Chapter 66: The Backbone
The man pulled Hongjun and shouted, "You return my food!" You return my dishes! I'm going to the market to sell the dishes that I used to pay my lord's taxes! Without that, how would I pay this quarter's taxes? ”
Hongjun was caught by this stranger, and seemed to react from the loss of Fenglixi's distraction. Hurriedly gave the four girls a look, Bai Ze strode over violently, stretched out his hand to throw this person aside, but was stopped by Hongjun, Bai Xi took out some gold coins given by Zeus, and shouted at the man, "We bought the dish!" "A few of them have learned a variety of existing languages in more than a thousand years at Blue Star.
At this time, with the help of Patian, Hongjun can also communicate with others through various languages, he said, "How much money do you say these are worth?" I'll give you double. ”
When the man heard this, his eyes were full of disbelief, and after seeing a large handful of gold coins that Bai Xi took out, the man let go of Hongjun at once, took out one of the pile of glittering gold coins, looked at it vigorously in the sun, and gnawed on it with his teeth to verify the authenticity of this gold coin.
After a moment of distraction, the man jumped up excitedly, and even nodded and pointed to the other two baskets next to him, and asked Xiang Hongjun, "Nobleman, do you want to step on these again, just one gold coin per basket."
At this time, Hongjun also reacted from the distraction, sorted out the clothes that were crumpled by the man, looked at the man's clothes and a few bamboo baskets, and knew that the other party was just a poor ordinary person, so he asked, "What are your two baskets for?" ”
The man's face fell, and he said miserably, "You don't know, in the past ten years, you have to pay taxes every quarter, one for the lord, two for the church, and only gold and silver are collected in addition to food, but there is so much gold and silver among the common people, and food is a life-saving thing, and it is easy to move." I had no choice but to plant a variety of fruits and vegetables, and take them to the market in front of me to sell a few changes, hoping to make up enough money to pay taxes at that time, otherwise I would be punished if I couldn't pay taxes at that time. ”
Hongjun took a few cucumbers and a few tomatoes from the two baskets next to him, and nodded while eating, and suddenly an idea popped out of his mind, and he said to the man, "I bought all of you" and then motioned to Bai Xi to give money. After the man left happily, Hongjun picked up the flat shoulder, picked up the two baskets of vegetables and fruits and walked to the town in front.
After arriving in the town, Hongjun let the other three scatter, only took Bai Xi to the market, just wanted to go in but was stopped by a guy who looked like an official next to the door, the man stretched out his hand, his fingertips closed a few times, Hongjun put on a pleasing expression and said, "This official, you see that the little one has just come, and there is no income yet, can you wait for the villain to sell it and then pay it." ”
Hongjun had seen this entrance before, and some of the people who entered from here paid money and gave a piece of iron sign, and they would hand it back when the market closed. And those who haven't paid the money can enter directly, and it should be okay to pay when the market closes. Those who come to buy supplies will not come in and out through this entrance.
Sure enough, the man waved his hand and let Hongjun and Bai Xi in, and at this time the two had already changed their clothes, otherwise the clothes and jewelry on Bai Xi's body would be more valuable than the entire market. After entering, the two first dispersed, Hongjun found an unmanned stall, and Bai Xi went to understand the price first, and then Bai Xi came to Hongjun and said a few words and stayed in the stall, and Hongjun began to wander around the market.
In fact, this is just an open-air place surrounded by a wooden fence, and the whole town is also built on a vacant lot sandwiched between several hills, and it is easy to see a castle more than ten meters high on a high ground in the south of the market, and the spire building is very common in the western continent. The same is true for this town.
Hongjun walked around this bazaar a few times, and had a general understanding of the money units and prices here, the gold coins that Zeus gave himself were the highest level of money units, and there were silver coins and copper coins under the gold coins, each of which was in a ratio of one to ten, and the staple food here was potatoes, and a copper coin could buy about ten catties of potatoes, so that two or three gold coins could fully meet the daily food and drink needs of an ordinary family for a year.
The main goods sold in this market are some daily necessities, meat, vegetables, cloth, various handicrafts, and even some metal weapons. There were also a few livestock sellers close to the outside. After the other three brought some changed money, Bai Xi sold the fruits and vegetables in his hand at a very low price, and gave the official at the entrance two copper coins, and several people dispersed, agreeing to buy some things they need here, and try to spend all the money in their hands, as long as there is a template, everyone can easily use the chaotic qi to make them in the future, and the consumption of the chaotic qi of making these ordinary metals is simply negligible.
