Chapter 57: Little Wen Hou Lu Fang
In the first year of Zhenghe, this Spring Festival was Wu Song's first Spring Festival. This year, Tongda Cart Shop was born. Wu Song founded the first real express delivery in the late Northern Song Dynasty. The spring of this year was particularly lively. On the first day of the New Year, the firecrackers in Wujiazhuang did not stop. Everyone was celebrating the rapid development of Wujiazhuang, and even the Xiaowujiazhuang was very lively.
On the fourth day of the first lunar month, it was just dawn. The wake-up call rang. The guards who were on duty got up quickly, washed their faces, rinsed their mouths, and tidied up their clothes.
Li Kui was still sleeping in the bed with his head covering. Ruan Xiaoqi kicked him on the butt and said, "Black charcoal head, get up and train. After eating big fish and meat for several days, your eight-pack abs are almost one."
"Huhuhu, Huhuhu." He answered him with the sound of Li Kui's sleep.
Ruan Xiaoqi said: "If you can't get up, just continue to sleep. My brother wants to take you out to play. It seems that you don't need it now."
"Where to play, where to play? How can I miss my iron cow?" Li Kui got up with a whirlwind.
"I don't know where to go, but I'll come back for a dozen miles."
Today’s first item is ten-mile cross-country, with a unified weight of 50 kilograms. Holding a short knife, hunting fork, rattan card, jogging in a team. Long-distance running is not a sprint, but a focus on exercise effect.
Wu Song was staring at the back, holding a bamboo stick, ready to brush people at any time, but it was all right, no one dared to be lazy.
During lunch, Wu Song and others went back for dinner. Liang Cheng, who was in charge of the veterinary medicine workshop, came over and had something to do and said he wanted to find Baozheng.
Wu Song asked Liang Cheng to go in and asked, "Lao Liang, what's the matter?"
"There were more than a dozen guests from the south from the big cart shop. The leader was named Lu Fang. He used a wheelbarrow to push more than a dozen carts of raw medicine. I asked about the price. It was very cheap, much cheaper than the market, but the quantity was relatively large, so I dared not make a decision. I came here to ask Baozheng to decide." Liang Chengdao.
Wu Song remembered that Lu Fang was from Tanzhou Prefecture. He lost all his money in herbal business. Later, he became accused of Yingshan. His martial arts were just average when he was young, but later he made rapid progress.
Wu Song said: "If you make the decision on medicinal materials, I don't know much about medicinal materials."
"It's better than me, their medicinal materials are much cheaper than the market price, and I'm worried about fraud."
Wu Song took Shi Tiehan to the big cart shop with Liang Cheng. The dozen men had just settled down, and most of them were eating in the store. Three or two were outside looking at the medicinal materials on the cart. There were also short knife, whistle and sticks on the cart. There was a Fangtian Painting Ji, which was particularly eye-catching and looked good in workmanship. Wu Song thought to himself that this person was Lu Fang. Lu Fang failed to sell medicinal materials. In response to Yingshan, Lu Fang was the time when Wei was anxious to get angry to sell medicinal materials.
Lao Liang just looked at it and mainly used medicinal materials such as Everrucidae and Panax notoginseng, and the bid was relatively low.
Wu Song clasped his fists and said, "I am Baozheng from here and I want to buy some medicinal materials, but I don't know if the boss can do it."
The person who looked at the medicinal herbs shouted: "Brother Lu, someone is looking at the medicinal herbs, come out quickly."
A young man came out soon. He looked like he was in his twenties, with red lips and white teeth, and was wearing a robe with a flowery outfit, but his face was indescribable haggard, and he obviously suffered a lot.
"I have met Baozheng, but I heard that Baozheng is the famous tiger-beating hero Wu Erlang. When I saw it today, I really have a reputation?" Lu Fang said with his fists.
Wu Song said: "It's all the false reputations that my brothers have exchanged for their lives. I have a Cheng Pharmaceutical Factory here who wants to buy your herbs. We have no problem asking you for more than ten carts of medicinal materials. But I don't know what's wrong with asking for advice in person."
When Lu Fang heard Wu Song say that he had all the medicines needed. Although it was a wheelbarrow, he had more than 200 kilograms of goods. His blood suddenly became hot, "Please tell me, Baozheng."
"Just just now, my shopkeeper said that your medicinal materials are much cheaper than those on the market, why is this?" Wu Song asked.
Lu Fang sighed: "I am from Changsha County, Tanzhou Prefecture, and my family is quite rich. My father does some mountain goods and sell mountain goods. Since last year, he has been in poor health and cannot travel far, so I took over and wanted to continue doing this business. In order to sell for a good price, I came to Shandong, which is far away from Tanzhou. Who knew that the world is full of bandits, and the years are not peaceful. The business has not been done yet. On the way, I encountered robbers and lost several trucks of goods. I heard that there was a Ximenqing medicinal herb nearby, so we went there to see him. Who knew that this guy had a very low bid and we didn't sell him, so he came to Qinghe to try his luck."
"Oh, it turns out it was Lu Fang and brother Lu, I went to the hall to discuss in detail." Wu Song said.
When Wu Song saw that Lu Fang and others had eaten so badly, they really had no money. Each person had a bowl of Yangchun noodles. What is Yangchun noodles? To put it bluntly, boiled noodles in water, cut half a scallion, and didn’t even have a braised rice.
Wu Song and Lu Fang sat down, and Wu Song said to the shopkeeper: "Cut the best mutton into a few plates, and cook the sorghum into a few jars. Lao Liang, go back first, Tiehan, go and call the iron cow to accompany the brothers Lu Fang to drink."
"Yes." Lao Liang went back first, and came over when he turned around to check the medicines. Tiehan went back to the camp behind and called Li Kui.
Lu Fang couldn't stop talking when he opened his mouth and poured all the bitterness to Wu Song. During the journey, Lu Fang had not earned any money, and even lost several trucks of goods and took two people in.
Lu Fei said: "I have already made plans. If I can't sell the goods again, I will take these dozen people to become bandits."
Wu Song said: "If you are a bandit, the whole family will be embarrassed. Brother Lu Fang should not take this path unless you have to. Originally, the Song Dynasty was in good weather and the country was peaceful and the people were safe, but now the treacherous ministers are in power and virtuous are in trouble. Brother Lu Fang is difficult to do some business alone, so how about it is better for us to unite with us?"
Soon the waiter brought a few plates of hot mutton and sorghum roast. Lu Fang and other coachmen wanted to eat it, but they didn't dare to. They all looked at Lu Fang. They knew that Lu Fang had no money.
Wu Song said: "Everyone can eat with confidence, let go and drink, I will treat this meal."
Lu Fang said: "Everyone should eat and drink."
Lu Fang was actually hungry and hadn't eaten meat for a long time, but at least he had to have the image, and he used chopsticks to pick up the meat.
At this time, a big hand came over, grabbed the mutton and ate it, and said, "The young man is the most pretentious. He eats meat when he is hungry, and drinks when he is thirsty."
Wu Song said: "Tie Niu, I asked you to come and drink, why are you so rude? You won't let Brother Lu Fang eat first."
Tie Niu said: "Okay, brother Lu Fang, you eat first, you eat first."
Lu Fang said: "Brother Tie Niu is really a person with a straightforward heart. I wonder what Bao Zheng meant to be a strong and strong business together?"
Chapter completed!