After some bargaining between the two sides, Liu Qi bought an open space located in the middle of the business road, near the side of Fuqi Mountain, to build a restaurant at a price of 400 taels of silver, and at the same time he also made a monopoly agreement with the bandits: only one restaurant was allowed to exist in this road, and in return, the two gangs of bandits ate and drank in the restaurant for free, and also drew floating dividends to the two bigwigs every year.

Once agreed, both parties are happy, and the next thing to do is to start construction and open for business.

Sure enough, since the opening of the restaurant, there has been a steady stream of customers and a lot of money. And because of this free meal, the bandits also have a lot of respect for Liu Qi, not only sending people to guard the door and watch the store every day to prevent people from causing trouble, but also sending five or six people for Liu Qi to call when he goes out to buy. After such a long time, the two sides fell in love with each other, Liu Qi thought that he had been eating in this restaurant for a lifetime anyway, and there was no other thought in this life, so he simply took a sidestep and accepted the name to join the gang, and became the third position on this "Splitting Heaven Road".

Time is like an arrow, the sun and the moon are like a shuttle, in the blink of an eye is the tenth year of Liu Qi's operation of this restaurant, since the first three years later, he no longer takes care of the daily operation of the restaurant himself, but gives full authority to his subordinates to cook, only when the door closes every evening to personally record the day's running account. Two years ago, his son was already very useful, so he handed over the only remaining bookkeeping work to his son, and he started to be a casual shopkeeper, just sitting at the door with a pot of tea every day, taking a sip of tea, accompanied by people coming and going on the road, only feeling that life is complete, so comfortable!

At noon that day, Liu Qi went out to bask in the sun with a teapot in his left hand and a stool in his right hand.

In this "Heaven Splitting Road", the time that can be illuminated by the sun is extremely short, Liu Qi has lived here for ten years, and he knows which position on this road can enjoy the warm sunshine the most.

But as soon as he went out today, he raised his eyes and saw that his favorite position had been snatched by others, but he saw that the person was sitting on the ground, bending over to show his back, as if he was doing it on purpose, but it didn't seem to be.

Liu Qi narrowed his eyes and thought to himself: "Except for me to sit in that seat every day, I don't see anyone going to go to that seat! Hmm, looking at this back image is a little cub, I don't know where it came from, and he dares to occupy my place!"

Since he joined the gang of bandits, he has been "edified" by the spirit of the bully every day, and his temperament has inevitably been taken a little bit, and he has not stopped at the moment, and rushed over with three steps and two steps, and shouted at the man: "Boy! The master is here, you should move your position quickly!"

When the man heard this, he straightened up and turned his head to look back, and at the same time smiled: "Is this your position?

Liu Qi saw this person's face clearly, he was about twenty years old, he looked very good, sword eyebrows and starry eyes, red lips and white teeth, at this time the face was smiling, even more heroic, but he had never had the impression of this person, and immediately concluded that this person must be a foreign figure, so he raised his eyebrows and choked: "I Liu has lived here for ten years, and the restaurant behind me is my family business, isn't this enough to prove myself!"

Liu Qi wants to use this to find out his identity, as long as the person who often walks this way, even if he has never seen himself, he must have heard of his name, if this person knows each other, he will naturally get up immediately and give in, and he has to pay himself a sentence of no.

Unexpectedly, his wishful thinking was defeated by the young man's next sentence. I saw a cynical smile on the young man's face, and said, "Oh, then you go back to your building! How good it is that it is not exposed to the wind and the sun, why do you want to come and fight with me for this place where the wind is blowing on all sides?"

Liu Qi saw that he was messing around, and he was about to get angry and reprimand, but when the words came to his mouth, he forcibly endured it, and said: "Okay, let's bow first and then fight, and blame me for not explaining the reason before, so I'll make it clear to you." Now you are sitting in this position, I will come and sit for a quarter of an hour every day...", he threw the stool on the ground, raised his hand to the sky, and said: "The sun is the best here, I come to bask every day, if you like this position, stay after this quarter of an hour, and then you can stay as long as you like, and no one will stop you!"

But the young man shook his head and sighed, "Alas, it just so happens that I am in this position to bask in the sun, or will you come back in a quarter of an hour?"

As soon as Liu Qi heard this, he knew that this person was deliberately finding fault, so he stopped being patient and shouted: "Boy, you are here to deliberately find my bad luck, right? Do you know whose territory this is!"

The young man said, "Yes, yes." I don't know if I'm coming. ”

Liu Qi frowned, and said secretly: "This person has something to say, and sure enough, the person who came is not good, wait for me to ask him first!" So he asked: "Ming people don't say secret words, please say what you want to do!"

The young man clapped his hands and smiled: "Shopkeeper Liu is really a cheerful person, then I won't hide it!" said and stood up, took a step forward and stood in front of Liu Qi.

Liu Qi was also a tall man, but in front of this young man, he was two heads shorter, and now he had to look up at him, and hurriedly took two steps back to open the distance, and asked, "You... What do you want to do?"

The young man smiled and raised his hand to scratch his head, and the other hand reached into his arms.

Seeing this, Liu Qi hurriedly took two more steps back, staring at his hand that had reached into the placket of his clothes with vigilant eyes. However, the young man didn't care about Liu Qi's reaction, and after groping for a while, he slowly withdrew his hand.

Liu Qixun looked at it, only to see that what he was holding in his hand turned out to be a pile of thick silver tickets!

The young man said with a smile: "Here are three thousand taels of silver, which can be exchanged in the money houses of treasure brands all over the country, and I ask Shopkeeper Liu to accept it first!"

Liu Qi affirmed the conjecture in his heart, and immediately asked in a deep voice, "What do you mean by this?"

The young man said: "My shopkeeper has taken a fancy to the business on this road and wants to spend money to run it, so the three thousand taels of silver is the money for the shopkeeper Liu, and you will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of your life." ”

Liu Qi had already guessed six or seven points, but now that he heard what he said, he couldn't help sneering: "Hehe, your shopkeeper is a little stingy, and you want to buy my family business for ten years for only three thousand taels of silver?

The young man was a little surprised, but immediately smiled dumbly and said: "Shopkeeper Liu, I respect you for doing more good deeds on weekdays, so I kindly advise you, while my shopkeeper is still willing to spend money to buy your restaurant, quickly take the money and leave, if it is late, I am afraid that I will end up with no personal wealth!"