"My man, two bowls of soup cakes! One bowl of old Huang in Weicheng!" The vendor Liu Mutan jumped out of the shaft, tying the horse pulling the cart to the horse-tie pile at the door, and shouting loudly.

"What a pity! Please come in!" Huang Fu, the guest in charge of welcoming guests, agreed to open the curtain and bowed with enthusiasm, "Uncle Liu, business is booming, I'm glad to you!"

"Xinglong, Xinglong! You are also doing business!" Liu Mutan returned the gift with a smile, and took out two Kaiyuan Tongbao from his pocket and patted it in the palm of everyone's hand, "Come on, it's the New Year, take a buy a bowl of wine."

"Thank you, Uncle Liu!" Everyone, Huang Fumei, smiled and quickly collected the New Year's money. Then, he took off a brush from his waist and took the initiative to help Liu Mu charcoal brush the coal ash on the two horses. "Uncle Liu, if you go in by yourself, I won't give you the guidance. While you are having a meal, I will clean them up, and you will also be in a good mood on the way back."

"Then I'm thankful!" Liu Mutan nodded with a smile, hesitated for a moment, raised his hand and pointed to the back of the carriage, "After brushing, you can help me feed the animals two handfuls of fried soybeans. The soybeans are loaded in the wooden cabinet at the rear of the carriage. Remember not to feed too much to avoid their stomachs bloated! After feeding, put a small bag of fried soybeans in the wooden box of soybeans, and you can grab it and eat it yourself!" (Note: fried soybeans, snacks made with sturgeons, salt, millet or wheat, can be used for heavy physical laborers to replenish their physical strength.)

"No, no, I have received Uncle Liu's rewards, so how can I eat Uncle Liu's snacks?" Huang Fu waved his hands repeatedly, but his eyes couldn't help but look at the wooden box at the rear of the carriage.

"If you ask you to eat, you're welcome!" Liu Mutan felt ache in his heart, but he pretended to be full of atmosphericity and gently patted Huang Fu's shoulder, "Where is your grandfather, why didn't you see him today?"

"Here, there are a lot of people eating soup cakes today. He helped to bring the food. He asked me to help the guests take care of the animals at the door!" Huang Fu did not hide the old customer like Liu Mutan and responded with a smile.

"Hmm!" As he was speaking, a cough was already coming from the door. However, Huang Laoxie, the shopkeeper of the soup cake shop, was worried about his son and came out to welcome the guests in person.

Seeing that Liu Mucharn's donkey cart had been replaced with a double-cart cart, and the body was vaguely the latest style that appeared in Changan half a year ago, I couldn't help but whisper, "Uncle Liu, he has made a fortune recently! Even the animals and cars have been replaced with brand new ones! I said that in the past six months, I have never seen you. It turns out that I don't like my little face!"

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"It seems that he is really rich, his voice is different from before!" The shopkeeper returned the gift, smiling and shook his head. At the same time, his eyes were not forgotten to quickly sweep over the carriage. Seeing that there was no cargo in the open carriage, only two small piles of black cinder were left, I couldn't help but sigh again, "Oh, is your business very good? Such a big truck of peat, I'm afraid it will cost four or five thousand kilograms, but I actually took it all in one morning."

"No, I only loaded half of the car, less than 2,000 pounds, less than 2,000 pounds. My mother felt sorry for the animals, afraid of being tired of them." Liu Mutan smiled and denied loudly, "And the car was not filled with peat, but the kind of honeycomb charcoal. It seems to take up a lot of space, but it doesn't weigh the scales. In the past two days, I have just had a snowfall. There are many people who need to burn the stove, so honeycomb carbon will sell quickly. If it were normal, it would have to be sold until the evening."

"That's a good business too!" Huang Laoxie's eyes lit up when he heard it, and he continued to sigh loudly, "No wonder the donkey cart changed into a carriage in a blink of an eye, and the animals pulling the carriage became twins! You, you have really good luck in the past two years! Come in, come in, don't stand outside and talk, soup cakes and rice wine will be prepared for you immediately."

