During the period when General Zhang Xueliang's troops were stationed in Fengqi, traffic from north to south was completely interrupted, and Luo cavalry could not be seen traveling back and forth between Inner Mongolia and Chang'an. However, people's daily necessities were still guaranteed, especially salt.

We can't live without rice. Jingbian in northern Shaanxi produces salt, which was mainly supplied to Chang'an in those days.

The official road between Inner Mongolia and Chang'an was blocked, but a secret road was quietly opened. Going north along the Yellow River, there was a rarely visited mountain road. Even mules and horses could not walk on that road. It was the same road that the Red Army took when they went north.

Carrying goods to a dangerous place, looking at the sky above and the abyss below, if you slip without paying attention, you might die. The price of salt in Chang'an has increased several times, and a group of men are walking to Chang'an carrying salt on their backs.

From a distance, it looks like a group of squirming ants on the winding path. The goods that come back are foreign cloth, foreign medicine (soap), foreign medicine (western medicine), foreign porcelain basins, foreign sugar and matches. Of course, when the Red Army first arrived in northern Shaanxi,

There was a severe shortage of weapons. Although gun trafficking was dangerous, carrying a gun to Jingbian could actually make a net profit of three silver dollars. The huge business profits prompted people to take risks and work hard. During that period, Yang Jiuwa's buddies were the busiest.

Instead of working as porters who worked hard to die, they became bodyguards for the porters, responsible for protecting their safety along the way. Of course, the porters also had to pay a large amount of protection money, so the porters were willing to go out to work.

The purpose of living is to support the family. The family has parents, wife and children, and all they want is peace.

During that period, a new industry also quietly emerged in Guoyu Village, which was to open a post station for porters who were on their way. The porters often traveled at night and stayed at dawn. They came to Guoyu Village at dawn, had a meal of dried millet, and slept.

After a peaceful sleep the previous day, we set off from Guoyu Village at dusk and walked to another inn in time for dawn. In fact, we only charge guests 20 cents for a meal, 5 cents for sleeping in winter, and no charge for sleeping in summer.

They only earned five cents from the guests for food, rice, oil and salt, and the villagers were very satisfied with it, because it was their first commercial income in history. As long as six or seven people from a family come to eat, they can earn a net income of thirty cents, which is much better than paying for a meal.

It's a good deal to hire people for work.

Liao was the leader of Yang Jiuwa and was responsible for the safety of the porters along the road. Yangyao's family naturally had the most guests. At that time, Yangyao already had two daughters. The two girls were as strong as her mother. Although there was nothing to show off in the remote countryside, they gave

Nicknames are a specialty of people. The villagers nicknamed Lupao’s eldest daughter Jiejie, and the second daughter Luqi. When the two daughters stood in front of others, they looked like two solid Luqi.

He is very fond of his two precious daughters. Sometimes he goes home to stay for a day or two, with one daughter on his back and another in his arms, like a bear with two cubs. He gave it to the porter.

Leading the way, naturally he tried his best to bring the guests to his house. During that period, two large stoves and two large pots were set up in the yard of Yangyao's house. Mother and father got up early every day, hitched up their donkeys to grind rice, and Yangyao got up in the middle of the night.

Wash the rice and stew dry rice. Two pots of fragrant rice are cooked at dawn. The food is not particular. Most of them are potatoes, cabbage and radish. The guests go to bed after eating and sleep until dark before going on the road. They only eat for one day.

A liter of millet can be eaten in one meal. In order to rush on the road, a man in a hurry usually does not eat two meals on the road.

Guo Shanren took his son to the county town. Only Mudanhong was the only woman left in a courtyard house. Mudanhong lived a happy life when her husband was not at home. She slept until half noon every day and opened the door, and she could see the front door of her house.

There were two buckets of water, needless to say it was Guo Quanfa who carried them and put them in front of the door. Mudanhong picked up the water and poured it into the water jar, then put the buckets outside. After a while, Guo Quanfa took the buckets away again. Guo Shanren took the buckets away every once in a while.

