Passing through the station

Although merchants were good citizens, they were treated harshly for a long period of time in the history of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

No matter how much effort a businessman puts into making money, in times of emergency, even if ordinary people smash and rob rich businessmen, it is because the rich businessmen are not benevolent.Completely ignored, over the years, the merchants have paid for the place and the common people.

Or maybe, when people don't have enough to eat, they just need a reason to live, a place where they know there is money and food.

To talk about the changes in the status of businessmen today, Hu Shang's feeling is the most obvious.

He traveled all over the world in his early years and suffered a lot. When he was old and his health was failing, he simply packed up his belongings, immigrated to Nanhai, opened a small bookstore, and pretended to be a cultural person.Well, he is called an investor immigrant.

The slender young man walked into Hu Shang's shop, looked at Hu Shang who was lying on the rocking chair and snored, shook his head, turned around and handed a receipt to the clerk, and asked in a low voice: "I paid for the job last month. Has the book ordered here come?"

The clerk looked at the receipt, and also whispered back: "Here we come. Please sit down, I'll get it for you right away." The customer ordered quite a few books. Although there were only a few lines on the receipt, the book The name is followed by the words series and complete works.Five or six sets of books are packed into a box!

The front of the store is very narrow and small, but the depth is very deep, and the interior does not appear dark. A whole wall of glass windows, plus a few skylights on the roof, make the interior of the bookstore very bright.All kinds of flowers and plants arranged in random order make the bookstore look more elegant.

In addition to the small warehouse on the second floor, there are several small reading rooms.

The guy quickly dragged a wooden box out from the second floor, and the heavy weight made the guy's footsteps thud when he went down the stairs.

Hu Shang woke up suddenly, pretended to touch the sweat on his forehead, and glared at the buddy: "How many times have I told you, don't try to save trouble and move heavy things all at once, it looks like some monster has come."

The buddy is not afraid of being scolded like this, he smiled, tore off the small note on the box and exchanged it with the young man's receipt: "Guest, all the books you want are inside, may I open them for you?"

The young man nodded: "Okay." He was not in a hurry to check, but greeted Hu Shang, "Mr. Hu." This is the old man in front of the second youngest of their family.After so many years, even if it is not a family, it is better than a family.

Hu Shang squinted his eyes for a while, and then remembered: "Isn't this the Liu family boy! He finally came to Nanhai."

"Yes." Young Liu Hou nodded with a smile.At the beginning, his younger sister, Xiao Rong, was reassigned by the second young master to become Liu Liniang's younger sister. Later, she also ran around with Liu Liniang, and his brother, who was a direct relative, had to stand aside.

Now that Liu Liniang is the president of the South China Sea, Liu Xiaorong naturally has to follow.Although on the territory of the second young master, he has nothing to worry about, but as an older brother, he still... well, he just can't worry, he always feels that his younger sister who can single-handedly take down a den of bandits , you will be bullied when you go out...

So, how did his little Rong become like this?Now she even directly manages the city defense army, becoming a veritable female general.

Hu Shang probably knew a little about it, and asked, "Then are you going to leave this time?"

Liu Hou didn't answer directly, but said vaguely: "Let's see and talk."

He didn't know in his heart whether he should settle down or not.

In the past [-] years, he lived in the capital as a child, and his life was quite affluent; later, his mother died, his father's business failed, and he avoided the villages in Gyeonggi; later, his father and stepmother were sold to the Pingxi Palace...

He is not outstanding enough to be a servant, and he cannot be beside his master; but he is not stupid, at least among a group of servants, he can become a buddy of Bailifang, and then become a shopkeeper, and gradually be able to be rich on his own, that is self-willed! .

Now, the master has released his contract of sale, but he is a little at a loss.Putting the bookcase on the car, he led the mule back slowly, looked up at the blue sky and white clouds and sighed: "Annual leave..." With such a long vacation all of a sudden, he didn't know what to do.The second young master really gave him a problem.

In the early years, he was always passive. Now that he can settle down, he finds that he can't calm down.

Having been in the high position of Ruan's business empire for many years, he also saved a fortune.It's not difficult at all to buy a decent house in Nanhai, even if he can't live in it for a month a year.

The streets of Nanhai City are very wide, even if you are riding an elephant, it will not be crowded...

Liu Hou looked at the girl who jumped off the elephant's back expressionlessly: "Where is this going?" He didn't even bother to say that a girl's house should look like a girl's house.Back then when his sister was very young, she was almost sold by his father to the idiot son of the landlord's family as his wife; rather than being bullied, she might as well be more fierce.

"The king of the mountain sent me to patrol the mountain." Liu Xiaorong touched her brother's waist with a playful smile, "City tour! Brother, I heard that you have three months of annual leave this time. By the way, will you organize the marriage? A lot of age."

Liu Hou really wanted to beat her up, but unfortunately he couldn't beat her, he could bear it! "Don't talk about your brother and me, what about yourself? Is there anyone you fancy? While my brother is here, I will come to your door to propose marriage to you."

"Hey! I'm going to grab it if I fancy myself...Let Sister Liniang help me propose a marriage. It doesn't matter if you're here or not. Anyway, I'll remember to send you a post, and you'll just have to come over when the time comes!"

Liu Hou: I really want to beat this girl up!So, who taught his sister to be like this? !

"I'm too lazy to tell you, I'm going back." He must be at odds with Nan Hai, spending money to buy a house here is definitely a failed investment.

