Two days later, in the evening of that day, the Weibeiying group finally came to a Zhuangzi called Thirty Lipu. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info When we got here, we were not far from Luodu, and we walked nearly thirty miles along the main road. Therefore, this village is called Thirty Miles, and there are several inns in the village, which are specially designed to receive merchants who come and go to Luodu City to rest here. Medical Officer Xiao Liu directly made thirty silver wallets to the only big car shop in the village, and the others were all inns of higher grade, which were too expensive. The group slept in the open for more than ten days, and finally had a place with tiles on their heads to rest.

That night, Dr. Liu summoned all the soldiers to a room and began to discuss the matter. This time, according to the instructions of Sun Lao Junshi, they came to buy salt, and there must be enough people to transport salt in bulk purchases. But this thing is also quite dangerous, because salt is really in short supply right now. Last year, the Tuliao people broke through Zhongshen City from the grassland south, and several large salt farms along the way were also looted and destroyed by them, and the entire area north of Zhongshen City is now beginning to lack salt, and the price of salt is naturally soaring. As a result, bandits and soldiers from all over the country began to loot the passing salt merchants. The main threat to the Weibei battalion this time is not only the bandits and robbers along the way, but also the local garrisons and horses in various places, and the private soldiers of the tyrants, these regular soldiers disguised themselves as bandits to grab salt. Now that the Pingzhou court is gone, the world is in chaos, and the garrison troops left in various places often dress up as bandits to rob passing merchants. Salt is a commodity that has always been a popular target because of the ease with which it can be stolen. There are merchants who are familiar with the road will check the relationship between these powerful warlords along the way in advance, and if they meet, they can pass through the slip opened by the local garrison commander or the powerful household who controls the place, otherwise there will be only one end of death. However, the cost of selling salt will double, so many small salt sellers will not be able to make a living and have changed their careers.

It turned out that the head of the Xijing garrison Cao, who had opened up the door in the Weibei camp, still did not change the straw bag nature of the emperor's relatives after all these years. As soon as the Pingzhou court fell last winter, he, the head of the garrison, was seized by Wang Songcheng, the deputy head of the garrison who had been guarding this place all the year round, and then he was directly imprisoned in secret, and his life and death were unknown. When the news reached Weibei Camp, Han scolded the general jumping to his feet and scolding that all the silver coins spent on dotting over the years were wasted.

Although the Weibei battalion is now rich, it obviously has no intention of spending an extra amount of money to reopen this self-appointed new garrison commander, and now there are wars everywhere, and the city is about to change the king's flag almost every once in a while, who knows how long this king's garrison can last? This is also the reason why Old Medical Officer Sun still selected fifty good hands for the two apprentices to come with him when he was in the spring ploughing and the manpower of the Weibei camp was so tight. Before leaving, the old medical officer Sun explained: "Although that head Cao is a straw bag, he only knows how to eat, drink and have fun, but he has always been generous, and he will never leave his subordinates behind. In the face of such a generous boss, in order to seize power and satisfy his ambitions, as soon as the court fell, he couldn't wait to commit the next offense, and even killed the old boss. This person must be an impermanent villain when he acts like this, and he is ruthless in his methods and has a small amount of energy. Dealing with such a ruthless and narrow-minded person, if you are not careful, you will be swallowed by it with the belt and bones. On the contrary, it is better to show his fist at the beginning and let him throw a mouse bogey, so that he does not dare to act recklessly. When you go, you must not enter the city with all your members, and you need to leave half of the manpower outside the city in case of accidents. Now is an eventful autumn, for the teacher to predict that your trip will inevitably cause trouble, leave the hand in advance, and always be prepared. ”

Thinking of Master's advice, Medical Officer Xiao Liu decided to divide the manpower into two waves in advance tonight and enter the city directly tomorrow. The fifty veterans of the Weibei Battalion all exude a fierce spirit, and a discerning person can see the way at a glance, which is really not a good choice. Xiao Liu chose to choose and choose, and finally it was easy to pick out ten people who didn't look so dazzling, and take them into the city tomorrow. The rest of the people, Doctor Xiao Liu gathered them together and said, "After we enter the city tomorrow, you will also leave here, there is a mountain forest not far from here, called the bird to return to the mountain." There is a cave halfway up the mountain, which can accommodate hundreds of people. Go and camp there, and wait for news from me. After that, he divided a large portion of the silver money he carried with him and handed it to the temporarily assigned Wu Chang Xiong Zhao, "You take this money, buy some dry food and food in this thirty miles shop tomorrow, and then go into the mountain, and then eat the dry food every seven days before you can go out of the mountain to buy again, and you must strictly guard the camp on other days and wait for my order." ”

