The road is not close, and everyone chats while walking. Walking on the street, Fang Wenqing briefly introduced some customs to Su Wen.

"The border city is just a small city, with a population of more than 100,000, and there is no special production, let alone belonging to any country. It can only be regarded as a remote and out-of-the-world place. It is coincidentally located in the middle of the three kingdoms of Song, Wei and Liang, taking advantage of the geographical advantage, and the three countries are constantly coming and going on the trade route. Commerce, trade, and security are the main sources of the economy. The daily source of food is provided by the shepherd forts outside the city and some farms that grow grain. Not only is it enough for oneself use, but most of them can also be sold to merchants. Life is considered rich, and it is said that it is better than that of other countries. Because of the free movement of people on the mainland, many people who are slowly attracted to stay. ”

Fang Wenqing is a local, and his tone is full of pride when he says that he is from a border city.

Su Wenzheng has a lot of questions, Huang He doesn't know much about things, and his speech is ambiguous, while Su and Mei don't know anything about politics, economy and people's livelihood. Fortunately, Fang Wenqing knows everything about astronomy and geography. Just asked. Su Wen said: "If the border city is so good, it should develop a lot, why do you say that this is a small city?"

"Brother Su doesn't know that this country is far away from each other, and because of the different productions of various countries, it is natural to need to communicate with each other. Countries have large populations and huge consumption, and with the demand for these materials, commerce naturally flourishes. Where there is commerce, road transport is needed. However, there are many monsters, and the place of activity is also erratic. Usually one or two is not enough. When encountering a group of wolves and demons, even a caravan can't resist it. Demon beasts are the most realistic threat, and since trade routes have been established, they need the protection of soldiers from all countries to maintain them. However, the cost of maintaining military power is enormous, and no country has the ability to protect an entire trade route. Not to mention that there are so many trade routes. Cities spontaneously formed on these trade routes. Because of their geographical remoteness from the country, these cities are highly autonomous but not independent states, and most of them are politically dependent on certain countries. For example, the border city needs to curry favor with the Three Kingdoms, and also deal with horse thieves and monster attacks. Life is not stable. People still prefer to live in the country. Natural development is not on a very large scale. Su Wenqing explained clearly, and Fang Wen was easy to understand.

"You always mention the country, what is the matter with the country?" Su Wen continued.

Fang Wenqing replied patiently: "According to the classics: Some cities with excellent geographical locations have developed better, expanding with roads, fortresses, and beacons, and slowly building more cities on the periphery. Larger and larger, many cities have joined forces to form urban agglomerations, in which there is a unified political power, which can mobilize various cities to rely on each other and provide each other with Olympic assistance. In this way, the demon beasts are kept out of countless cities and fortresses. If the monster beast rashly enters the middle of the city, it will face the danger of encirclement and suppression. Monsters don't usually want to take risks. Eventually, the urban agglomeration formed the nations of the world. The monsters will take the initiative to attack these urban agglomerations every once in a while. A lot of cities were destroyed. The surviving urban agglomerations, which were sparsely populated, banded together and slowly developed. Most countries today are behemoths of several urban agglomerations. ”

Su Wen arched his hand and said: "I have been taught, since this is the case, it seems that this demon beast is really a big disaster." ”

"It's not just a great calamity, human beings can't fight it at all. In fact, I think that this world originally belonged to demon beasts, and humans are the great disaster of demon beasts. Huang He listened to what they said lively, and also interjected.

"If you don't learn and don't know how to do it, you will eat and drink nonsense, and talk nonsense. You have the ability to fight the demon beast is the big trouble of the demon beast, you are in the eyes of the demon beast is to hurry up, and the biggest ability is to support the demon beast. Sumi giggled and joined the conversation.

"Hey, it's the first time I've encountered a group of demon beasts, this is really hard to fight, it's not that there is a beacon, I'm afraid I won't be able to come back yesterday. "Huang He was a little frustrated.

"I saw that they had armor-piercing bows and arrows to feed poison, and they went out of the city together to lure the enemy, who knew that this group of demon beasts was so agile. Command freely, but seem difficult to deal with. I was careless. Fang Wenqing looked at walking on tiptoe, and his mood was not high.

Su Wen saw that they were not in a high mood, and he stopped talking.

