Chapter Forty-Three: The First Entry into the Prairie—The Wolf

Every year, before the cattle and sheep entered the pen, the Turks would pioneer the cattle and sheep to the south in exchange for a batch of winter supplies. The people in the customs also need to estimate the surplus and buy a sheep, or several families pool money to buy a calf so that they can feed the cultivated fields. There are several times a year for this kind of large-scale transaction, once in spring, once in summer, and once in late autumn, and each time it lasts almost ten days and half a month.

The location is not necessarily, some are outside the Seychelles, and some are in the city inside the Guan, depending on what the bilateral relations were like back then. If the relationship is not good, you can only trade outside the Cyprus, as this year.

Xu Qing and Huang Shimei wore merchant clothes, brought dozens of guards and a hundred catties of salt, and went to the grass market outside the plug.

After walking more than ten miles to the north, the scenery changed greatly. Before, there were clumps of deciduous forests everywhere, but here there was an endless stretch of yellow grass. Due to grazing, most of the grass has been gnawed down to a short section. A gust of wind blew over, and the wind blew dust.

"Alas......" Xu Qing sighed.

"Brother Xu, what's wrong?" Huang Shimei noticed that Xu Qing had a look of disappointment, and couldn't help but ask with concern.

"I thought that this prairie should be a vast sky, wild, wind-blown grass and low cattle and sheep, but I didn't think about it, only this yellow sand and dust flew ......" Xu Qing took a gauze towel to cover his face, and also took a piece for Huang Shimei.

Huang Shimei laughed: "Isn't there still a vast sky and a wild sky to see?" ”

"Hehe, and you~"

After walking for a while, Xu Qing's team met another team of people who came to buy goods, and when they inquired, they went to buy ploughing cattle, and this was the third time they came, and they were familiar with the road. After a while, a makeshift market with various tents of various colors came into view.

"Niu ~ two pieces of cloth will be changed~"

"Leather, good leather, let's take a look~"

"There's dried milk for sale! Don't change 100 dollars, only recognize white salt! ”

This is a border transaction, no currency, most of it is barter. When Xu Qing heard that someone was going to exchange dried milk for salt, he couldn't help but become interested, and was about to go to see it, but he didn't expect a person to take advantage of the guard's inattention and get to Xu Qing's side: "This distinguished guest, I have a good product here, can I be interested in taking a look?" ”

Xu Qing stopped the guards who were about to step forward and said, "Listen to your fluent Chinese, not like an outsider~"

"The noble man sees it well, the villain is Yan Zhaoren's ......" The man reported his family, but the land of Yan Zhao is wide, and it is useless to say it.

"Oh? Since you are a Han person, you should sell your good goods to the Hu people, why do you ask me? Xu Qing couldn't help but be curious, did he seem to want to be a Hu person.

"The nobles don't know, this good product is not something that the Hu people will sell, and I have worked hard to get it......"

"Oh? You can get there, but I can't? I have to let you go in with your left hand and out with your right hand, and make a lot of money for nothing! ”

"Hehe, it's not me who refuted your face, you can get this goods, but you don't want to waste that effort......"

"It must have been stolen!"

"Oh, don't raise your voice, this can't be known......" The man played the card of incense: "I don't steal the Han people, why not the Hu people, they can still rob and kill us!" ”

This is "If the monk can touch it, I can't touch it?" theories. Xu Qing didn't say anything, and the man said: "The deal can't be done, it's not too late to say after seeing the goods......"

Walking to a slightly remote place, the man took out a cloth roll and opened it for Xu Qing to see, Huang Shimei also leaned over to look at it, but after just one glance, she blushed with shame.

What is it?

The fist is big, three feet three, like a big snake, and it was originally a stout "ox. whip". Cattle. The whip is also known as Niu Chong.

No wonder Huang Shimei blushed at a glance.

"This little brother, what's the matter, I'm sorry? Or is it worse to sigh to yourself? Don't worry, this beast is so long......" The man couldn't help but joke when he saw Huang Shimei's blushing face. Huang Shimei turned her head away and refused to pay attention to him, because the man recognized Huang Shimei as a man. Even if Huang Shimei herself is indeed wearing men's clothes. was about to drag Xu Qing away, but the man stopped Xu Qing and said:

"Nobleman, is this good thing?"

Xu Qing's heart moved, he didn't know the specific effect of this Niu Chong, but he also heard about the expired powerful supplement function.

"It's good, it's not unusual, is it?" Xu Qing pretended not to care, and wanted to lower the price. Xu Qing's words are not wrong, although there are not many Niu Chong, but in later generations, people can often hear people eating this thing.

"Scared, don't lie to me, you are not allowed to kill cattle in the pass, and the Hu people are unwilling to kill bulls, this bull chong is not a ...... that ordinary people can get"

"Forget it, don't ......" Xu Qing turned around to leave, but the man hurriedly grabbed Xu Qing and said, "As long as twelve taels, this is a bull Chong who has never handed over a cow!" ”

This is the sorrow of the cow, Xu Qing said secretly in his heart. But he still didn't turn his head back, this cow Chong ate or not, it didn't matter much to him, he had a storehouse of nourishing products. Besides, this Niu Chong is so rare, how did this unknown little person get it, I'm afraid it is also a defective product, I don't want him to say it's difficult.

