After receiving Liu Ziguang's affirmative answer, the middle-aged man in red robe reached out and took an ebony-stemmed tobacco bag from the side. The servant next to him quickly struck a match and lit the tobacco imported from Song Dynasty in the white copper pot.
The young man took a beautiful puff, exhaled a puff of smoke and said: "A pack of cigarettes after a meal is better than a living god." Nanyang tobacco is the latest thing that has become popular in the capital and Shanghai area. It has not yet been exposed to isolated places like Shandong.
This kind of thing, everyone except Liu Ziguang stared at him in stunned silence.
The middle-aged man was very satisfied with the effect of shocking everyone. He took two more puffs of cigarette and then said slowly: "Since we are all in the officialdom, I won't talk nonsense. I am interested in this store. Please give me a price."
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It turned out that he wanted to seize my property. Liu Ziguang became angry and resisted the idea of slashing people with a knife. He took out a large cigar from the Song Dynasty with the Cagayan trademark on it from his arms, and then took out a silver-cased cigar.
The small rectangular box opened the lid with a crisp "clang", and with a flick of his thumb, a faint blue flame burst out. After lighting the cigar, he put away the lighter gracefully and walked to an official hat chair.
He sat down and said, "My store is a bit expensive, I'm afraid Shangguan won't be able to afford it."
This kind of fine cigars was an old friend of Liu Ziguang. Lord Wenjun who was traveling in the Song Dynasty sent people to the iron factory, and then transferred them from the iron factory. Even the dignitaries in Nanjing could not taste this luxury product, only the princes
Only the nobles could get one or two boxes of gifts from the envoys to the Song Dynasty, and they cherished them so much that they couldn't bear to smoke them at all. As for the average middle-class people in society, they felt very awesome if they could use a pipe pot to smoke some crushed tobacco leaves. That silver shell
The lighter is unique in the world. It was developed by Addison according to Liu Ziguang's idea. It is composed of a fire core wound with alcohol-soaked absorbent cotton and steel lighter wheel, flint, spring leaf, asbestos and cotton thread. The jewelry store's
Carefully crafted by craftsmen.
Liu Ziguang glanced sideways at the middle-aged man in red robe who was also stunned, took a long puff of cigar, blew out the mellow smoke, sniffed it with his nose, and said softly: "Bumpkin."
The middle-aged man snorted, threw the pipe and pot aside, and raised his tone by two octaves: "Just ask for a sky-high price, ask for it, and pay it back. I want to know what else in the world I can't afford."
shop!”
"Well, I'll give you 200,000 taels of silver for this shop. I wonder if Shangguan can afford it?" Liu Ziguang covered himself in the smoke of the cigar and offered a shockingly high price. Although Helou was very expensive,
It's high-end and the location is good, but the price of 200,000 taels is still too high, even if the profits in the next ten years are taken into account, it's not that expensive."
"Hmph, you are willing to ask for a price, and you are not afraid of Feng Da's tongue flashing. I know that Marshal Yuan of Xuzhou Army will be polite when he sees me. You little sentry generals are seizing the opportunity without spending a penny.
The store will sell for 200,000 taels once it changes hands, so you might as well go grab the money! But... I bought it."
The middle-aged man picked up a piece of white paper and scrawled a few words and threw it to Liu Ziguang, "Bring me the house deed."
When did Rishengchang issue personal checks? Liu Ziguang picked up the piece of paper and looked at it suspiciously. His nose almost twisted in anger. It turned out to be a white note, which read: "I owe two hundred thousand taels of cash to Shandong Bingbei Road."
Team training envoy Shi Yan
stand."
"Master Shi, right? Who do you want me to ask for money from with this note?" Liu Ziguang asked, holding the white note.
Shi Yan picked up the tea cup and blew the foam on it. He ignored him at all. The servant next to him shouted in a pretentious manner: "I asked you to bring the house deed as soon as possible. Why are you so long-winded? You still have the IOU written by Mr. Shi."
Don’t worry about anything, just wait until the army is ready and the Yamen will be built, go there and get the money.”
"This 200,000 taels of silver is too much. I dare not take it. The shop won't sell it anymore." When Liu Ziguang heard that he was an official from the Bingbei Road, he became even more angry. You, a junior official in the personal military department, are still so...
Drag, forcefully buy and snatch it from my head. I am really blind and blind.
"It's you who said he would sell it for two hundred thousand taels, but it's you who said he wouldn't sell it. Do you still have integrity?" Shi Yan slammed the tea bowl on the table, frowned Lao Gao, "Forget it, see the guests off.
