The blizzard, which had been going on for several days, finally stopped.

The north winds blowing from the depths of Siberia once again asserted sovereignty over this land in the form of wind and snow.

Between heaven and earth is a white expanse.

Rivers, mountains, and forests are covered with snow.

The tall trees are covered in a thick layer of snow, and occasionally a few squirrels jump out of the hollows of the trees where they live, looking for their own stockpiles of pine nuts for food to feed their hunger.

Many of the branches could not bear the weight of the snow, and from time to time there was a crunch of breaking, which echoed through the trees, and the branches that had been blown off by the storm and those that had been crushed by the snow covered the snowy surface.

It was already noon, but the sun was still lazily emitting a gray light in the sky, and the sky had not yet completely cleared.

A few wild wolves in the snow are looking for prey in the snow, hoping to feed their hunger.

Suddenly, the wild wolf who was on the task of guarding suddenly let out a wolf howl, and more than a dozen wild wolves quickly gathered at one point, and then quickly fled to the depths of the snowfield.

On the distant horizon, a group of sleds of different shapes, led by hounds and reindeer, galloped in this direction at a rapid pace, followed closely by dozens of fast horses in front and behind the sleigh.

On a sleigh pulled by six reindeer, the Heilongjiang leader Bomu Bogol was covered in a thick fur coat, his face was smeared with animal fat, and his face was as gloomy as the weather.

"There, is it true that there is a caravan of Han Chinese on Kuyi Island, as the Ordi head said, to trade with those Utari on Kuyi Island?"

"Big boss. My men pursued a flock of wild sheep, walked for six days and six nights, and came across the tribe of the Ordi heads. According to him, the group of Han Chinese arrived on Kuyi Island before the first snow fell to buy prey from the Utalis. Later, they thought of going along the Heilongjiang River to Yongning Temple to continue buying furs, but their ships could not get through the frozen river, so they had to retreat to the vicinity of Haikou, where they erected huge poles to start trading with nearby tribes. ”

The leader of a small tribe respectfully reported to Bomu Bogol about the matter that he had asked several times.

"I hope so! Otherwise, we have been walking for more than ten days, and we have been blocked by this heavy snowstorm for four days. Don't just run for nothing! ”

Ride along the frozen Heilongjiang River with good weather. A group of more than 200 people walked forward for another three days, and finally came to the mouth of the Heilongjiang River, where they saw the caravan of the Han people mentioned by the tribe of the Aldi head.

"This is the caravan you're talking about?! Swapping prey with us?! ”

Although he is the big leader of the Sauron Department on the ground in Heilongjiang, he can be regarded as having a broad vision. But in front of the head of Aldi, who came to greet him. Bomu Bogol also showed a look of surprise.

Distance. A "huge" castle appeared on the ice sheet between the river and the sea.

It was made of felled trees piled up in a clearing, tied together with huge ropes, and filled with snow and dirt. When the cold snap hits, it naturally freezes stronger than steel. The huge wooden stacks were patrolled back and forth, and several flags were frozen hard in the cold wind.

The men of the head of Aldi shouted a few words in stiff Chinese to the sentry on the wooden wall, and the sentry, seeing that it was an acquaintance, ordered the general to come and answer a few words.

"This is the big boss of Heilongjiang, Lord Bo Mubo, who led the leaders of several tribes to trade! Please make it easy for you! ”

The thick gate of the village slowly opened on the muddy ground, and several fast horses galloped out of the gate, "Oldi headman, you brought your friends to exchange again?" ”

"Yes! Mr. Lin Da! ”

Lin Wenbing jumped off his horse and carefully looked at the trading team in front of him. The sleighs were piled with furs and the like, and dozens of hunter-warrior-looking men carrying animal skins of various sizes on their backs, and the team had indeed come to trade.

After Lin Wenbing received Li Shouhan's landing in Nigu, he was ordered to come to this bitter cold land in the far north, and first went to Kuyi Island, where he exchanged furs and other goods with the Utali people there (this is their self-name, and the familiar name is the Ainu).

Taking advantage of the fact that the snow had not yet froze, Lin Wenbing led people up the river along the Heilongjiang River, preparing to visit the Yongning Temple, where the former Nuer Gandu Division was located. The guide told him that if he didn't withdraw immediately, he was afraid that everyone would freeze to death on the river.

So, the group had to turn the bow of the boat and go down the river, build a house near Haikou, and prepare for the winter.

It's so good to die, this guy Aldy is here and now.

At first, when he saw that there were Han Chinese from the far south, he planned to take a closer look, and if there were few men, he would not mind turning these people and goods into his own wealth.

As a result, when he got closer, he found that this caravan was not only outnumbered, but also equipped with refined weapons, which his small tribe of dozens of people could never afford to provoke.

So he changed from collecting protection money to doing business.

"What can you change your fur for?"

"How much fur can be exchanged for an iron pot?"

Walking into the encirclement of Lin Wenbing's caravan, all the leaders were like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden, (huh?) It seems that at this time, the author's ancestor was still a slave under Huang Taiji and others. Look at the pillar that was large enough to hold the entire population of the entire tribe.

