Yunzheng Geyi cloth shoes were wearing a pair of thousand-layer cloth shoes, carrying a load of firewood and walking briskly on the mountain path. Behind him was a long line of people, each carrying firewood on their shoulders.
This firewood is enough for the people in the village to use for a long time.
For some unknown reason, a piece of forest died on Nanshan Mountain. The old patriarch ordered the whole clan to go there and cut down the wood. The thicker ones were cut into logs, which would be used to build houses and sheds in the future. The remaining dead branches could only be used as firewood.
As a member of the village, Yunzheng naturally would not lag behind. At dawn, he led the monkey, Han Niu and thirty generals up the mountain with the people in the village.
After peeling off the bark of a tree, the old patriarch said: "The trees here are infested with insects. The big insects have got into the heart of the trees. No wonder the trees here are all dead. It's a pity that these trees are used as beams and pillars."
If it doesn't work, it can only be burned into charcoal, otherwise when the insects hatch in spring, more trees will be harmed, and they will be cut down, and not a single one will be left.
Let’s replant some trees when spring comes…”
Although the old patriarch did not explain the truth clearly, everyone still followed the old rules in the mountains. Those who cut down trees felled trees, and those who carried firewood picked up firewood. The whole day passed quietly like this.
The Yun family members also put away their bright clothes. They can wear whatever they want in the city, but in the countryside, cotton clothes are most suitable.
Lu Qingqing has evolved to the point where it doesn't matter what clothes he wears. He wraps his head with a handkerchief, feeds the chickens in the chicken pen, and scolds the shopkeeper here with a sullen face.
"I have placed you in this beautiful place all these years, but you have not achieved any results at all. Instead, you have lost two business routes and six people. Even if the Tubo people are overbearing, they are not capable of operating in our territory.
Show off your power.
Say, what happened to this business road in Yuanshan? The family owner made a lot of money running this business road back then, how come it was immediately ruined when it was handed over to you?"
An old shopkeeper hurriedly bowed and said: "To report back to you, Madam, it's not because I can't wait for you, but because the war has started again in Yuanshan..."
Lu Qingqing frowned and said: "Barbarians are always fighting, and they haven't stopped in recent years. It's not surprising. Isn't it said that business is easier to do when there is a war?"
The old shopkeeper hurriedly defended: Madam, I don’t know. Over the years, our family has sold herbs to Yuanshan, sold swords to the imperial court, and recycled cattle, sheep, tendons, horns, skins and horsetails of domestic animals.
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In the early days of the war, the murderous Tibetans were willing to pay anything in exchange for medicinal materials and weapons. Over the past few years, the livestock there have become very scarce, and it has been difficult to receive goods. The leaders still want us.
Herbal medicines and swords from the court, but there is nothing to exchange for them. The villain who wants credit will naturally not do it. Who would lend goods to a poor man on credit? On the way back, the poor and crazy leaders came to rob the things.
, even though they were repelled by our guards, six people were still injured. It’s because of the villain’s lack of thinking. Please deal with it, madam.”
When Lu Qingqing heard what the shopkeeper said, he lost his temper, threw the last handful of grain in the basket to the chickens, and invited the old shopkeeper to the living room for tea.
Lu Qingqing took a sip of tea and asked, "Is the situation there bad?"
The old shopkeeper wiped the sweat from his forehead and said: "Because the business quota is constantly shrinking, the villain personally went to the plateau this fall to evaluate the trading environment there. It turned out that
The autumn grass has grown as tall as a person, but there are no herdsmen to harvest it. Looking around, there are only a few cattle and sheep on the grassland, but the bones of those killed in battle can be seen everywhere. According to what the villain has seen and heard, those herdsmen this year
I’m afraid many people will starve to death.”
"You guys only know how to draw water from the pool and don't know how to pour water into it. Naturally, this business will become more and more useless."
Yun Zheng came in from the outside sweating profusely as he spoke. He hadn't picked up firewood for many years and found that it was a lot more strenuous.
Lu Qingqing stood up and helped Yun Zheng wash up. After washing, Yun Zheng covered his face with a hot towel and said in a loud voice: "Our final goal is to get that grassland. There are not many places in Sichuan that can raise horses. Yuanshan
There is an excellent area at the back, but it is occupied by the Tibetans, so we cannot occupy it.
The best way is to let the Tubo people there kill each other until there is no one left, and that area will naturally become our place.
Now you have drained the wealth there in one breath, and people are starving to death. What kind of war are they fighting? If nothing unexpected happens, the war there will subside. This is not a good thing. Although the war is
Once it calms down, the family's business will get better, but those few pennies are nothing, seizing the grassland there is the important goal."
The old shopkeeper said respectfully: "Master Hou, you mean that our family should give them the goods on credit?"
Yun Zheng pulled off the hot towel on his face, drank the water in the tea cup in one gulp, and said with a smile: "Whoever hurts our guard, we will help his opponent and give his opponent a hope of destroying him in a short time.
