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Chapter 148 Are You Here To Kill Me?

"Erlang, there must be something wrong with that person, go and report it to Brother Chen."

"Xiaoyi, don't panic. Let Wu Yanzu try that person first."

"Brother Lei, why is it me again!"

"You are so young and not eye-catching! What's the matter? Are you scared?"

"Fart! I'm so old that I don't know how scared I am!"

Under the shade of a tree with poor lights, the nine-year-old Wu Yanzu ate the popsicle in two or three bites, and walked towards several strong men in the crowd.

The few men walked in the crowd, looking around occasionally, but most of the time they shrank their bodies and lowered their heads, as if they wanted to hide in the crowd.

Wu Yanzu's height is only around the waist of an adult, so he is really not eye-catching.

When he walked to one of them, he seemed to be squeezed by a pedestrian, and he jumped on one of them with an "ouch".

Mao Yanrong was startled, and subconsciously touched his waist. Some companions also bent down and touched their calves.

Immediately seeing that it was a reckless child, Mao Yanrong hurriedly gave his companion a 'don't move' wink, and then whispered to the stupid child: "Don't you have eyes when you walk! Get out."

Ten feet away.

Brother Peng, who was standing behind a busy stall, couldn't help but feel his heart tighten when he saw this scene.

Later, seeing Wu Yanzu being scolded and walking away crying, he breathed a sigh of relief and asked the white-haired mouse who was caught between two defense team members, "Do you know him?"

"Back to Mr. Peng, I can see clearly that the person at the head is Mao Yanrong, the second head of Yuquanshan Mao." The white-haired mouse turned a pair of small eyes, and replied honestly.

"Okay." Brother Peng looked at the figures of those people from a distance, and said with a half-smile: "White-haired rat, you are doing well. I will help you apply for a commutation of sentence tomorrow."

that compartment.

Wu Yanzu circled around and returned to the shadow under the tree. Seeing Yang Erlang and Xu Xiaoyi waiting here, he was both excited and proud: "Brother Lei, Brother Xiaoyi! Why is there something tied to that man's calf!"

12-year-old Yang Lei and 13-year-old Xu Xiaoyi looked at each other and walked towards the lantern festival at the same time.

"What are you two doing?" Wu Yanzu, who had short legs, quickly caught up.

"Report to Brother Chen."

"Then don't forget to say that I personally went to inquire about the enemy's situation! Whether you can be rated as a three-good student this year depends on this time!"

Wu Yanzu wrapped around Yang Erlang and whispered.

the other side.

Mao Yanrong, who was startled by Wu Yanzu just now, was still wandering in the crowd, and he leaned forward and asked in a low voice, "Second Master, what are we going to do?"

"Familiar with the terrain!"

"When shall we do it?"

"When the lantern festival ends and the crowd disperses, let's take advantage of the chaos and hide in the Zhuangzi, and we will do it in the middle of the night."

"Second leader, have you waited so long? You won't be discovered, right?"

"Hey~Grandpa, if I'm second in Caizhou Mansion in terms of my invisibility skills, no one dares to be number one!" Mao Yanrong, who was disguised as a businessman, was very confident.

"Second leader is amazing!" Minoru Xiaoxiao flattered her.

But he didn't want to slap the horse's hoof, Mao Yanrong scolded in a low voice: "Even the second master? The first master is dead, and the second master and the second master are still shouting all day long!"

That guy is also considered clever, and quickly changed his words with a smile: "The master! When we go back to the Zheng family this time to help us build the stockade again, the master will definitely bring us back to the prosperous days of Yuquan Mountain."

The scene of the lantern festival.

Chen Chu promised to rate Erlang, Xiaoyi, and Wu Yanzu as three good students this year, and then dismissed these second generations who thought they were the first to discover the bad guys.

This is already the fourth call tonight to report 'anomalies'
"Chen Dutou, I'm so busy."

On the temporary lantern stand, Chen Jingyan pointed out something.

"Hehe, there are some minor matters in the village." Chen Chu said vaguely.

On the lantern stand, apart from the five golden flowers on the main table, there were also many businessmen from nearby prefectures and counties.

