Chapter 1477 Private Visit (Thanks to the reward from book friend "Springfallz")
These two symptoms are not difficult to distinguish, but the child's pulse is weak and his stool is loose, which makes people mistakenly think it is diarrhea.
Man Bao was explaining to him how to diagnose this disease. When he looked up and saw Master Tang, he nodded to him. After he finished talking to Zheng Gu, he turned around and saluted Master Tang. "Brother Tang, why are you here?"
Lord Tang asked with a smile, "Are you ready to go? We'll talk on the way."
Manbao turned around and went back to get the medicine box. After saying something to Zhou Liru, she followed Lord Tang out. Before leaving, she glanced at the kitchen with regret. She could already smell the aroma of steamed pork with rice flour at the tip of her nose.
Manbao put the medicine box on the cart, glanced at Master Tang's horse, and asked, "Brother Tang, where are we going?"
"Let's go to your house." Lord Tang handed the horse to his attendant and got into Daji's carriage with her. He said, "Let's talk in the carriage."
Manbao sat down in his seat and was very curious, "What are you going to do in my house?"
She thought he was going to treat her to a meal.
Lord Tang asked with a smile, "Is your fourth brother back?"
Manbao nodded.
"I heard he's doing tea business with Hu merchants?"
Manbao nodded, confused, "What's wrong?"
"Do you know the origins of those foreign merchants?" Lord Tang asked. "I heard they have been buying salt since the beginning of the first month of the lunar year."
Manbao said, "They're buying salt, not iron. What are they afraid of?"
Lord Tang knocked her on the head and laughed, "Don't make trouble. Others may not know, but don't you? Salt is as important as iron."
Manbao thought for a moment and said, "My fourth brother only does tea business with them. You'll have to ask them about the salt yourself."
Lord Tang nodded, "I'll go ask right away."
Manbao: ...
So he was just taking a ride with her.
Lord Tang said, "I'm wearing plain clothes and will be waiting for you at your house. Please don't reveal my identity."
He said, "Today is my first day at the yamen, and I just realized that the people from Jingzhao Prefecture have been keeping an eye on them."
Manbao asked curiously, "Is your Ministry of Justice still involved in this matter? Shouldn't Chang'an County and Wannian County be in charge of this?"
Lord Tang sighed, "Unfortunately, I am the magistrate of Chang'an County."
Manbao was stunned for a moment before figuring out what was going on and asked, "Transferred?"
Lord Tang sighed.
It's not easy to be the county magistrate of Chang'an County.
When they arrived at Zhou's house, Manbao handed the medicine box to Daji and took Lord Tang directly to find her fourth brother.
Zhou Silang was taking A Liudun and the others to look at tea leaves. He brewed tea of each type for them to drink. However, they didn't just drink the tea, but chewed the tea leaves together.
Zhou Silang looked bitter, but he actually ate it with gusto, saying, "It will definitely taste better if cooked with our milk. It's perfect with meat."
"Fourth brother," Manbao stood in front of the courtyard gate and waved at him, calling him over. Lord Tang then came out from behind the door and spoke a few words to him.
Zhou Silang frowned slightly, but soon relaxed his brows and led Lord Tang directly to meet A Liudun and several other Hu people.
Ah Liudun looked at Lord Tang curiously and thought that the clothes he was wearing were particularly nice.
Zhou Silang spoke half in Mandarin and half in Chinese, and then introduced him using gestures, "A Liudun, this is my sister, and this is my friend. I heard you were visiting, so I came to see you and make friends."
Lord Tang also knew some of the Hu language spoken on the grassland, and they could barely understand some of Ah Liudun's Chinese, so everyone sat down and communicated.
But Zhou Silang felt tired of hearing their pleasantries, so he simply asked on behalf of Lord Tang, "A Liudun, why do you go buy salt every day?"
When this matter was mentioned, Ah Liudun could not help but complain, "You people from the Central Plains are too stingy. You can only buy one liter every time you go to the store."
When his companions heard this, they nodded repeatedly, "How stingy."
Mr. Tang paused and couldn't help asking, "What do you need so much salt for?"
"Take it back to the tribe," Ah Liudun gestured. "In my hometown, I have to walk such a long way to buy salt. One liter of salt costs three adult sheep. Here, I can buy it for the price of one sheep."
A companion beside him added: "It's not very bitter."
"Yes, our salt is too bitter. Yours is better."
Lord Tang asked, "Is the salt you have bought now enough for your tribe to use for a year?"
"That's enough," Ah Liudun said, "but I plan to bring some back to my mother's tribe as well. Then I can exchange one liter of salt for two sheep."
Zhou Silang couldn't help but give a thumbs up and said, "You are really amazing. You can make so much money by reselling it."
Ah Liudun said embarrassedly, "I need some money for the journey. By the way, sheep are so expensive here. Do you want any sheep?"
He said, "The sheep in our Tufa tribe are very good and delicious."
Zhou Silang shook his head, "My family can't eat so many sheep."
Manbao, who was standing by, suddenly remembered something and asked, "Do you have any cows? We are short of cows."
Zhou Silang quickly stopped her and said, "Don't do that. On the ninth day of the first lunar month, Master Bai brought two cows to our house, saying that you paid for them, one male and one female. Our yard couldn't hold them all, so we put them all in the small courtyard. If you buy more, we'll have to buy more land to build a cowshed."
And how desperate must he be to lead a cow home from such a long distance?
Lord Tang couldn't help but glance at him and said, "Although your family doesn't need cattle, maybe someone in the village needs one. The cattle on the grassland are quite good."
Manbao asked A Liudun directly, "How do you sell your cattle?"
Ah Liudun scratched his head and said tentatively, "One cow for fifty tea cakes."
Zhou Silang, who was anxious, suddenly calmed down. He looked at Manbao, then at Lord Tang, and immediately turned to Ah Liudun and asked with a smile, "Are you sending him to the capital?"
"That won't work. If we send it to the capital, we'll have to add twenty more tea cakes."
Zhou Silang said, "Ten. We'll also transport all the tea to the capital. In fact, your Tufa tribe is closer to the capital than our Mianzhou is to here. It costs us a lot to transport the tea."
Ah Liudun said, "Your tea is small, but our cattle are big and alive, so they are hard to drive."
"We're not just selling cattle. Bring your furs next time you come. If you have any good medicinal herbs, I'll take them too. By the way, I know a lot of herbalists. There are some very popular herbs on your grassland." Zhou Silang said with a smile, "I also grow medicinal herbs at home. Maybe I can trade them with you?"
Lord Tang already knew what he wanted to know, so he decided not to sit here and disturb their business talks, and stood up.
Manbao saw Zhou Lijun took out an abacus and clattered it aside, constantly telling Zhou Silang what the bottom price was. The two sides had already discussed from cattle and medicinal herbs to gems, so she became less interested and stood up to invite Lord Tang to the main hall.
Lord Tang stood in the corridor with his hands behind his back. He reached out and plucked the peony tree in front of him. He turned and said to Manbao, "There's a very strange peony tree in my backyard. It's been growing wildly recently. I heard from my wife that you sold that peony tree before?"
Manbao raised his head halfway up to the sky and decided to continue the previous topic with him. "Brother Tang, isn't the grassland unstable? They just bought some salt, how did it become a case?"
Lord Tang asked, "Is there a peony tree in the palace?"
The two of them stared at each other for a long time, and finally Manbao gave in, "Mrs. Tang knows everything."
See you tomorrow
(End of this chapter)
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