Chapter 504: The Goryeo People
Xiao Ding and the others passed through Majiatuozi Town, witnessed a farce of Master Ma, and rescued a disciple of Lingjian Villa, and learned from the disciple named Duan Jiacai that Lingjian Villa will set up a ring in the near future to compete with the people of Tengjian Island, because Teng Snake Island has invited several strong men from Fanbang from somewhere, so Li Jianhao, the owner of Lingjian Villa, also began to send his disciples to invite people everywhere to support Lingjian Villa.
Xiao Ding had no intention of participating in these disputes, so he beckoned everyone with him to find a place to eat.
Because it took a lot of time to watch the excitement, Xiao Ding and the others just found a casual restaurant, had a quick lunch, and returned to the big boat by the river.
There were quite a few people returning to the boat from shore, and some of them were new guests who had just come from town and were planning to take the boat downstream.
At the gangplank at the boarding place, there are crew members checking the boarding waist card, in this era there is no ticket for the boat, but after booking the cabin, a bamboo waist card will be issued, on which the key of the cabin door is hung, and the cabin number is engraved. Passengers who did not book a cabin were only given a waist badge and did not have a key, so they had to find a place to stay in the hall of the cabin when they got on board.
After checking the waist card, Xiao Ding walked onto the deck, and when he suddenly looked up, he saw a tall and thin figure in the crowd. This old way of walking, with a twist and a twist, is very unnatural. Xiao Ding recognized at a glance that this old way was the one he had seen in Yongzhou City not long ago, the national teacher Li Wantong of the Great Xia Kingdom.
Xiao Ding was stunned for a moment, and said in his heart, how did this old way run here? Unexpectedly, his speed was quite fast, and he followed him, and within a few days, he had already come here. What the hell is he up to?
I saw the figure of the old man, following the crowd, into the cabin hall, and after a while, it was gone.
Xiao Ding guessed that he should have entered a certain cabin.
After everyone boarded the ship, they went back to their warehouses.
Xiao Ding wanted to find out what Li Wantong wanted to do, so he sat on the bed in the cabin, opened his divine sense, and scanned it out. Before he could find the veteran Li Wantong, he found two people in exotic costumes in a cabin.
As soon as Xiao Ding saw this outfit, he could see that they were definitely not from the Great Song Kingdom.
The two men, a man and a woman, were talking at this time, as if they were arguing about something.
Xiao Ding immediately opened his ears and listened to the room.
I heard that the woman among them shouted loudly: "Oba, Naike Alita, Amani Kuqiyo, Cha Qi, Bo ......"
Then, immediately, the man shouted at the woman as well: "Ali I, Ya Yi Ta Gu Yi talk k Nailan Misan, Gu Ji Ma Araji? ”
As soon as Xiao Ding heard the tone of the two speak, he immediately remembered the Korean drama scene in the later life. Although the conversation between the two of them, Xiao Ding only understood one word "Oba", which means "brother" in Korean. But Xiao Ding can still judge that these two must be from the Great Goryeo Kingdom in this era.
In this era that Xiao Ding traveled through, the North and South Korean Peninsula had not yet been divided, and in this era, the country on the Korean Peninsula was called Dagoryeo Kingdom. There was no friendship between them and the Great Song Kingdom, but there was no conflict either. After all, the navigation technology of this era was limited, and the two countries did not share a border on land, but only looked at each other across the sea, but they were all right.
Since Little Japan came to the Great Song Kingdom, Xiao Ding found that many people from other countries have come to the territory of the Great Song Kingdom recently. He couldn't guess what the purpose of these people pouring into the Great Song Kingdom was.
However, he speculated that this may be related to the new policy that the Great Song Kingdom began in the past two months. He gave Song Yinzi an idea to let the Great Song Kingdom take the initiative to trade with other countries and conduct international trade. So Song Yinzi sent many envoys to lobby other countries.
Perhaps it was precisely because of the opening of trade between countries that many people from other countries poured into the territory of the Great Song Kingdom.
Xiao Ding couldn't understand the conversation between the two, and he couldn't tell whether the two of them were husband and wife or brother and sister. Because, there are also many people who are in charge of the man between husband and wife and called "Oba".
Looking at the expressions and movements of the two of them, it can be guessed that they seem to have quarreled because of disagreement on something.
Xiao Ding couldn't see where the two came from, so he continued to search for Li Wantong.
