Nanming Engineer

Chapter 110
The weather in August, like a woman's face, changes at will, without warning, and suddenly.

One hour ago the sun was shining brightly, and the next hour there were storms, dark clouds, lightning and thunder in the sky, and rain coming from the east at any time.

Chen Xiang was lazily leaning on a horse-hitting post at the gate of Fotuguan in Chongqing City, biting a piece of dogtail grass with his teeth in boredom, squinting his eyes and dozing off, when he heard the thunder, he looked around lazily. God, cursed, dragged the straw sandals on his feet, got up and walked towards the door of a big car shop on the side of the road.

He is now a clerk in this big car shop, specializing in feeding grass for the animals, and he has been working here for more than [-] days.

This store has a big plate, the owner has a good reputation and a deep reputation, and has connections in the government. More than half of the big car business in the entire Chongqing city is taken over by this store. Chen Xiang wanted to enter this store at the beginning, but it took a lot of money. After a little effort, he finally got in by offering a load of wild boar meat and two roots of wild ginseng to the second shopkeeper.

Chen Xiang has a strong physique, works neatly, and can work as hard as a grown man. He is very popular with shopkeepers in the store. They love to call him for any kind of hard work. Of course, the wages will not be extra, but Chen Xiang He had no objection, and just went up with a smile, and everyone in the happy store laughed and called "Chen Fool".

Fool Chen was nicknamed outside, no one would suspect that such a hard-working man, Haha, was actually a spy sent by Shizhu. At the gate of Fotuguan, Xiang Chen could clearly see the crowd of horses and horses entering and leaving the gate.

At this moment, Chen Xiang walked slowly into the store with leisurely steps, but saw the big shopkeeper of the store coming out in a hurry, and was about to go out.

Chen Xiang was taken aback, and asked casually, "Boss, it's going to rain soon, and you still have to go out?"

The big shopkeeper stood at the door, looked at the sky, cursed, stopped and said to Chen Xiang: "Then why don't you go and get the bamboo hat and raincoat for me, and wait for me to get wet in the rain? You don't have any eyesight!"

Chen Lian hurriedly responded, went to the store to find a bamboo hat and a raincoat, and trotted out to put it on for the big shopkeeper. While he was tying the belt of the raincoat, he heard the big shopkeeper muttering to himself: "Been beaten by a thousand cuts." Yes, can't you slow down? I have to go to the military camp on this rainy day, and I don't know who Master Zeng is going to beat. I am rushing to reincarnate in such a hurry."

Chen Xiang was startled, and his hands froze. At this moment, there was a thunder in the sky.

"Crack!"

The shopkeeper who was talking to himself was so surprised that Chen Xiang took the opportunity to ask: "Shopkeeper, is there going to be a war? Is the road safe? Don't ruin the business of our big car shop."

The big shopkeeper was stunned by the thunder and casually responded: "What are you afraid of? The war will naturally cut off the road, but we don't have to worry, the business outside is gone, and there are still officers and soldiers. The road to Shizhu is six to seven hundred miles, and the mountains are rugged. , so many officers and soldiers have to rely on our chariots and horses to carry them, don’t panic.”

After a pause, he came to his senses, slapped Chen Xiang on the head, and cursed: "What are you asking for? Damn it, get out of your business, if I find out that the mules and horses are thin, I will beat you to death." A little bastard."

Chen Lian hurriedly tied the last rope of the coir raincoat, and rolled away without saying a word, with his head down.

The big shopkeeper hummed and put on the bamboo hat, looked at the pouring rain outside the door, cursed again, and plunged into the rain.

After half a quarter of an hour, the back door of the big car shop was also gently opened a crack, a figure also wearing a bamboo hat and coir raincoat, flashed out from inside, looked left and right, and broke into the rain curtain silently, Disappear.

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Ma Chongming returned to Wanshou Valley at noon on August [-]. He landed in Xituo Town. The carriages and horses prepared by Shizhu Xuanwei Envoy were already waiting at the dock to directly transport the grain packaging trucks from the grain ship. After entering the grain depot of the Xuanwei Envoy, most of them followed the official road and were transported to Wanshou Valley in an endless stream.

The natives along the way were surprised to see that among the grain carts, there were many carts loaded with live pigs, and the second senior brother, who was fat and big-eared, was tied up and screaming vigorously.

