Republic of China small businessman

Bai Mingzhe supported his wife and watched the carriage go to the east courtyard. This time, he was grateful to Master Jiu from the bottom of his heart. If Master Jiu hadn't tried his best to protect him, his wife and children might never be seen again.

There are no villages near the winery, and there is not enough manpower. It is only because it is close to a river that it is convenient to fetch water for brewing and can also be transported by boat. Otherwise, they would not have chosen such a desolate place all the way.Also because of this, it gave those gangsters a good chance to attack. The group found an opportunity to approach the Bai family a year in advance, and came to serve as a nursing home. They hibernated for a year before showing their minions. I was preparing to "accept the God of Wealth" (kidnapping) years ago, and I planned to make a big deal early in the morning.

As for women and children, there is no precedent for surviving from the bandits.

Every time Bai Mingzhe thinks of this, he breaks into a cold sweat with fright.

This time things were really too dangerous.

Fang Yurou coughed, she had just given birth and it was not suitable for the wind, so Bai Mingzhe hurriedly helped her back to the room.

"Ma'am, be careful. I have asked my mother-in-law to come over these few days and ask her to take care of you herself." Bai Mingzhe said with guilt and distress, "It's because I didn't take good care of you and the child, which made you worry."

Fang Yuju said: "It was just a false alarm. Fortunately, Lord Jiu brought his guards and turned back halfway. If they weren't there, all the people in the winery would have died."

Bai Mingzhe glanced at his wife, the relationship between them is very good, now seeing his wife's weak and pale face, he couldn't help but tears in his eyes, nodded and said: "This time, Lord Jiu is so kind, I will never repay it in my life. "

Fang Yurou shook his hand and said with a smile, "Why are you crying again? Thanks to you being the big shopkeeper of the Heihe Company, you let outsiders see the joke. Master Jiu is very kind, we will keep it in our hearts, and pay it back slowly. He is not going to build a factory , you just need to worry more, you must do things well.”

Bai Mingzhe nodded yes.

Fang Yurou said again: "There is another job. He is younger, but he is clever. I heard that this time it was thanks to him coming to the winery from the Heihe company to report the news. He was also the one who stopped Jiu Ye's convoy. Call...Xie Jing?" At that time, she gave birth, she was so painful that she was already a little unconscious, and she ran for her life all the way and couldn't see the appearance of the work clearly, all these were told by the girl next to her.

Bai Mingzhe was usually at the Heihe company, and he rarely returned to his home in Qinghe County. He nodded and said, "I'll ask, and I will definitely reward you."

The couple talked and went back to the house.

Bai Mingzhe comforted his wife, looked at his newborn son, and then hurriedly dealt with other matters.

Bai Mingzhe was busy outside all afternoon. Heihe business and winery were killed by gangsters. He personally went to send some money to the family of the deceased. There was only one blind old mother left in the family. , wearing patched clothes, still looking forward to his son's return.Bai Mingzhe couldn't bear it, so he asked people to buy some rice noodles and sesame oil, and left them for the old man.

After finishing a round of work and turning back to the White Mansion, a young servant ran over to him and begged him: "Master, please go and see our second master, the trouble is getting worse today, and even the medicine is gone." refused to go..."

Bai Mingzhe hurriedly followed him all the way, and asked as he walked, "What's the matter, the new doctor didn't work?"

"No, the second master's ankle bone was broken. He rode a horse back from Heihe that day and didn't make a sound. He connected the bones twice and it didn't work. Today, when he took the medicine during the day, he swelled up much more than he did on the first day. It's much heavier!" The boy was sweating anxiously.

"Then what are you waiting for, take me to have a look!" Bai Mingzhe didn't care much, and quickened his pace.

White House.

Bai Mingyu hopped back and forth with a limp leg, his whole body was full of irritability, he lost his temper with the girl and servant, and everything was not satisfactory.

When Bai Mingzhe entered the door and saw his younger brother like this, he let go of his heart, but immediately reprimanded him with a bluffing face: "Nonsense! You've broken your leg, and you're still jumping around on the ground, go back to bed and lie down! You want to be a cripple for the rest of your life!" No way?!"

Bai Mingyu was helped to sit back on the bed, half-lying down and looking at him: "Brother, how is the family? I asked them, and none of these people told me!"

Bai Mingzhe sat by the bed and coaxed him: "It's all good, Master Jiu also brought him back today. He suffered some skin trauma, and he will recover after a few days of recuperation." He glanced at the silly boy in front of him, seeing him for the first time in so many years. He was in such a hurry, and he knew he cared about his family's affairs, so he couldn't help but feel relieved and distressed, "You don't have to worry about these things with your big brother here, just take care of your injuries, and just get your feet back sooner."

