A few days later, we came to Linfen County. During this period of time, we went to bed and sleep without spending much money. I had a hundred taels of silver given to me by Li Chaoyang and Liu Qingfeng was worried about it. He said that I had to meet in half. Hey, I knew it. I won't be in front of him anymore.
The autumn breeze is coming up, and the autumn is cool. Fortunately, we bring enough clothes and have internal strength to protect the body, so it won't feel too cold. On the official road, there were not many pedestrians, and I only saw a dozen horses galloping away for dozens of miles, which made us eat ashes. If it weren't for me to stop, Liu Qingfeng had gone to talk in the morning.
Near noon, the two felt hungry. The meatloaf with them had already been eaten. They saw a streamer waving in the wind not far away. The streamer was written with four characters, Qingfeng steamed buns!
Qingfeng steamed buns are a famous food in Beijing. There are also several stores in Beijing. They often visit when they are darts in Beijing. It is very kind to see them here. This bun shop is not big, a dozen square meters, and the business is booming. The high tables and low benches inside are full of diners. There is such a shop on the official road that is not in front of the village and behind the shop. Paradise.
When he came to the front, he saw the steaming buns exuding the scent of meat, and Liu Qing's mouth was drooling.
Boss, how do you sell this bun
Three articles!
So expensive? Can it be cheaper
Guest officer, I'm a small business, small profits but quick turnover. The key is to rely on volume, and it can't be cheaper!
It's cheaper, we're also repeat customers, how about three of ten texts
Not for sale!
I went up and knocked Liu Qingfeng on the head. Is your math taught by your physical education teacher? Liu Qingfeng stunned his head and thought, am I not saving us some money
A middle-aged man next to him said, "Boss, give these two little brothers 20 buns, and count them on my account." When we look at it, the man is in his early forties, with a national face and a must-have beard. Seeing us looking, the man chuckled.
Liu Qingfeng arched his hands, thank you so much.
The store is not big, and the boss delivered meat buns. We had a table with the middle-aged man, manly, in Xia Meng Jinping, Taiyuan Renshi, I don’t know how the two brothers would be called
Liu Qingfeng’s mouth was full of buns, and I had to say, in Sanguan of Xia Qin, this is my brother Liu Qingfeng. Listening to Brother Cui's accent, he spoke the Central Plains dialect, not at all like a native of Taiyuan.
Meng Jinping smiled and said, I have been doing business in Central Plains all the year round, but I have also learned some Central Plains dialects, and the two brothers laughed when I said it.
A boy walked in from the door, opened his mouth and said, Boss, here are two set meals.
The boy was seventeen or eighteen years old. He was dressed as a prince, dressed in a brocade and jade suit with a jade pendant around his waist and a sword in his hand. However, the clothes were rather shabby and there were a few holes in the clothes. The boy didn't mind. A slumped old man behind, leading a yellow-faced and thin old horse, followed behind him with three shakes.
The young man sat down, and the old man stood on one side, looking at the surrounding diners, his eyes swept over me, and my spirit flashed, and the old man was also a master. The boy didn't even use chopsticks, so he picked up a bun with his hands and bit it down. Qingfeng steamed buns with thin skin and thick and juicy stuffing made a splash. The young man stretched out his hand and wiped his sleeve. He didn't mind, he said while eating, eating all kinds of delicacies, and the Man Han Banquet could not be better than this one steamed bun! Lao Li, why don't you eat it
The old man stood aside and smiled, Master, you eat, Lao Li is not hungry. Everyone was attracted by the old and the young, and the surrounding voices were much quieter.
Juvenile Dao: Lao Li, you said that Taiyuan Demon Slayering Conference masters gathered, along the way, the demon sect also met a lot of people, all of them are shrimp soldiers and crabs who run dragons and carry boxes. When will I meet a real master, let me Come and kill it!
Called Lao Li’s old servant said: I heard that Guanlong Li’s family has captured an important figure of the Demon Cult. There will be many martial arts masters.
The young man ate the buns and said, this young master doesn't care about the Orthodox Demon Sect. I am here to make the world famous. I will beat anyone who is good at martial arts. I finally come out and kill a few first-class and second-class masters for whatever they say. Hey, if only the old man retreats in the first half of the year, I heard that on Murong Villa, the young escort of the Central Plains Escort is so prestigious and shows off the limelight. Hum, this is because the young master didn't run out, otherwise there is no place for him to perform!
Liu Qingfeng glanced at me, I whispered, eat your buns, don't talk nonsense. In my heart, I was calculating the identity of the two masters and servants. With my current fourth-grade strength, and the realm of Ye Consciousness, I couldn’t see the depth of the old man’s martial arts. Although the young man was arrogant, the aura that he radiated from his body was probably the same. Second-grade master strength. When did such a young master appear in the arena
Xiliang sword pavilion? Probably not. It is said that Mei Changfeng is twenty-four or five years old, with fierce swordsmanship and frosty people. There is no such young maniac at all.
The boy said again, Lao Li, do you think the old man is partial? The second brother's martial arts is so weak that the old man let him go out, but he didn't let me, the first young master, go out of the arena. This directly affected my road to fame!
How dare Lao Li take such words, he had to stand sideways and giggle.
