"When someone asks you your name, you say you're a member, but remember?"

The young man nodded emphatically and assured his uncle, "Nephew will save it!" ”

"What's your name?" When the servant set the wheel, Xiang Liang suddenly turned around and asked.

"Xiang Zhuang ......" The young man replied subconsciously, and then changed his words under his uncle's stern eyes, pursed his lips and reported the name of his cousin who was far away in his hometown.

"My name is Xiang Ji!"

"Remember not to answer incorrectly, otherwise, the Xiang clan!"

Xiang Liang instructed carefully again, and then patted Xiang Zhuang and asked him to sit in the car.

The car is an ordinary inferior horse and ugly car, Xiang Zhuang has been accustomed to sitting in a high car since he was a child, and he always feels that it is narrow and difficult to accommodate. But there was no way, his uncle told him that Chu was dead, the Chu people had become slaves of the country, and the Xiang family was no longer a famous family of the fourth Zhigui, but had become a "Shandong relocation", and he had to be cautious in order to survive.

Even so, Qin Shi Huang did not forget them, and in the migration order, there was the name of Xiang Liang.

No matter how strong the snake is, he is afraid of leaving the nest, and if the Xiang family is uprooted and leaves the familiar Jianghuai, I am afraid that his vitality will be greatly damaged.

Fortunately, Xiang Liang played a careful thought, he bought off the household officials of the lower minister, and separated from his younger brother Xiang Tang (Xiang Bo), because the document of Surabaya County said that "Xiang Liang moved to it", so Xiang Liang was divided into two, Xiang Liang and his family entered the customs, and Xiang Tang and Xiang Sheng stayed behind with their subordinates.

It stands to reason that his brother's son Xiang Ji will also migrate together, but Xiang Liang knows Xiang Ji's temperament, although he is only thirteen years old, he is born with divine power, has a short temper, and is the master who kills people on the street if he disagrees. So when the household officials came to count the place of origin and wrote the biography, he asked another nephew Xiang Zhuang to pretend to be the family and bring it to Guanzhong.

Xiang Zhuang was slightly smaller than Xiang Ji, but he was silent, with an unopened sword hanging from his waist, looking at the street scene of Liyang on the side of the car.

Of the 120,000 households relocated to the customs, some of them continued to move to Longxi, Shangjun, Beidi, and Bashu Shibian, and the remaining half went to Wuyuan south of Xianyang to open up wasteland and farm, and the rest were scattered and resettled in various counties in Neishi.

Xiang and many nobles of Chu settled in Liyang, they only arrived at the end of September, just settled down, today is the first time Xiang Liang took Xiang Zhuang out.

On the carriage, a gust of wind blew, even though he put on his winter coat, the young man still shivered, and he didn't call it cold, but frowned, secretly thinking that it would be cold like this on the first day of October, and it would be back in two months?

In the warm river in summer, the boys of the whole family laughed and played in the water, and the girls held lotus leaves as umbrellas, sitting on the boat and watching them laugh, and the field was full of flowers. Autumn is also good, the citrus transported from Huainan is sweet and sour, refreshing, eat until the stomach can not hold up......

Xiang Zhuang doesn't like the north, doesn't like Guanzhong, and doesn't understand why the Qin people on the street are so happy, or holding chickens and ducks, carrying dog legs, fresh fish, going in and out of the market, congratulating each other with a smile on their faces, and the way of saluting is extremely ugly.

"Qindi celebrates the New Year on the first day of October."

Xiang Liang, who drove the car himself, explained: "Today is the New Year's Day. ”

Xiang Zhuang's eyes widened, feeling unreasonable.

How can the year pass in October?

This is also the reason why Xiang Liang picked up going out today, and like many places in Qindi, the entire Liyang is immersed in the atmosphere of the festival, the government is closed, and the little officials who are staring at the every move of Shandong immigrants on weekdays are also relaxed, and go home to eat millet and rice.

In this atmosphere, Xiang Liang happened to visit the deceased and inquire about some news in the name of New Year's greetings......

Although Liyang is only a county, the city is not small, because this was the former capital of Qin, Qin Xiangong in order to compete with Wei State, specially moved the capital from Yongcheng to here, Qin Xiaogong moved to Xianyang. Liyang then deserted, but with the start of construction more than ten years ago, Zhengguo Canal passed through the north of Liyang, and the land of Liyang was irrigated, and then it became the granary of Weibei, which has become more and more prosperous in recent years.

Xiang Liang also went through a lot of relationships, so that his family's migration place was neither a remote border county like Bashu, nor Xianyang under the nose of Qin Shi Huang.

