Xia Xun discovered that there were many things to do when opening a bathhouse, such as purchasing firewood, towels, supplies, arranging for payment, boiling water, bathing, and miscellaneous things. Fortunately, the shopkeeper had the same team.
They were all retained by Xia Xun, and everything remained as usual, so he basically didn’t need to worry too much.【】
Just because a large number of troops suddenly arrived in Texas, the number of men taking baths increased sharply, so Xia Xun hired a few new burly men to expand the team of bath masters. This made the bath master Lao Jia very unhappy. Lao Jia was a Baiquan gangster.
We are old people in the hall, and the couple are both highly skilled bath masters here. They can perform massage, back tapping, pedicure, cupping, and scraping. Their skills in all kinds of skills are very impressive. Brother, the couple is basically the same as the foreman in the mixed hall.
The same characters.
Recently, because his wife was pregnant, he had to go home to recuperate. Lao Jia lost half of his income. He originally hoped that there would be more customers and he would work harder to make some money for the family. Who knows, the shopkeeper hired a few more people to come back.
The new guy was rich and thick, and he was clumsy when taking a bath. When there were a lot of people, he even took away his business.
But he could only complain, after all, he was the shopkeeper. Especially the new shopkeeper was very easy to talk to. He introduced his sister-in-law to come to the hall to find some work, and Shopkeeper Xia readily agreed. She used to be the shopkeeper.
He collected the money himself and now handed over this easy job to his sister-in-law. Lao Jia felt that the shopkeeper was selling him face, and he felt very proud in front of other bath masters and his own mother-in-law.
However, after only a few days, Lao Jia felt that something was wrong. He felt that the shopkeeper's decision to leave his sister-in-law to work was not necessarily for his sake. He found that the shopkeeper was very kind to his sister-in-law, and she smiled before she said anything.
She is always very polite. His sister-in-law is called Su Xinchen. She is a pretty girl with a flowered handkerchief on her head and a jade hairpin skirt. She is a bit rustic. If you look carefully, she is actually quite patient.
Later, when I inquired about it, I found out that shopkeeper Xia was already in her thirties and had not married yet. Old Jia became even more worried. He reminded his sister-in-law several times in private, telling her not to look down upon Xia and to stay away from him.
The girl didn't listen to him either, and quite liked being clingy with Shopkeeper Xia. Whenever Lao Jia threw his arms around the soldiers in the bathhouse, he could faintly hear his sister-in-law's silvery voice coming from the front hall.
He was particularly upset when he laughed.
"Shopkeeper, you haven't been in this business before, right?"
Su Xinchen put her hands on the counter and held Xia Xun's chin.
Xia Xun said: "Yes, my hometown is originally in the north. King Yan rebelled and there was chaos everywhere, so he fled here. I can't just sit back and rest in vain. It just so happened that the shopkeeper here wanted to resell the hall, and the plan was to calculate it."
It’s not a difficult job, as long as you endure the hardships, I’ll take it.”
"Oh, I said so."
Su Xinchen rolled her dark eyes, looked around, and quietly approached Xia Xun: "Shopkeeper, I, you are a real person, and I can't bear to let you be bullied. I have something to tell you."
Xia Xun quickly came over and said, "What's the matter?"
The little girl covered her mouth and whispered: "I tell you, shopkeeper, don't be so economical. Even if you don't go with us to purchase saponins, polyporus, and bath beans, you have to find someone you trust."
Jin Zhan, who is in charge of purchasing, is a greedy person. The previous shopkeeper was very shrewd. He didn’t dare to tease others or bully you, the new guy, who doesn’t know how to do it..."
Xia Xun frowned: "What's wrong? Where did you lie to me?"
Su Xinchen said: "Here, you, these soaps, he used to buy the worst quality ones and put them in there for guests to use as they please. How much can be used? Now, the soaps he bought are all the best ones.
Okay, this is called facial medicine. It has the effect of chilblain ointment and a fragrance. It is much more expensive than the original one. If he bought it, he would get more benefits from the store, but wouldn't you, the shopkeeper, lose the money?
"
"Huh? There is such a thing?"
Xia Xun's frowned brows suddenly widened. He patted the counter and said, "I'll go find him!"
"Ai!"
Su Xinchen grabbed him and said, "Shopkeeper, don't be so arrogant. He is such an old man and can't keep his composure like a yellow-haired girl like me. Let me tell you, why is Jin Zhan responsible for purchasing here? He
My uncle is a well-known gangster in our Texas city. If we let his relatives work here, we can save a lot of trouble. After all, don't be too hard on him, just give him some guidance to calm him down.
