The sky was rosy, and the sun reflected the flowers. The dew was slightly cold, and occasionally, a lone crow would fall from a tree.
The fog from last night gradually dispersed in the morning, and a red sun like an egg yolk first covered the east with a beautiful veil. Then, it jumped out on its own, and the clouds changed with the wind. If one stared at it for a long time, one would think that there was a group of ducklings standing in a neat row, following behind the mother duck.
In Lhasa City, it should have been a place where a slave master or a noble lived, but it had been changed into a place with rich rural scenery. A small river flowed through the large courtyard, and a wooden house sat on the opposite bank. A small bridge spanned over the river, and under the bridge, the water gurgled, and ducks and geese mingled on the water surface.
With a creak, the door of the wooden house was opened from the inside, and a girl with a pot in her hand walked out. She went to the stove outside, lit a fire, and began to boil medicine. As she boiled, she said, "You said that my medical skills are not good? Let's see what you would do without me. A big man, you look strong, but you fall sick every two to three days. Mi Fan, Mi Fan, wake up and cook. "
"If you want me to cook every day, can't you just buy two people? Look at you two, one is sick, and the other is taking care of you. He said that he was not acclimatized to the climate, and asked him to go back and find someone else, but he refused to leave. I'm the one doing all the work, Miss Jiu, can't you just do it while you're at it?"
Before seeing anyone, Mi Fan heard the noise. She walked out of the house with a large lump of gunk in the corner of her eye. As soon as she walked out of the house, she shivered and went to another stove to collect dust and set up firewood.
Jiu Mei Leng looked at Mi Fan with dissatisfaction and complained, "Why do you have to do all the work? I have to manage the accounts every day. I have to sell chickens and ducks, and I have to buy livestock. It's so cold in the morning, and it's so hot at noon. If I stay here, I'll get old."
"That's right. It's not like we didn't know when we came. It's just that Brother Han is suffering and can't take it anymore. It's time to open the lottery today, right? We'll have to fork out a lot of money again. Also, it's time to collect the money from the entertainment venues for this half a month. You've contributed the most in this regard. Those people who came to cause trouble were all poisoned to death by you.
Mi Fan set up the firewood, drew a fire from under Jiu Mei's cold stove, lit it, and went back into the house to get things for breakfast.
"Wash your face first. Otherwise, you'll be the only one who's going to eat all the feces in the pot. Patient Han, are you awake? Squeak, and I'll serve you. I've come so far, and I'll have to live a hard life with you." Jiu Mei's hot and cold medicine was almost done. She said something to Han Xuanfeng and Mi Fan, then put a cloth on the pot and prepared to send it into the room.
"Squeak!" A short squeak came from the room.
Jiu Mei Leng looked up at the sky, "I wonder if anyone can win the lottery today. I'll be back in a month. I won't come here anymore. I'll stay in Sanshui County. It's more comfortable there."
When Jiu Mei Leng poured the medicine into a bowl and brought it to Han Xuanfeng, Han Xuanfeng was already dressed and leaning on the bed with a slightly yellow face.
"Sorry to trouble you again, Miss Jiu. This is probably the altitude sickness that Young Master Song repeatedly emphasized when he came here. I didn't expect that everyone else would be fine except for me. Fortunately, the Red Ginseng Pills were sent from Wing Province. Otherwise, I would have really died here.
Han Xuanfeng said to Jiu Mei Leng apologetically.
Jiu Mei Leng blew on the medicine and tasted it herself. When she felt that the temperature was about right, she brought it to Han Xuanfeng and didn't let him drink it. She insisted on feeding him herself, "I owed you in my previous life. It's too hard to live with you. Go back quickly and live a better life."
Han Xuanfeng didn't know what to say. In the past, he could always retort when Jiu Mei Leng said something like this. But now, he couldn't say anything. He opened his mouth and drank the entire bowl of medicine, then ate the Danshen Pill. He let Jiu Mei Leng put a blanket on him and closed his eyes to rest.
"The meal will be ready soon. Don't go out today. Stay at home. I'll give the money to someone else." After wiping Han Xuanfeng's mouth and checking his pulse, Jiu Mei Leng turned around and left the room.
Han Xuanfeng, who had nothing to do, just leaned on the bed and kept thinking.
Ever since they were sent to take revenge on the economy, the three of them had rushed all the way from Yizhou to Tubo. After some discussion, they decided not to stay anywhere else and directly went to Lhasa. It was an eye-opener. There were few commoners and many slaves. The whole of Tubo was a 'tribe' made up of slaves.
There were a few times when they were almost in danger. Thanks to Mi Fan's ability to make people speechless, they managed to escape. They sold the food they brought and built a place for entertainment. In fact, it was a place for brothels and gambling.
They bought beautiful girls and taught them how to cheat. They added a lot of new gambling activities. They could cheat money and also bet things. They didn't know what Young Master Song was thinking. He actually made the prettiest girls not accept the money directly to accompany others. Instead, he had to win the bet first. There was something wrong with this.
But this method was very useful. More and more people came to gamble. With this kind of cheating method, the people who came lost more than won, but they still came like a flock of ducks.
