The Three Kingdoms Voyage

Chapter 225 Pirate Empire Footwear
Yan Feiyan straightened up, shook her two muddy hands, raised her arm to wipe the sweat from her forehead, supported her sore waist with one hand, looked at the rows of green seedlings in front of her, and couldn't help but feel the joy from her lips. bloom.

Sun Shao gave her this good terrace, and gave her thousands of cattle and new farm tools in advance. In just half a month, all the men, women and children in Baihuzhai went to battle. More than 2000 acres of land have been completed.In order to grab the farming season, she, the village owner, also came to plant rice seedlings. If you don't try it, you won't know. This job of planting rice seedlings is really not an easy task. She has only done it for more than an hour, and her waist seems to be unable to straighten up.

Looking at the progress, she is the slowest, even the lame Mu Laopa is faster than her, and Mu Zhiqiu's performance is twice as fast as hers.

"Miss, are you tired?" Mu Zhiqiu finished planting the seedlings in his hand, seeing Yan Feiyan's tired look, he smiled and said, "You go to the garden to drink some water, rest for a while and then come back."

Yan Feiyan really wanted to rest for a while, but she felt a little embarrassed when she saw the people who were still working hard.

"Miss, don't look at it. It's the first time I'm doing it. It won't last long." Mu Zhiqiu threw away the seedlings, washed his hands hastily in the field, and then walked over with big strides, pulling Yan Feiyan and saying: "Go , I will also go to rest for a while, hey, my old waist..."

Yan Feiyan was amused by her exaggerated appearance, and joked: "Why are you like that annoying King of Yue now, always saying hello?"

Mu Zhiqiu raised his eyebrows: "Is there? How could I be like that bad guy?"

"This action is also similar." Yan Feiyan giggled.Mu Zhiqiu was also happy, touched his upturned nose, and sighed: "When you get close to vermilion, you get red, and when you get close to ink, you get black. It's all because you often see that bad guy when you follow the lady, so you learned it badly."

"It's you who learned badly by yourself, what are you doing with me?" Yan Feiyan rolled her eyes, raised her arm, and wiped off a spot of mud on Mu Zhiqiu's nose with her sleeve.The two walked to the field ridge together, Mu Zhiqiu picked up a clay pot and poured two bowls of water, handed a bowl to Yan Feiyan, picked up a bowl by herself, went down to the field again, walked to Mu Laopa, and fed him Then I poured myself half a bowl and drank it slowly.

Looking at the light green paddy field in front of him, Mu Zhiqiu said with a smile: "Miss, there will definitely be a bumper harvest this year, and we won't have to worry about food in winter."

"Not necessarily." Yan Feiyan sighed.

"Why not?" Mu Zhiqiu said with a smile: "Although the land we have developed is only this one, it is enough to feed the people in our village."

"You only think about the people in the village, but have you ever thought that you still owe them a large sum of money?" Yan Feiyan pointed to the cattle that were plowing the field: "These cattle, these plows, which don't cost money? If the weather is good this year Well, we have paid off our debts, and we still have some food left over for the winter, and if God doesn’t take care of it, I’m afraid it’s still not enough.”

The smile on Mu Zhiqiu's face faded, and he said after a while: "I knew he had no good intentions, and gave us the ox and plow on credit for no reason, so it was for rent."

"Without these oxen and plows, how could we have managed so many lands?" Yan Feiyan said with a helpless smile, "Bite your teeth today and pay back the credit money, and it will be easier next year."

"Well, if you don't have to repay the debt next year, it will definitely be a lot easier." Mu Zhiqiu nodded as if making a wish.

"What I'm worried about is not the debt." Yan Feiyan looked east subconsciously, and in the distance was Jingua Mountain. Jingua Mountain was very busy now, and Sun Shao was building the city.Although Yan Feiyan couldn't see anything, she always felt that the out-of-shape King Yue must be inspecting his territory again.

"It's not a debt, what is that?" Mu Zhiqiu asked puzzled, his almond eyes widened.

"It's the barbarians." Yan Feiyan hesitated for a moment: "We got such a good piece of land, the barbarians will be jealous, and they will come to grab it."

