Three hundred and fortieth chapters caught in the calculation
The house deposit was given half-grabbed and half-deserved, so he had to accept this very scoundrel deposit. In theory, he paid the deposit, but he gave Li Su a comment that "I want money and stingy" in his mouth, which was not pleasing to both ends.
After taking Li Su's two cat-eye stones, he left unwillingly. The transportation of materials for new houses is a major event. He has to go to the east and west cities in the city to spread the news and finalize the price with the merchants who settled in the market, so that others are willing to transport materials from the distant Shazhou to Xizhou.
Looking at the unwilling back, Li Su showed a deep thought.
Turning his head and looking at Wang Zong beside him, Li Su suddenly said, "If you are a businessman, a business that you know you have lost money is placed in front of you, will you do it?"
Wang Zong smiled silly and showed his white teeth: "Do you think I'm stupid? Who will do a business that knows that you have lost money?"
Li Su's smile was quite meaningful: "Yes, even you know that you can't do a loss-making business, so how could you not know? This is a bit interesting."
"What does it mean? What does 'even I know'?" Wang Bao heard that the meaning in his words was wrong, and obviously was not praising him.
Li Su blunt his mouth towards Yan's back in the distance and smiled, "That's a businessman, a very successful businessman. What a businessman has to do in this life is to seek profit from the foundation. These four words should be embedded in the bones of a businessman and cannot be forgotten for a moment, otherwise he would not be a qualified businessman. But just now, Na Yan did a blind man and could see that it was a loss of money. I don't know how much a Chinese house in the desert is worth. It must be a decisive number. Yan pretended to hesitate for a moment, and he only took a few breaths and collected two cat eye stones as deposits. This transaction was done like a joke. Why would a qualified businessman agree to do this transaction?"
Wang Zong said angrily: "You are a Bie Jia from Xizhou. The second child in this city, he wants to please you and consider the future. It is normal to occasionally make a loss-making business."
Li Su laughed: "Just like this lifeless city in Xizhou, the people in the city are poor and the market is depressed. Normal people can see that this city is not attractive to merchants. Why does he need to please me?"
Wang Zong blinked: "Maybe he is interested in your connections in Chang'an?"
Li Su smiled even louder: "Everyone in the world knows that I was demoted to Xizhou by Your Majesty. I don't know when I will be recalled to Chang'an. He used his energy to be a demoted official like me. Did he take the wrong medicine?"
Thinking was obviously not Wang Zhuang’s strength. Now Wang Zhuang felt a little headache and rubbed his temples. Wang Zhuang sighed: “Then he must have taken the wrong medicine.”
Li Su pondered and said, "Now think about Na Yan's identity. He is the cousin of Na Li, the prime minister of Kucha. Kucha and our Tang Dynasty have not been very harmonious for many years. They often collude with the Western Turks to harm merchants on the Silk Road..."
Wang Bao was shocked: "What do you mean is...what is there any problem?"
Li Su blinked: "Have I said this? I just wanted to say, this person Yan is very interesting..."
In the distance, there was only a small black dot left on Yan's back. Li Su stared at the small black dot for a long time, and a deep smile appeared on the corner of her mouth: "Well, this person is really interesting..."
After finishing his spare time, Li Suxin took Wang Zong and Zheng Xiaolou to a tavern in the east of the city with satisfaction.
The winery is very simple and looks like it has been a long time. The wooden boards on the ground creaked, exuding a rotten smell of disrepair, as if they would collapse at any time. There were only a few short tables in the store that were also disrepaired, and two lazy and incapable of fighting men, it was like walking into a gloomy medieval vampire castle.
Li Su was in a good mood today. Anyone who could use two cat eye stones given by others would be in a good mood. In addition, he also brought two super thugs. He looked like he could not afford to offend, so Li Su did not have any psychological pressure when he walked into the restaurant.
The guy came over lazyly and gave Li Su a jar of wine listlessly. There was no choice. There was only this kind of wine in the whole restaurant. Seeing that the guy was lazy and owing to the taste of his own charm back then, Li Su decided not to smoke him, and happily gave him a few more cents.
Money can make ghosts push the mill, and naturally it can also make the guy excited. After a few rewards are stuffed into his arms, the guy's expression suddenly becomes very at home, just like a passionate desert.
The wine shop is a very pure wine shop with a very stubborn business philosophy. They only sell one type of wine and don’t even serve wine. The wine is served and poured into a tattered pottery bowl. Li Su looked closer and couldn’t help but frown.
This wine... smells a bit like stinky water, and it is stinky water overnight. I really can't tell if it is wine.
"Tell you, you are lucky today. Come on, take a sip first." Li Su pulled Wang Zong over, picked up the wine bowl and poured it into his mouth.
Wang Bao didn't dislike it. He drank it happily in one gulp, and even smacked his lips, looking like he was still unsatisfied.
"Is it delicious?" Li Su blinked.
