sent away the eldest grandson Shunde, who was happy, and Xiao Han's private collection of high-quality tea was also reduced by as much as half! But with a little tea, in exchange for a whole mountain, this transaction is not a loss!

Recently, everything has been going well, I don't know if it's because it's too close to the blessing. Xiao Han stretched his waist, humming a little song and was about to go back to the house to make up for sleep, but Uncle Zizi came back again.

"Hey, where are you going! Go and ask what's wrong? ”

Uncle Zizi was about to turn to the side, but when he heard Xiao Han shouting at him, he had to withdraw his feet in embarrassment, and asked a little embarrassedly: "Master Hou, you know?" ”

"Nonsense! As far as your monkey is in a hurry, I don't know how strange it is! What came out? Xiao Han asked impatiently.

"This ......" Uncle Zizi looked left and right, walked quickly to Xiao Han's side, attached to Xiao Han's ear and whispered: "It's the same as Lao Lu's guess, it's not the enemy's spies!" It's the ...... of the homeless."

"Outcasts?" Xiao Han irritably pushed away the old Xiaodong who stretched out his ears, and said angrily: "What's so strange about the homeless! The guide is really, this little thing is also hidden, and there is no shortage of hardships in your hands! ”

"Hehe...... uncle smiled innocently, scratched his head and said: "I didn't suffer hardship, I just went to scare him, and he recruited everything!" It was because I was afraid that we would arrest those displaced people at first. He had known those people for a long time, and he couldn't bear to hurt them, so he kept them secret. ”

Xiao Han yawned a little and said lazily, "Catch them?" Why are we arresting them? Idle? ”

Uncle Zizi shrugged his shoulders, and said disapprerovitically: "Master Hou, you naturally won't be too lazy to catch the homeless, it's the guide who spends the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain!" But I think this person is not the bones, but his mental skills are quite correct! I also know how to cover up for others! I didn't embarrass him. ”

"What else do displaced people need to hide? I can't live anymore, it's not too normal to go to the mountains and hide! Xiao Han smiled indifferently.

Unexpectedly, when Uncle Stunned and Xiaodong heard this, they both shook their heads in unison: "Master Hou, you may not know." No matter where they are, the homeless people have no identity! As long as you are caught, the sixty boards are indispensable! The government has said that how can the displaced people evade taxes and military service lightly? That's why our brothers in the auxiliary battalion would rather die in battle than become outcasts! As long as you become a homeless person, you won't want to turn over for the rest of your life......"

"So miserable? Can't live anymore and don't even let you hide? Xiao Han was a little surprised.

"Under the whole world, it is not the king's land. On the shore of the land, it is not the king's minister..."Uncle Stunned still remembers the judgment that the yamen read when he caught the homeless, and shook his head and read it out. But I suddenly found that I only remembered this sentence, and the rest of the estimation had already been knocked into those people's butts with those big boards!

"Ho, do you know the sentences in the Book of Songs?" Xiao Han looked at Uncle Stunned and couldn't laugh, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Forget it, we just need to know about this, don't talk about it, you can wait for Lao Lu to know." It's not easy to live in the mountains! Let's not mess with others! ”

"Whoa!" Uncle Stunned and Xiaodong bowed to Xiao Han, and they also had some compassion for these people.

Waving his hand, so that the two of them didn't have to salute, Xiao Han also felt a little sad in his heart at this time.

But whoever can live, who will run into the mountains! That place is full of insects and ants, not to mention the jackals, tigers and leopards that are running everywhere now! In the end, I guess there won't be a few people left.

Thinking about the difficulty of life, Xiao Han didn't have the heart to sleep. walked to the stone bench in the courtyard and sat down, and then pointed to a few other stone benches, so that Uncle Stunned and Xiaodong could sit down.

After the two of them sat down, Xiao Han held his head and asked, "Do you know how many people are there?" When did they all hide in the mountains? How could the guide know those people? ”

"How many people don't know...... Uncle Stunned shook his head, and then replied: "According to the guide, I hid in it during the last expedition to Goguryeo!" When those people were digging the river, a lot of their families died, not to mention the first two expeditions to Liaodong! The last time I was really scared, so I went straight up the mountain and never came down again!

