There is a white bone spirit in the village

Chapter 15

The man hesitated, put his mouth close to Chunxing's ear, and whispered something.

Lin Jiao couldn't hear it. Fortunately, Chun Xing uttered an ah, sat up abruptly, looked at the man opposite and said tremblingly, "You don't want to die! If you sell ten catties of salt, if you are caught by the government, you will be beheaded!"

The man said nonchalantly: "Xing, you see that there are so many caravan mule teams passing through our county every day, and they are all carrying goods from the north and the south. What kind of goods get the fastest money? Of course it is illegal salt. It is because they want to beheaded. No one dares to sell it. If no one sells it, this is the big profit! Don’t worry if I follow the top three. He is a man of righteousness. Although he also did this business in the past, he is different from the ghost who lost his head and still has two heads. It just broke down. There are people on his way, you can rest assured. When I come back from this trip, I will take you away!" Seeing that Chun Xing was still uneasy, the man added, "Xing, you said I would do this , although I lost my head, it’s better than doing that before, right? Besides, even though I don’t know a single word, I follow the top three leaders, but I also know something about the court. Don’t look at our place for the past two years. It’s quiet, it’s not peaceful outside! It’s so hard to stop fighting. Do you know who the King of England is in these two years? It’s the emperor’s younger brother. He was the commander-in-chief of the world when he fought against the Northern Dynasties in the first few years. Competing secretly with the emperor, wooing people everywhere. They also increased the salt tax in private, and those officials who came out of the court, nine out of ten were black, which one didn't take the opportunity to grab another layer of land? Why are they all competing? We can’t steal some money from them by scraping people’s oil and water? What’s wrong with me selling some salt? In a few days, I’ll follow the three heads!”

Chun Xing breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly jumped up: "Oh no, it's getting dark, I told my mother that I came here to see you, I'm going back!"

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Lin Jiao slowly retreated to the original field ridge, and then quickly returned from the original road.When I opened the door and entered, the reed hen had already entered the nest and was clucking softly in the nest. The yard was swept clean, the broom was leaning against the corner, and there was a smell of pea noodles in the house.Nengwu cleaned up the housework and waited for her to come back for dinner.

In order to save money on oil lamps, the country people would bring a small table out for dinner in the courtyard when the days grow longer in late spring and early summer.Lin Jiao did as the Romans did, and when they ate with Neng Wu in the faint light outside, Neng Wu said happily: "Sister-in-law, I found an egg in the chicken coop this morning, and our little hen is ready to give birth. In the future, both of them will give birth, and we will have two eggs every day..."

Lin Jiao replied casually, still thinking about the previous scene in her mind.She was so distracted that she didn't even find it difficult to swallow the thick bean bun that was like chewing sand in her mouth.

What caught her mind was not the sweet scent exuding from the green gauze tent just now, but the words from the mouth of the young man named Ahu.She didn't know if Chun Xing was persuaded in the end, but she was persuaded immediately anyway.

Salt smuggling is really a lucrative business.When the salt is sold from the place where it is produced to the place where it is sold, the price will immediately increase tenfold or even dozens of times.People like Huang Chao and Zhang Shicheng, who sound like they are the leaders of the peasant uprising, are actually salt lords, and they stopped playing because they were cut off by the court.Now that the officials are scrambling to scrape the land, the huge salt tax imposed by the emperor and his own brother is only for extravagance or secret rivalry, why can't they sell it?This is also a good thing that benefits the people's livelihood, not only to sell, but also to sell more, for a long time!

Lin Jiao's blood boiled with excitement, like a hungry person with green eyes seeing a table of gluttonous feast not far in front of him, full of energy.The uncle who had been thinking about it for a few nights in the past few days has long been thrown into the back of his head.In the final analysis, women still have to rely on themselves, and men only consider it when they are really desperate.Lin Jiao has never been confused on this point.

She really needs to be grateful to Shi Qingshan now, if it wasn't for his appearance, she wouldn't have gone to the sorghum field, if she hadn't gone to the sorghum field, she wouldn't have bumped into that scene, let alone heard the news .It was simply that God had paved a great road leading to wealth under her feet, and it depended on whether she could grasp it!

Money is so important.If she didn't have a deep understanding of this in her previous life, she has already fully felt it now.As long as she has money, she doesn't have to work so hard every day being trapped in the field, she can move to the county town to do other jobs, and she can also show Nengwu her eyes.

No matter in her previous life or this life, she never asked herself to be a person of high moral character.As long as you do things without crossing the bottom line of your conscience, that's enough. If you tie your hands and feet, you will accomplish nothing.

This divine opportunity must be seized, her heart told her now.And she will do it.