"It's not my blessing to you." Liu Mutan agreed with a smile and walked up the steps. "If you hadn't taken care of my business and introduced other distinguished guests to me, how could I be today? Have you used honeycomb charcoal recently? If you use it, I will take my brother to deliver the goods to you, which is half a percent cheaper than on the market!"

"No, I'm making soup cakes here, so I need it urgently. Honeycomb charcoal is suitable for burning iron stoves for heating, but not for me." Huang Laoxie felt relieved when he heard this, and shook his head with a smile. Then, he shouted to the room, "My man, add more rice wine to Manager Liu! For an old guest, don't charge him money."

"Okay!" The young men's voices came from the depths of the house, revealing the unique excitement of the New Year.

"If you can't do it, you can't do it. How can you drink your wine for free?!" The willow charcoal business is getting bigger and bigger, and it has long passed the stage of taking advantage of others in vain, so I waved my hand to refuse.

However, Huang Laoxie refused to let go and just led him to the brightest part of the room to sit down. Then, he personally brought a plate of pickled garlic and placed it in front of him.

Just as the guy also brought the soup cake and the rice wine, the heat immediately spread between the two. Liu Muchar was so hungry that he was still whining, and had no time to continue to be polite to Huang Laoxie. He first started to take action, and then picked up the rice bowl. He threw two large bowls of soup cake into his stomach like a wind blowing away the clouds.

Re sweat was immediately forced out of his forehead by soup cakes and slowly flowed down his eyelids and face. Soon, several black and white stripes were pulled out.

He pulled out a black sweat towel from his waist, wiped it a few times, and then smiled and picked up the wine bowl while waiting for sweating, "Thank you for the wine from the shopkeeper. You are about the same age as my grandfather, so I won't be polite to you."

"You're so polite! There was no need to be polite. This is the first time you've eaten soup cakes here!" Huang Laoxie, the shopkeeper, glared at Liu Mutan and waved his hand gently, "I didn't add more garlic to you before, you chased me. Why are you still paying attention now?"

"Aren't you poor at that time?" Liu Mutan's face turned slightly red. I don't know if it was because of the heat or the fact that someone had revealed his old age. "Now I can eat enough now, so I can't take advantage of you anymore. By the way, I loved to eat the soup cakes in your hometown when I was a child. The taste has not changed for so many years! It was just that when the kid lived a tense life at home, it was rare to have money to satisfy his craving."

"You're the first time you came to me to eat soup cakes, that's it!" Huang Laoxie rolled his eyelids again and whispered, "But you haven't come for a while. What's wrong? My skills are not up to you?"

"How is that possible? Didn't I take a foot job and deliver the goods to the Western Regions? It's been half a year since I went back and forth!" Liu Mutan didn't hide it, and explained with a smile while siping a small sip of wine. "Isn't this? I just came back before the New Year. After the New Year, I'll go straight to your old side?"

"Delivery, go to the Western Regions?" Huang Laoxie was shocked, his eyes widened in an instant, "You don't want to die! You dare to go to the Western Regions. If you encounter a robber on the way, your grandmother is not yet, bah, I'm talking nonsense, I'm talking nonsense, the Kitchen Lord bless you, the bad spirits are not good. Uncle Liu is lucky at first glance..."

"It's the job of Liushen Commercial Bank, it's very safe! I'm a little tired and keep rushing from morning to night." Liu Mucharn put down the wine cup and explained with a smile, "I'm not hiding it from you. I was too poor and crazy at the beginning, so I took the initiative to gamble. But now I'm so eager to take the second trip!"

"Liu Shen Commercial Bank, use your donkey cart to deliver goods?" Huang Laoxie looked up and down at Liu Mucharn, refusing to believe every word the other party said, "When someone is such a big deal, can he use donkey cart to pick up goods? You kid, if you don't want to say it, just don't say it, why bother me, the old man?!"

"I am unfair, Shopkeeper Huang, I will not fool you!" Liu Mutan heard it and immediately raised his hands and shouted for justice, "I really went to the Western Regions and was hired by Liushen Commercial Bank. People didn't like my donkey cart, but I fell in love with my body and the ability to drive the car."

