"Bang Bang..."
The wooden wheel car runs on the stone track line that can't be seen at a glance, and the sound of the collision between the wheel and the track is heard.
Zheng Kai sat by the window and yawned and opened his eyes.
There was a faint white light on the window covered with oil paper. It should be dawn outside.
Sporadic cold wind penetrated into the carriage through the window. It was chilly. Zheng Kai couldn't help wrapping his robe tightly and away from the window. The cold wind weakened a lot.
It wasn't so cold. Zheng Kai was in the mood to look at everything in the car.
More than a dozen rows of seats were arranged against the windows on both sides. Two people sat on each row. Unlike him and suhalcha, the people around him were wrapped in thick cotton padded jackets. Only he and suhalcha were dressed in robes during the day, and suhalcha trembled in his sleep.
The sky gradually lit up and the carriage began to be angry. The fat man sitting opposite got up, took a wooden bowl from his luggage and went to the front to beg for some water.
"It's in Jiangzhou."
The fat man held a wooden bowl and said to the same seat beside him. His voice had a rough smell after staying up late.
The same seat sighed, and there was also a lot of haggard in his voice: "it's over again this time. When we get to Shangshan, the waiter in the store should have prepared all the mules and horses. Let's go directly to Tangdi."
They talked about business. Because the fatigue of staying up late and taking the bus gradually dissipated, the whole person became bright again.
Suhalcha also woke up. He held his arm and asked Zheng Kai tremblingly:
"Where is this? The window paper is so eye-catching that you can't see it outside."
He spoke loudly and soon attracted the eyes of the people around him, but after a moment of amazement, he said to himself:
"I forgot. Now we're on the wooden wheelbarrow. It's really amazing. When the lecture hall graduates, I'll go to the ordnance mansion and make these rare things, just like this unicycle."
The fat man opposite has a bad complexion:
"Please, this wooden wheel car can't be built casually. The Lord hurt many people and was obstructed by many people in order to promote it. If the Lord hadn't insisted, who could see the benefits of this wooden wheel car."
Suhalcha looked at the fat man up and down in a bad tone:
"Why, listen to your tone, you don't look up to me."
Next to him, he waved his hand: "no, the grass people are just a shopkeeper. How dare they look down on you? Just some people look down on the Lord. I can't tolerate any disrespectful words and offensive places to the Lord. I hope you don't get angry."
Zheng Kai patted suhalcha on the shoulder, smiled and said:
"The shopkeeper invited me. My friend said something wrong. Please forgive me. It was the first time for us to take this wooden wheel car. We slept for a long time. We felt tired and tight. We were a little unhappy. We couldn't help being impulsive in our tone. Don't be angry, shopkeeper."
Looking at Zheng Kaihao's words, the fat shopkeeper also put away his momentum, lowered his posture and said:
"Don't you dare ask the military master?"
"Vulgar guard, shopkeeper may not have heard of it. I'm Zheng Kai."
The fat shopkeeper stood up at once. His head came to the board on the seat to put his luggage. It hurt.
The same seat held the fat shopkeeper and said with a smile:
"Forgive me, Mr. Zheng. My shopkeeper was frightened by your name. The bloody barbarian has a great life in the north. He can stop children crying at night. Our businessmen respect the general very much."
Suhalcha was interested: "he kills people like a hemp, aren't you afraid?"
The fat shopkeeper seems to dislike suhalcha, and his tone still smells of fireworks:
"It depends on who you kill."
"When the Lord first came to Xuanfu, there were a lot of bandits in the north. Don't talk about my business. The people often had the tragedy of being robbed of food and starving to death in the whole village. Later, the Lord hurt the killers and the bandits in the north were almost banned. We can live a good life."
"When general Zheng assisted General Zhang Lu in guarding the north, he was even more cruel. He was even more cruel to the Tule people and grassland horse bandits who dared to rebel. He almost never left prisoners and won the title of blood barbarians."
"The northern business road is smooth all the way. I never see horse bandits and thieves making trouble. This is the credit of general Zheng."
Zheng Kai was praised and his heart was warm. Damn it, those bastards in the court criticized themselves many times in the name of killing prisoners. They really don't understand his mother's shit. Can you be wrong with the way the prince personally executed to treat prisoners.
Suhalcha was pushed several times and had a temper in his heart. Hearing the speech, he said irritably:
"Blood barbarian is not a good name."
"Who cares"
The fat shopkeeper said a word, which attracted the onlookers around to agree one after another.
"Who cares about this? The people care about living."
"Without general Zheng, Beidi didn't know how many people would die."
"At least there was no food robbed and the whole village starved to death."
"When have we starved to death since the LORD came to power?"
"Fart didn't starve to death. I heard those officials yell yesterday. If the documents can't be sent to Jiangzhou, people will starve to death."
"That's Tang, Tang. Well, it has something to do with our Han people."
In the noise, Zheng Kai smiled and asked the fat shopkeeper opposite.
"Shopkeeper, why, are there Tang people starving to death in Jiangzhou?"
The fat shopkeeper nodded: "it's not Zha di. There are many bandits and defeated troops in Tangdi, and many people have been robbed. There are many deaths. Life is very difficult, and many people starve to death."
"In order to survive, they crossed Shangshan and came to Jiangzhou to make a living. Now there are many refugees in Jiangzhou. The allocation of grain from the government treasury needs the approval of the Ministry of household. It will really kill people if it takes time."
"There are starving people in Tang because there are no cruel people like general. Now there are many business routes."
The fat shopkeeper sighed and said, I don't know whether it's for his own road or for the people in Tang.
Suhalcha frowned and didn't say a word until he got off the bus.
In the past, when he was in the north, he advised Zheng Kai more than once to do less evil, and the demoted Sergeant could not be killed.
But today, the fat shopkeeper and the shopkeepers of these wooden wheel dealers let suhalcha understand one thing. Killing people is like a hemp. Sometimes it's not a bad thing.
At least for the looted people, it's not a bad thing.
By the time the car arrived in Shangshan, it was already making progress.
They got out of the car with large and small bags of documents, asked the guard on duty at the post station, borrowed a fast horse and rushed to Shangshan camp.
As soon as they left the post station, they were surrounded by a large number of hungry people.
"Are there official documents from the Ministry of household, adults?"
"The adult with the official documents of the household department, help."
"The last car didn't arrive. If it doesn't arrive this time, our family will starve to death."
In all kinds of voices, Zheng Kaiyi pulled out of the crowd.
Suhalcha was puzzled:
"Let's take the paperwork with us and tell them. It doesn't make them all happy."
Zheng Kai snorted coldly:
"Do you believe they will come up and rob you of your documents? At that time, they will be crowded to death by so many victims. Will you lose, new prince?"