The sun was scorching in the morning, but it was drizzling in the afternoon.

After all, it is the end of the ninth month of the lunar calendar, and the autumn wind is wrapped in rain and fog, and there is already a little chill.

Maybe......

Should I buy a carriage instead of just a horse?

In this way, when Hongyu wants to go out, it will also be much more convenient.

Walking on the dirt road outside Chaoyang Gate, Wang Shouye touched the silver ticket in his sleeve, and was a little entangled and hesitant.

After entering Beijing, counting two months' salary, he earned more than 420 taels in his account, and he spent a total of 190 taels these days, and there were still 230 taels left.

Li Wei originally bought a set of courtyards with two entrances, and since Wang Shouye was in the name of returning the courtesy, he couldn't be much worse.

And with the Li family as a reference, the house bought for Zhao Kui and his wife naturally can't be worse.

Roughly calculated, it would cost one hundred and eighty taels to buy two houses alone.

Nowadays, if you want to buy a horse in good condition, it will cost at least thirty or forty taels of silver.

It's one hundred and fifty taels from the outside.

If you buy a horse-drawn carriage and hire a coachman......

"Brother, this is it."

Just calculating, Ma Gui pointed not far away and said: "I have a small friendship with their young owner, and the letters sent to the family on weekdays are also piggyback on his family's carriage and horses." ”

Wang Shouye got the letter from Zhou Huaien, and planned to ask Magui to send a message to Li Chengliang.

As a result, after Ma Gui heard what was going on, he had to take Wang Shouye to report the news together, saying that this was good news, and Li Chengliang should always thank him in person.

Wang Shouye didn't shirk at the beginning, but when it came to Li Chengliang's foothold, he made it difficult - this was really far away, and he didn't have a personal means of transportation.

Ma Gui still has two spare mounts at home.

But that's all for the next person, and the quality is really not good.

Therefore, he instigated Wang Shouye to simply go directly to buy a horse after dispersing, which also saved him difficulties in the future.

At the same time, he also took a big package, saying that there were familiar carriages and horses in the capital, and he was sure to be able to buy cheap and good horses.

That's why I had this trip.

But it was said that Ma Gui tied the horse to the door and took Wang Shouye into the store with a swagger, but found that the back of the counter was empty, and there was no shopkeeper or shopkeeper.

Ma Gui's face was a little unbearable at the moment - he was on the road just now, and he smashed the car door.

So he shouted at the top of his voice: "What about people? Where did everyone die?! Still panting?! ”

shouted a few times before someone in the backyard answered, and then hurried footsteps came from far and near.

The door curtain was raised, and a middle-aged man with a small melon skin hat walked in with a gloomy face, and when he saw Ma Gui, he hurriedly squeezed out some smiles, and greeted him with a slanted shoulder: "Master Ma, why are you here?" The little ones are ......."

"Less verbose!"

Ma Gui stuck his waist and asked with a sly glare: "What's the matter, can you not even leave anyone in front?" The rules of the Changlong are to let you do this business?! ”

"No...... No. ”

The shopkeeper's face was bitter, and he stumbled and said: "Don't get me wrong, it's really a mess on the side of the general number, and we haven't landed for a while, so it's a mess." ”

"What's wrong with the number?"

Ma Gui was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly asked, "What happened?" ”

"Alas~"

The shopkeeper sighed and said, "Isn't there a big harvest of grain this year?" The proprietor took pity on those mud-legged people who couldn't sell food, so they kindly took some of it, but who knew that it caused a fatal disaster......"

What kind of intentions, naturally, it comes with a beautification filter.

In fact, the proprietor of the Changlong has recently been making a big deal out of it, forcing the people to sell grain at a low price, but the result is that it is a year of great abundance, but the income is less than in previous years.

At the beginning, because of the public opinion of the dispute between the north and the south, the resentment was directed at the government.

But more than ten days ago, the imperial court suddenly announced that it would receive grain at a low price, and public opinion was reversed at once.

At that time, the peasants who had just finished their grain in Changlong heard that the purchase price given by the imperial court was more than twice as high as that of Changlong, and they all regretted it.

So some people came to the store, hoping to redeem the grain and sell it again to the official warehouse.

How could the Changlong obey?

The two first had a blowjob, and then the guys from the Changlong rushed up, beat the peasants who came to the door all over the body, and threw them out of the door to show the public.

As a result, one of them died not long after returning home.

The bitter lord came to the door with the corpse, and was sneered at by the people of Changlong, but he also wanted to buy other people's widows and orphans as slaves and maids.

Later, the news spread, which aroused the excitement of the peasants who sold grain cheaply, and surrounded the Changlong to ask for an explanation.

Only then did the Changlong realize that the matter was getting bigger, and hurriedly bribed a few farmers who took the lead, wanting to calm things down.

Unexpectedly, the news leaked again, and the angry peasants rushed into the store and smashed and looted, and before leaving, some people set fire to it, and burned the owners and young owners of the Changlong to death in the carriage and horse shop.

At present, the three sons are fighting for the family property, and whether they can keep the property of the Changlong in the end, I am afraid that it is still between the two.

Under such circumstances, how can the store still be in the mood to do business?

After asking what was going on, Ma Gui was a little depressed.

Obviously, Fa Xiao's sudden death made him a little difficult to accept for a while.

Wang Shouye's focus was mainly on the imperial court's measures to collect grain at a low price.

The matter itself can certainly be called moral politics.

But the treasury doesn't seem to be very rich, how long can such a large-scale grain collection last?

And how to fill the shortfall of this extra grain harvest?

But after thinking about it again, what are you doing with the heart of the Forbidden City?

At the moment, he restrained his thoughts and asked the shopkeeper if there were suitable horses to sell.

Although the Shaodong family is no longer there, the Ma family is a strong party in Datong Mansion, and the shopkeeper naturally does not dare to slack off.

Hurriedly invited the two to the backyard and led a few tall horses for Wang Shouye to choose.

Wang Shouye originally fell in love with a pear blossom white, but he changed his mind after riding it and trying it.

It's not that the horse is bad, it's that his bronzed skin makes it more and more eye-catching when riding on this horse.

In the end, I was honest, and I chose a snow-stepping black horse priced at forty taels, and gave up the yearning for 'silver saddle shining on a white horse, sassy like a meteor'.

On the way back, Wang Shouye rode on a horse, quite a little self-proud - although he had ridden a few times before, it was someone else's horse, and this first time he rode his own mount, it felt different.

However, Ma Gui appeared when he didn't come, and he was silent all the way, and it wasn't until he was not far from Li Chengliang's foothold that he barely shook up his spirits again.

Li Chengliang is in the southwest corner of the outer city, renting a somewhat remote courtyard, and he has also lost Magui to come twice, and he has not lost his way around in circles.

When they arrived at the gate of the small courtyard, the two turned over and dismounted and were about to open their mouths to call the door, when they suddenly saw a stone lock of 100 catties flying up in the courtyard, which was more than five feet high!

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