"Sir, Su Wo Rulu has indeed sent someone to follow us."
Su Wo Rulu's cronies thought they were being careful, but they didn't know that Tang Ping and the others were watching every move they made.
"Hey, can you let me out?" Tang Ping said nothing, but the voice of the big brother from the mountain came from the bottom of his feet.
This carriage was specially made by Tang Dynasty craftsmen. They took advantage of the visual difference of the decorations inside to leave a hidden compartment at the bottom of the carriage where people could hide.
The eldest brother on the back of the mountain is short in stature, so it is not difficult to hide in, but it is dark and suffocating.
When he heard that they were leaving the city, he shouted from below.
Tang Ping pressed the button, and with a few creaks, the secret compartment opened, and the big brother Wang from Shanbei also climbed out.
"Huhu, it's still comfortable outside!" Yamaback's brother Wang also felt a little excited, and he actually got out of the heavily guarded Nara Castle in this way.
He was even considering whether to buy Tang Ping's carriage when he went back.
"You said Su Wo Rulu sent people to follow you? Why did he follow you? Is he familiar with you?"
Shanbei's eldest brother Wang asked curiously.
"Read your storybook." Li Bai slapped a storybook on the chest of Shanbei Brother Wang. He took it happily, then sat in the corner and started reading.
"Yeah, why did he send people to follow us?" Tang Ping also asked with a smile.
This Suwa Rulu was assigned to conduct a thorough investigation at the city gate, but he sent someone to follow them. This is very abnormal in itself.
He is the weakest among the three forces. They also have a certain alliance with Brother Shanbei. Speaking of which, they don't want to see Brother Shanbei being assassinated.
"Unless he suspects that we have something to do with the assassination of Brother Shanbei." Li Bai said with a frown. Su Wo's behavior was indeed very puzzling.
"It's really troublesome!" Lao Cui muttered: "If you catch the person and ask him, won't you know?"
"Even if these people know something, they are limited." Tang Ping shook his head: "But it can be used to knock down mountains and shake tigers."
"Knocking the mountain to shake the tiger?"
"Yes, after a while, Lao Cui, you and Xue Rengui arrested the people, and then told them that we had discovered everything about them, but we just didn't want to pay attention to them, and then let them go."
"Why did you do this? What did we find out about them?" Lao Cui didn't understand. He arrested them and then let them go.
"We can't let them follow us all the time. It would be too inconvenient. And let them know that every move they make is discovered by us. Then it's Suga's turn to guess how much we discovered."
"Okay!" Lao Cui still couldn't figure it out, but he left these mental things to Tang Ping and Li Bai, and they just had to follow them.
There were only three people and three horses following behind. He and Xue Rengui quietly got out of the car at a corner of the road, and then lurked on the roadside.
Within a moment, the three people following him followed.
Suddenly a whistle was heard, and then the two men's eyes darkened and they fell off their horses.
The remaining man was so frightened that he drew his sword and looked at Lao Cui and Xue Rengui who suddenly jumped out.
Seeing that the two of them didn't even cover their faces, he thought he was going to die here today. Unexpectedly, Lao Cui said: "Your two brothers are not dead, they just fainted. Our young master doesn't like others to follow him, and then go back and tell your lords , We all know about your affairs, but our young master doesn’t like to meddle in other people’s business, so don’t mess with us.”
"Otherwise it won't be as simple as fainting next time."
After speaking, Lao Cui and Lao Du snatched the horses from the fallen two men and beat them away.
The remaining man looked at the two people walking away, and then at the two people lying on the road on his side, and had no choice but to dismount.
After sniffing the two people's breaths, they found that they were indeed the same. He put them both on his own horse, and then the three of them headed towards Nara Castle.
After getting rid of the tail, Tang Ping and the others became much more relaxed.
All the way east, the scenery is different from Nara.
The biggest feeling is - poverty.
In Nara, you can still feel that Nara is imitating Chang'an, but it is not as prosperous. However, soon after leaving Nara, it is difficult to see the Tang style architecture and clothing.
There are thatched shacks on the roadside, and the clothes worn by pedestrians are also in tatters.
When I saw Tang Ping's carriage passing by, people who looked like refugees came up to beg from time to time.
"What...what is going on?" Shanbei's eldest brother Wang was a little stunned, and he couldn't stand what he was saying.
There were several children kneeling next to their carriage. They looked to be no more than ten years old. They stretched out their hands and lowered their heads, begging to the carriage in the local dialect.
"You don't think all of you Fusang can have enough food and clothing, do you?" Lao Cui looked at him and asked.
"But... why have we never seen such... common people when we traveled in the past?" Brother Shanbei asked with some confusion.
"Because someone doesn't want you to see it, you naturally can't see it." Tang Ping also had a headache.
He didn't like this country, but when he saw the sallow-looking children on the roadside coming to beg, it was hard for him to refuse.
"Can... give them some food or money?" Shanbei's eldest brother suddenly asked.
"I borrowed it from you."
Tang Ping didn't expect that the Shanbei Prince was a bit stupid, but he still had some conscience.
"Okay, then this won't count as your interest." The problem that Tang Ping was struggling with was instantly solved. Although he gave some food and change, in total, it was all borrowed by Shanbei's brother Wang, so then It doesn’t count as something you gave yourself.
After leaving the beggars and walking a little further, Brother Shanbei didn't read the storybook again, but was thinking about something.
Then he suddenly sat up straight and asked, "I still charge interest on the money I borrowed from you?"
The length of this reflex arc made Tang Ping and the others stunned for a moment, and then he said, "What else? Does your Prince's Mansion lend money without charging interest?"
Shanbei's eldest brother Wang thought about what he had heard in the past that his family's farmers would ask the housekeeper to borrow money when they were having trouble. It seemed that they would also charge interest, so he nodded a little unacceptable.
"Are you people in the Tang Dynasty like this too?" Brother Shanbei asked again.
"Were you thinking about this just now?" Tang Ping did not answer his question directly.
"Yeah." Shanbei's eldest brother Wang admitted honestly.
"There are basically no such people in the Tang Dynasty now. As long as they are willing to work, it is basically not difficult to have enough food and clothing in the Tang Dynasty."
Now that Datang is developing at a rapid pace, all walks of life are short of manpower, so as long as they can work and have enough to eat, there will definitely be no problem.
In addition to supervising local governments, the inspection team composed of second-generation officials like Cheng Chumo and others is also responsible for strictly investigating shady enterprises in various places.
Therefore, it cannot be said that there were no people who starved to death in the Tang Dynasty, but there were really very few people.
"We Fusang are learning from Tang Dynasty everywhere. What exactly have we learned?" Shanbei's eldest brother Wang was a little confused.
