"Brother Lin, what is the Western Trade Wind?"

Born in the hinterland of the Western Regions, he has never seen the vast ocean, and he is also very curious about this Brother Lin's trade winds.

"Brother Xian doesn't know! We ocean-going people who do business have always believed in the sea breeze, and they are particular about when they leave and when they return, and the knowledge in this is very great! Brother Lin said with a haha.

"Little brother would like to hear about it!" I asked, and poured Brother Lin a full glass of wine.

"On this sea, the wind direction and currents vary depending on the season. Every year in the middle of summer in Middle-earth, the currents of the Persian Sea flow along the coast from west to east with the western trade winds, and then turn southeast when they are blocked by the coast in front of them. Now we sail east from the Persian coast all the way to Sinhala and from there down to the islands of Pulo Chung in Johor. Wait until the spring of the following year, when the southwest trade winds blow, and then sail north. If there are no hurricanes, pirates and other accidents on the way, before the Dragon Boat Festival next year, my brother can reach my hometown in Nan'an County! ”

Although Brother Lin understated hurricanes, reefs, pirates and the like, on the sea where there was nowhere to escape from the ocean on all sides, the danger was no less than that of the mountain thieves and icebergs on the land road.

The trade routes in this world, whether by land or sea, are all dangerous roads in the world!

The world only knows the daughters and daughters of our wealthy giants, but only the businessmen who have come over know the joys and sorrows in their hearts!

"What Brother Lin means is that if you miss the season, sailing in the ocean will be like sailing against the current in the middle of a big river, and it will be difficult to move an inch!"

"The virtuous brother is very smart, and he can see through a little! Hehe! Brother Lin waved for the Roman maid to pour us wine, and raised a glass to invite me.

"However, it is still possible to use manpower to go against the water on the great river, and if we unfortunately encounter a stormy headwind in the ocean, we can only resign ourselves to fate! Hehe, ten years ago, in the South China Sea north of Puluozhong, my brother's merchant ship deviated from its original course after a storm, and we drifted on the sea for more than three months before we docked on a continent that we had never been to before. ”

"Brother Lin, there are people on this continent, right? What kind of country is it? Gu Landuo was deeply attracted by this Lin brother's terrifying experience, and couldn't help but be curious.

"Savage Country! Men, women, and children have brown skin, no clothes, slash-and-burn farming, and hunting for a living, and we ordinary people can't stay there for a day! There is a creature on that continent that you have never seen before, like a rat but hundreds of times larger than a mouse, like a donkey, but with two hooves standing upright and jumping like flying, the speed is even more fast than you in the Western Regions! The abdomen has a one-day skin pocket, and the newborn cubs stay in it without breastfeeding! Hehe! Virtuous brother, Miss Doer! I'm also well-informed as a brother, but I've never seen such a weird country, and now I'm afraid to think about it! ”

Brother Lin smiled and took a sip of wine.

"And how did you get out? Found your way home by sea? "When Gulandot first set foot in the rivers and lakes, he made the old mistake of being curious about everything.

"Our whole ship, together with more than 20 people, stayed on the coast of that continent for half a year, repairing the damaged seagoing ships, and finally encountered a southeast-northwest current the next year, which sent us back to the east."

Brother Lin talked about this past and smiled lightly, as if he was telling someone else's story, but we listeners were thrilled.

"Brother Tai is really a blessed and fateful person! Little brother admires! "I would like to pay my respects to this senior of Middle-earth business.

"Yes! It has been five years since our merchant ship docked in Wuxing County in Dongtu, and from there we sailed south back to our homeland on the edge of the Jinjiang River! Ay! The parents, wives and children at home thought that we had already died in a foreign country, and we even had a memorial tablet for the tomb! ”

Speaking of this, this Brother Lin's face showed a trace of sourness.

We are also in a foreign country, and we are also sympathetic.

It doesn't matter if there are any hardships and dangers on the way, I am afraid of the thoughts of my relatives in my homeland.

While speaking, the sunset had already set, and Brother Lin asked the restaurant to prepare a barbecue of three fat sheep in the courtyard of the inn and entertained us warmly.

"The food and beverage of this Roman country is unbearable, only this barbecue wine is okay! Brothers, fellow Han brothers! Come! Drink wine in a big bowl and eat meat in large chunks! If you don't get drunk tonight, you won't go home! ”

After a few bowls of wine, Lin Jin's hometown brother Taitung Tuchival's style appeared, and he raised his bowl to invite.

He waved his hand to the Roman maid and whispered a few words in her ear.

After a short time, the maid brought back more than a dozen graceful and graceful wine companions in cloth robes.

The women of Yunhai West are beautiful and hot, and each beauty is filled with the fragrance of Canaanite lavender, as well as this good night wine, which makes people confused and forgetful.