"Business matters, don't worry, please settle down first, we Han people have a saying, there are friends from afar, don't say it. When you come to me, you naturally want to invite everyone to drink wine and eat meat. ”

A few huge iron pots were set up in the courtyard, and the tongue of fire happily licked the bottom of the pot, and the broth in the pot kept tumbling, bringing out the fragrant fragrance and huge pieces of meat from the bottom of the pot.

Everyone from Bomu Bogol down to Bomu was attracted by this tempting fragrance, and when someone heard the translation of Lin Wenbing's words, they immediately took out a huge wooden bowl from their bosoms and prepared to start enjoying this delicious hot food.

In a long wooden house. Lin Wenbing ordered people to bring in the stewed animal meat, and brought a few jars of burning knives for the more than 200 people to enjoy.

"The head of Aldi probably said my rules here, anyone who comes to exchange prey with me is my brother, and I have a gift for you!"

As soon as Lin Wenbing finished speaking, someone came behind with a few bamboo baskets, and inside were stacks of large copper bowls. "This is my gift to every brother!"

Holding the copper bowl that Lin Wenbing gave to everyone, the bowl was full of hot and hot beast meat, which was cooked with salt and spices, and everyone almost swallowed their tongues. Eating meat and drinking wine. Everyone has regarded Lin Wenbing as a good brother in their clan.

Eat and drink to your heart's content, and drink hot. Someone was drunkenly singing tribal songs in the open space of the house. Sing and dance at the same time.

Seeing that his subordinates were so excited, several leaders took advantage of this space to gather around the big boss Bomu Bogol and discuss the trade in a low voice.

"Mr. Lin Da. I wonder what our prey can get in exchange with you? ”

As a big boss. Naturally, this matter has to be asked by Bomu Bogol.

Lin Wenbing smiled. He led the leaders to another large wooden house.

Everyone was immediately stunned by the dazzling array of goods in this room! The eyes were dazzled.

Bows and knives hung on the walls of the room, spears stood on shelves, and sacks of grain were piled on the floor. On the counter is a cloth that women like. Huge jars were filled with salt as white as snow, as white as salt, sugar sweeter than honey. In the corner of the room were stacks of large iron pots.

Swords, guns, bows and arrows, salt, grain, cloth, these few things are very lethal and attractive to these fishing, hunting and gathering peoples, these items are both tools of production and means of subsistence.

A leader snatched a bow from the wall, looked at it carefully, and the bow was actually an iron-tired copper back, and pulled it with his fingers, and the bow was far stronger than the bow he used.

"If this leader is interested, he might as well try it outside."

An arrow flew away, and the plank was pierced eighty paces away, and the arrow was slightly reduced, and flew dozens of paces away, and when it hit the trunk of a large tree, the tail feathers on the arrow were still trembling.

When the man saw it, he immediately put the bow on his back, patted Lin Wenbing's shoulder with his hand, and pointed to the bow behind him.

"He asked for this bow. He asked you how much fur does this bow cost? Do you have to have a fur as tall as a bow to change it? ”

"Or, with so many bear paws and bear bile on his fingers and toes?"

Lin Wenbing is also very experienced in trading with the Sauron people, Utali people, and Ezo people in the Heilongjiang region and Kuyi Island, and he knows what things are indispensable and the most lethal for the people living in this bitter cold land.

"I'll use five pairs of tiger bones to buy a bow like this!"

Several other leaders also shouted the price.

Fur, bear bile, bear paw, tiger bone, these are the specialties of the Heilongjiang region, and they are also the main varieties used to exchange daily necessities.

However, even before the liberation, the Han people came to this area to trade with the Oroqen, Evenki and other ethnic groups, and the trade between the two sides was also extremely peculiar, and such a trade was handed down from hundreds of years. As you will see in the following columns, such a scene will be seen.

Back in the wooden house where all kinds of goods were displayed, a man with a drunken face carrying an iron pot with a chain that could be hung on a wooden shelf was facing each other with wide eyes, talking to himself.

"Ah Qi, what's the matter, how can you be so rude to the guests?"

The guy who was called Ah Qi was full of helplessness, "The big shopkeeper, this barbarian, no, this person, he has eaten too much wine, and when he broke in and saw our goods, he immediately wanted to move this pot, and he didn't know what to say, and he didn't know what to do, so of course I couldn't let him move away." ”

The general and Aldi squeezed forward and communicated with the man who was full of alcohol, but he was holding the iron pot and not letting go.

Although the tribes may be hundreds of miles apart, the language gap may not be as great as that between provinces in the interior, and the meaning is probably the same.

"That's right, Mr. Big. This warrior was optimistic about this iron pot, and he was afraid that someone would replace it first, so he was ready to take this pot. Go outside and go up to your own sleigh to get the fur to exchange, I don't want to misunderstand. ”

"Tell him that all of us are here, including his leader, watch this iron pot for him, and let him go and get the furs."

Listening to Lin Wenbing's words relayed by the general, the man immediately put the iron pot in his arms on the ground and ran out happily.

After a while, there was a lot of noise outside, and several stout men were happy. I don't know what I'm shouting. Rushed in from the sleigh with bundles of fur.

