"This is my daughter and my sister. ”

Conwood smiled and introduced to everyone: "Her name is Kang Rui'er, she can't speak Chinese, please bear with me." ”

Li Zhen suddenly remembered an interesting allusion, it was Concord who sued him after drinking, and he and his younger brother were married at the same time when they were thirty years old.

They met a pair of Sogdian sisters in Shule, and they fell in love at first sight, and the brother married the elder sister, and he married the younger sister, and both eventually gave birth to two sons and a daughter.

Li Zhen remembered again that this Kang Ruier was a very rude little girl he had seen when he was a child, and she robbed him of more than a dozen pocket money as soon as they met.

Li Zhen saw that Kang Ruier was looking at him curiously, as if she still remembered herself, so she smiled and nodded at her.

Jiuzhi's eyes showed eagerness, and he secretly glanced at Kang Ruier a few times.

At this time, Kang Ruier came over to give a salute to everyone, and she saw a fat man in the middle staring at her without blinking, her face flushed, and she turned around and ran into the room.

Conwood smiled, "She's so embarrassed when she first sees outsiders, please come in and sit down!"

Everyone walked and sat down in the room, which was decorated with typical Sogdian decorations, with bright colors, a thick jacquard carpet on the floor, and various decorative strips on the cabinets, on which were placed all kinds of Western utensils, Persian glass bottles, Sogdian silver pots, and silver plates.

They sat down around a small table, but Kang Dazhuang remembered something and hurriedly asked, "Second uncle, where is my eldest brother?"

"Dali went to Bukhara, he wanted to buy some gems, Bukhara rubies are cheaper, I guess I came a month later than me. ”

Conwood said to Kang Dazhuang in Sogdian again: "Da Zhuang, it's not that the second uncle said you, you should learn more from your eldest brother, which of us Sogdians doesn't do business? Accumulate some wealth while you are young, and you can live a good life in the future, your parents are old, and there is no problem in staying in Dunhuang, but you are young, how can you be idle all day long?"

Kang Dazhuang's face was swollen and red, and he glanced at Li Zhen uneasily, he knew that Li Zhen also knew a little Sogdian, and the second uncle would offend people if he said this.

In fact, Li Zhen only knows a few words of Sogdian, and he still learned from Consince, like now Conwood speaks such a large list of Sogdian languages, and there are hidden meanings, where can Li Zhen understand.

It's just that their uncle and nephew use their hometown dialect to avoid themselves, and Kang Dazhuang actually secretly looks at his face, what does this mean? Could it be that his second uncle is speaking ill of himself?

Li Zhen didn't bother to ask, he curiously picked up a green spice bottle on the table, it was a very delicate glass bottle, it seemed to be spices inside, when he saw the glass bottle for the first time in Da Zhuang's house, he cut off the idea of making money from Ming glass.

However, transporting this delicate small glass bottle to Chang'an for sale, it can make a lot of money, and he has too many opportunities to make money now, the key is to have the capital first.

Jiuzhi next to him was a little absent-minded, a pair of small eyes kept sneaking a glance towards the room, suddenly, his eyes became eager, only to see the glass bead curtain sound, Kang Ruier came out of the inner room with a plate, and there were five cups of hot milk syrup on the plate.

Kang Rui'er's big black and white eyes swept around everyone, and finally landed on Li Zhen's body, she knelt down beside Li Zhen and offered him the first cup of milk syrup.

The Sogdian rule was to give the first cup of milk to the most honorable guest, and although she did not know who was the most noble, the nature of the girl obviously preferred the heroic young man, and she was jealous when she saw it.

Kang Ruier knelt down beside Jiuzhi again, picked up the second cup of milk syrup, and gave it to Jiuzhi with both hands, a pair of amorous big eyes revealed a shy gaze, Jiuzhi was so excited that his fat body trembled, and his eyes stared at her without blinking.

He trembled with both hands to catch the cup, and it was reasonable that he should have caught the handle of the cup, but he was distracted, and his hands actually held Kang Ruier's delicate and warm little hand on the cup, and the two of them were so shocked that they let go of their hands at the same time, and the cup full of milk slurry fell to the ground, and the milk spilled all over the wine.

