"Fellows, it's not time to open the city. If you want to enter the city to sell goods on the fifteenth, you must wait outside the city for the time being. ”

Above the city tower, the general who was on duty today was looking at the team outside the city gate and shouted loudly.

Xu Tianxin was woken up by Liu Laozhu in advance as early as a mile away.

This group of people was half past eleven in the first half of the night, and gathered in front of the Erdaohe shop.

The villagers did not have so many vehicles, and at the moment 75 ox carts were still scraped together, and the ox carts and donkey carts from the nearby villages that did not participate in the trip were also borrowed.

It can be said that 99 percent of the people who accompanied the entourage finally reached the town gate at 3 a.m. by walking for three hours.

And Xu Tianxin really couldn't stand it, she belonged to the one percent of the people who were buried in the cargo bag, holding the fire cage and sleeping together with three quilts and baked buns.

In order to be at home at ease when he went out this time, Xu Tianxin accompanied his little sister to distill glycerin all day yesterday, repeatedly helped everyone remember deeply, and wrote most of the letters to General Jia Lai in the evening, but he didn't make up for sleep yesterday.

This makes her sleepy, where can she walk today.

Fortunately, when she was about to reach the city gate, as soon as Liu Laozhu pulled her, she woke up and was slapping her face to force herself to be mental.

For this reason, Mrs. Xu was still a little dissatisfied with Liu Laozhu, and glared back at Liu Laozhu with a torch.

That's called the twelve villages, and this time they are all accompanying the team.

What you have to do is to be a good person and a good deed, so why don't you dare to come forward and explain it clearly to the officers and soldiers defending the city. Besides, isn't there still her?

Liu Laozhu pretended not to see the master glaring at him, and thought: You are not good, what are you staring at.

Don't be convinced.

It's like if we explain to someone that we're going to go to the border with our goods.

The officers and men guarding the city were afraid of causing unnecessary trouble, and if there was a chaos, they would be held responsible.

After all, it was what we said, and there is no basis for what we say, in the eyes of the other party, who knows what our big group of people are going to do at the border.

You must know that the more small leaders below, the more careful they will be for fear of losing their black yarn hats. That's called going straight to the camp.

Besides, wouldn't it be better if we only checked the goods this time in the whole process, and then we could be given a customs clearance paperwork?

It is said that all the way to the frontier, there will be thirteen large and small stationing checkpoints on the way.

Think about it, if there is no customs clearance paperwork, you will have to be inspected again and again, and every time you have to unload so many goods and load them again, and when you toss to the frontier, you will make Yang Ge smile at the soldiers.

Can you laugh out loud? It was cold, so I could only promise not to cry.

I couldn't wait to wipe my tears sadly and said: Your family has come to see you, it's too difficult to do some good things these days, and you almost tossed and broke up for us.

Therefore, there are only people who are quite good, and they are people who are extremely trusted by the other party, such as Xu Jiatianzi, who has received the New Year's gift from General Jia Lai and General Lu Yan at the same time, how many people know this.

And once in the name of Xu Tianxin to the mutual market division of the soap horn, Liu Laozhu has a deep memory, the original transport of soap horn vehicles whirring, without inspection to transport into the city, people are more responsible for a customs clearance document? It's better than Zhao Dashan.

At this time, Xu Tianxin was helped by his second uncle, and jumped out of a pile of roasted buns.

Torches froze, and she walked through the light of the fire to the city gate, so that the soldiers above could hear her shouting.

Xu Tianxin arrived at the city gate, the first thing he did was to take off his mask and hat, and at three o'clock in the morning, the cold wind in the north ruffled her long hair.

"I'm Erdaohe Xu Tianxin!"

Liu Laozhu stood in the middle of the team and took off the mask full of frost, and was roasting the frozen mask with a torch in his hand. There was a puff of water when I twisted it, and it only froze like this in an hour and a half, and when I got to the border mask, it would freeze into a mask.

