Daming Grocer

I lost my life on this ancient salt and tea road where I don't know how many bitter souls have been buried.

Qijian could see that Kangtou was extremely reluctant to take the two of them away, so he grudgingly agreed in the face of Boss Jin.In front of the ancient road in the suburbs, Qijian and Huaniang bowed to Boss Jin three times. They don't know if they will have their lives to repay such a kindness.After they left, Boss Jin had to deal with the people from the Lichun Hall to sue the officials, and he also had to deal with the menacing attacks from the Yuxi government's Yunnan Mansion and Mu Wang's Mansion.

Sending people away, Boss Jin said that he was not afraid of being fake. He shut himself in the room and drank strong alcohol. He heard footsteps in the courtyard and his fingers trembled in fear. Two will win.

At midnight, there was a sound of steady footsteps in the courtyard. The person who came was Lian Jiazi, and he came alone. Boss Jin put down his wine glass heavily, and his red eyes suddenly became moist.

"Where is she going?" The visitor had entered the room at some point, and he was dressed cold and chilling in the nocturnal brocade clothes. "Chengdu Mansion, I will ask Ma Tou to take them to Chengdu no matter what, and Ma Tou will protect them all the way." Boss Kang only looked back and was pressed down by a burst of momentum, feeling very cold behind him.

"They? Who else is there?"

"The number one flower girl in the Lichun Pavilion, if she can't go together, that kid... that person will definitely not go."

"This matter has been done well. In Yunnan, you will not have any trouble. Doing things for our master will not hurt you." After finishing speaking, the visitor threw a bag of money and other things on the table, then paused and said, "How do you Do you know, the county horse is fake?" "It is rumored that Yu Fengnian is now in Yingtian Mansion." After Boss Jin said this, he felt the coldness behind him disappear, so he quickly got up and turned around to see that the man had disappeared.

The fact that the princess was rammed when she returned home was well known in the Yunnan government. Some merchants from other places in the tea shop heard about it and asked: "The sedan chairs that the county horses were riding on were all broken. I don't know how they are now." The tea shop clerk Will return: "Everyone, this is asking the right people. I really know about this. After being frightened, Jun Ma Ye's illness worsened, and he rushed to Yingtian Mansion overnight to seek a miracle doctor." The merchant shook his head when he heard this, With a tsk, I felt strange: Yunnan Mansion is a long way from Yingtian Mansion, hundreds of thousands of miles away, and people who are already seriously ill still drive this long way overnight?

I was suspicious, but I didn't ask again. It's hard to say how much I can believe what these guys say. Even if it's true, it's something that can't be explained to outsiders.

Tang Jian is colder than Tang Dao and doesn't like to talk. People around the princess said that he is similar to the princess, so the princess thinks highly of him.At this time, when he came back, he knelt down on one knee, and the princess had already signaled for him to get up and speak.

"Shen Qijian will settle down in the Chengdu mansion, and there will be one person accompanying him, the number one flower girl in the Lichun Hall. From Yunnan to Shu, the road of salt tea and horses is difficult, the master signaled, do you want to send someone to intercept it halfway?" Tang Jian clenched the sword in his hand and listened. Sifang, when they return to Prince Mu's Mansion, it is even more important to prevent people from eavesdropping on their conversations.

After he finished speaking, the princess raised her left eyebrow. She should have paid attention to Tang Jian's words behind her, but when she heard the flower girl in Lichun Pavilion, she became inexplicably suspicious.A fugitive woman had to bring a prostitute on the way, why?It's really very curious.

"There is no need to intercept it, just send someone to follow. Here is a letter, let someone send it to the prince of Shu Palace immediately. If he is not there, the princess can accept it for you. Prepare tomorrow, and leave the day after tomorrow to return to Tianfu. My mother is in poor health. Besides, I have to go and see if my frail and sick husband is right." At the end, the princess's expression made Tang Jian avoid it. He originally wanted to ask such a treacherous matter about the Yu family. If you dare to do it, why not destroy the Yu family.But then I thought again, this matter is absurd, and there is no proof, how can the people in the Mu Palace believe it?However, there is no need to be in a hurry, he understands this little master's temperament, he has learned to forbear since he was a child, but he knows how to plan before acting.

The Kangmatou caravan arrived in Wumeng on April [-]th. It rained continuously for two days, and the road was slippery. The caravan was blocked in the mountains and had to climb over the mountains to be stationed. , Stopping is tantamount to waiting for death.

Qijian supported the exhausted Huaniang, sucked in her blocked nose, gritted her teeth and forcefully sent Huaniang up a steep slope, her arm was scratched by rocks and bleeding without pain, she stood there panting, and no longer had the strength to climb up by herself .The horse team had already left them behind, as if they didn't want to care about them anymore, Qijian hugged her thin clothes and shivered for a long time, leaning on the dirt slope and shaking his head: "I'm afraid I can't do it, Hua Niang, you follow the horse team , I beg Kangtou to take you away."

