He was betrayed at the beginning, from a cake seller to a wealthy person

The prince took the official route with his five hundred chariots, but Lu Yan was not very willing to take the official route. Official roads are often flat roads extending in all directions, easy to walk but long detours. Caravans often take direct village roads or mountain roads, which are not so flat but short distances.

Lu Yan had a good idea. She walked along the village road and caught up with them every time she reached the junction between the two states and crossed the city gate with them. Lu Yan told the carriage driver of Prince Yi's Mansion not to follow her on the carriage transporting grain. As soon as she left the city, she took Lu Sheng and He Wenjing and parted ways with the prince's team.

To the north of Kyoto is Hengzhou, beyond Hengzhou is Youzhou, and beyond Youzhou and further north is Liaozhou. Liaozhou is very big. After entering Liaozhou, you have to walk about a distance from Changzhou to Liaoyang County, and then further north to the station of the Northern Xinjiang Army.

Lu Yan and the others left the capital and soon entered the territory of Hengzhou. This road is already very familiar, after all, they came to the capital from Hengzhou. When passing by a village, Lu Sheng tugged on Lu Yan's sleeve: "Look at this, do you remember this village?"

Lu Yan squinted her eyes and looked at the village not far away. The archway was still very new, with the three characters "Welcoming Village" written on it.

Lu Yan frowned slightly: "I don't remember, have we been here before?"

Lu Sheng pointed to the two big rocks at the entrance of the village: "You have forgotten, when we entered the capital and followed the caravan, we passed by here. At that time, this village didn't even have a name. The caravan was selling things here, and we I went to walk the dog in the fields and discovered that the land in this village is all saline-alkali land.”

Lu Yan remembered it and suddenly realized: "It's this village! It looks like it has changed a lot! Let's go into the village and have a look!"

He Wenjing adjusted the direction and the carriage drove towards the guest village.

There was a tea shed at the entrance of the village. Seeing someone coming, the young man stood up quickly and greeted with a smile: "Do you want to rest or stay?"

Lu Yan looked at the sun. It was setting and it was getting late: "Let's stay overnight. Is there a place in the village that I can borrow?"

The young man smiled and said: "Looking at what you said, our whole village is engaged in the business of welcoming and sending guests. How can we not have a place for you to stay? If you go in, you can live in every house with a sign. .”

Lu Yan was greatly surprised, looked at each other with Lu Sheng, thanked her brother and walked inside. The two followed the direction in their memory and decided to go to the village chief's house first to ask what was going on.

The village chief's house was also rebuilt. The three of them tied the carriage to the tree at the door and knocked on the village chief's door.

The village chief came out and opened the door. When he saw Lu Yan and Lu Sheng at the door, he was confused for a moment. He looked familiar but couldn't remember it.

Lu Yan asked: "Uncle, village chief, do you still remember us? We came with the caravan last year and sold things in the village. At that time, the village was still very poor. Why has it changed so much now?"

The village chief finally remembered the two of them and suddenly realized: "It's you! It's a long story."

The village chief invited the three people into the house, poured a glass of water for one of them, and talked about it.

"I still remember you telling me what the land here is called saline-alkali land? So the crops don't grow well and the seedlings are always burned." The village chief said, "Not a few days after you left, Magistrate Liu of Yaoshan County and the two of us The magistrates from every county came, walked around the fields for a few days, asked the villagers for their opinions, and renovated our village."

Liu Hongtu received Lu Yan's letter, and together with the magistrates of the two counties where Wuming Village was located at that time, they went to the village and discussed for several days, and finally agreed on a solution.

The cost of rebuilding saline-alkali land is too high, and we don’t know how long it will take to recover. The cost-effectiveness is relatively low. Several county magistrates counted how many people in the village still want to farm, and how many people are thinking that they can do business without farming. Those who want to farm have simply moved to other counties with their household registration. Those doing business stayed in the village, and the village was officially named Yingke Village.

Yingke Village is located at the junction of two counties and on the edge of Hengzhou, which has both disadvantages and advantages. The disadvantage is that it is often easy to get kicked by the governments on both sides, and you don’t know who to turn to to solve problems. The advantage is that this location is basically the place that must be passed in and out of Hengzhou. Caravan travelers basically have to pass here as long as they pass through Hengzhou. Therefore, the entire village has been built as a place to rest, eat and stay to welcome visitors from all directions.

The village was renovated in full swing, and as expected, batches of people were welcomed. Although Hengzhou is a poor place with no commercial transactions, going west to Guanzhong and the Western Regions, going south to the Central Plains, and going east to Donghai Port all have to pass through Hengzhou, so there are not many people going north.

Lu Yan couldn't help but replied: "Let's go north."

The village chief nodded understandingly: "It's not like there are no people going to Youzhou."

Lu Sheng: "Let's go to Liaozhou."

The village chief was shocked: "What? Are you going to Liaozhou?"

All three people nodded, and the village chief was puzzled: "Why go to Liaozhou? Isn't that the place where Beidi people belong?"

"That's not true. Liaozhou is also our Dali territory." Lu Yan said: "We said we were taking back the Beidi people, but in the end, our own people didn't even dare to go to Liaozhou and gave up the entire state to them. , is that still called retrieval?”

The village chief stroked his beard: "What you said makes sense. It's me, old man, who is so narrow-minded."

After asking clearly the reason why Yingke Village had changed so much, Lu Yan and Lu Sheng finally solved their confusion. They bid farewell to the village chief and prepared to find a house to live in.

The renovation of Yingke Village did not make it look like an inn. Instead, every household expanded and renovated their yards and hung up signboards, making it look like a B&B in later generations.

Lu Yan found a house with a big yellow dog in front of her house to stay. The yellow dog had his own wooden house. Hearing the noise, he came out of the house and looked at the people curiously. The yellow dog's fur was kept smooth and smooth, and it didn't howl when guests came. It barked a few times in a low voice to call its owner out and then went back to its den.

Lu Yan has a natural sense of trust in people who take good care of pets. A person who is full of love loves people enough and can also love small animals. A person who lacks love cannot love animals, let alone people.

Sure enough, this family is a family of three. The couple and a teenage daughter all have round and festive faces, which makes people feel happy at first sight and they are very approachable.

Two rooms were prepared in the backyard, one for Lu Sheng to sleep in and the other for Lu Yan and He Wenjing. The three of them took a rest soon.