Chapter 55: The Identity of the Fat Man
Hearing that there was something in the fat man's words, Haoyue squinted, and there was a bit of coldness in her eyes.
In fact, the fat man is not unreasonable, salt has always been an important economic lifeline of the country in ancient times, and sooner or later the heavenly family will have to control the salt vein into their own hands.
The fat man lowered his voice again and said, "Do you know that King Yuan intends to let the big salt merchant Gongsun Li contract the salt industry in Hebei?" Doing so now is tantamount to snatching food, and Gongsun Li has the support of the saint behind him. â
Haoyue crossed her hands on her hips: "Oh, I know, then may I ask if Da Yuan is breaking the law by selling salt now?" â
The fat man shook his head and shook the fat on his face: "Yes, if you don't break the law now, you can still take advantage of loopholes, but when the heavenly family frees up their hands, I'm afraid there will be no good end." â
"Oh? Then how do you know that we can't wrestle with the Gongsun family, maybe it will be our Xu family who can become the emperor in the end? Haoyue glanced at the fat man.
After hearing this, the fat man actually laughed: "Little sister, you Xu Ji Salt Shop can't even take out eighty catties of salt, how can you support the 200,000 households in Changchun City?" The volume of sea salt transported by the Gongsun family from the southeast coast is much larger than yours, why should the Heavenly family cooperate with you? â
Fat man: "If you sell me this method of boiling earth salt, you can still take the opportunity to make a profit, otherwise you will be unlucky when the law is promulgated." â
Haoyue nodded while listening, the fat man was right, his own salt production is low, and it is greatly affected by the season, and it is indeed impossible to compete with sea salt on this alone.
And when Haoyue heard the word earth and salt, the alarm bell instantly sounded in her heart.
Because when they sold salt, they never revealed where the salt came from, they always called it bamboo tube salt, and they never said that it was soil salt.
So, how did the fat man in front of him know that this salt was soil salt?
Hao Yue was horrified in her heart, but her face was silent and said: "Well, your words are reasonable, but I have to ask my father about this matter, why don't you go back with us, and then discuss with my father." â
When the fat man heard that there was a play, he instantly said with joy on his face: "It's easy to say!" Say! â
Then Haoyue instructed the fat man to help clean up the stall: "Ma slip, hurry up and finish cleaning up, and take you back after cleaning up." â
And Haoyue and Xu Wei were counting the silver taels on the side, and the silver-white light in the drawer was really dazzling.
Haoyue's eyes are full of joy, today is another bumper harvest, sixty taels of silver are in hand~
This large pile of white flowers and silver taels was brought back, and everyone was probably going to die of happiness.
When Shen Yinxing came back, he saw a big fat man sitting on his donkey cart, foaming at the mouth from the tiredness of the little donkey.
Haoyue saw that A-Niang came back from her errands, and hurriedly ran over to whisper.
After listening to the ins and outs, Shen Yinxing lowered his voice and said, "So? Let's tie this fat man back first? â
"Well, someone must have leaked the news, this fat man is stupid and has a lot of money, and the fat sheep sent up are not slaughtered in vain." Haoyue glanced back at the fat man who was still smiling, and then continued to ask, "A-Niang, did you ask something over there?" â
Shen Yinxing nodded: "They were indeed sent by Gongsun Li to make trouble, but they can't ask anything else from their mouths." â
The mother and daughter were plotting on the side to wait for what to do with the fat man, but the fat man was happily close to Xu Wei on the side, not knowing that he had fallen into the trap.
After tidying up the stalls, Haoyue and her party took a donkey cart to the outside of the market.
As a result, before he had walked a few steps, the stupid donkey pulling the cart was stubborn again, Xu Wei didn't pay attention, and was broken off the reins by the donkey, and then the little donkey began to run wild on the street.
Hee-hee-hee~
The unleashed little donkey was unrestrained and extremely happy, and rampage through the street with arrogant steps, knocking over several fruit stalls in a row, and the melons, fruits, peaches and plums rolled to the ground, causing a burst of people to roll over on their backs.
Pedestrians passing by accidentally stepped on the round fruit, and immediately fell on their stomachs, and for a while the wailing, cursing, and shouting were endless.
Shen Yinxing hugged Haoyue and chased all the way behind, while Xu Wei kept apologizing all the way, and paid for some broken fruits.
"This stupid donkey is too much! Go home and kill and eat donkey meat and burn it! Haoyue scolded angrily: "I almost caused an accident this morning, how can this stupid donkey go crazy at any time?" â
Shen Yinxing also nodded when he heard this: "I heard the people here say that the dragon meat in the sky and the donkey meat on the ground, this donkey is disobedient, it is best to kill and eat meat." â
Hee-hee-hee~
The little donkey seemed to understand the conversation between the mother and daughter, turned his head and spat at them defiantly, and then began to run wildly again.