Hua Niang's tears rolled down with the rain, she stretched out her hand to hold Qijian's hand and said, "We have escaped and kept our word. Believe me, we will reach Chengdu Mansion safely. When we get there, no one will know us anymore. If you want to live as a woman, we will be called sisters. If you want to live as a man, as long as you don’t dislike me, I will marry you as my wife. At that time, I will learn Sichuan brocade embroidery from others, and you will return it to others. When we are in charge, we adopt a beggar. Do you want to be trustworthy...Keep trustworthy, look at me, look at me, I will pull you up..."

Qijian was already sick with a fever, and when he heard Hua Niang's words in a daze, he chuckled: "It's so good... Hua Niang, I..." While speaking, his whole body was already trembling, and finally he fell straight down. down.Seeing this, Hua Niang screamed for Shou Xin, and slid down the slope again, hugging the man who had been swinging, crying: "Shou Xin! Wake up! Wake up, without you, I would have nothing to do when I escaped." What's the point..." Seeing that the person in her arms turned paler and paler, Hua Niang hugged her even tighter, and the two embraced into one body in the rain.

I don't know how long it took, Hua Niang heard someone talking above, looked up, and Kang appeared on the slope with a vicious face, so she hurried over to ask for help: "Master Kang! Lord Kang, please save and keep your word, please help me!" She... as long as you save her, I can do anything." Kangtou snorted coldly, and came down with the rope: "If she is so sick, even if she goes to the campsite at the previous stop, she may not be able to survive. Really. A burden!" Having said that, he had already tied Qijian up with a rope and asked the people above to pull it up.

On April [-]th, when Qijian came back from the Palace of the Underworld, the first sound he heard was Hua Niang's cry, and the second was Kang Tou spitting: "This kid is so lucky! This one can be picked up too." Fate!" The doctor at the side heard him say boy, looked at the person on the bed suspiciously, then shook his head and said: "It's good to have a baby, it's also a big fate."

After passing the Xuzhou Mansion, the group of people looked a little more relaxed, and they will be able to reach Chengdu in another five or six days.

Qijian's voice has been muted by the medicine for a while, and her voice is already deep when she speaks again. In addition, she has been sick and thin all the way, so it is really difficult for others to detect that she is a woman.Now, the caravan is stationed in a restaurant in the suburbs, she and Hua Niang only eat and drink tea with their heads down, not looking at other caravans.Kangtou and the others are businessmen who like to be lively, and they quickly mingle with other caravan people, drinking and laughing, which is very lively.

"Old Kang, that lady over there is one of yours? You old boy will enjoy the entertainment, and you will bring a female lady with you when you run a business. You can ask for the price." , half-baked Chinese.The Duzhang barbarians and the Ming Dynasty have always been at odds with each other, and Zhu Chun, the king of Shu, fought against the empress of Shu several times.They controlled various business routes and wanted to transport salt and tea to Tibetan areas through Shu. If they had a bad relationship with them, it would be a joke to run a business to Chengdu.

Kangtou looked at Huaniang, Qijian was the first to react and stood up to block Huaniang.Kangtou gritted his teeth and said: "Do you still remember your promise in Wumeng Mountain? Huaniang, if you don't follow, we won't be able to get out of here." Qijian shook his head and looked at Kangtou, seeing that he had made up his mind, so he made up his mind While everyone was not paying attention, he dragged Hua Niang and ran outside.

The Duzhang barbarian was chasing after him, Qijian just dragged Huaniang to run, but Huaniang couldn't keep up with her, so she panicked and fell to the ground when she tripped over a branch.Seeing that the people behind were about to arrive, Hua Niang pushed away the person who wanted to come to help her: "Keep your word and run, I am a firework girl, skin and flesh business is nothing, just please don't stay here! Don't stay here! "

Qijian helped her up and hugged her regardless, and then shouted to the people behind: "Kangtou! We share weal and woe along the way! Do you have to give in and force us into a desperate situation! We are born from the same root! Do you really have the heart to see this?" Are you helping the barbarian clansmen!" After finishing the words, suddenly there was a gust of wind coming from all directions, a flash of swords, lights and swords, and the gang of barbarians fell to the ground in response.

The leader glanced at Qijian and sneered: "You are so naive. I really suspect that the master has misunderstood the person." After speaking, he heard footsteps coming from behind, so he said loudly: "The traitors gathered a crowd to make trouble. Betrayal! Mission completed, withdraw!"

When they left, Kangtou arrived, without having time to see who made the move.Looking at the corpses all over the place, fear appeared on Kangtou's face for the first time: "Go! Go, as long as people see us here, we won't even think about running a business in the future!"

The group traveled day and night from Xuzhou Prefecture in fear, and finally arrived at the warehouse at Chengdu Fuhe Wharf in May.One and a half months left to schedule, Qijian and Huaniang were sick and thin, and when they arrived in Chengdu, Kangtou didn't care about them anymore, because he was busy negotiating business with old buyers and buying goods back to Yunnan.Furthermore, he promised Master Jin that Chengdu was the final destination, and he was physically and mentally exhausted all the way, so he really didn't have the heart and energy to meddle in other chores.

The two weak women walked on the bluestone road in a daze, looking at the city of Shu, not knowing what to do for a moment.Food, clothing and housing, the three most important things at present, all point to the matter of silver.Qijian was tired from walking, sitting on the stone steps of the pier and watching the boats coming on the canal