"Of course there is!" Zhenyu looked at him strangely and said, "Since you have come to our Miao family, why don't you know the customs of our Miao family at all? The Miao villages in Jiuxiang Shibawu all raise snakes. Our Miao family and snakes are inseparable, and they are just different in their uses."

And Gu.

Zhenyu added a sentence in his heart, but did not say it out. Everyone knows that there are snakes in Miao Village, but rarely knows Gu. Because Gu is the secret that the Miao Village does not pass on, and it is passed on to girls and not men. They are all passed on to their daughters by their mothers. Even the men in Miao Village are not qualified to know. Li Mu, a Han family, naturally has no qualifications.

"Oh?" Li Mu said curiously: "What are the differences?"

"You really don't know anything," Zhenyu shook his head and explained to Li Mu: "Snakes are poisonous, do you know? But snakes are also medicinal herbs, do you know?"

Li Mu nodded and said, "I know this, snake gallbladder cures diseases and snake wine nourishes."

"I really know," Zhenyu looked at Li Mu unexpectedly and added: "Snake skin can also be used as clothes, shoes, and meat. In short, the whole body of the snake is treasured. However, the use of our Miao Village for snakes is not the same. Our Bai Miao mainly uses snakes to treat diseases, but Wu Miao has good use of snake venom."

"poison?"

"Yeah." Zhenyu continued: "Wu Miao not only often carries poisonous snakes with you, but also makes various snake venoms with you. If you meet me, you will have to poison you."

"Didn't it mean that Wu Miao is getting closer to the Han family?"

"Getting close does not mean that we are with you. We are just imitating you. The Miao family is always Miao family, and the Han family is always Han family. No matter how much we fight, it is our own business. Do you understand?"

"Oh oh oh," Li Mu nodded quickly, and it was indeed the case.

Perhaps because he got along with Li Mu, Zhenyu's vigilance was reduced, and he said a few more words: "I'm going to go back to Ruosou. In addition to attending the Miao Village Conference for my father, I also have to send the medicines that my father has refined to the saint. The saint is going to have a child, which is a major event in our Miao Village."

middle!

Li Mu was overjoyed and hurriedly said, "Did you saint just return to the holy mountain? Well, it's only two or three months? Is her surname Wang and she looks very beautiful?"

Zhenyu frowned, stared at Li Mu, and said, "We Saint Maiden is indeed not long after we come back and are very beautiful. But I don't know what her surname is. What do you care about our Saint Maiden so much? Could it be that the person you are looking for is our Saint Maiden, right?"

"Yes!" Li Mu said excitedly: "There are some misunderstandings between us. She left me without saying goodbye. I came to her this time to solve the misunderstanding and take her away. I know you don't believe me. In this way, can you take me to find her? As long as you see her, you will understand everything!"

"Oh?" Zhenyu looked at Li Mu strangely and stopped talking. Li Mu was waiting for her to reply, but what was going on? Li Mu said anxiously: "Or how can you tell me where she is? I can find it myself!"

"You guy--" Zhenyu stretched out his hand, touched Li Mu's forehead, and said, "Your head is not hot, it's not cold, why are you talking nonsense? You're also talking about us saints. As you say, is the child in our saint's belly yours?"

"Yes, it's mine!"

"Forget it, I think you're sick." Zhenyu took off the bag, took out a cloth bag from it, and opened two black pills inside; "Hey, eat one to relieve the miasma. There will be a little miasma in the forest sooner or later, you must have had hallucinations of miasma. It's okay, just eat it."

"What do you care about!" Li Mu pushed away Zhenyu's hand and said, "I didn't talk nonsense to you. All I said was true. Didn't you tell you? If you don't believe me, take me to see her and I'll let her tell you personally."

"You can't see the saint." Zhenyu had already regarded Li Mu as a patient and said patiently: "Didn't you tell you that the Han family will not enter the Holy Mountain. Also, I want to tell you that the saint has nothing to do with you. Because the saint has a husband, and her husband is our leader. Her children cannot be yours, but our leader's son!"

"Bah!" Li Mu jumped and cursed: "I said it was mine, it was mine. The leader you mentioned was Cui Yuzheng, right? Didn't I look down on him? Is his thing very useful?"

