Chapter Thirty-eight

bond

the next day.

The owner of the animal took a group of chained people to the inn to finish the gold, and talked with the shopkeeper Niaoyu. The shopkeeper is a Han Chinese who has been in Eternal Border for several years and can speak some nonsense, but he still finds it difficult to communicate, and his face is as black as ink.

"What? So short," the shopkeeper gestured at his chest, "is it a girl?"

Xiao Er leaned over and listened, "There is no such person in the inn, only a short young master, are you talking about him?"

The Hu man could speak a little Chinese, and he heard that he was a man, so he shook his head immediately, wishing he could fight with the shopkeeper's waiter.

Xiao Er went upstairs and knocked on the door, and called back to the shopkeeper, "No one answered, the box in the backyard is gone, I think it's for business?"

The shopkeeper summoned the accountant, "It's really unlucky, you take him to the backyard and tell the servants to watch over him, give him a bottle of wine, and give him some perspiration medicine."

The accountant nodded, and was about to speak when Ji Si appeared from the door holding her skirt and said softly, "Come and collect the final payment."

The shopkeeper and the others were taken aback for a moment, but the barbarian was really excited seeing Ji Si, and gestured to Ji Si to look at the more than twenty people standing in the lobby.

Ji Si nodded: "Follow me."

On the other side, Qin Jun put down her folding fan, sat on a chair, took a sip of the thick tea in front of her, moved her cup away with a slight frown, and smiled kindly at a powerful man sitting on the seat.

Jin Xiu said softly, "The young master said that the tea is not good."

Qin Jun: "..."

The big man's name is Hu Yulei. This morning, he asked someone to send a post, and invited Qin Jun to come to the house to explain, saying that he wanted her remaining five carts of goods.Hu Yulei was next to a Han interpreter, and he translated what Jin Xiu said to Hu Xielei with a contemptuous look on his face.

Hu Yulei was only wearing animal skins, his skin was dark, his earlobes and nose were all pierced, and he laughed and babbled at the Han people beside him.

The translator then translated the words to Qin Jun, "It's normal that the young master is not used to drinking it. The tea from the Eternal Border is discarded by people in the Central Plains. The old tea stalks cut from the tea tree are as thick as bran rice and cannot be boiled and ground.It’s not fine, but it’s a good thing to keep outside the customs.”

Qin Jun put down the teacup, picked up a folding fan, and unrestrainedly showed it, indicating that Hu Xielei had said it before, how could it be so exaggerated.

"The tea we drank is not bad. If it were the barbarian people outside the Guan, a little tea would have to be used several times, drinking it from dark green to light green, tsk tsk, it is the tea we drank, collected and dried and fried again, it can also be used.Sell it." Hu Xielei said triumphantly.

Qin Jun raised her brows, before she could react, she heard Jin Xiu say, "A profiteer."

"..."

The translation is babbling, two words are translated into two sentences, it can be seen that there is a lot of embellishment.

Qin Jun: "..."

Hu Yulei's complexion darkened, and he suppressed his seizures. He put down the teacup and stood up.

Translation: "That's it, just take a look at the goods of the young master."

Qin Jun also got up, and the four of them came to the courtyard. Five carts of goods had been unpacked, one and a half carts of silk cloth, half a cart of salt, one cart of medium tea, and the rest were scattered playthings, such as children's rattles,Tiger-head shoes, masks, throwing pot tools, and playthings such as rouge powder used by women, as well as half a cart of common medicinal materials, used to treat diseases such as wind and cold.

Hu Yulei squinted his eyes slightly, walked around the goods, and nodded repeatedly.

Jin Xiu: "Only gold and silver."

The translator and Hu Yulei looked at Jin Xiu together.

Hu Yulei was disdainful, and opened his mouth in Chinese with a strange accent: "A maid, can she speak for your young master?"

Qin Jun glanced sideways, and Jin Xiu said, "My young master is in business for the first time, and he came to Eternal Border to find out about the goods."

Qin Jun smiled and signaled Jin Xiu not to interrupt, took out a document from her sleeve, and handed it to the Han Chinese who was acting as an interpreter beside Hu Yulei.

The person unfolded the document, read it carefully, and said in surprise: "The general text of Capital!"

When Hu Xielei asked what he meant in Hu language, the translator explained to him that there were documents, and the caravans that came here to purchase were people from the Capital mansion, and they supplied the goods directly to nobles such as princes, county kings, and city officials who passed by.It is impossible to wantonly scrape the caravan.In this way, the tariffs paid are less, and naturally it can also give some discounts to Eternal Border merchants.

With this document alone, there are many people who are willing to do business with Qin Jun. Qin Jun smiled, took out another drawing paper, and handed it to Hu Yulei.

A snow lotus is drawn on the paper.

