A happy event in a fertile field: the black-bellied husband is as beautiful as a flower

Chapter 299 Getting Ready

Xu Shenfang has been walking around the city frequently in the past few days, not only taking care of the business in Ah Nan's shop, but also going to the government to plead guilty to the magistrate.

Zuo Chengjin knew that he also suffered a heavy loss this time, and he was not responsible, so he didn't pursue it further.

Then Xu Shenfang socialized with other merchants in the city. According to the news from his followers, Xu Mingyou learned that he was preparing to expand his business in the coming year.

Xu Shenfang even approached Second Master Xu and Third Master Xu, and wanted to sign a contract with them, stipulating that in the early spring of next year, all the high-quality tea leaves in the tea mountain must be young and sharp.

With the cooperation last time, Master Xu and Third Master Xu are not in a hurry to refuse this time, let's hear what is good.

If it is beneficial and profitable, they are of course willing to do Xu Chenfang's business.

Once the second master and the third master cooperate with him again, the ready-made high-quality tea in the tea mountain will only be used by the Ahmaji family. At that time, the two offshoots of the Xu family will completely become one with Xu Shenfang, and Xu Mingyou will be on the contrary. But it became the single one.

How could Xu Mingyou watch such a thing happen.It is impossible for such a big Xu family to be annexed by Xu Shenfang, that bastard!

He asked his entourage to inquire carefully, Xu Chenfang must have a reason for doing so.

The entourage came back and said in a deep voice: "My lord, the second and third masters have signed a contract with Xu Chenfang, and Xu Chenfang paid 5000 taels as a deposit to each of them, and set a date for next year's first-class spring." Tea."

Xu Mingyou's eyes were bloodshot, and he said angrily: "I want a reason! Those two immortals are willing to do business with him, what good are they getting!"

The follower said: "The content of the deed is not only that Xu Shenfang ordered spring tea from the second and third masters, but also sold a batch of goods to the second and third masters separately in exchange."

Xu Mingyou leaned forward and asked, "What goods?"

The follower said: "It's a batch of goods from the Western Regions. Xu Shenfang has already sent people to the Western Regions to deliver the goods in autumn and summer this year. He bought tea for the purpose of selling it to the Western Regions."

Xu Mingyou asked again: "What kind of goods is that?"

"I heard that he contacted a caravan carrying pearls, furs, agates and jades from the Western Regions in exchange for tea, cloth and silk porcelain here."

Xu Mingyou put his hands on his forehead and repeated: "Pearl fur, agate jade..." He looked up at his followers, "These things are not cheap, why didn't he sell them himself, but to the second and third masters?"

The entourage said: "The second and third masters also have the same question, but Xu Shenfang said that only the tea mountains in their hands have high-quality tea. He collected the tea and sold it in the Western Regions. It is also a treasure in the eyes of the Western Regions."

Xu Erye and Xu Sanye have no caravan and no connections. They have an idea to transport the tea to the Western Regions by themselves, but they can't do it for the time being.Now that there are goods from the Western Regions, if they don't make money, there must be other merchants in the city to make money.

When Xu Shenfang signed the contract with them, she also brought a westerner with dark eyes, straight nose, brown hair and beard.It is said that the goods are currently in a certain city, because the road has been difficult to travel due to the snowy days, so the goods are suspended in that city, so a person from the Western Regions was sent to explore the way first.

Now that people from the Western Regions are here, and Xu Chenfang has paid a deposit generously, how can this be fake?
Xu Erye and Xu Sanye were convinced, and signed the contract cheerfully.

When Xu Shenfang took the man from the Western Regions in and out of the store to look at the goods, Xu Mingyou was in a restaurant on the street and saw the man from the Western Regions passing by on the street.

Passers-by on the street cast curious eyes on it.Because his appearance and appearance are indeed very different from the locals.

Then Xu Shenfang sent more people to pick up the goods with the Western Regions man.

Meng Yan, Yin Heng, and Chongxian all pretended to be Xu Shenfang's retinue, mixed with other retinues, and went out of the city together with him.

After leaving the city, the group immediately rushed to their destination.

From here to Shangxing, it would take ten days and a half months if you walked slowly, but now everyone rides fast horses, all of them are flexible and familiar, and there is no heavy cart to carry the weight, the journey is quite fast, only two or three He arrived in the upper province in a few days.

When entering the city, even in winter, the city is full of traffic.

The cold weather did not hinder the excitement of the city at all.

The snow on the street was swept clean, and the shops and houses on both sides were neatly arranged.People are shuttling on the street, buying new year's goods with great interest.

There are shops selling lanterns and New Year pictures, melons and fruits and snacks, as well as some powder jewelry shops that girls like. The front door is basically full of people, and the business is booming.

When Meng Yan entered the city here, she suddenly felt as if she had just entered the city where she lives now from Suixiang.

Compared with the place where they live, this city is simply too old-fashioned.

Since the bandits were disrupted last time, they have disappeared and there has been no movement.

In order to avoid the limelight, they will not come out to make trouble again in a short time.

However, Xu Mingyou was able to contact them once at first, and now he is trying to find all ways to contact them for the second time.

No one knew where the bandits were hiding. In winter, the mountains were covered by heavy snow, so it was very difficult to go to the top of the mountain to inspect them.

Xu Mingyou wanted to find them, and when the news came, the bandit leader would naturally not let Xu Mingyou come to see him, lest he would know where their gang was hiding.

Therefore, the bandit leader brought his two younger brothers into the city to have a banquet at the place that Xu Mingyou had decided.

Don't think that these people are bandits and bandits, but once they enter the city, the banditry on their bodies has completely subsided, just like ordinary people.

The officers and soldiers in this small city don't know what the bandit leader looks like, so the bandit leader passed by the city soldiers without incident.

Of course, since the bandit leader dared to come to the meeting, he was not afraid of Xu Mingyou's deceit.He wants Xu Mingyou's life is more than enough, not to mention that if Xu Mingyou dares to communicate with the government, then Xu Mingyou will collude with the bandits, and he will die.

So the bandit leader took his younger brother and blatantly entered the building and went to the private room where Xu Mingyou was.

When Xu Mingyou saw him coming in, he quickly bowed down and greeted him.

As a result, as soon as the door was closed, before he could say a few words, the bandit leader raised his hand and squeezed Xu Mingyou's neck with a serious expression on his face.As long as he exerts a little force, his life can be solved immediately.

Xu Mingyou had trouble breathing, he had never been so humble in front of anyone, but facing these thieves, he had to beg for mercy.

Xu Mingyou blushed, grabbed the bandit leader's wrist, and said with difficulty: "Brother...have mercy..."

The bandit leader said: "Forgive me? You caused me to lose nearly half of my brothers, and you still have the face to ask me to forgive me?" As soon as he raised his hand, he pinched Xu Mingyou and hung him against the wall, "I tell you, you That 1 taels of silver is not worth the lives of so many of my brothers."

(End of this chapter)