002 Nan'an
It took a stick of incense, and with the help of Black Maoyi, Nanxing was finally able to sit on the horse and control the direction of the horse through simple movements, but he couldn't gallop the horse, and could only swing slowly on the official road.
It's early summer, and the fields on both sides of the official road are green, and the breeze brings the smell of grass.
In the field in the distance, someone was working with his head down, pouting and wearing a straw hat on his head. A young woman in a jinghai cloth skirt, carrying a bamboo basket in her right hand, is walking quickly on the ridge of the field.
Nanxing sat on his horse with his back straight, but his eyes were looking around.
She had only seen the picture in front of her in the holographic virtual space, but she didn't expect to see it with her own eyes now, if it weren't for the black cat's instructions to fit her identity, she would have liked to go down and roll in the grass a few times.
"If you want to look at it, you can look at it generously, and now it looks more suspicious." Black Maoyi couldn't stand Nanxing's current appearance, so he had to speak.
Nanxing: "......"
Near noon, the tall gray city wall began to slowly appear at the end of Nanxing's sight, presumably it was Nan'an City.
The wall of Nan'an City is six or seven meters high, made of large blue bricks, covered with mottled traces, and you can see that the years are not short at a glance, and there are patrolling soldiers walking on the city wall from time to time, and there are many people waiting to enter the city at the city gate.
"Freshly baked buns, big buns, two texts and one bun."
"The little greens that were picked in the morning are fresh and fresh."
"Let the front pass, let our carriage pass first, all get out of the way......"
Nanxing's ears were filled with all kinds of sounds, and there were still dozens of meters away from the city gate, and she saw that several people on horseback had dismounted, and they also dismounted in the same way, leading the horses to move towards the city gate little by little with the crowd.
Although there are many people at the city gate, they are still in an orderly state, and when Nanxing entered the city gate, he also took advantage of the fact that the guards did not pay attention to the gate and buckled a handful on the city wall.
"It turns out to be a stone ......," Nanxing muttered.
Looking at the ancients who came and went around him, Nanxing was a little excited, and he was communicating with the black cat in his mind.
"It turns out that ancient cities are like this, and those ancient scholars always say that most of the ancient cities were seven- or eight-story buildings, and there were dozens of high-rise buildings in the central area."
"But I think the tallest building here is only a three-story building, is it because it's not prosperous enough?"
"Based on my reading of your history, this is a much more distant time, and perhaps you could call this an antiquity." Suddenly, the black cat's whiskers all stretched out to the sides.
"The sense has become stronger, it should be in this city."
"I don't think this city is very big, but is there a specific direction? After all, there are many dreams at night. Nanxing subconsciously asked.
The black cat seemed a little unhappy and said, "Are you questioning my abilities?" ”
Nanxing hurriedly explained that he didn't mean that, but he had developed this habit over the years.
She and Shang Lu, two orphans, were able to become well-known "waste pickers" at the bottom in five years without any capital, relying on Shang Lu's intelligence collection and Nanxing's powerful analytical ability.
"Judging from the existing energy reserves, I have to be within a kilometer radius of it to be able to sense its specific location."
"Then I'll go around the city a few times first, and I just want to visit the ancient ...... Oh no, it's the ancient city. Nanxing paused when he said this, and his tone was slightly sad, "It would be nice if Shang Lu was here." ”
Under the guidance of the black cat, Nanxing was about to go to the east of the city to have a look first, and at this time she was followed by a half-grown child about eleven or two years old.
The kid helped Nanxing lead the horse and walked on the right rear side of Nanxing, just half a distance behind Nanxing.
"Hero, there is no place in this city that my little stone doesn't know. But I'm cheaper than all of them, and if you ask me to be your guide, it's definitely worth the money. ”
Xiao Shi is a native of Nan'an City, but unfortunately his parents died the year before last, leaving him and his sister three years younger than him, and it will be a few months before she turns nine.
Because he was too young to find any other work, he had to work as a guide at the city gate to earn some copper coins.
The cost of hiring a guide in the southern city for a day is usually thirty copper coins, and if the guests are satisfied, the additional reward will be counted separately, but as soon as it is opened, a guarantee of ten copper coins must be handed over to the guards at the city gates.
Soliciting visitors at the city gate as a guide is not for everyone, and the consent of the captain of the city guard is required.
Xiao Shi was still the only plain silver hairpin left by his mother, so he made up a filial piety and got the qualification to work here.
In order to compete with those old guides, Xiao Shi lowered his daily employment fee to twenty copper coins, but even so, he often couldn't get a single customer for three or five days.
Nanxing hired Xiao Shi just because he thought of the scene between her and Shang Lu back then, thinking that it would be good to help, and this little stone looked quite clever.
"Hero, where are you going to go first? This side is the north of the city, mainly some people who sell mules, horses and livestock, but they can't compare with your horse; If you want to watch a drama and listen to music, Xiaoxiang Garden in the south of the city is good; The most famous in the west of the city is Xunwei Building, which is said to be the same owner as the Xunwei Building in Jinling Mansion, and the taste of his crispy duck is overwhelming. The Fengyue Pavilion in the east of the city has popular sisters performing every night, but if you want to go late, it's a little too early. ”
"Is there anything else to go in the east of the city?" When Nanxing heard the three words of Fengyue Pavilion, he already understood what kind of place it was.
"The largest Yuelai Inn in the city is in the east of the city." Little Stone replied respectfully.
Nanxing remembered an ancient joke he saw on the virtual network, saying that every city has a place called Yuelai Inn.
Immediately let Xiao Shi lead the way, she planned to go to the Yuelai Inn to stay first, after all, she didn't know how many days it would take to find the revitalized page.
Yuelai Inn is worthy of being the largest chain inn in the "whole universe", with three floors of wooden high-rise buildings, which are magnificent from afar.
Nanxing skillfully asked for an upper room with the work at the counter, and before he could enter the room, the voice of a black cat sounded in his head.
"Eight hundred meters to the south, I've locked its position."
Nanxing called the small stone leaning against the outer wall of the inn door, saying that he wanted to go around and let the little stone lead the way.
After walking for a while, I arrived at the location where the black cat had locked, which was a tooth shop. Different from other shops, the tooth shop uses a double-open wooden door, which means to welcome visitors from all over the world.
"Hero, this is Ruyi Tooth Shop, the largest Tooth Shop in Nan'an City, if you want to buy a house or a slave, it is the safest place to come here." Xiao Shi watched the guest stop at the door of the tooth shop, and hurriedly introduced.
As soon as Xiao Shi's words fell, the little guy in Yaxing greeted him and asked Nanxing what he needed.
Nanxing pretended to buy a few slaves, but he hadn't made up his mind yet, and wanted to see what they were like first, so the little guy led Nanxing to go inside and introduce them.
It is said that his own tooth store has just accepted a group of domestic slaves from bankrupt merchants, and the rules are all top-notch, no one has chosen them yet, and the price can be negotiated.
As she spoke, she came to the back room of the tooth shop, and Nanxing stopped because the black cat told her that the "page" was inside.
Originally, Nanxing also thought that the pages of the book were the pages, but after communicating with the black cat on the road, she realized that it was not necessarily the case.
These pages are just a general term for their original form, and when activated, they can have three forms, but once they have been determined, they cannot switch forms at will.
The three forms are: the form of the page itself, the form of the content drawn on the page, and the human form.
With the current energy of the black cat, he can only sense the existence of the pages after they are activated.
Nanxing was about to make an excuse when he heard the door squeak open, and a middle-aged woman dressed in red and green and cheesy walked out of it, followed by a little girl.