I opened a mall in ancient times

Songzhi tidied up her hood, looked at the gate of Kangzhou City, which she was not very familiar with, and sighed.

When he left, he followed Babak's caravan, but when he came back, he pulled a caravan back by himself, half of them came across on the way back and formed a team to go together, and the other half was because he remembered halfway. I have to show myself to support the scene, so I hired people temporarily.

These two teams together, a caravan of more than [-] people and carriage goods, appeared at the gate of Kangzhou City, went through routine registration, and then waited in line to enter the city.

In addition to their caravan today, there is another big wave, which is about three or four times larger than theirs. Even the carriages pulling goods are lined up hundreds of meters away. They seem to have just arrived. It turned out that the leader and the team leaders were coordinating the team, taking everyone's guides and not knowing what to do.

"When did Kangzhou City become so strict?" The captain of another caravan with Song Zhi and the others couldn't help but said, "We didn't need everyone to register when we left Kangzhou City last time."

Songzhi asked back, "Are you from Kangzhou City?"

"That's right, if you want to go to the Western Regions, the only option is to come out of Kangzhou City."

The Western Region is so big, there is naturally more than one Kangzhou City bordering on it, but Song Zhi is very sensitive to the word Kangzhou City, "Then you are quite miserable."

He and the other party met on the grassland less than two days away from Kangzhou City. The other party said they were businessmen from Sheng Kingdom, but they were spotted by horse bandits halfway there. Most of their caravan was killed or injured. , there are only less than half of the people left, and now there is no way to go to the Western Regions without the goods, I hope to come back with Song Zhi and the others.

"This is the case in the business of traveling, although it makes a lot of money, it also has a lot of risks.

The captain was also very helpless, "This trip has suffered a lot."

He invested half of his net worth in it, not to mention that he didn't make any money now, and all the money he invested was robbed. It can be said that he lost everything.If he hadn't met the pine branch, he probably wouldn't have been able to come back alive.

"Bring out your guides, and I'll register to enter the city." Since registration was required, Songzhi would not violate the rules, and took the guides from other people in the caravan and queued up, waiting to register to enter the city.

"Yo, it's from Jiushui." As a result, the soldiers guarding the city were surprised when they saw the guide and the name on the pass guarantee brought by Songzhi, "How do you go through the gate? Are these goods from the textile factory? Just send it in through the express lane."

Pine branch was at a loss.

When did Kangzhou City have an extra textile factory, why didn't he know anything about it?From this meaning, it seems that the owner has opened a new store?

"From Jiushui?" As a result, several nearby caravan owners who heard the name Jiushui also gathered around curiously, "Why haven't I seen you before? You don't seem to be among the people in charge of delivering goods in the textile factory, right? "

Pine Branch was even more at a loss.

"Ah... I am indeed Jiushui's, but my boss asked me to go to the Western Regions to buy goods, and I haven't come back for a long time." Songzhi explained blankly.

"Oh oh oh!!!"

Hearing what Song Zhi said, the people around suddenly realized, "That's a good thing! Boss Luo seems to have mentioned before that an employee in the store went out to buy new goods, and it should be you. Is there anything good this time?"

"It's me." Song Zhi nodded, "It's nothing, just some wool."

wool?

Connecticut City has indeed been buying wool in large quantities recently.But Luo Chaochao asked his employees to buy wool so early?

impossible.

Pine resin can't understand the current situation in Kangping City, and it's not good to talk casually. I feel that my boss doesn't know that he has come up with new tricks. I don't know, and I don't know if these people came to him to inquire about the news. Anyway, just perfunctory .

But the captains of these caravans heard that they came from Jiushui, so they came to greet Song Zhi very affectionately, and wanted to get closer to Song Zhi.

Now who doesn't know that Jiushui is the hottest shop in the entire Kangzhou City. If you want to buy things in Luochao Chao Store, there are countless caravans buying goods. There are too many people who want to buy, and the fabrics produced by the textile factory are not enough. Need to grab.

If we can establish a good relationship with Songzhi, we may be able to get the latest material in advance in the future.

Even the guard's attitude towards Songzhi was very pleasant.

"That's it, you enter from that side. That's the special channel for the textile factory to transport goods. Go in through that side faster." The guard leading the way said to Song Zhi, and Song Zhi led the caravan through another channel in a daze. .

I don't know why it always feels weird.