It didn't take long for him to find Li Wantong's figure in a cabin on the ground floor, and he saw that he was sitting in the cabin at this time with his eyes closed, and he didn't make any special moves.
Xiao Ding observed for a while, but he didn't see anything abnormal about Li Wantong, so he withdrew his divine sense and began to study the exercises.
Recently, when he has free time, in addition to diligently cultivating his own exercises, he is also studying the alchemy of the Yuqing Sect, the formation technique of the Misty Cloud Sect, and the alchemy of the Imperial Sword Villa.
These are enough secret techniques to support a sect, and if you want to learn and master them all, it takes a lot of time and energy. After all, every technique is enough to be studied for a lifetime.
However, Xiao Ding is determined to learn a few more skills, after all, more skills are not pressing, one more skill, one more survival ability. Maybe at a critical moment, there will be a big use.
Nowadays, because he does not have an alchemy furnace and an alchemy furnace, and there are no raw materials for him to practice, he has been staying in the stage of preliminary understanding. There has been little progress so far.
But with the Misty Cloud Sect's array technique, he had already had a first glimpse of the doorway. He had already mastered the concepts and foundations of some formations at this time, and he had already tried to experiment with some simple formations by using some things around him to arrange some simple formations.
Some things are like this, before you understand it, you often feel a thousand difficulties, magical and mysterious, but if you understand the principle, you will suddenly have a feeling of sudden enlightenment, it turns out that this is the case!
Xiao Ding's feeling about the formation at this time is, it turns out that this is what happened!
However, Xiao Ding still didn't have any special materials for making array flags and formation bases at this time, and as for the materials for making array eyes, he had nowhere to go. Therefore, he is not able to make the array disc now, of course, even if he has these materials to make the array disc in his hand now, he does not have the foundation of alchemy, and he will not be able to refine and use these materials.
Therefore, Xiao Ding can only set up a few simple formations at present, all of which use natural objects such as stones and trees to arrange them according to local conditions. This kind of formation is actually of no great use, at most it can be like a maze, making people get lost temporarily. It can't be hidden or offensive and defensive.
There are no years of cultivation, and as soon as Xiao Ding concentrates on research, this time flies. In the blink of an eye, another day and a night passed, and nothing happened on the ship.
After the ferry arrived in Jiangning, everyone disembarked and landed.
At this time, everyone felt a little depressed when they took the boat for several days, and they all wanted to take a stroll in this Jiangning City to relax. It's much more comfortable by boat than by land, but it's boring. I was confined to the cabin all day and all night, as if I was in a cage.
Therefore, Xiao Ding also thinks that it is a good idea to take everyone to visit this Jiangning City.
Jiangning City has been a prosperous place since ancient times. In the era that Xiao Ding traveled through, Jiangning City was still a prosperous city, and it was not inferior to the capital of each state.
A few people walked into the city, and the mood was naturally very relaxed. Witnessing the bustling scene on the street, the people coming and going, the feeling of depression accumulated on the ship for several days was immediately swept away.
Everyone saw some small commodities with local characteristics, and they all went to buy some to enjoy. Especially Xiao'e, she feels fresh when she sees everything.
Everyone was talking and laughing and walking forward, when Xiao Ding suddenly saw two men and women in exotic costumes walking into a store.
These two people are the two Koreans who were inadvertently scanned by Xiao Ding's consciousness when he was on the boat.
Xiao Ding's attention was immediately attracted by these two people. He immediately opened his ears and listened in the direction of the two men.
found that after the two entered the store, they did not ask how to sell the goods, but spoke in the blunt official dialect of the Great Song Kingdom, asking the guy in the store if there was any martial arts sect in Jiangning City.
It's the Fanbang people who inquired about the martial arts sect again, do they have any intentions?
I only heard the guy in the shop tell the two of them: All the silk villages in this city with the words "Jinxiufang" written on the plaque are all opened by the same gang.
Hearing the words "Splendid Workshop", Xiao Ding immediately thought of Yuan Caiyi, the helper of Splendid Workshop, as well as her disciples Liu Chulan, Wang Yumeng, Tinker Bell and others.
Unexpectedly, the business of their splendid workshop actually did in Jiangning City. As far as Xiao Ding knows, the headquarters of Jinxiufang is in Yangzhou City. They are mainly engaged in the business of various silk fabrics. Among the many sects of rivers and lakes, Jinxiufang is not the richest sect, but it is not much worse. If you only talk about the ranking of financial resources, even if it is not the first, Jinxiufang can definitely be among the best.
