Looking at the pale and dying young man in the ice, Wu Gen and Mo Xin smiled wickedly like wolves seeing lambs. After waiting for three days in the bitter cold, he finally took down this person, and he turned out to be a smuggler of salt, which is a great opportunity for black to eat black.

A pot of warm water was taken from the house, and Wu Qian poured it on the young man's head.

Ahh This person's body is quite strong, and he was so tossed by Wu Yan and Mo Xin that he was relieved so quickly.

"Boy, you dare to sneak attack the officers and soldiers and trespass on the checkpoint, but you committed a capital crime, and you are not small." Wu Jian held the broken knife brought back from Guancheng in both hands, and said slowly.

The young man glared angrily and said nothing.

"No, according to the laws of Zhao Kingdom, you can not die." Mo Xin next to him suddenly retorted.

"Could it be that there are other ways, and I ask Brother Mo for advice. After all, this person looks young, and it's a pity to die. Wu Gen's face was full of curiosity, and he looked eager to learn.

"Corrupt punishment can be imposed." Mo Xin said categorically, "Some nobles need eunuchs to serve at home, so this is the rule. In this way, there is no need to die, but the heir is gone. ”

Wu Yan glanced at the young man with some pity, and his fingers crossed the broken blade, "It's true, it's better to die than to live, Your Excellency, you see which way to choose." ”

Seeing that the young man didn't care about himself, Wu Gen sighed and said: "Heaven has the virtue of a good life, since Your Excellency is not easy to choose, then I will go beyond the line and choose the corrupt punishment." Lao Mo, take a handle and melt the ice on his lower body with water, I will use it for torture. ”

Mo Xin got up and brought a basin of hot water, ready to splash it on the young man.

Seeing that the two of them really wanted to make a move, the young man's forehead was bruised, and he shouted: "Two villains, if you want to kill, you will kill, why do you humiliate me so much." In another eighteen years, grandpa will be a good man again. ”

Wu Yan looked up and down around the young man, and sighed: "Such a strong man, how much effort did his parents spend to raise him, but they have to be separated by yin and yang, and the white-haired person sends the black-haired person, what a miserable word."

Wouldn't it be pitiful that you don't care if you die, that you have no one to rely on in your family, that you are bullied by others, and that all your family property is taken away. ”

The young man's throat twitched twice, and a look of hesitation appeared on his face.

Wu Gen and Mo Xin glanced at each other, and Mo Xin squatted in front of the young man, "This little brother, don't talk about life and death lightly with a reckless energy."

It's easy for you to die, and it's a knife to do it, but it's arranged at home. Don't say anything else, you don't look like a married person at your age, you die like this, the family is the last one, and the ancestors and ancestors know it, don't you want to blame you for the sin of the last one, and you will be scolded by the ancestors when you meet after death. ”

The young man listened and was silent for a long time, and Wu Jian and Mo Xin did not urge.

"Then how can you let me go?" After thinking for a long time, the young man muttered, his face quite ugly.

"Ahem." Wu Gan glanced at Mo Xin, his face was happy, "This brother Tai wants to come to engage in private salt trading, I don't know where he is." ”

"My name is Baoxiang, and I am a native of Sangmu Township, Dingyuan City, because my family is poor, I can't help but start the idea of private salt." Now that he had softened, the young man no longer squirmed, and spit it out.

"Then what is the profit from selling illicit salt, and the brother who is worth it is to venture over the barren mountains on a snowy night." Wu Yan squatted down, rubbing his non-existent beard.

"Huh." The young man laughed, the two of them had been grinding for a long time, but they were waiting for him here.

Baoxiang looks straightforward, but he is not a fool, these two people have a white face and a red face, and they praise each other, in order to seek wealth.

"Put me down, I'll naturally tell you to wait, otherwise don't talk." Baoxiang straightened his neck, closed his eyes slightly, and had a look of love.

Wu Gan'er, revealing Bai Sensen's teeth, "It's not impossible to release you, but at present, I can only remove the ice from your body, and I don't dare to untie the rope." Everyone is a smart person, and I think Brother Tai can understand it. ”

"Yes." Baoxiang replied simply, frozen naked in the ice, Rao is has practiced family martial arts for many years, and he can't stand it for a long time.

