Raiders of the Empress's Runaway Concubine

Lai Enyan and Ruyi left the Xiankelai Inn, talking and laughing in front, followed by the setting sun, and six guards brought by Ruyi.

It has to be said that although Xiucheng is not far from Tianshan Mountain, it is still very prosperous here. Of course, this kind of prosperity does not exclude those businessmen who made a fortune in the country.

Now the people living in Xiucheng are all old people who cannot leave their homeland, or poor families with their families. No matter where they go, this kind of people are struggling to survive, and life is equally difficult wherever they go.

Probably because of this reason, the wages of the aborigines in Xiucheng are cheaper than those in other places, so merchants like to hire the aborigines who are still left in Xiucheng to work.

Lai Enyan and Ruyi have been seeing many caravans calling for 25 copper coins a day since they left the Xiankelai Inn and went to the street, and a caravan with a daily wage of 25 copper coins was surrounded by many old people and wearing clothes. The middle-aged people in very shabby clothes stood forward like crazy.Obviously, [-] copper coins is already the highest daily wage here.

But Xiucheng can only buy ten steamed buns for twenty copper coins.

Lai Enyan calculated in his heart that a copper coin is equal to a modern triangular coin.

One thousand copper coins equals one tael of silver, which is three hundred yuan.

100 taels of silver are equal to one tael of gold, which adds up to 3 yuan.

Lai Enyan couldn't help smacking his tongue, it really is no business without adultery!It costs forty copper coins a day to work in other places.

An elderly old lady was carrying a bag of unknown things, staggering on her feet, and walked forward with difficulty with what looked like a deadly heavy thing.

Went head to head with Lai Enyan and Ruyi.

The old lady didn't know if she was just looking at the bottom of her feet, or she had something on her mind, when she suddenly saw someone in front of her, she was startled, the bag she was carrying couldn't resist, she fell backwards with the bag she was carrying, and got a butt pier.

This kind of thing is probably very common in Xiucheng, the wages are low, and the workers are in poor health, so no one cares, people are indifferent, they don't even look at the old lady, they do their own thing.

Maybe it's because they are not paid according to how much they work, so people's work is not very efficient.

The merchants are shouting from behind, hurry up, hurry up, otherwise you won't be needed tomorrow.

"Old man, are you okay?" Lai Enyan came to the old lady, squatted down, and tried to help the old lady stand up, but her gaze shrank, and her eyes fell on the things protruding from her pocket.

If she's not mistaken it's salt.

Or kosher salt.

The country prohibits the sale of illicit salt, which is a serious crime of beheading. However, unable to withstand the temptation of high profits, some businessmen still take risks.

Obviously, there are such businessmen appearing in Xiucheng now.

These salts are private salt, thicker than national salt, similar to the salt used for pickling vegetables bought at home in modern times, but this salt is not clean, and there are some dirty things on it. I don’t know if it’s dirt or something else. It looks cloudy.

What Lai Enyan saw, Ruyi also saw it from behind, Ruyi's eyes flashed coldly, she looked back at the few people following behind her and snorted softly.

Prohibition of illegal salt, arrest of illegal salt, arresting illegal salt for so long, has not had much effect, and now people who sell illegal salt have boldly come to Xiucheng!

And it happened right in front of my eyes!

She said that these illicit salt sellers had no collusion with the officials, and no private exchange with Xiucheng officials, and she would not believe it even if they were beaten to death.

"It's okay, it's okay." The old lady patted Lai Enyan's hand that was reaching out to help her in horror, and hurriedly used some of the salt that fell out to her dirty hand, completely unable to see what color it was. He picked it up from the ground with his hands and put it back in his pocket, then put it on his back and left.

"Who is it! Kindness doesn't pay off! Beibei, are you okay?" Ruyi frowned and walked to Lai Enyan's side.

"It's okay, it's okay." Lai Enyan was a little dazed and unable to cheer up.

Maybe she should let the Luo family brothers go out and look for it. There should be a private saltworks nearby.If he can get that salt farm into his own hands, he can make that salt farm produce better refined salt.

Where there is salt, there is money.

It's just that this matter is not easy to handle!

Illegal salt is illegal, and catching it is a serious crime of beheading.

I don't know if I can pay a certain amount of salt for free every year, whether it can be accepted as a tacit existence.

"No. You must have something to do. Look how many times you are about to bump into someone!" Ruyi unhappily held back Lai Enyan who had almost bumped into someone, and pouted in protest.

"Why don't we stop looking at the house today! Maybe I don't have enough money." Lai Enyan looked embarrassed as he was losing his temper, but in fact he was acting like a baby.

Of course, it's not that she doesn't have enough money, but that she has a new idea now, just after seeing the carriage with illegal salt.

