Chapter 64: Two Fat Quails

"Hey, among our rebels, you are the one who hates adultery and plunder the most, why did you become so irritable when you got here?"

Li Dingguo looked at the crowd on the road and whispered: "I hate this feeling of being constrained everywhere, I don't know why, since I entered Lantian County, I feel like I have fallen into a fishing net, everywhere is not right, everywhere is wrong." ”

Zhang Guofeng said with a smile: "That's because you have never been treated with a normal appearance, the rich people you have seen before are all bastards, the landlords you have seen are all bone and marrow, and the official mansions you have seen are all tigers and wolves that eat people."

When you come here, you find that the landlords all work on their own, and if they work for them, they will be paid, and the rich people have reasons to be rich, and the government does not eat people, but only takes away the share of taxes that must be taken.

You didn't eat a meal and got into sweat medicine, and you were taken to make buns without staying in a store, and you don't see a few people with bad intentions here, so ah, you're not used to it.

Poor baby, I haven't had a good day. ”

Li Dingguo couldn't hold his face when his old friend said, he raised his leg and kicked Zhang Guofeng, Zhang Guofeng ran forward with a grin, Li Dingguo chased behind, attracting the sideways eyes of passers-by, only to see two sturdy young people frolicking there, with a smile on their faces, and the older one scolded twice, disgusted that the two were messing around and blocking the way.

Li Dingguo is indeed uncomfortable.

There are no thieves who block the road and rob here, there are no villains with black hearts, and there are no villains in Piri Yangqiu, so that he has accumulated many years of life experience and lost his purpose.

In the end, he found that he could dominate the world in troubled times and be invincible, but he couldn't do anything in the fairyland on earth.

This is something that the proud Li Dingguo cannot tolerate.

Harvested wheat for others, people took care of the rice, gave 600 copper coins, the food was not bad, the hospitality was also thoughtful, there was no way to treat them as bad people, the copper money was also solid, every copper coin was yellow, not mixed with any iron money, broken money, now, all heavy in the backpack, every step is a loud sound, always remind him that he is a rich man.

Li Dingguo had more money before, especially after the attack on Fengyang Mansion, he had seen mountains of silver, gold, and a huge amount of gold and jewelry.

The tinkling copper coins behind this actually made him feel like he was a rich man for the first time.

"Four coppers can buy a bowl of noodles?"

When Li Dingguo and Zhang Guofeng walked for a long time, they walked into a noodle restaurant when they were sleepy and tired, and when they saw the guests coming to the door, the shopkeeper smiled like Maitreya Buddha and entertained him diligently.

"If you are still hungry after eating the noodles, you can add soup, take out the pot helmet in your baggage and let the stove roast it for you, and then soak it in the soup for a full meal!"

Li Dingguo watched as the diligent young man took away their dry food, and after a while, he brought a big bowl of sour soup, on which there were actually two grains of fat floating on it.

Zhang Guofeng and the others brought the baked cakes again, and learned from other wheat customers to break the baked brown pot helmet and throw it into the sour soup, and gave Li Dingguo a thumbs up after taking a bite.

"It's delicious."

Without waiting for Li Dingguo to answer, the old shopkeeper next to him said with a smile: "When you finish harvesting the wheat, you will go to Xi'an City to play, where the mutton steamed buns must be bowled, and then go to Fanren Street below the Drum Tower to open your eyes, don't you dare to go to Mingyue Tower, go once, the money you make this year will be thrown into the bottomless pit." ”

"Mingyue Tower?" Zhang Guozhu, who was eating bubble cakes, immediately raised his head.

The old shopkeeper who was adding soup to him slapped him on the head angrily and said: "Learn well, make money, go home and honor your father and mother, save money to marry your daughter-in-law, buy land and accumulate family business, don't think about those fox spirits." ”

Zhang Guofeng grinned and said, "When I have money, I will definitely go and see it." ”

The shopkeeper gave a provocative thumbs up and said: "That's right, if you have money, you will do what rich people do, if you don't have money, you can make good money, and it is not bad to make more money to open your eyes." ”

In the laughter of everyone, Li Dingguo and Zhang Guozhu finished their meals, and the rest of the wheat customers asked the old shopkeeper where there were people who needed labor.

It didn't take much effort, and the old shopkeeper arranged it properly for these McKee.

Seeing that Li Dingguo and Zhang Guofeng were still waiting for him, he left everyone and walked over and said, "Full?" ”

Li Dingguo patted his stomach and said, "It's very full." ”

"It just so happens that the Liansheng Inn in Xi'an City ordered a cart of apricots with the old man, and the guys in the store can't leave, how about you two go with the old man? In a day and a half, two hundred dollars! ”

Zhang Guofeng jumped three feet high happily, but there was a hint of gloom in Li Dingguo's eyes.

"Okay, okay, Apricot is there, let's go now."

The old shopkeeper smiled and pointed to the bamboo basket under the eaves, Zhang Guofeng immediately ran over and picked up a basket of apricots and said, "Where is the carriage?" ”

The old shopkeeper brought the mule cart, Zhang Guofeng happily loaded the apricots on the mule cart, and stole an apricot from others in the middle, the old shopkeeper just laughed and scolded, and didn't care.