"Brother, I can help you..."

"Be safe and don't make our father angry anymore, and I will thank God!" Bai Mingzhe said: "Be more obedient, Brother Ming'er will find another doctor for you, if this doesn't work, I will send you to Pingzhou for treatment. I have inquired about it, there is a magic doctor over there who will heal your leg injury and heal it for you. You can run and jump as before. Brother went to a lot of places today, and tomorrow I will go to see a few guys who were injured this time... ..."

Bai Mingyu had a sore nose: "Brother, I'll go too."

"What are you going to do? It's the end of the year, and something happened at home. You stay at home with your parents, and I'll go alone." He sat down, patted his younger brother's head, and treated him like a child, "You were also frightened this time. I was worried about how you would explain to your parents when you came back. I didn't expect you to keep the Heihe business name for me. Good job."

"Brother, over there at the Heihe Company..."

"Well, many people died, so I can only try my best to make up for it. After the funeral is settled, I will send people to visit frequently." Bai Mingzhe sighed, "The government also sent people to suppress the bandits. You must not go out casually during this time, safety first, remember."

"Ah."

Bai Mingzhe comforted him a few words and was about to leave, but Bai Mingyu hurriedly called to him again: "Brother, I still need to find someone else!"

"Who?"

"Kou Peifeng, the accompanying student next to me, he rode a horse and rushed into the street and shouted 'Go water', if it weren't for him, I would also..." Bai Mingyu grabbed the quilt with both hands, his eyes were red, "I asked many people, They said they never saw him again."

Bai Mingzhe was silent for a moment, then sighed, "Brother, try to find it for you."

Bai Mingyu nodded.

Looking at the figure of his eldest brother leaving, he felt uncomfortable.

He searched all the servants and asked everyone, but he has never seen a person named "Kou Peifeng". Needless to say, he has been guarding the Heihe Company, but no one at the winery has heard of this name.Bai Mingyu knew that it was wishful thinking to let such a young man escape from birth, but he still had a little hope, and after waiting for a long time, he refused to give up.

He knew it in his heart.

His companion may be dead.

Bai Er's foot injury could not be healed by the county doctor, and he had to stay at home. Bai Mingzhe refused to agree, and sent someone to rush him to Pingzhou for treatment.

The genius doctor in Pingzhou specialized in surgery, he crushed the bones and reattached them. After recuperating for a period of time, he sent a letter saying that he was healed and would be back by the end of the year.

Qinghe Baijia, east courtyard.

Bai Rongjiu was unable to return to the provincial capital in time due to injury, and there were still many things to prepare for the construction of the factory here, so he simply stayed in Qinghe County for the New Year instead of going back to his old house.

After Master Jiu came back, he also asked the doctor to show Xie Jing, worried that he might not be able to see any internal injuries. After the doctor looked at it, he only saw a few bruises on his arms and shoulders, and nothing else.

Xie Jing said: "It's my first time to carry a gun, and I don't have the strength on my shoulders, just practice more in the future."

Bai Rongjiu handed him a small pistol, and said, "I'll let someone teach you later, you keep this one for self-defense."

Xie Jing took it and put it away close to her body, without any sign of rejection.

The guard on the side took another look at him. He still remembered the way Xie Jing wielded a gun in the winery. He used two guns. He had a unique skill, but he lacked a little apprentice.Just as he was thinking about it, he heard Lord Jiu say, "Let the small kitchen make a bowl of sweet glutinous rice balls."

The subordinate took the order, and it was ready and brought over quickly. Master Jiu didn't eat it himself, so he gave it to Xie Jing, "There is a small table next to it, sit down and eat slowly."

Xie Jing looked around, found the nearest table with a bowl, and sat down.

The guards could see clearly that it was the table used by Master Jiu to play chess on weekdays. Just as he was about to speak, he was stopped by Master Jiu with a wave of his hand. Master Jiu smiled and coughed, and said, "Let him eat. After reading all the way, finish eating first." Say it again."

Xie Jing looked up, and didn't realize what he did wrong for a while. He used to eat at this small table all the time, and sat here habitually. When he reacted and wanted to stand up, he was photographed by Master Jiu again. Arm, "Just sit here, my master will watch you eat."

There were three people in the room, two of them watched Xie Jing eating sweet glutinous rice balls by himself.

Xie Jing took small bites of the glutinous rice balls in the spoon, raised her eyes to look at Master Jiu, then lowered her head to take another bite, and slowly finished the whole bowl, even drinking the sweet soup.

