"More than 30 years ago, when he learned that he had been convicted and exiled, the first thing Suo Fu did was to marry his grandson, who was only thirteen years old, and soon after arriving in Dunhuang, he hugged his great-grandson.""
After more than ten years, the great-grandson has no hair on his mouth, so he married a wife in the local area, plus a few concubines, so there is a great-grandson Suo Ping, Suo Fu is looking at Suo Ping was recommended as a official, only to smile Jiuquan "This saucy operation, listening to Ren Hong was dumbfounded, this is the hen in the chicken farm, and the rhythm of laying eggs is immediately forced when it is rigidly mature!""
Although Suo's three generations have lost their officials, but after all, it is the Central Plains clan, thirty years later, he has already gained a firm foothold in Dunhuang, has a lot of money, and has a relationship with the county guard and the captain, and now supports Suo Ping's career with the strength of the clan, although he has not made any meritorious achievements, he came to this position at a young age, how strange!""
Not only that, this year's filial piety in Dunhuang is most likely him."
When sending Suo Ping and others away, Ren Hong thought about the Suo's gossip that Chen Pengzu told him, and he really didn't admire it.Suoping is the result of the painstaking management of the entire Suo family for three or four generations, they can't resist the emperor's exile, but they can always survive the wind and waves, and then rely on the stupid method of foolish people to move mountains, rise again, and their children and grandchildren are endless, this is the power of the clan.Others have clan support, but Ren Hong is alone, he can only rely on himself.Before parting with Chen Pengzu, Ren Hong also asked a few days later, about the autumn shooting on August 15, "The autumn shooting has been postponed to September." ”Chen Pengzu patted his head, he was so busy gossiping about the Suo family's background that he almost forgot about this stubble.Ren Hong vaguely guessed the reason: "Why is it delayed, could it be related to this rape case?"
”Chen Pengzu said: "Yes, recently the county has arrested some businessmen who have gone out of the Saiwai privately, one of them confessed that the Xiongnu in Beishan, the person who presided over the adulterous affairs is the prince of the right plough king, named Gao Yaxu, this person often asks the profiteers about the internal affairs of Dunhuang County, and even sent a few Hu people to follow them into the fortress, waiting for the movement" Ren Hong said: "That is to say, there are Hun spies mixed into Dunhuang?"
”"However, therefore, the Taishou thought that the Beishan Xiongnu might have an abnormal movement, and it was not appropriate to let the chief and the chief of the Sui leave their posts without permission this month, and let the lieutenant postpone the test.Another wanted notice was issued, there are those who can capture the Huns alive and reward one person, the official will be increased by one rank, the reward will be 80,000 yuan, the slaves and maids will be redeemed as commoners, and those who are murdered can be exempted!
”Chen Pengzu said with a smile: "Don't you think that the first-level rank is too small and not enough for promotion, take a good look at Hou Wang, maybe you will catch the Hun spy." ”Ren Hong shook his head: "I have heard the story of the Song people waiting for the rabbit, Po Sui has just had an accident, how stupid do the Hun spies have to be to crash into this side?"
”As Ren Hong expected, in the next few days, the side plug was very quiet, not to mention that the spies were overcrowded, and there was not even a single footprint in the Tiantian around the broken flint, it seemed that they were able to catch the dead before, which was really lucky.Although the trial was postponed, but Ren Hong did not give up practicing crossbow, every day at the target on the Great Wall, Zhao Huer often came to point out a few words, although he is good at bows, but they are all projection weapons, there are always common points, Ren Hong benefited a lot, after studying and practicing hard, fifty steps out of the crossbow, has been able to do twelve rounds and eight in the Han Dynasty officials on the fifth day of a rest, to August 15, just the turn of Ren Hong Xiu Mu, a day is not enough time to return to the hanging spring, although the Han Dynasty is not the Mid-Autumn Festival, but Ren Hong still intends to Zhang Luo to break the Sui people, Have a good meal.So early in the morning, he asked Zhao Hu'er, Han Dang and others to be the guards, and he called Zhang Qianren and Lu Guangsu, Ren Hong rode the radish, and Zhang Qianren and Lu Guangsu drove an old horse-drawn car to the market.Although Dunhuang is a border fortress, within the Great Wall, it is no different from the inner county, the same county, township.Beixiang of Dunhuang County, which is closest to Ren Hong, is on the south bank of the Haraqi Lake, compared to the later generations of this big lake once dried up, the township was dilapidated and declined under the invasion of the desert, and now Beixiang is still rich in water and grass, and the people are thriving.Although most of the Han small farmers are self-sufficient, the need for exchange is always there, at least in exchange for the payment of money, so where there are people, there is a market, and before Ren Hong and them approach, the bustling sound comes from afar.The township and city are not comparable to the county and city, there is no wall to enclose it, but it is opened along a street outside the Beixiang eup, and there are stalls on both sides, and some directly do not even have stalls, and the peddlers and women squat on the ground, put a mat in front of them, put the goods to be sold, and begin to shout, like the rural market in later generations.The dirt road to the market was narrow, but it was crowded with people, Zhang Qianren had to park the car outside, and Ren Hong and Lu Guangsu squeezed in with difficulty.Among the people who rushed to the market left and right, there were young village girls from the Jingchai cloth group, who asked the vendors about the prices of copper and rouge and bargained, while peeking to see Ren Hong, who was not bad looking, burly, and obviously a small official.The men let the bearded children ride on their shoulders, the children stuffed sticky caramel in their hands, and some white-haired old men on crutches came, and the old people actually preferred to be lively."
