When they were about to set off, Jiang Hexi and others discovered something big.
People who run business use horse-drawn carriages, but their donkey carriages are really hard to run on the road.
After hesitating for a while, Jiang Hexi took Jiang Sanshu and others to the nearby market to sell donkey carts.
Although he couldn't bear to bear it, Uncle Jiang San and others still gritted their teeth and decided to sell the donkey cart.
Donkey carts are big items at home. If you sell them, I really don’t know if you can buy them again.
Jiang Hexi comforted everyone and said, "Everyone can use the money from selling donkey carts to buy goods. When we make money back, we don't have to buy donkey carts, but we just buy horse carts."
Because Jiang Hexi took the lead in buying grain, everyone bought some of the money from selling donkey carts and some of the air-dried meat and grain.
The northern part is flat, but it is actually rich in food.
Jiang Hexi bought a lot of food.
At any time, there is no need to worry about selling food.
After buying the goods, everyone went to the carriage store to rent three carriages.
Among these three carriages, two carriages were all used to load goods, and the crowd followed the goods to guard the goods. The remaining carriage could be used to rotate the carriage.
Renting a carriage is actually quite expensive and it costs a lot of money, but there is nothing we can do about it.
In ancient times, transportation was difficult, and a carriage was a large item. A horse basically cost hundreds of taels of silver, not to mention adding a carriage.
Moreover, such a horse is just an ordinary carriage.
The Liao people were good at raising horses, which was also because the Liao people's army was powerful.
The next day, Jiang Hexi and others arrived at the city gate early. After waiting for a while, Manager Yin indeed brought the Zhou family's convoy over.
Jiang Hexi hurriedly took his tribe members to say hello to Manager Yin.
Manager Yin said, "In a while, you can follow our team in the middle and lower positions."
"Oh, that's really thankful to Manager Yin."
"Where is it, it's all right."
The Zhou family's convoy was extremely large, with more than forty cars leaving the city at one time.
The cargo full of people can't help but marvel at the wealth of the Zhou family caravan.
Behind the caravan, there was a long guard team, all wearing armor and weapons. These people were hired by Zhou Changsu from the escort agency, and some of them were his private soldiers.
But Jiang Hexi knew that Zhou Changsu was also the boss behind the escort agency.
Now, Butler Yin asked the Jiang clan members to take the middle and back position in the team, which is also a kind of preferential treatment.
As long as there is not a team with a tail-breaking team, at least with guards, you will not lose your life directly when you encounter bandits. With guards, you will not panic.
After Jiang Hexi followed the team at the position of the team arranged by Manager Yin, they subconsciously looked back, but in the end, more people followed behind, and these people were all carrying goods, obviously, they were all businessmen.
These people knew at a glance that they were all small merchants. Now they were following the Zhou family caravan. I guess because there were too many caravans and guards, there were more protections.
Of course, among these people, there are also civilians who travel far away. Civilians are most afraid of meeting bandits on the road. This era is not peaceful at all. Most people are killed when they travel far away.
At this time, following a caravan is the best choice.
Therefore, this caravan has grown longer and longer.
It was safer to go out on the first day of the caravan.
It is relatively close to Qingzhou, where a hundred thousand troops stationed in the city gate.
The caravan's itinerary was quite fast. He started rushing to the road early in the morning. At noon, he only rested in the wilderness for a while. It was enough for everyone to have a dry cake and then continued to move forward.
In the evening, Manager Yin, who was the leader, found a large area of open space and asked everyone to repair it on the spot.
This is why I want to stay here at night.
The Zhou family caravan first took the lead in going to the open space, started cooking on stoves, parked carriages, etc.
Jiang Hexi and others also found an open space and started working.
After running around all day, I was actually very tired, but everyone was still energetic and started to pick up firewood and build a temporary stove.
Jiang Hexi brought two small iron pots, which were used to make hot pots at that time.
Because of the convenience of carrying, Jiang Hexi was brought by his side.
It happened to be used to cook.
Fortunately, when they went out, they brought a lot of dried meat and other things.
At this time, cut the jerky into diced meat and cook with rice. The smell can make people's stomach growl.
Because the dry food was so unpalatable, Jiang Hexi made a large pot of seaweed shrimp soup that night.
Everyone was eating diced rice and drinking seaweed shrimp soup, which was so delicious.
Jiang Hexi knew how to be a human being, so he specially asked Brother Jiang to send a large pot of seaweed shrimp soup and diced meat to Manager Yin, Captain Yin and others.
I just hope to get help from these people when there is danger.
And while everyone was sitting around and eating deliciously, someone suddenly came over.
"What are you eating?"
The person who came was a girl of fifteen or sixteen years old, a girl who went to another place with her family.
"Ah! It smells so good! Can you give me some of your food? I ate the dry cakes for a day and my throat was almost smoking!"
