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Chapter 254 Broom Star

Chen Xu walked into the foot house again, and the whole family was almost crying. When he saw Chen Xu coming in, he kowtowed to thank him again.

"No need to be polite, get up, Lu Dong, I'll ask you, how much does your footbath earn in a year?" Chen Xu asked while sitting on the couch.

The owner Lu Dong was stunned for a moment and said quickly: "Sir, I earned about 3,000 yuan last year!"

"So little?" Chen Xu asked in surprise.

Lu Dong nodded with a wry smile and said, "This income is quite affordable, and it can ensure that the family and the family have no worries about food and clothing. In fact, because the tax is quite high, in addition to the tax that you have to pay half of the money tax, there are also taxes and purchases for corvee. Therefore, it is good to have 30% of the income. Our family has worked hard all year round and still have the remaining ones, which is actually very satisfied!"

"No, this is too little, it's a pity that such a good place!" Chen Xu shook his head, "Lu Dong, I want to run this foot house with you. Can you accept it if I pay you 1,000 yuan a month?"

"What? Every month... One thousand yuan a month..." Lu Dong, who had just stood up, almost fell to the ground with his legs weakened, and the family standing behind him also looked at Chen Xu in amazement.

"I think it's too little?" Chen Xu frowned.

"No...no...it's not that I think there are too little, it's too...too much..." Lu Dong quickly shook his head stutteringly.

"Lord Lidian, there is indeed too much. Our family can't make so much money in half a year!" The owner's wife also said quickly.

"Don't be afraid of too much, as long as you don't care less, just like this. If you promise to cooperate with me, you won't open a foot house. I want to transform it into a big restaurant when I get enough money. If you want, you can work as a helper in the store first, and give money and food every month. If you don't want to, you can do something else!"

"Sir, you are the life-saving benefactor of our family. I am willing to arrange it. Just give us a bite of food and dare not ask for money and food..."

"I have already said that the experience of your family was caused by me. Now this is a little compensation. Don't refuse. Besides, I will not stay in Wancheng for a long time. You have to handle many things, but don't worry, no one will come to trouble you in the future!"

"Thank you for taking care of me!" Lu Dong's tears flowed out of excitement. After more than three months of inhuman torture, he had seen too many work slaves in the workshop who could not bear torture, starve and burnt. He could survive and reunite his family, which made him no longer dare to ask for anything else. Chen Xu's words completely dispelled the fear in his heart, and he could not have any resentment except gratitude.

"Then let's say that! Your whole family has finally reunited, so you should cultivate well for a while. Just so happen that I'll arrange for someone to change it. You guys go!"

"Thank you!" After the family of five thanked him, they helped them to wash and rest at the back of the foot house. Chen Xu also stood up and looked up and down the foot house carefully. He found that although the house was a little old, the structure was still solid, and several houses were still spacious. They only needed a little renovation to open.

"Chen Lidian, what do you want to do? We don't have the money, but we still have the strength!" Wang Wu and Wang Qi came forward and said.

"You don't need to participate in this matter, so as not to cause trouble for me at that time! Wang Qi, go to the post house to help me get the pen, ink, paper and inkstone. I want to design a decoration drawing!"

"Okay!" Wang Qi had no choice but to agree and turned to the post house. Chen Xu looked at the entire post house inside and outside. This kind of store model with the front and back yards was very common in later generations, and it was not complicated to transform. After Chen Xu had a scheming in his heart, Wang Qi had already returned from the post house, but there was also a tough girl Jiang Chuyue.

"Why are you here too?" Chen Xu asked with a little toothache.

"Why can't I come? I heard that you don't want to be a Lidian anymore and want to open your feet in Wancheng?" Jiang Chuyue said with her cheeks puffed.

Chen Xu took the pocket of the pen, ink, paper and inkstone from Wang Qi, and twitched for a few times and said angrily: "Who said I am not a Lidian? I just want to earn more money to marry a wife!"

"Ah?!" This time it was Jiang Chuyue's turn to be stunned. After a while, her face flushed and said softly: "Actually... it's not enough to marry a wife... it doesn't cost much money!"

"Who said that!" Chen Xu poured some water into the inkstone, and then grind the ink while grinding the ink, "First of marrying a woman, you have to buy a big house, and you have to buy a horse and a carriage. If you have a horse and a carriage, you have to hire a groom and a carriage. Then you have to buy a few servants to wash clothes, cook and clean the house. When you have a child, you have to hire a nanny, and you have to ask a teacher to teach you how to read and read. Alas, this requires a lot of money. How can I not make money? You, a woman, naturally, don't worry about these things. Don't bother me, go play next to you!"

"Yeah~" Jiang Chuyue's cheeks were red and nodded slightly, and walked out obediently, but after only a few steps, he suddenly turned around and suddenly asked, "Who are you planning to marry?"

"Of course it's Miss Water!" Chen Xu said without raising his head.

"Kill~~" Chen Xu only felt a golden light flashing in front of him, and then a sharp short sword on his neck was pressed against his chest. Jiang Chuyue's face turned red with shame and anger, and his silver teeth clenched and said word by word: "Who is Miss Water?"

Chen Xu gently pushed the short sword in his chest with the pen with the golden cocktail in his hand, and curled his lips and said, "What do children do with so many things? What does it have to do with my wife?"

"You..." Jiang Chuyue was angry for a moment, but she didn't know how to speak. She was stunned for a while and chopped off with a sword. A piece of inkstone that Chen Xu had finally polished was split in half, and the ink inside splashed all over him.

"You..." Chen Xu jumped up angrily, but Jiang Chuyue turned around and strode out, and turned over and drove away with a horse. The sound of horse hooves instantly left.

