Early the next morning, Huo Xi took a group of his men out of the city.
Out of Kunming City, the road became more and more difficult to walk. At noon, everyone rested on a flat place and had lunch on the spot.
"I just like to go out with my wife. See here not only has hot water and hot soup to drink, but also hot dishes to eat." In the past, it was good to have dry food when walking around. Xun Wu has a happy face.
"Next time you go out, bring more girls and women, and there is no shortage of hot water and soup." Vanilla teased him.
If it belonged to another maid's mother, Xun Wu would naturally joke back, but this vanilla is Zhufeng's mother-in-law, he dare not make a mistake.
Looking at Zhuifeng who was sitting on the sidelines enjoying the vanilla service, "No matter how I am, can I be as comfortable as Zhufeng?"
Zhufeng glanced at him sideways and smiled. It's comfortable, and the gods don't change it. Frankly enjoying the service of his wife.
Vanilla laughed and said, "If it weren't for the fact that he is still useful, our wife will have to rely on him to protect her all the way. Can I serve him? Does he have no hands or feet?"
Everyone laughed, straight to Zhufeng Fugang's depression. Chasing the Wind only smiled and shook his head.
My wife, but she likes to show off her words, but she is very obedient in private.
"I said Zhufeng, with your skill, don't consider the son's subordinates, go to the army to make a way out?" Xun Wu felt that it was a pity that such a talent as Zhufeng should only be a guard by his wife's side.
Zhufeng shook his head and smiled.
No one knows how long he has been struggling in the dark, but he just hopes to live in the sun, to be like ordinary people, to have a home, to live a normal life, and nothing else.
"So, pretty good."
In today’s days, freedom and comfort, having a wife, a son and a family, being away during the day and worrying about it, and going home at night to sleep soundly is enough.
Huo Xi quite understands Zhufeng's thoughts.
Zhufeng Tayueting Tinglei Muyu and the four of them all walked from the darkness to the sun after a lot of twists and turns. They cherish their current life very much.
She left the other three to Nian'er, and they followed Nian'er without much thought of claiming credit. I just want to live freely in the sun.
Huo Xi and Huo Nian respected their ideas very much. Life is short, who doesn't want to live comfortably? In addition, the pursuit of fame and fortune is nothing more than external possessions.
After everyone finished their meal and fed the horses to rest, Huo Xi asked Xun Wu: "In the past, the Tea Horse Department would call tea merchants to sell the tea in the warehouse at a low price?"
"This is the first time that there is such a big fanfare."
Xun Ma sat up straight, "I heard that the Tea Horse Department has harvested a lot of official tea in the past two years, but not many good horses have been replaced. In addition, private tea has been banned repeatedly, and a lot of official tea is kept in the warehouse. Due to poor preservation, Good tea can only be sold as medium tea and bad tea.”
"Then why not transport the inferior tea to the Fanbu and exchange it with the Fan people for the inferior horse?"
"It's better not to look down on Chinese horses and inferior ones. Besides, I still want to recruit tea merchants to transport good tea to replace Chinese tea with inferior tea, and the tea merchants need them. The tea horse department will exchange the inferior tea with Chinese tea merchants, this price is much better than shipping to Fanbu.”
Huo Xi understood.
One is that the local tea merchants want to do business under the eyes of the Tea Masi. It is also to protect the face of the imperial court by not transporting inferior Chinese tea to Fanbu.
Huo Xi looked at the carriage carrying tea in the team, "Where did we collect tea in previous years? Maybe we received good tea?"
"Yes. We have an advantage over those tea merchants. Even the Yi tribes scattered in the mountains in the southwestern states know that the Mu Mansion in Kunming has a famous post from the prince. We just need to show it. The leaders are all willing to sell us good tea."
Huo Xi nodded, "The Yi tribes in the mountains are also people under the jurisdiction of our Mu Mansion. When collecting tea, you need to tell the staff in charge, don't bully the people in the name of the prince."
