Chuyun Village.

A place where you can see the early morning clouds. In the middle of a mountain on the periphery of the Luoxia Mountains, the largest city under the mountain is Fengcheng, which is located in the extreme west of Penglai country. This common sense was all he knew for an illiterate young man who had ever traveled to the farthest place he had ever been in the county town of Yamashita since he was born.

According to Lin Luoran, the most useful information is the name of this country, which is called Penglai Country.

finally got involved with Penglai, of course she was happy in her heart. In the face of the honest "life-saving benefactor", Lin Luoran only followed the old woman's words and made up the identity of a Fengcheng noblewoman, and only said that she would go home and thank them well.

The old woman looked at her honey-colored skin, and was suspicious of her words, Lin Luoran secretly thought, the noble girl in ancient times, I'm afraid there was really no skin color like her at this time, right? However, the words have already been said and cannot be taken back, so Lin Luoran can only go with the flow.

She stayed in Chuyun Village for a few days, and she got a lot of words out from a young hunter named Ah Zhi.

Knowing that this world advocates martial arts, the world is a little chaotic, and it has not yet affected this small mountain village, but the whole country is not peaceful. Ah Zhi had never heard of a monk, and legend has it that there were immortals flying around in this land, and that was thousands of years ago.

Like Ah Zhi's father, he was conscripted into the army a few years ago, and there has been no news for a long time, if it weren't for the fact that the teenager grew up and learned to hunt, the family would be even more poor. It is not easy for orphans and widows to live, and Ah Zhi is not able to hunt prey every day, even if he does, in addition to taking care of Lin Luoran, the "wounded", most of the game has to be made into cured meat, together with those leather goods, and when the teenager has accumulated more money, he will take the mountain and sell it in the county.

Watching the mother and son eat coarse grains and vegetables, Lin Luoran was extremely uncomfortable drinking pheasant soup in front of the wounded. The wounded could no longer pretend, and her "illness" was cured naturally, and by the third day she was able to get out of bed and move around.

The people in the village came to see this strange "noble girl", and Lin Luoran endured the onlookers of the village women while taking the opportunity to collect useful information. However, the mountain people are stupid, and the village women have less knowledge, and they can talk about some trivial things about winter melon and eggplant over and over for a long time, and Lin Luoran didn't touch on any of them that he wanted to hear.

The mountain dwelling was idle, but her mind was not here at this time, and she was about to think about how to say goodbye, and soon the opportunity came.

Two days later, the young Ah Zhi came back happily before noon.

It turned out that the trap he usually dug caught a fire fox, only the hind leg was injured, and it was still a living thing. The blood of the fire fox is greatly replenished, and the fur is also extremely rare, and it is a great amount of money for the Ah Zhi family to sell this fire fox.

Firefox is difficult to feed, and Ah Zhi decides to go to the county seat the next day.

Lin Luoran said goodbye in a timely manner, on the grounds that he was delaying for too long, and he was afraid that his family would be worried.

After drinking the pheasant soup made by the old woman for two days, Lin Luoran felt that he couldn't get by, and thought of the big lump of gold that he had to dig up from the Dragon Palace in the space, so he quietly pinched a few gold beads the size of peas, pretending to say that it was life-saving money hidden in the heel of his shoes to reward the old woman.

The old woman shirked it, Lin Luoran said softly: "The grace of saving my life cannot be repaid, these are only my food expenses for a few days at my eldest mother's house, and when I return to Fengcheng, my family will send a thank you gift." ”

The old woman was sneering, but at this time, she really believed that Lin Luoran was a noble girl with an excellent tutor in Fengcheng.

"Sister Lin, let's go down the mountain together tomorrow and send you home first, so that your family won't worry about it."

Ah Zhi's subordinates weaved bamboo cages and agreed with what Lin Luoran said. Although the young man is simple, he is not stupid, he worked hard to save Lin Luoran back, the latter is willing to give a few golden beans, he will not object.

As for the thank you gift that Lin Luoran said, Ah Zhi didn't take it to heart.