, don’t know how to praise!”
Liu Ziguang threw the note away casually: "I would like to advise Master Shi, Jinan is not as good as the capital, so we should avoid this blackmail trick. If you drank too much today, I won't argue with you, otherwise I would have thrown you out long ago."
"After saying that, he turned around and left. The shopkeeper, maids, and servants all followed him out, leaving behind the astonished Master Shi and the attendant.
"This kid is acting very badly. I'm afraid he is a very successful character in the Forbidden Army. Sir, please be careful of these Qiu Ba, they can do anything." The guard said with a little worry.
"Shit, what kind of heavyweights can a small ninth-grade official know? At most, he can climb the thick legs of Man Guizu's birthday. Humph, I don't care about these people. In the entire Shandong realm, who is bigger?
Can you be bigger than my brother-in-law?" Shi Yan was so angry at Liu Ziguang's last words that he grabbed the pipe and smoked it randomly for a few times before he regained his composure.
At noon the next day, the boy from Guihe Restaurant ran to Liu Ziguang's house again. After running for a short distance, he was out of breath: "Dong... Chairman, something serious has happened!"
"What kind of quality? If the sky falls, I will be able to hold it up. Let me tell you slowly." Liu Ziguang was troubled by these timid boys and wondered whether he should have some military training or something to strengthen his quality training.
"A group of people are coming to eat..." the boy said.
"What's wrong with eating? Isn't the restaurant just for eating?" Liu Ziguang asked curiously.
"They were in a group and occupied all the tables." The boy continued.
"The venue is reserved. What's wrong with that? Wasn't it reserved for the imperial condolence group yesterday? These guys from the capital never bargain when ordering food." Liu Ziguang said.
"But today these guys only ordered green onion dipping sauce and pancakes. They sat there for half an hour, occupying their seats and not leaving. As a result, all the guests who wanted to come to eat went to other restaurants, and the shopkeeper couldn't chase them away...
"The little guy then got to the point.
"Just say someone is causing trouble, why don't you go that far? Come on, take me to see it." Liu Ziguang immediately thought that Mr. Shi who wanted to buy a restaurant with a white note yesterday must be the person sent by this guy.
The catering part of Guihe Restaurant is a three-story building with more than 100 seats in private rooms and the lobby. On weekdays, there are always drinkers coming and the turnover is very considerable. However, today the building is deserted, and every table is empty.
There was a big man standing there, all of them raised their feet in official boots on the table, gnawing pancake rolls with scallions, and kept shouting in a southern accent: "Waiter, pour the tea!"
I dare to think of a luxury restaurant as a top-notch restaurant.
"Which one of you is the leader? Stand up and speak." Liu Ziguang strode into the store and asked. There was still the sound of gnawing pancakes, and no one paid attention to him.
"They're all here to fool around. If you have anything to say, say it in front of your face, what kind of a hero can you be if you play such damaging tricks?" Liu Ziguang said again, with a hint of coldness in his tone.
"We are all diners. It's not against the law to eat pancakes with green onions, right? If you have the ability, report to the officials to arrest us. If you don't have the ability, just stay somewhere cool." A big man said coldly with his back to Liu Ziguang.
"Report to the official? The government is in charge of the sky and the earth. It has nothing to do with how much money we spend to eat. The green onions here are really authentic. They are much more flavorful than the Jiangnan green onions. Let's have them for dinner." Another big man bit off half of a green onion in one bite and gloated at the misfortune.
say.
"We come here every day to cheer, but we're afraid that the restaurant owner won't appreciate it. Who said we have no money, so we can only order the cheapest pancakes with green onion dipping sauce." Another big man added.
"How do we set the price in our menu?" Liu Ziguang asked the cashier.
, "This pancake roll with green onions, as a Shandong specialty folk rice, is generally given for free. There is no price. They came in alone to ask first, and the waiter quoted the price of three cents. This is terrible. Today at noon, we can only have
Three hundred cash came in." The accountant said with a grimace, how have these loyal Shandong people ever seen such a cunning way of doing business? They all looked at Liu Ziguang with a sad face, wondering when we would provoke these people in official boots.
Southern man.
Three pennies! The boy was so sincere. Liu Ziguang was speechless. The guys whistled proudly. They looked at the time and patted their butts. Each person threw three coins on the table and whistled to greet the people upstairs.
My companion came downstairs and was about to leave.
"Wait a minute!" Liu Ziguang shouted. The guy who spoke first just now seemed to be a leader. He sneered and pulled up a chair, stepped on it with one leg and said, "What advice can Boss Liu give me?"