On the other hand, Sun Lizheng beside him whispered: "Redundant, extra plus two rivers." In fact, a sentence of Xu Tianxin's words is good to make you believe it or not. ”

At this side, Xu Tianxin stood under the city tower and continued:

"We have gathered some New Year's gifts in the twelve villages on this trip, and we are going to visit the soldiers guarding the frontier.

They guard the lights of thousands of homes in the wind and snow, and we, the people in the lights of thousands of homes, want to go there to celebrate the fifteenth day of the first lunar month with them! ”

The soldiers of the city tower above were stunned when they heard this.

"I beg you to open the city gates, inspect the goods, and issue customs clearance documents, we want to rush to the border before the evening, so we will be disturbed at this hour!"

Sun Lizheng and other Lizheng can always hear the legend of the Xu family.

This is the first time I have seen the energy of the Xu family. It turned out that Liu Laozhu never bragged.

For it was only after these few words that the heavy gates were literally opened in front of them.

He Lizheng, the villager representative of the twelve villages, saw the leader who was still standing above the city tower just now, and strode towards Xu Tianxin.

Seeing that the other party and Xu Tianxin were whispering something.

As for what it is.

The first thing the defenders said was that you put on your hat first.

Then he asked Xu Tianxin how many vehicles were going to the border.

Xu Tianxin hurriedly told that in fact, there were five merchants' vehicles in the north of the city, did Qian Yuanwai know? The money clerk is there. and a team of students, which included not only the students of the imperial examination, but also four college gentlemen.

They should be waiting for them in the north of the city, and there are about fifteen cars together.

Xu Tianxin asked the other party, can we finish inspecting the goods on this side, and we will send someone to follow them to the north of the city to inspect them, and let them out of the city after saying hello, otherwise they really can't afford to delay.

By the way, in addition, the villagers couldn't get together so many ox carts, and now the carts are full of goods, and everyone is coming on foot.

But you can't keep walking to the border, and the fifteenth day of the first lunar month will be over.

Therefore, the Liu family's livestock shop in the town will also produce a few donkey carts, and will use donkey carts to pull everyone to the border.

As for how many, Xu Tianxin is still unclear.

I'm afraid that Liu San's grandfather's family has rented out a donkey again in the past two days.

When Xu Tianxin was informing, Liu Laozhu's younger brother came with his son and his daughter-in-law in a three-headed donkey cart.

Liu Laozhu's younger brother's family is not going to send three shared donkeys, but their family is going to send nine donkeys, preparing to pull the villagers today, and then pull the cauldron, water and firewood that he and Wu Blacksmith gathered around last night.

This time, the Xu family didn't trouble Zhao Dashan, because Zhao Dashan didn't know which corner he was sent to to do something.

As early as the seventh day of the first month, when he sent rice balls, flour sausages and instant noodles to the Zhao family, I heard that Zhao Dashan was not at home. Dashan's daughter-in-law said, presumably it would be good to be able to rush back at noon today.

And Dashan's daughter-in-law bought so many goods at one time, she was preparing to sell on the fifteenth day of the first month, and she was very busy and troublesome people.

So this time it was borrowed from Liu Laozhu's younger brother.

borrowed a donkey cart to take everyone to the border, and the Xu family was going to give the rental car money, but Liu Laozhu's younger brother was scary, and he was anxious, patted his right cheek and said:

"Scold me, scold people, right? If you dare to give money, you might as well just slap me in the face. Besides, do you know my family, a few days ago, I gave the team of Lu shopkeeper and Guo shopkeeper, how much money do you earn by repairing hooves? ”

The hooves of the other people were repaired, and they had just been trimmed to be raised, so they were stunned to let the two caravans go two days late.

It stands to reason that the merchants in this town who borrowed money should be grateful to Liu Laozhu's younger brother, who single-handedly let the family stay for two more days.

