Luo Shen heard the commotion just now, but it didn't cause any trouble to him. He didn't want to interfere with the Yamen's business, and he couldn't do it. He didn't expect this kid to recognize him.
He carefully identified it and suddenly recognized it, "You are a boy from the Luji family."
"It's me." Lu Xu saluted him, "Thanks to Brother Luo's help, I was able to find my father."
Luo Shen nodded.
Lu Xu didn't talk nonsense. His father and Lu Xu's brothers worked together in the corvee digging canals and died together. According to common sense, if there was an accident while doing the corvee, they were buried on the spot and washed away by the flood, only along the river. I looked around for it, and if I couldn't find it, I would do a soul-calling ceremony by the river as a comfort.
Thanks to the large number of people in the Luo Shen tribe, and because he was an official official, the tribesmen saw that no one had found the body, so they secretly ran back to Guanyang to cry to Luo Shen. Luo Shen was afraid that the tribesmen would escape privately and be punished, so after thinking about it, he went to pray for the people. Because of this, he pleaded with the county magistrate to retrieve the corpse of Guanyang's laborer.
That's why Lu Xu and Yan Junqi were able to follow Li Zheng to find the person, and it was Luo Shen who took the lead at that time.
At that time, the war was in turmoil, and he had barely spoken to Luo Shen. Thanks to Luo Shen, he still recognized him!
Lu Xu didn't know that his father was in the same team as the Luo Shen tribe. His younger brother was young. Lu Ji missed his son, loved the house and the birds, and took great care of his younger brother. When the water came down, it was thanks to Lu Ji that he pushed him away. The younger brother was lucky enough to escape with his life by hugging the tree.
His younger brother wanted to express his gratitude to Lu Xu, but at that time Lu Xu was too sad and numb with grief, so he didn't hear a word of it in his heart.
Luo Shen had a fair impression of him. First, his father saved his clan brother. Second, he remembered that this boy said that he would take his father's body back for burial despite losing all his family's wealth. He was a filial son.
So when Luo Shen heard the noise, he didn't expect it to be Lu Xu. Could this kid be so lively and cause trouble?
Luo Shen had a straight face, showing no emotion or anger, and asked Lu Xu in a deep voice, "Do you owe gambling debts?"
Lu Xu shook his head repeatedly, "It's nothing! The kid buried his father's family and borrowed money. To make a living, he came to the county to sell snails to make a small profit. Seeing that my business was good, these two not only asked me to collect protection fees, but also asked me to Give them all the money and don’t allow me to sell it in the county again!”
The two gangsters gritted their teeth angrily, "Who said you are not allowed to sell it in the county? I mean..."
Lu Xu: "Yes, they also said that they are Wang Fa of Guanyang County! Many people have heard it."
Luo Shen: "..."
The two gangsters were so angry, "Master Luo, please listen to his nonsense. He beat our brother and tried to run away."
Lu Xu: "I was selling snails, but I didn't recognize you two. They asked me for money. I just wanted to make peace with them and gave them to them. One hundred coins were not enough, so I added another hundred coins. Many people saw it. It's The two of them demanded all my money and beat me, so I had no choice but to fight back and run away."
Lu Xu said sadly, "If I hadn't met Brother Luo today, I don't know if I would have returned home alive. I only have a weak mother and young brothers and sisters in my family. My whole family depends on my meager livelihood. If I There is another shortcoming. The family has no support, and they are afraid that they will be sleeping on the streets soon, or even be exposed in the wilderness. I dare to ask you two, where did I offend you, and you want to kill people like this? "
When the people on the street heard this, they didn't expect Lu Xu to be so pitiful, and they immediately sympathized with him. They couldn't bear to blame the two gangsters.
The two gangsters were speechless. They received a cane from an old lady and could not fight back. "Our brothers only asked him not to sell snails in the gambling house."
Lu Xugang went back: "I didn't enter the gambling house. Isn't the Guanyang Realm outside the gambling house?"
