Chapter 607: The desire to survive

Suddenly, Zhai Dahu suddenly remembered that the supply of salt to Jiangnan had been interrupted for some time.

His heart pounded.

"This must have something to do with it......

The more he thought about it, the more he felt afraid, and on a hot day, his back was cold.

After pondering for a long time, he decided to send someone to inquire first.

But who should we send?

Send the housekeeper to go? No, that's abrupt!

If you expose your feet, it is a trivial matter to lose someone, but if you leak the secret of heaven, it will definitely be self-defeating, and you will be burned instead.

Looking for an ordinary villager? Not at all! Those poor devils are cowardly and unreliable.

After thinking about it and weighing it for a long time, he thought of Hu Xianzu.

This Hu Xianzu is a merchant, a man with a hundred faces, the best at observing words and feelings, and a lord with poisonous eyes and quick legs and a sweet mouth.

What's more, he didn't dare not go, and he didn't dare to fool himself.

Because, although he is not from the Zhai family, this person is quite dependent on his Zhai family financially.

Not to mention anything else, all year round, a small half of the sugar, rape and vegetables used by their Zhai family, as well as the needles and threads, salty and sweet snacks of the women in the inner courtyard, are supplied by him.

Let this person go, it's relatively reliable, and it won't be too dazzling......

At that moment, he ordered Hu Xianzu to be found.

However, as soon as he heard that he was going to be a spy, Hu Xianzu's head was big.

So many unknown people on the embankment, where to spy on the news?

It takes a lot of courage, right?

It's common to be alone and be taken captive, and if you don't make a good scene, it's hard to say that you can eat a guy.

However, Hu Xianzu understands that it will not work if he does not go.

I don't know if the people over there are fierce or not, but he knows better than anyone what Zhai Dahu is......

It seems that in order to save the business, but also to save the life, I have to take a risk and take a hard trip.

However, before leaving, he declared that he would never do anything other than inquire, but Zhai Dahu was very happy and agreed.

As a senior merchant, Hu Xianzu is naturally not stupid at all, and before leaving, he used his brain very much - this time his goods are a load of fresh vegetables.

Speaking of which, there is no future for working as a vegetable seller in this place.

The reason is very simple, except for the county seat and the big mansion, there is still a little demand, almost every household grows and eats on the land, and no one will spend money to buy it.

But the people on the embankment, he thought, must be different.

Since so many people came from the sea, it was impossible for vegetables to be grown on the ship, so it was natural to find someone to buy them.

You can skip meat, but you can't skip vegetables, otherwise, at least you'll get constipation, right?

Secondly, if the other party is unreasonable and grabs it, what he loses is a load of vegetables.

As for whether the other party will arrest him as a free laborer, then he has to resign himself to fate......

In this way, he carried a load of vegetables all the way to the embankment.

However, there was no one on the embankment except for a tent in the shade of the trees.

His legs trembled a little, and he hesitated for a long time before daring to look around.

Finally, he found through the bushes that people were working on the barren beach outside, and all of them were people.

He took a few steps forward, looked around, and roughly estimated, there were indeed several thousand people, almost all of them strong men.

Looking back at the embankment, I found that I was lonely, and I couldn't find anyone to talk to, and I didn't advance or retreat at the moment.

In a panic, he saw two men in tight coats coming out of the tent.

These two men dressed strangely, and their attitudes were kind, and they didn't ask him where he came from, and they heard that he wanted to sell vegetables, and without saying a word, they bought all the vegetables.

Hu Xianzu was overjoyed.

It seems that this group of people not only needs vegetables, but also is very generous - they don't seem to regard copper coins as money, and casually throw 200 wen to him, without even counting them.

Moreover, all of them gave Wanli money that was yellow and clear, not the kind of small money that broke in half as soon as it fell to the ground.

For a while, he actually forgot the purpose of Zhai Dahu asking him to come, so he took the empty burden and happily went down the embankment, thinking that he would come again tomorrow and get more vegetables......

However, when he was about to pass Shijiaqiao Village, he saw that there seemed to be many people near the salt pans by the lake, who were busy working.

He was full of doubts - when did this village have so many salts?

All of a sudden, he remembered Zhai Dahu's instructions again, coupled with the habit of inquiring around, which made him sneaky and touched over there.

This time, I was curious to kill the cat!

As soon as he arrived at the entrance of the village, he was captured alive by the sentries.

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Although he was unfortunately guessed by himself, after listening to Situ Zheng's report, Lin Xiao still felt funny and angry......

The action of pulling out the nails is just around the corner, but he still knows very little about the details of the entire Zhai Jiazhuang.

Although it is just a piece of cake for the special warfare brigade to break down the earthen village, it is said that this Zhaijiazhuang is not small, and there must be many ordinary people in the village, and if the action is not serious, it will inevitably hurt the innocent.

Therefore, Lin Xiao still wanted to know more information before acting.

That Sha Chengzhe provided a lot of information one after another, but Lin Xiao didn't fully believe his words.

Because he is Zhai Dahu's enemy, generally speaking, people who are eager for revenge tend to exaggerate or downplay certain factors.

In order to really find out the specific situation of Zhai Jiazhuang, Lin Xiao was muttering, it was best to go to the field to reconnoiter first.

Unexpectedly, before the move was made, the other party's spies came first.

"Zhai Dahu, you asked for it!"

Lin Xiao secretly sneered, "Since you sent it to the door yourself, there is nothing to be polite about." ”

With this Zhai Jiazhuang person, there is no need to look for Shi Wangqing anymore.

After all, no matter how shrewd a person from another village is, he will not be more familiar with the situation than his neighbors, not to mention, this is still a spy.

While thinking, he asked Situ Zheng to bring this spy over.

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As soon as Hu Xianzu was arrested, he was terrified.

Because, it was a soldier who caught him, a soldier who shot quickly and had great strength.

Before he could resist at all, he was simply thrown to the ground, and his arm was grabbed by a pair of big hands like iron pincers, and he was tied backwards at once, so painful that he bared his teeth and trembled with caution.

After his hands were tied behind his back, and after standing up after being lifted, Hu Xianzu sifted chaff with his legs and secretly looked at this soldier who was draped all over his body.

This soldier is not tall, but he is very capable, although his appearance is mediocre, but there is an awe-inspiring murderous aura between his eyebrows.

Take a closer look, on such a hot day, this person has leather boots and a round hat, a long-sleeved and short-sleeved shirt to wrap his whole body tightly, and he has everything on his body, such as firecrackers and short knives.

He reacted at once - is this the rumored "Wang Shi"?

After bringing them to the village, he saw that there were dozens of such soldiers, all of them were fully armed and imposing.

After all, he is a civilian, where has he experienced this kind of official scene, as soon as Situ Zheng opened his mouth, he didn't scare much, he threw it all at once, and asked what to answer.

Now, he was brought to the old man who looked like a soldier, and he was about to be interrogated again.

He became more and more weak, more and more afraid, and under the full desire to survive, he did not dare to have the slightest luck......