"What a smart and capable woman!"
Standing in the corner, he poked out half an eye to look at the young woman in the red dress. Seeing how she was directing thousands of people around, but everything was in an orderly manner, Chu Tian couldn't help but admire her.
This woman's name is Shang Yan'er. She was the maid Xun Yu bought from Ren Yazi after he came to Yizhou. Because she was very good at pleasing people, she made Xun Yu very comfortable in serving her. A month later, Xun Yu officially accepted her as his concubine, and she became Xun Yu's closest personal person in Yazhou.
Xun Yu and the bachelors and doctors from Yishan Academy were all noble people. They chanted the wind and moonlight, drank poetry every day, occasionally went to Qingliu Xiaozhu to listen to the piano, and visited several brothels to visit a few acquaintances. A young girl never touches the spring water with her fingers.
So in just over a year, Shang Yan'er has mastered all the affairs inside and outside Yishan Academy, from the daily food and drink expenses of the academy, to various purchases, and even daily cleaning, and even hiring people to clean up. She did all the things such as the latrines herself, as if she was the general manager of Yaishan Academy who had all the power.
Shang Yan'er is very good at being a person, and he is even better at doing things. Below Xun Yu, those bachelors and doctors who have status, status, and fame in the academy are taken care of comfortably, and they don't have to worry about any other things, so everyone feels at ease. Enjoying the comfortable life that Shang Yan'er brought them, everyone acquiesced in Shang Yan'er's special status in Yishan Academy.
Today's Dragon Gate Banquet is a big day for Zhou Liuyun to recruit disciples and integrate the forces of the three states. It is also an extremely important day for Yaishan Academy and the forces behind Yaishan Academy.
Shang Yaner naturally took charge of the overall situation personally. She took care of the tea and snacks for the guests, as well as the various dishes, fresh fruits and so on for the banquet later, all in the backyard.
The three states are vast, with hundreds of prefectures and counties. Each prefecture and county has several or dozens of families that have been invited. There are thousands of guests attending the Dragon Gate Banquet today, and together with the students and disciples from the academy, the total number is tens of thousands.
To prepare a banquet for so many people, not to mention other things, the firewood alone required is a huge amount.
Then I saw the back door of Yishan Academy open, and a number of dark-skinned, weathered-looking, and gnarled men walked in carrying bundles of firewood, and put the firewood into the firewood cabinet on the side of the dining room. In the room.
Ma Laosi, the head of the firewood stall who monopolized the daily firewood business in Yizhou City, stood in front of Shang Yan'er with a smile on his face, nodded and smiled at Shang Yan'er: "Don't worry, madam, you will never miss the good things of the academy. We have several of my subordinates. Brother Qian, today I am dedicated to providing firewood to the academy. It is all neatly chopped firewood, not those tattered branches and leaves."
Shang Yan'er waved to the powerful Ma Laosi and said calmly: "That's all, just keep an eye on me. If you miss today's good thing, be careful I'll skin you. Gather more people and get the firewood first." The house is full, and the extra firewood is put in the open space over there for later use."
"Hey, Lan Dongtou, what do you say?" Shang Yan'er looked at Lan Dongtou, the meat stall owner of Yizhou City, who was standing not far away.
Chu Tian narrowed his eyes. Lan Baotou still had some friendship with him. Back then, Chu Tian had solved a big problem for Lan Baotou. Two days ago, in the evening, when Chu Tian left the city with fifteen thousand taels of red gold, Among the people on the street, only Lan Dongtou was the one who spoke to dissuade him.
The fat and strong Lan Dong smiled "hehe" and saluted Shang Yan'er repeatedly with folded hands: "Madam, don't worry. Don't worry, Aunt Shang. How dare we delay today's good things? Five hundred people are the best black people." Small fragrant pigs, three hundred plate-horned goats, a hundred large green-spotted deer, as well as muntjacs, roe deer, rabbits, python tendons, bear hearts, leopard gallbladders, and all kinds of rare mountain treasures are all well prepared."
Wiping the sweat on his forehead, Lan Dutou smiled dryly and said: "Fortunately, our farm has these things on weekdays. Otherwise, how would we be able to get so many rare ingredients when you ask for them!"
After laughing a few times, Lan Dutou lowered his voice again and said softly: "It's just that we have this mountain treasure, it's in the water!"
Shang Yan'er smiled softly and tapped the blue fish head lightly with his finger: "With those ten big carp, what's better than fresh water?"
Smiling, Shang Yan'er then smiled at the middle-aged man standing a few feet away from Lan Dongtou, wearing a silk robe, who was much richer than Lan Dongtou and Ma Laosi. It was obvious that his status level was very different. Laughing: "Shopkeeper Ma, where are you?"
Chutian narrowed his eyes. Ma Laosi and Lan Stall, one monopolized the firewood supply in Yizhou City, and the other was the head of all the butcher shops in Yizhou City. The identities of these two guys were similar to that of Bai Mangjiang. The fish stalls are quite good, so we are used to dealing with them on weekdays.
But this Shopkeeper Ma, his status in Yizhou City is much higher than that of Chu Tian and the others.
This guy is a merchant, and he is engaged in a unique business in Yazhou. He specializes in selling various salted fish, dried abalone, scallops, kelp and other items to Yazhou from the wealthy states in the east of Jin Dynasty that are close to the sea. Come.
Yazhou is located in the far west of the Jin Dynasty. The various dry goods transported from the sea from the far east can make at least twenty times more profit when arriving in Yazhou.
Therefore, Shopkeeper Ma's family is also a big and well-known businessman in Yizhou. The owner of his family was also invited to the Dragon Gate Banquet today, but Shopkeeper Ma was doing business with Shang Yan'er in the backyard.
"Don't worry, Mrs. Shang, we have carefully selected all the goods you need in your brochure and brought the best stock. Especially the eight hundred pairs of dried abalone weighing more than five kilograms each, and the three hundred As for the sea fins and the thousand kilograms of whale tendons, everything is exquisite."
Smiling complacently, Shopkeeper Ma narrowed his eyes and said: "In the east, these things are nothing, but in this state, I dare say that this is the only one, except for the Chu family's warehouse, hehe, I'm afraid it's There’s no way to find a second copy.”
Chu Tian carefully observed the expressions of Shang Yaner and his group.
When Shopkeeper Ma said the word "Chu Family", Shang Yan'er and several pretty maids around her, as well as Lan Stall, Ma Laosi, and even Shopkeeper Ma, all had extremely weird expressions on their faces. smile.
Chutian's heart suddenly thumped. This is not right. These people seem to be not only doing business, they seem to be very familiar people!
They are checking accounts here, and more, maybe they are just showing it to some people!
In other words, they are just completing a necessary procedure to prevent people from becoming suspicious!
Chu Tian hurriedly looked into the distance.
The strong men under Ma Laosi were delivering loads of firewood to Yishan Academy one after another.
These men are all powerful and their steps are as steady as a mountain.
In the open space in the distance, Lan Dutou's strong butcher was leading a group of similarly gaunt men to slaughter pigs and sheep, plus a group of boys who boiled water, shaved hair, and cleaned internal organs. There were thousands of them. the crowd.
Chu Tian's eyes narrowed. Why didn't he recognize any of the butchers Lan Dutou brought today