Zhu Nao

After Cheng Shiba was brought back by Zhu Nao, he developed a high fever that night.He has been homeless and starving for more than a month, and he has already suffered from injuries and illnesses.Fortunately, the young man has strong recovery ability, seven or eight days later, when Zhu Nao went to visit him again, he had already swept the courtyard.

Zhu Nao asked, "Has the fever subsided?"

Cheng Shiba nodded: "Retired."

Junao looked him over.When he was brought back a few days ago, the boy's face was pale and yellow, but now his face is blood-colored.Thin is still thin, after a few days of supplementation, thankfully it will not be so thin.If it goes on like this, it should heal after a while.

Cheng Shiba said: "What should I do?" After a little better, he couldn't wait to work.

Zhu Nao looked at his arm, which was not much thicker than a broom handle, thought for a moment, and said, "You can go out with me for a stroll."

Cheng Shiba was very obedient, immediately put down the broom, and followed Zhu Nao out.

After going out, the two went to the market again.

Zhu Nao wandered around the market for a while, asking the price of many things, but he didn't buy anything.Cheng Shiba suddenly approached him and whispered in his ear: "My lord, many people are watching you."

Zhu Nao picked up a piece of leather on the stall, looked at it, put it down again, and said casually, "Really?"

Cheng Shiba thought he didn't believe it, and said softly: "The two people pushing the cart on the right have been watching you for a long time."

As Cheng Shiba said, there are many pairs of eyes fixed on Zhu Nao here, all of them are the eyeliners sent by the merchants in the city.In recent days, Zhu Nao has not collected any more grain, and all he sells is the grain harvested before the disaster.When the goods are sold out, he must buy more.All the businessmen in Langzhou want to know what kind of business Zhu Nao plans to do in the future.

In the past, people knew that Junao was good at doing business. After the flood, people admired Junao even more.So everyone observed him secretly for two purposes. First, they were afraid that he would rob their own business in the future, so they could prepare early and be on guard;

However, Zhu Nao did not look in the direction Cheng Shiba said.He asked Cheng Shiba: "Am I pretty?"

Cheng Shiba: "Huh?"

Zhu Nao said cheerfully, "Otherwise, why would they stare at me all day?"

Cheng Shiba: "..."

The corner of his mouth twitched, not knowing how to answer the words.However, he understood that Jun Nao was not unaware of those people's stalking, so he felt relieved.

After a while, Zhu Nao walked to a stall.The stall was a young girl with a small black face, and the nails of her two fingers were filled with black mud.Her stall was filled with fragments of herbs. Once someone came over, she would look at him timidly, and would not take the initiative to solicit business.

Zhu Nao bent down, pointed to the honeysuckle she was selling and asked, "How much is this?"

The girl whispered: "A bundle of twenty Wen."

Zhu Nao asked, "Only two bundles?"

The girl nodded slightly.

Children from poor families will go to the mountains to dig wild vegetables, and sometimes they can pick some herbs.If there is a large amount of picking, it will be sold to the medicinal material shop in the city.If they picked too little, the pharmacy looked down on them, so they went to the market to sell them.

Zhu Nao lowered his head and counted the money, and was about to buy these herbs, when a man beside him said loudly: "I want all these honeysuckle flowers!"

Zhu Nao turned his head, looked at the man who made the sound, and smiled slightly: "Brother Li, what a coincidence."

Li Shen was also looking at Zhu Nao, his eyes were full of hostility and guard.Today he was passing by the market, and happened to see Zhu Nao walking around with Cheng Shiba, and for some reason, he followed him on a whim.Zhu Nao asked the prices of several things along the way, but he didn't buy them all, but when he saw these medicinal materials, he started to pay for them.Li Shen was most afraid that Zhu Nao would really return to the ranks of drug dealers and come to steal his family's business, but he didn't know how to stop him, so he thought of it in a moment of urgency.

He hastily fumbled for two slings of money and came out without counting them clearly, so he was going to grab the handful of honeysuckle.First, he intentionally made Jun Nao unhappy, and second, he also wanted to use this as a warning to Jun Nao: if Jun Nao wanted to set up a medicine store again, he would do his best to obstruct it.

Just when Li Shen's hand was about to touch the honeysuckle, someone grabbed his wrist

"Brother Li, what are you in a hurry for?"

Li Shen glared at him: "I gave all the money, how do you treat it?"

Zhu Nao said slowly, "In business, the one with the highest price wins. I'm willing to pay fifty cash for these two bundles of honeysuckle."

The little girl was taken aback, her dark eyeballs rolled, looked at Zhu Nao, then at Li Shen, like a frightened rabbit.

