Four lanterns

Chapter 10: Lost in the Bamboo Sea, Looking for a Companion All the way to Fengyuan (3)

The sun is gradually rising, and everything yesterday seems to have been as long as a year.The rustling sound of the bamboo sea was accompanied by the muddy smell mixed in the wind, and the bloody smell left in the muddy smell seemed to remind the boys and girls and a group of monkeys in the bamboo sea that the bloody storm yesterday was of course There are also "gold and candies" all over the floor.

This man and woman are sitting in a carriage, and of course there is a huge monkey.At first, Lu Zhao only thought of himself and Lou Wan, but who would have thought that the golden monkey would also get in the car.The horse that originally pulled the cart kicked when it saw such a monkey trying to pull it by itself, so Lu Zhao had no choice but to find another horse from Lu Ziying, and together with this horse, bear the humiliation of the horse-drawn monkey.Strange to say, after the two horses snorted twice, they pulled the cart in silence, no longer competing.

"Lu Zhao, according to our speed, we should be able to reach Fengyuan Pass tonight. After passing Fengyuan Pass, we should be in Fengyuan City. I can only send you outside the pass. I have never been inside the pass, so I don't know the way. Fengyuan Pass The gatekeeper is Bai Xin who slaughtered your Lu Ziying yesterday." Lou Wan said worriedly.

"The Encounter Road is narrow! Is there any way to bypass Fengyuan Pass?"

"I heard that there is a way. You don't need to go through Fengyuan Pass in the open. Caravans trading with Lubei don't want to pay high tariffs, so Luqi Chamber of Commerce made a deal with Commander Bai Xin. Twenty miles outside the city Inside, there is a teahouse. This teahouse will not be permanent, but will be set up based on the time when each caravan leaves the city, and the date of its return will be reversed. You only need to pay [-]% of the tax here, and you can get fake Customs clearance document."

"Won't Bai Xin find out about the fake customs clearance document?" Lu Zhao asked

"Please think about it with your brain, I really don't know what is on your shoulder." Lou Wan said contemptuously
"You mean, this is Bai Xin's own private treasury? Then why give a fake customs clearance document? Oh, I understand. If the court traces it down, he can blame the person who forged the customs clearance document. , and only bear a misdemeanor that cannot be clearly examined. At that time, this fat man looked like a big and three rough, but he didn't expect to have such a delicate mind." Lu Zhao thought.

"Hahaha, didn't you come up with this idea, and you're not too stupid, there's no harm in using your brain more, otherwise you'd just fight and kill and compete with others every day. It's really stupid." Lou Wan agreed, but also disagreed. Forget to mock Lu Zhao.

"Since we are not a caravan, we will enter the customs in a big way. As long as you don't go in with us, you monkey will not attract attention." Lu Zhao said looking at Xiao Jinzi.

Xiao Jinzi pulled the lower eyelids with his hands, stuck out his tongue, and spat on Lu Zhao's face.

"Two children and a carriage, how can you not be suspicious. Well, don't worry about it, I'll handle the matter of entering the customs." Lou Wan said, looking at what Lu Zhao wanted to say, don't worry about Lou Wan alone Lu Zhao's mouth was sealed with sharp eyes.

When the sun was setting, the two of them, one monkey, two horses and one cart, had already reached twenty li outside the city.Lou Wan asked Xiao Jinzi to break some bamboos, and made a temporary shelter out of bamboo leaves. "I'll sleep here tonight, and I should be able to enter the customs tomorrow morning." Lou Wan said.

"Why put it off until tomorrow?"

"Did I tell you that you don't care?" Lou Wan was extremely impatient with Lu Zhao's constant questioning.

"Okay, so where do you sleep?"

"I built a shed wherever I could sleep."

"You mean we sleep together?"

"Little Jinzi is by your side, don't think about what to do"

"No, I mean I might snore."

"Little Jinzi, go and build another tent for him."

for a while
"Snoring!"