"It's okay, a little bit sour." Wang Zong grinned and smiled silly.
Li Su didn't speak or drink, and sat cross-legged on the couch.
Wang Baoqi said: "Why don't you drink?"
Li Su looked at him for a while, and found that Wang Bao had no sign of poisoning, then frowned and took a sip carefully.
"Tsk! It's so sour!" Li Su shook her head in disgust and refused to take a second sip.
The wine is not the wine from the Central Plains, it has a bit of inferior Western grapes and is indescribably unspeakable.
"Brother Xiaolou, you sit down too. I'll treat you to drink today. We must be grateful..." Li Su warmly greeted Zheng Xiaolou and Wang Bao.
Zheng Xiaolou seemed to see Li Su's sinister intentions, but he ignored him. He just threw a look of contempt and stood with a cold face.
Wang Bao didn't care, so he sat down and slapped a few sips, and then he got a stomachache after half a jar of wine.
Li Su had no choice but to watch him drink boredly. After a moment, Li Su fell into a happy daze.
The restaurant was very quiet, with only three tables of guests, and the other two tables were obviously the people in the city. They were one of the few middle-class people, otherwise they would not have had spare money to come here to drink.
A good city was governed by Cao Yu in this way. The people in the city were poor, all industries were withered, and internal and external troubles were endless. It is really not a blessing for the people to have such a chief official.
Li Su is waiting now, waiting to verify every word from Master Qian. If the facts prove that Master Qian is right, then Cao Yu, Li Su must pull him off the horse. The city is good and cannot be ruined in his hands.
When people were in a daze, time flew very quickly. Before they knew it, Wang Zhuang was drinking the wine that was so bad that it was almost overwhelming. He turned his head to look at the sky outside. It was getting late and it was time to go back to the camp.
Just as he was about to get up, the sound of chatting at the next table quietly floated into his ears. Li Su's expression moved slightly. Just as he was about to get up, he sat back and put up his ears to listen to the discussions at the next table.
"It's a pity that the daughter of the Zhao family in the north of the city is only fourteen years old and is very beautiful. In our desert, she is also a very good beauty. I heard that the spring has been promised, and she is the son of a wealthy businessman in Gaochang. Although she is not a real wife, she has given a lot of betrothal gifts. Seeing that the situation of the Zhao family is about to brighten, but who knows that the misfortune comes from the sky..."
"Bah! The bullshit is a bad disaster! The Zhao family's daughter was killed by the murder!"
"Who was harmed?"
"This Xizhou City, the old ones and new ones are not good products. I heard that a new one came from Chang'an, the scene was very good, and a thousand-person cavalry team was also brought to protect the carriage. It can be seen that this new one is not good products, and the cavalry team he brought is not good products. I heard that the daughter of the Zhao family was harmed by a cavalry in the cavalry team."
"Is there this? How do you know?"
"How do I know? I live next to the Zhao family. Last night, someone kicked open the gate of the Zhao family. One night, my daughter cried, and the adults cried. After a night, the daughter of the Zhao family hung her neck before dawn. The body was still in the Zhao family's yard. I heard that the cavalry was drunk too much at night and happened to meet the Zhao family's daughter. I felt quite beautiful, so I broke into the door and harmed her. Oh, it's a life! Why can I bear it?"
"Xizhou City is becoming less and less a place for people to stay. After a few days, I just followed the Hu Shang's caravan. It's better to go anywhere than to be in Xizhou..."
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Wang Zong and Zheng Xiaolou listened blankly, their expressions were filled with shock. They turned their heads and looked at Li Su unconsciously, but saw that Li Su's face was already ashen and his body was trembling slightly with anger.
"Li Su, this..." Wang Bao was anxious.
"Shut up!" Li Suchi said, stood up, and said expressionlessly: "Let's go and go back to the camp!"
The three of them walked out of the restaurant silently. Seeing that Li Su was not kind, Wang Zong and Zheng Xiaolou did not dare to say anything, and followed behind silently.
From the east of the city to the north of the city, you have to walk through two streets, one vertical and one horizontal. The central fork happens to be the governor's mansion.
Li Su's expression was terrifyingly gloomy. When he was about to reach the governor's mansion, his steps suddenly stopped.
Because he heard the movement, it was quite a bit of noise.
There were crowds of people standing in front of him, surrounding the front door of the governor's mansion. There were about a thousand people. There was a piece of land in front of the door, and a body was covered with white cloth. Two middle-aged men and women knelt on the ground facing the gate of the governor's mansion, crying so dark.
More than a thousand people stood quietly behind middle-aged men and women, not shouting slogans with all their might, nor making excuses with excitement and indignation. They just stood quietly in front of the door, thousands of eyes staring at the closed door without blinking, but could clearly feel the anger that could crush his shoulders in silence.
Li Su pursed her lips, and there was no need to explain this scene at all. She understood it with a glance.
Chapter completed!