Hand over the jade seal first [Infrastructure]

Liu Cainiang was a little surprised: "Are we going to Liangxiang County now?"

She originally thought that she would go there after everything was built, why did she go now?

Xiao Zirong knew what she was thinking, and explained: "At first, I wanted to wait, but after the salt factory was built, I found that we lack too many things, and it is impossible to buy them all at once."

Liu Cainiang originally wanted to ask why it was impossible, but after meeting Xiao Zirong's gaze, she realized it.

It's not that they can't, but they can't. If they buy a lot of daily necessities at once, it's too easy to be discovered.

Who doesn't know anyone in the surrounding area these days, if they use passing by as an excuse to buy so many things, what if they are suspected of smuggling?

So the best way is to buy in batches. Anyway, it has been working together for so long, and it will not be too late.

Apart from shopping, the most important thing for Xiao Zirong is to step on the spot to see what is going on in Liangxiang County. If it is not reliable, if not, he would rather go a little further and go to the next county to buy things, but that would be a long way away .

Without further ado, Liu Cainiang immediately found a young lady who looked more robust. Xiao Zirong nodded in satisfaction. He had met this girl before, but she didn't have a surname, so she called her Liu Niu. Later, because there were too many people named this, When recording, Xiao Zirong simply changed their surnames to Lu, and named them Lu Liu, which is the homophony of six anyway.

Lu Liu didn't quite match her new name, and she wasn't weak at all, Liu Fufeng. On the contrary, she was a good hand at work and had great strength.

According to Xiao Zirong's knowledge, ordinary men are not her opponents.

Then they prepared some dry food for the road, Xiao Zirong took off his leaf clothes, and put on the clothes he wore on the day of escape again.

After putting on the clothes, he couldn't help but sigh with emotion. After wearing the leaves for a long time, he now has a feeling of turning from a savage to a civilized person.

At any rate, he still had a fairly good set of clothes to wear. For example, Liu Cainiang and Lu Liu could only wear the bunt clothes they wore in the village before.

At first glance, she is poor and does not look like a woman from a good family.

Xiao Zirong can't help it either, they can talk about anything in the valley, but the clothes can't help, but fortunately, with Xiao Zirong supporting the scene, when they go out, they are basically equivalent to the noble son and his two servants.

They drove a mule cart directly into the city. When Xiao Zirong sat cross-legged on it, Liu Cainiang glanced at him several times, and he was a little strange: "What's wrong?"

Liu Cainiang said with some awkwardness: "Let's buy a bullock cart later, Mr. Xiao Lang... You shouldn't sit in such a cart."

Xiao Zirong laughed: "It's impossible for us to come out all the time, what kind of ox cart do we want?"

Xiao Zirong also understands that people rely on clothes and horses rely on saddles, but now that there is no such condition, what is he doing.

Their residence is not too far from Liangxiang County, but they walked for a whole morning.

Xiao Zirong was a little worried at the time. If they couldn't make it back that day, they might have to live in Liangxiang County, and the money for accommodation...should be quite a lot.

This time they took out all the ten pennies. In Xiao Zirong's words, it is useless to stay there. They will not trade with money for the time being, so it is better to exchange all of them for materials.

The main reason is that Xiao Zirong doesn't know how the prices are in this era, let alone Liu Cainiang and the others. If they don't take the money, it will be very troublesome if they want to buy something that doesn't suit them.

Xiao Zirong made up his mind on the way, first to buy grain seeds, and secondly, pots, farm tools... Look at the price, if it is too expensive, don't buy it.

Then there are grain seeds and ramie seeds or seedlings. If there is a chance, I will go to the dental store to see if I can buy some people back.

I have to say that although I despise the behavior of buying and selling people in my heart, this system has indeed helped them a lot.

When Xiao Zirong was thinking about it, he suddenly heard Liu Cainiang say: "Cheng... Your Majesty, we're here."

