"Big lady, it's a little strange tonight, let's avoid it."

Because of the strange sound of drums, Ji Mo was persuading, but in the direction of the North Mountain Road where they were advancing, there were suddenly several explosions of firearms, which came from the night sky.

The explosion shook the birds and beasts in the depths of the mountains and forests and roared wildly, and immediately suppressed the sound of drums in front of the gods.

Hearing the sound of firearms, Xiao Ruiniang and the twelve young Neikufang Ding who accompanied her suddenly felt relieved, and they all relaxed their hearts.

Xiao Ruiniang got out of Ji Qingchen's cloak with a smile, poked her head around, to see the little earth ruthlessness in the legendary mountain, and then turned around and reached out to touch the donkey's head, and comforted them in a low voice with the method taught to her by the lady, so that they would not be afraid of the sound of gunpowder and be quietly led by Kuding to move forward slowly.

Ji Mo listened to the sound of this firearm, and also smiled and turned his head sideways to Ji Qingchen and whispered:

"Big lady, our grange is safe, with the firearms in the workshop, and the Ezo slaves in charge of guarding, even if the Fuso mountain people are dissatisfied with our opening of fields in the mountains, they have never dared to approach our fields."

"It better be."

Of course, she could hear the origin of those few bangs, the sound of the brass fire crow gun she had arranged for in the grange.

In the past ten years, she has tried to grow grain in the mountains again and again but failed, not only because the grain is not suitable, but also because in the past 20 years, the Fuso mountain people in Yazhu Mountain have learned to use iron farming tools, and have begun to burn forests and open fields in the deep mountains, sowing seeds in spring, and the most convenient flat land for cultivating and transporting grain by the mountain streams has been built by them.

Although she bribed the monks and officials, she also obtained the lease rights of the ten hills closest to Tangfang, and grabbed nearly 10,000 acres of reclaimed stream land, but she could not prevent the Fuso mountain people who wanted more fields from competing with them for land.

Land has been a source of trouble since ancient times.

And Tang Fang. Ever since one of the farmers who had gone into the mountains to farm was injured in an attack on the land, she withdrew all the people she had sent to the mountains to cultivate the land and began to buy Ezo slaves instead.

All the men, women and children in Tangfang, up to their forties, can already be regarded as long-lived elderly people in this era, down to the newborn children, all of them are counted as less than 30,000 people, and one less one dies.

In the era when there were no hospitals, the likelihood of a person being injured and dying was too high.

Until two years ago, copper firearms that could be used again and again were manufactured. Assemble to all the Granges. Tang Fang began to sow seeds in a large area in the mountains.

The mountain road bends, the torch illuminates the road, and she looks down at Xiao Ruiniang. Seeing that the child was not afraid, he comforted in his heart and said with a smile:

"Don't be afraid, they just want land. And on the days of sacrifice to the gods, they believed that seeing blood would anger the gods. ”

"Yes. I'm not afraid, big lady. ”

Xiao Ruiniang tried to be more calm, but Ji Qingchen knew that she was definitely not used to it, Ji Ruiniang, these children who were not yet ten years old. is different from the three sisters of the Li family and Xu Shuqing.

For the seventeen or eighteen-year-old adults in Tang Fang, fighting and fighting is commonplace, even for women.

Because they are born struggling to survive. Follow your parents to fish on this barren coast and hunt in the mountains and forests to make a living, and from time to time you can clash with the mountain people. I will often barter with them.

But for children like Ji Ruiniang who are less than ten years old, they were born after the opening of the workshop, they don't have to worry about food and clothing in the Tang Fang, and they are sent to the workshop to study after they are sensible.

Killing people to survive is just a legend for them.

In Ji Qingchen's eyes, when Xiaorui Niang's children become adults, they will be more similar to the Song people, and they will become more and more incompatible with the Fusang people, not to mention that there are more barbaric and uncivilized Shengfan tribes in the Yazhu Mountain, which has not been populated for hundreds of miles.

That's why she has been buying a large number of Ezo captives for several years.

And the local people of Hokkaido, who are still at war with the Fuso people, even if there is no news from her, it is impossible to find out about the civil strife in Fuso, and the war between them and the Fuso people, just like the war between the Han people in the Central Plains and the northern nomads, began a long time ago and has continued for a long time......

Even without her secret letter, they would not have let go of the opportunity of the civil strife in Fuso, they had long wanted to take back the tribal land that had been robbed for hundreds of years.

Her notice just made it more beneficial for Tang Fang to choose the time to start the war.

From time to time there was the chirping of night apes in the mountains, Xiao Ruiniang was a little timid, and got back into her cloak, she sniffed the Buddha beads and sandalwood on Ji Qingchen's wrist, and wanted to try to say a few words to make herself feel at ease, and couldn't help but think of the witch song "Mountain Ghost" she heard just now.

She remembered that the eldest lady also liked to listen to Xu Shuqing sing this witch song, and sometimes when she taught her to cook and stir-fry in the small courtyard, she secretly sang it like the sisters in the workshop, and told her not to sue her mother.

Because witch music cannot be stolen.

She smiled and was about to speak, but she remembered that tonight was Master Kongming's death, and hurriedly covered her mouth again.

The eldest lady couldn't see it on her face, and she must be uncomfortable in her heart.

She knew that two months ago, when the eldest lady went to visit the old monk in Zhuma Temple, but the old monk avoided it, the eldest lady was very sad.

Xiao Ruiniang quietly clenched her hand, and Ji Qingchen, who was silently reciting the "Sutra of Death" for Master Kong Ming, was stunned, thinking that she was afraid, she lowered her head and smiled at her, but suddenly, she heard a strange sound in the mountains and forests again.

