Jijiexian

The Bai family is about to leave the Song Dynasty and go to the unknown Xirong. For a family that is about to leave their homeland and migrate with the whole family, the value of a boy is very precious-a boy who has no family care, is healthy, and will not run away is even more precious. It is commendable.

Father Bai did not expressly take in Tengfeng, but he did not give the order to drive him away, or drive him to the dirty and smelly slave pile, Tengfeng still followed closely beside Bai Li just like on the boat.After sorting out the goods this time, they set off again, starting from Fengcheng to Xiayi of Chen State.

Chen State is a small country, its territory is less than half of that of Song State, but Chen State is much richer than Song State. It attracted the interest of some Chen country businessmen.

Xirong is rich in all kinds of valuable furs and rare medicinal materials. If the Bai family wants to develop to the west, it must get sufficient manpower and material support. During this process, it needs continuous investment to support their activities. Therefore, the merchants of Chen State signed an agreement with the Bai family. According to the agreement, the merchants will provide assistance to help the Bai family gain a firm foothold there, and in return the Xirong market will be monopolized by these merchants for more than ten years.

The reason why Bai Li did not return to the family but went to the Chen country was precisely because he had been selected as the representative of the family to go to Xiayi to negotiate with those merchants.

"Bai Li, who are we going to meet in Xiayi? Can we find my parents?"

"Call me Big Brother Bai Li."

"Brother Baili."

"It should be possible. If you were born nearby, someone will definitely recognize your family's mark. As for the person we want to meet, he should be a businessman."

"Oh? What's his name?"

"Uncle Yu." Bai Li said, "Uncle Yu, the son of Chen Guo."

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The monarch of Chen State is a very accomplished monarch. Under his governance, Chen State is one of the wealthiest countries among the vassal states near Gyeonggi. In the past few years, Chen Jun's illegitimate sons have blossomed and bore fruit everywhere, and Uncle Yu is one of those many children.

As an illegitimate child, he has always had no inheritance rights, and his status in the family is also very low. If he meets a more powerful mistress, he may even be excluded from the family. Unless the orthodox heir dies, it is impossible for an illegitimate child to become Chen Jun. The successor, and Uncle Yu has more than a dozen older brothers like him, so he is even less likely to succeed.

But according to Bai Li, Uncle Yu had already shown his talent in business when he was younger than Tengfeng. He has become one of the largest businessmen in the Chen Kingdom, with countless wealth under his command, and because of his special status, he has maintained good relations with many nobles from various countries.

The Bai family was one of the families that had maintained a good relationship with Uncle Yu.

The ancestors of the Bai family were very good at brewing wine, but because the emperor once said: "Extreme wine will cause chaos, and excess will lead to disaster." Such words.Therefore, this talent of the Bai family cannot be used for a long time. However, as more and more people like this drink, the original strict implementation of "Jiuhao" has become slack, and the Baijia brewing has also become more popular. It gradually became logical. Before the war between Song and Peng, the Bai family had already monopolized [-]% of the wine making business around Fengcheng, and because of Uncle Yu's relationship, the Bai family's "Bai Book" won the love of nobles from all over the world. His fame is also growing day by day.

The tributary of Yushui connects Fengcheng and Xiayi, so the waterway is still used to go to Xiayi, but the boat is much smaller.Xiayi's wharf is much smaller than Fengcheng's, but it is very clean, people's clothes are neater, and all kinds of yelling seem to have become much more civilized.

Bai Li turned his head and shouted at Tengfeng: "You brat is in a daze again, get off the boat, follow me closely."

After getting off the boat, Tengfeng once again looked back at the group of coolies who were going back and forth, only they seemed to be no different from the slaves in Fengcheng. For some reason, his heart suddenly became frightened, and he dared not step on the carriage that came to meet them .

Fujimine was afraid of the carriage. He didn't know the reason, but only vaguely remembered that something bad had happened on the carriage.

Uncle Yu's subordinates seemed a little impatient, one of the guards simply lifted Tengfeng onto the horse's back, so to everyone's surprise, Tengfeng seemed to be familiar with it, and he didn't reject it at all. He rode the horse before the guard got on the horse ran up.

