When Daman followed his second uncle to the north, he also heard about the war at the northern border, and Daman became anxious when he heard about it. Said to the second uncle: "Second uncle! I want to chase them back! ”

The second cousin hesitated for a moment, shook his head and said, "You may not be able to catch up now, why don't you follow me to send these grains to the ground first, and then you take two people to find out the news." If they get the news, they turn around and come back, and you come back with them, and if they don't come back when they get the news, you can inquire about the situation and send a message to your family. The family is probably more anxious than us now! ”

Daman has no better way, only to listen to the arrangement of the second cousin. On this day, when the sun went down, a team of people and carriages arrived at the Wang's house in the north, and the local town had heard from the village chief below that someone would send grain from the south, so he sent people to keep an eye on it early, and as soon as the grain team arrived, he immediately informed him!

This town in the north is very different from the town in the south, and the town in the south is so small that it is equivalent to a township. The towns in the north are very large, which can be compared with the counties in the south, and the towns near the border areas are said to have tens of thousands of garrisons in each town. Therefore, the authority and jurisdiction of the mayor here are also relatively much more. For example, the local food and farming affairs must be fully managed by the town.

On the night they arrived, Lizhen came to the Wang family by the moonlight, and the Wang family's house at this time had been cleaned up, although the livestock had been shut up to make people respond, but if they wanted to build a new house, they could only talk about it after the spring, and they could only live in a fool's way for the time being!

Li Zhen arrived at the Wang family grandfather first, and the Wang family grandfather received Li Zhen with his children and grandchildren tremblingly, please take a seat and serve tea.

The town tasted the good tea they had brought back from the south. Tut, regretfully said: "This good tea really has to be drunk to know, I used to have what to drink, but now I taste the tea brought by Mr. Wang from the south, only to know that this good tea feels really ironed." This was a bit bitter at first, but immediately afterwards it was sweet and refreshing. It's a pity that we don't have such good tea here, and even those who sell tea don't want to sell good tea to our small place! ”

The grandfather of the Wang family sat aside with a smiling face, and said carefully: "If Lord Lizhen likes it, the villain will bring you some with you!" As he spoke, he asked the eldest son, who was standing by the side, to come into the house and take an unopened porcelain bottle of tea out!

Li Zhen happily accepted the tea. After refilling the second cup, he said to the grandfather of the Wang family: "Old man Wang, I heard that your relatives in the south have sent food!" I heard from your village chief that the corn seeds you brought back were very good, but I wonder what kind of food your relatives brought this time? What price are you going to sell? ”

The grandfather of the Wang family hurriedly replied: "Back to the words of the adult." There are corn and rice, they have just arrived, and they are still resting at my eldest nephew's house! As for the price, we have to wait until they wake up to find out! ”

Li Zhen nodded: "Then please tell them the old man Wang, don't be in a hurry to sell the grain for the time being, there is still a lot of seeds in our county, tomorrow I will see how their corn is, if it is all new grain this year." And if the grains are full, I plan to declare it to the county government and buy it to make seeds for the people. The price will be one penny per catty higher than that of local grain stores. Li Zhen unhurriedly stated the purpose of his visit.

The grandfather of the Wang family responded again and again. Said: "Good! Good! Thank you for always thinking about us people. If you're not in a hurry! Now you can see, all the food is with me. ”

Li Zhen waved his hand and said, "Now the light is too dim to see whether it is good or bad, so let's wait until tomorrow." ”

On the second day, everyone in the Wang family gathered together and chatted and laughed with the Wang family in the south. Daman and the second cousin laughed from their teasing. Only then did I find out that there was a big problem.

Wang Duoyin, the second grandson of his grandfather's family, held Huang Cancan's rice in his hand, and said to Daman with a smile: "Brother Man! This paddy is good. But we've been thinking about what to use to scoop out the rice inside, so we can't peel it one by one, right? ”

Another Northland brother also smiled and said, "Not really. My daughter was crying for white rice, and I couldn't help but guard a few big bags of rice. I really can't rub it with my hands! ”

Grandpa's eldest son also smiled and said, "My father wanted to drink white rice porridge, but he found that this rice couldn't be cooked, and he was worried!" I originally thought that it would be fine if you came, but I didn't expect you to bring nothing! ”

Wang Shouhe, the second grandson of Nandi's grandfather's family, looked at the Beidi family who kept talking, and smiled awkwardly. Da Man said nonchalantly: "Don't you have a rice bucket at home?" It's very simple, it's easy to make your own! ”

Wang Shouhe also followed his cousin's words and said, "Yes! That's easy to get, you only need one of them to be enough! ”

Grandpa Beidi said with a smile: "Then what do you think about how to get it, let's find someone to make a few, if someone asks for white rice, we will help to cook it for people." ”

"Good! I'm going to find someone to do it today! Wang Shouhe hurriedly responded.

As he spoke, the town came over. I opened all the corn they had brought from the south and looked at it, and thought it was better than the seeds they usually kept in the north, so I decided to ask for it immediately.

"This Boss Wang, it is estimated that the old man of the Wang family told you that we plan to harvest your corn as seeds. Now the market price is four cents a pound, and I will give you five cents! Li Zhen said with a smile, he believed that even if he Mingda Minggu said that he used it as a seed, they didn't dare to ask for more money.

