Yan Guikai looked back, and sure enough, it was Ge Mincai. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

His heart skipped a beat, and he hurriedly thought of a way to deal with it.

Ge Mincai had already come to the front of the store, with his hands behind him, half-squinting, and asked Ran Qia and Bi Luo Quntuopu, "What are you waiting for?" ”

Ran Qia didn't know who the person in front of him was, but listening to his tone, he could guess that his official position was bigger than Yan Guikai, and said, "My lord, these few people have taken things for nothing and don't pay the bill!" ”

"The nests have paid the fruit, the fruit has been paid! The lap is fruitful! ”

Bi Luo Quntuopu was afraid of falling behind, and hurriedly shouted.

Ge Min opened Yan Gui's eyes, snorted coldly, and asked, "Yan Langzhong, what's the matter?" ”

Yan Guikai briefly explained the cause and effect: "The three envoys spent all the money rewarded by the officials, so they left three Kunlun slaves to offset the bill, but the shopkeeper thought that they took Kunlun slaves to intimidate. It's just a misunderstanding. ”

"Drained?"

"Hmm."

"The silver taels and copper coins rewarded by the official family, each messenger is fifty yuan, and the total is one hundred and fifty yuan, and they have all been spent?"

Bi Luo Quntuopu replied: "Embrace the play, all embrace the light!" ”

Ge Mincai's eyes widened and asked in surprise, "How do you use it?" What kind of treasures did you buy? ”

"Shrimp dumplings, crab roe roasted wheat, steamed pork knuckle with southern milk, shark fin soup dumplings......"

Seeing that Bi Luo Quntuopu was about to "report the name of the dish" again, Yan Guikai hurriedly stopped him: "Stop, stop!" ”

He explained to Ge Mincai: "The messengers spent all their money on food. ”

"Hah!" Ge Min opened his mouth, wanting to laugh, but couldn't.

He asked Bira Guntuopu, "Do you have anything of value?" ”

"Worth the money?" Bi Luo Quntuopu scratched his head in confusion, and only remembered the meaning of the word after a moment, and suddenly said: "Ah, it's valuable, it's valuable!" Yes, yes, there is stuffiness! ”

He whistled at a Kunlun slave behind Ran Qia and shouted, "Ah Po, Ah Po!" Dumbfounded! ”

The Kunlun slave listened, and trotted over.

Bi Luo Quntuopu pointed at him and said, "Cover one, it's called Ah Po, the strongest drill!" ”

After that, he pounded Ah Po's heart a few times.

Ah Po was so painful that his facial features shrank into a ball, but when he saw Bi Luo Quntuopu glaring at him fiercely, he quickly straightened his waist again, and grinned reluctantly to show that he was okay.

He has a dark complexion, a mouthful of jagged teeth that look very white, and an exaggerated expression, which is extremely funny.

The onlookers burst into laughter.

Ge Mincai sighed and asked Ran Qia, "Shopkeeper, how much is the value of the things they took?" ”

"Three white porcelain Buddha statues, each with ten yuan, a total of thirty."

"Take it."

Ge Min took out the money bag from his arms, counted three small silver ingots, handed them to Ran Qia, and said: "This matter is over here, the two are not in arrears, don't make another incident." ”

Ran Qia received the silver ingot, weighed it, and naturally agreed busily.

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"Those are Kunlun slaves?"

Le Lin asked Chai Jue curiously.

She looked at the so-called 'Kunlun slaves' carefully, they didn't look like black people in Africa, but more like the indigenous people in Southeast Asia, although their skin was darker, but from the facial features, they were not black.

Chai Jue nodded and said, "Well, I heard that when I heard about the Tang Dynasty, the magnates of Chang'an loved to use Kunlun slaves. However, since the time of Taizu, this dynasty has enacted laws prohibiting slavery and human trafficking. In Bianjing, it is very rare to see some merchants of Fanbang using Kunlun slaves as servants. ”

"Ah, that's it."

Le Lin had only learned about "Kunlun Nu" by chance from books before, and she didn't know much about it, she heard that she was dark-skinned, and she thought it was a black person from Africa.

In fact, "Kunlun Nu" refers to the brown people from Southeast Asia during the Tang Dynasty.

And the black Africans, strictly speaking, should be called "monk slaves". "Sangha", which is a transliteration of "Zangi", is a Zanzibar.

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- "Three Highnesses, Marquis An! ”

Ge Mincai was about to leave when he turned around and saw Chai Jue and Le Lin following him.

"Why are you still here?"

Le Lin looked curiously at the people behind him and asked, "Lord Ge, are they the envoys of the Three Buddhas?" ”

Ge Min made an impatient expression, lowered his voice and said, "It's them, it's so troublesome!" ”

"Oh? How troublesome? ”

Chai Jue was interested and asked.

"They, I heard that they brought five ships with them, and they were shipwrecked one after another, and when they went to Champa, there was not a single ship left, only these two messengers and one translator, well, and sixty-seven Kunlun slaves."

Ge Min paused, and said with a disgusted expression: "I only have a few tribute miles!" ”

Chai Jue felt that something was wrong: "Why are there only three of their envoys and translators left, and only a few tributes, but there are still sixty-seven Kunlun slaves left?" They originally brought thousands of Kunlun slaves over? ”

"There are not as many as thousands, according to them, there are always one hundred and fifty Kunlun slaves brought."

"That's even more strange! According to common sense, shouldn't you keep the messengers and the tribute? How did Kunlun Nu survive the most? ”

Chai Jue was puzzled.

Ge Mincai smiled and said: "Your Highness is aware of this, this is all to blame on the monarch of the Three Buddhas Kingdom, he doesn't know where to hear the nonsense, saying that our Song people don't like treasures and spices, but they like Kunlun slaves very much." ”

"Ridiculous!"

"But it's not," he lowered his voice a little more, and no matter how noisy the city was, it was almost inaudible: "It's just faint, listen to the translator named Bi Luo Quntuopu," Ge Min pointed to the back of one of them, and said, "He said that the faint king ordered them to come to the Great Song Dynasty to buy the 'Heavenly God Thunder Fire'......"

"'Celestial Thunder Fire'?" Chai Jue heard this exaggerated name, and laughed dumbly: "Is it a blasting rod?" ”

Bursting rods, that is, firecrackers and bursting battles.

Ge Mincai shook his head and said: "The minister also guessed that it was a burst rod, so he ordered someone to order a few for them to see, and Bi Luo Quntuopu said that it was not like this." ”

"Oh?"

"He said that once the 'Heavenly God Thunder Fire' is ignited, the sound of 'boom' can blow up the city gate from ten miles and eight miles, and then cause a fire to burn the mountains and forests, and the flames will soar to the sky, so it is not spectacular."

Chai Jue was shocked and asked in a low voice: "Could it be that there is such a weapon on the Liao side?" ”

Ge Mincai laughed: "Your Royal Highness really likes to joke, if there was such an artifact in the Liao Kingdom, it would have gone south a long time ago." What they call 'Heavenly God Thunder Fire', I guess nine times out of ten, it is a burst rod! It was probably someone who bragged indiscriminately at the place of the king of Srivijaya with salt and vinegar that provoked him to make such a nonsense thought. ”

"Hmm...... I hope so. ”

Chai Jue turned his head and was about to ask "Le Lang" what he thought about this matter, but saw "him" silently pondering.

"What's wrong?"

"No, nothing."

The 'Heavenly God Thunder Fire' described by Ge Mincai sounds like the artillery of later generations.

However, there is artillery in this era?

Le Lin was full of suspicion.

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