It's hard to be a prodigal

At dawn, the two walked along the mountain road for a while, and saw Jinshuishan beekeeping houses. There were several rows of small earthen houses scattered among the dense orchid tea trees. Women wrapped in headscarves and veils were busy cutting honey. .

Jiang Zong talked to the manager of the beekeeping house, and arranged for them to carry luggage down the mountain, and found another person to go home to deliver the letter. Can't come back.

He repaired a letter and sent it to Jiang Heng, asking him to spend some money to hire a few servants with good skills, and then go to Fengye Residence to find Mr. Ming Li, asking him to pay attention to the news of people coming and going in Jinzhou, and to find out who they are. So jealous of Jiang Zong's life.Hualou is a mixed bag, and the most well-informed, Jiang Zong is willing to cast a net, not afraid that no fish will be caught.

The sting wound on his body was still hurting, Le Lian was a little frightened when he heard the beeping in the distance, but he didn't show his face. He approached a few busy women and began to chat in a low voice.

The woman smiled and handed Le Lian a piece of broken honey nest, and Le Lian licked it. Jinshuishan honey is worthy of the best honey in the world. The golden and viscous honey juice is like amber, sweet and fragrant.

After Jiang Zong finished making arrangements, he looked around the beekeeping house and walked up to Lelian. He saw that he was holding a small piece of honeycomb, and he lowered his head and bit half of it unceremoniously.

Warm lips and tongue slid across Lelian's fingertips, Lelian's cold face froze, and he said in a low voice: "Brother Zong, I just bitten it."

Jiang Zong glanced sideways at him while licking his fingertips: "You have bitten my mouth too, why do you have so much trouble."

"..." Le Lian squinted at him, trying to see if this man had any face.

He looked down at his fingertips that Jiang Zong had licked, hesitated for a while, and licked them clean.

This place is quite poor, and the person in charge arranged a place for the two young masters to live in. They call it the upper house, but it is just a place where people can barely live. Jiang Zong wrinkled his face as soon as he entered the door: "Oh, this is not dirty. , Our kennels are cleaner than this, so where can I sleep here?"

Le Lian'an quietly spread the clean sheet that he brought on the kang, and as soon as it was evenly laid, Jiang Zong lay down on it.

Once Young Master Jiang's coquettishness came up, his temper also became violent. If he choked on him, he would start yelling again. Le Lian had no choice but to carry his luggage to another bed, and then went to order the steward He boiled a few pots of bath water and brought two meals to satisfy his hunger.

Jiang Zong leaned his head on his side, staring naked at Le Lian, looking at him as if he was making a joke for nothing, letting Second Master Le do all the work for him, it was really an anecdote in his previous life.

After a while, Le Lian came back with two servings of fried rice with eggs and placed them in front of Jiang Zong.

Jiang Zong was already hungry, sat up and rubbed his hands to smell the aroma: "Where is the rice in this small place?"

Le Lian put his chopsticks on the edge of Jiang Zong's bowl, and said calmly: "I brought rice and eggs. I just went to the back kitchen to see them. They often eat dry buns here. You are not used to them."

Jiang Zong was stunned for a moment, then bent his eyes and smiled.

Like poppies falling on the strings, the bewitching dark red stirs up ripples in the deep pool, creating a circle of crimson in Le Lian's heart.

Lelian held his breath secretly.

This year, there is an arrogant beauty who has been clamoring in his heart for 13 years.

Jiang Zong took a perfunctory shower, and opened his neck to look for Le Lian.

Le Lian sat on the bed and applied medicine to the sting on his back. The swelling has subsided a lot, and there is still a slightly swollen red mark.

"Does it still hurt?" Jiang Zong climbed onto the bed with his clothes on, sat behind Le Lian, took the medicine in his hand, and washed his wound with clean water first.

Le Lian sat cross-legged quietly, frowning slightly, waiting for Jiang Zong to apply the medicine to himself.

Unexpectedly, the sting on the back did not feel the cold and stinging liquid medicine, but the warm thin lips gently pressed against the wound and licked it.

Seeing Le Lian's obviously tense back, Jiang Zong wrapped his arms around his waist from behind, kissed him along his chin, gently turned Le Lian's head, and licked the corner of his lips provocatively: "So nervous, do you like it? "

Le Lian swallowed hard, turned over and held Jiang Zong down, pressed him to lie down, bit his lips and tongue angrily, and warned him angrily, since he didn't have that intention, don't intentionally light his own fire.

