Volume 3: The disputes in Mingzhou City are gone, and it is difficult to carve a rotten wood for a hundred years Chapter 251: Business with a wide range of business is easier to do
Chang'an City is very big. Just as people often say, it is always sunny in the east and rainy in the west in this city, reflecting all kinds of faces of the human world.
Whether it is the most glamorously dressed nobleman or the most ragged beggar; whether it is the foreign vendors hawking their wares along the street or the blond drunk lying on the street; whether it is the famous scholar in Guanzhong or the wandering wanderer in a foreign land. Here, you can always find some different traces, telling stories that you may have never heard of.
On this day, the weather was fine on Chang'an South Street. People were coming and going on the street, and the shops on both sides of the street were also busy. The shopkeepers were busy running around. Their faces were beaming with joy, and they must be calculating how much money they had earned that day.
A figure in a gray gown led a child eating a candy man through the streets, without causing much commotion until the two stopped in front of a pancake shop. A woman rushed out of the shop, hugged the child and said.
"My child, my child! Where on earth have you been? I am so worried!"
The child who was hugged was stunned at first, then he smiled ignorantly and said while holding the candy man in his hand.
"I went to the outskirts of the city to pick some fruit. I wanted to bring some for my mother to eat, but the fruit was too sour, so I threw it away."
"It's okay, it's okay." The woman let go of the child with red eyes, stretched out her hands and stroked his face twice, but suddenly her face became stern again, and she patted the child on the forehead lightly , staring at the red and swollen eyes and scolding.
"Next time you run around outside, I will break your legs. Do you understand?"
The child turned pale with fear and nodded quickly.
"I'll remember this, I won't dare to do it again."
Li Si stood aside, looking at the mother and son whose expressions changed faster than turning the pages of a book, and smiled bitterly without rushing to speak.
Until the woman stood up, bowed deeply to him and said.
"Thank you so much, sir. My family lost my husband when I was young. If I lose this child now, I really don't know what to do."
"It's nothing, it's just a small favor." Li Si waved his hands helplessly: "Don't let this child get lost again in the future. When I went there just now, he almost fell from the tree, but fortunately he grabbed a branch and nothing happened."
The woman was frightened when she heard this, while the child beside her said with a smile.
"Mom, the master is amazing. He jumped up a tree that was ten feet high in one jump and picked a lot of fruits for me!"
"How dare you say that!" The woman glared at him again.
The frightened child immediately shrank his head and lowered his head to eat the candy figure that Li Si bought for him.
"Thank you so much, sir." The woman sighed and patted her chest with a palpitating heart, thinking that if anything really happened to the child, she would not want to live anymore.
"Here is the agreed five taels of silver. Please accept it, sir."
As she spoke, the woman took out a few silver coins from her waist and handed them to Li Si.
"In that case, I won't be polite. If you need any help in the future, you can come to me. Washing clothes and cooking, chopping wood and making fire, catching cats and dogs, catching birds and fishing, teaching your enemies a lesson, or decorating your house, I can do it all."
Li Si took the silver and promoted his business at the same time.
There's no other way. There are ten people in the family, and the daily expenses are not a small amount. The money we earn now is just enough to make ends meet.
"Well, well..." Looking at Li Si's professional smile, the woman's face also blushed.
Sure enough, this gentleman was just as the rumors said, very handsome, with red lips and white teeth, and no one knew how old he was this year.
Li Si has done a lot of business during this period. Although few people came to his shop at the beginning, his reputation spread after he accomplished a few big and small things.
In the following months, he helped an old man outside the city repair his house, helped a prostitute in a brothel to attract customers, helped a fisherman on the riverside catch fish, and helped villagers in the mountains fight tigers. He filled the tiles on the eaves of the house and patched the wax on the coffin. He accompanied the bride at weddings and cried at funerals.
It can be said that he has done everything he can and also done everything he cannot do, so there are many rumors about him in Chang'an City now. It is said that there is a Wenlai Villa in the west of the city, and the owner of the villa takes money to do things for others. As long as you dare to ask, he will dare to do anything.
Li Si was somewhat helpless about this. Although it did promote his business to a certain extent, he would not do everything. Even if his bottom line was very low, he was not without a bottom line.
After saying hello to the woman, Li Si left on his own. Chang'an City South Street was not far from Wenlai Villa, only a few miles in total. It would take at most half a day to walk there, and it would take less than an hour by car.
As for the small town at the foot of Wenlai Villa, it is almost connected to Chang'an City. It can be regarded as a branch town of Chang'an City. There are several such small places near Chang'an City.
Because it was not far, Li Si planned to walk around for a while before going back and buy some meat to feed the little ones in the evening.
There were so many people on the street, and the noise was so chaotic that Li Si didn't notice that not far behind him, a woman in martial arts uniform and holding a wine pot was standing there, looking at his back and frowning slightly.
"Li Si?" Su Hongluo's face flushed with drunkenness. She looked in surprise at the figure who had not yet walked far away, then looked down at the wine jug in her hand.
I shouldn't be drunk.
After shaking her head and making sure she was still awake, Su Hongluo finally had a smile on her face.
Interesting, I just returned to Chang'an, and I met you when I went out for a drink.
We are really destined to meet, Mr. Li.
Thinking of this, Su Hongluo glanced at the pancake shop where Li Si had just walked out, burped, picked up the wine pot, put his hands behind his back, and walked in slowly .
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"So, you want to ask where that gentleman just now came from?" The woman from the bakery said, holding her young child, looking at the "drinker" in front of her with some confusion.
"Yes." Su Hongluo leaned against the side of the shop, her charming eyes slightly narrowed, and took out a tael of silver from her arms and placed it on the table.
"I'm here, thank you in advance, sister."
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The next day, when the sun was high in the sky, Li Si was standing in the kitchen cooking meat. The greedy Lao Liu and Lao Qi were leaning against the window, vying for who would get to eat the first piece.
At this time, the second brother Lian Qing walked in with a nonchalant look on his face, leaned against the door with his hands folded, looked at Li Si and said.
"Sir, there is a woman outside the door who looks difficult to deal with and is looking for you. Have you gotten into some romantic trouble?"
