Don't look at the lame young man with inconvenient legs and feet, still holding a one-year-old child, holding a stick in one hand, and the dozen or so people behind him didn't dare to approach easily.

His skin was dark, his body was full of hard bones, and several sticks were slammed on him, as if he was not afraid of pain, he was very fierce, but he was desperately protecting the child in his arms.

In a panic, the man was forced to retreat into the inn, and in desperation, he rushed to the second floor of the inn.

The group of people in the back who were called the Stick Gang by Huo Zhongru hesitated at the door of the inn, as the old boys of the Han Dynasty, they knew the façade of all the powerful bigwigs on this street.

But after a short thought, I still rushed up.

Everyone fled one after another, and Huo Zhongru stood at the staircase with a righteous body to block the other party.

"Zhang Erer, what are you doing, beating people on the street in broad daylight, and being a county magistrate is a decoration." Huo Zhongru obviously knew the person who came, and the person who came was also stunned.

"Brother Huo, what's the matter, do you know that kid?"

"I don't know."

"I don't know what you're doing with this thing?" The other party was quite helpless.

"When you commit murder in the street, you are bold."

Zhang Erer said helplessly: "Brother Huo, that kid with no hair rushed to our salt farm to grab salt, and injured our gang leader, if I don't arrest him back, I won't be mixed up in the future." ”

Huo Zhongru looked at the swarthy young man holding the child in surprise, this person was about to jump off the second floor without saying a word, stepping on the stool and table, Huo Guangyan quickly stopped him: "Don't die, you still have a child in your hand." ”

"If you don't jump, you won't be able to live." The man has a strong Lingnan accent and is not a local.

"It's worth risking your life just to get some salt?"

"Salt can be exchanged for money, but there is no money and no food." Men's words are always very simple and simple.

At this time, the people from the county governor's mansion on the street came, and the official arrived, and the people of the stick gang threw the sticks all civilians, pretending to be the people who came to the inn to eat, and the turmoil subsided instantly.

The leader of the team in the official mission is also the leader of Huo Zhongru: "Brother Huo, why are you here?" "Although the team leader is a leader, he is more than ten years younger than Huo Zhongru.

"Eat noodles."

"I just received a report that there was a brawl here, did you see it?" The leader looked at the tense stick and asked the crowd.

Zhang Erer looked at the swarthy young man with a fierce look and said, "No, we are just here to eat." ”

"That's a false positive."

"Yes, yes."

"Why don't you go quickly? This is the Sang family's inn, and you dare to make trouble. ”

Zhang Erer glared at the swarthy young man and threatened, "You wait for me." ”

After three or two sentences, a group of people dispersed, and it seemed that the deterrent power of this Sang family was very great.

The county officials don't want to worry about things, and they can just make errands when people disperse.

The people of the Stick Gang withdrew from the inn, but they were still gathered on the side, and the swarthy young man still couldn't go, so he looked around at Huo Zhongru, and stuffed the babbling little doll in his arms into Huo Zhongru's hand: "Help me take care of her, if I can survive, I will make you a cow and a horse in the future." ”

Huo Zhongru's performance just now, maybe he thinks Huo Zhongru is the only good person here.

Without waiting for Huo Zhongru and Huo Guang to say anything, the man turned his head and left, rushed downstairs, and there was another fight here, and the swarthy young man led people away with more than one enemy.

"Hey!"

"Hey!"

After shouting twice, the person has already run away.

The father and son looked at the little doll in their hands blankly, you look at me, I look at you, this sudden change made both of them a little stunned.

"Father, this ......"

"Ah Guang, do you have any experience in dealing with children peeing their pants?"

This long-looking extremely good-looking girl doll pulled up her pants.

"Father, isn't this something that should be done to you?"

"Yes, yes, but this is a girl, men and women can't stand it clearly, I have to avoid suspicion, you are also seventeen or eighteen years old to the age when you should marry a daughter-in-law and have a baby, it is good to learn to save some experience first." After saying that, Huo Zhongru couldn't help but say that he handed over the girl to Huo Guang's hands, and left as soon as he slipped away.