"You are so vulgar!" Zhenyu blushed in shame, glared at Li Mu fiercely, and said, "I don't recognize what Cui Yuzheng you said. I don't know what our leader is calling. I don't know what our leader is calling. Anyway, I tell you, be careful. If Wu Miao hears you say this, you will definitely bite you by snakes."

"Hmph!" Li Mu was about to say that he was not afraid, but then he thought that he had no systematic help and was really bitten. He probably couldn't stand it. He still stopped talking. After a while, Li Mu said, "Storm, I don't make things difficult for you. Let's do this, take me to the market you mentioned, and we will separate, and I will find a way to do it myself."

"Oh, why don't you listen to it?" Zhenyu saw that he made up his mind, so he stopped persuading him. Anyway, he would definitely not be able to enter the Holy Mountain. He should hurry up and take him away when he comes back and send him across the river.

After making up his mind, Zhenyu nodded and said, "Okay, then I will take you to the market. You can find a way yourself. If you can't think of a solution, you will be waiting for me there. When I go back, I will send you to the other side."

"Thank you, I will definitely repay you."

"Are you talking about building a bridge again?" Zhenyu was angry and funny: "Okay, I'll get it? You are not a bad person, you just like to talk big."

Li Mu was too lazy to explain. Anyway, it was just a waste of time to say it, so it would be better to save some verbal talk. When he saw Wang Ou, everything would be revealed.

...

The sun was far west, and the two finally arrived at the market that Zhenyu mentioned. On the way, Li Mu also found out clearly that his current location was called "Xingwen County". Of course, this was just the name of the court. The Miao family did not call it that way. The Miao family called this place Wangchuanwu. The so-called Jiuxiang Shibawu, Wangchuanwu is one of them, and it is also the "wu" closest to the Minjiang River and the outermost outer edge of the Miao village.

Normally, there are no inns in Miao villages, but this market has one. Because this market is actually a market for the court. After the Tang Dynasty defeated the Miao people's desire to be independent, the court took over the place. Although the bridge was demolished and the Miao people did not allow the Miao people to cross the Minjiang River, it could not really let the Miao people have no trade at all. In order to facilitate the Miao people, the court came forward and established a market at the junction of Jiuxiang and Shibawu. When there was something to trade between Miao villages, it was also one of the few good policies that the Tang court had done for the Miao people.

However, there are policies from the top and countermeasures from the bottom. The idea of ​​the court is one aspect, and it is another thing to be able to do it a little bit. In the first few years, these markets did operate according to the ideas of the court. But a few years later, especially the Li Shimin's Xuanwu Gate Incident, which had just ascended the throne, and the Central Plains were still unstable, so they didn't care about Miaojiang. The officials of Xuzhou, large and small, relied on the high sky and far away of the emperor, had a little distorted in their work.

Originally, the rule of the court was to exempt markets from taxes. The role of the market order was to manage markets, not to fight or fight, short pounds or less, and the monthly salary was paid by the court. However, in recent years, the situation has changed drastically, and not only taxes were imposed, but also heavy taxes. All transactions in markets not only require taxes, but also require a "capital tax" to be paid to enter the market. If you don't give it, you will not be allowed to trade.

If you don’t trade, then don’t trade. Wouldn’t it be enough if you don’t come to the market?

No! The officials set up Lukas among the Miao villages. If they cross the market and trade privately, they will be punished heavily and they will have to be whipped!

The Miao villages were helpless and could only accept heavy taxes from the market, which was extremely miserable.

These were all what Zhenyu told Li Mu when the two were chatting on the road. She said this just to complain. But Li Mu sounded differently.

He finally understood why Li Shimin told him that Miaojiang was unstable and might have turmoil. If Zhenyu said everything was true, he was Miaomin and he wanted to rebel. But when Li Shimin heard it, he seemed that he didn't hear this. Zhenyu didn't know his identity and had no reason to lie. As the emperor, Li Shimin had no reason to lie. Then there was only one reason for the problem, that is, someone deceived his superiors and concealed his subordinates and did this on purpose!

