Chapter 5 The Boli State Market in Spring
Not to mention the three Langjun, the three little ladies in the brocade quilt on the big kang in the west wing room are not sleepy at this time.
The big kang was burning just right, and the room was as warm as spring, not cold or stuffy, but Zheng Xiu'er saw that the two high-ranking disciples of Datang Academy were depressed, and couldn't help complaining that Xiao Wu's words were terrifying.
"In the old days, it was said in the book: Everything is gone, but it is cannibalism. I always feel that people cannibalize each other, but it is recorded in the book, and when I hear it today, I am like my own relatives," the talented girl Zheng Suier sighed faintly.
"I also think it's too miserable, the rumors in Kyoto are all about how brave the forbidden army is, if it weren't for the mediocrity of General Manager Xu, my Yantang army would have driven the barbarian army of the Khanate to Beihai." Wang Jiangnan is usually very arrogant, and he is also related at this time.
After all, Zheng Xiuer is a little older, and her own family also runs a leather goods store, and she often does things like cutting meat and taking skins on weekdays, and she has followed her father in the Far East over the years, and has also encountered robbery and murder, so she didn't feel much after feeling sorry for her lover, so she hurriedly changed the topic at this time: "The two sisters are warlocks, can you see the dragon?" ”
"I haven't seen it, I've only seen the keel," Wang Jiangnan was also interested, "Where did the Blood Sculpture Ice Dragon summoned by the Demon Wolf Celestial Star go in the end?" Has Sister Xiu'er ever seen a dragon? ”
"Didn't you eat dragon meat and drink dragon soup at night?"
This time, even Zheng Sui'er was stunned.
"Please, that's the dragon soup with dragon meat, you think I don't know it's just hazel chicken." Wang Jiangnan rolled his eyes and waved his pink arm exposed outside the brocade quilt, seeing that Zheng Xiu'er was also hot, and he smiled.
"That Blood Eagle Ice Dragon is not purely summoning monsters, it should be transformed into a rune array, but I don't know how the Demon Wolf Celestial Star gives a soul and can command it to attack the enemy?"
"Do you warlocks summon monsters? Can you teachers summon dragons? Will you two? Zheng Xiu'er turned into a curious baby, and simply raised her arms to support her chin and lay on her stomach.
"How can there be so many monsters summoned?" Zheng Sui'er, a talented girl from Datang Academy, is a good student, "There are only a few examples of dragons recorded in history, and there are only three or five dragons who have entered the world for thousands of years in the Tianchi Divine Dragon of Kunlun Mountain, and as for the summoning of the demon dragon, it is only in legends, and there is no record in the official history." ”
"Sui'er is not right, in ancient times, there was a battle between the Yellow Emperor and Xuanyuan, and the Han Dynasty also had Gaozu slaying the dragon, and a few years ago, didn't there also Tongcheng Qinglong fall to the ground?"
"Ha, I still know that Ye Gong is a good dragon!" Zheng Xiuer also rushed to answer.
Zheng Sui'er smiled bitterly, "Didn't your father make a special trip to Tongcheng, it was just an evil Jiao, and those deeds were just wild history." ”
"What about the Kunlun Divine Dragon?" Zheng Xiuer did not give up.
"My teacher said that those dragons are not the real dragons of the legend, just some earth-walking dragons"
"And what pets can you warlocks summon?"
"Actually, we warlocks can only transform into siacrums, and our magic teachers can summon coyotes, but they can gather into a wolf shape with soil, which can run and bite, and they can only last for a stick of incense."
"Then I heard that there are water dragons, ice tigers, snow eagles, etc., and so on?"
"Yes, they are all five-element simulacrums"
"But the Blood Sculpture Ice Dragon of the Demon Dragon Celestial Star can fight all day, and I heard that it can understand people's words."
"This is the difference between a great sorcerer and a sorcerer, a sorcerer can simulate the form with the five elements qi, while the great sorcerer can give the soul of the formed five elements beast and make it obey the call."
"I've heard that wizards can summon ghost skeletons?"
"Yes, the witch queen Wei Ya in the 100,000 mountains of Miaojiang can summon the five poisons of the giant python, our teacher has seen the battle between the witch queen and the overlord Wei Yidao, as soon as the witch queen's spell came out, the centipede scorpion fell like rain, and also summoned two three-eyed color pythons, and finally summoned a skeleton knight, and the overlord had to be embarrassed to go" Wang Jiangnan is also a good teacher.
"In that case, the stars are very powerful,"
"Of course, there are only five above the Grand Magician."
