In the east of Huguan County, next to a small hill about six miles away, all the members of the Fan caravan led by Fan Xian were all sad and sighed. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Caravans like theirs with a clear destination are generally based on the manpower and distance, as well as the approximate loss on the road, and count enough food and grass to bring on the road. This kind of measurement, even if it is not very accurate, is often not far away, if it is really a few points short, it is not very difficult to buy ten stones and twenty stones in the big counties passing by.

If according to the usual example, when the caravan unloaded the salt, iron and copper coins he had brought, and exchanged a lot of charcoal and silk silk, Xu Li, who had been ordered by Xu Ze to try his best to have a good relationship with these caravans, would order someone to send thirty stone of grain as "travel expenses", and even Li Zhun, who was not in charge of the affairs of the county, would send a team of soldiers to protect them for a long way to ensure their safety in Huguan County. But this time, Fan Xian's brain twitched for a while, and in order to protect Wang Shi, he offended Xu Pan, which made Xu Hui, who valued his family, angry.

Xu Hui got Xu Ze's order, and he acted without scruples, so he naturally would not show mercy to his subordinates. Under her order, the Fan family caravan was first driven out of the foothold, and then suffered for three days in prison for "gathering crowds to make trouble", and was secretly punished by a lot of secret hands, and then was driven out of Huguan County with people and goods.

Seeing that the people of the Xu family did not leave the goods, Fan Xian first breathed a sigh of relief, and then his face changed, because he thought of one thing - this time, Xu Li did not give them any excuse.

Building bridges and paving roads is convenient for the people, but it costs a lot of manpower and material resources, and only the world will think that this is a good thing to do good deeds and accumulate virtues. Naturally, the imperial court did not have so much leisure and energy, and did not want to waste so much money to build a road that could accommodate two eight-person carriages to pass through the outside of an important county town, which was the so-called official road.

Since it is called the official road, it is obviously only officials and their families, as well as state and county soldiers who have been given special tasks, and Fan Xian and others, who are merchants and slaves, naturally do not have this qualification. However, due to the fact that the Xu clan had always maintained a friendly relationship with them before, Xu Li was instructed by Xu Ze to open the door of convenience, vouch in his own name, open the way for them, and allow them to walk on the official road. When the officials in the Shangdang territory saw this road slip, they knew who it meant, so they naturally did not bother with such "trivial matters".

Xu Hui has always done everything and has always been thorough, and he does not leak. She has bad intentions, how can she not take this layer into account? Therefore, Donglai Fan's caravan stopped outside Huguan County and did not leave, because they really didn't think about which way they should go.

"Chief, let's ...... Let's take the official road! Fan Xian's powerful deputy, Qin Sheng, was full of embarrassment, and hesitated for a long time before he said, "In this world, there are many displaced people, no matter how good the security of Shangdang County is, it can't stand many lazy people in the past, and now the bandits...... In Shangdang, the displaced people don't dare to get close to the official road, even if they are discovered by the officers and soldiers of the Xu family, or they are interrogated in the nearby county seat, if we bring out our identity, it will ......."

Fan Xian glanced at Qin Sheng angrily, and lowered his voice, but he couldn't hide the anger and anxiety in it: "This is the Shangdang, it's the territory of the Xu family, let's take the official road with a big grin, they won't find out?" People threw us out, saying that if you offend you, you will already offend and die, and you will care about the name of a Donglai Fan? As soon as we take the official road, they can pick up the thick shackles, bind us as the sin of 'transgression', and send us to a coal kiln to do a lifetime of hard labor...... You don't want this life to go back to hug your mother-in-law, I still want to keep my own life and go back to hug my newborn son! ”

In the end, Fan Xian no longer had his usual calmness and tactfulness, and his words seemed to burst out from between his teeth.

Although he is a slave born in the family, his ancestors have been extremely useful in front of his master for several generations, and there are two or three delicate maids around him, four or five clever little servants and brave long-term servants, and his food and clothing are much more glamorous than many landlords of the Han clan. If it weren't for the strict and insurmountable system of the Great Qi concubines, it would not be impossible for a slave like them who could fool or even manipulate the master, send a family member to be an aunt, and after the other party gave birth to a child, it would not be impossible to influence the choice of the heir without a trace.

Fan Xian's brother has been a companion for many years before becoming the chief steward of Fan Jialang's private estate, knowing the hardships and hardships of slaves, he is extremely cautious and cautious, and he does not have much arrogance. Fan Xian is not, he relied on the shadow of his father and brother, he went to the account room at a young age, and it didn't take long for him to be promoted again and again, and he began to take care of the Fan family's shop, and climbed step by step to the position of the person who is directly responsible for the lord of Lang, and even the face of the master and mother can not be given too much. Not to mention the young master, even the children of the side branch who are a little farther away from the Fan family and are a little worse mixed are also polite to Fan Xian.

There are many people in the world who can't see their identity and status clearly, don't know what to do, and what not to do. Since he was a child, he has lived in this kind of environment where the master is not the master, and the slave is not the slave, and he is one of them, even if he says what he says, as if he "accepted his fate", but his tone is not the same thing at all.