On the one hand, they oppressed the Miao people, and on the other hand, they said that the Miao people were not. They gave the court a feeling that the Miao people had been holding back their rebellion. Of course, the court did not want to see the Miao people rebelling, so they would support and provide more support and comfort to the local officials. The officials were supported by the court and became even more aggressive to the Miao people.

As for Miao people, they only think that the officials' domineering behavior is what the court means. The misunderstanding of the court is deeper. If such a vicious cycle continues, perhaps one day the string will break and it is not impossible for a turmoil to break out.

It seems that hearing is false, seeing is true.

Li Mu kept this in mind and planned to wait until he went back to talk about it when he saw Li Shimin. However, before he could tell, he had to see it with his own eyes, otherwise it would not be enough to rely on Zhenyu's one-sided words.

"Dad Ada, I'm here!"

Zhenyu took Li Mu to the entrance of an inn without a sign and shouted inside. Soon, a thin black man came out from inside. Seeing Zhenyu was so happy, he said enthusiastically: "Little girl, why did you come here alone this year? Where is your father? That old guy, shouldn't he be unable to move anymore, right?"

"Oh, my father is tough, but something happened." The old man said that his father was not angry, and Zhen Yu was obviously very familiar with him: "Dad Ada, please help me open two rooms and have a friend."

"Friend?" Ada's father discovered Li Mu's existence. Seeing him dressed in a Han Chinese, he frowned. He pulled Zhen Yu aside and asked, "Silly girl, why are you with the Han boy? What's your relationship with you? Do your father know?"

"Oh, Dad Ada!" Zhenyu said coquettishly: "We have nothing to do with each other. When I crossed the river, I saw him floating in the river and saved him. He didn't go out, so he followed me and waited for me to send him back."

"It's that simple?" Ada's father obviously didn't believe it. He looked at Li Mu up and down, and said to Zhenyu: "Silly girl, look at the clothes he wears, that's silk. The city rulings here can't afford such clothes. This is definitely not an ordinary person. If you get involved with him, be careful of something happening."

"What can happen? At most, it's just a rich man. I don't want him, and he," Zhenyu pointed to his head and said, "I have some brain problems, I have to say..." When the words came to his mouth, Zhenyu held back. When it came to the saint, he still couldn't say anything. Moreover, the father Ada in front of him was a Wu Miao, and he was very loyal to the saint. If he knew that Li Mu was talking so nonsense, he might throw a poisonous snake into his bed in the middle of the night.

"Oh, nothing more. Daddy Ada quickly prepares the room for us. I'm going to be exhausted."

"I'm so lively, I don't see where you are tired." Dad Ada said, then looked at Li Mu again, and reached out: "This guest, Zhenyu is my niece, she doesn't charge money for staying in a hotel. You have to charge money for staying in a hotel, which costs ten cents a day, and take care of two meals."

Ten cents!

Li Mu couldn't believe his ears, why was it so cheap? He was in Chang'an City for ten cents and couldn't even eat a soup cake. He could even live here for a day, and he still had two meals!

Li Mu took out a silver ingot from his arms and put it in his father Ada: "If you have any delicious food, come on."

Dad Ada guessed that Li Mu was rich, but he didn't expect that he was so rich. A ingot of five taels, five jin of coins, five thousand cents! According to the standard of ten cents a day, this money can last until the end of the day.

Dad Ada swallowed and said, "Customer, we can't find the money."

"I only stay for ten or twenty days at most. You can take care of it and give you the rest of the money. And she is also given," Li Mu pointed to Zhenyu and said, "She is my savior. She also gives her a serving of the delicious food prepared for me. Also, can you find two sets of clothes for me to change? It hasn't been changed for several days, and it tastes good. You don't need Han clothes, just the clothes you wear."

"Then... OK." If you don't do such a cheap thing, it's useless to not do it. Moreover, it's Han people's money, and there's nothing to worry about if you make it. After doing Li Mu's business, he has been able to earn half a year's income. Dad Ada was very happy.

"There is no special food in the shop, but it is definitely the best that customers can make. Please have one day of clothes and prepare them for the guests tomorrow at noon."

"Okay! Come and get some food first, I haven't had hot rice in several days."
Chapter completed!