Everyone frowned, how could this be? Kang Rui'er's face was flushed, she apologized repeatedly, and then found a handkerchief to wipe the milk on Jiuzhi's body.

Jiu Zhi was embarrassed and flustered, and secretly glanced at Li Zhen, but saw him winking at him, smiling strangely, and his face suddenly turned red.

After a busy period of time, it was cleaned up, Kang Ruier went back to the house to cook for everyone, Conwood looked at his daughter's back, he smiled, and said to everyone: "The little girl has always been clumsy, I'm really worried about what she will do when she gets married next year?"

Da Zhuang was surprised, "Rui'er is getting married?"

Conwood nodded, "She is already engaged and plans to get married next year, so I took her to Chang'an to take a look before she got married, and it was her wish for many years, and she would have no chance after she got married." ”

The old and sophisticated Conwood extinguished the fire of love that had just ignited in Jiuzhi's heart with a few words, and Jiuzhi's spirit suddenly became sluggish.

At this time, Li Zhen diverted the topic and asked with a smile: "Is Second Uncle Kang still in the jewelry business?"

"Yes, my eldest brother and I used to do business together, selling spices and jewelry, but then after we got married, we broke up, he sold spices, and I sold jewelry, but I was a hard worker, so old, and I was still on the road. ”

"Doing jewelry business should be very profitable!"

Conwood smiled, "It's just a little money, in fact, it's more profitable to do a spice business, one or two Hu noodles are worth four stones of wheat in Dunhuang, ten times the profit! And the musk of the Tang Dynasty is also very precious, and it is at least five times the profit when it is shipped back to Samarkand, and it is enough to go once a year." ”

Li Zhen suddenly realized, no wonder the eldest sister did not hesitate to go bankrupt to buy musk, it turned out that musk was so profitable, he glanced at Jiuzhi again, and saw that he was still languishing, and secretly hated in his heart, this dead fat man was in love everywhere, and he was really embarrassed to go home today.

He quietly kicked Jiuzhi and said with a smile: "Old fat, your golden dagger will be appraised by the second uncle to see how much it is worth?"

It is worthy of growing up together since childhood, Li Zhen knows this wine zhi too well, and if he wants to transfer his lost mood, the only way to start is to start with money, and the wine zhi suddenly refreshed his spirits, and his lustful heart was successfully transformed into the idea of greedy money.

He hurriedly took out the dagger from his arms and handed it to Conwood, "Second Uncle help take a look, how much is this dagger worth?"

Conwood took the dagger, looked at it carefully for a while, and said with a smile: "It can be seen from the five kinds of gems on the scabbard, the finest sapphires, rubies, opals, emeralds, and emerald stones, a total of twenty.

And it is a gold handle, covered with gold shark skin sheath, engraved with landscapes, flowers and birds, last year this gemstone gold knife was very popular in the Luoyang elite circle, so I guess this dagger should be from Luoyang. ”

Li Zhen smiled and nodded, "Second Uncle Kang is right, it is indeed a big businessman from Luoyang who gave it to Jiuzhi. ”

"And how much is it worth?" said Sakashi was more concerned about the price of the dagger.

Conwood took out his dagger and looked at it, and said, "Yes, it uses Uzi steel, the best steel!"

He returned the dagger to Jiu Zhi and said: "In Chang'an, this dagger can be sold for at least five hundred yuan, go to the Huren jewelry store, they will pay for it, Dunhuang here is estimated that no one knows the goods, at most two hundred yuan!"

Jiuzhi's eyes are green, he has only gotten five hundred yuan at most in his life, and this dagger is worth five hundred yuan, which is 500,000 yuan!

Where is this valuable, it is clearly a windfall from heaven, at this moment, he only has piles of copper coins in his eyes, as for Kang Ruier, who just let him ignite the fire of love, he has long disappeared without a trace.

At this time, Conwood pointed to a few horses in the yard and asked, "Where did you buy those four pack horses?"

Although the little thin donkey died, the Tang cavalry gave them four horses for the Tibetan soldiers, which was regarded as a reward for saving the imperial envoy.

