Green grass grows out of the dirt and gives new life. But before they could see the sun, they were flooded with yellow sand.

To the north, tens of thousands of miles of green grass stretch from the Shuofeng Grassland to this border town.

This is a small town in the northern part of Yizhou, in Choyuan County, and to the north is an endless prairie. In this grassland live the ferocious Shuofeng people. To the west is the northwest town of Tianwu Kingdom, Linzhou, and the west of Linzhou is the endless Tagan Desert. If you go east, you will reach Dingzhou, the center of Tianwu Kingdom, and if you go south, you will reach Huazhou, which is fertile for thousands of miles.

The town is like a color map painted in three colors: yellow sand, green grass, and black soil.

This is a peculiar place, it has three colors unique to nature, in the eyes of the common people of the town, the yellow sand represents death, the green grass represents life, and the black soil can bring them food.

The town ushered in the most lively market in the area, and the local people relied on the five-day market to exchange for some goods, and the passing merchants also relied on the five-day market to exchange some silver.

The only stone road in the town was compressed to accommodate only two people walking side by side, and the pedestrians who shuttled in the middle were still dragged to a halt by the outstretched hands of the vendors on both sides.

Outsiders who came to the town for the first time were blinded by this lively and prosperous scene, and were unconsciously brought into this atmosphere. For a while, the whole street was like an iron bucket filled with water, full of people.

"Come and see, come and see, this is the best silk I brought from Liaozhou, come and take a look." A middle-aged man, standing on a person hitting a stone, opened his mouth wide, and shouted loudly. Bronzed skin, glowing dark in the sun.

"Come and see, this is the silk I brought from Liaozhou, the richest in the south, you can see how smooth this weaving method is." The middle-aged man wore a short shirt sewn from linen, and his shoulders were draped with gorgeous satin.

He was surrounded by iron buckets, and countless spectators and even the vendors next to him stopped to watch. Everyone tilted their heads and looked at the red satin on the middle-aged man standing on the stone. The silk was embroidered with all sorts of patterns, many of which they had never seen before.

"Are you the silk of Liaozhou? Liaozhou's silk is a must-have in the world, it is all for dignitaries, how can you get one? "Hey, are you Liaozhou's silk, I don't look good?" There were voices of doubt in the crowd.

The middle-aged man didn't care about everyone's doubts at all, as if he was confident. "Hey, I'm not happy to hear what you say, you can doubt me, but you must not suspect that this silk is not from Liaozhou."

The middle-aged man took off the silk wrapped around his body and held it up in front of his waist so that everyone could see it. "Come on, come on, let's take a closer look, let's take a good look at this fabric."

After a while, the people around him gathered more and more, and little by little, hundreds of people gathered. It is rare for the people of the town to see such a precious cloth, and they are fascinated by the silk. No one around the middle-aged man made a loud noise, and they all looked at the silk in his hand intently, and for a while, there were two different situations between this place and the entire lively street market.

The middle-aged man explained loudly: "This silk is made of silk, you can see how closely the warp and weft are intertwined." Look at this silk surface is crisp and fine, and it feels smooth. He straightened his arm, put the silk in his hand into the crowd, and stood on the stone and spun around, so that everyone around him had a chance to touch the silk.

When everyone touches the silk, they will unconsciously let out an exclamation sound.

The middle-aged man standing on the stone looked proud, "Look at the embroidery method on it, this is a unique embroidery method in Liaozhou, and only the female workers in the workshop in Liaozhou can embroider it." This embroidery method is unique, except for the workshop in Liaozhou, there is no second place that can be embroidered. ”

Hearing the word unique, everyone's eyes became hot, and everyone wanted to drape the silk on their bodies like a middle-aged man. But many people can only think about it, silk has always been a luxury ornament, something that can only be used by high-ranking officials and nobles. In these years, the surplus money in his hand only dares to be exchanged for food, who has spare money to buy such extravagant brocade?

However, there are still people who are deeply attracted by this rare thing, "Guys, how much is this horse?" Two or three people in the crowd asked.

The middle-aged man said loudly: "Fifteen taels of silver per horse." ”

Fifteen taels! Fifteen taels of silver can make a family of five live in this land for two years, and many people shook their heads.

The middle-aged man had long expected this to be the case, he sighed, and said as if embarrassed: "That's it, this is a mess, it's not easy for everyone, I'll make it convenient for you, this piece of cloth can make a few clothes, so I sell it by the ruler." One foot one hundred and twenty dollars, you can calculate that I have made it a lot cheaper for everyone. ”

In the Tianwu Kingdom, a horse has ten zhang and a hundred feet, and he sells one foot for one hundred and twenty copper coins, and one horse is 12,000 copper coins, which is equivalent to twelve taels of silver, which is three taels of silver cheaper than his previous horse of fifteen taels of silver.