I return home once every ten days and a half. When I come back, I bring a donkey with a sack on its back, carrying vegetables and wheat noodles bought from the county town. Wheat is not grown in Guoyu Village, so to eat wheat noodles, you have to go to the county market.

Going to the market to buy things. Guo Shanren went home to stay for a day or two and then left. Peonyhong had nothing to do. She often cried in front of the mirror and sang a piece of "Grudge in the Palace". She felt like she had become a noble concubine in the cold palace... Suddenly she heard the village

He heard the sound of the suona in the house, opened the door and stood at the door of his house. It turned out that it was Zhang Dashan's daughter Zhang Dongmei who was getting married to the three wolves. The scene was more grand than the emperor's married daughter. Shopkeeper Hu and Shopkeeper Lin from Inner Mongolia walked in the front, followed closely.

Followed by Yang Jiuwa and shopkeeper Xie, a dozen men carrying the bride price swaggered through the small Guoyu Village. Not a single man, woman, old or child was left in the village, and they were all invited to the home of Funnelzi, who was wearing a green melon-skin hat.

, wearing a brocade robe embroidered with wealth and honor, nodding and bending when seeing people, really like a living ghost pulled out of the tomb, but Zhang Dashan was wearing a double-breasted green cloth jacket, and a black

Wearing green cloth lantern trousers, leggings, and cow-nosed mille-layer cloth shoes, he looked chic and energetic. The two in-laws stood side by side, looking so funny.

That day, Mudanhong was also invited to the table and sat in a corner with a group of children. Mudanhong didn’t want to come, but she couldn’t help but invited her to help. Everyone in the village has gone, and you can’t be left alone. Yang Jiuwa’s

All the gang members came to fight with the young people in the village. Guoyu Village is separated from Yang Jiuwa's village by a dustpan palm. As the saying goes, rabbits don't eat grass beside their nests. Guoyu Village has never been harassed by bandits. The two families

They were neighbors separated by mountains, and they knew each other well. The young people didn't know what it meant to be afraid when they saw the bandits. They punched and guessed each other's orders and refused to give in. The air was filled with a strong smell of alcohol, and even the dogs in the village were drunk.

I don’t know who took the lead in making noise and asked Mudanhong to sing a song for everyone. Mudanhong had seen this kind of scene many times and was calm. She stood up slowly, bowed to everyone, pointed to her mouth and said she had a sore throat.

, I really couldn't sing it. Everyone thought that Peony Hong was good at clapping her hands and making the mountains ring. Peony Hong had no choice but to sing a song "The Little Widow Goes to the Grave". The song was quite good and everyone cheered in unison. But the wolf woman outside the mat shed

I couldn't bear to offend her anymore, so I wanted to rush into the banquet shed and ask what happened. On her son's big day, why did that wretched woman sing that unlucky opera? Several helpers stopped the wolf woman outside the banquet shed and tried to persuade her.

: I believe that Peony Hong was also unintentional. Please don’t cause trouble on your son’s happy day. Things just subsided here, and a few bandits there got into a fight with the young men in the village, accusing each other of drinking and cheating. Only when Yang Jiuwa came forward in person did he

After the chaos subsided, Zhang Dashan pulled the two fighting parties back to the table, rolled up his sleeves and shouted: "Today I will drink with all of you. Those who can drink will come forward, and those who cannot drink will stand down." So the fighting party

The two sides joined forces to deal with Zhang Dashan, who was really good at drinking. He kept drinking until the bandits and the young men in the village all fell down. From then on, both the villagers and the bandits looked at Zhang Dashan with admiration.

