Qingzhou trip

Man Pass has been closed, and Shahai has banned Beixia merchants from coming and going.However, the food and clothing costs in the six states of the Dangxiang were equal to that of Japan, which relied on the supply of goods from the Hua Dynasty.

After offending people, the flow of tea, grain and iron silk became less and less.As a result, there was a lot of activity near the border.The tossing between the two countries by Li Jiyan's cousins ​​did not achieve the effect of leveraging their strength, but left a lot of chicken feathers.The troubles left to Beixia are soaring prices and restless borders.

But this situation made the merchants from the two countries on the border very unhappy. After a big quarrel with her husband, Yanniang followed the camel caravan and floated out of the city. On the surface, everyone said that they were going to the west to find Uighur merchants from Ganzhou for business, but in private They all went to the Beixia people, and what they wanted in exchange was not silver taels, but Yanzhou's extremely high-quality green and white salt.There is a salt shortage in the northwest, and now salt is better than gold.

In the usual Shahai caravan, Yanniang likes to be accompanied by Li Suyue, now there is a blah tea merchant beside her, and Li Suyue is riding on a camel with an iron cavalry, her eyes glance at the five-dou horse beside her from time to time. Newlywed wife Alu.

"Miss Li, your father may not come back, so you want to change your mother's surname?" The tea merchant was angry when he first heard that Yun Bailu changed his name to Bailu, and then he immediately figured it out: the half-life Ronghua with the surname Yun Disappearing overnight, of course it can't compare to the beauty of the Bai family who has been a general for generations.He is a businessman, although he hates a woman for changing her father's surname without permission, but in the end his eyes fall on "whether it's worth it or not".

"My wife was born to General Bai, so why not have the same surname as General Bai?" Li Suyue didn't wait for A Lu to answer, and cast a cold look at the tea merchant.

There are a group of businessmen from other places in Shahai, and they love to point fingers at the things agreed by Shahai people: the lady of the Zhang family remarried twice, and the girl of the Li family is not willing to marry a man.

The name of Baizhi was heard by the tea merchants when they came to Shahai the year before last, but they have never really seen it.Speaking of this, the man at the head of the caravan turned his head, "If you want me to say that you shouldn't be born with the surname Yun, Yun Fangjiang is a surname in the capital, and he came from a family of the Imperial Army. The Bai family shares weal and woe with Sha Hai. Your surname is Bai, maybe The Baosheng army has nothing to do with letting the river go."

The tea merchant opened his mouth in shock, "You would rather Sha Hai's surname is Bai?"

"It doesn't matter if it's surnamed Bai or Zhao, it doesn't matter even if it's surnamed Yun. You just can't sell the country and give us a bad name." The herbal medicine dealer on the other side said bitterly, "After I lost the war a few years ago, I went to Qinzhou to sell the medicine and returned it. They were kicked out, saying that the Shahai people were useless."

The topic got farther and farther away, but Alu remained silent.Li Suyue noticed, and sneaked out a bag of wine for her, "Is it cold?" The caravan pointed out this trip years ago, and if it wasn't for the lack of salt, she would not be willing to leave the city.

A Lu took the wine bag and took a small sip, grabbed the rein and deliberately shook it on the horse's back a few times, which really made Li Suyue jump behind her nervously to support her.

The blacksmith's wife is a refreshing person, so she doesn't listen to her three aunts, six wives or four uncles and seven uncles gossiping. Whether she is carrying A Lu on the street or riding a horse together, she is very calm.Taking advantage of the situation, A Lu leaned against Li Suyue and closed her eyes to rest, "There are many horse thieves outside Yanzhou City, I don't know if I can meet them." Everyone is afraid of horse thieves, but they want to meet Lu Jinhua.

"It's hard to say." Seeing that the wine bag had been handed to her lips, Li Suyue smiled and took a sip.

For more than a month, Lu Jinhua's department has been active in Yanzhou and other places, and at least a thousand catties of salt have been kidnapped, so life must not be difficult.Coupled with the continuous emergence of refugees from various border villages, her new army has also expanded by thousands of people.

Lu Xiangchun went back to Shahai a few days ago and said, "Auntie is too picky, or you can expand the army by thousands, even tens of thousands."

With her left hand facing Ah Lu's palm, Li Suyue held her knuckles, being too intimate to be seen by Yan Niang, even Li Suyue felt a little shy.

