The army was with them, and no one dared to stop them.

The group rushed out of Chang'an City and asked rhetorically, stopping at an intersection, Qin Huaidao took out a map to check, Cheng Chumo came over, and said curiously: "Brother, I heard that someone went to Lingnan Road to look for it, and returned empty-handed, can we do it?" ”

"Do you know where they went to look for it?" Qin Huaidao asked rhetorically.

Cheng Chumo looked around and said in a low voice: "I heard that it was only in the Jingchu area, and I didn't go too far, I guess I was afraid of death, but I lied that I was looking for the entire Lingnan Road, and this matter can't be spread randomly." ”

The Jingchu area is also the Hunan and Hubei of later generations, Qin Huaidao remembered that Hunan seems to produce Luo Han Guo, but some are not sure, Hubei has not heard of it, since someone has gone to find it, I am afraid that Hunan has not yet in this era, after all, Luo Han Guo is in Guangxi.

"Do you want to go directly to Guangxi? It's too far from Chang'an. ”

Qin Huaidao thought in his heart, his eyes looked at the map, and while he understood the map of the future generations, gradually, a route was determined, and said: "Take the Kugu Road, all the way to the south, through Kuyu, Zhen'an, Xunyang to Ankang." ”

"What, Kugu Dao?" Cheng Chumo's face changed, and he reminded: "This post road is over the mountains and mountains, and it is very difficult to walk, why don't you take the meridian road?" You can also go to Fengshui, you can go to Xunyang, and Xunyang is Ankang to the south. ”

"The waterways are too winding, too slow, and not safe."

"What, the waterways are not safe?" Cheng Chumo immediately disagreed, and was about to refute, but suddenly thought of the Wang family and the Cui family that Qin Huaidao had provoked recently, and the safest waterway might really become the most unsafe, so he immediately reacted and said, "Okay, the saint said it, listen to your command." ”

The latter sentence was deliberately louder, apparently for others to hear, so as not to complain.

Qin Huaidao didn't expect Cheng Chumo to be quite thoughtful, no wonder the founding of the country died of death, depreciated, but Cheng bit Jin Qingsong is not old, and he also became a pillar of the country during the empress period, the first person in the military, has his son, it can be seen that his father, the family seems to be rude, but in fact he is fine.

Qin Huaidao, the means of buying people's hearts and mobilizing morale, was not bad, and shouted loudly: "Everyone, Kugu Road is difficult to walk, but in a straight line, you can take a lot of unjust roads, eat and drink along the way, there is meat, and you will never lose everyone, if you come back with a reward, my share will be shared with everyone, and they all say that Kugu Road is difficult to walk, and those who are not afraid of death will come with me." ”

"Let's go, I'm afraid—"

"Righteousness and righteousness of the Wing Country!"

Everyone shouted loudly and beat their horses to keep up.

Cheng Chumo watched the morale suddenly explode, looked at the back of Qin Huaidao who rushed out and smiled, and murmured: "It's still the old thing at home who has a good eye, this brother really has something, drive-"

With a shake of the reins and a hard clasp of his legs, the horses rushed forward.

The team rushed all the way, before dark came to a town closest to the entrance of Kugu Road, stopped, rested for one night, purchased three days of dry food and continued to hurry, all small roads, the road is very difficult to walk, and it is not fast, over the mountains and wading, stop when it meets the village, and it is really not possible to spend the night on the mountain.

All are soldiers, fearless.

Stop and go all the way, finally came to Ankang, rested for two days, Qin Huaidao went to the major pharmacies, the market went around, did not find, continued to rush on the third day, arrived in the Tongren area of Xiangxi after more than ten days, people were sleepy and tired, and had to stop and rest again.

This time, the team rested for three days before relieving, Qin Huaidao searched for three days and did not find a single Luo Han Guo, so he simply continued to go south, took the waterway into the southeast of Guizhou, and still did not find it, and in a fit of anger, he went straight to Guilin County, which was the boundary of Guangxi in later generations, and it was unreasonable to find it.

