Legend of the Knight

Chapter 45
The matter of the Northern Expedition was still far away from most ordinary people, but the Jiangbei Great Pandemic was closely related to him, but it happened and he should not discuss it indiscriminately.

The common people in Luoyang City were impatient and impatient, hoping that some god would show up and send the plague god away quickly, and at the same time, they hurriedly bought medicines and hoarded them for emergencies.

Now in the city of Luoyang, the only medicines that ordinary people can buy and afford are the cheap medicines from Shennong Baicaomen.Every day in front of the booth of Shennong Baicaomen, before the medicine sellers come, there is already a long line of medicine buyers.

Not long after, news came that the emperor's uncle, King Cheng, was delivering porridge and medicine in many places in Jiangbei. People pray.

As soon as this news came out, the hearts of the people were greatly boosted.

When people are in adversity, they hope to hear some good news every day, so that they can have some hope of living.

As the news spread more and more widely, King Cheng, who was originally reclusive and extremely low-key, gradually appeared in the public eye.

This Cheng Wang is the elder brother of the first emperor, because he loves the wind, flowers, snow and moon, so he gave up the country to his younger brother, and lived the life of an idle prince.

Although King Cheng does not care about political affairs, he often travels in modest clothes. He is tolerant and kind, loves the people like a son, has the ability to govern the country, and is known as a virtuous king.

Compared with King Cheng, the common people have a lot of criticisms against the current emperor. Under the changing conditions, the common people think back to the "lenient" former emperor, and they simply don't understand how the current emperor is so different from the previous emperor.

There is a saying that there are three fires for new officials to take office.

Now everyone is looking forward to gritting their teeth and suffering for three years. When the emperor has gained enough prestige and addiction, he must let everyone take a breather.

Not necessarily, the emperor wants to kill all the common people in the world.

……

the end of April.

As Huang Xiaoshi expected, the government issued an announcement requiring all merchants involved in medicinal materials in Luoyang to take inventory of their goods, and the government bought all stocks at a fair price.

When harvesting grain in a famine year, the chief officials would call the big households and grain merchants together to drink tea and eat. Although it was a Hongmen banquet, at least it gave enough face.

This time to buy medicines at a low price, the government will directly issue an announcement and it will be over.

Huang Xiaoshi couldn't help sighing, it really is a cheap life to do business since ancient times.

In fact, Huang Xiaoshi thinks highly of himself, he is classified as a martial artist, and in the eyes of the imperial court, he is not even as good as a merchant.

At least, merchants are good citizens, and every person in the martial arts is counted as one. They are all potential and uncontrollable unstable factors.

On the second day after this announcement was issued, several officials arrived at Shennong Baicaomen.

For these officials, Huang Xiaoshi personally greeted them. He knew that "the hell is easy, but the little devil is hard to deal with", especially in the current environment, even if you are cheated, you can't find a place to complain, let alone redress your grievances.

The old book office came here with a dark face, he didn't sit down, he didn't drink tea, he just went to the warehouse to order goods, it was even uglier than Huang Xiaoshi's door-to-door debt collection back then.

Naturally, Huang Xiaoshi knew it. This is how people like them do things.

Simply put, "suspicious".

In their eyes, everyone is a villain who needs to be punished by the law until you prove your innocence.

Huang Xiaoshi accompanied Xiao Xiao and went to the warehouse with the book office, and checked out his inventory with each other one by one.

Since Shennong Baicaomen has been releasing a large amount of goods some time ago, there are not many stocks in the warehouse now, and most of the rest are relatively expensive Shennong medicines. Locally produced Baicao medicines are basically produced on the same day Come out and sell a bite the next day.

These Shennong drugs, after all, the price is there,
After a lot of them were shipped from Chengdu, the packages hadn't even been opened.

Therefore, the staff of the book office checked the warehouse very quickly, and it was done in a short while.

When the rest of the people put a new lock on the warehouse door and put a seal on it, the old book office calmed down.

He and Huang Xiaoshi walked slowly back to the main hall, Huang Xiaoshi asked someone to serve a plate of snacks and hot tea.

"This old man, you have worked hard." Huang Xiaoshi offered a bowl of hot tea and said to the book office with a smile.

After the book office heard this, he shook his head nonchalantly, then smiled back and said, "I've heard that Shennong Baicaomen's work is righteous, but today, it seems that it really lives up to its reputation."

This is not such an easy thing to do in the warehouse, it is simply not flattering, both sides are angry, and even if there is a slight mistake, you will put yourself in it, it is really an unlucky job.

Today, the old book office came here with yamen servants and servants with a murderous aura, that is, they had prepared for the worst.

I just didn't expect Shennong Baicaomen to cooperate very well, and it would be over soon.

