Chapter 58: Tuva
Tuva City, a city on the border between Daqi and the grasslands, if you look closely at the buildings in the city, you can see that there are obvious grassland characteristics here, and the streets are full of fur and livestock vendors, these traders take huge risks to shuttle between the grasslands and Daqi for high rewards, they sell livestock products in Daqi, and on the grassland, they buy and sell spices and fabrics, and the huge profits back and forth make them flock to it.
Lin Xuan traveled for more than a month and finally came to this city, he wanted to take a good bath and sleep beautifully.
"Does the guest officer stay in the hotel?" Seeing that Lin Xuan was tired, a little guy immediately stepped forward to greet him.
"The best wing room here" When Lin Xuan went out, his master and parents gave him enough silver, so he could also enjoy it a little.
"Okay, a good side room," said the little servant, and immediately welcomed Lin Xuan in.
After freshening up, the exhausted Lin Xuan fell asleep.
"I came first, why did he live?" A noisy sound woke Lin Xuan up.
Lin Xuan frowned and opened the door, only to see a group of people below pushing and shouting and arguing for some reason.
Curious, Lin Xuan walked down from upstairs.
The first thing that caught Lin Xuan's attention was a man in white, because there was no emotional fluctuation in the face of the scolding of these vulgar people, he just looked at the other party lightly.
"My son-in-law is the guest of honor in this restaurant, so naturally he has priority over you," the entourage beside the man stood in front and spoke for his master.
"What kind of bullshit VIP, if you ask for money, Lao Tzu has it" The rich businessman opposite was very disdainful of this, and it could be seen that he was also a star-studded existence on weekdays, and he really couldn't stand such an insult.
"You'd better be polite," surprisingly, even the entourage around the man was disdainful of the rich merchants.
"What can you two rabbit cubs do, you weren't born when I was wandering, uncle?" The entourage's expression completely stimulated the rich businessman, and he saw him rushing directly with someone.
"Two masters, the small shop is really a small business, and no one can afford to offend, why don't you think this is the case? I'll arrange another room for you, and it will be no worse than the previous room," the hotel's servant hurriedly stepped forward to mediate and said to the rich businessman.
"Why should I let it?" Wealthy businessmen don't buy the accounts of the little ones at all.
"Forget it, let's let it go" The man in white finally opened his mouth and was willing to take a step back.
"Thank you, childe," the little guy immediately ran in front of the man and thanked him again and again.
"If I hadn't seen you so acquainted, I would have taught you a good lesson today," the rich merchant said proudly when he saw the man back down.
The man's entourage was about to go up to theorize when a look from the man stopped him.
When the little servant led the man past Lin Xuan, the man smiled at Lin Xuan, and Lin Xuan also nodded to him.
Lin Xuan finally knew why he was paying so much attention to this man, because he saw a familiar shadow "Xun Zhi" on this man's body, but this person was more ruthless than Xun Zhi. Lin Xuan's reason told him that it was best to stay away from this person.
The night market in Tuva City is also very lively, and the hawkers put out all kinds of goods to attract attention, Lin Xuan has always rarely visited the night market, but now he urgently needs information about the grassland, so he can only mingle in the crowd, hoping to capture useful information.
"Hey, I heard that there seems to be no big movement in the Ulan Department of the grassland recently," a few merchants muttered together, they kept an eye on the grassland, after all, information is money to them.
"It's not clear if it's specific, it seems that the king of Ulan is marrying a daughter?" A thin-faced merchant said suspiciously.
"Is the news accurate?" The companions on the side asked anxiously, for the grassland tribe, the tribal leader's marriage is definitely a big deal, and if they can verify the news, they can take advantage of the opportunity to make a fortune.
"Who dares to go deep into the grassland, we still trade in the place specified by the Wolf Court" There are also people who are too timid to confront these people head-on, so they have to choose a more secure port, where although they make less money and have to pay huge taxes, it is better than licking blood from the knife edge.
"Rich and dangerous, I'm afraid of him," said the emaciated merchant to his partner next to him, "Let's inquire carefully, if it is really the marriage daughter of the king of Ulan, then we will take the risk to enter the grassland, this transaction is enough for us to have the capital to settle down in the city, and then we will no longer have to spend this day running around all day."
"Okay, that's it" A few people muttered for a while and dispersed from the corner, Lin Xuan only then knew a little bit of news about the grassland, the king of Ulan married a daughter? This seemed to be a good time, so that he could take advantage of the time when the Ulan tribe was dealing with the merchants to find a proper way to sneak in.
At this moment, Lin Xuan heard someone communicating in a foreign language, and he had been involved in multiple languages in Zhou Li's place over the years, so he was able to quickly capture the information conveyed by these people.
"The young master should be picking out a harness for the third prince now," a man dressed as a typical Hu man muttered to the people around him.
"It's a pity that the young master didn't let us follow, otherwise how could he be insulted like this" These people didn't seem to think that there would be people from the Central Plains who understood their words and talked about it unscrupulously.
The young master and horse harness Lin Xuan sensitively captured this information and immediately got up and looked for the person who bought and sold the horse harness on the street, he wanted to see who this young master was.
After some searching, Lin Xuan finally found the harness dealer, only to see that the surroundings were already crowded with people, and they seemed to be attracted by a saddle.
"Childe, your vision is really good, this is a first-class gilt saddle, you see how delicate this workmanship is, the flowing cloud pattern carved on it is also extremely vivid, and only such a saddle can match your noble temperament," I have to admire the merchant's mouth, and when he said this, it immediately aroused people's desire to buy.
Lin Xuan stared closely, and saw that the person who wanted to buy was the man in white who he had met in the restaurant before.
"Childe, look at this ......" The man's entourage seemed to have some doubts about the price of this item.
"Buy," the man looked at the saddle carefully, but decided to buy it at a high price.
Lin Xuan frowned, he was not good at horse harness, but he also knew that although this saddle was golden and beautifully carved, it was not practical, at most, it was only suitable for placing at home for people to see, so he didn't know why this person acted like this, unless he was going to give this thing away, combined with the conversation he heard before, Lin Xuan suspected that this person was the young master that those Hu people said.
Seeing these people take their harness and leave, Lin Xuan hesitated for a moment and decided to follow.
"Childe," the man's entourage noticed that something was wrong and reminded his master.
The man was also aware of it and nodded to his entourage.
Lin Xuan knew that the people in front of him were not easy to deal with, so he had to distance himself, but after turning back in the crowd a few times, these people disappeared.
Suddenly, he saw a familiar white robe flashing around the street corner in front of him, and he chased after him without thinking.
It wasn't until after rushing into the alley that Lin Xuan realized that he had made a mistake and was about to leave, but a figure was already blocked at the alley.