Wu Gen and Mo Xin carried the treasure elephant into the house, lit the fire, and gradually, a layer of ice armor on the treasure elephant melted, revealing a strong body.

Wu Gan brought a cup of hot wine to the mouth of the treasure elephant, and after he swallowed it, he put the general's leather coat over him.

"I make hard-earned money from this private salt, and I only have five taels of silver for a trip. Tell me, what do you two want to do? Seeing that the body was warm, the two of them didn't seem to have any bad intentions, Baoxiang asked.

Wu Yan sat in front of the other party with a smile, "Brother Baoxiang has ever thought that you are secretly selling these salts, not to mention the hard work, and you are always frightened."

It's better to be like this, I will clear the customs with you conveniently, and also provide horses as transportation tools, how about the income of seventy-three, I will be seven and you three. ”

Baoxiang rolled his eyes, "You treat me as a fool, I worked hard to sell salt, but I have to be taken by you out of thin air, where is there such a wronged boss in the world." ”

Wu Yan was not in a hurry, he stretched out a few sticks and came over as a calculation chip, and said bitterly: "Brother, you have to be able to settle accounts, and wait for the younger brother and you to calculate carefully."

You earn only five taels for smuggling one bag, but after I provide pack horses, the horses can carry three bags at a time, and with the four bags you carry, you can earn twenty taels of silver, and you can get six taels, and you will not earn an extra tael.

Besides, with me stationed in Arazuka Ridge, you can pass with confidence, and there is still a lack of customs clearance money, isn't it a good thing for you and me. ”

Baoxiang listened for a long time, stared at the calculation on the ground, suddenly looked up at Wu Gan, lowered his head and thought about it, and finally said: "Six-four open, I am six-you-four." Not to mention the foot power money, after all, I bought the salt, and I still need the capital. If you sit here and don't have the money to pay, how can you take a big head. ”

Wu Geng hehe, "Brother Baoxiang, this is a bit unrighteous, the matter of buying and selling, pay attention to the long-term, mutual benefit and reciprocity." In this way, we all let each other go, five or five, how, that's my bottom line. ”

Baoxiang muttered a few words, gritted his teeth and said, "But, five five will be five five, let me go quickly." But there is one thing, don't eat black and poke me out. ”

"That's natural, since this business has been made, it is a grasshopper on a rope, and if you cooperate, you will benefit both, and if you divide it, you will lose both." Wu Yan waved his hand behind his back as he spoke, signaling Mo Xin to be ready to deal with it, and reached out to loosen the thorns tied to the treasure elephant's body.

Mo Xin looked left and right, and this deal was done? Take the horses of the army as shares, sit in the house and collect money? It's much easier than driving a rat to steal money yourself.

Baoxiang was free, moved his muscles and bones, and withdrew his arms behind his back, "I have been played by the two of you for a night, I am hungry in my stomach, and I don't eat some interest, I am always unhappy in my heart." What are you doing? He turned around and glared angrily.

Wu Yan took his hand away from the back of the treasure elephant, "I don't want the treasure elephant brother to have such a strange skill, he can become a four-armed appearance, I don't know if the extra two arms are true or false." ”

"Leave it to you."

"Okay, no matter, since you are doing things together, it is natural to invite your brother to have a drink."

The three of them sat at the table, warmed some wine, took out the dried meat, and chatted while eating, probing each other's details.

Soon, Wu Jian figured out the bottom number of the treasure elephant.

Baoxiang's family was originally Chinese, and his father was a military general. But due to an accident, the whole family was demoted to concubines. When Baoxiang was ten years old, his father died of depression, leaving Baoxiang and his mother to live a hard life.

In order to subsidize his livelihood, when he was older, Baoxiang started selling illicit salt. You must know that salt and iron are both important weapons of the country. Selling salt is very profitable, but it is also a business that loses its head.

