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Chapter 301: All roads in the world will meet you (two chapters in one)

"Fellows, it's not yet time to open the city. If you want to go into the city to sell goods on the 15th, you have to wait outside the city for now."

Above the city tower, the city guard general who was on duty today was looking at the team outside the city gate and shouted loudly.

Xu Tianxin was woken up in advance by Liu Laozhu as early as a mile away.

This group of people gathered in front of Erdaohe Shop at 11:30 in the middle of the night and set off.

The villagers don't have that many vehicles, so the seventy-five oxen carts are still patchworked here and there. Oxen carts and donkey carts from nearby villages that are not participating in this trip have also been borrowed.

It can be said that 99% of the accompanying people walked for three hours and finally reached the town gate at three o'clock in the morning.

But Xu Tianxin couldn't stand it any longer. She was one of those 100 people who buried themselves in cargo bags and slept with three quilts and toasted buns while holding a fire cage.

In order to feel at ease at home when going out this time, Xu Tianxin spent the whole day yesterday with his little sisters distilling glycerin and helping everyone remember it. In the evening, he wrote most of a letter to General Jialai, but he did not catch up on sleep yesterday.

This made her sleepy. There was no way she could walk today.

Fortunately, she was almost at the gate of the city. When Liu Laozhu pulled her, she woke up and was slapping her face to force herself to be energetic.

For this reason, Mrs. Xu was still a little dissatisfied with Liu Laozhu, so she turned back with a torch and glared at Liu Laozhu.

It was called Zheng Zheng from the twelve villages, and this time they were all accompanying the team.

What you want to do is to be a good person and do good deeds. If there is anything, you don't dare to step forward and explain it clearly to the officers and soldiers guarding the city. Besides, isn't there her?

Liu Laozhu pretended not to see the boss and stared at him, thinking: You are not easy to do, why are you staring at him.

Don't be unconvinced.

Just like if we explain to someone that we need to take the goods to the border.

The officers and soldiers guarding the city are afraid of causing unnecessary trouble. If trouble occurs, they will be held responsible.

After all, that is what we said ourselves, and there is no basis for what we say. In the eyes of the other party, who knows what a large group of us are going to do at the border.

You must know that the lower the rank is, the more cautious they will be to avoid losing their reputation. That's called going straight to the camp.

Besides, wouldn’t it be better if we could only inspect the goods once in the whole process and then give us a customs clearance document?

It is said that along the way to the border, there will be thirteen large and small garrison checkpoints.

Think about it, if you don't have customs clearance documents, you will have to be inspected again and again. Each time you have to unload and load so many goods. When you get to the border, you will be asked to dance and smile at the soldiers.

Can you laugh at that? It was already cold, so I could only make sure not to cry.

I wish I could wipe away my tears sadly and say: Your family members are here to see you. It’s so difficult to be a good person and good deeds these days, and we almost fell apart because of the torment.

Therefore, there are only people who are very useful and who are extremely trusted by the other party, such as Xu Jia Tianxinzi, who has received annual gifts from General Jia Lai and General Lu Yan at the same time. Many people know this.

Moreover, Liu Laozhu once transported saponins to the stock exchange company in the name of Xu Tianxin. Liu Laozhu had a vivid memory. The vehicles transporting saponins were transported into the city without inspection. Wouldn't they be more willing to take the responsibility of issuing a customs clearance document? Even better than Zhao Dashan.

At this time, Xu Tianxin was helped by his second uncle, and he emerged from a pile of baked buns and jumped out of the car.

The torches were burning, and she walked out of the firelight and walked to the city gate so that the soldiers above could hear her clearly.

When Xu Tianxin arrived at the city gate, the first thing she did was take off her mask and hat. At three o'clock in the morning, the cold wind in the north ruffled her long hair.

"I am Erdaohe Xu Tianxin!"

