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"Hey, hey,
Don't move,
You haven't recovered yet. "
"... I can't continue to owe you a debt."
The youth who had just woken up still had a hoarse voice, but his complexion was much better than before,
He didn't dare to use too much force on Li Yue. He only gently brushed away Li Yue's hand. It was obvious that he had made up his mind to leave the room.
Seeing Hoodlum stand up in only his underwear,
He picked up the iron sword and was about to leave. Li Yue was so angry that she wanted to laugh. She sat on the edge of the bed and suddenly stopped Hoodlum from stepping out of the door:
"Stop!"
The youth stopped in his tracks,
He hesitated for a moment,
He finally turned around and faced Li Yue with a cold expression.
As soon as she met the youth's gaze, Li Yue's heart was filled with irritation. However, when she saw Hoodlum's slightly pale and handsome face, she was filled with anger.
It instantly turned into nothingness,
She took a deep breath and remained calm,
She raised her chin and looked at the youth,
Then she patted the edge of the bed beside her:
"You don't want to owe a debt, right?
Come and sit down,
Let's settle the score. "
Hoodlum squeezed the iron sword in his hand. He did not sit beside Li Yue,
Instead, he walked to the little girl expressionlessly and stood still,
There was a stubborn stubbornness in his actions.
There was a height difference between the two of them,
Li Yue could only raise her head to clearly see Hoodlum's expression. She recalled the image of a rich landlord in a movie she had seen in the past. She took off her shoes and jumped onto the bed. She looked down at Hoodlum from a high vantage point, as though she was free of her inhibitions.
"Is this the attitude of someone who wants to repay their debt?
Do you think that if you leave my house now, you can owe me less?
Do you know how much I spent to hire a doctor to brew medicine for you while you were unconscious?
Hmph!
You owe me so much, and now you want to run away?
Let me tell you, today, whether you are willing or not, you have to stay here obediently and recuperate!
Otherwise, if something happens to you again, who am I going to look for to collect the debt? "
Li Yue spoke to Hoodlum in rapid succession. Hoodlum looked at her without blinking.
When her mouth was dry and she thought that the young man would reject her with silence, the young man suddenly opened his mouth and said,
"I understand."
Before Li Yue could say anything else, Hoodlum added,
"I won't run away until I've paid off my debt."
"Humph!
You think I … you … "
At first, he was so difficult to communicate with, but now he was so easy to talk to. Li Yue really couldn't understand what the young man was thinking. She didn't care about anything else, as long as he could stay obediently.
Thinking of Bai Feifei's previous actions, in order to prevent the young man from changing his mind again, Li Yue didn't jump off the bed in a hurry. Instead, she counted with her fingers and calculated the debt with Hoodlum:
"Hey, let's make this clear first. You owe me money for the medicine, so you have to work to pay off your debt.
In order to ensure that you have enough strength to work, I will provide food and lodging during this period. The money for food and lodging will also have to be paid off by your hard work.
As for the debt of gratitude, let's count it this way. Just treat it as you owing me two wishes. If I need them in the future, no matter how hard you work, you have to fulfill them for me.
Is this fair enough? "
"… Okay, I promise."
Li Yue let out a long sigh of relief in her heart, but she still had that "I'm super fierce" look on her face. Just as she was about to slowly climb off the bed, she felt that it would ruin her image too much. She could only instruct the young man to bring her shoes over and make him turn around.
Hoodlum did as he was told and obediently stood with his back to the little girl.
Li Yue's "negotiation" was successful. With a complacent expression, she sat on the edge of the bed and slowly put on her shoes. Just as she finished putting on her right foot and was about to put on her left foot, Li Xunhuan suddenly pushed open the door and entered.
After the person who came in third in the examination looked around the room, his expression turned from gentle to strange.
"Just now … what were you guys doing?"
It was no wonder that Tanhua Lang had a strange expression. After all, Hoodlum and Li Yue's current expressions and actions, as well as the messy clothes on the bed, were like the aftermath of a mountain king defiling an innocent girl.
Of course, the innocent girl was Hoodlum, and the mountain king was Li Yue.
Coupled with the fact that Li Yue had previously said something about a "child bride", if it weren't for the fact that they were still young, Li Xunhuan's blood pressure would have increased.
Tanhua Lang restrained himself. In the end, he did not reprimand Li Yue in front of Hoodlum. He only said to the latter coldly:
"You … come to my study for a moment."
Li Yue's hand that was holding her shoes paused, and her face immediately fell.
Although she had explained to Tanhua Lang what she had done in the study, and Li Xunhuan did not say what she had done wrong, Li Yue still carried a small mountain of copybooks back to her room.
She originally planned to let Hoodlum help her with some of the tasks, but when the teenager came over and wrote a few words, Li Yue immediately gave up on this idea.
The reason was simple. Not only was the style of the teenager's handwriting different from Li Yue's, but it was also better than Li Yue's. It was too easy to be exposed.
