While eating, Leng Jun asked: "How is it? When will our business start?"
Su Ren smiled: "When did it become our business? I only have my name on the salt, so it should be said to be my business."
Leng Jun glared: "Crossing the river and burning the bridge? I was at the front during the fight, and I got the most serious injuries!"
"I didn't let you rush up, you did it of your own free will." Su Ren raised his face and said, "From now on, either you follow me or I pay you to stay in the hotel. Let's settle it. I think
There is no way for you to interfere in my business."
Leng Jun became anxious and threw down his job: "Su Ren! You deserve a beating, don't you? Since you said so, come and pay me back a hundred gold!"
"What one hundred gold? Why don't I remember it?"
"You said it in front of the salt boss and the county magistrate the night before yesterday. In order to repay my life-saving grace, you were willing to give me a hundred gold as payment. How can you refuse to pay?"
"Is there such a thing?" Su Ren said with a smile: "I also remember that the night before yesterday, someone said in front of the county magistrate that I would use this hundred gold to replace my method of making salt for the people of Wenshui.
From that time on, we seemed to have made things clear."
The eldest brother stared with stern eyes and gasped for breath. But Su Ren smiled and kept putting vegetables into the bowls of Huo Laosi's two children.
Leng Yue couldn't stand it anymore, so she raised her head and looked at Leng Jun timidly: "Brother, Brother Su is joking with you."
Su Rendao: "I'm not joking. These words are from the bottom of my heart. My brothers have settled the score. If someone relies on me in the future, I can't afford to pay the debt."
Leng Jun was also angered by Su Ren. After Leng Yue was reminded, he immediately understood and sat down again: "Huh! No account, no account. No matter what happens, I will definitely have you in the future. Even if you go to the ends of the world, you will not be able to do it."
Don’t even think about abandoning us brothers and sisters. You can’t beat me anyway. As long as you take a bite, give me half of it, otherwise I’ll steal it.”
"You! OK! People's hearts are not as old as they used to be!" Su Ren said sadly, with great grievance on his face.
Huo Laosi's son Huo Jin held meat in his mouth and glared sternly: "If you dare to rob my son, I will kill you!"
This sentence instantly destroyed Su Ren's grief. Huo Laosi raised his hand and slapped his son in the face, causing his son to have snot and tears flowing down his face. None of their servants expressed their opinions on the jokes at the dinner table.
Su Ren smiled and said: "Hahaha, okay, Xiao Jinzi, from now on you will be my personal bodyguard, no one wants to bully me to deal with him!" He picked up another piece of meat and put it into Hawking's bowl.
The crying Hawking immediately stopped crying, hugged his bowl and started eating, making everyone laugh.
Early the next morning, Su Ren and Huo Laosi dug out the bag of salt hidden under Taishang Laojun's buttocks. It had been left there for a long time, the air was too humid, and the fine salt had already formed lumps. Su
Ren looked at it and found that although it was a little yellowish, it was much better than those coarse salts. The two divided the salt into four parts and gave one to each of Liu Ping, Cui Jiu and Peng You first, and Huo Huo took the rest.
The fourth child carried him to the east of the city.
The good thing is that it is more popular. In one day, Huo Laosi visited ten villages and shouted loudly and blatantly. Those customers who usually bought Huo Laosi’s private salt felt strange. Huo Laosi’s explanations from house to house, and
After looking at Huo Laosi's refined salt, the price was the same as the official salt in the city. Naturally, they bought it in large quantities. Especially the big households in those places liked it so much that they quickly sold more than 20 kilograms of salt.
It was already too late when I returned to Laojun to watch the sky. When I walked in, I saw Liu Ping, Cui Jiu, and Peng You, all with smiles on their faces.
"Fourth brother! I didn't expect these salts to be so easy to sell. I will visit a few more villages next month and I can sell out even dozens of kilograms!" Liu Ping's face was as happy as a flower, and he sold more than twenty kilograms today.
Yan, according to their agreement, each person lost forty or fifty big sons, so there is no reason to be unhappy.
Huo Laosi smiled and said: "You are right to follow me, isn't it? Are you all responsible for the young master?"
"It's gone! The young master is a man of his word, and he settled the account with us on the spot." Cui Jiu patted the dozens of big coins in his pocket: "It's a pity that this is not a city. Maybe I'll treat my fourth brother to a drink."
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Huo Laosi waved his hand: "Okay, let's all go back. Be careful when walking. It's the first time you make salt. This is what I did. I will do more next month and you can earn more."
A few people said some kind words, and the three of them left. Huo Laosi entered the yard carrying hundreds of copper coins. Su Ren and the others didn't sleep, and they couldn't sleep looking at the pile of copper coins. Except Huo Laosi
After earning more than 100 yuan, Liu Ping and the others also sent over 200 yuan, which added up to 400 yuan. It was a good start anyway.
As the default hostess, Leng Yue counted all the money clearly, stuffed it all into a jar, carried it into the backyard and buried it somewhere.
Huo Laosi chuckled: "Sir, I saw today that these hundred and ten kilograms of salt are not enough to sell. We will cook more next month and try to transfer every village outside the city. By then there will be at least one
Thousands of dollars.”