"Pure artificial?" Huang Laoxie frowned and continued to dig into the bottom line.

"Pure manual, back and forth! The carriages are all from the business." Liu Mutan picked up the second bowl of wine and tasted it in a small mouthful. "When I went there, I helped drive the cart, load the goods, and serve the animals. When I came back, I helped drive the animals, feed the animals, and unload the goods. The horses there were cheaper, especially the horses used to pull the carts, which were sold cheaper than pigs. So, I bought two horses and brought them back to Chang'an. When I settled the wages before the New Year, I begged the second shopkeeper in the team to sell me a big cart at a discount."

"Oh, so that's the case. No wonder I haven't seen you for a long time!" Huang Laoxie stood up, slapped the broken glass in the middle of the window, glanced at the horse and carriage with willow charcoal, and suddenly realized.

"You just said, "The fire is not hard enough to burn a honeycomb charcoal stove, right?" Liu Mutanbai drank a bowl of wine from the shopkeeper Huang, feeling sorry for him. He thought for a while and asked in a low voice.

"Yes!" Huang Lao Xie reluctantly took his eyes off the carriage and nodded slightly, "Why, do you have a different saying?"

"I see that the caravan uses something called the wind gourd to blow the fire of honeycomb charcoal to a height of more than half a foot." Liu Mucharcoal thought for a while, and lowered his voice and revealed, "You always try one, it doesn't seem to cost much. If it's easy to use, burning honeycomb coal can be cheaper than burning charcoal!"

"Is this thing?" Huang Laoxie was stunned and asked instinctively. Then, he looked at the high-backed chair beside him, looked at the broken glass porch on the window, and then looked at the dirty clothes on Liu Mucharn without any patches. He nodded slightly, "Then I will buy one to try. Oh, I'm old, and I still don't know such a good thing until now!"

"I probably haven't been here for long!" Hearing the decadent meaning of the other party's words, Liu Mutan smiled and comforted, "Otherwise, you have used it for a long time, so you don't need a kid to talk too much."

"It should be!" Huang Laoxie nodded slightly, looked at Liu Mucharn a few more times, and asked tentatively, "You can earn a cart with two horses and horses by one trip. Why do you continue to sell honeycomb coal? During the Chinese New Year, you don't want to rest for a few days, and ask your grandmother to ask a matchmaker to help you see a suitable wife?!"

"Isn't this a heart-to-heart and itchy hand after changing a new car?" Liu Mutan smiled, and a little bit of complacent appeared on his black face. "Besides, my family has sold several generations of charcoal, and it can't be broken. So, these days, I will take a big car and send a few honeycomb carbon to my family. When it comes to March and April, the business bank will recruit people to the Western Regions, so I will sign up to follow me. Leave the big car and horse to my brother and my grandfather. In this way, if you are lucky, my brother will have a big car next year, and it will not be that difficult to marry a wife. The next year, hire a few more Goguryeo people to help get honeycomb carbon, and my grandfather will be able to take a break!"

"Good idea!" Huang Laoxie raised his thumbs up admiringly when he heard Liu Mutan say it was filial.

"It's better to ask you for your good fortune!" Liu Mucharn did not forget to dig the well when he drank the water. He killed the last sip of wine in the bowl and stood up and bowed. "If it weren't for the guests you introduced to me two years ago, there happened to be a family's daughter, a female friend of Liushen Business Company. I didn't know that peat can also be used as honeycomb coal, nor did I know that honeycomb coal and special machines are used as a special machine. I wouldn't know that the business company needs to recruit Lifu, who is driving a car to the Western Regions, and the bid would be several times higher than doing things in Chang'an City!"

When he thought of that family, he couldn't help but smile.

As a daughter, she broadened her horizons in Liushen Business and wanted to buy water stoves for her family. However, the grandmother of the family thought that the white copper charcoal basin was the only thing that was to pay attention to the other party, and she had to buy good charcoal. As a result, the outsider was cheaper and sold several trucks of charcoal more. She also discovered the benefits of honeycomb charcoal in time and took the lead in changing the business!