It can be seen that this passage was temporarily opened, but it is very important. The ground is well paved, and horse-drawn carts and ox carts will not shake when walking on it, and the porcelain that is afraid of touching will not be accidentally broken.

Their convoy of a hundred or so people entered through this passage and stopped at a position that would not block others.

Because of the positioning of Kangzhou City, there is a very spacious open space just after entering the city gate, because they are afraid that these caravans will block the entrance and cause congestion.

After the carriage stopped, Songzhi looked at Kangzhou City, which had not long left.

It seems that nothing has changed, except that there are a little more girls walking on the street, and the atmosphere seems to be more lively.

Pine Branch pulled the hat on the cloak again.

"Captain Song, you are actually from Jiushui." After entering, the captain of another caravan who teamed up with Songzhi also sighed with Songzhi, "Isn't Jiushui's most famous cosmetics? You brought it back like this." What are the spices and wool for? Did Boss Luo ask you to bring them too?"

It was strange for them to say that Songzhi ran so far to say that it was for spices, but they could barely admit that they could match up with Jiushui's business direction, but what Songzhi brought back was not only some spices, but also a lot of wool and various kinds of spices. The seeds and rhizomes of the plants, and even harvested a lot of flowers of Baidianzi, which did not seem to be very valuable.With these worthless things, many carts were pulled vigorously. The unwashed wool was very heavy, and it was heavily pressed on the carriage, and the ruts were extremely deep.

If it weren't for the super strength of Songzhi, so many of them might not be able to come back smoothly.

"I don't know what my boss thinks." How could he tell a stranger what Luo Chaochao was going to do, but just vaguely fooled him.

The man wasn't angry when he didn't get an answer, just smiled.

He didn't expect to get the answer, so he just mentioned it casually, seeing that Songzhi didn't want to talk about it, he accepted it as soon as he saw it, "Speaking of which, the goods I was robbed were also the cloth I finally bought from Jiushui cloth shop. I wanted to take advantage of the cheapness to make a fortune, but I didn’t expect to be robbed halfway.”

"...Did you buy the goods from Jiushui?"

"That's right, the price is much cheaper than the current market price, I managed to get so much." Captain Huang shook his head, "But thank you anyway, I should go back and deal with the funeral of the dead brother , My home is in Ningbei City, I can't repay you for saving your life, if you need help, you can come to Ningbei City to find me, as long as I can help, I will help."

After finishing speaking, the two exchanged tokens, and Captain Huang left with the rest of the car and team members.

He will go through Kangzhou City and return to Ningbei City.

Song Zhi watched the man leave, and then went to Daxing Street to find Jiushui Mall according to his memory.

When Songzhi left, Jiushui Mall had just opened for a few days, but at least he knew the route. The further he walked, the more strange the situation on the side of the road became. When he passed Nanluo Alley, he found that there were still people queuing up outside. Looking at it from such a distance, it doesn't seem to be the boss's barbecue restaurant.

"What kind of store is this?" Songzhi couldn't hold back, and asked someone who was in line.

"This is Jiushui cloth shop! The cloth sold in the store is very cheap!" The woman who was stopped said after seeing that he was a cute young man, "Do you want to buy it too? Don't worry, our Kangzhou textile The factory can make a lot of goods every day, and if you buy in bulk, it will be enough."

Jiushui cloth village?

The name Jiushui should belong to Luo Chaochao!

Sure enough, the boss opened a new store when he was away, but he didn't expect Luo Chaoxi to become a cloth shop. What's the use of it?

Song Zhi thanked him, and continued to lead the convoy towards that side. Only then did the people in the convoy ask curiously, "Boss, is this also the owner's store?"

Songzhi glanced at the other party.

It's a leopard.

Not all the people that Song Zhi brought back were temporarily hired humans, but also the monsters he subdued along the way. These monsters wanted to rob him, but they were beaten to pieces by Song Zhi.

He looks weak and deceitful, but he is actually a fierce group. These carnivorous monsters can be hammered by angry little squirrels.

After the fight, Song Zhi thought it was all right, and was about to leave, but the monsters he defeated relied on him and said they would go with him.

The pine branches were thrown in the middle several times, but they didn't get rid of it, and a few other monsters were added in the middle, forming a small team.

Later, Songzhi gave up, thinking that it would be okay to bring back a few employees for Luo Chaochao, but it would be a headache for Luo Chaochao when he arrived.

Keep it if you can use it, and drive it away if you can't use it.

Anyway, the store has been short of manpower for many years.

