"In December, please summon the clan marriage guests, talk about good etiquette, and be gracious. Rest of the farm, Hui will go down (rest of the farm, will definitely benefit the coming year). Then he combined the field equipment, raised the ploughing cattle, and selected the field to start the farming. and Lari, worship ancestors. ”

This year, Liu Bei's family overhauled civil engineering, and hemp mats were gradually sold in the north, and the village had a lot of income. Every family is full of joy, and everyone is happy.

When I was young, the elders of the clan used to buy pears. Liu Bei once replied that he did not suffer from widowhood, but only unevenness.

The clansmen, clansmen, and craftsmen in the village have all gained this year, which is exactly what Liu Bei thinks.

In the past few days, the wind and snow have been urgent, and the road is about to be closed. Early this morning, I heard the neighing of people and horses outside the hospital. When Liu Bei walked out of the courtyard wrapped in wolf skin, he saw Su Shuang jumping up and down around the horses. On the side of the road, a young man stood with his sleeves arched. I also lift my cuffs from time to time and wipe the runny water from my nose.

Liu Bei first felt that his face was raw, and then he felt a little familiar.

When the young man turned around and saluted him, Liu Bei suddenly realized: "Zhang Shiping! ”

"Zhang Shiping, Zhongshan, has seen the foot." Although Liu Bei is small, Zhang Shiping has never slackened at all.

"Why are you here?" Liu Bei stepped forward and held on.

Zhang Shiping said with a smile: "I came to the appointment of the heart!" ”

Liu Bei was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "But Yijin knows people's hearts? ”

"Exactly." Zhang Shiping smiled and nodded.

"Quick, let's go inside." Liu Bei pulled him and walked to the courtyard.

Zhang Shiping waved his hand again and again. Pointing to several foreign warriors with solemn expressions on both sides of the herd, he laughed in a low voice: "So that you can know that this group of horses are all on credit from the Hu merchants in the horse market, and they have not been given a penny." Hu Ren's nature is narrow and suspicious......"

Liu Bei was stunned. What's going on?

Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping both speak a little nonsense. After asking Fang Zhi, this group of horses came from the horse market in Anping County. Eighty gold!

Su Shuang has already seen it first, horses have male and female, good and bad, and they vary in age. However, the price is much higher than 80 gold! The price of one of the finest horses alone is as high as fifty gold!

Su Shuang estimated that if this group of horses were bought separately, it would be worth hundreds of gold!

Seeing Liu Bei looking at himself, Zhang Shiping smiled: "The market is closed at the end of the year, and there are still remnants of the Hu Shang Horse Circle. If you forcibly drive to the northern frontier, you will freeze to death on the way. So I agreed with him that I would buy them all, both big and small. The price of this work is 100 gold, and I heard me say that you and the matter of the recruitment, only to fold 20, and I am allowed to buy on credit first, and pay for the goods! ”

"Yes." Without waiting for Liu Bei to speak, his mother had agreed. The horses were noisy before, and the mother came out of the house when she heard the sound, and was standing under the eaves of the door with the Gongsun family.

Liu Bei couldn't help but sigh with a smile: "Ma Shi already knows everything about me and the recruitment?" ”

"Not to mention the horse market, the entire Anping country has been rumored to be a good story!" Zhang Shiping replied with a smile.

"In this case, I will pay first, and then I will talk in the hall." Seeing that Hu was afraid of fraud, he refused to enter the house. Liu Bei asked his mother to take away 20 gold from the cash box given by Hu Shang in the horse market last time, and called the young people in the clan who were helping to build a house to move to Hu Shang's car.

The chariot is wide and resembles a walking tent. Or call: Caravan.

Two Hu warriors jumped off their horses and worked together to put the cash box into the account. Liu Bei handed over the key again, and a Huren warrior reached out to take it and put it into the car tent.

Soon, a crisp nonsense came from inside. The leading Huren warrior let out a sigh of relief when he heard the sound. He stroked his chest with one hand, bowed to Liu Bei, and said a nonsense in his mouth.

Knowing that he was doing Hu Li, Liu Bei returned the salute.

The leader of the Hu people took out a large handful of horse certificates from his arms and handed them to Liu Bei. With another bow, he turned on his horse, and a crowd roared away.

"What did he say?" Liu Bei put up a pergola and asked casually.