Xiao Zirong raised his head and looked from a distance and saw that... the city wall was not as tall as a person, and he felt a little bad all of a sudden.

Although I know that this is just a county seat, the county seat of these years can actually be compared with the cities of later generations.

At this time, the state and county system was implemented, and the administrative unit was Guozhou County at one time, so as a county seat, it would not be too bad no matter what.

Xiao Zirong also thought that the productive forces at this time were not developed enough, so he positioned himself in the urban-rural fringe of future generations, and it was almost like those less developed villages and towns.

What he didn't expect was that the county seat of Liangxiang County was even more desolate than he had imagined.

Not to mention the short city walls, they were built with rammed earth.

It wasn't until this time that Xiao Zirong knew that he needed to pay to enter the city now, which felt similar to the tolls in later generations, but the broken rammed earth road didn't feel like it was built by the imperial court at all, but more like it was because of walking. Only when there are many people, the road is gradually formed.

Xiao Zirong was queuing up while observing the city wall. During the queuing process, he found that the front was not only paying money, but also checking things one by one.

His heart suddenly became aroused, this...won't the household registration be checked?

You must know that one of the three of them is considered a black household!

Oh, Xiao Zirong shouldn't be considered a black household, but his identity is even more shady than a black household.

Xiao Zirong was hesitant to ask the people queuing up around him, but he was afraid of revealing his ignorant nature and causing suspicion.

It is no longer possible to turn around and walk away now, they are quite attractive, one is because Xiao Zirong's clothes look much better than others, and the second is that the images of Liu Cainiang and Lu Liu are also a bit special.

Just as he was thinking, the previous investigation had already been completed.

Xiao Zirong was a little strange, there were ten or twenty people in front of him just now, why so fast?

After observing carefully for a long while, he realized that the soldiers guarding the city did not check casually, neither the older ones nor the women, and the focus was all on the teenage young man.

Unfortunately, Xiao Zirong happened to meet this condition.

When he followed the team to the gate of the city, his heart ached.

After seeing Xiao Zirong looked up and down, the soldiers guarding the city saw that Xiao Zirong was fair-skinned, good-looking, and looked like a wealthy man, so he spoke politely: "Where did Xiao Lang come from? "

Xiao Zirong felt as if his chest was jumping very fast like a rabbit, but he tried to maintain his composure on his face, and said, "He came from Jiankang."

The city guard nodded and said, "Yes."

Xiao Zirong:? ? ? ?

Are you investigating...is it all so childish?He thought that the other party would ask a few more questions, at least to make sure if he was from Jiankang, why is it such a joke?

But the other party let him go, Xiao Zirong would not stay there to ask more questions, even if he really wanted to ask, he would have to find a way to ask someone after he was in the city.

And after entering the city, Xiao Zirong discovered that the rammed earth city wall he just complained about... is actually quite good, at least compared to those houses in the city that look so thin that they are crumbling, and even the roofs are covered with straw good.

The houses here were basically built of rammed earth at the beginning, which felt worse than the two dormitories they lived in now.

So much so that even Liu Cainiang and Lu Liu couldn't help frowning even though they were dressed in a poor way, with a look of disgust appearing on their faces.

The three of them doubted that this place really had what they wanted to buy?

Just when the three of them were standing at the gate of the city, confused and hesitant, a sharp-eyed broker walked around Xiao Zirong's body, judging from the other's clothes and the jade pendant around his waist, that the other party must be a fat sheep, and hurriedly came up and asked : "This little man looks unfamiliar, but he has come here from a parade? Would you like me to take you around?"

Xiao Zirong was at a loss at this time. Liangxiang County was shabby and shabby, but it was still a county.

He turned his head and glanced at the broker. To be honest, since he came through, he first pretended to be dumb, and then he kept communicating with the rescued little ladies, which made him a little socially afraid now.

