Child Bride’s Peaches and Plums Are All Over the World

Li An spread his hands and feet on the muddy floor panting. He felt that he had worked hard and suffered from hunger. He thought that the pain of walking was really not a pain, but at this moment he retracted his previous naive thoughts. uncomfortable ah.

After being hacked twice, at least there are still people serving him, so he can rest in a carriage without having to work hard.

But walking is different. Every day before dawn, they are woken up from sleep and set off on the road. They don’t stop until noon to rest for a while, and then continue walking until the sun is about to set before stopping to set up camp and prepare for sleep. .

Even breakfast is settled while walking, and only lunch and dinner can be stopped to eat.

If there is no one around, they can still eat hot ones, and if there are people, they can eat the hard and dry buns, because Li Baolu said, "It is impossible for a desperate smuggler to have the ability and thought to get pheasants and hares." It’s better to eat dry food honestly.”

Li An would look at the traffickers who were holding a fire and cooking not far away.

Li Baolu explained: "It is certainly not the first time they have done something like this, so they have accumulated capital and can enjoy it."

Peng Yu asked in displeasure, "Then why do we have to pretend to be the first smugglers?"

Li Baolu glanced at him and said: "Because I don't know the price of the smuggled raw silk and satin, and I don't have a seller, or even a long-term partner, unless you can guarantee not to say a word to strangers on the road, otherwise We can only be novice hands."

Peng Yu pursed his lips and remained silent.

Li Baolu stuffed the dry biscuit in her mouth, got up and said, "Let's go, we'll be in Ningbo Mansion in two more days."

"Shouldn't raw silk and satin be more valuable when transported to the north? Why did they transport them from Ningbo?" Although Li An didn't know much about business, he also knew that there were a lot of them in Ningbo.

"Because there is a sea trade there, the demand is far greater than the supply, so the prices of raw silk and satin are not low, and we are in a hurry to buy a car and continue northward."

Tao Wu immediately said, "I have money here."

Gu Jingyun finally raised his head and glanced at him, and said calmly: "Third Uncle, don't forget your identity, we are now heavily in debt traffickers and pawns."

"I've already gotten rid of them. It shouldn't matter if I buy a donkey cart." Tao Wu, who is a big and three rough, couldn't stand it anymore. Walking is really too tiring, more tiring than practicing kung fu for a day.

"Be careful, there is no big mistake." Instead, Li An comforted them: "I think Jing Yun and Miss Li planned very well. In this way, unless we are caught and questioned by the government, we will have no problems with our origins."

Speaking of this, he laughed at himself, "But this is impossible. They dare not use the power of the government, so even if we are caught by the government and recorded on the record, they will probably not find out."

"Then why don't you go to the government for help? How many people will be there to protect you once your identity is revealed?" Li Baolu wanted to ask this question a long time ago, so she just went to the government office or the garrison and asked them to escort him to Beijing.

Li An smiled wryly, "It's easy to hide with a sharp sword, but hard to defend against an arrow in the dark. Asking the government and the garrison for help will have more protectors, but it's very difficult to stop the assassination with their abilities. What's more, this time I went out of Beijing by order, but in the end So embarrassed to ask the local garrison to return to the capital..." Li An shook his head, although he didn't finish his sentence, the meaning was obvious, his ability would be questioned by the court and the emperor.

The prince's line is already difficult, if he doesn't live up to it, he is afraid that he will really be torn apart.

Gu Jingyun straightened his back slightly, and asked, "Has the emperor already chosen the fourth prince as his successor?"

Wei Yingjie coughed lightly, this young man was too direct.

Tao Wu and Peng Yu also stared at him with wide eyes, saying this in front of the grandson, how courageous it is!

Li An smiled speciously and said: "The emperor's mind is something we can guess. In two years, the emperor's grandfather will be sixty years old, and the fourth emperor's uncle will pass by. The father is weak and the son is strong. No one knows what the emperor's grandfather will be." how to think."

Otherwise, he really must have the fourth prince, and the prince has been abolished and the fourth prince has been established for a long time.

Gu Jingyun stroked his chin and said, "In this way, it may not be necessary to show weakness appropriately."

Li An waited for him to continue, but Gu Jingyun only stopped here, turned to Li Baolu and said, "Let's go, hurry to Ningbo."

In the evening, the group continued to sleep in the open. Li An saw that everyone was gathering firewood and preparing dinner, but Gu Jingyun was sitting cross-legged on the grass and meditating, so he went over and sat beside him and asked, "What is the best way for Jingyun to deal with my current situation?" Dilemma?"

Through this period of getting along, Li An also discovered Gu Jingyun's intelligence beyond ordinary people. He can understand many things at one point, and can draw inferences about other cases from one instance.

"According to what you said, the emperor doesn't fully trust the fourth prince. If that's the case, why not widen the gap between them?" Gu Jingyun said leisurely: "If the emperor knows that he is not dead yet, the fourth prince is anxious to kill him. Brother kills nephew, what will he think?"

