It was a quiet night in the bamboo house, but Nong Yao couldn't sleep no matter what.
In the past few years, he has opened a shop in Qiyuanzhou to welcome customers. Although the business is not very prosperous, it is still decent. The family has a pleasant life. They don't have to be like other people who have to work all day long to make a living. But Yu, he has two brothers in his family. Compared with them, he can be said to be a man of the hour in Dongzhai. The two brothers are synonymous with losers. Even at a very young age, they still have accomplished nothing. It’s not that they can’t do it. , but there is really no way out in the mountains, and the gold that will shine again can only be buried in the soil when it comes here.
But the ferocious South Vietnamese made all this a thing of the past.
Nong Yao's family began to wander and became homeless again. He sent his wife and daughter away and asked them to return to their hometown in Dongzhai in the northwest, where there were few people and no one could be found anywhere.
Over the years, he has also thought about getting ahead, but it is already very difficult to survive in this world. How could he still think about getting ahead? By his age, many people have become grandfathers. What else can he think about in life? When circumstances change, it means you can't live with yourself.
Now there is a new way in front of him.
Liang Chuan had weighed all the pros and cons for him, and he couldn't help but nod his head. The result was the same. If he didn't leave, he would end up dead. The best way out was to work for him, join the chieftain, and help them sell goods. Salt.
Nong Yao thought about it all night and finally accepted this fact.
Liang Chuan's momentum is like that of a powerful man in the world. How can he be stable in troubled times? Only a person like this who licks blood from his knife head can finally turn around! And what he was most worried about was that Liang Chuan would reveal the death of South Vietnamese soldiers in his store, so that he would have no way to escape!
At dawn, Nong Yao came to Liang Chuan with two dark circles under his eyes.
Liang Chuan looked at Nong Yao's dejected look and said jokingly: "Why didn't you sleep well last night? You are so out of energy. Or is there something on your mind that you haven't figured out?"
Nong Yao said to Liang Chuan with a sudden heart: "I have figured it out, Master Qing, I will follow your lead."
"Don't worry, if you call me brother, I will come down and call me father. Do you want to help me celebrate my birthday next year?"
"Brother Di!"
After Liang Chuan's second time travel, his mind seemed to have matured a lot. Although he had no impression, he was more wary of people. He would not trust these people easily, except for his daughter Ah Yue.
"Brother doesn't just scream randomly. Since we are brothers, according to the way we do it, brothers share the same difficulties. No one can live in isolation. Brother, where is your hometown? Take me to see it?"
What Liang Chuan did was a truly life-threatening act. Naturally, he couldn't leave a loophole for others to steal his own escape route.
When people in ancient times wanted to cut off other people's escape routes, they meant cutting off their roots. If they had scruples, they would naturally obey orders.
When Nong Yao heard that Liang Chuan was going to their hometown, he really trembled from the depths of his soul.
In order to leave a way out, he had asked his wife and children to return to Xidong Cave first. Unexpectedly, Liang Chuan directly wanted to know his lair. .
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What a ruthless person. He knows about his hometown. If one day he has second thoughts, he should be prepared to die. Not only will he die, but also the whole family in the mountain will die!
After thinking about it all night, he had long expected such a result. A trace of determination flashed in Nong Yao's eyes, and he made up his mind: "My hometown is in the most remote place in the northwest of Guangnan, but if my eldest brother wants to go, I will naturally You should lead the way.”
Good boy, Liang Chuan said: "Then let's be respectful rather than obey orders. It just so happens that we are tired of staying at home these days. Let's go to your hometown and see the customs and customs!"
Liang Chuan patted Nong Yao on the shoulder. This boy was really ready to reveal his background to him. This is how business should be done. Otherwise, everyone would be hiding their secrets. Once the suspicion is revealed, it will become more and more serious in the future, until the end. It can only end hastily, no human life is light.
Liang Chuan had already thought about it. If this boy followed him, he might know what his trump card was. If he didn't find his lair, how would he be able to control him in the future?
When Ah Yue heard what Liang Chuan and Nong Yao said, she immediately stood up: "Are we going out again?"
Liang Chuan glanced at the little girl and said, "How about you stay at home this time, Ah Yue, and I go out with your Uncle Nong?"
When the little girl heard that she was going to stay alone in this house, she immediately became unhappy: "No, daddy, I will go wherever you go!"
Liang Chuan pretended to sigh helplessly. After getting along with this little guy day and night, his relationship has long been to the point where it is better than his own. He himself is reluctant to take the child with him to suffer, but he is even more worried about leaving it at home. Now they are The person who committed the crime might come to your door one day. How could you let Ah Yue keep it by herself?
"Then pack your things, we'll be leaving soon!"
What else is there in the house? The only valuable thing is salt. The only thing I can bring is clothes. I can pack it in a roll and be ready to go!
Ah Yue and Nong Yao handed over the remaining sheep at home to the villagers, and Liang Chuan paid some money, which they regarded as their hard-earned money these days. The three of them glanced at the empty bamboo building, and the water at the foot of the mountain was still flowing. Stop, but they have to embark on a new journey.