Taking advantage of drinking tea and having nothing to do, the old book office was in a good mood, he secretly said to Huang Xiaoshi: "I don't think there are too many goods from the noble family, and it will save a lot of trouble later. I have to ask you for this product." Ship it yourself."

"Ah?" Huang Xiaoshi asked hastily, "Where do you want us to transport it?"

After gently putting down the tea bowl, the secretary knocked on the table and replied, "Wuhan."

Afterwards, Huang Xiaoshi kept drinking tea with everyone in the lobby, ordered a table of wine and food from the Keyue Building at noon, and served snacks and tea in the afternoon, so that he didn't send the drunk Gongren away until after dinner .

It's not that these gentlemen want to make a living at Shennong Baicaomen, who would be short of that food at the moment, it's just that the errands are finished early, and they can't go back too early, the reason is not humane, I understand it in my heart up.

As soon as the gentleman left, Huang Xiaoshi immediately set off and rushed to the Changhong Escort Bureau to discuss the matter of escorting the goods, and did not come back until dark.

The next day, a person from the old book office turned over, and he handed Huang Xiaoshi a letter with an official seal on it, stating the number of deposits for Shennong Baicaomen, and the latest delivery time.

The government’s work is really authentic. Now the goods that Shennong Baicaomen put in the warehouse are all government materials. They haven’t paid a penny, and you must deliver them to the delivery place on time. Whether the goods are damaged or lost during the period Or time delays, small ones may lead to the deduction of payment for goods, large ones may even lead to imprisonment.

Huang Xiaoshi saw that the delivery time written on the letter was mid-May, and Luoyang was thousands of miles away from Wuhan. Although there were still more than ten days left, it was not considered ample.

Without any delay, Huang Xiaoshi came to Changhong Escort Bureau and found the deputy head of the bodyguard, Guan Wei.

Guan Wei is also very busy now. Usually, when the business is small, he is in a panic. Now that the business has gathered together, the manpower cannot be allocated.

Although Huang Xiaoshi greeted Guan Wei yesterday, Shennong Baicaomen is still a long-term customer of Changhong Escort, but there is currently a shortage of manpower.

In addition to Shennong Baicaomen who want to deliver goods to Wuhan, there are also other merchants who want to deliver goods there. There are four in total.

Now, Guan Changhong, the chief escort of the Changhong Escort, called the four families together and made clear the current difficulties of the Escort. He told everyone that if they want to take this escort, they can only form a caravan.

Or find another master by yourself, anyway, the Changhong Escort Bureau can't get more bodyguards.

Everyone knows that Guan Changhong always spits and eyes when he speaks. Since Mr. Guan always talks like this, then he has to form a caravan, which is a bit like a fight.

However, the Changhong Escort Bureau can only draw Guan Wei, the deputy head of the escort, and six veteran escorts, which is too small for a huge caravan.

So everyone discussed that in addition to transporting their own goods, they should also spare some people to act as guards.

When the caravan is large, it can certainly scare away some small thieves, but it is also easy to attract more vicious bandits.

Finally, Huang Xiaoshi finished his work, and he went to Keyuelou to order a pot of mutton. In the afternoon, he and his disciples got together to eat mutton while discussing the delivery.

Pork in this era is not tasty, so Huang Xiaoshi prefers to eat high-quality mutton.

Therefore, because of Huang Xiaoshi's hobby, eating mutton at Shennong Baicaomen in Luoyang has become a must-have dish.

As soon as the mutton was eaten, someone in the door said that today Wangji Pharmaceutical Company concealed the inventory, and all the goods were sealed by the government, and Wangji's boss was also thrown into prison.

Huang Xiaoshi shook his head, he had already anticipated these things, if he said it, he could only blame the boss of Wang Ji for being blind and unable to see the form clearly.

Now Huang Xiaoshi just wants to finish this errand as soon as possible, so as not to delay his business.

Huang Xiaoshi definitely wanted to go for this shipment, after all, it was five to sixty thousand taels of silver, so he couldn't afford to miss it.

The goods were lost, even if Gong Guangjie didn't pursue Huang Xiaoshi's responsibility, the government would still find him troublesome for Shennong Baicaomen.

After thirty days of cooking, when there was only soup left in the pot of mutton, Huang Xiaoshi began to arrange staff.

"Old Xu, Erhan, Biaozi, Third Brother, Daniu, Erniu, and Xiaoqianzi." Huang Xiaoshi counted their names one by one, and he said, "The seven of you will come with me in a few days.

Old Xu, go to the mule and horse market tomorrow to find some porters with livestock. Don't worry about the money, it doesn't matter whether he is a mule or a horse, you will definitely find enough.Let me tell you first, I don’t carry goods. If there are endless goods, you carry them alone.

