Rebirth of the backing and eating mountains

On the second day, An Rubao was still in his dream, and acquaintances came to congratulate him one after another. When An Rubao packed up and went to meet people, he saw Wu Shifei and Wu Pu sitting safely in the hall of the east courtyard. drinking tea.

I haven't seen him for a while, Wu Shifei has become more and more monstrous, but Wu Pu is as expressionless as ever.An Rubao entered the room and said, "Morning, Boss Wu." He took Song Chu to find two seats and sat down.

Wu Shifei put down his teacup, looked at An Rubao with a half-smile, and said eccentrically, "Master Juren, it's just that it's getting late." As he spoke, his eyes moved between An Rubao and Song Chu, and he was very ambiguous .

An Rubao almost spit out a mouthful of tea just now, understood what he was thinking, twitched the corner of his mouth and said: "Put away your dirty thoughts, and, look at you like this, how can you look like a brother, Wu Pu also I don’t care about it.” It made him forget all the time.

Wu Shifei blinked at Wu Pu, and said, "Whether I look like brother or not has nothing to do with you, as long as he likes it, by the way, if you don't ask, how is the oil sold?"

An Rubao snorted and said: "Looking at you, you should sell well. Besides, I have confidence in myself." Wu Shifei laughed and said, "You are confident, but, as you said , this oil is not only sold well, it can be said to be extremely good, there are many dignitaries in the capital, and they are not bad at all, do you know how much money I sell for a jar of oil?"

An Rubao thought for a while, and said: "With your profiteering nature, I'm afraid it's not less than five taels." Wu Shifei laughed complacently, and said: "Thank you for the compliment, Brother An, but you still said it was too little. Altar oil, I sold so much." He stretched out his index fingers and crossed them into a cross.

Twelve taels a jar, An Rubao nodded, not feeling that way. After all, peanut oil is a rare item in this era, and it is rare to live in. It is not uncommon to sell it for twelve taels. Song Chu was quite frightened by the price, his eyes widened and he said in embarrassment to Wu Shifei, "So much?" Ten taels of silver is enough for an ordinary peasant household to live for two years.

Wu Shifei nodded vigorously, and said: "Twelve taels a jar, that's not enough to grab. In the end, someone offered 50 taels to buy me an jar. Unfortunately, I'm out of stock, otherwise I'd be able to make a lot of money. I will definitely take a few more cars at a time."

An Rubao looked at his look, and poured cold water on him: "The capital city is not close to here, so the transportation cost is quite a lot, and the pearls in your oil shop are limited, how many jars of oil can you produce?" Wu Shifei choked After a while, he straightened his neck and said, "I don't really have many earth pearls in my hand, and there is only one oil shop, but...but behind me there is the Wu family, the Wu family..."

An Rubao interrupted him, and said solemnly: "You are from the Wu family. You know better than I what kind of family the Wu family is. If this method of extracting oil falls into the hands of the Wu family, I'm afraid you won't be there in the future." What's the matter with the boss, are you willing to do so?"

Naturally not reconciled!Wu Shifei thought of the ruthless and cunning head of the Wu family, his brother who looked down on him, and those subordinates in the Wu family who were stalking him, and thought of how hard it was for him to do something, but it was very likely that he would die after he came up with a way to extract oil. For nothing, the strong unwillingness made him yell out this sentence: "Naturally unwilling."

An Rubao smiled and said: "Since you are not reconciled, you can't rely on the Wu family." Wu Shifei frowned, and said, "If we don't rely on the Wu family, who else can we rely on? Besides, if the oil gets out in the future Mingtang, if the Wu family knows that I am involved in it, I am afraid that they will suppress it in every possible way until I hand over the method. The Wu family is not the Ding family, and they can only make small troubles, which can't even hold a small grocery store like yours. Even if the family disappears quietly, the Wu family can do it. Even if there is no Wu family, there are other rich and powerful people. We have no backing, so how can we compete with them."

An Rubao said confidently: "You forgot, there is also the Zheng family."

Wu Shifei said: "The Zheng family? Zheng Junyu? In the past, the Zheng family would have been able to compete with the Wu family, but now the Zheng family in the capital cannot protect themselves. I have heard in the capital that this time the Zheng Guogong's mansion is probably invincible. If people can survive, the best result is to rob the family and go into exile. The Zheng family seems to be defeated, even if Zheng Junyu has three heads and six arms, he is also weak, so how can he rely on it?"

An Rubao shook his head, and said, "I said Zheng's family, but I didn't say it was Brother Zheng, but someone else." Wu Shifei narrowed his eyes slightly, and asked, "Who is that person?" An Rubao replied To: "It's Brother Zheng's husband."

Hearing this, Wu Shifei stood up with a bang, and said incoherently, "You...you, why is brother Quyou here with you? I went back to Yuxing City this time, and I didn't even enter the gate of Zheng's mansion. You... Don't lie to me!" Because he was too excited, his voice trembled a little.

An Rubao heard that the relationship between him and Qu You must be very deep, and also got up and said: "Whether I lied to you or not, don't you know if you go and see?" Turning to Song Chu who was a little dazed, he said: "Xiao Chu, bring Wu Is the boss going to the west courtyard to see brother?"

Song Chu nodded in a daze, and said to Wu Shifei: "Boss Wu, Brother Qu lives in the wing room of the West Courtyard. Come with me." Wu Shifei raised his leg and followed Song Chu without saying a word. When I went out, my face was flushed with excitement.An Rubao and Wu Pu's grown-up sons—An Rubao had passed the coming-of-age ceremony in the spring—could not go to his elder brother's house, so they had to wait in the main room.