There were a lot of new things happening in Guoyu Village at that time. Dougua's father picked up a daughter-in-law for Dougua on the bank of the Yellow River and made Dougua jump up and down with joy. Dougua's mother was unwilling and said that

The daughter-in-law did not come from the right way. Dougua's father said: "Count the doors in Guoyu Village. How many daughters-in-law are there from the right way? As long as Dougua is willing." That Ban Nao was the same age as Dougua. When he saw the young people in the village, they all

After marrying a daughter-in-law, he was naturally anxious and had a fight with his father. In the morning, Taiyang Laogao was still sleeping on the kang and couldn't get up. Bancai was anxious and called his son through the window: "Get up quickly, the sun is already shining on your clothes." Bannao

He fell asleep without moving, and read a poem to his father: "My child is twenty years old this year, and his clothes are torn and there is no one to mend them." The boss knew that the boss wanted a wife from his father, so he deliberately provoked his son: "If you want someone to mend your clothes,

Your son still has to be twenty years old." Ban Nao cried and said, "People live in their sixties, so why don't you marry a wife at forty years old?" Ban Zai found it interesting and deliberately teased his son: "Jiang Ziya went to defeat Zhou when he was sixty years old.

Married a yellow flower girl at the age of ten." The boss said more and more outrageously: "You are hugging your wife in the dark and trying to survive, you don't care about the life or death of your son"! Just when the boss was about to have an attack, the boss came out and said

: "My baby, please get up quickly. After dinner, Mom will take you to see your wife." Ban Nao put on his clothes and pants again and again and asked his mother: "Really?" His mother said: "I can't see it in the dark at night."

There is another refugee family from Shanxi living over there at the kiln. I saw a woman who is quite old. After dinner, I will go and ask you if the woman has left her husband's family."

Ban Nao became more energetic after hearing this. After dinner, he and his mother went to the rotten kiln where they lived when they first came to Guo Yu Village. Sure enough, they saw a family of four who had fled. The older ones were the old couple.

The younger one claimed to be brother and sister. The girl was also pretty. I really didn’t know which family was particularly easy to talk to. They said that in these troubled times, it would be good if they could find a reliable family for the girl. At present, it was agreed that the betrothal gift would only be ten silver dollars and two measures of millet. Then

The young man was also very generous when he said that as long as he paid all the gifts today, he could let his sister come over tomorrow.

When Ban Nao Niang returned home and discussed with her husband Ban Cai, she felt that the betrothal gift of ten silver dollars was really not much, and it was equivalent to picking up a daughter-in-law for nothing. Ban Cai felt that something was wrong. What did the family do with silver dollars if they didn't have food?

He couldn't allow him to think too much. First of all, his son Ban Nao was willing. The family had saved a few silver coins, and it was easy to borrow a few more silver coins in the village, so the betrothal gift was prepared on the same day. Ban Nao's mother also prepared a foot of old plaid cloth.

, I plan to make a top for my new wife-in-law.

When it was getting dark, Ban Nao carried Xiaomi on his back and came to the rotten kiln with his father. The family was very enthusiastic and invited the father and son to sit down. Ban Lao stayed with his future in-laws for a long time. It seemed that this family

He was a genuine person and not like a liar, so the two parties agreed to invite their whole family over the next morning.

When he got home that night, Bancai also invited Dougua's dad to help with the cooking tomorrow. Of course, the marriage of a poor family is not as elaborate as the three wolves, but it can't be too shabby. There just happen to be a dozen goats in the pen.

It's not worth killing one tomorrow. Dad Dougua held his pipe in his mouth and thought for a long time before swallowing his words again. He wanted to ask Ban Nao to keep an eye out for that family in the dark today. He recently came to Wagou Town.

"Pigeon letting" (making a woman agree to marry someone, taking advantage of the opportunity and sneaking away with the woman to defraud others of their property, commonly known as "letting pigeon") has happened several times. Then I thought it was hard to talk about such a thing, Dougua

Dad sat for a while and then left, promising to come and help tomorrow morning.

The boss slept until midnight and became suspicious. He put on his clothes and went to the rotten kiln to see what was going on. He saw that the kiln was already empty.
Chapter completed!