Fortunately, the two big shopkeepers thought about it, and they didn't stay in this town to repair their hooves, but also went to the city to prune. It costs more to stay in Fucheng.

Back to the topic, but there are only three people in Liu San's grandfather's family, and now his daughter-in-law is wrapped like a zongzi and she is driving a donkey together in the early morning, and she can come to three cars at one time. It takes three tosses to get it together.

Liu Laozhu's younger brother arrived at the city gate, and when he saw Xu Tianxin, he said, "Emma, I thought our family arrived early, but I didn't expect you to arrive earlier." ”

If he was to blame for not having a drip clock at home, he would have to hurry up and get those cars again.

The officers and soldiers defending the city looked at the donkeys in the city and the convoy that meandered like a stream outside the city, and there was an indescribable emotion in their hearts, but their faces were silent.

What they can do for the people is not to delay any longer, if they delay a little longer, the villagers will be more frozen, and with a wave of their hands, they directly ordered: "Inspect the goods first!" ”

With the inspection, the first group of people who were deeply moved were these officers and soldiers guarding the tower.

Dried radish, sweet potato stalks, green onions, dried wild vegetables...... Dozens of kinds of vegetables, all the vegetables they can think of in winter, the villagers put together bags and bags, and the frozen fish are stacked in truckloads and carts.

In the meantime there were also four carts of braised pork that had been hoarfrosted, and they were packed in jars so that they were sturdy and afraid of spilling.

It was used to select the best drivers from twelve villages, the eldest son of Baijiazhuang Lizheng, Wang Yusheng of Erdaohe Village, Liu Jingdong, and Tian's son-in-law.

The four of them were neck and shoulder, all the way to the waist, and wherever there was free there was still a duck rack.

From a distance, it seems that the person driving the car is not a person.

But the more ridiculous these four people looked, the more the officers and men who inspected the goods felt as if their hearts were soaking in warm water in the early hours of the morning. How real this must be, I will try to save space as much as possible, in order to fill the goods of the reward army a little more, and a little more.

The voices of the soldiers continuing to inform the front continued in the rear:

"Six carts of frozen milk lumps."

"Report, ten carts of indigo grass bracers."

"Report, twenty carts of rice balls!"

A sentence came from the rear, and the name of the goods would be written on the customs clearance paperwork.

The villagers already knew what they were loading, so they stood by with torches and waited.

They looked plain, and even here in the city tower, Mrs. Xu, her granddaughter and her second son, began to be busy pouring rice balls for the city defenders with a copper kettle.

"That's not going to work."

"There's nothing wrong with this, I deliberately boiled this pot before I came out, thanks to this pot, I can hold a lot of it and it's hot, hurry, one person and four eat it quickly."

Mrs. Xu smiled: "It's fifteen now, and it's all sweet." ”

Today, the leader of the city tower surnamed Qin, when he wanted to pretend to bow his head to write the customs clearance documents, he hid his slightly reddened eyes and thought:

Yes, it's already fifteen, but these people came on foot in the middle of the night in order to visit the frontier today, and they don't plan to spend fifteen with their families.

And when this group of people rushes back from the border, it will probably be 16 early morning at the earliest.

Then the gates were closed, and the people did not want to know where they lived and how they could return home.

I don't think about it all, do I? Just to visit the border army as a family member.

Suddenly, the surprised voice of the military service came from the rear, as well as the noisy voice of Liu Laozhu and several Li Zheng:

"Don't be afraid, these are all about twisting Yangge, so your face is colorful. Ladies and gentlemen, please rest assured, although there is no one in this painting, but the net worth is absolutely innocent. All of us dare to vouch for our heads, all of us are old men and old ladies from our own villages. Didn't mix in with outsiders. ”

Sun Li was pointing to the old lady sitting with the steamed buns: "This is my second aunt." ”

The second aunt carried the flower basket to be used by twisting Yangge on her arm.

