Be a little landlord

The man in red looked up at Niu Dong, with a clear smile on his face. His huge earlobes were like his rich figure. The man smiled heartily and said, "What are you talking about? Watermelon, here, just I bought it at the Lin Kee restaurant not far from the corner, you can find it if you ask someone, it is better than herbal tea to cool off the heat!"

"Really? Thank you both." Niu Dong was overjoyed. He saw the two eating watermelon from a distance, and his tongue was already salivating. It's cold and cold, and I feel surprised that there is such a magical thing in this small county town?

After asking several people one after another, Niu Dong finally found Lin Kee Restaurant, which was mentioned by the two. It was a small shop, and the tables and chairs in the shop were already full of people. It's really surprising that people are clustered together, but it doesn't make people feel hot.

Like everyone else, Niu Dong asked for a piece of watermelon with some snacks. Lin Lixuan used a knife to separate the skin and flesh for him. Seeing this, Niu Dong remembered the two people before, and said anxiously: "This skin, I will Also."

Lin Lixuan was a little surprised, Pi?want?The customer's bones are so clear, even though he was surprised in his heart, he still respected the customer's wishes. After cutting the fruit for him, the crescent-shaped melon rind was also placed on a clean porcelain plate.

Niu Dong picked up the bamboo sticks in the bamboo tube on the table, followed the appearance of everyone, inserted a piece of watermelon into his mouth, it was sweet and thirst-quenching, and the dryness and heat of his body were instantly calmed down by the food in his mouth.

His movements were very elegant at first, but later he devoured it. After eating this piece, he still felt uncomfortable. He told the boss that he wanted another piece, and said that he didn't need to cut it. It's fun.

He really didn't expect that such a small county town would have such a refreshing thing. He looked at the boss's counter. In the reddish-brown wooden box, there were neatly placed pieces of big red watermelons, crescent-shaped watermelons. , with traces of icy air floating on it.

Under the watermelon, there was a thick layer of quilt. Niu Dong guessed that there must be a lot of ice cubes under the quilt, and he didn't know where the boss came from to have so many ice cubes.He asked the boss, but the boss just smiled and didn't answer.

After eating the watermelon, Niu Dong knocked on the melon seeds and joined the residents of Quanshui County chatting in the shop.

They are discussing a book in twos and threes,

"Boss Niu, where are you from?"

"North Hill."

"That's far away."

"Yes, yes, the journey was tough, and our place is not as hot as yours."

"Yes, yes, it's too hot, come, have a cup of herbal tea."

"Here is a book, if you are bored, you can read it at will."

Lin Lixuan was also witty. Seeing that so many businessmen like to use this book to relieve boredom, he directly bought a lot of Yongyi Scholar's Memoirs from the bookstore and sold them directly in the store.

In the past few days, due to the hot weather, there are only a lot of businessmen coming and going to buy watermelons in the store. If you come to buy my watermelons, I will sell books by the way. Lin Lixuan euphemistically called it - buy one get one free.

Don't really thank him too much.

Lin Lixuan tore the book in half, tidied up the first half, dressed it up, placed it in the store, and let the merchants look at it at will. He didn't force people to buy it. If they liked it, they would buy a copy and bring it with them. Let's go back.

Generally, most of those who read it bought it. People in business don’t lack the money. This book is really interesting.

Those who did not buy were mostly illiterate. Lin Lixuan found it interesting that some illiterates, probably out of a herd mentality, actually bought along with them. Lin Lixuan took their money and sighed in his heart: There are thousands of people in this world. People, there are indeed many strange things, there are all kinds of people.

Niu Dong took over the books. He was a literate person. He read books for a few years when he was a child, and became an accountant when he grew up. Later, he started a business by himself. Although he didn't study hard, he could still recognize most characters.To be honest, Niu Dong didn't like reading when he was a child, otherwise he wouldn't choose to be a businessman. If he could read, he would definitely try his best to take the imperial examination now. study.

For Niu Dong, reading is a torture.

The cover of the book is exquisite, wrapped in an unknown silk cloth, embroidered with beautiful patterns, Niu Dong took a closer look, it turned out that it was not a pattern, but a kind of... painting?

It's not an ink and wash landscape painting in the usual sense, it's a picture of people, but it's different from the pictures of people he usually sees. The big tank was even wider, and the scholar had a bright smile on his face. Niu Dong was curious about how this smile was drawn. When he saw this smiling face, he couldn't help but want to laugh.

With a bored mind, Niu Dong opened the title page, and there was a sentence on it in exquisite lowercase letters: Please do not read this book while drinking water and eating.Niu Dong became curious, and stared at this Yongyi Scholar's Memorabilia.

