days of being forced

Chapter 21

In the blink of an eye, more than a month has passed, and Gu Xingzhi has also become proficient in his business.

Generally speaking, he was led by Lin Qiang who was in the same dormitory at first, and the two of them moved together, and the person who arranged each person's tasks arranged for him to be during the day.Every day before dawn, he went to open the city gate, and when Himu heard the bell, he closed it. Most of the time he stood guard directly at the city gate, and occasionally patrolled the city with the team to maintain order.

Today, as usual, he followed Lin Qiang to open the city gate, and then Lin Qiang went up to guard the tower, and he stood outside the city gate, ready to collect the entrance fee when someone entered the city. The fee was not much, two coins per person.

It stands to reason that it is not his turn to be a newcomer in this matter of contact with money, but the weather is too hot in the summer, and the old Youtiao has long since hid in a shady place above.Anyway, there are many people around, and they supervise each other, and they are not afraid of anyone secretly depositing money.

The sun is not a big problem for Gu Xingzhi. He can solve it with a small spell. Now, the biggest problem for him is that it takes too much time to guard the city gate. He gets up in the morning when it is still dark outside. , He will not be free until night, and he has not yet reached the level where he can not sleep, so the entire training time has been greatly shortened.

Not only the length of time, but the best time to practice is when the sun rises in the early morning, and when the purple air is coming from the east, he is rushing to the city gate to get ready for work.And there are many people in the yard where he lives, and it's not easy for him to make medicine there. He doesn't have much money and has many uses. Renting a house just means he can go there for an hour or two every night, which seems a bit tasteless.

Everything feels inconvenient.

Apart from these, Gu Xingzhi is quite satisfied with this job. After all, he has heard that other people's salary seems to be only a dozen or so yuan a month, just like him. The later few martial arts masters have higher salaries. many.The more peaceful the world is, the harder it is to make money.

Gu Xingzhi thought, he had to be promoted.

Just as he was thinking, he suddenly caught a glimpse of two figures coming from afar, they seemed to be his mother Zhao Xiulan and his younger sister Gu Qingqing, he greeted the people next to him, and asked: "Mom, why are you here? "

Zhao Xiulan was reluctant to spend money to ride in a carriage, so she left in the dark. After walking for a long time, she was panting tiredly, and the sweat on her forehead was profuse. When she saw her son at this time, the smile on her face naturally burst out, "It's not because of your sister. Well, she made a dish called Braised Pork, which tastes so delicious, I just wanted to bring you some."

"Braised meat?" Gu Xingzhi looked at Gu Qingqing with doubts.

The corners of Gu Qingqing's mouth twitched slightly, it was not an easy task to deduct the money from Gu Lishi's hand, and it was not easy to make this stewed meat.If it wasn't for the fact that this cheap brother paid three or two taels of silver to the public last month, she would try to curry favor with Zhao Xiulan. She probably wouldn't even be able to get enough money to buy the meat. Even if she put too much spices in the future, someone would find fault with her. Fortunately, she still succeeded.

Zhao Xiulan lifted the cloth from the basket she was carrying, opened the food box, took a piece with chopsticks and fed it to Gu Xingzhi's mouth, "Come on, try it, it tastes really good."

Gu Xingzhi lowered his head and bit it, the taste was indeed tempting, and there was a faint spiritual energy in it, presumably Gu Qingqing added spiritual springs to it.

"The taste is so good." Gu Xingzhi smiled at Zhao Xiulan, then looked at Gu Qingqing: "Qingqing's craftsmanship is really good."

Gu Qingqing: "I was just figuring it out, but I didn't expect it to work. If it can be sold, it will be an income for our family in the future."

"Yes." Zhao Xiulan followed: "Mother came this time to ask you about this. Originally, the family wanted to sell this stewed meat in the town, but the materials used for this product are expensive, and the selling price is also high. There are probably not many people who buy it. There are many rich people in this city, and your son is working in the yamen. If you sell it here, your mother will take care of you, so I just want to hear your opinion first, you see How about it?"

It was Gu Qingqing's suggestion to come to Gu Xingzhi's side. She could see that her brother was capable, not to mention that he was proficient in everything in classics and history, even martial arts seemed to be very good. She said: "The main reason is that if you are in town In fact, our family is all ordinary people, and we are afraid that someone will come to make trouble, if you are here in the city, those local ruffians will not dare to come."

This is what the saying goes, there are people in the court who are easy to handle.

"Brother, you have tasted this stewed pork. The taste is absolutely nothing to say. I am a little worried that our family may not be able to keep this recipe. If it doesn't work, I have to trouble my brother to find a way. We can give two layers of interest in exchange for it. People's protection."

Whether or not to give up two layers of benefits, in fact, mainly depends on whether Xingzhi's martial arts are strong or not.After all, this is a world of martial arts, and the rich will die. If her brother is really good, they can keep Fang Zi without giving up the profits.

