Chapter 168 Fighting monsters and collecting money
"It's good that Dalang is back, yesterday was so worrying!"
Manager Liu grabbed Zhao Qi's arm with lingering fear and shook it hard. After saying that, he pointed to the middle-aged scholar next to him and said, "I'll introduce to Dalang that this is Mr. Li Xiyun and Mr. Li from Duke Chong's mansion. He stayed to help rescue Dalang. Mr. Li rescued A Lian yesterday."
"Thank you, Mr. Li, I am unforgettable to you!" Zhao Qi quickly saluted respectfully, thanking him from the bottom of his heart.
After returning last night, he had heard Ermazi, Yang Dayuan and others say simply that if he was late, even half a moment, he would have been ruined by Lu Guangxian. If Li Xiyun had not strongly suppressed Lu Yuntai and found out Lu Guangping's whereabouts, he would have been cooked after he was rescued.
Lu Guangping's actions are indeed shameful, but Aan, the bastard, was even more indignant and was almost beaten to death by Ermazi and others.
"I dare not dare not, I can call me Wen Rang. If Dalang can return safely, I can finally go back to the Chongguo bus service!" The middle-aged scholar bowed with emotion.
This first meeting was such a big scene. The ceremony arranged at the construction site was much more lively than the visit of Duke Chongguo yesterday. It can be seen how high the young man is in the minds of Manager Liu and others.
Although Li Xiyun was a juren, he was just a clerk without power or position, so he did not dare to be too arrogant.
Who knows where Zhao Qi will go in the future? Especially yesterday, Wu Qian brought all his favorite granddaughter. This is a very subtle detail, but as an aide who has followed Wu Qian for a long time, Li Xiyun can see Wu Qian's respect for Zhao Qi.
After greetings, Zhao Qi was surrounded by hundreds of people entering the construction site amid the crackling sound of firecrackers, gongs and drums.
After the welcoming ceremony, all the workers and the helpers and the unintentioned people continued to work under the arrangement of Yang Dayuan and Ermazi and others. Zhao Qi and Manager Liu also led Li Xiyun and the gentry and merchants who came to visit the sales office to have tea.
"Hurry up, come out quickly, people are coming to the county and government offices!" Just as he sat down to have tea, a security guard rushed in in anger.
"Wow~~" Everyone was in agitation. Zhao Qi and Manager Liu had to put out their clothes to greet him. They saw dozens of soap-robed constables with long swords on their waists and soldiers holding spears. In addition to a general wearing leather armor, there were two officials wearing blue official robes.
"Prince Tong?" Zhao Qi recognized the leading general at a glance, the county lieutenant who drove them at Lingqiao Wharf last time. Although the other two officials did not recognize them, their blue official robes were at least ninth rank officials, which was much higher than some civil servants in the Harbour Yard.
When the two groups met, they naturally gave another salute. After learning that the boy in front of them was the missing Zhao Qi, the county magistrate Tong and the officials who came were all relieved, and then they all had strange faces.
Before dawn in the morning, Duke Chongguo was arranged to rescue Zhao Qi, but unexpectedly, before the person arrived, the protagonist had escaped from danger and ran back last night. In other words, everyone had a waste of time, but everyone felt glad that since the person was back, this job could be considered as going back to think about the Chongguo bus service.
After drinking a cup of tea, County Magistrate Tong hurried back with most of the people, leaving an official and several constables to assist Li Xiyun in dealing with the aftermath of the kidnapping of Zhao Qi.
This matter will not be fine just because Zhao Qi comes back. Those evildoers, A'an and the second young master of the Lu family all need to be carefully interrogated and convicted by the county officials, but Zhao Qi doesn't need to worry about these matters.
Soon after Li Xiyun handed over and communicated with the officials who stayed, he also brought a few subordinates back to Yin County to report to Wu Qian. Only gentry and merchants who came to join in the fun were left on the construction site, and most of them were customers who were planning to invest in property in Xiaolongwan Harbor.
Faced with so many enthusiastic investors, Zhao Qi naturally smiled and his back teeth were exposed.
The so-called "suffering and sweetness come after this change, a fear of fear has completely turned into a good thing. With the help of Wu Qian's halo, all the negative energy that is hostile to Xiaolongwan has been completely suppressed.