In his own words, it is: "If the world is stable, you will live in Liyang, teach your children and nephews, and make you not forget the hatred of the country and the family; If the world changes, you can escape and return to the east......"

With a different heart, Xiang Liang needs a well-informed news channel.

From the west of the city to the east of the city, the carriage stopped, Xiang Liang got out of the car, and asked the servants who followed behind him to hand over the salute to him.

Gift is the gift of Shandong nobles to meet, especially the person with low status visits the high status, when you enter the meeting, there must be a gift, now Xiang Liang is in the hand, it is a dried mallard, Chu called it Qingshou, the principle is called "骛".

Before the fall of the Chu State, Xiang Zhuang also went to the banquet with his family, and he also remembered some rules for drinking and feasting, so he said softly: "Uncle, didn't my family visit others in the past, aren't they all lambs?" ”

Xiang Liang smiled bitterly: "Lonely and stubborn, Qing is stubborn, the doctor is stubborn, the doctor is stubborn, the scholar is stubborn, the common man is stubborn, and the industrial and commercial is stubborn." My family is no longer a Shangzhu country, nor is it a Shangzhigui, just an ordinary Qiantou! ”

"Qianshou ......" Xiang Zhuang lowered his head, and when he was in the prime minister, his cousin Xiang Ji would be furious every time he read this word, saying that it meant slave.

At that time, he was not deeply touched, but after entering the customs, he understood the humiliation in it.

Uncle taught them to memorize "Lisao", Xiang is also a descendant of the surname Mi, a descendant of Emperor Gaoyang, with Zhurong blood flowing in his body, he was a Shiqing who everyone respected when he was in the Chu State, but after entering Qin, he was only the head of Qian......

Their social status is even inferior to those ordinary Qin farmers who have no crown and belt and are digging in the fields!

Xiang Liang only didn't tell Xiang Zhuang that there was a whole pound of gold hidden in the belly of this air-dried green head!

The house of the Venerable One who visited was in one of the palaces, and when the prison gate saw them dressed in clothes, he immediately became vigilant and shouted at the uncle and nephew to show them the reason for coming here, and register them on the wooden slip before letting them in.

It is said that in the Qin State, every li lu is so strict, but Xiang Liang thought otherwise, the Qin people were intoxicated with the victory of dominating the world, enjoying the looted goods from the Six Kingdoms, and they had become more and more lax......

Arrived at the back door of a high-gate compound, Xiang Liang cleaned up his clothes, personally stepped forward and knocked on the door, soon the door opened, a soap-clothed servant poked his head out to see that it was Xiang Liang, smiled, and after the door was opened, he saw Xiang Zhuang following behind, and couldn't help scolding: "It's just to come by yourself, and bring a son to do something!" ”

Xiang Liang was able to bend and stretch, and said with a smile: "Bring him here for a long time." At the same time, he shoved a small bag of money into the palm of the servant's hand.

After weighing it, the servant smiled and said, "Come in quickly, don't be silent." ”

Although Xiang Zhuang didn't make a sound, he saw it in his eyes, and only felt that this family was too rude, in Chu State, the host was going to the main gate to welcome guests in person......

He didn't know that when Xiang Liang visited for the first time, he was left out in the cold for an hour, and this time the money was spent, and the servants led them directly to the study.

A woman, in her early forties, wearing heavy makeup and a noble scarlet dress, sat behind the desk, chatting and laughing with the good-looking housekeeper, and behaving intimately......

"Mrs. Kui!" Xiang Liang smiled all over his face, and asked the servant to hand over the heavy Qingshou wild duck on his behalf, while he pulled Xiang Zhuang to bow down by the door.

"It's Xiang Jun here."

The middle-aged woman withdrew her hand from the hand of the housekeeper, straightened her clothes, and saw that it was Xiang Liang, and her eyes swept to the housekeeper again.

The housekeeper weighed the green duck slightly, knew that there was enough gold in it, and nodded to the hostess.

Only then did the woman smile, let the servant look at the seat, and bowed and said, "Xiang Jun is kind to his deceased husband, why should he be so polite?" ”

This woman is called "Mrs. Kui", and she is the wife of Kui, the concubine of Qin You.

Kui is a Chu person, who entered Qin alone in his early years, and his son and daughter-in-law stayed in Chu State, and he was very miserable. Xiang Liang is a person who likes light chivalry and makes friends, and he has taken the blame for Kui and let him be his own guest, so that Mrs. Kui can have fish and meat.

A few years ago, Kui made a fortune, instead of Changping Jun as the right prime minister, Kui took his wife into Qin to enjoy the wealth, but died of illness in Xianyang, after Kui lost his son, he did not treat the widowed daughter-in-law, and gave her a mansion in Liyang, and lived a rich life.