Chen Chu returned to his seat, glanced around, and said in a low voice with a smile, "Brothers, do you have any comments on the 'Sihai Commercial Bank Shareholding System Reform and Listing Plan' a few days ago?"

With this question, the other four fell silent.

It's not that they resisted, it's actually that in the 'plan', there were too many new words and content that needed to be digested, and several people didn't understand some parts.

Such as securities trading, tradable shares, private placement shares, etc.
In the end, it was Ximen Gong who said in a low voice: "Brother, our firm now has a lot of money, so why sell some of the profits to others?"

"Brother, in order to do bigger, in order to get out of Tongshan County"

Chen Chu explained in detail.

It probably means that sooner or later, the tentacles of the Four Seas Trading Company will reach out to Tongshan County, but there are always places that cannot be covered by the relationship between the few people who are away from Tongshan.

Therefore, it is necessary to gather a larger community of interests to escort the branches of the commercial firm in the state capital that the five golden gourds can't take care of.

Finally, he said to Ximen Gong: "Brother, let me put it this way, a 1% profit share with an annual income of 5 taels, or a [-]% profit share with an annual income of [-] taels, which one is more, brother can naturally figure out."

Cai Yuan, who had been drooping his eyes all the time, asked a key question, "Chen Dutou, can the directional issuance of shares be understood as: we will only sell this part of the interest to a designated company. The tradable shares are available to anyone. Participate in the transaction?"

"Cai Lushi is right."

Among the few people sitting, only the two of them call each other official positions, and they don't call each other brothers in private. As for the reason, everyone understands it.

When Cai Yuan asked this question, he lowered his eyelids again. It seems that Chen Chu's proposal was carefully studied by Cai Yuan.

Xu Bang, who loves to argue, didn't say a word.

He is somewhat interested in directional issue shares. Xu Bangsheng has three daughters, one daughter married Zhang Bao at the foot of Yinpo, and the other two daughters married Caizhou.

With the strength of his family, the in-laws are naturally a family with some dignity in Caizhou.

Xu Bang was already thinking at this time that if the firm really increased its capital and shares, it would need to reserve a share for his in-laws as well for the targeted issuance of shares.

In this way, the firm will have someone to take care of it when it opens the "directly-operated stores and specialty stores" that Chen Chu said in Caizhou in the future.

Similar to Xubang's situation, there is also Cai Yuan. The second uncle of his second daughter-in-law, You Shi, is the official of Tangzhou. He is an official with real power.
Both Cai Yuan and Xu Bang understand that the so-called "in-laws" are far less reliable than an alliance formed for common interests.

At this time, the Four Seas Trading Company was too conspicuous, even though they were also worried that the company would be coveted by others.

Attracting more people to profit from the firm means that more people protect the firm.

These old foxes can understand this truth.

This is what they thought, but Chen Chu thought more about it. The people he most wanted to get on board were the middle and low-level military officers of the state capitals.
In addition, if the Four Seas Commercial Bank successfully builds its own commercial system, then the circulation of "goods tickets" will have a larger platform.

However, Wuduo Jinhua still has a lot of things to discuss before actually starting the "capital increase and stock trading", such as: how many directional shares to issue, how many tradable shares, how to price the two original shares, how to set up the organizational structure of the firm, and Guarantee the dominance of the five founders
But tonight is not a suitable occasion for in-depth discussions. After a brief exchange, we agreed to talk in detail tomorrow.

Afterwards, Chen Chu asked Xu Bang seemingly unintentionally, "Second brother, how many troops are there in Tangzhou and Caizhou next door?"

"The four armies are stationed in each state." Xu Bang was in charge of the barracks, he naturally knew these things, so he said casually.

"How many people are in the First Army?"

"One army governs five battalions, one battalion has five capitals, and each capital has hundreds of people"

"The Fourth Army has 1 people, so many!" Chen Chu was startled.

Xu Bang glanced at him, and then his voice quieted down, "That's on the surface, but in fact, there is a serious shortage of troops in the Xiang army. It's not bad to have five achievements in the actual ranks, and most of the sergeants are old and weak."

It's empty pay, Chen Chu understands this.

But 5000% also has [-] people.
"In this way, where does the combat power come from?" Chen Chu asked again.