He really didn't want to communicate with others, but he turned his head to look at Liu Cainiang and Lu Liu, and found that the two of them were both busy and able to make up their minds in the place where they lived. He bowed his head and said nothing.

Xiao Zirong closed his eyes in frustration, turned his head to look at the broker and raised his chin slightly and asked, "How familiar are you with this place?"

The broker couldn't help staring at him. He had been a broker for so many years, and this young gentleman was the best-looking one he had ever seen.

Especially those eyes, when looking at you with a smile, it makes people feel itchy.

However, the broker has done all kinds of business in recent years, and knows what kind of people can be messed with and what kind of people can't be messed with.

The broker took another look, then looked away and said with a smile: "You found the right person when you are looking for me. I have been in Liangxiang County for more than 20 years, and this is what I do. You just need to follow me wherever you want to do what you want. I said, the custody is arranged for you comfortably."

Xiao Zirong thought for a while and said, "I came out this time to buy some grain seeds and ramie seeds. Do you know where to buy them?"

The broker froze for a moment: "Plant... seeds?"

He couldn't help but looked up and down at the little man, dressed like this... he doesn't look like a person who can plant the land himself, if he asks his servants to plant the land, he doesn't need the little man to come out and buy the seeds himself, doesn't he?

Xiao Zirong said calmly: "Well, there are also seedlings of chickens and ducks, don't you know?"

The latter sentence successfully awakened the professional soul of the broker, and he immediately said: "How come? You just arrived in time, there is a market today, and there are things you need there."

Xiao Zirong said: "Okay, but I don't know very well about this. Tell me about the price, and the best seeds, and chicken and duck seedlings that can feed. Don't try to trick me. My money is not so easy to cheat."

When Xiao Zirong said this, he looked at the broker with very cold eyes, oh, of course he thought he was cold.

He didn't know how to threaten the other party, trying to imitate what he had seen on TV, the effect... I don't know.

Fortunately, Liu Cainiang and Lu Liu, who have been silent for a long time, feel that it seems inappropriate to let their city lords do everything, but it is indeed difficult for them to communicate with outsiders.

Don't look at them when they were stationed, they seemed to have stepped out of the shadows of the past, but once they were in the crowd, they unconsciously wanted to hide themselves, and they always felt that those people looked at them with contempt or disdain. malicious.

Even though he knew that no one could know their past at a glance, he still couldn't help hiding it.

After shrinking aside for a long time, they finally felt that they were needed to play at this time, so the two tried their best to muster up the courage to stand beside Xiao Zirong.

Liu Cainiang is tall, with one eye covered by a blindfold, she doesn't look like a good person when she stands there.

Lu Liu is better than her, but she is quite tall. This broker belongs to the thin group. When Liu Cainiang and Lu Liu stood forward, this broker was directly shrouded in the shadow of the three of them, making it difficult The broker couldn't help but tremble, thinking that the hobbies of rich people are really special, and all female slaves look for such strong ones.

The broker said with a smile: "What you said, I don't sell those things, how could I cheat you? You come with me."

Xiao Zirong nodded. In broad daylight, with people coming and going, no one would attack him. While walking side by side with the broker, he pretended not to care and asked, "When I just entered the city, I found that the city guard seemed to be looking for something. Man, is there any serious case and you are looking for it?"

After hearing this, the broker looked around furiously, and said in a low voice, "You're asking the right person, I'm the only one who knows the inside story in Liangxiang County except for the above."

Xiao Zirong was amused in his heart, and he was also an insider, what kind of insider can you, a broker, know.

Seeing his indifferent expression, the broker quickly explained: "To tell you the truth, my little aunt's cousin is a small official in the county government. I heard that the whole country is looking for someone this time."

Xiao Zirong suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart: "Who needs such a big fight to find someone?"

The broker said in a low voice: "His Majesty was furious when I heard that King Xuancheng was robbed by thieves, and the regent led people to solve the case himself!"

Xiao Zirong: ...