"Little Sister Duo'er, we people in business don't know tomorrow's blessings and misfortunes, so let's have some fun for our brothers. Miss Wanwang, forgive me, don't laugh at my brother's coarseness! ”

Brother Lin, who was a little drunk, was afraid that he would snub Gu Landuo, so he came to our side with a wine bowl and laughed, his words full of apologies.

"Brother Lin is too worried, you can play as much as you want, leave me alone. Hehe, just have my brother with you. ”

On the stone platform next to the grill, Gulandot sat intimately next to me and grinned.

I smiled helplessly at Brother Lin and spread my hands, since I had this follower, I can no longer be as profligate as before.

"Oh well! You brothers and sisters are at your own convenience, and let the maid bring you the wine and berries! ”

Brother Lin understood, and beckoned the Roman maid to come and sift the wine for me.

The moment I poured the wine, the hot autumn waves of the beautiful woman almost drowned me, and I couldn't sit down in this place anymore.

"Brother Lin! Is there a good place for women to spend time in the huge Beloea? ”

"Of course there is! Recently, the Mid-Levels Theater has been performing there every night by a troupe from the Acropolis, and tonight's play is "Prometheus Bound"! However, the drama of this Roman kingdom is not the same as the song and dance of our Eastern land, and there is nothing to see! ”

Brother Lin pointed to the amphitheater built of huge rocks in the middle of the mountain and shook his head and smiled.

"Drama! It's been a long time since I've seen Sister Ouran and their performances, so let's go over and take a look! When he heard that there were also Kabuki performances by the Romans here, Gulandot was overjoyed and pleaded.

Growing up in an inn house, the song and dance of the Western Regions have long been integrated into our bones, and our brothers and sisters have the same preferences in this regard.

Qin Chong, Liu Zhen'er, Sha Mihan and several of Brother Lin's men have long been brothers, and there are beautiful women on their side, they are really drunk and everyone is drunk.

Ruhl and Brother Langton, perhaps because of my presence with Gurandot, were embarrassed to put down their faces and play like young people, and sat solemnly and drank their wine.

Maybe after we leave, these two guys can relax without any scruples.

After saying goodbye to Brother Lin temporarily, our brothers and sisters went straight to the Mid-Levels Theater in high spirits.

The cool breeze in the mountains on a summer night is blowing, and the half-round moon bathes the entire ancient city like water.

The noise of the day had long since dissipated, and all around was the chirping of summer insects and the faint sound of people coming from the direction of the theater.

Although Brother Lin of Lin Jinxiang, who was considerate, did not come over to accompany him, he sent two Roman maids to accompany us.

One carries an oak barrel filled with wine pulp, and the other woman carries a rattan basket filled with ingredients and berries.

Seeing the two exotic beauties struggling to go up the mountain, I simply took all the things in their hands and let the three girls walk in front with laughter.

The amphitheater consists of a central stage paved with stone, and a circle of semicircular stone steps that rise up the stairs around it.

At the four corners of the stage, the burning brass lamps illuminated the entire theater like daylight, and even the silver moonlight was drowned out.

On the stairs sat a hundred and ten spectators, and in the middle of the stage stood a bronze pillar on which the performer, known as "Prometheus", was tied to the bronze pillar with a large number of flowers.

Below are a dozen singing and dancing, chirping, all gray-and-white cloth robes, the daughters of the river god that Gulando called them.

They are trying to find a way to save this chivalrous man who stole the heavenly fire to save mankind, this god of the ancient era of the West, is really a bit like Hou Yi who shoots the sun in our Eastern Ancient Saints.

But such a performance is indeed different from the singing and dancing performances in the Western Regions and Chang'an in the East.

The endless lines are simply speeches, just like the hundreds of schools of thought that traveled around the world during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

Gulandot is completely immersed in the plot and no longer works as my translator.

I was bored sitting on the stone platform, looking up at the stars and moon in the dome, and I couldn't help but think of "Jiang Youbian" and "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix" in the Chang'an Guizhifang Wine Restaurant in the winter of the previous year.

There is also Miss Yanxi, who is obsessed with "the joy of Zhou Li and the wind of the south", and she is so beautiful! Don't ask for it!

On the second day, under the love of Lin Jinxiang brother Tai, we took the blue sky as a witness, burned incense and bowed in the direction of the homeland of Dongtu, and became brothers with different surnames in Jinlan.

I don't want to be born in the same year and month, but I want to die in the same year and month, and I will meet him in the same year.

On the side of the ancient road outside the city of Belroea, our two caravans of the Han family said goodbye in tears.

Ringtee followed our way to Babylon, and then eastward to the port on the Persian coast, from where we set out on our way home.

Our next destination was the city-state of Antioch, 500 miles from here, on the shores of the Mediterranean.