"It should be." Song Zhi said, "When you see the boss, you will tense up a little bit, don't say anything you shouldn't say, and don't neglect him after you see the boss."

"Of course, we won't be rude to the boss's boss." Several monsters laughed and laughed, it seemed that they didn't take Song Zhi's words to heart.

Song Zhi gave a few more words of advice, then took a deep breath, and rehearsed in his mind what he would say after seeing Luo Chao Chao.

As a result, when he really arrived at the door, he was a little at a loss looking at the drastically changed door.

When he left, the two stores had been merged. It didn't mean that the decoration of the front door had changed, but that the store was more popular.

Not that there are always humans in the store, but that there are humans working in the store.

Wasn't the store full of monsters before?

When Songzhi left, there were not so many employees in the store, and now all the employees who stay in the store for many years are newly recruited after Songzhi left.

Except for a small number of high-level employees, ordinary employees don't know Songzhi at all.

When the welcome guest at the door saw Pine Branch coming, he thought he was here to buy goods, so he quickly greeted him, "Good day, boss, are you planning to come to our Jiushui to buy goods? Have you heard about the products in our store before?" ? If you don’t understand, we can introduce you again, there is a parking place here.”

Songzhi didn't know who the other party was, and the employees didn't know that Songzhi was actually their senior.Seeing that Songzhi didn't speak, the other party thought that he was too enthusiastic to disturb others, so he took a step back a little embarrassedly. "I'm very sorry to bother you. If you like to watch it by yourself, you can. We won't disturb you."

Songzhi said "uh..." and then asked, "Is the boss there? I mean Luo Chaochao."

"The boss should be at the textile factory now. If you want to see him, you may need to make an appointment in advance." As a result, the welcome guest became more certain that Pine Branch was here to buy goods.

There are many people like Songzhi who come to buy goods, and she has seen it many times, and she is already familiar with it.

The people in the motorcade laughed when they saw this, and they didn't know whether they were laughing at the fact that the people in the shop didn't recognize Song Zhi, or they thought Song Zhi's embarrassment was funny.

"...What is that textile factory?" From the beginning, Songzhi was curious about what this textile factory was.

He can guess that it should be related to the owner, and it is estimated that the owner funded the construction.

"You just came from outside recently, right? Kangzhou Textile Factory is the largest fabric textile base in Kangzhou City. Half of the cloth sold in our cloth shop in Kangzhou City is made by our Kangzhou Textile Factory. The quality of the fabric is quite good. , if you are interested, you can also go to our Jiushui Cloth Shop to have a look. Do you want to see better quality or cheaper prices? The width of our cloth shop is ten feet. , whether it is for making clothes or for other purposes, it is more suitable, if you want to take a look, I can accompany you to take a look."

The clerk was so enthusiastic that Songzhi was very nervous, and just about to say something, he saw a familiar person walking out of the store.

When the other party saw the pine branch, he was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized. "Pine branch! You are finally back, why are you standing at the door and not coming in?"

The people who came out were the fox sisters who worked in the Luochao store.

The two are actually not very close, but at least they can be regarded as the veterans of the store. They both know each other. When she came out, she saw Song Zhi standing at the door blankly. She thought that the other party had been outside for too long and couldn't remember the way. .

"Ah? Sister Hu... What is this?" The clerk who was enthusiastically introducing the store's business to his promotion just now was a little dumbfounded.

Are they so familiar?

"Oh, by the way, you probably don't know that Songzhi is also an employee of the store, but the boss sent him to the Western Regions to buy goods before you joined the job." The sister of the fox family suddenly realized: "This is one of our own. , but what's going on with these people?"

She was talking about the monsters who came back with Matsue and the humans who didn't have a high sense of existence.

"They were hired on a temporary basis." Song Zhi said, "These few... are forced to follow after winning the battle on the road." That is to say, these monsters.

"Have you told your master yet?"

"Isn't my boss here?"

"That's right, then you guys come in first, the goods on the car... um... Brother Zhulan, Songzhi is back, what do you do with the things you brought?"

Zhulan, who was still patrolling in the store, heard someone calling her, and walked out of the hall in a hurry. When she saw Song Zhi, she greeted her first, and then said, "You are back, take everything except wool. Send them all to the warehouse first. Songzhi, do you want to go to the textile city? Recently, my boss has been staying in the textile city, and it happens that there is not enough wool recently, so you can solve the urgent need when you come back."

"Okay." Song Zhi had no objection, "How is the store going now?"