Li Shen was taken aback for a moment, then blushed with embarrassment.Zhu Nao is taunting him that he has no money?You must know that Zhu Nao has made a lot of money recently, and his family property is indeed no better than Jun Nao's.But he won't give up easily if he loses without losing.He wants Jun Nao to understand that if Jun Nao dares to compete with his family for business again, he will not give an inch!

So Li Shen gritted his teeth and said, "I will publish eighty essays!"

Zhu Nao didn't speak, just took out a silver ingot from his pocket with a smile and played with it in his hand.Look at the size of the silver, about one or two early.

Li Shen stared and said, "I'll give you one or two halves!"

Zhu Nao reached into his pocket for a while and took out another ingot of broken silver.

This time Li Shen hesitated.But in the blink of an eye, the price has doubled six or seven times.Two taels of silver is enough to call out the number one sister Hua in the hook to stay with her for a whole day, and it is really a loss to buy two handfuls of honeysuckle.But he thought about it again, now what he and Zhu Nao are fighting for is not honeysuckle, but breath, so what is a few taels of silver?

He was cruel, and said again: "Two and a half!"

Zhu Nao untied the purse, poured all the money on his body into his hands, and counted it unhurriedly.

Li Shen craned his neck to watch from the side.Those scraps of silver and copper coins add up to about four taels.He got hot-headed, and directly added a mouthful: "Five taels!"

Hearing this, Zhu Nao stopped counting the money, and his eyebrows moved, as if a little surprised.

Li Shensheng was afraid that he would find some more money from somewhere, so he hurriedly took out a large ingot of silver and threw it to the girl who set up the stall, and immediately looked at Zhu Nao provocatively: "How about it, can you still afford it?"

But Zhu Nao didn't look at him, and said to the girl: "Brother Li said five taels, is this silver ingot enough for you to weigh?"

The girl froze for a moment, picked up the scale in a hurry, and put Li Shen's silver on it: four, two, seven.

Zhu Nao shook his head, "Brother Li, your money is not enough."

Li Shen was furious.This big money has been paid out, is it still a few cents short?In order to convince Zhu Nao, he grabbed a few coins and threw them all in front of the little girl: "Is this enough?"

The girl was too frightened to make a sound, and nodded like a chicken pecking at rice.

Li Shen wants to see Jun Nao's frustrated look.However, Zhu Nao remained calm and relaxed, bending down to pick up two bundles of honeysuckle.Li Shen was taken aback, thinking that he was going to increase the price again, but Zhu Nao actually put two bundles of medicinal materials into his hands.

Li Shen held the honeysuckle: "..."

Zhu Nao kindly said to the little herb seller: "I'm afraid it will rain again later, so you should go home early. Have a good meal tonight."

Li Shen: "..." He obviously paid for it, so why does it look like Zhu Nao has done a good deed? !

After explaining to the little girl, Zhu Nao swaggered away.Until he walked a few meters away, Li Shen still stood there in a daze.Did he win?Junao just admit defeat?

He was dazed for a moment, and chased after Zhu Nao without giving up, holding two honeysuckle fans and dangling around, saying: "Why, the dignified 'Prince Zhu' can't even afford two honeysuckle flowers?"

Zhu Nao glanced at him with a smile, stopped in front of a stall, took out a forty copper coin, and handed it to the stall owner.The stall owner took the money and gave him two handfuls of honeysuckle.

Li Shen: "..."

Li Shen: "..."

Li Shen: "!@#￥&%*("

The market is so big that the little girl is not the only one who sells scattered medicinal materials.Zhu Nao still has money, but Li Shen really has no money.It is impossible for him to bid against Jun Nao and buy all the medicinal materials in the market.

His face suddenly turned blue and purple, recalling all the things just now, his expression changed suddenly: "Junao! You're kidding me!!"

Only then did he realize that since his intrusion, Junao had no intention of buying that honeysuckle.Deliberately driving up the price is to squeeze out his money.Let him see it deliberately when counting the money, also to force him to raise the price himself.Or earlier, when Jun Nao found out that he was also at the market, the business of buying medicine was for him to see.

Li Shen turned his head abruptly, wanting to let the little girl ask for his money back.However, the little girl closed the stall early and disappeared.

He was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood, he stepped forward and grabbed Zhu Nao's lapel viciously: "You!!"

Before he could make a move, a person suddenly jumped out and pushed him away.He couldn't stand upright, took three steps back, nearly fell, and managed to help someone to stop.After standing still and taking a closer look, the one who pushed him was actually a young man with long hands and long legs.Although the young man was thin, he was not weak, his eyes were like knives, which made Li Shenxian tremble three points.In terms of body, although he is stronger than that boy, but the boy's eyes are much more ruthless than his.It's hard to say who wins and who loses if you really start.

Zhu Nao unhurriedly straightened the ripped clothes: "Brother Li, what are you doing?"