Walking on a street with a lot of people, Su Wen found that there were not many old people here, most of them were middle-aged and young people, and he couldn't help but feel a little strange. Could it be that life here is as difficult as in ancient times, and the life expectancy of the population is very low? But these people, whether they are peddlers and pawns or shopkeepers, seem to be in good health and agile in their skills. Apparently food is not a problem.

In the midst of doubt, a tall woman with a good face and a tall figure passed by with a young son, and I didn't know if it was a grandson or a grandson. Su Wen guessed that she was about forty years old, and the young son shouted coldly, "Mother, I want to eat sugar cakes." ”

Su Wen was taken aback, could it be that children here age so quickly? saw Fang Wenqing go to the roadside vendor to buy a piece of sugar cake and hand it over. The child said very happily: "Thank you, Brother Fang" The woman saw that it was Fang Wenqing, so she chatted with him for a few words. I said hello to everyone again.

Seeing that they knew each other, Su Wen hurriedly asked Huang He beside him in a low voice: "How old is this woman, why is the child so small?"

Huang He turned his back on the man and whispered: "This woman is Fang Wenqing's neighbor, about fifty or sixty years old, I don't know very well, the child is only seven years old, and he will go to the academy next year." I will probably learn spears from Fang Wenqing. ”

"Huh? But she looks like she's only thirty or forty years old, how can she have children at such an old age?" Su Wen was surprised.

"You say she, ha, she gave birth a little late, but it's not unusual, my mother was in her forties when she gave birth to me. Su Mei leaned over and said.

Su Wen looked at the woman again, but he couldn't see that she was fifty or sixty years old, but instead saw that she was slim, fair-skinned and wrinkled, and her gestures were light and free, but she looked more like she was in her thirties. The woman looked at Su Wen and smiled back. Su Wen nodded with her a little embarrassed.

After separating from the woman at the next street corner, Su Wen couldn't help but ask: "Since you can be born to fifty or sixty years old, there should be a lot of people? What is the life span of people here?"

Fang Wenqing was wondering why he was a little surprised when he saw the woman, and only then did he know that he was puzzled about it, so he explained to him: "I don't know the situation in your mountains, but there are not many children born here in the border city. It is already remarkable that a woman can give birth to three. The three of us are the only children in the family, if humans can give birth to a lot, why worry about the immortality of demon beasts? The government and the people are all proud of having more children, but they can't give birth to people. The Chengfu Academy was also troubled by this matter, "

"The city is the official government of the border city, right? You are an independent city, why didn't you say that there is a city lord?" Su Wen was a little confused about putting the academy and the city government together, and he couldn't figure out the political system.

Fang Wenqing said: "Presumably, your tribe is different from the border city, which is divided into several major factions according to the big profession and clan relatives. For example, chambers of commerce, academies, various fortress clans, and guilds of ranger guards. Every few years, each of these elected representatives form a council of elders in the city. The Council of Elders administers affairs through the city, and the laws follow the practice of the former Soviet Dynasty. It's working well, and the politics are clear. ”

Huang He pouted and said, "Since the politics are clear, the people in the Chamber of Commerce have done a lot of dirty things, why doesn't anyone care?" Why don't you go to the city guards? You are doing all the things of the city guards, but you won't be given a position, hum....."

Fang Wenqing smiled awkwardly, but he didn't mention the matter....

Su Mei said: "If it weren't for the demon beasts, the city government would be afraid that it would not be able to guard the city gate, and there would be more things like corruption and perversion of the law." I'm afraid that it will bully everyone into the wild. ”

Huang He said: "If there is no demon beast, who will come to the city, how good is the wilderness, a few people set up a village, and it doesn't matter who is the government." No taxes or training. It's a good day to have a baby if you have nothing to do. ”

But it made everyone laugh.

"I haven't seen the girl from the academy secretly send you Qiubo, and I haven't seen the little daughter-in-law on the street colluding with you, it's the half-old. There has never been a smile for you, hehe went to the wilderness, who did you go to have a baby with?" Su Meiwu made fun of the Yellow River.

Huang He was about to get to the sore spot, blushed, and ignored her anymore...