Except for Lao Xu, everyone else is going to be guards, so stay calm these few days, don't let your mother's feet get soft when the time comes.The rest are looking after the house, Brother Zhang is in charge, do what you have to do, take a rest if you have nothing to do, and don't meddle in other things. "

When Huang Xiaoshi said this, everyone responded in unison.

Three days later, the caravan formed by the four families gathered outside Luoyang City, and the appearance of Shennong Baicaomen attracted a lot of attention.

Shennong Baicaomen doesn’t count the number of personnel and goods, but eight of them are all dressed in black and equipped with short knives. All the goods are handed over to the porters for delivery. For the livestock alone, there are seven mules and five horses. .

After all, it costs money to hire a porter, and it costs money to move livestock. Most businesses keep some long-term laborers at home as coolies, and they just take care of the food. If they are willing to lead mules and horses, isn’t that too much money?

In the past, Shennong Baicaomen also relied on the doormen to carry goods on their backs, but Huang Xiaoshi had the habit of prodigal.

The people and goods of the four families gathered together, there were hundreds of people of all kinds, and the open space outside Luoyang City was noisy, crowded and full of people.

At this time, a strong and strong man caught Huang Xiaoshi's attention.

I saw him wearing a red sailor towel on his head, gray knee-high shorts underneath, and an eyebrow stick in his hand. The upper body of this man was naked and naked, revealing his well-defined muscles.When he turned around, Huang Xiaoshi looked at his back, his eyes twitched.

It turned out that the man's back was covered with patterns, which looked like a mess from a distance, but looked like a pile of intertwined seaweed at a close look, but after a closer look, it was found that his back was covered with dragon tattoos.

This frightened Huang Xiaoshi, he took a closer look, this dragon has scales but no horns, hands but no claws, oh, it turned out to be a flying snake.That's good, that's good.

Huang Xiaoshi didn't want to become a traitor for no reason after walking with this guy, so he didn't want to cry himself to death.

Huang Xiaoshi already recognized him without this person introducing himself.

This vivacious guy with the atmosphere of the second class is Shi Yi of Hydra, the brainless fan of Water Margin hero Shi Jin, the silly younger brother of Shi Gang, the six door god catcher, and a man who aspires to become the One Piece King.

Looking at Shi Yi, many information about him involuntarily popped up in Huang Xiaoshi's mind.

I remember that in the original plot, not long after, the Three Heroes of Xiaoyao were ordered by their teachers to flatten Heifengzhai, and among them, Shi Yi was rescued from the dungeon of Heifengzhai.

So the question is, when was Shi Yi, who was imprisoned in the small black house by Heifengzhai not long after, and is still alive and kicking, when was he captured by Heifengzhai?
My dear mother, the death is coming.

……

Looking at Shi Yi who was alive and kicking, Huang Xiaoshi had a bad premonition in his heart, and felt that the probability of this trip between the escort and Heifengzhai was close to [-]%.

The total price of this shipment was about 4 to [-] taels due to the cooperation of four commercial firms. This is indeed a big deal.

Coupled with the fact that the caravan is huge and there are many people and hands, it is almost impossible not to leak the news.Even if it was a spy who was deaf and could not hear the news, there was still time to rush to Heifengzhai to report the news after seeing this battle.

Huang Xiaoshi had a headache.

He really wanted to quit the caravan directly, wait for his teammates to step on the landmines, and set off by himself in a few days.

But the yamen had fixed the delivery date for him, and if he stayed like this for a while, he might overstay it.

The robbing of the darts in Heifengzhai has become a conspiracy, and it is directly placed in front of you. You know that there is a dragon's pond and a tiger's den in front of you, but you still have to bite the bullet and rush through.

What kind of world is this!

Huang Xiaoshi was so angry that he wanted to scold the emperor's eight generations of ancestors. You can't take care of this shitty law and order situation.

After sighing, Huang Xiaoshi timidly thought, this is still a peaceful and prosperous age, there are bandits ambushing him when he goes out, if the world is in chaos, how will the people survive.

I would rather be a dog of peace than a chaotic person.

These ten words are full of blood, tears and bitterness.

The caravan didn't start until it was noon. According to the order of the lottery, Huang Xiaoshi and Shennong Baicaomen ranked third. This is a good position, a place of confidantes, and the head and the tail will not touch each other, but Huang Xiaoshi is determined to carry forward his style. Switch places with the fourth merchant.

For this kind of good deed, the fourth-ranked merchant naturally wanted it. Although the disciples of Shennong Baicaomen didn't know why Huang Xiaoshi did this, but out of trust in Huang Xiaoshi, no one interjected.

Walking slowly with the tail of the caravan hanging at the end of the team, Huang Xiaoshi wiped off an unnecessary cold sweat.

Safety first, safety first.

If he wanted to get to Wuhan alive, he had to stay as far away from Shi Yi's caravan as possible.

Their caravans are all hard goods.

(End of this chapter)