Cub Nursery

Tie Niu was running so fast that he was sweating profusely.

He used to work in the logistics of the seaside, and later Yan Xun wanted to recruit someone to be a security guard, Tieniu was lucky enough to be selected, even though he was disabled, but because of his cultivation, he was stronger than ordinary men, Naturally, he became the security captain, responsible for the security of the entire supply and marketing mall.

Now that something happened, Tie Niu had heard Yan Xun said that something would happen, but he didn't expect it to be so soon. It would have been better if his eyes had been sharper.

"Everyone, I'm looking for Master Yan." Tieniu clapped his hands together.

The Taoist soldiers guarding outside Honglu Temple naturally knew Tieniu, and motioned him to wait for a while, and hurried in to communicate.

After a while, Jing Fengye came out, changed into a suit of clothes, with a straight face, very majestic.

Tieniu hurriedly said the matter again, and asked again: "Where is your lord?"

"My lord is resting, I'll take care of this matter." Jing Feng said at night.

"It's okay." Tieniu thought for a while, then nodded hastily.

In his opinion, Jing Fengye was with Yan Xun every day, and he heard that Danxin Bridge was designed by Jing Fengye himself, it was extremely powerful, so he should have a way to solve the problem this time.

The two arrived quickly.

There are still people coming and going outside the supply and marketing mall, and the stage is singing a big show at this time, and the crowd below applaud.

Jing Fengye glanced over there, then hurried in through another small door.

"Over there." Tieniu walked a few steps quickly, and winked at the men, who hurried out of the way to let Jing Fengye in.

There is a circle of people outside, and the inside is separated by wooden boards.Jing Fengye looked around and found that no one was affected here, his face softened a lot, "You lost your purse, did he steal it?"

Standing against the wall were two men, one in silk and satin, the other in coarse bunt, their hands and feet were trembling from the cold.

"Yes, he stole my purse!" The man in silk and satin yelled loudly, "The rules of your shopping mall are not clearly written. If there is a thief, will you help catch it? Now that I have caught the thief, why not?" Tell him to give me the purse."

The bunt man hurriedly said: "The money bag is mine in the first place, how can I steal it? You are the one who spouted blood!"

Jing Fengye narrowed his eyes and watched the two insist on their opinions. He suddenly took a step forward, took the money bag from the bunt man, took out all the silver inside, and looked carefully.

They are all scraps of silver, not more than five taels in total, not a lot, but definitely not a lot.

However, the money bag is made of good material, and the design is embroidered with gold thread, so the money bag is quite valuable.

"What do you two do for a living?" Jing Fengye asked suddenly.

The two men were stunned for a moment, and then the satin man said: "My family has no business." The bunt man said, "My lord, my family has a small butcher's workshop."

"You all say that the money is yours, how did you get it?" Jing Fengye asked again.

"My family has case silver, how else can I get it?"

"This is the money from selling pork. Today I plan to come to the mall to have a look and buy some food, so that my brothers and children can try something new."

Both of them had their own opinions, but Jing Fengye was not in a hurry, but said a few words to Tieniu, and he went back to Honglu Temple by himself, bringing the flower tree cub and the microscope.

In front of everyone, the flower tree cub took out an ingot of silver, held a thin piece of glass with tweezers and wiped it, then began to fiddle with the microscope.

After looking at it for a while, the flower tree cub said: "There is some tofu on the silver, you can come over and take a look."

"Tofu?" Jing Fengye leaned over to take a look, then turned to look at the two men, "Ask again, tofu?"

"How could there be tofu, we didn't see it, you must have misread it!" the satin man shouted loudly again.

The flower tree cub hurriedly explained, "This is a microscope, which can magnify things a lot. Some things we can't see can be seen with a magnifying glass. If you don't believe me, just go to the yamen and sue me, and the yamen will accept it."

The eyes of both of them were obviously flustered, and they insisted that it had nothing to do with tofu.

Not long after, a man came up and said in a low voice, "The money was lost by the sister who sells tofu, but the purse is not hers. That sister sells tofu in our mall. The business is very good. I was too busy to notice." The silver is lost."

Jing Fengye asked the girl to be called to identify her on the spot. She could tell at a glance that the satin guy had bought tofu from her, but the bunt guy had never seen it before.

The truth soon came to light. The man in silk and satin stole his sister's silver and kept it in his own purse.

