Xianglian chatted happily with the Han girl, and in Liaodu, the capital of the Great Liao thousands of miles away, hundreds of thousands of Liao troops were ready to go, and Xiao Xuan, the little emperor of the Liao State, was ready to personally lead the army south to conquer the Chu State. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Originally, the real real power of the Liao State, the Empress Dowager Xiao, had not appeared in the court for several days, and the important ministers in the court secretly guessed that maybe the Empress Dowager Xiao wanted to show her skills to the little emperor personally, so the Empress Dowager Xiao temporarily retired. Of course, although the Empress Dowager Xiao did not come forward directly, the important ministers still knew that the Empress Dowager Xiao was secretly monitoring their every move, so they still did not dare to act rashly.

A quiet courtyard in the west of Liaodu City, which looks ordinary from the outside, is actually heavily guarded. It would have been impossible for ordinary people to get within a hundred feet of this courtyard.

In such a very mysterious courtyard, a noble lady is accompanied by a handsome young man with clear eyebrows, and they jump into a seemingly ordinary carriage and drive towards the bustling streets of Liaodu. There were dozens of servants dressed in ordinary clothes next to this carriage, but judging by the fitness of these servants, it was obvious that these people were definitely not ordinary servants.

Young Yun'er, he has been practicing martial arts and reading in this quiet and beautiful courtyard, and he is rarely able to come out, and now he has his sister to accompany him to play, he is very excited, he looks at the bustling crowd on the street, and the people of various tribes dressed in various colors, and he also feels novel and fun.

In order to be able to observe better, Yun'er clamored to jump out of the carriage and go for a walk. The Empress Dowager Xiao, who pretended to be his sister, was obedient to him, and indeed the Empress Dowager Xiao has always been majestic, ruthless, and even murderous in front of others, only when she accompanies Yun'er, the Empress Dowager Xiao will have a rare feminine tenderness.

Now Empress Dowager Xiao is dressed as an ordinary lady, and she looks very young and beautiful, in fact, Empress Dowager Xiao is about thirty-seven or eighteen years old; However, her martial arts are very good, especially her deep internal skills, and she is usually well maintained, so now Empress Dowager Xiao is dressed as an ordinary beautiful young woman, and she looks like a noble young woman less than thirty.

Yun'er rarely comes out, because in the past, Empress Dowager Xiao could be said to be a great opportunity, and she was thinking about the major events of the court and the struggle for power in the palace every day, so she didn't have time to accompany Yun'er out to play, and now the big trouble in Empress Dowager Xiao's heart is basically eliminated, so that she can relax and accompany Yun'er to go to the mountains and rivers. In fact, Empress Dowager Xiao also hopes in her heart that she can live an ordinary life for a few days like an ordinary woman.

Empress Dowager Xiao held Yun'er's hand, the two walked side by side on the street, they were followed by an old man Ah Xiong, this Ah Xiong is a famous general in Daliao, and he is one of the few martial arts masters, and there is the Empress Dowager Xiao's cronies Jin Ju, this Jin Ju's martial arts are also very good, she is one of the four major maids of the Empress Dowager Xiao with Mei Shuang and Xianglan, of course, not far behind them are many guards who pretend to be all kinds of characters.

Liaodu, as the capital of Liao, has four large markets and vegetable markets in the southeast, northwest and northwest, and of course many small markets.

Yun'er and Empress Dowager Xiao went to the market in the south of the city, where there were many vendors of all kinds doing all kinds of business, some selling pork, beef, mutton, cloth and silk; There are even many people who sell their sons and daughters. Of course, the children and daughters sold in the bazaar are all lowly tribes, and they are forced to sell their children and daughters in order to make a living.

Liao originally belonged to a country composed of grassland tribes, and animal husbandry was very developed, so it was normal to sell beef, but horses were strategic materials, so there were relatively few horse meat sales.

It's also winter, and there aren't many vegetables sold in the Liao market, most of them are digging roots from the ground and the like. However, there are a lot of fish sold, after all, there are many rivers passing through Daliao, and there are many lakes in Daliao, so even in winter, there are still many fresh fish on the market in Liaodu, of course, at most there are all kinds of beasts.

There are many grasslands and forests in Liao, so there are many kinds of wild beasts, including ordinary tigers, leopards, bears, sika deer, wild boars, pheasants, wild ducks, and so on; Of course, the more expensive ones are all kinds of monsters and spirit beasts.

When Yun'er first entered this big market, he was looking around, feeling that everything was fresh, he saw a group of people around to watch the excitement, and he was curious and took Empress Dowager Xiao's hand and walked over.

As a very mature woman, Empress Dowager Xiao is not interested in the excitement of the market, but she does not stop the curious Yun'er.

Yun'er got into the crowd and took a look, it turned out to be a silver-haired old man selling a golden strange fish, this fish is more than three feet long, the whole fish looks slender, looks like a sword out of shoes, it is estimated that this fish olive, the fish is more than ten pounds heavy, the golden scales of this fish are shining in the sun, like gold, and the lips of the fish have golden whiskers, which looks very good. In addition, the fish is still alive, kept in a large wooden barrel, and its mouth is still open and closed.

Yun'er was curious, so she asked the people next to her, what kind of strange fish is this, it looks so cute. Several people on the side of the crowd shook their heads and said they didn't know, but there was also an older middle-aged man, perhaps in order to show that he was well-informed, he said: "This is the golden swordfish, also known as the golden fish, it is said that it is only found in the cold lake where people are rare, although this golden swordfish does not belong to the best among the spiritual objects, but such a big golden swordfish is also extremely precious, so it is called the golden fish."

The old man who sold the fish nodded and said: "Yes, this guest has good eyesight and recognizes this is a golden swordfish, this golden swordfish is not only delicious in meat, it is a great supplement to the human body, and the main thing is that the skin of the golden swordfish is more precious than the fish meat, and the fish skin of the golden swordfish has one or two fish skins and a hundred taels of gold."

As soon as the old fish seller said this, Yun'er felt even more curious, so she interjected and asked, "Why is this fish skin more precious than fish meat?"

The old man who sold the fish had not yet spoke, and an old man on the lookers said: "The swordfish, one inch long a year, ten years into a foot, but generally the growth rate of the swordfish will become slower and slower after growing to one foot, when the swordfish grows to two feet, it takes a hundred years, so the swordfish above two feet is very rare, this swordfish is more than three feet, guessing that this fish may be nearly five hundred years old." When he said this, many onlookers let out an exclamation of "ah"!

At this time, the old man who sold the fish said: "This old guest officer really knows the origin of the golden swordfish, the fifty-year-old golden swordfish skin can be comparable to the spirit sheepskin, as for the five-year-old golden swordfish skin can be comparable to the spirit rabbit skin, and the fish skin of this golden swordfish can be comparable to the skin of more than two spirit rabbits."

As soon as the old man said this, there was a burst of exclamations around him, indeed for most Liao people, they knew the preciousness of the spirit sheepskin, of course, the spirit rabbit skin was a hundred times more precious than the spirit sheepskin.

Yun'er had also heard of the preciousness of the spirit rabbit skin, so he couldn't help but ask curiously: "So senior, how much silver does this fish of yours sell for?"

The old man who sold the fish looked at the crowd of onlookers and said, "It stands to reason that such a big still alive swordfish is a priceless treasure that can not be found, but the old man's family is in urgent need of money, so the price is half cheaper, 5,000 taels of gold, or 50,000 taels of silver." (To be continued.) )