Yanniang didn't look away, she drove her horse generously and stood side by side with her two, "I heard that there is a female general at the border with thousands of horses and took away a lot of salt from the people of Beixia."

Li Suyue and A Lu didn't speak directly, "I seem to have heard of it."

Yan Niang smiled noncommittally, "I want to see it too."

"Is Master Ren better?" After Ah Lu prescribed the medicine, no one from the Li family sent to see a doctor.

"Thank you...Miss Bai, I'm much better now, I can walk around in the yard." Yanniang changed her words anyway.After that fight, I heard that Li Suyue got married that day.The people in Shahai couldn't guess the reason, only Yanniang thought it had something to do with herself.But Li Weiren calmed down, and he still didn't forget to mock Yanniang from time to time, "You are an outlaw, you have already hit your luck by marrying into my family and getting rid of your criminal record. There is no way to think about the widow of the Li family."

Yanniang didn't talk back any more, she just sat in front of the counter to settle accounts and do things.When it was five days before the New Year's Eve, she found the leader of the caravan and said that she was going to negotiate for some goods.

Seeing Yanniang this time, Ah Lu always felt that her expression was not the same as before, as if she had put aside trivial matters at home, and the look in her eyes suddenly brightened.

A group of people crossed the Yeqiang River and traveled northeastward for dozens of miles. When they reached the boundary of mountains and barren land, the leader gave a sudden whistle to alert people, and those who knew some soldiers and horses and weapons surrounded the caravan for protection.The leader clasped his fists and looked around, "We are all small businessmen, and we understand the truth. I have prepared the toll money for you, and please let me have a way out." I think it is a horse thief from Qingbai Village.

"Where did you get it from?" The person who asked the question had a Beixia accent. Hearing this, the leader and the people in the caravan were heartbroken.

After hearing this, A Lu exchanged glances with Li Suyue, and at the same time stooped secretly to fish for bows and arrows.

"He's from Yanzhou." The leader naturally didn't dare to say Sha Hai.

After a burst of laughter, the sound of horseshoes gathered from all sides, and the horse thief who drew his sword from the sheath of the Bailaihao surrounded the caravan without covering his face.

"Leave the money for the road, we want the goods," a man from Beixia's eyes straightened when he saw Yanniang, "we want people more!" Then his eyes fell on the faces of A Lu and Li Suyue, from both sides After guessing the relationship with people's intimacy, he said "bah", "bad luck."

"What's bad luck? Didn't two pairs make money? You don't want it, I want it." Another Beixia man happily grabbed the horse's belly and rushed towards Alu and the others.It looked like he was robbing people, the man was stretching out his hand to A Lu, and when the distance between the two was only a few feet, Li Suyue had already drawn an arrow, took the bow from behind A Lu and put it on it.A Lu took aim together with her, their right hands overlapped and they drew the bowstring, with a sound of "swish", A Lu let go, and the arrow pierced through the man's right ear.

Following the man's cry of pain, there was a sudden commotion in the Beixia horse thief team, and people in the Shahai caravan also looked at the two of them in horror.A Lu looked behind the horse thief leader, "Business is reasonable, why not be a horse thief? This man is so rude, I will teach you a lesson first. You have a lot of green and white salt, and you are afraid that you can't exchange gold, silver and silk?"

The man who fell from the horse rushed back to his team, clutching his bleeding right ear, chanting and shouting something in Beixia dialect, and everyone found that he was complaining to an unattractive man.

The man was not tall, thin and dark, his brows and eyes were not masculine, he used his sword to push away the noisy subordinates and came to the first place in the team, only then did the Shahai caravan see clearly that the horse thief leader was actually a woman.

"I'm a new recruit from my subordinates. Everything else is fine, but I'm anxious. You taught me the right lesson." She spoke authentic Central Plains Mandarin, and after turning her head to reprimand her subordinates, the Beixia woman held her sword and said with great interest. Looking at A Lu, "From your tone, you seem to know a lot about business, how do you do it?"

A Lu looked around, "You and I sit down and talk face to face?" But her waist tightened, and it was Li Suyue who surrounded her. "It's okay, I'll go find out." This is also the purpose of their trip.

Alu got off his horse, walked up to the female horse thief leader with a bow and arrow on his back, and looked at her with a smile, "To tell the truth, the leader, I'm here with my head in my head. If we can really make a deal, it won't be in vain." You and I have a walk."

