The days of mountain safaris flew by, and in a blink of an eye, the entire wax moon had passed, and in a few days it was the end of the year Chinese New Year's Eve.

Grandpa, they have already completed the settlement affairs with the jade merchants in the city, and the Dawan Divine Horse brought from the Qishan Horse Farm has also sold more than half of it in the West Market of Chang'an.

The remaining horses are no longer for sale as mounts for us to go south to Jiankang.

Uncle Su specially asked the guys to make a few carriages, and brought back from the city a few large bags of silver, hundreds of jars of Chang'an sake, and all the items that the guys needed to celebrate the New Year in the village, all kinds of food, clothing, and fun.

Everyone abandoned their families and businesses to follow their grandfather to travel all over the world, and they endured all the hardships of the world, and grandpa never treated these guys badly

In a casual conversation after returning to the village, Uncle Su gave me a slight estimate, excluding the income from the silk shipped back next year, and the net profit of this trip has been more than ten times.

That is to say, the capital invested by my caravan at the beginning, before leaving Chang'an, I have earned back the fortune of ten thousand gold.

Then he used the 10,000 gold to go to Jiangnan Jiankang to purchase silk and bring it back to the Western Regions, and sold it to merchants from various countries south and west of the Green Ridge, which was more than five times the profit.

When he went out, he was still a small family with a daughter, and after he returned, he was already a wealthy family of 100,000 gold.

It is no wonder that the merchants of the Western Regions countries are not afraid of death, and drive the camel team to Chang'an, and the profits are really too great.

As long as the catastrophe does not die, as long as there is still a camel of goods left to arrive at the hometown safely, it is enough to make a poor family have no worries about food and clothing in this life.

In this way, how much money has grandpa made in business for so many years!

My Qingfengze Inn can support so many relatives and guys, as well as a cottage and a horse farm in this Middle Earth Han land, for my grandfather, it is like Jia Lu in Dongshi.

If nothing else, Luoyang, the eastern capital, Jiankang in the south, and other places, there will definitely be industries purchased by grandfathers.

Wu Wei, Chang'an and my three grandchildren, who have achieved nothing in this life, can also rely on the thousands of family wealth earned by their grandfather to worry about food and clothing.

But this is obviously not the original intention of my grandfather to make money in business, but his old man's current practice is to let us taste all the hardships of the world at a young age.

It's really strange to make money in such a way, and it took me many years to realize my grandfather's hard work.

Money dung too!

Only the cultivation experience in this life and the ability to grow in the body are the foundation of living in the world, and all of these cannot be bought with money.

Either break through the books of sages like Wuwei and Chang'an, or travel thousands of miles to the end of the world like me.

On the twenty-third day of the lunar calendar, the Han people sent the god of the stove, and the guys turned the bamboo strips into paper horses early, and offerings such as sake, sesame sugar, melons, beans, and hay were arranged before the big stove.

After sunset, grandfather, grandfather Uncle Su and other elders in the team have bathed and changed clothes, burned incense and bowed in front of the stove, very respectful.

"The Lord of the Stove is above! The small people sincerely worship! Pray that the stove king will say good things to the heavens, keep the earth safe, and the heavens will follow people's wishes in the coming year, and the five grains will be abundant! Uncle Su's loud eulogy was over.

Grandfather, as the main family, pious three prostrations before the offering of the god of the stove.

"Send the Stove God!"

With the sound of chanting one after another, people came to the stage in groups of three or five in turn, kowtowing and bowing.

Pray for the protection of the king of the god of the stove, who is in charge of supervising the good and evil in the world, so that the family members who are far away in a foreign country can be safe and secure, and have enough food and clothing.

After all the men finished bowing, Uncle Su lit the paper horse and offerings with incense candles, and the ceremony of sending the god of the stove ended.

The happiest and happiest days of the year have arrived, starting from the New Year's dinner and continuing until the night of the first month of the next year.

The original daily hunting and self-sufficiency has been canceled, and the New Year's wine and meat have been purchased and prepared.

Grandpa also gave each guy a year-end bonus of ten gold and half a year's salary, and let them go to Chang'an City to have fun.

After a year of hard work, it's time for these old guys who have been away from home for a long time.

As the grandfather, grandfather, and Uncle Su of the leader, they also ended all their entertainment in the city, and stayed in the village every day to drink, play, and soak in hot springs with a group of old guys.

When you meet the old friends of the merchants who come to visit with the rich New Year's goods, you will chat with the gods of the sea and the sky, and then put on a feast to get drunk.

The life of such a guest in a foreign country is really happy!

Liu and Shamihan are both masters who have no family to support, and after the bounty and wages are in hand, these two guys sneak into the city behind my back to meet their Lan girl.

A few days later, all the money was squandered, and they returned to Yizhai in disgrace.

Grandpa paid the guys on the way to business, the original intention was to boost morale, these old guys have some money in their hands, and they can also bring some private goods back to the Western Regions with the team to subsidize the family.

It's good for young guys like Liu and them, in less than ten days, in the world of flowers in Chang'an City, they spent half a year's hard-earned money and nothing.

But then again, isn't life too short to be happy, and what in the world can be happier than spending the Spring Festival with the woman you like?

Grandpa, who is well versed in the way of life, knows the consequences of this and does it, maybe that's what it means!

Qin Chong and I were not idle, almost once a day to run to the main station of the "Los Angeles Post Station" in Chang'an West City, Shangguan Yanxi should return in these few days.

But every time I am disappointed, Miss Shangguan is still on the way.

Maybe it's Luoyang.

If there is no delay on the way, it should have passed Taihua Mountain.