Su Wen originally had neither understanding nor interest in politics and economics, but Fang Wenqing said it again, and he just listened to it. But listening to the statement of the Soviet Union, I am afraid that the people here are open, and there is quite a legacy of the Han and Tang dynasties. But I also found the benefits of this demon beast: people here must understand at least one thing, if you want to be a winner in life, it doesn't matter if you beat the demon beast or not, you must run to win other people at a critical time. Therefore, we must actively exercise our bodies, this man will naturally be vigorous if he practices more, and women will inevitably have long legs, thin waists and hips if they practice more. If you can't win, you naturally go to play with the monster. Sure enough, it is natural selection, survival of the fittest. This theory of evolution is also useful........

The dinner was held in the largest restaurant in the border city. It is also the center of the inner city, the closer to the restaurant, the more numerous and luxurious the houses, along the way the wine shops, shops are lined up, pedestrians like carp. And most of them carry weapons with them, and they don't have armor. From time to time, there were soldiers and men in full armor passing by, and when they saw Fang Wenqing and the others standing still from a distance, they didn't come to talk, which showed that the military discipline was quite strict.

As they spoke, they went downstairs. Su Wen likes all kinds of customs and customs, thinking about how to describe the street scene here, thinking about it for a long time, and came to a conclusion, this place is like "Qingming Riverside Map......

Seeing that he was about to enter the restaurant, Fang Wenqing was not in a hurry. Stopping everyone, he bowed his hand to Su Wen at the corner of the street and said, "I don't know what Brother Su thinks of Song Sangongzi?"

Everyone is familiar with each other, and Su Wen is no longer restrained when he speaks: "This guy is good, the medical technology is really good, don't you see, Jiang Yun's wounds are all turned up, and there is a lot of blood, so he doesn't have to work hard to deal with it for a while." In the end, I don't know what to use to make the wound neat, and there is no seepage. , just looks like a few centipedes, a little scary, he seems to be the third son of the hospital director's family? is he a rich second generation, right? he also said that he is the director of a branch hospital? tsk to be the director at such a young age, it's amazing..."

Thinking of Su Gongzi, although he is young, he has excellent medical skills. It can be seen that it has worked hard and has a family heirloom. Think about yourself and the fat man, when I was a child, in addition to practicing boxing, I only had to watch cartoons and play game consoles, although it was a carefree childhood... But....

couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "It turns out that only the children at the bottom have a quiet time, and the children at the top are all moving forward with weights?"

All three of them stayed in school? I'm afraid they are also top students. Sighing, I didn't want to speak.

The three scholars were completely indifferent to Su Wen's emotion, and looked at them head-on at this time.

Huang He had an indescribable expression on his face... Probably mean, are you sure you're talking to the same person?

Su Mei almost couldn't help laughing, lowered her head and twisted the corners of her clothes.

Fang Wenqing endured even harder, and said with a crying and laughing expression: "Brother Su, I'm afraid it's a misunderstanding, this third prince of Song is the prince of Song, ranking third. The Song Kingdom is strong and strong, with 500 invincible tigers, holding artifact horses, foot lances, and tens of thousands of standing armor soldiers, and the royal family's family medical skills are also unparalleled in the world. Although the border city was attached to the Liang State, it was the closest to the Song State, and Ping Su was most afraid of the Song State. ”

"Ah?.... He's a prince? Just a few people stupidly going to fight demon beasts? How can he be a prince?" Su Wen said with a surprised face, but his heart stirred: My mother, this customs and cultural differences are too great. Feelings: Your prince is not called a prince, but a prince? The palace is not called a palace, it is called a medical hall? And the king who doesn't like the three thousand beauties and whose main business is a doctor?

"Brother Su doesn't know, their bows and arrows are all sharp weapons, and they can't find a single one when they go through the border cities. These people will definitely not suffer a loss against a few demon beasts, as long as they form a concentrated shot. However, those monsters are too smart. Huang He explained.

Fang Wenqing figured out the ins and outs of this oolong incident, and secretly thought: This morning, Song Sangongzi saw that you were strong in martial arts, peculiar in costume, and taciturn. I don't know if you have a strong background, and I'm worried that you are a master who brings skills and respects himself and only votes for famous masters. People fold the knots and hand them over in person to show you the emperor's mastery, saying that they are thirsty for leisure, and the falling flowers are ruthless, and you follow and scream: "For the sake of mankind!" Ride a donkey and run. Even I thought you were a master of the world, and you didn't understand anything after a long time. Let me explain it.

