seventy or eighty pieces of colorful clothes in the room, but they were all thrown on the ground casually, and some even had obvious shoe prints on them.
"I've written the contract before, you two take a closer look." The boss glanced at Gu Jiu, who looked like an underage child, and raised his hand to give the paper to Ling Yang.
"You take a good look, if there is no problem to pay the money and put on the hand model, this shop will be yours tomorrow. I don't sell it anymore, they all say that Qinglou women sell clothes well, and I have only sold three or five pieces in two months. I also advise you, you can sell anything, but don't sell clothes, it's not a good deal! But my location is still good, and I can't find such a good shop in the whole city for three taels of silver a month! ”
The boss looked pitiful and proud, and he gestured towards Gu Jiu and the two of them. Ling Yang couldn't understand what was written on it, so he handed the contract to Gu Jiu.
"Yo, it's the first time I've seen such a small girl understand the contract." The boss looked at Gu Jiu and showed a mouthful of big yellow teeth. Gu Jiu ignored him, slowly read the two pieces of paper and nodded towards Ling Yang.
"Since there's no problem, you can cover the hand mold. I can remind you that if you can't get the money when the time comes, you will have to see the official! ”
Hearing this, Gu Jiu took out five taels of silver from his arms and said, "My sister and I didn't bring so much money today, so I'll give you five taels first, and I'll bring you the rest tomorrow." ”
The boss took it and bit it hard with his teeth, and after confirming that it was true, he happily covered the hand model. can be regarded as renting out this shop, I don't know if he was dizzy at the beginning, but he rented it for more than half a year at one time, if it weren't for these two people, he would have to pay for his old capital!
After finishing her errands and going out, Ling Yang was recognized by the sisters of Hongxiang Pavilion and happily pulled her to chat. Gu Jiu couldn't speak, so he motioned for himself to go back first, but he didn't expect that just halfway to the side of the road, he suddenly rushed over and dragged her into the alley on the side.
Drugged!
Gu Jiu immediately held his breath, and when the people behind him saw that Gu Jiu was not moving, they thought that the medicine was working and put down the veil. Gu Jiu didn't know how many people there were for a while, so he closed his eyes and lay down.
"Sample, it's not easy to be handled by the master! Aren't you quite capable of fighting? Scold! ”
Until he heard the sound of a sack rubbing the ground, Gu Jiu didn't hear the voice of the second person anymore, and when he opened his eyes, he saw Gu Zhiqi muttering while holding the sack.
"Wait a minute, the master will send you to this Red Fragrance Pavilion, and let the old bustard train you well! This...... Woo! The handkerchief that was still on the ground by him suddenly appeared and covered his mouth and nose, and Gu Zhi struggled a few times, and soon fainted.
Looking at Gu Zhiqi, who fell to the ground, Gu Jiu kicked hard twice angrily. Then he groped around Gu Zhiqi for a while, and soon found a deed of sale that had not been fingerprinted.
Looking at the bright and flickering words Gu Jiu on it, Gu Jiu was so angry that he immediately took out the pen, ink and paper from the space, and rewrote one by one, but changed the name to Gu Zhiqi.
Don't you like Red Fragrance Pavilion? Then stay inside!
After cutting Gu Zhiqi's fingers and pressing his handprints for him, he changed into women's clothes, and painted his face with ink, and after some disguise, he put Gu Zhiqi into a sack.
Gu Jiu returned the same way and found Ling Yang who was chatting, pulled her aside and asked in a low voice, "Sister, do you know what the process is for a woman to be sold into the Red Fragrance Pavilion?" ”
Ling Yang was surprised: "Why did you suddenly ask this, something happened?" ”
Gu Jiu nodded, Ling Yang suddenly became anxious, and hurriedly pulled Gu Jiu away after saying goodbye to his previous sister.
"Xiao Jiu, Hongxiang Pavilion is really not a good place, the sister who just chatted with me also wants to borrow some money from me to leave, if ......"
"I'm not going to sell myself there!" Gu Jiu interrupted the anxious Lingyang in time and pointed to the sack in the corner at her: "I'm going to sell someone else!" ”
Hearing this, Ling Yang was even more shocked, and his eyes could not hide his disappointment: "You...... Xiao Jiu, you, how can you do such a thing? ”
"Why not? This man is bent on selling me to the Red Incense Pavilion, thinking that he likes that place very much, since this is the case, I will help him let him do it once and for all! Saying that, Gu Jiu opened the sack, revealing the people inside.
Ling Yang stepped forward to take a closer look, and always felt that he had seen this person somewhere: "Xiao Jiu...... How do I feel that I have seen this person somewhere, and what kind of girl is she? ”
"It's not a girl, it's a man, I changed his women's clothes."
"Gu Gongzi!"
"Yes!" Gu Jiu nodded and continued: "You tell me where the bustard is in this situation, I will sell him and buy delicious food in exchange for some silver." ”
Hearing this, Ling Yang's heart completely relaxed: "If he contacted him before, then now the bustard should be waiting for him, you take the sack and go around the back door to ask if you want a chicken, and the people inside will open the door for you when they hear it." ”
Gu Jiu nodded, changed into Gu Zhiqi's clothes, and planned to go out and spend money to squat someone to help her sell people, after all, the old bustard had seen herself, and it would be troublesome to be recognized.
"Brother." Gu Jiu lowered his voice and stepped forward to stop a person who was just about to close the stall and go home.