Chapter 290: The Merchant

In the unknown area of the immortal cultivation world, a small mortal country national uniform, on the mountain road outside a small village in Huabei County, Tianfeng Country, a merchant was walking on this rugged mountain road, he was wearing a somewhat tattered shirt, with patches on his back and cuffs, a burden on his shoulders, and a relatively large wooden box at each end, walking towards the village step by step.

Merchants, this should be regarded as the earliest traveling merchants, they carry the burden on their shoulders, carry their own goods, with their own feet, walk in various unknown small villages, and sell their goods.

They carry a burden on their shoulders, and among the boxes on the left side of the front and back, there are all kinds of goods, ranging from a stitch and a thread to an axe and sickle.

For those who live in very remote mountain villages, it is difficult for them to go out of the mountains several times a year, so every time a merchant comes to the door, everyone will respond with great enthusiasm and go to choose what they want.

In many cases, the people in these small mountain villages do not have much money, and they will also trade in the form of barter, most of which are some grain, mountain medicinal herbs, etc., and trade with the merchants. And these merchants will not shy away from these things, as long as they have something valuable, they can trade with them.

The merchant on the mountain road carried his burden and slowly walked into this small village in the mountains. As soon as she walked into the village gate, the peasant woman who was sitting in the sun doing needlework saw the merchant carrying the burden at a glance, and immediately greeted happily: "Oh, the merchant is here again, what good things are there, the needle you sold to me last time was broken again, and I just happened to get a new one, I guess the day, you should also come." ”

When the merchant who was carrying the burden heard this, he came to the peasant woman's side with the burden, put down the burden on his shoulders, wiped the sweat on his forehead, and then said with a smile: "Sister-in-law of the Wang family, everything is here, why do you want to pick it yourself!"

As he spoke, he bent down and opened two boxes, revealing the various items inside, ordinary needles and threads, ropes for farm work, heads for axes, candy for children, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, and ......the red turban that the girl wore when she got married. All kinds of things are needed by the people of these mountain villages.

This small mountain village is not big, and the news that the merchant is carrying the goods to the door is soon known to others, and after a while, several peasant women come together to look for things that can be used at home in the two boxes of the merchant.

When they found what they wanted, they began to bargain with the merchant, and it took about half an hour to complete the deal. Then the merchant took the burden and went to other houses in the village that did not come, and when he left the village, the weight of the burden on his shoulders did not decrease, but became heavier.

There is no way, the people in the small mountain village do not have much cash, and when they buy things, they use the grain they grow at home, or the yams they pick up in the mountains to trade. The merchant's burden was already full of these things, and then he had to go to the nearest county town, sell the contents of the burden, or exchange them for some new goods, and continue his previous work, and go to some small villages that no one knew about to trade.

When the sun was about to set, the merchant finally rushed to Huabei County with his burden and went to the grocery store to sell his things.

"Hey, Li Lang, you are really diligent, what did you think about what you told you last time, I am already old, if you put my shop down, and there will be a small shop in the future, you don't have to run around, maybe you can get a daughter-in-law for yourself, what do you think?" The owner of the grocery store looked at this frequent merchant and said with some jokingness. He knew very well in his heart that this merchant was a hard worker, and he couldn't make a few dollars, so how could he have the money to buy his shop.

The merchant, who had sold everything and prepared new goods, looked up and smiled, but without saying anything, he turned his head and picked up his burden, and walked out of the store.

The sun had already set, the sky around was a little dark, and the vendors on the street began to pack up their things one after another and rush to their homes.

The moon was already hanging in the sky, and the merchant raised his head and looked at the bright moon in the sky, revealing a delicate face. Freeze the picture at this moment, and there is an indescribable dusty temperament.

This merchant is the former Li Wenyuan.

I'm afraid no one would have thought that Li Wenyuan, the former Treasure Pavilion, the deputy city lord of Sea Dragon City, and the high-ranking Yuanying Monk, would actually be an ordinary merchant in this small mortal country, carrying the burden on his shoulders every day, going in and out of an unknown small mountain village.

Turning his head to look at the burden on his shoulders, Li Wenyuan showed a smiling face, carried the burden to a narrow door, took out the key from his arms to open the door lock, and then walked in, lit the oil lamp placed on the table, and a little light immediately lit up in this small room.

The furnishings in the room are very simple, a bed, a table and chairs, a cupboard and nothing else.

Putting the burden aside, Li Wenyuan picked up the teapot from the table, poured himself a cup of water, and after drinking the teapot completely, he went to fetch water to wash up, and then went to bed to rest, everything was like an ordinary mortal.

This process has lasted for him for a full thirty years, and since he left the Treasure Pavilion, Li Wenyuan has come here to be an ordinary merchant. He sealed his mana, and he lived like an ordinary mortal, and he needed to run around for three meals a day.

From having nothing at the beginning, to now having a place for himself, Li Wenyuan feels very satisfied. He had almost forgotten that he was an immortal cultivator, that he had forgotten everything about the Treasure Pavilion, and that he had forgotten his original intention of coming here.

Li Wenyuan has completely integrated himself into the role of a merchant, and this burden on his shoulders is all his work, and it is also the most important thing in his body.

The night passed in a blink of an eye, and when it was just dawn in the morning, Li Wenyuan got up and washed up, put it on the burden in the corner of the room, and walked out of the door.

When passing through the street, Li Wenyuan bought a flatbread with five copper coins in front of the stall where he had come out in the morning, and then while biting the flatbread, he walked out of Huabei County and headed for another village.

There are many mountains around, and many families are in the depths of the mountains, and it takes Li Wenyuan almost half a year to go through every village around, and every half a year or so, Li Wenyuan can go to the village he went to again.