On the post road, a caravan was advancing with difficulty.
It just rained heavily yesterday, the ground was very muddy, and people and cars walked very slowly.
Clerk Lin wiped the sweat from his forehead, and encouraged the guys: "Lin also knows that everyone is working hard, everyone work harder, we will arrive in Tongren County soon, and when we get there, Lin will give more Everyone pays seven days' wages."
A guy was struggling to push the car stuck in the mud. He laughed and said, "Wai Lin is a righteous man. Don't worry, the big guy will work hard."
Everyone responded one after another and pushed the car out of the mud with all their strength.
Lin Yuanwai rode on the donkey and laughed happily.
This forest member's name was Lin Luyao, and he was exactly the forest member that Hong Baichuan had mentioned to his son.
This Lin Yuanwai is a great businessman. When he was young, he was a small peddler who walked the streets. Later, after saving some money, he started to open a grocery store. The business of grocery stores is not very profitable, but it is stable. Lin Yuanwai is stable. After earning a few years of stable money, he invested all his capital and opened a brewery.
Winery is a profitable business, but at that time Lin Yuanwai was still a wealthy businessman with a little background, not a big family yet. Until one day, Lin Luyao went to Huling to visit his friend Hong Baichuan. On the way, he passed a sorghum field, and Lin Luyao picked a sorghum to eat.
This sorghum is food, but sorghum stalks are rich in sugar, which is equivalent to a different kind of sugar cane. In some places, sorghum stalks are used to extract sugar, and the so-called sorghum syrup is made from it. Lin Luyao originally wanted to chew a sorghum stalk, but he swallowed it down, but unexpectedly found that there were a lot of small insects in the sorghum stalk.
If it were someone else, it would be fine to just throw the sorghum stalks away, but Lin Luyao was a shrewd person, and he immediately realized that the sorghum production would definitely decrease this year. Sorghum was the main raw material for wine making in the Ming Dynasty.
Without further ado, Lin Luyao immediately went back to his home. He didn't go to Huling'er anymore. When he returned to Tongren, he took out all his savings and bought a large amount of sorghum. During the autumn harvest of that year, the sorghum production dropped sharply, and the price of grain soared. Lin Luyao not only stockpiled a large amount of raw materials for his winery, but also sold the sorghum at a high price. It is also quite famous in Tongren Prefecture.
Now Lin Yuanwai's business is no longer limited to wineries. This time, a batch of high-quality silk was transported to the Central Plains. This batch of goods was sold in Tongren County, and could be sold at that time, and it could also be shipped to Guiyang Prefecture. The profit doubled. It was more than double, so Lin Yuanwai followed in person.
On the road ahead, there is a place where two low hills are sandwiched between them. The low hills are full of low shrubs, dense and dense green.
There is a gentle slope of several hundred steps between the dwarf mountain shrubs and the road on the ground. There are sparse trees and half-yellow turf on the slope. If you go closer at this time, you will find that some turf has obvious traces of being shoveled , because there are traces of round or square dirt around some turf.
A man riding a donkey overtook the caravan outside the forest officer, and rushed to the place between two low mountains first, singing a folk song leisurely: "My father and mother gave me a field, which has been abandoned for seventeen, eighty-nine years, who will come to open up the wasteland tonight? The plowshare breaks the plowshaft..."
Folk songs are originally songs sung by people in the mountains to relieve boredom in their free time. They are bold and unrestrained. This man sang with his voice imitating a woman's thin voice, enjoying himself in the wilderness, but there is nothing to be ashamed of.
A piece of turf with dirt around it moved, and a human head poked out from below, looked around vigilantly, and said in a deep voice, "Everyone cheer up, an idea has come!"
There was a echo from under the surrounding grass: "Yes, boss!"
Look at the protruding human head, the leopard head is around the eyes, and there is a beard under the jaw, it is the leader of the dragon who once dealt with Zhao Wenyuan, the number one thief known in the surrounding counties - Long Lingyun, with more than two hundred men brothers.
The man riding a donkey and singing the folk song didn't seem to be giving them a tip-off. He sang a part of the folk song leisurely and then fell silent. He just walked down the road and gradually turned around the mountain bend. But as soon as his figure disappeared at the corner of the mountain, the singing sound came from afar again.
"Seven catties of gross iron and eight catties of steel. I'm going to open up wasteland tonight. I'll dig nine inches and ten inches down, scrape the thatch and plant rice seedlings."
Long Lingyun frowned, and said to himself: "Damn, is there someone coming from the other side?"
At this moment, a piece of turf moved, and a human head emerged from underneath, asking: "Brother, it seems that there are people coming from the other side, should we still make a move?"
Long Lingyun thought for a moment, then gritted his teeth and said: "There should not be many people coming from the opposite side, otherwise Qi Lao Liu is not a reminder, but a warning. The fat sheep outside Lin Yuan can't just let it go, and follow the original plan."
