"Ren Peacock, the last time we went to Qinling, you still haven't had to settle the money, it turns out that this big man has been suspicious for a long time, and I thought it was really haunted." Lan Ruling said that he was about to start taking the whip, but Ren Peacock was afraid that the two would fight again, so he quickly stopped: "Okay, isn't it just money, when I go back to the cave this time, I will give you the money." Hearing this, Lan Ruling gave up, threw down the whip and took it back.

"Then, what do you want to do in the cave, your old man and mother have told you to go out and don't go back, if you go back and are taken away by the cave god again, it will be trouble!"

"Yes, no matter how far I run, the cave god will not disappear, even Brother Zhi was taken in by the cave god, I can be regarded as escaping, but what about the other girls in the mountain bay, can they also avoid the cave god? I want to go back and find out what the cave god is! Ren Peacock's words, Lan Ruling was surprised, and hurriedly dispelled her thoughts: "Ren Peacock, I didn't say you, the cave god is very mysterious, don't hit your head hard, if something happens to you, the chance to live is gone." ”

"Lan Ruling, I didn't come to you to ask you to give me a retreat, I have already made a plan to go back, no matter whether the cave god is a human or a ghost, a god or a monster, I have to figure out why he chose me to be the girl of the Falling Flower Cave."

"I see that you are the king of the eight and are determined to go, so let's go with you." Lan Ruling still wanted to persuade her, but seeing that Ren Peacock was the same as a stubborn donkey, she didn't persuade her anymore.

"Where are you coming from this time? Why are you still rushing three or four corpses. Lan Ruling pointed to Xiang Province on the map: "Shatan, collect the corpses of a group of salt beaters and send them back to Xiu'an County." ”

"What do you mean by a salt beater?" Song Siyuan just heard Ren Peacock talk about the salt shortage in the southwest, and already knew that it was related to salt, Lan Ruling looked at Song Siyuan with annoyance on her face: "Oh, what is the explanation, peacock, you can explain, I can't speak the official words of the southwest." Ren Peacock took over and explained, the salt drinker is Sichuan, Hunan, Guizhou and other places to go to Yanchi in other provinces to be construction site mountain people!

As mentioned earlier, from the end of the previous dynasty to the present, Sichuan, Hunan, Guizhou and other southwestern mountainous areas have been suffering from salt shortages, bandits control the mountainous areas, and merchants cannot transport salt and grain.

If you don't eat salt for a long time, the body will produce various diseases, such as gall, weakness of limbs, neurasthenia, osteoporosis, nausea and vomiting, paleness, and even may be so weak that you are bedridden.

But where the salt that could be brought in was expensive, these mountain people thought of a compromise method, went to the salt pond in other provinces to work, did not charge wages and only settled with coarse salt, and then transported home with each other, and sold to the villagers at a lower price, so that everyone could eat salt without paying a high price.

When it comes to the agricultural season, it is often groups of people who rush from the southwest to Shaanxi, Gansu, Liangzhejiang, Jianghuai and other nearby provinces, and there are also Chengxian counties in Hunan Province nearby, and after three or four months, they will give up their wages and exchange for a batch of coarse salt and return to the 100,000 mountains.

The owners of these salt ponds only need to take care of a meal and send out some salt, which is already a cost saving, and this coarse salt is not a loss-making deal, you benefit from worry-free, and this set of rules has been handed down!

Over the years, more and more people in the southwest have done this, and they have also relied on this road to live a lot of people's lives, if these people really don't eat salt for a year and a half, maybe they will fall ill a long time ago, as for more serious, it is also possible to enter the coffin, and the salt beaters are stunned from the mountain road blocked by bandits, and they have jumped out of the southwest and other places.

Against all odds, this is indeed a solution, and although it is useful, it is not legitimate. Not to mention the government of the former dynasty, even the Republic of China Political Yuan also strictly prohibits the resale of illicit salt, whether it is coarse salt or fine salt, as long as there is no certificate out of the salt pool, it belongs to private salt, and it is the target of the anti-smuggling team.

If these salt beaters want to bring the salt back, they not only have to avoid being captured by the government, but also have to avoid bandits.

Although these people are not used for sale for profit, they still belong to the private salt lords, and they have been hanged by the trial bureau, and the corpses are still intact.

"Doesn't the anti-smuggling team know about the salt shortage in the southwest? This salt is used to save lives! Song Siyuan was filled with indignation, they didn't go to suppress the bandits in the southwest salt famine, but embarrassed a few ordinary people, what kind of ability.

"Miss, I see that your hands are slippery like peeling eggs, you haven't eaten the hardships of our muddy legs, the anti-smuggling team eats the food of the government, and they know what is the use of having a salt shortage, and they specialize in catching salt fighters." Lan Ruling's words shocked Song Siyuan, and continued to ask, "Wait for the rabbit?" ”