Chapter 10: Zema Goes Out of the Mountain

Those displaced people who came from Hengshan with Wang Rouhua have some family background after a planting season.

And those hungry people who came from Jincheng County with Wang Rouhua are in a serious state of extreme poverty.

They brought no riches other than two shoulders and a head on their shoulders.

The population of the Fragrance Valley suddenly doubled, and as a result, the wealthy Fragrance Valley immediately returned to a state of poverty.

Even Wang Rouhua can only drink porridge with her son now, at least, so that there is enough food to support next summer's harvest.

Feeding 30,000 people is a very large expense, and if it weren't for the fact that the food was still enough, Tie Xinyuan would be even more troubled.

Robbery is a process of primitive accumulation of wealth.

So, in the land of Hami, there was no place where the caravan was safe, whether they walked at night or in the ditch, even if they walked in the ditch in the dark at night, they would always encounter robbers.

After just a month of fighting and groping with each other, the merchants finally found a seemingly safe trade route.

As long as you descend the Tianshan Road, walk along the Hami River in the direction of Daxueshan City, and finally turn back along the Great Lake and go west through a large dense poplar forest, you can safely return to the Gobi.

This increased the caravan's journey by three hundred miles at once.

The caravans on the Gobi are inexorable, and no matter whether they encounter natural disasters or man-made disasters, they cannot stop the caravanserais.

Every tribe knew that if the caravan really stopped running completely, then countless tribes in the desert in the Gobi would disappear because there was no way to exchange supplies.

Some tribes produce salt, some tribes have cattle and sheep, some tribes have grain, some tribes have pottery, only by communicating with each other can all tribes lack nothing, leaving the exchange, the consequences will be very serious.

Such a caravan Tiexinyuan will naturally not touch it, as long as it is a race living on the Gobi, it will not touch them.

Even the horse thieves in the past, when they encountered such a caravan, they would obediently take out their own things and exchange them with the caravan, but the price would be much lower.

This kind of caravan will only run away at will, and the biggest reason is what the bandits here will charge to buy the road.

They even have a song called - I drove this road, I planted this tree, I want to pass by here, and leave to buy road wealth!

God knows why the road on the Great Gobi was opened up by them, shouldn't it have been trampled by caravans for many months?

The most excessive thing is that there are hundreds of trees here, how can they plant them?

So the fight is naturally unavoidable, and the defeated side naturally has to pay the money obediently, and under normal circumstances, the caravan can't beat the robbers.

There is only one kind of caravan that will not compromise no matter what, they will not have any compromise with the robbers, as long as they meet, the two sides can only fight to the death.

This kind of caravan generally traveled long distances, and the target was either the Khitan, Western Xia, or even the Great Song Dynasty, or the caravan returning from these three places.

The camels they led were loaded with the most precious goods, spices and precious stones from the West to the East, and tea and silk from the East to the West.

Whether it was in the past or now, the robbers will not show mercy to such caravans, kill all such caravans, and will not pose any threat to the races in the desert Gobi.

This kind of trader is extremely profitable, even if he trades ten times, they can still make a lot of money after one success.

The Gobi sky in August is high and cool, as long as there is a moon in the sky, you can continue to walk even at night, this is the most suitable day of the year for merchants, but there are many robbers.

Tie Xinyuan consciously let those ordinary caravans walk more roads in their own jurisdiction, so that these caravans can stay longer in the jurisdiction, and at the same time, the people in his jurisdiction can exchange more materials at a low price.

Robbery is a very boring, boring, and even cruel thing, whether it is Li Qiao, Huo'er, Shui'er, Ling'er, or even Tie Dan, they all simply like the prestige of robbery, and don't care about how much material and money they rob, after seeing the nature of poverty in the Western Regions, there is no meaning to bully those poor insects.

Tie Xinyuan didn't allow them to continue to go out, and the money they received to buy the road was not as much as they gave out.

Li Qiao and the others also saw very clearly, instead of fortunately robbing those poor ordinary caravans on the Gobi, it was better to stay in the valley and do something they were willing to do.

Tie Xinyuan sat on one of the cantilever of the waterwheel as a counterweight stone and slowly rose, Li Qiao stayed on the other side and used a winch to pull down the heavy waterwheel wheel, Huo'er took the opportunity to install another cantilever on the tenon, and after the counterweight of the cantilever on both sides was suitable, Li Qiao took the towel on his shoulder to wipe the sweat on his face and smiled at Tie Xinyuan: "Brother Yuan, have you seen my daughter?" ”

Tie Xinyuan spit out the watermelon seeds in his mouth and nodded: "I've seen it, the children are beautiful, like Zhuoma more than like you!" ”

"No problem, right?"

"God knows ......"

"Why do you answer like that, where do you look like an uncle?"

"As soon as your wife came to Qingxiang Valley, she was slapped by my mother, which made me very uneasy about her nature!"

"She just jumped out of the carriage and danced."

"My mother is right, if the people in the confinement can dance, they can be beaten by the board, and in the end, I am afraid that only your wife can do it, right?"