There was a sweet taste of honey in his mouth.

Jiang Zong pushed away the little wolf cub who was playing wild on him, and said with a mocking smile: "I just went to ask those old ladies, and they said that if you are stung by a bee, you should apply some honey, and it will heal quickly. I just applied it to you , why are you crazy?"

When Le Lian saw the medicine bottle and honey in his hand, he let out a heavy breath, grabbed Jiang Zong's collar, and asked him in a low voice, "Do you believe me..."

Jiang Zong raised his eyebrows: "It's not lonely to flirt while this trip is boring, don't you think?"

He was also romantic in his previous life, and he didn't think there was anything wrong.

Jiang Zong has always found it very interesting. In his previous life, he and Le Lian were discussing business in Maple Leaf Residence. Jiang Zong asked a young lady to kneel down and confess to him in front of him. For the first time, cracks appeared on Le Lian's indifferent expression.

At that time, Jiang Zong asked while enjoying himself: "Why are you so clean and self-conscious, for whom are you keeping your innocence?"

Le Lian pushed the teacup and slammed the door away with a trembling voice:

"Nothing to do with you."

Jiang Zong likes to tear Le Lian's disguise layer by layer to see what boring things are in his heart.

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Le Lian let go of Jiang Zong's collar, turned over and lay beside Jiang Zong, and said helplessly, "Brother Zong, don't amuse me."

Jiang Zong smiled: "You're really boring, what can I do if I kiss you. It's okay to enjoy the excitement and joy with me. I promise you that I won't pester you when I return to Jinzhou in just a few days."

Le Lian looked at him and let out a light breath: "It's up to you."

Seeing that Le Lian was really unhappy, Jiang Zong didn't want to find him unhappy anymore, so he asked him casually, "What did you say to those aunts just now?"

Le Lian said truthfully: "I asked about the price of the honey, the distribution channel and so on."

Jiang Zong sneered: "No, you shouldn't ask this, you should ask, have you eaten yet?"

Lelian looked back at him in confusion.

Jiang Zong sat up and rubbed his hair: "Sometimes it's taboo to be straight to the point when doing business, especially when they just changed employers, if you can't come up and tell them you don't know how to do it, the first impression you give them is very green , they will lower the price, or mix cheap raw honey with cooked honey, because I'm sure you won't see it."

Le Lian froze for a moment, then nodded thoughtfully.

"Brother Zong, I asked, the beekeeping houses in the entire Jinshui Mountain produce [-] catties of honey a year. After the Lin family ran away, our Jiang Le family jointly contracted it, but the palace only collects [-] catties of high-quality honey every year. It will take a lot of trouble to clean up the rest." Le Lian did the math, "If it's not fresh after a long time, I'm afraid it will be backlogged in my hands, including the cost of shipping, storage, and packaging, the money I got in the end is not much. .”

"Yo, put what you've learned into practice, you have a future, you know how to think ahead." Jiang Zong rubbed his hair, "Think slowly. You used to be very good at this."

"Anyway, it's all right, let's go, I'll take you into the city for fun." Jiang Zong changed into a white shirt embroidered with cranes and black silk. He couldn't find a mirror everywhere, so he tied the collar, smiled at Chao Le, and asked him, " Does this suit fit?"

He has a thin and slender figure, and his long soft hair is half-tied up with a black jade button, and he is gentle and unruly.

Le Lian replied sincerely: "It's suitable."

Jiang Zong looked at him: "Are you coming with me?"

Le Lian didn't want to get mixed up with Jiang Zong to waste his energy, but he couldn't refuse any invitation from that person.

He hesitated a little, but said anyway.

Brother Zong, you always use your beauty to hurt others, you don't know it, it hurts so much that I never get tired of it.

Jinshui City is a small town at the foot of Jinshui Mountain. It is not very prosperous, but it is very lively. Because it is located at the intersection of several major merchant roads, there are many merchants coming and going, and there are many stalls on the street. Some merchants plan to bring goods from here. If you make a move in a small place, you can avoid the taxation of several prosperous cities.

Jiang Zong also came to this small town in his previous life. At that time, he led a small group of gang brothers to smuggle salt. It is not easy to be caught in this small town.

Jiang Zong led Le Lian into a gambling house named Jinya with ease. The layout inside was as familiar as in his previous life. There were a few rough bull's heads and sheep horns hanging on the wall. He thought he was young and impulsive back then. A Xiting merchant named Jian Lai gambled for a round, who knew that he would make a lot of money, causing Jiang Zong to suffer a lot of blood, and since then he has restrained himself a lot and became calmer.

