Chapter Forty-Six: Sure enough, someone wants to eat and drink

Everyone lit a fire to keep warm, and when they were comfortable, everyone heard Li Jun arguing with other businessmen, and listened carefully, it turned out that Li Jun was discussing the itinerary with other businessmen:

Li Jun took the rattan and waved it loudly and shouted: "A person who doesn't leave will eat me with twenty sticks!" All the merchants said in unison, "All right, the porters carry a hundred and ten pounds of burden, and they must not walk empty-handed than you." You don't treat people as human beings! Even if it's warm weather, you have to take care of them. Hello, I don't know how to itch! Just be strong! ”

"You brutes are going to die! Kill you! Li Jun scolded, picked up the rattan, and was about to slash his face.

The merchants dodged the whip and shouted, "Stop, old man, listen to me!" Several of us are all people who have traveled from south to north, and we have seen not a thousand businessmen, but also eight hundred, not that I have a dirty mouth, but you are an old-timer, and you are promoted to a position the size of a mustard seed, and you are worthy of being able in front of us! Not to mention that we are also caravan leaders, but a porter, and we should follow my advice! He only cares about beating us, and what do you think of us? ”

Li Jundao: "Everyone, you are still a young man, how do you know that there are thousands of difficulties on the road outside the Saiwai!" A businessman said: "We have also been to places like Sichuan and Liangguang, but I have never seen you show off like this!" Li Jundao: "Now it must be no better than the peaceful season, and this place outside the fortress does not need to be Sichuan, Liangguang...... but the businessmen said: "You should cut your tongue when you say this!" How is it that the world is not peaceful today? ”

Li Jun was about to reply, only to hear someone next to another fire: "If you are traveling at night, you have to warm a pot of wine to warm everyone's body." When everyone looked over, they saw that there were seven small carts, eleven people, roasting fires there, and a sideburn boss with cinnabar and holding a simple knife, these eleven people were also a group of small merchants, and they had long been familiar with each other.

Picking up the Pu knife, Li Jun shouted: "Aren't you waiting for a gangster, let us eat and drink and be confused, so that we can take the goods?" The eleven said: "You ask upside down!" You took us around seven times and eight times, and you haven't seen the border pass, aren't you a villain? We are a small broker, there is money with you! Li Jun did not make these useless arguments, and asked, "Where are you waiting and talking about the people who came from?" ”

The eleven people replied: "As I said earlier, my brothers and I are from Shandong, and they are selling dates and going out of the jam. Li Jun nodded and said, "I see, it's also an ordinary guest." The eleven said, "You have invited a few dates." Li Jun said: "No need. ”

After lifting the Pu knife and returning to the merchant's side, Li Jun stuck the Pu knife on the ground and baked a fire. After less than half a cup of tea, everyone wanted to eat wine again, and a man said, "I still have liquor in my barrel."

Someone went on to ask, "How much is a barrel?" The man said, "Fifty is enough." The master consulted, "We are cold and thirsty, why don't we buy some hot food to eat?" "...... was about to make money there, Li Jun saw it and shouted, "What are you doing?" The crowd said, "Buy a bowl of wine to eat." Li Jun adjusted the knife pole and beat it, scolding: "If you don't listen to my words, you will buy wine and eat indiscriminately!" So bold! ”

The picker replied, "We have pooled our own money to buy wine and food, what are we doing to you?" Come and hit people too! ”

Li Jun persuaded: "What do you care! Arrive and eat your mouth! I didn't know how difficult it was on the road! How many heroes have been numbed by sweat medicine! ”

The man who picked up the wine looked at Li Jun and sneered: "You guest officer don't know anything!" I didn't sell it to you for a long time, but I said such powerless words! ”

There was a commotion here, and the group of jujube sellers came over and said, "What are you doing?" The man who picked the wine replied: "I took out the wine and sold it to others to eat, and I warmed up here after it was burned." And all of them asked me to buy something to eat, but I did not sell it to all of them. This is all about what sweat medicine I have in my wine. Are you funny? Say such things! ”

The eleven guests said, "I see, I don't care if I say a word." We were trying to warm up with wine, but they were suspicious and sold a barrel to eat with us. ”

The man who picked the wine said, "Don't sell it!" Don't sell! ”

The eleven guests said, "You bird man doesn't know anything!" We don't have to say you, anyway, you have to pick it up and sell it to us, what does it matter? ”

The man who picked the wine said: "Selling a barrel is not in dispute with you, but they say it is not good." There is no bowl to scoop and eat. The eleven said, "You man is serious! So he said, "What's the matter?" We have our own coconut scoop here. ”

I saw two people go to the car and take out two coconut scoops, and one took out a large handful of dates. Eleven people stood by the barrel, opened the lid of the barrel, scooped the wine in a wheel, and scalded it in hot water, and passed the dates through their mouths.