"Expect the Xiang army to fight?" Xu Bang seemed to hear a joke, full of disdain, and then said: "The soldiers of our Great Qi who are good at fighting are all near the capital, but since this year, the Hebei Road Wang Yan and Shandong Road Guiyi Army have rebelled one after another. The elite soldiers in Gyeonggi were stretched to the left and right, and they were held between the two places and could not move."

Chen Chu nodded, and said again: "The Xiang army is so powerful that they are paid nothing, so the superiors don't care?"

"If they don't make trouble, the higher-ups can't help but ask for it." This time, Chen Jingyan, who had been listening all the time, interjected, "The imperial court is still powerless to punish the rebels, so they can only be recruited. How dare they go to rectify the Xiang army and force them to rebel? You have to add officials and rewards to appease, isn't that slapping yourself in the face?"

"So, as long as there is no rebellion in the local area, it doesn't matter to the imperial court who is in charge of this prefecture?" Chen Chu asked with a smile.

Chen Jingyan thought for a while, sighed, and said, "You can say that."

This topic was a bit more serious, and the few people looked at the scene of the lantern festival like a prosperous age, and fell silent at the same time.

Prosperous and prosperous, undercurrents are surging.

After a while, Chen Chu said again: "Second brother, is it true that the Xiang army in this place doesn't have any combat power?"

"It's not always the case, the generals of the capital control usually have two or three hundred strong soldiers."

"Oh, how many soldiers does Zheng Yi, the governor of the left-behind department of Caizhou Prefecture, have?"

"He has about two hundred. Why do you ask this?"

Xu Bang raised his head suddenly, and the other three looked at Chen Chu at the same time.
"Hahaha, just ask casually, let's go, it's time to set off the fireworks, let's go watch the fireworks"

At night time.

"Master Huang! Awesome!"

Huang Huihong stood beside his boss, looking arrogantly at the two sons not far away and a few workers who arranged the fireworks scene in an orderly manner.

"Hehe, my boss buys all kinds of tools for my fireworks workshop regardless of the cost. The old man always needs to come up with something new."

Huang Huihong said politely and not too modestly.

Chen Chu chuckled, and suddenly asked, "How many medicines are there in our workshop?"

"There are only two or three catties ready-made. The old man has improved the ratio according to what the owner said. Now the medicine is very powerful. I dare not put too much in the workshop, for fear of accidents. However, we have a lot of raw materials. If the owner needs it urgently, Hundreds of catties can be dispensed at any time."

"Well, let's add some raw materials tomorrow."

"Boss, a few hundred catties is not enough? The raw materials can't be stored for a long time, they are easy to be damp."

"It's okay, let's buy some more. I want to watch a big firework in a few days."

"What kind of medicine is needed for such a big firework?" Huang Huihong asked in surprise.

Chen Chu smiled.

At the hour of Hai, the fireworks show begins.

Fireworks on shelves like a wall of fire, bonsai fireworks with fire trees and silver flowers, and fire-breathing medicine puppets circling around in place ignited one after another.

The fireworks on this cross slope are very different from other places.

Especially the bonsai fireworks, which not only spit out higher, but also mixed with red, green, and blue colors in the fire beam.

It's so beautiful that you can't bear to blink.

Even the Miao family father and son from Lin'an, a 'big city', also watched it mesmerizingly.

The surrounding watertight scene screamed and praised endlessly.

The eldest son, Liu Daniu and others had just helped the city management team catch a thief who stole money in disorder. At this time, they were standing on a high slope, eating watermelon and watching the fireworks.

Today's Tongshan County, today's Luliuxu, and today's Shizipo are really beautiful.

After a while, the little lady of the Ding family found her way there, shyly took out a purse she had sewn by herself, stuffed it into the eldest son's hand and threw it away.

Liu Daniu and others on the side laughed loudly, making fun of the eldest son.

The eldest son was a little dazed. He took a look at the purse, but there was a feeling of being on his back somewhere, and then he looked up.
I saw Cui Yuan, who was by Mao'er's side, staring at him more than ten feet away, the anger in her eyes was actually more vigorous than fireworks.

