198. Buy me? Only five taels of silver

A few days later, Yiyun had passed Jiaxing and Hangzhou, and walked forward for hundreds of miles, and the surrounding scenery began to change, no longer a green Jiangnan scenery, the wind and sand began to slowly increase, more and more sand, more and more dry. In the distance, bare stone mountains began to appear, and this mountain was not low, towering into the clouds, very majestic, and spreading in front of the eyes.

"Yo, how is it that Jiangnan also has such a large area of mountainous areas?" Yi Yun suddenly felt curious, and asked by holding on to the car window.

Not far behind him, Chen Yuanyuan sat cross-legged at a small wooden table, carrying a small purple clay pot with his onion-like fingers, doing tea ceremony kung fu. Hearing Yi Yun's question, she raised her head and smiled: "Yiwu is a very special place, it is located on the hilly terrain, surrounded by mountains on three sides, these three mountains also isolate the Yiwu people from the outside world and communication, the people here rely on these mountains to mine and make a living, life is extremely difficult, so it has not been affected by the hundreds of years of peace in the south of the Yangtze River, and the folk customs are relatively strong......"

"Tsk, this is the poor mountains and bad waters...... "Yi Yun spread his hands: "We came out of the Chongqing Oasis, and the people there are much stronger than the people in Nanjing, this is the influence of the poor mountains and bad waters, wahahaha, I hope I can recruit a strong army here that is not weaker than the Sichuan soldiers." ”

The sand cart drove into the mountains, drilled into it from the bare stone mountain road, and finally entered the boundary of Yiwu. Yi Yun looked left and right, compared to the scenery elsewhere in the south of the Yangtze River, this place is really much barren, and there is not a drop of water in more than a dozen places, not to mention the trees on the mountain, not even cacti can grow, all stones are next to stone.

There were some large holes in the side of the road that were clearly carved out of the mountain wall, but Yi Yun couldn't understand why they were hewn.

"Yuanyuan, why are the people here digging some big holes in the mountain wall for no reason?"

Chen Yuanyuan smiled and said: "The prince doesn't know, there is a treasure mountain in Yiwu, called Babao Mountain, rich in silver mines, in our Dameng country, silver is money, can dig out silver directly from the mountain, isn't it inexhaustible money? ”

Yi Yun nodded, and suddenly said: "I understand, since there is a treasure mountain, there may be a second one, and the local people are digging holes in all the mountains to find silver mines." These big holes that were dug out and left out are the ones left over from the unsuccessful search for silver mines. ”

Chen Yuanyuan nodded: "The slave family likes to talk to the prince the most, as long as it starts, the prince himself can follow the vine and touch the melon to the depths, there is no need to explain too carefully, like a smart person like the prince, the slave family has never seen it." ”

Yi Yun laughed and said: "You are less here, the art of speaking you practiced in Qinhuai River is really annoying, any man is the best in front of you, right? Hahaha! The dusty woman in our hometown is like this, obviously she is not happy at all, but she screams very loudly in her mouth, grabbing the railing, tearing the sheets, and she looks like she is flying coolly, but the result is all pretended." After the fact, I have to say: Brother, you are so powerful, you make my sister so comfortable. It's too fake!

Chen Yuanyuan's face was slightly red, and he lowered his head and said, "Slave family...... The slave family has already been good, why do you still use such words to hurt the slave family? Woo...... The slave family is not pretending to be ......"

Yiyun hurriedly coaxed: "Don't cry, I said the wrong thing, right? You're not a dusty woman, you're a good girl, well, don't cry, be good, come and hug one from your uncle." ”

Chen Yuanyuan's body shrank back, dodging Yi Yun's tofu eating behavior again. ...,

At this moment, the cart suddenly stopped, and the soldiers outside the car shouted: "Who is in front?

Yi Yun sighed and quickly leaned on the window to look out. I saw twenty or thirty people standing on the mountain road in front, some men and women, some old and some young, each holding a hoe, sickle, plowshare, bamboo pole, wooden stick and other improvised weapons in their hands, these people were very badly dressed, most of them were wearing tattered linen clothes, there was a little girl of seven or eight years old whose clothes could not cover her upper body, exposing her chest, fortunately her body had not yet developed, and her breasts would not be naked, it was completely a flat plate.

A young man stood in front of the group of poor people, brandishing a dung slab in his hand, and shouted, "Who are you? Why did you come to Yiwu? Are you here to steal our silver mines?"

Oh, I see. Yi Yun lifted the curtain, walked out with a smile, lifted the birdcage in his left hand, shook the folding fan on his right hand, and said with a bang: "Do you look at me like this, like a mine thief?"

At this time, Chen Yuanyuan also got out of the carriage, and his face and shallow smile shocked everyone in an instant.

"This ...... It's really not like a ...... stealing mines."

"It's like a son-in-law who traveled with a concubine......"

The villagers put down their weapons, especially the dung chop, which made Yi Yun feel that the pear was very big.

"Folks, are you residents of Yiwu, why are you halfway up the mountain?" Yi Yun asked curiously.

