Qingzhou trip

The next day, he only showed his face at the clinic, and Yun Bailu was dragged on horseback by Xie Penglai and left the city.

The blacksmith's shop had already heard the sound of hammering, and Yun Bailu held the reins and leaned on the horse's back to look at Li Suyue, "Yue Niang, what are you busy?"

Li Suyue pretended not to see this ugly face, her strong arm wielding the hammer had bulged veins, which made her still vigorous.Yun Bailu coughed dryly, turned his head and asked his former mentor in a bored manner, "Want to go downstream along the Yeqiang River?"

Xie Penglai only nodded slightly, and threw a piece of dry bread to Yun Bailu, "Eat it."

Dianbo must abide by the rules when leaving the city. Xie Penglai at the gate of the city signed his handsome name, and then took Yun Bailu to press his fingerprints.Yun Bailu glanced and found the words "Xunhe lower reaches on business".

She practiced riding and archery up and down the Yeqiang River since she was a child, and she knows where the beaches are sharp and where the reeds are deep.Basking in the sun on horseback and putting down a kerchief, Yun Bailu lazily hummed Wang Changling's song, "We have never been together, we are all old in the dust and sand. Don't learn from a knight-errant, and boast that Ziliu is good. Ah, my mentor, your way It’s not the right way, isn’t it going downstream?”

Sure enough, seeing Xie Penglai stretching his shoulders nervously, "Just... just walk around at will. You haven't come back for two years, don't you miss every grass and tree in the sea of ​​sand?"

"Read, read. What I read the most is Zique's Panertu, my nanny's mutton leek cake, the sound of clothes being pounded on the anvil in the common alley, the smell of roasted mussels in the teacher's yard..." Xiangniang's scorpion Snow gun, think of the "Zi la" sound that shakes the spirit when the iron block in Li's blacksmith shop is thrown into the cold sink.Yun Bailu looked at Xie Penglai with a smile, and pointed to the old clothes on his body that had been resewed by his teacher, "It fits very well."

Xie Penglai actually understands everything about her except teaching and her dislike.The two slowly let their horses along the river and walked along the oasis for almost two hours, only to see the river suddenly widen and the sound of turbulence filled their ears.Right now is the solar term when the glacier melt water is at its peak. The Yeqiang River, which has been replenished, runs from Kunlun to the east, sometimes gallops, sometimes slows down, and sometimes turns back. A natural boundary.

Yun Bailu already knew Xie Penglai's route choice: she wanted to go to the border to explore the river.

"I always persuade people inside and outside the city that drinking horses would rather take two steps back to the city than drink the water in this river." Xie Penglai got off his horse, looked around carefully and motioned for Yun Bailu to tie the horse in the forest with her .

"Afraid of being poisoned? We can't fight with Beixia right now." Yun Bailu had half a piece of noodle cake left, and was still scratching it between his teeth, "I read that book yesterday." What inspiration?"

"That's right. I know a thing or two about the affairs of the bureau. Although it's not my business, I can't help but know what's going on under Sha Hai's nose." Even Tubo's business tax is only stationed in Shahai.Xie Penglai threw the account book to Yun Bailu, "In the past six months, the goods imported and exported have not increased but decreased, but the business in the wine alley has become more and more lively. What does this mean?"

Yun Bailu flipped through the account book, "It means that the foreign businessmen have arrived, but the goods have not arrived. In other words, there are fewer goods counted by the bureau."

The eyes of the two people turned to Ye Qiang River, and said two words at the same time, "Smuggling."

At this point, Yun Bailu already understood Xie Penglai's purpose of going downstream, but secretly turned his horse's head and went upstream. "Are we going to stay here?"

"That's right. The Baosheng army in Shahai is gone. How much strength will the river patrollers have to get here? I'm worried that there are soldiers from Beixia guarding the business here." Xie Penglai drank his saliva and looked Looking at Yun Bailu scorchingly, "The old craftsmen here may have secretly communicated with them."

Even if there is a truce, the dynasty strictly controls the iron trade with Beixia, and Beixia also prohibits the sale of war horses to the south.Iron ware from the south of Xiaoguan could not enter Beixia, and Beixia also lacked craftsmen who could smelt iron.