Gu Xingzhi didn't object, "It's fine here, the distance is close, and I can take care of it. There is no problem with safety for the time being. What is the family's plan for the shop?" Martial arts are better than him, just recruited not long ago, but the relationship is still good.

What's more, he believed that if he told Tan Yongyi about this matter, the other party would not mind doing a little favor.

"We don't have much experience in choosing a shop. Your sister is quite good in this regard. Let's stop by today to take a look. Let's rent a shop first, and then make other plans when the business gets better in the future."

Gu Xingzhi said: "Is there enough money to rent the shop? If not, I'll think of a way."

Zhao Xiulan curled her lips, "You don't need to worry about the money. Your grandma has a lot of money. It's no problem to rent a few shops. You pay three taels of silver every month is enough. Besides, this prescription Qingqing came up with it, it doesn’t make sense that our second room has no benefit, and we have to spend more money.” As for what Gu Li said, if this business is successful, she will directly ignore the fact that more money will be divided into the second room and two floors in the future. It should be hers.

She originally thought that if the family were separated, all these things would belong to their second wife, but thinking about it again, with her husband Gu Chenghai around, maybe she and her son and daughter would be busy all day long without touching the ground, and Gu Li would be the one behind. Gu Chenghai had to sell the whole family's nest to others after selling it miserably.

The Gu family did nothing and got all the money. After all, she was busy in vain.

It’s good to be like this now, and the whole family should be busy together. Anyway, it seems that the separation of the family is absolutely impossible before the death of the old couple. Zhao Xiulan can only stop. Who made her regret that there was no separation? .Fortunately, her status in the family has also risen, and she has the confidence to talk back to Gu Lishi. The elder sister-in-law has to support her, let alone the third sibling. This feeling of being superior to others makes Zhao Xiulan I feel very happy.

Since Zhao Xiulan said so, Gu Xingzhi naturally let it go, he took the basket, greeted his superiors to ask for half a day off, and followed Zhao Xiulan into the city.

Gu Xingzhi knew all about the situation in the city. He analyzed and introduced them to the two of them along the way, and Gu Qingqing was speechless when he heard it. It has only been more than a month since he came here, and Gu Xingzhi already has such a thorough understanding of the city. Yes, even all kinds of gossip knew that the way she looked at Gu Xingzhi couldn't help but change.

With Gu Xingzhi, the know-it-all, the efficiency of things has improved a lot, the shop was quickly selected, and the contract was obtained from the government. Before it was still early, Zhao Xiulan and Gu Qingqing planned to clean up the inside first, Gu Xingzhi I only asked for half a day off and left immediately.

In a few days, the Gu family's stewed meat shop officially opened. Gu Xingzhi greeted a few city guards he was familiar with, and took care of them while patrolling, but there were no problems for the time being.

After the matter of the stewed meat shop was over, Gu Xingzhi began to think about his own way to get promoted and make a fortune. It was a waste of time to refine medicine, and he received few rewards, and his cultivation base grew even more slowly. Sun Tao, who was often with him, saw the person in a daze, bumped him with his arm, and asked, "Gu Er, what are you thinking? You have been in a trance."

When Gu Xingzhi talked about himself to others, he always said that his surname was Gu, and he was the second child in the family. It would be good to call him Gu Er, and everyone called him that.

"Huh?" Gu Xingzhi pulled out of his thoughts and looked at Sun Tao: "What's wrong?"

Sun Tao repeated: "What are you thinking about?"

Gu Xingzhi asked: "Are you saying that we have always been guarding the city gate like this?"

"Do you want to be promoted?" Sun Tao frowned: "We have low qualifications. If we want to be promoted, we have to do practical things, such as those who are wanted by the court, or people who are full of evil in the world. If we can catch a few, maybe we can succeed." .But those people were so powerful that others didn't catch them, but they lost their lives instead."

He hadn't really fought against Gu Xingzhi, but he thought that if he could be tricked into being a city gate guard, his martial arts would be like that.

Gu Xingzhi nodded thoughtfully. Seeing his expression, Sun Tao saw that he didn't listen to what he said behind him, so he hurriedly persuaded him. Balabala talked a lot. So gone.

In the end, Gu Xingzhi couldn't help but cast a cold glance at him, and then he shut up embarrassingly, and after thinking for a while, he added: "If you really want to catch those who walk alone, even though the rules in the arena It’s not a disaster for family members, but some people are crazy, and it is possible to take revenge on other people’s family members.”

This is true, Gu Xingzhi nodded, and patted Sun Tao on the shoulder: "Okay, thank you."

"No need, good brother." Sun Tao waved his hands again and again.

After finishing his shift in the afternoon, Gu Xingzhi remembered what Tan Yongyi had told him in the past, so he went directly to the yamen, intending to ask him for news.

The author has something to say:

One day when Shoubao doesn't show up, I miss him and let him show up tomorrow.

Thank you Shizuo and Ziyuxi for throwing mines~