The group of villagers said noisily: "We are protecting Babao Mountain! Not far in front is our Yiwu core Babao Mountain, recently there is news that there is a big salt merchant named Shi Wenliu, who wants to come to our Yiwu to steal silver mines. Of course we don't agree, and now all the roads leading to Babao Mountain have set up blocks. ”

"I see. Yi Yun nodded: "My name is not Shi Wenliu, my name is Long Caotian, the people in the rivers and lakes gave me a nickname called 'Caotian Overlord', I came to talk to Yiwu County Commander about something, can you take me to meet him?"

"the sky overlord Long Caotian?" The simple villagers were bluffed by this name, and then saw that Yi Yun was dressed very luxuriously, and the women around him were so beautiful, they were not mortals at first glance, and they were a little afraid in their hearts, so they asked the girl who was only seven or eight years old, and her clothes were so tattered that she couldn't even cover her chest, and she came out to lead the way for Yi Yun.

The little girl first briefly told the soldiers who were driving the car the direction of the village, then climbed into the carriage, sat next to Chen Yuanyuan, looked at the tea bowl that Chen Yuanyuan placed on the table, knew that it was a precious thing, and did not dare to touch it, but just looked left and right with a pair of dark eyes.

The big sand cart moved again, passed the villagers' outpost, and drove towards the Yiwu Oasis at the foot of Babao Mountain.

"Big sister, you seem to be very rich...... little girl blinked: "This kind of tea bowl can't even be used by the richest county magistrate in our Yiwu Oasis." ”

Chen Yuanyuan said softly: "My sister is very poor, but this brother is very rich. ”

The little girl turned her head to look at Yi Yun and said seriously, "Does my brother have a lot of money?"

"Well...... A little bit of one or two. Iyun Khan said.

The little girl stretched out a thin little hand to him and said, "Then my brother will buy me away, my father is dead, my mother has no money for treatment, and she is about to die, you buy me away, and give the money to my mother to see a doctor." I'm cheap, and I'll go with you for five taels of silver. ”

Yi Yun was shocked when he heard this: "Is your family so pitiful? I heard that silver mines can be dug up on Babao Mountain, and you people here can get silver mines, how can it be so difficult, is it because the county order deducts taxes too much?"

The little girl pouted: "The county magistrate is a good person, so he doesn't deduct heavy taxes, and every time he only takes the 50,000 taels of silver that he needs to hand over to the imperial court, and the rest is distributed to us." But there are not many silver mines on Babao Mountain, and only 300,000 taels can be dug every year, and after deducting 50,000 taels to the imperial court, the remaining money is distributed to tens of thousands of families here, and a family can only get 5 or 6 taels of silver every year.........,

"Don't you people here farm?"

The little girl shook her head: "Although we have an oasis here, the land of the oasis is also very barren, with a thin layer of mud on the stone mountain, there is no crop to grow on this land, and everyone lives on mining." ”

I see, Yi Yun understood, no wonder when he first entered Yiwu, he saw big holes dug everywhere in the mountain, Yiwu people are looking for silver mines everywhere and are forced to make a living, although there is a silver mountain in this place, but there is no soil, can not survive by farming, everyone lives on a silver mountain. However, the output of Silver Mountain is limited, and it is not enough for everyone to divide it.

Yi Yun took out a piece of silver, about forty or fifty taels, put it in the little girl's hand, and said softly: "This money is ...... for your mother's treatment."

"Ahh The little girl was a little panicked, it seemed that she had never taken such a big ingot of silver, and the whole person was at a loss: "Brother, you can take back this money, my brother and brother are not for sale, they want to inherit the family for our family, no matter how much money you have, you can't sell it to others, you can only buy me." ”

"Good boy, this money is for me to lead the way, not to buy your money, you stay at home and take care of your mother obediently. Ewan touched the little girl's head.

"No, how can you collect money if you lead the way? Even if you want to collect it, you can only collect one copper coin. The little girl became anxious: "Otherwise, everyone will say that I am a cheat...... In Yiwu, whoever cheats people will be despised by everyone and will not be friends with him. ”

"Tsk, little girl, you don't understand this. Yi Yun shook the fan and said proudly: "Do you think brother, I look like an ordinary person?"

"Not like that!"

"Do you know how much my brother's tea bowl is worth?"

"I don't know!"

"Hey, let me tell you, this bowl is worth two hundred years, and it's still a five-percent discount. ”

"Huh?" the little girl was frightened.

Yi Yun said violently: "A person like me only buys expensive things, not the right ones." If you want to show me the way, you must charge fifty taels, and if you collect less, I can't ask you to lead the way. I'm a foreigner who came here, and you didn't show me the way, isn't that a pit man?"

Little Girl: "......"

"Understand, right? If you accept money, you are not a cheater, and if you don't collect money, I will tell everyone that you are cheating. The more Yi Yun spoke, the more smug he became.

The little girl was said to be stunned, and after half a sound, she said with difficulty: "I don't cheat people, I'll just take your money......"