North and South groceries

Si Niang's battle can be said to have become famous in one battle.

These young people who were present that night learned this game one after another to deceive others. It is inevitable to say a few words about the origin of this game. spread among them.

As for the little lady who was cheated, the family thought she was ashamed and said that it was to let her cultivate her morality, so they sent her to her hometown in Henan within a few days.

Originally, it was the age when we were going to talk about marriage. If we were delayed by this matter, it would inevitably be delayed for a year or two. There is no way, everyone in these aristocratic families values ​​face more than anything else. This little girl is not only useless. The ceremony was first, and then he was severely teased and repaired by others. It was really embarrassing for their family to tell this matter.

When Si Niang heard about this incident, she was also a little unhappy. Although she didn't like the little lady, she also wanted to teach her a lesson, but this kind of thing can't be done after teaching her face to face. So much development?

Well, she wanted to send her back to her hometown in Henan, and she said something about delaying the marriage, Si Niang always felt that she had nothing to do with this matter.

"What are you thinking about when you have nothing to do?" Luo Yong has been too busy recently, but it was Qiao Junlin who discovered Si Niang's strange behavior. He was also there that night, so he naturally knew the ins and outs of the matter.

"Do you think I've overdone it?" Delaying the wedding date seems to be a bit serious. Although Si Niang herself doesn't really care about the wedding date, she knows that the young ladies in Chang'an City do care.

"What's the matter." Qiao Junlin said nonchalantly: "With her temperament, it will be a matter of time before she stumbles. If she can learn a lesson this time, she will benefit from it in the future."

"That's right." Si Niang felt that what Qiao Junlin said made sense.

However, this incident finally left a mark on the young Luo Siniang's heart. This was the first time she knew that these aristocratic family members in Chang'an City were so cruel to their own family's children.

I don't know whether their family is mad at her rudeness or at her stupidity.The little Si Niang secretly guessed in her heart that she must be more angry with her stupidity.

Because of these subsequent developments, for Siniang, this victory also seemed a bit boring.

And she also found that, in the eyes of Bai Yimao and the others, this kind of thing couldn't be more common.Siniang thinks these big families are scary, and the people in these big families are also scary.

It was several days later when Luo Yong finally had the time to talk to Siniang about it. By this time, the Lantern Festival had passed, and the business of North and South groceries was basically on the right track.

After hearing Siniang's thoughts, Luo Yong just patted her head, not knowing what to say to her for a while.

At that time in the 21st century, although people could not choose their origin, but when they grow up and enter the society, they can decide what kind of life they want to live and what kind of path they want to take. But in this era, many People's fate is beyond their control, especially women.

Luo Yong was very happy to have such compassion in Si Niang's heart.

"You did nothing wrong, but her family did something wrong." Luo Yong said to her.

"Yeah." Even my elder brother said that, Si Niang felt much more at ease.

"So from now on, you have to teach Liulang and Qiniang well, don't beat and scold them." Luo Yong said with a smile.

"Where did I beat and scold them..." Siniang felt guilty, and occasionally scolded them a few times.

Luo Yong touched her hair with a smile. The little girl grew up, her horizons widened, and she began to think about the status quo of society.

"Don't touch my hair anymore, I'm all grown up now."

"Okay, I won't touch your hair from now on, I'll touch Qiniang's hair."

"Brother, I am too old."

"Are you old too? How old are you this year?"

"Seven years old."

Luo Yong scratched his head, these two little ones are already seven years old, isn't it time to go to school?Qiniang is not very easy to arrange, if Liu Lang can go, he should find a school to enlighten him as soon as possible.

There is also Wulang, it is not a problem to stay in this yard all the time, and there are two of them, Si Niang and Qi Niang. It would be great if there was a girls' school in Chang'an City...

There are a lot of things to do, and Luo Yi turned over and lay on the kang and didn't want to move. Recently, he is really tired and stressed.

Time passed day by day, and the repayment deadline was getting closer and closer, so it was false for Luo to say that he was not in a hurry.It stands to reason that Erniang should be able to support him with a batch of money and silk, but I don't know when it will arrive.

"Azhi asked if you are eating here tonight?" Qiao Junlin came to their room at this time and asked.

"Eat, I have to go out to meet someone after eating." Luo Yong lay on the kang and replied in a muffled voice.

"Who?" Qiao Junlin asked him.

"Xing Er, have you ever heard of it?" Luo Yong said.

"I've heard it a little bit," Qiao Junlin said.

"Does this person have a bad reputation?" Luo Yong asked him.

"No." Qiao Junlin said, "Everyone says he is a righteous man."

"That's fine."

The Nanbei Grocery shop has been doing well these past few days, but careful disciples have noticed that there are always some unidentified people wandering around their shop these past few days, not as if they are looking for something new, but more like they are looking for spots.

Luo Yong was worried that his shop would be targeted by a group of thieves, so he asked those around him who also opened shops in Fenglefang, and those shopkeepers told him that it was useless to go to the government for this kind of thing, and the people in the government were not good at catching thieves. Those thieves don't come to Fenglefang very often, after all, there are many nobles living in their workshop, if they accidentally steal from Lord Yan, they will have to walk around.

But Luo Yong's shop is different. Many goods are clearly displayed on the shelves, like paring knives and ink bottles, just take one or two and stuff them in the sleeves. Who can tell?In addition, Luo Yong and others are powerless, these thieves will put their ideas on this shop, which is very normal, maybe they have stolen a lot in the past few days.

Someone pointed out a way for Luo Yong, telling him to go to Guiyifang to find a righteous man named Xing Er.

Guiyifang is far away from Fenglefang, but I heard that there are very few big thieves in Chang'an who are not afraid of Xing Er. Keep running smoothly.