"Yes, my subordinates will keep this in mind. The prince often orders the same. Everyone dare not disobey."
"That's good."
After a short rest, everyone started on the road again.
The mountain road is rugged, and sometimes you have to come down and walk when you encounter ravines. So at noon on the third day, the group finally arrived at Yibang County.
Yibang County has a tea horse department, and the streets are very lively.
You can see people of various Yi ethnic groups everywhere, dressed in all kinds of clothes, carrying burdens on their shoulders, coming and going on the street, and the sound of hawking keeps coming and going.
"There is a tea and horse department here. People of Yi nationality often pick tea and sell it, and exchange various livestock for daily miscellaneous uses. The surrounding Fan (Tibetan) tribes will also lead cattle, horses and sheep, and bring their tsampa, tsampa, Ghee and furs of various colors are exchanged for tea, cloth, salt, daily miscellaneous and medicinal materials, etc., which is very lively."
Xun Wu saw that Huo Xi and the others were interested, so he introduced it to the side.
"Ma'am, this place is really lively! There are everything for sale!" Vanilla and the others kept their eyes on.
Nurse Ma scolded a few words, "Let's go to the inn first to put down our luggage, so that others will patronize us on the way."
The barbarians, Fan people, and Han people here are of all kinds. Seeing that Huo Xi and others are dressed richly and differently from them, they all looked over.
"Let's go to the inn first, there are many people here, if you are taken to the mountains to be your wives, you will not be found in the high mountains and deep forests." Xun Wu scares Qiushuang's unmarried girls.
Everyone was terrified and rushed to the side of the third class Zhufeng Gan.
Everyone entered the inn, Kun Si booked the guest room earlier, and everyone settled down.
After everyone settled down, Huo Xi asked Xun Wu to tell everyone about the situation here.
"In the original tea-horse market, only tea and horses were traded. Later, Fan people and Yi people came out rarely, and would bring all kinds of things in exchange for what they needed, so a special trading place was set aside, at There is a big market on the East Street, which sells everything. It is very lively every fifth day of the month, and it happens to be the fifteenth day after tomorrow, so we can go and see the excitement."
Huo Xi was very interested, "Okay, it just so happens that tomorrow is the time for the tea merchants to inspect the goods as agreed by the Tea Horse Company. After finishing the work, let's stay for two more days and go to have a look the next day. It just so happens that we also brought some tea this time. The cloth came to test the water, just to see if there was anything to exchange, bought it and shipped it back, earning money for the traveling expenses and all the way.”
"Madam is still thoughtful. I just happened to see if there is anything interesting and useful. I bought it for my family Rouge and sent it back."
"Sister Vanilla, you remember your Yanzhi."
"He is the flesh that fell from my body. Of course I always remember my son. When you get married and have children, you will be the same as me."
Huo Xi looked at Zhuifeng, saw that there was a smile on the corner of his mouth, and smiled too. It seems that no matter how iceberg-like a person is, children are also his weakness. I don't know what happened to Xiao Yuer.
After the border turmoil ended, Mu Yan followed Mu Sheng and led the army back to Kunming City.
Mu Lin, born to Mu Jun, was half a year younger than Xiao Yuer. Thinking of his son, he rode beside Mu Yan and asked Mu Yan about Xiao Yuer's situation.
The two rode in front of the team, and when it came to their son, they both had a lot to talk about. Mu Yan is usually like an iceberg, it is rare to say a word, but when it comes to his son, he is willing to say a few more words.
Mu Xi and Mu Zhan couldn't understand that Huo Xi left the child behind and came thousands of miles just to find her husband.
"Women should stay at home to take charge of the family and take care of the family. Although there are many women in Yunnan, Mu Yan, you are not short of money. I heard that your wife has started a business in Kunming City with great fanfare."
Mu Yan lightly reined in the rein, and looked back at Mu Zhan.