The so-called reserve horse is the animal power horse used by the Tubo soldiers to transport grain and tents, produced in the area of Qinghai Lake, also called the Hequ horse, although it is not as good as the war horse to sprint and run, but they are very strong, can carry heavy loads, and can travel long distances, but it is much better than the general animal power.

In addition, each of them received a fine sheepskin, which could be spread under them when camping in the wilderness, which was very practical.

As they entered, Conwood noticed the four pack horses, which he was short of, and which were very good.

Everyone's eyes turned to Li Zhen, how should this be answered? Li Zhen understood the meaning of Second Uncle Kang's words, smiled and said: "We led the way for the cavalry of the Tang Army, they just beat the horse bandits and gained a lot, so these horses were given to us, is Second Uncle Kang interested?"

Conwood smiled and secretly praised Li Zhen for understanding the world, but he didn't really care where the horses came from.

Just now he saw Li Zhen and Tang Jun together, and it was estimated that there should be no problem with the source of the horses, so he was tempted and wanted to buy them.

"Look at it!"

Conwood got up and walked towards the yard, everyone was secretly happy, they were still worried about what to do with these horses, especially Li Zhen, how could he explain to the incomparably shrewd sister?

It is the best way to sell it to Second Uncle Kang cheaply, maybe he will get the capital to do business from this, Jiuzhi is even happier, his dagger will not be sold, but if he sells the horse, he can also make a fortune.

Everyone had the same mind, and followed Conwood to the yard, where a group of mules and horses were tethered, and Conwood walked to several pack horses, and opened his mouth to look at their teeth, all of them were young and strong horses.

Conwood was quite satisfied, and smiled at Li Zhen: "The pack horse in the mule and horse shop next to it is about twenty yuan, and your horse is much better than it, so let's do it!

Li Zhen shook his head, "Twenty yuan a horse, not much money." ”

Conwood was a little embarrassed, and looked at Kang Dazhuang again, Da Zhuang nodded, and Conwood laughed, "Okay! ”

Conwood pulled out a bulging pouch from his leather pouch and poured out a pile of gold coins with a bang, counting out eighty gold coins.

He handed them the gold coins and said with a smile: "Tang money is too heavy, you can't take it, this is the gold coin we use, one is worth about the same amount of money, it is convenient to put on the body, you can exchange it in any Sogdian shop, accept it!"

The gold coins he used were actually worth two hundred wen each, and although he was a merchant who had to pay more than baht, these were all his juniors, and one was his nephew, and the Sogdians were very particular about their own brothers and settlers, and he could not take advantage of this advantage.

Li Zhen took the gold coin and looked at it, he had seen this kind of gold coin in his eldest sister, it seemed to be the gold coin of the Byzantine Empire, but what did the Sogdians call them? Li Zhen smiled and asked, "Second Uncle Kang, is this a Sogdian gold coin?"

"This is not a Sogdian gold coin, this is the gold coin of a large country west of Sogdia, the Tang Dynasty called it the Whisk State, and we call it the Roman Empire. ”

"The Mule and Horse Empire?" Jiuzhi was surprised, "the people who sold livestock actually founded the country these days. ”

Conwood laughed, "Wine boy is so funny!"

The four of them became excited, twenty yuan of money, that is, 20,000 yuan, they really made a windfall, and the hard work of the past few days was worth it.

Xiao Xi secretly stuffed ten gold coins into Jiuzhi, and whispered: "Fat brother, this is the little donkey's money, I will pay you for it." ”

Jiu Zhi glared, and said angrily: "Do you underestimate me, Lao Tzu is worth five hundred yuan, it's rare for you to have this little money, take it back!"

He gave the gold coin to Xiao Xi and clapped his hands, "Although Lao Tzu is greedy for money, at least he needs to save face, is a fat brother called for nothing?"

At this time, Kang Rui waved to them with a smile, shouting something in Sogdian, Li Zhen turned around and smiled: "Let's go! ”

After eating, Kang Dazhuang said to Li Zhen: "My second uncle asked us to wait for the caravan here, he has already inquired for us, Uncle Ban's caravan has not yet arrived, it is estimated that it will come as soon as tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, if the caravan arrives, the rest of the Sogdians will notify us immediately." ”

Li Zhen nodded, this is the best, so that they don't have a clue to run around

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