Seeing that he had finished eating, Bai Rongjiu asked, "Who else is there at home?"

"And my grandma."

"Where are the parents?"

Xie Jing shook her head: "I haven't seen it."

He said it frankly, and he didn't mean to miss him at all. Master Jiu could see that he probably hadn't seen each other since he was a child, so he didn't miss him.

Master Jiu asked again: "How is grandma treating you?"

"It's very good. When I used to be sick, my grandma would cook me a bowl of sweet glutinous rice balls." A bowl of two or three is the right to buy candy to coax him. Because I miss eating glutinous rice balls, I don't feel too bitter when taking medicine. , he only remembered that the glutinous rice balls were fragrant and glutinous, and he could drink a small bowl of sweet soup after eating, just like now.

"Xie Jing, I will give you a long vacation, go back to accompany your grandma, I will ask Zhang Huwei to take you back." Bai Rongjiu tapped twice on the chessboard with his finger, and said: "Come back from the third day of junior high school."

Xie Jing nodded in response: "I'll be right back."

Zhang Huwei is the leader of the guard who wields two guns next to Master Jiu, and his name is easy to remember.It's just that in Xie Jing's memory, this person has never appeared before. When he left the corner gate of the east courtyard, Xie Jing had already figured out that such a hero might have been lost in Heihe in his previous life.

Master Jiu sent a car over, and piled a lot of food and cotton cloth on it. The cloth he bought was not expensive, but it was thick and strong. Except for two brighter ones, the rest were dark maroon for the old man. Or gray-blue, and a piece of dark-grained green-gold leather with a few pieces of rabbit skin, specially for the elderly to make fur vests.

Zhang Huwei was tall and tall, he sat there and stared at Xie Jing, and swallowed the matter of recruiting disciples several times.

He felt that this matter was terrible, Master Jiu loved this child too much, and he probably didn't want to let Xiao Xie suffer so much.

Xie Jing was bumping all the way home in the car, and occasionally lifted the curtain to look out. The market outside was bustling and bustling as usual. The boiled water sellers were burning the stove on the side of the street, and they could smell the hot steamed buns and baked goods. The smell of cake.

He had money on him. When he arrived, Lord Jiu and Bai Mingzhe each gave two silver coins. Now they saw a sesame seed cake seller on the side of the road and asked them to stop the car. They jumped down and bought a lot of them. When I came up, I didn't forget to bring one for Zhang Huwei.

Zhang Huwei was a little moved in his heart, holding the cake and looking up at him, hesitant to speak.

Xie Jing just thought he didn't have enough to eat and gave him another one, and wrapped up the rest: "These are for my grandma."

Zhang Huwei: "..."

He didn't particularly want to eat pancakes either.

One of the two was hesitant, the other didn't think about learning skills - no blame Xie Jing, what he learned before was taught by Master Jiu, and he had no intention of recognizing other teachers.

Sitting in the car, Xie Jing always felt that she had forgotten something, but when she was happy, she forgot.He thought about it all the way, and when he got home, he gave up thinking about it. Since he couldn't remember it, it shouldn't be a big deal.

Here, Xie Jing happily bought something and went home to celebrate the New Year.

On the other side, Bai Mingyu was unhappy in Pingzhou, and managed to heal his foot after struggling for more than half a month.He returned home at the end of the year, barely making it in time to reunite with his family on New Year's Eve.

The Bai family had a thrilling New Year's Eve, Master Bai purposely set up a few porridge sheds in the name of himself and Master Jiu, to save some good fortune.

After the New Year's Eve dinner, Bai Mingyu lost interest and went back to his small courtyard.

He ordered the boy to bring a bag of things and bring it in quietly, and secretly burned paper money for his little companion when no one was around in the middle of the night.

"Feng'er, the young master will burn some more for you. When you get there, don't worry about it. Spend it as hard as you can. I know you like sweet cakes, but you are a prudish person, and you don't like to talk, just look at it with your eyes... The young master saw it all, and it's my fault that I kept teasing you, and I didn't let you eat a full meal of sugar cakes before dying." Bai Mingyu's eyes were dry from the heat and he raised his hand to rub it, and couldn't hold back his tears. He fell down rustlingly, his eyes were swollen from crying, but now he couldn't even look.

"Thanks to your ingenuity, if you hadn't rode out on horseback and summoned officers and soldiers, the young master and dozens of people in the company, big and small, would have died in Heihe."

"Feng'er, the young master remembers your kindness. I will burn paper for you on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar new year. You can go at ease."

"Feng'er, after you leave, who will copy the books for the young master?"

……

Bai Mingyu felt sad and couldn't help crying.