"What's the meaning?"

"I won't come back to Eternal Border, but business can still be done. From now on, we will only trade money and goods with your family. The condition is that you must find this snow lotus for the young master."

Qin Jun took out another stack of greeting cards, shook it with a smile, and indicated to her that there are many people who are greedy for this batch of goods.

Hu Yulei could only say that he didn't know Chinese characters, so he immediately pulled the translator aside and discussed the documents over and over again.

The translator said: "Why did you find Shang Hu?"

Qin Jun spread her hands, and Jin Xiu said coldly, "I grabbed it from the invitation with my eyes closed."

Huren: "..."

Jin Xiu said: "Bring the pen and ink."

The servant offered pen and ink, Qin Jun took the pen and spoke instead, and discussed the business with Hu Yulei in detail.

From Jiang Prefecture to Eternal Border, the two places communicate with each other, because it is a document specially approved by the imperial court, and in order to prevent too many tyrants from intervening in civil business and affecting the livelihood of the people, this kind of stationery is made in one batch per year and can be used twice.

Qin Jun puts pen to paper: Make a one-year agreement first.

Hu Yulei nodded, and spent a whole day with Qin Jun to discuss the value of the goods, how to trade them, how to settle the payment, and which items were ordered by Qin Zhou as the main goods.

In this way, Qin Jun became Hu Yulei's supplier in the hinterland of Qin and Zhou. It was an experiment for one year. If there was a profit, he would discuss future cooperation. In addition, as the condition for Qin Jun to choose Hu Yulei,He needs to send a barbarian for Qin Jun to go to the deep belly of Hudi to find Tianshan snow lotus for Qin Jun.

At noon, Qin Jun also sent someone to invite Qin Zhou and Hu Ren's officials stationed in Eternal Border. These two people will be witnesses to prevent Qin Jun and Hu Yulei from breaking their promises in the future.

The contract was fixed, and at dusk, Qin Jun left Hu Yulei's residence, and all he saw were tall barbarians guarding the gate, and the hidden guards guarded the gate for a day, and when Qin Jun got into the car, he drove away immediately.

Jin Xiu checked the medicine on Qin Jun's face, and said, "There is something wrong here, I need to leave as soon as possible, I don't know if Jiang Prefecture and Capital have got the news of the princess."

The medicine on Qin Jun's face was applied for too long, and his face was itchy, but he didn't dare to scratch it, "It's okay, leave the Eternal Border and write a letter back, father and grandfather won't worry."

Jin Xiu could only sigh, and had nothing to do with Qin Jun.

Outside the inn, Ji Si had already loaded all the items into the car, Uncle King was pulling the horse, Song Wenzhou looked depressed, and they were all waiting for Qin Jun to come back before leaving Eternal Border immediately.

Ji Si was followed by more than 20 human victims, all of whom were boys and girls of different races with different skin colors. Although they had been cleaned and changed into new clothes, they still looked as godlike as dead wood.

Qin Jun changed seats in her own three-compartment carriage, "Let them sit on the cargo box, and we'll talk about it when we leave the city."

Uncle King: "No."

"drive!"

Everyone left the Eternal Border exchange market and went out of the city. Behind them, merchants from various countries were still shouting.

"Horse merchant! Horse merchant! Come back next year!"

The Uncle King took off his veiled hat and made a casual move, looked at the animals sitting on the edge of the box carriage behind him, turned his head and flicked the reins to catch up with Qin Jun's carriage.

On the carriage, Qin Jun almost scratched her face anxiously, "itch."

Ji Si locked her wrists, held her in her arms, and coaxed her in a low voice: "Don't move, princess."

Jin Xiu frowned, quickly cleaned Qin Jun's face, and removed the herbs, "This medicine won't last long, why don't you let Doctor Song look at it and mix it with something useful?"

Qin Jun chuckled, "An imperial doctor has prepared rat medicine and drug for ecstasy. Now let him make a mask?"

"Mask?" Jin Xiu asked.

Qin Jun explained it all, and began to talk at length: "The mask is..."

As the night deepened, the horses galloped, and the dust rolled up turned into several black spots and disappeared before the eyes.

Two hours later, the defenders of the Eternal Border were awakened again.A team of horses with no trailer appeared outside the city.

Chengwei hugged the gun and rubbed his eyes, "A businessman? How many people are here? Is there a clearance procedure?"

The leader covered his face, handed over a painting, and asked in a low voice, "Have you seen this person before?"

Cheng Wei leaned closer to the painting, and saw that the person in the painting was still childish, his eyes were full, and when he smiled, there were two dimples on his lips, he couldn't help being stunned.

"I've never seen it before. How could there be such women on the Eternal Border? The only women here are maidservants and human animals." The soldier yawned lazily.