"Yes, I've seen it all. He sells it in a noodle shop, and even other noodle shops don't allow him to sell it."
"Song Liu tried to hit someone but failed, and was knocked over by this kid."
Luo Shen said solemnly: "You just sell it in the county. Under the rule of Sir, no one dares to trouble you. There is no rule of beating people in the street, and there is no rule of collecting protection fees in the street. If anyone troubles you again, you can go to The county government is looking for me."
Later he stared at Song Liu and Song Qi and said.
The two gangsters held their hands together angrily, "I don't know how offended it is that Mr. Luo is protecting this boy. As long as this boy stops looking for customers to exchange money in the gambling house, we can say goodbye."
Lu Xu was confused: "Exchange money?"
So that's why? !
He was simply wronged ten thousand times. What and what?
Luo Shen asked: "Did you exchange money with the gambler?"
Lu Xu was really wronged. He didn't know there were such rules in gambling houses. He said honestly: "Exchange it. The copper coins are too heavy to carry back. I want to exchange them for some loose silver, but the total amount of my whole body is more than two taels. In total, I have to exchange it." One tael of silver!"
Luo Shen was also quite speechless, "In the future, if you want to exchange money, go to the bank instead of the gambling house."
Lu Xu nodded repeatedly.
He promised to take a detour past the gambling house again!
After thanking Luo Shen, Lu Xu went to the nearest bank to exchange the money, and one tael of silver was exchanged for one thousand three hundred wen.
Lu Xu sighed, holding the money and preparing to go home.
Pity his basket.
When he got home, he only said that the basket was broken on the way. Yuan Manniang didn't think much about it. Instead, she told him happily that the third grandmother's business at the market was good. She steamed two baskets of steamed buns and steamed buns and was not enough to sell them. She had just sent a bowl of bean buns to his family.
Bean buns are not cheap. They have to be made of red beans and sugar. Mistress’s buns are so small that they only cost five cents each.
Lu Xu was very happy, "Whenever the third grandma sells it in the village, our family won't have to steam it."
Yuan Manniang said: "I heard that they have this plan."
That’s great! It's next to a steamed bun shop, is he still short of steamed buns to eat?
But he didn't expect that he would be in trouble the next day.
Lu Xu stood at the dock and couldn't laugh anymore, "Why can't I get on the boat?"
"Are you going to the county to sell snails?"
"yes."
"That's right, our ship won't carry you."
Lu Xu angrily went aside to find another boat.
The boatman shouted after him, "Don't bother, no ship will take you."
Lu Xu asked around at the pier, and it was indeed what he said.
The person receiving the goods at the dock still remembered him and asked him to go over and buy some snails. "I said I didn't see you last episode. You went to the county town to sell them."
Lu Xu: “It’s easier to sell in the county.”
Merchant: "Yes."
He looked at Lu Xu and asked with a smile, "You have only been in the county for a few days, and you dare to offend the boat gang?"
Lu Xu: "I take a boat trip every day, and I have to pay a lot of money. How can I offend the boat gang?"
Merchant: "Then who did you offend? The boat gang is selling him face."
Lu Xu thought for a while and asked, "What's the last name of the boat gang boss?"
Merchant: "Song! Let's Guanyang, Song, Luo, Qiu, and Ma, the four great masters, you dare to go to the county without knowing this?"
Lu Xu sneered, "I'll go to the city early to sell snails, just like selling vegetables. Where did I know this? Does the boat gang also open a gambling house?"
The goods merchant ate the snails and said casually: "Wharfs and boats in Guanyang, no matter they are carrying people or goods, are all owned by the boat gang. There are also gambling shops, pawnshops, brothels, tooth shops. Anyway, the place where money is spent is not the place where Song Boss trades. Also sell his face, those four families, offending anyone can not offend the Song family."
Lu Xuzuo suddenly realized.
I thought, it's too late, he has already been offended.