From Guangnan to the northwest, on the border with Yunnan, you can see the mountains in the distance with the naked eye. The tops of the mountains are covered with white snow that never melts all year round.
There are also rivers here, but after the snow melts, the snow water cuts the valley deep and wide like a knife. The current is so fast that only fish can survive in it, and human power cannot resist such a majestic force.
There is no waterway, so we have to trek continuously on the 11th road.
Fortunately, Liang Chuan was not a stingy person. He had money in his hands, so he decisively picked up a few Yunnan horses at the horse market in nearby Xidong as soon as he left Guangyuan.
The strange thing is that Liang Chuan seemed to have learned to ride a horse. As soon as he sat on the horse, his muscles reflexively matched the horse's pace to avoid suffering on the horse's back.
This was not the first time Liang Chuan had this feeling. When he was killing people in Nongyao's restaurant in Qiyuan Prefecture, he felt that he was as familiar with the knife as he was with chopsticks. Nowadays, the same goes for riding horses. There are three people, two horses, and a green mule. The mule's back is full of nearly two hundred kilograms of refined salt.
To deceive others, the mules also carried some grain on their backs.
I don’t know how long it took for Nong Yao’s family to escape home from Qiyuan Prefecture. Only Liang Chuan knew his suffering. Although he had a horse on his crotch, he was still exhausted and it took him half a day to get over it. A mountain leaves the Yujiang River basin.
Nong Yao didn't lie to Liang Chuan. His hometown was in the so-called Tianzhou in western Guangxi, which was already one of the most remote areas. It had farmland in name but only a few acres of land in reality. There are no cash crops in the mountains, and there is not even much land. The only things that are abundant are towering ancient trees and rugged mountains with strange rocks.
Liang Chuan's understanding of poverty was once again refreshed. The government no longer had the intention to open roads into the mountains. The roads they took were mostly trails washed out by mountain torrents or flat areas by the river. Nong Yao led two people and held each other's hands. The green mule is holding a hatchet in the other hand, clearing a path as he walks!
It’s no wonder that the imperial court was ineffective. Most of these areas were outside the Song Dynasty and were outside the Song Dynasty. If the people didn’t pay food and taxes to the imperial court, how could the imperial court invest in them? Most of the people in these places are barbarians. If they are fattened, they will be a disaster to the Central Plains. They understand this truth better than anyone else!
The primitive area with no roads is full of vegetation and mountains. Going up and down the mountains repeatedly, except for mules and horses, people are almost dizzy. The most unbearable thing for Liang Chuan is the mosquitoes in the woods!
Liang Chuan no longer knew how many flying mosquitoes he had swatted to death, but he still let these ferocious little things bite them out one by one. He had never felt so many flying mosquitoes in the Guangyuan Bamboo House. What happened when he usually looked at a lush mountain forest? So many floaters.
If a person had no other tools, he would be sucked into dried meat after living in this forest for just one night!
"It would be great if there were two coils of mosquito-repellent incense so that you could experience what it means to eliminate mosquitoes without a trace!"
Ah Yue had never seen mosquito repellent incense before, and Nong Yao immediately agreed upon hearing this: "Mosquito incense? This thing is valuable. Although it is not as valuable as agarwood and other spices, one plate can last only one night, and it costs several pennies. After all, It’s also an extremely luxurious item!”
What he was thinking was, you deserve to be from the chieftain's house, and your living expenses are so high. If you put it in an ordinary family, who could afford it?
Liang Chuan said it casually, but after hearing what Nong Yao said, he immediately sensed something was wrong and asked: "You... know about mosquito coils?"
Seeing that Liang Chuan was a little surprised, Nong Yao was naturally a little proud. He immediately introduced it and said: "Mosquito-repellent incense is also a new thing that has become fashionable in recent years. It is said that it was passed down from Fujian Road. It is sold at a very high price. I am also When opening a restaurant, sometimes customers need to stay in the hotel to use it, so I have heard of this thing. A small circle is only enough to burn for one night, and a circle costs several pennies, which is comparable to a piece of meat money. We people like this It’s all a pain in the ass, how can I afford it?”
One lap? Could it really be the kind of mosquito coil he had seen? Liang Chuan was afraid that the two people were talking about different things, so he immediately reached out and made signs in the air.
In order to take care of the business of the store, Nong Yao also bought a few rounds from Han merchants to test the effect. He had to admire that these Han people knew how to do business. After ordering a round, there were indeed fewer mosquitoes in the room, and the customers were all happy. Praise for the good environment here and no mosquitoes to bother people!
"Brother, I have seen mosquito coils before and even bought them. Isn't it the kind of thing that smells faintly when burned? Even mosquitoes are afraid of it!"
This time it was really Liang Chuan's turn to be surprised. He thought that these contemporary people would be surprised when he said a few things about future generations. He didn't expect that he was the clown. They had seen the world a long time ago!
