Ping Jian sighed: "They think we are bandits stepping on the spot!"

He is from the mountains and knows what the villagers are thinking about outsiders.

Hongye pursed her lips, she was also a bandit and knew how afraid the villagers were of bandits.

The two dismounted and walked to find a house.

"Fellow fellow, we are merchants doing shopping. We missed Sutou after dark."

Ping Jian stood outside the courtyard wall and shouted: "Can I stay at your house for one night? I don't want you to take care of the food. I just want some hot water. I'll pay half a cent!"

There was no movement in the room. Ping Jian shouted again, but still no movement!

The two moved to another house, but no one came out from several houses in a row!

Arriving at a house in the village, Ping Jian shouted again at the top of his throat.

"Master, what are you doing? Aren't you afraid that they are thieves in blue?"

"How could a thief in green bring a woman out to visit a place? Let them stay for the night, otherwise they will freeze to death at night!"

A man and a woman started arguing, and soon the courtyard door opened!

A short middle-aged man came out and said: "Two friends, my name is Shan Huo Qin. If you don't mind, come to my house and spend the night. I don't want any money. I don't have a decent place for you. It's not easy to go out!"

"

"Thank you bro!"

Ping Jian smiled and clasped his fists, stuffed half the money with his backhand, and led the horse into the small courtyard!

Four stone houses and a stable make up a small family.

There are quite a few people in the family. In addition to the couple, there is also a young couple, a grown-up boy and a half, and four children!

Grasping the half-money, Shan Huo Qin was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly shouted: "Old woman, hurry up and cook for the two guests. Big Dog, Second Dog, hurry up and lead the horses for the guests. Big Dog's Wife, hurry up and pour water for the two guests!"

"

Half a pound of money, five hundred Wen, is not a small amount of money in a mountain village!

The family gets busy!

Soon the meal was ready, a basket of multigrain flour bread and a pot of wild vegetable soup.

Shan Huo Qin looked apologetic: "Two guests, I'm really sorry, there is nothing good at home!"

Ping Jian smiled and waved his hand: "Brother, I am also from the mountains, so I am not so particular!"

"please!"

Shan Huo Qin waved his hand!

The two sat down and before they started eating, Hongye noticed something was wrong.

The three children at the door were all staring at the multigrain noodles and swallowing their saliva.

Even the big dog couple and the second dog would glance at the multigrain pancakes from time to time, as if they hadn't eaten them in a long time!

Hongye couldn't bear to see it, so she walked out the door carrying multi-grain pancakes and stuffed one into each person's hand.

"Guest, there's some in the kitchen, there's more!"

Shanhao Qin stood up in embarrassment. When he saw his youngest son opening his mouth to bite, he slapped him on the back of the head: "You bastard, you ate the cake and the guests eat it. Bring it over quickly!"

"Wow!"

The fragrant cake was snatched away, and the five or six-year-old puppy started crying!

Shan Huo Qin couldn't bear it in his eyes, but he still put away the cakes, put them all in the basket, and gave them to the two of them: "Let the guests laugh, there is really something to eat in the kitchen, don't worry about them gluttons!"

"I told them to eat, so I gave it to them. Why did I take it back?"

Hongye was a little annoyed, and distributed the cakes to several people. He also took out a paper bag from the package, cut the pork inside, divided a piece for each person, and said: "Don't listen to your father, listen to me, eat it quickly."

Bar?"

Several people looked at the meat and swallowed their saliva, but looked at Shanhuo Qin with expressions of fear on their faces!

Shan Huo Qin looked embarrassed. When Ping Jian nodded, he looked at the children: "Since the guest gave it to you, then you can eat it!"

A group of children, big and small, hugged the cakes and meat and ate them hungrily!

Hongye looked on with a smile: The feeling of doing good deeds is more satisfying than paying for travel!

Ping Jian drank a bowl of vegetable soup and said, "Brother, are you having a hard time today?"