"He dares?!" Mu Zhiqiu jumped up suddenly, patted his chest and said loudly: "He dares to rob us? See if I don't hack him to death."

"How many strong men are there in the village?" Yan Feiyan raised her head, looked at Mu Zhiqiu who was filled with righteous indignation, and said angrily and funnyly: "Do you know that we owe him a lot of money just for the treatment of those wounded?" ?”

Mu Zhiqiu was dumbfounded for a while, then sat down in frustration, picked up a lump of soil angrily, and threw it vigorously into the field, as if the paddy field was Sun Shao: "He is too dark, a stone of alcohol is enough to kill him." How many buckets of grain were used? It was sold for a sky-high price of five thousand dollars."

"Can you do it?" Yan Feiyan asked back: "If you know how to do it, we will do it ourselves, and we don't need to buy it from him."

"If I know how to do it, I have to wait until now?" Mu Zhiqiu pouted depressedly: "It's because he is too shameless. Even if we go to Dongye to buy it ourselves, we won't need so much money."

"You bought wine, not alcohol." Yan Feiyan corrected: "Wine and alcohol seem to be the same thing, but they are actually two different things. Didn't you see that?"

Mu Zhiqiu didn't say anything.Of course she could see it. In the past, they used the wine bought from Dongye to heal their wounds, and the effect was better than salt water, so everyone liked to use it. They didn’t feel any difference. Now they bought alcohol from Sun Shao, and the effect was better. It was several times better than the wine they bought themselves. Except for a few seriously injured people in the village who were not rescued, most of the others recovered. Even Lei Zi, who was the most seriously injured, passed the test of life and death, which made them greatly injured. I breathed a sigh of relief.Of course, there is also credit for the medicine that Sun Shao gave them on credit, but it is undeniable that the effect of this alcohol is much better than that of wine.

Things are good, but too expensive.Dong Ye’s wine costs a bucket of [-] yuan, which means [-] yuan and [-] stone, plus the round-trip expenses, a stone of wine is about [-] yuan, but Sun Shao asked for [-] yuan for a stone of alcohol, and said it was cheaper for them , It's shameless, because of this, Mu Zhiqiu was so angry that he secretly took out the portrait and stabbed him several times.

Angry is angry, they have no place to buy this kind of alcohol, they can only let Sun Shao blackmail them.

Mu Zhiqiu didn't make detailed calculations, but based on such an estimate, Yan Feiyan's words are true, a little owed here, a little owed there, most of the 2000 mu of land was planted for Sun Shao.What's more serious is that those barbarian people don't know this, they only see that Baihuzhai is getting rich, and they will definitely come here to borrow or rob at that time, in short, they want to get some credit.

"Then...we were attacked by barbarians, does he not care?"

"He doesn't care." Yan Feiyan darkened her face and said bitterly: "He said that we are just neighbors, and we have not surrendered to him. We are not his subjects, so he doesn't care."

Yan Feiyan was ready to bow to Sun Shao at the beginning. After all, Sun Shao's army was pressing down on the country. With the strength of Baihuzhai who survived the catastrophe, it was impossible to stop her, but she suppressed this thought from the bottom of her heart. This is a good place to settle the grievances with her, but how can she easily bow to her enemies—even her former enemies?To her surprise, Sun Shao didn't ask her to surrender, he showed an extremely tolerant side, he agreed that Baihuzhai existed independently, and he didn't need to surrender to him.Yan Feiyan was grateful at first, but now she realizes that this may not be a good thing.Sun Shao said, since I am not a vassal, I have no obligation to protect you. When the barbarians come, I can help, but there is a price for helping.Yan Feiyan didn't need to think about it, the price must be beyond her imagination.

After all, he still wants to force Baihuzhai to surrender to him and become her people, but it's just a different way.

Yan Feiyan originally held the mentality of procrastinating for a day, but she still gritted her teeth with hatred when she saw that the whole village was working hard day and night with joy and joy, but in the end it might be in vain.In the dream, she didn't know how many times she strangled Sun Shao's neck, but what made her frustrated was that even in the dream, Sun Shao seemed to be unable to strangle him to death, no matter how hard she tried, Sun Shao, that traitorous businessman His face was still swaying in front of her, full of the abomination of a villain's success.

