Chapter two hundred and ninety fourth double happiness
After sending away the happy eldest grandson Shunde, Xiao Han's private collection of fine tea was reduced by half! But if you exchange a little tea for a whole mountain, this business is not a loss at all!
Everything has been going well recently. I wonder if it's because he is too close to Fu Jiang. Xiao Han stretched out, hummed a little song and was about to go back to the house to catch up on some sleep, when Uncle Lunzi came back again.
"Hey, where are you going? Go ask what happened?"
Uncle Lunzi was about to turn aside dejectedly when he heard Xiao Han calling him, so he had to retract his feet in embarrassment and asked a little embarrassedly: "Master Hou, do you know?"
"Nonsense! With your impatient attitude, it's strange that I don't know! What did you ask?" Xiao Han asked impatiently.
"This..." Uncle Lunzi looked around, walked quickly to Xiao Han, whispered into Xiao Han's ear: "As Lao Lu guessed, they are not enemy spies! They are refugees.
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"Refugees?" Xiao Han irritably pushed away the old Xiaodong who stretched out his ears, and said angrily: "What's so strange about refugees? It's true that the guide also hides this little thing in your hands.
There must be a lot of hardship here!"
"Hehe..." Uncle Lunzi smiled honestly, scratched his head and said: "I didn't have to endure hardship, so I went to scare him, and he did everything! He said it was because he was afraid that we would arrest those refugees at first. He and those
We've known each other for a long time, so I kept hiding it because I couldn't bear to harm them."
Xiao Han yawned a little and said lazily: "Catch them? Why are we arresting them? Just for free?"
Uncle Lunzi shrugged his shoulders and said indifferently: "Master Hou, of course you won't be too lazy to catch the refugees. It's the guide who uses the heart of a villain to judge the belly of a gentleman! But I think this man is not hard-boned, but
His mind is quite right! He also knows how to cover for others, so he doesn’t embarrass him."
"What else do refugees need to cover up? If they can't survive anymore, it's not normal to hide in the mountains!" Xiao Han said with a nonchalant smile.
Unexpectedly, when Uncle Lunzi and Xiaodong heard this, they both shook their heads: "Master Hou, you may not know. No matter where they are, refugees do not have any identity! As long as they are caught, the sixty big board is
Absolutely indispensable! The government has said that if refugees evade taxes, fees, and military service, how can they be treated lightly? Therefore, our brothers in the auxiliary military camp would rather die in battle than become refugees! As long as you become a refugee, you will never be able to turn around in your life.
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"So miserable? You can't live anymore and you won't even be allowed to hide?" Xiao Han was a little surprised.
"In the whole world, is it the king's soil? On the shore of the land, is it the king's ministers..." Uncle Lunzi still remembered the sentence he read when the Yamen caught the refugees. He shook his head and read it out. But suddenly he found that he only remembered this sentence, and the rest
I guess those big boards have already been knocked into those people’s butts!
"Hey, you still know the sentences in the Book of Songs?" Xiao Han looked at the stupid uncle and couldn't laugh or cry. He patted him on the shoulder and said, "Forget it, we just need to know about this. Don't tell it. Lao Lu, you can also wait there.
Let me know. Living in the mountains is already very difficult! Let’s not cause trouble to others!”
"Here!" Uncle Lengzi and Xiaodong saluted Xiao Han with their hands raised. They also felt some compassion for these people.
Waving his hands so that the two of them did not have to salute, Xiao Han felt a little sad in his heart at this time.
As long as they can survive, who will run into the mountains! The place is densely populated with insects and ants, not to mention the jackals, tigers and leopards running everywhere now! In the end, there will probably not be many people left.
Thinking about the difficulty of life, Xiao Han had no intention of sleeping. He walked to the stone bench in the yard and sat down, then pointed to several other stone benches and asked Uncle Lunzi and Xiaodong to sit down.
After the two of them sat down, Xiao Han held his head and asked: "Do you know how many refugees there are? When did they hide in the mountains? How did the guide know those people?"
"How many people don't know..." Uncle Fool shook his head, and then replied: "According to the guide, he hid there during the last expedition to Goguryeo! A lot of people died in the family when those people were digging the river channel.
