Before going on the road, he chose a horse, and Shen Huan finally picked a small yellow horse with an inconspicuous color. But according to the shopkeeper, it was the best horse in his stable. The speed is not extremely fast, but it is better than endurance, whether it is a long distance or a heavy mountain climb, you can cope with it.

The shopkeeper was looking at her as he said this, his eyes showing undisguised approval. Shen Huan smiled, in fact, he didn't know, about Soma's eyesight, she had been trained since she was eight years old. 's father was born as a military general, and the house has always been guarded by government soldiers. She has seen all those people's mounts, and she doesn't ride them less on weekdays. Therefore, her riding skills are very good, and her appreciation of horses is also considered a family source.

It's just that the past is like smoke, and it has all dissipated. Her story is still hidden in the bottom of her heart, so don't tell it.

She bought a hat to cover her face from the market, and before turning over on the horse, she thought about Gu Chengsu's way of treating people and things, and for the first time she was humble and polite to the shopkeeper and hugged her fist, "Thank you, take care, we will meet again in the future." ”

The shopkeeper nodded and returned the salute, "There is a long road ahead, I hope the young man will go smoothly." After she pulled up the reins, she told again, "If you pass through Cangzhou here, be more careful, it's a place where the dragon and the tiger are hidden." The people there don't have much better temper than you. ”

"Got it, thank you very much." Shen Huan held on to the reins and thanked him sincerely. Looking back at the horse's belly, the horse's hooves sounded, knocking on the bluestone ground, and one person and one rider finally flew away.

Thousands of miles of Guanshan, after all, you have to fly alone. She thought about where to go next, and it was really not far from Cangzhou - Changlu.

The long reeds are near the sea, so they produce salt. Among the six major salt farms of the imperial court, it is not the largest, nor the richest, but it is the closest one to the capital division.

When she went there, she naturally wanted to meet her relatives, her own uncle Sun Daosheng. Since he drugged her, and then ordered the little servant to tie her up and sell her to Liuxian Pavilion, they haven't seen each other for three years. I'm afraid he wouldn't have dreamed that he had been removed from prostitution and was on his way to Changlu.

The official rank of the salt envoy is not very high, but he has real power and real money in his hands. Therefore, the mansion was built on the richest street in Changlu City.

When she arrived, she was just in time for Sun Daosheng and her eldest Sun Heng to go out together to go to a Yangzhou merchant's wine shop.

Yangzhou businessmen are rich in the world, and the banquet place is the best restaurant in the city, and the private room is also secluded and elegant, and it seems that there should be something important to talk about.

Shen Huan weighed her money, and when she left the Gu family, she took two hundred taels of silver tickets, in order for Gu Cheng to say that she would be redeemed from the Immortal Pavilion, and it would be two things from her family, and a total of two hundred taels would be sold. In addition to this, there were some scattered pieces of silver, which did not add up to more than three hundred.

He has only been out for less than ten days, and he is not frugal in food and housing, and he has spent nearly fifty taels of silver. If it goes on like this, I'm afraid that before she leaves Changlu, she has turned into a poor bastard.

However, it should be spent, and the distance was too far away, so she couldn't hear the content of Sun Daosheng and the others' conversation. So he gritted his teeth and ordered his man to pick a private room. The upstairs is clean, although there is a wall in the middle, but with her ear, she can still hear some cats talking next door.

Sure enough, they were talking about salt induction. The so-called salt introduction is a certificate that a merchant is allowed to buy and sell and transport salt. Throughout the ages, they have been comparable to gold and silver. Those who get salt attract must do salt affairs; The monopoly of salt is a monopoly of the world's salt affairs, which is equivalent to monopolizing half of the imperial court's fiscal and tax revenue.

Yangzhou merchants wanted to get involved in the salt industry in Changlu, and the conditions offered were also tempting, 5,000 taels of silver, plus a mansion in Suzhou. I thought it was about the same, but I didn't expect to take a lively and fragrant thing, a Yangzhou thin horse with a soft voice and a delicate voice.

The compartment over there immediately exploded, Sun Daosheng is old, and he can't make a big difference in the sound of the dog, but his son Sun Heng is only in his early twenties this year, and it is the time when he is most energetic for beauties.

"Aunt Datong, Yangzhou thin horses, are all good things......" There was a burst of laughter from next door. The young woman's low flattery was mixed in, one moment tactful and gracious, and the other soft and coquettish, so not fragrant.

The obedient voice seemed to be Sun Heng following the introduction of the Yangzhou businessman, playing with the thin horse little by little, and at this time he had pinched the three-inch lotus feet of the other family in the palm of his hand.

Shen Huan tasted a rose dew lightly, thinking about other things in his heart, and now he was worried about losing his money, which was a God-given opportunity. They're going to resell the salt, and it sounds like a lot of money, but it's a really lucrative deal.

If she can take a hand from it, the future life will be much more chic and comfortable, anyway, it is all ill-gotten gains, and she doesn't mind inserting a lever in it at all.

The two sides were able to negotiate into Hong Kong, and the Yangzhou businessmen had finished offering treasures, and estimated that the follow-up pillow wind would have to rely on the thin horse to blow quickly, so they had the foresight to leave first.