When many people heard this, they took out their money bags and took out the money in their money bags, and everyone scrambled to cut the silk on the stalls. For a while, the middle-aged man's stall was very lively, which made the surrounding vendors a little envious.

"Bring me ten feet." "Twenty feet for me." The people in the town rushed to get into the middle-aged man's stall.

As the people with their belongings left satisfied, there were fewer and fewer people in the bazaar. Many of the sought-after goods were sold out, especially the grain and farm tools, and of course, the most striking Liaozhou silk in the market.

From the opening of the market in the early morning to the end of the day, all the silk in the hands of the middle-aged man was sold. The middle-aged man was tired and sweaty, and sat on the stone grabbing a bag full of silver coins, showing an excited smile.

He squinted at the sunset at the foot of the hill, as if remembering something, and hurriedly began to pack up the stall and put some wooden shelves back on the trolley behind him.

An old man selling pottery next to him saw the middle-aged man tidying up the stall and opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't make a sound.

The middle-aged man bought a day's worth of goods, and he was already tired and soaked, but the strength in his hands was not lost at all, and after a while, he dismantled the wooden frame where the silk was placed and stacked it on the trolley.

The old man next to him, seeing that he had finished cleaning up, couldn't help but open his mouth and shout: "Do you want to inquire about something?" ”

The middle-aged man was sitting on the wooden frame on the car, and he was tired, when he suddenly heard the old man's question, so he sat down on the ground to rest.

"Old man, what do you want to inquire about?" The middle-aged man wiped the sweat from his head and asked with a smile.

The old man was wearing a blue cloth coat with more than a dozen patches on his body. There are patches on top of them, and they look very down. He pursed his lips and said, "Guys, have you really been to Liaozhou?" As far as I know, this is far from Liaozhou in the south and north. The old man obviously didn't believe the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man's eyes showed a little hesitation, and then he smiled: "What are you doing in Liaozhou?" Do you want to do the same silk business as I do? ”

Originally, the old man wanted to ask the middle-aged man something, but the middle-aged man did not answer, but asked the old man instead, cleverly avoiding answering the old man's question.

The old man shook his head and smiled: "Gentlemen, don't think about it, I'm not here to rob your business, I just want to know the situation in Liaozhou." Xiao Lao'er has been here for half his life and wants to go south. ”

This old man has passed the age of not being confused, and he thinks that he still has some knowledge in the north and south, and he just saw that although the silk bought by the middle-aged man is of higher quality, it is not the craftsmanship of Liaozhou, so the old man is also a little suspicious.

The middle-aged man sat on the trolley with Erlang's legs crossed, and wiped the sweat from his forehead with his dusty hands. "Old man, my name is Jia Luobin, I don't know your honorable name?"

The old man arched his hand slightly, and said with a smile: "Little old man, I have lived all my life without a name, when I was young, I fought in the south, and I ran north." The people here call me the south wind, which means that I was blown by the south wind. ”

"Hahaha" "Hahaha" Jia Luobin laughed at the old man's words, and the two of them really looked at each other and laughed.

After laughing, the old man hooked his legs with his hands and crossed them. "Alas, I've lived half my life here, and in the past two years I've heard that the South hasn't been as chaotic as the previous two years. It is said that the whole territory of Yizhou in Liaozhou in the south is fertile and wild, especially since Liaozhou has become the fief of King Cheng there, and the land is full of gold, is this true? ”

Jia Luobin raised his head sideways and sighed, "Tsk, isn't it, I've been to Liaozhou, and that place is good." ”

When the old man heard that it was true, he immediately became energetic, and asked with a hint of pleading: "Little brother, can you tell the old man what kind of good method it is?" ”

Jia Luobin tilted his head and looked at the ground, just smiling meaningfully, and did not answer the old man's question.

While the two were talking, the sun had already set. The pedestrians in the market have gradually become sparse, and there are few people on the whole street as far as the eye can see.

The old man looked at Jia Luobin's expression and knew what he wanted. I was too excited by what Jia Luobin said just now, and I didn't doubt that he had ever been to Liaozhou, but now that I think about it, I feel that something is wrong.

The money bag on the old man's waist was untied and held in his hand. "Little brother, Xiao Lao'er has really seen a lot of the world for many years, and what you came out to sell just now is probably not Liaozhou's silk, right?"

"I'll tell you the truth, this silk really isn't from Liaozhou." Jia Luobin did not hesitate and confessed directly. This was completely unexpected by the old man.

Jia Luobin sighed and said, "I imported this silk from Huazhou, and I brought it here to buy it." I was also afraid that I wouldn't be able to sell it, so I used the guise of Liaozhou. Where can I buy brocade silk from Liaozhou this year. But if you suspect that I haven't been to Liaozhou, then you're wrong. Just this year, I went to Liaozhou. That guy I almost settled down somewhere. ”