"Don't you think it's strange? Except that the Li's shop has obtained the permission of the bureau to sell items such as iron pots with the caravan, is there any blacksmith's shop in the city? But why are those shops more expensive than the Li's shop? Busy?" Xie Penglai's Bai Yaoru Xue's skin was reddened by the sun, and he didn't know if it was heat or anger, "In Shahai City, someone's hands and feet are not clean."

Yun Bailu has never been interested in such matters, so he just quietly listened to Xie Penglai's speculation, and finally asked, "Then how do you want to investigate? What can you do if you really got to the Beixia military camp? Is there someone who secretly communicated? Even if it is cleared up, who will believe you when you report it to the court?" There are a lot of absurd things in this dynasty. A few years ago, Li Su, a general from the foreign court, defected, saying that the changes in Beixia might lead to war intentions.As a result, the imperial court ordered Li Su to be tied up and sent back to Beixia in order to restore the good relations between the two countries.But Li Su was executed in front of the envoys, and the war could not be avoided afterwards.

There are a large group of civil and military men in the capital, avoiding war and thinking of fleeing, they would rather believe in nothing than in existence.Even if the eighth-rank Dianbo is promoted to the seventh-rank county magistrate, who will take her words seriously?

"Then I have to investigate to the end. I can't... I can't let these acne ooze pus. I, Xie Penglai, will never be an official who ravishes goods and harms politics." In the abdomen, the brilliance of his eyes made Yun Bailu snort, "Bookworm."

"If it were you, how would you do it?" Xie Penglai asked this old mischievous student who was almost ten years younger than her.

"Keep your head down in the grass." Yun Bailu glanced at the environment here, "But this place is a good place for secret transactions." She stood still with her horsewhip in her arms, "I will wait here for a few days, seeing is believing Discuss with you."

Surprised that she was going to sleep here, Xie Penglai waved his hands, "No, no."

"Why, I'm afraid I'm an outlaw and still escape from here?" Yun Bailu smiled, "I've been through all kinds of desperation, isn't it just to rest here for two days? Don't worry, I won't make a sound or show my face."

"Why did you suddenly get angry?" Xie Penglai frowned, and immediately understood, "Because it has something to do with the blacksmith camp?"

Yun Bailu found a comfortable place with thick turf and lay down in the shade of a tree, still vaguely said, "Yes, yes." She pointed to the horse she was riding just now, "Leave it far away, wait for me at Lutan, I won't see you before Youshi Don't wait when you come back, you go back to the city first."

Seeing that Xie Penglai was still babbling, she turned her head, "I really don't believe me, why did you call me to come with you?" Isn't it just because she is familiar with the terrain and good at inquiring about materials?

Xie Penglai took off the food and water bags and left them to Yun Bailu, "I'll go to Lutan first."

After she left, Yun Bailu drank the half bag of wine left over from yesterday and slept until evening. It seemed that he was going to spend the night here tonight.The worms in the forest began to be agitated. She glanced at a tree, took out her 20-year-old housekeeping skills and climbed to the branch, and felt uncomfortable. Sleep.

When the sound of horseshoes splashing water became more and more intense, Yun Bailu still closed his eyes and listened.About 50 horses came across the Yeqiang River calmly.She turned over and opened her eyes, and saw a group of Northern Xia soldiers, all in tight clothes and bare arms, holding knives with open breasts.

Not good looking.She felt that Li Suyue caught her eyes sassyly when it came to showing her arms.

This group was careful, rode their horses back and forth for five or six rounds, and finally spread out into a fan shape and leaned against the Yeqiang River to burn a bonfire and eat wine.When it was completely dark, the clumsy sound of the wheels came closer and closer.After a while, I heard a few people dressed in Hua Dynasty greet the Beixia soldiers headed by them, speaking authentic Shahai dialect.

"Three thousand arrows, and the rest will wait another half a month." They didn't talk much, but this sentence was enough.

Yun Bailu was lying on the tree, feeling his heart beating fast and having trouble breathing——in just two years, Shahai Jiangying had built weapons for Beixia.It was as if the blood of those 5 people hadn't flowed.

Even, a more terrifying conjecture emerged in her mind: Or, did this kind of transaction already exist before the great war?