"Okay!" The man agreed, and his head retracted under the ground, but a corner of a hunting bow appeared faintly on the grass, and the corner of the hunting bow was exposed far away. No one would notice it at all, even if someone could see it. Also thought it was a tree root.
Long Lingyun had received a tip-off from Zhao Wenyuan in advance, not only did he know exactly how many cars were in the forest, what kind of goods they were carrying, and how much they were worth, but also the number of entourage and the weapons they were equipped with, so he made careful preparations in advance. arrange.
Because it was discovered that this batch of goods was silk, overbearing methods such as fire attack and bamboo spears were excluded first, and because it was discovered that the silk was packed in a box, and the box was placed in a boxcar, and nearly thirty guards were wearing it. All of them were equipped with melee weapons such as waist knives, so Long Lingyun deliberately chose this place, and equipped a large number of crossbow arrows, intending to use long-distance attack first to eliminate the opponent's main combat power and make a quick decision.
Now although he knew that there were people coming from the other side of the col, but since Qi Lao Liu indicated that there were not many people coming, he could continue to work, so he refused to give up this big deal.
At the foot of the mountain, Qi Lao Liu rode a donkey, humming and chirping to the side of the road. The mountain road was already narrow, and there were eight knights guarding a carriage on the opposite side. If he didn't give way, the two sides couldn't pass by at the same time.
A gorgeous light car, driving at a leisurely pace, a long-wheeled cart with a wide axle and big wheels, a carriage painted in peacock blue, and the four horses pulling the cart are all male jujubes, praying for the old six eyes It suddenly lit up: "Looking at this posture, it must be a fat sheep!"
But that divine light just flickered slightly, and then disappeared in his slightly yellow eyes. A knight riding a tall horse put a wide-brimmed sun hat on his whip and glanced at him.
Qi Laoliu was wearing a two-piece dress full of wind and dust, with a yellow girdle on his shoulders, smiling humbly at him, with a mouth full of yellow teeth, the knight turned his head away in disdain.
Qi Lao Liu stared at the gorgeous light car again, the velvet curtain was hanging down, and he couldn't see the situation inside, but it was foreseeable that there must be a person of noble birth with such a pomp, Maybe he also carries expensive treasures with him.
The chariots and horses passed in front of him, and Qi Laoliu picked up the reins and continued on the road on the donkey.
The eight knights escorting the carriage walked quite leisurely, allowing the horses to gallop lightly, and the handlebar-like whip was also inserted into the bolt of the shaft, and the four horses galloped happily along the road naturally.
A knight raised his head, glanced around vigilantly, and reminded the others: "Everyone, there are two mountains ahead, let's be careful."
A knight couldn't help laughing: "Xiao Zhao, is this the first time you go out with the lady? In the whole Guizhou, who dares to touch our Tian family?"
The knight who reminded him earlier blushed slightly, and said, "Brother Chen, we came out this time, but we didn't use the banner of the Tian family."
Brother Chen proudly said: "So what? If there is a small robbery, we can use Chen's 'chaotic cloak' knife technique to discipline him whether he comes back or not!"
As Brother Chen said, he patted the saber on his waist. At this time, I saw a convoy heading towards them, and judging from the appearance of the team, it should be a business team.
This dirt road is the official road from Huxian County to Tongren. It is said to be an official road. It has been in disrepair for a long time, and it has long been potholed. The road is not wide enough to only accommodate a large cart and horses guarding the left and right. .
Because the two sides are grasslands that slowly extend towards the hillside, the two cars actually staggered a bit, each crushing half of the grassland, and they passed by each other. Give way.
These people are all good at kung fu, but they have no experience in the world. They are just guards in a wealthy family, and they are masters and apprentices working for the Tian family. There is absolutely no problem with loyalty, but kung fu can only be used in the school martial arts field Demonstration, the chance of seeing blood is almost non-existent.
When they are away from home, they only need to display the banner of the Tian family. The role is only a guard of honor. Have they ever walked through the real rivers and lakes? The rivers and lakes are just a rhetoric that they often hang on their lips. These are a group of tigers with no experience in wild survival.
The two sides gradually met at this place between the two mountains. Seeing that the other party did not intend to give way, Member Lin felt a little annoyed. The other party only had a light car, and the rest of them were riding horses. It was easy to avoid it on the grass, but His convoy would be in trouble if it evaded.
This road is difficult to walk after the rain, and it is even more difficult to avoid it in the grass. Once it gets stuck in the mud, it will be very difficult to pull it out. Thinking about being used to domineering, he didn't dare to offend, so he had to order the team to avoid the grass.
Those guys were angry, and yelled and led the horses and chariots to the grass, purposely moving slowly and letting them wait on the road. The two teams crossed each other, and the road was muddy, causing chaos.
Master Long poked his head out from under the turf, and when he saw this scene, he couldn't help but grinned: "It's really God helping me!" He immediately lifted the turf, jumped out of the hole, and shouted: "Do it! "