Xu Ling was still thinking about how to refuse tactfully, and the scalded man changed his words again:

"That's it, you're too timid, I'm afraid that in a few days, you'll cry and call your mother to go home."

Xu Ling smiled and didn't speak, he was really not familiar with the scalded man, and he knew that this person was fine, if he got too close to him, it might affect him.

If you offend a scalding man, this person is a ruthless character who kills people without blinking.

He only said: "My family is old and young, although life is difficult, but there is no plan to fall into the grass." Brother Nameless, you better just say it, what are you doing with me? ”

The scalded man touched his chin and said to Xu Ling: "You are a smart person." ”

"I came to you, and I really wanted you to do me a favor."

The scalded man told Xu Ling that all the brothers under his command came to him when they couldn't get along on both sides of the river, and the knife in his hand was not hot, and there were few things that reassured him.

Now that he has robbed the Wei family's goods again, he is afraid that the Wei family will secretly exert his strength, and when the new official of Lingbao Town goes into battle, he may be angry with him.

He needs money, and he needs food.

"So-and-so's den is full of gold and silver, but the brothers are hungry, and this time they have brought so many spices, which cannot be used against those dog officials."

"I want your help to help me sell these things and exchange them for food. Of course, so-and-so won't treat you badly. ”

After the scalded man finished speaking, he leaned forward and stared directly at Xu Ling.

"What do you think?"

Xu Ling is using his brain like crazy.

This is a double-edged sword, with both risks and opportunities.

As his business grows, he will definitely be targeted by people with a heart, and when the time comes, hundreds of eyes will look at him, and Xu Ling's words and deeds will be analyzed.

Where does his food come from? How did he deliver the goods?

Xu Ling couldn't explain.

This kind of thing, as long as you make one wrong step, you will lose everything.

In order to make up for a lie, Xu Ling is bound to round up the lie.

But he doesn't trust others that much.

But if you climb the boat of the scalded man, the secret behind him seems to be easy to explain.

But the scalding man is a bandit......

What if he was caught by officers and soldiers and revealed Xu Ling's name?

Could it be true that he was asked to take his family to Liangshan?

At the end, Xu Ling just smiled dryly: "I'm just a small businessman who has failed in business, how can I do such a big thing." ”

"Hmph." The scalded man sat up straight, took out a dagger out of nowhere, and spun quickly at his fingertips.

Xu Ling broke out in a cold sweat.

He added: "I need time to think about it. ”

This answer, the scald man is not very satisfied.

"Two months, a certain only gives you two months. You think it through. ”

The scald man and Xu Ling made an appointment to meet two months later, and kicked Xu Ling out of the room.

Only then did Xu Ling realize that he was actually sweating behind him.

He returned to the deck, and Niu Decai hurriedly touched his arm up and down, "Are you okay?" I thought those thieves had fed you fish! ”

Xu Ling glanced at him, and his words were really ugly.

Soon, the scald man finished carrying the things on the ship and left the ship with the people.

It was not until their ship was gone away that the people dared to spit out loudly.

This trip was in vain!

However, these clever merchants did not hand over all their possessions, and just as Niu Depot hid money in his boots, they also had their own means of hiding money.

The most disappointed was the bow of the Wei family, he checked the hull and hit the reef, opened a big hole, and hurriedly took people to repair the ship.

It was not until the second day, when a westerly wind blew, that they were able to get out of the reef and rush to Lingbao Town in despair.

Two days later, the ship arrived in Lingbao Town.

Xu Ling and Niu Decai got off the boat together, and they were about to separate when they arrived at the dock.

Niu Decai wants to continue to take the boat and go to Qiantang. Xu Ling wanted him to stay for half a day longer and steal money from him, but he was not happy to stay longer.

Xu Ling couldn't, and learned that Niu Decai would go to Quanzhou next year, so the two agreed to leave a letter at the dock inn to meet each other.

Sending the cow to get rich on the merchant ship to Qiantang, Xu Ling said goodbye to him reluctantly, and did not leave until he could not see the shadow of the ship.

As soon as the Wei family arrived in town, they ran back to deliver the letter. Xu Ling rushed to the inn where Fan Shiqing was, the old man was sleeping in the room, and when he heard the sound of knocking on the door, he woke up and opened the door to Xu Ling.

"Xu boy, you're finally back!"

Xu Ling didn't expect it to snow so early before leaving, the thick clothes he bought for Fan Shiqing were not so thick, and the old man slept in the house after eating every day, if he hadn't been in prison for more than ten years, he really couldn't stand such a boring day.

However, Xu Ling took two steps left and right, and found that he had some flesh on his body, and his thinness was not so scary.

Then he smiled and said: "You wait for me for another day or two, and when I sell the goods shipped from Quanzhou, we will go home!" ”

Xu Ling is in charge of everything, and Fan Shiqing's protest is invalid.

Xu Ling only went back to the inn to sleep at night, and before dawn he went out of the city to pull cabbage and then went into the city to send it to Deyue Tower, and then asked the tooth man to help sell rabbit fur.

There was no snow in Lingbao Town, but the weather was gloomy, and the rabbit furs that Xu Ling brought back were also very popular in the market, and soon there was a cloth village in the town that ate all the furs.

Xu Ling spent seventy taels of silver to buy the furs, and eighty taels were all sold.

Counting the risk of going back and forth on the road, the profit is not high.

But it's not a short-run either.

Xu Ling sent nearly 1,000 catties of cabbage and some other vegetables to Deyuelou, earning a total of 23 taels of silver.

In this way, the two hundred and seventy taels on his body became two hundred and forty taels.

I can finally go home.

On the fifth day of November, Fan Shiqing was basking in the sun in the courtyard of the inn, when he saw Xu Ling walking in with a happy face, and said to him: "Old man Fan, we can go home, hurry up and pack your things!" ”

Fan Shiqing knew that he was going to sell goods, and asked in surprise: "It was sold out so quickly?" ”

If other people have so much fur in their hands, they will definitely not sell it whole, but consider selling it in bulk, and send it to the cloth village for processing and then sell it, and the price may be doubled.

However, Xu Ling doesn't have so much time at all, his home is still a leaky mud and grass house, and now the weather is cold, maybe it will cool down one day, he is in a hurry to go home to pay off his debts and build a house for the winter, how can he still think about making more money.

Fan Shiqing didn't have many things, but they added up to just a burden, and a set of bedding that he bought with money from the medicine hall.

Xu Ling laid hay and bedding on the cart and let Fan Shiqing sit in.

Old man Fan is too weak to walk, and he is afraid that he will be able to take half his life after walking back such a long way.

Before leaving, Xu Ling went to a bookstore and bought three books for Xu Ping and Xu An, "Three Character Classic", "Thousand Character Text" and "Hundred Family Names".

These three books are the most basic books, and there are many people who buy them, and the last time Xu Ping saw a book copied by a scholar in a bookstore, it was "The Book of Three Characters".

Because most of them are manuscripts, the price is cheaper than other books, and Rao is so, and three books also cost five taels of silver.