Rebirth Farmer Yaomei

Chapter 163 Design
The weather is getting warmer day by day, seeing that summer is coming.Ning Wan got up early in the morning and opened all the front and back doors of the shop to ventilate, and then watched the guys clean up the place and put all kinds of goods.

Before any guests came in, they heard the sound of a small gong on the street. A few guys kept looking at the door impatiently. Ning Wan smiled, "Go out and have a look if you like it." The sound of the mine gongs should be the monkey playing. The day before yesterday, I went to Hutai County to play monkeys. It was very interesting and everyone liked to watch it. The monkey play also made a lot of money. Today it should be again.

The guys naturally wanted to go and see, but they were embarrassed, scratched their heads and said, "My lady, go and see, let's watch the shop, anyway, the monkey tricker will come to our shop soon."

Monkey jugglers know how to do business. They play with monkeys on the main street. It doesn’t matter if there are too many people watching. If you pass by any shop, you will not be rewarded, so you have to pass in front of Dejufeng gate for a while.

"Go, go! There's nothing wrong with the shop right now." Ning Wan has always been generous, "If you see customers coming to the shop, just come back as soon as possible." Everyone who wants to see a few monkeys in Hutai County can come to see it all year round. .

Ning Wan stayed behind to guard the shop, but moved a high-legged chair to sit at the counter, and wrapped the pine nut candies that her mother made yesterday in oiled paper into packages for convenience when selling.She kept her hands still, but her eyes kept looking outside the door. In fact, she also likes to watch monkeys, but she is too embarrassed to argue with the boy.Then he took a piece of the candy and put it in his mouth. There were a lot of pine nuts in the candy, it tasted sweet and fragrant, and because it was summer, the candy became very soft and sticky to the teeth. It was different from chewing in winter. Boom, boom, and crisp are two different feelings.

"The thieves are among the monkey-watchers."

A voice suddenly sounded from behind Ning Wan, startling her, and when she looked back, it turned out to be Lu Tieshi, "Why are you here?" Ning Wan was facing the door, obviously not seeing him coming in.And because of the candy stuffed in his mouth, his words were a little vague.

Lu Tieshi said, "I jumped over the courtyard wall and came from the back door."

Ning Wan thought of the thieves he just mentioned, and immediately understood, she quickly swallowed the candy, "Did you find them?"

The gang of thieves who killed her own donkey in Mayi Town two years ago, Ning Wan knew that they were the gang who cheated and married Sister Xi back then, but they have not been caught, and they still do crimes around Hutai County every once in a while. , Let everyone hate them to death, but they just can't catch them. For this reason, the head Fu and his arresters lost face, and they all got boarded again.

In the end, County Magistrate Qian had no choice but to put down his face and ask Qianhu Office for help, but Xu Qianhu failed to catch the gang of thieves, and the case was pending there.Maybe it's because each case is so miraculous, and at some point it spread that this group of thieves were not human beings, but a nest of fox fairies, so they couldn't be caught. The case that will come out in a while is taken as what it should be.

Therefore, those thieves became more and more rampant. Originally, they only committed crimes outside the county seat, but now they also entered the city. A few days ago, they even stole the old magistrate Xu's house, and made the entire big family in Hutai County either add a nursing home or They invited bodyguards, and Taoist monks to do it, each with their own skills to prevent thieves.

Lu Tieshi's arrival in Hutai County had nothing to do with catching robbers. Xu Qianhu arranged for him to inspect the city wall.However, after carefully inspecting the city walls several miles long in Hutai County from beginning to end, he proposed to Xu Qianhu to repair the city walls, thicken and widen the parts that were damaged or not strong enough, and repair turrets and walls. Platforms, crenels, and four urns were built in front of the four city gates, etc.

Xu Qianhu listened to him and ignored him at all. It wasn't that he didn't pay attention to city defense, but that Lu Tieshi's suggestion was good, but building the city required money and people. How could a small thousand households have the ability to afford it? The major event of repairing the city wall?
Lu Tieshi was rejected and did not stop there. He led his soldiers to do a small amount of repairs since the beginning of spring, and sent a long letter to Anpingwei explaining the need to repair the city wall of Hutai County.

Commander Zhou did not refuse like Xu Qianhu, but praised him very much. After all, he is the commander of Yiwei, a third-rank official, and he is much smarter than Xu Qianhu. How much manpower and goods will be used, and reported to the General Army of Liaodong.