Lu Xiang hangs, Qianmo slaughters, cooks and kills for no reason, gathers in the wild, goes to the horse, returns with meat, and the future generations are really not much different" Ren Hong greedily breathed this fireworks, and kept in Fengsui for a long time, facing boring work and empty wilderness every day, people will become a little sluggish, only when they come to Lilu Township City, it seems to have returned to the world.At the same time, it is also more clear that these border guards are guarding the beacon day after day, in order to protect the peaceful market life in Sene?
As Ren Hong saw, most of the stalls on both sides were selling grain, and now it was the autumn harvest, and this year Dunhuang County was quite smooth and rainy, and the harvest was good, and the people were anxious to exchange millet, millet, beans, and wheat for money, so as to cope with the oral endowment, even if the grain price was a little cheaper, they had to grit their teeth and sell some of it.After the autumn harvest is over, millet can be as cheap as 50 or 60 yuan a stone, and when the summer is green and yellow, wheat can also be sold for more than 100 yuan.After all, Dunhuang is not a large grain-producing province, and the limited grain is also given priority to the garrison troops, which cannot be compared with the ultra-cheap grain price in Guanzhong.There was no shortage of food, so Ren Hong only bought two bags of ground fine wheat noodles.In addition, there are more cloth, men and women weave, the great cause of the world, this is in addition to food, the only commodity that ordinary families can produce, silk is very expensive, Ren Hong asked a big sister who sells cloth, a horse of white su is sold for 700 yuan!
Another handsome silk was sold for 450 yuan.To sew a set of adult men's summer clothes, you need to use a piece of cloth, and the winter clothes should be doubled, so if you buy the silk silk garments directly, it will be more expensive, and a complete set of single shirts and shoes will be sold for 1250 yuan!
Ramie cloth and arrowroot cloth are cheaper, ranging from 100 to 200 yuan for a horse, but a complete set of clothes costs four or five hundred yuan."
Dunhuang is less mulberry hemp, clothes are too expensive."
Lu Guangsu couldn't help complaining, a flint pawn can buy a burlap coat with monthly rations, and the daily inspection and walking are seriously worn, so their economic pressure is indeed not small, and the poorer ones have to take turns with brothers and sisters in a set of clothes, and whoever goes out wears them, and in winter, it is best not to go out, and to squeeze together in the house."
Thanks to Suichang leading us to solve a big case, everyone can have a good year."
As Lu Guangsu spoke, he generously bought three sets of winter clothes, which were for himself, for his mother, and for his brother Lu Duowei.In addition to the people spontaneously setting up stalls, the best positions in the townships and cities were occupied by officials selling iron and salt.Husband salt, the sauce of food, iron, the foundation of the field farmer, not the household Qi people can make at home, will rely on the city, although it is several times more expensive, have to buy.Although the Sang Hong sheep who planned the monopoly of salt and iron was killed by Huo Guang, but the people died and their politics were not abolished, the little people had to pay money one by one, nodded and bought from the small officials, weighed a pound of salt, or among the unified casting of farm tools, choose one that they looked at, and the faces of the little officials were naturally not much better, which was also a common problem in the official camp.The iron of Dunhuang County is relatively expensive, because the iron mountain has not been found in the county, so it has to be transported from other places.On the contrary, Dunhuang salt is cheaper than Neijun, there are many dry lakes on the side, and the lake bed is often full of salt and brine in white flowers, although the taste can not be compared with the refined salt of later generations, but it is also okay to eat.Therefore, the flint did not dare to say anything else, and the salt cube was a certain amount.After struggling to walk from the end of the street to the street, Ren Hong finally approached his target several stalls selling meat.The first to pass by was the dog slaughter who sharpened the knife, Lu Guangsu smiled and said to Ren Hong, fortunately Zhang Qianren stayed outside and didn't come in, this guy never eats dog meat."
Once Liu Suichang brought dog meat to reward everyone, Zhang Qianren returned late, asked what kind of meat, I said it was wolf meat beaten outside the plug, he never doubted, ate a bite, and later learned that it was dog meat, and vomited!
He was still crying and screaming, clenching his fists and chasing me for a long time. ”Lu Guangsu muttered: "What a weirdo, you don't eat such delicious meat, Suichang, you said that this thousand people can't be a black dog spirit, right?"
”"Everyone has their own ambitions, since he didn't stop you from eating, you don't have to force him."
Ren Hong replied casually, continued to move forward, and saw a butcher shop with a large fan of pork, Guiyi Qianghu driving a group of live sheep, and even a soap-clothed official selling beef and cultivating cattle is not allowed to be killed.Ren Hong went to ask the price, and the price of buying meat in Xiaogu County was about the same as that of Hanging Quanzhi, after all, it was dead beef, so it was only sold for 6 yuan a catty for 250 grams, and the sheep was sold according to the head, and a sheep weighing 200 catties was only sold for 250 yuan, even if the skin and bones were removed, only the net meat remained, and it was cheaper than beef.And when he asked about Tu Tu, he saw the rough man, stretched out nine greasy fingers and smiled: "It's not expensive." ”"It's only nine dollars a pound!"