After more than ten days, the group finally came to Guilin County, and saw an herbal tea in an herbal tea shop, one of which was Luo Han Guo, Qin Huaidao was overjoyed, and finally found it, and after some inquiry, he learned that Yongfu County, southwest of Guilin County, was rich in Luo Han Guo, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

October happened to be the ripe season, the group came to Yongfu County, found the county order to show the holy decree, the county order has never heard of Luo Han Guo, see that it is ordered to find, do not dare to slack off, quickly send someone out to inquire, and finally found a large number of Luo Han Guo in a mountain.

This mountain belongs to the county government, Qin Huaidao inquired, tens of thousands of acres only need two thousand taels of silver, the price of the border land is really cheap, so he pulled Cheng to talk silently, found the county order and a secret talk, when he came out, he was like a family, Qin Huaidao had an extra title deed in his arms, and a cooperation agreement.

The agreement stipulates that the county order is responsible for the planting, management and production of Luo Han Guo in the future, Cheng Chumo is responsible for the store, Qin Huaidao is responsible for sales, although Luo Han Guo is good, there is no county order This soil emperor is in the local area, it is easy to make variables, and making a fortune together is the king.

The news of the purchase of Luo Han Guo for a penny and a pound was quickly released from the county government, and countless people poured into the mountains, and a few Luo Han Guo was a catty, which was like a pie in the sky for the locals.

Ten days later, Qin Huaidao and others dragged the dried Luo Han Guo back, and the team of 100 people had 100 war horses, each of which was 100 catties of dried Luo Han Guo, which almost hollowed out Yongfu County.

When I went back, everyone's mentality was not so urgent, and I drifted slowly by water.

More than a month later, everyone returned to Ankang, with Luo Han Guo can not continue to climb the steep and narrow Kugu Road, change to the Xunhe River, Fengshui is a lot closer, but the boats active in the Qinling River are not big, in case the boat capsizes will be busy in vain, so they took the team to the west, turned to Hanyin County, took the Meridian Road, all the way to the north.

The meridian road is wide, the caravan is the first choice, and it is much easier to walk than the Kugu Road.

……

Qinjiazhuang, ancestral hall.

In November, the temperature in Chang'an plummeted, and the cold wind howled, which was daunting.

Jia Youcai sat on the ground in the ancestral hall, guarding a few big bags of silver in the corner behind him, since Qin Huaidao left, Jia Youcai moved into the ancestral hall, and Xue Rengui guarded the root of his life together, no one has come back for three months, and Qinjiazhuang is up and down, and people are panicking.

"Uncle Jia, it's cold and roasted, don't freeze your bones!" Xue Rengui came in from outside, dusty, and his face was not good-looking.

"Still didn't catch those bastards?" Jia Youcai asked with concern.

Since the news of burning bricks with coal spread, the transport team was suddenly assassinated, the murderer was very cunning, a group of three or two people, disguised as a hurryer, hunting, and even disguised as a horse-drawn cart to pull coal, picking no one on the road to get a dead hand, running after killing, not finding it at all, two or three days down, no one dared to pull coal.

In order to ensure the needs of the brick kiln, Jia Youcai had to send out guards to escort him, and the murderer changed the number of roads, who dared to pull coal, the family was retaliated against, and no one dared to get out of the car a day later, Qinjiazhuang did not have a carriage, and wanted to buy it, but the seller of the carriage was also threatened and did not dare to sell.

Without coal, the brick kiln could not be burned, only three kilns were burned, and the other brick kilns were scrapped because of the lack of coal halfway.

Xue Rengui was also angry, and said hatefully: "Uncle Jia, the news is wrong, someone deliberately leaked it, wanted to anger us, and ran away in vain, these bastards, one day they will kill them." ”

"Seeing that it is about to enter winter, there is silver in hand, it is not a big problem for Zhuang Shang to survive this winter, but the coal mountain may not be able to bear it, this ghost weather can freeze people to death, it is really not possible to withdraw it, it is important to protect people, and I don't know where the young master has gone, it is cold, but don't have an accident." Jia Youcai said worriedly.

"It's not been peaceful lately, let's take a look in a few days." Xue Rengui proposed.

"It's okay, it's eventful, I've worked hard for you." Jia Youcai smiled gratefully.