The Chu family welcomed Master Li to the house. Before everyone could speak, Master Li had already said, "Erlang, you pack up, let's go to the city now. Before dinner, we will rush to the city and treat you to a meal in the evening. Your business has been done."

Chu Li was very happy and asked, "Brother, have you found a good thing?"

"I have found some old friends in the city these days, but most of them are not suitable for anyone. However, after Han Yuan, the master of Shengquan, learned about this, I thought of my husband and he had been with him for many years, but I was willing to introduce Erlang to Heshengquan to do things." Master Li stroked his beard and smiled: "Early early this morning, Han Yuan sent someone to come to me and asked me to take Erlang over. I have already posted a post and invited Han Yuan to dinner tonight, and the other side has agreed!"

Su Niang couldn't help asking, "Uncle, He Sheng...What does He Shengquan do?"

Master Li was stunned and then said, "Su Niang, you really haven't left the house and don't know anything. Do you know that there is Yunshan No. 3 in our Yunshan Prefecture, which is all a hundred years old. This Heshengquan is one of them. Heshengquan is our Yunshan Prefecture... No, no, it is the best restaurant on our Nanshan Road!"

"Do you ask Erlang to sell wine?" Su Niang said blankly: "The one who can do it?" Although she didn't know much, she also knew that there was a one who can do it in the restaurant.

Master Li shook his head and said, "Heshengquan is not a restaurant, it is a winery. Let's put it this way, I have tasted a lot of wine over the years, but in terms of mellowness, Heshengquan's bamboo sake is the best." Speaking of this, the old man's throat moved, as if he was very attached to bamboo sake.

Su Niang seemed to understand but didn't understand, and she didn't ask anymore.

Chu Huan pondered for a moment before asking, "Uncle, what do I want to do when I went there?"

"I really don't know this." Master Li shook his head and said, "But since Han Yuan agreed, this matter is not bad, and he will always arrange something for you." He smiled and said, "Erlang, this Han Yuan is a master in the winery, a real master. When he was young, he was just a clerk, but he was a smart man. Now he has become a master, but everyone envies him and has no worries about food and clothing. He has a good relationship with me, and having him take care of you is a matter of no choice. Once you enter Heshengquan, you can learn well with him. Maybe one day you can become a master, and your mother and Su Niang will have a good life!"

Chu Huan sighed in her heart: "It's a big master, I'm afraid it's difficult to achieve it. However, I have to make my mother and Sister Su Niang live a good life!"

Although Chu Li didn't know anything about Shengquan or bamboo sake, he felt it was a good thing, so he grabbed Chu Huan's hand and said, "Erlang, your uncle has found a good job for you, you can't let your uncle down. When you get there, do your work well. Mom doesn't ask you to be successful, but just asks you to be safe and safe, and you can eat and wear warmth..." At this point, your eyes turned red.

Chu Huan hugged her mother and said softly: "Mom, don't worry, the child will do his job well. When Erlang has money, he will take you to the city too..."

When Master Li heard this, he looked relieved and said with caressing his beards: "Good, good, great filial piety and kindness, this should be done, this should be done!"

Su Niang also looked a little sad. She stood there for a while, finally turned around and returned to her room. After a while, she took a package out and handed it to Chu Huan: "This is a change of clothes, you... take care of yourself outside..."

Chu Huan took the package and said softly: "Sister Su Niang, I have to take care of you more. I will come back to see you whenever I have the chance!"

Master Li was already standing up with a cane and said, "I have made an appointment with someone. We can't miss the time. Erlang, let's leave now!" Although it was still early, Master Li was a scholar and paid great attention to etiquette. He was afraid that he would be too late to go back and miss the time.

Chu Huan helped Master Li out of the door, got on the carriage, turned around and saw Su Niang standing in front of the door with Chu Li standing in front of him.

The carriage turned around, Chu Huan poked his head and shouted: "You go back, I will come back often!" After saying this, the carriage was already quite far from the Chu family. Su Niang helped Chu Li and walked forward a few steps, watching the carriage disappear into her eyes.

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Qingliu County is a county town directly under the jurisdiction of Yunshan Prefecture, Nanshan Road. It is more than 50 miles south of Yunshan Prefecture. Although it is just a small county town, it has an excellent geographical location. It is only a hundred miles south to the south to the Suzhou border of Nanshan Road, and less than sixty miles east to the east to the Hanzhou border, and the main transportation routes that converge in the three states. Because of this, in addition to the prefecture city, the Qingliu County town is the most prosperous.

The county towns of this era naturally cannot be compared with the people traveling around like later generations, but they are also bustling with traffic and very lively, with shops, pawn shops, wine shops, tea shops, and oil shops.

When Master Li's carriage entered the city, it was still early. According to Master Li's instructions, the carriage went straight to the door of a restaurant and stopped. Chu Huan helped Master Li get out of the carriage. Master Li bowed to the coachman and said, "I have some work, but I have some work!"

The coachman smiled respectfully and said, "Master Li is polite. The young master said that as long as the Master uses the car and send someone to say it, he will let go of the big things!"

Master Li laughed and the coachman waved his whip and the carriage left.

Chu Huan then raised his head and looked at the restaurant in front of him. It was a two-story building with a black plaque hanging on the front of the door, with three big blood-red words written on it, called "Yipinxiang". The house was full of murmurs and very lively.

Master Li said: "This restaurant has been around for a while and is famous in this city. I came here once last year and I drank bamboo sake here."

