Jiaohua

Chapter 578 Commercial Trading (Part [-])
The sudden torrential rain in the middle of the night and the bright white lightning from outside woke Xia Zhaoyi from his dream. Not long after, a thunderous thunder crashed down from the sky, shaking everything.

Xia Zhao raised his eyebrows in his clothes, but his pajamas were gone. He sat up from the bed and leaned against the head of the bed.

It was expected that there would be a heavy thunderstorm at dusk, and there would be many hidden dangers for them to stay on the boat, so she deliberately asked people to dock at Youzizhuang Ferry, the largest on the left, and found an inn for them to stay.

Going to the left, as a big city in the Central Plains extending in all directions, several villages near the shore have stretches of inns. When their boats dock, they are almost submerged in the dense sea of ​​boats on the riverside.

Another flash of lightning opened up the world, and the dazzling white light blinded Xia Zhaoyi slightly.

She lifted the quilt and got out of bed, put on her clothes and went to the table. The candle was lit, illuminating the few books she hadn't read before going to bed.

Just as he opened the pages of the book, there was a very eager knock on the door outside.

The visitor yelled for a while, but the shopkeeper of the inn did not respond.

The knock on the door became louder and louder, turned into a knock on the door, and finally kicked the door directly.

The shopkeeper was woken up by the thunderstorm, but he didn't want to go out in the middle of the night, and neither did the guys.Now that they heard the other party kicking the door, the backyard doors were opened one after another, the shopkeeper and a few guys came out in their own clothes, and many heads looked out from upstairs.

The person who kicked the door was a big man, tall and burly, and he was extremely rude. When the shopkeeper led people to rush, he was alone in the empty lobby downstairs, kicking a long bench that had been upside down on a table of eight immortals.

When the shopkeeper saw him, he was not easy to mess with. He looked up and saw three people standing at the door, a hale and hearty old man with extraordinary bearing, a young man, and a beautiful young woman with her hair in a bun. At first glance, it is either rich or expensive.

The shopkeeper was furious, but the appearance of the other party made him understand that he could not afford to offend him. Zuo Xing had been in constant trouble for years. What kind of scene the shopkeeper had never seen, what kind of dog licking had never been done before, and now he could only endured.

With a gentle expression on his face, the shopkeeper stepped forward to meet him, and just finished saying where are the guests, the collar was grabbed by the big man, and the whole person was picked up.

"What are you doing!"

"Put down our shopkeeper!"

The guys behind hurried forward.

Zhili was in his clothes, and he was at the escalator upstairs with a few spectators.

"It's so fierce."

"I don't know who it is."

"No confidence, no one dares to do this."

The bystanders said in a low voice.

Fortunately, the dispute in the lobby didn't last long. The shopkeeper calmed down and didn't want to cause trouble. The other party was tired from the journey and wanted to rest earlier, so he didn't really make a move.

Zhili went upstairs and saw that the lights in Xia Zhao's dressing room were still on, so he knocked on the door.

"Little Senior Sister." Zhi Li said softly.

After waiting for a while, the door was opened, Xia Zhaoyi saw his appearance, and said, "Go downstairs to watch the fun?"

"It's really too fierce," Zhili said, looking towards the desk in the room, "Did you stay up all this time, or were you awakened by the thunder?"

"Woke up," Xia Zhaoyi replied, "Do you want to come in and sit, or go back to sleep?"

After thinking about it, I think it's better to talk.

He went into the house, Xia Zhaoyi raised his hand to close the door, just as a group of people came up from the stairs, Xia Zhaoyi saw the woman walking in front, raised his eyebrows slightly, suddenly felt surprised.

Lin Qingfeng has lost a lot of weight in the past few years, slender and elegant, with his hair in a bun, walking without holding it up, wanton and casual, but rather swaying.

She knew that there were many eyes looking at her in the open and in the dark, and she didn't bother to pay attention to it, so she didn't perceive the eyes looking at her from behind, and followed the guy who led the way to the empty room on the third floor.

Xia Zhaoyi didn't pay much attention, closed the door and came back.

"Little sister, you are still reading these books." Zhi Li said standing by the table.

The torrential rain beat on the window lattice, and the thunder outside the house rumbled across the sky.

Xia Zhaoyi sat down and said, "The thunder is too loud, so I'm destined to not be able to sleep well. Read some books to be quiet."

"You won't get tired of watching it?"

"If you think about it all the time, you won't get bored."

"Then what have you been thinking about lately?"

"Yes," Xia Zhaoyi smiled, "Have you noticed that walking to the left is very strange?"

"Strange?" Zhili looked at the furniture beside him, "What's so strange?"

"Jiao Jinhu doesn't care about this place anymore, and it has been passed by Tian Dayao and Yun Bozhong's troops several times, but after I came here, I realized that this place is not as desolate as I imagined, but is full of people and prosperous."

"That's true," Zhili nodded in agreement, "I also feel the same way. Although the people here are servile and bullying, they are actually living a pretty good life."

"One is because of the traffic here," Xia Zhaoyi said, "The left side is connected in all directions, and both water and land are available. Youzizhuang is the third largest ferry in the Central Plains. No matter how chaotic the world is, many people still have to pass through here. There are also land roads, which are also developed, and many official roads on the left were built in the first batch."

"Yes, as Master said, building roads is the most important thing in the world."

"Building roads can open up horizons and layout," Xia Zhaoyi said, "It can also open up businesses."

"Commercial business?" Zhi Li was thoughtful, "That's true, many people here are doing business."

"Jiao Jinhu doesn't care about this place, and the others are too lazy to care about it. There is no one to control the left. At the same time, because the military is on all sides, he is cautious, so that there will be no random elements running rampant. On the contrary, it has promoted the prosperity of this place."

"But commercial transactions, I don't really like them..." Zhili said in a low voice, "Businessmen value fame and fortune, buy low and sell high, and sell fake goods. I always think they are not good people."

"These are two different things," Xia Zhaoyi said seriously, "One is the plan, and the other is the management in the plan."

Distorted: "I don't understand."

"I haven't finished thinking about it yet." Xia Zhaoyi looked away, looked at the words on the book, and said, "I always feel like it's right, but I always feel like it's wrong."

Zhili nodded and said: "Little sister, you mentioned road construction, no wonder you want to bring old man Qi back."

Xia Zhaoyi looked at him and smiled.

Actually no, bringing the old man back just wanted to give him a quiet environment, so that he could write a book about what he had learned all his life, otherwise his ability to control water would disappear, which would be a pity.

But when it comes to building roads, he also seems to be very good at it.

"Also," Zhili said again, "Little Senior Sister came to the left this time, I thought she was looking for Mr. Shen...but you stay up here in the middle of the night, chatting with me about road construction and business..."

"..."

Xia Zhaoyi laughed again: "Where, I don't sleep in the middle of the night, isn't it because of the noise from the thunderstorm?"

Sighing disjointedly, he raised his cheeks and looked at the candlelight on the table.

Xia Zhaoyi looked at him, paused, and turned to look out the window.

　Thanks to the dynamic cat for the reward qwq to Xia Zhaoyi and Shen Lie, love you!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)