At the same time, I can't help but feel sorry for myself: I pride myself on being erudite and talented, both civil and military, and I feel that I have a great career to do, learn cultural relics and art, and sell them to the emperor's family. It's a pity that the emperor can't appreciate it. And these friends... Alas... IQ is worrying, and it's hard to explain!

After a slight pause, Fang Wenqing said: "This third prince of the Song Kingdom invited me to wait, I'm afraid it's not just a matter of thanking me and others for helping. I'm afraid that Brother Su is strong and strong, and he has the intention of Corporal Lixian, I don't know what Brother Su wants?"

Su Wen knew that he was embarrassed to do oolong, and he had no confidence, so he said: "I don't know, I don't know anything, what can I do when I go to them?"

But he was muttering in his heart: How can this product be regarded as a provincial and ministerial-level cadre, right? Although it is a reserve. But the biggest official I've ever seen is the principal. He spoke to me when he handed out the certificate. Thanks to Fang Wenqing's reminder. Anyway, I don't have a place to eat, is Fang Wenqing worried that I will eat here for a long time? Baba arranged for me to follow Song Gongzi? But such a big official, it shouldn't be a big problem to arrange a job, right? Even if I don't know anything, can I still be a civil servant?

Fang Wenqing had already calmed down and said: "The Song Kingdom has not yet established a prince, I see that the third prince must bow down to everything, and he is an impassioned person, plus he is in the emperor's family and cannot help himself, and the people accompanying him are not ordinary people. However, the battle for the throne is unscrupulous, deceitful, extremely dangerous, and must not be careless. Of course, the big husband has to make a contribution, although the opportunity is rare, but it needs to be considered. Fang Wenqing was afraid that the three of them would not be able to figure out the situation, so he tried to be as straightforward as possible.

Su Mei was smarter than the other two: "Hey, no wonder you are pretending to be a fart in the beacon today." A sycophant who worries about the country and the people, and is righteous and awe-inspiring, he has long thought about glory and wealth? It's really hypocritical! I don't care anyway, I can ask my mother to go, the key depends on how much money I give, uh... There is also the Demon Pill. ”

Huang He's idea was simpler, and said: "I feel it, what the third prince said is very good, a manly man, of course, practicing martial arts is to kill demons and protect the family and defend the country." I heard that Song Guoma's rifle is no worse than the hammer. I don't know if Song Gongzi brought them with them? I don't have an idea anyway, just listen to the two of you. ”

Su Wen understood this time, and thought: I talked for a long time in the morning, it turns out that I am the protagonist? People are trying to win me over? I listened so carefully that I didn't understand his subtext! It seems that the affairs of this fairy are all at the national level, and I want to figure out how to go back, I have to go. Can this prince make it simpler? You just say, "I'm a prince, and I want to grab the throne, and I don't need money, so my brother will help me?" You're a fool not to go!!

Su Wen looked at Fang Wenqing and the others, and thought: You students are also doing so many twists and turns. Isn't it all about the ancient scholars who were indifferent to fame and fortune? Iron-clad and strong-hearted? Poverty and lowliness can't be moved? Does the fragrance of plum blossoms come from the bitter cold? Why do you want to become inflammatory? We earthlings, alas... It seems that the earth is similar, and those with good grades have gone to the civil service exam. In this way, I am stupid, I should take a teacher qualification certificate, and it is not bad to go to a primary school to be a teacher after graduation!

In any case, the question of the future has been thought out. He said, "Uh... I don't know much about the employment market, and I don't understand what Song Gongzi said all the time, so I don't understand it. Trouble Brother Fang to help me ask if he is a thug? Or do you want to be a general? And this treatment?.... Is there any five insurances and one housing fund? Do you report the reimbursement of travel expenses or anything? If there is no problem, give me a look. ”

Fang Wenqing didn't understand what the five insurances and one housing fund were, but he understood the key words: insurance, money, fee....

Five risks: It means that there are five risks to describe the high risk, understand, and ask for more money.

One gold: a metal weapon, to be an artifact, this is a condition.

Travel expenses: It is the cost of carriage and horses, and you have to give enough money...

Fang Wenqing really wanted to say to the two elder brothers: "What you want are all artifacts for national warfare! How expensive are they? You two have the same big heart." I'll try my best to talk about it, but I can't guarantee the result... I also feel that I don't know the character of the other party, and it's too early to say it.