Lu Sheng was taken aback for a moment.
Yanshan City is no better than Jiulian City. A restaurant in Yanshan City is worth at least ten in Jiulian City!
And there are actually fifteen restaurants here! This is simply not an ordinary big deal! Just for these fifteen restaurants, even if he sells all the property of his Lu family, he may not be able to buy them.
Because apart from the money on the surface, if you want to open restaurants in these places, there are too many places that need to be managed behind the scenes. Up and down, at least a million taels of silver. This time, most of the Lu family went out again.
What is a local tyrant! This is! !
At this time, Lu Sheng fully realized what it means to throw money at people, and what it means to throw all kinds of money! What does it mean to be nurtured... ..
Not to mention money, just the strength of the connections behind Master Chen, once he agrees, not to mention the complete settlement of the matter of medicinal materials and supplements, and the search for martial arts, it is estimated that it will be too easy.
Yanshan City is no better than Jiulian City. This is an important town in the central region, guarding the throat between the Northland and the Central Plains. The city guards here have direct connections with the upper echelons of the imperial court.
Being able to gain a firm foothold here and become the richest man, Mr. Chen's background is definitely far beyond Lu Sheng's imagination. It's definitely not as bad as the young master's evaluation he saw yesterday.
Facing Chen Yunxi's confession, Lu Sheng knew that if a woman confessed, even if the atmosphere here is open, it would take a lot of courage. And Chen Yunxi did just that.
He took a deep breath and looked at the girl who was close in front of him.
"You put away your things first."
Hearing this, Chen Yunxi looked carefully at Lu Sheng, then at the business contract in her hand, bit her lip lightly, and put the business contract away.
"Brother Lu, you..."
"It's not that I don't like you... Others think that your long legs are a defect and a congenital disability, but in my opinion, your legs are your most beautiful place." Lu Sheng couldn't help but still put this When the words were spoken, it was almost unspeakable.
When Chen Yunxi heard this, she thought it was Lu Sheng who comforted her, but when she looked carefully into Lu Sheng's eyes, she could only see honesty. Immediately, she knew that the other party was telling the truth, that Lu Sheng really liked long legs, not those petite girls.
"But." Lu Sheng changed his tone, "Chen Yunxi, are you sure you really understand me? Do you really know what kind of person I am? We've only known each other for a few months, and the place you saw about me is also It's just the side of the college, you haven't really fully understood me yet, and I haven't fully understood your other parts. I don't want my future partner to regret the decision he made when he discovers my other side .”
What he said was actually more because he didn't want to involve Chen Yunxi in his life.
With a modifier, he has encountered ghosts and ghosts, and he is not as content with being ordinary as ordinary people. He wants to strengthen himself, and he is not willing to be like ordinary people, living only by luck and the contempt and neglect of others. He wants to control his own destiny in this dark and dangerous world!
This is what he wants. And this kind of life and pursuit is full of dangers. Starting a family too early will only become a weakness for others to catch.
After Chen Yunxi heard Lu Sheng's words, not only was she not disappointed, but her eyes lit up even more.
"Brother Lu regards money like dung, Yunxi knows that he is right!" She stared at Lu Sheng with a watery look in her beautiful eyes.
"Since brother Lu is unwilling for the time being, Yunxi will listen to brother, and will get to know you well and everything about you in the future. Accept everything about you!" After she finished speaking, she covered her red face with her hands, turned around and ran away with a groan.
Lu Sheng watched her leaving back, speechless.
"Is this counterproductive??"
Shaking his head, he returned to the school and continued the class.
Before he knew it, a day passed, and Wang Ziquan didn't show up during the day. Song Zhenguo took the time to look in the rented house where he lived temporarily, but there was no one there. Feeling a little worried, he made an appointment with Lu Sheng that if Wang Ziquan didn't come the next day, they would go find him together.
After one night, the next day, Lu Sheng walked into the school on the clock as usual, and when Mr. Lu started giving lectures, Wang Ziquan didn't arrive again.
Mr. Lu called his name and asked a few words about his family.
"The student's room is next to Wang Ziquan's. I didn't see the lights on in his room yesterday. He seems to have gone out." A scholar who looked very weak stood up and replied.
"Have you returned to your hometown?" Elder Lu frowned, "It's ridiculous to ask for leave for the students when you go home! He doesn't want to be recommended for this year's annual examination, right?"
The annual examination also needs to be jointly recommended by the college, and a list must be submitted, otherwise you will not be able to pass the examination. If the performance in the college is too poor, he will not be recommended, and he will not even be eligible to participate in the annual examination.
"The New Year's Examination is just around the corner, Ziquan would never be so foolish." Song Zhenguo whispered, and stood up quickly. "Master Lu, maybe Ziquan encountered some emergency. I know his cousin in the city. I'll go and ask about the situation later."
"Well, let's go, classmates should help each other." There was a flash of approval in Lu Lao's eyes.
Then the matter was revealed, and we continued to speak and read the scriptures.
Lu Sheng glanced at Song Zhenguo, and saw that his brows were furrowed, as if he was worried about Wang Ziquan. He concentrated his attention, and also remembered the midnight painting boat he had been to before. Maybe if you ask Song Zhenguo, there will be some clues.