It’s done.”
Xia Xun couldn't help laughing after hearing this, nodded and said: "Yes, I understand."
Xia Xun turned around to find Jin Zhan, who was in charge of purchasing. Su Xinchen held her chin and stared at his back. She smiled and said to herself: "The shopkeeper's smile is pretty good..."
"Lao Jin!"
Xia Xun slapped a box of noodles in front of him: "How much of this kind of noodles did you put in?"
Jin Zhongyi was shocked. He watched coldly for two days. This shopkeeper was indeed a novice. Then he wanted to get more benefits. Unexpectedly, although he had a cousin who was considered a capable person in Texas, he was not allowed to be the shopkeeper.
Holding the handle with his own hands, he was so embarrassed that he stood up with a blushing face and said sternly: "Shop... the shopkeeper, it's like this. When I went to buy it, the soap we often purchased happened to be out of stock, but...
There have been a lot of guests recently, so I’m going to check it out..."
Xia Xun smiled and said: "Stop scheming, go quickly and buy back all the soaps that can also cure chilblains in our Dezhou city. Don't leave even a single box behind, do you understand?"
"ah?"
Jin Zhan was a little dazed and said: "Buy them all... buy them all?"
Xia Xun said: "By the way, if you buy them all, you have to make sure that all the goods are with us. I know you can get some benefits from the store..."
Jin Zhan blushed and defended: "The shopkeeper..."
Xia Xun waved his hand and said: "It doesn't matter, you can make more this way. I'm not afraid of you making money, but you have to do something for me."
Jin Zhan hurriedly said: "Shopkeeper, you say it, you say it, as long as Lao Jin can do it, he will never frown."
Xia Xun smiled and said: "You can definitely do this. I want you to find some people to help you, shout a few times everywhere, especially in front of the soldiers, and shout out the signs for our Baiquan Hungtang, just say
We have a bath in the hot water of Baiquan Huntang, and we also have facial medicine to treat chilblains. You also know that all these soldiers in and outside Dezhou City have just withdrawn from Peiping. There are not many people who have chilblains.
After shouting like this, do you understand?"
Jin Zhan's eyes lit up, he raised his thumb and praised: "Shopkeeper, your head is so useful, it's so tall, it's really tall!"
Xia Xun said with a smile: "Okay, let's go and do things quickly. The first thing is to buy all the noodles and medicine first, and then go to do this thing. There are so many people coming, and all the utensils are consumed."
There are many benefits to you, Lao Jin, of course... Do you understand?"
"understand."
Jin Zhan smiled widely, hurriedly picked up his sheepskin robe, and ran out without even putting it on...
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At the second watch of the day, Baiquan Hungtang stopped accepting customers, and the hired workers also left one after another.
"Shopkeeper, I'm going home with my brother-in-law. See you tomorrow."
"See you tomorrow."
Xia Xun smiled as he watched Su Xinchen being dragged out by the old-faced old Jia, while stroking his fake beard and making a kind and misty gesture.
There were still a few people left in the hall to clean the pool and do the aftermath. Of course, these jobs were the work of the new bath masters. By the time they finished their work, all the other workers had left.
On the door panel, several people gathered around Xia Xun.
There was only an oil lamp lit on the table, and Xia Xun smiled and said: "Okay, tell me, what news did you hear today?"
"Hi! What's the news?"
A big-looking man with a big towel on his shoulders and thick eyebrows complained. After he finished talking, Xia Xun said calmly: "Well, they said they sleep together in a tent at night.
There are three times as many people as before. They are snoring so loudly that the smell of stinky feet makes people dizzy. Two groups had a fight last night and there were many unfamiliar faces. What does this mean?"
Xia Xun walked around and found that his inspiring speech had no effect. Several big men were like ducks and could not move even after listening to thunder (get it). He couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Everyone, you remember clearly, you are now secret spies."
, the only mission is to collect intelligence. From now on, you have to use your brain more and use less knife. Just fighting and killing is not enough. Logically speaking, I should train you well, but time is urgent, you can only do things at the same time.
Learn how to do things. Take the things you have heard, Xu Qing, the number of people sleeping in the tent has tripled. What does this mean? At least it means that their military tent is not enough."
Xu Qingniu rolled his eyes and said, "Sir, I know this, but what's the use?"