Luo Yong heard these words in Fenglefang before, and heard Qiao Junlin say the same thing after he came back. He felt that the person named Xing Er should not be too bad, at least on the surface. Did something outrageous.

A person like Xing Er is called a righteous man to put it bluntly, but to put it bluntly, he is a member of the society.In the past, Luo Yong only heard that people needed to be hired to run entertainment venues. He never thought that he would have to hire people to take over the place when he opened his own supermarket. No way, who made this era neither monitor nor scan code degaussing .

That evening, Luo Yong walked to Guiyifang on two legs. Although Guiyifang was far away from Fenglefang where Nanbei groceries were located, it was very close to Fenganfang where Luo Yong, Qiao Junlin and the others lived. Go out from the south gate of Feng'anfang, walk one or two kilometers to the west, and the north gate of Guiyifang is on the left.

The reason why I walked there was to make it easier to go home after climbing over the wall. The curfew in Chang'an City has really brought a lot of inconvenience to the people in the city. In the past two years, the world has been peaceful, and the curfew is not particularly strict. Just be careful not to be caught by others. After being pulled by the pigtails, they climbed over the wall and climbed over the wall. There are quite a few people who have climbed over the wall.

Guiyifang is considered a relatively dilapidated workshop in Chang'an City. The wall of the workshop has not been repaired for a long time, and people may often dig it in and out. Make a few more openings, and it is very convenient to get in and out. There are no students or high-ranking officials living in their square, and no one watches them climb over the wall on weekdays.

After Luo Yongxing went to Guiyifang, he asked people all the way, and found the courtyard where Xing Er and others were.

Through the half-person-high fence wall, you can see a small rather spacious open space. In the middle of the open space, there is a large earthen house built in a square shape. There are many large windows on the walls of the earthen house. The windows are pasted with oil paper. At this time, there is also smoke from the kitchen, and I think the kang must have been burned in the house.

"Is this Xing Erlang's house?" Luo Yong asked loudly outside the courtyard.

"Why are you looking for our boss?" A teenager in his teens appeared from behind the woodpile, looking at Luo Yong with vigilance in his eyes.

"I am Luo Sanlang from Lishi, I have something to discuss with him." Luo Yong reported his family name.

On the other side of the earthen house, someone pushed the door panel out with a creaking sound. He was a tall and thick man with messy hair. He tied a ponytail on the top of his head without a bun, and tied a faded turban on his forehead. In front, I don't know whether it is for warmth or decoration. She is wearing short brown clothes that look like cotton wool, and she wears cotton boots under her feet.

"Boss Xing, this man said he is Lishi Luo Sanlang." The child next to the firewood pile raised his voice.

"Okay, grab the firewood and go in quickly." Xing Er said, walked up to Luo Yong in a few steps, and opened the courtyard gate for him - a fence gate that was so low and sparse that it could be ignored.

Xing Er led Luo Yong into the big earthen house. After entering, Luo Yong discovered that it was a workshop, mainly for sorting some cashmere and goose down, and there were many sorted and unsorted goods in those baskets.

A few children were busy around the kang, adding firewood and mixing batter, looking like they were making dinner.

Luo Yong explained the purpose of his trip to Xing Er, Xing Er thought about it and said: "I can take care of this matter, I will arrange a few brothers to go there at that time, but I can't be there every day. .”

It's rare for someone like Luo Yong to be able to make such a big business, but his family has no foundation in Chang'an City, which is rare these days, so Luo Yong can be regarded as Xing Er's big client in this way, but he used to I have also taken on many small clients, so I can't just ignore the old ones as soon as this big business is done.

"So." Luo Yong nodded, and asked him again: "I don't know about money?"

"Luo Sanlang will give you some rice noodles at will." Xing Er said bluntly.

As soon as Luo Yong heard it, he knew that this grandson was also a cunning one. If he gave the protection fee too casually, they would also give him a random protection, would that work?

"How much money and rice noodles per month?" Luo Yong asked tentatively.The regular money per month is 33 Wen per day, which is how much the half-month wages of many poor people in Chang'an City are.

"Eight hundred Wen is fine." With a wave of Xing Er's hand, he subtracted two hundred Wen every month.

When Luo Yong heard that it was so good, instead of raising the price for him, he even lowered the price for him. Seeing that this guy is not such a sincere person, he asked him, "I wonder if Xing Erlang has any other requests?"

"Hahaha, Lishi Luosanlang is really a cheerful person!" Na Xing Er laughed loudly.

"..." Luo Yong.How can I be so refreshing, I haven't even agreed yet.

"To tell you the truth, there is a problem right now." Xing Er said: "As the saying goes, half-sized children eat poor old people, these little bastards are too good to eat, and the job of sorting cashmere and goose down has not been done recently. It’s easy, Saburo Dayi, if you can reward them with a bite of food, it doesn’t matter if you want the eight hundred Wen per month or not.”

Hearing what he said, Luo Yong immediately turned his head to look at the 'little bastards' in the room. There were at least thirty of them, big and small, and many of them were growing up, and Luo Yong had raised children before. People who have a deep understanding of this.

It's just that if he didn't guess wrong, these children should be orphans. Most of them have wandered outside in the past, and their hands and feet are probably not too clean. Asking God is easy and sending God away is difficult...

"San Lang should have guessed what the origins of these little bastards were." Xing Er was talking non-stop and still doing sales:

"If you want to talk about guarding against thieves, who can compare with them? I have found someone to go to suppress the place, and that can only suppress those who are on the road. Isn't there so many young ladies from good families? Seeing that there are so many things on your shelves, you suddenly become greedy and go a little bit, can you tell? You can find these little guys, they can not only work for you, but also help you guard against thieves Woolen cloth."