"He said that he would recruit Liu Bei, and he promised a thousand gold!" Su Shuang replied with a smile.

Liu Bei rolled his eyes: "Does he know who is 'leading Liu Bei'?" ”

"I don't know!" After Zhang Shiping finished speaking, everyone laughed.

With such a big movement, how could the old patriarch not come. Check the horses and documentary evidence, correspond one by one, and leave with a smile after making sure that it is correct.

Liu Bei's family is building a large number of buildings. Towering in the backyard of the warehouse building, Zhang Shiping raised his eyes to see. There was a sound in his mouth, and there were many sighs in his heart. drove the backyard with Su Shuang, and was startled by the double-decker stable. Seeing that Su Shuang was also quite horselike, Zhang Shiping was immediately overjoyed.

He was afraid that he would not take good care of the horses and cause damage to the herd. Now that he saw Su Shuang, he let go of his worries and hurried back to Zhongshan's house.

Liu Bei sincerely stayed and barely stayed for a night.

In the early morning of the next day, Zhang Shiping hurriedly said goodbye and left.

Liu Bei couldn't keep it, so he could only give him the package and send him away.

Zhang Shiping thought it was a trip to food, but he didn't expect to start quite heavy. Reach out and touch it, it's the horseshoe gold cake.

There are about twenty ingots.

Then he hurriedly dismounted. Unexpectedly, Liu Bei stretched out his hand and patted it, and the horse rushed out. Zhang Shiping hurriedly held the reins, and when he turned back, Liu Bei was smiling and beckoning.

My heart warmed, and there were tears in my eyes.

Zhang Shiping bowed his hand and went away with the horse.

Mother said that Zhang Shiping was a widow and ate this bowl of rice. Home is far away in Zhongshan country, and the New Year is approaching, how can people return empty-handed.

Liu Bei thought so. So my mother had sewed the gold cakes into the bag overnight, mixed them with dry food, and handed them to him when she went out this morning. The appearance is no different from dry food, so Zhang Shiping does not doubt that he has him, and he feels different when he starts.

In this way, without a hundred gold cakes, the house could not be built.

Fortunately, it was freezing and the craftsmen were finishing the touch. The excess bricks and tiles are covered with straw mats, and the wood is wrapped in layers of linen cloth to wait for the spring flowers to bloom before starting work again. Liu Bei took advantage of this free time to earn some money, and it was not too late.

The reason why he dared to stuff twenty gold cakes into Zhang Shiping's bag was because it was an official way to go to Zhongshan. The road is smooth and can be reached in a few days. It also coincided with the Shengping period, and the bandits along the way were extinct. Liu Bei himself also went to Fan County, and the situation was far from what he thought. In this era, there are still more than 20 years before the troubled times.

Prepare yourself.

To say that Zhang Shiping is really a talent. This method of packaging and purchasing was called mass sales in later generations. For Hu Shang who was in a hurry to return to northern Xinjiang, it couldn't be more suitable. Su Shuang has seen that in addition to a high-quality horse, the rest are mostly field horses, and there are a small number of horses.

As "Zhou Li, Xia Guan, and Horse Quality" said: "There are three things for horses, one is called Rong Horse, the second is called Field Horse, and the third is called Horse Horse." "Horses are divided into three classes, the first refers to the war horse, followed by the field horse, and the last is the horse.

Field horses are also called ploughing horses. It is used for ploughing land and pulling carts (horse-drawn wagons). Compared with riding horses, ploughing horses are much larger and stronger, more tenacious, but very docile in temper.

A horse is also called a bad horse. You can only do some light work. For example, pulling a cart. Liu Bei's Shi Yi cart can be handed over to these two horses in the future.

Liu Bei's family has no cattle, and these giant horses will be good materials for plowing the fields in the future.

The most dazzling horse in the stable is this mixed-breed horse with a red body and white spots on his forehead. Su Shuang said that it was a hybrid of Wuhuan horses and Dawan horses. Dental opening, under three years old. A good student is trained to be a thousand-mile horse.

There are also several foals, each fed by a mare. I'm too young, and I can't see the appearance yet.

There were only two large and one small, and three horses. Stuff this group and it's immediately full. Su Shuang was very happy about this, staying in the stable all day, and walking the horses in the backyard when he had nothing to do. Liu Bei was happy to see him, so he let him go.