"I don't want to go astray when I join the escort team. From now on, our business will be indispensable without the blessing of force." Li Dan held the back of his head with his hands and leaned back on the chair:
“Before, I was too restricted when I lived in the mansion. There was always someone to take care of everything, and it was very annoying to have people telling me what to do.
Now they want to separate the family and drive us out, okay! Now I can return to the world and be free. "
He turned to them and assured them: "Don't worry, Sanlang has many good ideas in his head. After we make the truck, we can also make a car, so that the rich people in the world will pay for it."
Take your time, it's not difficult to make money, there are plenty of opportunities! "The conversation made the couple smile.
"Hey, Master, when did you come back? Where is Aunt Song?" Li Dan suddenly remembered.
Only then did Su Siniang remember the business, clapped her hands and said, "As you said, Ruobin is at Liuhe Nunnery.
She didn't bring any money with her when she went out, so she had to pawn some hairpin rings and jewelry. Originally thinking that Jingzhen Guan was familiar with her and few people knew her outside the city, she ran to the east first.
Unexpectedly, those Kun Taoists were all very snobbish and refused to take her in after hearing about her family's situation.
Aunt Song had no choice but to drag herself back to the city. Fortunately, the sister-in-law of Liuhe'an was kind enough to accept her, otherwise she would have planned to go to the Chenghuang Temple and crowd with the refugees and beggars! "
Han An sighed after hearing this, and Li Dan gritted his teeth and frowned. Yueying asked anxiously: "What about her? She is pregnant, and only two or three people in the family know about it."
"Don't worry, girl, I've finally seen her.
At first she was afraid and refused to go with me, but I told her that Li Sanlang asked me to look for her. I also said that my man went to the county government to rescue you, Yueying.
Only then did she believe it, and she wanted to kowtow to me. I couldn't bear it.
However, it was really not appropriate for her to come out like this in broad daylight, so I made an agreement with Liuhe'an that we would hire a car to go there in the evening and pick her up quietly without anyone noticing. "
Su Siniang shook her head proudly: "Master, do you think this is okay?"
Han An nodded quickly. Li Dan said: "That's it. You take Yueying with you in the evening. She will feel more at ease when she sees Yueying."
After saying that, he stood up to leave. Han An wanted to keep him for dinner. Li Dan told him that he had to discuss the dry food with Liu Yuansheng and would have dinner at his house. He also asked him to discuss the stock purchase and car building with Chen Gang and his son as soon as possible. .
"This vehicle is well built. With its speed and capacity, we don't need to carry too much dry food. Anyway, we can get supplies at any time."
Li Dan said that he would let Yue Ying live here with peace of mind and wait for the manor to be repaired before hiding out of the city together.
When he was going out, Yang Dayi came back and greeted him hurriedly: "Li Sanlang, where are you going?"
Li Dan pulled him aside and told him that he was going to take Min Fu to Wannian: "I feel that this mine disaster is coming very violently, and it will spread here without warning.
Raozhou and Guangxin Prefecture are close to each other, who can guarantee that bandits will not escape?
It’s not necessarily safe on this journey, so I want to train this group of people in the ten days before leaving.
I'll let everyone practice their muscles and muscles starting at Shen hour every day. Later on, I want to teach them how to form formations to protect themselves and how to retreat. I'll come and ask you for advice after I've been busy for two days. "
"Okay, okay, I will definitely help you. How about I go with you on this business trip?"
Seeing Yang Dayi gearing up, Li Dan couldn't help but smile: "You ask Mr. Han for his opinion first. I'll go do some things and come back later."
Yang Da felt that he was busy leaving, so he had to send him off with fists in his arms, and then went in to discuss with Han An.
Li Dan first went to Liu Da to discuss the matter of dry food, and asked him to buy ten stones of rice and noodles for later use, as well as pickles, dried meat, sausages, etc. He asked him to go to Su Siniang to get twenty taels of silver for later use, and then returned to the door of the West Market. The candy shop was where he made an appointment with Song Xiaoniu.
When I walked in, I saw Mavericks sitting inside. "To be brief, what did you gain this morning?" He asked while sitting down and drinking herbal tea.
