Three days later-

"Dao Chief, this is your guide and the twenty taels of official silver issued," In the county office, it was not Zhao County Order who received Daoist Li, but the county Cheng.

Li Daoshi took it unceremoniously, twenty taels of silver are two official silver ingots, the weight is quite heavy, as for the road guide, it is a thin hard cover booklet, a rough glance, it reads 'Li Changsheng, a county citizen of Pingchuan County in the twenty-sixth year of Zhengzhi, please give it to the place', and there are places of origin, year, residence, reason for going out and destination, of course, most of them are made up, it seems that the reputation of the government in this year is a fight with modern times;

The county man coughed embarrassedly twice, and said: "The Taoist chief keeps this road guide and memorizes the contents of it, so that it will not be exposed if he is interrogated in the future; ”

"Don't worry, Dao Ye, I won't cause you trouble, then again, what about your Zhao County Order and Zhou Zhutou, why haven't you seen any of them?"

"To tell the truth, Lord Zhao accompanied the newly appointed governor of the river, Lord Wan, to patrol the river, and as for Zhou Zhutou, he got a letter of recommendation and went to western Yunnan to take office. ”

"It's all gone," Li Daoshi smacked his lips, the three brothers of the Ge family only resigned with him yesterday, it is said that Henan water bandits are rampant, they want to eat black and black, earn a vote, without them, this Pingchuan County, there are really no acquaintances; ”

Although the two of them didn't have much luggage, but Daoist Li had money, and he didn't want to walk 11 times every day, so he wanted to buy a means of transportation, after all, there was still a long time to go to the six mansions in the south of the Yangtze River, so he went to the horse market first.

This horse city and Pingchuan County are still some distance away, it is a military village, since the trilateral governor and the military department of the year, now the Taifu Shaobao Wang Lao and the thirteen clans after the peace discussion, it has reopened the horse market, not only trading horses, silk, salt, tea, iron are included.

So when Daoist Li arrived there, he was surprised to find that there was not much difference between this place and the modern farmers' market, but the stall owner was replaced by the Tusi people, and the way of trading was mostly bartering;

"Which one does the guest officer like?" asked the horse merchant, although the price of transporting the horse to the south would at least double, but the official road has been restless recently, strongmen have been infested, and all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes have increased, so it is better to do it as soon as possible.

Daoist Li pondered, "I want the kind of horse that can carry goods, has stamina, is not picky eater, and has a docile personality, do you have it here?"

"It must be a Khitan horse," the horse merchant was a veteran, but in a moment, he brought a short black horse, this horse was not at all inconspicuous, with a big head and a thick neck, short legs, and thick hair.

"Is this horse okay?" said Daoist Li uncertainly.

"Don't underestimate this horse, the Hu people on the grassland ride this kind of horse, but they don't eat or drink for three days and three nights, and they travel two hundred miles a day, if it weren't for a knife on the horse's buttocks, it hurt the meridians, and it can't run anymore, this kind of war horse, but you can't buy it if you want to. ”

Listening to the boasting of the horse merchants, Daoist Li pondered, Khitan horses, why are they so familiar, I remembered, isn't it a Mongolian horse, this horse ran to Europe with the Mongols back then, it is definitely an ancient version of an armored car, as for not running fast, it doesn't matter, what I want is stability, and the feeling of wanting to vomit last time has not completely disappeared.

"How much is a conscience price?"

"Fifty taels of silver. ”

"Poof—"

On the other side, the ugly lady was holding the luggage package, standing by the stake a little bored, there were many people here, Taoist Li didn't let her run around, and she was not interested in cattle and horses or other means of transportation, but she was nostalgic for the taste of sugar people, and heard the Taoist priest say that 'Jiangnan' has more delicious food, but there can't be anything more delicious than sugar people, she expressed serious disbelief.

When she was in a daze, her ears suddenly moved, as if she heard something, she turned her head, only to see a hairless donkey chewing slowly on the soybean mixed weeds, and the two donkey eyes happened to be facing her, the ugly girl scratched her head and couldn't help but walk over.

"Just now, you were talking?"

The hairless donkey swallowed the last bite of straw, suddenly showed an anthropomorphic smile, tilted his head, and saw that the wooden sign below read: 'An old donkey in the deep mountains, the price is five taels, and you want to buy it as soon as possible'.

The ugly lady touched the package and took out a silver ingot, "Is this five taels?"

"Okay, okay, I really can't say that you are the guest officer, twenty-five taels, the cost price, it can't be less!" The horse merchant wiped his sweat, this guy is really eloquent, just selling a horse, he can get the price level, the imperial court policy, and the appreciation of the silver money, he still has more than a dozen horses unsold, and he can't waste time on one person.

"Deal!" Daoist Li swallowed and spitted, cutting the price for half an hour, he also had a dry mouth, "Ugly girl, take the money to pay the bill." ”

Out of the corner of her eye, she saw that at some point, the little girl took a hairless donkey in her hand and said, "Horse, don't buy it, donkey, buy it." ”

"What?!"

Li Daoist glanced at the ugly girl, and then at the old donkey with poor quality and worse quality, the corners of his mouth were crooked, and he collapsed, and his bowels were blue, and he knew that he shouldn't have given her the money, this ugly girl was not light or heavy, and it was just five taels to buy a donkey, and more importantly, she gave people ten taels of silver ingots, which was a loss of five taels, and this was the food expenses of the previous half a year.

"I can see it, it was a big mistake for me to take you in that day, you ugly little lady was born for me! Your uncle, you are my uncle! I warn you, don't talk to me for at least half a month, deduct your food for half a year, and then give you a meal every day, until you make up for it," Li Daoshi said viciously.

"Daoist, slow down, wait for me," the ugly girl said aggrievedly, the two of them had already been on the road, and now they were rushing in the direction of Nanzhili, the Taoist priest was fast, and soon left her and the hairless donkey behind.

"I'm still waiting for you, the beauty you think, it's good if I don't dump you, this broken donkey doesn't look as heavy as Dao Ye, I don't understand what you buy it for, you can't just carry the luggage, whew, I'm angry! I'm angry and want to pee, don't come with me." As soon as Daoist Li turned around, he disappeared behind the mountain road.

As soon as the ugly lady stepped forward, the old donkey bit the corner of the other party's clothes, shook his head, and showed a strange smile.

Standing behind a pine tree, when Daoist Li had just solved his physiological problems and was about to go back to continue teaching the ugly girl, he didn't notice that the two figures were hidden behind the tree, and a cloth bag was covered.

After a pillar of incense, the kidnappers arrived at the meeting point, lifted their pockets, and just as Daoist Li was about to scold, he saw the twenty-odd leather jacket man looking at him coldly, holding it in his hand and hanging it on his waist, all of which were green thick-backed knives, and he immediately swallowed and spit, "Heroes, what are you doing?"

"The big boss, when he was exploring the sentry, he caught a meat head. ”

The master stood on the rock, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, a bare head, a bearskin cloak, his arms alone were thicker than Daoist Li's legs, and the blood of his body actually made the yin and yang qi in his body stiffen by one or two points, this is definitely a high-level master in the rivers and lakes.

"Search for anything of value on you, and then kill it. ”