Seeing that Senior Brother had arranged it in such detail, Li Deyi couldn't help but ask, "Senior Brother, how long does it take to buy some salt?" Why are you so careful? Doctor Liu patiently said to his junior brother: "You left in a hurry before leaving, and Master didn't have time to tell you in detail. We plan to buy hundreds of thousands of catties of salt this time, such a large amount of salt, there will definitely be a lot of movement at that time, there will be twists and turns, we must be careful to deal with it, and be sure to ensure that the salt is bought back safely. This matter is related to the development of our Weibei camp in the next few years, and we must not be careless. ”

After dinner, there was no word all night, and everyone went to the Chase Shop to rest. There is a big thing and my senior brother is here, and Li Deyi slept soundly that night. The next day, Li De had an early morning together, went to the courtyard for some activities, and began to do morning classes as usual, and finally recited the mantra by himself: "One, two, three, four......, two, two, three, four, ......" and played two trips to "Taizu King's Third Set of Radio Fitness Boxing". As soon as the heat came out, Dr. Xiao Liu also opened the door and came out.

"Hurry up and pick up, let's hurry up and set off while the morning is dawn, and then have dinner when we enter the city, and we won't eat breakfast first." Doctor Xiao Liu directly instructed his junior brother, and after speaking, he went to another room in the courtyard and called the ten people selected last night. Li Deyi also called the "Hummer", and then called the "Four Eyes" two, and the group went out directly, and walked along the official road in the direction of Luodu.

Medical Officer Xiao Liu left most of the board cars he brought to the group of people outside the city, and his group only drove three board cars, on which were the leather goods that had been brought with a full amount. Near noon, the Weibei camp rushed to the vicinity of Luodu City. From a distance, Li De saw that the people at the gate of the city had lined up for more than two miles, waiting to enter the city. Doctor Xiao Liu stared at the situation, didn't say a word, turned around and walked down the official road with the others. Finding a secluded place, he said to the ten people he had brought: "As expected, the city gate is now being investigated. If we enter the city together, it is difficult to guarantee that no one will see the flaws, and then we will be in trouble. Go and get your own preparations, for now we'll have to separate and enter the city. There is a time-honored cooked mutton shop in the city, called Guo Erde cooked mutton, which is near the cross street in the south of the city. We'll meet there when we're in town, and I'll arrange a place to stay, so let's separate now. If you want to use these three carts and leathers, take them yourself. ”

"Senior brother, what should I do?" Li Deyi couldn't help but ask. Doctor Xiao Liu glanced at his junior brother and said lightly: "You figure it out yourself, I have recently found that you are getting lazier and lazier, and you always ask me for advice when you have something, so you can't go on like this." If you can't figure out a way to enter the city this time, I won't help you, and you won't be able to see the prosperity of this Luodu City when the time comes. After speaking, he ignored the complaining little eyes of his junior brother, and walked straight behind a hugging tree, and he didn't know what to start doing.

The senior brother left himself here to think about it alone, Li Deyi could only squat next to the "Hummer", frowning and thinking helplessly, and casually grabbed a withered yellow grass leaf that had not yet turned green, and put it in his mouth. Li Deyi was frowning and thinking about it, and suddenly looked up to see his senior brother coming out from behind the tree. blinked his eyes, and found that his senior brother actually wore a soft towel on his head, and the sleeves that were originally tied were loosened and turned into open sleeves, and he was carrying a book belt on his body that he didn't know where to go, and he couldn't see whether it was loaded or not. In the blink of an eye, the senior brother actually turned into a scholar who wandered around to study, and when he looked closely, his face really had a nerdy air unique to young scholars.

Doctor Liu ignored his brother's stunned expression, turned around and walked towards the city gate. Li Deyi stared at the back of his senior brother who was far away, and after a while, he clapped his hands and smiled: "Haha, I also have a way." Turning his head, he also wanted to learn from his senior brother to go behind the tree to pick up and dress up, but as soon as he turned around, he saw the "four-eyed" couple. Li Deyi made another mistake at this time, standing there staring at the two wolves. Throw the "Four Eyes" out and don't bring them into the city, I'm afraid that they won't lose it again after a long time, after all, Li Deyi doesn't know how long he will stay in the city this time. But if you want to bring it into the city, Li Deyi really doesn't have any good way in front of him.