Liu Laozhu stood in the team and took off his frost-covered mask, while using his torch to bake the frozen mask. It was full of water when I twisted it, and it had only been frozen like this for an hour and a half. By the time we get to the border, the mask would have frozen into a mask.

On one side and next to him, Sun Lizheng showed off in a low voice: "It's superfluous. If it's superfluous, add two rivers. In fact, just one sentence of "Xu Tianxin San" will make you believe it or not."

Here, Xu Tianxin stood under the tower and continued:

“We collected some New Year gifts from twelve villages on this trip, and we were going to visit the soldiers guarding the border.

They guard the lights of thousands of families in the wind and snow. We, the common people who live in the lights of thousands of families, want to go there to celebrate the fifteenth day of the first lunar month with them! "

The soldiers on the tower above were stunned when they heard this.

"Please open the city gate, inspect the goods, and issue customs clearance documents. We want to reach the border before evening, so we are disturbing you at this hour!"

Sun Lizheng and other Lizhengs can always hear the legends of the Xu family.

This time it was the first time to see the energy of the Xu family. It turns out that Liu Laozhu never boasted.

Because after just these few words, the heavy city gate really opened in front of them.

The village representatives and Li Zheng from the twelve villages saw the leader who was standing on top of the city tower just now striding towards Xu Tianxin.

Seeing each other and Xu Tianxin whispering something.

As for what it said.

The first thing the city guards said was that you put your hat on first.

Then he asked Xu Tianxin how many vehicles there were going to the border.

Xu Tianxin hurriedly told him that there were actually five merchants' vehicles in the north of the city. Did Mr. Qian know? Officer Qian is there. And a team of students, including not only imperial examination students, but also four academy gentlemen.

They should be waiting for them almost to the north of the city now. There are about fifteen cars together.

Xu Tianxin asked the other party if we could finish the inspection of the goods here and send people to follow them to the north of the city for inspection. We would let them out of the city after saying hello, otherwise we really couldn't afford the delay.

By the way, in addition, the villagers can't afford so many oxcarts. Now the carts are full of goods, and everyone comes on foot.

But we can’t walk all the way to the border, so the fifteenth day of the first lunar month will be over.

Therefore, the Liu family livestock shop in the town will also have several donkey carts, and they will use the donkey carts to pull everyone to the border.

As for how many, Xu Tianxin doesn’t know yet.

I'm afraid Grandpa Liu San's family has rented out donkeys again in the past two days.

When Xu Tianxin was informing him, Liu Laozhu's brother, his son, and his wife came roaring over in a three-donkey cart.

Liu Laozhu's brother's family is not going to bring out three shared donkeys, but their family is going to bring out nine donkeys, preparing to pull the villagers today, and then pull the big pot, water and firewood that they and Blacksmith Wu gathered together last night.

This time the Xu family didn't bother Zhao Dashan and his wife. That was because Zhao Dashan was sent to some corner to do something else.

As early as the seventh day of the lunar month when I was delivering glutinous rice balls, flour sausages and instant noodles to the Zhao family, I heard that Zhao Dashan was not at home. Dashan's wife said that it would be great if she could come back at noon today.

As for Dashan's wife, who bought so much at one time, she was preparing to do a big sale on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. She was so busy that she didn't want to bother anyone.

So this time I borrowed help from Liu Laozhu's younger brother.

They borrowed a donkey cart to take everyone to the border. The Xu family originally wanted to pay for the rental car, but Liu Laozhu's brother was so frightened by what he did. He became anxious and patted his right cheek and said:

"Swear at me, right? If you dare to give me money, why don't you just slap me in the face? Besides, do you know how much our family earned from repairing the hooves of Shopkeeper Lu and Shopkeeper Guo a few days ago?"

The hooves I had just trimmed were being trimmed and they were going to be raised. I was surprised that my two caravans were delayed by two days.

Logically speaking, all the merchants in this town who borrowed money should be grateful to Liu Laozhu's brother, who single-handedly allowed them to stay for two extra days for consumption.

