Landlord of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 146 Sure enough, someone wants to drink

Everyone built a fire to keep warm, and when they were feeling comfortable, they heard Li Jun arguing with other businessmen. Listening carefully, it turned out that Li Jun was discussing the itinerary with other businessmen:
Li Jun held the cane, waved it loudly and shouted: "Anyone who doesn't leave will get me twenty sticks!" All the merchants said together: "I don't care, the porters carrying a hundred and ten catties of burdens are no worse than you walking empty-handed. You don’t treat people like people! Even in warm weather, you have to take care of them. You don’t care about it! You only care about being brave!”

"You bastards are going to kill me! Kill you!" Li Jun cursed, picked up the cane, and was about to hit me in the face.

Those merchants dodged the whip and shouted: "Old man, wait a minute, listen to me! We are all people who have traveled far and wide, and the merchants we have seen have eight hundred if not one thousand. It's not my dirty mouth, measure yours!" You are an old senior, if you are promoted to be a position that is as big as a mustard seed, you are worthy to show your strength in front of us! Not to mention that we are also caravan leaders, even a porter, we also agree with my persuasion! Just put We fight, what do you think of us?"

Li Jun said: "Everyone, you are still young, how do you know that the road beyond the Great Wall is extremely difficult!" A businessman said, "We have been to places like Sichuan and Guangdong and Guangxi before, and we have never seen you show off like this!" Li Jun said: "Now It doesn't have to be like the Taiping Festival, and the land outside the Great Wall doesn't need Sichuan and Guangdong..." The merchants said: "You should cut your mouth and tongue out for saying this! Why is the world not peaceful today?"

But Li Jun was about to reply, when he heard someone beside another fire saying: "If you are traveling in the dark, you should warm a pot of wine to keep everyone warm." There are seven small carts, eleven people, warming up there, and a boss with a cinnabar mark on his temple, holding a plain knife. These eleven people are also a team of small businessmen, and they have known each other for a long time.

Picking up the simple knife, Li Jun shouted: "Wait, are you a gangster who makes us drunk and confused so that we can grab the goods?" The 11 people said: "You ask the wrong way! You took us around seven times and eight times, and we still haven't seen the border. Aren’t you a villain? I’m a small broker, and I have money for you!” Li Jun didn’t make these useless arguments, and asked, “Wait, where did you come from?”

The 11 people replied: "I said earlier that my brothers and I are from Shandong, and they sell dates outside the Great Wall." Li Jun nodded and said, "So that's the case, and they are also ordinary guests." The 11 people said: "Everyone, please Get a date." Li Jun said, "No need."

Picking up the simple knife, he came back to the merchant, Li Jun stuck the simple knife on the ground and started a fire.Before half a cup of tea, everyone wanted to drink wine again, and a man said: "I still have white wine in the barrel."

Someone continued to ask: "How much is a barrel?" The man said: "Fifty Wen is enough money." The pickers discussed: "We are cold and thirsty, why don't we buy something hot to eat? It is alive and well..." Just about to collect money there, Li Jun met him and shouted, "What are you doing?" Everyone said, "Buy a bowl of wine to eat." , I want to buy wine to eat indiscriminately! How bold!"

The picker replied: "We pooled money to buy wine and eat. What are you doing? Come and beat people!"

Li Jun persuaded: "What do you care about! When you come here, you only eat your mouth! You don't know the difficulties on the road! How many heroes have been overwhelmed by sweat and medicine!"

The man who picked the wine looked at Li Jun and said with a sneer: "You guest officer is so ignorant! I didn't sell it to you, but I said such weak words!"

There was a commotion here, and the customer of the date seller came over and said, "What are you doing?" The man who picked the wine replied, "I took out the wine and sold it to others to eat, and I warmed up here. Everyone wants to ask I bought some to eat, but I didn’t sell it. It’s all because of the perspiration medicine in my wine. Are you kidding me? Say something like that!”

The eleven guests said: "So that's the case, it doesn't matter if we say it. We are thinking of wine to warm up. Since they are suspicious, they will sell us a barrel to eat with us."

The man picking the wine said: "Not for sale! Not for sale!"

The eleven guests said: "You don't know anything, you bastard! We didn't mention you, anyway, you want to take back to the pass, so you can sell some to us, what's the deal?"

The man who picked the wine said: "I can't compete with you for selling a barrel, but they say it's not good. I don't have a bowl and a ladle to eat it." The eleven said: "You are so serious! What doesn't matter? We have our own coconut scoop here."

I saw two people go to the car and take out two coconut ladles, and one of them took out a large handful of dates.Eleven people stood by the bucket, opened the lid, scooped up the wine in turn, scalded it in hot water, and poured the dates into their mouths.

In no time, half the barrel of wine was eaten.The eleven people who ate wine said: "Have you ever asked how much you paid for it?" The man said: "I always don't talk about the price. It costs [-] cents a barrel."

Those who ate wine said: "Fifty is your fifty, and half a bucket is 25 for you. Is it okay to spare us a scoop?"