"Li Biao found a man named Sun. The man just took me to see a small courtyard in Xianren. I thought it was good. It's very similar to what you asked for, Sanlang, but..."
"Just what?"
"The courtyards open to the east, not the south, and there is no screen wall in front of the door..."
"What do you want that thing for? It's not like when my late father was still alive, he pretended to be a high-end house? It's just a small house like this!"
Li Dan waved his hand casually: "Let's go, take me to have a look, and call the tooth. I don't have time to choose slowly. If it suits me, order it today!" After that, the two of them will pay for it.
Song Xiaoniu went to call the Yaren, and the three of them hurried to Xianrenli. This place is already on the edge of the North City, and one street further ahead belongs to the South City.
The south city of Yugan has an irregular trapezoid shape due to the lake and rivers, while the north city is relatively square. It is said that the north city was earlier and the south city was later expanded.
This Xianrenli is next to the county school. Many of the people renting houses are businessmen or Confucian students who are affiliated with the school. The houses are relatively old and the courtyards are small.
The place Sun Ya people pointed to has two large rooms on the north side, three wing rooms next to the kitchen on the west side, and two and a half rooms on the south side.
The yard is not big. There is a camphor tree in the northeast corner, and there are stone tables and stone benches under the tree. Looking inside the house, I saw it was empty. Perhaps it was because it had been uninhabited for a long time, and the gray and white walls had fallen off.
"What does the owner of this house do and why is he selling it?" Li Dan asked.
Unexpectedly, Sun Yaren sighed sadly: "This family's original surname is Gu. They run a small coal mine in the mountains and have considerable savings. They bought this yard more than ten years ago.
Unexpectedly, the court suddenly said that mining was not allowed, and Mr. Gu almost faced a lawsuit because of this.
After careful consideration, he was finally exonerated, but he was disheartened and decided to return to his hometown in Fujian to farm. This house is being managed by one of his good friends, Mr. Ye, and it is only mortgaged but not rented. "
He looked at Li Dan and said, "Look, Sanlang, this courtyard is quite quiet in the middle of the alley. To the north is Tianshuijing, and beyond that is Xishikou.
Three hundred steps further from our place is Xichenggen, which is the deepest and most secluded place in the county.
To put it bluntly, the destruction of the previous dynasty and the destruction of the city by the current dynasty did not affect this place. What a treasure! "
"Oh? Then Mr. Gu only mortgages but does not rent, does he still plan to make a comeback?" Li Dan joked with a wry smile.
He knew in his heart the reason why the so-called city was not affected by the war twice. Outside the west city wall was Xinjiang.
It is difficult to reach the city wall from the river, and eighty steps away from the wall is a soft and difficult-to-walk swamp, making it impossible to camp or attack;
It is far away from the north of the city, so any attack cannot affect it. In the south, it is blocked by the natural barriers of Dongshan Mountain and Lake Biwa.
Li Dan thought that the reason why he was on business this time was because of the mining chaos. He didn't expect that the owner of this family was also a mine owner, which was quite fate.
Asked again, he was told that the full price of the yard sale was sixty-five taels. The two parties argued for a while, and finally the deal was settled at sixty-five taels.
But in the end, Li Dan spent a total of sixty-eight taels because he needed help from the Sun Ya people to find someone to open a side door so that the donkey cart could directly enter the half of the converted livestock shed.
The remaining six taels are the tooth money (10%) that the family should have collected, and the other fifty taels of tax paid to the government for the deed fee, which is one or two taels of silver. These cannot be escaped.
"May I ask if the head of the household should write the son's name?" Sun Yazi asked.
Li Dan thought about it, shook his head and told him, "Just write about Li Qian's family."
"You really want to come with me?"
After breaking up with Sun Yazi, Li Dan talked with Song Xiaoniu about asking Gu Da and Yang Yi to recruit people while walking.
Looking at Mavericks who nodded vigorously, he shook his head helplessly: "Then you just follow and become a governor."
"What does a town governor do?"
"Protect me and maintain military discipline."
