As soon as he heard the old guest say don't go up the mountain to dig for gold, Yang Xindu was stunned.

"Master Ma, why is this? Could it be that Huang Er's grandmother is fake, but she is actually looking for an opportunity to harm us? ”

Who knows, as soon as Yang Xindu blurted out his words, the old guest covered his mouth.

"My lord, how dare you slander the second grandmother of the Huang family like this on the territory of the Huang family? If Huang Xian listens to this, will he have it? Don't dare to say any more. ”

Seeing that Yang Xindu shook his head up and down, the old guest let go of his hand.

"Don't you know the owner, although Huang Xian is small-minded, he is never ambiguous in repaying his kindness.

Since her second grandmother Huang said that she was repaying her kindness, she would not harm us, but I don't think that the husband of the female brother Ma is not like a sincere person. ”

After speaking, the old guest explained and analyzed in Yang Xindu's ear in a low voice.

"Those fifty taels of gold may not seem like much, but neither of us may be able to carry them from the mountain."

It turned out that this old customer surnamed Ma, who was hired by Yang Xindu at a high price, was accustomed to walking outside the pass, and knew that there were many gold mines in the reckless mountains outside the pass, and it was a good place for gold production since ancient times.

However, the "gold" outside the gate is a little different from the inside of the gate!

It turned out that although there were many gold mines outside this pass, there was an extreme lack of goldsmiths who could open the furnace to turn gold, especially the means of refining and purifying gold.

Therefore, the gold in the people outside the customs is not the gold bars and gold ingots cast after refining and purification of the Qianzhuang, but the sand gold that is washed from the riverbed or mined from the ore veins, and finally screened out!

"Don't look at the gold ore dug out of the cave every piece of gold is as yellow as gold, in fact, the yellow is basically copper, and there is very little real gold.

Even if the gold content of sand gold is screened out, it is generally only one percent of pure gold!

Although the three of us can carry dozens of catties of 'gold' from the gold cave on the mountain this trip, in fact, it is very good to have seven or eight catties of pure gold in these gold ores!

That man was a gold digger, so how could he not understand the Tao here?

If we divide the ore we carried down according to the ratio of fifty taels of pure gold, we must give him half of the ore, but we will carry him gold down the mountain. ”

The old guest told Yang Xindu that since this round-faced man who had worked as a gold digger could prepare a kang and banquet to welcome guests in less than half a day after receiving the order of Huang Er's grandmother, it can be seen that he is the leading figure in the local area.

"Who knows if this kind of person has any contact with the locks who are blocking the road and robbing the road in the nearby mountains?

If he sees that we refuse to give half of the gold ore, he will secretly sell our whereabouts to the nearby locks.

The owner, this cart carrying three or four hundred pounds of goods can't run fast at all, once we are surrounded by the front and back of the silk and blocked on the mountain road, but the bamboo basket is empty! ”

The old guest also told Yang Xindu that even if he could escape from the encirclement of the bandits, it would be extremely unstable to pull hundreds of catties of ore in the car.

It's just that this person who is in a hurry can't keep rushing on the road, so he has to stop at the inn to rest and sharpen.

The men who were sent to the carriage and horse shop have poisonous eyes!

As long as one looked at the depth of the ruts that the cart had run over and the difficulty of the horses pulling it, it was clear that the cart was not pulled with any medicinal herb fur, but must have been gold and silver under the cover of it.

In case those guys saw that they had any bad intentions and put sweat medicine in the food and tea that were served, then Yang Xindu and they still couldn't pull these gold ores back to the customs safely.

"The owner, the villain said something unpleasant here, there is gold and silver on the reckless mountain outside this pass, but there is some gold here that has been fried by people with medicinal water!

These golden golds are gratifying to look at, but they must not be touched.

Besides, we have already gained a lot of wealth this time, so we don't want to make extraneous branches, and it is better than anything else to be able to bring this burden home safely and steadily. ”

As soon as he heard the old guest mention the word "burden", Yang Xindu immediately nodded again and again as if he had woken up from a dream.

"Master Li, you're right, can we get anything out of this trip, but it's all tied to this burden."

It turned out that Yang Xindu used the good silk left at home to press the bottom of the box, and exchanged it for a five-grade leaf ginseng with an old lady from a noble family outside the Guan.

According to the old customers, this big mountain ginseng is also a hundred years old.

If this ginseng can be successfully brought back to Guannai, it will be able to exchange two or three hundred taels of gold from the wealthy family in the capital.

The old customer was worried that once the ginseng on the road was exposed in front of outsiders, it would be easy to attract Xiaoxiao's watching, so he specially prepared a bag and stuffed two cotton robes and a few catties of dry food into the bag as a cover.

The old customer first carefully wrapped the ginseng with a red cloth, then opened a thick cotton robe, took out a part of the cotton wool, and then hid the ginseng wrapped in red cloth in the cotton robe and sewed it.

After doing all this, the old guest whispered to Yang Xindu to explain.

"Owner, in case we run into the robbers on the road, we must remember not to resist, and immediately obediently hand over the things in the car and the silver on the body to the heroes who robbed the road, so that we can count on them to let us two go.

As the saying goes, 'Who can walk by the river without getting their shoes wet'.

Although he is familiar with the path outside the gate, this time he took Yang Xindu out to break through, and only picked those safe roads that few strongmen cut the path to walk, but even so, he didn't dare to pack a ticket and say that he would definitely not be able to meet the bandits who robbed the road.

However, the old guest comforted him after startling Yang Xindu and said: "You don't have to be too afraid, the boss, most of the robbers are very disciplined."

The rule on this road is 'take seven and keep three', which can leave us with something left, and as long as we don't resist, it won't harm our lives." ”

The old guest told Yang Xindu that the reason why the bandits outside the pass had a rule of 'taking seven and keeping three' and 'not taking the initiative to harm people's lives' was mainly for their bowl of rice to be eaten for a long time.

Like old customers, the owners who pin their heads to the waistband of their trousers and break through the customs are all rushing to go outside the customs to sell the sought-after mountain goods and make a lot of money back in the customs.

If there is a trade route, no matter who goes to it, there is no return, and over time, no one dares to take this road.

Even if there is a mountain of gold and silver on the other side of the road, it is in vain to have a life to make money but not to bring money back to enjoy it.

Therefore, not only can these cut-off strips not take the initiative to harm the lives of these merchants, but on the contrary, they have to leave a little goods for others, so that even if they are robbed by bandits, they can earn a subsistence porridge money when they return to the customs.

If you are robbed, you can still keep your capital alive; If you are lucky enough to not run into bandits, you can make a lot of money, so as to attract more merchants to come and gamble on your luck

If the customer of this running business lost his capital because he was robbed by the bandits, then he would definitely not come here to run the business again in the future, and in the end it was the bandits' own jobs that were smashed.

It is precisely because of this rule of 'take seven and keep three' that merchants like old customers who often travel back and forth inside and outside the customs began to rack their brains and think about how to minimize losses after being robbed by bandits.

Let's say, that baggage......