"You are blessed!" Manager Huang refused to be greedy for merit. He stood up and sent Liu Mucharn out while tentatively saying, "Uncle Liu, he is all acquaintances. I'll ask you something to do! If you can help, you can help me. If you can, don't make things difficult for you."

"What's the matter? Just say it clearly!" Liu Muchard had two bowls of rice wine as the foundation, and she was quite brave. Without thinking, she agreed with a drunken face.

"Next time the business bank recruits a friend to the Western Regions, can you take my eldest son with me?" Huang Laoxie pointed at his eldest son who was sitting in the carriage and whispered, "He is not young anymore, and he has no serious work to do."

"Uncle Huang, I really don't dare to agree to you casually. I'm just a car rusher. I can't speak at all when the caravan recruits people!" Liu Mutan was shocked and quickly blushed and waved his hands repeatedly. "I had this opportunity at the beginning, so I would like to thank you for your blessing..."

"Isn't you asking you to send him into the caravan?" Huang Laoxie smiled and interrupted in a low voice, "I'm trying to find a way to send him into the caravan to be a mate, but you have to take care of me on the way. He hasn't left the house before, and I'm at my age, and I can't accompany him."

"You don't let him inherit this soup cake shop. You are a time-honored brand!" Liu Mutan dared not agree too quickly, and grinned and reminded.

"I have three sons, so I can't make all soup cakes!" Huang Laoxie sighed and responded quietly. "Besides, the world has changed. He also has to learn some new skills and can't live my life!"

"That's right, the world has really changed. In the past, I didn't dare to think about such a life!" Liu Mutan smiled and nodded slightly, "Don't worry, as long as he enters the caravan, I promise to help you watch him. In fact, you don't have to worry at all. Liushen Commercial Bank, but Zhangjun's business. Even the Turkic Khan was chopped off by him! From the Central Plains to the Western Regions, unless some thieves live impatiently, they will go to the Liushen Commercial Bank."

"That's true, but with an acquaintance, I can always feel more at ease." Huang Laoxie pushed the door to the guest and complained in a low voice, "My child is sent to you, but he doesn't have the life of being a young master, but he has the temper of a young master. If you don't send him out for experience, I'm really afraid..."

Before he could finish a humble word, a sudden sound of horse hooves came from the street, "Oh, yes...". Immediately afterwards, more than a dozen evil servants from wealthy families rushed past the road in front of Guangdefang like lightning.

"Help, help--" Two girls were tied horizontally on the saddle in the back of the team, struggling to shout for help. However, the Jingzhao Yin servants who were patrolling the street turned a deaf ear to the cry for help, let alone one of them went to stop him.

"Stop, what are you doing? How can you tie someone up in broad daylight?!" Liu Mutan was so excited that he screamed, and wanted to chase him. However, his arm was held firmly by Manager Huang.

"Don't seek death, that's the slave of Princess Anle's family! Didn't you see the official pretending to be deaf and dumb? If you put yourself in, who will support your grandmother and see off for the death of your grandmother!" Before Liu Mutan could break free, the voice of Manager Huang's shopkeeper Huang had already reached his ears. Although it was low, every sentence weighed more than ten thousand pounds.

"Then, then, just watch it like this?" Liu Mutan's feet and arms were immediately pressed out of strength, his eyes were red, and he was panting like a cow.

"What else can I do except look at it?" Huang Laoxie let go of his arm and sighed and shook his head, "Oh--! Their grandmother, just pretend that they didn't give birth to them! Last year, a censor named Yuan wanted to take care of him, but he stopped the person from the princess's mansion the day before, and the next day he rolled up the bedding." (Note: Princess Anle instigated evil slaves to steal handsome men and beautiful women into the mansion, which was recorded in official history. Censor Yuan Congzhi was impeached and mixed by Li Xian.)