Leng Jun also nodded: "And we need to find some people. It's not enough to sell it with just four people. We also need to find some guys who cook the salt. It is said that Liu Wen's salt farm has three to four hundred guys. Even these can't supply the salt of the whole county."
We have to transfer it from Shu County. Our salt is so good, sales will definitely not be a problem. Maybe those people from other counties will come to buy it, and we will have no inventory by then."
Su Ren frowned: "These things are not difficult. It is easy for our salt to quickly occupy the market. But you remember that Liu Wen used to be the leader in official salt and would never watch us encroaching on his territory.
This guy is a local snake, and he will definitely cause trouble in secret, so we have to be on guard."
"What are you afraid of? We have the county magistrate as our backend. What can he, the county magistrate, do to us?"
Su Ren shook his head: "That's not what I said. A strong dragon will not overwhelm a local snake."
Su Ren did not continue to expand production. Just in case, he left Leng Jun to guard the house and took Huo Laosi into the mountains to cook salt. After a month of worry, he returned to Laojun Temple carrying a hundred pounds of salt. Seeing everything
Everyone was safe and sound, and I felt relieved. As long as nothing happened, it seemed that the one hundred kilograms of salt I put into the market did not make Liu Wen care, and did not cause Liu Wen to fight back.
According to the agreed time, it was time for Liu Ping and others to come to get the salt, but after waiting for two days, Liu Ping and the others were not seen. Su Ren felt uneasy again.
Looking for a sunny day, Su Ren took Huo Laosi to the north of the city in person. Just when he saw the big soapberry tree, he heard faint cries. He hurried to the soapberry village and saw a family in the distance.
There was a white sail hanging in front of the door, and Su Ren's heart skipped a beat, that was Liu Ping's house.
When I arrived at the door of Liu Ping's house, there were many people in the yard, all of whom were neighbors from the same village. There was a coffin in the yard. A woman in mourning was kneeling on the coffin, and a small child was kneeling next to her.
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The male leader Zhang Hu was also there. Su Ren came to Zhang Hu, called Zhang Hu out of the crowd, took out a few coins and handed them to Zhang Hu: "Brother Zhang, what's going on?"
Zhang Hu sighed: "Hey! What a crime! Bandits came to the village a few days ago. They didn't kill anyone, so they chopped off Liu Tingchang and hung his head on the honey locust tree. I took it off this morning."
"Bandits? I am a big man and everything is peaceful. Are there still bandits in Wenshui County?"
"But who are the bandits?" Zhang Hu said: "We are a remote small county, and bandits are very rampant. The county lieutenant strangled them several times without success. Usually these bandits and the villagers get along well. I don't know what happened this time.
He didn't grab anything, but killed Liu Tingchang alone, leaving the orphan and widowed mother to have a difficult life in the future."
"That group of bandits?"
"It's Wu Tuzi from Shuangzui Mountain. This guy is ruthless. The terrain of Shuangzui Mountain is so dangerous that it is easy to defend and difficult to attack. There is nothing anyone can do."
"What does county honor mean?"
"What's the point? Wu Tuzi has been running rampant for so many years, and no one can do anything about it. He rarely harasses the villagers, so he just turns a blind eye. Now that he is doing this, there is no need to send a large army to encircle and suppress him. Even if he sends troops We still have to go to the county government to borrow troops. One more thing is worse than one less thing. I hope it won't happen in the future."
After thanking Zhang Hu, Su Ren and Huo Laosi turned around and walked back. The business had just started, and they didn't expect to encounter this kind of thing again. Since Liu Ping was killed, it seemed that someone else would have to be found in the north of the city. They came to the south and west of the city.
By that time, Su Ren fully understood. Cui Jiu and Peng You were both killed. One drowned in a latrine, the other slipped and fell off a cliff. All three people who had anything to do with him died unexpectedly. If this was a coincidence, I would not believe it.
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Su Ren felt regretful in his heart. He knew that this was definitely done by the salt boss. He didn't expect that this guy was so ruthless and dared to commit murder.
Sitting on the ground, Su Ren was about to cry without tears: "Fourth brother, who is your boss? Can you tell me now?"
Huo Laosi also understood that it was absolutely impossible to say that these three people died suddenly and had nothing to do with Boss Yan. Those who did not listen to Boss Yan in the past basically suffered this fate. Boss Yan was cruel and ruthless, and he had seen a lot of them.
Huo Laosi said: "Actually, I haven't seen him before. Every time we meet, it's always dark and only the figure is seen. No one knows what he looks like."
"Could it be Liu Wen?"
Huo Laosi shook his head: "I really don't know. Sometimes the boss is fat, sometimes thin, sometimes old, sometimes young. We usually talk to each other when we are fine. Everyone sees it differently. Some people
What I saw was actually a woman."
"So mysterious? How do you contact me?"
"There is a house in the east of the city. It is said that people died in it and it was abandoned. No one knows whose family it belongs to. If we have something to do, we go there. It usually seems empty, but when we go in, there must be someone, and those people are also covered.
With only his eyes exposed, he looks like the person who wanted to harm you that night."
"Hmph! I'm pretending to be a ghost, but I want to see who it is!" Su Ren's face flashed with murderous intent, he got up, patted his butt and walked back. (To be continued)