bookcurios Chapter 145 Heartbeat
Chapter 145 Heartbeat
"Your Highness, this is a letter from Suining City." Wen Yan placed the letter on Zhao He's desk and walked out.
Zhao He stared blankly at the moon outside the window, thinking about what Guo Xin said. How could a little girl have such a thorough understanding of human nature? And she seemed to hate men? It was quite interesting.
He opened the letter on the table, which he had given before leaving the city.
If he wanted to open a shopping mall like Guo Xin, he could not do it alone. He needed a "wise minister". After much thought, it seemed that he did not have any capable people who were suitable for running a new industry like a shopping mall.
Although Aunt Mo has a talent for business, she places too much emphasis on helping the weak, and is only suitable for maintaining operations after the mall has stabilized.
He looked at the letter in his hand, raised his eyebrows, and smiled. They actually found a genius, but this genius seemed to be a good friend of Guo Xin's brother. He spent a lot of effort to convince the boy. Seeing that the words between the lines were all trying to take credit for himself, he skipped to the main point at the end.
After a while, his brows frowned and relaxed, and finally he nodded as if he suddenly realized something.
The boy actually persuaded himself to give up the idea of opening a shopping mall and instead open another type of shopping mall called "Entertainment City", which included recreational facilities for adult men, women, children, young ladies, etc., and set up some places to eat next to each recreational facility.
In this way, he would not be competing with Guo Xin's Shunan Mall for business, and could achieve a win-win situation with it. After all, there were many shopping places in Shunan Mall, but very few entertainment facilities. If he could fill this gap, he could not only attract some people from the mall, but also send people from the entertainment city to the mall.
If he had done as the little boy said, he would not have become enemies with Guo Xin. After all, a person with so many wonderful ideas must have many secrets, and he wanted to continue exploring.
He picked up the brush and wrote his responses on paper, and asked Wen Yan to send the letter back.
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The next morning, Guo Xin and three others took another carriage. Fortunately, they chatted together along the way and did not find the journey difficult.
After an unknown amount of time, Guo Xin felt that the car was too crowded, so he lifted the curtain and looked out. There were only a few refugees on the road. Although they were not as orderly as the long team he had seen before, the number of people in these sparse teams was actually almost the same as the previous team.
Guo Xin motioned the three to look outside as well. Guo Ruo frowned as if he had thought of something, and said hurriedly, "Xin'er, you can't give away our food anymore, otherwise we won't be able to hold on until the next resupply."
Guo Xin couldn't help but choke up when she heard what Guo Ruo said. She said helplessly, "Sister, I'm not so careless about us. I still have some sense. I just want to say that the number of refugees seems to be much more than we imagined."
Guo Ruo looked outside and said, "I know you know your limits."
As he spoke, he lowered his head and looked at his handkerchief, muttering, "But you seem to have lost your mind when facing the refugees, and you help them without thinking. Last time, you even rushed into the refugees' group regardless of the danger and gave them food. Who knows what will happen this time?"
Guo Xin naturally took these words to her ears, but had to pretend that she didn't hear them. When she saw the refugees, she did think of her past self, so her elder sister's complaint was reasonable.
Then he said, "How about we go and find out the situation? Maybe it will be helpful for Zhi'er and Xi'er to go to school."
The refugees in front of them were very scattered, most of them were families fleeing together, they had no weapons, were very thin, and posed almost no danger.
After saying that, he waved to He Liu to stop the car. When He Liu saw the gesture, he instantly understood what Guo Xin was going to do again. He looked at the refugees in front of him and had to let Guo Xin "give him blind orders".
Guo Xin and the other four jumped off the carriage, stopped a few refugees who looked the most friendly and asked, "Grandma, where are you from?"
The old lady, who was so skinny that she was just a bag of bones, leaned on a thick branch, looked up at Guo Xin, and shook her head slightly in confusion, and shouted, "I can't hear you clearly! My hearing is not good!"
The little boy next to him looked at the clothes Guo Xin was wearing with envy in his eyes. He said timidly, "We came from the north. We heard that Suining City treats refugees very well, so we wanted to go there."
Guo Xi had previously communicated with the long group of refugees, so he asked, "North? Is that the place where the border war is going on?"
The little boy shook his head and said, "We are not close to the fighting area. We are still about a day away from the fighting."
Guo Xi and Guo Zhi looked at each other and said in unison: "Then how did you escape? Aren't we still far away? It's not easy to be Liu Min."
The woman who had been silent all the time looked at the three people. They didn't take anything in their hands, and there was no sign of giving them food.
He pulled the little boy and said, "Why are we talking so much to them? They are wearing silk and satin and came here to inquire about the situation, but they didn't even give us any food. Let's go quickly. If we can walk a few more steps before dark, we can reach that damn city earlier."
Guo Xin looked at Guo Xi and Guo Zhi, who looked a little embarrassed, and said, "Aunt, we will give you food and other things, but it depends on whether what you say can satisfy us. We will give it to you according to the situation."
The woman looked satisfied and nudged the little boy, motioning him to continue.
"It's true that being a refugee is not easy. Although we live a little far from where the war is taking place, if the border is lost, we will be in real trouble. Those people are really scary. They arrest anyone they see and rape any woman they see."
Guo Xin wanted Guo Xi and the others to ask questions, but he couldn't help but ask: "But the battles on the border seem to have only failed once or twice, and most of the time they were victorious. In this case, why would we become refugees and settle down here?"
The little boy continued, "We left our hometown to become refugees because someone in the army told us that the situation was not as good as we thought. They advised us to leave as soon as possible. That's all I know. I don't know anything more."
Guo Xin signaled to the servant beside him to hand over two steamed buns, which were enough for the three of them to get by for several days.
Watching the refugees go away, Guo Xin lowered his head, a few strands of hair fell out of his bun and hung on his forehead. He and his brothers and sisters analyzed the matter seriously, "Does what they just said mean that there is something else going on in the border battle? Perhaps the generals in the army have concealed this matter and it has not been reported yet?"
After Guo Xin finished speaking, he felt a little uncomfortable with the strands of hair on his forehead, so he raised his head to tidy them up. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Zhao He standing in the distance, and he didn't know how long he had been standing there.
Zhao He looked at Guo Xin and his heart couldn't help but feel confused. She seemed a little different today than before.