The next day, the three of them got up early in the morning, and Ah Zhi Niang said that all kinds of cured meat were worn with strings and hung on both sides of the flat shoulder, as well as bundles of leather goods, no less than 200 catties.

Lin Luoran followed behind him with a bamboo cage, still wearing a wishful shirt.

After the snowmelt day, the weather is getting hotter and hotter day by day, and summer is coming soon, which is also one of the reasons why Ah Zhi is anxious to talk about cured meat and leather goods to be sold down the mountain.

The bamboo cage she was carrying in her hand contained a small fiery fox with no miscellaneous hair on her body, so it should be able to sell for a good price, right?

After walking for two or three hours, he came out of the mountain, and it was noon, and Lin Luoran saw the county in Ah Zhi's mouth.

It's much smaller than expected, the wooden house on the street is not tall, it looks like the town, Ah Zhi sold all the cured meat to the restaurant, I heard that this two-story small wooden building is the largest restaurant in the county, more than 100 catties of cured meat, only sold less than two taels of silver.

The game in Lin Luoran's eyes is only slightly more than pork for two pennies a catty.

The remaining dozens of skins of various sizes were only given four taels of silver by the leather store, which was slightly more valuable than cured meat, and was also outrageously cheap. Ah Zhi was not very satisfied with this price, because he then went to the rice shop to inquire, the situation was turbulent, brown rice had risen to 300 wen a stone, 120 catties was a stone, and after threshing, there would be a maximum of 80 catties of brown rice left.

Since the price of rice has skyrocketed, there is no reason why the price of meat should not rise, needless to say, Ah Zhi, who has not been out of the mountain for a long time, was cheated by profiteers for selling cured meat and leather goods before.

Although five or six taels of silver can buy a lot of brown rice, cured meat and leather goods are all accumulated in a long winter, and life is not just to eat to live.

You have to tear the cloth, you have to grab the medicine, you have to eat salt...... The trivialities of life greatly reduced the purchasing power of six taels of silver, and Ah Zhi still wanted to save money to buy a good bow, but at this time he could only pin his hopes on the red fox who had not sold it.

The owner of the leather shop once wanted to buy this fire fox, but the price was overwhelming by two taels, but Ah Zhi naturally refused to sell it and held the bamboo cage tightly. Ordering two stones of brown rice at the rice shop, Ah Zhibian waited on the side of the street for someone to come and buy the firefox.

The young man didn't do anything well, and forgot for a while to send Lin Luoran "home".

Lin Luoran followed him silently all the way, in fact, his consciousness was scattered, receiving useful news from all directions in the small county town.

From the mouths of the two merchants in the restaurant, she knew the reason for the soaring prices.

Two months ago, Yingguo attacked the northern part of Penglai, and Penglai State, which had serious civil strife, fell into a dilemma of internal and external troubles.

When the national war broke out, the news spread to this small county town in the far west, and people were panicked, and soaring prices were common.

The merchants recounted the difficulties of the current situation, and Lin Luoran's mind had already flown to the side. Yingguo? There are three immortal mountains overseas, which are named Penglai, Yingzhou, and abbot. She'd already heard two related names.

Only mortals who have gone through many trials can climb the Immortal Mountain. Lin Luoran thought of the summary statement on the "Wood Spirit Classics", and deeply felt cheating. She is not afraid of trials, she is just worried and does not know what they are trying.

"Hey, this little fox is so good-looking, black guy, are you willing to sell it?"

A bright girl in a red dress rode on a horse, looking condescendingly, but her tone of voice was too rude, and she opened her mouth to call someone "black guy", which made Lin Luoran not like it very much.

Ah Zhi was about to answer, and there was already a commotion at the end of the street.

The girl in the red dress said that it was really troublesome, flicked a few golden beans in Ah Zhi's hand, and rolled towards the bamboo cage with a whip.

Isn't this a forced buy and a forced sale?

Lin Luoran frowned and gently put his hand on the bamboo cage containing the fire fox.

The leather whip rolled up, the bamboo cage did not move, and the girl in the red dress let out a light sigh, and then looked sideways at Lin Luoran, who had been silent.