The girl looked cute and innocent, but when she looked at the food in the pot, a light flashed.
Before Jiang Hexi could speak, Jiang Erhu said beside him, "Of course it's OK. Girl, come, I'll give you some soup."
Jiang Erhu spoke, filled the girl with a bowl of soup and handed it to her.
On the side, Uncle Jiang sighed and said nothing.
The child is old and has reached the age of Si Shaoai.
Jiang Erhu looked at the girl's shiny eyes and dodged a little. The girl smiled and said, "Thank you, my son, your soup is so delicious! Is this the soup that only exists by the sea?"
Jiang Erhu nodded repeatedly and said, "Yes, yes, yes! It's just the soup that only comes from the beach!"
"No wonder it tastes so good!" The girl paused and said, "My name is Jiang Yingyue, how dare you ask the young master's name?"
"My name is...Jiang Erhu!"
"Brother Erhu, thank you for your soup. I really like it. I... go back first."
As he spoke, he waved his hand at Jiang Erhu, turned his head and jumped back to the camp where she was.
Jiang Yingyue's camp is on the periphery, and there is a middle-aged man and woman waiting for her on the side, probably her family.
Obviously, they were passers-by who followed the caravan to another state prefecture.
Looking at Jiang Erhu's back, he couldn't bear to look away. On the side, Uncle Jiang Er slapped him and said, "Stupid boy, stop looking, everyone has gone away."
Somehow, although the girl looked innocent and cute, Uncle Jiang Er didn't like this girl a little.
Before leaving, Uncle Jiang entrusted Jiang Erhu to Uncle Jiang Erhu, and Uncle Jiang Erwei also treated this second nephew as his own son, so he had to take good care of him.
Immediately, Uncle Jiang Er said, "Erhu, tell me what kind of girl do you like. When this trip to the business ends, I will ask your father to help you talk about the marriage when you go back."
Jiang Erhu said shyly, "Uncle Er, you can take it down. You should talk about the marriage to Dabao and Erbao first."
"Oh, little brat, are you shy? I'm your uncle, what can I say? You have to explain the type you like so that you can't say it to kiss you, otherwise you'll tell you something you don't like,
And it didn’t delay you?”
After hearing this, Jiang Erhu felt it made sense, so he stammered, "I like... I have white skin, look at my eyes... I have a brighter one, be more lively, take the initiative... I can speak.
of."
The more I heard it, the more I felt that the girl Jiang Erhu was talking about was Jiang Yingyue, who had just met, and couldn't help but shake her head.
I've only met someone once.
He said earnestly, "Erhu, we went out to business to make money, to earn enough wealth, so that our family can live a life without starving in the future, and to retain some futures. You are still young
, Who knows what the name is inside you meet on the road? Don’t you have no concentration when you see any woman. Your parents and brothers are still waiting for you at home!"
After hearing what Uncle Jiang said, Jiang Erhu's expression really restrained.
"Second uncle, I understand."
"Um!"
On the other hand, when I had enough food, Da Ya and Jiang Erdi were already helping Jiang Hexi make the bed.
Although the sleeping place is just a temporary place, at least you have to sleep for one night and you have to do it well.
Everyone set up a fire beside it, and next to the fire, they put hay on the ground, and then spread quilts on the hay.
Jiang Hexi sat on the left and Da Ya on the right. The three of them leaned together, and they felt warm.
However, no one dared to die of sleep.
After everyone discussed, the two tribesmen took turns to watch the night, as they did at the beginning, and the vigilants took a rest in the carriage during the day.
At night, Jiang Hexi thought she would not be able to sleep, but beyond her expectations, she fell asleep quickly.
And in the middle of the night, I was confused and heard Uncle Jiang San's angry voice.
"Get out with me now, otherwise, don't blame me for being rude!"
As he spoke, he heard a "bang" sound of a shoulder pole hitting him. The next moment, a scream followed.
Jiang Hexi was so scared that he opened his eyes.
"Uncle San, what's wrong?"
Uncle Jiang San said, "There is a sneaky person who wants to take advantage of our sleep and come to read our bags. Dalang is sleeping, and Uncle San is watching."
Jiang Hexi, Jiang Sanshu and others agreed that she would be Jiang Dalang for the outside world.
Jiang Hexi took a look and indeed saw a sneaky figure running away.
Because of her trust in Uncle Jiang San, she turned over and continued to sleep.
When I woke up again, it was already bright. Next to the fire, Jiang Sanshu and Jiang Erbao, who were vigilant, had already started to make fires and were cooking.
Most of the Jiang family are diligent, and cooking is even more difficult.
After taking the iron pot and adding water, he started to prepare to get noodles from the bag provided by Jiang Hexi on the side.
As soon as the noodles were taken out, they emitted a strange fragrance, which caused the people who were still sleeping around torture their stomachs, and they followed them to look at Jiang Hexi and others.