I'm going, it's all a firecracker. I've messed with you!

Chen Xu's face was thrusting for a few times and couldn't help but use a rag to wipe the ink on his face and then found an old pottery bowl to grind the ink again.

In the post house, Jiangbeiting was arranging several soldiers to pack their things. When he saw his daughter coming back angrily, he asked in surprise with his beard: "Yue'er, have you been to see Chen Xu? How come he came back so soon?"

Jiang Chuyue shouted angrily: "Dad, let's go back to Zhi County quickly. That shameless man is going to open his feet in Wancheng and will not go back to be a Lidian!"

"What?" Jiang Beiting trembled his hand and pulled off a few beards, his face was stunned for a moment, but soon shook his head and smiled bitterly, "How is this possible? You must have misunderstood him!"

"How could he misunderstand? He just told me in person that he wanted to make money here to marry a wife named Shui as a woman, buy a big house, buy a carriage, and have a slave, and have a baby...I...I..." Jiang Chuyue's eyes turned red when she said this, and tears began to spin in her eyes.

Jiang Beiting's face also became very ugly. After a long silence, he asked, "He really said that?"

"I asked him in person just now, that's what he said!" Jiang Chuyue couldn't help but burst into tears, and finally rolled down her cheeks.

Jiang Beiting sighed silently and touched his daughter's hair and said, "Yue'er, do you really like him?"

"Daughter... I don't know either. I just hate him when I see him, I don't see him, and I miss you a little..." Jiang Chuyue said thrustly.

"Oh..." Jiang Beiting sighed quietly, "Yue'er, Chen Xu is smart and smart, and is indeed a rare boy. Because the Zhao family regrets the marriage, your father is helpless in his marriage, so he also wants to marry you to him. However, you are too willful and willful on weekdays and have a disagreement with him. Although Dad has mentioned this matter several times to him, according to his nature, he should not be unaware of it, but he has always rude away all kinds of things. Marriage should not be forced. Since he already has a good person, let this matter be appointed. Dad will help you find another husband with a kind and simple character in the future..."

"Dad, I want to go home!" Jiang Chuyue hugged the horse's neck and cried loudly.

"Okay, let's go back to Chi County now!" Jiang Beiting had no choice but to comfort his daughter, and then ordered the soldiers to set up a carriage and set off. At the same time, he arranged for a soldier to go to the foot house to notify Chen Xu.

"The county magistrate left first?" After hearing the soldiers' reports in the foot house, Chen Xu was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said, "It's good that way. Anyway, the weather is clear recently, so I will stay in Wancheng for another day or two. Please wait for a moment and bring me a letter back!"

Chen Xu made a quick trip on a piece of hemp paper, writing a few simplified Chinese characters, 'Brother is very good, I will reply in a few days'. After blowing it dry, he took out ten copper coins and handed them to the soldiers and said, "Please send this letter to Qinghe Town tomorrow to You Jiao Liupo, and ask him to help deliver it to my house. The money is considered thanks!"

"Chen Lidian, how can this work!" The soldiers refused.

"Please take it, run back and forth dozens of miles. You still need to eat some wine, drink and meal on the way, don't refuse!" Chen Xu stuffed the money into the hands of the soldiers. After thanking them for a lot of gratitude, the soldier promised to bring the letter, and then happily rode a horse to chase Jiang Beiting and others.

Chen Xu will continue to draw decoration drawings with peace of mind.

An hour later, Chen Xu called Hu Kuan in, took the drawings and took him to tell him how to decorate the house up, down, inside and outside.

"Do you understand?"

"I understand, I understand~" Hu Kuan nodded repeatedly.

"Did you really understand?" Chen Xu was a little disbelief.

"Don't worry, Lord Lidian. Although the things made by the adults do not know the function, the adults said it very clearly and the drawings are extremely intuitive. They are not boasting about it. At that time, they will definitely do exactly the same as what Lidian imagines!" Hu Kuan nodded affirmatively.

Chen Xu became even more surprised, so he asked: "What did you do before?"

Hu Kuan said with a blushing face: "To be honest, Kuan's family runs a wooden and stone workshop when he was a child. His family was quite wealthy. My father wanted me to have some prospects, so he spent money to learn Confucianism and poetry from a famous local old man. Unfortunately, after only half a year of learning, the old man passed away. Later, he learned swordsmanship with a Mohist alchemist. Unexpectedly, after only three months, the master was killed in a fight. Then the Qin and Zhao battle broke out. The Qin and Zhao army fought repeatedly in Jingxing County. Kuan's family was destroyed in the war, and both parents died. Kuan went to Handan to make a living, but a year later, Handan was also attacked by the Qin State.

Zhan, Kuan was displaced and went to Korea again. Two years later, South Korea was destroyed by Qin, so Kuan wandered to Chu again. Four years ago, Chu was also destroyed. Kuan was about to wander to Qi, but was caught when he passed by Wancheng. He was supposed to be a slave and sent to the northwest to practice straight roads, but he met Mr. Ma Tengma. He saw that I was a little smart and knew some swordsman and literate, so he kept me. I stayed in Wancheng and helped Mr. Ma do some things on weekdays. Now that Mr. Ma has returned to Xianyang, I have nowhere to go, but Kuan is lucky and has met Lord Lidian..."

Hu Kuan said something, Chen Xu's face was thrusting. Others were just a star of destruction, but you were a broom star who was destruction and a country that was destruction. Wherever you went, you destroyed the country. Fortunately, Qin is now unified, and if you want to destroy the country, you can only destroy foreign countries.
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