The female horse thief from Beixia suddenly rushed over with her horse. This time, Ah Lu didn't aim at the arrow, but when the other hand reached out to her, she pulled it without hesitation, and with this strength, she got on the horse's back.It's a pity that her just back was dragged again, and when she grinned in pain, she saw Li Suyue's worried eyes, and she shouted, "Wait for me a moment."

The horse thief leader also shouted to his own people, "Wait."

The two of them directly passed the sight of everyone and went straight to the cliff in the southwest corner.Near the end, the horse thief leader reined in his horse, dragged A Lu off the horse's back, and jumped off himself briskly. Her eyes were shining, and her thin cheekbones seemed to move, "If you lie again, I'll cut you right here. Feed the wolf."

A Lu smiled wryly, "Do you see that we are from Shahai?"

The woman turned her head and pointed at the caravan in the distance, "Four out of ten are women, only the Shahai caravan in the Northwest states has so many women." She stared at Li Suyue, "She has practiced martial arts, and she has the toughest figure .” Then wrinkled his nose and looked at A Lu, “You? An embroidered pillow.”

Ah Lu knew that she was a piece of embroidery material, she was not angry, she laughed, her eyes fell on the anxious face of Li Suyue in the distance, "Good eyesight."

"I recognize her." The woman looked at Li Suyue again, "She is a blacksmith in Shahai, I met her in Manguan. Someone asked her to stay for ten taels of silver to make swords for three days, but she refused." This is the first time Lu heard of it.

"Tell me, how do you do business?" The woman withdrew her eyes and stared at Alu and asked.

"The salt traffickers in Qingbai Village are free, what does the girl think?" A Lu asked her, and suddenly found that her dark complexion covered the scar extending from the depth of her neck.

"Li Jixin takes six, and I want to take eight." The leader of the horse thief smiled, "You share [-]%, and the salt road from Yanzhou to Shahai will be our protection." But Li Jixin hated going to Shahai, and he didn't want to fight with Shahai. Merchants trade green and white salt.

A Lu turned around and looked under the cliff, the north wind reverberating from the mountain pass, she closed her eyes and listened for a while, then turned around, "We are eight, you two."

The Beixia woman thought she had heard wrong, she turned her ears slightly, then raised her chin, "Do you want to live?"

"It's for you." Alu jumped to the stone of the mountain pass and sat down, and played the bowstring a few times, making a low hum, "I know you get [-]%, not only in Shahai, but also in Yanzhou, Weizhou, Qinzhou, etc. Who do you think you would turn to when doing business with local people?"

Suddenly, the woman frowned, "Didn't you recruit Li Jixin for us? You are killing people with a knife."

"It's true that I want to kill people, but I didn't borrow Li Jixin's knife, nor did I want to kill you." A Lu pointed to the scar on her neck, "I remember that Du Tongjun, the commander of the Shenyong Army Division in the left wing of Beixia, married his aunt. , gave birth to a daughter again..." Without saying a word, she had already put a sword on her neck, "If you talk nonsense again, I will chop you up and throw it away."

"Throw it away? Don't feed the wolves?" A Lu slightly left Jianfeng, "I want to kill Li Jixin, you swallow this green and white salt, let's get what we need, how about it?" She cleared her throat and pointed To myself, "I'm Yun Fangjiang, the former commander of the Baosheng Army, and I'm also Bai Zhi's daughter, girl, but if you are wise in the world, the two of us won't fall into bandits, and the other will come out with his wife... to smuggle salt."

Li Suyue over there also noticed that the movement was wrong, so she rode her horse and ran towards Alu. Alu looked at her and sighed, and then looked up at the female horse thief of Beixia, "Who doesn't want to go home and his wife warms the bed with money?"

The female horse thief was provoked by her words, and Jian Feng stepped back a little, "Then why did you kill Li Jixin?"

Where does this start?A Lu thought for a while, "To make a long story short, I want to avenge the siege of Shahai City. For personal reasons, he dared to moles my teacher." She reached out her hand to signal Li Suyue to stop, "Also, I am most annoyed by beating women all day long. A man with ideas is worthless!"

The sword had already been sheathed, and the Beixia woman snatched the wine bag from her waist and opened it. After taking a sip, she stepped on A Lu's waist, with a mischievous smile on her face, "Tell me, how to kill?"