Three years later, the city of Luoyi.

It snowed for seven days and seven nights before the winter solstice.

The snow is still falling.

A heavy snowfall, one after another, endlessly, obscured everything.

In the city of Luoyi, the once bustling streets were empty, and occasionally a wild dog would come out to forage for food, bending his neck, looking east and west, and from time to time he was hit by the stones flying out of the shops on both sides, and walked away slowly.

In the shop, the merchants were wrapped in sheepskin robes, surrounded by a pot of fire, their faces were dark, listening to the sound of water in the copper kettle on the fire, changing their posture comfortably, and continuing to be in a daze.

Outside the city, thousands of miles of plains, a white expanse.

The sparse village was weighed down by a thick layer of snow, and from time to time it spit out a mouthful of white turbidity.

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On the ground, two small black dots moved slowly, leaving two lonely footprints, which were quickly erased by the wind and snow.

"Young master, I'll go to Lijiamen Village in front."

"Hmm."

"Can't get in?"

"Hmm."

Anu is a good servant, loyal, tenacious, and easily impulsive.

"Young master, we have to make a batch of bronze ware, everything we made last time is almost sold out."

"Hmm."

Lijiamen Village is even more dilapidated than it was three years ago, with several courtyards that have lost their owners, and adobe grass houses have collapsed, slanting to the ground, and are about to be buried by snow.

The Guo family's coppersmith shop also collapsed, and the smoky half-section of the earthen wall stood there, which was particularly eye-catching on the snow.

Standing on a hill on the east bank of the Qianhe River, Guo Yang was a little distracted.

"Let's go." After a long time, he exhaled, turned and left, but in the other direction.

Anu was stunned, silently picked up the load, and followed.

Anu is a Di person, Guo Yang saved him, and he is Guo Yang's.

Guo Yang doesn't like to injure others, and he doesn't want others to enslave him. But Anu had nowhere to go, and after leaving Guo Yang, he had to be captured by the Zhou people or merchants and become a slave again.

Anu looked at Guo Yang, who was walking silently in front of him, his eyes were a little moist. For more than two years, Guo Yang has always regarded him as a friend. Although the young businessman had never said such a thing, Anu knew that Guo Yang regarded him as a friend.

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(Water word count: I accompanied my daughter to eat beef noodles today, and I lost her phone and watch.) After some searching, I said, do you want to report the crime? The daughter glared and said, "Dad, you made "Shang Legacy" a little dark. ”

When I got home, I turned on the computer, but I couldn't write a word.

After a while, my wife called and said that two little girls had picked up the phone and watch, found the owner of the noon item, and had just delivered it to her company's store.

It seems to be a bit dark. But there is no way, the end of Shang is still slavery, and the sun is shining outside, but as soon as I enter the writing, I feel a trace of coldness. Especially...... Guo Yang has not yet found his own path. ）

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A rebellion of the recalcitrant people of the merchant relics completely changed the descendants of the merchants of Luoyi. They either return to their old business and start making handicrafts, or drag their families to set up stalls and do business, and their lives are neither good nor bad.

Although Zimao served as the Luoyi order of the Zhou people, naturalized all the Luoyi merchants, and set taxes under various names, there was finally no more Zhou soldiers who had nothing to provoke and make trouble.

Luoyi City soon prospered, and some foreign traders gathered one after another, making the Great Zhou King show an unprecedented prosperity.

In this regard, Guo Lu and Guo Yang father and son, Duanmu Che Duanmu Niu father and son, they are all pleased. What else is there to ask for in order for the people to have a peaceful life? In Guo Lu's own words, these merchant commoners, in the old Shang Dynasty, dreamed of nothing more than that.

After a year of watching, Guo Lu and Duanmu Che simply went to Shouyang Mountain, and Duanmu Niu entered Luoyi City to open a mountain goods shop.

Guo Yang originally wanted to go to the city to open a copperware shop, but Duanmu Niu heard a news from the housekeeper of Lord Zimao, saying that the Zhou people had not relaxed their secret investigation of Guo Lu and Guo Yang's father and son.

Guo Yang couldn't go to Luoyi City, so he simply hid in the sinkhole for more than a year, practicing the set of exercises passed on to him by his father by the way.

He doesn't want to go to Shouyang Mountain for the time being, he has his own business.

As for what his own business was, Guo Yang was a little confused. At that time, both his master and father asked him to cultivate hard, so that he could protect himself in the future in the business way, and then create a real country of great merchants that could last for 10,000 years.

However, the Zhou people's orders solved almost all of their problems. Without the need for someone to guide them, the recalcitrant merchants quickly took care of their respective businesses in an orderly manner.

Guo Yang felt very confused, he really didn't know what he would do, what he could do, or what he was destined to do!

He asked Anu to pick up the load of goods and wandered around Luoyi City for more than a month, and the recalcitrant merchants had long been accustomed to this busy and tedious life, even if they did not have a few coins in their hands after paying high taxes, they were content. Compared with the time when he was struggling to live under the knife and whip of the Zhou people, the rare ordinary life was full of temptation.

Guo Yang is a man who has no interest in the family, maybe his father Guo Lu said it accurately. He's just not going to be able to get his way, he can't even find his direction.

Walking alone in the snow, his lips were bitten by himself and bled out.

The wind blew, and a few flakes of snow entered his eyes, wet and cool, and the road in front of him became even more blurry.

There seems to be nothing bad about setting up a stall and spending the rest of your life in peace. However, Guo Yang doesn't want to be like this for the rest of his life.

He didn't want to learn from his father Guo Lu, the former minister of the dragon control court, after the destruction of the country by the Great Shang, he was able to endure the humiliation and build a bronze ware for a whole decade. In that piece of bronze, how much national hatred and family hatred and sadness are contained!

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"Anu, do you want to ...... Go back to your hometown in the northwest. ”

"No, I'm going to follow the young master."

"It's useless to follow me."

"No, I'll follow the young master."

"I don't even have a home."

"It's okay, you're home."

"Anu ...... Do you have slaves in your tribe? ”

"Yes. With the exception of the high priest and the tribal chief, everyone else was a slave. ”

"Is there a place where there are no slaves?"

"Yes."

"Where?"

"Our family."

"Home ......"

Guo Yang stood in the wind and snow, looking at the vast snowfield in a distracted manner, his eyes moistened.

"Anu, I want to go to the Northlands."

"Okay."

"You're going too?"

"Yes."

"Anu, do you have a baby?"

"Yes, three."

"How old are you?"

"The first two were killed by the Zhou people, and the youngest one is the same age as you."

"Where is he?"

"She's in southern Xinjiang."

"What's his name?"

"Her name is Aso."

"When we settle down and can support ourselves, we'll pick him up."

"Good. When the young master has his own property and finds a clean place, I will pick her up. ”

The wind and snow were so tight that it seemed that it couldn't stop for a while.

The clouds were heavy in the north, and on the earth, two black dots moved slowly, all the way to the north.

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