The next day, Li Yue went to school as usual. She ordered Hoodlum to stay at home to rest.
During the break, she did not disturb Zhu Ting who was sleeping on the table. Instead, she thought about Hoodlum's future.
With the teenager's current age, it was not suitable for him to go to school with her. According to his personality, he did not like to be involved with others. Li Yue thought about it and remembered the scene when they met in front of the tavern during the New Year.
As soon as she got home after school, Li Yue went to the backyard and caught the little fox, who was burrowing all over the ground like a groundhog. When she slipped into the front yard, she saw the youth holding his sword in deep thought under the plum tree. She suddenly had the idea of teasing the youth, so she tiptoed behind the youth in an attempt to scare him.
Hoodlum was used to living in the wilderness, so he was very alert. The moment Li Yue stepped into the front yard, he had already heard the little girl's movements. When Li Yue suddenly jumped out from behind him with the little fox, he did not even bat an eyelid.
Li Yue put the squeaking little fox into Hoodlum's arms and put her hands behind her head.
"Here, Mao Mao has always been taken care of by Uncle Tie, but Uncle Tie has been busy recently and has no time to take care of it. The others also don't have the experience of taking care of foxes, so your first job is to take care of Mao Mao. Don't let it destroy the plants in the yard and don't let it escape from the backyard. Do you understand?"
The teenager nodded and skillfully changed his position so that the little fox was nestled in his arms.
After arranging Hoodlum's work and the Long Dragon's matter, Li Yue stretched and turned around to look for Tie Chuanjia.
During the rest day, the children of the same age were playing around. Li Yue sat on the Long Dragon's high chair with one hand supporting her chin, listening to the hoodlums' work reports.
After the Long Dragon announced that there would be no compulsory collection of protection fees, not many people were willing to pay the higher price of the security fees even though the gang members had repeatedly promoted it. Many of the merchants still held the protection fees and begged the hoodlums to lower the fees.
Among the people who paid the security fee, Li Yue didn't need to think to know that most of them didn't want to offend the local tyrant, the Long Dragon Gang. They weren't willing to hire the Long Dragon Gang's security personnel.
Wang Sanqian, who was in charge of the security related matters, said that the gang's profits had plummeted this month and asked the Gang Leader to punish him. Li Yue did not respond and just waved her hand to let him continue to wait.
On the other hand, He Lao Er, who was in charge of the sales of the soap, had a happy expression and confidently reported the profits of the month to Li Yue. Wang Sanqian, who was on the side, had a bitter expression on his face.
These days, people mostly used Chinese soap and charcoal to clean their clothes. They also only used hot water when bathing. Only the rich and powerful could afford to use soap.
The cost of soap was higher than soap, and the cheaper Chinese soap didn't clean as well as soap. In addition, Li Yue had Zhu Ting made a large number of different shapes and sizes of templates, as well as some natural dyes. It could completely satisfy the different needs of the residents of Shuo Zhou City.
The location of the soap shop was near Xi City. The shop was bought by Li Yue herself. Before the official opening, Li Yue had the gang members cut the soap into small pieces and distributed them to the passers-by on the streets. Then, with Uncle Fu's guidance, she gave a few gifts to the political officials of Shuo Zhou City.
Although the residents of the city had doubts, they quickly discovered the advantages of the soap after trying it out. Therefore, on the opening day, there were still people lining up to buy it.
In addition, with the help of the Li Family's caravan, the business of the soap shop was exceptionally good. It was quite a bit of demand.
He Lao Er hurriedly hoped that Li Yue would allow him to expand the production of soap. Li Yue didn't agree. She wasn't worried about the scarcity, but she felt that the gang members didn't have enough manpower. Just making the soap had already consumed a lot of manpower, and they also needed a lot of manpower to sell the soap. If it wasn't for the fact that the security wasn't fully developed yet, the gang would definitely lack people to patrol and guard.
If the business was booming, it would naturally make others jealous. If one gang was the only gang, it would attract even more jealousy and hatred. It was inevitable that people would come looking for trouble, or secretly tamper with the soap's secret formula.
Li Yue had thought of this long ago. After she became the gang leader, she had already cleaned up a wave of people in the gang.
Therefore, in the gang, those who knew about the raw materials of the soap were all reliable old gang members. They had already been beaten by Tie Chuanjia. Later on, when the business of the soap shop started, they would invest in it and get a share of the profits.
With a stable income and Tie Chuanjia's occasional 'guidance' to the young men in the clan, very few people dared to have thoughts that they shouldn't have.
Even if there were people who had disloyal thoughts, they would consider their own weight again and again to see if they had the life to earn money.
In a short period of time, they couldn't find a breakthrough from the Long Dragon Gang members. Some people simply spent money to hire thieves to try to steal the secret formula.
Although they were all gangsters, different professions were worlds apart. If it wasn't for Tie Chuanjia coincidentally guarding the main hall that day, the thieves would have succeeded.