Coming out of Pei Feng's small building, it was already sunset, but the caravans of cars and horses were still endless. Because the big stone in his heart had fallen, and it was inconvenient to go to Zhaoqili to stay at night, Li Yuanqi had the interest to take a closer look at this Qiuzi City. Although it is a rare oasis in the desert in the west, it is also a fierce wind and sand, and the ordinary and delicate flowers and plants can not stand it, so the streets on both sides are not as colorful as the sky, and the four seasons are always undefeated. Think of the Vermilion Bird Street, there are peaches in spring, pomegranates in summer, chrysanthemums in autumn, and red plums in winter. And what Qiuzi has is just a special kind of apricot tree, which is everywhere in front of and behind the house. At this time, just after the Dragon Boat Festival, a tree is full of unripe apricots, smaller than the apricots in the Central Plains, swaying with the branches in the wind, like a small green bell.

Nanhua saw Li Yuanqi looking up at the apricot, and explained: "This turtle apricot is said to be a must in the west, although it is small, it is very delicious. Around the time of the Midyear Festival, it fades to green and not red, white and tender, thin skin and thick meat, and it is the most thirst-quenching thing. However, it is not easy to store, and it can't be touched, but it is rarely sent to the sky. Li Yuanqi came back to his senses, and said with a colorless face: "I ate a few times when I was a child......" and didn't say any more, turned his head and walked forward. Nanhua was stunned for a moment, and then thought about it, I am afraid that it was brought back by General Pei when he returned to Beijing to report on his work when General Pei was stationed in the western border, and he was embarrassed for a while, but it was inconvenient to say more, so he had to catch up quickly.

Along the way, Li Yuanqi paid attention to the shops where the local people came and went, and wanted to understand the customs and customs of the people here, and suddenly a two-story small building came into view. Although it is not magnificent from the outside, it is exquisite and abnormal. The white exterior wall is refreshing, and the layers of green tiles on the top seem to come from the Central Plains. A string of fragmented copper bells are hung on the warped corners, the wind comes and goes, the sound is non-stop, like a sweet spring in the desert, moistening the internal organs of the travelers. Take a closer look, the door railings and window lattices are all carved, the flowers and leaves are intertwined, and the winding is not exquisite. However, Li Yuanqi had never seen that flower style, and it should be unique to the Western Regions. Looking at the plaque in the middle, "Light Cloud Clothes" is actually written in the original Chinese text and Qiuziwen, it seems to be a shop that does clothes and cloth trading, coming and going well, and the business is quite prosperous.

I don't know if it's because of the original character plaque, or because of the original unaccounted for makeup satin, Li Yuanqi didn't think about it, so he picked up the steps and walked into the store. Seeing this, Nanhua hurriedly followed.

Stepping through the carved door, I was faced with several clothes made of clothes, set on a puppet frame carved from boxwood, which was quite fresh and strange, and I had never seen such a pendulum elsewhere. Looking around the hall again, the cloth patterns were arranged in one place according to the color, from light to dark, from red to purple, as if the rainbow in the sky had been cut off, and the four walls were tightly covered.

Li Yuanqi was fascinated, and a female Jiao'e with a curling Nana walked up to her, smiling all over her face, and asked in Guizi dialect: "Two nobles, do you want to tailor or buy cloth?" What do you want, just tell Qiu Niang that there is no style of clothing that we can't make in light clouds, and there is no silk brocade that we can't find. ”

Li Yuanqi raised his eyes and looked at her carefully, and on the face of a goose egg, he could see that he had experienced some wind and frost. The facial features are not very standard, but there is a pair of affectionate eyebrows with a faint smile, which is really the most suitable face for trading. However, looking at her dressed and sandwiched turtle words, she seemed to be from the Central Plains, so Li Yuanqi replied to her with the Central Plains dialect: "Thank you Qiu Niang, I want to find a makeup satin from the Central Plains, I don't know if Qiu Niang has it in the store?" ”

As soon as Qiu Niang heard that the original words of the people who came were fluent, she was happy for a while, thinking that he must have something to do with the Central Plains. Since he was ruthlessly sold here by his mother a few years ago, the Central Plains has never been able to go back, and now when he hears the words of the Central Plains, he seems to have seen old relatives and old friends, and he is particularly hot. So he hurriedly turned around and took the makeup satin that the master had just brought today, and chuckled: "It's really a coincidence that there is no book, I want to come to the noble people and we have a fate, and today we got a good makeup satin, you look at this weaving, how delicate and fine." As he spoke, he spread out the brocade in his hand and spread it on the table for Li Yuanqi and the others to see.

Li Yuanqi saw that this was the makeup satin that was taken away by the red shadow, and the time was right, so he couldn't help but feel complicated. When I saw her staring at the cloth in the desert, I thought that she had never seen this brocade unique to the Central Plains, so she was happy and rare, and she would treasure it when she got it, but she didn't think that she would sell it to this roadside store as an ordinary thing. But if it was really for money, why didn't he just accept the money promised to her in the first place, wouldn't it be cheaper? What a spirit! The more I think about the doubts, the more chaotic I become, the more chaotic but the more tempting I ponder. But in any case, after all, I got a clue, and maybe I could find the whereabouts of the woman.

Thinking of this, Li Yuan prayed for a moment, changed the tone of the deputy market, and said with a smile: "Qiu Niang's light cloud dress is really worthy of being the first-class garment workshop in this city, and such a grade of makeup and satin is rare even in the Central Plains." It's just that there is a lot of need in the next, I don't know how much Qiu Niang can sell? ”

As soon as Qiu Niang heard "the first class in the city", she immediately laughed and trembled, shook the silk cloth in her hand, and seemed to inadvertently scratch Li Yuanqi's shoulder, squinted, and said a little coquettishly: "The noble man has good eyesight!" Let's have this shop, don't say that in Qiuzi City, even in the entire Western Realm, I am afraid it is one of the best. But ......" said, I saw her eyebrows roll, hide her smugness and change her tone and continued: "It's really said by the nobles, such an object is precious and rare, and there is only this one in the store now, but there is no more." ”

"Oh? That's a pity, in the next time I came here, just to buy more rare cloth to go back to the lord to return to the Lord, now there is only this one, I'm afraid that the heroines have more wolves and less meat, it's really difficult to deal with it! Li Yuanqi looked embarrassed as he spoke, as if he was really in trouble, and after a pause, he asked again: "I wonder if Qiu Niang can tell me the source of this goods?" Looking for it below, maybe you can get more. As he spoke, he took out enough silver to buy five horses and put it in Qiu Niang's hand.