Chapter 7: Revisit Sioux City

When Xiao Chen and his party arrived in Suero, it was already evening, and the convoy entered the inner city with the shadow of the city gate stretched by the setting sun. Not seen for more than a month, Suero is still bustling as usual, and horse thieves in the remote mountainous areas have no effect on the merchants and nobles here.
Li Jia finally waited until the effect of the charm technique disappeared, and finally no longer had to hide in the carriage to avoid harassment. He and Celinda rode in parallel, looking at the characters and scenery in the city curiously.
It was dinner time and there were not many pedestrians on the streets of Suero, and it was very quiet. The team walked all the way, leaving behind a series of clicks of horseshoes colliding with the stone road, and the creaking of the wheels.
The shops on the roadside were mostly busy closing, the bosses and the guys closed the paving with thick cloth or wooden boards, and the windows of the houses and hostels had already begun to emit the light of the lighting crystals and candles.
Celinda pointed to the row-by-row shops and said: "Suero is the largest trading city in the northwest of the Kingdom. How is it compared to your hometown? If most of the shops are closed at night, there will be more people here. You can even walk. See Empires, Dwarves, Elves and Sea Races. "
Li Jia smiled, no matter whether he was growing up in Shenzhen or studying in Shanghai, where is such a small city comparable? Just point a street on the map, the prosperity is many times here. This is the gap of the times and cannot be compensated by other methods. He responded: "Well, it is really interesting."
Li Jia ’s compliments were very insincere, and some annoyed Celinda. She argued:
The king ’s business is nothing more than that, not to mention the rigid empire and the fragmented trading ports in the south. Unless you come from something else In the world, there are no cities on this continent to underestimate Suero ’s richness! "
Any other world? Li Jia smiled and did not answer, but this expression was seen by Celinda.
"You like it here?" He asked.
"Well, I really like the atmosphere of this city. It is full of vitality, and compared to the city in my homeland, such a taste is less." Celinda exclaimed.
"No matter how good the city is, it's built by people. I believe your hometown will be more prosperous than here one day." Li Jia's eyes swept over a local snack shop with a large scale. In addition to wooden shelves, there is no style, where is it Supermarket rival.
"It's easy to say!" Celinda stared at the front, and she seemed to think of a lot of things in an instant. "Suero's prosperity is more than a millennium. This is a place where business and business meet. Other cities can't learn. Not to mention some people. I do n’t want such a city to appear on Arias ’s enclave. "
"Is it the count's political enemy?" Li Jia asked.
Celinda shook her head without saying a word.
"If you build a prosperous city in your hometown is your wish ... I can't guarantee anything, but I will try to help you achieve it." Li Jia reached out his hand and gently held it in Celinda's hand.

Celinda and his party went to his house in Suero, and everyone in the school came to the hotel where Xiao Chen stayed.
But as soon as they entered the door, they were informed by the boss that Miss Luo had moved out of the hotel half a month ago and moved into the house she bought.
Xiao Chen looked at Chen Hansheng with the address given to him by the boss. He knew that most of the gold coins were spent on military expenses. Luo Ling didn't have much capital, and he couldn't help wondering.
When they searched for the address on the note according to the picture, they were surprised to find that it was a large mansion quietly located next to the city center.
The mansion has three floors and occupies a small shopping mall, with at least seven or eight rooms on the first floor. The walls and pillars of the mansion are covered with carved flowers, and there are various birds and animals on the eaves. The style is simple and gorgeous.
Xiao Chen's team was large and full of goods. Before the door, they attracted the attention of the people in the house. The door opened quickly, and Luo Ling and Xi Luo and several others left behind by the business team greeted them together.
Luo Ling's appearance tonight is rich and gorgeous. Her hair was curled up and she wore a gorgeous light blue long dress with a pigeon egg-sized sapphire necklace around her neck and a white fox fur cape on her shoulder.
"It's great that you can return with victory." Her voice couldn't hide the excitement. "The merchants brought the news of the defeat of the horse thief, but only when I saw you with my own eyes, I felt relieved."
"The horse thief is back." Xiao Chen looked at her blankly. "But, but how did you become this look?"
"If it were not for me to believe that Mr. Luo was a person, I must have thought you were near a local tyrant." Chen Hansheng said.
Luo Ling saw that everyone's eyes were focused on her dress, and she smiled and said: "You are all fighting, we are not idle. My body is work clothes, I can't enter the circle of the geeks without this dress. Do n’t worry, I did n’t spend a penny on you, this house and business are all earning.