"Hmph!" Angrily, Yan Feiyan poured the water in the bowl onto the field, and the mirror-like water surface suddenly twisted, and in a trance, it seemed that Sun Shao's smiling face flashed in it again.Yan Feiyan became more and more annoyed, lifted her muddy feet, and stepped hard into the water a few times, causing the mud and water to splash everywhere. Unprepared, Mu Zhiqiu jumped up and shouted dissatisfiedly: "Miss, what are you doing?" Dirty my new waistcoat, which was given to me by Sister Bai."

"Sister Bai, Sister Bai, I just gave you a beautiful dress, and you forgot that she used to be a spy?" Yan Feiyan squinted at her, but found that Bai Yan was standing in the distance with a smile on her face, just holding her Hearing the words just now clearly, he couldn't help feeling embarrassed, wanted to explain, but was too embarrassed, so he had to turn his head away, pretending to be unhappy.

"Villager, do you still hate me?" Bai Yan walked over slowly, looked at the people who were busy in the field, and found Old Mu at a glance, and shouted loudly: "Daddy! Daddy!"

Father Mu raised his head and glanced, and said with a smile, "It's Bai Jun, what's the matter? Why are you here?"

"Your Majesty invites you to discuss matters with the village master."

"That's it." Old Mu turned his head to look at the remaining section of field behind him, and hesitated for a while: "Can I finish these steps?"

"Okay." Bai Yan smiled and untied the saber in his waist, bent down and took off his combat boots and snow-white footwear, rolled up his trouser legs, strode up to Old Mu, and snatched the seedlings from his hand , smiled and said: "Father, go up and have a rest, let me come."

"Hey, how did this happen, you are now the Captain." Old Man Mu hurriedly reached out to snatch the seedlings back.

"What is the lieutenant, I am a personal guard next to the Fifth General." Bai Yan chuckled and said, "Let me come, it's not like I haven't done it before."

Old Man Mu smiled, and didn't insist anymore. Mu Zhiqiu came over, helped Old Man Mu back to the field ridge, washed his feet in the water, and put on the straw sandals. In such a short time, Bai Yan had already finished inserting. The seedling, which was more than ten steps away, strode back, washed his feet quickly, and put on his foot clothes and combat boots.Mu Zhiqiu glanced enviously at her pair of footwear embroidered with a small flower: "Sister, your footwear is made of silk, right? It's so beautiful."

Bai Yan glanced at it and said with a smile, "It's Bingwan from Linzi."

"Bingwan? Is it cool, or else you can't wear combat boots." Mu Zhiqiu asked curiously with a flash of his eyes.

"You'll know if you touch it?" Bai Yan stretched out his foot.Mu Zhiqiu glanced at her, quickly wiped her hands on her body, and then touched it carefully. The silky touch felt cool, as delicate as a baby's skin, and she couldn't help screaming: "Really, miss , you touch it, it's really cool, but it's slippery."

"What is the identity of Colonel Bai?" Yan Feiyan cast a cold glance, got up and left, and said disdainful words from afar: "Aqiu, don't look, you can't afford it."

"Is this very expensive?" Mu Zhiqiu did not wait for Bai Yan to answer, but said affirmatively: "It must be very expensive. It must be shipped from such a far away Linzi, and you can't buy it without three hundred dollars." Before he finished speaking, Her face turned red, because she didn't know where Linzi was at all, and at the same time, she felt that the three hundred yuan might be an underestimate, although to her, it was already a sky-high price.

"530 yuan." Bai Yan said disapprovingly: "This is a new product from Linzi. The first batch is only [-] pieces. The Qingzhou Musun envoy specially gave it to the king. The king rewarded me with two pairs, and the fifth general rewarded it." I have a pair. If you like it, I will give you a pair, and I will give another pair to the village owner, and say that I sold it to you, otherwise she will definitely not accept it."

When Mu Zhiqiu heard that it was the King of Yue who rewarded Bo An, he immediately remembered that Bo An’s contribution was to be a spy. His face sank, and when he heard that Bo An said that he would give her a pair, his anger turned into joy, and he said embarrassingly: " How can I accept such an expensive gift? You should keep it for yourself. "

"It's okay." Bai Yan put his arms around Mu Zhiqiu's shoulders, and said with a soft smile, "We are good sisters. If there are good things, we should share them."

