Huichang County, Xihe Inn.

After talking to a local Chinese person in the private room for a long time, and asking about the annual prices of houses, fields, and male and female servants here, Ji Qingling gave the other party a big envelope, saying that he would wait for her husband to come back and then make the decision, and returned to the guest room.

She cleared her mind, sat down at the table, picked up her pen and wrote down the things she had just heard and consciously used to make them one by one.

On the table, there is also a thick stack of paper, which is the situation of Ganxian County, which has been sorted out and brought back by Gu Yanzhang.

After writing the information he got from the Chinese people and putting the small notebook in his hand aside, Ji Qingling took the stack of papers in Ganxian County again.

The paper is full of handwriting, all plain dictation, at first it was written into sentences, and later on, it was mostly written in simple words, and there were many omissions, and it was so sloppy that it was incomplete.

She looked at it carefully, took a blank piece of paper, sorted out the fragmented sentences, and connected the top and bottom coherently, and circled the areas she didn't understand, so she circled them with cinnabar, ready to wait for someone to come back and confirm them.

Soon, there were neat lines of small words on the white paper-

"The business from Ganxian to Yudu:

Mostly rouge, gouache, cloth, small bronze mirror, hairpin, cloth, salt (three years ago, it was mostly well salt from Shudi, after digging out the salt from the stone on Zhoutian Mountain, it was first supplied by Zhou Tian to the townships and counties under the jurisdiction of Ganzhou), oil (mostly rapeseed, tea seed oil), cloth (goods from Jiangnan North Road, this year is more expensive than last year, each horse is 20 Wen more expensive), sugar (Guangnan West Road goods, according to different years, the price difference ranges from 50 to 150 Wen per catty).

Path:

There are many roads from Ganxian County to Yudu Mountain, mules and donkeys are difficult to travel, most of the goods are shoulder-picked, salt mules are packed, and only carried by boat to the Ganjiang River in the Dudu section of the shore.

……

Yudu's business in Gan County:

The first is sesame seeds. There is a shortage of sesame seeds in Ganxian County, and the price is more expensive than Yudu, and Yudu has to supply it a lot every year. Youshui, Mazhou, Wenwuba, Zhu (word grass, suspected to be a plant) orchid, and sesame seeds produced in four places, since the beginning of production, the whole year is more than 800 quintals, with an average price of 30 quintals per weight, a total of more than 2,600 quintals.

……

Mulberry crops:

The first is paddy fields, accounting for eighty or ninety ...... out of 100

The second is shiitake mushroom and tea oil......

Ji Qingling only wrote for most of the hour, and he couldn't help yawning.

It's just so boring.

It's too much brain-draining.

Compared with the previous transshipment regulations, this search is countless times more complicated.

Ganzhou has 15 counties under its jurisdiction, and there are hundreds of villages, and the maps that can be obtained are very rough, and it took her half a day to figure out the geography, population, and tax situation of various places.

Gu Yanzhang collected the information trivial and detailed, comprehensive but repetitive, just from the front of this Ganxian material, which asked more than 80 people, at the beginning of the detailed description of each person's situation, there are walking merchants, there are farmers, there are tea gardeners, there are merchants, there are tenants, there are scholars, etc., all kinds of different people, a total of more than ten categories, asked them all kinds of questions.

Everyone's answers are different, there are many contradictions with each other, and there are many connections between them.

There are only a thousand words on a page, Ji Qingling is dizzy, and he only feels that his brain is really not enough.

For the first time, I felt so stupid.

She almost held on, sorted out three pages, hurriedly made a pot of strong tea to wake up, and pressed herself to spend an afternoon to sort out the remaining parts of Ganxian County.

It was already dark, and she opened the window, and with the last bit of afterglow, she cleaned up.

At this moment, there was a knock on the door, and Gu Yanzhang shouted outside, "Qingling." ”

Ji Qingling finished writing a sentence, put the pen aside, and hurriedly opened the door.

Gu Yanzhang was sweating all over his body, and the clothes on his body could come out with a lot of water as soon as he twisted it, although there was no light in the house for the time being, through the light of the setting sun, it could be seen that his face was much darker because of the wind and sun for a while.

As soon as he entered, he put the burden on his back on the table in the hall.

Ji Qingling hurriedly pointed to the screen in the middle and said, "There is water in it, go wash it quickly." ”

I helped him pack his baggage again.

Gu Yanzhang had been busy for a day, his body was wet and hot, he really couldn't bear it anymore, and he was busy with the screen.

The room in the inn was not big, with a thin wooden screen, and there was no sound at all, and after a while, the sound of rushing water came out.

Ji Qingling took out the things in the bag and walked to the table.

There is a big wooden box next to the table, which is full of manuscript paper, which is the result of Gu Yanzhang's search for more than two months, and now it has been classified and placed one by one according to more than ten counties such as Ganxian, Yudu, Xinfeng, Nankang, Dayu, etc.

She numbered the manuscript of Huichang County, which she had just taken out of her baggage, and carefully stored it in the empty place in the box.

After putting the general away, she went out again to call Xiao Er, ordered a meal for the night, and asked people to send it to the house.

By the time I got back into the room, there was no sound in the screen.

Ji Qingling thought that Gu Yanzhang had washed up and was getting dressed, but after waiting for a long time, he didn't hear any more movement in that place.

She couldn't help but walk to the screen and called softly, "Fifth brother? ”

No one answered.

She walked in softly.

This time in Huichang search, because Gu Yanzhang has been away all day, sometimes even two or three days to come back, every time I go back to the inn, I have prickly heat on my body, or I was bitten by such insects and ants and became red and swollen, so she simply went to buy a large bath bucket, and found a common prescription for itching and heat poisoning, and estimated that when the person came back soon, she called the inn to help cook it, so that he could wash it well and soak it.

At this time, Gu Yanzhang was lying in the big bathtub, leaning his head on the edge of the bucket with his head facing right, his eyes closed, as if he had fallen asleep.

Ji Qingling hurriedly stepped forward and called, "Fifth brother! ”

While shouting, he gently patted him on the shoulder.

After three or two breaths, Gu Yanzhang slowly woke up.

"I fell asleep." He looked up and asked, "What time is it?" ”

Ji Qingling hurriedly told him, and said: "Soak and get up, don't fall asleep, be careful of catching a cold." ”

Gu Yanzhang hurriedly took a bath and changed into clean clothes.

When he came out, the meal had already been set up outside, and the two sat down to eat briefly, and asked Xiao Er to take away the things, and then sat at the table and talked.

Ji Qingling showed him the manuscript he had written in the past few days, and pointed out a few places where the handwriting was really sloppy, and asked if he understood, before filling in the content.

Gu Yanzhang looked at his original manuscript, and then looked at the first draft sorted out by Ji Qingling, checking the fallacies and details.

When they were close to the child, the two of them sorted out the manuscript of Ganxian County, freshened up their own work, and fell asleep.