Take a Door with You

Let the old lady worry about the eldest brother's marriage.

Industry specializing in surgery.

Ten Cao Xins are no match for one aunt when it comes to matters such as media protection.

But just now Cao Zhang accidentally mentioned his father 'Cao Kun', which reminded Cao Xin of his other two relatives in this world——

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"The second elder brother and the younger sister were lost in Tanxi Qingyuan in the third year of Tianfu. We searched for several months but couldn't find them. We couldn't survive in Qingyuan, so we had to continue south and enter Shangjiang Province. To Xijing City."

"This time, the sky is vast and the earth is vast, and the sea of ​​people is vast. It will be difficult to find them again."

"We didn't have that ability in the past two years, but now we can try."

That night, Cao Xin pulled Cao Ren and mentioned his second elder brother Cao Yi and younger sister Cao Shu.

Back then, Caojia Village collectively fled from the famine, suffered disasters year after year, and was also in chaos. Before leaving Ningxi Province, the people dispersed.

Cao Xin's family huddled together and originally planned to go south and go straight into the Shangjiang River, but they turned to the east and entered Tanxi Province in a daze.

When they arrived at Qingyuan Mansion in Tanxi, the second child, Cao Yi, had a low fever and was exhausted. The family asked him to take his one-year-old younger sister, Cao Shu, to rest outside the city, while the family went to the city to look for him. Live, beg.

But unexpectedly, at that time, many officials suddenly appeared inside and outside the city to drive away refugees and disaster victims.

There was confusion.

Officials are rude and don't listen to people.

It was said to be expelled and expelled, but it was actually escorted. They were sent all the way to a dilapidated village more than 20 miles away from the capital, and they were ordered to cultivate and live here and not to flee.

By the time Cao Kun and others slipped out, it was already three days later.

Looking back, Cao Yi and Cao Shu had long since disappeared.

Because they are refugees and escaped households, they are not allowed to run around, so they can only hide around to find someone.

More than three months.

nothing.

You can't see people when you are born, and you can't see corpses when you die.

Two children just lost.

Cao Yi was fourteen years old at that time, and Cao Shugang was eleven months old, not yet one year old.

One and a half-year-old children are still sick, and they have another baby with them.

Cao Kun and the others didn't know what to say, but after a few months, they all knew in their hearts that the two of them were probably in danger.

In addition, I couldn't survive in Qingyuan Mansion at that time, and I couldn't delay any longer, so I continued to go south and went to Shangjiang.

It counts as giving up.

"But the second brother has always been alert, so he may not be able to survive."

"There is a glimmer of hope temporarily, we always try to find it."

Cao Xin has been thinking about it for a long time. At this time, everything is stable and the family has surplus money, so he can finally promote the plan of finding relatives.

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"Second brother, little sister."

When Cao Ren heard this, he was stunned.

Of course, he also hopes that Cao Yi and Cao Shu are not dead, and he will occasionally think of them in the dead of night. But it has never been announced, and it is really unrealistic.

Not to mention whether the two are alive or not.

Even if alive—

"There is an entire Shangjiang Province between Xijing City and Qingyuan Mansion. At that time, we arrived at Xijing City from Qingyuan Mansion via Shangjiang Province. It took us a year and a half, thousands of miles away."

"It's so far away, how can I find it?"

"Besides, Qingyuan Mansion is not small, so it is already difficult to find two people. Not to mention it has been three years, and it is not at all sure whether they are still in Qingyuan Mansion."

long distance.

The range is large.

A long time.

The world is in chaos.

These are all difficulties.

"Of course there are difficulties."

"But you can't stop doing it because you are afraid of difficulties."

Cao Xin has made up his mind, and he will not be reconciled if he does not try to find him.

And he not only has his mind, but also a rough plan.

"Brother, I think so."

"It's difficult to do business in Xijing City now. Smaller martial arts gyms have closed down one after another. Many gym owners and martial arts masters have been liberated at once. These people now have roughly four origins—some of them are old and frail, and their energy and blood have declined. Some of them were absorbed by the Xijing Department of the Embroidery Department and the yamen at all levels of Xijing City, some of them went to look for jobs as guards in homes, restaurants, banks, etc., and some became bodyguards or entered the army. gangs, and some even went to work on the docks as coolies."