As for the guides, he accidentally met them when he went hunting, and then he made some business with them, and then he became acquainted. ”

"Doing business?" Xiao Han held his head and nodded slowly, people in the mountains are not self-sufficient in everything, not to mention anything else, food is the biggest problem. You can't just eat meat! You have to eat some food, not to mention that in the mountains in winter, it is difficult to find meat again! ”

Sure enough, after listening to Uncle Zizi's breath, he continued: "According to the guide, he took some grain, iron tools, and linen cloth in exchange for some meat, furs, and expensive herbs, and in a year, he earned more than he hunted." ”

"Hehe, this person can also do business! Those people don't dare to show their heads, isn't it up to him to decide the price! If you can't make any more money in this way, it's better to die head-on! Xiao Han said wittily.

"Haha......" Uncle Zizi and Xiaodong both laughed. Smiling and smiling, Uncle Zizi suddenly remembered something, suddenly suppressed his smile, lowered his voice and said to Xiao Han: "Master Hou, there is one more thing that the old man almost forgot!" The guide had inadvertently said that the homeless people in the mountains had exchanged salt for grain from him. ”

"What? Salt? Xiao Han was shocked by Uncle Zizi's words.

He just heard that when those people lived in the mountains, he was still thinking about the story of the white-haired girl, wasn't the white-haired girl just because she didn't have salt to eat, so that her hair became snow-white? How can they have salt!

"Yes, salt!" Uncle Zizi looked at Xiao Han and Xiaodong who were amazed, and nodded heavily, "It's indeed salt, I specifically asked the guide at that time!" However, he said that there seemed to be some problems with the salt, and it could not be eaten as ordinary salt, so he changed it twice and never changed it again! ”

"Where's the guide! Get him! Just go! Also, if he still has any salt at home, remember to bring it with him! ”

When Xiao Han heard this, his heart couldn't help but stir! Hurry up and urge Uncle Stunned to bring someone!

The problem of lack of salt in Xiazhou City has not been solved until now, and without salt to eat, the combat power cannot be raised! Now that he heard that those homeless people had salt in their hands, no matter where they got it, Xiao Han didn't plan to let it go!

Uncle Zizi hurriedly left, Xiao Han got up anxiously and walked around waiting for him to come back. Xiao Dong said to Xiao Han suspiciously: "Master Hou, how can there be salt in the mountains?" Did the guide deceive us? ”

"No!" Xiao Han stood still and looked in the direction of Qinling from afar, "Lying won't do him any good!" Besides, there are no surprises in this world! As far as I know, to the west of our Tang Dynasty, there is a place full of white salt! The roads and houses there are paved with salt! If we are allowed to eat it, even if all the people of Datang eat it together, it is estimated that we can eat it for a few lifetimes! ”

"And a place like this?" Xiao Dong's eyes were already shining with stars, and he couldn't imagine what a place full of salt looked like!

"Yes!" Xiao Han suppressed his irritable heart, sat down again and rubbed his head and said, "Even in the mountains, there are salt mines!" Not only the salt mine, but also a plant in the mountain, its fruit is wrapped in a layer of salt! I now hope that these homeless people have discovered a salt mine! ”

Xiao Han and Xiaodong anxiously waited at home for Uncle Stunned to come back, and the time was extremely difficult every minute and second! I don't know how long it took for Uncle Stunned to return to the courtyard with the guide, and as soon as the two entered the courtyard, Xiao Han keenly noticed that Uncle Stunned was still carrying something wrapped in black cloth in his hand.

"Close the door!" Xiao Han hurriedly got up and first instructed Xiaodong to close the courtyard door, and then stepped forward to take the black cloth in Uncle Stunned's hand.

"Small... I have seen Master Hou...... "When the guide saw Xiao Han, his knees subconsciously bent, if it weren't for Uncle Zizi holding him, he would have gone to the ground by now!"

Ignoring the cowering guide now, Xiao Han walked quickly to the stone table with a black cloth. Carefully opened, a gray-brown object was revealed.

"What is this?" Xiao Han has lived two lives, and he has never seen a salt mine, so he was also a little stunned at this time.