Mu Zhiqiu felt that he was rewarded for nothing, and he really liked the pair of ice-coloured foot clothes, so he murmured: "You are good, now there are many rewards, we owe you a lot of money in the village, when the time comes I don’t know if it’s worth it or not.”

"Who did you hear that from?" Bai Yan smiled and looked around: "Tell the village master, let her rest assured, the king will not force her to go to nowhere, if there is indeed a problem this year, you can apply Wouldn't it be easier to pay back in batches, divided into three years?"

"Is that okay?" Mu Zhiqiu was stunned.

"Of course." Bai Yan said with a smile: "Where does the king lack your little money? He is afraid that he will benefit the village too much, and others will misunderstand."

"What's the misunderstanding?" Mu Zhiqiu looked at Bai Yan blankly.

Bai Yan didn't answer her right away, rolled his eyes, and said with a smile: "I gave you two pairs of footwear, but you are suspicious, if the king suddenly sent so many cattle and iron plows to the village, would you still dare to accept them? "

Mu Zhiqiu nodded with understanding: "That's true, there is nothing to be courteous, it's either rape or robbery." After she finished speaking, she suddenly remembered that Bai Yan was no longer from Baihuzhai, but King Yue's aunt, the fifth general Sun Shangxiang's personal guard, said this in front of her, but it was very inappropriate. He quickly covered his mouth and gave Bai Yan a guilty look.Bai Yan didn't take it seriously, but just smiled quietly.

They caught up with Yan Feiyan and Old Mu, and greeted each other with Guan Chao who came to greet them. The group rode on horses and rushed to Jingua Mountain. There were no horses in Taiwan. These horses were brought by Sun Shao. Mu Zhiqiu rode on On horseback, she felt very fresh and arrogant, and she enjoyed the envious eyes of the people next to her.

The sound of hoofbeats was special, and after walking for less than half an hour, they came to the foot of Jingua Mountain.The appearance of Jingua Mountain has changed. After simple treatment, the original mountain road has become a market. Merchants set up simple shelves on the side of the road, and some directly spread a piece of cloth on the ground. The goods are placed on the cloth, shouting loudly, attracting the attention of passers-by.Most of the people who come to buy things are Yi people from nearby. They carry their mountain goods on their backs and look at them as they walk. When they see what they like, they stop to negotiate the price. If it is simple, they will point with their fingers. If it is complicated, they will call for a translator. Baihu Those who can speak a few words of Yi language in the village are not willing to work in the village anymore. They can earn more than 100 yuan for a day of translation here, which is much faster than farming.

Sitting on the horse, Mu Zhiqiu was condescending, and she could see clearly the goods in the stalls and tents next to her, and found everything fresh, but when she touched her empty pockets, she could only sigh secretly. That's all.Suddenly, her eyes were attracted by a pair of footwear, she tugged at Yan Feiyan beside her, and exclaimed in surprise: "Miss, look, Bingwan!"

Yan Feiyan turned her head and took a look, and it turned out to be a pair of ice-coloured footwear that was the same as the one Bai Yan just wore. She glanced at Mu Zhiqiu, who had stars in her eyes, and suddenly reined in the reins and jumped off the horse, taking three steps at a time. He walked to the front of the tent in two steps, pointed to the pair of footwear hanging in the middle alone and said, "Master, look at this."

The round-faced shopkeeper who was negotiating business with a black and thin barbarian hurried over, and smiled before saying anything: "Yanzhai mainly looks at this?"

"En." Yan Feiyan nodded.Although she was a little surprised that the shopkeeper knew her, she didn't show any surprise.

The shopkeeper quickly took off the cage hanging on the pole, opened a frame, carefully took out the pair of footwear, and held them in front of Yan Feiyan with both hands.Yan Feiyan didn't go to pick it up, she pointed at the frame in surprise, at first she thought it was an empty frame, but now she realizes that it is a box made of two transparent crystals, but the crystal is so pure that if you don't pay attention I didn't see it.

