Chapter 139

Donkey and Chunliu guarded the horses, Qingyun and Fei'er came over to talk to Xiulan, and Geng Feng and the four of their masters and servants were still wandering around, looking for fun.

Shi Zheng and Liuxiang bought thirty or forty buns, Bai Wen took three, and the rest of the people each took one, Qingyun said: "You also give birth to two of them for the boat, and you two eat the rest." Shi Zheng asked, "What about the young master?" Qingyun looked at it, and saw Tianxiao holding a tea bowl in his hand, talking to an old man in a fur hat next to a big boat next to the rice valley, so he shook his hands and smiled and said, "Leave him alone." ”

Shi Zheng and Liuxiang left, Bai Wen said: "What is this Brother Xiao doing, chatting with people so closely?" Xiao Fei'er smiled: "Maybe when we arrive in Qingzhou, we are going to open a rice shop." Jasper thought of something, and said, "By the way, I have a big thing in mind." The ninth, eleventh, I and the eighth have been to Longqing, and we have passed the addiction of being a concubine. All his women must do something for the people of Longqing, otherwise others will gossip. Qingyun hurriedly asked: "Old ten, what did you and the eighth give?" Biyu shook her head and smiled: "I can't remember either, anyway, it's a lot." But Xiulan said, "I remember." Xiao Fei'er asked, "What is it, we just buy it as ordered." Xiulan said, "300,000 stone of grain, 500 stone of grain seeds, 500 stone of wheat seeds, 5,000 ducklings, 20,000 chicks, 800 rams, and 3,500 ewes." Xiao Fei'er saw that Xiulan didn't say any more, so she asked, "Eighth child, is it gone?" Xiulan nodded and smiled: "Yes, it's gone." Xiao Fei'er said: "Okay, Lao Jiu and I will send 300,000 stone grain and 5 million silkworm eggs." Five million mulberry branches, five thousand chicks, twenty thousand ducklings, eight hundred stallions, and three thousand five hundred mares. How about it, there won't be a conflict with you, right?" Biyu nodded, and Qingyun asked, "Then what did the first five send?" Xiulan said: "The queen is also called Fei'er, and she went to survey the western part of Longqing with her father-in-law. At that time, it was deserted, and you could not see a single person on horseback for a day. It can be self-surveyed. Now there are six cities there. Seventeen small towns, and one hundred and ten villages. Qingyun nodded and said, "It's not easy." And what about the second one?"

Xiulan said: "The Donggong Niangniang's name is Xiao Zhao, and together with Xianggong, she arrested the ten largest unscrupulous merchants and three grain officials in Longqing. Since then, the merchants of Longqing have not dared to break the law. The people praised this as the credit of the East Palace Niangniang. Xiao Fei'er said: "So it seems." The credit for these two is quite large. Xiulan continued: "Guo Jian is the niece of his mentor Han Bingwei. I haven't heard of anything done. Diesy is a princess of Portugal, and her father's contribution to Longqing is also very large. And the West Palace Niangniang is called Jade Rakshasa, and she is a person who can use poison. and people who can steal silver tickets, and who can also be Soma. In the words of Xianggong, this Jade Rakshasa is afraid that no one can compare to Longqing's credit. Jasper was shocked. "Why, just because she gave birth to a son, was canonized as a prince?"

Ruyu Rakshasa is not Jasper's half-sister, maybe she won't be so jealous yet. But now, whether it is for her mother or herself, she will definitely fight with this Xigong Niangniang, and she must not lose to this Jade Rakshasa. Qingyun also asked: "Old eight, then what did she do?" Xiulan didn't know why Biyu was suddenly unhappy, and she didn't know why she had thorns in her words just now, she wanted to ask her, but she felt that it was inappropriate, so she answered Qingyun and said those words of Xianggong. "At that time, the 350,000 troops of the Ming Dynasty were attacking Xuzhou City, and the sky was dark. The people gave food to the defending army and ate wild vegetables themselves, and Longqing had reached the most dangerous moment. But no one expected that this jade rakshasa would rob the Ming Dynasty sent to the front line of 73 ships of grain, 200 carriages of wine and meat, and 20,000 pieces of weapons sent to Xuzhou, the soldiers were very encouraged, fought bloodily, and finally blocked the Ming army outside Xuzhou City.

In addition, she also gave 3,000 good horses that matched the saddle, and 2,500,000 taels of silver tickets. Therefore, the ministers and people of Longqing did not praise her, even the Queen Mother also said that she saved Longqing. Qingyun and Xiao Fei'er admired this jade rakshasa when they heard it, but Biyu said: "This is not uncommon, I can do it if I change it." Xiulan smiled, hugged her and said, "I heard it, you are vomiting with the West Palace Niangniang." Forget it, what's the anger? In fact, this jade rakshasa is quite okay, and he personally went to the city to cheer for the soldiers defending the city, and was shot with an arrow. If it had been someone else, he would have gone back to the palace a long time ago, after all, he was the mother of the golden branch and jade leaf. But instead of going back, she also went into battle with injuries, and rushed out of the city into the Daming camp to tear it up. ”