Shanhao Qin nodded and smiled bitterly: "He County is a mountainous area, and there are not many places to grow food. The county master's tax is heavy, so we have to eat one meal a day to survive. The Tsing Yi thieves made trouble a while ago, and they came to collect us again.

After one wave of food, we can’t even keep one meal a day!”

Not long ago, there was a rebellion in Hexian County. The leader was the green-faced beast, and his subordinates were labeled as green-robed thieves by the government.

After being driven out of the county by Longnan County soldiers, the thieves in Tsing Yi returned to the Qianhe Ridge area.

Fighting for food in the mountains all day long makes people panic!

Hongye frowned: Brother Leng Yun doesn’t know how to restrain his brothers and let them rob poor people. What kind of hero can he be? They pay for the road every day, and all they accept are rich merchants, and the poor people don’t receive any money for crossing the road!

"Why!"

Ping Jian sighed: "Brother, you never thought about finding another way!"

Mountain goods Qin smiled bitterly and said: "We have little land to grow food, and there are no valuable iron ore or coal mines. Just a jade mine is worthless! On weekdays, I just collect some mountain goods and sell them, but I can't make much money!"

Ping Jian narrowed his eyes: "Then do you want to make money?"

"I think about it, of course I do, even in my dreams!"

Shanghao Qin Qin's eyes lit up and he said, "Guest, if you have any ideas for how to get rich, please tell me!"

Ping Jian smiled and said: "Not to mention getting rich, I can make your whole village eat and drink well!"

thump!

Shan Huo Qin knelt on the ground: "Please give me some advice?"

"Brother, get up!"

Ping Jian helped the mountain goods Qin Dao: "I have a customer who wants water jade. He can ask for three hundred carts a month. As long as you step on the water jade and transport it to Tongmu Town, fifty miles away, I will pay one tael of silver per cart."

The teacher asked him to come here just to find the manpower to mine and transport it to Fu County!

And told him how to recruit people and organize them!

"real?"

General Qin, a mountain product, was doubtful: "But water jade is of no use. No one has ever bought so much!"

"You don't have to worry about what people bought it for, just call the villagers to dig it out."

Ping Jian said: "I can pay you the deposit first and let you purchase the carriages and horses."

"Ok, Ok!"

Shan Huo Qin nodded repeatedly: "As long as there is money, I will immediately summon the villagers to prepare!"

"Don't worry, it's already night, let's do it tomorrow!"

Ping Jian opened a bag and pushed it over: "Here are three hundred taels of silver. I will buy carriages and horses for you. We will transport ten carriages a day to Tongmu Town. There will be someone there to accept the payment!"

"……Um!"

Looking at the white money, Qin the mountainous guy stretched out his hand tremblingly, and after touching it, he said with tears in his eyes: "Old lady, kill that old hen at home, let's entertain the distinguished guests!"

"Brother, stop working so hard. It's midnight and I have to rest and rush back tomorrow."

Ping Jian quickly stopped him.

Shan Huo Qin diligently went to get water for washing his feet.

Hongye secretly said: "Uncle Pingjian, that little thief asked you to follow him not to inquire about the situation in He County, but to buy water jade mines!"

“Both!”

Ping Jian said softly: "Madam is in Zhoucheng. To go to Zhoucheng, you have to pass through Hexian County. Sir, I asked you to come and feel the situation here, so as to make preparations in advance!"

"It's weird to believe you!"

Hong Ye muttered: "That little thief robbed my sister-in-law Mengying, how can he still remember his first wife?"

Ping Jian chuckled and shook his head, not arguing with this cut-tongued, tofu-hearted little girl!

The group was just getting ready to take a rest.

The sound of hurried knocks on the door was accompanied by vicious shouts: "Open the door, open the door quickly, the Tsing Yi Army is here to collect food."

"Collect food!"

Shan Huo Qin's face turned pale and he shouted from behind the door: "Didn't you come to collect it ten days ago?"

That time during the grain collection, half of the rations stored by his family were taken away!

It’s difficult for the whole family to spend the winter now!
To be continued...