"She's been obedient a lot lately, mainly because she can't stand the seduction of the woman named Zema.

By the way, you have nothing to do with that woman, right? ”

Tie Xinyuan threw the melon peel in his hand away and said with a smile: "Of course not, my heart is all on Zhao Wan." A Tibetan woman makes you anxious, what's the matter, are you interested in another one? ”

Huo'er interjected on the side: "We are just strange, we saw two beautiful Tibetan women in Tibet, and as a result, they are all here now, isn't it Brother Qiao?" ”

Li Qiao smiled: "It's true, I stayed in Qingtang for the longest time, even the women in the big tent of Jiaoluo are not beautiful, they are just cleaner and dressed more beautifully."

This Tibetan woman can't look ugly, but as long as she is beautiful, she is so beautiful that people have nothing to say. ”

Tie Xinyuan laughed and said: "This shows that our Qingxiang Valley is a place of outstanding people, except for a few of you mallets, all the beauties and heroes who come!" ”

Li Qiao and Huo'er laughed together.

Huo'er finished laughing, then beat his head and said: "At the beginning, we didn't see some rotten Confucians and sword and pen officials in the homeless group, Tie Dan saw that there were few good people, and then Tie Dan went to Tokyo, and we couldn't identify the good and bad people, so we simply didn't want any of those people."

In fact, you should get some of them, the quality mainly depends on the environment, in the Qingxiang Valley, if they dare to make it bad, Lao Tzu will dare to cut them open and feed the wolves. ”

Li Qiao also nodded and said: "Although those people are bad, but in the end they are still inseparable from those people, do you know, in Jiaoguoluo, there are not many people who can calculate the accounts, and the guy who is blind wants to make his city more prosperous, as a result, when we passed by Zongge City, those Tubo people were almost deceived to death by the iron egg."

The matter of exchanging a cowhide for a spoon can also happen in Zongge City, and the displaced people who went to Zongge City with us also took advantage, they exchanged their rice bowls and the spoons issued to them to the Tubo people, and made a wooden bowl and a pair of chopsticks when they ate. ”

Huo'er was a little nostalgic for Zongge City, and said to Tie Xinyuan leisurely: "Brother Yuan'er, should we send a caravan to Zongge City, those Tubo people are very rich, but they are very stupid!" ”

Brother Qiao laughed and said: "Forget it, everyone knows that the Tubo people in Qingtang are stupid, but their force is also the best in the world."

You lied to him once and he giggled, lied to him twice and he didn't know, lied to him three times to try, the sharpened wooden pole went through the valley road, and finally came out of the mouth, wanting to die? At least a day later. ”

Tie Xinyuan forked his thumb and index finger and gently rubbed the layer of fluff that had just been drilled out of his chin, and said thoughtfully: "Naturally, it will not be possible for us to go, if it is a Tubo person, it should be no problem, right?" ”

"Dolma is not going! She is the princess of Qingtang, and this is not authentic. "Li Qiao's words are categorical and non-negotiable.

"I didn't plan to let Zhuoma go, if she went to Tubo, in order to get things done, and then put a green hat on you, those of us who are younger brothers will also feel that we have green on our heads, so ......"

"Zema go!" Li Qiao and Huo'er shouted with joy.

It hurts to say something embarrassing in front of others, but talking about it among your brothers not only entertains others, but also entertains yourself.

"I'm afraid that Zema, this woman, will be taken away by blind felt, and that woman is like a piece of fat that everyone wants."

Li Qiao heard Tie Xinyuan say this, and hurriedly looked left and right, and saw that there were only three brothers under the waterfall, so he beckoned Tie Xinyuan to come over.

Tie Xinyuan, who didn't know why, climbed down from the waterwheel, and the three of them got together and waited for Brother Qiao to say something.

"When the blind felt was ten years old, he was very fond of the horned soldiers, and once, the distant Tubo people sent a wild horse to Qingtang, and the blind felt volunteered to surrender, who knew that the horse was a wild horse king, and his temperament was extremely explosive, and he broke free from the reins and ran wild in the wilderness with the ten-year-old blind felt.

The blind felt guy was not afraid, he hugged the wild horse's neck and carried it with the wild horse, and this run was thirty miles away.

You think, a ten-year-old boy who has been fighting with wild horses for so long will naturally lose his strength, fall off his horse on a rocky beach, and end up sitting on a sharp stone chip...... That's it! ”

Tie Xinyuan and Huo'er gasped together.

"So you're not a man?"

"I don't know, no one knows, there are not many women who have been blindly felt back over the years, and they generally don't live long.

Dolma and I were staying in the City Lord's Mansion when we passed through Zongge City, and Dolma secretly told me that the woman who was blind seemed to be wearing a poor hakama! ”

"Poor hakama? What is this? Tie Xinyuan and Huo'er asked again and again.

"A kind of underwear that takes a stick of incense to take off or put on!"

"Oh my God!" (To be continued.) )