The warm water is located in a remote area, and there are many mountains in the county, and the population scattered in the countryside is hundreds of times more than that of the county seat.

For the sake of safety, Su Ren asked Huo Laosi to move all his wives and children to Laojunguan, so that they would not have to run to the county seat anymore, and they could temporarily avoid the entanglement of the boss of the Salt Gang.

Huo Laosi was grateful, and without saying a word, he asked his wife to clean up the things at home. This poor family has nothing to clean up except this adobe house. Huo Laosi carried the bedding and pots and pans with a flat shoulder. Huo Laosi's wife, Huo Qian, was holding a child in one hand, and the family followed Su Ren out of the county seat.

With Zhang Hu's head taken care of, it is very convenient to move. In the middle of the night, the city gate was opened, and the group went out of the city.

Su Ren took out a few coppers and sent them to Zhang Hu: "Thank you Brother Zhang for taking care of me, the little brother is grateful, Brother Zhang should not be too little for this money, it is also the little brother who turned his mind, and when he is still tired of Brother Zhang in the future, I hope Brother Zhang will help." ”

Although Zhang Hu is a public head, he doesn't have much money a month. Su Ren was generous, Zhang Hu saw it clearly, there was at least twenty yuan, Zhang Hu's face was happy, patted his chest and promised to help, and personally sent Su Ren, Leng Jun and Huo Laosi's family out of the city gate.

There is still a long way to go back to Laojunguan, and the rush at night is always worrying. Fortunately, there are many people, and I don't feel so tired when I talk while walking.

When Su Ren first came to Dahan, he admired the heroes in his mind, what general Wei Qing, what champion Hou Huo was sick, and later Sima Huo Guang, they all wanted to meet and talk about life.

Huo Laosi's surname is Huo, and there are almost no people surnamed Huo in Wenshui County. Su Ren became curious about Huo Laosi's origin.

"Brother Huo, your surname is Huo, I don't know where your ancestral home is?"

Huo Laosi was thinking about how good their life would be in the future if they followed what Su Ren said. Suddenly heard Su Ren's question, and hurriedly replied: "The villain is really not a local, a few years ago because of the famine, the flow is here, if the son doesn't ask me to forget, the villain's ancestral home is Pingyang, Hedong, in the seventh year of the previous century, Hedong suffered a disaster, there was no harvest, and there were many eaters like cow hair, and the villain went all the way south with a group of refugees, and he was displaced here, thinking about it for almost ten years." ”

"Hedong Pingyang?" Su Ren's heart chuckled: "I don't know where Brother Huo's ancestral home is in Pingyang?" ”

Huo Laosi glanced at Su Ren, and seemed a little reluctant to ask Su Ren about his life experience, but now he had to rely on Su Ren to eat, so he replied: "Ancestral home is Huojiazhuang in Pingyang." ”

"Oh!" Su Ren looked at Huo Laosi's broad shoulders, if this person was not down, he would definitely be a fierce soldier if he joined the army, and asked: "I don't know what Brother Huo's official name is, I always hear them call you Huo Laosi, this is obviously not a name." ”

Huo Laosi smiled: "Where did the lowly person come from with an official name, he was the fourth in the family, and he was called such a name, if you want to say that the official name really exists, it is called Huo Jikui, no one has called it for more than ten years, I'm afraid no one will remember it for a long time." ”

Bo Zhong Shu Ji, this is the name of the ancients for their sons in order. Whether it's a name or a word, there must be something that represents identity. It's like the Bada of the Sima family during the Three Kingdoms, which came down like this. Sima Lang word Boda, Sima Yi word Zhongda, Sima Fu word Shuda, Sima Kui word Jida, and what else Sima Sui, Sima Jun, Sima Tong, Sima Min, everyone has a word in it, so it is called Sima Bada.

Although Su Ren didn't know much about the various things in the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, this sort of rank of peers was still clear.

Su Ren said: "Huo Jikui has a good name, Ji is the fourth, and Kui is the head, but I didn't expect that Brother Huo's ancestors are still a family of poetry and books." ”

Huo Laosi smiled and said: "What kind of poetry and book family, being able to eat and dress is what I want in this life, and the other is that my two children grow up safely, and there is nothing else to ask for." ”

"Yes! Who doesn't want peace, a safe life is the happiest thing. Su Ren suddenly remembered the past, what kind of life he lived at that time, but now? I was scared all day, I was beaten up yesterday and spent the night in prison, and this kind of thing had never happened in more than 20 years of my life before.

"I don't know if Brother Huo knows Huo Zhongru?"

Huo Laosi thought for a while: "This name seems to have some impressions, I don't know who Huo Zhongru is that Gongzi said?" ”

Su Ren smiled: "I don't know, I'm just curious, this Huo Zhongru is also from Pingyang, Hedong, and Brother Huo's ancestral home is also Pingyang, so when I asked, I heard that this person is a servant, since Brother Huo hasn't returned to Hedong for ten years, he must not know this person." ”

Su Ren kept looking at Huo Laosi again, according to his speculation. Both of them are surnamed Huo, both of them are from Pingyang, maybe this Huo Laosi has something to do with Huo Zhongru. If that's the case, I must go to Pingyang and meet this Huo Zhongru. Su Ren knew very well that Huo Quzhi and Huo Guangke were both sons of Huo Zhongru, and these two brothers were deeply favored by the emperor in the three dynasties of Emperor Wu, Emperor Zhao, and Emperor Xuan, and they were all powerful ministers. If you can climb the Huo family, even if you can't be an official, at least you can be rich.