"She, she is not afraid of God's thunder, God's thunder..." Liu Mutan couldn't say the complete words, but knew that Huang Laoxie would not deceive him. Looking at the evil slaves' long-lasting backs, his fists clenched and clattered.

At this moment, at the intersection not far away, a light shout suddenly came, "Stop, put down the person, and follow me to the yamen to surrender yourself! In broad daylight, rob the female girl in the street. Do you still have any kingly laws in your eyes?!"

"Someone dares to take care of it! Someone is in charge! There is a female hero blocking the way for those people!" Liu Mutan immediately had the strength again, shouted, and ran towards the source of the sound.

"I don't know which official family's daughter came from another place, but she couldn't recognize the evil slave of Princess Anle's family? Alas--" Huang Laoxie didn't hold any hope in his heart. He sighed and stood on tiptoe, preparing to see clearly the appearance of the person who stood up, so that he would have the opportunity to put a bouquet of incense on the other party in the future to tell her that there are still people in this world who would thank her for her righteous deeds.

What caught his eye was the first of all the evil servants from the Princess Anle's house. They raised their whips and knives high, rushed forward cursingly, ready to teach the woman who dared to meddle in other people's business.

Unexpectedly, the other party was not showing any weakness, and led his companions around him to decisively draw his sword to fight against the evil servants. In an instant, blood splattered and screams came one after another.

"Kill someone--" Since Dawu Sansi's death, the people around him had not seen blood for a long time. They screamed in fear and ran away in scattered.

"Stop it, stop it! They are from the Princess Anle family, they are from the Princess Anle family. If you kill them, you will not be able to take care of it!" The officers of Jingzhao Mansion patrolling the streets all became clever and clear at this moment, rushed over and threatened loudly.

Unfortunately, they ran too slowly. Before they could get close to the battle group, the conflict had completely ended. All the evil slaves in Princess Anle's mansion were shot down under the horse. One of them held his arms, thighs and other wounds and screamed and rolled back and forth.

The nosy "chievous woman" disdained the officers of Jingzhao Mansion. She first waved her knife to cut off the ropes on the robbed girl, and then joined her companions to sandwich the two girls in the middle of the team and headed straight for the city gate.

"Stop, stop..." The officers of Jingzhao Mansion have low abilities but not bad eyesight. They first decisively make way for the hero and her companions, and then shouted, "You can't, you can't just leave!"

"You are blind, don't you see them robbing the people first?" The heroic woman was skillful and had good skills. She asked sternly in a slightly stiff Tang Dynasty official language.

"We, we..." The officers blushed when asked, but continued to emphasize, "We, we are also responsible."

"You have the responsibility, why don't you remember your responsibility just now?" The companion beside the hero curled his lips disdainfully, slashed the sword in his hand left and right, and rolled up a cloud of cold light in the air.

The servants were forced to stagger back by the murderous aura that came to their faces. However, they did not dare to escape. They blushed and bowed repeatedly, "A lot of soldiers are troubled by the trouble. We wait, we ask ourselves that we have no ability to stop the military officer. But, when the superiors ask, we have to have a remark. Otherwise, otherwise, we will completely ruin our jobs. You always save them, but it will make us lose our food, and we will not bear it."

"Look at it yourself!" The hero was very kind-hearted. He heard the officers say pitifully, and decisively took out a pure gold fish bag from the pocket of his casual clothes and hung it directly on his waist. (Note: Fish bag, the pocket of the official fish talisman in the Tang Dynasty. The gold color is a high-ranking official above the third rank, or a man or a marquis' title.)

"I am not good at seeing the Marquis of Liucheng!" A legend flashed through the minds of the servants, and they bowed down and greeted him loudly.

"Forget it!" The chivalrous woman, known as the Marquis of Liucheng, waved her sword disdainfully. Then, she threw a sentence and rode away. "Someone pursued this matter and asked him to come to the military camp to find me. I don't believe that there will be no king's law in Chang'an City?! If I was in Chang'an City, I, the people of the Tang Dynasty, could not be spared from being robbed by evil people, and we fought bloody battles on the frontiers, where did we want?"
Chapter completed!