Bai Li's expression can be said to be quite pleasantly surprised. This weird behavior of Fuji Peak made him say: "So the brat can ride a horse."

The carriage carrying Bai Li started slowly, but the guard stayed where he was, and he said helplessly, "Master, please slow down."

"Okay, I'm not the young master..." Tengfeng stopped the horse so that the guard could catch up, and whispered.

The guard didn't seem to hear clearly, he said immediately after getting on the horse: "Thank you, young master, otherwise I will be blamed by the lord."

Fujimine didn't continue to deny it this time, he was afraid that the other party might get angry if he knew the truth, so he simply kept silent all the way, so he felt a little drowsy after a while.

It is quite disrespectful to lose your mind when getting along with others. Because Fujimine is often in a daze, Bai Li once warned him very solemnly, and also emphasized the etiquette at the table, such as not touching the food with your sleeves when eating, but Once when he was eating barbecue by himself, his sleeves were stained with oil, and the boatmen booed for a while, saying that he was poor and fastidious. Since then, he no longer asked Fujimine what to do, so the problem of Fujimine being in a daze from time to time was deeply rooted. .

When he came back to his senses, Fujimine realized that his hair was still wet, and several female slaves were tidying his clothes back and forth. The only thing he had to do at the moment was to open his hands and stand up straight.

The bath water and clothes were prepared by Uncle Yu's order. There are both inner and outer clothes, and shoes. Tengfeng can't tell what kind of material it is, but it feels very soft to wear, and it is softer than the ones that Bai Li gave him before. Much more comfortable.

He is not yet old enough to tie his hair, so the female slave behind him simply tied up the ends of his hair after drying it, and brought sesame oil. This dress up.

Tengfeng didn't like the smell of sesame oil before, it would make him sneeze all the time, so he never needed this step when he lived in Shenjun's mansion, so when the first "Ah!" Stay away from those pungent things, but it's too late.

"Ah!" "Ah!"

Before the dinner held by Uncle Yu, Fujimine had been troubled by sneezing.

The female slaves confessed their crimes in fear, but Fujimine just waved his hands to make them retreat. He only stared blankly at his hands when they left, as if the action just now was normal, but he just couldn't remember the past Where did you do it.

Walking out of his room and walking through a path paved with gravel, Fujimine found himself walking into a garden, and the air outside made him feel much better...

There were willows, pine trees, and locust trees growing in the garden, but most of them were just saplings.Others cannot be named, probably transplanted from other places. The buildings here are not coherent, even a little loose. Fujimine always worries that he will get lost soon.

In the garden, an old man was leading a mule cart. There were several large water buckets on the cart. The surface of the bucket was wet. When the mule cart was moving forward, water kept dripping from the rear of the cart, and soon seeped into the surrounding soil. The old man walked along the path in the garden, and the water in the wooden barrel just spilled clean.

Going forward, passing through the garden, there is a battlefield with some weapons beside it. Fujimine walked over curiously, but he couldn't help but feel disappointed when he got closer. Those "weapons" were actually made of wood, probably from the battlefield. The owner usually uses it for practice.

Fujimine sighed and was about to turn around and return when a voice suddenly sounded behind him.

"who are you?"

Fujimine turned around and saw a tall, thin young man with broad shoulders and a powerful look.

His eyes are big, his hair is a bit messy, and his clothes are crooked. He looks a bit sloppy, let alone handsome.

"How did you get here?" He came to Tengfeng and looked down. "This is usually not a place for others to come in."

"But you came in too." Fujimine stared at him and said.

"Joke, of course I can come here, this is my place." He smiled and said indifferently, then he stretched out his hand, put it flat on his forehead, and looked around on tiptoe, passed After a while, he seemed to see something, and suddenly slapped his head and said, "Oh! You are the guests tonight, right?"

Fujimine didn't know if he could be regarded as a guest of their family. To be honest, he should be a person who has nothing to do with them, but he was indeed treated like a guest just now, so he nodded.

"Yes."