Xu Qing took Huang Shimei back to the man who sold dried milk, but found that all the man's goods had been exchanged. After turning it around again, an inspiration popped up in Xu Qing's heart, bartering things, isn't that okay...... Xu Qing said to Huang Shimei:

"I'll do a magic trick for you, you look at ......"

"Magic?" Huang Shimei was puzzled.

"In other words, I'm going to ......make something out of nothing today," Xu Qing said with a shake of his head.

"How is it possible, Brother Xu said with a smile......" Huang Shimei didn't believe it, and the guards also shook their heads. saw Xu Qingti slip a bag of salt, made a strange fingering, "snapped", and then trotted to a big shed.

"How do you change this fur?" Xu Qing asked,

"Salt, iron, rice, everything from the south ......"

"How do you change the salt?"

"One whole one, five taels of salt, I have twenty."

Five taels of salt, one skin, Xu Qing couldn't help but be surprised by the price, frowned and said, "Five taels? A bit pricey......"

"If you have good salt, four taels will be done!"

"Okay, this bag of salt weighs eight catties, how about you take a look?"

"Hiss ~ white salt! Okay, I've changed it all! ”

Xu Qing changed twenty skins, walked to a Han man's shed, and lowered the price several times to exchange fifteen pieces of cloth. Continuing to trade, he walked to a hut and exchanged eighteen cows and five sheep......

I saw Xu Qing changing back and forth, after a long time, he was already full of money, and he had to keep calling the guards to move things before taking it, and then returned to Huang Shimei, who had already led ten sheep, five or six cows, as well as skin, wool, dried milk, cloth, and yellow salt.

Huang Shimei's eyes widened in disbelief. But I saw Xu Qing exchange for the first time, and the Hu man walked up to Xu Qing and said:

"This distinguished guest, who saw the difficult salt just now, was so excited that he changed all the furs at once, alas...... I'm going to have to change some other winter items, and I don't dare to take out this salt out without skin......"

"So you want to switch back?"

"Honorable guest, I ......"

"It's okay, let's change it back, there is yellow salt here, you can exchange it for more white salt......"

When Hu Shang heard this, he was grateful, returned the white salt completely, and directly exchanged a lot of yellow salt, cloth and other materials here in Xu Qing. At this point, the bag of white salt that Xu Qing took out was back in his hands, and there were many cattle and sheep specialties, which could really be described as "making something out of nothing".

Huang Shimei and her guards were all impressed.

Just when he was changing things just now, Xu Qing inquired that there was a larger exchange market deeper in the grassland. There are many items there, and they are all in good condition.

Indeed, after Xu Qing looked around, most of the cattle and sheep here were relatively thin. I can't even see such a valuable animal as a horse.

Thinking of Xun Xue'er at home, Xu Qing decided to go north to take a look, buy a few cows, and the sheep that produced milk alive and bring them back to Cangzhou. so that she can make up for herself. So, Xu Qing took the guards and continued to deep. Into the prairie. Although the relationship between the two sides is not harmonious, fortunately, the year is good, and the contradictions between the people on both sides are still small and relatively safe.

If the grassland is hit by a snowstorm and the cattle and sheep freeze to death, the evil side of the relationship between the two sides will be shown. At that time, don't say deep. After entering the grassland, you let Xu Qing take a walk, do you see if he agrees......

The sky was getting dark, the cool breeze was rising, and the moonlight was leaking, and it looked very bleak. Huang Shimei coughed, and Xu Qingcai came out of the realm of enjoying the scenery, and ordered his subordinates to escort and find a place to camp and rest.

After dinner, watching the sunset, the clear sky, the moon has come out, and after a while, the stars are shining.

It makes sense to say that every star is a person, and at this time, Xu Qing saw the faces of all the people in the past and in this life in the starry sky.

There is a poem that Xu Qing often uses in his heart:

"There are no ancients before, no one after them, thinking of the world and the world, lonely and weeping!"

Xu Qing is alone in Datang, I am afraid that Chen Ziang's taste of "heaven and earth are long and lonely" will be the deepest for Xu Qing.

Xu Qingming's is good, and the wind and water are booming. However, he was lonely. The kind of loneliness that can be alleviated by having someone to accompany you, just boring, just lonely. Lonely. Even if he is surrounded by beautiful women, officials and lords, and a big family, it can't alleviate Xu Qing's loneliness.

Xu Qing's loneliness is nothing to say.

Therefore, lonely people are most afraid of quiet......

The cool night breeze brought a trace of sound, and at first listen, Xu Qing didn't pay much attention to the whistling of the wind across the ground. But the guards beside him were different, an experienced veteran, called in a low voice:

"Be careful, there are wolves around!"

When Xu Qing heard this, he pointed his ears and listened carefully, it turned out that the sound brought by the night wind turned out to be a wolf howl!

One, two, three......

Xu Qingse's ears were about to explode, and he felt that hundreds of wolves were calling the moon. Those hundreds of wolves were moving in places where Xu Qing could hear them with his naked ears......

Wolves generally don't eat people, but the cattle and horses in Xu Qing's team are the favorite food of the wolves, and the terrifying thing is that the wolves have the characteristics of being thirsty for killing.

When I think of the hideous wolf, it's really creepy.