Chapter 22 The first arrival in Dianzhou City
In the caravan accompanying team, the guards who practice martial arts account for most of them, and recently the border between the Red Sleeve Country and the Yunshui Country is not very peaceful, and the Red Sleeve Country is close to the sea, but it is divided into one side, the national law is indisputable, and it has never taken the initiative to send troops to conquer other countries.
The heavy troops of Yunshui State are pinned down in the west, and the Nan'er Kingdom, which is located in the southwest, occupies a favorable geographical position, because the disputed area within a radius of 100 miles has been sent to attack and harass, and there seems to be a tacit understanding between the two countries, and there has been no large-scale war for more than ten years, but the small-scale battles of dozens of people have never stopped.
The girl in colorful clothes is named Qi Xuan, the eldest daughter of a middle-aged man. The country of red sleeves has always been windy and snowy, famous for its beautiful scenery and beautiful women, middle-aged men only have a son and a daughter under their knees, in this country that highly respects monogamy, women have a very high status, studying, fighting, fighting and being officials, and even emperors, but all industries within the ability of the industry, there are women.
After the death of the middle-aged man's wife, he did not remarry, relying on the "export" of many specialties of the red-sleeved country to earn a family business, this time personally escorted Yunwu tea to Yunshui country, or the "colorful" girl Qi Xuan wanted to see the wonders of the snow in Tianchi.
Lin Qinghuan lived with the caravan all the way, of course, he couldn't eat and live in vain, the middle-aged man occasionally asked Lin Qinghuan to drink tea and chat, and Lin Qinghuan would also put forward some unique opinions on the situation of the middle-aged man's trade, or follow other guys to do some manual work like loading and unloading goods.
After coming and going, the two sides are relatively familiar, and the middle-aged man occasionally asks Lin Qinghuan to help "discipline" Qi Xuan, a girl in colorful clothes who only knows how to read romance novels, probably because he is afraid that his baby daughter will be deceived by a scholar full of flowers one day.
In addition to polite greetings, Qi Xuan never paid attention to Lin Qinghuan, Lin Qinghuan was also happy to be idle, just follow the mixed eating and drinking all the way to the destination. It's better than starving yourself.
But in the next few days, Qi Xuan seemed to suddenly become enthusiastic, and began to look at Lin Qinghuan intentionally or unintentionally when she was resting, it is said that it was a colorful dress designed by herself, and she changed five or six pieces, all of which were the same styles, but the colors in different areas were different, if you didn't look carefully, you really couldn't see it, and some people in the team were curious about this, and asked Miss Lin Qinghuan why she didn't bring a change of clothes for so many days.
Qi Xuan's sudden familiarity almost made middle-aged men start to guard against Lin Qinghuan, if it weren't for Lin Qinghuan's honesty all the way under his nose, without the slightest act of courtesy, and commensurate with the middle-aged man's peers, it is estimated that Lin Qinghuan's good days of eating and drinking would have come to an end.
Later, I figured out the truth, it turned out that one of the novels that the eldest lady brought with her was missing, which made Qi Xuan, the girl in colorful clothes, very uncomfortable, and saw the wonderful part, but the back was gone.
Lin Qinghuan was the only one in the team who "read poetry and books", so the little girl set her eyes on Lin Qinghuan.
According to her, such a "best-selling" novel, Lin Qinghuan, a "professional" reader, must have read it.
When he learned that Lin Qinghuan hadn't even read it, Qi Xuan, who had just begged someone to tell a story and was a little coquettish, patted his colorful clothes, changed his words, pointed at Lin Qinghuan and said: "This book is widely circulated in the Red Sleeve Country, you haven't even read it, you, honestly, you know that my father respected scholars the most in his life, so he went to steal this tattered clothes and came to my house to cheat and eat and drink?"
Lin Qinghuan is really a little weak-hearted, the identity of a down-and-out scholar is fake, but it is true to cheat and cheat.
"You have been eating and drinking with my caravan for half a month, plus the money for staying at the post station halfway, you owe my family a total of ......" Qi Xuan said halfway, and began to count with her fingers, sure enough, after a while, she chose to give up: "Anyway, it's a lot of money, you can do it yourself, so much money, looking at you like this, you definitely can't expect to take out the silver for nothing, you have to work for my family...... It's been a long, long time anyway!"
