After sending off the medicine dealer, the steward came to the room of Feng's medicine cabinet.

"When you do business, there is money everywhere, and you have to pick up everything you can." Feng Yaojie smiled, and made a bowl of tea, and the strong smell of medicine spread, "These methods are not a secret sooner or later, while they are still novel, they can be sold more." ”

The steward's answer was:

"If you sell like this, Miss Liu's salary will not be a loss." He laughed.

"It can't be counted that way." Feng Yao Cabinet blew the hot tea, and took a bite, "These methods are in the hands of Miss Liu, but they may not be worth this price, if it is not for the reputation of our medicine store as a guarantee, who will spend money to buy this, we gave her wages, and let her try so many medicinal materials, if it doesn't work, it is we who really suffer, if it really works, then it will help her make a reputation, and after a year, she will be able to sit back and enjoy it, and sit on the ground to start the price, so that she will not suffer a loss." ”

The steward nodded, and said what the shopkeeper said.

"Go ahead, sell these storage methods first, and then sell the layout of the warehouse after half a year." Feng Medicine Cabinet said.

The steward answered and departed.

"Whether you lose or gain depends on your own creation." Feng Medicine Cabinet said to himself, "Anyway, I have to make money first." ”

In a blink of an eye, the fifteenth and sixteenth of the first lunar month passed and the fifteenth and sixteenth were very lively festivals, and the streets of Hezhongfu were lit up with lights, which were more festive than the New Year, but it was a pity that Liu Meibao still couldn't go to see it, every day as soon as it was dark, she left the Feng family's medicine store and went home, staying at home quietly, or reading books, or washing clothes.

"What are you looking for, sister?"

On this day, when Liu Meibao walked into the alley, she subconsciously lowered her head and looked around carefully. Zhou Liangyu's voice came from behind her, and she hurriedly raised her head.

"It's nothing," she said casually, looking at Zhou Liangyu and frowning.

Zhou Liangyu has been working for several days, going out early and returning late every day, and today is the earliest time he comes back, every time he goes home, he doesn't even want to eat and sleeps, and the whole person has to peel off his skin in just a few days.

"Brother, don't go." Liu Meibao said.

"Not tired." Zhou Liangyu just smiled, and the two entered the door together.

"Are you still digging in the dirt?" Liu Meibao asked.

Zhou Liangyu said yes. So I went to wash up.

Liu Meibao entered the room to change clothes, and seemed to glance at the table inadvertently, the table was very simple, there was not even a bronze mirror, only a comb. A book and the most ordinary pen, ink, paper, inkstone.

Everything was left untouched, and there was nothing to hide.

"I'm really dead this time." She muttered to herself, counting that it had been many days since the last time Lu Yan's letter was delivered. It used to be every three or four days.

The proposal was repeatedly rejected, and the private message was not answered, and the matter could finally be over, so that the ending was better than the bully bullying the man and the woman and causing heinous injustice.

It seems that King Lu Yan, who got up from the underworld, is still a little moral. Liu Meibao thought silently.

"Mabel, it's time to eat." Song Sanniang called outside. interrupted her ramblings.

"Here we are." Liu Meibao answered and walked out quickly.

The next day, I came to the medicine store, inspected the medicine warehouse according to the habit, and went to see the cellar that was about to be built.

"What are you talking about? Is there another war? Liu Meibao asked.

She couldn't help but be nervous when she heard them mention that many people had died in the government soldiers.

"A group of horse thieves came from Henan and plundered everywhere." A guy whispered.

Life in this world is difficult, and there are countless displaced people. Naturally, there are also many bandits who fall into the grass and are the kings of Kou Zhanshan, ganging up to do some murder, kidnapping, and snatching.

There are several bandits entrenched in the territory of Hezhong Province, but they adhere to the principle that rabbits do not eat the grass next to the nest. The people in Hezhong Mansion are not too cruel, and what they are most afraid of are some wandering bandits. These people are like locusts that pass through the border, and they are no less than the tartars.

This is really a terrible world, Liu Meibao shivered while listening, and listened to the guys continue to talk about it, and suddenly the word Xie County drilled into his ears.

"Xie County!" Liu Meibao hurriedly asked, "Won't it also be looted?" ”

It's a county seat, there are city walls and county officials, and they can't resist the Tartars, can even horse thieves enter the city at will?

"That's not it, it's just that I went to understand the territory of the county, and I heard that a village was slaughtered a few days ago." The guy knew that she was from Xie County, so he said busily.

"Tucun?" Liu Meibao was even more shocked.

"yes, yes, I've heard that almost no one didn't run out...."

"My second cousin's third uncle's brother-in-law is on an errand in the government, I heard him say it, but it's miserable...."

"I also know that it's Shawo Village..."