Not to mention the first two expeditions to Liaodong! The last time I was really scared, so I went straight up the mountain and never came down again!
As for the guide, he accidentally met them when he went hunting, and later did some business with them, and then he became familiar with them."
"Business?" Xiao Han held his head and nodded slowly. People in the mountains are not self-sufficient in everything. Among other things, food is the biggest problem. People can't survive by eating meat alone!
We all need to eat some food, not to mention that when winter comes in the mountains, it will be difficult to find meat!"
Sure enough, I heard the stupid uncle take a breath and continue: "According to the guide, he brought some grain, iron tools, and linen in exchange for some meat, furs, and expensive herbs. After one year, he earned
It’s much more than hunting by myself.”
"Haha, this person can do business! Those people don't dare to show their faces, so he has the final say on the price! If he can't make any more money, he might as well just kill him!" Xiao Han said humorously.
"Haha..." Uncle Lunzi and Xiaodong both laughed. Laughing and laughing, Uncle Lunzi suddenly remembered something and suddenly stopped his smile. He lowered his voice and said to Xiao Han: "Master Hou, there is one more thing.
The old man almost forgot! The guide accidentally said that the refugees in the mountains once traded salt with him for food."
"What? Salt?" Xiao Han was shocked by Uncle Lunzi's words.
He just heard that when those people lived in the mountains, they were still thinking about the story of the white-haired girl. Wasn't it because the white-haired girl didn't have salt to eat that her hair turned white? How could they have salt!
"Yes, salt!" Uncle Lunzi looked at the surprised Xiao Han and Xiaodong and nodded heavily, "It is indeed salt. I asked the guide specifically at that time! But he said that there seemed to be something wrong with the salt and that it could not be eaten as ordinary salt, so
He only changed it twice and never changed it again!”
"Where's the guide? Find him! Go quickly! Also, if he still has any salt at home, remember to bring it with him!"
When Xiao Han heard this, he couldn't help but feel excited! He quickly urged Uncle Lunzi to take the people!
The problem of lack of salt in Xiazhou City has not been solved until now. Without salt to eat, the combat power cannot be improved! Now that he heard that the refugees had salt in their hands, no matter where they got it from, Xiao Han was not going to let it go.
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Uncle Lunzi left in a hurry, and Xiao Han got up anxiously and walked around waiting for him to come back. But Xiaodong said to Xiao Han suspiciously: "Master Hou, how can there be salt in the mountains? Is the guide lying to us?"
"No!" Xiao Han stood still and looked far away in the direction of the Qinling Mountains. "Lying will not do him any good! Besides, there are all kinds of wonders in this world! As far as I know, there is a land full of white salt in the west of our Tang Dynasty.
This place! The roads and houses there are paved with salt! If we were allowed to eat it, even if the whole Tang Dynasty ate it together, we would probably be able to eat it for several lifetimes!"
"Is there such a place?" Xiaodong's eyes were filled with stars. He couldn't imagine what a place full of salt looked like!
"Yes!" Xiao Han suppressed his irritability, sat down again and rubbed his head and said: "Even in the mountains, there are salt mines! Not only salt mines, there is also a plant in the mountains, and its fruit is covered with a layer of salt!
I just hope these refugees have discovered a salt mine!"
Xiao Han and Xiaodong were waiting anxiously at home for Uncle Lunzi to come back. Every minute and second passed was extremely unbearable! I don’t know how long it took before Uncle Lunzi returned to the yard with the guide. As soon as the two entered the yard, Xiao Han
I was keenly aware that Uncle Lunzi was holding something wrapped in black cloth in his hand.
"Close the door!" Xiao Han hurriedly stood up and directed Xiaodong to close the courtyard door first, and then stepped forward to take the black cloth from Uncle Lunzi's hand.
"Young...I have met Mr. Hou..." When the guide looked at Xiao Han, his knees subconsciously bent. If Uncle Fool hadn't grabbed him, he would have been lying on the ground by now!
Now ignoring the timid guide, Xiao Han quickly walked to the stone table holding the black cloth. He opened it carefully, and a gray-brown thing was revealed.
"What is this?" Xiao Han had never seen a salt mine in his two lifetimes, and he was a little stunned at this time.
