A knife in love

Chapter 2865
After the shopkeeper finished speaking, he trotted all the way back to the counter, first read the two guides, and then took a pen to copy them down, and then returned to Li Qiufeng and Murong Danyan, respectfully Lu Yin handed it back to Li Qiufeng.Li Qiufeng took Lu Yin, stretched his hand into his bosom, took out a piece of silver and handed it to the shopkeeper, counting it as the advance payment for room and meals, and then took out seven or eight pieces of silver and gave it to the shopkeeper.The shopkeeper took the money and was overjoyed. With an old face smiling like a blooming chrysanthemum, he nodded and bowed to flatter Li Qiufeng. After that, he called a young man to greet the guests at the door of the inn, and he personally took Li Qiufeng and Murong Danyan to the door. She was ushered into the guest room on the second floor, said a few more good words, and then left.After half a stick of incense, a young man brought dinner to Li Qiufeng and Murong Danyan.When the two were hungry, when they smelled the aroma of the food, they immediately twitched their index fingers and ate the food cleanly.The shopkeeper brought several staff to carry wooden barrels for Li Qiufeng and Murong Danyan, and filled them with hot water.Li Qiufeng and Murong Danyan bathed and changed their clothes in their respective guest rooms. They felt comfortable all over, and after talking for a while, they said good night to each other, and went back to their clients to sleep peacefully.

Since the two met in Wangjiazhuang, Dongliao County, it can be said that there have been constant turmoil, repeated encounters with hardships and dangers, and almost died several times, and they hardly survived a day.Until this time, the two of them could finally sleep peacefully, so they slept extremely sweetly.When Li Qiufeng opened his eyes, it was already bright outside.

Li Qiufeng got up, put on his clothes, opened the door and went out.I could only hear the footsteps downstairs. It seemed that many people were chatting and joking.Li Qiufeng strolled down the second floor, only to see that the lobby on the first floor was already full of guests, eating and chatting by themselves, it was quite lively.

The shopkeeper got a reward from Li Qiufeng last night, and seeing that he was generous, he thought he was a businessman doing big business, so he made up his mind to curry favor with others.When Li Qiufeng walked down the second floor, the shopkeeper was instructing a few staff to greet the guests. Seeing Li Qiufeng coming downstairs, he rushed forward to greet Li Qiufeng with a nod and bow.Li Qiufeng smiled and said: "There are so many guests coming to eat early in the morning, the business of your store is really good. It seems that after I return to Dongliao County, I might as well try to open an inn, which is better than running around buying The medicine is much more comfortable."

After hearing what Li Qiufeng had said, the shopkeeper shook his head again and again, and said with a smile on his face: "The guest officer doesn't know, the food cooked by our Yu family's old restaurant is quite famous in Dong'an City, but the old ancestor of the Yu family has set the rules, and we can't rely on it. Food earns money. This is because the Tartars invaded the Central Plains more than 200 years ago, and shortly thereafter the world was in chaos. Rebels from all over the country fought fiercely with the Tartars, which made the water transportation difficult and the food in the north was insufficient. The Tartars could not get food from the south of the Yangtze River, so they plundered it in Liaodong More and more stringent, they robbed most of the grain from the Han people's homes and transported it into the customs to feed the high-ranking officials and dignitaries of the Tartars. One year, there was a flood in Liaodong, and almost no grain was harvested. But the Tartars continued to persecute The people handed over the food, almost to the point of digging three feet. The food in the homes of the Han people was robbed by the Tartars. Seeing that the cold winter was approaching, the people had no clothes and food. In Dong'an City, they can only wait for death.

"Seeing that a catastrophe was inevitable, a man surnamed Hou who lived in Ximaying Lane, Dong'an City demolished [-] houses in his house, cut the walls into countless small pieces, and distributed them to the people in the city. It turned out that the ancestors of the Hou family After earning some wealth, he bought a barren hill outside the city and planted thousands of chestnut trees. After the chestnut trees grew up, the ancestors of the Hou family asked the family to pick the chestnuts back home, peel off the skin, and grind the chestnuts into flour. After cooking, cut them into face bricks, and use these face bricks to build nineteen houses. The ancestors of the Hou family told their family members that our Hou family originally lived in the Central Plains, and later fled to the outside of the pass with our family in order to avoid the disaster of war. It is sparsely populated, and it is a bitterly cold place. Once there is a disaster year or a war, there will be insufficient food. The facing bricks made of chestnuts can guarantee that they will not rot for three years. When there is a disaster year, these houses can be demolished , use chestnut cakes to satisfy hunger. If there are no major changes, the nineteen chestnut-faced brick houses must be rebuilt with new chestnut-faced bricks every three years. Once there is no food to satisfy the hunger, ten Nine houses were demolished, the walls were cut into small pieces, and distributed to the common people, which was enough to survive the disaster year. Thanks to the bodhisattva heart of the ancestors of the Hou family, the tens of thousands of Han people in Dong'an City were not starved to death."

When the shopkeeper said this, his expression was quite solemn, and he paused for a moment before continuing: "Although the Hou family used a lot of chestnut-faced bricks to build the nineteen houses, it will take several months to feed the tens of thousands of people in the city. That is absolutely impossible. The little old man guessed privately that apart from the nineteen houses, the Hou family must have hidden a lot of chestnuts, so that they can provide for the people to tide over the difficulties. The good deed of the Hou family has benefited tens of thousands of chestnuts. Among the people, there was the ancestor of the little old man. Later, when the disaster year passed, the people in Dong’an City planted chestnut trees one after another to prevent further major changes. The ancestors of the Yu family opened this inn in the city. At first, it was only four cottages. , named Anfu Inn. The ancestors were grateful for the great kindness and virtue of the Hou family. At the beginning of opening the inn, they made an oath to follow the good deeds of the Hou family. Over the past few years, although the business of our inn has become more and more prosperous, the meals provided to the guests have always been sold at a low price, and we will never earn a penny from the meals. Every time there is a disaster, we also open a porridge factory to relieve the victims. Inside and outside the city The people here are also very grateful to our inn, and they call Anfu Inn the Yu family's old store to show their respect. When guest officials came to the city, if they asked about Anfu inn, no one would know about it. But when it comes to Yu's old store, even if Even a three-year-old child can also guide guest officials."

After hearing the shopkeeper's words, Li Qiufeng admired him a lot, and said, "Your ancestors have a bodhisattva heart, which is really admirable. Your store is so magnificent, and it is presumably because your ancestors accumulated merits that they can benefit their descendants. It seems that even if I imitate your store and open an inn in Dongliao County, I'm afraid I won't make any money."

The shopkeeper said with a smile: "Guests don't know, we are ordinary people from generation to generation, we have to follow the laws of the Ming Dynasty, how dare we build the house so tall and rich?"

Hearing what the shopkeeper said, Li Qiufeng thought to himself, this is what makes me puzzled.Even though the Yu family has accumulated a huge amount of gold and silver over the past hundred years, the children of the Yu family have not become officials, they are just civilians.If the Yu family builds such a magnificent house, it is afraid that catastrophe will happen.Among other things, there are Jinyiwei's eye money all over Liaodong. Once this matter is reported to the capital, I am afraid that Yu's family will have been convicted and his family will be ruined.However, listening to the shopkeeper's words, there are many suspicious things.Yu's old store has been built on such a scale, and most likely there are other secrets behind it.

Thinking of this, Li Qiufeng made a surprised expression on purpose, and said in his mouth: "I would like to hear the details."

(End of this chapter)