Chang Chu Palace is located in the belly of the county of Chang Ci, over the years gradually formed a small town, the town on weekdays there are only one or two thousand people, most of them are tenants of the Chang Chu Palace, from time to time there are also people from the rivers and lakes who come to the Chang Chu Palace to compete with swords, but that is only a few.

The cost of the gate is so large, Chang Chu Palace can't just rely on more than 1,000 tenants in the town to support it, and it also helps with some business shops and other operations everywhere.

Of course, the most profitable caravan business Chang Chu Palace will not be left behind, first, it can earn some silver for the sect's expenses, and second, it can also increase the knowledge of the sect's disciples.

Jian Guan Xie Sanqiu naturally will not do the work of delivering darts, Chang Chu Palace every year around June, there is a need for descendants to go down the mountain, it is not a good errand, offending people's work, Xie Sanqiu is very unfortunate after returning from Fengling Mountain, so he fished such a business, urging the shops to pay silver!

It's not the middle of June, and someone should have sent the tribute silver from the shops and commercial houses in various places, and Xie Sanqiu just went to the counties to collect the last year's rent silver.

As soon as Xie Sanqiu returned to the sect, he heard that the caravan in the Changchu Palace that was doing business on the grassland was not far from the sect, so Xie Sanqiu rode out again.

Zongmen will go to Hongsang County every year to buy tens of thousands of silk and satin, after the New Year, the caravan does not need to go around Hongsang County, but can go west, to Kaiyang County to collect some pen, ink, paper, inkstone, candy and other things, to the north across the Liuli River, from Lingshou County into the grassland four countries.

If the goods can be dumped in Xianbei, the caravan will also come back to Lingshou County and Shushui County to collect some more things and sell them out of the customs.

However, this is also something that has not happened for many years, the competition among the major caravans is fierce, and the Changchu Palace, which is located in the south, has also been severely suppressed, and has not been able to gain a firm foothold in the nine counties of Daqin, and has only gotten a dangerous place to lick blood from the knife to make a living.

The caravan came back from Hongsang County, which is a rule for many years, from Xianbei into the high car, the high car went north to Rouran, and then went south into the Zouma Pass in Shangai County, if it did not go wrong when it arrived at the Zouma Temple, it was considered to be safe and returned.

In the past, the caravan also went around Hejian County, since Situ Bujing inherited the king of Hejian, how dare the merchants go to Hejian County, which the Situ family has guarded for generations, and the Situ family goose in the eyes of the money has plucked its feathers, and few caravans can withstand it.

It is customary for the Central Plains caravans to bring horses back from the grassland to resell, and it is also common for checkpoints to deduct taxes with horses, and the border checkpoints are slightly more expensive, and most of the big passes are ten to one, or fifteen to one, and there are also twenty to one in small passes.

Hejian County has more grain and less horses, occupying the convenience of the shortcut back to Ruyang City, and the tariffs of the four customs in Hejian have risen again and again, and last year it became five to one, that is, five horses have to stay in Hejian County, and how many caravans can withstand such a consumption?

Now that the Daqin caravans have learned to slippery, they would rather take a detour to Shangai County than Hejian County, after all, Shangai County is fair, and it has been fifteen to one for many years.

Xie Sanqiu, who had just come back, was physically and mentally exhausted, and he was not fast riding a horse, and it was already dusk, and the sun was sallow and sallow......

"Xie Sanqiu, save me!"

Xie Sanqiu, who was on the move, paused, and turned around to see someone jumping high, clearly a man, and he didn't look injured.

Xie Sanqiu borrowed the strength of the horse, swept back and clasped his fingers into a fist.

Boom......

Hit the man in the gray robe well, and the man was beaten upside down by this punch and flew out, Xie Sanqiu saw the head of the Fengling Mountain family who had escaped for nearly half a month.

His face was sallow, his temples were scattered, his black robe was scratched by grass, his lips were full of blisters due to high fever, the wounds on his chest were scabbed and cracked, and so on and so on, he had long stopped bleeding, and there were some grass wounds on his slender fingers, and his nails were full of mud.