In the end, both men were escorted and sent to see the officials.

Before leaving, Jing Fengye said to Tieniu alone: ​​"I think those two guys may be deliberately causing trouble, you should pay more attention. Let everyone be more cautious, and ask the cubs for help if you are not sure."

Tieniu looked awe-inspiring, and hurriedly agreed.

This time, if he hastily decided that Yinzi belonged to one of those two people, nothing would happen at the time, but if it spreads in the future, it might ruin the reputation of the entire shopping mall.

Just imagine, when you go to the mall to buy things, even your own money may become someone else's, so who would dare to come?

Watching Jing Fengye leave, Tieniu murmured: "Master Jing is really thoughtful."

Back at Honglu Temple, Jing Fengye hurriedly climbed onto the kang and lay down.

Yan Xun had already woken up, and heard the cubs talking about it, and seeing Jing Fengye lying on the kang, he smiled and said: "Why? It's not good to be alone, you can handle today's affairs It's very good, if it were me, I'm afraid I wouldn't be so considerate."

"Tired, my mind and body are empty." Jing Fengye felt a little aggrieved.

"You finished plowing on the kang, and then went out to use your brain, of course it was empty." Yan Xun said bluntly, "Okay, let's take a rest, we will live in Honglu Temple these days."

It happened that the shopping mall was free for the time being, and Yan Xun didn't want to go, so he lay down on the kang to sleep happily.

Jing Fengye lay down for a while, then suddenly opened his eyes, saw that Yan Xun seemed to be asleep, so he leaned over to kiss him secretly.

As a result, Yan Xun didn't sleep, he opened his eyes and looked at him, "Sleep!"

"I don't want to." Jing Fengye pouted like a little cub, "I'm empty, I can't sleep, can adults help me..."

"...Don't even think about it." Yan Xun refused with a black face.

Even if Jing Fengye lay still and asked him to come by himself, he still had to have enough strength.Since giving birth to the egg baby, Yan Xun felt that his body seemed to be slowly returning to the previous state, with little strength, and he was prone to typhoid when he was cold, and he seemed to have lost a lot of weight.

Looking at Jing Fengye with some pity, Yan Xun felt that if he had enough strength, he would definitely not let his body be empty.

**

In the evening, after dinner, many oil lamps were lit in the house, and Yan Xun brought washed fruits for the cubs to eat.

"How many people went to the mall today?" Yan Xun asked.

The little cub hurriedly pushed over a form to show Yan Xun, "This is the flow of people at each entrance of the mall, some of which are repeated. The first day of the capital city, there were not too many people coming to the mall..."

"There was someone who secretly smashed the glass, but he was caught."

"My lord, a glass wall was smashed today."

"The circulation of money is probably these..."

The form is clearly written, and there is also the circulation of money estimated by the cubs based on the flow of people.It is a huge number that no one has thought of before.

After all, the shops used to be separated from each other, but now the shops are all close together. When you enter the shopping mall, you will inevitably want to see the second one after seeing one, and the inside is very bright, clean and tidy, and many people who come here will bear it. Can't help but stay a little longer.

"It's beyond our plan, not bad." Yan Xun nodded with a smile, affirming, "We will only earn more and more money in the future."

"En!" The little cubs nodded hurriedly.

In such a large two-storey shopping mall, there are a large group of security guards employed alone, and there are three shifts in the morning, noon and evening, which is equivalent to three wages a day, plus the replacement of glass, and the money used to build the shopping mall , are quite large numbers.

The expenditure is quite a lot, and now they start to make real money. The cubs have been very nervous, and they are really relieved when they get Yan Xun's affirmation.

"When our store opens, we will earn more." Qin Shishi whispered.

He was very envious of these little cubs. In Qin Shishi's eyes, the little cubs were omnipotent. Such a big shopping mall was built as soon as it was built, and all aspects were predicted to be accurate.

Now he is just a store manager, and he is so busy that he scratches his head every day, and there are still many things that he doesn't understand.

Even though he was sitting in front of the table and eating fruit like the cubs at this time, Qin Shishi still felt that he would probably not be as good as the cubs in his life.

"Yes, yes." Yan Xun nodded, "The time will be for us to make a lot of money."

The next day, Qin Shishi went to the mall to work as usual.