Lin Qinghuan smiled angrily: "Oops, I forgot, I must have read it, I just didn't think about it just now, oops, there are too many books to read, it's normal to forget a little bit, don't worry, Miss, wait for me to look through it or two, I will definitely be able to remember." ”
"You'd better think quickly, if you delay Miss Ben's reading, I'll tell my dad to go, and you just wait to work for my family!" After speaking, he got into her special carriage, took a few books, and carefully handed them to Lin Qinghuan, "Don't break it, this is a treasure given to me by others." ”
If you don't know it, these books are really treasured, the quality of the paper is quite good, the printing is also beautiful, and there are even many exquisite illustrations, which seem to be worth a lot.
Although Lin Qinghuan has never read this kind of novel, the 21st century is the information age after all, and he has also learned some things.
Lin Qinghuan quickly read a few novels, as expected, a proper romance novel, but it is worth mentioning that aside from the slightly sour romance part, the story is still quite exciting, the grass snake gray line is thousands of miles away, the logic is tight, and the clues written are linked to each other, like a spider web, which extends in all directions, and the most important thing is that the storyline is quite compact, not filled with water at all, although the number of words is small, but the tense and exciting storyline is really much.
After Lin Qinghuan roughly finished reading it, he quickly searched for novels that he had known before, such as "The Story of the West Chamber" and "Dream of Red Mansions", so he pretended to have read it before and began to write the plot, anyway, the girl in colorful clothes had not read it, and she didn't know whether it was true or not.
After carefully following the book and carefully making up a few stories, the girl in colorful clothes didn't find out, so Lin Qinghuan became bold, what Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, Romeo and Juliet, and even the Titanic, etc., as long as it is a love story, they all arrange the characters of that novel, and make it up randomly, and Qi Xuan, the girl in colorful clothes, was stunned, pestering Lin Qinghuan to tell stories all day long.
Seeing this, the middle-aged man intentionally or unintentionally revealed that he was a little suspicious of Lin Qinghuan's identity as a scholar, and pulled Lin Qinghuan to his side on the grounds of discussing the way of doing business.
Then the girl in the colorful dress could only pout and frown, waiting for the two to finish their discussion.
Lin Qinghuan was in a dilemma, it turned out that it was so difficult to be a killer.
A middle-aged man who has been in business for decades can even "debunk" herself and enter the city, so why pretend, Lin Qinghuan began to worry a little about his future, oh no, it's his life.
As soon as you feel a little comfortable, you start to get carried away!
This world also likes to sit in the north and face south, the north of Dianzhou City is the land of princes and nobles, most of the east is entrenched in the merchants, occupying most of the market in the whole city, the north is rich in the east, Lin Qinghuan followed the caravan, entered from the east city gate, although it is customary to check the spectrum, but there is no detailed look, of course, the premise is to pay a "goods into the city".
The middle-aged man is called Qi Fugui, and he is as his name suggests!
After entering the city, Qi Fugui invited Lin Qinghuan to the house to talk about it according to the custom, and Lin Qinghuan naturally saw that he was not sincere, so he took out a letter and forced that he already had a place to stay.
They are all businessmen from the red-sleeved country, and they also have their own circles internally, although that person's business is far less big than Qi Fugui's, but there are still several fates, so under Qi Fugui's invitation again, Lin Qinghuan cheekily agreed to go to Qi Mansion to live for one night.
With Qi Fugui, a giant businessman, as the middleman, the person receiving the letter should not dare to fool himself. Otherwise, Lin Qinghuan is really afraid of being dumped on an errand at will, although Moon Shadow should have other arrangements, but Lin Qinghuan, who has been hungry in the wild for several days, doesn't want to treat himself badly, so he wants to use the name of Qi Fugui to avoid being cheated.
Qi Fugui was originally surprised that Lin Qinghuan had a unique understanding of business, and he wanted to take it for his own use, but his baby daughter made such a fuss, and in Qi Fugui's eyes, he was really afraid that Lin Qinghuan, a "down-and-out scholar", would kidnap Qi Xuan and run away.
So as soon as he entered the mansion, Qi Fugui asked someone to find someone with Lin Qinghuan's letter, and it seemed that he couldn't wait to send Lin Qinghuan away.