"Food?" Lu Bai wondered.

The reward is a bit strange.

Shopkeeper Qin nodded, "Yes, as for food, Mr. Lu, as you know, we who are in the food smuggling business, what we need is food."

Seeing that he was helping, Lu Bai gave him a piece of advice, "It's almost done. When the Northern Dynasty's troops and horses are strong, they will attack when the time comes. You will suffer first."

Shopkeeper Qin reassured Lu Bai, "If we don't have enough food to go north, we will go south as well."

Lu Bai was surprised, "It's strange. Going south from Yongle City, wherever you go, it's not a land of fish and rice. It's a fertile land. No matter how bad it is, there are mountains, water, and woods. It's also familiar to the south of the Yangtze River. When will the world be full of words?"

Are you going to our barren land to sell food to the south?"

Shopkeeper Qin smiled and said, "Master Lu, don't you know this?"

Nowadays, porcelain, tea, silk, and medicinal materials are expensive, and many places in the south of the Yangtze River have replaced rice with mulberry. People in the south of the Yangtze River now have money but no food. The price of food has skyrocketed. Now, selling food to the south of the Yangtze River is the time to make money.

"Really?" Lu Bai looked back at Gu Qinghuan.

He didn't expect that Jiangnan, which was the granary, was now short of food. This was not a good place to cook.

Gu Qinghuan also frowned.

Lu Bai nodded and agreed to Shopkeeper Qin, "As long as your price is right, you will make a profit and we will make a profit. If there is any excess grain, I can transfer it to you."

But it is limited to excess grain.

The grain in Yancheng is different from other places. There are many manors in Yancheng, and the grain is produced in these manors. The common people may work as farmers in the noble manors in the upper city area to earn some subsistence rations, or they may do other things.

Make a living.

If you want to raise grain from Yancheng, in addition to the grain produced by Lu Bai's own manor, you have to buy grain from wealthy households. These wealthy households are not short of money. They are the best at manipulating grain prices to do business.

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Therefore, buying grain in Yancheng is the most difficult.

However, there is a lot of food in the bull demon's valley, and now that there is a middle valley, you can also grow food. Lu Bai decided that some fertile fields can be cultivated around the middle valley in the future, and then professional monsters can plant them.

Now in Jiangnan, which is a granary, the price of food remains high, and Lu Bai has to be vigilant.

In the event of a flood or drought, the first problem will always be food shortage.

Lu Bai thought about this and asked shopkeeper Qin to report any news about smuggling in Youji Cloth Village to the people at Shunfeng Villa in Qingshui Town. Lu Bai and others left the Qingshan Gang.

"Food in the south of the Yangtze River is expensive." Lu Bai muttered, "This is too unbelievable."

"There's nothing surprising." Gu Qinghuan didn't take it seriously. "In order to make money for the Eight Great Sects, the aristocratic families dare to do anything, even lying on the people to suck blood, they dare to do it."

If there are ten times the benefits, they can disregard propriety, justice and integrity; if there are one hundred times the benefits, they will not care about killing thousands of people; if there are one thousand times the benefits, their own fathers and sisters can make deals.

If it were ten thousand times the benefit——

"Do you know why this dynasty is so proud of the Southern Capital? It's not that the Northern Dynasty is too strong or has too many practitioners, but that the eight major sects have too many things to fight for." Gu Qinghuan said.

These cultivation sects are like a bottomless pit, frantically devouring money and medicinal materials.

In order to ensure their immortality, they must wear light silk clothes, eat five stones of loose food, all kinds of delicacies from mountains and seas, monster meat and animal blood, use fine porcelain from official kilns, and live in famous mountains and rivers, or on cliffs thousands of meters high.

Either by the Taotao River, or on the top of the snow-capped mountains, or on an isolated island, there are many pavilions, pavilions and pavilions.

The place they live in is gorgeous, but these places are difficult for ordinary people to go to. If you want to achieve success, it is no less than fighting a war.

"It can be said that the Eight Major Sects are the blood-sucking insects lying on the Southern Dynasty." Gu Qinghuan said.

This is also a side effect of the decline of imperial power.

Lu Bai returned to Qingshui Town with sadness and helplessness, packed up his things, and prepared to return to Yancheng.

Yan Cheng has been away for too long, and if he doesn't go back again, something might change.

There is also Zhongshan Valley. I wonder how Wanger is managed now.

Of course Erha had to follow him back. Also accompanying him to Yancheng was Yun Niang. She had now become Lu Qinghuan's maid, standing respectfully beside him and serving Lu Qinghuan and Lu Bai very attentively.

Hong Tailang is also preparing to return to his royal court.

He made an appointment with Lu Bai to meet again at Shunfeng Warehouse in Qingshui Town in more than a month so that he could continue to search for Lian'er's whereabouts.