She said to Silo, who was dressed as a housekeeper, "Siro, please tell the Baroness. I won't go to the party today. I will arrange everyone to eat and take a bath. You will find some people to help you unload the goods."
"Yes." Siro salutes and asks the little fellow around him. Soon, a group of strong men come in the yard, and under the command of Siro starts to move the goods.
"Please, please visit me with your new home first, and after the lap is over, the meals should be ready. I have trained the cook for half a month, and you can eat a little bit of Chinese food here."
auzw.com Dinner really brings a bit of Chinese taste. It is quite difficult to burn the dishes to this extent without soy sauce and vinegar. During the meeting, talking about the horse thieves on both sides, it was not easy to do business, and everyone was sighing.
After dinner, everyone rested separately. Xiao Chen asked Luo Ling to meet alone in the study.
Xiao Chen first went to the study, picked a few books on the bookshelf casually, and turned it over without reading a single word. At this point in his mind, there were fragments of getting along with Luo Ling.
When he did not see Luo Ling, Xiao Chen had been thinking about how to face her. The hug last time seemed to open a barrier between the two. He wanted to establish something here. But he was afraid that an outdated sentence would destroy everything before. Between men and women is a game of slow temptation, gradually approaching, just like a passenger plane needs a runway when landing, straight up and down will kill people.
Luo Ling had already changed the dress when she came, wearing a shirt and skirt, which was both capable and charming. She leaned against the door frame and looked at him with a smile, as if she could see through his mind.
Xiao Chen had a hunch that if he said something at this time, he might immediately receive a good card. So, he chose to avoid that topic, but asked: "How did you come these days! I didn't make it clear at the dinner table, and I will talk about it in detail."
Luo Ling smiled smugly and lifted her finger. "I attended a few boring dances, met some wives, chatted with some rich miser, and talked about business."
"It seems that you're a bad mix? Did the profiteers here lie to you as a single woman?" Xiao Chen laughed.
"Do I look good bullied?" Bibi fists.
"In this world, most women still have to be attached to men." Xiao Chen was amused by her movements.
"That's how stupid women and stupid women work. Do you think I will be like that?" Luo Ling frowned.
"That's not true. I'm just curious about who you borrowed from? Isn't it self-proclaimed Mrs. Xiao?" Xiao Chen laughed thievely.
"Humph!" Luo Ling snorted. "You guy likes to be self-righteous, as if the world lacks you and doesn't turn around. Why should I be Mrs. Xiao, can't I be Mr. Luo Ling's mage? , Which is more powerful? Have you not seen those wealthy merchants respectfully and respectfully in front of me, which dare to be as arrogant as you are. "
"Are you pretending to be a magician? Are you afraid that they will find out?" Xiao Chen surprised. But then he found himself asking a silly question. Wasn't he just playing all the way before?
"Who will check me? Who dares to check me? I am a magician, and they only have a hundred points of benefit for their business. Is it really so important to be fake?" Luo Ling took out the account book in her hand and threw it to Xiao Chen.
Xiao Chen took the account book and turned a few pages before exclaiming, "This is what you have done in just over a month? God!"
There are dozens of businesses listed in this book by Luo Ling. All business is based on local materials and hiring workers. Luo Ling did not invest in anything new, but she used her vision and ideas to organize these local productivity and produce various profitable new products.
For example, she used a magician as a guise to cooperate with a pig dealer, and the other party was so flattered that she took half of the shares. The bristle plus the wooden handle is equal to the toothbrush, the pork and the iron skin become canned, and after the pig skin is nitrated, it is made into a backpack and insole by the tailor she invited. She also used these goods as funds to invest in other projects. Several times, the funds left by Xiao Chen have turned several times. Although they cannot be cashed out immediately, Luo Ling already has a full contract and a whole warehouse of goods.
"This ... this is too exaggerated." Xiao Chen felt his confidence had been hit unprecedentedly.
"Resource integration only, if a modern person can't even do this, it's not that Bai has lived in the information age for so many years." Luo Ling blinked at Xiao Chen.
"However, this house and those servants are also expensive? I guess you should not have much money left."
Luo Ling smiled: "This house is really not expensive, I took it for one tenth of the market price, and it was still paid for by the goods. We built a family together with the Diaz family and the Bacchus family. A trading company called 'Jin Jasmine' used my products to overwhelm several competitors in some areas. This house was originally one of the unlucky ones. After he went bankrupt, this house was taken by me. "
"It's a bad way to make money! When we first arrived, the movement was so big, would there be any problems?"
"The Diaz family and the Bacchus family are all ground snakes, not to mention the Baker Baron Gregory of the City Guards also has a share of Golden Jasmine. Whoever wants to hit us will have to weigh it carefully." Luo Ling looked out the window The direction of the city wall: "Since a few weeks ago, the thugs who wanted to set fire to our warehouse were hanged outside the city wall. The Golden Jasmine Chamber of Commerce is well known to be in Suero."
Xiao Chen nodded and said, "That's what it says, but you still have to be careful about your own safety."
"Well, to protect myself, I bought a dozen slaves. The porters you saw are actually people from my slave guard."
"Slave Guard? We thought about going together!" Xiao Chen said with some excitement. "This time we came here to have a task to buy a group of slaves and increase the manpower of the school. I didn't expect you to take a step first! Your Is the slave obedient? Can it do a good job? "
"Sometimes, simple-minded slaves are more reliable than our own. After they are bought, everything in their lives depends on their masters, so they can do all kinds of things to please their masters." Luo Ling Frowning, "Human life is very cheap in this world. As the master, you can always find a reason to execute the slaves and sell them at any time. No moral responsibility is required, everyone will think this is Righteous, even the slave himself. "
"So, we bought them and actually saved them."
"Don't think of yourself as a savior. We buy them just because we need labor. Making them free people to join us through education is the best result, but it can't be turned upside down at the beginning." Luo Ling said seriously. .
"Well, go to the slave market tomorrow."