Although Zhu Dachang and others stopped fleeing, they blocked the construction site for seven or eight days, and the losses caused were not small. The damaged carriages and overturned building materials were worth thousands of yuan. Zhao Qi naturally would not ignore this loss. He arranged for people to hand over the registered losses to the officials in the police station and asked them to come forward to seek justice. It doesn't matter whether they can make up for the losses. The construction site is not short of this little money at the moment, but he must not let go. It is necessary to catch a few people who are making trouble and behead them for a few days. In this way, they can completely suppress everyone in Dawan Village and prevent them from causing trouble in the future.
As for the Lu family's complete conscience, Lu Yuntai arranged for someone to send two thousand taels of silver yesterday, saying that it was a compensation for the losses of the construction site. Whether Lu Jiacheng admitted that they secretly sabotaged the act of sabotage, everyone, including Wu Qian, could see that the Lu family was behind this matter. Now his second son is still locked in the police station. If he does not do his homework, he will probably not be able to calm the anger of Zhao Qi and others. If he chases him and secretly uses some money, he is afraid that Lu Guangping will even get rid of his skin if he doesn't die this time.
Although Lu Guangping has a marriage letter in hand, everyone can see this kind of thing clearly when it is revealed that the Lu family bullies men and women.
Now that the Lu family is paying a sum of money and tearing off the wedding letter, they just want to get rid of this matter completely.
In the midst of the noise, the people who came to support the show also left one after another, and those who stayed were customers who wanted to invest.
In Zhao Qi's opinion, everyone has a big gold coin pattern floating on it. With one knife, a pile of gold coins will fall off. As long as the contract is signed, it means that the planned Xiaolongwan Port has completely reached its goal. The huge down payment will promote the rapid construction of the harbor.
Next, Zhao Qi, Manager Liu and others naturally rolled up their sleeves and started to fight monsters and pick up money.
Zhao Qi was responsible for introducing the property, Liu Dong was responsible for taking people to the scene to watch the on-site location, and Manager Liu brought several scholars to sign the contract.
The entire sales office was busy and noisy, with various joys, sighs, and even heartbroken wails and regrets pounding their chests and stamping their feet one after another.
More than a dozen ladies wearing uniform skirts and ribbons were chatting in the crowd, and they took customers who were already optimistic about the property to sign a contract.
Soon one after another was signed, and most of them even came with a large number of silver clubs, and they didn't even want the intention contract. After they took a look at the position, they signed the formal contract and paid the down payment. Therefore, in just over an hour, the total number of contracts signed had reached more than 90. The first and second phase projects were almost snatched away. The remaining third phase projects were mostly service industries such as carriage shops, quality warehouses and shops, and even sea view villas, so fewer people chose them, but they still signed several sets one after another.
After finishing my work, it was almost time to go. It was almost three o'clock in the afternoon in the future. Zhao Qi felt that he was almost hungry, so he invited the customer who was still looking at the building to go to the cafeteria to deal with it and had a simple buffet to satisfy his hunger.
Although the meals in the cafeteria are simple, the method is very special.
Each person has a pottery tray customized in the kiln factory of Liu Zhanggui, which is divided into several grids in large and small sizes. The people who eat the food themselves take the pottery tray to make food in a row of large wooden barrels. Because all the merchants have no experience in buffets, Zhao Qi also specially arranged a few young cooks to help introduce them.
A spoonful of rice, a spoonful of cold kelp, a spoonful of roasted eggplant, a spoonful of cold cucumbers, a spoonful of scallions and clams, and a bowl of seaweed bone soup. Add the meal at will, and the food will be enough to fill it.
I won’t talk about the taste of the food. It’s not bad to be careless, but the way of eating is very novel and special, so all the merchants who stayed to eat are full of interest.
Under the large pergola of the canteen, there are long wooden benches and long wooden tables. The workmanship is rough and simple, but it is convenient and casual. She sits with a few friends with a plate and chats while eating, and discusses the future of Xiaolongwan Harbor in the sea breeze, which also has a unique interest.
Zhao Qi and Manager Liu sat together with several businessmen who sent Zhao Qi back yesterday, and had a great time eating, drinking and chatting.
Especially Zheng Zhen and the others were extremely excited.
Zhao Qi kept his word and invited five of them to the front line to choose shops. Although their money is relatively less rich and they basically chose houses in the second phase, they are very close to the first phase, and they are almost all on the street or intersection, which will definitely be a good location in the future.
Chapter completed!