The masked man narrowed his eyes and said, "A group of barbarians died outside the city, who did it?"

City Guard: "What!?"

The masked man said: "If a person changes his appearance, his face can be changed, but his eyes are hard to distinguish. Look carefully at her eyes."

The city guard followed the moonlight in the desert and the white snow, stared at the eyes of the person in the painting, a flash of light flashed in his mind, and then went out in an instant, saying: "I can't think of it, maybe I have entered the city."

The masked man put away the painting, got on his horse, and said loudly, "I'm waiting for Jiang Guo's horse dealer, open the city gate!"

The convoy drove all night, heading west along the frontier, from yesterday evening to today's evening, a hundred miles away, the snow and water have melted along the way, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant, and spring is approaching.

When Qin Jun came, the Qin goods in the car had been replaced with various kinds of animal skins and jade, filling several compartments.And the box closest to Qin Jun's carriage contained half a carload of silver and some gold, all of which were exchanged from Hu Yulei.

Jin Xiu was puzzled and asked: "Miss, why did you take a long detour from the Eternal Border? Why don't you go out of the city and go straight to Jiang Prefecture."

Qin Jun said, holding a small box in his hand, which contained some small silver coins, and was putting them into some purses one by one, and said: "Go along the border, it's more convenient, find a place with a water source to stop and rest."

Jin Xiu: "No."

The horse recuperated and rested, and the hidden guards looked for a place by the river where the snow melted and cooked meat in a pot.

Qin Jun had already taken off her disguise at this moment, but due to applying the mask for too long, a rash appeared on her face, and with the mask on, she was not afraid of being spread by these people.

"This is still the Eternal Border, continue to go north, walk for a few days, and after passing through the customs, you will find your hometown." Qin Jun said to everyone.

The hidden guard came over with the meat, just put down the wooden barrel, and before he had time to take it out with the bowl, he was rushed by the animal, grabbed it with his hands and swallowed it directly, and was so hot that he coughed again and again and did not forget to hide the meat in his arms.

Jin Xiu protected Qin Jun and retreated, "They have been imprisoned for too long."

Several buckets of cooked food were emptied within a short while.

Qin Jun pursed her lips and continued: "If you are from the Western Regions, you have to go west along this road for more than a month before you can return to your own country."

"You were bought and sold here," Qin Jun said, and distributed the slave bonds and a purse of broken silver to everyone separately. "If you feel that the country is not peaceful and you don't want to go back, you can also find your own livelihood."

At this time, those people looked at Qin Jun infatuatedly.

Ji Si squatted by the water, holding the jade pendant in her hand, the water dripped down the puddle along the palm of her hand, splashing ripples.

Qin Jun stood in front of the crowd and said, "If you want to go home, you can follow me if you don't want to."

A woman suddenly said: "If you can get a free body, who would be willing to be a slave or a handmaid?"

Qin Jun looked at this person, and saw that she was tearful, her eyes were like emerald green lakes, she looked a little older, and she could speak some Chinese.

"Yes, you are allowed to be free. You can leave if you want. If you follow me, you will be servants who serve others." Qin Jun said.

Qin Jun didn't know if these people could understand, anyway, that's what they said.Everyone just didn't speak, they got the slave bond and the money, and knelt down to Qin Jun to kowtow.

During those days when human beings were sacrificed, they already understood the horror of losing their freedom. They were slaves of others and lived a life that was worse than death..

"I'm going!" said the older girl, wiped her mouth, grabbed a piece of gravel at her feet, and slapped her face hard with her hands, "Ah!"

Qin Jun was shocked, "You—"

The woman's face was covered with blood, trembling all over, she grabbed her purse and only took the deed but not the money, kowtowed heavily to Qin Jun, turned around and left!

The rest followed suit, all scratched their cheeks, kowtowed and left with the contract.

The younger one looked terrified and didn't know where to go, looked at Qin Jun in fear, and was about to be disfigured like his predecessors, when Jin Xiu flicked the hemp scriptures with internal force, dropped the gravel and cried loudly.

"If the world is unified, no one will be sacrificed." Qin Jun murmured as she watched the figures scattered into the vast land as they left the carriage.

"How can a gnat shake a tree?" Ji Si came over and took a handkerchief to wipe Ji Si's hands. "If the war continues for a day, these people will never disappear."

Qin Jun pursed her lips and said suddenly, "I still have a purse."

Ji Si glanced at her, "Huh?"

Jin Xiu handed over the rest of the purse, which contained Ji Si's bond and some broken silver.

Ji Si laughed abruptly, while Qin Jun looked at her nervously and asked nervously, "Will you leave?"

Ji Si took out the slave bond from her purse and handed it to Jin Xiu, leaving only the purse tied around her waist, "Don't leave, slaves want more than freedom."

Qin Jun's palms trembled.

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