"Brother You..." Miao'er hugged him distressedly. At this moment, she felt that Qi You's whole person seemed to be enveloped by a deep and intractable sadness.

She had never seen Qi You like this. Her brother You had always been a strong and optimistic person, as if nothing could break him down.

But now, Brother You is getting depressed every day.

The feeling was subtle, even though he tried to hide it. But except for her, everyone else was aware of it, and even Xiaozhu secretly found her and asked her quietly, "Is he bad lately and annoyed my brother-in-law, or why didn't my brother-in-law laugh with him like before? ".

It should be said that a woman is naturally more sensitive in emotion, and more self-explanatory. She calmly calmed down the small pillar, and then made a decisive excuse and dragged Brother You out.

In the past, her parents had any contradictions, as long as they opened up. So she naively thought that she and Brother You would do the same.

But I don't know that Qi You's distress all comes from the torture of his conscience.

But what's terrible is that this is still a knotty, and he can't untie it at all by a flat-headed citizen.

He did not have the power to control the imperial power, nor the ability to fly to the sky, and even had a lot of weaknesses.

He is a bit smart in business, but putting this smart in the imperial power struggle is like a child hacking with a wooden knife, which is ridiculously horrible.

The more Qi You thinks, the weaker he feels, and the more he thinks, the more desperate he feels.

If one day, he also ends up in such a situation, what should he do?

Will he choose to accept his fate like Qiu Ren?

the answer is negative.

He did not want to die, let alone die so silly, but the ancient people had the least human rights. It was the ants at the feet of the powerful, the pigs and sheep raised by the pigs, and the fish on the chopping board. Let you live and die. .

What about him? Qi You couldn't help asking himself. What is he worth?

He is just an ordinary citizen. In the eyes of other people, he is humble and unworthy even to lift shoes for the nobles.

Qi You gradually squeezed his hands, his eyes flashed brightly, and finally gradually became firm.

He should not be trampled on as pigs and sheep.

He must be a master!

He wants his family to live well!

Qi You wiped his face, the sadness in his eyes faded and replaced by vigorous ambition.

Miao'er noticed his change and felt strange for a while, and he hesitated to call out "Brother You".

Qi You touched her face as before, soothed: "I'm fine, don't worry."

Miao'er raised her hand to cover his hand. Although she still felt something was wrong in her heart, she was very happy to be able to walk out of Brother You, so she nodded gently, "Yeah."

...

After a month, they finally reached the south and stepped into the gate of the Golden City that they were thinking of.

At that time, the tigers were making a lot of noise, especially in the humid and hot climate of the south.

Looking at the unabated sun above his head, Qi You twitched the corner of his mouth slightly.

It's okay to be very hot, I'm afraid it's not hot.

On the first day in the city, Qi You spent a tael of silver and rented a small ruined yard for a period of one month and a deposit of two taels.

The eight or two pieces of silver that had been pulled from the dead men immediately went for a small amount.

Qi You sighed that Jincheng deserves to be a prosperous city, and the consumption is not generally high.

While the Qi family was tidying the yard, Qi You went out again, spending five hundred wen, looking for a group of little beggars to go to the corners of those old houses, scraping the white material on the walls, and collecting them at night.

The next day, he did this again, spending five hundred wen and making a mold at the same time.

The Qi family didn't understand what he was doing, but they observed his serious face and went out frequently, guessing that what he was doing must be the right thing, so naturally they didn't stop it.

In the evening, Qi You called other people to go to bed, and he was playing in the yard alone.

He took out the white substance he had collected in a few days, and that was saltpeter.

Saltpeter dissolves in water, it will absorb a lot of heat around, causing the temperature of the water to drop sharply. This is how saltpeter makes ice.

Qi You poured some water in a large basin, then put it in a mold, and poured a basin of water in the mold, and then poured saltpeter into the large basin, and waited quietly all night.

On the next morning, Qi You got up early to check that the water in the mold had frozen. And it's still an orchid-shaped ice.

It should be regarded as attractive here.

Qi You put down the ice, and then hurried out, gritted his teeth and spent a couple of dollars to buy a new outfit.

In this way, seven taels of silver were spent.

However, when he looked at the things in the straw basket, how could the smile at the corners of his mouth be overwhelming.

After he went out, he went straight to a restaurant. Qi You has quietly inquired about these two days. The owner of this restaurant has some money, but not much power, he can contact now.

From the moment he stepped into the restaurant, Qi You's aura changed. If it weren't for the wrong location, wrong clothes, and a daze, he would think he was back in modern times, when he was alone in the shopping mall.

The eyes of Xiao Er in the restaurant are so poisonous that he looked at the person from head to toe, and had an estimate in his heart. He immediately put on a flattering smile on his face, and greeted him with a smile, "Does the guest officer stay in the shop?"

Qi You put the straw basket on the table, and Da Ma Jindao sat down and said concisely, "I am looking for your shopkeeper."

Xiao Er looked at Qi You and then at the basket. The basket was covered with a layer of cloth to make it difficult to see what was inside.

