The two of them walked on the road without saying anything.
Yan Junqi led the way, and Lu Xu walked side by side with him.
Walking all the way, looking at the empty streets, he just wanted to take a walk and relax, but as he walked, Lu Xu discovered that the route Yan Junqi took him happened to pass through all the shops of Guanyang Alliance, large and small.
Tan Shitou and others left the grocery store and mountain goods store to him, the store where others joined their alliance and hung the flag, the store where Yuan Manniang and Han Lu did not hang the flag, and finally, the Luji Food Store that he ran by himself.
Han Lu and the others also went home with Yuan Manniang today, and the third aunt in the food shop is not here either. Gouzi and Lu Yong's family are busy in the shop. The food shop is still as busy as when it first opened, from morning to night.
Lu Xu stood across the street, stunned for a while.
Yan Junqi asked: "Want to go over and have something to eat?"
Before Lu Xu could think about it, he was spotted by Lu Yong who came out to see people off. Lu Yong quickly invited them to come in and sit down.
Lu Yong asked him what he wanted to eat. Lu Xu thought for a moment and asked for a portion of fried snails, rice dumplings and fried dough sticks, and then two bowls of soy milk, which she and Yan Jun ate slowly.
During this period, regular customers and neighbors in the store teased him, "Now Xiao Lu doesn't even have to cook, he just sits down and eats."
Lu Xu also laughed: "I've become the boss!"
They joked, and Lu Xu gave each table a small plate of snails.
Nowadays, stir-fried field snails are not only spicy, but also have five-flavor and sauce-flavored flavors to accommodate customers who cannot tolerate spicy food. However, the mainstream flavor is still spicy.
In addition to the snails, they also fry some small river shrimps. The small river shrimps, a specialty of Qinghe, are no more than two knuckles long at most. They are transparent and green, and the shells are crispy and thin. They are fried in flour or directly fried in hot oil. They are both very good. Wine and appetizers.
Children from all over the neighborhood love to come here to buy, and my wife is patient. Even if they only have a penny, she will sell them.
The only thing you can do is to pull more when you go to the river to collect reed leaves, and use washed, dried and flattened reed leaves instead of oiled paper, and it doesn't cost any money.
The reeds used in the shop were beaten by Gouzi's father. Now that Gouzi doesn't let him do heavy work, the couple not only use money to repair their home, but also help their son and daughter-in-law.
The reed leaves haven't reached their full size yet, but they can already be picked to make rice dumplings.
You don’t have to make rice dumplings in a shop. You soak the glutinous rice at home before going out in the morning. After closing the shop and going home in the evening, Gouzi’s parents have prepared reed leaves, wheat straw, dates, and brown sugar. The couple brought dinner back. After the family finished eating, they started wrapping.
The same is true for Lu Yong's family. Lu Yong's grandma is in poor health, and Lu Yong brought the reed leaves home from the store.
Now both of their families can make rice dumplings.
Now that there were enough people, Lu Xu ate a full meal and gave instructions to two cooking apprentices on cooking techniques. Without staying in the store to help, Lu Xu rubbed his belly and walked away with Yan Jun.
After finishing the meal, Lu Xu smiled again and seemed to have regained his energy.
"I've thought about it!" Sure enough, Lu Xu was already full of energy and high spirits before he reached the door of the house. "If they don't do it, I'll do it myself. Anyway, I came here with nothing. No matter how miserable it is, it won't be as miserable as it was at the beginning. No big deal." I’ll start selling snails again!”
Yan Junqi laughed.
Lu Xu spoke so passionately that he started rummaging through the boxes as soon as he got home.
Seeing that his energy had returned, Yan Junqi silently picked up the book he had not finished reading in the morning and continued reading.
When he read the remaining half of the book, Lu Xu had already run in and out several times.
After a while, Lu Xu placed a thick cloth bag heavily in front of Yan Junqi. The sack fell to the bedside with a muffled "dong" sound.
Lu Xu: "Jun Qi, hide this money for me."
Yan Junqi looked down at the silver in the bag and waited in surprise for him to continue.
Lu Xu: "This is our life-saving money. If I don't go bankrupt, I'll have to rely on you to support me."
Yan Junqi was suddenly startled: "Shall I support you?"
Lu Xu nodded heavily, seriously, and was deeply aware of his ability to waste money, "Of course, you also have to prevent me from spending money lavishly and accidentally spending it all. You have to watch me. I will make money in the future, I will give you one penny if I earn one hundred pence, and you keep it for me."
Yan Junqi stared at his clear, bright, transparent and simple eyes, which seemed to be able to see through everything in one go, and suddenly smiled, "Okay."
He took away Lu Xu's money bag and said, "The money is paid every day. If you don't give it, I will rush you."
Lu Xu was dumbfounded.
He looked at Yan Junqi blankly, as if he was getting to know him all over again.
Then he scratched his head and said "Oh" obediently. He was not afraid at all that Yan Junqi would swallow his money and run away without paying it back, and started to persuade Yan Junqi to help him with ideas.
"I thought about it. The merchants in Guanyang mainly use the waterway. From Guanyang to the north, it ends at the prefecture capital. Then they will go west along the river. I want to persuade them to unload the ships and take the land route to the north. It seems that It’s impossible.” Lu Xu sighed.
Yan Junqi nodded, and he knew that Lu Xu was not just depressed these days.
Lu Xu: "So I thought it would be better for me to organize my own people and go overland."