At all times, half a barrel of wine was eaten. The eleven people who ate the wine said, "Didn't you ask how much it cost?" Nahan said: "I have never said the price, fifty thousand dollars a bucket." ”

The few people who ate the wine said: "Fifty is according to your fifty, half a barrel is counted as twenty-five, is it feasible to spare us a scoop of food?" ”

The man who picked the wine said: "I can't spare it, make a fixed price!" A guest gave him the money, and a guest went to open the lid of the barrel, took a scoop, took it and ate it, and the man who picked the wine saw it, grabbed it, grabbed it, and tilted the barrel, then covered the lid of the barrel, threw the scoop to the ground, and said: "You guest is not a gentleman!" Those who wear heads and know their faces are also like this! ”

The fragrance of wine wafted away from such a trip, and when the masters and merchants saw it, their hearts itched, and they all wanted to eat, looking at Li Jundao: "Everything, the guest who sells dates buys him half a bucket to eat, and we also buy the rest of his food indiscriminately, it's good to moisten your throat, it's convenient for the master!" ”

Li Jun then said: "Since everyone said so, let's eat some bars, warm up, and get up and hurry." When the pickers heard this, they scraped together twenty-five dollars to buy wine and eat. The man who sold wine said, "It's not for sale!" Not for sale! There's sweat medicine in this wine! ”

The pickers laughed with them and said, "Big brother, is it worth saying back?" ”

The man who sold wine also said, "No more sales!" Rest! ”

After eating wine here, the customer who sold dates persuaded: "You bird man, you are also serious!" The man who picked up the wine said, "What do you do to make others suspicious?" ”

After finishing speaking, he also put down the bucket, and the porters changed the lid of the bucket, borrowed this coconut scoop, and first scalded a bowl for Li Jun, he put on a stinky face and put it aside and refused to eat it. Each of them scooped a bowl for the employers, and the employers drank it all. The few people who sold the dates said happily: "I will send these dates to drink with you." ”

As soon as the porters served, the barrel of wine was eaten up. After a while, I saw that these soldiers were top-heavy, and they all fell soft. The man who sold dates pushed out the seven small carts, and a wolf-like light appeared in his eyes, and the man with the birthmark said to "Li Jun": "Old man Li, the treasure knife is not old......

"That's that, Uncle Li is my Taishan...... the person who spoke was the man who picked up the wine, if Xu Qing was here, he would definitely know that this was the person who sold Niu Chong to him.

Old man Li said: "There is not much wine here, they won't be soft for long, and they will talk after cleaning up." ”

Just as he was about to clean up the people present, someone noticed something unusual.

"No, what about the young merchant?"

Unfortunately, all that was answered was the sound of a merciless burst of crossbow arrows:

"Whoosh! Sou! Sou! ”

The owners of these crossbow arrows are naturally Xu Qing's men. As early as when someone proposed to eat and drink to keep warm, Xu Qing quietly ordered his subordinates to retreat when they should retreat, pretend to be dizzy when they should be dizzy, and put crossbow arrows on the racks one by one.

Moreover, the moment everyone was fighting for wine, Xu Qing, who was hiding in the shadows, had already seen it clearly.

It turned out that the barrel of wine that was taken out was originally a good wine. Eleven people ate a small half first, making people desperately think that this barrel of wine was fine. Another person deliberately took half a scoop to eat, but the person who was picked up for the wine fell into the barrel, and this is the beauty. In the scoop that fell, there was already a sweat medicine hidden, and when it was split in a barrel, all the medicine was poured into the wine. When the people ate again, they fell for the trick.

As soon as those gangsters found something unusual, Xu Qing attacked, and the group of gangsters was only twenty people, and after this rain of arrows, there were only a few people left. Xu Qing and others rushed up and took the lives of all the gangsters, including the old man Li and others, who sold Niu Chong. Xu Qing saw that the person who sold Niu Chong was also one of them, and remembered the scene of him selling Niu Chong last time, and said in his heart, fortunately he didn't buy it, maybe it was a fishing bait!

However, the truth seems to have been hidden forever in the smoke and dust with the death of these people.

The rest of the people slowly woke up, sighing one by one, and thanked Xu Qing for their kindness. The goods of those gangsters naturally fell into the hands of Xu Qing. Xu Qing counted it, and there were hundreds of taels of high-grade sterling silver.

It was not advisable to stay here for a long time, and Xu Qing fled with these merchants again. The route doesn't really matter, just go all the way south. However, after walking more than ten miles, you can already see the families who have settled in Biansai. After asking for directions, the border city was only five or six miles to the west.

It turns out that Old Man Li has been taking them around the neighborhood all the time. Facts have also proved that listening to my wife is indeed right. If it weren't for Huang Shimei's observation of words and expressions this time, maybe Xu Qing would have made fertilizer for the prairie.

This time out of the grassland, Xu Qing's most important harvest was not to buy a lot of cheap cattle and sheep. The most important thing he learned was that he knew that the people on both sides were very friendly at the bottom. It's just that there are some politics. Speculators, as well as some bandits wandering in the border gates, are constantly harming the double. Mutual trust. Since the people on both sides are very friendly and need each other, it is possible to achieve win-win cooperation.

The big trade route that Xu Qing asked Manid to do early was built on this foundation. Once the trade route is established, the people on both sides take what they need from each other, forming a situation where you have me and I have you, how can war still be put on the agenda?

It sounds like a so-and-so hookup......

Xu Qing returned to the border city and was about to enter the city when he ran into the so-called "big group".