Li Deyi had no choice but to squat on the ground again and start to think of another trick. After thinking about it for a long time, but he didn't come up with any new tricks, Li Deyi had a grass in his mouth, and his eyes were staring at the official road, hoping to come up with an idea. After looking at it for a while, Li Deyi suddenly found that a person's figure was a little familiar, but if he looked closely, it didn't look like it. The man was carrying a fat pig that had been slaughtered and cleaned on his back, and was walking towards the city gate step by step. Li De glanced at the beads and turned around, rushed over and ran in front of the man to stop him, sure enough, it was a person from the Weibei camp, Li Deyi opened his mouth in surprise and pointed at him speechless. When the man saw that he was stopped by the little medical officer, he smiled and whispered: "So that the little medical officer knows that I was originally a pig killer in Weibei Ying, and I also worked as a butcher and sold pork in those years when my life was tight." Just now I saw a fellow carrying this pig and planning to sell it in the city, so I used five skins to replace this pig with him, and planned to do my old job again and go into the city to sell pork. ”

Closing his open mouth, Li Deyi finally nodded and said, "Oh, okay, go, go." The man was just about to leave, but Li Deyi hurriedly stopped him again and asked, "Has the blood on this pig been washed clean?" "If you don't wash it, the farmer kills the pig, how can it be washed so neatly." Li Deyi took two handfuls from the pig, got his hands full of pig blood, held them in his hands, turned his head and ran.

Running to the "Four Eyes", Li Deyi nodded at the two of them: "Come here." "Four Eyes", who was accustomed to eating delicious cooked meat, now ignored the pig's blood, but the she-wolf dared to be interested, and stuck out her tongue to lick it. Li Deyi said anxiously: "Don't lick!" It's not for you to eat! Don't move! "Four Eyes" also bared his teeth at the she-wolf and told her to be honest. Li De touched the corners of the mouth and body of the two "Four Eyes" with a handful of pig blood, and said while wiping it: "I'll take you two into the city later, you two must not move, you know?" Don't move! Well done, there is cooked mutton to eat in the city! If you don't do it well and delay my big event, don't blame me for being ruthless! After touching the blood on the two wolves, they also smeared some on their bodies, and they were all ready, and after looking at them carefully for a while, Li Deyi finally nodded with satisfaction.

beckoned, called "Four Eyes", and said directly: "Will 'Four Eyes' pretend to be dead?" "Four Eyes" stared at Li Deyi stunned, not knowing what he was talking about. There was no way, Li Deyi could only tilt his head by himself in the end, his tongue sticked out of his mouth, his white eyes rolled over, and he made a "dead" appearance for "Four Eyes" to learn. It took a long time to finally teach "Four Eyes" to pretend to be dead, "Four Eyes" learned slowly, but his daughter-in-law learned quickly, and after a while, she learned decently. Li Deyi took out two strands of grass rope from his bag, tied the "Four Eyes" and his daughter-in-law together, plucked a thick branch from the tree, picked up the grass rope from the middle, and then shook his hand, and carried the two "dead wolves" to his shoulders. After whistling and calling back the "Hummer" who was throwing joy around, Li Deyi walked triumphantly towards the city gate.

When he arrived at the gate of the city, the soldiers who checked him saw that he was only a half-old boy, so he did not interrogate him more, and Li Deyi only said that these were the two wolves that his father had beaten in the mountains, and asked him to quickly enter the city and sell wolf skins, so that he could buy medicine and go back to his mother to see a doctor. In this way, Li Deyi finally successfully blended into the city. As soon as Li De entered the city, he began to wander around, and when he met people, he asked how to walk the cross street in the south of the city. There are only two main streets in Luodu City, staggered to connect the east, west, north and south, Li Deyi walked along the road to the south, walked to the southernmost side, smelled the strong smell of mutton, and found the old mutton shop that the senior brother said, just on the southwest corner of the cross street in the south of the city.

I walked towards the shop, and as soon as I entered the door, I saw the senior brother dressed as a scholar sitting at a small table in the shop, leaning against a small door behind him. Dr. Xiao Liu saw Li Deyi on the street from afar, saw him enter the store, and nodded to signal him to come over. Li Deyi took the "Hummer" and the "Four Eyes" on his back, and walked towards the senior brother, but before he could get there, the back door behind the senior brother opened, and Dr. Liu shook his head at the door and signaled Li Deyi to enter.

