After the young man shouted into the back hall, a middle-aged man in his forties came out, looked at Siming and the three of them for a long time, and as if he didn't quite believe his vision, he came over and asked, "Do you dare to ask the three guest officers are the distinguished guests from Yixian Hall?" ”

Siming didn't dare to pretend, so he only arched his hand and said, "At the next fate, I have some dealings with Huang Gongzi, and he introduced me here to buy rice, I wonder if the shopkeeper Qin can make it convenient?" ”

After the shopkeeper Qin figured out the reason, he said with a smile, "I said, the little brother looked at the eyes, I thought it was the new shopkeeper in the hall, and I hope not to be surprised." Since it is a friend introduced by the young owner, it is naturally a distinguished customer in the store, please inside. ”

The three of them followed the shopkeeper Qin into the backyard, and after serving refreshments, they talked about the business this time. The shopkeeper must be very familiar with 'Yixiantang', and he didn't ask Siming much about his identity, so he asked him how much Siming needed.

Siming originally planned to buy rice in other places, but he didn't expect to meet someone on the road, so he came to this sandbar with an acquaintance, and saw the price of rice hanging in the store, totaling two taels of silver and one stone of rice, so he cut the previous budget by half and said to the shopkeeper.

When the shopkeeper heard this, he still smiled, and said with a smile, "Did the son buy it and eat it himself?" If you don't take some back along the way, you can recover some money for the journey. ”

Siming was about to reply, but was stopped by Liang Tian and whispered, "I'll come." ”

Liang Tian got up and arched his hand and said, "Shopkeeper Qin, my son-in-law originally intended to buy more, but seeing that your store was overcrowded, and thinking of his friendship with Huang Gongzi, he didn't want to burden your store anymore. ”

The shopkeeper of Qin was talking to Siming, and when he heard another person interjecting, he asked Siming, "This is?" ”

"It's the same with him."

After getting permission, Shopkeeper Qin also smiled and said, "How much profit does this little brother plan to make?" Liang Tian put the silver ticket prepared in advance in his arms on the table, and said, "There is only so much silver, how much profit you want to make, it depends on how much profit the shopkeeper makes." ”

Shopkeeper Qin glanced at the amount of the silver ticket, whispered to the guy next to him, and then said to Liang Tian, "Since it is a big customer, it was introduced by Huang Shaodong's family, so it will naturally be less." I won't beat around the bush with you, according to the ninety-five discount, even if Yixiantang comes by himself, it is also this price. ”

Liang Tian slid the silver over, sent it to the shopkeeper Qin, and said, "Since this is the case, then there is the shopkeeper of Lao Qin, and I hope to introduce a trustworthy martial artist, my son-in-law didn't bring so many people when he went out." ”

The shopkeeper just wanted to say that there were so many guys available in 'Yixiantang', and it didn't hurt to borrow some, but he couldn't figure out what their relationship was, so he had to show Siming the way.

When the three of them came out, the people in front of the rice shop had already dispersed, and a sign in front of the door was hung that read 'Sold Out Today'. When he was a little farther away from the rice shop, Siming said to Liang Tian, "How did you take out all that money to do business." ”

Liang Tian's mood was very comfortable, and said, "I don't like to look at the way he looks at people getting off the plate, and he also says that he buys it home to eat, who has nothing to do at this rice price, comes out to buy food, and transports it all the way back to store it for food." And I didn't tell you before that those ingots of gold were the least worthwhile, but they were just a little more than a little more to the six hundred and fifty taels. You're distressed about this, so it's better to feel distressed before... I wanted to say that I had bribed Li Ming's jewelry before, but I remembered that it was all done without Siming, so I couldn't help but stop my mouth, snorted, and said that I went somewhere else.

When it was really the girl of the Liang family, she easily took out a thousand taels of silver and bought all the rice shops and closed them, Siming suddenly regretted a little, she should have opened her eyes at that time to see how much her treasure chest was worth, and what other valuable things she had, so that she could often ignore this silver.

After hiring a martial artist, Siming and Liang Tian went back to the rice shop, and watched the Huang family come with the guys from the rice shop to load the rice into the car, and they were also relieved, they bought it anyway, and they could not return it. It's just that Siming didn't expect at this time that there would be such a difficulty in the future.

When he heard that Siming was going to transport the rice to Mincheng, the shopkeeper of Qin glanced at Siming meaningfully, and said with a smile, "Childe is really courageous, the old decay will not be far away, the procedures for leaving the city have been completed, this is the document for leaving the city, and the son can go out of the city in a while." ”

Siming took the paperwork, said goodbye to the shopkeeper, led a dozen carriages full of rice, and went to the city gate.

After four or five miles out of the city, the road slowly became narrower, and the carriage could only go slower, and after another four or five miles, it was getting dark, and Siming had to find a place to stop against the road and set up camp to rest.