Yan Junqi raised his eyebrows.
Seeing that he had no objection, Lu Xu automatically assumed that Yan Junqi agreed with his idea. His interest increased a bit, and his tone became a little lighter unconsciously, "Brother Hu, Shitou and the others walked by land, so that means they walked by road. We can definitely get to Shuobei by walking. I just don’t know if we have to take a long detour.”
Yan Junqi nodded, "I'll go to the county school tomorrow to see if I can borrow some local chronicles to help you take a look."
Lu Xu nodded.
Yan Junqi: "When my second uncle comes back, you can ask him again."
Lu Xu: "Well, I must be familiar with my second uncle. Hey, I asked him so many questions, but I forgot to ask him which way he took last time."
Yan Junqi comforted him with a smile: "It is most convenient to go north from Guanyang by water. Everyone will think so. I don't blame you for not thinking carefully."
Lu Xu nodded casually, holding his chin and biting his lip, thinking wildly, "It's definitely not easy for me to gather a team of people by myself. Even if I can hire people with money, it's hard to trust them. Think about it for me. Apart from refusing, Are there any of my people who might join the gang?"
Lu Xu believed that he trusted people and did not dare to challenge human nature by handing all the money and goods into the hands of strangers. If he took the money by himself and found a group of unfamiliar people as companions, he would not have the guts either.
Two fists are no match for four. No matter how good he is in fighting, he will still be afraid when he is in a strange place and surrounded by strangers.
This is also one of the reasons why Lu Xufei wants to bring others together.
Those ship merchants and merchants, even if they don't have enough money, always have many more trustworthy people than him.
To put it bluntly, his fortune was too short and his foundation was too shallow.
Apart from a few friends, the only people who can be trusted are basically family members, so in this era, everyone values family members so much.
But he is the eldest son of the family. No matter how capable Lu Xuan and Lu Wen are, there is no reason to let them go together.
Lu Xu suddenly fell into depression again.
Thinking about it, "How about I go with my second uncle?"
Isn’t it good to always ask your second uncle to escort the car?
The second uncle has no objection. It’s time for his grandparents, uncles and aunts to have a good chat with him.
Yan Junqi frowned and looked at Lu Xu with disapproval.
His helpless approach was really hard for Yan Junqi to agree with, "If something happens to you, everything will really collapse."
Lu Xu was depressed: "Don't I think of others? I can't let Lu Xuan, Lu Wen, and Lu Yong go for me. They are not even older than me, so who am I?"
It would have been nice if Qiu Hu and the others had not left. He had so many good people. Lu Xu could count them all at once, and they were all very trustworthy.
Why.
Another day of envy for Qiu Hu.
When will he become a majestic big brother like Qiu Hu?
Yan Junqi was silent for a moment, then suddenly said: "The Luo family."
Lu Xu: "Huh?"
Yan Junqi: "How about you look for Luo County Wei's family?"
Lu Xu's eyes suddenly widened.
The Luo family has a strong clan but is not very good at making money, and has a government background. Why didn't he expect that!
Lu Xu immediately jumped up and was about to rush out of the house, "Luo family! I'm going to go there right now!"
Yan Junqi laughed dumbly.
Because the Luo family had become county captains, Luo Shen and his team were working in the county government. Although they were recognized as one of the four major families in the county, they acted in a very low-key manner.
I don't know if this is due to family tradition or personality, or because their current county magistrate doesn't like his subordinates to be arrogant.
Therefore, the Luo family has always had a good reputation in Guanyang.
Their main livelihood, apart from farming, is to secretly collect protection fees.
With the Luo family backing him, which gangster would come to cause trouble when he is full and full?
Therefore, the backers behind many shops in Guanyang are the Luo family.
The wine shop that has a good relationship with Lu Xu is backed by the Luo family.
Lu Xu's personality was too out-of-the-box, and he had some friendship with the Luo family because of his thick skin, but he still couldn't get in front of the county captain, and he usually dared to jump around in front of Luo Shen.
However, Luo Shen had a darker face than the county captain, and he never asked for the coupons given by Lu Xu.
But who is Lu Xu? If Luo Shen doesn't want it, why won't he give it to others?
As long as someone's surname is Luo, he is almost equal to Luo Shen himself.
Therefore, although he only had a warm friendship with Luo Shen and Luo Xianwei that he wished he had, he actually had good relations with several young people of the Luo family, and he knew the Luo family quite well.
This time he ran out, instead of going to the county government office, he went straight to the Luo family's mansion.
The concierge of the Luo family was also familiar with him. He didn't usually go to Lu Ji's restaurant to eat. When he saw Lu Xu, he thought he was here to give out coupons again and said enthusiastically: "Master Lu, is he free again today?"
Sure enough, Lu Xu took out the coupons from his sleeve. He was busy going out and didn't really have much with him. He only had special coupons for the dessert shop, which cost five cents each. He had five or six coupons in his hand.
When the concierge saw it, his eyes lit up. He knew this coupon. He had seen it yesterday when he went to buy cakes for the old lady in the house.
However, according to Lu Xu's temper, he would always give his family a bunch of them, rarely just a few. He was also smart and immediately thought: "Are you looking for our uncle? He is working as an errand in the Yamen today. Didn’t come back.”
Lu Xu nodded and shook his head, "I'm not looking for Uncle Luo, nor is I looking for Brother Luo Shen. Is Brother Chun at home?"
The concierge was stunned: "Are you looking for the Fifth Master?"
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