As soon as Li De entered the small door, then Medical Officer Xiao Liu also came in and closed the small door together. The small door was connected to the back kitchen, and Dr. Xiao Liu took him slowly at the head, turning around, and finally came to a spacious courtyard, but the houses in the courtyard looked relatively dilapidated. Tie the "Humvee" to a jujube tree in the yard to prevent him from wandering around the heat, untie the "four eyes", and then Li Deyi followed Dr. Liu into the house.

As soon as he entered the house, Li De was almost shocked, but fortunately, he reacted quickly enough now to drag his chin with his hand in time. There are all walks of life in this house, except for the pig killer that Li Deyi saw outside the city, there is also a blind fortune teller, how to see how the temporary gossip is missing, the blind man's rolling eyes are good, and he can't see the slightest black eye. There is also a veteran dressed as a beggar, who is still lame on one leg, and I don't know how to get it. pretended to be a merchant, but he really got two picks of mountain goods. Holding a whip and pretending to be a cart driver. Holding a dog skin plaster in his hand and pretending to be in the rivers and lakes, Li Deyi, if he is not mistaken, those dog skin plasters Li Deyi brought this trip were made temporarily. There are also two brothers who pretend to be showmanship, one is holding a sledgehammer and the other is carrying a big stone, and the two of them are working together to perform chest crushing boulders. It's really a race of images, and the more you look at it, the more it looks. You Da, You Er is even more true colors, the two of them changed into short clothes, revealing the sashimi embroidery on their arms, as thugs who came to Luodu to eat. Li Deyi turned his head and glanced at Senior Brother, and he didn't know what to say when he opened his mouth: "Senior Brother, this is this ......" Doctor Liu blushed and said: "Our Weibei Camp has a tight life in those years, in order to eat and maintain the Weibei Camp, the brothers have not done many miscellaneous things, they are all familiar, they are all familiar, hehe...... ”

As he spoke, someone knocked on the door outside, and Doctor Liu opened the door, and Boss Guo of this shop came in with a large pot of cooked mutton and multigrain cakes. Putting the mutton on the table in the house, Boss Guo said, "The brothers are all hungry, hurry up and eat, eat." This is the mutton that I specially prepared with my own hands, and it tastes fragrant. A veteran of the Weibei Battalion who was familiar with him also said with a smile: "You haven't eaten this craft for some years, and I don't know if it's still the same as back then, you can taste it when you come and go." ”。 Doctor Xiao Liu asked the brothers to eat first, and he called Boss Guo to inquire carefully.

After a while, Boss Guo turned to leave, and Li Deyi pulled his senior brother and asked, "Senior brother, this Boss Guo ......" Medical Officer Xiao Liu nodded hurriedly and said: "Don't worry, he is also a veteran of our Weibei Battalion." Li Deyi's eyes widened in disbelief and said, "He's too?" He ......" Doctor Liu sighed and then explained: "After Di Dashuai left our Weibei camp and entered Beijing, the first two years were okay, but as soon as Di Dashuai died, the brothers' lives were not as good as day by day. At that time, many brothers felt that they had no future if they stayed any longer, so they asked to return home. At that time, the master gritted his teeth and tightened his belt, exchanged all his belongings for money, and gave these brothers a settling-in allowance. ”

Nodding, Li Deyi lowered his voice and said, "Senior brother, our information is based on these old brothers who have settled in various places?" Doctor Xiao Liu nodded and said, "At first, it was just a correspondence, but later the master asked them to talk about the affairs of the officials in various places, and then there was an exchange of information." As for the method of transmission, without Master's permission, I can't tell you for the time being, and I'll let you know later. Li Deyi was surprised: "These old brothers are also literate? Medical Officer Xiao Liu said with a smile: "Of course, they are all soldiers trained by Di Dashuai himself, and Di Dashuai adheres to the concept of Taizu of the Ping Zhou Dynasty and insists on teaching soldiers to read and write. However, most of these coarse people are also stupid and impermeable, Di Dashuai has spent so much effort on them, and the best result is to know a hundred and ten words, and few can recognize all the words. According to the master, your third grandfather scolded the handsome man many times back then, but he refused to learn to read seriously. ”

Li Deyi was shocked by the old foundation of Weibei Camp again, and couldn't help but say: "Senior brother, if I ask you something, you have to tell me the truth." Why is the city gate under martial law today? Senior brother, you seem to have known about this for a long time......"