Yan Lao Er and Yan Yu followed and collected a few days' rations.

I also met several villages that were agreed upon by the grain to give food, and compared the sound and appearance, they were all the same person.

Yan Lao Er muttered to his daughter: "I don't know where the grain merchant came from, and he walked all over the villages near the tiger, but fortunately he didn't make a decision from house to house, otherwise we would really be embarrassed to rob the grain set by others." ”

Yan Yu smiled and said, "Dad, are you still embarrassed?" Didn't you say that your hands are fast and your hands are slow, and you let me ride a donkey back to the village to collect money and pull vegetables and call people, for fear that people will regret it, and if you go to a village, you will stare at a village, and you have to let the people in our village pull food ......back."

Yan Lao Er glared: "Can the grain merchant compare with us, he is doing business, it is normal to make profits and losses, but we want these grains to live, let's always prioritize them, look at his posture of collecting grain, he should be a big businessman, don't worry, just pay some travel expenses and labor, and you can afford it." ”

"It's not necessarily a loss, we can't get grain here, he can go elsewhere......" Yan Lao Er sighed, puzzled: "Why doesn't he go to Linhai to collect grain, Linhai Mansion is a bumper harvest year this year, and the climate over there is better than our Guanzhou, so you don't need to hoard so much grain for the winter, isn't there more surplus grain?" Alas, where is this grain merchant? Why are you still looking for the near and far? ”

These days, I want to rush the grain back to the village, and I don't have time to think about these details.

At this time, the father and daughter both felt strange.

Yan Yu thought about it carefully, and made sure that no one had mentioned where this grain merchant came from, but only said that it was a foreign government.

You can come to Guanzhou from other provinces, and you will generally only take the official road of Gufeng, otherwise you will enter Changping from Linhai.

If you enter from Gufeng, Gufeng City is sealed, but everything is fine in the surrounding villages and towns, isn't it more convenient to collect grain nearby?

If you come from Linhai Mansion, you can collect grain directly in Linhai Changping, why do you come all the way to the tiger......

Speaking of transportation, this place is only accessible by land, and the waterways on the seaside are cheap.

Yan Lao Er and Yan Yu knew best how much grain they had agreed on, because they had eaten all of the grain and transported it back to Xiao'an Village.

"We've been talking about this grain merchant, but we've been following your Uncle Liang for several days, and we haven't met them once." Yan Lao Er said.

This is very counterintuitive.

It stands to reason that the grain was agreed upon, and it was said that someone would come and take it away after paying the tax, and they should have met one or two people after they had walked through so many villages.

But these days, not even a single figure is missing.

It's like, deliberately avoiding them.

Yan Yu thought for a while and asked, "Dad, it's you who was robbed and sold, but the other party has an official background, will you consider yourself unlucky, just forget it?" ”

"That's definitely not possible, why do you have to show your face, see a person, the way of the plate here, is to admit bad luck, admit compensation, this business is not done, but also have to speak to the other party, let people understand, the trader is the best at dealing with people, one more friend and one more way, maybe it can be used in the future, this is not accurate.

There are also people with bad tempers, you can't just forget it, you can make a noise and shout, make some movement to vent your dissatisfaction, this is possible.

It's really rare that there's no movement. Yan Lao Er said.

Yan Yu spun around in place.

The little brow tightened the tighter and tighter it was.

"Dad, go and ask again, what does the grain merchant look like? What kind of clothes to wear, what accent to speak, how many people they brought, how did they come, ox carts and donkey carts or mule carts, since they are outsiders, they directly find the village to collect grain, someone has to point them out, is there anyone in this to introduce them......

Yan Lao Er listened to his daughter's question so carefully, and his expression became serious.

"What do you think?"

"I just think they're weird." Yan Yu frowned and said: "I hope I think too much, but Dad, this grain merchant, who has nowhere to come from and no traces, suddenly appeared to collect grain in the tiger...... If it is said that the nearest grain is convenient for transportation, over there, it is the closest to us! ”

She pointed in the direction outside the gate.

Yan Lao Er was shocked!

"Oh my God! When you say that, I wonder how much I look like it! Yan Lao Er slapped his thigh, "Beirong can come over the mountain, can come down from the mountain of our village, and can also come down from the mountain of the village next to it, and the few Beirong who come to our village look very much like the people in our Guannei, they can't see anything on the surface, they can also practice talking, and they have the silver to buy grain...... Yes, they are not old or young, no, this can not be matched. ”

Yan Yu nodded, so she said that no matter how much she inquired, she couldn't be too careful when she was in a border city.

Yan Lao Er immediately went to find someone to inquire.

In order to corroborate in many ways, he rode his daughter's bald donkey to several villages.

Yan Yu waited anxiously while preparing for the worst.

She found Luo Da and said to him: "Uncle Luo, I just heard from those officials that the second master of the official office asked about the arrow tower and the wall in our village, and he seemed to be not very happy that the eldest master sent someone from the quarry to help. ”

Luo Da immediately stopped what he was doing and hurriedly asked, "What else are you talking about?" ”

"Those officials also said that the second master probably thinks that we want people to help us do other work, and the high wall of the arrow tower is just a matter of talking, and I feel that the eldest master has been deceived by us." Yan Yu looked aggrieved.

Luo Da digested for a while, and said: "It's okay, let's sit upright, and when we're busy for a few days, let's hurry up and build the wall, those few arrow towers have already shadowed, and the wall is fast, our village will do more work now, as long as the big man brings us the ash material, and we will surround the wall before the year." ”

Luo Da was also ruthless.

This is to plan not to stop work in the cold, not to let the second master be picky, and save people and things from being yellow.

"Our arrow tower is faster for people to see, and the second master will believe it, right?" Yan Yuxu said matter-of-factly: "When we go back, we will help move the bricks." ”

Luo Dadao: "What's the point, you and your father can collect food outside with peace of mind, and when we go back at night, we can just work in the dark for two days." ”

He pondered that what Xiao Er said was right, so he got up and stood there first, so that the second master knew that they were not empty words.

When Yan Lao Er came back, Luo Da and the others had already transported grain back to the village.

As soon as Yan Yu saw her father's face, she knew that it was bad.

"I'm afraid it's really Beirong's grandsons, I asked a lot of people, and they all said that the grain merchant was followed by a few guys, looking strong, with big shoulders and round waists, and he didn't speak, and the grain merchant was all alone."

"The clothes I wore didn't fit well, like ready-to-wear bought in a shop."

"They had an ox cart, and the grain merchant was sitting back and forth, but someone recognized that the ox cart was from a carriage and horse dealership, and that he had probably just bought it."

"No one introduced them, they found Murakami on their own and said they wanted to buy food."

"I also chatted with people for a while, and guess what, the villages they plan to collect grain have all been plagued by Beirong, and they will know who they will use to lead the way."

"There is another ......" Yan Lao Er said word by word: "They left in the wrong direction, not to the city, not to the town, but to the mountains, do you say they live in the mountains?" ”

Yan Yu was silent.

"It's probably my father, they don't have a household registration and can't live in an inn."