"You guys are really good at this. If you keep doing this for a few days, my restaurant will be closed down. Isn't it just to occupy Guihe Building? You actually used a hundred official servants. As for that?" Liu Ziguang said calmly, his eyes
I glanced outside.
"You know your name, Mr. Shi. We, Mr. Shi, have said that we are all in the scene and we won't cheat you. You can take the thousand taels of silver and Gui and Lou will return to Mr. Shi. Let's clear things up and we will still be friends from now on."
The man took out a banknote and slapped it on the table.
"It's such a big deal, what if I don't agree?" Liu Ziguang glanced at the banknote and asked leisurely. He wanted to buy Guihe Lou just for one thousand taels, thinking it was to buy vegetables and radishes! It was really a wishful thinking.
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"Liu, don't drink as a fine if you don't drink a toast. If you don't know how to show appreciation, let's eat pancakes rolled with green onions every day until your restaurant is closed. Don't think that I can do this. To tell you the truth, there are no comparisons in the capital."
We can all buy your awesome restaurant and inn, so aren't you afraid that a female ghost will appear in the guest room and the waiter will fall to death in the middle of the night?" The man looked at Liu Ziguang and lowered his voice and threatened.
Liu Ziguang pretended to be panicked and took half a step back, and said with a look of sorrow and anger: "Can't you add a little more?" The man remembered that Shi Yan had given him three thousand taels of silver when he came, and he took out a piece of silver in anger.
He slapped the ten taels of silver on the table and said, "Damn, you are a cheerful person. I will personally sponsor you ten taels. I can't give you any more. Do you want to sell it or not?"
Liu Ziguang shook his head and said: "One thousand and one tael, you are sending it to beggars, I still won't sell it."
The man was furious, grabbed the banknotes and silver ingots and stuffed them into his arms and said, "Liu, you asked for this. Let's go! We'll see you at dinner!"
Liu Ziguang rolled his eyelids, and two fierce lights shot out: "I'm afraid you won't be able to come to dinner!"
The man panicked for no reason and asked, "Why?"
"Because the legs of you thieves have been broken!" Liu Ziguang slapped the table, "Where is the death camp?"
"Here!" The shouts outside were deafening. At some point, three hundred soldiers armed with knives and sticks were waiting in an orderly queue in front of the gate of Guihe Tower. No sound could be heard inside.
"I've rebelled against you! We're from the Yamen Preparatory Department..." As soon as the man said a few words, he was kicked down by Liu Ziguang and fell to the ground.
"Get them all!" Liu Ziguang shouted, and the troops from the death battalion rushed into Guihe Building and started the arrest operation. Those unarmed southern men were no match for the three hundred battle-hardened heroes, and they were all beaten with sticks.
His fists and feet knocked him to the ground. The one who jumped down from the second floor was knocked down with a stick by the soldiers who had been ambushing downstairs. His shoulders were wiped and his arms were tied up.
This low-intensity battle ended quickly. The diners who were so impressive before were now tied tightly with hemp ropes and lying on the ground with bruises and swollen faces. Liu Ziguang stood in front of the leading man.
, stretched out his foot and stepped on his head and said: "Boy, Jinan is not a capital city. You can't stand your tricks. Jinan government only recognizes whoever has the most people and whose fists are strong! You don't even want to ask who I am, Liu Ziguang.
You dared to bully me, do you regret it? I tell you, it's too late!" After saying that, he gave Zhamuhe next to him a look that meant he would do something.
Zhamuhe immediately turned the man over, grabbed one leg and put it on the chair, swung the stick and smashed it down hard. Suddenly, a miserable howl sounded, and Kanji's leg became able to bend 360 degrees at will.
The shape is already broken.
Liu Ziguang finally matured and did not break everyone's legs. He just ordered the rest of them to be beaten up and then threw them all out of Guihe Building.
The man with the broken leg was a tough guy, with huge beads of sweat dripping down his head. He didn't feel any pain at all. He was carried a dozen steps away by his companions and said cruel words: "Liu, please wait... Ours
The bridge is finally tied, if you dare, break my other leg too..."
Upon hearing this, Zhamuhe picked up his stick and was about to rush over, but Liu Ziguang stopped him. The man on the grassland is an upright man, "Didn't this kid strongly demand that we break his other leg?"
"My legs have been broken by us, so I can tolerate a few harsh words." Liu Ziguang dissuaded Zhamuhe while waving to the diners who sped up and fled: "Come again."