After a while, the footsteps started again, but it didn't sound like a merchant who had gone and returned. It is rare that the father and son of the Sun family both went out of the door, and they only said that the young eunuch Song had worked hard, and it turned out that the person who came was the eunuch sent here by the capital city.

This time, the three of them lowered their voices and were talking, but fortunately, Shen Huan's internal cultivation was good, he concentrated on it, and listened carefully, only to understand that this Song Shaojian was the confidant of Chang Qiansui, the master of ceremonies, and he came to Changlu for the sake of the salt.

He asked for a lot, and in addition to the annual eunuch's share, he added half more. The meaning of the words is clear, it's not that Chang Chitose cares about this little thing, it's just that the relatives and nobles in Beijing take the opportunity to cry poverty to Chang Chitose every time. In order to take care of the dignity of the clan, Chitose had no choice but to open a small opening to give some grace, also so that the face of the long-lived master could get by.

The Sun father and son were full of good words, but there were so many salt leads, and they had already promised to give out some of them, so they had to bargain in a low voice at this moment.

Young Eunuch Song was unhurried, and his words were attentive, "Chitose assigned our family to run an errand, he didn't choose Lianghuai, he didn't pick Zhejiang, he just took a fancy to Changlu, which shows that Chitose still thinks about Master Sun the most in his heart, and he also feels that you are the most intimate." Thinking that Lord Sun's sister-in-law had committed something back then, Chitose tried his best to protect himself in front of the emperor and the cabinet ministers, and the emperor believed that the adults were not in the same league as their in-laws. Chitose tried his best to deal with those literary monsters that day, how many edges he fought, and how many attacks he received, Lord Sun must still remember it vividly? ”

This is a rehash of the old words, there are warnings and threats, Sun's father and son were pinched by seven inches, and they had no choice but to say yes, and pointed to the day of the oath to show their loyalty, and then the three of them opened up the chatterbox, pushed the cup and changed the lamp, and the atmosphere gradually became lively.

The second half of the journey has reached the middle of the moon, and the fragrant wind is gusting in the upper room of the Sun house. Shen Huan easily avoided the sparse two-five eyes of the nursing home, and potentially pulled out of the curtain behind the bed.

There was a thin and slender girl sitting on the bed, looking at the back quite cute, she was the source of the fragrance, and she was also the Yangzhou thin horse that the Sun father and son were thinking about tonight.

Shen Huan heard the old grandmother at home say that the so-called Yangzhou thin horse has nothing to do with horses. It's just to describe the girl as slender and thin, beautiful and graceful. As for why it is named Yangzhou, it is because Lianghuai is rich, and the big salt merchants there have seen more plump and charming women in Jinling, and they want to change their tastes, so they came up with an ingenious trick.

These girls were carefully cultivated by Ya Po when they were young, playing the piano and blowing the flute, chanting poems against each other, playing shuanglu and wiping dominoes, which can be described as proficient in all kinds of tricks and tricks. Now his watery eyes are half-drooping, and he wants to look at Sun Daosheng with a sigh of relief, just to hook out his soul alive.

Who knew that the good thing had not been accomplished, but Sun Heng broke in. The son obviously didn't dare to rob people with Lao Tzu, but he couldn't stand the fire in his heart, and thought of an excuse to discuss the matter of salt introduction, just to stir up the situation with his heart.

Sun Daosheng didn't understand anything, so he hurriedly sent the girl to wait in the courtyard. waited for someone to walk away, only then did he say unhappily, "What are you doing at night, are you drinking too much?" Or is there something else on your mind? I sue you ......"

"Father, son is very sober." Sun Heng cut off the conversation and made a preemptive strike, "It's just that this woman is not coming from the right way, don't be a careful work sent by the surnamed Wu, my father should pay more attention." ”

After speaking, he suddenly twisted, and said, "Don't hide it from my father, my son also saw her, and suddenly remembered the cousin of the Shen family." To say that she should be fifteen by this time, she has become a big girl in a serious way. I haven't seen her for so many years, and my son often thinks about it and feels ashamed of her. We inquired several times, and the people who came back only said that she left with a man surnamed Zhu, and she didn't know where she was now. Alas, it's also a shameful ......"

"Why did you get involved with her again? That Nizi is too fierce to be at your mercy. If she hadn't sworn to die that day and would never make you small, we wouldn't have sent her to such a place. You don't have to worry about it afterwards, she has a martial arts, and she has a temper tantrum, maybe she has already left the surname Zhu, and I don't know where she is now. You're worried, she won't come back to trouble us one day. ”

Shen Huan listened to these words, and the expression on his face became more and more cold. It was almost time to end there, and it was rare that the most shameless father and son could still think of her at this time—and it was only in the name of the thin horse that they reminisced about what they had done back then.

At the place where his mind moved, the two stones in his hand had already been aimed, and he heard two pops, and the two stones had hit the dumb hole of Sun's father and son respectively.

The two of them stood and sat down, and they were suddenly flustered, but before they could react, they only felt that a black shadow flashed in front of them, and there was a tingling itch on their bodies, and they couldn't move anymore.