At present, the Liaodong General Army Mansion has not yet replied, but Lu Tieshi has been hated by Xu Qianhu to the core, and he has no choice but to take Lu Tieshi. For some reason, he remembered the robbery case, so he lent Lu Tieshi to Qian County Magistrate to help solve the case. In this way, Lu Tieshi will be entangled in robbery cases, and he will not be able to repair the city wall for a year or so.

These were naturally obtained by Ning Wan by combining what she saw in her dream with the rumors she heard recently, so she could only understand the reason of the matter with one sentence from Lu Tieshi, and hurriedly asked: "Then why haven't you arrested people?"

"That gang of thieves is very cunning. Some of them are in charge of scouting, some are in charge of business, some are in charge of guarding the wind, and some are in charge of selling stolen goods. Many of them have good identities on the surface. I will inevitably slip through the net when I do it now. , I am also afraid that they will not plead guilty.”

I see!Ning Wan didn't see Lu Tieshi much these days, but every time she saw him smiling at her, she felt uncomfortable, and now she immediately felt a sense of pride when she saw the serious expression on her face that was very similar to the man in her dream Well, she was so honored when she helped him defend the city on the city wall!
So after hearing Lu Tieshi, he whispered in her ear: "So I want to ask you for a favor." She nodded immediately, "What do you want me to do?" She naturally wanted to help this favor, but she was afraid that Lu Tieshi would feel that she owed her. Quickly explained, "Our house was stolen before, so you can just tell me if you have anything to do." There is also the grievance that Sister Xi suffered, and it happened to be recovered at this time.

Lu Tieshi asked a few words softly, and Ning Wan agreed one by one.After the matter was finished, Lu Tieshi nodded, "Don't be afraid, I'll always be here." After speaking, he took a piece of candy from Ning Wan's hand and put it in his mouth, and walked away without a sound like a big bobcat.

Helping catch thieves, Ning Wan has never been afraid. She knew that Lu Tieshi would be able to catch them, but when she looked at the sugar bag in her hand, she almost stared out in shock. The top piece was indeed captured by Lu Tieshi. The iron stone is gone!

The piece of fragrant and sweet pine nut candy really made him pick it up and put it in his mouth, and then he turned around and rummaged out of the shop.But how could he eat candy!Obviously only women and children like sweets!And he is such a serious man, he should never eat candy!

Lu Tieshi had eaten at Ning's house quite often, but Ning Wan had never brought him candy once, so it seemed she was wrong again.It turns out that the big hero not only likes to eat delicious food, but also likes to eat some small snacks.

But then he is less and less like a big hero!
Ning Wan was thinking like this until a dusty-looking guest came in outside the door before she got up to greet her.The customer asked about the price, and then changed his attendants, "I heard that Dejufeng has the best reputation, so I paid for the goods now, so as not to be inconvenient for us to carry a large amount of money when staying in the store."

This person was arranged by Lu Tieshi, so Ning Wan smiled and said: "Guests, don't worry, our Dejufeng has been in the mountain goods business for several years. It will be fine to pay the goods first and then come to pick up the goods. Even if there is something wrong with the goods If you are dissatisfied, the money will be returned as it is."

The merchant waved his attendants to pick up the silver, and the attendants took down the bags one by one from the carriage outside the door. The bags looked small, but they were very heavy. Ning Wan also hurriedly called the monkey-playing guy in the shop to help.It took a while for several bags to be removed from the cart, but no one thought that there was a hole in the bottom of the last bag. As soon as Fang lifted it out of the carriage, an ingot fell from it with a jingle, and then another. In a blink of an eye, a few large silver ingots were in front of Dejufeng Gate, reflecting the sun's light very attractively.

The merchant got angry and scolded his attendants, Ning Wan persuaded them gently, and asked the guys to help pick them up and sent them to the small hall behind the shop, weighed them and took them back to his room. She was in charge, even outsiders knew a lot, and after a while, she locked the door carefully and made an agreement with the merchant, "I will pick up the goods in three days, and the guests can take advantage of this time to wander around the county."

The merchant said: "What is there to do in such a small county, and I've been here a few times. Just stock up for me quickly, I'm in a hurry to go back to the capital!" He left without even drinking tea.

Everyone in the shop was very happy, "I don't want to have big business early in the morning!"

Ning Wan also laughed, "Today at noon we will order a banquet from the Wangyuan Building!"

