The dust settles

Chapter 29

31. Frontier Market
Lashepa toast is here again.

He saw the closed fortress turned into an open majestic structure, and thought he was in the wrong place.

This time, he didn't say he was my uncle anymore.Although I don't even have a gate here, he still got off his horse at the place where the gate used to be.I said get out, but I didn't mean to spoil him in the slightest.Toast Lashepa was so fat that he couldn't lift his legs when he got off his horse.If you want to get on and off the horse gracefully, the first condition is to raise your legs to a sufficient height.Obesity has robbed the former horse hero of his vigor.Chieftain Lashepa leaned over, waited for his butt to leave the saddle, and using gravity, landed in the arms of the servants in front of the horse.

He was walking towards me with difficulty, and I heard him panting and wheezing from a long distance away.He must have caught a cold, and said in a hoarse voice: "The most intelligent and kind-hearted young master of the Maggie family, your nephew Lashepa saw you coming."

"I told them that Lashepa will bring us good gifts."

"Yes, yes, I brought it."

With trembling hands, he took out some messy things from his arms and stuffed them into my hands.I asked the housekeeper to open them all to look at them, but it turned out to be a thick stack of old paper and a few copper seals.His people turned their backs on him, and chieftain Lashepa had no choice but to send the legal documents and seals that had taken refuge in my village to show that he recognized the fait accompli.

These things were issued by the emperor of a certain dynasty in the past.With these things, I really own those places.

A word came to my lips, but I didn't say it.Anyway, someone would say it; sure enough, the housekeeper spoke up and said, "Our young master said that whoever gets the wheat has to pay ten times the price. If you don't listen, now, you have paid more than ten times the price."

Chieftain Lashepa repeatedly said yes, and asked: Can we get the wheat now? "He said that the animals were all carrying silver on their backs.

I said, "It doesn't cost that much money. I'll sell you wheat at the price of a normal year."

He thought I would say no, but I didn't.The desperate man almost shed tears, and said in a sobbing voice, "My God, the Maiqi family has made your nephew Lashepa miserable."

"Everyone needs to be taught a lesson."

According to the logic of the winner, the Maiqi family paid a greater price.

Isn't it, if they don't grow opium with us, will it take so much trouble?Thinking of this, I really got angry and said: "Our wheat is the same price for everyone, three times the usual price, and it is also a shame for you."

"But, you just said that as long as..."

But he looked at my cold eyes and didn't dare to say any more. Instead, he put on a pitiful smiling face and said, "I won't talk anymore. I won't be able to take it if Uncle Maggie changes his mind later."

The butler said: "I know that's the case, let's go to the guest room! Wine and meat have been prepared."

The next morning, the animals brought by chieftain Lashepa were all laden with wheat, and I didn't really ask him to pay three times the price.When we parted, he said to me: "You let my people have food, and tell them not to be beaten anymore."

I knew what he was referring to, so I gave his ass a whip.The horse ran away carrying him.I shouted to him behind my back, I will buy more when there is no more wheat, and the Maiqi family is not building a fort on the border, but a market dedicated to doing business.Yes, by now, I can say that this is not a fort, but a market.There is a large open space on both sides of the small river, which happens to be a place for businessmen to set up stalls and pitch tents.

The housekeeper said: "The female chieftain should also show something."

I asked him to write a letter to the female chieftain to explain what he meant.

The female chieftain did not reply immediately.Because her people had wheat noodles to eat, and they won the battle against Lashepa toast.The reply finally came, and the letter said that she hadn't prepared a dowry for her daughter, because she had to lead soldiers to fight like a man.She even asked me in the letter: Please tell me who wants to be my future son-in-law, should Chieftain Ronggong find a man to do some womanly things for her, for example, prepare the dowry for her daughter?

Eating wheat from Maiqi's family, relying on the cover of Maiqi's machine gun, she won a small battle, and the female chieftain raised her tail like a mare in heat.

