Chapter 241: Here it is
The next day, the young man began to take three companions around the hotel to check the terrain, and then used the business to buy off the local Liao State government, and from noon, while running the original small shop, began to build a large number of buildings.
Just looking at the scale, the small store will be at least quadruple after the expansion!
As a result, there was a hot scene on the border of Song and Liao: hundreds of young and strong people were busy carrying bricks and stones, or shoveling soil.
"Brother Zhang De, you say, is the current Song Dynasty really that good? I think that our village was forced to death by the Song Dynasty government! β
Ma Ling asked Zhao Huan at the back of the shop.
The young man and his three companions are Zhao Huan, Ma Ling, Le He, and Qiao Daoqing; Now the shop is busy with seven men borrowed from Wasion State, and four of them are building houses with a hundred warriors.
Of course, it is not practical to build a house for a hundred people, only twenty or thirty; The remaining seventy or eighty were either to level the road or to carry rocks and timber from the west, which was hard work.
It is difficult for anyone to understand that in order to build such a wild hotel, in order to carry these logs and rocks, the owner of the small hotel is willing to build a road that is stronger than the official road.
Zhao Huan glanced at Ma Ling, shook his head and said, "What does it have to do with us whether the Song Dynasty is good or not, won't it come to kill us?" Impossible! β
"I'm just asking!" Ma Ling said embarrassedly, and then sighed, "Alas! It's really unlucky, I wanted to be a good citizen in the Song Dynasty, but I was forced to become a bandit; Now that Ma Ye has become a bandit, the Song Dynasty has changed for the better again! Do you think this god doesn't have eyes? I want to be against Ma Ye! β
Zhao Huan didn't answer, because Ma Ling didn't have an answer to this question, and the ghost knew if God had eyes.
He thought about it and asked Ma Ling a very sensitive question: "I heard that the reason why the King of Jin sent Ma Ye here was because someone in the Song Dynasty secretly recruited Ma Ye?" β
Ma Ling's expression tightened, stared at Zhao Huan and said, "Brother Zhang De, what do you mean by this?" β
"Nothing interesting, just ask!" Zhao Huan said calmly, "Actually, starting from King Jin, each of us just wants to live, live well, just such a simple wish!" So what kind of ideas Ma Ye has, what kind of practices he has, as long as it doesn't involve me, it has nothing to do with me; No matter where Ma Ye ends up, we can be friends or brothers! β
"Really?"
"Naturally! What do you do? With my current status in the Jin Kingdom, I don't need to envy Ma Ye, nor do I need to be jealous of Ma Ye; Ma Ye didn't stand in my way, and I didn't need to guard against Ma Ye, right? β
"Yes!"
Ma Ling nodded solemnly.
It's a fact.
Ma Ling thought for a while and asked Zhao Huan, "According to what Brother Zhang De sees, what should I do?" β
Zhao Huan shook his head: "I don't know." I only know that as long as Ma Ye follows his heart to make choices, he will not regret it. β
Ma Ling was silent.
Not far away, Qiao Daoqing squinted at Zhao Huan and Ma Ling, not knowing what he was thinking. But he didn't alarm the two of them, and quietly turned away.
The restaurant is still under construction, and there is a lot of earth on the ground, as well as a lot of wood and stone, but it does not affect the walking of people on the official road.
At dusk on the third day, a group of people appeared in the south, and the clothes were Liao, about one hundred and ten, driving a cart drawn by thirty oxen; There was a very large object on the cart, covered with a yellow cloth, and it was so round that I couldn't tell what it was.
However, the Song army was surrounded by the Song army in front, back, left, and right of this group of people, and the Song army in the four directions was no more than a hundred zhang away from the big car, but none of them were so close.
Drivingββ
The cart creaked northward, with thirty or forty wheels, pressing out ruts on the official road.
"Your Excellency, please stay!"
A Song general took the two of them to the cart and said to the Liao officials led by him: "Your honor! Now that we have reached the border of Liao, we will be a guest army if we go further, and every step must be guided by your envoy, otherwise it is easy to cause misunderstanding. And this big car, now officially handed over to your envoy, we will still escort you, but it will be a little farther away......"
"Got it!" Before the Liao envoy met, this person was rambling and very impatient; Isn't it just that you are afraid of responsibility? Alas! In fact, the army of Liao is also like this now.
"My Liao country is not as close as the Great Song Dynasty, so I don't need to be escorted so closely; General Zheng Biao can send an order to the Song army, as long as it is no more than three miles away from the cart! β
Zheng Biao nodded: "I'll wait for the order!" Your honor, if it gets dark today, will the army camp for a while? β
The Liao envoy looked at the small hotel next to him: "Yes!" I'm staying in this small hotel tonight, and it just so happens that there is a courtyard here, so you can drive the cart into it and save it from being eye-catching! β
"Understood! Then I'll go! Be careful! β
Zheng Biao glanced at Zhao Huan, who was directing the construction of the house next to the official road, and left quietly.
"Come out!"
The Liao envoy shouted, and Le He hurriedly ran out of it.
"Do you want to rest?"
The Liao envoy glanced at the tavern and the people in the tavern: "It's just to rest!" There was a delay on the way, and it was too late to get to Xiongzhou; If it's late tonight, Lord Ben will rest in your hotel tonight...... From now on, you are not allowed to entertain any other diners here, and you are not allowed to leave at night! Serve us well, and there will be a reward! β
"Understood! Adult inside, please! β
The Liao envoy didn't move, and pointed to the house under construction next to him: "This newly built courtyard is also your home?" β
"That's right! Recently, business has been good, the shop is too small, and the villain has expanded a few rooms! If you arrive a few days late, you might have built it! β
"Hmmm! Let your men pack up the ground, and our ox carts will be in for the night! And your men must not come near this ox cart! β
The Liao envoy's tone was full of threat.
"Don't worry, sir! I'll let them clean up, and after they are done, they will leave the small courtyard and rest in the back shed! β
"Hmmm! Go ahead! β
Lehe hurriedly went.
Beside the Liao envoy, a deputy envoy said, "Lord Xiao, is it safe here?" β
The Liao envoy looked at him and smiled: "What's not safe?" There are Song Jun on all sides, are you still afraid that such a big car will fly? Put your heart in your belly! This is our Liao country! β
"But I always feel that these people who build houses are not quite right......"
"What's wrong?"
"I can't say it, I just feel wrong!"
"I'm afraid Lord Yelu is thinking too much, right?" The Liao envoy patted the deputy envoy on the shoulder, "A few people who build houses, even if they have three heads and six arms, they can't carry this big cart; Even if they can carry this cart, they can't escape the eyes of Song Jun! Just rest assured! β
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