"Hey, did you hear that?"

"What?"

"The Kingdom of Jin is attacking again."

"What's so strange about that? In the seventh year of Jiading, the official family decided not to pay tribute to the Jin State. It's been three years, it's no wonder that Jin Guo can hold back! ”

"There is nothing unusual about the Jin attack, but this time it seems to be an all-out attack. The entire northern front, from Youchuan in the west to Xiangyang in the east, was attacked by Jin soldiers. I've heard that the attacks are not very violent, but they are harassed by golden soldiers. ”

"Hehe, Brother Zhang, you don't understand this. Don't be nervous, Jin Bing is a feint, so as to force our officials to pay tribute. ”

"Hmph, I'm not nervous, Jin Bing dares to attack, I, Zhang He, am the first to fight with them."

"Hey, Brother Zhang, don't get excited, don't get excited, come, come, drink tea, drink tea."

"Damn, can you not be excited? The imperial court has repeatedly retreated, wanting to recover the Central Plains, and the shame of Jingkang is far away. ”

"So what can we do?"

"What to do? Hehe, let's be a monk for a day and hit the clock for a day. ”

"Let's talk about it, I've heard that several big trading towns in the north have been closed, and those who are doing border business have withdrawn. Don't you think this has cut off their financial means? ”

"Brother Li, their financial route is broken, but the Western Xia Kingdom will suffer."

"Brother Wang, why do you say this?"

"Hehe, what do you think, since the official family moved south, the Jin Kingdom has been between our Great Song Dynasty and Western Xia, once we have a war with the Jin State, it will block the trade route between our Great Song Dynasty and Western Xia. Think about it, the salt eaten in Western Xia, the tea drunk, the silk and satin worn, and the rice, which one was not our Great Song Dynasty past? Think about it again, as soon as this trade route is cut off, won't the Western Xia Kingdom have a hard time, huh? ”

"Hmph, the Western Xia Kingdom is not a good thing, and sometimes it helps the Jin Kingdom deal with our Great Song Dynasty."

"What is helping, people are now vassals to the Jin Kingdom."

……

What was said over there was lively, and Liu Yong listened carefully here. Lin Hualang kept the noise in his ears and didn't disturb his thoughts. Lin Hualang saw that Liu Yong ignored him, and he felt bored, and he was still indignant about the scene at home just now. With Qisheng, there is no time to talk to Liu Yong. Niu Rong was originally a stuffy gourd, and he only cared about drinking tea.

The people over there were sometimes angry, sometimes joking, and talking with great pleasure, only listening to the clanging of cups, and after a short time they all dispersed.

Liu Yong had an idea in his heart, but he couldn't say it yet, because he still had to think about it.

"Hey, brother, you've been stunned since you came, what's wrong?" Lin Hualang asked as he drank the tea at the bottom of the bowl.

Liu Yong smiled and said, "It's okay." ”

"Lie to me, I'm not a three-year-old." Lin Hualang poured himself another bowl of tea and chewed a few fennel beans.

"Lin Qingrou is your sister?" Liu Yong thought, is it a destiny to collide with Lin Qingrou for the second time?

"Well, what? Do you know my sister? Lin Hualang asked rhetorically.

Liu Yong smiled, a little embarrassed, and said, "Yes, I've seen it a few times." ”

After Lin Hualang listened, he slapped the table and glared. Niu Rong saw that Lin Hualang was angry with Liu Yong, so he stood up and looked at Lin Hualang coldly. Lin Hualang knew that this cow was not easy to mess with, so he quickly put away his anger, smiled, and said: "Brother, you are too unauthentic, you actually hooked up with my sister behind your brother's back." ”

Niu Rong sat down again.

Liu Yong smiled: "You are not authentic!" ”

"Huh? Why am I not authentic? You said. Lin Hualang slapped the table again.

Liu Yong took a sip of tea and said slowly: "You have such a good sister and don't introduce me to my brother, do you say you are authentic?" ”

Hearing this, Lin Hualang's tea bowl suddenly stopped in mid-air, and a mouthful of water sprayed on Niu Rong's face. Then he was dumbfounded.

Niu Rong wiped his face, glared at the bull's eye, and looked at Lin Hualang viciously. Lin Hualang hurriedly paid for it, and took the initiative to pick up the blood-stained sweat towel and wipe it for him. wiped the blood on Niu Rong's face again. Niu Rong was angry and pushed Lin Hualang to the ground. Lin Hualang is full of innocence.

Seeing these two living treasures, Liu Yong couldn't help but smile. Lin Hualang patted his buttocks and sat down again, pouring himself a drink again, as if what had just happened had not happened at all.

Liu Yong laughed enough, clapped his hands, and let out a long sigh from his mouth. "Hey, it's impossible for me to see our sister now!" As he spoke, he got up.

"Why is it impossible?" Lin Hualang asked.

"Hey! Now that your vicious father has classified me and you as a fellow, can you still let me see his daughter? I've been hurt by you. Liu Yong flickered, but what he said was also the truth.

"What's so hard about that? Don't you just want to see my sister? Brother, I'll make an appointment for you! Lin Hualang walked over and patted Liu Yong's shoulder to reassure him.

Liu Yong pointed at him and said with a smile: "This is what you said!" ”

Lin Hualang patted his chest and said decisively: "Don't worry, this matter is on my brother." But he muttered in his heart, "Who the hell am I helping?" ”

Liu Yong smiled, threw down a dozen copper plates, and the three of them walked away.

……

Liu Yong was worried about Yingying, sent Niu Rong away, and went back to the inn. All the way he was thinking about his new goal, which had completely taken over his mind. However, he still left a little place for Lin Qingrou for him to taste the pain of lovesickness.