Fortunately, the two big shopkeepers thought of it wisely. Instead of staying in this town to get their hooves trimmed, they had to go to Fucheng for trimming. Staying in Fucheng is more expensive.

Back to the topic, but there are only three people in Grandpa Liu San's family. Now his wife is wrapped like rice dumplings and she is driving the donkey with her in the early morning. Three cars can be driven at once. It took three trips to get it together.

Liu Laozhu's brother arrived at the city gate. When he saw Xu Tianxin, he said, "Emma, ​​I thought our family arrived early, but I didn't expect you to arrive earlier." The only reason he had to blame was that there was no water drop clock in his house. He had to hurry up Go get those cars again.

The officers and soldiers guarding the city looked at the donkeys in the city and then at the motorcade winding like a stream outside the city. They felt an unspeakable emotion in their hearts, but they remained calm on their faces.

What they could do for the people was not to delay any longer. If they delayed for a while longer, the villagers would suffer more from the cold. They waved their hands and directly ordered: "Inspect the goods first!"

Following the inspection, the first group of people who were deeply moved were the officers and soldiers guarding the city tower.

Dried radish, sweet potato stalks, scallions, dried wild vegetables... dozens of kinds of vegetables, whatever they can think of in winter, the villagers collected bags after bags, and filled carts with frozen fish.

Among them were four carts of braised pork that had become frosty, packed tightly in jars to avoid spilling.

Twelve villages were used to select the best drivers, the eldest son of Baijiazhuang Lizheng, Wang Yusheng of Erdaohe Village, Liu Jingdong, and Hotan's son-in-law.

The four people had duck racks around their necks, shoulders, and all the way to their waists, wherever there was space.

From a distance, it seems that the driver is not a human being.

But the funnier these four people looked, the officers and soldiers inspecting the goods felt as if their hearts were soaking in warm water this early morning. How practical this must be to save space as much as possible, in order to fill up the goods to reward the army, and then fill up more.

The voices of soldiers reporting to the front continued to be heard from behind:

"Six carts of frozen custard."

"Report, ten carts of jade grass wrist guards."

"Twenty carts of glutinous rice balls!"

A message came from behind that the name of the goods would be written on the customs clearance documents.

The villagers had long known what they were pretending to be, and after hearing this, they stood by with torches and waited.

They seemed to have normal expressions. Even here at the city tower, Mrs. Xu, her granddaughter and her second son were already busy pouring glutinous rice balls in copper pots to the defenders.

"This is not okay."

"There's nothing wrong with it. I made this pot specially before I came out. Thanks to this pot, I can hold a lot and still keep it warm. Hurry up and we can eat it quickly for four of us."

Mrs. Xu smiled: "I'm already fifteen now, and I have a sweet mouth."

The leader guarding the city tower today was named Qin. When he wanted to pretend to lower his head and write the customs clearance documents, he hid his slightly red eyes and thought:

Yes, it's already the fifteenth day, but this group of people came on foot in the middle of the night to visit the border. They didn't plan to celebrate the fifteenth day with their families.

And when this group of people rush back from the border, it will probably not be until midnight at the earliest.

At that time, the city gate was closed again, and these people didn't even think about where they lived and how they would get home.

You don’t want to think about any of this, do you? Just to visit the border army as family members.

Suddenly, the surprised voices of soldiers came from behind, as well as the noisy voices of Liu Laozhu and several people explaining:

"Don't be afraid, these are all performed by Yangko dancers, and their faces are painted with colorful flowers. Please rest assured, gentlemen, although these paintings no longer look like people, their wealth is absolutely innocent. We, the upright ones, dare to use our heads as guarantees. , they are all elderly men and women from their own village. There are no outsiders mixed in."

Sun Li was pointing at the old lady sitting with Cai Baozi: "This is my second aunt."

