Chapter 499: Danger lurks

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Horse-drawn carriage strange?

Aren't all carriages the same, what can be so strange?

When Xu Zixuan saw the carriage outside, he was slightly stunned, and glanced at the bean paste.

"This carriage is really weird." Xu Zixuan couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva and said solemnly to the bean paste on the side.

Xu Zixuan walked in front of the carriage and took a closer look at the wheels of the carriage, which seemed to have been polished, very smooth, and comfortable to touch, as if there was a layer of other things on it.

I only felt that that thing was very familiar, and suddenly Xu Zixuan remembered, as if the toilet they used was coated with a layer of such a thing.

The carriage was twice as large as the previous carriage, and it was rectangular, so that it would not feel narrow for three or four people to lie side by side in it.

The four-wheeled carriage, Xu Zixuan saw it for the first time, smiled and looked at the bean paste behind him, his eyes were shining, "Come up and take a look." โ€

"Yes." Dousha hurriedly ran in front of Xu Zixuan.

The carriage was mounted on a tree trunk on the side, and the horses were not tethered.

After the two people climbed up, they found that the space inside was so large, the wooden boards on both sides could be adjusted, and they could be directly shelved, so they didn't have to worry about the big inside, there was a good wool carpet on the ground, and there was a small groove around it, which should be used to light the lamp.

There is a small table inside, which is large enough to be fixed underneath and can be put away directly.

"It should have been made by my mother." The smile on Dousha's face became even brighter, and she turned her head to look at Xu Zixuan, "My mother is the best at getting these things." โ€

"Yes." Xu Zixuan looked at the curtain guarding the side, and knew in his heart that if he could hide behind the curtain when changing clothes, he said in confusion, "There is so much space here, but there seems to be no place to put things." โ€

Hearing Xu Zixuan say this, Dousha was also worried, they really needed a place to put something.

"Zixuan, bean paste?" Lin Guyu heard the sound of the two of them talking in the carriage, hurriedly walked to the side of the carriage, approached the door, and saw the two people sitting in the carriage.

"Mother."

"Auntie."

Dousha came out of the carriage, hurriedly climbed out of the carriage, and jumped off the carriage with Lin Guyu helping him.

Xu Zixuan followed and got out of the carriage.

"Mother, where do we put our things?" Dousha said with a headache, "Although the carriage is very large, it doesn't seem that there are many places to put things. โ€

Looking at the appearance of the little adult Dousha, Lin Guyu couldn't help but smile, "The two of you can only bring a box the size of a bench each, and the boxes are all placed behind the carriage." โ€

Lin Guyu said, leading the two people to the back of the carriage.

When he first came out, Xu Zixuan kept observing the front of the carriage, completely ignoring the wooden board behind the carriage, and there was an extra board behind it, thinking that it was the place where the box was placed.

"Don't put too much stuff," Lin Guyu said, "in case it rains, you may get wet." โ€

The carriage was re-improved by Lin Guyu, in order to make the carriage run faster, a device was set up to manually fix the wheels on the side, so that if something happened, the carriage and the horse could be directly separated, and the carriage could be controlled and stopped by them, and there would be no danger.

The space of the carriage was made larger, just because I thought that people would be more comfortable to sit in it, and they would not feel uncomfortable, after all, the road was far away.

Four or two carriages were prepared, all of them were the same size, the first one was for Chi Hang and Lin Guyu to sit inside, the second one was made by three children and the maid who took care of them, the third car was for Dousha and Xu Zixuan to sit inside, and the fourth one was for some maids to sit in.

Some of the servants sat outside on the wooden planks of the carriage.

Xu Feng didn't agree with Lin Guyu taking a few children to play in the south, after all, there might be all kinds of dangers along the way, but when Lin Guyu even designed the carriage and found eight people to accompany him all the way, all the secret guards followed in secret.

When the group left in the carriage, the people around them were amazed when they saw their carriage, and without their knowledge, the Chi family's carriage became a popular item in the entire capital and noble circle.

If it was the original carriage, it would definitely take a month to reach Shuicheng in the south, but Lin Guyu specially reduced the friction force for the wheels of the carriage, worried that the wheels would not be enough, and prepared a lot of spare tires, which took half the time.

They rested in an inn outside the water city, thinking of entering the city tomorrow.

Because there are all kinds of places in the city, there are not many places where you can walk on your feet, so it is called the water city.

Chi Hang and Lin Guyu took a few children to wander around Shuicheng to eat and drink, but they didn't know that the capital had long been in chaos.

Because Jingzhou Mansion Yin caught the eldest prince of the Xiongnu, the two sides have been negotiating because of this matter, and the Xiongnu side relied on so many soldiers on the border to press the border in the north and force the court to release people.