Xiao Er's eyes rolled around, and he immediately responded: "Okay, the guest officer waits a moment."

A cup of tea, the shopkeeper is here, wearing 80% new clothes, her face is white and plump, with a healthy red color, which makes people feel lovable at first glance.

The shopkeeper arched his hands first, and said with a smile: "I wonder why the customer is looking for a kid?"

The corner of Qi You's mouth raised, with a reserved smile, he looked up at the shopkeeper, with an imposing manner, "I want to talk about business with the shopkeeper. I wonder if the shopkeeper has time?"

The shopkeeper's heart jumped, and the familiar feeling made him affirm that he had met the same kind.

So he almost didn't hesitate, so he took the person to the private room on the second floor.

Qi You patiently waited for him to close the doors and windows, and even drank a cup of tea and used a snack until the shopkeeper's face became faintly impatient, and Qi You clicked on the table with his index finger.

"The stuff is in the basket, and the shopkeeper can take it by himself."

His eloquent Mandarin has made the shopkeeper's heart a little nervous and expectant.

With such a complicated mood, he uncovered the cloth on the basket, and his face changed slightly when he saw the contents.

The shopkeeper tentatively asked, his attitude was more respectful than before: "I don't know what the son means?"

Qi You smiled, but both of them knew that it was just a polite smirk.

"I have a lot of this stuff here. If the shopkeeper is interested, let's see and give a price."

The shopkeeper's breathing was sudden, looking at the contents of the basket, he couldn't help reaching out and touching the edge.

It's cold, it's really ice.

It must not be waiting for idlers who can still take out ice at this time.

After all, summer has passed. It's just who could have expected that the autumn tigers are so powerful today. For a while, ice is priceless.

But now what he heard, this young man has ice in front of him, not a lot! !

The shopkeeper: Oh, my mother! !

To win, this business must be won.

There was such a belief in his heart.

So when he made the price, he was extraordinarily bold, lest he angered others and lost the business.

The shopkeeper: "Twelve, twelve a catty of ice, I don't know what the son wants?"

Qi You thought for a while, something like ice is very heavy.

Saltpeter can be reused anyway.

It's just that you can't let it go too quickly, otherwise you won't know how to cherish the things that are too easy to get.

After a whole afternoon of running-in, well, mainly the shopkeeper has been persuading Qi Youman to casually drink tea and eat snacks, and the final price is set at twelve twenty one catty.

Make a contract and sign the names of the two in duplicate.

The shopkeeper paid a hundred taels of silver as a deposit. He originally wanted to give the silver bill, but Qi You didn't ask for it, so he replaced it with a box of broken silver.

Qi You took the silver, weighed it, and was very satisfied, but the shopkeeper was taken aback.

Shopkeeper: My dear, there are a hundred taels of silver in the box, and it is calculated to be a full ten catties.

The other party actually hugged it with his right hand, as if it was not a ten-jin silver, but rather a light gadget.

To say that the opponent doesn't have kung fu, he doesn't believe that the shopkeeper killed him.

Poor civilized and rich martial arts, and the whole body has a good temperament. It seems that this young man has come out to experience it.

The shopkeeper had a higher evaluation of Qi You in his heart, and likewise, he was even more afraid.

Qi You was very satisfied with the effect he had produced, and closed his hand appropriately. I was grateful that the other party had been grinding his mouth for the whole afternoon. After the deal was concluded, before leaving, he opened his mouth and said: "What shape of ice does the shopkeeper want?"

The shopkeeper: "Shape?"

Qi You changed his remarks, "Similar to ice sculptures, flower-shaped, animal-shaped, or landscape-shaped?"

The shopkeeper didn't expect this kind of unexpected joy, the whole person was like being hit by a pie falling from the sky, and the whole person was happy and stupid.

The shopkeeper: "It doesn't matter, anything is okay, it's okay, please trouble Young Master Qi."

Qi You nodded slightly, agreeing.

He took a hundred taels of silver, went out of the restaurant, easily shook off the tail behind him, and then went to the clothing store. He spent fifty taels in one go. He bought two sets of men's clothing, a total of twenty taels, and the remaining thirty The two bought two sets for Qi's father, Qi's mother and Miao'er sister and brother.

The shop owner saw that he was generous and gave him some small jewelry from his daughter's house. Qi You took it with a smile.

He took the remaining fifty taels, turned around to clean up the shop, and bought a lot of women's jewelry.

He is a man in the business arena, and he understands the truth that people should dress in gold.

Who has ever seen a prince wear the same clothes every time he goes out?

In the end, he deliberately left ten taels of silver, with the things he bought, and returned home.

Qi You originally wanted to surprise his family, so he shut up everything he was busy with the other day. The main thing is that the matter has not been settled down, and his heart is always hanging. Now that the transaction has been concluded, he can't help but want to share the good news with his family.

But he never expected that before he surprised his family, Qi Mu and Miao'er gave him a "surprise" first.