"Ahh Don't run! How dare this stupid donkey provoke us? Haoyue's little nose was almost crooked, and her little hand pointed at it: "A-Niang!" Give it a little color! â
So, the little donkey ran in front, and Shen Yinxing chased after Haoyue in his arms.
The little donkey also grinned back from time to time, as if he was smiling and mocking: "Save it, how can you run on two legs than on four legs." â
But Shen Yinxing was not an ordinary person, she bent down and lifted the hem of her skirt to tie it to her waist, revealing her turquoise outer pants, and then began to run wildly.
Xu Wei and the fat man behind her only saw an afterimage flying out in front of them, and then a person and a donkey disappeared.
Seeing Shen Yinxing's strength, the little donkey also puffed up his strength and began to run forward.
Hee-hee-hee~
After running for a while, the little donkey found that there was no shadow of Shen Yinxing behind him, so he thought that the owner had been thrown off, so he began to slow down and run to smell the butt of someone else's little mare.
"Phew!"
When the little mare saw the donkey approaching, she immediately hurled at it.
The little mare is full of words, how far do you give the old lady how far to roll!
The little donkey was not angry when it was murdered, and still leaned in to sniff the little mare's buttocks.
Just when the little donkey was flirting with the little mare, a blue shadow suddenly fell from the sky, and it was Shen Yinxing, who was holding the hazy moon and descending from the sky.
After Shen Yinxing flipped in the air, she landed firmly on the little donkey's back, and then she grabbed the reins.
The frightened little donkey jumped up and began to shake its head and tail frantically, trying to shake off Shen Yinxing on its back.
And Shen Yinxing on the donkey's back was tightly holding on to the reins and not moving like a mountain, no matter how the little donkey shook it, his body was not moving.
"Hee-hee~"
After a while, the little donkey lost his temper and hung his head in a daze.
"Hmph, I've been caught, I'll turn around and make it for you to make donkey meat for fire!" Haoyue flicked at the donkey.
The little mare next to her snorted at the donkey and walked away.
The little donkey also wanted to follow and harass others, but was strangled by Haoyue: "Please, how can you fall in love with different species?" If you are with a mare, you will have a mule in the future. â
The little donkey spat dissatisfiedly at Hazy Moon, and then watched the little mare disappear in the distance.
Haoyue dodged the little donkey's saliva attack, and winked her eyes mischievously: "I'll just say why this donkey suddenly went crazy in the morning, and the feeling is that I fell in love with Ge Jiamu's jujube red horse." â
"Hee-hee-hee, don't be ashamed, the toad wants to eat swan meat." Hazy Moon scratches her nose and makes fun of the little donkey.
This little donkey is more humane, and can understand that Haoyue is laughing at it, and turns his head to grin at Haoyue, and then there is a saliva attack.
Seeing that the little donkey was stubborn again, Haoyue snorted coldly, turned around and crossed her waist, and raised her chin high: "A-Niang, I want to eat donkey meat today!" â
Shen Yinxing gestured with an ok gesture: "No problem!" â
Little Donkey: "! â
The little donkey, who had been taught a lesson, drooped his head and dragged a cart of people out of the city.
Haoyue sat in the car, holding the steaming donkey meat in her hand and sending it to her mouth.
Hebei is famous for its donkey meat fire, which is two rectangular crispy pancakes filled with chopped donkey meat and green peppers, and then sprinkled with various spices.
Take a bite of the outside is crispy and tender inside, the juice is overflowing, and the donkey meat tastes delicious, not fishy, not fatty, not firewood and not greasy.
The hot crispy pancake fully stimulates the fat aroma of donkey meat, and the mellow aroma of donkey meat comes out when heated, which tastes crispy and soft, and has a long aftertaste.
After eating the donkey meat, Hao Yue licked her fingertips stained with grease unsatisfactorily, and then sighed: "The dragon meat in the sky and the donkey meat on the ground really deserve its name." â
The little donkey, who was pulling the car silently, shuddered when he heard the words, and then quickened his pace.
Seeing that this little donkey is quite human, Haoyue snapped her fingers and said to the little donkey: "Ah, from now on, you will be called Ergouzi, as long as you don't cause trouble in the future, I will find you a wife." â
"Hee-hee-hee~"
Hearing that the little master not only spared his life, but also found a wife for himself, the little donkey and the second dog instantly smiled and grinned at Haoyue.
The donkey cart swayed like this for a few more miles, and Haoyue could already see the Xu family's campsite.
