The eldest aunt was busy with the hot chestnut cake and warmly welcomed them to eat snacks.

Chestnut cake is her favorite, and she wraps two in her mouth, but she is still a step too slow. The little fat cousin had already stuffed three pieces in his mouth, and his two cheeks were bulging high, and he was still holding one piece in his hand.

The little boy who had just stopped crying had just finished chewing the chestnut cake in his mouth, reached out to the saucer to get it, and found that there was no more in the saucer, so he opened his mouth wide and cried, and the wet pale yellow chestnut cake in his mouth had not had time to swallow it completely, and some of it dripped onto his clothes with saliva......

Everyone laughed, and she also laughed so hard that her stomach hurt, and she choked on the sweet chestnut cake.

……

Qin Liu smiled and laughed, his face cramped with laughter, and his mouth seemed to have the sweet and glutinous taste of chestnut cake.

It's just a little cold on my body.

She curled up together. Close your eyes and turn over to fish for the quilt, and by the way, you can grope to confirm whether Erlang has kicked the quilt.

However, the hand touched the air. The quilt and Erlang are all gone.

Qin Liu sat up suddenly, only to realize that he was not on the kang in the West House, but - sitting in the field!

The grass below him was wet and dewy, and the sky was dark, and not far away were two horses and a man. Qin Liu recognized the person at a glance - it was the little mute.

She got up in a panic: "Little mute, what's wrong with us?" ”

The little mute looked at her strangely: "Didn't you say you were going to sell horses?" ”

"I mean sell horses, but what's going on?" If you want to sell horses, you don't want to sell yourself, why did you sleep well on the kang and suddenly came to this barren mountain and wilderness?

The little mute was a little upset, and was busy combing the horse's mane, ignoring her.

Qin Liu hurriedly urged: "Speak quickly!" Where is this? ”

"Halfway to Dushikou."

Qin Liu thought for a while and said, "No, I have to go back!" She stepped forward to pull the reins of the horse.

The little mute stopped her: "It's all out, what are you going to do?" ”

"The old man and the children are at home, I don't have anything to arrange, I can't just leave it and leave, right? The inn has just opened, and there's still a lot going on! ”

"Old man Lou has already arranged it. Let's just wait for him to bring someone over to meet us. ”

Qin Liu was furious.

This old man Lou really treats himself as a green onion! Eat and drink me, and return me to my home, be my master, and kidnap me to the grassland to sell horses!

However, she quickly calmed down.

This old man Lou has the capital to be a green onion. He backed the Baoguo Mansion, and perhaps dragged her to the grassland to sell horses, which was the secret instruction of the Baoguo Mansion.

But if you want to sell horses, go on your own, and find me a widow and peasant woman.

Besides, although she can ride a horse, it is also a level that spends dozens of dollars in the scenic spot for a while.

Qin Liu looked at the little mute with unkind eyes, and the cursed words were finally swallowed back into her stomach.

After a while, she asked, "Did he threaten you?" Do you have to go back to the grassland? ”

The little mute was stunned and said, "No, I should go back too." ”

Qin Liu lowered his eyebrows and pondered. She couldn't understand what Old Man Lou's purpose was when he had to get her to the grassland to sell horses.

The little mute took the initiative to return to the grassland, indicating that he thought the grassland was safe for him at present. There was no need to use her to threaten the little mute.

Besides, her friendship with the little mute is not to the point where she can be threatened.

Qin Liu didn't come up with a reason when he heard the sound of horses' hooves on the path down the hillside.

Not long after, Old Man Lou appeared on horseback with more than a dozen strong men who looked very brave.

Old man Lou shouted happily at the bottom of the mountain: "Shopkeeper, you can go!" ”

Qin Liu rode down the hill with the little mute, pulled Old Man Lou aside and asked, "What the hell are you old guys doing?" What kind of horses do I go to sell as a woman? You're going to go and do it yourself! ”

Old man Lou smiled and said, "Shopkeeper, don't you want to get rich?" We want to sell horses but we don't have the money. You've got a wow! We can only make a lot of money by following you, right? ”

Qin Liu didn't believe his nonsense at all: "If you want the capital......"

Before she finished speaking, Old Man Lou put away the hippie smile and said, "This matter is imperative, it's hard work!" ”

Qin Liu was stunned, no longer obsessed with venting his emotions, and asked, "How did the elderly and children in the family arrange it?" And the inn? ”

"I have watched Zhao San'er and those two little brothers for a long time, and they can be trusted, and they will take care of the family first. The inn can be managed. Besides, Maang is back, and he won't ignore the old man and Da Lang Erlang. ”

Qin Liu was silent, so he had to shake the reins and follow everyone on the road.

She touched a blanket on her horse's back, and sure enough, it contained the silver she had saved.

In addition to the three gold ingots, there were also more than a hundred taels of silver that the little mute gave him. And her own silver, ten taels to Li Laohan, sixty taels to Lou Old Man, and the rest of the daily purchase was also spent.

The money for building the inn was mainly spent on small dumb silver, and it cost more than forty taels before and after.

In general, she had a total of more than seven hundred taels of silver. According to the cost of twenty taels of silver for a horse, you can buy thirty-five horses, and when the time comes, you can sell them, and according to the calculation of forty taels of silver, you can make a net profit of seven hundred taels of silver.

Old man Lou introduced it to her, and it is estimated that more than a month will be enough.

It's really fast enough to make money.

Qin Liu raised his head to the sky and sighed.

For the sake of the silver.

That's it, since he is the leader, he should be a grassland horse trader tour!

As for Old Man Lou's other thoughts, she can only take one step at a time.

Qin Liu rode a horse while enjoying the mountain scenery on both sides of the road.

She had a slight impression of this journey.

Before the crossing, in the modern society, she often drove this road north to camp in the direction of Chicheng, Dahaituo, and Bingshanliang.

When the 40-degree high temperature in Beijing is unbearable, the cold wind is blowing on the iceberg beam of the Dushikou, which is beautiful and freezing, and it is a good place to cool off.

Out of the congested city of Beijing, it takes more than two hours to drive to Dushikou.

Nowadays, in ancient society, there are naturally no flat and silky asphalt roads to gallop through, only steep gravel roads that are not too wide at the foot of the mountain. Qin Liu estimated this speed, not to mention arriving in two hours now, she would be Amitabha Buddha if she could arrive in two days.

The sun is rising, the temperature is getting higher and higher, and the sun is hot on the skin,

Qin Liu tore off his headscarf and covered his face and neck tightly. Only one pair of eyes are shown outside.

The little mute looked at her and sneered, "You are very experienced. ”

Qin Liu replied, "That's!" ”

She had suffered a loss before, she was sunburned off a layer of skin, and she was half dead in pain. The best means of sun protection is physical isolation, and covering exposed skin with hats and clothing is the first priority of sun protection.