Yan Laoer and Yan Yu followed to collect food for a few days.
I also met several villages where the food was negotiated by the grain man. After comparing the voice and appearance, I found that they were all the same person.
Yan Laoer then murmured to his daughter: "I don't know where the grain merchant came from. He visited all the villages near Huju. Fortunately, he didn't go to each house to make an order. Otherwise, we would be embarrassed to snatch the grain ordered by others."
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Yan Yu said with a smile: "Dad, are you still embarrassed? Didn't you say that there are fast hands and slow hands and others? You asked me to ride a donkey back to the village to collect money to pull vegetables and call people to come. I was afraid that they would regret it and target someone to death in every village.
Village, we have to let people from our village bring food back..."
Yan Laoer glared: "Can the grain merchant compare with us? He is doing business, and it is normal to make profits and losses. We need these grains to survive, so we must prioritize them. Judging from the way he collects grains, he should be a big man.
Merchants, it doesn’t matter, they just have to pay some travel expenses and labor, as long as they can afford it.”
"It's not necessarily compensation. We can't harvest food here in Huju, so he can go elsewhere..." Yan Laoer let out a sigh and wondered: "Why doesn't he go to Linhai to harvest food? Linhai Mansion is having a good harvest this year because of the calm weather."
In the year, the climate there is better than ours in Guanzhou. We don’t need to store so much grain for the winter, so we have more surplus grain? Alas, where does this grain merchant come from? Why do you want to stay far away instead of near? "
These days, Tianguang is thinking about snatching the food back to the village quickly, and has no time to think about these details.
When it was mentioned at this time, both father and daughter felt strange.
Yan Yu thought carefully and determined that no one had mentioned where the grain merchant came from, only that he was from a foreign government.
But when coming to Guanzhou from other provinces, they usually only take the Gufeng official road, or else go from Linhai to Changping.
If we enter from Gufeng, Gufeng City is closed, but everything in the surrounding villages and towns is fine. Wouldn't it be more convenient to collect grain nearby?
If you come from Linhai Prefecture, you can just collect grain directly in Changping, Linhai. Why come all the way to Huju...
As for transportation, the place in Huju is only accessible by land, and there are cheaper waterways on the other side of the sea.
Yan Laoer and Yan Yu knew best how much food had been agreed upon, because they ate all the food and transported it back to Xiao'an Village.
"We have been talking about this grain merchant, but we have been following your uncle Liang and the others for many days, and we have never met him once." Yan Laoer said.
This is very unreasonable.
It stands to reason that the grain was agreed upon and that someone would take it away after the tax was paid. They had traveled through so many villages, so they should have bumped into one or two people.
But these days, not even a single person is seen.
It's like deliberately avoiding them.
Yan Yu thought for a while and asked: "Dad, if it were you who was robbed of your business, but the other party has a government background, would you consider yourself unlucky and just let it go?"
"That's definitely not possible. You have to show up and meet people. The principle behind Pan Pan is to admit your bad luck and accept compensation. If you don't do this business, you still have to speak to the other party and make people appreciate it. The best thing about buying and selling people is
If you know how to deal with people, having one more friend and one more path may help you in the future, but you never know.
There are also people with bad tempers who cannot just let it go. They may make noises or make some noise to vent their dissatisfaction. This is possible.
This silence is really rare." Yan Laoer said.
Yan Yu spun around in circles.
The little brows are getting tighter and tighter.
"Dad, go and ask carefully, what does the grain merchant look like? What kind of clothes do they wear, what accent do they speak, how many people do they bring, how do they get there, whether they are ox-carts, donkey-carts or mule-carts. Since they are outsiders,
, go directly to Murakami to collect grain, someone needs to guide you, is there anyone here who can introduce you..."
Yan Laoer's expression became serious after hearing his daughter's detailed question.
"What did you think of?"
"I just think they are weird." Yan Yu frowned and said, "I hope I'm overthinking it, but dad, this grain merchant has no place of origin and no whereabouts. He suddenly appeared to collect grain in Huju... If we say it's nearby,
Grain is easy to transport, and Huju is the closest to us over there!"
She pointed in the direction outside the gate.
Yan Laoer was horrified!
"Oh my God! How could I think it's so similar when you say that?" Yan Laoer slapped his thigh, "Beirong can come over the mountain, come down from the top of our village, or come down from the top of the neighboring village.
The few Beirongs who came to our village look very much like our people in Guan Nei. They don’t look like anything on the surface. They can speak well, and they have money to buy grain... Yes, they don’t have enough money for young and old. No, this
Not all of them match up.”
Yan Yu nodded, so she said no matter how much you inquired about, being in a border town, no matter how careful you were, you couldn't be too careful.
Yan Laoer immediately went to find someone to inquire.
In order to confirm this, he rode his daughter's bald donkey to several villages.
Yan Yu waited anxiously while preparing for the worst.
She found Luo Da and said to him: "Uncle Luo, I just heard from the government officials that the second master of the government office asked about the arrow towers and walls of our village. It seemed that he was not happy that he sent people from the quarry.
helper."
Luo Da immediately stopped what he was doing and asked quickly: "What else did you say?"
"Those government officials also said that the second master may have thought that we needed manpower to help us with other tasks, and that the high walls of the archery tower were mentioned at the beginning. They felt that the first master was deceived by us." Yan Yu looked aggrieved.
appearance.
Luo Da digested it for a while and said: "It's okay. Let's sit upright. After these few days of work, we will seize the time to build walls and build buildings. Those arrow towers are already visible. We can build walls quickly.
There are many people in the village who can do this kind of work now. As long as the eldest master has promised us the ash material, we will build the wall before the end of the year."
Luo Da also got angry.
This is because we plan to work even when the weather is cold, so that the second master will not be picky, and people and things will not be ruined.
"If our arrow tower is seen by others soon, the second master will believe it, right?" Yan Yu said in a serious tone: "When we get back, we will help move the bricks."
Luo Dadao: "It's no use. You and your father can just go out and collect grain without any worries. Just wait for us to go back at night and work in vain for two days."
He thought that what the waiter said was right. He set up the arrow tower first and stood there to let the second master know that they were not talking nonsense.
When Yan Laoer came back, Luo Da and others had already transported grain back to the village.
Yan Yu knew something was wrong as soon as she saw her father's face.
"I'm afraid it's really the grandsons of Beirong. I asked a lot of people, and they all said that the grain merchant was surrounded by several guys. They looked strong, broad-shouldered and round-waisted. They were dull and silent. The grain merchant dealt with it all by himself."
"The clothes I'm wearing don't fit well. They look like ready-made clothes bought in a store."
"They had an ox-cart, and the grain merchant was sitting back and forth, but someone recognized that the ox-cart was from a horse and cart shop. He probably just bought it."
"No one introduced them here. They came to Murakami on their own and asked to buy grain."
"I chatted with them for a while, and guess what, the villages they plan to collect grain from have all been destroyed by the Beirong, so they know who to lead the way."
"There is one more thing..." Yan Laoer said word by word: "They left in the wrong direction. They were not going to the city or the town. They were walking into the mountains. Do you think they live in the mountains?"
Yan Yu was silent.
"It's probably because of my father. They don't have household registration and can't live in an inn."
