Chapter Ninety-Seven: Nanpi

Staying in Hongshan Township and Xuzhuang is better than Chang'an, that is, the ingredients are diverse, abundant and fresh. Xu Qing pickled some small dishes every day and made new dishes, and the three little ones ate happily. Since Xun Fang stayed in Chang'an, the current three little ones have become Zhang Linlin, Xun Yeyu, and Xu Qi.

It will take three years to go to Hebei, to say the least, and things on Luonan's side will be arranged. Niu grazing and Xiaoru will definitely not be able to separate, Xu Qing has to believe in Yang Wen and let them take care of their fiefdom.

I took the time to go to Hongshan Town again, and looked at the whole street that belonged to me. After reading it, Xu Qing sighed, I met this time, and I don't know when I will see each other again. In three years, how much will change for a commercial street?

However, looking at the street in front of me, it is already a lot more prosperous than before leaving, there are more "useless" shops, and it is even more popular when rushing to the market, and there are usually a few sparse customers. It's just that the income of this whole street when it was hot was less than half of that of Chang'an Distillery.

Wading through a small river, Xu Qing wore a farmer's coarse cloth clothes, walked on a dirt road, carried half a catty of wine, a fish that had just been caught in the river, and a donkey pulled a cart by his side. There was fat dust and air in the air, and from a distance, three children who had just finished school, about seven years old, one of them tied a big mouse with a straw rope, and as he walked, he blew snot bubbles and showed off something.

Xu Qing built two free primary schools, and low taxes allowed these children to come out of the heavy farm work. Otherwise, carrying manure to the fields in the spring, shoveling the ground and pulling the plough stick in the summer, harvesting grain in the autumn, pulling firewood in the winter, a bunch of seasonal work, and carrying water and laundry, feeding pigs and chickens, drying vegetables and pasting the cracks in the windows, cleaning the house and sweeping the yard, etc., will make their backs bent and their bodies tired.

But these boring tasks are also quite interesting if you watch others do them. Xu Qing watched the children in Xuzhuang work more than once, digging out the earthworms in the field and hiding them, and pulling out the fat white insects in the firewood and feeding them to the chickens......

Childlike......

It is a sin to look for poetry on the back of a sweaty body with the sun on its back. However, the days of this kind of crime did not last long, Xu Qing dragged on for a few days, dealt with some trivial matters, and went to Hebei with a whip.

Xu Qing wrote letters of recommendation to Lu Shi's three sons, and Lu Shi tried his best to get 500 farm tools in order to thank Xu Qing. A full thirty cars, departing from Lonan......

Xu Qing smiled secretly, fortunately, the old man Li Yuan gave forty horses, and he could pull these carts, otherwise Hongshan Township really couldn't make up so many mules and donkeys, as for paying for it, Xu Qing shook his head, I went to Hebei to make money from the family, and I didn't want to pay a penny!

Out of Luonan, it was Luoning Yiyang, played in Luoyang for a day, crossed the Yellow River, it was Anyang, Xinxiang, Wenxian County, stopped for a day in Handan, and then it was Xingtai Julu Nangong, which stopped by the Fuyang River, and no one knew why.

Only Xu Qing knows that this is the place of Hengshui Middle School.

I walked to the northeast for a few more days and arrived at the border of Cangzhou. Xu Qing asked the passer-by, and the passer-by pointed at it from afar, and said: "That is the ...... of Nanpi County, Cangzhou" Xu Qing groaned, and then Wang Shan took the supplies around Botou and went straight to Cangxian. He took a few guards, as well as Xun Xue'er Niu Grazing and others, pretending to be a passing merchant and went to Nanpi to stay.

Investigating intelligence is one of the purposes, and there is another purpose, which is to find the dark river!

Nanpi looks inconspicuous, and from time to time I hear people on the street complaining about the price of daily necessities, but the goods sold in reasonable quantities are sold on the street, and they are finally not out of stock. People came and went, and the local residents looked at Xu Qing and his group expressionlessly. Occasionally, I saw a few carts, abandoned houses, shops, and beggars crouching in the corner with wild dogs......

Xu Qing led the horse and found an inn that looked fairly clean.

"Hey, guest officer, I'll lead the horse for you~" A young man in an khaki cloth shirt stood up from the threshold.

"How many rooms are there?" Xu Qing asked.

"Hey, these are all your people~ Tut......" The little guy nodded, and counted dozens of people behind Xu Qing.

"These few people, it's not too many~"

"Oh, guest officer, come in, we can live here, I'll talk to you in detail......" The little guy didn't forget to solicit customers. Xu Qing listened to it and felt that this one was the cleanest among the three or two inns he saw, and it didn't hurt to stay......

"Guest officer, you have come from afar, you don't know how many battles have been fought here, who dares to come out to do business, and the business travel is gone...... Alas......"

"I know about this battle, isn't it Liu Heimin's rebellion......"

"Yes, yes, yes, it's that animal, good to bring the Turks here!"

"So, you don't like him either?"

"Like it or not? Who likes and who does it like? We're just little people, and we just want to have enough to eat......" the little guy said indignantly.

"Then why are so many people helping Liu Heimin fight?"

"Hey, guest officer, whisper, it's not those families yet! Li Lu Er Cui, four surnames, two support Liu Heimin! The little guy lowered his voice and whispered in front of Xu Qing.

"Which two?"

"I heard that it is, Zhao Jun Li's family, Fanyang Lu's ...... We don't know why......"

Xu Qing rubbed his head when he heard this, one of these two families is in Youzhou, and he doesn't know where the other is, anyway, Cangzhou doesn't have that kind of giant family.

"Guest officer, what do you want for dinner?" Xiao Er asked.

"What do you have, show me ......"

Walking to the kitchen, Xiao Er happily introduced to Xu Qing that there were a lot of preserved fish and bacon, but there was no fresh fish. Xu Qing suddenly saw the bacon move, and when he got closer, a little life was rolling in the bacon, and he couldn't help but feel sick to his stomach, and asked Xiao Er: "You, you, you have maggots in this bacon!" ”

Xiao Eryan was quick, pinched the fat maggots in the bacon, pulled them, threw them out, and said: "It's maggots here, this is the granulation, the guest officer ......."

"Okay, okay, I don't eat the food here, you go out and buy a few chickens, ducks and fish, and take care of it......" Xu Qing took two strings of money to Xiao Er, and Xiao Er went out in response.

After dinner, Xu Qing tried to find a way to contact the dark river, and in the middle of the night, he secretly wrote on a wall the eight big characters "The dark night is boundless, the river is the world". Xindao: I can't find them by myself, so I can only wait for Yang Cheng and Yang Xin to come to me. The next day, Yang Cheng came, he was the part of Chang'an that Xu Qing had left behind, and on this trip, they were also wandering thirty miles away, guarding. Xu Qing instructed Yang Cheng to find Yang Xin and agreed to meet in Cangxian.

Xu Qing then inquired about the customs and customs of Nanpi and the behavior of the government, and found that the county officials of Nanpi were quite similar to the county orders of Luonan Zou, which was a big family of a county, and the county orders recommended by the township. The policy pursued is also the same as that of Zou County, the people do not sue the officials and do not hold them accountable, do not seek merit, only seek no fault, and are greedy for a little money, but they are not considered to be fish and meat people.

Cangzhou has four counties, Huanghua, Haixing, Nanpi, Cangxian, Cangxian, Cangxian, Cangxian is also the widest. Huanghua, Haixing Linhai, there is a salt mountain between Nanpi, there is a salt mountain town, which is the territory of Cangxian County. Xu Qing asked the way, and then took the people along the way to Cangxian County......