However, what Lu Bai didn't expect was that Yang Liangting would follow them back to Yancheng, "I am homeless in Yongle City without a father or mother. Once you leave, I wonder if the people from Xichang and the prefect will

Will come to take revenge on me again."

Therefore, after much deliberation, Yang Liangting decided that it would be best to follow Lu Bai to Yancheng.

Erha and Hong Tailang immediately became alert.

Hong Tailang said: "You, what do you mean?"

Erha looked unkind, "I want to take this opportunity to curry favor with my brother-in-law. You are so beautiful!"

Erha strongly requested to enter the city with Lu Bai.

"Get out!" Lu Bai was angry.

He is a Jinyiwei, so bringing a monster into the city is nothing.

As for taking Yang Liangting back to Yancheng——

Lu Bai is not a philanthropist, and he will not raise an idle person in vain, "You, what will you do?"

Yang Liangting scratched his head in embarrassment, "I, I, I was originally a student of the academy. I originally planned to go to the capital to take the exam this year, but now I'm afraid, I can't -"

Lu Bai understood.

It's just useless.

The only use may be to become a teacher in the academy under his powerful family.

In Lu Bai's Haoqi sect, while practicing martial arts, the disciples also have to go to school, and they even have to be divided into civil and martial arts in the end - those who have the potential to practice martial arts continue to practice martial arts, and those without the potential to practice martial arts are instead trained as Shunfeng Inn, which is used by the bank.

Talent, let alone in Yancheng, is a very unique teaching model in the whole world.

However, Gu Qinghuan's eyes lit up and she asked: "Did you win the lottery?"

Yang Liangting nodded.

Gu Qinghuan turned around and glanced at Lu Bai. There were a few literate people in Lu Baihao's academy, but there were really not many people who were truly knowledgeable. Lu Bai didn't want to hire some old scholars because he wanted these old scholars to be able to follow the rules.

If he uses his ideas to teach students, they will scold Lu Bai for insulting the sages' books.

Therefore, the vast academy has been supported by a few unsatisfactory scholars found by Lu Qinghuan.

Now, if Lu Bai brings back Yang Liangting, a talented scholar, he will still be able to support his appearance.

If he goes to Haoqimen Academy twice, and then sends him to the capital to take the exam, and if he passes the general examination or palace examination, Haoqimen Academy may become famous and he can support himself.

Lu Bai caught Gu Qinghuan's look and pretended to be reluctant: "I can take you to Yancheng, but you have to teach me and you have to teach as I say."

Yang Liangting hurriedly agreed, "No problem, no problem, as long as you follow the big people, everything will be fine."

Damn it!

Lu Bai finally understood that this was also a man who cared about his sister.

Now Lu Bai was curious about what his sister was like. She was loved by everyone and liked by monsters.

After making this agreement, it happened that Shunfeng Warehouse had a batch of goods to be transported to Yancheng, so Lu Bai and the others set off with the convoy.

This time, Erha and Yang Liangting rode in a carriage.

Lu Bai and Lu Qinghuan were riding in a carriage, and Yun Niang never left their side.

On the road, they traveled smoothly and did not see any monsters.

During breaks, Lu Qinghuan would occasionally test Yang Liangting's knowledge. Although Yang Liangting didn't answer questions fluently, he still had merits. Gu Qinghuan would sometimes give him some pointers, which made Yang Liangting admire him and he benefited a lot.

"I didn't expect you knew quite a lot." Lu Bai was surprised.

In the aspect of imperial examination, Gu Qinghuan actually studied it very deeply.

Gu Qinghuan said proudly, "When you get to the city, go and ask around. Miss Gu Si was famous back then. Many people regret that she is a girl."

When Gu Qinghuan was in her boudoir, she was studying this in order to gain the false reputation of being a talented woman.

She can't say that she has thoroughly studied the books of sages, poems, songs, and eight-part essays, but she can still speak deeply about them.

She told Lu Baizi that Yang Liangting was still talented. Now that she had given her guidance, he could still be ranked number one, number two, or third overall, but he could still be ranked among the best.

This talent is worth cultivating.

Lu Bai nodded and reassured Lu Qinghuan that this talent would never be able to escape because his sister was here.

In just five days, Lu Bai and the others returned to the Rabbit Cottage.

Afterwards, Lu Bai parted ways with the convoy and asked the convoy to take Yang Liangting back to Yancheng, while they went to Zhongshan Valley.

Lu Bai originally thought that Zhongshan Valley was in chaos.

After all, Wang'er is still young, so he may not be ruthless enough to take care of Zhongshan Valley as quickly as he can cut through the mess.

But contrary to Lu Bai's expectation, the middle valley is now peaceful, and the monsters live and work in peace and contentment, each performing their duties.

The only difference is that there are many different things in the middle valley.
To be continued...