She is a capable woman, but this woman is not smart enough. She should know that the world is changing.When something new appears in this world, some rules of the past are about to change.But most people don't see this.I feel so sorry for these people.The chieftain is among those I sigh for.In fact, what she said was exactly what I wanted her to say.When Tana was here, I loved her and was giddy with her.But as soon as I left, after a long time, I couldn't even see the outline of her appearance in my mind.This is equivalent to the most powerful weapon of the female chieftain losing its effectiveness.So I'm glad she said that.Only two days later, all the machine gunners and bombardiers I sent out came back.The female chieftain sent someone to chase them back.The pursuers lay down on the road amidst the sound of machine guns clucking like hens.But it's not easy for a proud man, let alone a proud woman, to realize what kind of mistake he's making.

She didn't know that Toast Lashepa also got wheat from me.

Chieftain Lashepa's long horse team unloaded some wheat every time they arrived at a mill, and before returning to the central area, the wheat was gone.So the cavalry was on its way back to the border.This time, he remembered what I said about establishing a market on the northern border, so he simply took the people under the dog group to live in a tent on the river beach, and brought various things from the territory to conduct a special market with me. Grain deals.

The team that Lashepa toast had eaten wheat noodles immediately recovered their morale.Against a revived team, no machine guns are bad.Rong Gong's team is no longer used to fighting without machine gun cover.They retreated quickly, and once they retreated, they retreated past the front line where the attack began.

Chieftain Lashepa no longer returned to the territory, so he stayed in the border market.He often invited me to drink in the tent by the river.On a fine day, on the open frontiers of the north, it is very pleasant to sit and drink by the river.

Toast Lashepa and I started a real business.

He doesn't just buy my things with silver.Moreover, a lot of medicinal materials, furs, and good horses were also shipped.My housekeeper said that transporting these things to the Han District can make a lot of money.The housekeeper organized a large team of horses, transported these things to the Han people in the east, sold them, and bought more grain.Soon, on the northern border, a prosperous border market was established, and more and more chieftains came here and set up tents on the flat land across the river.They brought all kinds of goodies.And all they need is food.No matter how much food the Maiqi family has, it is limited.But we are close to the Han land. This location caused us a lot of hardships when the Han regime was strong. This is also the primary reason why Maiqi Tusi has never been strong.Later, they revolutionized and they fought wars.It was a lucky turn of events for Maggie Toast to get poppy seeds.The poppy made Mai Qi powerful, and made the other chieftains fall into a difficult situation.We transported what we exchanged for the wheat to Handi, and from there we exchanged it for grain, and then exchanged it for other things.If you come and go, you can really get ten times the reward.The housekeeper has carefully calculated that even when the years of food shortage pass, in normal years, if you don't transport food, you can transport other things, and there will be two or three times the profit.

In the history since the chieftain, I was the first person to turn a fortress against the enemy into a market.Whenever I realize this, I think of our tongueless clerk.Had he been here, I believe he would have understood what such a beginning meant.But here, by my side, everyone said, this has never happened, never happened.Others, there is nothing more to say.I think the clerk will have something profound to say.

32. News from the South

I feel uneasy.

Let people like me use your brains for everyone, what kind of world is this world?This is an unusual world.But if it's unusual, it's not unusual. I don't really believe in asking a fool to think for everyone.However, if you want to ask if it is not this point and where it is, I can't answer it.Many nights, I slept in bed, asking and answering alone, even forgetting the woman sleeping next to me.This girl was sent by those villages that had recently abandoned Lashepa Chieftain.My mind keeps thinking about things I shouldn't be thinking about.So, the girl slept in my bed for several nights, and I didn't even ask her name.It's not that I don't ask, it's that I didn't think of it, and I really didn't think of it.Fortunately, this girl has a good temper and doesn't complain about others.She came to me to repay me for so many people who came back from the brink of death.But I never wanted her.I always wonder what kind of world we live in.

The first time I asked her was in the morning.Usually when I wake up, I always lose myself.Always ask: Where am I?who I am?But not this morning.When I woke up, I was not aware of these two problems in myself.Instead, he woke up the girl next to her who was sleeping soundly, exuding the smell of a filly, and asked her, "Who are you?"