Yingying slept in the landlord's mother-in-law's room, and he didn't bother, so he chatted with the landlord's old man. Chatting, chatting, Liu Yong asked: "Uncle, is there no other way to go to the Western Xia Kingdom except for transiting through the Jin Kingdom?" ”

"Yes, no one dares to go." The old man laughed.

Liu Yong's eyes lit up, and he asked urgently, "Where are you going?" Why didn't anyone dare? ”

The old man poured tea for Liu Yong, and said: "Go west to Tubo, and then go north directly to the Western Xia Kingdom." But this road is really impossible to walk, not to mention that it is difficult to walk on the high mountains and plateaus, and there is still a lot of chaos in Tibet, and there are robbers cutting paths everywhere. It's no wonder if anyone walks over there and doesn't strip you naked. If you can come back alive, it will be regarded as burning high incense. Therefore, no one wants to go to that wild and bitter cold land. No one dares to go. ”

After Liu Yong heard this, his heart was half cold.

The landlord said: "Not only is the road difficult to walk, there are many robbers, there are many wild beasts, I heard that tigers and leopards are everywhere." Even if you don't meet a robber, you meet a tiger, a leopard or something, it's not a loss of life! ”

Liu Yong was stunned, and the old man's words were like a blow to the head, and his head shook Jiao Lei.

"Official, please drink tea."

The old man's words woke Liu Yong up.

"Oh." Liu Yong took a sip mechanically.

"Are the officials going to the Western Xia Kingdom?" The old man asked.

Liu Yong smiled and said, "No, it's just curiosity." Uncle, I want to go back to my room to rest, so I'm leaving. ”

"Ah, please, official."

Liu Yong returned to the house in despair, threw himself on the bed, and provoked a creaking protest from the bed board and legs. His eyes stared straight at the roof of the shed, stunned. I suddenly felt an inexplicable loss in my heart, and I felt that I had no strength in my body. There was even more chaos in my mind.

It was an out-and-out blow. As the saying goes, 'the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment'. The hope he had just built up was dashed in a few light words from the landlord.

Man, how can you lose hope? Isn't the motivation for human life to be hopeful? When I was a child, I hoped to grow up, and when I grew up, I hoped to have a successful career, bulging my purse, marrying Bai Fumei, and marrying a rich and handsome person. I have children, and I look forward to growing up strong and prosperous in the future. When you get old, you hope that death can be far away from you.

If a person has no hope, he will have no motivation and courage to live.

What is called the disillusionment of all thoughts, is when you lose all hope.

But Liu Yong is not yet discouraged, he is just frustrated. Just a thought made his blood boil, but just as he was about to go deeper, he was poured a basin of cold water. Such a contrast will make anyone's heart tremble.

The problem is that Liu Yong is like returning to the afterlife at this time, at that time, in the face of entrepreneurship, he was in a state of suffering from gains and losses, and sometimes he couldn't sleep at night. Thinking of the beauty of the fragrant car after the success of the business, I couldn't close my mouth excitedly. Thinking about the creditor Yingmen after the failure of the business, he trembled with fright.

At this time, he had such a state of mind. This is a kind of pressure, and this pressure is Li Xinniang and Yun'er, as well as the half-year deadline. Seeing the passage of time, how could he not be anxious in his heart. In today's teahouse, it is easy for him to hear a huge business opportunity, that is, the attack of the Jin State cut off the trade routes between the Western Xia and the Great Song Dynasty. He thought that if he could transport a batch of daily necessities to Western Xia, he would definitely make a lot of money.

At that time, a map of China appeared in his mind. Thinking about the current location, and then thinking about the location of Western Xia, he felt that this place was not far from Western Xia, and it was still relatively close. He thought that as long as he bypassed the Jin Kingdom and went to Western Xia, wouldn't it be done? So he hurriedly asked the landlord the road to Western Xia.

Unexpectedly, it was not easy to go to Western Xia without going to Jinguo.

There was a spider on the roof of the shed, pulling the line straight towards Liu Yong's upturned face and quickly falling down. Liu Yong's eyes didn't blink, staring at the rapidly falling spider. And the fingernail-sized spider just stopped under Liu Yong's nose. Then the spider began to climb up the invisible silk, climbing a few inches and falling again, and then falling a few inches again, but it kept climbing.

In the end, Liu Yongmu sent the spider back to the roof of the shed. He sat up suddenly, and a sentence suddenly appeared in his head: "Few people can make money from it, and this will be big business; A lot of people can make money from it, and it's certainly not big business. He knew who said it, his idol.

"I can't just give up on my own ideas based on a few words from the landlord. Although what the landlord said was evil, he was just hearsay. The road is not good or not, there are many robbers and beasts, and he has not seen it with his own eyes. Therefore, there is still a plan for this matter. When Liu Yong thought about it like this, he saw the sun like a cloud, and his mood immediately opened.

If you want to make money, how can you do it without taking risks? As a businessman, how can you not take risks?

He made up his mind that even if everyone said that the Tibetan road was difficult, he would give it a try. Without the thrilling plank road adjacent to the deep cliffs, how can you surprise the soldiers. As long as the freight can be transported to Western Xia, it is a heavenly god in the war. What the Divine Soldier brings is a great victory.

"Well, don't hesitate, there's no such thing as a mountain of flames that you won't go to in the past." Another sentence appeared in Liu Yong's mind. He gritted his teeth and walked slowly to the window, looking at the western sky burned red by the sunset, his eyes full of pride and ambition.