It must have arrived in Weinan and will return in a few days.

In the midst of such anticipation, it is a pity that the sky does not fulfill people's wishes, and after a day of warm sunshine, the goose feather snow flutters in the early hours of the night.

Although the snow at the end of the year has increased the festive atmosphere during the festive season, I have an ominous premonition that this Miss Yanxi may be stuck in traffic on the way and will not be able to come back.

How miserable it must be for such a weak woman, who has no way out in a foreign land in the ice and snow!

I hope that this century-old postal merchant should have a plan for how to deal with such bad weather on the way to the mail.

In this way, Miss Shangguan Yanxi can suffer less.

After waking up early on the second day, I couldn't stay in Yizhai anymore.

Ignoring their grandfather's dissuasion, they summoned Qin Chong, Sha Mihan, and Liu Liu, and galloped towards Chang'an City in the wind and snow.

We didn't go to the main station of the Los Angeles Post Post again, but went straight to the Bashui Gate in the east of the city.

This is the only way for Shangguan Yanxi to return to the city along the Qin-Han Chi Road from Luoyang to Chang'an.

The old lady Shangguan couldn't sit still, and had already sent several men to wait at the city gate.

Everyone knows that after today's blizzard, Miss Shangguan will not have any possibility of returning to Chang'an within the year.

After exchanging greetings, we paced back and forth in the empty and cold doorway, waiting hopelessly.

Looking at every figure who hurriedly returned on the avenue outside the city, I hope that one of them is Miss Yanxi who we are waiting for.

The soldiers who defended the city were disgusted that our group was blocking the gates of the city and were an eyesore, and came down to issue an expulsion order against us.

"Official, it's a little meaning, take it to buy wine and drink!" Seeing this, I quickly took out a small piece of silver ingot, and bribed with a smile.

"The person you were waiting for will not be able to come back today! With so many people blocked at the city gate, the captain who patrolled came over and I couldn't wait! ”

The soldier shouted a few times, gave him a step of his own, and then happily went back to the city tower to warm up.

"We'll be gone in a minute! Leave in a moment! I replied, my eyes fixed on the distance outside the city.

After another two hours, when everyone was about to be completely disappointed, the sound of horses' hooves trampling the snow was heard in the distance.

The sound was getting closer and closer, three people and six horses, and there was a faintly fluttering wind flag on the horseback.

"The heroine is back!"

"Miss Shangguan!" "Miss Yanxi!"

Everyone shouted in ecstasy, urging the horses into the wind and snow.

It is Miss Yanxi's horse team, and the three-person group is the standard equipment of the long-distance postman of the Los Angeles Post Station.

"Oops! Finally returned to Chang'an alive! Brother Yi, why are you here? ”

After entering the city gate, Shangguan Yan cheered in surprise as if he had dismounted for the rest of his life.

"Greet your triumphant return! Hehe, without your Miss Shangguan's Chang'an, it's dark! I'm still waiting to say goodbye to the old year with you and live a good life! ”

I smiled happily and affectionately helped her remove the thick snow from her cloak.

"Brother Yi, it's so dangerous! The day before yesterday, I just passed Taihua Mountain, and I felt that the weather was hot and wrong, and it was definitely going to snow! So I exchanged six fast horses from the post stations along the way, and drove west with two men overnight! Sure enough, just after Weinan Pass, the blizzard was overwhelming! Shangguan Yanxi combed her messy sideburns, and her smile couldn't hide the tiredness on her face.

After more than a month of long-distance travel, Miss Shangguan has obviously lost a lot of weight, and she has more sassy heroism on her body, but less of the graceful style that makes me obsessed.

The two men who were traveling with her did not dismount, and after a hurried greeting with us, they followed the family who greeted them non-stop, and went back to the main station of the Los Angeles Post Station.

"Miss Yanxi, you're too tired, hurry up and go back and rest! In the evening at Katsura Place, I bought wine for the young lady! ”

After two days and two nights of non-stop running, even a young man like me would be tired, not to mention a weak woman like Shangguan Yanxi.

"Alright! Originally, I didn't want to live up to the hospitality of Brother Yi and the three brothers, so I went to have a drink with you! Hehe, my outfit and outfit are no longer unsightly. ”

Shangguan Yanxi smiled a little ashamedly and said with a wry smile, she knew what she was like now.

In fact, Miss Shangguan is really worried, and I have nothing else in my heart at this time except for care and care.

The hard work of the businessmen in the rivers and lakes has long been experienced, and she may not have seen what we looked like when we first came out of the sand sea, so it was really miserable!

"Qin Chong, the three of you will go to the inn where we stayed first, and I will come to meet you after I send Miss Yanxi back!" I turned back to Qin Chong and said.

These three fellows waited with me at the gate of this city for most of the day, and after listening to my instructions, as if they had been amnestied, they turned over and rode away happily in the direction of Chumen Street.

"Brother Yi, I'm already sleepy, what should I do? I was completely relaxed when I saw you! ”

Shangguan Yanxi smiled sleepily, and the whole person was a little sleepy and couldn't stand.

"So be it! Let's ride a horse! ”

A heroic spirit of protecting the beauty arose, and I couldn't help but help Shangguan Yanxi on my Dawan Wuqing, and then sat on her back.

In this way, you will not fall off your horse while dozing off your horse.

Then I took Miss Shangguan's mount, shook the reins slightly, and the mount under my crotch took broken steps like a human nature, and slowly trotted forward.

The journey was too hard, and in the moment I took her into my arms, Miss Shangguan was already paralyzed and fell into a deep sleep.