A few of us stopped greeting each other and walked forward quickly.

But under a towering Bodhi tree, four or five Roman merchants dressed in linen summer robes, wearing fine iron armor on their chests, and carrying short swords at their waists, were standing or sitting around the ancient tree.

All of them have messy hair, and their skin has long been the color of red sauce, and at a glance, they can be seen to have come from the mountains and rivers on the coast of the western land.

Not far away, there was a row of stone piles tied to horses, and a dozen or so tall Gallic horses were snorting incessantly.

And on the front side of each saddle, a brown shield and a long quiver filled with tenders were hung.

All of these were standard for a Roman swordsman.

In the Canaan battlefield of that year, from the Knight's Fort to Beloea, these fierce Roman swordsmen can be regarded as our old enemies.

Now I can still meet them in the incense market of this Tianzhu Buddha country, and I suddenly feel more cordial, like an old man who has not seen him for many years

Four or five cowhide pockets stood there stunned, filled with various colored resin incense blocks.

Before it got close, there was already a faint fragrance wafting from afar, which made people feel comfortable, and the miasma in the body that had been suffocated for a long time seemed to be gone with the wind in an instant.

"The beautiful woman gave me Su Hexiang, why do you want the green mandarin duck. The beauty is beautiful and I am feathered, why do you want the shadow and shape! Ha ha! It smells so good! It smells so good! ”

I couldn't help but be in a big mood, and the seven-word quatrain of Fu Xuan, a Confucian in the Western Jin Dynasty, blurted out, and took the incense block in Tian Lu's hand closely.

I really don't know if I was confused by the beautiful woman of Guishan Maitianlu, or if the fragrance of Suhe attracted me.

After all, Tian Lu has only learned a few words of Han Di Yayan, and I don't know what I am talking about.

Just looked at me with a spring breeze on his face, and bent down to take out a few pieces from the sachet and handed them to Qin Chong, who came with him.

If only Miss Yanxi, the talented girl in Chang'an City, was by her side, she would definitely sing peace with me.

There are two other sentences in this famous poem of Fu Xuanfuzi, which are called: The beauty gave me the bright moon pearl, why do you want a flounder. The beauty is my orchid grass, why do you want to be a concentric bird.

From this Han poem, it can also be known that as early as hundreds of years ago, Su Heqixiang from the western country of the Great Qin Sea had entered the ordinary homes of Chang'an in the East.

"The young master is so Yaxing, hehe. This Suhexiang is in the Oriental Han Dynasty and has always been listed in the royal market as a herbal medicine. The effect of this incense on opening the body and relieving filth, qi and relieving pain is beyond the comparison of ordinary herbs. ”

Su Hefu smiled and began to fulfill last night's promise and explain to us all kinds of knowledge related to incense.

And the first lecture of today is this Suhe spice from the Western Roman State.

"I said! Smelling the fragrance in the wind just now, I felt that all the meridian breath in my body was opened! ”

Qin Chong exchanged the largest piece of balsam from the skin of the Romans, and shone a few times in the dazzling sunlight, as if he was identifying beautiful jade.

I have known for a long time that there is Su Hexiang, but I have never seen this ingot of incense.

Purple and red are transparent, hard as stone, and it is clearly an unpolished Kunlun red jade.

The other merchants who were sitting and resting under the tree saw that there were more customers in front of the stall, so they got up and came to greet us.

These guys are some kind of merchants, and they are clearly bloodthirsty swordsmen who have just returned from the battlefield.

Standing upright like a green pine, the solemn eyes can scare away the old customers who are sincere in their dealings and don't know the details.

"Uncle Su, what is the market price of this Su Hexiang in Chang'an and Jiankang?"

I asked seriously, I already had the heart to make a deal with these Roman merchants.

"The old man in Jiankang really didn't pay attention to it, but he was entrusted by Liu Ye in Xiapi to bring back a few catties from here ten years ago

Your grandfather is a brother in life and death, and now he is a grandchild. Hehe, so it's all a favor, and it can't be considered a transaction. In Chang'an City, the market price of this Suhexiang should be ten times that of silk. If converted to the market three years ago, it is almost a tael of gold and a pound of Suhe's original incense. ”

Uncle Su raised his hand to weigh the weight of the incense block, and said to me patiently.

Sa Bing, who was thousands of miles away from home, met visitors from his homeland, of course, was very affectionate, and hurriedly stepped forward to talk to them in the official dialect of Rome in his hometown.

And Qin Chong and Guo Helmet were accompanied by Sa Bing on the left and right, and their hands pressed on the scabbard of their swords to meet the murderous gaze of the Romans.

There are many enemies who are very red when they see each other, and they do not hesitate to fight hand-to-hand to determine the sense of immediacy.

On one side is the Roman native language, and Uncle Su and I are the Eastern Turkish official dialect, and Miss Tian Lu couldn't understand anyone, so she stopped mixing and went to watch the juggling of the Tianzhu artists alone.

"So precious!"

I sighed, carefully placing the heavy piece of incense back into the skin of the Roman merchant.

"Scarcity is expensive, hehe. At that time, Lord Bangu was entrusted by the powerful minister Dou Xian, and seven hundred horses of five-color silk could be exchanged for ten catties of Suhe from the Yue family. In this way, compared with the heyday of the Han Dynasty, the market price of all kinds of strange fragrances from the Tianzhu countries has fallen by as much as ten times compared with the heyday of the Han Dynasty. ”

Uncle Su sighed, and began to carefully examine the weight and price of the five bags of Su He original incense in front of him, in the eyes of a businessman.