Jiang Zong wandered around the gambling house reminiscently, glanced at the dice on the table, and asked Le Lian, "Can you play?"

Le Lian said, "Not really."

"Come and accompany me." Jiang Zong took Le Lian's hand and sat in an empty seat. He didn't care about winning or losing, it would be better if he lost.

Lelian looked down at the hand he was holding in a daze.

Jiang Zong was familiar with the way, took a look at the dice cup and dice, and then pushed them to the dealer. When the dice cup was shaken, the gamblers at the table enthusiastically placed their bets.

Jiang Zong patiently told Le Lian: "In the future, when we talk about business, we will occasionally have to play with other people. You can learn a little bit. This round is to guess the size. There are three dice in total. Look at the writing grids on the table. Add up the points and compare them. Eleventh is big, four to ten is small, one pays one, and if you bet correctly, your money will be doubled."

Lelian nodded.

Jiang Zong pointed to a few different words and said, "Full dice, you bet that the three dice have the same points, and you pay 24 for each. You can see that Wei dice means that you guess all the points of the three dice correctly, and you pay [-] for each." five."

Jiang Zong took ten taels of silver and threw it to the table, raised his face and smiled at Le Lian, "Come and try, I don't have much silver, if we lose, we'll leave, if we win, I'll treat you to dinner."

Le Lian was distracted looking at Jiang Zong's radiant face, and talked about the fun, not caring about it, let alone holding on to it, he was serious about playing around.

As soon as the dice cup fell, Jiang Zong stared at the dice cup seriously, took Le Lian's hand casually, and asked him in a low voice: "Hey, which one to bet, have you decided yet?"

Lelian bowed and placed his bet.

Jiang Zong laughed, and looked up at him: "Little brat, you're so greedy. I think you're the only one who can invite me to dinner tonight. I want to eat goose on bamboo fungus."

Le Lian quietly stood beside Jiang Zong, slightly raised his chin.

Jiang Zong's face changed slightly, and he looked back at the dice cup.

As soon as the dice cup was opened, there were three "fours".

The gamblers around sighed with regret and complained to each other: "Full dice! I have wanted to bet on this for a long time, but you must let me bet!"

Roll three points and one number, one pays 24, and ten taels of silver became 200 taels in an instant.

Jiang Zong stood up abruptly, staring at the three dice with his hands propped on the table, and looked back at Le Lian in surprise: "Are you so good at playing?"

Le Lian shook his head: "It's just luck."

Jiang Zong thought about it too.

The two of them also gambled in the previous life, the bet was not small at that time, Jiang Zong wanted a grain store in Lelian's hand, and pestered him for a long time, Jiang Zong's bid was also reasonable, if he wanted to buy out, he really couldn't buy a few shares Also into.

Because there was a severe drought in Beihua area at that time, and the grain was not harvested. Jiang Zong had a good nose, and he had already smelled the business opportunity of this disaster. Unfortunately, he didn't have so much food in hand, so he set his sights on Lelian's grain business.

Le Lian was annoyed by him, so he raised a bet with Jiang Zong, winning two out of three games, if Jiang Zong won, he would transfer the food store to him at a low price, if Jiang Zong lost, he would give up a piece of jewelry under his name business name.

Jiang Zong reluctantly agreed.

The two won one round each, and in the third round, Jiang Zong lay on the table dejectedly, a little bit regretful, his jewelry store also makes a profit of around [-] taels a year, if he loses to Le Lian, he will be so distressed.

Le Lian sat across from him drinking tea, watching Jiang Zong lying on the table worrying, wanted to break the contract but couldn't hold back his face, bit his lips and bulged his cheeks, and vented all his anger on the table, until the sandalwood table was scratched until the paint fell off.

Le Lian looked at him for a while, and the corners of his lips twitched slightly.

Jiang Zong raised his head and yelled: "What are you laughing at, I'll bet on Xiao!"

Le Lian shook his head slightly, and opened the dice cup. There are eight points in total, which is indeed small.

Jiang Zong breathed a sigh of relief, and looked at Le Lian triumphantly: "I'd like to admit defeat, and bring me some food."

Without saying anything, Le Lian handed Jiang Zong a few deeds, tapped his head with a fan, and left.

The farts are so bad that Jiang Zong wins all over.