“… I heard that Lord Zhizhou was furious, and Hedongyi commanded an envoy to send troops to suppress the bandits, and also to solve the crimes of the county magistrate....."

"Bandits? Just rely on those veterans of Hedongyi? ”

Liu Meibao listened silently, feeling very uncomfortable, this is just the New Year, and the festive atmosphere has not yet dissipated, and those villagers have suffered a great disaster.

After saying it for a while, everyone was busy, Liu Meibao was stunned for a moment, and then she also got up and walked to a small room next to the medicine storehouse, which was a room specially arranged for her by the shopkeeper Feng, with a simple layout for resting and eating tea.

As soon as she approached, she saw an old woman come out of the curtain from within.

"Sister, drink saliva to warm up." The old woman laughed and said slowly.

This old woman is doing chores in a medicine store, making lunch and boiling tea for the guys, and she doesn't have a serious name, her maiden name is Shi, and everyone shouts Shi Pozi.

Liu Meibao thanked her.

"If anything happens to the girl, put it on the table and wait for my wife to clean it up." Shi Pozi stepped aside and said with a smile.

She said this sentence a little bit, but Liu Meibao didn't pay attention, stepped in, sat down on the stool, and went to break the tea bowl, suddenly stunned.

Under the tea bowl was a folded letter.

Liu Meibao stood up in fright, took a few steps to the door, lifted the curtain, and saw that the stone woman had slowly walked away with her back bent.

No way. This person is really pervasive, Liu Meibao said a word, a little annoyed, and a little joyful, she couldn't tell what it was like, she looked left and right, and finally closed the door, walked back to the table, and picked up the letter.

Maybe it's been a long time since I've written it, but this time I have one more letter than before. And it is solemnly packed on a letter raft.

Speaking of which, the content that Lu Yan writes every time is not those words that express lovesickness or anything, but about his daily life, and the beautiful writing is absolutely impossible to talk about, and even typos and sentences are not smooth. But it also doesn't add to the pressure on the person who reads the letter.

"I don't know what delicious food I've eaten recently..."Liu Meibao muttered in her heart, stretched out her hand to pull out the letter, and unfolded the first line of words into her eyes. I couldn't help but sigh.

"I'm sad...."

Lu Yan walked out of Guizi's house, his steps were a little vain, he raised his head and wanted to take a deep breath, but his eyes were stabbed by the white flags hanging on the door.

"Jiro. What do you think of my new clothes? The noble son smiled at him with a little embarrassment, holding a bright red groom's official dress in his hand.

The dress was getting redder. It's like the blood-soaked corpse of your son.

"Erlang!" A few calls with grief and indignation sounded in front of him.

Lu Yan opened his eyes and saw that several cronies around him were wrapped in white scarves, each of them had a scruffy beard and red eyes.

"Brother Guizi can't die in vain like this!" A big man choked up and shouted, waving the big knife in his hand, "Brother Guizi can't die like this!" ”

"I still want to follow Erlang to enjoy happiness, and I will be an official in the future." Guizi's laughter sounded in Lu Yan's ears again.

When he decided to avenge his brother and attacked the largest private salt gang in Wenxi County at night, everyone didn't dare to go with him, only Guizi. The elder brother, who had taken care of the two brothers since he was a child, did not hesitate to catch up with a bamboo pole.

Later, he wanted to have a relationship with Zhou Hungryhu, and everyone was reluctant to take out the money they earned. It's a noble son again, and without hesitation, he took out all the coffins he had saved for his mother.

"He can't just die..."Lu Yan said slowly. His voice trembled slightly, "You can't just die like this...."

He hasn't enjoyed happiness yet, he hasn't married a wife and had children, he is going to die one day, and he will die vigorously, not being picked to death by a group of horse thieves.

"Line up!" Lu Yan said slowly in a hoarse voice, and pulled out a short knife from behind him, this is a knife with no handle, only a blade, "Kill the horse thief!" ”

"Kill the horse thief!" Several men in front of him suddenly shouted in unison.

"Kill the horse thief!" The men around him also shouted.

The sound grew louder and louder, hovering over the entire village of Yanchitan.

Hearing that Lu Yan was going to organize Yanding to chase and kill the horse thief, the master was taken aback, and ran back to Yansi City without helping to arrange the funeral of the noble son.

This group of reckless men did not crash out without a fly as he expected, but gathered in Lu Yan's house and discussed something seriously and enthusiastically.

"My lord, I received news that Lord Zhizhou and the commander of Hedongyi will arrange a battalion to ......" The master carefully tried to persuade.

"Those battalion soldiers haven't set off yet, and when they come out of Hedongyi, that group of horse thieves will already be out of the Hezhong Mansion boundary!" A big man immediately glared and shouted, "You are a dog who is afraid of death." ”

You're welcome to say this, but fortunately, the master is used to being scolded, so he only laughs awkwardly.