Gu Jingyun said meaningfully: "The emperor is old..."

"But……"

"Are you worried that the courtiers will question your ability?" Gu Jingyun smiled and said, "I want you to show weakness to the emperor, but not to the courtiers."

Lian humbly asked, "Then how to show weakness to the emperor and not announce it in the court?"

"Do you know which letters sent to the Prince's Mansion will be intercepted by the emperor?"

The emperor and the prince are in a state of half-torn faces, so the prince must have arranged people around the emperor, but the emperor must also control some of the prince's power.

In addition to communicating with foreign ministers through Peng Dan, the prince naturally has his own secret passages, and some secret passages are no longer secrets. The emperor can copy and intercept their letters. Among them, they have confirmed that the emperor knows about two secret passages, but the emperor does not. Know they already know.

Although it was a bit confusing, Gu Jingyun expressed his meaning very clearly. He knew through this emperor, but he didn't know that you already knew the channel he knew to send a secret letter to the prince, "ask for help from His Royal Highness, just say that you have been hacked all the way The man in clothes was surrounded and killed, he was seriously injured, and the guards around him suffered heavy casualties, please send someone to help him."

The corner of Gu Jingyun's mouth twitched slightly: "The writing is pitiful and hesitant. You have just reached the crown. In the eyes of the emperor, you are still a child. It is normal to be weak in the face of life and death."

Li An was thoughtful.

"The fourth prince is his son, and you are also his grandson! As long as a crack is opened, we can open a hole."

Li Baolu brought two pheasants out from the woods, and said with a smile, "Let's make soup later."

A few traders not far away made a commotion, and one of them took the initiative to talk to Li Baolu, "Little brother, where did you hunt this pheasant?"

Li Baolu smiled innocently, pointed to the woods and said, "My uncles caught it, and they are still looking inside."

"Your uncle and the others still have all the skills." He looked at the pheasant in Li Baolu's hand and swallowed his saliva, and asked, "I'm afraid the six of you can't eat two, why don't you let one make soup for us? I took it I exchange things with you."

Li Baolu generously gave him one, "No need to change it, uncle can take it if he wants to eat."

"It's so embarrassing. It's not easy for you to go out. I'd better exchange something with you."

"It's because it's not easy to go out, so everyone should help each other. It's just a pheasant, so it's free." Li Baolu stuffed it into his hand, and said with a smile: "Just take it, uncle, my uncle and the others. Wouldn't mind."

The man turned his head and said with a smile to Li An: "Big brother is so lucky to have such a clever kid."

Li An smiled honestly at him, bowed his head and said nothing, Li Baolu said in Mandarin mixed with Cantonese: "My father can't speak Mandarin, I'm afraid you can't understand the language of my hometown, uncle, don't mind."

"I don't mind, I don't mind. We were like this when we first came out to do business. Not only can't speak, but we can't even understand official Chinese. Later, we learned it after running outside for a long time. But the little brother learned very quickly, the official language Very slippery."

Li Baolu, who spoke Cantonese so much that even she could barely understand it, chuckled, "My father said that I was a child who learned languages ​​quickly, so that's why my eldest brother and I came to do business."

Hearing this, the man looked at Li Baolu and asked in a low voice, "Little brother, is this your first time going out?"

Li Baolu nodded honestly, "My grandparents are sick, and the harvest at home is not good, so I have no choice but to go out."

The man sighed, "Unless you are forced to, who will come out and suffer this? I see you are going east, where are you going?"

"We heard that there are many foreigners in Ningbo, and the people there want a lot of raw silk, so we went to Ningbo."

The man shook his head and said, "The price of raw silk in Ningbo is expensive, but no one dares to accept raw silk brought by strangers, unless you have acquaintances with you."

Li Baolu was startled.

The man continued: "If you are willing to earn a little less, you can sell it when you arrive at Jinhua Mansion. Most of Ningbo's silks and satins are imported from Jinhua, Taizhou and Shaoxing. There are many weavers in these three places, so we need more There is also a lot of raw silk."

Li Baolu asked, "Uncle, are you also selling raw silk?"

"80% of the pawns walking on this road are raw silk, and so am I."

Li Baolu smiled embarrassedly and asked, "Then where are you going to send it?"

"I went to Ningbo a few times, and I already have regular customers there, but the raw silk I sell is limited, otherwise I will help you."

Li Baolu asked, "Then don't we need someone to lead the way to Jinhua?"

"No, Jinhua is not as exclusive as Ningbo. You can just find a bigger store and make some money."

Li Baolu hurriedly thanked him, and when everyone came back, he said: "Don't look like you're half dead, we'll take action when we get to Jinhua Mansion, and then we'll buy a donkey cart."

Peng Yu was shocked and asked, "When will you arrive at Jinhua Mansion?"

Wei Yingjie said with sparkling eyes, "I'll probably be there at noon tomorrow!"