While eating, a martial artist escorted a young man in coarse cloth clothes over and said to Siming, "Dongjia, this kid is sneaky nearby, and he won't say what he does when he asks him a few times, I'm afraid he is a thief, and I'll take it over to show you, do you want to send it to the government." ”

When the young man saw Siming, he struggled out of the hands of the martial artist, crawled in front of Siming on his knees, hugged Siming's legs and said, "Boss, please give me some rice, I have been waiting there for four days, and I really don't have the money to stay any longer." ”

Siming couldn't see the man's face, he only felt that the voice was familiar, and he bent down to help the man up, but he couldn't pull him up.

The man continued, "Aren't you going to Mincheng, the owner?" I know how to cross the West Wind Hills, as long as you give me a little rice. Our family can't afford to eat the rice that has been doubled several times in the city, I beg you. A handful of snot and a handful of tears were all stained on Siming's robe.

Siming looked at the snot on his robe, couldn't help frowning, and motioned to the martial artist on the side to pull the person up. Only then did I see that the person had lived on the same street as Siming, no wonder the voice sounded so familiar. The man didn't recognize Siming, but looked pitiful and begged Siming to sell him some food.

This person's family has been better than Siming's family since he was a child, and then Siming's family was down, and his family was as always, two years ago, I heard Uncle Zeng say that his family even made some small profits over the years, and naturally it was impossible to fall to the point where they couldn't afford to eat rice in a year or two, and now they pretend to be pitiful, saying that they can't afford to eat rice, isn't it a joke? I'm afraid that I can't afford to eat rice is fake, and I want to sell rice to be real, but I didn't find a way in the sandbank, so I came to try my luck.

Siming dusted off the ashes on the hem of his clothes with some disgust, looked at the man with a smile, and asked, "Then how much do you want to share?" ”

Seeing Siming's mouth, the man immediately wiped the snot on his face, came over and said, "Boss, I don't have a lot, one car is enough." As long as you divide my car, I will tell you everything about how to cross Xifeng Gang, and I will not keep it at all. ”

Siming turned his back and said, "What a big breath, aren't you eating at home?" How many people ask for a truckload of rice, which is not the same as what you just said about the rice that your family can't afford to eat. ”

The man had already thought of this, rubbed his hands, and said flatteringly, "The owner doesn't know, the fathers and villagers in our village are waiting for this cart of rice to go back to boil the pot, not to mention the village of hundreds of people, so I don't want more, otherwise I wouldn't have come to such a far place to buy it." ”

Village! Siming thought to himself, don't you know you, I have never seen you have any fathers and villagers, so he said, "It turns out that you also want to earn some travel expenses, you don't have to think about a cart of rice, you also know the price of rice in the rice shop, two taels of silver and one stone, I don't earn you much, according to what you said, double it, sell you ten stone of rice." ”

Ten stone rice, the man counted with his fingers, and looked at the sky again, and the joy that surged in his heart could not be concealed, but he still made a bitter appearance, and said in embarrassment, "Since the owner said so, then I can only do this, after all, it is not bad to be able to eat half a bowl." ”

After that, the man also followed Siming's team, and from time to time he took out the Xifeng Gang and talked about it, as if he would really play a role in this team.

After the team walked for another day, it gradually got closer to Mincheng, and there were fewer and fewer pedestrians on the road.

Xifeng Gang is the only way to enter Mincheng from the south, surrounded by mountains on both sides, only a team of people and horses can pass, in the Taiping years of previous years, it was still fine. In the past two years, due to the drying up of the land and the reduction of grain production, some people have gone up the mountain to occupy the land as the king, often waiting near the Xifeng Gang, the first love is to grab gold and silver treasures, and the second love is this grain.

Although the government also sent troops several times to catch the bandits, it was also weak, which made the grain in Mincheng several times more expensive than the outside, and it could be sold for ten taels of silver and one stone of rice at the most expensive time, almost five times as much as the outside.

When the man knew that he could buy rice by doubling it, he made an abacus in his heart, except for the money used for entanglement, which was given away for free, and this trip was not bad, if he was really unlucky, he encountered someone from Xifeng Gang to rob it, and he ran away, and he couldn't lose himself.

After Siming learned about the matter of Xifenggang, he was also uneasy, but he had arrived here, and he had to move forward hard, so he could only gamble on his luck, or rely on the martial artist he had invited with a lot of money, whether it could play some role.

Seeing that it was about to be a west wind hill, everyone in the team raised their hearts to their throats and watched the movements around them, especially on the grassy mountains, as soon as there was a wind and grass, they touched the scimitar on their bodies.

The more the team walked forward, the more nervous they became, and suddenly, without knowing that it was a shout from there, the people surrounding them rushed out, either with big knives or spears, and after a while they were mixed up with the warriors in the team.

The people who followed Siming before, seeing this scene, had already run forward with their own packages, and there were also a few guys from the Huang family who ran together, and they also wanted to run backwards, but when they saw that the locals were also running forward, they also ran forward, and finally there were only a few martial artists left, and the three of them were still in place.

Although Quan Gui'er's kung fu is not as good as his younger brother, he can also use a few tricks, and it is okay to deal with a few bandits who can only make brute force, just thinking about protecting Siming and the two, it is not good to leave the carriage and fight with those people.