"Okay, I can do this!" Song Xiaoniu said firmly.
"Let's agree, first of all, you can't violate the military law, you know? Otherwise, the crime will be increased!" Li Dan stretched out a finger and shook it viciously in front of him.
"I, I will follow you closely and I won't break military law!" Maverick shouted.
"Go to Sai Kuixing, find a man named Yang Lianjiao, and ask him how he served as a pacifier in the army."
After Li Dan said this, before he heard Mavericks say the word "good", he felt a figure flash in front of him.
It is said that "the expert will know if there is anything when he reaches out his hand", this is absolutely true.
Ordinary people walk by swinging their arms and legs unconsciously.
This is not the case for people who practice martial arts. They use Zhongyuan Qi to control the strength of the waist, abdomen, and hips, so the range of arm swing or the amount of force exerted is second to none.
The arm swing may not be large, but the span and frequency of each step are very different from ordinary people after years of training.
There is another type that does not land with the heels like normal walking, but with the soles of the feet, generating abundant pedaling power. The steps are fast and light. They seem to be the same after standing still, but the actual heartbeat and pulse are already higher than normal.
Li Dan was drafted into the army in his previous life, and now he is learning boxing from Ma Jiu, so he can recognize this kind of talented person early on.
In fact, there were many people studying martial arts in this era, but Li Dan knew that there was banditry outside the city and that there was mining chaos in the south, so he was more wary.
Suddenly he saw a martial arts practitioner at the entrance of Xishi, and he couldn't help but attract his attention.
"What are Sanlang looking at?" Mavericks saw that he looked wrong and asked quickly.
"Those three people thought they were a little weird." Li Dan said.
Song Xiaoniu followed his hint and looked over: "The one with the green floral turban?"
"There are two people beside him, one with a blue tie-dye turban and one with a black linen turban. Of these three, at least the one with the green turban is a martial arts practitioner, don't you think?"
Song Xiaoniu glanced at them again: "Well, there are many people practicing martial arts, so it's not surprising to see one or two in the city. Am I the same?" He laughed after saying this.
But Li Dan shook his head: "These three are muttering. They don't look at the goods or the women. They keep scanning the surroundings. Are they trying to prevent business? I don't think they are good people!"
Just as he was talking, he saw the green turban wiping off his sweat with the lapel of his clothes, leaving the two of them at the gate of the West Market and walking towards the west.
"You go to the city to find Gu Da and ask him to find some brothers to take these two first. I'll follow that kid and see what he's going to do."
After finishing speaking, before Mavericks could speak, Li Dan had already walked out. He was wearing a light-colored round-collared Songjiang cloth robe, tied around his waist with a rhombus sweat scarf, and looked like a young man.
The two people looked around nervously, but they didn't put him at ease. This further strengthened Li Dan's judgment.
After walking a certain distance, Li Dan suddenly stepped on his toes and quickened his pace, getting closer and closer to the green turban.
Seeing that he had reached a T-junction, he caught up to the man and was only a pole away from him, but he turned around and walked up to the stall diagonally across from him, and asked the stall owner with a smile:
"How much does the longest rolling pin cost? Give me two."
After saying that, while the stall owner reached for the rolling pin, he glanced back as if nothing had happened.
Memorizing the silhouette of the man, he confirmed his thoughts, then put the four coins he took out into the money basket, took the rolling pin and pinned it on his back.
After wandering for a while, I saw that the man was about twenty paces away from me. He stared at the green turban, and suddenly my feet quickened and I followed him.
Just like this, he moved left and right, near and far. Seeing that he was under the city wall in front of him, the man suddenly stopped. Li Dan ducked behind a wooden house.
Looking over quietly, the man looked up under the city wall for a long time, then looked left and right, and then turned south.
Li Dan took a look. A hundred steps away in that direction, there should be an east-west alleyway perpendicular to the city wall. He picked up Qi and walked over quickly, intending to stop the opponent head-on.
There was no one on the street, except for the faint "scratching" sound of the toes of boots hitting the dirt road.
Li Dan came to the corner and waited for a while but didn't see the man appear. He couldn't help but feel suspicious.
