The Life Through Books of the Salted Fish Family

Yan Laoer and Yan Yu collected food for a few days.

I also met several villages where grain was ordered by the grain merchant. After comparing their voices and appearances, they were all the same person.

Yan Lao Er murmured to his daughter: "I don't know where the grain merchant came from. He visited all the villages near Huju. Fortunately, he didn't make an order from house to house, otherwise we would be too embarrassed to grab the grain ordered by others. .”

Yan Yu smiled and said, "Father, are you still embarrassed? Didn't you say that you are quick and slow, and you let me ride a donkey back to the village to collect money and pull vegetables to call people, lest people go back on their word, and stare at one person when I go to a village?" Village, we must let the people in our village bring food back..."

Yan Lao Er glared: "How can a grain merchant compare with us? He is in business, and it is normal for him to make money and lose money. We need these grains to survive, so we have to prioritize. Judging by his posture of collecting grain, he should be a big deal." Merchants, it’s okay, just pay some travel expenses and labor, and you can afford it.”

"It's not necessarily a compensation. We can't get the grain here, so he can go elsewhere..." Yan Lao Er snorted, wondering: "Why doesn't he go to Linhai to collect grain? Linhai Mansion is a bumper harvest this year with calm weather In 2019, the climate there is better than ours in Guanzhou, so there is no need to hoard so much grain for the winter, so there is more surplus grain? Sigh, where is this grain merchant from? Why are you looking far away?"

These days, I just think about grabbing the food back to the village as soon as possible, and I don't have time to think about these details.

When it was mentioned at this time, both father and daughter felt strange.

Yan Yu thought about it carefully and was sure no one had mentioned where the grain merchant came from, only that it was the foreign government.

However, if you come to Guanzhou from outside the government, you usually only take the official road of Gufeng, or enter Changping from Linhai.

If you enter from Gufeng, Gufeng City is sealed off, but the surrounding villages and towns are safe, wouldn't it be more convenient to collect grain nearby?

If you come from Linhai Mansion, you can collect grain directly in Linhai Changping, why do you have to travel so far to come to Huju...

Besides, transportation, Huju is only accessible by land, so it is cheaper to have waterways on the other side of the sea.

Yan Lao Er and Yan Yu knew how much food was agreed on, because they ate all the food and transported it back to Xiao'an Village.

"We've been talking about this grain merchant all the time, but we've been following you, Uncle Liang, and the others for a few days, and we haven't met him once." Yan Laoer said.

This is very unreasonable.

It stands to reason that the food was negotiated, and it was agreed that someone would come and take it away after paying the tax. They walked so many villages, they must have met one or two people.

But these days, not even a single person was seen.

Like, deliberately avoiding them.

Yan Yu thought for a while, then asked: "Father, if it's you, someone robs you of the deal, but the other party has a background in the government office, you will consider yourself unlucky, so forget it?"

"That's definitely not possible. You have to show your face. When you meet someone, the way here is to admit bad luck and pay compensation. If you don't do this business, you have to talk to the other party to make people appreciate it. Knowing how to deal with people, one more friend and one more way, maybe you can use it in the future, it’s not certain.

There are also those who have a bad temper, you can't just forget about it, make a lot of noise, make some noise to vent your dissatisfaction, it's all possible.

This is quiet, which is really rare. "Yan Lao Er said.

Yan Yu turned round and round in place.

The little brows became tighter and tighter.

"Father, go and ask again, what does the grain merchant look like? What kind of clothes do you wear, what accent do you speak, how many people do you bring with you, how did you get here, whether it's an ox cart or a donkey cart or a mule cart, since they are foreigners , go directly to Murakami to collect grain, someone needs to point it out, is there anyone here to introduce..."

Yan Laoer's expression became serious when he heard his daughter's question so detailed.

"What did you think of?"

"I just think they're weird." Yan Yu frowned and said, "I hope I'm thinking too much, but father, this grain merchant has nowhere to go, no whereabouts, and suddenly popped up to collect grain in Huju... The food is convenient to transport, over there, it is the closest to our Huju!"

She pointed in the direction outside the pass.

Second Yan was startled!

"Oh my God! How can I think it looks so similar when you say that!" Yan Lao Er patted his thigh, "Bei Rong can come over the mountain, come down from the top of our village, and come down from the top of the next village. Those Beirong people who came to our village look a lot like the people in the Guan, they don’t look like anything on the surface, they can practice speaking, and they have money to buy food... Yes, they have a lot of money, no, this It can’t be matched.”

Yan Yu nodded, so she said that no matter how much she asks, since she is in a border town, she can't be too careful.

Yan Lao Er went to ask someone immediately.

In order to prove it in many ways, he rode his daughter's bald donkey to several villages.

While waiting anxiously, Yan Yu was preparing for the worst.

She found Luo Da and said to him, "Uncle Luo, I just heard from the servants that the second master of the government office asked about the arrow towers and walls of our village, and he seemed not very happy that the elder master sent someone from the quarry helper."

Luo Da immediately stopped what he was doing, and hurriedly asked, "What else are you talking about?"

"Those yamen servants also said that the second master probably thought that we needed manpower to help us with other tasks, and the high wall of the archery tower was just mentioned, and felt that the second master was deceived by us." Yan Yu looked aggrieved. appearance.

Luo Da digested it for a while, and said: "It's okay, let's sit upright, after the busy few days, we will seize the time to build walls and buildings. There are already shadows on those archery towers, and the walls will be built quickly. There are a lot of people doing this work in the village now, as long as the ashes promised by the old man are brought in, we will surround the walls as soon as a year ago."

Luo Da also became ruthless.

This is the plan to stop working in cold weather, so as not to let the second master be picky, so as to save people and things from becoming yellow.

"Hurry up and let people see our watchtower, the second master will believe it?" Yan Yusha said seriously: "When we go back, we will help move the bricks."

Luo Daodao: "It's no use, you and your father can go outside to gather food in peace, and when we go back at night, we can just work in the dark for two days."

He thought what Xiao Er said was right, so he set up the archery tower and stood it there first, to let the second master know that they were not talking empty words.

When Yan Laoer came back, Luo Da and the others had already transported grain back to the village.

When Yan Yu saw her father's expression, she knew something was wrong.

"I'm afraid it's really the grandsons of the Beirong gang. I asked many people, and they all said that the grain merchant was accompanied by a few guys. They looked strong, big-armed and round, and they were dull and silent. It was the grain merchant who dealt with it alone."

"The clothes I'm wearing don't fit well, like ready-made clothes bought in a store."

"They had an ox cart, and the grain merchant was sitting back and forth, but someone recognized that the ox cart belonged to a cart dealer, probably just bought it."

"No one introduced them, they went to Murakami by themselves and said they wanted to buy food."

"I chatted with people for a while. Guess what, the villages they plan to collect grain have all been harmed by Bei Rong, and they know who else to lead the way."

"There is one more thing..." Yan Laoer said word by word: "They left in the wrong direction. They didn't go to the city or the town, but to the mountains. Do you think they live in the mountains?"

Yan Yu was silent.

"It's probably my father. They don't have household registration, so they can't live in an inn."

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