Chapter 529: Craftsman

In the last few days of the year, everyone seems to be idle, even His Majesty doesn't let himself work so hard anymore, he sleeps more for two consecutive days, and his spirit seems to be a lot full, plus he was in a good mood after a meal in the welcome building yesterday, so the smile on the corner of his mouth is more relaxed than in the past.

The temple fair in Chang'an city also officially began on the day of the twenty-seventh day of the lunar month, there are four temple fairs in the four cities of east and west, north and south, the most lively is the fence mountain temple fair in the north of Chang'an City, there are mountains in Chang'an City by the north, but the scale is not large, the height is only about 100 zhang, but the scenery is good in the spring, summer, autumn and winter.

This mountain should be regarded as a section of the Yanshan Mountain Range in the north, stretching for more than 20 miles from east to west, and the shape resembles the fence outside the vegetable garden of the people's house, so it is called the fence mountain.

There is a large open space at the foot of the fence mountain, and it is because it is large enough that the temple fair is more lively.

Relatively speaking, the temple fair in Jinxiutang Street in Dongcheng is more elegant, and most of the people who go there are high-ranking officials and nobles, so they are reluctant to go to the big temple fair in Beicheng to rub shoulders with the people one after another, not to mention the crowding, and they are not suitable for the strong market atmosphere.

The temple fair in Xicheng is dominated by opera, and the major opera troupes will set up a stage to sing there, and there are all kinds of tunes from the north and south, so the nobles are also willing to go there to go around and see their favorite characters appear on the stage.

The Nancheng temple fair is also called the earth temple fair, because the temple fair is near the original abandoned brick kiln, there are no weeds, there are more people walking in it seems to be violent and dusty, the people joke that a family of three to visit the earth temple fair, go home and shake the clothes, can pad the yard, if the neighbors go back together, all the way to shake, can pave the road.

The temple fair lasts until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and then transforms into a lantern festival.

At the beginning, it was some Fanbang merchants who came to Daning to do business found that the people of Daning attached unimaginable importance to the New Year, and they did not understand why designating a day as a certain festival would evolve into an unchangeable custom, or even a feeling.

They don't understand, but they see a business opportunity.

Especially the merchants from those small countries in the Western Regions, they would even make great preparations for the temple fair for nearly 20 days, and they began to arrange for people to return to the Western Regions at least seven or eight months in advance, bringing back a large number of goods, and waiting for the temple fair to start selling them.

The people of Daning are rich, and these merchants will make a lot of money every year.

Shen Leng and the tea master arrived near the temple fair, and the carriage and horses could not continue to move forward, it was really crowded, Shen Leng got out of the car and asked the coachman to wait on the side of the road, and then took the hand of the tea master and walked into the temple fair venue.

About five or six meters in front of Shen Leng's body, there were plainclothes soldiers, left, right, and back, all of them, and others naturally couldn't see anything unusual, but if you look down from above, you will see that these people have always maintained the same speed as Shen Leng Chaye.

Of course, if Shen Leng came to play by himself, of course, he didn't have to go through such a lot of trouble, but now that the tea master is pregnant, Shen Leng has to be careful.

"What is this?"

Tea Master saw a Fanbang merchant on the side of the road introducing his goods in a broken Ning language, a small box one by one, after opening it there will be a very beautiful sound of music, he said that this is a magic box, can bring good luck to people, sell extremely expensive, such a small thing, the price is fifteen taels of silver.

"Magic box, magic box."

When the merchant saw that the tea master was paying attention to this, he reached out and grabbed the tea master's hand: "Come and see, magic box." ”

With a snap, the hand was opened by Shen Leng.

The Fanbang merchant snorted in pain, and a touch of anger flashed in his eyes.

But soon, the anger disappeared.

"This guest, please take a look at my box."

He pointed to his goods and said, "From the mysterious West, made of magic, whoever buys it will bring good luck." ”

Shen Leng looked at him: "Can the magic box bring people good luck?" ”

The Fanbang merchant immediately said: "Of course you can, you Ning people don't know the magic on our side, we have magic, and we use magic to create these things that can make beautiful music, but it doesn't matter, the important thing is that the person who bought the magic box can bless peace, which is more effective than your immortals." ”

Shen Leng: "Hmm...... Then these magic boxes are all yours, is your own luck better than anyone else? ”

The Fanbang businessman paused for a moment, as if he didn't expect someone to raise the bar like this.

He glared at Shen Leng, as if he felt that the tea master liked this thing just now, so he reached out to pull the tea master's hand again: "You come and touch it, this thing can make you more beautiful." ”

With a snap, the hand was hit down by Shen Leng again.

The Fanbang merchant was a little annoyed: "What are you doing!" ”

Shen Leng: "You haven't answered me yet, can these magic boxes that can bring good luck to you bring good luck to yourself." ”

"Of course!"

Fanbang merchant said: "If you want to buy it, you can buy it, if you can't afford it, go away, I don't like you, these magic boxes are mine, of course, the good luck given to you is also given by me, people I don't like, don't deserve to have magic boxes, and they won't have good luck." ”

Shen Leng beckoned, and the two pro-soldiers behind him pressed a person's neck up.