The man who picked the wine said: "Forgive me, let's make a fixed price!" A guest gave him the money, and a guest went to uncover the lid of the bucket, took a scoop, took it and ate it, the man who picked the wine saw it, He snatched it and snatched it with his hands. When he looked at the bucket, he covered the lid, threw the ladle down to the ground, and said, "You guest is not a gentleman! People who wear a head and know their faces are so stupid!"

After such a trip, the smell of wine wafted away, and when all the pickers and businessmen saw it, they felt itchy in their hearts, and they all wanted to eat it. They looked at Li Jun and said, "Don't worry, the customer who sells dates bought him half a barrel and ate them. We also bought them indiscriminately." He eats the leftovers, and moistens his throat, it's convenient for the master!"

Li Jun then said: "Since everyone has said so, let's eat some wine, warm up, and then get up and go on our way." After hearing this, all the pickers collected enough money to buy wine and eat.The man who sold the wine said: "I won't sell it! I won't sell it! There is sweat medicine in this wine!"

All the pickers laughed together and said, "Brother, if it's worth it, just return the words?"

The man who sold the wine also said: "I won't sell it! Stop pestering me!"

Those who have eaten wine here, the date seller persuaded: "You bastard, you are too serious!" The man who bought the wine said: "What are you doing to make others suspicious?"

After finishing speaking, they also put the bucket down, and those porters opened the lid of the bucket, borrowed the coconut ladle, and first scalded a bowl for Li Jun, who put on a dirty face and refused to eat it.Each scooped a bowl for the employer, and the employers drank it down.The jujube sellers happily said: "I will give these dates to drink with you."

As soon as the porters sent it, the barrel of wine was exhausted immediately.After a while, all the soldiers were top-heavy, looking at each other, and they all fell limp.The jujube seller rolled out the seven small carts, with a wolf-like light in his eyes, the man with the birthmark said to "Li Jun", "Old man Li, the sword is not old..."

"That's that, old man Li, I'm good at Mount Tai..." The person who spoke was the man who picked up the wine. If Xu Qing was here, he would definitely recognize that this was the person who sold Niu Chong to him.

Old man Li said: "There's not much wine here, they won't be soft for long, and we'll talk after we clean them up."

Just when he was about to tidy up the people present, someone noticed something strange.

"No, what about the young merchant?"

Unfortunately, what answered him was only the sound of a ruthless crossbow bolt bursting:
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

The masters of these crossbows are naturally Xu Qing's subordinates.As early as when someone proposed to drink wine to keep warm, Xu Qing quietly ordered his subordinates who should retreat to retreat, those who should pretend to be dizzy to pretend to be dizzy, and set up the crossbow arrows one by one.

Moreover, Xu Qing, who was hiding in the dark, had seen clearly the moment when everyone was fighting for wine.

It turned out that the barrel of wine that was taken out was originally good wine.Eleven people ate less than half of it first, making people believe that the barrel of wine is okay.Someone deliberately took half a ladle to eat, but was smashed into the bucket by the person who picked the wine. This is the beauty.In the ladle that fell down, the Mongolian sweat medicine had already been hidden, and when it was chopped into the bucket, the medicine was all poured into the wine.If everyone eats again, they will be tricked.

As soon as those gangsters noticed something strange, Xu Qing launched an attack. The group of gangsters was only 20 people. After the arrow rain, only a few people remained.Xu Qing and others swarmed up and took the lives of all the villains, including the Niu Chong seller, old man Li and others.Xu Qing saw that the person selling Niu Chong was also one of them. Thinking of the scene of him selling Niu Chong last time, he thought to himself, luckily he didn't buy it, maybe it was a bait for fishing!
However, the truth seems to have been covered up in smoke and dust forever with the death of these people.

The rest of the people woke up slowly, sighing endlessly, thanking Xu Qing a thousand times.Those bad guys' goods naturally fell into Xu Qing's hands.Xu Qing counted, and there were hundreds of taels of fine silver.

It is not suitable to stay here for a long time, so Xu Qing fled away with these businessmen again.It doesn't really matter what the route is, just keep going south.But after walking for more than ten miles, you can already see people who have settled in the frontier.After asking the way, the border town was only five or six miles to the west.

It turned out that old man Li had been leading them around in circles.Facts have also proved that listening to my wife is indeed correct.If it wasn't for Huang Shimei's observation and observation this time, Xu Qing might have become the fertilizer of the prairie.

This time out of the grassland, Xu Qing's most important gain was not buying a lot of cheap cattle and sheep.The most important gain is that he knows the people on both sides, and they are very friendly down there.It's just that there are some political speculators and some bandits wandering around the border, which are constantly damaging mutual trust between the two sides.Since the people on both sides are very friendly and need each other, then win-win cooperation is possible.

The big business route that Xu Qing asked Manid to do early in the morning was based on this foundation.Once the trade route is established and the people on both sides get what they need from each other, forming a situation where there is me in you and you in me, how can war be put on the agenda?

It sounds like a so-and-so hookup...

When Xu Qing returned to the border town and was about to enter the city, he ran into the so-called "big group".

(End of this chapter)