"So little? Who are the other four? ”
"Wei Yixiao, President of the Warlock Academy of the Royal Martial Arts Academy, Ding Lei, Dean of the Warlock Academy, Qiao Zhi of the Warlock Academy of the Datang Academy, and Sima Chengzhen, the Sect Master of the Maoshan Sect"
"Sounds amazing, Tianxing can actually mix with these President Deans and Sect Masters?"
"Please, there are very few warlocks, and there will be no more than 10,000 people in the entire Yantang Empire, and there will be no more than 100 people at the level of sorcerers."
"Oh, is the Turkic Khanate's magician Hulamber a sorcerer?"
"The Turkic side is called the magician, the big food side is called the big imam, they all use spells, they mainly cultivate spiritual power, our warlocks are based on the five elements of qi, supplemented by the magic power of the spell" Zheng Suier, a good student of the Tang Dynasty, gave his sister a popular science.
"You guys are so amazing, I used to ask my father and Xiao Wu these questions, but they didn't make it as clear as you"
"Sister Xiu'er, have you ever seen the Demon Wolf Heavenly Star? What kind of person is he? Wang Jiangnan asked suddenly.
"I've seen it," Zheng Xiu'er glanced at her with a smile, "Xiao Nizichun's heart is moved"
Naturally, it caused a bustle.
"I also want to see the demeanor of the Grand Magician," Zheng Sui'er also said leisurely beside him.
"Yes, yes, Grand Magician, I just glanced at that Qiao Great Magician from our academy from a distance, a withered old man, the Demon Wolf Celestial Star is only eighteen years old now, not much older than us"
"Well, this is a great magician who has been baptized on the battlefield by eating meat and drinking brute blood, and he is much more powerful than those who know him, such as Chang'an Sishao."
"Don't mention those young masters, they must still be drinking Sanle pulp at this time, drunk and lying on the knees of beautiful women"
"I have also heard a sentence, the strong man is hungry for Hulu meat, laughing and thirsty for Hun blood, well, the demon wolf Tianxing said"
"Ah, so talented? Let's leave tomorrow! ”
"The strong man is hungry for Hulu meat, laughs and talks about thirsty for Hun blood, and there is a sense of pride when he listens"
"However, you will be disappointed when you see it" Zheng Xiu'er looked at the scene a little out of control and threw out a basin of cold water.
"How so? He's ugly? ”
"It's not ugly, in Xiao Wu's words, it's still a little jun"
"Too bad-tempered?"
"Well, it's not too bad, I haven't seen him make any nameless fire for a day."
"That is... I see, too sexy? ”
"You're a perverted girl, I haven't seen him hugging left or right, those yaksha girls, there are many Yanma Temple Street in the ghost country, and I haven't heard of any lace scandals about him"
"That eighteen young man, a great magician, the head of a mercenary group of more than 10,000 people, a lieutenant with real power, a shareholder of a big commercial bank, young and rich, powerful and talented, and handsome, how can he be disappointed?"
"You'll know if you've seen it" Zheng Xiu'er sold Guanzi, and Ren Wang Jiangnan didn't reveal it.
After all, it was late at night, and the journey was quite lacking during the day, so the three little ladies laughed and fell asleep a few times.
March is the end of spring in most parts of the Yantang Empire, but the spring in the Far East has not yet begun, but the sun still rises early, the three little ladies get up when the sun has shone into the house through the glass window, and the outside is full of people, hurriedly freshen up and go to the atrium, only two Zheng shopkeepers in the hall of the courtyard are leisurely drinking tea, Xiao Wu has already been busy in the shop.
The servant woman served breakfast, three bowls of Yangchun noodles with green and oily green onions, two plates of hot steamed buns, a few side dishes, salted duck eggs, and marinated duck feet and chicken feet.
The two Zheng shopkeepers have already eaten, drinking tea and chatting with each other.
After the three little ladies had breakfast, they shouted to go to the street, and the two shopkeepers also smiled and agreed, asking them to go to the shop to find Xiao Wu to arrange someone to lead the way.
When the three little ladies came to the street, they couldn't help but be stunned, and the excitement of the street exceeded their imagination.
The leather shop is at the intersection of the cross street, the street is paved with bluestone, the street is tolerant of four troika side by side, at this time it is rubbing shoulders, the crowd is surging, the street is lined with all kinds of shops, there are pastry shops, silk shops, jewelry shops, ironware shops, bookstores, wine shops, tea houses, warehouses, more leather shops, no need to shout at the guys, each shop is crowded with people, there are merchants with a head of the merchants, there are braided clan natives, there are blue-eyed and blue-eyed people from afar, women with coiled hair, hunters with arrows, men with swords, old farmers in brown clothes, immature boys, cardamom girls, fair ladies, each in its own way, is not lively.