Qingyun and Xiao Fei'er both said that they had a vision, and they found a good woman with courage and knowledge, and they really wanted to meet this Jade Rakshasa and see what kind of girl she was. But Biyu was extremely unconvinced, and always smiled coldly, if it wasn't for Tianxiao coming over, he would definitely say a few more words to the Jade Rakshasa. Seeing that Xianggong was having fun, Xiao Fei'er asked: "Xianggong, what are you and that old man talking about? Tianxiao smiled, stretched out his hand and patted Xiao Fei'er's face and said, "That old man is a rice merchant." He said that it had not rained in a long time, and that the crops in the fields had dried up. It is said that in another ten days and half a month, the price of rice here will at least triple, because it is a dead harvest. So, I want to buy two or three hundred thousand stone grain rice and put it away. "Little Fei'er is happy. "Do you really want to open a rice shop?" Tianxiao shook his head at her and smiled, asking Qingyun. "How far is the Qingzhou Mansion Wharf from the Li Mansion?" Qingyun thought for a while and said, "There is half a mile of land like Xiang." Do you really want to do a rice business?" Tianxiao shook his head and asked, "Then, in addition to the side room, how much rice can be piled up?" Seeing that the question was so serious, even Qingyun thought that Xianggong was going to do a grain business, so he asked: "Then how much silver do you have?"

Tian Xiao smiled: "That's too much, at least five or six million taels." Qingyun knew that these silver tickets were all honored by his thieves and apprentices, so he said: "Master, as long as you have silver, as long as there is so much grain for you to collect, there is definitely enough place for that pile." Tianxiao nodded and said, "Then I'll rest assured." Then he went to the river to talk to the old man, and he was gesturing with his hand, and when Xiao Fei'er saw it, she asked Xiulan. "Does he really want to open a rice shop?" replied Xiulan in the affirmative. "Nope. He won't. When Qingyun heard this, he asked: "What are you doing with two or three hundred thousand stone valley rice?" Xiulan seemed to know her husband very well, so she said: "Although this is not Longqing, he is a good emperor, and all he thinks about is the people." Maybe he listened to the old man's words, and then he thought that he should prepare more grain at home, and when there is a food shortage, he will take it out to help the people of Qingzhou.

I dare to say that he will treat the people of Qingzhou as the people of Longqing. At this time, Geng Feng happened to come over, and when he heard this, he said: "Eighth child, Xianggong really didn't hurt you in vain." I agree with you. Because, Xianggong is not a villain who sees profit. ”

Tianxiao and his party continued to walk forward, but they were afraid of disturbing the tires of several ladies, so they all ran very slowly. On this day, passing through a small town in the mountains, the street entrance was congested by a large group of people and could not pass, Mo Jing could only raise her hand to stop everyone. But for fear of an accident, Xiao Fei'er instructed Jia Liuye and the four of them to carefully protect the sedan chair, and she and Tianxiao, Mo Jing, and Qingyun drove the horse forward and squeezed into the crowd to see what was going on. There were three corpses lying on the ground, one old and one young, with open skin, looking very bloody, so Xiao Fei'er asked the old man on the side. "Uncle, what's wrong?" The old man who was asked glanced at Xiao Fei'er, then looked at Tianxiao, Mo Jing and Qingyun, and saw that it was a four-eyed son, so he said indignantly: "Childe, look at you are not locals, then I will tell you the truth." There is a small town called Liuwan twelve miles to the south, and there is a great villain called the Snow Leopard living in the town. I heard that he is a master disciple of the five monsters of Liaodong, he is fierce, cruel, relying on people and horses to learn a few ways of boxing and kicking, knowing some characters in the rivers and lakes, eating, drinking and having fun, robbing people's daughters, killing people and goods, and rampaging in the four towns, it can be said that he does all kinds of evil, and he is full of evil, and even the Qingzhou government can't help him. A few days ago, the snow leopard passed by our Qingshan Town, and fell in love with the eldest daughter of the shopkeeper Li, and brought someone to rob it today.

Because the shopkeeper Li refused, the leopard in the snow killed the shopkeeper Li's family like a vicious ghost and snatched the eldest daughter of the Li family. Tian Xiao really couldn't listen to it, so he screamed strangely: "Grandpa's! Dare to ask which villager is willing to lead the way, and Young Master Ben will go to kill this snow leopard to avenge the shopkeeper Li's family. Immediately, a strong man was squeezed out of the crowd, eight feet tall, broad-shouldered and round-waisted, seventeen or eighteen years old, after looking Tian Xiao up and down, he nodded and said: "This son, look at you with a gun and a sword, it must be a person who practices martial arts, but I don't know what the means, can you dance a gun and see?" Tian Xiao looked at the strong man and smiled without answering. At this time, a flock of birds happened to fly from a distance, he jumped off the horse, picked up a handful of stones from the ground and raised his hand to the sky, only to hear a "squeak" after a while, the flock of birds fell and died at the feet of everyone, everyone saw the means of the heavenly roar, and they all cast admiring glances at him. Tianxiao jumped on horseback, looked at the strong man, and said, "Hurry up and lead the way." ”

The strong man understood what Tianxiao meant, and hurriedly said: "Childe, it's not that I, Meishan, am greedy for life and afraid of death, so I don't dare to go to Liuwan Town." It's just that the snow leopard threw down cruel words when he left, saying that he would come to Qingshan Town after lunch and transport away the valuable belongings of the shopkeeper Li's house. The villagers present also said the same, Tianxiao did not go to Liuwan Town, and arched his hand to the villagers present and said, "After lunch, this son will kill the snow leopards and the gang here, eliminate the harm for the people, and avenge the shopkeeper Li's family." When the time comes, all the villagers will stay in their own houses, so as not to let the snow leopards and the gang get hurt. Everyone said that it was reasonable, and then dispersed, and each went home to cook and cook. (To be continued......)