Wu Pu didn't talk much, An Rubao was a little apprehensive about chatting with him, and couldn't leave at will, so the two had to just sit.Not sitting for a long time, Fang Qi suddenly ran in in a panic, and said anxiously to An Rubao: "Just now... just now Xiaochu brought a father to the courtyard, and for some reason, he just took... Just give Mr. Qu a hug, you...you go and have a look." He was a little out of breath as he ran, and his words were broken.Since Qu You came to An's house, because he couldn't go out of the house at will, he stayed in the house all the time, because he was bored, so Qin Feng and Fang Qi often went to chat with him.Fang Qi was in Quyou's house early this morning, helping to make the baby's clothes.

After hearing this, An Rubao laughed and said: "Grandfather? Brother, that man is not a master, but a brother." Fang Qi said in surprise: "Is he a brother? But... But I don't see any... in his ears... There is no brother seal." An Rubao said: "He is indeed a brother, but the position of the brother seal is not very conspicuous, so don't worry about it."

Fang Qi believed it, and said with a sigh of relief: "It's all right, I thought... I thought it was..." He wanted to say that he was a disciple, but he suddenly remembered that the person seemed to be An Rubao's guest, so he hurriedly Shut up.Looking to the side, he noticed that there were other people in the room. Thinking of his words and actions just now, his face blushed, and he said to An Rubao in a low voice: "It's fine if you have guests. I won't disturb you." , smiled and nodded at Wu Pu, and fled in despair.

An Rubao shrugged at Wu Pu, and Wu Pu smiled helplessly - it would be troublesome if the master didn't regard him as a brother.

Next, the two waited for another hour. Fang Qi came in to add water a few times, and asked An Rubao if he wanted to prepare a meal. It was not until the lunch was about to be ready that Wu Shifei followed Song Chu back, his eyes were red, as if After crying, he went to An Rubao first when he entered the room, and dawdled for a long time before Fang softly said, "Well, thank you... Thank you for bringing Brother Qu You out." Rubao had to stretch his ears to hear it, but he still accepted Wu Shifei's thanks, and said: "Brother Zheng and I are also close friends, so there is no need to thank, it's what I should do."

Wu Shifei sniffled, and said: "I have known Brother Zheng Junyu and Brother Qu You since we were young, and we are like brothers. The two of them have had a friendship since childhood. We have suffered a lot for Brother Zheng and Brother Qu You, and finally our lives are stable. This kind of thing happened again... Needless to say, Big Brother Zheng is going to join the Zheng family. I was afraid that Brother Quyou would be stubborn. When I was in Yuxing City, I planned to find a way to bring him out first, but I didn't expect you to go ahead. One step, in a word, thank you for your kindness."

An Rubao smiled, didn't say any more, changed the subject, and said: "I see you and brother have been talking for a long time, but what can you talk about?" Speaking of this, Wu Shifei put away his expression, and said Returning to his original appearance, he sat back on the chair and took a sip of tea, Fang said: "Indeed we talked about some things, I think Brother Zheng must have explained some things to you, so I won't go into details." An Rubao smiled and said nothing Answer, that day in Yuxing City, An Rubao had vaguely mentioned the matter of earth pearl oil in a letter to Zheng Junyu, and soon Zheng Junyu managed to get someone to send a letter to him, in which he did not mention anything about Qu You , and also mentioned the Zheng family's property. It is said that most of the Zheng family's property has been put under the name of Quyou. The grain and oil business of the Zheng family is mostly related to grain and oil. There are no less than dozens of oil workshops alone. It is much better than Wu Shifei's small oil workshop.

Wu Shifei went on to say: "I will order the oil mill to continue to press the oil. The road in the capital has been opened, so we can't just leave it there. Brother Qu You is inconvenient to move. In the next few days, I will talk to a few people near Zheng's house. Contact the management of the oil workshop in the prefecture and county, the oil workshop has changed owners, they should come to see the owner."

An Rubao nodded and said: "Well, it is not appropriate to publicize the natural pearl oil. The managers of the oil workshops you find must be trustworthy. Apart from the oil workshops, the source of the natural pearls is also a big problem. There are not many people who grow natural pearls in Jingguo. Large-scale production may be difficult in the short term. In this way, in the next year, we will only take the road of the capital city. In the next year, we will mobilize the surrounding villagers to grow some pearls. We only need to have shops to help sell them. , Jingguo has many remote and barren lands, you send people to pick up quicksand land, buy more land, and then try to mobilize the local people to plant pearls, so that the pearl production can be expanded, and it is not easy to be noticed. "

Wu Shifei agreed very much, but he said worriedly: "There are still few people who pay attention to this pearl oil, but if we want to make money, we must produce it on a large scale. There will always be a day when people will pay attention. We have no backing. Some people use their power to force them, so what should I do? To tell you the truth, when I was in the capital, someone came to me and asked about the raw materials and production methods of the pearl oil, and I only said that I was helping people to lead the seller."

An Rubao smiled and said: "That's why we have to start as soon as possible. By then, our pearl oil will be all over Jingguo, and even other countries, and we will control the source of most of the pearls in our hands. How can we be afraid of their persecution?"

Wu Shifei thought about it carefully, and felt that what he said was reasonable, so he couldn't help laughing: "I keep saying that I am a profiteer, but you are hundreds of times more adulterous than me. It's a pity that you don't become a businessman."

An Rubao replied solemnly: "Don't say that, don't say that, I am the master Juren, a businessman who is so majestic as an official." He turned around and attracted Wu Shifei and Wu Pu He and Song Chu all laughed out loud.