The seventh floor of Chang Lexian is relatively quiet. At the top of the stairs, you can see all kinds of diners downstairs eating, drinking, laughing and chatting, as well as many busy waiters.
This scene made Zhang Kui feel a little emotional, thinking that he was a brave and aggressive little gangster at the beginning, but now he was able to eat, drink and have fun in the most luxurious restaurant in Suzhou.
"Sir, are you talking about fate? God has allowed me to eat hundreds of meals for nearly thirty years, and now he also rewards me with a bite of golden buns, right?"
"Do you have enough money?"
"Enough! It all depends on the young master's one hundred thousand taels of silver notes to save me. Otherwise, I would still be eating in Zhazi Street and waiting to die."
"Then where does your current money come from?"
"The brothers got it from their hands."
"How much did you collect?"
"Not too much, not too much, one person only has ten cents per month. Although we are beggars, ten cents a month is more than enough. Think about it, one brother only has ten cents, and ten brothers have one hundred cents.
As for money, one hundred brothers is one tael of silver, and one thousand brothers is only ten taels of silver..."
When talking about the latter part, Zhang Kui's face turned a little ugly.
The reasons he made up were really not very clever, and he couldn't make them up as he kept saying them.
Xia Shang frowned: "Ten thousand brothers are only one hundred taels of silver. If you book a private room in this restaurant today, it will be the money paid by tens of thousands of brothers? Don't tell me that it only takes a few months.
, your beggar gang has grown to the point where there are tens of thousands of brothers?"
Seeing that he couldn't make sense, Zhang Kui simply stopped making it up and said, "Hey, it's nothing. When the young master asked me to build a gang of beggars, I was right. Now that I have more brothers, we are more courageous.
When I was in Yangzhou, I robbed a notorious businessman and made a lot of money."
"Because this is what you want to show off in front of me?"
"Sir, that is a store with a bad reputation. They were robbed, and many people were secretly enjoying themselves! Although the matter is disgraceful, it is definitely not what you think, Master."
Xia Shang wanted to say something else, but he didn't. He looked at Zhang Kui and found that he was still the same beggar. Even if he put on brocade clothes, he still couldn't avoid the darkness that every beggar has in his heart. He wanted a beggar to become a national
Hero, want to create a beggar gang that only exists in novels?
Xia Shang realized that he had thought too much.
Xia Shang understood that he and Zhang Kui had a cooperative relationship, and if he regarded him as his subordinate, he would definitely suffer big losses in the future.
It was impossible to change Zhang Kui. However, it was impossible for the Beggar Gang, which he had planned for a long time, not to take advantage of, so Xia Shang immediately stopped and stopped entangled with Zhang Kui.
"Okay, now that things have happened, I can't say much. You should understand the purpose of your coming to Suzhou this time. At the same time, I still have a few things to entrust you to do."
At this moment, Zhang Kui was full of respect for Xia Shang. He lowered his head and approached Xia Shang: "Young Master, please tell me."
"The first thing is that you should pay attention to the leasing of good shops in Suzhou. My winery is not developing well in Suzhou and needs to expand. The second thing is that it is said that the Baiyi Sect has secret actions in Suzhou. There are often people
To confuse the common people, you help me find out what is going on. And the third thing, you help me check out a woman named Shangguan Chan in the Red Flower Club, find out her whereabouts and tell me."
"I understand everything. But now that I have just come to Suzhou, I am not familiar with many things and have no reliable brothers. However, the few beggars who came to Suzhou before can be regarded as more capable beggars. When they join our beggar gang,
Our eyes in Suzhou can now be fully deployed, and the matters entrusted by the Young Master will definitely be dealt with."
"In that case, you can handle it yourself. I'll leave first."
"Sir, you really don't appreciate my brother's face?"
Xia Shang waved his hand: "I still have something to do."
But Xia Shang didn't go downstairs. He walked around and came to the box where the three women were waiting.
When the three women saw Xia Shang, they all got up and asked why he had been away for so long.
Xia Shang was vague and did not elaborate. He ordered good wine and delicious food and quickly diverted the attention of the three women.
After having lunch in Chang Lexian, Xia Shang took the three girls to play on the busiest street outside the building in the afternoon and bought some things that the girls liked.
Before dusk in the afternoon, several people took the bus home.
The one-day trip seemed too short, and neither Xia Xinyi nor Liu Ruyan had enough fun, but the small leisure activities in the busy life are the source of peace of mind and hope for the future.
However, Xia Shang didn't seem to be very interested. There were indeed many renovation matters that he couldn't find a solution to.
Although he has learned how to cure diseases and save lives, use poisons, create mechanisms, release hidden weapons, etc. in the past few months, Xia Shang still hasn't made any progress in martial arts, which he wants most. It can be considered a very small progress. Generally speaking, it is far from what he expected.
Far.
Then there is the issue of money. The renovation of Heroes Village is still going on, and it will not be completed until at least tomorrow summer, which will cost a lot.
But when I saw my winery today, I found that it was indeed developing a bit too slowly.
And just in the evening, another very bad news suddenly came.
The wine sent from Yangzhou was robbed by bandits when it passed through Changzhou, and there was also one hundred thousand taels of silver brought from Yangzhou.
A whole team of more than twenty people were all killed. Although they were all escorts hired from outside, such a serious incident had a huge impact on the Xia family.
What Xia Shang was most worried about has finally happened. If there is no safe trade route for transporting supplies over long distances, they will be robbed sooner or later.
For example, tea from Liuzhuang was sent to the capital through the court channel, and officers and soldiers allowed it all the way. Generally, gangsters could not even see the delivery carriage. When it was sent to Suzhou and Hangzhou, it was also secretly escorted by the Honghua Society. There were bandits in those places.
, I know exactly how to spend my time.
Only the Xia family transports drinks by building relationships along the way, hoping to build a good relationship with the gangsters along the way.
But can bandits be fed? You never know when they will betray their trust. And there are so many bandits in the world, how can they be managed completely?
The winery has been open in Suzhou for a month, and the wine delivery team has been walking for a month. Someone must have been watching for a long time and figured out the route.
The wine to be sold in the next month or two is gone, and the winery may be closed down in a month or two. The hundred thousand taels of silver brought from home for turnover are gone, and all Xia Shang's plans will be put on hold.
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The incident happened suddenly, and no one was sleeping at midnight. According to Xia Shang's temperament, if something like this happened, he would definitely go to the place where the incident occurred to find the thieves and make them pay a small price.
But the current situation in Suzhou is special, and it is really not appropriate to go out of the city and make any noise.
I have no choice but to spend time in the city thinking about how to get through this gap period of money and goods. (To be continued)