"What's the use? First, it means they don't have a good rest at night. If it goes on for a long time, their combat power will be affected, right? Second, it means they need a large number of military tents, and military tents are easy to burn. If we
If you need to cut off the enemy's supplies, you can know in advance what the enemy is transporting. If you want to attack their supply convoy, you don't even need to get close. You can just launch rockets from a distance to set the tent on fire. This will achieve your goal and reduce the number of people transporting them.
Casualties, right?
Third, it is okay to say that it is winter now, but what will happen if it is summer? One of the most important things for the military is epidemic prevention. Thousands of troops are together. Once an epidemic breaks out, it will be a very scary thing.
If I knew this situation in advance and deliberately threw a few sick cats and dogs near their camp, what would happen if a few soldiers got sick? This is just what I thought of in a hurry after listening to your information.
Is this useful?"
"Snapped!"
Xu Qing slapped her thigh hard, nodded repeatedly and said: "I understand, I understand, I understand."
Xia Xun laughed and said, "That's not all. When they were taking a bath, you heard them scolding the soldiers transferred from Jingzhou for fighting with them in the same tent. What does this mean? They are Fengyang soldiers, how can they compete with Jingzhou soldiers?"
Mixed together in the same tent? It may be because they have just escaped, and the army has been collecting the escaped soldiers one after another, and has not yet arranged them.
It is also possible that Li Jinglong deliberately disrupted armies from different places, so that they would not have different intentions and compete with each other during the war. Don't worry, they are fighting happily now. Being in the same army can improve their combat effectiveness more than having clear barriers.
Besides, after getting along for a period of time, you may not be so tense, man. So what is the reason? This requires further intelligence collection."
Xu Qing nodded like a chicken pecking at rice, and said sincerely, "Sir, I understand."
Xia Xun asked several people about the fragmentary conversations they had heard, helping them analyze the information behind these words, and finally said: "Do you understand everything? How many ill-intentioned words and unintentional words,
It is very likely to reveal very important information. With this sentence, we may successfully attack the enemy camp and successfully ambush the enemy's marching route in advance. This is much more effective than if you personally go into battle and kill a few people.
Already."
Several of his men nodded one after another, and Xia Xun said again: "Okay, what news did the brothers we called in bring us?"
Several people also reported to Xia Xun the information that the Northern Army secret agent who had accompanied the imperial rebels south and infiltrated into the Southern Army secretly told them while taking a bath. Xia Xun first wrote down all the information, and then wrote it down.
He nodded and said thoughtfully: "The news they sent back is not much better than the news you learned from the side. Let them hang around for now. If they can't get important positions, they won't be able to get important military aircraft after all."
Yes, but at critical moments on the battlefield, working together internally and externally can also play a big role."
He closed the small book, raised his head and said, "No more? If there is no other news, just go back to sleep. But, remember it all for me..."
Xia Xun's face became serious and he said sternly: "When you work under me, you must always be vigilant and not drink any alcohol. Now you also know how much important information an unintentional word can reveal. If you don't be vigilant, an unintentional word will leak.
, you may bury us all here, so, let me say it again, if anyone violates my three commandments, he will be executed immediately once discovered by this officer, do you understand?"
Xia Xun's voice was stern, and he was definitely not joking. Those big men were all veterans of the battlefield who killed without blinking an eye. They were shocked and changed their faces. They responded quickly. Just as Xia Xun was about to wave them away, he saw Xu Qing's expression of calm
He seemed to be hesitating to speak, so he said: "What, do you have something to say?"
Xu Qing chuckled and said: "I... I also heard them nagging a woman. I originally thought that women's affairs were nothing important, so I didn't say anything. But after hearing what the adults said, I...
My heart is pounding, and if I don’t say it out loud, I’m afraid I won’t be able to sleep when I go back.”
Xia Xun asked curiously: "Woman? What woman?"
Xu Qingdao: "My subordinates heard that Li Jinglong has a girl with him. She usually wears military uniforms and pretends to be a junior high school student to serve him. This time when she returned to Dezhou, the girl couldn't stay in the military camp and often walked around the city.
We went on a tour and bought some things for women. Li Jinglong doted on this girl so much that he sent several small schools to wait on her. They cursed her while taking a bath. This news is useless, right?"
Xia Xun was silent for a long time and sighed deeply: "Alas... Xu Qing, of all the information I collected tonight, this one is the most useful!"
"ah?"
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