The second aunt is carrying a flower basket for performing Yangko dance on her arm.

Came from behind: "Boss, there are four cars of these old people!"

Young and strong laborers have to stay at home and work to earn money.

The twelve village representatives on this trip, if it weren't for those young students and Xu Tianxin and Liu Jingdong, their average age would be about fifty.

Mrs. Xu and her group of old sisters are actually young people.

Leader Qin immediately wrote another customs clearance document. He decided not to be afraid of taking responsibility, handed it to Xu Tianxin and said:

"There is no need to send people to the north of the city. With it, you will get out of the city smoothly, and there will be no need to talk nonsense on the way back. And no matter when, the thirteen checkpoints along the way will be cleared."

The meaning of this statement is also mixed with the fact that even the vehicles of students and businessmen representatives from the north of the city do not need to be inspected again.

In fact, Leader Qin had already planned in his heart that when Mr. Zhao Zhenting returned from his trip, he would personally find Zhao Zhenting to negotiate for the vacancy of the government offices, in case this group of people returned to the town in the middle of the night without a place to stay.

After saying that, Leader Qin suddenly stood up: "Let's go, stand up!"

Li here has a double meaning.

It means that everyone must stand up straight and quickly gather on both sides.

It has the meaning of ancient military salute.

Under normal circumstances, the leader will only give orders when he sees a higher-level official passing through the city gate and holding a celebration to escort the celebration goods.

So when Yuan Qian from the north of the city had just joined the student team, and was about to go to the city gate with Mr. College to discuss whether they could quickly inspect the goods later, you see these are all people with status, and there are so many people in the distance. The sound of wheels crushing the snow was heard loudly.

Bai Muyan covered herself so much that her eyes were exposed to keep out the cold.

But at this moment, his eyes seemed to be shining like stars.

The person leading the team at the front was Xu Tianxin, and in her hand was a gold medal that was like "please save people under the knife" to avoid death. This is called exemption from inspection.

As soon as Xu Tianxin arrived, the vehicles did not stop at all. The city gate was wide open and they could pass by quickly.

Especially the ox carts from twelve villages and the nine donkey carts carrying people. Liu Laozhu thought to himself: He finally got a seat. Everyone didn't need to get off the car, so they should go first.

Then Bai Muyan's husband got on the car and couldn't help but glance sideways at Xu Tianxin who was talking to the officers and soldiers in the north of the city.

Mr. Qian wanted to endure it, but he couldn't.

Especially when Xu Tianxin passed their car on skis in a short while. The money manager opened the cotton curtain and leaned half of his body out. When he saw the little girl, he immediately got into the car. After a while, he took off his skateboard. After that, she didn't move all the way. shadow.

Moreover, everyone buried pots of water to boil water and brought their own dry food to feed the livestock. The little girl did not show up. It is said that she was buried in a pile of cakes in the lead car.

Mr. Qian is still a little worried, so he can't just take a bite of cold pastry when he's hungry.

To say that Bai Muyan understood Xu Tianxin.

Bai Muyan opened the curtain of Xu Tianxin's vehicle, which was indeed piled with large cakes. He looked at Xu Tianxin and asked, "What's good to eat?"

Xu Tianxin was changing the charcoal in the fire cage in his arms. He took out the roasted sweet potatoes and said to Mrs. Xu, "Milk, it's so sweet. Try it. I'll bring fourteen."

And when it feels like we are almost there and we are not going in the wrong direction.

The live broadcast room opened, and when the war song started, Xu Tianxin knew he was on the right track.

"I have never seen a village where the aurora appears, and no one has seen fireworks being set off late at night..."

Aurora, they are about to reach the northern border.

It turns out that her ancient father got here all the way.

Now, she has come to replace her original self.

Xu Tianxin had already seen the camp's holiday vehicles, which were taking some soldiers to the town for shopping, and met them on a narrow road.

(End of this chapter)