Liu Xiaorong was still regretting to herself: "Brother, your cooking skills are too bad, otherwise I could have secured a match between you and Sister Liniang."

Liu Hou: No, he doesn't want to have any connection with that female tyrannosaurus at all!However, it's not that he can't consider cooking skills. Anyway, he doesn't have much to do now, and the South China Sea is rich in ingredients, so he can just practice.

In one day, Liu Hou burned the kitchen three times, and immediately gave up this impossible task. He felt that it would be more reliable to find ingredients, so he boarded a sea ship to the west through employee benefits.

Life at sea is very leisurely. Sea fishing, swimming, and eating seafood are other people's lives, and have nothing to do with people who get seasick.

Three months later, the ship returned.Liu Hou lost weight several times, and was carried off by a man with bird feathers on his head.

Liu Xiaorong opened her mouth wide, looking at the strange man who was wrapped in a white linen cloth, if it wasn't for the golden jewelry all over his body, he would really look like he was wearing sackcloth.

The man is tall, even taller than those Huns.The fine linen cloth on his body is barely the same as clothes, and it doesn't have much covering effect. One shoulder is exposed, the arms and legs are all outside, and the dark skin is shining like honey; plus the gold, It just flickers so hard that you can't keep your eyes open.

Liu Xiaorong took two steps closer, the man stopped immediately, looked at her with guarded eyes, and said in a blunt Zhou dialect: "Get out of the way!" His tone was completely commanding from a high position.

Liu Xiaorong immediately became angry: "You just get out of the way! Let go of my brother!"

Liu Xiaorong spoke angrily and anxiously, with a bit of an accent. The man frowned and listened carefully, but he still didn't understand, and repeated: "Get out of the way!" This time, there was more impatience in his tone.His Ah Hou is already very uncomfortable, he has to rest immediately!

"Put my brother down!" Don't think that she won't dare to beat her brother up if she carries her brother behind her back!

The man frowned, stretched out his hand to push Liu Xiaorong aside, and led Liu Hou to disappear into the busy pier in three steps.

Liu Xiaorong: "..."

When the captain saw Liu Xiaorong, he was a little confused: "General Liu, why are you still here? Didn't you pick up your brother? Didn't shopkeeper Liu come out a long time ago?"

"No, I saw my brother." Liu Xiaorong gritted her teeth sinisterly, "I also saw my brother being snatched away by a wild man!"

The captain was taken aback for a moment, and then he laughed and said, "Is that Duller you're talking about? He's a good guy, but he doesn't know much about big words, and he and your brother are good friends!"

Pooh!Are you blind?Is that called a good friend?

Liu Xiaorong stopped riding the elephant, and rushed to her brother's house quickly, and sure enough, she saw that wild man doing something wrong to her brother - sitting on the edge of the bed to wipe someone's body or something, seeing her as her own sister, And immediately put her brother under cover...

Du Le looked at Liu Xiaorong with wary eyes.

Liu Xiaorong calmed down the little flame in her heart, pointed at Liu Hou with one hand, "Brother!" She bent her arm, pointed at herself and said, "Sister."

The simple words made Du Le understand the relationship between the two people. He nodded his head slowly, then lowered his head and kissed Liu Hou until the kiss woke him up. He asked in a language that Liu Xiaorong had never heard: "Is that you?" younger sister?"

Liu Hou fainted half of his life from seasickness, and now he was still dangling when he got off the ground, it was terribly uncomfortable, it took a long time to realize the meaning of the word "sister", and then turned to Liu Xiaorong: "Xiao Rong .”

Liu Xiaorong was dumbfounded: "Ah."

Liu Hou braced himself: "He is Du Le, the third prince of the Byzantine Kingdom, come and call me sister-in-law."

"what."

"It's not 'ah', it's sister-in-law."

"Ah. Sister-in-law." Her sister-in-law... She doesn't mind her brother marrying a foreign sister-in-law, or her brother marrying a man, but the foreign-race male sister-in-law still makes her feel very shocked.

Du Le frowned as he watched the conversation between the two brothers and sisters, frowned and said in a low voice, "It's time for you to rest."

As expected, Liu Hou obediently rested.

Liu Xiaorong took Du Le to buy vegetables, and then had a meal together, and was immediately bribed.

My sister-in-law's cooking skills are great!

While Du Le was washing the dishes, Liu Xiaorong whispered to her brother: "Married!"

"Yeah!" To be able to play and have money, the key is to be able to cook!How can a husband ask for a wife like this!

"How much is my sister-in-law's dowry?"

"A lot? He has several gold mines and gemstone mines, as well as the diamond mine that the second young master wants." With something in his stomach, Liu Hou felt himself recovering, and the symbol of copper coins in his eyes was instantly replaced by the symbol of gold ingots. Thinking, "I want to see the second young master. I think we can establish diplomatic relations with Byzantium, so I'll go there and set up a place... By the way, I'll bring more books and some cooks."

Half a year later, when Liu Hou left Nanhai Port with the whole ship of supplies, Liu Xiaorong suddenly felt a little strange: "My brother... is this going to marry?" marry?

No, no, this must be her illusion.Her brother had already become the boss of Bailifang two years earlier, and was independently responsible for several brands under it. Internally, he said the same thing. How could a well-known ruthless character in the mall marry?

Du Le picked up Liu Hou, who was lying on the side of the boat, and said, "Go back."

Liu Xiaorong with amazing eyesight: ...