However, before running a few steps, someone grabbed the collar of his back and lifted him up. Gu Li looked up at the man who made the move, a little surprised: "General Xiahou?"
Xia Houyuan was also a little surprised. He hadn't seen her for more than a year. Although he didn't see Gu Li's cultivation level, Ying Ning, who had a low cultivation level at the beginning, had actually formed a pill at this time. You know, the person with the highest cultivation level in the entire Zhigeng Town The town leader is only at the level of pill formation. Although the town leader's cultivation is at the ninth level of pill formation, he can almost walk sideways in Zhigeng City with a monk at the pill formation stage beside him.
Xia Houyuan held the struggling girl in one hand and said hello to Gu Li: "It turns out to be Miss Gu. Does Miss Gu come to Zhigeng Town to stay permanently or to play?"
Gu Li glanced at the struggling girl and said cheerfully: "Come here and have a look. If it suits you, stay here forever. If it doesn't suit you, leave."
Xia Houyuan glanced at Ying Ning again, who had been silent. Gu Li hid her strength because she wore a treasure that could shield spiritual power fluctuations. However, she and Ying Ning were women after all. Although they were two people, their looks were too stunning. , if she was too weak, she would inevitably be coveted by others, so she asked Ying Ning not to suppress her spiritual power, so that others could know her strength, which would save a lot of unnecessary trouble.
As for the relationship between Ying Ning and Gu Li, Gu Li once discussed with Ying Ning and asked Ying Ning to call her sister, and the two of them called her sister. However, Ying Ning refused and was determined to call Gu Li "master". Li had no choice but to let her follow him like an attendant.
After Xia Houyuan glanced at Ying Ning, he turned his gaze to Gu Li and nodded slightly: "My roommate is rude, please don't mind Miss Gu. I want to know if there is a place to stay in Gengcheng. Why don't you come to my Xiahou's house temporarily? "
Gu Li thought for a while, but still refused: "No need, we can just find an inn."
Xia Houyuan glanced at Gu Li and Yingning, nodded slightly, then pulled the girl named Qiluo onto the horse and galloped away.
Watching the two people leaving, Gu Li stretched out her hand. In her palm was a small note. Ying Ning walked over and saw the note and asked, "Master, is this what the girl just left?"
Gu Li nodded: "Let's go to the town first!"
After entering the town, Gu Li was a little surprised to find that most of the people walking on the street were men, and the women who were there were old mothers or old women in tattered clothes. In the entire Zhigeng town, there was no girl or young woman traveling. Gu Li and Ying Ning, like two aliens, seems to have people pointing fingers wherever he goes.
Even when the two walked into the restaurant, no one came to greet them. The waiter just pretended not to see them. Gu Li felt a little strange. Then she and Ying Ning went into a clothing store. When they came out, the two girls They became two handsome little brothers. This time they went to stay in a restaurant again, and finally received a warm reception.
In the room of the restaurant, Gu Li stood at the window and looked down at the street with people coming and going. He suddenly said: "The women here are not allowed to go out, so if they want to buy something, they have to ask someone to buy it. Some rouge and gouache." Maybe they can let the old ladies in the house bring them, but if it’s daily food, wouldn’t it be inconvenient? Or, if they want to eat delicious food, won’t the legs and feet of those old ladies be a little slower, and when they bring back delicious food? It won’t taste good when it’s cold.”
Just when Gu Li was about to express her thoughts, Yingning said in shock: "Master, you don't want to run errands for those ladies, do you?"
Gu Li analyzed patiently: "Look, we don't have a shop or a field now. We can only make money in the service industry. Of course, it's impossible for me to deliver it myself. I plan to let you be the boss." , I will be the boss behind the scenes. You first go to the clothing store to order a batch of yellow clothes, embroidered with lightning patterns, and the clothes are in place first. Then you use the money to hire a group of people and let them come. When you are an errand boy, you use your spiritual power to control part of the minds of these people to prevent them from doing things that harm the customers. Of course, this matter must be made clear to the employees. If they are not willing, they will not be hired. "
"The second step is to cooperate with the owners of major restaurants, snack bars, rouge and gouache shops, and jewelry shops to lower the prices of the things our customers buy, so that our business can develop."
Gu Li said proudly: "We can definitely start this industry. Maybe I can leave my name in business history. When it comes to the express delivery industry in the future, someone will write: First founded by Gu Li."
"Is this great? Can it still be remembered in history?" Ying Ning asked.
"It's equivalent to founding a sect. Do you think it's awesome or not?" Gu Li glanced at Ying Ning, "Why don't you hurry up and get started?"
Yingning was a little dissatisfied: "Okay, I'll try it first."
In the afternoon, when Ying Ning came back, Gu Li saw that her face was not good-looking and asked her, "Why do you look like this? Is things not going well?"