Seeing that Yan Feiyan was in a daze, the shopkeeper holding his footwear reminded him in a low voice, "Master Yan?"

"You...you use such expensive crystals to install this?" Yan Feiyan felt that this was a bit of a big deal, and these businessmen really spared no expense.

The shopkeeper didn't correct her, this is glass, not crystal, but she thinks crystal is better, the purpose of doing this is to make people think that the pair of clothes are expensive.He nodded with a smile, and brought the footwear to Yan Feiyan with both hands.Yan Feiyan took it and looked it over carefully. Under the scorching sun, the cool feel of these feet is really hard to put down.

"How much?" Yan Feiyan asked.She had a piece of horseshoe gold on her body, so she should be able to buy this pair of footwear, lest Mu Zhiqiu forget Bai Yan's experience as a spy just because of a pair of footwear.

"One thousand." The shopkeeper smiled even sweeter, and raised a finger.

"One thousand?" Yan Feiyan sneered, "I don't understand you, do you? This pair of footwear is only four or five hundred dollars."

The shopkeeper didn't change his face, he looked at the smiling and silent Bai An behind Yan Feiyan and said: "Master Yan is right, this pair of footwear can indeed be sold for 550 yuan, but you have to have the one on this lord's body." That emblem."

Yan Feiyan turned her body and took a look. There was a badge on Bai Yan's left chest, indicating that she was a school lieutenant under the Fifth General.She naturally didn't have this, so she said dissatisfiedly: "Does different people have different prices? How can you, the shopkeeper, do business like this?"

"Master Yanzhai, I'm not alone in doing this. You can ask, whether you sell this footwear or not, as long as you are a merchant from the Yue Kingdom, it depends on the price. My Yue people come to buy it at the same price. It's not because I'm from the Yue country, or it's another price. I think that Baihuzhai is an ally with our Yue country, and you are the master of Yan village, so I only paid [-] yuan for other barbarians. , hehehe, if you have less than two thousand dollars, no one can sell it to you."

Yan Feiyan was confused by him, but seeing him smiling so sincerely, she didn't know what to say.She said angrily: "One thousand is one thousand, I bought it." She took out the horseshoe gold from her purse and handed it over.

"It can't be sold now." The shopkeeper unexpectedly didn't take the gold, but shook his head, put away the footwear again, carefully put it in the frame and hung it up again. "If you want to buy it, you can pay a deposit of [-] yuan first, and I will bring it to you next time. This pair is a sample, only for viewing, not for sale."

Yan Feiyan was really angry, she stared: "If you don't sell it, I'll find someone else to buy it. Isn't it just a pair of footwear, you are a rare treasure."

The shopkeeper was not in a hurry, and smiled more and more kindly: "Rare treasures are not counted, but there are no more than five pairs of this kind of footwear in the entire Yizhou right now, and they are all samples. Let alone a thousand dollars, they are just one pair." Gold, and no one will sell it to you."

"Five doubles?" Yan Feiyan was stunned, Bai Yan had three doubles for a captain, how come the whole Yizhou doesn't have more than five doubles?By the way, he should be referring to the market. Bai Yan was rewarded by Sun Shao and Sun Shangxiang, not counting the quantity on the market.She looked back at Bo Yan, hesitated to speak, got on the horse again angrily, picked up the reins and left.

After getting on Sun Shao's boat and walking into Feilu, Sun Shao was sitting with Cui Qian, Chen Hai and others, drinking tea and gossiping.Chen Hai was chewing a betel nut in his mouth, eating a pair of white and neat teeth red, which looked like a big mouth full of blood. When he saw Yan Feiyan and the others walking in, he grinned happily, and looked at Mu Zhiqiu who was following him. Scared straight back to hide.

"What's wrong with Yan Zhaizhu?" Seeing Yan Feiyan's resentful woman's face, Sun Shao couldn't help asking curiously: "Who messed with you?"

Bai Yan smiled, and quickly leaned over to explain.Sun Shao laughed, and rubbed his hands in embarrassment: "This is a rule I made, but I can't blame the shopkeeper. This... there is a difference between inside and outside. Of course, it will be cheaper to sell to your own people."

(End of this chapter)