A pile of adobe was built in a place not far from the campsite, and some buckets, shovels and other things were placed around, this place was the site for building a house, and I heard Daddy and Xu Wei say that they would build a big house here with three entrances and three exits in the future.
At this time, the evening lotus lotus sky had been dyed with night, and a few howls of wild things could be heard from time to time in the empty field.
Originally, at this time, the Xu family's camp should have been lit with cooking smoke, and the smell of burning pine resin should be wafting in the air.
But now there is nothing, and there is no figure to be seen in the camp.
Haoyue and a few people jumped out of the car and walked to the camp, and only found Xu Ajiu squatting behind the tent and playing with stones.
As soon as Xu Ajiu saw that her sister was back, she rushed up to be a bear hug.
"Oh, brother, you're so much that I'm almost out of breath"
Haoyue patted Xu Ajiu's back and motioned for him to put himself down.
"Ho ho ho ho~"
After Xu Ajiu put Haoyue down, he took out a purse of silver from his pocket, and then gestured excitedly, describing how he won a bag of silver today.
"Mmmm, brother is amazing" Haoyue gave him a thumbs up, and then asked, "Where have everyone gone?" Why can't you see people? â
Xu Ajiu babbled: "Xu Laifu is lost, everyone is looking for him." â
It turned out to be noon, the seventh aunt found that Xu Laifu did not come to eat, and she couldn't find anyone when she shouted left and right, Xu Laifu was the most active when he used to eat, and he would appear in front of the pot on time when he arrived at the meal. This dry rice boy who is rain or shine is now not even a shadow to be seen.
Aunt Qi felt that something was wrong, so she shouted to Er Ya Niang to find someone, but found that in the grass behind the tent, a half-eaten pear had fallen, and there were obvious traces of drag next to the grass.
The two aunts knew that there was a problem at a glance, so they hurriedly called everyone out to find someone together.
Xu Laifu is Haoyue's sixth cousin, and his parents in the family were folded in the plague, and now they live with his taciturn sister.
Haoyue has a good impression of Xu Laifu, remembering that he is a warm-hearted foodie, but he is a little reckless.
I remember the last time she brushed her teeth with toothpaste and foamed at the mouth, Xu Laifu thought she was poisoned, and there was a big oolong that made people laugh later.
Shen Yinxing's face also turned cold, the child would definitely not disappear by himself, someone must be playing tricks.
"A-Niang, did you say that someone leaked the news of our boiling of soil salt, and then someone started the idea of making salt?"
When she said this, Haoyue's eyes always glanced at the fat man's body intentionally or unintentionally.
Shen Yinxing understood the meaning of Haoyue's words, and then gave Xu Wei a look on the side.
Xu Wei willed, quietly slipped to the side of the fat man, and then took advantage of his unpreparedness, kicked the crook of the fat man's legs, and threw the fat man to the ground with a grappler.
"Ugh!" The fat man screamed, and then fell to the ground, his fat body like a small mountain of flesh, and a cloud of dust as it fell.
When the fat man fell, Xu Wei immediately held him down with his hand, and then asked Shen Yinxing to tie up the fat man.
"What are you doing here!" The fat man shouted on the ground: "Why do you treat me like this! â
Shen Yinxing said coldly: "Why do you do this to you, don't you have any points in your heart?" â
Haoyue also echoed on the side, pointing to the fat man's nose and saying, "Say!" Where did Xu Laifu get caught by you? â
The fat man was also asked confused: "What? What Xu Laifu? Who is Xu Laifu? â
"Still pretending?" Haoyue twisted a handful of fat on the fat man's body, and the fat man grinned in pain.
The fat man cried: "Grandma, I don't know, I really don't know any Xu Laifu!" â
Haoyue twisted a handful of fat on the fat man's body again: "Then let me ask you, how do you know that our family's salt is extracted from the soil?" What is your relationship with the Gongsun family? â
"Oh, it hurts." The fat man grinned, his nose and eyes were so painful that he squeezed together: "I, me, me, my family has nothing to do with the Gongsun family!" As for how I found out about the salt, this. I can't say that. â
Haoyue nodded: "Don't say yes, Brother Erya, search him and see if he has any wooden cards from the Gongsun family!" â
After the words fell, the second brother Xu Wei began to search the fat man.
When the fat man's waist was searched, a gold-inlaid jade waist card fell out of the fat man's arms.
Xu Wei picked it up and took a look, and saw that the gold-inlaid jade waist card depicted dragons and phoenixes, and a big "Yuan" character was engraved in the middle.
Haoyue leaned over to take a look, and the expression on her face instantly became very exciting.
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