"During the heyday of the Eastern Han Kingdom, there were millions of people in Chang'an City. The government is rich and the market is prosperous, and the rural people are also wearing ayara. Nowadays, the wealthy families who can afford Suhe vanilla are estimated to be two out of ten. ”

I pondered, and reached out to take another piece of balsam from the Roman merchant, and the smell of it came over my face even more than the former.

There is no doubt that among all the Suhe spices in front of you, this one should be the best among them.

"It smells so good! Uncle Su, let's buy them all! ”

The merchant on the other side finally greeted him with a smile, which was even more ugly than when he was not smiling.

I have made up my mind to make a deal with these Romans.

"Okay, it's rare to meet such a high-quality Suhe Yuanxiang, hehe. The world's strange fragrance is like the rare Kunlun milk jade, whether you can meet it depends on chance, the young master is really a blessed person! ”

Uncle Su seemed to be very satisfied with the supply in front of him, and gently put down the incense block and congratulated me.

"Sa Bing, ask your township party if we buy all of them, what their asking price is!"

"Master Su, young master! These fellow villagers came from Metropol, in the northeastern mountains of the Roman Empire, which was also the origin of Suhexiang in the world! They said that the purpose of this batch of Suhe was to raise a plan to go to the East. ”

Sabing stammered, Canaanite Semitic, Roman Mandarin, Handiya, and Tocharian were used intersectingly, and only I could understand what he meant.

"Young master, they are just the low-level Shannons on the Anatolian Plateau, and they just want to go to the Han Kingdom in the East to buy some silk and transport it back to Constantinople to make a small fortune. I don't have the capital, I rely on these spices brought from my hometown, and I ask the young master to fulfill it! ”

Sabing knew that I knew Semitic, so she bowed down to me and pleaded with me in Semitic.

"Didn't Uncle Su say it, we will buy all of this batch of Suhe, and ask your villagers how much golden sand they can make!"

I said happily, afraid that Sa Bing wouldn't understand, so I specially told him again in flash language.

I know very well that the low-level freedmen of the Roman kingdom have no power or money, but they all have a free heart that travels all over the world, which is what I admire the most.

These brothers are penniless, and they want to use the Suhe specialties in their hometown to come to this Jiantuoxiang City in exchange for tariffs, and then go to Chang'an in the East

Trafficking silk back to Rome.

In this way, if you succeed once, you can return the wealth of several generations.

As Taishi Gong's "Chen Shi Family" said: Princes and generals, rather have a kind!

In this world, those who are willing to fight for their lives and walk the right path, no matter what success or failure, are all true heroes!

"Young master, my villagers said that a total of five hundred pieces of Suhe original incense, they are willing to sell it for one hundred taels of golden sand, you all buy it, and the price can be negotiated!"

Sabing listened to my words with a look of ecstasy on his face, and after a long time of muttering with his Roman countryman, he turned back to me and quoted the other party's price.

The love and hatred between people in the world are sometimes really difficult to explain.

Although several Roman merchants called themselves Great Qin Shannon, they looked more like battle-hardened Roman swordsmen to us.

In the territory of Beroea and Antioch, Sabing, a Shan of the Roman pariahs, even had a face-to-face life-and-death battle with them.

But in this foreign land, with only a few words of unchangeable vernacular, they have formed a neck-to-neck friendship.

also regard the other party's business as their own business.

Just like when I met Lin Jinxiang, a Han merchant from the Eastern Jin Dynasty, at the market in Beloea.

"Uncle Su, they asked for a hundred taels of sands, what do you think?"

The flash exchange between me and Sa Bing had already made Uncle Su a little unhappy, so I quickly turned my head to him and asked with a smile.

"One hundred taels of golden sands is only eighty percent of the market price, hehe, young master, we make a deal!"

Uncle Su was very relieved after listening to the offer, and the original unhappiness was fleeting.

"Eighty percent? It's not easy for these guys, let's give it a full price, one hundred and twenty taels of golden sands! ”

I heard that the other party's quotation is 20% lower than the market price here, and I am very sorry!

"Young Master, you must remember that as a merchant, everything in the market must be a businessman, and you must not add a heart of compassion to it! The seller's quotation is fair enough for our buyer not to kill the price code, and it also takes the initiative to let the family benefit two percent, so the transaction is not a business way! ”

Uncle Su stopped me and said, Fortunately, these Romans can't understand half of the Han dialect, otherwise this transaction may not be able to sit down.

"Sa Bing, tell people that we made a deal! However, I didn't bring enough money, so I can go out of the city to pick it up, and by the way, I will go back to this batch of incense goods! ”

The old man didn't wait for me to have half a sentence of justification, then turned his head and instructed Sa Bing while conducting the final inspection.

Pulling out the short knife on his waist, he leaned over and cut half of the piece on the Suhexiang block, then rubbed his palms together and sniffed it.

When the Romans heard that we were willing to make a deal, they were all overjoyed.

The autumn wind swept away the stalls on the ground, and the skins filled with incense ingots were set up on horseback, waiting to follow us out of the city.

Tian Lu saw that he had just come to the market and was about to return, he was very puzzled and disappointed, and ran up to me to take my arm and want to ask what was going on.

I could only smile wryly and spread my hands and sigh to the sky.

The deal has been reached, and it seems that it has nothing to do with me, the gold owner, and it is all up to Uncle Su to decide.

"Young master, don't be angry, this old Su is good at everything, but he can't see business! In front of the transaction, he didn't recognize his six relatives, and he couldn't do anything about him when the master was alive, haha! ”

On the way out of the city, Qin Chong saw my displeasure on his face, and hurriedly stepped forward to solve his doubts.

"However, all the transactions that Lao Su Tou likes and the rules he sets are all sure-safe transactions, so you can let him do it, young master!"

The pot helmet also felt the same way, and in their eyes, Uncle Su was indeed a god-like existence.