Water Margin: Lu Bu sits on Mount Liang

The sky is sinking, the red glow is receding, and the sweltering square is beginning to cool down. As the breeze blows, many men wearing short shirts wipe their sweat with sweat towels, breathe a sigh of relief, and stand in front of the wooden table to wash their clothes. Jin fanned himself in the cool breeze and waited for the accountant over there who was holding a ledger to calculate today's wages.

The dark-faced man with a beard wiped his forehead and looked at the warehouses built around him. Inside were piles of grain bags. He looked a little puzzled: "Brother Wen, why are you buying so much grain?"

"How can you be so meticulous about making money?" The unruly young man had a hint of fatigue on his face. He turned around and glared at the question: "You will have a share when the money is divided, just take it when the time comes."

"Hehe..." The man couldn't help but laugh, and then said: "Aren't I thinking that the food is not easy to sell?"

Xu Wen looked back at him, making the man feel uncomfortable, and then said: "The food will go to its own place, you don't need to worry about this."

The man scratched his head and responded: "Hey..."

While Xu Wen was talking, he had walked around enough. He turned around and walked to the wooden table over there. At this time, the number of people waiting to receive money had been reduced by half. Seeing a year-old person coming over, he couldn't help but look at it more. They looked at each other, but in the end, copper coins were the closest thing to them. They weighed the copper plates with their hands and listened to the sound and walked away in groups of three or five.

The accountant who distributed the money gave the last amount of money and checked it in the account book. He turned around and handed over to Xu Wenyi: "Young Master, this is the last batch of grain. Now we have purchased 300,000 shi." Sufficient."

Xu Wen nodded and looked around: "Have you contacted the ship?"

"The ship gang who has been there has already agreed to this matter. It will only arrive tomorrow. Maybe it will be loaded and shipped out in the evening."

"Well done." Xu Wen took a deep breath: "This is over, everyone will be rewarded."

"Thank you, Mr. Young Master."

Everyone around him looked happy and thanked each other. Xu Wen didn't take it seriously. Today, these people only thanked them because they could bring benefits. There was some sincerity in them. Whoever looked at his tender face felt dissatisfied. In his heart Generally speaking, I have the impression that now that I can bring benefits to others, no one objects to me as a young person.

He also said a few words to the people here and asked them to take good care of the food. Then he took the people out and stayed there until early the next morning. Xu Wen did not dare to slack off. He came to the warehouse early and looked at The coolie porters carried the grain bags onto the ship one by one, then raised the sails amidst shouts and sailed to Liangshan in Yunzhou.

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"drive--"

The whip cracked in the air, making a crisp sound. The stars behind the clouds were gradually hidden by the bright sky. The golden sun rose from the east. The morning breeze carried a hint of coolness, and figures riding war horses appeared one after another. Stepping through the grass, running across the hills, facing the distant coast I don’t know where.

He was waiting for the ship to dock in Fuzhou. After unloading the cargo, he hurriedly headed east and hid near the coast of Muzhou. Now in order to buy the war horse, he walked on two legs to the vicinity of Huanzhou, and then ran back. Just doing this has given this group of people some knowledge of the wilderness here.

The running team would occasionally stop. The dismounted knight raised his head and filled the cold river water, letting the horses nibble on the tender grass nearby. The leading figure turned over and jumped off the tall horse, looking towards the sea in the distance.

"Brother will be delighted to see this." Deng Fei, with red eyes, shouted, "I really can't wait to go back and share this trip with my brother right away."

Hu Cheng looked tired, shook his head and said, "But my brother may be happy to hear about buying and selling." "That's too much to worry about." Deng Fei laughed loudly, stretched out his hand to wipe away the water stains on his mouth: "This purchase Having so many good horses should be able to make up for some of the gaps in the village."

"But it's a pity that there are too few ships waiting for us." Yang Lin exhaled: "If it were bigger, it would be no problem to transport one or two battalions back."

"That's right." Hearing this, Deng Fei patted the back of the war horse beside him: "It is said that the Liao people are good at raising horses. I didn't expect that the horses of these tribes are more durable. They need to rest their horsepower after running so many places along the way. Compared with The horses of the Song Dynasty are much stronger."

"Brother Deng, there is no need to talk about such things." Hu Cheng smiled bitterly: "The horses in the Song Dynasty are all in the Western Army. The ones obtained by the copycats are not considered good horses, but they are just used for make do."

Jin Baozi nodded and spat again: "These savages are also difficult to deal with. They refused to sell us any stallions even after talking for a long time."

"How can you and I ruin other people's ways of making money?"

While several people were talking, a rumbling sound came from behind. Wei Zhaode and Li Bao were leading the way, and a group of navy soldiers came running behind them on horseback.

"Brothers can run so fast." Wei Zhaode said as he dismounted and stomped on the ground: "I'm not afraid of running directly into the sea."

"Then please trouble Brother Wei to go down and fish me out." Deng Fei grinned, looking at the horses swaying their tails and shaking their heads, with excitement on his face: "I really want to replace all the horses in the village immediately.

"I'm afraid that tribe isn't that big." Li Bao led the horse over and said, "Seeing that their tribes are not big, and most of them are cattle and sheep. If it weren't for the money of our envoys, I'm afraid these more than a hundred It’s quite expensive to buy a horse.”

Then he turned to look at Hu Cheng: "Brother Hu Cheng, please go and buy some fodder. Don't let these horses lose weight seriously at sea."

"It's our job." Hu Cheng nodded: "We'll call Brother Duxing and we'll come together."

"I'm coming too." Deng Fei chuckled: "This trip has really opened my eyes. Brother Du's vicious face can be popular among businessmen, and I'm more handsome than him. Waiting to go back, I'd better discuss it with my brother and let me travel to Liaodong in the future, so that I won't have a headache sitting in the logistics office all day long looking at the incoming and outgoing accounts."

The other people all had a vague flash of envy when they heard this, and then shook their heads slightly. This fiery-eyed Suanni has always wanted to contribute to the village, but his brother also cares about him very much, so his idea may not be successful.

"Then I have to go back before I can talk to my brother. Brother Deng, it's too early to say anything at this time." Yang Lin said to him with a smile, and then he looked up at the sky: "It should be faster, the weather will be hot again soon. I'll take advantage of the coolness to move forward."

"Take a rest first and run here all at once. If you and I are not tired, this beast will be tired."

A few people drank cold water and waited for a while. The sun walked upward for a while, and when the light turned golden to white, they got back on their horses and hurried away into the distance.

This fashion is still far away, I hope I can run back to the ship in the next two days. I have only been away from Liangshan for a few months, and I already miss it a little. (End of chapter)