Yingning said dejectedly: "We had a good conversation at first, but when it came to using spiritual power to control some of their minds, those people immediately became unwilling. I found more than a hundred people, but in the end no one was left. "
Gu Li frowned. This matter was indeed a bit difficult to handle, but everything is difficult at the beginning. How could we just give up on such a small difficulty.
In the afternoon, Gu Li and Ying Ning went to the front hall downstairs to eat, and saw a few soldiers in gray armor walking in. Different from the red armored soldiers led by Xia Houyuan, this group of soldiers was obviously much more lax, and the armor was also different. He was dressed crookedly and walked carelessly, just like a soldier.
As soon as a few people entered the door, they started shouting: "Waiter, bring me all the signature dishes. Hurry, brothers have to guard the door after eating."
Gu Li and Ying Ning sat on the second floor and watched without saying anything. After several people finished eating and drinking, they put their spears on the table when they paid the bill: "This sword is worth the bill, brothers, let's go."
The shopkeeper looked at the spear with a sad face, while Gu Li was a little shocked. Is this called a soldier? No weapons are needed. No wonder Zhigeng Town is the weakest among the three major towns.
Gu Li leaned over and asked the shopkeeper: "Is this spear valuable? That table just now cost three taels of silver."
The shopkeeper was about to cry: "What's it worth? You'll have to send it back later. If you leave it here, you'll be beheaded for hiding weapons."
Just as Gu Li was about to say something, he saw a hand already placed on the spear. The shopkeeper looked up with an expression of surprise on his face. Gu Li turned around and saw Xia Houyuan taking out three taels of silver and putting it on the table with a serious face. He took the gun in his hand. He didn't seem to recognize Gu Li in disguise and turned around to leave.
Yingning looked at Xia Houyuan's figure and sighed softly: "I know that the army in Gengcheng is just like this. Xia Houyuan alone is not enough."
"Alas, General Xiahou has also been suppressed. Otherwise, he would not be able to become a short-term general in this small Zhigeng Town." The waiter sighed.
Gu Li glanced at Ying Ning, who was sighing to herself: "Let's go, there are still things to do today."
Yingning stood in front of a pawn shop and turned to look at his master: "Master, do you want to pawn something?"
Gu Li glanced at the subordinate who could not speak: "Why are you talking? Am I trying to treat it as something? I'm letting them keep it first, and they keep it for me, and they have to give me money. Why not?"
This is the largest pawn shop in Zhigeng Town. The decoration inside is luxurious. Even the clerks in the shop are also very well-dressed. At least they didn't even pay attention to the coarse men's clothes on Gu Li and Yingning.
The owner of the pawn shop wore gold-rimmed glasses. Behind the high counter, he took a magnifying glass and carefully looked at a piece of jade pendant that Gu Li handed over. After a long while, he placed the jade pendant on the counter and said softly: "Fifty taels."
Gu Li was not happy. This jade pendant was quietly pushed into her hand by Gu Yuan when she left. Why was it only worth fifty taels?
"Take another look." Gu Li said.
The shopkeeper smiled: "If I look again, it's only worth fifty taels. To put it bluntly, this jade pendant is worth fifty taels here, but it won't be worth fifty-one in any pawn shop in Zhigeng Town. two."
Gu Li's eyes narrowed slightly at the shopkeeper's obviously threatening words. Just when she was about to give Ying Ning a wink to teach the shopkeeper a lesson, the door was suddenly pushed open.
Several men in tattered clothes than she and Yingning pushed open the door and came to the counter in a few steps. They stopped in front of the counter and said, "Liangshan Qinglong Village would like to say hello to shopkeeper Li."
After saying that, he threw a cloth bag on the counter. The shopkeeper sighed softly, found the cash box, poured the silver and copper plates into the cloth bag, and then handed the cloth bag out from the counter. Shopkeeper Li said politely: "Business has not been very good recently. This is a little thought for the Liangshan brothers. Thank you for your care over the years."
The man who spoke reached for the cloth bag and weighed it, with a satisfied look on his face. He lowered his head and saw a mutton-fat jade pendant that was also on the counter. His eyes showed greed: "What a good piece of jade!"
Shopkeeper Li quickly pushed the jade pendant on the table out: "It's all yours, it's all yours."
As soon as he finished speaking, Shopkeeper Li saw the dozen bandits in front of him all picking up the knives in their hands and wiping their necks in front of him.
In a daze, he saw the young man in front of him reach out and pick up the cloth bag from the big man's hand, put it into his arms, then walked to the counter, took back his jade pendant, and sighed expressionlessly: "Alas. , It’s not easy to learn well, but if you get away with it badly, it’s easy to make money by killing people.”
Shopkeeper Li's whole body was shaking like chaff. He thought that Gu Li was just a down-and-out nobleman at best, but he didn't expect... the bearded man in front of him who looked thin and tender was the most ruthless.
Gu Li looked at the shopkeeper: "Where is Liangshan Qinglong Village?"