It was incredible to see this, he put his heart and soul into it, the content inside was so interesting that he couldn't close his mouth from ear to ear, and his stomach was full of laughter.In addition, after eating two large pieces of watermelon before, Niu Dong felt extremely uncomfortable. He laughed loudly, as if something was hammering his belly. Although it was uncomfortable, he couldn't stop the smile on his mouth. It's so funny.

"Hahahahahahahaha." He made a series of such voices, and he couldn't stop even if he wanted to.

"Hic." Niu Dong hiccupped, and then his face was startled, he clamped his legs, his face was miserable, he panicked for a while, then his face returned to calm, he turned his head and asked the boss: "Excuse me, where is your hut? "

"Oh, over there." Lin Lixuan calmly saw through the turbulent waves under his calm appearance. The story that happened to this boss tells us that watermelon herbal tea is full of water. If you drink too much water, don't laugh wantonly, or the consequences will be disastrous oh.

After Niu Dong came back, he not only bought the one he read before, but also bought [-] books. He was thinking of reselling, why only bought [-] books?It's not that he doesn't want to buy more, it's because there are only so many in Lin Lixuan's shop.

"Wait, you can take the book, but you must keep the book cover."

"...Hey, boss, don't you sell this book cover?"

Lin Lixuan smiled embarrassedly, and said, "It's not that I don't want to sell, this book cover was embroidered by my husband..."

"..." The love between husband and wife is really not easy to win people's favor.

But Niu Dong couldn't help it, he had never seen this kind of book cover before, and wanted to keep a copy very much, so he said again: "Boss, I really like this book, you see, I have bought more than 30 copies ,...for the sake of so many books, you should sell this book cover to me..."

A trace of embarrassment and entanglement flashed across Lin Lixuan's face. He frowned and said, "Brother, you have come from a long way. Seeing how sincere you are, it's not like I don't want to part with you... It's just that this book cover was embroidered by my husband... ..."

"Don't worry, brother, you are satisfied with the price." Niu Dong boasted.

Lin Lixuan compared himself with scissors in his heart, it was very good, and he sold another copy. This hand-embroidered comic book cover is not difficult to do, it takes a lot of effort to lay the board, and it will be enough to embroider it.

He opened up the market for the handicraft industry of the two twin brothers in the family.

So like this, Niu Dong, who was full of food and drink, returned to the inn with a lot of books and a free snowskin mooncake given by Lin Lixuan.

There were several people like Niu Dong who appeared in Lin Kee restaurant every now and then. Lin Lixuan hurriedly asked the people from Songyun Bookstore to work overtime to make the book, and also asked the two members of his family to work overtime to make the book's peripherals.

A whole hot summer passed, and the watermelon growth period was not too long. After picking one, a new one grew. In the five-acre watermelon field, one big watermelon was produced after another. Xuan sold out crop after crop of watermelons, and finally, the price of watermelons dropped. Even so, he earned back the cost of buying fruit saplings in spring just by selling watermelons.

Everyone in Bixi Village, together with the county magistrate of Quanshui County and the director of land management, including the two brothers of Shuishenghuo University, were shocked by Lin Lixuan's deeds of growing melons. They did not expect that the fruit grown by this scholar would be Really able to make so much money back... Some villagers felt a commotion in their hearts, thinking to themselves: Next year, I will grow watermelons like him.

Lin Lixuan's purse was getting bigger and bigger, and the money in it was getting bigger and bigger. He estimated in his heart that he had enough money to build a new house, but the autumn harvest was coming soon, so it was not easy to ask someone to build the house until the autumn harvest passed. Let's build another house. Their current house is no longer enough to live in.

Up to now, Zhao Liniang hardly cares about the money her son earns back. She and Mrs. Ge have earned a lot of money that was unimaginable before by raising chickens. Now she is addicted to her own chicken raising business and doesn't care about her son's pocket at all .

Everyone in the Lin family has their own money-making business. Brother Yu relies on selling lanterns, bamboo umbrellas, handmade puppets, and hand-embroidered book covers... Gradually, his small pocket has accumulated twelve silver coins. , the little brother Yu was snuggling up beside his own brother, with a bright smile on his face, he thought happily that he could redeem himself for himself with only 23 taels of silver left, that's great!

Maybe next year, he will be able to buy his own deed of sale.

Every time he mentions that when he earns enough 35 taels of silver, the brother-in-law would tease him: "My brother Yu, I'm going to save up a dowry for myself."

Although Brother Yu doesn't plan to get married, he still needs to save some of the dowry as his brother said.