He has a room of his own, which has a small bed for rest, a table, a bench, and a charcoal stove specially used for boiling water. There is a pipe leading to the outside, and there is no smoke at all.

It was noon, and there were not many people outside. Qin Shishi was about to take a rest when someone suddenly came.

It was the little eunuch next to Concubine Lu.

"Master, the master asked the servant to bring a sentence..." The little eunuch whispered in Qin Shishi's ear.

Qin Shishi did not dare to neglect, and hurried to find Yan Xun.

When the shopping mall opened, there was more commotion than on the day of the Chinese New Year. Many people figured out how much money was flowing in the shopping mall in a day, and the emperor was no exception.

Qin Shishi said he was the store manager, but he was actually the general manager of the mall, and he had the final say on all matters.

The emperor felt that Qin Shishi had become a talent, so he thought of Brother Lu, so he went to rest with him for a few nights.Brother Lu heard the news and hurriedly asked the people around him to deliver the letter.

Yan Xun frowned after Qin Shishi finished speaking, "The salt merchant has entered the palace."

"Yes, my lord." Qin Shishi panicked, "My father said that the emperor might want to control Yan, and when the time comes..."

In the past, salt merchants in Daqin were responsible for salt production and sales. The government collected heavy taxes, and it was a very important source of tax money for the household department, accounting for a large proportion.Now the emperor suddenly met the salt merchant, then...

"Although we haven't had contact with salt merchants, we have bought a lot of salt." Yan Xun was thoughtful.

All the workshops on the other side of the river are in charge of food, and the Taoist soldiers at the seaside are also in charge of food, otherwise Yan Xun is in charge of food, and the salt used every day is not a small amount, and the salt is often bought by cart by cart.

"Let those who are going to buy salt wait first, this batch of salt will not be bought for the time being." Yan Xun reckoned in his heart, the salt in the warehouse is almost enough, and he needs to buy salt again recently, so it is better to stop for a while.

"My lord, isn't the salt we eat refined in the sea?" Bouncing Cub asked.

"No." Yan Xun said, "It's the salt from the salt well."

Salt is extremely important, second only to iron.

If you don't eat salt, you will not only have no strength, but you will also get sick. Only by eating enough salt every day can you maintain your strength.

"The opening of our store is postponed for a few days!" Yan Xun thought for a while and said again.

On the same day, Yan Xun took the cubs away from Honglu Temple and went back to the nursery building on the other side of the river.

**

The Taoist soldiers by the sea gradually became more relaxed, and the bloodthirsty fish demon stayed in the sea, but would not go ashore.Just throw in some food once in a while, unfinished leftovers, fresh wood, grass blades, and occasionally a pork meal.

After so many days, the bloodthirsty fish demon did not come ashore again.

Yan Xun rode an iron donkey to the beach, and saw Yang Shuning leading a group of Taoist soldiers drying salt with sweat.

"General Yang, how did you become a salt merchant?" Yan Xun walked forward with a smile.

"Master Yan." Yang Shuning wiped the sweat off his face, "Brothers are free, I'll ask them to help. Let's make an agreement, if these salts are sold, you have to give me [-]% of the silver. It’s fine if you eat it yourself, I don’t want money.”

"Sure, let's make a deal like this." Yan Xun nodded hastily, [-]% of the silver is really too little.

Yang Shuning didn't think about how much money he wanted, but the Taoist soldiers under him couldn't work for nothing, so they had to pay more or less.

On the contrary, the two of them were talking casually at this moment, and no one expected that this tenth of silver would gradually grow to a very huge number in the future.

"General Yang, what do you think?" Yan Xun asked in a low voice when he got to a place where no one was around.

Now the bloodthirsty fish monsters on the beach just need to observe, and with Messi and the cubs around, even if the bloodthirsty fish monsters suddenly riot, they can be quickly controlled. There is no need for so many Taoist soldiers and the general Yang Shuning .

"Hey." Yang Shuning sighed, "The palace hasn't let me go back until now, what should I do?"

The bloodthirsty fish demon has killed so many people, and not a single ordinary person was hurt.Not to mention the people of the capital, even the people who built the Great Wall were not injured by the bloodthirsty fish monster. This credit can be said to be unprecedented.

But something happened in the middle, insufficient food and salary, no troops to support, and even rumors spread all over the capital. Not to mention these things, the credit is real.