The guys all laughed happily, "It can be seen that the lady boss has earned money, and she has become more generous."

Ning Wan cast her eyes to the outside, and saw that the monkey-player was in front of the shop door, so she smiled and said to them, "When did the shop lose money to everyone?" Then she grabbed a handful of money from the money box and couldn't count it. Going out to the monkey-playing old man with white beard, "buy a bowl of wine and drink." The old man with white beard was overjoyed, "Thank you, girl!" and performed in front of Dejufeng gate for a while longer.

Everyone chatted and laughed, and at noon, a banquet was called from the Wangyuan Building. The guys took turns guarding the shop, and the rest drank and took a break.In the evening, there is no need to cook at home. It is enough to heat up many things left at the banquet.

Ning Wan put it down after eating two chopsticks of food, "I ate too much at noon, and I don't want to eat these heavy oily things. It's better to make some home-cooked meals."

Then I stopped my mother and went to the kitchen by myself, cut the meat into thin strips and stir-fried them with the freshly prepared miso, then cut the beans into thin strips and stir-fried them, and took a handful of fresh mushrooms and fungus to cook the soup. From time to time, I beat egg flowers and added coriander powder, and baked a few scallion pancakes and put them in a food box and took them back to the house.

Lu Tieshi was already in his room, and was sitting at the table reading a book. Ning Wan spread out the food, "Hurry up and eat." As she spoke, she took the book back. It turned out that it was in the Song Family Bookstore When I bought a copy of "Legend of Tang Dynasty", I smiled and quickly explained: "When the summer is long, I look through it to relieve boredom."

Lu Tieshi laughed, "I never expected you to read such a book."

Ning Wan was a bit embarrassed at first, people in the world think that a woman's lack of talent is a virtue, if it's a housekeeper, it's okay, there are a group of people who don't like women reading miscellaneous books, no one else enters her room, although parents will come But they couldn't read, and they didn't know what miscellaneous books were, let alone care about her, so she put them on the table in a grandiose manner.At this moment, he raised his eyes and said, "What! Is it possible that I also want to read "Sun Tzu's Art of War?"

Lu Tieshi didn't argue with her, just smiled and said: "I read it all when I was a child, and it's quite interesting to read it again now."

Ning Wan really couldn't believe it, how could Lu Tieshi read miscellaneous books? Shouldn't he only read the art of war? No, maybe he would also read some other books, but they should also be history books or astronomy and geography, which are helpful for fighting, and never It should be such an idle book!
"When I was young, I was very envious of the bearded man, but now I've changed it to Li Jing." Lu Tieshi said, eating with cakes in one hand and chopsticks in the other, "I'm really hungry."

Although Lu Tieshi only came here for a while in the morning and then left, Ning Wan could imagine how many things he had to arrange. Since there were so many thieves and cunning, and he wanted to catch them all, he had to make all the preparations, not to mention dinner, he would also Not necessarily eat.Ning Wan just laughed, "I wanted to cook two more dishes, but they brought them here in a hurry, so the deputy Qianhu can eat as much as he wants."

Lu Tieshi nodded, "This is already very good, your food suits my taste very well."

"Then eat more."

Lu Tieshi really ate a lot, although Ning Wan only made two dishes and one soup, but the amount of each dish was not small, and baked several pancakes, he almost ate it all.But at the last piece of cake, he just took a bite but stopped, "Are you hungry too?"

"I'm not hungry, I really ate too much at noon." Ning Wan hurriedly waved her hand, she didn't plan to eat with Lu Tieshi at first, so she only brought a pair of bowls and chopsticks.

But Lu Tieshi was a little annoyed, "Why do I only think about myself, but forget about you? Suddenly something like this happened. Although you can't see anything on your face, you must be nervous in your heart. You must not have eaten at noon." Okay, I didn’t eat at night.” Looking at the cake in his hand, he tore off the piece he bit into, but separated the middle, put all the shredded meat in the plate, put some shredded beans and handed it to Ning Wan, "Try it, it's very delicious."

Ning Wan didn't want to take it at first, but Lu Tieshi insisted very much, and the aroma of the cake, the meat and the vegetable mixed together, and they kept drilling into her nostrils, and she really felt hungry.

So encouraged by Lu Tieshi's "Eat!", she took the pancake, lowered her head and took a bite, "It's really delicious." It's even more delicious than spring pancakes.

"Have some more soup."

(End of this chapter)