Chapter 53: Choosing a Farming Match (3)
"Are you going home, or are you going with me?"
Xu Yin simply let him choose.
"Hiccup!" Xiao Zhengtai hung two bubbles of tears, and one was excited, and let go of the hand holding Xu Yin's sleeve, "Nan, Nanban...... It's scary...... Wow-"
Just burst into tears.
Xu Yin: "......"
I've never seen such a crying child.
I remember that there seems to be a wooden slingshot in the system warehouse, which I bought from a stall owner when I was setting up a stall in Tongcheng.
The handle is polished by the master, and it is very smooth and easy to hold.
Five cents a handful, buy three cheaper, only one dollar.
She bought three of them, gave two to the Douding brothers, and threw the rest in the system warehouse.
She took out the slingshot and put it in Xiao Zhengtai's hand:
"You're still young, now play with the slingshot first, and when you're older, my sister will give you a bow and arrow, and you will be a brave and warlike general in the future."
Xiao Zhengtai was immediately attracted by the slingshot, and burst into tears and laughed.
"I want to be a general!" He jumped with his slingshot in his hand.
"Then don't cry at every turn, have you ever seen a general who always cries his nose?"
Xiao Zheng was so ashamed that he turned his head and hid in the arms of his grandmother behind him: "I won't be in the future." β
"Then let's pull the hook." Xu Yin taught him to pull the hook, "The hook is not allowed to change for a hundred years, and the change is a little yellow dog!" β
Coax her brother, Xu Yin should also get into the carriage.
King Jinnan and his entourage were already ready to go, just waiting for her.
"Fourth sisterβ" Xiao Zhengtai was carried into the carriage by the guards, poked his head out and shouted, "I'll miss you!" β
"Come and see me if you miss me." Xu Yin replied with a smile.
Xiao Zhengtai's body froze visibly with the naked eye.
Xu Yin laughed and waved at him: "Goodbye brother, go back and practice the slingshot well, but don't bully people, besides, listen to your father." β
This trip went for 3,000 miles, and I don't know if I will see the prime minister's father one day in my lifetime.
However, as long as you are good and don't be a demon, the Prime Minister's Mansion shouldn't be unlucky, right?
No matter how jealous the emperor is, he can't find a reason, and he still has to take care of the overall situation after all.
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The carriage traveled all the way south, and for five days in a row, stopped in a relatively large town, and said that it would rest in place for two days.
Not to mention that the maids were excited, Xu Yin also wanted to cheer, she missed the feeling of being down-to-earth so much.
If you want supplies, of course, you have to go shopping.
Xu Yin asked Mama to bring enough silver taels, and she was ready to purchase.
Spices, dry goods, local specialties...... Anything she thinks is of good quality, buy it.
After shopping on the street, I realized that the price of seasonings at this time was not ordinarily expensive.
In particular, soy sauce is made of fresh meat, which is similar to fish sauce.
The common people can't afford to eat at all, no wonder the shops selling spices are said to be opened by imperial merchants, where can ordinary people afford to open them.
The salt is yellowed coarse salt, and the sugar is brown earthy rock sugar, each of which is the size of a fist. When she bought it, the store asked her if she wanted to mash it.
The grain was not bought here, and there was not much difference between the north and the south of the grain, so she planned to purchase another batch before leaving Furong County.
The people below don't know what she thinks, and if they do, they will probably wail:
Master! Aren't you calling this a big purchase? A thousand taels of silver have been spent, and the silver ticket is already being used.
God knows what to do with so many seasonings, sauces, and dry goods, we don't know, and we don't dare to say it, so we can only follow behind and carry the baggage.
In this way, whenever she went to a more prosperous town to rest, Xu Yin would go shopping and shopping.
When he entered the territory of Furong County, he spent a total of 2,000 taels together with the purchase expenses when he first left Beijing.
Mama Feng persuaded and couldn't persuade her, and she was about to roll her eyes.
Xu Yin told her that the silver was dead, and the materials were ...... Although he is also dead, if he wants to live in Nanban in the future, is it more practical than silver?
Mama Feng: "......"
What could she say?
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"Lord Qiqi, everything in the Nanban Mansion has been arranged." Yan Qi came in to report.
Yan Kejin put down the pen and rubbed his sore eyebrows: "What is the reaction of the county guards?" β
Yan Qi hesitated for a moment before reporting truthfully:
"The two counties of Qianzhong and Baipu were very happy, and they also sent people to give generous gifts; Baigui County is relatively silent; Because the two counties of Baiyue and Minyue are richer than the other three counties, they have become more and more unpleasant in recent years......
Master, it's better to just let the little one wipe their necks! Anyway, the emperor is far away, and it is not uncommon for Qin to come here. When you come, you only have to pay taxes. β
The county guard is a three-year term, and the current one was transferred last year, and when he saw that the prince temporarily lost the emperor's heart, he spoke disrespectfully, and continued to make small moves in private, raising taxes indiscriminately under the banner of the prince, filling his own pockets, and really thought that the prince did not know.
If you want him to say, just replace them all with his own people, anyway, the news will not reach Beijing in two years.
He believed that his prince would never be trapped in the Southern Barbarians.
After two years, either he will be ordered to go back or killed, in short, he will definitely go back and take back what belongs to him.
Yan Kejin sneered lightly: "Forget it, it's better to keep a low profile when you first came, so as not to fall for some people's tricks." β
There are still people waiting to pull his pigtails in Beijing. If the old man does not abdicate for a day, the person will not be determined for a day, not because he is afraid of variables.
"Lord Wang......" Yan Qi hesitated before stepping back.
"What else?"
"It's the ......"
Yan Qi pointed upstairs, Xu Yin and the people who were waiting around her were settled on the third floor of the post station.
Nineteen said that she had bought ten carts of things, one cart of seasonings alone, and another cart full of medicinal herbs, or high-quality medicinal herbs that could not be found ordinarily. After entering Furong County, she was still inquiring about the price of food along the way, and it seemed that she wanted to buy food on a large scale, what kind of medicine did you say she sold in this gourd? β
Yan Kejin was a little surprised, but she didn't take it to heart: "Let her go." β
Probably I listened to the rumors outside, thinking that the Southern Barbarians were so poor that they couldn't live fire, they ate raw meat, drank animal blood, and wore animal skins and grass skirts, so they were afraid.
The Xu family's daughter's personality, he learned about it through the informant, but he wanted Yan Keheng to notice her. Although the brainless one is a little difficult to say, if he really doesn't want to, there are ways to refuse this marriage.
It's just that...... Rather than let the old man give someone who doesn't know the root to lurk beside him to fill his eyes, then it's better to leave it at that, at least she has no brains.
"Ahh
Xu Yin sniffed, she didn't catch a cold, why did she keep sneezing today? Is someone scolding her or thinking about her?
Mama Feng quietly told the maid to go out and boil some soup, don't go to Nanban yet, people will fall ill first.
Xu Yin didn't care, took a sip of water and continued to lower her head to study the "Geography of Furong County" she had just bought.
One of the pages is a map of Seremban. In fact, it is a map, but it is not as detailed and clear as the maps of later generations.
Xu Yin looked at the outline of this Furong County, and the more she looked at it, the more she felt like Xiang Province where Tongcheng was located.
She couldn't help but wonder: If Furong County is really Hunan Province, then wouldn't Nanban be ......