"Shut up!" Lu Yan shouted in a deep voice and glared at the man, "How can you talk to the master!" ”

The man's face flushed.

"It's okay, it's okay, it's okay to be a brother, everyone is sad, my own brother, it's okay, it's okay." The master hurriedly said, hurriedly changing the topic, "My lord, according to the news, there are nearly three hundred horse thieves, and all of them have horses, and they have plundered all the way. This.."

This kind of combat effectiveness is not comparable to the smugglers who Lu Yan and they dealt with in the past, speaking of which, even the battalion soldiers are only afraid that they will not be able to bargain easily in the hands of this group of horse thieves, plus a team of elite soldiers in Hedongyi was transferred to the old camp fort by the Shanxi general army to garrison, and the rest are some old and weak soldiers, scaring and scaring the common people The general bandits are just about to fight against this group of horse thieves who have killed experience.....

Presumably, they also understood in their hearts, so they delayed sending troops, only hoping that the horse thieves would leave the Hezhong Mansion boundary, so they would not do their business, and Shangguan in other places would have their own ideas.

"I know." Lu Yan listened to his master's words, and was not angry and excited, but still nodded calmly, "So, we have to plan carefully." ”

At this time, the ability of the smuggler and the salt merchant was revealed, after learning that the noble son went to Shawo Village to deliver clothes and materials to the widow and daughter-in-law who was about to marry the door, and met the news of the death of the horse thief, the news about the horse thief from all over the place was constantly sent, after all, this noble son was the first-class henchman by Lu Yan's side, and when Lu Yan decided to hunt down the horse thief, the movements of the horse thief and the number of people and horses could already be placed on the table for these people to study.

The group of horse thieves plundered from the village of Shawo all the way west, and now they have arrived at a village under the Fanqiao Post to be stationed and repaired, with the goal of crossing the Shanxi border to Shaanxi.

"This village is called Guojiatai, and there is a big family living in it, and in order to avoid the Tartars, a high wall was laid outside the village, a deep ditch was dug, and there were hanging doors in front and back." A local Yanding of Fanqiaoyi introduced.

"According to you, this village is much stronger than Shawo Village, how did those horse thieves get in?" A big man asked with a glare.

Yan Ding bowed his head slightly and said: "The horse thief said, just pass by to rest, as long as the big family gives some money for the passage, and then open the door to let them in to rest for a day, it will not disturb the villagers, otherwise they will slaughter the village...."

"And then the big man believed?" The big men asked in unison as if they were ghosts.

As a fan of the bridge station, this salt ding is very embarrassing for such a fellow countryman, and he gnawed and lowered his head.

The master also shook his head, but this can't be blamed on the big family, the horse thieves besieged the village, although the conditions offered are inevitable, but it should be better than people directly besieging and burning, in comparison with the worse results, people will subconsciously choose the slightly worse result.

The discussion in the room became more enthusiastic, after all, this was the first time they had faced this kind of horse thief who had killed many more people than them, although there were now more than a thousand people under their hands, but most of them were newcomers who were recruited at the beginning of winter last year, of which less than 300 had taken knives, and less than 200 had killed people, revenge must be avenged, but it was also necessary to ensure that there were no heavy casualties, then the gains outweighed the losses.

On this night, the entire Yansi City was brightly lit and no one was sleepless, and the next day, Lu Yan's house finally opened, and a group of men walked out with red eyes, their faces solemn and a trace of excitement that could not be hidden.

Not long after, the Yan Ding, who had already received the news, gathered in the training ground, because the Yan Patrol Sima Pi was limited, and most of Lu Yan's group of people with the main combat strength could not ride horses, so in addition to sending a team of Yan Ding who could ride horses as spies to deliver the news, the remaining five hundred people were on foot.

"Let's bring more people." The master was very uneasy, looking at the salt dices who were standing in line and dressed in tatters, and the weapons in their hands were also varied.

"No, we don't have horses, we rely on our feet, and there are too many people to get in the way." Lu Yan said, his gaze swept over the five hundred people standing together.

More than half of them are old people who have followed him all the way to kill, mixed in the salt ding, and it is good to play a controlling role, and these salt dings in the province who used to only suppress and bully the lone smuggler have lost their momentum.

"Yansi City will be handed over to the master." Lu Yan looked at the master and said solemnly.

The master was stunned for a moment, and then his face was excited, and he learned from those big men to stand up and stand up.

"Don't worry, sir!" He replied solemnly.

The team set off quickly, Lu Yan walked in the front, paused slightly when he went out, and looked south, his eyes were slightly stunned. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point () to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support, is my biggest motivation. )

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