The once beautiful head of the Wind Chime Mountain family was lying crookedly under the dead grass on the side of the road so hiddenly, and he had long lost his appearance of being tall.

Xie Sanqiu was at a loss, he would save people, save women, he hadn't saved them, and he wouldn't think about it.

I wanted to send Chi Chongfeng back to the sect, but I looked at the road, the horse had already been pedaled away by him, and the way back was far away!

Xie Sanqiu untied the cotton white robe and put it on Chi Chongfeng's body, and when he picked up the head of the Fengling Mountain family, Xie Sanqiu unconsciously snorted in an upward tone, thinking in his heart that it was over, he would definitely not be able to spare me when he woke up, when he was a child, his sister didn't like him the most when he complained that she was heavy.

After walking three hundred steps, Xie Sanqiu's hands trembled with soreness, and he sighed: "My little body, what should I do if I marry a daughter-in-law in the future!"

He heard that a woman can't stand being told that she is fat, even if it is her own man.

For the first time in the past half a month, Chi Chongfeng could be so relieved and slept in a daze.

Xie Sanqiu thought that he was walking quite fast, but he was still caught up by the caravan of Changchu Palace.

Seeing the caravan getting closer and closer, Xie Sanqiu, who was holding Chi Chongfeng, was not putting it down, nor was it if he didn't put it down.

There were more than 300 people in the caravan, and six or seven hundred mules and horses, but Xie Sanqiu looked at this formation, it should have increased by six or seven hundred, and he saw yellow smoke billowing from a distance.

Mules and horses carry goods at any time, merchants and merchants, "line" is to go far, "business" is a big deal, Chang Chu Palace's business is not big, just do some small business, it is estimated that the salt and grain business is almost done, and the caravan can be doubled again at that time.

Since he is a businessman, there is no reason to let the horses and mules rush idlely, and this is not also full of local camels coming back, most of them are dried meat and furs, which are rare things in the south of Daqin!

Whether the goods are worth anything is not a big deal, the big thing is that no matter how lowly things are, someone buys them, and the most reasonable sentence in the caravan: "The thorns in the desert can be sold for a good price in Shushui County, it depends on whether you meet a buyer." ”

Wu Gou walked in the front of the caravan, and Xie Sanqiu watched him come back, originally thinking of comforting a few words of "fortunately tired and tired".

Wu Hook didn't have a good word when he opened his mouth.

Wu Gou, who was riding on a horse, saw the senior brother holding a woman, and said tauntingly: "Yo ho, senior brother, you have done this kind of thing after not seeing you for half a year?"

Wu Gou is a few years younger than Xie Sanqiu, that is, fifteen or sixteen years old, tired and dusty along the way, and his green robe has not been washed for a long time.

Xie Sanqiu didn't feel embarrassed either, and replied, "The head of the Wind Bell Mountain family." ”

Wu Gou exclaimed: "Blessed. ”

Xie Sanqiu said with a sad face: "There is a fart blessing, if you let your junior sister see it, you can't strangle me to death!"

Wu Gou didn't have the slightest intention of helping, and said with a smile: "That senior brother can only ask for more blessings." ”

Xie Sanqiu still didn't give up and asked, "Really don't want to save me?"

Wu Gou smiled and shook his head: "Don't save it." ”

Xie Sanqiu roared bitterly: "I'm your senior brother!"

Wu Gou said with a smile: "Dead Dao friends don't die poor Dao." ”

Seeing that the path of friendship did not work, Xie Sanqiu gritted his teeth and said, "Five taels?"

Wu Hook said: "I picked up a horse on the road myself, and I missed your fifty taels or taels?"

Seeing that he had received five taels of silver, he still didn't agree, and Xie Sanqiu, who had always been gentle and elegant, said ruthlessly: "Wu Gou, don't go too far?"

Wu Gou was still sitting on his horse, and asked with a smile: "Senior brother, is this your attitude of begging for people?"

Xie Sanqiu asked curiously, "Then what should I ask for?"

Wu Gou said the sentence that he didn't know how many times he had said: "Business is not benevolent and righteous, let's discuss something, I'll make a price first, and you can pay it back." ”

Wu Gou stretched out three fingers: "Three hundred taels." ”

Xie Sanqiu looked surprised and said, "Three hundred taels?