The loss has also been suffered, and he dared not fight, so Li Shen could only knock his teeth down and swallow it in his stomach.Surrounded by many spectators, they pointed at Li Shen and made fun of him for buying two handfuls of wildflowers with five taels of silver.Li Shen couldn't afford to lose this man, and viciously threw the honeysuckle on the ground, saying: "Okay, okay. I remember! Zhu Nao, let's wait and see!" He turned his head and left.

Jun Nao looked at his back, shook his head with a smile, then bent down to pick up the honeysuckle he had lost.

"Tsk tsk, five taels of silver." Zhu Nao patted the ashes on the honeysuckle, and left with four bundles of flowers in a good mood.

When the two returned to their residence after shopping in the market, it happened that Liu Qi came to deliver the account book and asked Zhu Nao to look at this month's account, so Zhu Nao let Liu Qi into the house.Cheng Shiba went to visit his grandfather.

It took Liu Qi more than half an hour to report this month's business status to Zhu Nao. It was getting late, so Zhu Nao asked Liu Qi to go back earlier and look at the account books by himself.

Liu Qi was not in a hurry to leave, and said, "Boss, our goods are running out..."

Zhu Nao let out a "hmm", pulled out an account book and began to flip through it.

Liu Qi waited for a while, seeing that he didn't say anything, he could only ask again: "Won't the boss buy some goods?"

Zhu Nao crossed his legs to look at the account book, and said casually, "No rush."

Liu Qi: "..."

Liu Qi was very depressed.After the flood, countless people came to him to inquire about Zhu Nao's movements.Some merchants even offered a lot of money to ask him to inform them as soon as possible if he found any useful information from Zhu Nao.But even though he is Jun Nao's shopkeeper, he doesn't know much more than others.He also scratched his head and wanted to know what Jun Nao's plans were going to be in the future.

He hesitated for a moment, then continued to ask cheekily: "What kind of goods does the boss plan to buy in the future? Continue to operate food, or..."

Zhu Nao didn't raise his head: "I haven't made up my mind yet."

Liu Qi: "..."

He also didn't know whether Zhu Nao really didn't think about it or refused to tell him, he never could see through Zhu Nao's thoughts.He stood stupidly for a while again, making sure he couldn't ask anything, so he could only walk away dejectedly.

After a while, Zhu Nao was ready to put away all the account books, so he began to count the number.

"One, two, three...ten, eleven, twelve..."

Suddenly footsteps came from outside, he looked up, and it was Cheng Shiba who came.Seeing that he was doing something, Cheng Shiba stood outside the door and did not come in.

"Eighteen, what do you need from me?" Zhu Nao asked casually, bowed his head and continued to count.However, his fingers froze on the account book, and he couldn't count - after calling Cheng Shiba's name, he forgot where he had counted.Sixteen or seventeen?

Cheng Shiba whispered: "Young master, is there anything I can do?" He just recovered from a serious illness, and he couldn't wait to do something.

Zhu Nao thought for a while and said, "I'll find someone to teach you tomorrow."

Cheng Shiba nodded: "Okay, then I'll go first."

After he left, Junao continued to count the number of books: "...seven, eight, nine..."

"Son."

"Huh?" Zhu Nao raised his head, looked at the boy who had gone and returned, "Eighteen, is there anything else?"

Cheng Shiba said: "I see there are still some fallen leaves in the yard, let me sweep the ground first."

Zhu Nao originally wanted to tell him to rest well and not to worry.But thinking about it, the young man might not be able to lie down, so he shrugged and said, "It's up to you."

When Cheng Shiba left, Zhu Nao lowered his head and saw a large stack of ledgers in his hand... He put down the ledgers helplessly.I forgot where to count again.

The boy walked a few steps, and then remembered something, and went back for the second time.When he walked to the door of Jun Nao's room, he saw that Jun Nao was not counting the books this time, but sighed at him.

Cheng Shiba: "?"

"Cheng Shiba." Zhu Nao thought about it, "Shall I change your name?"

Cheng Shiba: "..."

He was born in a poor family, his parents were illiterate, and when the child was born, the date of birth was used as the name.He himself didn't like the name very much, but he just got used to it, so he let it go.So after being slightly startled, he readily agreed: "Okay."

Zhu Nao thought for a moment, and said, "You were born on the eighteenth day of the first lunar month... the day you were born happened to be the day of Jingzhe?"

Cheng Shiba nodded.

"Then I'll call you Jingzhe from now on?"

Awakening of Insects, spring thunder, startling and dormancy, all things revive.The idea of ​​naming is still the same, but compared to the name Shiba, he prefers Jing Zhe.

A rare smile appeared on the boy's face: "Okay. From now on, I will be called Jing Zhe."

The author has something to say: Guess what business Zhu Nao plans to do next?