When they had more money, they bought a big courtyard here. It turned out that it was Tatatu's courtyard. He was now living a 'good life' in Tang. It was fate.
Later on, they started to do public relations with the other local 'tribes' and gradually stabilized. After the Spring Festival, they created a lottery. They earned more and more money, but there was a lot of trouble in the process. Fortunately, they had Mi Fan and Jiu Meileng's poison skills.
Only then did they get rid of the source of trouble. Before they could continue to work hard, they fell sick. Only then did they know that the three of them were not fighting alone. The Zhang family also sent people. First, a very powerful local noble came to visit them. Then, all kinds of things were sent to them from Yizhou.
With the help of a big noble, things went smoothly. At the beginning of spring, they bought eggs from Pengzhou. Some of them were newly hatched eggs, some of them were eggs that could be hatched, and some of them were duck eggs and goose eggs. They began to teach the locals how to make a big stall. They were in charge of providing the goods, saying how good they were so that they could find people to prove it.
As for the eggs, they sold them under publicity. They also sold a lot of chickens and ducks at a low price. They also taught others how to make poultry. They lied and said that the Tang Emperor ate this and asked them to raise them. They also gave them the secret breeding method. They were really worried that the Emperor would find out and arrest them.
Impressive! Zhang Xiaobao's vengeance was no less than Wang Juan's. Who would have thought that a matter that could improve the lives of the common folk of Great Tang would turn into a vicious scheme just because of the addition of a secret breeding formula?
No matter what kind of food was planted, there had to be a shelter between every three ridges. It could be a wooden board or a cloth curtain. Then, the bees and butterflies in this place would be caught, mashed, and mixed in the food according to the proportion. Then, they would feed the poultry. It could only be done at the beginning of spring. It was said that the chickens and ducks raised in this way would be less troublesome and live longer after eating it.
If one wanted to plant paddy fields, they would need to catch toad buds. This was the thing that the little tadpoles used to find their mother in the children's books in Sanshui County.
If this wasn't enough to show how poisonous Zhang Xiaobao was, then one could tell from the soil in the newly opened egg transport truck from Pengzhou Pass that Zhang Xiaobao had actually ordered people to look for places where there were a lot of locusts last autumn and then dig out a layer of soil from there.
When they reached Tubo and were slightly further away from Great Tang, they would scatter the soil along the way. When they were almost done, they would send the final batch to Lhasa City and scatter it in the surrounding fields or dry areas. There were also some that were sent over from the desert.
If Number One, who played tricks in Jiannan Circuit back then, were to find out about this, he would probably regret it to death. Of all people to offend, he just had to find trouble with Zhang Xiaobao.
Then, he would send the animals that he bought at a high price to Jiannan Circuit through another route. The good ones would be kept while the bad ones would be killed for meat. The price was very cheap, saying that it was a subsidy to the people. The price of the eggs was also very cheap. When he bought the eggs, he would use the money he earned to pay for it. It was called a foreign trade subsidy.
It was said that when summer came, Jiannan Circuit would purchase poultry from Tubo. However, they would only sell it within Great Tang's borders. They would use food to exchange for it. As long as the poultry were sold, they would have to pay more taxes. This was used to balance the subsidies and prevent Tubo from dumping their poultry into Jiannan Circuit.
In any case, he wasn't able to figure out the meaning of so many words. He just had to follow the instructions.
"What are you thinking about? Here, I've put the food here for you. You can eat it yourself. Mi Fan and I are going out to do something. After you eat, you can sleep for a while. We'll be back at noon. I reckon that Sonrigan will be here today. I'll leave the matter of discussing the transportation and price of the butter to you."
Jiu Mei's cold voice interrupted Han Xuanfeng's mental activities. A bowl of milk with a layer of milk on it was placed in front of Han Xuanfeng. There were also several fried eggs. Han Xuanfeng could only eat this for breakfast and couldn't eat too much. At noon, there would be butter cakes, and at night, there would be cakes baked with sesame oil. These had just been delivered the day before yesterday, from Lingnan Circuit to Pengzhou.
Unlike the oil made from frying pepper, sesame oil was a good thing. It could strengthen one's body. There was very little of it. In order to ensure that Han Xuanfeng could return alive, Jiu Mei quickly sent it all the way here. When he left, it would be sent by pigeon, and when he returned, it would be sent to a military post.
Smelling the rich fragrance of the milk, Han Xuanfeng nodded. "Be careful outside."
"I know. You're the most dangerous one right now. Let's go." Jiu Mei left him with this sentence and followed Mi Fan out of the house.
The ducks and geese outside, who had been playing in the water since morning, saw that their owner was about to cross the bridge and surrounded them.
"Go, continue playing. Someone will come to feed you later." Jiu Mei coaxed them a few times. As she walked across the bridge, she said to Mi Fan, "You go to the entertainment center. I'll give them the prize. Come back early. I don't know why you want so much butter. I don't like it. It's too greasy. "
"It's not for adults. The young master said that after we buy it back, we'll make cakes for the children in school. There's also cheese and yogurt. If we could transport fresh milk back, we would have bought it long ago. "
Mi Fan was still sleepy and yawned.
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