It was still dark, the curfew outside had not yet opened, and it was not safe for him to put this box of gold anywhere, no matter how strong he was, he would not want to take it all with the strength of one person.

He searched everywhere for ropes, and even ripped off the men's clothes and trousers, and tore them into strips of cloth to make ropes to reinforce and tie them, so that they would not even try to break free even a few strong bulls.

Li Siye took advantage of the slight light of the sky to climb over the wall and decided to find a transport.

The footsteps clattered and disappeared at the end of the deserted road, and the men bound on the pillar twisted their necks with difficulty, and saw each other's eyes, and then they struggled together, but they had no effect except to shake the pillar and hum.

Although the curfew was lifted in the early morning, the market was not yet open, and only a few diligent laborers began to go out to earn a living, including an old man who was driving an ox cart out of the city.

Li Siye changed into an ordinary Ge cloth robe, put his hands in his sleeves, rubbed towards the old man's ox cart, and walked to his side, pretending to greet casually: "Uncle, why are you going out of the city so early?"

The old man glanced at him, thinking that he was a gangster wandering around in the south of the city, but he didn't expect that the gangster could get up so early this year, so he ignored it: "Do business."

"What's the business?"

The old man was alert, peeked at him and said, "Old man, I only have these dry food in my arms, and I don't have any money to knock it for you."

Li Siye was stunned and then took half a step back, feeling that he had treated himself as a ruffian who had extorted bamboo and bamboo poles.

"Uncle, you misunderstood, I just want to do business with you."

"What, what's the business?"

He clasped his hands to his chest and said in a solemn tone: "I want to buy your Jian Niu and the pallet car."

As soon as the old man heard this, he stretched out his hand to hold the reins of the ox and walked forward, Li Siye walked two steps quickly and stopped in front of him, and his tone added a little earnest: "Uncle, listen to me, I sincerely want to buy your ox cart, you give a price."

The old man glanced Li Siye up and down suspiciously, shook his head and said, "You young man are not teasing me, if you want to buy cattle, when the market opens at noon, there are new big pallet carts in the carpenter's shop in the city."

"I have an urgent need now, how about I buy your ox and cart for twice the price?"

The old man didn't necessarily have any surprises, he lowered his head and pondered: "A healthy cow costs four thousand eight hundred yuan, if it is twice the price...... The old man squatted on the ground and snapped his fingers: "Four plus four is eight, eight plus eight is one, two, three, four, five, six, a total of nine thousand six." Even if you have 700 dollars, it's ...... in total."

Li Siye didn't have the patience to wait for him to finish the calculation, so he grabbed the old man's arm and helped him up: "Uncle, I'll give you 12,000 yuan with the ox and cart." After he finished speaking, he took out two gold coins from his bosom, held them in his hands, and said, "This is a full red gold, and the price is more than 12,000."

The old man waved his hand again and again: "Farewell, the next life, I am dizzy and dizzy, I can't recognize real money, you still give me ingots money."

Li Siye frowned anxiously, the sky outside the city was faintly white, where to exchange copper coins for him at this point, maybe there is really a place, Lanzhou City as a transportation town on the Silk Road, there are several local grain merchants and silk merchants in the city, gold and silver shops and cabinet villages should also have.

"Uncle, come with me with the cow, and I'll exchange it for copper coins for you."

The old man's withered hands held the healthy cow tightly, and he asked with blank eyes, "Where do you want me to go with you?"

"Go to the gold and silver shop to exchange copper coins, you can rest assured, I will never take you to a remote corner."

So, the old man led the cow and followed Li Siye in anticipation, and came to the door of a shop.

Even in the Tang Dynasty, due to the scarcity of gold and silver, it still did not become the mainstream currency, and only bulk commodity transactions would be used, so the main business of the gold and silver shop was the exchange between currency and heavy metals. Of course, you can also save money, not only do you have no interest on saving money, but you have to pay a storage fee to the cabinet.

Li Siye went to the door to change money, and the old man stood outside the gold and silver store at a loss. He soon came out with his coat on his back, and fell with great difficulty on the ox cart.

"Oh, you order!"

The old man looked up at him again in amazement, and then leaned on the blanket and pulled out the strings of money inside, one string was a thousand, a total of twelve strings.

"How?" Li Siye crossed his waist and said.

The old man put all the money into his coat again, and with the help of Li Siye, he laboriously carried it on his shoulder, but his face was stunned and inexplicably sad, as if he had just had a ridiculous dream. When Li Siye took away the ox cart, he looked even more lost, and muttered: "I plan to go out to the mountains early this morning to cut and burn charcoal, and the barbecue shops in the city like to use my charcoal, why do you still sell the ox cart?"

He shouted at the back of Li Siye's cow who was far away: "Housheng, treat my cow well!"

"Got it!"

"Give it fodder, don't go hungry."

"Okay!"

"Don't hit it!"

This time, Li Siye just raised his hand.

He looked down at the blanket on his shoulders, thinking that in addition to buying a good cow and a good car, he still had half of the money left, and he had earned two years of charcoal, but the cow he bought was not the cow after all.

Li Siye led the oxen to the direction of the bell tower, and now the ox cart is available, but the gold utensils have not yet been found. Zhang Kuo's box containing money is too exposed, there is still a thousand miles from Lanzhou to Chang'an, and it is inevitable that you will meet someone on the road, so it is better to cover it up.

His footsteps stopped at the door of a magnificent-looking wine shop, and behind the wine jar by the door lay a jar of wine.

Li Siye walked over and asked Dr. Liquor who was buying wine: "You have a lot of money for this wine, I want the cheapest."

……

He pulled the ox cart to a remote and barren hill in the city, and the stream that flowed down from the Gaolan Mountain gathered into a river. One by one, he took the wine jar from the car, pulled off the wooden cover and poured it into the river, and the river was filled with the aroma of wine.

The women who came to the river early in the downstream with a wooden basin to do laundry sat on the stones, waved the wooden sticks and beat their clothes, and suddenly sniffed and asked the people next to them: "I seem to smell the wine, have you smelled it?"

"yes, it smells like it's coming from the river."

The gray monk-robed little monk of the solemn temple carried the bucket down the mountain, filled the bucket by the river, lowered his head and sniffed in the bucket, took a sip with both hands, hurriedly bowed to the ground, and kowtowed to the mountain gate: "Amitabha, the disciple is guilty."

At this time, the sky was bright, Li Siye had already led the ox cart into the deep alley, the poor family's firewood had been opened, and a woodcutter carried an empty hemp rope and an axe to pass by his ox cart.

He was very worried in his heart, he went for an hour, what would happen in this hour, the guys who were tied up in the yard would not be honest, this place was not a wilderness, if the nearby residents heard any noise and rushed to come, it would be a bamboo basket to fetch water.

Park the ox cart at the gate of the small courtyard, look down and see that there are no disorderly footprints on the ground, and there is still a sound of humming in the yard. He climbed the wall and climbed over it, and as soon as he landed, he was stunned by the sight before him, and four or five broken fellows shook off the bound pillars, causing the eaves of the tiled house to collapse a corner. The five people ran back and forth in the courtyard with their backs against the pillars, and they tried their best to break free, but the pillars were thick at both ends and thin in the middle, and they couldn't get out no matter what, but they just rolled back and forth and were covered with dust.

The pillar toppled over again, pressing down on a man, making his neck and face flush, his eyes almost flying out, and the rags in his mouth whining.