After Li Dingguo loaded the last basket of apricots, he glanced at the empty field, and found no abnormality, so he invited the old shopkeeper to sit on the wheel, and he and Zhang Guofeng followed the mule cart to Xi'an City, thirty miles away.

"Old man, this is not the territory of Lantian County, why does everyone claim to be Lantian County?" Until now, the expected danger has not come, and Li Dingguo can't help but ask.

The old shopkeeper smiled: "In the past, we all said that we were from Xi'an, that is, since four years ago, we began to call ourselves Lantian people." ”

"Why is that?"

"Why else, just to live a stable life, in the past, this place was called Chang'an County, people found that when they were from Chang'an County, they couldn't eat, and there were thieves who came to loot from time to time, and then, we moved the boundary monument of Lantian County to this side.

Then, officials from Lantian County came here to measure the land, and began to ask the people here to repair canals, dig ponds, build reservoirs, load water trucks, orange trees, dig wells, and plant new crops on the wasteland.

After these things were done, the county respected those big families gathered together to discuss the matter of rent reduction, and I don't know how to talk about it, those big families are willing to reduce the rent to less than 30%, and then, there are more people who are willing to farm.

A few years have passed, and Chang'an County has become what it is now.

Since the tax has to be paid to Lantian County, everyone thinks that they are from Lantian County. ”

"No coercion?" Li Dingguo's eyes were still looking around, and he seemed to have no intention of asking.

"Maybe, probably, probably not, I haven't heard of anything forced to happen......"

Li Dingguo chatted happily with the old shopkeeper along the way, while Zhang Guozhu ate rhubarb apricots on the mule cart while walking.

After walking for three hours, seeing that the Xi'an city wall was close in front of him, what Li Dingguo expected still did not appear.

When entering the city gate, Zhang Guofeng looked left and right with a heartless look, and Li Dingguo's muscles were tense all over his body, and he followed the old shopkeeper tightly.

Seeing that the old shopkeeper had paid the entrance tax, he said hello to the sleepy-eyed and vicious-looking bald tax collector, and the three of them drove the mule cart into Xi'an City.

Before entering the city, Zhang Guofeng felt that his eyes were not enough, he had never seen so many rich people...... At this moment, he felt that the world was not very real, and he wanted to ask where all the ragged people he was used to seeing had gone.

The old shopkeeper affectionately slapped Zhang Guofeng on the back of the head and said: "Don't look at it, hurry up to Fanzi Street, and if you rub it again, the apricots on the old man's car will be eaten up by you." ”

Li Dingguo said with a smile: "Where is Fanzi Street?" ”

The old shopkeeper pointed to the tall drum tower in the distance and said: "It's over there, this is the gate of the city, we can't stay here, we will be fined if we obstruct people's passage." ”

After that, he led the way in front and signaled Li Dingguo and Zhang Guofeng to follow.

The further they went, the more dense the pedestrians became, and when they finally arrived at Fanzi Street, the old shopkeeper wiped the sweat from his forehead and said: "Look at it, if it weren't for you two strong young men, the old man wouldn't have the ability to send the goods over alone." ”

Li Dingguo smiled and didn't speak, but his hand was pressed on the long burden and didn't leave.

When Zhang Guofeng saw Li Dingguo's appearance, he was stunned for a moment, and then, the smile on his face was gone, and he hung the burden on his back on his shoulders, and naturally kept a distance of three feet from Li Dingguo.

The carriage came to a lively inn, Li Dingguo looked at the name of the inn carefully, it was indeed an inn called Liansheng.

The old shopkeeper came to the door of the inn, and a guy with a towel on his shoulder said loudly: "Okay, my shopkeeper Hong, the apricots were only delivered at this time, and your business is not doing well." ”

The old shopkeeper said with a smile: "Little Seventh Brother is not strange, the old man didn't expect that there would be so many people in the city today, could it be that there is something lively to see?" ”

The guy smiled: "The eleven Qingqi people of Mingyue Tower are out of the pavilion today, I heard that all of them are stunning, no, all the people who have a little money on them have been dispatched, even if they can't get a beauty, it's good to take a look." ”

The old shopkeeper pointed to Li Dingguo, who had a serious face, and said to Zhang Guofeng: "Don't you dare to go, there is a fairy nest!" ”

Li Dingguo said with a smile: "Our brothers are two bitter haha, where did we get the money to see the beauty!" ”

The guy said to Li Dingguo unceremoniously: "Quickly move the goods, send them to the backyard, and go to the counter to pay the money after moving the goods, and don't delay you to continue to make money." ”

As he spoke, the guy himself picked up a basket of apricots and took the lead in leading the way, Li Dingguo and Zhang Guofeng glanced at each other, and then looked at the old shopkeeper who had been sitting in the inn hall and asking the innkeeper for tea, gritted his teeth, re-carried the burden, and carried a basket of apricots to the backyard with the guy.

The backyard was very clean, except for the guy muttering a few words about the apricots sent by the old shopkeeper missing half a basket, nothing happened.

After successfully unloading the goods, four hundred dollars were paid on the counter, and the old shopkeeper waved goodbye to them with a smile.

Li Dingguo and Zhang Guofeng stood on the crowded street, vigilant like two fat quails about to be preyed upon by eagles.

It's a pity that except for the irritable glances of passers-by at these two coolies who block people's walking, no one pays attention to them, which makes Li Dingguo just want to open his throat and yell.