Beside him, helping to keep order, Su Mo and Sun Quan were both smiling broadly, full of warm approachability.

You don’t fear those who don’t know goods, you fear comparing goods with goods.

When she turned her gaze, the other electricians who had been hired merely to eat and drink for free could only stand to one side, smiling awkwardly.

Faced with such a huge gap, a flash of reluctance rose in Zhang Min’s heart before she forcibly suppressed it.

“Su Youzong, oh Su Youzong, don’t blame me. If you must blame something, blame this damned world!”

“Our Zhang family has more than a dozen people who must go on living here. As for you, you have only a sister who isn’t even blood kin, so you are practically alone.”

“Staying in this damned wasteland is too bitter. If you go a step earlier, we’ll be relieving you of it. Please, don’t resent us!”

“Don’t worry, after you’re gone, I will make sure to look after your sister for you!”

Ten thirty at night.

The workers lining up at the door finally began to thin out, and Zhang Bowen took the chance to announce that the shop was closing and that people could come back to sign up the next day.

He changed out of his work clothes and washed the traces of sweat from his face.

When the three of them sat down in the inner hall, Zhang Bowen’s eyes darted. “Teacher, shall we go out for a drink later?”

“No, we’ve been busy all day. Hurry back and get some sleep. Tomorrow we still have to keep entering these people’s contracts. Xiaojuan is waiting for me at home.” Wiping his hands, Su Mo shook his head with a cheerful laugh.

“Right, Boss, you shouldn’t keep working like this. Xiaojuan must have prepared food for my big brother,” Sun Quan added with a chuckle.

Seeing this, Zhang Bowen couldn’t say any more, and could only stand up and see the two off outside the shop.

“Go on back, we’re leaving.”

“Be careful on the way.”

“Aiya, this child, don’t worry.” Patting Zhang Bowen on the shoulder, Su Mo smiled helplessly, then turned and led Sun Quan toward the other side of the street.

Strange to say, ever since slapping Qiankun Grain Store in the face at the Summer Harvest warm-up meeting, Zhang Bowen seemed to have turned into a character in a game, with his experience bar shooting up.

Outwardly, it showed in how much he had grown overnight. He was now fully capable of running things himself.

Of course, because of his temperament, compared with the field of scientific research, where Zhang Bowen’s talent lay, he was still rather lacking in worldly skill.

But that was no great problem. It was enough to handle the present situation.

In the future, perhaps...

Su Mo glanced sideways at the lively Sun Quan beside him, thought for a moment, and finally said what he had held back for several days.

“When we finish with the rush in the next couple of days, why don’t you move in with me?”

“Really?” Though his attention seemed to be elsewhere, the moment Su Mo’s words fell, Sun Quan gave a start.

“Could I be lying?”

Not bothering to see through Sun Quan’s little schemes, Su Mo raised his hand and slowly rubbed his fingers together.

“I get it, I get it, Brother Su, don’t worry.”

“From now on, if you tell me to go east, I’ll never dare go west. If you tell me to climb a stool, I’ll never dare climb a ladder!”

“You are my good big brother...”

When it came to eloquence, Sun Quan truly feared no one.

Once he got going, Su Mo had meant to scold him a couple of times, but after listening for a while he couldn’t help laughing.

“Calm down. I guess that by tomorrow at the latest, those few slackers in the shop will be saying goodbye.”

“By then, I want you to help me...”

He lowered his head and said a few words in Sun Quan’s ear, looking at the other, who understood at once and even drew inferences, a model of obedience.

Su Mo nodded in satisfaction, feeling wonderfully at ease.

In less than a month, he had already gained a foothold in Tian Yuan Territory from nothing.

At this rate, once the Summer Harvest ended and he had built the Sun-chaser armor for self-protection, he would never again have to be as timid as he was now.

Through Zizai Liang Lane, as long as he could open up sales channels,

the three-month buffer before the next Autumn Harvest would be more than enough for the shop to double or triple in scale.

If nothing went wrong, in six months at the latest, he would return to the territory’s upper ranks as a “wealthy merchant.”

“Keep a low profile. I still have to keep a low profile.”

“Before the armor is out, I can’t make any dangerous move. Otherwise even Feng Long and Pei Shao may not be able to protect me around the clock!”

When they reached the familiar parting place, he watched Sun Quan disappear into the alley.

Su Mo’s expression stayed as usual as he continued toward Gutian Third Street.

In fact, as soon as he had left the shop, before he even stood here, he had already felt the direct gaze of at least four sets of eyes.

Not counting the people Feng Long had sent, the remaining three had all appeared after the Summer Harvest warm-up meeting.

These three.

One of them, Su Mo could roughly guess, was a squad of the Inspectorate under Pei Shao.

In particular, the captain who had stood face to face with him earlier had a very familiar aura, one Su Mo could vaguely sense even from far away.

The other two were much more cunning.

They never came close to his residence or the shop, which also made it difficult to send Oreo out to scout.

For this, until he had figured out who they truly were, Su Mo did not want to alert them and could only let these people surround him twenty-four hours a day.

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