After the two Koreans finished inquiring about the shopkeepers, they turned around and walked out of the shop, they didn't know at this time, Xiao Ding was already paying close attention to them at this time.
Seeing that they were out of the store, Xiao Ding didn't say hello to the others around him, so he followed the two directly. The others walked and chatted, looking at the stalls and shops on both sides of the road, and didn't notice that Xiao Ding was actually following others alone.
Xiao Ding followed the two and walked all the way forward. Sure enough, the two of them searched and found a silk shop with the words "Splendid Fang" written on the plaque at the door of the house.
Seeing the two Koreans walking into the store, Xiao Ding just stopped outside the door, and then opened his ears to listen to the conversation inside.
I only heard the male Goryeo ask in an unskilled tone: "Excuse me, is your Jinxiufang a Jianghu sect?" ”
There was a little girl who was in charge of selling the goods, and Xiao Ding couldn't know if she was a disciple of Jinxiufang, so he only heard her Yan Yu Ying's voice replying: "Of course it is!" In this Jiangning City, and even the entire Yangzhou territory, how many people don't know about our Jinxiufang? There was a sense of confidence and pride in her tone.
Actually, she is right, in the territory of Yangzhou, the most famous Jianghu sects are Jinxiufang and Lingjian Villa. The other small sects are not worth mentioning. Only the Splendid Workshop and the Lingjian Villa occupy a place in the martial arts of the entire Great Song Kingdom.
Among them, the Spirit Sword Villa has a long history and a profound heritage, although the spirit sword left by their ancestors was lost, but after all, they have a record of the ancestors' ascension, and the later heirs, swordsmanship is also very good, so it is also a well-known existence in the rivers and lakes.
And Jinxiufang, most of them are still famous because of their huge financial resources. Their history is not as long as that of Lingjian Villa, but their silk business is all over the territory of Yangzhou, and almost every county and county in Yangzhou will have a silk shop with a splendid workshop. Therefore, in the territory of Yangzhou, even ordinary people, most of them know the brand of Jinxiufang. After everyone's word of mouth, people naturally know that Jinxiufang is actually a Jianghu sect.
After hearing the affirmative answer from the girl in the shop, the two Great Goryeo people showed a slightly happy look on their faces, and then continued to ask: "Then the ancestor of your Splendid Fang, has anyone become an immortal?" ”
The little girl who sold the goods smiled and replied, "You must be from Fanbang, right?" I don't know what country you are? ”
The woman from the Great Goryeo Kingdom also smiled and replied, "We are from the Great Goryeo Kingdom, little girl, how do you know?" ”
The little girl still smiled and said: "I see that the clothes you wear are different from those worn by our people in the Great Song Dynasty, and the people in the Great Song Dynasty all know that our Jinxiufang has only been two or three hundred years since the founding of the sect, where will there be any ancestors who have become immortals?" ”
The two Koreans smiled awkwardly and said, "I see, I see!" We were presumptuous! ”
Xiao Ding heard that the two of them were also inquiring about whether anyone in the sect had ascended to immortality, and subconsciously felt that there must be something strange in this, so he continued to listen attentively.
I only heard the Goryeo man continue to ask: "Little girl, I don't know if you have heard of the recent appearance of the map of the Eye of the Earth on the rivers and lakes of the Great Song Kingdom?" ”
"I haven't heard of this, but I dare to ask Your Excellency, what is the Eye of the Earth?" The little girl shook her head and said, her eyes full of doubt.
"We're also hearsay, and we can't be honest." The two Koreans didn't seem to want to say much.
The little girl who sold the goods pouted and said, "If you don't want to say anything, do you want to inquire about things, or do you want to buy some fabrics?" I advise you to buy some fabrics from me and go back to make a few clothes from the Great Song Kingdom, so that if you come out to inquire about the news again, you will not be seen at a glance that you are from Fanbang. ”
The little girl is articulate, speaks logically and clearly, and can get to the point at once. Xiao Ding felt that this little girl was indeed born to be a businessman.
However, Xiao Ding heard the word "Eye of the Earth" from the mouths of these two Koreans again, the last time was in the town of Majiatuozi, he heard those people from the Great Uighur Kingdom say this word, and today he heard it again, which had to make Xiao Ding wonder: what is this Eye of the Earth?