North and South groceries

Two days later, the shopkeeper of Chen's Salt Shop came to Luo Yong with a few things. As soon as he entered the yard, he hurriedly apologized, saying that his brother's words had offended him, and asked Saburo not to take offense.

Naturally, Luo Yong was full of nonsense, and it wasn't a big deal, so why should he be so polite.Regardless of whether you see it in your heart or not, it is natural to say that in person, even if you make an enemy, there is no need to go to the other party to fight.

Chen Er, the head of the Chen's Salt Company, is a shrewd and capable man. He went out to do business with others at a young age, and traveled to many places. In the early years, he took a Qingzhou woman as his wife and lived in Qingzhou for several years. , and then transported the Qingzhou sea salt back to Lishi County to sell, and made a lot of money.

Mr. Chen's family is a farmer, and his house is in the suburbs of Lishi County. There are several other brothers below him, some of whom are servants in the government's mansion. It is also much more well-informed than ordinary people.

For Chen Qi to be able to make a living as a seller in Lishi County, it is natural that he has a few elder brothers to help him. Luo Yong guessed that Chen Erlang should have given money from his own family to Chen Qi to buy people. If you get money, naturally you won't lose your brother.

In the past few years, the commercial roads have become more and more smooth, and the business of selling salt is not as easy as before. In their county alone, there are several salt shops, some selling salt exclusively, and some selling mixed with other things, competing with each other. If there are too many, the profit will naturally go down.

Luo used to make fermented bean curd with the local lake salt of their Hedong Road. The store selling lake salt was introduced to him by Qin Wuniang from Qinji Soup and Cake Shop. Because he used a lot of it, the price was somewhat discounted. The store sold it. He is also a real person, and the lake salt supplied to him has always been of high quality and quantity, so Luo Yong naturally never thought of changing places to buy it.

When I was pickling vegetables in Qiuli, I bought some sea salt, not at Chen's Salt Shop, but at Ma's shop, because the Ma family had contacts with him, and since his family sold it, I had to take care of it. The business of old acquaintances.

I don't know if the Chen family's disagreement with him has something to do with Luo Yong's never going to Chen's Salt Shop to buy salt?

No matter what the Chen brothers thought, as long as they still wanted to do business in Lishi County, Luo Yong, they would definitely not be able to offend him.

Luo Yong hasn't said anything at this moment, and the public opinion in the city has already pointed to their Chen brothers. If Luo Yong intends to make trouble, then the situation will be very difficult to end.

After sending Chen Erlang away, Luo Yong looked at the few things brought by the other party, and said to Siniang Wulang: "These things, you two, send them to the dog's house."

"Brother..." Si Niang looked regretful.

"Brother doesn't like these things, if you eat them, brother doesn't like you." Luo Yong said.

"Then don't eat it, I'll send it to the dog's house right away." As soon as Si Niang heard this, Ma Liuer got off the kang, put on a rabbit fur jacket, and went out with her things.

"Brother, I'll go too." Wu Lang also felt that the atmosphere was not right, leading Mai Qingdou Lier, and quickly followed.

Luo Yong watched his two children running out of the yard like rabbits, and couldn't help smiling, but there was still a shadow in that smile.

There is a saying in the laws of the Tang Dynasty that slaves, maidservants and sluts are more than livestock.

Naturally, livestock can be bought and sold legally, but legality does not mean that everyone can accept it. In today's society, although selling people is legal, most people are absolutely unwilling to touch their hands.

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"Brother just got angry." After leaving the yard, Si Niang turned around and asked Wu Lang.

"I must be angry." Goro trotted two steps to follow. The siblings walked side by side on the dirt road at the entrance of the village. Walking on it, one is taller and the other is shorter.

"Brother, why are you angry?" Si Niang asked sullenly.

"I don't know, if I tell you to deliver things, you just go, and you have to say a few more words." Wu Lang said imitating Er Niang's appearance.

"I just think it's a pity, look, such a big bag of caramel, and this big piece of pork..."

"You're going to be hungry."

"Aren't you hungry?"

"Not hungry."

"Then don't eat frozen pears tonight, give them to me."

"No."

"Wang Wang!"

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At the same time, in Lishi County, a group of men rushed to the city. Seeing their battle, the officers and soldiers in the city surrounded them without saying a word, and asked them where they were from and why they came here.

The people who came said that they were from Dinghu County. Some time ago, a family surnamed Wang lost their doll, and they heard that it was sold a little. The merchants in the past said that it was in the hands of Chen Qi in Lishi County recently, so they searched for the general. come over.

The county magistrate was worried that these people would cause trouble in the city, so he didn't ask them to look for it by themselves, but asked someone to bring Chen Qi here.

"You are Chen Qi! My son is in your hands?" As soon as Chen Qi came, he was grabbed by the back of the neck by a [-]-foot man and yelled.

