Chapter Eighty-Three: Changing Concepts (Happy Second Year of Junior High School)
"Maybe in that little courtyard." Yin En pointed to the small courtyard located by the river and said, "But we have to be careful, because there may be ambushes arranged by the leader in this small courtyard, and it will not be good for us to wash the Dragon King Temple by the flood." ”
The three of them nodded and walked behind Yin, who was constantly scanning the surroundings as if looking for something.
It's a pity that Yoon Eun didn't find what he was looking for.
When approaching the small courtyard, Yin En and the others heard the sound of pots and pans colliding in the small courtyard, it seemed that there were indeed people in the small courtyard, and it seemed that he/they did not notice the arrival of their group.
So, Yin Eun gave Jill and the others a look, suggesting that they act carefully so as not to disturb the people in the small courtyard.
The three of Jill understood and followed Yin En to the door of the small courtyard lightly.
It just so happened that the door was hidden at this time, so Yin Eun went up and looked at the crack in the door, and found that the courtyard inside was spotless, but there was no horse that Yin Eun wanted to see.
Could it be that the horse was locked up in a room?
Or is there a stable in the blind spot of your vision?
Yin Eun frowned, and he couldn't decide what to do for a while, should he go first to find out, or continue to stay outside?
At this moment, a beautiful figure appeared in Yin Eun's eyes.
Seeing this, Yin Eun was stunned for a moment, and then showed a strange expression.
Seeing this situation, Liu Xing knew what Yin En had guessed...
"Yin Eun, what did you see?"
Han Yan on the side saw that Yin Eun's face was strange, so he asked in a curious whisper.
Yin En shook his head and replied softly, "Let's get out of here first, the situation here is more complicated than we imagined." ”
With that, Yin En took Jill and the others to the old tree not far away.
This old tree can be seen at a glance to be hundreds of years old, so even Yin Eun and the four of them may not be able to hug each other, and the vines on this old tree are the thickness of Jill's wrists, and after hanging to the ground, they naturally form rattan chairs.
So Yin En and the others sat on the "rattan chair" to rest, after all, they had been walking up and down the mountain for a long time, and they were already a little tired.
The Chamber of Secrets is open for time.
"Yin Eun, what's the situation in that little courtyard?" Han Yan asked again.
Yin En took a deep breath and said with some tears and laughter: "I don't know if the group owner is planning to play with stalks, or simply want to make colors, the so-called horses in this module are actually not the 'thin horses' we imagined, but the legendary Yangzhou horses." ”
Hearing Yin Eun say this, the faces of the three of Gil gradually became strange.
In ancient times, because Yangzhou was located at the key node of Huaxia Caoyun, and Caoyun was the most important transportation channel in ancient times, almost all high-value goods had to be transferred through Yangzhou, including salt.
Seven things to open the door - firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar tea.
In ancient China, the salt trade was originally a million profits, so the salt merchants were all rich and noble people, and the salt trade was extremely dependent on Cao Yun, so almost all the salt merchants gathered in Yangzhou to live, and Yangzhou also became the most prosperous area in ancient China because of salt and other Cao Yun goods, almost none of them.
Confucius once said: Food is also sexual.
Therefore, the wind of raising "thin horses" in Yangzhou has almost never been broken, and the "thin horses" here of course refer to the concubines specially cultivated for the rich. . . Of course, the inferior ones will be sold to the Qinglou Chu Pavilion.
"To put it simply, the thin horse is the human tooth (nominal intermediary, in fact the human trafficker) from the poor to buy some seven or eight-year-old girls, and then spend a few years to teach them the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, etiquette poetry and other skills, so that their grade will go up, and when they are fifteen or sixteen years old, they can be sold to those rich people as concubines, according to records, the average transaction price of thin horses is about 1,500 taels, and the best of them even exceed 10,000 taels, so the thin horse was a profiteering industry at that time." Yin En continued: "Zhumen wine and meat stink, there are frozen bones on the road, although Yangzhou is a rich land, but those farmers outside Yangzhou City are all bitter haha, so those girls who were bought by people's teeth are very thin, this is very similar to the past people who bought thin horses at low prices, and then sold them at the price of good horses for huge profits after fattening, which is why they are called thin horses." ”
Jill nodded, and said with some sighs: "Yes, we were born in a good era; But then again, it's a good thing for us for the group leader to play such a trick of stealing the concept, after all, this person is much more difficult to take away than a horse, not to mention Li Hanxing, they are all modern people like us, if it is to forcibly take away a horse and steal a bag of grain, it is okay to say, but if we want to kidnap a woman, I will definitely not be able to do it anyway. ”
Han Yan and Caterina on the side both nodded in agreement with Jill's statement.
"Yes, in terms of the morality of us modern people, it is impossible to kidnap the woman even if we know that it is just a game, because this game is so real; To be honest, I made up my mind when I was going down the mountain before, and I was going to do it directly when I saw that horse, either to scare the horse away, or to kill the horse and bury it, so that although our style of play is a little dirty, as long as we can win in the Cthulhu Run game, I didn't expect the group leader to prepare such a 'skinny horse'. Yin En shook his head and said.
Han Yan looked at Yin En with a look of surprise and said, "Yin En, didn't you say that we couldn't do this when you were on the mountain before?" How about you? ”
Yin En smiled and said seriously: "What I just meant was that if both of us destroy each other's clearance items, then we will only lose both; But I thought about it carefully when I went down the mountain, and found that Li Hanxing and they didn't think the same as us, we were going to determine the situation of the skinny horse in the back mountain before stealing the good breed, and they came directly to the skinny horse, so we can solve the skinny horse first, so that we can be invincible first. ”
"It seems that the group leader should have thought that we would do this, so he came to steal the concept so that we can't do it." Jill slapped his thigh and said, "The group leader's move is really wonderful, even Yin Eun has already guessed what you think." ”
Yin Eun looked at Jill a little speechless, not knowing whether Jill was praising himself or scolding himself.