"As you can see, it's pretty good." The two of them chatted ramblingly, and Songzhi asked the human employees in his caravan to unload everything except wool and cotton.

They didn't go to the warehouse. The warehouse is a bit far away from here, and the seeds and various plants they brought don't actually account for a lot of them. They can stay in the store and let other shop assistants carry them.

Anyway, he is a familiar employee, Songzhi is not too stiff to say anything, and he has been outside for so long, and he is no longer as quiet as before.

"You all rest here too." Songzhi and Zhulan said to the rest of the caravan after finishing the goods they brought back.

"Can we follow?" Before those humans said anything, several monster players inside raised their hands and asked.

Zhulan took a look at them, and let the welcome guests at the door go in first, "These monsters are not very old, and the accent doesn't seem like that of Sheng Kingdom."

"Didn't I go to the Western Regions and Beidi? I met these people on the road, and they have been pestering me since they were rescued."

"Bring it back as an employee?"

"Because the boss is very powerful, we want to follow him." The little leopard who talked a lot said, "Is there anything we can do?"

"I can't decide. I have to wait for the boss to come back and make a decision." Zhulan shook her head.

There are more than 50 employees in this store in Guangda New Street. Originally, Zhulan needed to work as a cashier at the front desk, but now that many employees have been recruited, Zhulan was naturally promoted to the supervisor of the cashier group, but he managed The cash register does not mean that he is in charge of personnel affairs. Hu Xiaohong, who is in charge of personnel affairs, has been busy training a group of newly recruited employees in recent days, and is not in the store now.

Or just go directly to Luo Chaochao, but now Luo Chaochao is not in the store, and it would be a bit of a fuss to take people directly to the textile factory.

"We can do anything," they said, "as long as we can follow the boss."

Matsue shrugged helplessly.

"...Then let them go to the textile factory for a while."

"I'm fine." Song Zhi didn't care.

The textile factory sounds like a place to work. These monsters always thought that they could become the king of the mountain by following them, but who would have thought that Song Zhi himself also worked for others.

It is a very ordinary part-time job, ordinary humans do whatever they want, compared with them, they are more free, at least they can go out and let the wind out in the name of traveling businessmen.

He has persuaded him before, but these monsters thought he was making excuses, so they didn't believe it at all. Let them find a place to work now: let them know that their life is very boring, and it is not free to follow him. left.

"Then can we stay?!" Several little monsters were very excited.

"You have to pass the test, and you need the approval of the owner."

But being able to stay for the time being has already made these little monsters happy enough, and they worked very hard to help move things and drive cars.

"Ah, by the way, how much wool did you bring back?" Zhulan told the people in the store that she was going out, and then harnessed the horse with Songzhi.

"It's basically all in the car, as well as the seeds that the boss wants to bring." Songzhi gestured to her space bag, and Zhulan naturally understood.

After the two discussed it in a hurry, Zhulan handed over the work in hand to other people. The humans in the caravan were arranged directly at the inn, and Zhulan, Songzhi and the monsters drove the car to the city. Walk outside the textile factory.

The textile factory is not too far away from the city gate of Kangzhou. It takes about half an hour to take a horse-drawn carriage. They are pulling the goods, and the speed cannot be increased, but the people present are all monsters, so it is really not because of such a small difficulty Just slow down.

There is a specially built road from Kangzhou City to the textile factory, which is not particularly smooth. After coming out of the city gate, walk west for about 800 meters and then turn to the north.

It was also from this fork in the road that patrolling officers and soldiers appeared on the road, and the more they went north, the more officers and soldiers patrolled. It was not until they saw the gray-brown buildings in the distance that they finally relaxed.

"A lot of people." Songzhi felt the scale of the textile factory, and then sighed, "How long has it been?"

"What else does the boss do besides this?"

"Did you open the store in other cities? There is one in Youzhou City, two in the south, and you have joined the Monster Chamber of Commerce." Zhulan knew it better, "There are other stores that want to cooperate with the owner, and they are in negotiation. Half of the cloth houses in Connecticut City choose to cooperate with the boss."

There were a total of seven carts pulling goods in a group, and they were usually checked, but this time because Zhulan was the leader, the officers and soldiers on the road did not check them, and came all the way to the gate of the textile factory.

Luo Chaochao was still in the factory, when he heard that Zhulan and the others had come, he was taken aback, "What is he doing here, isn't he in the shop?"