It was not difficult for Lu Sheng to listen to these lectures until after school, and it was easy for him to pass these things with his previous postgraduate academic ability. So there is no difficulty.
But for Song Zhenguo, once these things are distracted, it will be very difficult to learn. After the class, he also bent over his desk to sort out the content of the scriptures explained by Master Lu before, and recorded them on the record.
"Brother Zhen Guo." Lu Sheng walked over and said softly. "I feel that something is wrong. Ziquan is usually the most cautious, and treats the schoolwork more cautiously than any of us. Why didn't he come to class for two days in a row?"
Song Zhenguo slowly put away his pen and ink, also with doubts on his face.
"I just thought of this, so I plan to ask about the situation."
"Let's go together. I'm also a little worried." Lu Sheng said seriously.
Song Zhenguo glanced at Lu Sheng unexpectedly. In fact, he had asked the classmates who usually hang out with him before class. The few people who seem to be close to each other, no matter male or female, no one wants to ask for trouble. As soon as they heard about this, they all found various excuses to shirk. This made him see very clearly what these so-called friends were, and he was unswerving in his heart.
But he didn't expect Lu Sheng to take the initiative to come over and say that he wanted to ask together with him.
"Alright, Brother Lu, please wait for a while, I will pack up my things."
"good."
After Song Zhenguo packed up his things, the two quickly left the academy, got into the carriage that had been booked in advance at the gate, and headed straight for the city.
Along the way, both of them were a little worried, Wang Ziquan's character, he valued the college examination more than anything else, how could he suddenly become silent
In a powder shop along Jinyuan Street in the mountain city, the two quickly found Wang Ziquan's cousin, Chen Hong. He was the proprietor of the shop, and he managed the business by himself at a young age.
"Cousin Ziquan? No, if he wants to go home, he will usually come to me and ask me to help him carry things back, such as books, clothes boxes and so on. Speaking of which, I haven't seen him for several days , Didn’t my cousin go to a party with Brother Song before?” Wang Ziquan’s cousin Chen Hong asked doubtfully.
When Song Zhenguo heard this, his expression became more and more worried. He looked at Lu Sheng and exchanged glances with him.
"Yes, we did have a party with us before, but we haven't seen anyone in the past two days, so we came to ask."
"Oh... Speaking of which, my cousin came to my place in the middle of the night the night before yesterday and asked me to bring some high-quality sachets and gouache." Chen Hong laughed, "I see, there are ten chances Eighty-nine is the spring heart! Hehe, the sachets and gouache are still in the style of young girls, tsk tsk tsk...."
"The night before yesterday? What time?" Lu Sheng asked suddenly, his expression became a little strange.
"About ugly time... Anyway, it was very late, I was already asleep, and my cousin woke me up, insisting that I come down to get something for him, alas, because I was woken up too late, I still have a deep impression on it." Chen Hong stroked his chin. "Speaking of which, I took the sachet and gouache so late... tsk tsk..." There was a smile on his face that any man could understand.
Song Zhenguo was a little stunned, his brows were furrowed, and he couldn't figure out what was going on.
But Lu Sheng had some guesses in his heart, and his heart became heavy.
Song Zhenguo looked at Lu Sheng's expression and knew that he had guessed, so he hurriedly said goodbye to Chen Hong.
After leaving the shop, he dragged Lu Sheng into a corner of the street.
"Yuesheng, tell me, did you think of any clues! Ziquan didn't even mention his cousin, and he went out the night before yesterday. But didn't he go to the boat with us to drink with us the night before yesterday?" He asked Serious expression.
Lu Sheng stared at Song Zhenguo seriously.
"Zhenguo, actually, after we left that night, I also went back to the boat."
Song Zhenguo was taken aback: "Yuesheng, why are you going back? It's so late, the boat is probably closed, right?"
"It's closed." Lu Sheng said solemnly. "It's just that I went because I forgot the money bag on the boat, so I went back to look for it. I didn't expect..."
"Didn't expect what??" Song Zhenguo's expression became solemn, affected by the atmosphere in Lu Sheng's words.
"I didn't expect that there was no one on the boat, and there were red lanterns hanging everywhere." Lu Sheng narrowed his eyes and continued. "I quickly entered the room we were staying in, and there were two more big lanterns hanging in it, but there was still no one, not even the cleaning person. Later, I found the money bag and ran quickly Out."
"Not a single person... Could it be..." Suddenly Song Zhenguo seemed to think of something. "Could it be that Ziquan ran to find his cousin in the middle of the night just to deliver gouache and sachets to the girl on the boat? But since you've also gone back, why..."
"Very likely!" Lu Sheng also thought of it, "Don't guess, let's go directly to Huafang and ask."
Song Zhenguo nodded upon hearing this.
Without further ado, the two stopped the carriage again and went straight to the Songbai River. At this time, it was getting late, which happened to be the time to play and drink flower wine at night.
Song Zhenguo took Lu Sheng with ease to find the Huafang they had been to before, and the name was Yingying Huafang.