It didn't take long for the teenager to finish the steamed buns, drank a bowl of millet porridge, wiped his mouth with his sleeve, patted his belly, and was full! Set off, watching the young master slay them at the Demon Slayer Convention, crying for their fathers and mothers!
The boss stepped forward and said, Guest officer, you haven't paid yet, a total of forty-two articles!
The boy picked up the jade pendant around his waist and dangled it a few times in front of the boss. What do you think of this jade? The boss saw that the jade pendant was crystal clear and translucent, and it was not a mortal thing, and said with a flattering smile, it was a good jade!
The young man said proudly. When others look at him, I will charge him a couple of silver. For the sake of your buns, I will give you a discount, just fifty wen. You still want to find me eight articles!
The boss cried and said, don’t you make sense!
The boy said, to be honest, I have no money. Pointing at the old servant, or you would beat him up and get out of your breath
The boss said, yes, I'm unlucky.
One old and one young went away.
When Liu Qingfeng heard that he was almost choked by the millet porridge, and watched them go away, I said, this guy's shameless appearance is like you back then.
Liu Qingfeng shook his head and said, I am ashamed.
This is how Meng Jinping said, I think the two brothers should be martial arts practitioners
Liu Qingfeng's unparalleled modesty said only a little bit of fur.
Meng Jinping let out a cry, and then said, the two brothers, the old brother has a gratuitous request. I don't know if it's appropriate to talk about it.
It’s the shortest to eat, but it’s soft. We just ate his steamed buns for free. We were so embarrassed to refuse. So, Brother Meng said it’s okay.
Meng Jinping said, my brother, I am a businessman, and I recently bought a batch of salt tea from the south with a few brothers. I wanted to transfer it to Taiyuan Prefecture to make some money. I think the two of you also know that this kind of short-selling goods is also highly profitable. We were walking with some other retail investors with the Chase company's convoy, thinking that they would have a look after them on the road, but a few days ago I accidentally heard that they had colluded with the local magic sect and wanted to rob our goods on the way. The two bodyguards I invited, one got malaria, and the other had to stay with him for treatment. In the past few days, we have gone with fear and awake at night. If the two brothers can help me, if we arrive safely. Taiyuan, my brother, I am very grateful. Of course, this thing cannot be done in vain. After it is done, I am willing to pay twenty taels of silver.
That's why it is unexpected that Meng Jinping looked honestly and did a smuggling business. Salt, iron tea, etc. have always been operated by government merchants, and merchants relied on documents issued by the government for real-name registration, so that most of the profits were made by the government.
Those with avenues can make a lot of profit every year by reselling official documents, while those with no avenues can only earn small amounts of money by subcontracting step by step.
Courageous people like Meng Jinping make huge profits through smuggling. Of course, this kind of business is not only seen, and the procedures are incomplete, and there is a danger of being detained by the government at every turn. For regular escorts like ours, this type of goods is not allowed to receive darts. Generally, they just hire some bodyguards to go on the road in private, or pack them up, relying on the name of a large company, and pay a lot of handling fees.
I thought I would go to Taiyuan with Liu Qingfeng anyway, but five hundred miles away, and there are some silver to earn, don’t do it for nothing. With the strength of the two of us, even if something goes wrong then, the goods may not be kept, save Meng Jinping. Fate is not difficult, and it can be regarded as repaying him for his kindness.
It’s just that the Datong company is so famous that there are people who eat black darts.
I glanced at Liu Qingfeng, Liu Qingfeng waved his hand and said that he would provide board and lodging.
After eating the buns, Meng Jinping paid the money and took us to the dock. It turned out that the cargo he said was on a giant cargo ship docked at the Linfen dock. The draught of the ship is very deep, and obviously there is a lot of cargo in it. On the big flag hung on the bow, the four characters of Datong Trading Co., Ltd. fluttered in the wind, which was quite conspicuous.
When we boarded the ship, the boss of the Chase Company gave us a glance and said dumbly, Lao Cui, who are these two
Meng Jinping said, Lord Liao, these two are my two relatives in Linfen County, this time they will go to Taiyuan with me. Haven't you two met Lord Liao
The two of us hurriedly saluted and met with Lord Liao.
Boss Liao gave a hum. A pair of mouse eyes swept over us. With his strength, as long as we can hide our breath, he can't see the depth of our martial arts.
At the back of the cabin, where the livestock was stored, Meng Jinping paid for us. We led the reed flower and the beckoning flowers behind, and the beckoning donkey was listless all the way. Seeing that there was a sweaty BMW here, the donkey's eyes suddenly glowed and kept eager. Let's rub the BMW. Lu Hua looked at it coldly, her nose spitting disdain. Calling the donkey raised his head, he seemed to be saying, "You mother mule, I don't hesitate to take care of you."
I told my buddy that you have to be fastened, this donkey is not honest at night. When the mare saw the donkey, she was obviously very scared, and dodged back. Seeing it like this, the donkey was even more proud and kept kicking the deck with her hoof.
Meng Jinping was obviously more afraid of death, so he arranged us in a room with him. Liu Qingfeng had no objection, but I didn't want to hear Liu Qingfeng's biochemical smelly feet, so I opened another room next door, and we took turns to protect him.
Early the next morning, Meng Jinping moved into my room with the quilt.