"Is it possible that we don't have any?" Huanhuan had tears in her eyes, and looked at her mother pitifully.

"I don't know what to do, maybe there is." Dong Xiaoman also sighed: "If their family agrees to marry you, you have to be mentally prepared." The premise of mutual affection is that husband and wife are of the same heart. ”

Huanhuan was thoughtful, and after sending her mother away, she lay in bed and stayed awake all night. Dong Xiaoman, who was also in the upper room, was the same, and she told Erlang what happened. Jiro once again blamed himself for the suffering suffered by his daughter, and the two of them didn't sleep.

Mei Hongyan didn't expect things to develop like this, and every step forward seemed to be as difficult as walking on thin ice. Sitting in Huanhuan's boudoir, he looked at Huanhuan who was serving the incense burner with a sad face.

"Look at you, this thing is so difficult? Is it harder than we go to sea, or is it harder than this mess in our house? Huanhuan turned around and met Mei Hongyan's eyes, and couldn't help but pout and complain when he saw him like this.

"You can solve that matter with money, but I can't solve it with money. I don't know what to tell my family. Hearing Hongyan like this, Huan Huan couldn't help but sneer: "How can the eldest young master of the Mei family ever be so difficult, if it really doesn't work, let's just shoot and scatter the purity." ”

Hongyan immediately lowered his face when he heard this: "What nonsense are you talking about!" ”

Huanhuan raised his eyebrows contemptuously: "Have you thought clearly, do you really want to disobey your elders?" You know my temper, but I'm not a good-natured person like my mother. It really annoyed me, and I refused to eat half a penny. "There will be a real contradiction then, but I can't say for sure.

"I know your temper, my mother and my grandmother are not like that. The two of them came from poor families. What I like most is this familiar strength in you. I didn't follow them at all. A pampered gentleman. ”

Huanhuan saw that he was discouraged, and hurriedly comforted him. said self-deprecatingly: "Not everyone can afford the word "gentleman", but you can show one or two things with your knowledge and family background." ”

This meeting was fruitless, but at least it made him know the attitude of the Zhang family. Sending Mei Hongyan to the gate of Pingliang City, the two were reluctant to say goodbye.

"There are still two years, you must wait for me!" Hongyan said this sentence magnificently, but he had no chance of winning in his heart.

Watching the carriage disappear in front of him little by little, Huanhuan suddenly felt that the relationship between the two of them was not so fragile. At least at first, Mei Hongyan knew that she was down, and tried her best to help herself. And he fell into the ubiquitous tenderness. Now he is willing to fight against the family for himself, even if they don't work out, at least, she is happy.

Mother often said: If the love between the two is long, how can it be in the morning and twilight? If Hongyan still hasn't gotten any promise in the past two years, she won't let him be separated from his parents and family. There is such a person who works hard for her, and she is also content.

Tanglin Xuanyuan stood on the city wall and looked at the slender red shadow under the city, and his face became more and more cold. Unexpectedly, she was an infatuated person, and presumably the man also had something extraordinary, which caused her to stand there and mourn and remember.

"Go! Check the man! Maybe even he didn't think about why he cared so much about those so-called extraneous things.

The owner of the free house is very face-saving for the Tanglin family. And he didn't care about the men who were killed. The Lord of the Loose Valley was very bold and dared to mention the events of the day in front of him. And Tanglin Xuanyuan is not obscure. It's nothing more than three or two people dead.

As long as it doesn't affect the status of their Tanglin family, it doesn't matter who does business. But if someone questions the Tanglin family, then don't blame him for being unkind.

In March, Pingliang City was not warm, it was still cold and windy, and it snowed heavily all day. Before he came, Dong Xiaoman had never seen heavy snow on the grassland.

The most popular number of business visitors stay in the herringbone rooms because they are relatively cheap and easy to eat.

All the people who come to the guest room are at the level of the host, and as the number of people increases, people of different races begin to mix here.

Jiro used his great talent for language to chat with these well-informed businessmen from north to south and tell them about the places he had visited.

Not only that, Jiro also planned to give his good brothers in Siam, Tong Pala and Bai Dafeng. This is the most important passage to the outer lands, and there is no need to travel far by sea to Daqin or Persia.

The overall price of Xiaoyaoju is actually on the expensive side, and the general Kuha Luha can't afford to live, but why would Lu choose to live here, one of the big reasons is because it is opened by Han people.

Not only that, if the people here want to find a way out of the south, the boss of the free house also has the ability to provide them with a place. If you go to Jiangnan, who you can find, who you can find if you go to the capital, who can you find when you go to Liaodong to dig ginseng, and who can you find in Guanzhong. Even if someone wants to go to Siam or Luzon, he has the ability to provide you with a place to live.

The so-called word of mouth is word of mouth, and it didn't take long for someone to talk about the benefits of living in a leisurely place.