Her eyes slowly opened, looking at the dazed eyes, I thought, for a while, she didn't know who she was.She slowly woke up, a blush appeared on her face.The flush was the same shade as the areolas on her firm breasts.I smiled and told her this.She blushed even more, stretched out her hand, and hugged me, and her firm body was pressed against me.

"Do you know who I am?" I asked her.

"They say you're a well-intentioned fool; a wise fool, if you're such a fool."

See, people have formed a fixed opinion of me.I said, "Don't talk about others, what kind of person do you think I am?"

The girl laughed: "A fool who doesn't want a girl."

That one word aroused my desire.This girl is a little cow, struggling, moaning, twisting, hiding my face with a pair of huge breasts, exuding a strong milky fragrance.But she just wouldn't open that wet, dark cave to me.That's where I want to go right now.Her whole body was opened to me like a cowhide, but her legs were tightly clamped, preventing me from entering her.So when she finally opened the hole, I immediately exploded inside.

She smiled and said, "It's like I haven't asked for a girl for a long time."

I haven't asked for a girl for quite some time.

I suddenly thought, my brother who is fighting in the south will never stay away from a girl for so long.If he had been told that his brother slept with a girl for two or three days before he thought of doing it, he would have laughed and said, "What a fool!" But that was all he could laugh.

Finally, news of my brother's defeat came from the south.He wins battles every day, but in fact he dodged the unstoppable attack.He pushed all the way to the depths of Chieftain Wangbo's territory, without much actual victory.In the place where his soldiers are pointing, let alone people, it is difficult to see live cattle and sheep, let alone gold, silver and treasure.The young master of the Maiqi family, the future chieftain of Maiqi, possesses powerful and advanced weapons, but there is no one to kill.Most of the people he saw had starved to death, and those who were alive were dying of hunger, unwilling to struggle with fate any more.His soldiers cut off the ears of these people and pretended to be war results.The reputation of the cruel young master of the Maiqi family began to spread.He really pushed too far.On the way of attack, he can't see the enemy, but the enemy always has a chance to attack him. One person today, one gun tomorrow.Over the past few months, he has used the Maiqi family's weapons to build a powerful armed force for others.As a result, Chieftain Wangbo used the weapons he sent and left few guards behind. Our family's fort on the southern border was captured.When he called back again, more than half of the food inside had already been transported away.He wanted to lead another attack, but his father did not allow it.

Chieftain Maiqi said to his heirs: "You sent guns and food, things they didn't have and wanted very much. After you find out what Chieftain Wangbo still lacks, it's not too late for you to do it."

My brother is sick.

His father told him to recuperate.

The elder brother lived in the fort on the border, fell ill and waited for chieftain Wangbo to attack.He was ready to deal a devastating blow to the attacker.

However, Chieftain Wang Bo, who was newly succeeded to the throne, took a long way to come to the market opened by me to do business.

Behold, it is only because of me that peace has come to this vast land.I am known in vast areas where no toast influence has ever reached.Fool, this word has been given a new and extensive meaning by me in a short period of time.Now, because of me, the word and destiny, fortune, providence, these words have come to mean the same thing.

Right now, there are only sporadic battles between Chieftain Lashepa and Chieftain Ronggong, but it will soon be over.I made a drastic move on the female chieftain.I didn't expect that I would do something like this to her.I regard her as a mother-in-law, but she doesn't seem to want me to be her son-in-law.Without my support, the female chieftain was soon overwhelmed.She wrote me a letter.In the letter, she said she needed the support of her future son-in-law.I heard the housekeeper read the letter, but didn't say anything.It was the butler who wrote back for me, saying, "Our young master has a brain problem. He doesn't know why he is your son-in-law."

The reply came again, and the words were a bit sad.It is said that the future son-in-law of the Ronggong family is equivalent to the future chieftain of Ronggong.

The butler laughed, but I didn't.I had nothing to do for a while, and I started thinking about Tana again.So the butler wrote back and said, "The young master said that he can't even remember Tana's appearance."