Wang Shouhe replied with a smile: "This Lord Lizhen, you can say whatever you want." We are also not used to eating this millet, thinking that you may be short of food here, so we discussed it and sent it over. It's all grown by ourselves, and we didn't plan to sell it for a lot of money. ”

When Li Zhen heard that their grain was not going to be sold at a high price, his heart moved. He asked unconsciously: "I heard that you also brought rice from the south, so what are you going to do?" ”

Wang Shoufa cautiously replied: "I heard that the milled rice here has been sold for 20 wen a catty, and we are rice seeds, and it is also old rice, so I didn't think about selling it so expensive, I only planned to sell it for 10 wen a catty." But it can't be sold yet! ”

Li Zhen heard that it only cost ten yuan and one catty, so he planned to buy a few stones and put them at home and give them away, but when he listened to it. Why do you say you can't sell it again?

He hurriedly asked, "Why?" ”

Wang Shouhe said with a wry smile: "We forgot that there is no rice here, and this person can't eat it when he buys rice and goes back!" ”

Rijin laughed, "yes! I didn't think about it either, I just thought it was cheap! So what are you going to do? ”

"We wanted to find someone to make one first, and it was easy to do. Or it will be done in a day or two. Wang Shouhe said and remembered that there was still a lot of corn at home, so he asked Lizhen: "That's right!" This lord, we still have a lot of corn at home, do you still want it? If I still want to, I will ask my nephew to bring someone back first, and send it over before the spring ploughing! ”

"You still have it? Want! The more the merrier. We haven't had a harvest in the whole county this year, and it's great that you can send it if you really have to go elsewhere to harvest the seeds, which is troublesome and expensive. I remember the love of your Wang family, and I can help you in the future. Will definitely help! "How many years has this town been in the town, it has long been fine, and now the county government is short of seeds, and it is a credit to be able to get cheap and full seeds in the palace. I will send some polished rice that is still in demand now, and this prince can't bear his own love if he doesn't want to!

Wang Shouhe arranged for people to go back to pull the grain, and at the same time thought about the method of the rice bucket and rice pestle, so that he could talk to the craftsmen here.

Here's the thing. Put it down for now. Let's say that Xiaohu's caravan left the Beidi Wang's house and walked back to the official road to the capital. Follow the official road that used to go to the grassland to the north. When I first arrived in the suburbs of Beijing, I heard that there was a fight between the frontier and the steppe aliens.

Xiaohu, who was resting in the inn, asked a few diners at the table next to him who were talking about the frontier war: "Ladies and gentlemen, do you know why this is so good, and suddenly there is a fight?" ”

A middle-aged man among the seven or eight diners, who seemed to be the leader of the group, replied, "We don't know the specific reason either. I only heard that there was a caravan selling illicit tea that went to the alien race. The regulations for the exchange of tea and horses in previous years were suddenly changed, requiring five horses to be exchanged for one catty of tea. The aliens were so angry that they beat them half to death at the slightest disagreement, and defiantly dragged them on horses to our border, and some of them were saved, and some of them died at the same time. Hearing that the guards were enraged, they immediately went out of the city to attack the aliens, but not only did they not be able to avenge those merchants, but let those aliens attack the border city. I heard that now our court is collecting grain and grass, and is preparing to fight a big battle with foreign races. ”

Xiaohu frowned for a while, looked at Grand Master Chen and asked, "Brother Chen, what should we do?" Go back or continue? ”

Chen Dagongzi looked at Li Bangtou, and Li Bangtou didn't speak sullenly. Just when everyone was bored, not knowing whether to go back or move on, the few people who were talking next to them were also facing such a choice.

"Big brother! Let's go back! Anyway, we're not afraid of this thing. "They are salt merchants who sell salt, and they are ostensibly official salt, but in fact they account for more than half of the salt.

The leader-like middle-aged man glared at him and shouted in a low voice, "What are you afraid of? What do they have to do with us merchants when they fight their wars? I'm going to go over and see what they can do to us. ”

Little Tiger's eyes lit up, yes! We are merchants, and as long as we are not like those people before us, who are insatiable and invite death, we are not afraid of those herdsmen hurting them. I paid attention to it in my heart, and discussed it with Mr. Chen right away: "Brother Chen! I think in the past, our tea leaves will be a waste after this year, and the loss is too great. In the past, we still exchanged huàn according to the previous regulations, so we were not afraid that those herdsmen would not be against us! What do you say? ”

Chen Dagongzi habitually looked at Li Darthead again, and Li Darthead nodded slightly. He said: "I am also in favor of the past, besides, this time we are going to the northern herdsmen, and there is no intersection with the southern herdsmen who are fighting here, and we can completely go around the western side of the grassland." ”

Chen Dagongzi hesitated a little, "The key is that we have never walked that road, will it be dangerous?" ”

The leader at the table next to him picked up the words from their side and said, "I know what this brother said!" In the past, the Central Plains specialized in selling silk and porcelain to the Western Regions, but because the aliens occupied the Central Plains, the cultivation and weaving of the Central Plains came to a standstill, and there was no longer silk and porcelain sold to the Western Regions. Later, our dynasty was established and the maritime trade road was opened, and now that road is abandoned. If you're going to go, you should still be able to find traces. ”

The leader paused for a moment, and suddenly as if he had made a decision, he immediately said to Li Dart, "If you want, we may be able to go together!" (To be continued)