The wine and food of Xiaoyaoju is also a major feature of Xiaoyaoju, no matter where you are from, you can taste the most authentic hometown cuisine. If you want to leave Pingliang City, you will also buy special dry food from Xiaoyaoju, which is guaranteed to be full of praise.

Dong Xiaoman knows that people who can endure hardships and travel far away will not be picky about food, but the deliciousness of food will affect a person's body and state.

The vegetables here are the cheapest, and the range of dishes is related to these.

The two started from scratch as the heroes who made their fortune back then - air-dried meat. At the same time, barbecue, sausage, and dry noodles were also prepared as dry food for merchants and passengers.

Dry noodles are the most expensive and ordinary people will not buy them. But after all, there are still a considerable number of people who are rich merchants, and they can spend as much as they want as long as they are comfortable on the road.

The so-called dry noodles are instant noodles that were eaten in later generations, but they are not as simple as those made in plastic bags. Instant noodles have a long history in China, and the ancients called them Yi noodles, which is also the food that Dong Xiaoman used to cook and play with in his previous life.

Back then, Dong Xiaoman fried twist flowers at home, and when he fried them, he remembered the story about Yi noodles, so he put the noodles in the oil pot. Then the broth is boiled, and the ham, eggs, and green onions are boiled, and then the fried noodles are served, which can be regarded as homemade instant noodles.

Seeing that there was such a business opportunity here, Dong Xiaoman wrote a list and tried to make it in his kitchen a few times, and after finally studying it, he handed it over to the cook and asked them to make it themselves and sell it to the merchants.

When mixing the noodles, add the seasoning and eggs to the flour, roll out the noodles and fry them in the oil pan until they are medium-rare. Take it to the courtyard to dry in a ventilated place, and when you need it, just put it in the pot and make noodles.

Dong Xiaoman also carefully boiled the hot pot soup base into small pieces and sold them to customers with dry noodles. The cost of this dry noodle is quite high, and the price of flour and oil is a large expense, so although the market is good, it is not popular.

Compared with this, air-dried meat, sausages, beef jerky, and dried buns are sold very well, and there are even customers from other inns who come to buy them.

Dong Xiaoman believes that her dry noodles will definitely catch fire soon, and this thing can be stored for a long time, as long as there is water, you can cook noodles in the pot. Who wants to eat meat on horses and camels every day, and only when there is soup and noodles can they be comfortable?

Sometimes business is too good and it's not a good thing, Luo Hao reminded me before, this Pingliang City is calm on the surface, but secretly it is turbulent.

The people of the Western Regions mainly sold wine and meat, rare treasures, silk and weapons in Pingliang City. It is the wealthiest group in the entire Pingliang City, they are scattered, but although they all know each other, they do not have the most noble and prestigious ruler.

The Tatars, unlike them, rarely had their own private deals. They usually live in groups as a whole in a tribe. Even the Tatars in the city maintained this way of life.

Their aristocrats owned a large amount of land inside and outside the city, had countless servants, and monopolized camel caravans, horse gangs, post houses, shops, grain and grass.

Therefore, the Tanglin family is the god of the Tatars, and they don't think that others are harmful, so naturally everyone will not think so.

The people of the Western Regions don't think so, and the guests who were originally in the south of the city want to go to the north of the city to buy things. And most of them even ran to one, which made the few people from the Western Regions who opened taverns and inns depressed.

Not only that, Erlang's prestige in the north of the city is getting higher and higher, and he has also begun to expand his territory in large quantities in the land outside Xiaoyao Valley. In order to win over the Han people in the north of the city, the grain shop owner headed by Luo Hao cooperated with Erlang to subjectively control the price of grain.

Although they were greatly affirmed and supported by the Han people in the north of the city, they offended the merchants in the south of the city.

Most of the grain business in the south of the city was controlled by the people of the Western Regions, and the Tatars did not care about this business at all. If you cared, you wouldn't have stopped your fellow people from burning, killing, and plundering in the city. That's because they know that the most important thing about food is the Han people. How many Tatars could live by farming?

It was precisely because the Tatars didn't mind that the Han people began to hold together with Erlang, Luo Hao and others. The people of the Western Regions began to be uncalm, and they also joined forces to plot how to deal with this group of hateful Han people.

Here, Satuk, Helian Chaohua, and Yanbru reacted the most fiercely, and they were also the most powerful people from the Western Regions.

Satuk has three granaries in the south of the city, Yanbru runs an inn, but Helian Chaohua has no conflict with Xiaoyaoju, and is completely pulled over to fill the number.

"These three people Helian is nothing, their family runs a pharmacy and a gold store, and there is no conflict with us!" In the Hall of Loyalty, Luo Hao shrunk in a wide chair, roasting his hands while analyzing the situation for everyone.

"The three of them started with Saktu, after all, the price of food in the north of our city is much cheaper than theirs. As for Yanbu, needless to say, is it ...... peers that they are enemies" (to be continued......