The merchant suggested: "Otherwise, if you are still selling in the town, avoid the limelight first."
Lu Xu smiled and said, "Thank you for your advice."
Didn't they use this method to prevent him from watching the sun because they didn't want to offend Luo Shen and wanted to disgust him? But he is hard-boned and does not believe in evil. The more others disallow it, the more he will do it. If the waterway is not available, he will take the land route and carry it on his back to Guanyang County to sell. Not only will he sell snails, but he will also sell other things in Guanyang in the future. , open a shop, buy property, and make those grandsons angry to death.
Lu Xu went home and took the money, went to the carpenter's shop in the town to buy a wheelbarrow, and went home to install poles and box buckets on the wheelbarrow, changing the wheelbarrow into a small cart he was used to.
Release the push rod in this way, and the car will not tilt up even if the support rod is there.
He loaded the snails onto the trolley and rubbed the heads of Lu Zhou and La Yue. "Mom, I will earn back the money I owe my aunt in two days."
"Hey." Yuan Manniang sent him out worryingly, and sent him all the way to the path behind the mountain.
"Xu'er." Yuan Manniang called him worriedly, "Mom, let's go with you."
Lu Xu smiled: "No, go back. I may come back later today."
Yuan Manniang watched him push the cart to the west from the side of the mountain, tears fell down again.
Lu Xu went out smoothly, and soon came back with a sullen face and asked her for money, indicating that she had been wronged in some way, but she could not help at all.
Even if she steams delicious steamed buns and sells them at the market, Lu Xu doesn't have to work so hard.
Yuan Manniang shed tears and cried.
The mountain road was difficult to walk, so Lu Xu gritted his teeth and walked quickly while pushing the cart. When he encountered a ditch, he would move stones from one side to the other. .
It was already noon when he entered the county town. The city guard saw him pushing his cart and asked him if business had improved.
Lu Xu responded with a smile.
According to the regulations, he had to pay an extra two cents for the cart. The city guard took the money but did not ask him for the snails and asked him to quickly enter the city.
The morning market had basically dispersed, so Lu Xu went directly to the wine shop instead of going.
The shopkeeper of the restaurant heard about his feat yesterday, and told him to come in and talk. A group of drinkers were willing to gossip. When Lu Xu asked, he found out that their serious business was under the care of Luo Shen.
Lu Xu couldn't laugh or cry, and took advantage of the situation to sell miserably, "I will rely on you to take care of the business from now on."
The drinkers were not polite, and bought two packs each with a sense of loyalty.
With only half of it left, Lu Xu pushed the cart along the street and peddled it.
Fortunately, having a cart saves a lot of effort.
There were few people shopping at noon, so he couldn't go to restaurants and inns to sell, so he simply left the east and west streets and went to the residences on the north and south sides. He hawked along the alleys and actually met a few regular customers.
"Why didn't you come this morning?"
"I was delayed in the morning." Lu Xu added some more snails to him, "I will still sell them at the morning stall in the future. Thank you for taking care of me."
He was selling from a pushcart, and also delivered a few portions to other people's backyard kitchens. When he came out, he met a firewood deliveryman.
The man looked at him and looked at him again.
Lu Xu didn't recognize him and smiled awkwardly at the person.
The man also smiled at him, looking quite honest.
Lu Xu felt that this man was probably sick, so he cursed several times while pushing the cart and continued selling snails.
He sells it until the sun sets in the afternoon, and everyone has to prepare dinner, so there is still a little left.
Lu Xu bravely went back to the wine shop and asked the boss if he could consign it for him.
"It's ten cents a piece. If I can sell it, you can give me eight cents a piece. If I can't sell it, you can take it home to add some food in the evening. I'll never lend it to you in the future. I'll count it as my filial piety."
The shopkeeper pinched his beard and said, "Okay, you can put it here."
Lu Xu thanked him and quickly left the city pushing the empty cart.
If it gets later, it will be dark, and it is not safe to travel at night.
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