Regarding the surprised expression on Senior Brother's face, Wu Hook smiled and chuckled: "Senior Brother, you are praising the lion, but in fact, the lion's mouth is not so big." ”

Xie Sanqiu settled down and bargained: "Fifty taels." ”

Wu Gou couldn't help his senior brother's idiotic words, and roared, "Fifty taels? ”

Xie Sanqiu hugged Chi Chongfeng a little higher and asked, "You're not afraid of being hacked to death with this bid?"

Wu Gou asked rhetorically: "Are you not afraid of being hacked to death at this bargain?"

Xie Sanqiu chuckled: "I have a sword!"

Xie Sanqiu originally wanted to raise the Mianliu Sword, but he couldn't raise his hand while holding the head of the Wind Chime Mountain family.

Wu Goubao chuckled with the same expression: "I have someone!"

Wu Hook pointed to the caravan that had already gone away.

Seeing the caravan walking away, Wu Gou didn't plan to reconcile Sanqiu's entanglement here, and asked, "I said, senior brother, can you still do business?"

Xie Sanqiu groaned: "Do it, why don't you do it, it's just that the price is ......."

Wu Gou pulled the horse's mane and said casually: "Senior brother, in fact, this is already the market price, decide quickly, otherwise if I leave, even if you come up with three thousand taels, no one will help." ”

Xie Sanqiu struggled for a while and said, "Forget it, I don't have any money, don't do it, I'll go secretly." ”

Wu Gou patted the horse's neck, looked at his senior brother Xie Sanqiu and said with a smile: "Senior brother, I didn't see my horse!"

"Alas......" Xie Sanqiu was only thinking about asking for help at that time, how could he have expected to be yin?

Xie Sanqiu said softly: "Then I just want a horse!"

When business came, Wu Gou instantly came to his senses, shook his two fingers, and said with a smile: "Twenty taels." ”

Xie Sanqiu, who was angry, touched his arms, threw the silver ingot to Wu Hook, and said with a dry smile: "It's just ten taels, and the other ten taels are what I owe you." ”

Wu Hook smiled after taking the silver, and complained: "What is it, you owe me in the first place." ”

Saying that, Wu Hook dismounted and gave the horse to his senior brother Xie Sanqiu.

Xie Sanqiu hugged Chi Chongfeng and said to him: "Senior Brother Wu, you help me hold the Chi family master first, and then you hand it to me when I get on the horse." ”

Wu Hook, who was pulling the reins of the horse, said coldly: "Then you have to pay silver, at least five taels." ”

Xie Sanqiu shook his head and said, "Forget it, I'll do it myself!"

Wu Gou saw that the business was not successful, so he re-set the price and said with a smile: "Five points?"

Xie Sanqiu stepped into the saddle with his strength, and the horse was frightened, and the two almost fell off the horse.

Wu Hook put the reins, and he definitely couldn't catch up with the caravan, so he walked slowly.

Xie Sanqiu also lost his horse when he chased the caravan, and said heartily: "I'll go first!"

Xie Sanqiu, who grew up in Changchu Palace, naturally knew which alley in the town had fewer people and which road was dirt.

After dark, the town is silent, and the sound of horses' hooves is particularly clear, and the sound of horses' hooves on the stone road is too loud, and if it is discovered, it will be a big trouble.

A lot of people knew he'd returned, especially her, who was definitely on the lookout now.

The tired head of the Wind Lingshan family hadn't woken up yet, and Xie Sanqiu could only hug her tightly and prevent her from falling off the horse.

The eaves in the alleys were low, and they could only hunch their waists.

Turn left and right to the gate of Changchu Palace, Xie Sanqiu didn't dare to go to the main gate, someone must be waiting for him there!

Xie Sanqiu slapped the horse and walked away from the main gate, and he took Chi Chongfeng over the wall to enter.

When Xie Sanqiu hugged Chi Chongfeng and walked to his own house "sneakily".

Outside the door, there was a voice, "Senior brother, you're back!"

The person who came really scared Xie Sanqiu a lot.