Chapter 386 Letter From Afar

Xue Xu had a meal and left, returning to Houcheng.

Lv Songli met the six tribesmen he brought with him, and gave each of them a gift.

Finally, she kept Alice, and Lv Songli asked him to make his own arrangements for the other five.

Alice was a tall and burly woman, seven feet tall, and good at using a knife.

No matter where she went, she carried her big knife.

"Alice, are you full?" Lv Songli learned about her appetite from Xue Xu.

Alice touched her belly and nodded shyly, "Alice is full."

Lv Songli told her, "Remember to eat enough, don't be polite, don't starve yourself."

Alice hesitated, "But if I eat as much as I want, I will eat a lot of food in one meal."

"It's okay, eat as much as you want, you are here to protect me. In addition to paying you wages, I am also responsible for keeping you full. If you don't eat enough, how can you have the strength to protect me?"

"Then I will eat as much as I want next time?" Alice confirmed again. In fact, she wanted to say that even if she didn't eat enough, she would still have enough strength to protect her.

Lv Songli encouraged her, "Just eat as much as you want."

Alice's eyes were bright, and she nodded heavily, "Yes! Master, I listen to you."

"That's right."

Alice said solemnly, "Master, don't worry, Alice will protect you."

Lv Songli smiled, "I believe you."

Alice went out with a knife, and she stood guard outside the door. At this time, she was still a little excited. Those who were willing to let her have enough food were all good people. And her master also said that he would pay her wages?

She decided that if the master really paid her wages, the wages would be sent back to the clan by her second uncle. As long as she could have enough food and a place to sleep, it would be fine. Other things were not important.

Xue Xu left with five juniors.

Regarding his hurried pace, Xian Feng and others secretly wondered, "Strange, second uncle, didn't you say you would stay here for two days?"

Xue Xu touched his beard and said, "Your second uncle is busy with official duties, how can I have time to stay here?"

On the official road from Xi'anping County to Pingguo County, a group of people were galloping on horseback.

Qin Sheng rode his horse and galloped, and his personal soldiers urged the horse hard and chased after him.

But there was no way, the distance between the two sides was getting bigger and bigger.

The guards were helpless, because the handsome horse under the crotch of their Sixth Master was the top horse, the king of horses, and they were just riding ordinary horses.

Before, the Sixth Master would occasionally slow down and wait for them, but now that they were about to return to Pingguo County, he would definitely not wait for them.

The guards simply stopped chasing and maintained their usual speed.

At this time, they couldn't help but talk about the handsome mare under Qin Sheng's crotch.

Speaking of which, this mare was recently caught by them when they followed the Sixth Master to the deep grassland to find the largest herd of wild horses. This mare was very fierce, and no one except their Sixth Master would let her ride.

Qin Sheng met Xue Xu at the city gate. He dismounted and greeted him, "Mr. Xue, you are finally back?"

"Yes, I just got back."

"Mr. Xue, you should have just arrived in Guoping County? Are you leaving now?"

"Well, Madam Qin Liu has given me some instructions, and I have to go back to Houcheng to handle them."

Qin Sheng quickly made way, "Oh, so, then you go, I won't delay you." The wife's matter is important.

Xue Xu nodded modestly, "See you later."

"See you later."

When queuing to enter the city, Qin Sheng murmured, "This old man, there is something wrong."

But soon he put this matter behind his mind. After entering the city, he can see his wife. Who wants to think about that old man all the time?

Yuzhou, Xuchang

The south of Nanyang broke a new high today. After closing, the Yuzhou Grain Merchants Association counted that they sold a total of 10,000 stones of grain throughout the day, earning about 28,000 taels.

After raising the grain price to 280 Wen per dou, the Grain Merchants Association began to sell grain at a high price. The daily sales volume increased from a few hundred dan to over a thousand dan, and now over ten thousand dan.

Now that there is money coming in every day, Che Jiuming is in a good mood.

Che Jiuming believes that when the relief grain brought by Zhang Xian is eaten up, all the people in Nanyang will have to take out the gold and silver they have hidden to buy grain from the Grain Merchants Association.

He is going to get rich! Che Jiuming decided that for those who really have no money, he doesn't mind them selling themselves.

When he sells all the grain in his hands, he will use the silver to buy land in Nanyang at a low price. Those who sell themselves to him will become his hidden households, creating unlimited value for him every year.

Mei Mansion

In the living room, Mei Zishan and Zhou Beicheng sat opposite each other.

Mei Zishan glanced at Zhou Beicheng, who looked depressed, and said, "Do you regret it?"

"Well, don't you regret it?" Zhou Beicheng certainly regretted it. He sold that batch of grain at a price of 150 wen per dou, and he sold 200,000 shi at once.

Now the price of grain has risen to 280 wen per dou under Che Jiu Ming's operation. The price he sold it at is almost half cheaper. He couldn't help but feel heartbroken when he thought of losing so much.

Mei Zishan advised him, "Don't look at the fact that Che Jiu Ming has set the price of grain so high now, you have to sell it."

In Mei Zishan's view, grain that cannot be sold, no matter how high its total value is, is just book wealth.

When Zhou Beicheng heard his words, he was still hesitant in his heart, "I always feel that with the current trend, I can always eat big meat."

Mei Zishan rolled his eyes, "You are really greedy for this high price, you can just sell grain. I don't believe you sold all the grain?"

Zhou Beicheng didn't say anything. Even if he didn't sell all the grain, he sold most of it. They are grain merchants. How can they be called grain merchants without grain?

They all intercepted a part of the grain and didn't sell it all to Luoyang. Otherwise, how can they deal with Che Jiuming?

"Let's wait and see."

Now they just hope that Luoyang will use whatever tricks they have and make Che Jiuming unlucky. Otherwise, if Che Jiuming doesn't suffer, they will be the ones who suffer when they are discovered by the other party.

Chang'an, the palace

Eunuch Li received a secret letter from Liaodong County.

He opened it and saw that it told him to do something.

Eunuch Li's full name is Li Jieying. He was appreciated by Lu Yushi's second daughter, Lu Er, because he led the way. She invested in him.

He used the money to make arrangements and got himself into the service of Yugan Palace. Unfortunately, the previous emperor died young, and he was finished before he could start to exert his strength.

After the new emperor ascended the throne, he did not like the eunuchs who had been used during the previous emperor's time. For important occasions like Yugan Palace, people were replaced.

He was also transferred out of Yugan Palace for this reason.

Later, before Lord Lu was sent out, he even gave him some people in the palace. These people were all secret and could come in handy at critical moments.

He is now a eunuch with real power in the palace. Although he is not as good as the several eunuchs in front of the emperor and the chief steward in the palace of the Empress Dowager, he can still have a say in the palace.

Li Jieying didn't know that he was just one of Lu Songli's wide-ranging network. After he emerged, he was trained by her.

Eunuch Li Jieying always remembered that Lu Songli had a favor for him.

He did what she asked him to do if he could do it, and tried his best to do the difficult things.