Chu Huan was stunned. Master Li came here last year. It has been more than a year, but he still remembers it freshly. From this point of view, Master Li's life is also very difficult.

Suddenly thinking about something, Chu Huan said a little embarrassedly: "Uncle, I am...!"

Master Li knew what he was going to say, and laughed and said, "It's okay, I have money on me. Although it's not much, I still have money for a meal!"

Chu Huan felt a little guilty. He was really penniless when he came back this time. Thinking about the night he just returned home, Su Niang stretched her face, but she also understood in her heart that it would always disappoint people to leave home for eight years but be penniless when he returned home.

Master Li was about to take Chu Huan into the restaurant, but suddenly he heard a voice coming from the street, saying, "Catch the little thief, damn it, stop for me..." Chu Huan turned his head and saw a big man rushing towards him with a short stick in his hand. In front of the big man, a man was running over, holding his chest in his hands, looking very frightened.

Chu Huan could see clearly that the person who was chased was hunched, and he was wearing a torn cotton jacket, and a very old leather hat on his head. He was tightly tidy, but his face was like carbon black, very sloppy and could not see clearly.

The man looked very thin and rushed around the crowd on the street, and finally hit a man. His body was not as thick as the man, and he was knocked to the ground.

The man cursed, ignored it, and walked away. The man with a short stick behind him had already caught up with him. He stepped on the man with a fur hat and cursed roughly: "His grandma, run away? It depends on how capable you are!"

The man with a leather hat looked painful on his face. He raised his hand to push away his thighs that were stepping on him, but his strength was obviously very small and he couldn't push it away. Instead, two sweet potatoes fell from his chest.

The big man pointed at the man with a short stick in his hand and still cursed: "Look at you, you are so thief-eyed, you know you are stealing. Look, I can't beat you to death!" He raised the wooden stick in his hand and tried to hit him as the man with a flirt.

Before his wooden stick could be knocked down, he felt his wrist tightening, as if he was being clamped by iron pliers and could not move. When he turned his head, he saw a rustic young man holding his wrist.

"Why hit someone?" Chu Huan asked coldly.

The man with a fur hat fell at his feet. Seeing that the man wanted to hit someone, Chu Huan would naturally not ignore it.

"Let go!" the big man shouted angrily.

Chu Huan pushed hard and took advantage of the situation to let go. The big man felt a thrust push him away three or four steps, stood firm, raised his stick and pointed at Chu Huan, "Here is someone else's business." He pointed to the fur hat man on the ground and said, "This kid stole two sweet potatoes from me. If I like to fight, I will beat you, don't meddle in other people's business!"

Chu Huan said lightly: "Two sweet potatoes can be worth a few copper coins, and they have to use such heavy hands? Look at him, he is very hungry, otherwise who would steal your sweet potatoes? If it were a thief, stealing gold and silver, how could he steal this worthless thing?"

The big man said, "You said it lightly. If this is not considered stealing, then everyone will go and get one. I'll drink the northwest wind?"

Master Li came forward and said with a crutch, "A gentleman does not act. The sky is blue and the sun is blue and the king's law. Even if he really steals your things, you will not need to hit someone if you report to the official!"

There were many onlookers around. When they saw this situation, the man with a leather hat looked very thin and pitiful, and they were all pointing fingers and saying that the big man was not.

The big man knew that the public was unpleasant, so he naturally could not really report to the officials for the sake of the two sweet potatoes, and cursed, "It's so fucking bad luck..." He pointed at the man with a wooden stick and said, "Stupid brat, if I see you again next time, I will peel you off!" He cursed and went there.

Chu Huan then squatted down and picked up the two sweet potatoes. The two sweet potatoes were extremely small. Chu Huan could grab them with one hand and handed them to the man with a fur hat. He said warmly: "Hold it!"

The man with a fur hat raised his head and saw two tears flowing down his eyes. The tears slid down his cheeks, washing away a lot of black gray on his cheeks, revealing two white marks.

Don’t look at the skinny person who is thin, but the skin that is exposed is white and tender.

"I...I didn't mean it..." The man with a fur hat said timidly: "I...I want to eat to live..."

Chu Huan didn't say much, put the sweet potato in his hand, got up, and went over to support Master Li into the restaurant, but heard the man with a fur hat say behind him, "Thank you... Thank you...!"

Chu Huan turned around and saw that the man with a fur hat had already stood up and held the sweet potato tightly in his hands with both hands, as if he was afraid that the sweet potato would fly.

Chu Huan just smiled and nodded, without saying much, and helped Master Li into the restaurant. A shopkeeper had already come up and bowed and said, "Are they two?"

Master Li stroked his beard and said, "First find us a quiet place. There is another guest who has not come here, so he has to wait!"

"Do you two want a private room?" The guy asked with a smile: "There is a private room upstairs, but you will have to collect twenty more copper coins!"

Master Li hesitated for a moment and nodded, "It's good to do that!"

At that moment, the gang took the two of them upstairs and reached the stairs. Chu Huan thought of something and looked back. He saw the man with a fur hat standing in front of the door, staring at him blankly.

Chu Huan saw that he was pitiful. If he were the only one today, he would be afraid that he would bring the man in the fur hat to have a meal. However, today he was treating someone to dinner, but he was not good at making decisions. A shopkeeper there had long seen a beggar standing in front of the door and waved and scolded: "Get out quickly, don't delay business!"

The man with the fur hat then disappeared into Chu Huan's eyes with two sweet potatoes.
Chapter completed!