Before, Zhulan kept shouting that she didn’t want to go to work. After the new employee came, he was promoted as a matter of course. He didn’t have to stay at the cashier every day, and turned himself into a cashier supervisor. Usually, he didn’t have much time to do other things, let alone let him Went to the field.

Come here now and guess what's going on.

Luo Chaochao wiped his hands, walked out of the wool processing workshop, and saw several carriages pulling goods parked in the open space, as well as a very familiar young man standing in front of the carriages.

This person looked familiar, Luo Chaoxi stared at him for two seconds, and suddenly realized who it was.

Matsue who is a traveling merchant outside!

Song Zhi stayed with Luo Chaoxi for a relatively short time, and went out after a short stay. There were only regular text messages, and Luo Chaoxi usually had too much work. Now seeing the other party suddenly, he didn't even react.

"Why didn't you say you were ready to go pick you up before you came back, and you came here suddenly, which shocked me." Luo Chaoxi stepped forward and looked at the pine branches.

In short, there is no difference from two months ago, except that he changed his clothes and looked more cheerful, "This is..."

The monsters who followed looked eager to try, they didn't look like temporary employees.

Pine Branch scratched his hair, "I rescued a few little monsters on the road, and they must come back with them. They can do whatever they want, and they are doing well so far. You can take a look, boss. If you need it, you can stay. You don't need it." Just drive away."

There is not a shortage of people in the Luochao Chao shop now, because the cyclical system of one generation leading the next and the elders training new ones is already on the right track. As long as there is no sudden opening of a branch and an urgent need for manpower, there are enough people in the store now.

Ordinary people can maintain the normal operation of the store, and the business at night can almost guarantee the normal operation.

Relying on the inability of these low-level monsters to hear, Songzhi transmitted sound to Luo Chaoxi.

[These kids thought they could become the king of the mountain by following me, so they wouldn’t listen to what I said. If you don’t mind, you can use them as you like, and leave when they get over their difficulties. 】

Luo Chao Chao understood it as soon as he heard it.

The monster Mu Qiang and Song Zhi saved them, but they were not good at refusing, so they were stuck on them with these dog skin plasters.

That being the case, Luo Chao Chao will not be polite.

Some dirty jobs are too slow for humans to do, but if it is a monster with rough skin and thick flesh, it can be done many times faster than humans.

For example, cleaning the wool cut from the wool body.

The wool they bought back from Songzhi is not the clean wool that has been simply processed in later generations, but directly shaved from the sheep, with grass seeds and dust stuck to it, and the wool is still glued together. It is placed in modern times and processed by advanced machines. Now It can only be done manually. Fortunately, there are monsters in Luo Chao Chao who can help.

Songzhi and Luo Chaochao reached a consensus, so Luo Chaochao just glanced at these little monsters without saying anything.

"Since you were brought back by Songzhi, you should help out in the Textile City during this time. Are you sure you can do any job?"

"Of course!"

Several people nodded like pounding garlic.

"Unload everything." Luo Chaochao said.

The car was full of packed wool, and in addition to that, there were also a considerable number of appearances in the portable space of several monsters and pine branches.

Of course, not all of these were purchased in the Western Regions. On the way back, Songzhi deliberately detoured to Beidi, found the nomads there, and visited several relatively large tribes, which is how he collected so much. .

Beidi people also use wool, and many textiles are made of wool. However, they have more tribesmen and more sheep. In addition, they accumulate year after year and the supply exceeds demand. Wool has long since become worthless. Sheep are thrown away casually when the sheep are moulted in summer.

Now Songzhi comes to collect wool, although the price is not high, but a sum of money is a sum of money, so several tribes where Songzhi went to sell wool to Songzhi, the price is very good, and the quantity is also large, Luo Chaochao took a look at it. The wool was as small as a hill, and I immediately felt that the wool should be enough for this period of time.

More could have been bought, but the tribes said that a caravan collected a lot of wool not long ago, and that was all that was left.

Luo Chaochao thought it might be Kansai and the others.

Kansai and the others left much earlier than Songzhi. Songzhi came back earlier because he was a monster, but Kansai would probably be back soon after calculating the time. By then, Luo Chaochao would be able to get another batch of wool.

It's almost fall, and the first batch of sweaters is almost ready.

"How much did these cost?"

"Not much, just over 700 taels." Songzhi told Luo Chaochao an unexpected number.

"so cheap?"

"That's right, Beidi's wool is really too much." Song Zhi said, "If it weren't for the tight time, it should be lower."