On the mountain road, Ji Mo, the leader of the Neikufang Ding who led the donkey for her, paused at the same time.

"Ji Mo, did you hear something?"

She looked sideways at the direction of the Nishiyama Road facing Dazaifu at Kamozukiyama Mountain, and muttered to herself, "Why do I sound like an outsider has entered the mountain and alarmed the beasts in the mountain—"

"The villain thinks so, too, big lady-"

Ji Mo's crossbow, which had never left his hand, had already been set up with sharp arrows, and the twelve Fang Ding who escorted him were also on guard at the same time, protecting the two women, one big and one small, in the middle, and hurried on the mountain road.

Ji Qingchen also heard the roar of the tiger from the depths of the mountains and forests at this time, and knew that it was a beast that was alarmed by outsiders. He frowned again and wondered:

"Entering the mountain tonight, it was extremely unpleasant."

Not to mention what happened just now, just before they entered the mountain, they heard that Ji Chenhu had already beaten a drum in the workshop, which alarmed the night birds in the mountain.

He should be holding a meeting of the elders to reconsider the owner of the workshop, and there will inevitably be chaos in the workshop for a while. She also got a message from the shop. The little scholar Junmo sent by Lou Yun took advantage of the chaos in the workshop and had already left Ji's Warehouse and looked for it in the inner library workshop.

There are also a few small merchants in Dongfang who are related to Fujian maritime merchants have also disappeared.

I don't know the outsiders who are entering the mountains now. Is it the same as Junmo, a detailed work arranged by the envoy of Lou Yun.

"Don't worry too much."

She smiled slightly, a border commercial port like Tangfang was originally a mixed place. In addition to her own three sisters and brothers, there was a lot of trouble in the workshop, and there was a secret fight between the Fuso people, Song merchants, Korean merchants and Okinawan merchants in the west and east squares for business. She had already seen that it was strange, so she said to Ji Mo:

In the evening, Dazaifu borrowed a merchant ship from Xifang to go out of the water gate and went to the Song ship to pick up Shikibe Cheng and the Tibetan general. Picking them up to prepare for the state banquet and women's music, presumably it would be easy for that Lord Lou to send someone to sneak into Dazaifu's ship and let his people go ashore bypassing Tangfang, right? ”

Everyone knows the military exploits of this Lord Lou who infiltrated the territory of Jinguo Shandong in the first place. Of course, she wouldn't be surprised that he had such a method.

"Yes, big lady. It's just that this Lord Lou sent a careful intention to go ashore-"

"I remember that there is such a poem in the Han book, shoot a man before a horse, and capture a thief before the king-"

She chuckled softly.

Lou Yun must have been quite suspicious of Tang Fang.

She just said this, but she didn't explain, Ji Mo was still pondering, Xiao Ruiniang looked up at the narrow dark sky between the mountain roads, and the occasional glimpse of birds under the bright moon, and took out a small whistle on her chest.

She blew the whistle to summon the dove, turned her head and said:

"Big lady, the message from the workshop is coming-"

In the fluttering sound of the pigeon's falling, Ji Mo took the pigeon letter from her little hand, and looked at it hurriedly, and suddenly changed color.

Ji Qingchen had never seen him with such an angry face, and he couldn't help but be strange, but when he saw him present the letter from the fangzhong, he couldn't help but say angrily:

"Big lady, you were attacked by twenty Song people in your residence in Lao Cai just now, which frightened Neku's mothers, but because there was no one inside, they returned in vain."

He is tall, born with a Chinese face, and there are two knife marks on his face, he looks calm, but he is actually only about twenty-three or four years old, and he is not angry and arrogant when he is annoyed.

Xiao Ruiniang's eyes widened, and then she understood what the eldest lady meant by "capture the thief and capture the king first".

Ji Qingchen was not annoyed, smiled and took the letter and looked at it a few times, in addition to the fact that an ink painting lamp was hung on the mulberry tree outside her house, and her house was almost burned down during the fight, there was also the news that Ji Hong took the inn stackers to start searching the shop and making detailed work, she lit the letter on the torch and said:

"If San Lang wants to be the owner of the workshop, it will take at least a few days to hold a general meeting of the whole workshop, and the chance of success is only half, of course this Lord Lou will not just sit idly by, he didn't trick me into going to the Song boat to arrest him, he is already quite conceited."

But he secretly sent twenty of his henchmen to infiltrate the workshop to capture her in one fell swoop.

In this way, Erlang is far away in Goryeo, and Saburo is the natural owner.

Next, of course, this Lord Lou will also arrange for her to marry into the marriage of the Chen family, perhaps from the beginning, in the eyes of the envoy of Lou who supported the Chen family's marriage, this family matter was just a transaction that could appease her and appease the people when she was arrested.

"It's just that Saburo doesn't know about this, otherwise they wouldn't have pounced-"

She said with a little comfort in her heart,

"There are many people who know the location of the Ji family's small courtyard, either the Song merchant in Dongfang, or the code of the scholar Junmo."

This matter was really expected by Ji's mother.

Thanks to the old woman's reminder on the Ji family's warehouse, she has been prepared, and she has long been on guard against this Song envoy's tricks, even if she doesn't go to Zhuma Temple tonight, she will stay in the Ji family's warehouse and not come out, so naturally she will not give Lou Yun the opportunity to capture the "overseas leader".

Tang Fang is not in the territory of Shandong Jinguo, let him come and go freely. (To be continued) R655