"It's over, what should we do?" The eldest son looked at Daniel and the others with a mournful face.

A bunch of unconscionable brothers, but they laughed even louder
At the end of Haishi.

The fireworks show is over.

When the audience left the venue, the excitement and discussions continued

Soon after, carriages, horses and pedestrians spread from the brightly lit cross slope to the night in all directions like ebbing sea water.

The continuous stretches of lanterns turned into small dots of light, illuminating every inch of the world.

Through the lantern show and fireworks tonight, merchants from all over the world have a general memory of Tongshan County. The biggest difference between this place and the surrounding dead states and counties is that it is full of vigor and vitality.
until ugly.

Shizipo and Luliuxu, which had been noisy all day, became quiet again.

The bright moon is in the middle of the sky, shining brightly on the earth.

Tonight, Mao'er, who was suddenly arranged by Chen Chu to live in the staff dormitory temporarily, looked out the window at the bright moon with a pair of peach blossom eyes.

No sleepiness at all.

In this dormitory, there are not only her, but also Hutou, Yunong, and even Cai Wei and Tie Dan.

The cat can guess that there must be something going on tonight. That's why the officials arranged for several people to sleep in the same room, and Tie Dan was there to protect them.

But at this time she was not afraid, just a little worried about the officials.

Just like what she told Yunong before, once you enter this house, you will be in fear of the officials all day long, this is fate.
Thinking of this, Mao'er sighed silently.

But he heard the sound of Cai Wei turning over again on the bed next door, and Mao'er, who felt the same way, took the initiative to whisper a word to her tonight, "Can't you sleep too?"

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The bed next door was quiet for a moment, but Cai Wei said angrily, "Who said that, I fell asleep early! I blame you for waking me up."

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In the dark, the cat pouted, and muttered in a voice only he could hear: "Crazy"

The end of ugly time.

More than a dozen figures crawled out of the ditches outside Luliuwei Tong Waizhuang.

Taking advantage of the moonlight, Mao Yanrong lowered his body and looked around first, the village was completely silent.

He breathed a sigh of relief, held back his nausea, sniffed at his collar, and cursed in a low voice, "Young lady! If I meet that guy again, I will castrate him."

A few people hid in the ditch when they were young, but they didn't want to be ugly when an unqualified villager squatted by the ditch and took a dip.
Mao Yanrong poured water all over his head and face.

That scene at that time. Good guy, that was really good guy!

In order to complete the task, Mao Yanrong stiffened and remained motionless.

Let the filth flow down your head and let it go, and return his mother's diarrhea
Resisting not to recall the scene just now, Mao Yanrong felt his head itchy, scratched it, but pulled out a watermelon seed from between his hair.

I probably guessed the origin of the watermelon seeds, so I hurriedly threw them away.

"Let's go! Follow me to chop up that surnamed Chen!"

Mao Yanrong greeted, and walked along the wall to the three-entry house in the middle of Zhuangzi.

After walking a few steps, he noticed something was wrong, and when he looked back, he saw that all the minions were three zhang away from him, and they were covering their mouths and noses with their hands.
"Young lady, hurry up and follow!"

After yelling and cursing in a low voice, the minions endured the stench and came closer.

Climb over the wall, grope into the back house, pry open the bolt, and go upstairs.
It went surprisingly smoothly along the way.

Until the second floor.

Mao Yanrong, who was walking towards the bedroom, suddenly found a person sitting on the chair in the hall from the corner of his eye.
The moonlight is so dim that you can't see clearly.

Mao Yanrong's scalp went numb, and he froze.

The minions who were following behind were caught off guard and put their heads on Mao Yanrong's back.

No pain, just smell.
The person sitting on the chair saw that Mao Yanrong had noticed, opened his mouth and yawned, blew on the fire in his hand, and muttered sleepily, "It's finally here."

The fire lights up.

Mao Yanrong and the others suddenly panicked and looked around.

Chen Chu lit the candle, and finally asked seriously, "Are you guys here to kill me?"

Without waiting for Mao Yanrong and the others to answer, the eldest son who was standing by the side smiled, "I'm sorry, I ate too much melon tonight and it's a little runny."

(End of this chapter)