Mrs. Kui is a woman who can manage her business, and soon became a noble lady that no one dares to mess with in Liyang, and people often come to her to inquire about the news of the imperial court, and the appointment and dismissal of personnel......

The two have not been in contact for many years, and when they meet again, the trend of host and guest has reversed.

Xiang Liang has no grievances, and his family was able to settle in Liyang, thanks to the help of Mrs. Kui.

Mrs. Kui looked at Xiang Zhuang and said, "This is Ruzi?" ”

"It's my nephew." Xiang Liang glanced at Xiang Zhuang, who was silent: "His name is Xiang Ji, he is the eldest son of my uncle, and Mrs. saw him back then." ”

"It's all grown so big." Mrs. Kui sighed, but she didn't recognize that this was an impostor.

Xiang Liang was sure that Mrs. Kui was the only person in Guanzhong who had seen Xiang Ji, and she had not seen through it, so the matter was safe.

Stretching out her hand not to hit the smiling man, Mrs. Kui was very polite to the person who gave her money, and asked the servant to serve hot soup and a plate of reddish-brown sugar cubes.

She eyebrows fluttered and introduced: "This is the last batch of brown sugar on the market this year, from five hundred yuan a jun, to a thousand yuan a jun, although the doctor said that this thing has the effect of blood tonic, but it is too expensive, why not grab it?" I heard that the new brown sugar will not be shipped to Guanzhong until after spring at the earliest......"

It seems to be a complaint, but it is actually showing off, showing off that he has a special channel to get the brown sugar that was sold out of stock in Xianyang South Market a few months ago, and asked Xiang Zhuang not to be polite and taste the taste.

"The concubine has been in Guanzhong for many years, and I especially remember that when I was in Huainan with my deceased husband, I drank the syrup sent by Xiang Jun, and the taste was really unforgettable...... It is said that brown sugar is brought from Nangun, and the sugar is made not from malt, but from wild berries on the edge of Unmengze. Nanjun is also the land of Western Chu, eating brown sugar, it really has the taste of Yezhe, and it can be regarded as the taste of hometown, come, little gentleman try it! ”

Xiang Zhuang looked at Xiang Liang and saw that his uncle nodded in agreement, so he took a piece and put it in his mouth, which was so sweet that it was far more than citrus, and there was indeed a familiar smell......

This is the taste from Jing Chu, the taste of the sunshine in the south, when the Chu State did not perish, he drank the syrup with Xiang Ji and several other brothers, and the memory of laughter and laughter appeared in front of him, making him inexplicably depressed, and the honey in his mouth seemed to have become bitter.

Mrs. Kui was still showing off that she was well-informed, and he told Xiang Liang that this item had been favored by Wu Shi Lu and ordered thousands of catties, and it would be taken to the land of the Qiang Yue clan west of Lintao as goods in the spring of next year......

Xiang Liang couldn't help but bow his head, and began to tentatively inquire about the origin and market price of brown sugar, and even had an idea in his heart.

"The price of brown sugar in Guanzhong is higher than that of gold and iron, and the rich are especially fond of it, Huainan and Jiangdong also have a lot of sweet and sweet, and the palace of King Chu in Shouchun is especially sweet and delicious.

Mrs. Kui saw Xiang Liang's thoughts, and said with a smile: "Xiang Jun is still dead of this heart, I heard that half a year ago, when the brown sugar was first sold to Xianyang, the Zuo Shu Changmai and the five doctors Shi in Nanshi were not angry that they were crowding out the market, and they had instructed their subordinate merchants to make trouble and sue the brown sugar dealers, but they ended up in disgrace!" ”

"Oh? Behind the brown sugar vendors, is there still a backer? Xiang Liang has been in the rivers and lakes for many years, and he is also familiar with officialdom, so he understands that this means that the real owner of brown sugar is not small.

"Brown sugar is sold in the name of an old woman who doesn't know her surname in Anlu County, Nan County, just like the widow Qing is called the cinnabar widow, and the merchants are called sugar concubines behind their backs."

"But does Xiang Jun know, who is the son of this sugar woman?"

Xiang Liang's posture was very sufficient, and he arched his hand and said, "I still hope that Mrs. Kui will solve her doubts." ”

Mrs. Kui picked up another thing on the case, but it was a thin sheet of light yellow, like silk but not silk, like cloth but not cloth, and it was full of words.

This is a new thing that appeared in Guanzhong last month, Qin Shi Huang ordered the counties of the internal history to try, and now it has flown out of Xianyang and spread all over the counties of Jinai, which is a sensational event, and Xiang Liang has naturally heard of it

His face changed slightly: "Heifu paper, is it the right chief Heifu?" ”