This is an extraordinary period, and a fool can decide the fate of many smart people. It is not good for the female chieftain to insist on the etiquette between chieftains, and she sent her daughter to me before the official wedding.

Tana arrived in the morning, and I was in bed with a girl whose face was going to turn as red as her areola when the servant came to report.I'm not saying we're doing stuff.No.During this time, we have done enough at night.Always wake up late in the morning.Solang Zelang stood beside the bed and coughed loudly.I woke up, but only opened one eye, and I saw his mouth move, couldn't hear him saying that Tana was here, and said vaguely, "Okay, okay."

If Tana really broke in under such circumstances, the situation would not be very good.Fortunately, the butler had already woken up, and when Solang Zelang was about to pass on my silly words, Tana had already told him to take him to another room.I woke up the girl next to me.She turned over, sighed, and fell asleep again, which almost made me anxious.Fortunately, she only slept for a short while, as if not to fall asleep, but to wake up again.She just went back to sleep.After a while, I woke up.She giggled and asked, "Where am I?"

I told her and asked her, "Who am I?"

She also answered.

At this moment, Suolang Zelang walked in with a sullen face and said to me, "Your fiancée is waiting impatiently."

"Who?"

"Tana!"

Now, I jumped out of bed like a frog and almost ran out of the room naked.Solang Zelang wanted to laugh but didn't dare, but the girl on the bed laughed.She was cooing and laughing, and she was still naked, so she knelt on the bed and dressed me.Smiling and laughing, she shed tears, big and big teardrops fell on both breasts.

I told her that Tana would be my wife, the daughter of Toast Ronggong.She stopped crying.

I told her again.Tears hung on her breasts like dew on apples.She burst into laughter.

When I saw Tana's face, her beauty hit me hard like a hot bullet just out of the chamber. From the skin to the blood vessels, from the eyes to the atrium, I was injured by the beauty of this woman.It's easy to turn me back into a real fool, just give me a real beautiful woman.

As soon as a person becomes stupid, the skin on the face becomes taut.To see if a person is a fool, just look at his smile.When a fool laughs, the muscles on his face don't work, so the fool can only make the expression on the face of a person frozen to death in the ice and snow.That kind of person's smile exposed all the teeth, but there was no rippling brilliance on the face.

It was Tana who spoke first: "I didn't expect me to come so soon, did you?"

I said I didn't think of it.As soon as I spoke, the flesh on my face became alive.As soon as his face became alive, his whole brain immediately became alive.

But I still don't know what to do.In the past, I went straight to bed with women without any formality.What does it mean that the mountains are high and the rivers are long? You have to wait for a few times to sleep and express it before you can sway freely.Not with Tana, who will be my wife, but so what, I don't know.Luckily I have a cripple butler.He thought of everything I should have thought of for me.He whispered into my ear, "Call them in, sir."

I trust stewards.So, I waved my hand grandly, and sure enough, someone came in from outside.They set down many jewels in front of Tana.Now, I am also a businessman, so these jewels are no problem, so I can keep waving.The servants filed in and put all kinds of good things from the chieftains' territory and the Han land in front of Tana.This morning, I kept waving, and I thought Tana, with her faux composure, was going to be surprised by the end, but she giggled and said, "I won't be able to use this much until I die, I'm hungry .”

The servants started to rush between the kitchen downstairs and the guest room upstairs. The housekeeper is a good housekeeper. As soon as Tana arrived, she was ready to give such a generous gift.The head cook is also the best in the world. As soon as Tana arrived, she prepared such a sumptuous food.Tana laughed again: "I can't eat a single bite. There are so many things, I've seen enough."

I waved my hand, and the servants removed all the food.It occurred to me that if I waved again, they would remove the jewelry from Tana like food.Thinking about it, it came to my hand.With this wave, my people, starting from the butler, all backed out.Only the two maids in red who escorted Tana were still standing behind her.

Tana said, "You guys go down too."

(End of this chapter)