However, seeing that Huo Laosi's expression did not change at all, Su Ren's heart was cold.

Huo Laosi said with a smile: "When I was in Pingyang back then, there was a playmate who seemed to be called Huo Zhongru, but we are not a family with their family, just two Huo, I didn't expect Gongzi to know about Brother Zhongru." ”

Su Ren smiled bitterly. I'm a little impatient. It has only been more than a month since he came to Dahan, and he has the intention of scolding the ministers, and he doesn't want to think about whether Huo Qubing was born at this time, and whether Huo Guang and his mother are married to Huo Zhongru. According to historical records, Huo Qu died of illness in the sixth year of Yuanzhen, at the age of twenty-three. This year has not yet reached the first year of the founding of the first year, and Huo Quzhi should not have been born yet. That Huo Guang is ten years younger than Huo Quai, maybe Huo Guang is still a little girl at this time.

Su Ren laughed twice to hide his embarrassment: "I'm also hearsay, as long as you follow me and work hard, it won't be long before you will have enough food and clothing, and maybe it will be possible to return to your hometown in the future." ”

Huo Laosi nodded again and again: "The villain must do his best." ”

dispelled the mind of asking Huo Quzhi and Huo Guang, the two powerful people who had not yet been born, and the conversation between Su Ren and Huo Laosi turned to salt again. Speaking of selling salt, Huo Laosi is also an expert. When he was in the Salt Gang, Huo Laosi was in charge of the area in the east of the city, with a total of ten villages, and each village could sell about one or two catties of salt per month. Because they are private salt, they dare not be blatant, so they can only go secretly at night.

Huo Laosi sighed: "We are starving and full at the risk of killing our heads, although salt is necessary, it is consumed less, and the people have no spare money, and there are only a few companies that can sell salt." ”

"So what do they usually eat? Don't eat salt? ”

"The poor have their own poor people's methods, Shu County produces salt, boiled with brine, there are occasional brine springs in the mountains and wilderness, the people get it like a treasure, the local big households will sell it with brine, ten stone brine is just a penny, and the poor people buy more brine instead."

"There are too many impurities in the brine, and if you eat too much, you will get sick!" Su Ren immediately became nervous.

Huo Laosi nodded: "Who said it wasn't!" But the people have no money and have to do this, so they can't afford not to eat salt, right? If you don't eat salt, you don't have the strength, and you can't farm. ”

Su Ren was silent for a while: "You mean, if we want to sell salt, we have to control those brine springs?" ”

Huo Laosi shook his head: "Childe thinks badly, there are a lot of local brine springs, presumably the one that Childe uses to make salt is also a brine spring, right?" Those brine springs are in the hands of big households, it is not easy to control, the villain found one thing in the process of selling salt, although the people have no money, but there are a lot of sundries, such as game, firewood and grass, and even excess rations, if the prince is willing to exchange these things, the people are more willing to eat salt than brine. ”

"Wenshui County is located in the mountains and mountains, and the local people know how to hunt, and many things have been ruined!" Huo Laosi turned out to be a caring person and had a lot of means to do business: "When I fled, when I was in Luoyang and Yingchuan, the villain found that the local wealthy officials were quite fond of fur and game, and if Gongzi could form a caravan and sell these things, the profits would be huge." ”

"Hahaha!" Su Ren laughed: "I didn't expect Brother Huo to still be a businessman, what you said is good, but our steps can't be too big, step by step, the main task now is how to sell our salt." ”

Hearing Huo Laosi's words, Su Ren was by no means the first, Su Ren knew this very well. Others may think that Huo Laosi is pure nonsense, selling salt can already allow him to walk sideways in the place of warm water, why do you engage in business. Su Ren is different, he comes from later generations, and his understanding of business far exceeds that of everyone, so he thinks Huo Laosi's plan is very good. It's just that they have limited start-up capital now, and they haven't reached the point of that kind of expansion, so they can only come step by step.

Su Ren patted Huo Laosi on the shoulder: "Brother Huo, believe it or not, I will leave my words here today, one day don't talk about Luoyang, Yingchuan, even Chang'an also has our business, and you will be the shopkeeper at that time." ”

Huo Laosi's eyes were shining, and the big night was shining, and he threw down his flat shoulder and knelt in front of Su Ren: "Son, no, master, Huo Jikui will follow his master from now on, and he will never have two hearts, if he betrays heaven and earth, he will not tolerate it." ”

Su Ren hurriedly helped Huo Laosi up, patted the dust on Huo Laosi's body for him, and said with a smile: "You don't have to swear by the curse, as long as you don't abandon me, I will naturally live up to you." ”

The two looked at each other and laughed.

Leng Jun, who had been watching coldly from the side, frowned. For this Su Ren, he is becoming more and more incomprehensible, how can the tricks of being smart, sleek, and affectionate are all reflected in this person. The young man in front of him is only a little older than himself, could it be that the sons and daughters of rich families are like this? No wonder people have to ride horses and high-ranking officials, it seems that people have the capital to enjoy happiness.

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