In the territory of Zhao State, the share of private salt has been divided. Baoxiang, a fledgling newcomer, is naturally oppressed everywhere. Seeing that it was impossible to trade illegal salt in China, Baoxiang started the idea of selling it across the border.

A few days ago, when the barren mound ridge was unguarded, it was convenient to walk through. Since Wu Gan came here, the bluffing treasure elephant has been out of business for a while. But as the New Year approached, the family was about to run out of cooking, and the treasure elephant gritted his teeth before venturing through the barren mound ridge.

I never thought that this unlucky one bumped into Wu Jian and Mo Xin, and they were captured alive without even fighting directly. Although he was still a little unwilling in his heart, he still endured it when he thought about the other party's vicious and insidious methods, coupled with the great cause of making money that Wu Jian said.

"By the way, I saw you two drinking in the house, why are you hiding in the dark?" Halfway through eating, Baoxiang's face turned rosy and he asked puzzled.

"Hey, hey." Wu Gen took out a square wooden plate, and there were two wooden figures more than a foot tall in the plate. The bottom of the wooden figure is movable, and there is a rope tied to it, and the other end of the rope is tied to the tail of the Moxin mouse. When the mouse moves, so does the wooden man. The shadow shone on the window, but it was like two people drinking at a table.

Bao Xiang laughed dumbly, slapped himself in the mouth, such a little trick can deceive himself, raised the wine glass in front of him and drank it all.

It is said that there is no such thing as a meal of wine between men, if not, then two.

The elephant stayed here for three days, getting drunk every day.

Reluctant to let the child catch the wolf, Wu Gen has also given up his old book these days and squandered the wine and meat brought back this time. For the sake of silver, a little wine is nothing, and a man just wants to be more generous.

Three days later, seeing that the New Year was approaching, Baoxiang was worried about his mother at home and proposed to resign.

Wu Gen actually sent the general's war horse directly to him, without even an IOU, and he was not worried that the other party would never return. Baoxiang hesitated, but still took the reins of the horse, but before getting on the horse and leaving, he stretched out five fingers at Wu Yan and shook them.

Wu Jian understood in his heart, it was okay, and under the coaxing and coaxing, the barren mound ridge private salt line was completed. In the future, as long as I stay here for a day, I will have a steady stream of silver in my pocket.

Two days after Baoxiang left, the people who were transporting supplies in the Xiang army arrived at the bottom of the ridge.

There are still three days before the end of the year, and Zhang Yuan sent someone to send everything for the New Year, and also brought a pair of token for the captain. It turned out that Zhang Yuan begged Qu Chang for advice, saying that Wu Gan had contributed a lot in the sacrifice, and although he could not be given a higher position due to his status as a concubine, he could still do it by giving him a military chief.

In other words, Wu Gen can command four soldiers, and Mo Xin is counted as one of them. However, the rest of the soldiers have not yet been allocated, and they will only be allocated when the soldiers are sufficient.

Looking at Wu Chang's token, Wu Yan smiled, and he was also an official. Turning his head to look at his only subordinate, Mo Xin, he just wanted to show off his majesty, but when someone came, he poured a basin of cold water on himself.

Zhang Yuan instructed that after the New Year, Mo Xin would be allowed to return to the camp, leaving only Wu Yan alone to guard the place.

Wu Gen was full of unhappiness, as soon as Mo Xin left, wouldn't he be a bare-bones captain, so he could only call himself.

Mo Xin laughed when he heard this, if he really did it under Wu Gan, he didn't know how this cheap captain would toss himself.

Before the New Year, Mo Xin left in a hurry, this ghost place is too evil, even the mice he raised are always uneasy, it is better to leave early, only Wu Gan, a hard-nosed guy, can suppress the bad luck.

After setting off a few strings of firecrackers for the New Year, Wu Gen looked into the distance every day. Finally, on the fifteenth day, Baoxiang arrived as promised, bringing a total of four bags of private salt.

Seeing the treasure elephant in the dust, Wu Gen was full of smiles and diligently dusted off the dust on his body. This time, because he no longer worried about someone guarding the pass, Baoxiang stuffed four bags to the brim, and also brought some wine and food to Wu Gan.