"Father, I'm sixteen!!" Huo Guang shouted, but Huo Zhongru disappeared as soon as he slipped away, and looked in the direction of the widow's house of the king of Dongmen.

Huo Guang took the female doll back to the house speechlessly, took out a piece of clothing, tore it into strips of cloth as a diaper, and changed it for the female doll, in fact, he tied two knots as pants, fortunately, he was not afraid of catching a cold in summer.

The little girl doesn't cry or make trouble, and she looks very white and cute, so the swarthy man and the little girl don't seem to be all the way in comparison, looking at the girl's clothes and pants, the fabric looks expensive, and it looks like the daughter of a big family.

This can't be the little girl that the kid stole somewhere.

Then I'm not an accomplice?

What the hell is this unfolding?

Ah Guang felt a little unreal about this magical day, and lay in bed and traveled back to see if he would sleep on his own.

At this time, the little doll crawled to Ah Guang's side and sat down by herself, grabbed a wooden stick casually and started playing.

"You're a cute kid." Ah Guang looked at her cuteness and teased her, and the silver bell-like laughter made people feel happy.

At this time, the door creaked, and Huo Zhongru, who had just left Huo Guang and ran away by himself, came back.

looked at his father angrily: "Father, you are too unrighteous." ”

"What kind of righteousness is there between father and son?"

Huo Guang, who was speechless, couldn't find a reason to refute it, so he said: "Father, I see that the girl may have been snatched by that person, send it to your county governor's mansion, and find someone's father and mother." ”

"It's getting late, so it's not good to bother the county lieutenant."

"That night, Father, you coaxed her to sleep by yourself."

"I see that you and the female doll are quite compatible, you coax it."

Ah Guang gave the female doll two wooden sticks to play with, and then said to himself: "That person is really, is it worth working so hard for two bags of salt?" ”

"What you say lightly, what do you mean by two bags of salt, that's salt, stupid son, can be sold for a lot of money, don't talk about him, it's that every time I pass by the salt shop and look at the bags of salt, I envy."

As he spoke, Huo Zhongru snatched back two wooden sticks from the female doll's hands: "Why are you kid playing with this thing?" Dirty but not dirty. ”

Huo Zhongru's words woke Huo Guang up at once, this is an era of poor materials, although there are mechanical creatures that he still doesn't understand at all, but except for the discordant magical product, everything else is the same as the normal Han Dynasty.

In this time of scarcity, salt, as a condiment and daily necessities that everyone needs, can be said to be the only hard currency besides food money and silver.

In ancient times, salt was a very important material in all dynasties, and even in the Ming and Qing dynasties, salt was still a very important part of the economy.

Salt equals money.

Ah Guang suddenly thought of the famous salt and iron official system in history.

The rulers of the early Han Dynasty advocated the rule of inaction, implemented the policy of recuperation and recuperation, opened up the private sector, and adopted a laissez-faire policy towards salt and iron, so that the merchants who operated salt and iron were richer than princes.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty began to be forced by financial pressure and disgust with the merchants who "did not live in the urgent need of the public", in order to crack down on the local tyrants and increase the financial revenue of the central government, under the auspices of Sang Hongyang, he "caged salt and iron", implemented the state monopoly management system of salt, iron and wine, and brought the operation of salt and iron under the control of the government and implemented a monopoly to facilitate tax management.

The salt and iron official system was not proposed in this dynasty, but began with the "Guanshan Hai" policy proposed by the Guan Zhong of Qi in the Spring and Autumn Period, that is, the monopoly of salt and iron together.

In addition to proposing the salt and iron official camp, Guan Zhong also has the Qinglou official camp, which has become the ancestor of the women who have lost their footing in later generations.

Therefore, it is indeed no problem to understand the friendship of Guan Bao from all angles.

The salt and iron government has not yet begun, so the big salt merchants can be said to be very rich.

This can also understand why the swarthy young man went out to grab salt, it's all money.

Huo Guang's mind was alive all of a sudden, although he was now waiting for Huo Qu's illness to take him to Chang'an, and he had nothing to do, but it was always right to make money first, and if he wanted to make money, he might have to make the most money.

If you do salt, you will do this thing.