"Lu Zhao! Do you mean you might snore? Why do you still want to snore? Shut up!"

"Porp porp porp porp"

"Just try to sleep."

morning of the second day
Sparse voices came from outside the bamboo tent. Lu Zhao opened his eyes and walked out from under the bamboo.Lou Wan was talking to a middle-aged man at the moment.Lou Wan turned her head and saw that Lu Zhao was awake, and waved to Lu Zhao with a smile, motioning for Lu Zhao to go over.

"Uncle Ning, this is the Lu Zhao I was talking about. The two of us want to join your caravan and pass through Fengyuan Pass to Fengyuan City."

"Okay, then I get it. We'll wait for the gatekeeper's teahouse to be set up later, and we'll go into the city together after we get the customs clearance document." The man named Uncle Ning should be the leader of a certain caravan.

"Don't look at me with a puzzled face. It's 50 taels per person. I collected some taels the night before, and it will come in handy at this time." Lou Wan explained without waiting for Lu Zhao to ask questions.

Lu Zhao and Lou Wan stayed for a while, and Lou Wan said goodbye to Xiao Jinzi who was hidden deep in the bamboo forest.Waiting for Uncle Ning's caravan to pay [-]% of the tariff, the two mixed into Uncle Ning's caravan and walked towards Fengyuan Pass.

"Uncle Ning, how did you gain from this trip?" Lou Wan asked casually as if he knew the leader named Uncle Ning very well.

"Don't mention it, we are lucky. I heard that those caravans that started late were all sealed in Lubei City by the fire. I don't know if Fengyuan knows the news of Lubei's collapse." Uncle Ning As he spoke, he shook his head. The business route he had painstakingly managed was likely to be cut off with the destruction of Lu Beicheng.

"Little girl, there may not be many people coming to this trade route in the future, so you have to find another way out!" Uncle Ning reminded.

"Uncle Ning, I dare to ask you something. I saw Commander Bai leading cavalry to fight against a group of people in Zhuhai. Do you know about this?" Lu Zhao heard the news from Lu Bei, thinking about these businessmen The sources of information should be extensive, and more information may be obtained by asking more.

"Hey, boy, did you really see it? I just heard that a troop escaped from Lubei, and it was the most elite Luzi Battalion. I guess Bai Xin was afraid that such a troop would go to the Holy Majesty and saturate himself." The matter of private pockets was exposed, so he sent troops to silence the rumors. I don’t know who gave him the courage to send troops privately, but it is a big taboo. Forget it, boy, don’t talk nonsense when you enter Fengyuan, my God, It's high." Ning Shu advised.

In a few words, Lu Zhao learned that the Northern Qi had been deliberately provoking conflicts between Lu Bei and Bei Qi in the past few years, not to mention the deduction of lamp oil, and the more and more expensive trade items, which caused the living standards of the people in Lu Bei to plummet. But no one can guess the tricks in it.It seems that this Northern Qi Dynasty is the chief culprit of Lu Bei's demise.Lu Zhao thought about it.

According to Lou Wan's method, the two passed Fengyuan Pass smoothly.This Fengyuan Pass is indeed the first pass in the Northern Qi Dynasty. Although it is only a small pass, a small town adjacent to Fengyuan City has gradually formed inside the pass.People in Northern Qi called it Little Fengyuan.This small Fengyuan is mainly a small town built by the Lu Qi Chamber of Commerce for its own trade routes. At first, there were only post stations and stables. With Bai Xin transferred to Fengyuan's gatekeeper, this small Fengyuan can be said to be a small sparrow, but it has all the internal organs.Uncle Ning's caravan did not stop at Fengyuanguan and Xiaofengyuan, and then headed towards Fengyuan City.It seems that the Luqi Chamber of Commerce is waiting for the report of the caravan returning from Lubei, and Uncle Ning's caravan is the first, and perhaps the only one to return.

(End of this chapter)