, of course, you go to the imperial merchants and ask them to help the side that injured our guard. The war will continue to fight after all.
If you do some calculations, how many Tubo tribes have been lost behind Yuanshan in recent years? How many new tribes have arisen? Let me tell you, what we want is this kind of effect of one chicken dying and one chicken crowing, and the new land obtained in this way
, others have nothing to say.
Once the grassland becomes our own, no matter how much output there is, it will be ours and there is no need to exchange it with others."
The shopkeeper was overjoyed when he heard this and said: "The Tubo people are at the end of their rope now. I think it is best that the supplies we rescue this time should be mainly food, salt and tea, plus a large number of feather arrows.
This will arouse Nolena's ambition.
Lord Marquis, can you please make some preparations for our family to enter the grassland? A large number of mountain people in the mountains hope to find a place where they can live for a long time, and the grassland is the best place."
Lu Qingqing said: "What's the point of letting the imperial court go in front and our family in front? As long as we get the grassland, there will be a place for our family no matter what."
The shopkeeper took the order and left. Lu Qingqing wiped the dust off Yun Zheng's body with a wet towel and said with a smile: "It's not easy for the dignified Marquis to pick up firewood and burn charcoal. Wouldn't it be wrong for you to leave a large group of royal children in Baiyun Mountain?
Do you want to hear it?"
Yun Zheng smiled and said: "What kind of soldiers can I train? Lang Lige and Sun Qizhi have become fat and big-eared over the years. Who can I use if they don't need them?"
Lu Qingqing smiled and said: "Kui Ming has come to you twice. It's not good for you to always hide, right? I made it clear that I only plan to have a child and have no intention of marrying you. Wei Ming is Xixia's first child anyway.
You beauty, why do you always avoid taking advantage of me?"
Yun Zheng looked at Lu Qingqing suspiciously and said, "I'm worried that if you do this, you will stab me to death with a knife while I'm sleeping."
Lu Qingqing said with a sly smile: "I'm not that vicious. If you let me into the house knowing that you're marrying a matchmaker, I won't say anything. What's the point of being a dirty mess outside? A down-and-out barbarian woman.
That's all, she can say such shameless things, no one will even look at her."
Yun Zheng put his arms around Lu Qingqing, put her on his lap and said with a smile: "It's not strange for a woman to live in a bunker-like house with a large group of women. She should find some strange thoughts. She should find someone by herself."
Marry a good person instead of wasting your prime years like this, only to realize that everything is in vain after living a lifetime.
The reason why she came to me was entirely because she saw too few men. You are right, a Hu woman cannot withstand the sweet words of a Han family man. She will find her own happiness on her own.
After all, if you have money, you must have good looks."
When Yun Zheng said this, he felt guilty. Wei Ming had stayed in Shuzhong for seven or eight years. She was originally a beauty, but now she has red lips, white teeth, and protruding teeth. The most troublesome thing is that she doesn't know who she learned from.
The girl from the Han family is so charming. If she hadn't drank too little when we last met, she might have done something ridiculous.
You can't think about this matter, you will get angry just thinking about it. Holding a beautiful woman in your arms, your thoughts that are ready to move will be revealed immediately. Lu Qingqing will naturally feel it, her face will be red and she will take a sip of Yun Zheng, and then hold her with both hands.
Live on Yunzheng's neck...
After a long time, the two people came out of the back room and smiled at each other. They had been husband and wife for many years, and they were a little embarrassed to do something bad secretly. Lu Qingqing stamped her feet in shame and didn't know what to say. She always felt that she was promiscuous in daylight.
This kind of thing shouldn't happen to her, she should be a dignified and polite lady.
Yun Zheng naturally ignored it. The fire in his heart was gone and he felt relieved. In his opinion, this is what a husband and wife should be like. There should always be some inexplicable impulses. Unless they are older, if they are young, they will have nothing to do with each other.
Without attraction, such a life would be like chewing wax.
Just as she was arranging her clothes, she heard Yun Luoluo shouting "Daddy, Daddy" and running in holding a beautiful wooden waterwheel. Her floral skirt was covered with mud and water. She didn't know what she was doing just now, and she was still out of breath.
After entering the house without saying a word, he immediately dragged Yun Zheng to the edge of the shallow aqueduct. The fourth child of the Cang family opened another small canal as thick as an arm on the edge of the aqueduct, with clear spring water flowing out.
, the small canal was dug in a winding and beautiful way. In a place with a big drop, there were two small tree branches. Yun Luoluo carefully placed the water wheel on the tree branches. The small water wheel was right there.
It slowly rotates under the impact of the water flow.
The father and daughter were having a lot of fun around this small waterwheel. Yun Zheng simply dug a bigger canal, so the waterwheel turned even more cheerfully. (To be continued)