Lin Jiao suffered from insomnia for most of the night, and went to the ground early the next morning.

Great start to the day.The early sun sprinkled the fields and the river like gold, and the dewdrops hung on the ears and leaves that were too late to evaporate. People walked on the field ridges full of wild weeds and verbena, and from time to time they could see foxes that looked like foxes. The little beast jumped out of the emerald green wheat field, and disappeared into the grass in a blink of an eye.

After being here for so long, this is the first time that Lin Jiao feels that the pastoral morning is beautiful.She was even in the mood to pick the wild flowers that can be seen everywhere on the roadside, twisted them into a bracelet and played with it for a while.Seeing that his outstretched wrists are thin and well-proportioned, if he doesn't bask in the sun so brightly, and his skin is whiter, wearing a bracelet will definitely look good.

Chunxing's field is only half a mile away from their own three mu of land.Lin Jiao went to her own field to work for a while, and gradually the people in the nearby fields became more crowded, and Hu Lanhua also went to the nearby three-acre field with a basket on her arm.Seeing Lin Jiao, she stared at her, but Lin Jiao ignored her, turned around and went to another field.When the sun reached the height of the two, Lin Jiao put on a bamboo hat, took a grass sickle and a bamboo basket, and went to the field pretending to be mowing grass.

At this time, it is the wheat blossoming and filling, which is related to the harvest of the year.Farmers dare not neglect, and every family waits in the field.When Lin Jiao arrived, she saw Chun Xing busy in the field, she stepped forward and called out, "Sister Chun Xing, my work in the field is almost finished, I came here to weed grass, I see you are busy, come and help me! "

Chun Xing was a little surprised, she hurriedly waved her hand to decline, and quickly glanced at the people next to her.

Now Lin Jiao finally understood why she was so afraid of being seen with her by others, so she stood back a little and asked, "Sister Chunxing, are you going to enter the county these few days?"

"Not going."

"Oh, I thought you were going and wanted to take a ride with you." Lin Jiao sighed regretfully, "I heard the news that in a few days the government will strictly investigate the caravan mule team to catch smugglers of salt. I don't know how many days it will take for this city gate to be closed, so I just want to rush there. It's fine if you don't go." After speaking, he turned to leave.

"Hey, wait!"

Lin Jiao turned her head and saw Chun Xing's lips trembling and asked, "Who did you listen to?"

"Uncle Jingxuan. Last time when I went to the county town to collect money from the yamen, I met him. He reminded me."

Chun Xing stared straight, and sat down on the ground. Lin Jiao quickly took off her shoes and went to help her, feeling her hands were cold.

"I...I'm fine...you can go."

Chun Xing stood up and said weakly.

"Okay, then I'm leaving!"

Lin Jiao took the straw basket and left without going anywhere. She went straight home. As soon as she entered the door, Nengwu said, "Sister-in-law, brother Qingshan just came and asked you. I told him that you went to the farm as you ordered." , tell him to study hard in the future, and don’t come here again.”

Lin Jiao responded, thinking that it was not an option to keep doing this all the time, and if there was a chance next time, she might as well tell him face to face that cutting the weeds would mean eradicating the roots.

Lin Jiao went into the room and changed the clothes she was wearing when she went out, that is, the white floral shirt with blue background, and a pair of black trousers underneath with wide legs. I hurried to wait under the stone bridge just now.After waiting for a while, she saw Chun Xing hurriedly coming from the village road with her head bowed, heading for the county town, followed by the village entrance, and walked up to greet her.Chun Xing turned her head and was taken aback for a moment, her expression a little unnatural.Lin Jiao just smiled and said, "What a coincidence, I saw you from a long distance, and I ran up to you. We walked together and had companions." Chun Xing forced a smile, and the two of them passed the fork in Huangtang Village not long after. He took a mule cart from behind and arrived at the county seat.Chun Xing had nothing to say all the way, and was full of preoccupations. When she entered the city, she said that she had something to do, so she said goodbye to Lin Jiao, bowed her head and hurried away in the direction of the City God.

Lin Jiao followed not far or near, until she reached Chenghuang, surrounded by sugar blowers, jugglers, and gouache hair rope sellers, gradually becoming lively. Chun Xing entered an alley, turned a few turns, and finally stopped at the end of the alley. Standing in front of a small quiet courtyard, he knocked on the door and quickly entered.

Lin Jiao hid in the corner of the alley and waited for a while, and saw Chun Xing was sent out of the alley by the young man she saw last night, after a while the man hurried back alone, the door creaked and closed again, and never came out again.Lin Jiao squatted on the ground and counted the ants passing under her feet. When she slowly counted to the 160th, she stood up and walked to the door just now, took a deep breath, and knocked on the door.

(End of this chapter)