Economic and Trade Song Dynasty

Qi Lin was still wondering what the hell this kid was doing!

"I've sent someone to go to the bank, why are you so worried!"

Silly Leopard's ears were red, Qin Juan squinted at him for a while, Silly Leopard frowned and didn't understand what he meant, but he felt a little embarrassed in his heart, and even kept wondering why this man was staring at him all the time?

Is there something dirty on his face?He reached out and touched his face uncomfortably...

Qin Juan took a step forward, raised the corners of his lips and said, "Give me a good meal for the brothers, let's go on the road when we're full."

Only then did Qi Lin raise his head to look at him: "Didn't we go at night? In the evening, we'll grow two whole sheep, and we'll be on our way when we're full!"

Qin Juan: "I'll arrange the dinner time as you like, and we'll go on the road at night."

After returning to the room, Qi Lin gave Qin Juan the receipt for selling the iron, but Qin Juan handed it back without looking at it: "You don't need to show me this, as long as you know it in your heart."

Qi Lin nodded: "We still have two cars of superior irons and nine cars of good irons."

Qin Juan gave a "huh" and heard Qi Lin say: "It will take about half a month to more than 20 days for us to go to Andiku, because we have to pass through a large area of ​​desert, so we have to prepare enough water bags. I ordered it last night Everyone get their water bladders ready, and you go get yours too."

Only then did Qin Juan remember that his water bag and dry food were not ready yet. As soon as he stood up, Qi Lin threw him a money bag.

Qin Juan took it unceremoniously, weighed it, and thought that Qi Lin could pick it up, and this little silver bean was just enough to put a dozen water bags for him, and he couldn't buy anything else.

After Qin Juan went out, Qi Lin also went out. He told his subordinates to arrange dinner and buy four whole sheep.

Qin Juan thought that these eleven carts of iron should have sold for two or three thousand taels.

Diermi had only two banks in total, and with Qi Lin's temperament, he must have brought at least 500 taels of silver with him on the road.

Qi Lin doesn't think money is heavy, he is not Qi Lin, he thinks money is not safe.

Although silk tea is expensive, if you don’t tell others, others may not be able to recognize what kind of silk it is. If the silver is exposed, it’s hard to tell.

After buying the water bag and filling it with water, Qin Juan just returned to his room when he heard several cavalrymen downstairs calling him.

It is said that Qi Lin arranged to eat roasted whole lamb outside the city, and they are now going out of the city after rectifying their carriages and horses.

That's fine, Qin Juan didn't object, he packed his things and went downstairs.

They had a lot of things, and it took a lot of time just to organize them and hang them on the saddle.

After leaving the city, it happened to be the last hour, the setting sun was shining at night, and the desert was lonely. The accompanying cavalry picked up many dead branches of red willows, and they erected the whole sheep.

The white smoke from the burning red willow will give off a smell, others say it is fragrance, but Qin Juan doesn't think so, he can't smell why that smell can be called fragrance.

Not long after, those cavalrymen with good cooking skills stuffed a lot of ingredients into the whole sheep belly, and poured sesame oil all over the whole sheep.

Some cavalrymen even took out their knives, and the swords and swords struck out the beat... and hummed a song.

This kind of roasting method is rough and somewhat exaggerated. Qin Juan has never seen it before, so he stared at it for a long time.

The soldiers under Ning Bai's hands were like fighting a war when cooking a big meal.

From time to time, people passing by stopped to watch them for a while, perhaps they had never seen so many people gather to eat sheep.

The four roasted whole lambs were almost ready at the same time, someone picked off the hind legs of the lamb and sent it to Qi Lin, Qi Lin asked that person to take it to Qin Juan.

"Let the cub eat more, look at how skinny he is." If Qi Lin didn't talk like that, Qin Juan thought he might like him a little bit.

Qin Juan didn't want to be polite to them, he just picked up the roast lamb and ate it, but these prairie boys thought the hind leg of lamb was a good thing, but he still preferred to eat lamb ribs.

He couldn't explain why the lamb ribs were delicious, but of course the lamb hind legs were also delicious, with a bit of chewiness.

"What? Is it delicious?"

Qin Juan gnawed repeatedly, not noticing that Qi Lin came over.

He shook his head and nodded again.

Qi Lin couldn't bear it anymore and slapped it over: "What do you mean it's delicious or not?"

Qin Juan slapped him hard, wishing he could hit Qi Lin on the head with a sheep bone, this man talks as soon as he speaks, no matter how he moves.

Qi Lin was swept away by his wolf-like gaze, and suddenly felt a little uncomfortable all over.

After carefully chewing a few mouthfuls of mutton, Qin Juan nodded. Qi Lin's cooking skills are good, and the roasted mutton is better than the mutton vendors.

Seeing that he was eating more and more vigorously, Qi Lin couldn't help but raise the corners of his lips: "Let me just say, you must have never eaten such a delicious roast lamb, but we have soldiers under our hands, and soldiers still have to be used on the battlefield , so it is a blessing for you to eat today."

"It's no wonder that the cavalry were not arranged to cook big dishes along the way, but they were just perfunctory all the way and only worked so hard today." Qin Juan gnawed a few mouthfuls of mutton, and the more he ate it, the more delicious he felt.

But just now I saw so much stuffing in the belly of the lamb, the ribs of the lamb should be more delicious.

Seeing what he said, Qi Lin laughed out loud.