Prince Rong Jin sat in the room, looked at the people kneeling below with a serious face, and said coldly, "What do you guys think?" โ€

The three people standing below, all of them were scheming, looking at their noses and noses, and they were silent.

The prince of the Huns was detained by them, but the people on the Xiongnu side were unwilling to send things to the capital, and the only thing they could promise was to coexist peacefully with the imperial court within ten years.

Rong Jin didn't want to let people go so simply, they finally caught this big prince directly, how could they ask the Huns to spit out some blood and teach a long lesson.

The Xiongnu proposed such an unequal treaty, but it was to bully the poor court and not be able to supply grain and grass to the soldiers on the border.

It's just that the emperor thinks that there is a shortage of grain in the north, and there is a big drought this year, and the harvest below is not very good, and many people are not ready to pay grain.

Rich people cling to their food one by one, even if they put a knife on their necks, those people will never hand over their food.

Headache.

Some time ago, the imperial court allocated food to the northern military camp, and it was barely enough to eat for a while, and I don't know how the people in the military camp ate during this time.

Rong Jin also sent all the food from the shops below, but he couldn't stand the large number of people in the barracks.

If there is a war, I don't know how long the barracks will be able to resist.

It was precisely because the Xiongnu knew that they did not have so much money that they had no intention of letting go of the imperial court at all.

Although Rong Jin is the crown prince, he doesn't have much money in his hand.

There are many things that are rewarded by the emperor, and they can only be kept, but they cannot be sold, and they have to maintain the operation of the entire prince's mansion, and they can take out even less silver.

A small servant walked in from outside, glanced at the people on the ground, and knelt in front of Rong Jin, "Prince Qiqi, report from the north!" โ€

"Bring it on!" Rong Jin raised his eyes slightly, and looked at the little girl's face.

Rong Jin vaguely knew what the people on the other side of the barracks were writing, which was nothing more than grain and grass.

This grain and grass is really a big problem/trouble.

When Rong Jin opened the envelope and looked at the contents inside, his face was full of joy, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but hook.

He knew that the Chi family would definitely give him a big surprise.

"Smack!"

Slapping the letter in his hand on the table beside him, Rong Jin swept the people kneeling on the ground with cold eyes, and the more he looked at those people, it was not pleasing to the eye.

Feeling the coercion of His Royal Highness the Prince, the bodies of the three kneeling people couldn't help but tremble, and their heads lowered even more.

One by one, they deducted money from the hands of the common people, and all of them hid the money themselves, and he wanted them to spit it out all the money now.

"It's not too early." Rong Jin stood up, walked in front of those people, and said coldly, "I'll invite you to dinner today!" โ€

Please eat?

The three people kneeling on the ground glanced at each other, and they still didn't understand how His Royal Highness the Prince, who was still angry just now, was in the mood to invite him to dinner?

It's just that a few of them have the courage to ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to invite them to dinner, they followed Rong Jin behind them one by one and walked outside, and then asked the little guy behind them to go home directly to get the money.

When he arrived at the Chijia hot pot restaurant, Rong Jin took the lead in entering.

It is estimated that these officials come here to spend money on weekdays, but Rong Jin thinks that in the future, let all of them come here to eat, and all the money they earn will be given to the Chi family, and it is estimated that Chi Hang will also donate some of it to the military camp, just scraping some oil and water from the hands of these corrupt officials, saving them a full stomach.

The military camp is so poor, this court needs a broad-minded and patriotic person like Chi Hang.

I don't know how they did it, but there were hundreds of thousands of catties of grain, and they were all transported to the barracks one after another.

It's the food that those people in the barracks are holding in their hands now, and they can still guarantee them for three months.

Now is a very tense period, it is not easy to spend a month, as long as they hold on for three months, they may be able to kill the Huns directly.

Thinking of this, Rong Jin's mood couldn't help but fly.

said that it was a dinner invitation, but it was mainly those people below who paid for it, Rong Jin showed a smile all the time, ate the meal, and went straight to the palace.

Not only Rong Jin invited guests to dinner, as long as the people of the heavenly family invited guests to dinner, the first place was Chi Hang's shop, during this time, Deng shopkeeper looked at the account book on the account, and his eyes were so shocked that they were about to fall.

When the emperor heard what Chi Hang had done, he was very happy, and he said that he would reward Chi Hang.

However, Rong Jin stopped it, saying that he was waiting for the Huns to be over, and he was rewarding the Chi family when the time came.

This great prince is really as heavy as Mount Tai in the heart of the Xiongnu Khan, and it took more than a month to get the court to agree to their request.

Later, the Khan inquired inadvertently, and when he heard that the army still had several months of food in stock, they originally planned to exhaust the army until there was no food, but they did not want a mysterious person to send food to the army.