"Kyoto's East-West City is just like that," Wang Jiangnan muttered.
"Today is the fifteenth temple fair, of course it is lively" Zheng Xiuer was not surprised, "This is the first temple fair this year"
The three little ladies also forgot to say hello to Xiao Wu, and plunged into the flow of people, and when they saw the jewelry, satin, and leather shops, they went in to see the auspicious, although most of them were not in the eyes of the nobles from Kyoto, but they were also very happy. Wang Jiangnan took a fancy to a white fox big fly, but was stopped by Zheng Xiu'er, this is just a medium color, she has a lot of family, and she promised to give one to block her desire to take it on the spot.
The three of them left under the disdainful gaze of the shopkeeper, and stepped into the weapons shop next to them again, and actually met an acquaintance of the Kyoto Infantry Academy who they knew in Kyoto, this is the son of a squire, and the academy Toshihiko who went out to practice under the escort of his brother. After a lot of enthusiasm, politely declined the invitation to lunch in the wine shop, and the three of them wandered around the street again with great interest.
When they met Xiao Wu in the middle of the day, the three little ladies returned to the courtyard with unfinished intentions.
When I returned to the courtyard, I saw a large number of sergeants standing in the courtyard, which were the right guard Yulin guards brought by the third princess and the tooth soldiers of the Heishui Governor's Mansion.
The Kyoto forbidden army is still holding their chests and stomachs, the bright light armor is shining in the sun, the end is mighty and majestic, but the tooth soldiers are loose and saggy, and the leader Li Hu'er is squatting in the circle.
Wang Jiangnan suddenly sneered, she remembered Xiao Wu's evaluation of the honor guard yesterday, and then looked at the sudden feeling of interest, and looked at the tooth soldiers more interested.
The common feature of these tooth soldiers is that they are indifferent, and they squint at people and stay in the throat and abdomen, which makes people feel cold.
When I entered the hall, I heard Li Xiancheng and Li Dudu's loud voice, shouting that Xiao Wu was not kind, and he didn't call him when he ate copper pot at home last night.
Xiao Wu took the lead and entered the house, saluted the third princess and Li Shushi on the right seat, and then looked at Li Dudu with a smile.
After a lot of noise, the third princess and Li Shushi naturally enjoyed lunch at Zheng Ji Leather Shop, and the large copper pot that was more sumptuous than last night made the guests and hosts happy.
After the meal, it was agreed that tomorrow we would leave for the trip to Temple Street, the three princesses and Li Dudu went to check the military equipment, and the three little ladies nested in the courtyard in the afternoon, selecting the fur, mink hat, jewelry and accessories sent by Xiao Wu.
This morning, the sun is still brilliant, but the snow outside the city has not yet melted, the third princess Li Shushi and her entourage gathered Zheng Ji's team of about 200 people to go north to Temple Street, but Li Dudu wanted to go to the Qingshan military camp first to check if he was not with him, and still assigned Li Hu'er to escort him with two fire tooth soldiers.
Out of the north gate of Boli along the black water downstream, the road is still icy and snowy, the road through the passers-by wheel crushing to clear a snowless avenue, a few days of sun shining has dried up, although uneven to walk the carriage and horses unimpeded.
Li Hu'er and his men rode in the front, leaving the governor's side, all like wild horses out of the cage, shouting and screaming, suddenly galloping on the horse, galloping and circling, so happy, while the third princess and her guards followed in civilian clothes, keeping two columns, and moving forward silently without hurry.
The three princesses and Yu Linlang dressed up Ximen Ying in men's clothes, a white jacket and white robe, a green dress and black clothes, gold thread brocade, the three princesses with purple belts, and Ximen Yingzha with an orange brocade belt, all of which are heroic and vigorous, like men.
The Yulin guards all wore red-edged green jackets, black cloaks, and sable hats, and three-foot horizontal knives with standard gold and silver swords, sitting on tall black water horses, with resolute eyes. These casual clothes were entrusted to Zheng Ji yesterday, Xiao Wu was going to give them away, Ximen Lang will take out a hundred taels of gold after reading it, Xiao Wu just wanted to dodge, Ximen Ying said that we Yu Linwei never took advantage of people to block, Xiao Wu had to send ten pairs of deerskin boots as a head, this single can make him earn more than eighty gold.
The three little ladies are tired of seeing heavy snow these days, hiding in the wide car and playing double land. Master Li monopolized a carriage and no one disturbed him when he fell asleep, and the two Zheng shopkeepers also got into a carriage and drank tea and chatted happily.
It's just that after Xiao Wu ran forward, he maintained the order of the convoy, urging the caravan behind to speed up and check whether the carriage was loose.