She doesn't have too much silver on her right now, really...

You must know that the cost of a saltworks is not small, and it is not a small sum to manage officials up and down!

"Then it's better for Beibei to live in my house first! I don't charge Beibei's rent, and I will give it to me when Beibei has money. But if I am here, I will live in the other garden." Ruyi let go suddenly Holding the hand of Lai Enyan's arm, he ran to the front of Lai Enyan, his big eyes flickering, full of anticipation.

Lai Enyan was taken aback, she didn't expect Ruyi to propose such an idea, she didn't want to take advantage of this little girl who had met her twice, so she subconsciously shook her head.

"Beibei, do you want to give the money to Xianke to come to the inn for free? You also said that you don't have enough money now! Then pay me the rent when you have enough money. Or do you dislike me and live there? "Ruyi stamped her feet unhappily.

"That's not the case. I just don't think men and women can get along well. Besides, it's not very convenient for me to rent your house." Lai Enyan tried to reason with Ruyi.

But she was wrong.

Anyone who tries to reason with a woman is a fool.

And now she is doing what a fool would do.

"Don't listen, don't listen!" Ruyi didn't listen to what she said at all, just covered her ears with her hands and shook her head vigorously.

"Master Chen, our house is actually divided into front and rear. You can live in the front yard, and our lady lives in the back. There is no conflict. Our master and wife have passed away long ago, and my lady is the only one left in the house. I'm dead." It was the same old man who stood up from the stairs to make peace.

Lai Enyan was stunned for a moment, and suddenly understood why Ruyi pestered him so much, a little girl who had lost her parents and relatives, was alone, surrounded by either guards or servants, and had no close friends, yet he regarded her as a Sister, after showing kindness to her, this sensitive little girl clings to herself and regards herself as her elder brother.

Although the two are not related by blood.

Two lonely souls...

I am a little better than this little girl, at least I have a father who takes care of me.

"Okay, okay...don't make trouble, it's on the street! How ugly! Can I go?" Lai Enyan saw that Ruyi's eye circles were red and tears were about to flow from his eyes, so he immediately raised the white flag to surrender .

Lai Enyan was extremely powerless in his heart, he had confronted this little girl several times, but he was defeated by this little girl's tears!

It is said that women are made of water, as long as they can cry, there is nothing they cannot do.

But I seem to grow up so big, I don't know what tears are like...

"Really?" Tears were still shining in Ruyi's eyes, but anyone who was not deaf could hear the surprise in her voice.

"Really. It's more real than pearls." Lai Enyan subconsciously wanted to find a piece of candy for Ruyi, but when he found nothing, he remembered that he had just changed his clothes when he took a shower. There was candy in the sleeve. I haven't had time to add sugar yet.

"Then let's go!" Ruyi hurriedly pulled Lai Enyan's arm and started running on the street full of people and caravans, her cheerful laughter could be heard along the way.

Lai Enyan wants to say something feebly, why do you have such good physical strength!I have run so weak!How do you still have the strength to grab me and run forward!

This has already left Xiucheng, heading towards the mountainside of Tianshan...

Where do you want to lead me!

You must know that Tianshan is a military important place.

"Hey, hey... Ruyi... I said, let me take a breath. I really can't run anymore." Lai Enyan was panting, sweating profusely, his legs were trembling, and he was exhausted. The face is relatively advanced, and it is impossible to wash it off without a special potion, otherwise, if you sweat like this, you will have revealed your true face long ago.

Lai Enyan supported the tree next to him and panted heavily. Looking back, he had already left Xiucheng, ran all the way to the foot of Tianshan Mountain, and ran up the mountain road for a distance.

And there were no shadows of the guards and setting sun behind him.

Lai Enyan was stunned for a moment, and looked behind him. There were no bodyguards of Canyang and Ruyi behind him. If Canyang was not as strong as those guards and couldn't keep up with their crazy running speed, then it was impossible for Ruyi's guards to not keep up. ah!

Aren't those people afraid that something will happen to Ruyi?

Those few people seem to be very loyal to Ruyi. Could it be that they really know people and know their faces but don't know their hearts?

"Don't look, they must go to the inn to get the horses and go up the mountain on the official road! They should have already arrived at the place waiting for us! But Beibei, your body is so weak! It's only been a while!" Ruyi rubbed Wiping the sweat from his forehead, he explained with a smile.

Originally, she wanted Lai Enyan to live in Xiucheng, but just now she changed her mind. It is easy to expose her identity in Xiucheng, so it is better to let Lai Enyan live in a place where others cannot go, so that people around her With restrictions, as long as he doesn't take the initiative to say it, Lai Enyan won't find out that he is the Wu Sui that she has been trying to escape all along.