"I...cough cough cough..." Chen Qi was terrified. He had been buying and selling people for so many years. , Is there anyone who looks similar to the person in front of me, I think about it, but I have no idea.

"What's your son's name?" There was a small official present who had many contacts with the Chen family brothers, so he asked at this moment.

"My son, Wang Shao, is so tall, dark and thin." The strong man said, stretching out his hand and gesticulating on his waist.

A black and thin boy named Wang Shao?That said, Chen Qi immediately remembered that he was the brat who was just bought back by Na Luo Sanlang two days ago. Anyway, this matter cannot be concealed, so he had to lie:

"I know that Wang Shao was with me earlier. But I didn't know that he was sold by someone. The boy told me that he was from Dinghu County and he didn't want to be sold to a distant place. I didn't know that. If I bought him, if it was a normal time, someone who didn't know the origin would pull the child out and sell it, I would never dare to buy it..."

"Where is my son now!" The strong man didn't care about these things, and he wasn't in the mood to listen to his ramblings.

"He was bought by Luo Sanlang of Xipo Village a few days ago." Chen Qi said loudly.

If it was replaced by someone else, the county officials would be able to take care of this place, and the rest would be divided between the two families. It is really unclear, and then they will go to the government.

But that person is Luo Sanlang, so the situation is a little different. He is the God of Wealth in Lishi County. Recently, there have been many businessmen in the county, and the local finances have also been rising steadily.There is no adult in Luo Sanlang's family, so this group of reckless men rushed to kill them, in case they hurt people again... So they had to arrange a few messengers to go with these Dinghu men.

Wang Shao's father's name is Wang Dang, and another nickname is Boss Wang. He has a chivalrous style since he was a child, and he has gathered a group of brothers around him.

The Wang family was originally a trilogy of the big family, and was released by the master family. Since then, they have shed their lowly status and settled in Dinghu County. Every day, they look for some odd jobs to do, and sometimes go to various villages to sell some. Groceries, although the life is not rich, but the life in front of him is very precious, but he never thought that, with a wrong eye, his son would sell himself again.

It's also my fault that he is useless as a man and can't earn money and food. If not, her pregnant mother-in-law fell down, and she would have to sell her son.

But when he came back, the mother-in-law had already had a miscarriage, lying on the bed with a sallow face, and the younger ones below all looked panic-stricken.

The wind and snow hit his face, and after a while the whole face was numb from the cold, Wang Dang raised his rough hand and wiped it on his face indiscriminately.

Earlier, he heard from his family that the eldest son sold himself for three hundred yuan, but just now Chen Qi said that he sold it to Luo Sanlang at the usual price, and that he didn't earn half a cent himself, and got it from others. It was this price when he bought it, and Wang Dang saw that he was lying, but Luo Sanlang spent the same amount of money to buy his son, there is nothing wrong with it, the amount of money...

A group of people braved the wind and snow and went to Xipo Village. It was already dark, and there were lights in the courtyard of Luo's house, and a messenger came forward to knock on the door.

"Who is it?" Luo Yong was still settling accounts at the grocery store.

"It's the government's messenger." Someone outside the door replied.

"..." Luo Yong frowned, what are the officials from the public house doing here at night?I couldn't help but start playing a movie in my mind, all of which were scenes of a certain official being wronged and imprisoned.

If that kind of thing really happened, it's useless to resist stubbornly, it's better to see the situation first, so he signaled Erniang and the others to stay still, and went out to open the door by himself.

"It's so late, what's the matter?" The courtyard door opened, Luo Yong stood at the door and spoke, not intending to let people in.

There were a few men from Dinghu who wanted to rush in at this time, but were stopped by a few policemen who came together: "These people are all from Dinghu County, this man Wang Dang is that Wang Shaozhi father."

They were talking here, and in the grocery store, the group of children were also listening with their ears pricked up. As soon as that boy Wang Shao heard that it was his father who came, he quickly got off the kang and rushed outside with his shoes on. Crying and bleating: "Aye! Aye!"

Looking back on the thrilling experience before, I felt that I was really wronged by the old nose. Now that I finally saw my father, tears and snot came down immediately.

That Wang Dang felt uncomfortable when his son cried like this, and then saw him running out of the house in a blink of an eye...

"What is this in your hand?" Wang Dang asked his son.

"Taro, taro." Wang Shao said.

"You still eat taro?" Wang Dang smiled wryly.

"Suck... Someone sent a basket of taro just now. Mr. Lang said, this thing is from the south. I'm afraid of freezing. Suck. After dinner, I have nothing to do, so I asked us to cook it on the kang for snacks."

Wang Dang reached out and rubbed his son's forehead, but he didn't know what to say.

He was in a hurry to find people in the wind and snow all the way, wishing to fight with them desperately, but this kid was lucky, he was cooking taro and eating on the warm kang.