He glanced at the person who was being held down, and then at the Fanbang merchant: "It seems that it didn't bring you any good luck...... You deliberately pull the people who are going to see your goods, and then while the attention of others is on your goods, your accomplices steal their money bags from behind. ”

Shen Leng sighed: "This magic box seems to really bring me good luck, but it didn't bring you." ”

Fanbang businessman's face changed: "Don't talk nonsense, I don't know what you're talking about, I'm a serious businessman, my magic box is so good, why should I steal." ”

Shen Leng rummaged through the person who was caught and took out his money bag: "Do you know why I noticed you stealing my things just now, but I didn't catch you red-handed?" ”

He shook the money bag in front of the eyes of the Fanbang merchants: "Because you can't escape." ”

The Fanbang merchant snorted: "I don't know this person, maybe you deliberately stuffed your money bag into him and then framed me, Daning is a reasonable country, I don't deal with people like you, you leave quickly." ”

Shen Leng snorted.

"Since you said that Daning is a reasonable country, then I will reason with you, there should be a base list when your goods are purchased, according to the laws of Daning, Fanbang merchants, without a base list of goods, no clear source, are regarded as smuggling."

He looked into the eyes of the merchant of the state: "Come, use your magic to conjure it up for me." ”

The Fanbang merchant snorted and began to pack his things: "I don't talk to you, you're a bad person." ”

Seven or eight Fanbangs approached this side, as if to assist their accomplices.

Shen Leng asked the tea master: "Which one do you like?" ”

Tea Ye smiled and shook his head: "I just saw that something was wrong here, so I just took a few more looks, and they were embarrassed to say anything magic about this kind of gadget......"

Shen Leng reached out and picked up a so-called magic box and looked at it, the reason why he picked this is because the pattern on this magic box is a flower, a big flower.

"Let's do it."

Shen Leng handed the things to the tea master, then took out the money bag and took out fifteen taels of silver and put it on the stall of the Fanbang merchants: "Eat something good." ”

The Fanbang businessman didn't expect Shen Leng to actually pay money to buy things, he was already ready to close the stall and go back to the inn today to avoid it, Ning people are arrogant, and they are more polite to them in other countries, and some people even think that they are more noble than their own people, in this world, the proudest is the Ning people, followed by the black warriors.

"What do you mean?"

He looked at the silver and asked.

Shen Leng said: "You can order food in Daning's cell, as long as you have enough money, it is very warm, and it makes you feel like you are going home." ”

He waved his hand: "Take it all." ”

The surrounding soldiers immediately moved, and the seven or eight Fanbang people who approached before were immediately pressed there, and they didn't even react, how could they see that there were so many people around who were that guy's subordinates.

The scene suddenly became chaotic, and there were more and more onlookers.

Not long after, the officials in charge of maintaining order ran over, they were all from Shuntianfu, and they were all a little stunned when they saw this situation.

Shen Leng took off his waist card and threw it to one of the catchers, caught it, looked at it, and hurriedly held it with both hands and handed it back to Shen Leng: "General, what's the matter?" ”

"Will ...... Generals, generals, generals? ”

Fanbang businessman's face turned pale all of a sudden: "This little thing should be a gift from me, don't get me wrong, General, these people really have nothing to do with me, I don't know them, I'm really just a serious businessman." ”

"Sell them along with the accomplices."

Shen Leng put the so-called magic box he bought with silver into his beloved little schoolbag, and pulled the tea master forward: "Let's go, let's go, it is said that there is a snack street in front of it, all kinds of delicious food." ”

The news spread quickly, and within half an hour, all the merchants from foreign countries in the entire Fence Mountain Temple Fair were all honest, and the prices of many goods dropped by more than half.

Shen Leng naturally wouldn't be in a bad mood because of this little thing, he took the tea master to eat and eat, and the delicacies on the snack street were bought all the way, and finally he stopped, and his eyes stayed on a very deserted stall.

Unlike the other merchants, this man didn't even stop in front of his stall because his stall was empty.

In front of the bearded man was a low table, on which was covered a clean white cloth, on which his two hands rested, and there was nothing but them.

"What do you sell?"

Shen Leng asked.

"Hands."

The bearded man's answer was simple.

If it were someone else, he would have muttered a word of neurosis, but Shen Leng became even more curious.

"How do you sell it?"

He asked.

The bearded man raised his head and looked at Shen Leng: "Ning Yin, five thousand taels." ”

Shen Leng sighed and pointed to the two hands: "How to eat?" ”

The bearded man was stunned: "What, how to eat?" ”

Shen Leng looked at the two hands and said: "Five thousand taels of silver is okay, it's worth it, but I don't know what this hand should do, braised it, it doesn't seem ideal, if it's steamed, it looks disgusting, chopped and eaten with meat filling?" That doesn't reflect that this is a meat filling worth five thousand taels of silver. ”

The bearded man glared at Shen Leng: "You don't understand, you can go." ”

Shen Leng: "Turn your hand over." ”

The bearded man's eyes lit up, and he turned his hands over, and the palms of those two hands had a thick layer of calluses.

Shen Leng looked at the tea master: "Cover your ears." ”

The tea master didn't know why, but he still covered his ears.

Shen Leng pressed down his body, and said in a low voice to the bearded man very closely: "I'm not provoking, I'm just really curious, your hand...... Does it hurt when you use it yourself? ”

The beard instantly got his brain.

Shen Leng hurriedly smiled and shook his head: "Don't be angry...... The calluses on your hands are not caused by holding weapons, you are a craftsman? What for? ”

"Blacksmith."

The bearded man looked at Shen Leng's eyes and said seriously: "The blacksmith who makes the killing weapon." ”

Shen Leng: "Sword? ”

The bearded man shook his head: "Compared to what I made, it's a toy." ”

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