Landlord of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 97
Staying in Hongshan Township and Xuzhuang has one advantage over Chang'an, that is, the ingredients are diverse, plentiful and fresh.Xu Qing pickled some small dishes every day and cooked new dishes, and the three little ones ate happily.Since Xun Fang stayed in Chang'an, the current three little ones have become Zhang Linye, Xun Yeyu and Xu Qi.

It will take at least three years to go to Hebei, and the affairs of Luonan are about to be arranged.Niu Checao and Xiao Rushi must be inseparable, so Xu Qing had to trust Yang Wen and the three of them to take care of their fiefdom.

I took another trip to Hongshan Town and looked at the whole street that belonged to me.After reading it, Xu Qing sighed, seeing each other this time, I don't know when we will see each other again.In three years, for a commercial street, how much will it change?

However, looking at the street in front of me, it is much busier than before I left, and there are more "useless" shops. It is even more popular when going to the market, and there are usually a few sparse customers.It's just that the income of this whole street when it was hot was less than half of that of Chang'an Winery.

After wading across a small river, Xu Qing wore a farmer's coarse cloth and walked on the dirt road on foot. He carried half a catty of wine and a fish he had just caught in the river, and a donkey pulled a cart by his side.There was greasy dust and air in the air. From a distance, three children who had just finished school, about seven years old, one of them tied a big mouse with a straw rope, and they were blowing their noses and bubbles to show off something as they walked.

Xu Qing built two free primary schools, coupled with low taxes, so that these children can come out of the heavy farm work.Otherwise, transporting manure to the farmland in spring, shoveling and pulling plow sticks in summer, harvesting grain in autumn, pulling firewood in winter, a lot of seasonal work, and carrying water and laundry, feeding pigs and chickens, drying vegetables and pasting window cracks Small tasks such as cleaning the house and sweeping the yard will make their backs bent and their bodies tired.

But these boring tasks are quite interesting if you watch others do them.More than once, Xu Qing watched the children in Xuzhuang go to work, digging out the earthworms in the ground and hiding them, pulling out the fat white worms in the firewood and feeding them to the chickens...

Childlike...

It is a sin to seek poetry on a sweaty, sun-drenched back.However, the life of this kind of crime will not last long. Xu Qing procrastinated for a few days, dealt with some trivial matters, and went to Hebei with his whip.

Xu Qing wrote letters of recommendation to all three of Lu Shi's sons. In order to thank Xu Qing, Lu Shi tried his best to get five hundred households' farm tools.A total of thirty cars, starting from Luonan...

Xu Qing secretly laughed, fortunately old man Li Yuan gave him forty rides to pull these big carts, otherwise Hongshan Township really couldn’t get so many mules and donkeys together, as for paying to buy them, Xu Qing shook his head, I went to Hebei to earn money Money from the aristocratic family, I don't want to pay a penny!

Leaving Luonan, it was Yiyang, Luoning. After playing in Luoyang for a day, and crossing the Yellow River, it was Anyang, the new town of Wenxian County. I stopped in Handan for a day, and then Xingtai Julu Nangong stopped by the Fuyang River. No one was there. know why.

Only Xu Qing knows that this is the place of Hengshui High School.

After walking northeast for a few days, we arrived at the boundary of Cangzhou.Xu Qing asked passers-by, who pointed at him and said, "That's Nanpi County, Cangzhou..." Xu Qing pondered for a while, then Wang Shan detoured to Botou with supplies and went straight to Cang County.On the other hand, he brought a few guards, Xun Xueer and others, pretending to be a passing business traveler, to Nanpi to stay overnight.

Investigating intelligence is one of the purposes, and there is another purpose, which is to find the dark river!
Nanpi looks very inconspicuous. From time to time, people on the street complain about the price of daily necessities, but there are reasonable quantities of goods sold on the street, and there is no shortage of them.People came and went, and the local residents looked at Xu Qing and his group expressionlessly.Occasionally saw a few carts, abandoned houses, shops, and beggars squatting in the corner with wild dogs...

Xu Qing led the horse and found an inn that looked fairly clean.

"Oh, guest officer, I'll lead the horse for you~" A boy in a khaki cloth shirt stood up from the threshold.

"How many rooms are there?" Xu Qing asked.

"Oh, these are all your people~ tsk tsk..." The boy nodded and counted dozens of people behind Xu Qing.

"These people are not too many~"

"Oh, guest officer, come in, we can live here, I'll tell you in detail..." The servant never forgot to solicit customers.After hearing this, Xu Qing felt that this one was the cleanest among the three or two inns he had seen, so it would be no harm to stay here...

"Guest officer, it seems that you have come from a long way. You don't know how many wars have been fought here. Whoever dares to come out to do business will be wiped out... Sigh..."

"I know about this battle, it wasn't Liu Heita's rebellion..."

"That's right, that's the beast, and it's a good idea to bring the Turkic people over!"

"So you don't like him either?"

"Do you like it or not? Who likes it, who likes it? We are just ordinary people, we just want to have enough to eat..." The servant said angrily.

"Then why are there so many people helping Liu Heita in the war?"

"Hey, guest officer, whisper it, it's not those aristocratic families! Li, Lu and Ercui have four surnames, and two of them support Liu Heitai!" The servant lowered his voice and whispered in front of Xu Qing.

"Which two?"

"I heard that it is, the Li family of Zhaojun, the Lu family of Fan Yang... we don't know why..."

Xu Qing rubbed his head after hearing this, one of these two families is in Youzhou, and he doesn't know where the other is, anyway, Cangzhou doesn't have that kind of giant family.

"Guest officer, what do you want for dinner?" Xiao Er asked.

"What do you have, show me..."

Walking to the kitchen, Xiao Er cheerfully introduced to Xu Qing that there are quite a lot of cured fish and cured meat, but there is no fresh fish.Suddenly, Xu Qing saw the bacon move, and when he got closer, he saw a little life rolling in the bacon. He couldn't help feeling sick, and asked Xiaoer, "You, you, maggots are growing in your bacon!"

Xiaoer's eyes were quick, and he grabbed the fat maggots in the bacon, pulled it, and threw it out, saying: "There are maggots here and there, this is granulation, guest officer..."

"Okay, okay, I don't eat the food here, you go out and buy a few chickens, ducks and fish, and clean it up..." Xu Qing gave Xiaoer two strings of money, and Xiaoer went out in response.

After dinner, Xu Qing tried to find a way to contact the dark river. In the middle of the night, he secretly wrote on a wall the eight characters "The dark night is boundless, the river is the world".Xindao: I can't find them by myself, I can only wait for Yang Cheng and Yang Xin to come to me.The next day, Yang Cheng came to find him. He was the part of Xu Qing who stayed in Chang'an. They were also wandering around thirty miles away and guarding him during this journey.Xu Qing ordered Yang Cheng to look for Yang Xin, and agreed to meet in Cang County.

Xu Qing then inquired about Nanpi's local conditions, customs, and government behavior, and found that the Nanpi county magistrate was quite similar to Luonan Zou county magistrate.The policy pursued is also the same as that of County Magistrate Zou. The people don't sue the officials and don't investigate them.

There are four counties in Cangzhou, Huanghua, Haixing, Nanpi, Cangxian, and Cangxian is the most extensive.There is a salt mountain between Huanghua, Haixing Linhai, and Nanpi, and there is a Yanshan town, which is the territory of Cang County.After Xu Qing asked the way, he took a group of people and went to Cang County, where the government was located...

(End of this chapter)