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Chapter 81 Slaughtering a Fat Sheep for the New Year

Batur lowered his voice, "There are ten boxes in that big carriage, and there are five sacks besides that.

When I was helping them park the carriage, I bumped on purpose. The sack rolled off the carriage. The guards seemed very nervous. I rushed to help them carry the sack onto the cart, and found something stuck to the edge of the sack. I took it secretly. Went away, tasted it and found it was kosher salt. "

The old man's eyes became brighter, and his breath became short of breath, "You mean that those five sacks contained coarse salt?"

In Xiliang, tea and salt are the most scarce. They don't care about yellow and white things, they only want tea and salt.

"I heard from that young boy that they brought ten boxes of tea bricks this trip." Greed flashed in the old man's eyes.

Batur hissed and gestured with his hand, "Those ten boxes are so big!"

I estimated that one box can hold about ten tea bricks, one tea brick weighs five catties, and ten boxes are five hundred catties of tea.

When they figured out the amount with their fingers, the four of them looked at each other, their expressions fluctuating.

"Ten boxes of tea bricks, five sacks of coarse salt, this is a fat sheep!" Batur was the first to speak, and the greed on his face was undisguised.

"Those who can bring so much tea and coarse salt to the merchants are all big families." Ju Mai was very cautious, "Don't forget, in order to attract those merchants from Daqi to trade, the tribe said that they should not do anything to them. "

Originally, Xiliang and Daqi were feuds, but Xiliang needed tea and coarse salt, and those merchants in Daqi only recognized money but not enmity. During non-wartime, the two would often conduct transactions, but these The transactions are all done in private, and cannot be put on the bright side, otherwise Xiliang side doesn't care. If Daqi gets into trouble, they may give merchants the name of collaborating with the enemy country. disaster.

Therefore, all the tribes in Xiliang made an appointment not to attack the Daqi businessmen who came to Xiliang, otherwise, if any businessmen who escaped by chance went back to Daqi and told them, those Daqi merchants might not dare to come to Xiliang for business.

And they in Xiliang can't grow tea trees at all, eat meat and drink milk every day, without tea to relieve their boredom, they will feel unwell for a long time, and the warriors in the tribe will not have the strength to plunder. This is something that the leaders of the five major tribes will never allow.

"Among the big households we are familiar with, there is no such family as today!" Batur said disapprovingly, "As the eyes of the Tiele tribe, which Daqi businessman who came here to trade is not familiar to us? We are one of them. I have never seen them, and we have never even heard their names!
If it's those acquaintances, of course we can't do it, but they are not, such a big fat sheep, butcher it, throw their corpses here, and within a few days, there will be only bones left. A caravan passing by?
It's not like we haven't done this kind of thing! "

There are always some small businessmen who are greedy for money and foolishly come here, and never go back to their hometown.

There was a sudden silence in the tent.

"When I was entertaining the two masters of this caravan just now, I felt that they might not be right." Old Man Wiki said suddenly.

Wiki looked at the three sons, "As you know, there are always quarrels in Daqi merchant's family because of the unequal distribution of property."

Xie Musi, who had always been taciturn, said, "That young man doesn't even know how to reveal his wealth, and told us that they brought ten boxes of tea bricks, he's an idiot.

The older one is quite courageous. Listening to the conversation between the two brothers, it is reckoned that the older one came here to do business.

But both of them are stunned, they don't understand anything, and they can't even tell the good from the bad. When they first inspected the fur, it was the manager who was always in the lead. Even after the price negotiation, the manager understood the market. "

The old man wiki looked at Xiemusi, "Xiemusi, what do you mean?"

"Batur is right, this is a fat sheep, but they have 26 guards around them, so it's hard to deal with." Xie Musi said in a deep voice, "I just observed these guards outside, and they all have Not weak boxing skills, just rely on the three of us, not opponents, if we let one of them get away, they will go back to Daqi and make a big show, and the tribe will not let us go."

"Then it's the same as before. It's not a matter of one knife to put sweat medicine in their food and fall asleep." Batur didn't think so, and made a machete movement with his hand.

The expression on Wiki's face was changing, and after a long time, he gritted his teeth, "Then do what Batur said, and pour sweat medicine into their food."

After thinking about it, he was still unwilling to let this fat sheep go. Anyway, as Batur said, the corpses were thrown outside, and when the snow stopped, the vultures would eat them up.

It's not the first time for them to kill Daqi people in Xiliang. If they kill them, they will kill them. Who made them unlucky and bumped into their hands?
After the matter is settled, act separately.

On the other side, Ji Sibo, who was staying in Batur's tent, looked at Ji Fushou in puzzlement, "Auntie, why do we pretend that brothers are at odds? You even fake your name."

He was told by Ji Fushou only when he saw the crowds. When he was talking nonsense just now, cold sweat broke out on his back, for fear that he would slip up.

When he asked Ji Fushou, his voice was low, and he looked out of the tent from time to time like a thief.

Seeing him like this, Kui smiled and said, "Young master, don't worry, there are all our people outside the tent. You should speak in a low voice, those Xiliang people won't be able to overhear. If anyone comes, they will warn the police."

Ji Fushou took a sip of tea, "It is imperative to be on guard against others, don't forget that this is the boundary of Xiliang, there is nothing wrong with being careful."

Ji Sibo scratched his head, "Auntie, since you said that it is necessary to be defensive, why do you want me to pretend to be careless and tell about the tea brick?"

Ji Fushou raised his eyebrows, "I did it on purpose."

As for why it was done on purpose, Ji Fushou didn't say any more.

Kui saw that the master bowed his head to drink tea again, and refused to talk to the young master, so he said, "Boss, when we parked the carriage just now, that Batur deliberately tested it. He should know that the sack contains coarse salt."

Ji Sibo's attention was immediately diverted. Instead of asking Ji Fushou, he touched his chin and muttered, "Trying on purpose? Why did he try to test on purpose? It seems that just now in the tent, the old man also asked if we had brought salt."

Salt can only be bought in the shop through Yanyin. Ji Sibo didn't ask his aunt where he got the salt, or how the ten boxes of tea bricks came from. Although he was with his aunt all the way, he didn't see her. Discuss the goods, anyway, he knows that his aunt is very powerful.

"Because they are weighing whether it is worthwhile to attack us."

At this moment, Su walked in and whispered in Ji Fushou's ear.

Ji Fushou gave Ji Sibo a meaningful look, "Sibo, we are going to be killed soon."

　Quaguosi was a place dedicated to selling salt in the Song Dynasty.Borrow it here.

　　
　
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