Is Mr. Wang planning a banquet?Do you need so many pigs?It’s still early for the Chinese New Year, when are you going to eat it?The mountain folks all speculated, looking at the pig carts drooling, life in the mountains is hard, not enough to eat and not warm, and it is rare to eat pork once a year, unless there are hunters in the family, who can go up the mountain to hunt and catch wild game for tooth sacrifice.

At the gate of the huge official warehouse in Wanshou City, Zhou Cheng had a writing brush in his right hand and a book in his left, counting the quantity seriously with a serious face, drawing pictures on the book, writing and memorizing, the grain trucks stopped directly in front of him, and a group of A group of people from Wanshou City were conscripted to unload the trucks, and they came and went carrying food bags with smiles on their faces. This is all right, with so much food for this winter, they will definitely not be hungry.

Not far from them, Ma Chongming was talking to Wang Huan beside him, splashing saliva on the steps of the Yafang in Guancang.

"This time when I go out, I, the old man, have tried my best to eat. I have almost bought out all the big grain merchants in Huguang, Jiangsu and Zhejiang." He touched the few strands of goatee growing on his chin, Inviting credit: "A total of [-] shi, a big deal. I have been in business for so many years, and it has been a long time since I have such a big deal. Those grain merchants look at me with admiration. Hehe, from now on, I, Ma Chongming, will also rank among the national grain merchants." It's number one."

Wang Huan looked at the horse-drawn carts and donkey carts that traveled like crucian carp across the river, and said with a smile: "The horse-headed people have worked hard, and the silver for buying grain, please check with Xu Tiezhu, and you can go to Tubaozhai to collect it tomorrow."

Ma Chongming rubbed his hands, his face became rosy, and he was sweating with excitement: "Well, I don't make any money. I will pay whatever price I buy. I don't make a penny. I'm all contributing to Longevity Valley. Enough is enough, enough is enough.”

In fact, he had a very clear calculation in his mind, as long as he knew the price of buying grain, he would quote a price at will, obviously not making money, and secretly the price difference would be multiplied. Hehe, who made me a grain merchant?

"By the way, horse-headed man, what's the number of pigs?" Wang Huan asked.

Ma Chongming hurriedly said: "It took a lot of effort for this pig, Mr. Wang, you also know that there are fewer and fewer people raising pigs these days, and the number you want me to find is so large, I ran away from several houses in Huguang After searching over and over again, I finally found the number of [-] pigs, but luckily, they are all good pigs, fat and strong. According to your requirements, there are [-] breeding pigs and [-] meat pigs, all of which are not bad. .”

"That's great!" Wang Hua clapped his hands and said, "The Matou man is really reliable in his work. He is worthy of being my pillar of pillars. I will definitely report to my stepmother and record your great achievements."

Ma Chongming was overjoyed, his face turned even redder, the fat on his fat face trembled wildly, and he forced himself to unfold the folding fan in his hand with restraint, revealing the big characters of "Business with integrity" on the fan.

Xu Tiezhu came in a hurry from outside, his sackcloth was stained with sweat, and he reported loudly: "My lord, all the breeding pigs have entered the pigsty outside the city, and [-] sows have been left for mating, and the rest have been sent out." To the powder field."

Wang Huan said "hmm", this arrangement was planned long ago, the lime pond in the gunpowder field is just waiting for the fat to go into the pot.

Ma Chongming was very surprised, why were so many pigs transported to the gunpowder field?Where are there so many people, can they eat hundreds of pigs?This food is so good.

Wang Huan didn't tell him that if this miser knew that these pigs were soaked in lime to extract glycerin, he might fall into the lime pond and drown.

The process of unloading food was done step by step, and Zhou Cheng was able to do the job safely without watching it himself. Wang Huan looked at it for a while, and then returned to the meeting room in the government office with all his subordinates.

On the square in front of the meeting hall, the earthen furnace has been removed. On the open space in front of the hall, a group of strong and strong men are standing in line, all of them are tall and healthy, wearing linen jackets, leggings, hemp shoes, and head wraps. The long white cloth scarves stood upright, lined up like sculptures, motionless.

This is the centurion trained by Wang Huan. It is the first time today that they entered the Longevity City official office and lined up for inspection.

　PS: Book friends of Qidian, because this book is the first release of Genesis, and Zhuojiu does not have a Qidian account, so I have been unable to reply to everyone’s messages on Qidian. Points, equal points are enough, and then reply one by one.

　　
　
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