The Prodigal Son of Zhenguan

During the first two days of the Dragon Boat Festival, the tea shop's business was better than usual. Obviously, more people came, and they all came for the Dragon Boat Festival tea gift boxes.

All of a sudden, the tea gift boxes became a fashionable item for Dragon Boat Festival gifts in Chang'an City.

Now the tea in the warehouse is gone, but the empty boxes and bamboo tubes sent from the carpenter's workshop filled the warehouse.

Zhao Fu was very panicked now. He asked the carpenter's workshop to make so many, but now they are still empty, and the people sent to Huizhou to deliver tea have not returned yet.

Once the fifth day of May is over, all these empty boxes will be useless.

After all, there are words carved on the bottom of the boxes.

They can't be used next year.

When the shop closed and counted the accounts at night, Zhao Fu seemed absent-minded.

The main thing was that he was in a state of anxiety. The Dragon Boat Festival was coming in two days. The tea from Huizhou would arrive in Chang'an. When it entered the shop, the shop assistants had to pack it up and put it on the shelves. All this took time.

Now the shop had no stock. If the boxes on the shelves were sold out tomorrow, the goods would be gone.

What would he do when people asked about it?

It was not the right idea for a shopkeeper to leave good money unearned.

The reality was that he was now a skilled cook with no rice to cook.

The street-cleaning drum outside began to beat, and the drumbeats, like heavy hammers, hit Zhao Fu's heart again and again.

Logically, the team should have returned today. Going by water, day and night, could save a lot of time.

"De Lu!"

Zhao Fu shouted to the backyard.

The assistant named De Lu hurried over from the backyard.

"Boss, what's the matter?" De Lu wiped the sweat from his face and looked at Zhao Fu and asked.

"Go outside and walk in the direction of the city gate to see if there are any traces of our people." Zhao Fu said.

"Boss, the street cleaning drum has sounded outside." De Lu said.

Once the street cleaning drum sounds, it means that a curfew is about to begin. The street cleaning drum sounds 100 times every night.

It has been knocking for a while.

"I know, I can't let it go. You can go out and take a look. Go outside and come back quickly." Zhao Fu said, "Young man, you are fast. Go and come back quickly."

"Okay." De Lu nodded and ran out of the shop in a hurry.

The clerks in the tea shop have signed a contract to sell themselves with the Jingyang Wangzhai. They eat, wear, live and travel in the shop on weekdays, and live in the clerk's room in the backyard at night.

About a quarter of an hour later, Delu came back from outside.

At this time, the street cleaning drum was still beating, and Zhao Fu was counting in his mind. It had already sounded more than eighty times.

The shop assistants began to move the door panels, and the windows facing the street were also boarded up.

"Boss, boss." Delu ran in breathlessly just before closing the door.

"What's wrong? Didn't you see anyone?" Zhao Fu asked hurriedly.

At this moment, he began to feel cold in his heart.

The things in the shop now can't last until tomorrow morning. By the afternoon, the shop will probably be empty.

Before the Dragon Boat Festival, when it is easiest to sell goods and make money, there is no goods in the shop!

If this is told to others, other businessmen will laugh at it.

He, Zhao Fu, the owner of the tea shop, will also become a joke.

Zhao Fu slumped in the chair.

Actually, it's not his fault. When he took over the tea shop, he didn't think of many things, and even if he did, time was very tight for him.

How long has it been since Li Fu returned to Chang'an from Huizhou and the tea shop opened?

Unless Li Fu sent people to Huizhou to get the goods as soon as he came back, there would be plenty of time.

De Lu finally took a breath and said.

"I saw our people."

"They have entered the city and are coming this way now."

"They are not as fast as me, so I ran back to tell you, open the backyard door quickly."

Zhao Fu's eyes gradually brightened when he heard it.

"You, what did you say, is it true?"

De Lu nodded like pounding garlic.

"Really, open the door and welcome them."

Zhao Fu heard this and stood up from his chair and ran to the backyard, calling the guys in the backyard as he ran.

"Hurry up and open the gate to the backyard. Our people are back. Pack up the things in the yard and make room!!!!"

Zhao Fu shouted at the top of his voice, his voice was distorted.

The guys quickly did as Zhao Fu said.

Opened the gate to the backyard.

At this time, the returning team stopped on the back street and opened the back door.They began to move the tea leaves to the shop.

However, the street cleaning drums were no longer beating.

The curfew had begun.

It was estimated that the patrolling Jinwu Guards would arrive in a quarter of an hour at most.

We had to hurry.

The shop assistants also joined in to help carry the goods to the yard.

If they didn't have time to move them to the warehouse, they would put them in the yard first and then send them to the warehouse again.

In a quarter of an hour, they hurried and moved everything.

The people outside had to hurry to the carriage and horse shop, pay the money to settle the horses and carts, and rest in the carriage and horse shop for a night.

As soon as they finished their work, a team of patrolling Jinwu Guards came over.

"It's curfew, why are you still outside!"

The Jinwu Guards looked at the group of people with a bad face.

The guard at the head of the team bowed.

"We are the guards of the King of Jingyang's residence. We were delayed today by some things. Now that we have delivered the things, we are planning to go to the carriage and horse shop to settle down. It's a bit too late. Please be flexible."

The Jinwu Guards heard that they were the guards under the King of Jingyang.

"So, your team will follow us to the carriage and horse shop." The Jinwu Guards said.

"Thank you."

These Jinwu Guards wanted to watch them enter the carriage and horse shop to settle down, so as not to run around outside. In addition, if they were allowed to go to the carriage and horse shop by themselves, they would have to check them if they met other Jinwu Guards on the way.

In this way, the guards who delivered the goods took the mighty team and followed the Jinwu Guards to the carriage and horse shop, and settled down there temporarily.

The main thing is that the horses and carriages were hired with money and had to be returned to the owner.

As soon as the team left, Zhao Fu's hanging heart was put down, and he ordered the clerk to close the courtyard door and quickly put the new tea into the warehouse.

Black tea, green tea, and scented tea were all returned to different warehouses.

Then, the guys started to pack the boxes.

Although there was little time to rest every day when they were busy, but, but, but there was a lot of money!

After the hour of You, the money was doubled, and after the hour of Zi, it was tripled!