The man threw the fur in his arms into the iron pot, placed the iron pot steadily, and saw that the fur would cover the surface of the iron pot, so he beckoned his companion to throw the fur in his arms into the iron pot.

Soon. The iron pot was full of fur.

Seeing that the fur in the pot is about to reach the edge of the pot. The fur in the hands of several men has also run out. See that the iron pot is not filled. The man couldn't help but sit on the ground and burst into tears.

While crying, he slapped his cheek with his hand, and kept screaming and scolding.

"What's the matter with him?"

The general came to Lin Wenbing's ear. Explain to him in a whisper.

In the past, merchants of the Han Chinese or other ethnic groups brought iron products, salt, and cloth to trade here, all of which were traded in a very peculiar way of calculation.

For example, if this man is optimistic about the iron pot, then the iron pot must be filled with fur, and then compacted, and the fur is still above the edge of the pot, so that the iron pot can be removed.

This is the peculiar way of trade we talked about above, or a way for the high civilization to plunder the peoples of the primitive clan period. Do you remember hundreds of millions of shirts for an airplane? That's basically the truth.

This man was a warrior under Bomu Bogol, and before the leader of the guard came out to trade, he made an appointment with a good girl in the clan, and when he returned from trading with the Han people, he married her into the door. But the woman proposed that there must be an iron pot at home. This is similar to the requirement to have a matrimonial house now.

When this man set off, he brought all the prey he had worked hard to shoot in the autumn, and kept shooting the prey along the way, and he was full of joy and planned to get his sweetheart to start a family after changing back to the iron pot, but he didn't want to fall short.

may have seen a lot of things for such a scene, so it is natural to talk about it quietly.

One of the companions beside the man, while reprimanding him loudly, took something from his waist, put it on the ground, and kept stabbing it with the arrow in his hand, and kept screaming and cursing in his mouth.

"Stop!" Lin Wenbing stared intently at the arrow made of wolf's fangs, which was so pierced that he could barely distinguish what it was, and couldn't help but stop it.

"What's going on?"

He picked up the blonde head in his hand and asked the leaders around him in a loud voice.

"This is a ghoul demon that the two brothers killed together this summer, because they killed him, so both of them were injured and delayed the hunt, so the prey they hunted was insufficient!"

Bomu Bogol is still quite proud of the record of his Warriors.

Lin Wenbing ordered someone to take water to wash his hands, and laughed loudly, "With this thing, are you still afraid that you won't be able to marry a bride?!" ”

Hearing Lin Wenbing's words, the brothers immediately quieted down, staring at Lin Wenbing with wide, slender eyes.

All the leaders of the Heilongjiang Sauron Department present, including Bomu Bogol and Aldi, all cast their eyes on Lin Wenbing. Looking forward to his answer.

"My master told me when I set out that there were two things to trade here, besides furs, ginseng, bear's paws, tiger bones, deer fetuses, and deer antler velvets. Moreover, it is the most valuable. ”

He stepped forward and patted the man who had just stopped his sorrow, "We'll weigh it in a while, see how heavy this head you cut off, and then you can choose something of the same weight, and you can also bargain." ”

Weight, price? These words puzzled the growing Saurons.

Lin Wen ordered the man to take out a large scale, put the Rakshasa man's head on the scale and weighed it, "Two catties and three taels!" ”

In order to make everyone trustworthy, he took out a balance for weighing silver, and placed the human head on the weighing pan at one end, and a pound and bag of salt at the other end, which immediately made everyone present in an uproar.

It turns out that the head of the Rakshasa people can be exchanged for a pound of salt if it weighs a pound!

"Man, I respect you as a warrior and dare to kill such an evil Rakshasa ghost, I will sell this pot to you at half price." Lin Wen ordered the fur in the pot to be slightly divided into two piles, the guy from the business took one team, and the other pile was stuffed into the surprised man.

The two brothers hugged the iron pot, and the wrinkles on their faces smiled like a chrysanthemum.

But bigger surprises are yet to come.

"Do you need something else?" Lin Wenbing's smile was very similar to the snake that tempted Adam and Eve to eat the forbidden fruit.

"If you want to exchange something else, I'll give it to you at a 60% discount!"

This made it difficult for the general matter, and after searching his stomach for a long time, he couldn't think of how to translate this sentence.

Seeing that the general affairs were frowning there and didn't know how to translate, and the big and small people in the Sauron Department didn't know what Lin Wenbing was going to say, the atmosphere in the whole wooden house was extremely delicate.

As soon as he turned his head, Lin Wenbing saw the leader who had just tried to shoot the bow and arrow, and gestured to ask him to take the bow and arrow, the head man hesitated for a moment, and under the majesty of the big leader of Bomu Bogol, Ai Ai handed the bow with an iron tire and copper back to Lin Wenbing.

After weighing a bow and ten arrows on the scales, Lin Wenbing ordered the two brothers to weigh the fur and other things according to them, and after the weight of the two was equal, the fur was divided into two piles again, the big one was kept for himself, and the small one was returned to the two brothers. (To be continued......)