Qin Juan suddenly felt that this silly leopard had become smarter, at least now Qi Lin didn't yell at him.

The silly leopard suddenly stopped blowing up, and Qin Juan felt quite bored again.

"Save some lamb chops for me." Qin Juan shouted to the busy people over there.

Those people stopped and looked at him.After a while, a cavalryman came over and handed him a plate of lamb ribs.

Qin Juan rubbed his hands and took it, thanking him.

It has long been heard that Ning Bai's army has meat to eat, and their Luo Bu's army will slaughter sheep every year during the Chinese New Year, and the rest of the time they will be sent with meat.

Ning Bai made money this trip, I don't know what Ning Bai will do next, so what will the money be used for?

Qin Juan was enjoying his meal when a wind blew up and brought the sand over, and then he heard a burst of cursing.

Qi Lin asked everyone to eat quickly, so they could go on the road after eating.

Worried that the wind and sand would get bigger and bigger, Qi Lin called a wind master and a wizard over, and made a fortune before leaving.

It seems to be a tradition to do a fortune-telling before leaving, and it was the same in Jihab Camp.

But this hexagram is not very good. Qin Juan sat close and heard it clearly.

The wizard said to Qi Lin that it is a bad hexagram, which is not good for the west, and that the western hexagram is like a fire, which is not good.

Qi Lin asked him how to crack it, the wizard shook his head, and Qi Lin asked if he wanted to delay his journey for a few days.

The wizard said: "From July to September, if you want to stay here, you will be on the road after September, and you will be on the road in October."

If they waited until after September and went on the road in October, obviously Ning Bai couldn't wait and couldn't explain.

Qin Juan didn't believe this, but Qi Lin did.

Qin Juan didn't know what to say, it's up to Qi Lin himself, anyway, he can leave now, or wait until October, if he stays here, he can wait for the next fire trick.

But Qi Lin wanted to go back to see Ning Bai earlier, and the person who wanted this batch of goods he met in An Diku was about September.

If twenty days passed, the time would be just right. If he didn't see anyone, it would be difficult for him to explain to Ning Bai.

Qi Lin was irritable for a while, scratching his ears anxiously.

Seeing this, Qin Juan looked at Feng Shi and asked, "Is there any sandstorm or storm along the way?"

What he meant was to ask Feng Shi to make another calculation.

Qi Lin also looked at Feng Shi, Feng Shi shook his shell wind chime, raised the main plate in his hand, and closed his eyes to chant sutras.

After a long time, he heard the wind master say: "There is a small sandstorm."

Qi Lin struggled for a while, and asked two of his cronies to discuss it for a while.

In the end they decided to leave.

But because of the hexagrams and prophecies of the wind master and the wizard, they became cautious on their way.

The cavalry also noticed something was wrong, and the news quickly spread throughout their convoy that the wizard's hexagrams seemed to be ominous during this trip to Antiku.

This is the tradition left by Genghis Khan, the leader of the Mongols. When marching, one must piously ask wind masters and wizards for fortune-telling.

Qin Juan heard the cavalry whispering, but there was no need to frighten him like this, so Qin Juan told them a story.

He said that Genghis Khan was going to attack a city to the west.

At that time, the wind master told him that there would be heavy snow, which would be unfavorable for combat, and the hexagram given to him by the wizard was also very ominous.

But Genghis Khan still chose to attack, and came back with a big victory at that station, and captured Samarkand, which had been invincible for a long time.

This is the most famous battle of Genghis Khan.

Those Mongolian cavalrymen asked him why he was so powerful and knew everything.

Qin Juan smiled and did not answer: Because he made up the story, the place name was added to make it more convincing, and the protagonist of the story became Genghis Khan to make these Mongolian children more convincing.

He slightly raised the corners of his lips, obviously feeling that these people had relaxed a lot.

They talked and laughed again.

When they came, they came here just to play the role of a caravan, and they kept talking and laughing, so that they could not feel the seriousness of the military, and they were more like a caravan.

but……

He couldn't help but look sideways at the wizard who was following in the carriage, the man seemed to still have a dignified expression.

At this moment, he couldn't help but think of what Zhao Huaizhi said to him, Zhao Huaizhi said that he...

There is no way back, and there is no way back.

It has no destiny, and even the gods are not accepted.

Thinking of this, Qin Juan frowned, and gradually tightened his hand holding the rein

Since life has no way to come and no way to return, why be afraid of good and bad, it's just mediocre.

He looked into the dark night sky and saw the stars passing by, he quickly let go of the horse's rein, closed his eyes and made a wish.

This is not the custom of the Song people. The stars drawn from the sky are the broom stars, which represent disqualification. If the world is a chess game, the broom stars are the discarded pieces on the immortal chess game, so they are regarded as unknown.

This is the custom of the Western Xia and Jin people influenced by the business travel to the west, and it was taught by his mother.

At this moment, he missed his mother again.

Diermi had only two banks in total, and with Qi Lin's temperament, he must have brought at least 500 taels of silver with him on the road.

After walking cautiously for three more days, they set up camp at night, and Qin Juan saw shooting stars falling down the sky again.

At this time, he was eating pancakes, put down the pancakes and made another wish.

Qi Lin beside him gave Qin Juan a look like an idiot, before he had time to ask anything, suddenly two people came beside him.

The wind master and the wizard hurried over and told Qi Lin that he could not go any further.

For some reason, Qin Juan noticed that Qi Lin was a little angry

Qi Lin led the wind master and wizard into the camp.