Today Tang Miao mentioned the collapse of martial arts halls in Xijing City, Cao Xin has also been paying attention recently, and an idea has already sprouted: "Since there are so many practitioners on the market, all of whom have some skills, we can set up an escort agency to collect these People will be absorbed in, and the business route from Xijing City to Tanxi Province will be opened up. In this way, you can take root in Xijing, earn money from darts, and find your second brother and younger sister at the same time, killing three birds with one stone."

In fact, this plan was not born hastily.

As early as August of the previous year, after Cao Xin discovered the magical effect of 'insight', it had already taken shape. What I thought at the beginning was to discover poor talents, send them to major martial arts halls to practice martial arts, and cultivate their wings. Later, I thought, when the eldest brother has successfully practiced martial arts, they can open a "Cao's martial arts gym" to train direct disciples.

Later, when he met Duan Chong, Duan Chong's strength had improved a lot recently, since he didn't want to enter the Embroidery Division, the Escort could always give it a try.

If he was able to sit in charge, the most difficult top expert in the Escort Bureau would be found. It is only logical that the planned martial arts hall will be converted into an escort agency.

certainly.

The premise of everything is money.

"It's definitely going to cost a lot of money early on, and it's probably going to keep losing money."

"However, with our current family background, it is not a problem to support it for a year or two. During this period of time, there is no need to rush to pick up the darts. We have martial arts masters. We can first recruit a group of reliable children and train them. After a year or two, we will be able to Come in handy."

"At that time, you and the eldest sister were not bad in martial arts, and you were the backbone of the Escort."

"If you trick Uncle Duan in again, it's a master in charge."

"At that time, I had great medical skills, and I was backed by Uncle Duan and the bodyguard bureau. I had a certain ability to protect myself, and I could spread my name and use it as a card to make friends with dignitaries."

in this way--

With manpower, force, and connections, the Escort business is promising!

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"this--"

"How much money do you have at home now?"

Cao Ren was also persuaded.

Originally, he was not interested in the Escort, but if he was expected to find Cao Yi and Cao Shu through the Escort, then his motivation would be too great.

It's just that how much money the family has, how much money is needed to open and maintain the Escort Bureau, has to be calculated clearly.

This is a big deal.

A myriad of thoughts.

Once a decision has been made and it is started, it is not easy to stop.

If you stop, you will lose money!

Don't be careless.

"From August of the second year of Qianyou to August of last year, because the two of us struggled, the total surplus was less than a thousand taels. After daily expenses and the purchase of three small courtyards, there is not much left."

Three small courtyards——

Live in one place.

One is connected to the warehouse, where Cao Xin ships goods and Lu, Xie, Zou and others get goods.

Fresh fish, eggs, live chicken, game.

They all go out from here.

The last one is a secret stronghold, where Cao Xin, Cao Ren, and Cao Xian occasionally go to practice martial arts.

This is one of the three caves of the cunning rabbit.

All three properties are not cheap.

At that time, Cao Xin's family property was almost emptied.

Until mid-July last year, until March this year.

Eight months before and after.

With the increase of hired workers, more and more shipments, eggs, live chickens, including pheasants and hares, etc., just these, there are three or five taels of silver coming in every day.

But that's just the headlines.

The main source of income is fresh fish.

In the original fairyland, there is a huge original river, forty or fifty meters wide. Cao Xin guarded the nearly 1,000-meter river section, using teleportation, in and out, and could catch less than three thousand catties of fresh fish in one or two hours. Each fresh fish weighed four to five catties, and there were about seven or eight hundred fish.

Then sell it to restaurants and restaurants at a price lower than the market price, with an average daily income of thirty taels.

After a month, this is a sale of nearly a thousand taels.

And it's a no-cost deal!

In addition to the errand money for delivery, the profit is as much as the turnover!

After half a year, I made a lot of money.

And the monthly expenses are nothing but the wages of each family, which subsidizes the tuition, food, and medicine of martial arts. There are more than 20 families, and the sum of them is just over a hundred and two in a month.

This is spent.

In fact, most of the sources of income of each family are Cao Xin's profit in the egg business.

He can sell eggs for five pennies on the market, but he pays three pennies each to each family. It is purely a matter of earning more and less.

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