From the rear: "Chief, there are four cars of such old people!" ”

Young and strong laborers have to stay at home to work and earn money.

If it weren't for the young students, Xu Tianxin and Liu Jingdong, the representatives of the twelve villages on this trip would have averaged their average age, with an average age of about 50.

Mrs. Xu and her group of old sisters turned out to be young people.

Qin led immediately wrote another customs clearance document, he decided not to be afraid of responsibility, and handed it to Xu Tianxindao:

"There's no need to send someone to the north of the city. With it, you will get out of the city smoothly and no more nonsense on the way back. And no matter how long it is, the thirteen checkpoints along the way will be allowed to pass when they see this. ”

The meaning of these words is that even the vehicles of students and businessmen in the north of the city do not need to be inspected again.

In fact, Qin Ling had already planned in his heart, and when Zhao Zhenting returned from the official trip, he would personally find Zhao Zhenting to negotiate to vacate the official residence, in case the group returned to the town in the middle of the night without a place to stay.

After speaking, Qin Ling suddenly stood up: "Release, stand!" ”

The standing here has a double meaning.

There is the meaning that all must stand up and stand up straight, and quickly assemble on both sides.

It has the meaning of saluting by ancient soldiers.

Under normal circumstances, orders were given by the chief only when higher-ranking officials were seen passing through the city gates, and when ceremonies were held to escort ceremonial goods.

So when Chengbei Qian Yuanwai and the student team just converged, and were about to go to the city gate with Mr. Shuyuan to negotiate, can you hurry up to inspect the goods later, you see that these are all people with status, and the sound of the mighty wheels pressing snow in the distance came.

Bai Muyan covered himself to protect himself from the cold, revealing his eyes.

But at this moment, his eyes seemed to be shining with starlight.

The first to lead the team was Xu Tianxin, and she also had a gold medal in her hand that was like "please keep people under the knife". She called it exemption from inspection.

As soon as Xu Tianxin was in place, the vehicle did not stay at all, the city gate was wide open, and it was directly brushed.

Especially the ox carts and nine donkey carts carrying people in the twelve villages, Liu Laozhu thought to himself: he finally mixed the seats, and everyone didn't need to get out of the car, so they would go first.

Then Bai Muyan's husband boarded the car and couldn't help but look sideways at Xu Tianxin, who was talking to the officers and soldiers in the north of the city.

Qian Yuan tried to endure it, but he couldn't hold back.

Especially Xu Tianxin skied the snow to overtake their car after a while, Qian Yuanwai lifted the cotton curtain and leaned out half of his body, and saw the little girl swishing and got into the car, and after a while, the skateboard was taken off, and after that, she had no shadow all the way.

And everyone buried the pot and boiled the water pad, brought their own dry food, fed and fed the livestock, and the little girl did not show up, it is said that she was buried in a pile of dumplings in the first car.

Qian Yuan is still a little worried, so he can't be hungry and take a bite of cold dumplings nearby.

To say that Bai Muyan understands Xu Tianxin.

Bai Muyan opened the curtain of Xu Tianxin's vehicle, which was indeed full of dumplings, and looked at Xu Tianxin: "What's delicious?" ”

Xu Tianxin was changing the carbon in the fire cage in his arms, and by the way, he took out the roasted sweet potatoes that had been roasted, and said to Mrs. Xu: "Milk, it's sweet, you taste it, I'll bring fourteen." ”

And when it feels like it's about to go, and it's not going in the wrong direction.

The live broadcast room opened, and when the battle song started, Xu Tianxin knew that there was no mistake.

"I've never seen a village where the aurora appeared, and no one has ever seen fireworks set off in the middle of the night......"

Aurora, they are about to reach the northern border.

It turned out that her ancient father had come all the way here.

Now, she's here in place.

Xu Tianxin had already seen the camp holiday vehicles, and was pulling some soldiers to go to the town to buy and meet them on a narrow road.

(End of chapter)