Qin Sheng was shocked by Fan Xiansen's cold voice, and unconsciously shuddered, and after a while, he cautiously asked, "If you can take the trail, ......?"

"Are all the parts we bring for rice?" Under the anger, Fan Xian couldn't take care of it a lot, not to mention that he knew in his heart that if he could get the goods back, it was already the other party's face that was above Fan's face, and it was impossible to get it on this basis, so he glanced at Qin Sheng coldly, and said angrily, "You say, if you don't take the trail, where can you go?" ”

When Qin Sheng heard this, he couldn't help but be dumbfounded.

As soon as Fan Xian saw his stunned appearance, he felt angry in his heart, and secretly said that if this guy didn't have a grandmother who was the grandmother of Lord Lang's nurse, he wouldn't have pulled him over. If it weren't for his obedience and small timidity, he would have been afraid of the little money that leaked out of his fingers, and he would have been scared and pinched by himself...... That's it, stupid people also have the benefits of being stupid, and if you are smarter, maybe it will be more annoying than now.

Thinking of this, Fan glanced at Qin Sheng and said in a rough voice, "What are you still stunned about?" Don't you tell everyone to pack up and hit the road as soon as possible? ”

Fan's caravan winded from the trail into the edge of the dense woods, and when it was getting late, they stopped to rest and bury the pot to cook, but they didn't know that in a cottage halfway up the mountainside, Xu Hui, who listened to the scout's return, sneered: "As I thought, they still took the trail after all." ”

"Did they really take the trail?" Hearing Xu Hui's words, Xu Pan couldn't help but rub his hands, and said excitedly, "I'll take someone out tonight, kill him without leaving a piece of armor, and snatch all the salt and iron back!" ”

"Third Uncle-" Xu Hui frowned dissatisfiedly and asked, "Have you forgotten what your niece said before?" ”

When Xu Pan heard this, he couldn't help but smile awkwardly.

Hearing that he was going to rob the Fan family's caravan, Xu Pan was excited, but he didn't hear what Xu Hui said later. As soon as he saw Xu Pan's appearance, Xu Hui guessed that he didn't listen carefully, and he didn't take what she said to heart at all, so he couldn't help but sigh lightly, and said helplessly: "I mean, let some people who are not very serious about training and don't make people associate with soldiers at first sight pretend to be bandits and rob Fan's caravan." Our move is mainly to attack the caravan and destroy the goods, and we must not kill them all. At least forty percent of the living people must be left, so that they can continue to form a caravan and return to Fan's house in embarrassment. ”

Speaking of this, Xu Hui was still a little uneasy, so he deliberately repeated the most critical sentence: "Remember, it is to destroy, not to plunder the goods." It is okay to symbolically grab some salt, and then ask someone to cut it with a knife on the bag of salt, and if they find that it is salt and not food, they will discard it...... The homeless people naturally live on food, and they don't care very much, they won't rob so much salt, and in the absence of absolute superiority, they will transport away the iron ore that is too heavy to carry on their backs! ”

Hearing Xu Hui's words, even if he ignores mundane things like Xu Pan, his heart is throbbing.

Daqi salt production area, in Qing, Xu, Jiao, Yi four prefectures. Among them, Jiaozhou is vast and sparsely populated, and snakes, insects, rats and ants are densely packed, which is not favored by the world. However, Yizhou is hindered by the terrain, resting on its laurels, extremely exclusive, and the salt from the well is rarely exported. Because of this, it is not an exaggeration to say that the Qingxu family manipulated the transaction and price of salt.

Xu Hui ruined the goods in one sentence, and said it lightly and skillfully, but it was equivalent to holding a basket full of copper coins and pouring money into the river to play, one basket was not enough, and there were ten baskets, and he was extremely arrogant.

Even if the money didn't belong to them, but thinking that the salt from Baihuahua would be spilled into the ground after the bag was torn open, and the ten carts of iron ore could not be taken away, the generous and heroic Xu Pan hesitated: "This ...... Can't we steal the beams and change the pillars? ”

"What do the homeless people do, the third uncle should know better than me, salt and iron and other objects are rare in our eyes, but in the eyes of these homeless people who are hungry and crazy, have no foresight, and have no sales channels, only food is life." Xu Hui explained to Xu Pan unhurriedly, "While they were too busy to take care of themselves, they deliberately overturned one or two carts loaded with ore, and after they escaped, we came to clean up here, and there was no problem with the crooked goods." It is too much and too deliberate to seize them all, or to overturn them a little more, after all, there is no lack of possibility of hiding capable people in the Fan caravan. Grandfather only said that he wanted to offend the Fan family, but he didn't say that he wanted to make a feud with them, if it was a little profit, it would be irreparable, it was too cost-effective. ”

What is the difference between a crime and a vengeance?

Xu Pan scratched his head, thinking that he probably wouldn't be able to figure out the degree of this for the rest of his life, but he didn't plan to think about it too much, but just asked, "Then when will we do it?" ”

Xu Hui squinted his eyes and pondered for a moment before he said, "Since you want to do it, you have to make a full set, let's wait." (To be continued.) )