Hongjun first bought a few trinkets suitable for Feng Lixi, although Feng Li Xi is gone, but Hong Jun still has such an obsession, hoping that one day Feng Li Xi can wear these gadgets to show himself. After a moment of distraction, I thought about it and prepared one for each of the four concubines, and then simply collected all the stalls selling handicrafts, until the stall owners shouted in their hearts that they had met the owner of the stupid man with a lot of money, and one of them also said that his home was nearby, and if Hongjun needed him, he could go home and sell all the things to Hongjun.
Hongjun just shook his head, afraid that these people will only take out the best and put it here to sell, the inventory at home is changeable and it is something that cannot be handled, although he does have a lot of money, but he is not really stupid.
Hongjun also walked around the place where the weapons were sold, and lost interest when he found that it was just some rough swords and spears. When he came to the place where the livestock was sold, Hongjun wanted to buy a few horses for a few people to walk, but unexpectedly there were only two of them, and they didn't look listless, Hongjun didn't care, and bought these two inconspicuous horses for the price of eight gold coins, and then the former two horses came to the tavern over there. Let the fellows take care of it and go to the tavern, which is a two-story building with no spire, perhaps in the eyes of these merchants, although the building with a spire is beautiful but not practical, with a few tables on the first floor, and a guest room on the second floor. Hongjun first asked for the largest guest room, then went to the first floor and ordered some food and drink, and sat there waiting for the four of them.
After sitting down, Hongjun began to miss Feng Lixi again, and the whole person fell into a state of selflessness again. I don't know how long I sat there, but I was woken up by a soft sobbing voice next to me, and I moved my face but found that the four girls had not done it all at this table, the three girls all lowered their heads and did not speak, Bai Xi kept bowing his head and sobbing, Hongjun sighed and said.
"Bai Xi, don't cry, your master will be found by us one day."
Unexpectedly, Bai Xi glanced at Hongjun and cried even more.
Bai Ze said, "Lord, Bai Xi is not crying for the master, in our eyes, the master has fallen for hundreds of years, and we have come out of that sadness." But... We are looking forward to the Lord's return every day, and behold... ”
Bai Ze said, but a mist rose in his eyes, "But I didn't expect the lord... Was... Bai Xi is actually distressed about the Lord. She looks at you these days, and her heart is distressed to death. After speaking, he wiped his eyes, looked up at the sky with red eyes, and tried not to let the tears flow.
The White Snake followed up and said, "Lord, you can be sad and miss your master, but you can't keep doing this!" You're the backbone of our gang! If you have three long and two short, how can you let us people live... ”
Bai Lin looked calm, and said one by one, "Lord, now that we have a way to bring back Master Rishi, then we must work together to minimize some meaningless things, so that we can resurrect the master earlier." ”
At this time, Bai Xi stopped sobbing, wiped his tears with a cloth, and said softly, "Lord, subordinates can't wait to die for their masters, including Taishang them, we all think so, but we are not strong enough, at that time, Niangniang clearly ordered us to wait on the side and not move, as a result... ”
"We were just like you then, but ... We still have your backbone, hope, hope, finally hope for the Lord back, but... ”
At this time, Hongjun took Bai Xi into his arms, comforted him softly, and then gave the third girl a comforting look, and asked the guy to withdraw the food that had become cold without moving, and went back to the table to eat. He said, "Well, since you care so much about me, then I also know that it is time to cheer up, and in this case, in the days to come, we should make the search for your master our first priority." Don't give up on yourself anymore" Hongjun actually said more to himself.
After speaking, Bai Ze took out a few pairs of chopsticks and handed them to everyone, the tableware here Hongjun is not used to it, Hongjun tasted it, and felt that it was delicious, and the women moved a few chopsticks and did not move, it seems that the mood is still not very good, Hongjun saw this and picked up the wine glass, signaling everyone to drink together, but unexpectedly, after everyone drank it together, they all squirted out with a "poof", frowned and looked at the wine glass in their hands, looked up at the people who were sprayed by the other party, and a gentle laughter came out of this table, and the atmosphere began to become much easier.