The two set up a table on the kang in the room, put four side dishes, put the wine jug into the warm bowl, and chatted about what they had seen and heard after eating.

When he saw the Wu Chang token that Wu Gen took out, Baoxiang's eyes lit up, "Yes, I haven't seen you for a few days, but I have been promoted." Come, congratulations on this matter, go one. As he spoke, he drank all the wine in his glass.

Wu Yan sneered and said: "I think you are also from a Chinese background, and your father has also been a big official, how can you not know that the highest level of Shu can be the commander of the army, what is there to congratulate." And I, the captain of the army, have no real name, so I can only instruct myself to live a dry life. ”

Baoxiang laughed, suddenly thought of something, and said: "I went back this time and heard that Jingzhang County is going to select a group of Xiang soldiers from among the people. Not only that, but those who are selected can be directly awarded the Chinese Ding nationality.

It's going viral throughout the county, so if you're interested, you can sign up. However, when I heard that there was going to be a trial, it scared a lot of people. ”

Wu Yan was not too interested when he heard this, no matter how good the Xiang army was, he could be the king of the mountain here, "If there is such a good thing, why don't you participate." Thinking that your father still has some old friends in the army, you might as well beg them to become a Chinese again. ”

Bao Xiang shook his head again and again, "I heard that this trial is full of dangers, and there is still an old mother in my family, if I accidentally die in it, wouldn't it make my mother lonely and helpless." Although he was bullied as a commoner, he could always eat with a mouthful of food. ”

Wu Yan was stunned, he didn't expect Baoxiang to be such a filial person, he thought about it and said: "Brother Baoxiang, Ling Cijian is here, and the family spends a lot of money. After all, I am alone, I am fed alone, the whole family is not hungry, and it doesn't cost much. ”

"Go, when I treasure like someone, I don't need to change it. My treasure elephant has strength, and it's a big deal to run a few more times, how can I sympathize with the family world. Bao Xiang looked disdainful, and his big hand swayed again and again.

After a few words of persuasion, Baoxiang came up and said that he would not agree to anything, so Wu Yan had to give up.

Within a few days, Baoxiang came back from selling salt, his face was flushed, he dropped ten taels of silver, and he did not look back and leave.

Looking at the shiny silver on the table, Wu Gan's eyes straightened, and after thinking about it, he still dialed a small part out, which was left for Mo Xin, after all, he also contributed to the capture of the treasure elephant, and he couldn't be too greedy.

originally thought that he would stay in this barren mound ridge for a long time in the future and live a comfortable life of lying down and collecting money, but the world was unpredictable, and Wu Gan's good days soon came to an end.

On this day, Wu Gen was practicing the Yijing in the courtyard, only to hear a sigh outside the courtyard, and when he went out, a cavalryman fell from his horse and fell into the trap.

This person Wu Gan knew him, he was Zhang Yuan's personal soldier, named Sha Pestle, and he didn't know why he came here, but he was trapped by a trap. Pulling it out of the pit, the sand pestle cursed and cursed, and even called it bad luck.

When he asked about his intentions, Wu Yuan couldn't help but be a little anxious, it turned out that Zhang Yuan asked him to return to the camp quickly and participate in some trials.

Wu Gan's first reaction was that someone wanted to harm the owner of the village and take away his wealth.

Just wanted to refuse, but Sha Pestle said: "Zhang Tunchang expected that your kid didn't want to go, so he specially sent a message to him, you have to go, and if you don't go, you have to go, otherwise you will be punished for not obeying orders and disobeying your boss." And after receiving the order, return immediately, and there must be no mistake. ”

Just wanted to excuse the Feng Sui with no one stationed in the Beacon Ridge, but Sha Pestle smiled, "Sure enough, as the tun chief said, before leaving, the tun chief confessed, and Mo Xin of the barren mound ridge will take over, you don't have to worry." ”

Seeing that the retreat was blocked one by one, Wu Yan had to respond with a sad face, simply clean up, and return to the camp with the sand pestle.