Yang Shuning guarded the seaside, he still wanted to enter the palace and get the emperor's praise, even if it was verbal.

"Hey." Yan Xun also sighed.

Now the emperor is afraid of Yang Shuning, Yan Xun, and even Qin Yi every day and night.

Yang Shuning wanted to receive credit, even if it was a verbal praise, it was not easy.

"It's not easy." Yang Shuning said, "Okay, it's rare to come to the beach, why don't you eat some sea fish?"

"Oh? And caught sea fish?" Yan Xun was surprised, "Dare you go in the sea?"

Now there are dams on the seashore, and the Great Wall like a mountain, and now there are military workshops and salt workshops, and there are some studies on the teeth of bloodthirsty fish demons.If these workshops were all written by Yan Xun in the booklet, the emperor would definitely praise Yang Shuning well, but the seaside might not be under their control by then.

That's why it's so difficult right now.

It was because Yan Xun was too soft-hearted, if he didn't manage the soldiers back then, the court would have known the severity and would not be as perfunctory as he is now.But if he did it all over again, Yan Xun would definitely do the same thing, he just had a soft heart and couldn't change it.

All that aside, everything is fine, fine.

"Sea fish is a good thing in the first place, a few Taoist soldiers sneaked into the sea a while ago, let me catch it, the fish was confiscated, and people put them in confinement." Yang Shuning laughed loudly, "Brother Zouyan, brother, please try the sea fish. "

"Let's go!" Yan Xun also became interested.

Daqin seldom sees fish, and even in the capital, it is only occasionally seen some freshwater fish.

There should be fish in the river running through the Danxin Bridge, but the river is too fast to catch fish even if you fish by the river.

Soon, two plates of fish were served.

Yan Xun knew it was delicious when he saw it, so he picked it up and tasted it, and it tasted really good.

The meat is tender, with few thorns, no fishy smell, very delicious.

"Sea fish really deserves its reputation!" Yan Xun was full of praise.

"That's natural." Yang Shuning laughed loudly.

After eating the sea fish, Yan Xun never forgot it. The next day, he brought the cubs to the beach carrying wooden boxes one by one.

The black and white cub took out an iron cylinder from the wooden box, and then stretched it, it became longer and longer, and the Taoist soldier beside him was dumbfounded, and after a closer look, he realized the mystery of the iron cylinder place.

The little cub took out the fishing line and hook, tied the delicious bait on it, and handed it to Yan Xun, "My lord uses this."

"Okay." Yan Xun hurriedly agreed, he was tossing a fishing rod just now, but his hand was cut by the fishing line, the little cubs were all anxious and didn't let him do it.

After a while, Yan Xun reeled in the line, and caught an arm-long sea fish.

"My lord is so amazing." The long-haired cub looked at Yan Xun enviously, and hurried to work by himself.

Yan Xun pursed his lips, just as the bait was put down, another fish took the bait.

The Dao soldiers on the side were stunned again, how did Yan Xun catch this?Every time the bait is thrown down, the fish can be caught within an instant, and they are all very big fish.

The Taoist soldiers who were imprisoned had been swimming in the sea for a long time, and they found a few sea fish with great difficulty. It took a lot of effort to catch a few, but they were confiscated before they could eat them.

"I'm not fishing anymore, come on." Yan Xun cheerfully handed the fishing rod to Jing Fengye.

"Master Jing is not as good-looking as an adult, so I probably won't be able to catch it." The long-haired cub stroked his chin and said thoughtfully.

Jing Fengye nodded, "It must be."

So he fished for a long time, but he didn't catch any of them.

In the evening, Yan Xun had enough of the whole fish feast.

Qin Shishi happened to come to the construction of the Conservation Hall, followed by Zhanguang, ate sea fish once, and brought a message, "My lord, the salt merchant has appointed a salt official, and the price of salt will be raised in the future, and... it will not be sold on the river side... ..."

"Where's the supply and marketing mall?" Yan Xun asked calmly.

Qin Shishi lowered his head, "I went to ask those salt officials, and they said that it is okay to open shops in the shopping malls to sell salt, but the shops must be given to them directly, no rental fee will be charged, and... they will be given some subsidies."

There is a subsidy program in the supply and marketing market, but it is aimed at some small households with good business but not enough capital to set up a store, salt merchants... the money on hand may be able to buy the entire shopping mall.