Chapter 188 Close the city
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Luo Heng nodded slowly and said, "It's not that I don't believe in Xiner, but I just think that Xiner will do business and let others know that he will be looked down upon by scholars and will affect his future official career. ∑."
"Yes, Xin'er." Luo Zhi took the conversation and said with concern: "Scholars, farmers, businessmen, businessmen have the lowest status. If you go to do business, you will lose the opportunity to become an official. Merchants compete for profit and are despised by Shilin. Don't be careless."
Luo Xin nodded and said, "I know, I'm just giving others some ideas, it's not me who does business."
"That's good!" Luo Heng and Luo Zhi nodded together, with a relaxed look on their faces. Then, Luo Heng's face tightened again:
"We clean up overnight and strive to enter the city as soon as possible."
"Dad, our family only has one ox cart, which is not enough." Luo Ye said.
"Then I will make another car overnight. Then I, you, and Sheng'er take turns to pull the car."
Luo Ye then looked at Luo Ping and said, "Second brother, you have three horses in your family. Can you borrow one to pull a cart?"
Before Luo Ping could speak, Luo Xin immediately spoke, "No, we can't guarantee that we will not encounter bandits on the way to the county town, so all horses must be prepared to fight at any time."
At first, when I heard Luo Xin disagree, let alone Luo Ye, even Luo Heng's face looked a little bad. However, after listening to Luo Xin's explanation, Luo Heng glared at Luo Ye and said:
"Did you hear it? It's not as thoughtful as Xiner at such an old age."
"Yes!" Luo Ye responded with his head down.
"Grandpa, we have three horses in our family and three in Uncle Zhang's family. At that time, the four servants of the teacher's family will leave with us, so that we will have ten horses. As long as we don't encounter big bandits, we should be able to safely arrive at the county town."
"Yeah!" Luo Heng said proudly: "Grandpa is not a vegetarian, and the Zhang family should have some gentle and strong servants following him. Even if there are one or two hundred bandits, we can deal with them."
Luo Xin nodded and chatted for a few more words. Luo Ping and Luo Xin said goodbye. After leaving the house, Luo Xin told his father that he was going to Lin Chang's house and invited the teacher to go to the county town with him. He walked towards Lin Chang's house. Luo Ping went back to pack up his things.
Lin Chang agreed very happily. In this era, the teacher was like his father. Lin Chang felt that it was normal to live in Luo Xin's house in the county town. After receiving the teacher's reply, Luo Xin returned home happily.
the next day.
The whole village was busy, and Zhang Shu took his servants to distribute the food. Zhang Shu's wife directed other servants at home to pack up the fines and grains and other things to be moved away.
In the afternoon, Zhou Yu and Zhang Xun came to Shanglin Village with four yamen runners. The two of them were afraid that Zhang Shu and Luo Xin would not move to the county town, so they rushed back to Shanglin Village in person. Zhou Zhixian was not worried about them, so they selected four yamen runners with relatively good martial arts to protect them.
Luo Xin was happy when he saw them. Each of the brothers had a knife on his body. This was not the kind of decorative sword that the scholar brought, but the real killing knife. But the two brothers didn't want to cut people with their swords.
I spent six days busy this time, but in fact, most of the time was waiting for the Zhang Shu family. The Luo family had a small family. Even if the Luo Xin family had improved, the time was too short and there was not much to take. A ox cart solved the problem. The cart was filled with the big box where Luo Xin was writing articles, and the food occupied some space. As for the fineness and softness...
Luo Xin's family didn't have much money, but his grandfather's family had a lot of things, which made Luo Xin sigh that the family was worth a lot of money. As long as this family existed for a long time, there would be a lot of things. It was loaded with a full ox cart and a cart of Luo Ye pulled it. That's it. Some things were placed on the ox cart of Luo Xin's family.
Zhang Shu's family had four cars, including two ox carts, two donkey carts, and a mule-pulled cart. Zhang Shu's wife sat on it, and invited Luo Xin's grandmother, mother, aunt, Zhang Shu's two sister-in-law, and several little girls to sit on it. As for the man, just walk on two legs.
Zhang Shu's two younger brothers also have two cars, one ox cart and one donkey cart. Now there are twelve cars in total, but eleven of them are carts pulled by livestock, while Luo Heng's family has one cart pulled by Luo Ye.
The number of horses increased to sixteen, but Zhou Yu and Zhang Xun actually had no combat power and could not be considered a cavalry at all. However, no one dared to borrow horses from them. Even Luo Ye, who was pulling a cart, was not easy to speak, and Luo Xin was even more difficult to speak. If he encountered bandits, these two people would also be able to escape on horseback. Zhou Yu was the son of Zhou Magistrate Zhou and Zhang Shu's son of Zhang Xun. Zhang Xun wanted to ride the horse for his father to ride, but Zhang Shu sat next to the cart boss and refused to ride. He also repeatedly told him that if bandits appeared, they would quickly ride a horse and escape if they had the chance, and didn't care about his father.
Luo Xin asked Zhou Yu and Zhang Xun to lead four yamen runners and the rear guards with their combat power, so it was okay to follow behind. The three cavalrymen of Zhang Shu family were placed on the right by Luo Xin, and the four husbands of Lu Mansion Luo Xin placed three on the left, and the remaining one went to investigate as a scout. Luo Ping, Luo Qing and Luo Xinye were walking in front to open the way.
At the beginning, Luo Ye and Luo Sheng were thinking about letting Luo Xin give the horse to one of them. They were worried that Luo Xin, a scholar, would hurt him, but Luo Xin's words "Your riding skills are not good" made the man and his father hang down. However, they had never rode horses. Last time they robbed Zhang Shu's servant's horse to chase the bandits, but they almost fell off the horse. However, Luo Xin and his son had horses early at home, and Luo Xin did not ride less when they went back to the county, so they still had some basic riding skills.
Shanglin Village gradually moved away from behind. Twelve cars, plus dozens of people, were walking towards the county town on the road, and they formed a line. Zhang Yunniang sat in the donkey cart and looked at Luo Qing's back, blinking her eyes and blushing, and her face flushed.
A sound of horse hooves woke up the dazed Zhang Yunniang. She looked forward and saw the clerk of the Lu Mansion riding a horse and running towards them quickly.
"Young Master Luo, it's not good." The servant's face looked serious.
"What's wrong?" Luo Xin was also startled and asked hurriedly.
"The county town has been closed, and the suspension bridge is suspended, so it is not allowed to enter the city. Many refugees gather outside the city and are blocked outside."
"Why?" Everyone gathered around and asked in a verbal way.
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