Thirty miles east from Qingchai County, this place is called Sanpian. The terrain is flat and unobstructed, and it is connected to all directions. There is an official post station that happens to be located here, and it is located in Sanpian.

Pian is driving a car with two horses at the same time. As the name suggests, Pian is driving a car with six horses at the same time. It is still crowded and blocked on the road. This is enough to know that this official road is flat and spacious.

The post station is divided into three parts: post, station and pavilion. The post station is reserved as a place for reception and arrangement of transportation of government materials, while the station is a place for conveying important documents and military information, and has always been the place in the army.

The shop is responsible for the transfer of official documents and correspondence between cities and counties, and all the documents are transmitted by the shop. The three perform their duties and cover the entire piece so that it is not airtight. During the war, the war reports are conveyed in a hurry, providing drinking horses and food. If the postman is exhausted, the postman will change the postman and rush to the lower station.

In fact, if you look deeper, this post station was founded in the Great Qi period. This was a brilliant plan that Emperor Qi gathered the civil and military officials of the court and thought hard for several days before he came up with a clue. Qi State fell apart, but this post station system has been used to this day and has not been replaced for a long time.

Military information during the war was the top priority. At that time, post stations were scarce, and the journey between adjacent post stations was too far away. There were often tragedies in which post stations and good horses ran and died on the way. Therefore, many post stations were set up in various places, which was to reduce the loss of post stations and save horses.

It is difficult to find a horse. It is not that the horse is worth a thousand gold, but that most of the good horses in the world come from the Dayuan tribe. However, few horses in the Dayuan tribe have gone out of the way, so there is a price but no market.

Xun Yuantuo and Zhou Kefa left by car, and left 30 miles away from Qingchai County. The night gradually rose. The two of them were also a little hungry, so they discussed resting at Sanpian Station for one night and it would not be too late to go tomorrow. It would be better to say that they were rushing to see the customs and customs of various places and see the various livelihoods in the world.

If you go to Taiping today, the rules of the post station will naturally change a lot. Usually, this post station welcomes people from the government and is almost not open to passers-by. If you really have nowhere to go, you can rest here for a night without organizing food, drinks and horses. Nowadays, unlike when the war was first war, merchants and escorts would also receive them. The price of a meal was fair, and there was no problem of bullying customers in other restaurants.

Where did Xun Yuantuo catch the carriage? He didn't even talk about his wealth and food, and he didn't even walk out of the door. He even had very few cars. He had to watch as his husband took off his carriage and tied two horses to a stake. Then he walked out of the carriage with a very unnatural expression.

There is no reason why the master takes action and the apprentice enjoys his success. Mr. Xun blushed for the first time.

His face turned red, and a silver bell-like laughter came from the backyard of the inn, with a little shyness mixed in it. Xun Yuantuo frowned, not because he was angry, but after Qingchai several years, no one dared to make fun of him as a young man in person, so he naturally had no good face for a while.

Mr. Xun asked to the backyard, "Why are you laughing? Could it be that you are making fun of me?" At this time, in the dark and dusk, it turned out that there were two girls on the wall of the backyard, raising the wall, revealing half of their heads to look at him. He was a little ashamed at the moment, and his words were not scrupulous, not to mention that this question was indeed rude.

But before Mr. Xun's resignation was made, the gate of the station was already wide open. Before the person arrived, he heard the woman scolding angrily, "Oh, which young master is visiting in the middle of the night? My daughter was just laughing and was about to be questioned by you. If the two masters were disturbed, would we still have to silence us?" The woman was obviously angry and became increasingly fierce, and she called Xun Yuantuo from Mr. Xun, who changed from Mr. Xun, had a strong sense of irony.

Seeing the two of them facing each other, Zhou Kefa, who was properly tied up, hurried to smooth things over, "Don't calm down, this girl is angry, her disciple is arrogant and does not know the rules, don't know the rules, don't be as good as him. If it's really hard to eliminate the remaining fire, I will blame my master for being incompetent." Seeing the old man's words and postures were quite polite, and his clothes were quite simple, the anger couldn't help but fade away a little. He gave the young master a fierce look, then waved his hand and let the two in.

As soon as he entered the yard, even Mr. Zhou's face turned from sunny to dark.

This is not the official station, and its poverty is not as good as that of ordinary people. The yard is empty, except for an old water tank covered with cracks in the southeast corner of the courtyard, there is almost no other decoration. With the tiny oil lamps in the shop, the decorations in the house are vaguely visible, which makes the two of them stunned: there is only a narrow old couch in the house, and Mr. Zhou's body is already thin, but if you rest on this bed, you are afraid that your sleeping position will roll off the bed.

Xun Yuantuo looked to his right again and saw two drooping girls standing timidly behind the woman, washing her clothes very thinly. Then he saw that the woman's clothes were torn, and even her lotus arm was exposed.

There is no man in the inn set up by the government, and it is extremely abnormal to be so poor.

Although there was some quarrel before, Xun Yuantuo couldn't help asking: "If I have never remembered correctly, the government should pay a monthly salary. Even if the salary is not very generous, it shouldn't be so poor."

The woman did not pay attention to Xun Yuantuo, but patted the floating dust that the two girls had been climbing the wall and told them to go to play elsewhere. It was getting late, so don't walk too far away from the inn.

"Official government? Salary?" the woman sneered, "If the government can care about our lives or death, how could the decorations in the courtyard be so thin? The post station is a 100% territorial area. If the government just doesn't pay the salary, how could my mother and daughter end up in this area?"

Xun Yuantuo was stunned. The obedient meaning seemed to have something else, but then this idea flashed through. In his opinion, officials and even the county magistrates all looked like to each other, and there was no clue that others bullyed the lower level and met the superiors. Everyone in the world knew that the literary style of the upper qi was prevalent in the officialdom, and from top to bottom they had a kindness, all with clean style? As for some scholars and literati criticized the government's remarks, they have always been despised by him.

Those who have never been an official do not know that it is difficult for officials to behave, but they just go and criticize them if they are dissatisfied. In the end, they still have a despicable act of saying sourness and sourness in their mouths.

"Following your clothes and serving, I guess I am a noble young man. How can you understand the family affairs of ordinary people?" The young man's expression was seen by the woman, and the contempt in his eyes became even stronger.

The woman left Xun Zhou and the other two and went to the backyard to prepare meals alone.

Mr. Xun walked around the courtyard, guessing why the inn was poor. Mr. Zhou was not idle either. He took out two silk squids he brought with him from the carriage and handed them to the two girls.

The second girl had never seen such a good silky handkerchief. After hesitating for a while, she finally agreed to play with it for a while, but she swears that she would still give it back to the gentleman when she leaves tomorrow morning, and just borrow it to take a look.

Mr. Zhou agreed with a smile on his face.
Chapter completed!