"Yes, this time, it's up to the stuffy dragon to save your life!" Zhou Hong looked at Ren Song and said. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Wait...... Slowly. In his mind, the evil thought was distracted and stopped Ren Song, who was about to dig out the gold pages. Fu said: "You should ask him first, what happened!" You always have to know what's going on over there at Erdaoguan, so let's prepare in advance! ”

Glancing at Zhou Hong, who was looking at him anxiously, Ren Song finally asked, "Brother Zhou, what happened to you when you went to Erdaoguan?" In addition to making holes, the stuffy dragon has a hard time driving a cloud, what can he do to help? ”

"Alas! It's hard to put into words! Zhou Hong then sighed again. roughly talked about what happened to him and the dragon girl Li Yuning in Erdaoguan.

It turned out that after the couple came out of the Nansha River, they rushed all the way to Erdaoguan, because the road was quite close, and they had arrived there in less than half an hour.

Erdaoguan that place, if it is divided administratively, is not even a town. It's just that because the terrain is flat and the roads to the outside world are more convenient than other villages, the people of more than ten nearby mountain villages will go there to buy any daily necessities they need, and by the way, they will take the backlog of mountain goods on hand and sell them. Gradually, a small bazaar was formed. This kind of market is also called "mountain market", and the nearby mountain people also refer to the market to sell mountain goods as "rushing to the market". ”

Because Erdaoguan is closer to Luozhong, the traffic is more convenient, and gradually attracted a lot of merchants from Luozhong to buy large quantities of mountain freight back to Luozhong for sale. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, Erdaoguan has become a large-scale mountain goods trading market.

On the streets of Erdaoguan, you can see mountain people selling all kinds of furs, wood, herbs, and all kinds of strange birds and beasts, etc., and there are also many nimble mountain people who simply abandon their fields and become Erdao traders, some of them have made a fortune, and they have opened shops on the spot.

However, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the national policy has always been based on agriculture, and businessmen have always been the target of the government's crackdown.

Once the government is alarmed, just "luring farmers to engage in business", the mountain farm of Erdaoguan will be completely disbanded sooner or later. And there is another problem that worries them even more, that is, with the influx of these middlemen, a large part of the originally huge profits have also been divided.

So more than 10 big businesses wrapped in the local two dealers to open a small shop together to order a rule, the mountain field on the first day of the month, the fifteenth, each open a set, known as "every set", when the set, the two road pass mountain field regardless of the mountain people and merchants, can be freely traded. Once the time has passed, no one is allowed to buy or sell in the hill farm, and if anyone violates it, all the businesses in the hill will never buy or sell with it again.

With such regulations, although the scale of this mountain farm is still expanding, it is deserted on weekdays, and the mountain people usually work at home to farm, and when they are at the fair, they will also sell the mountain goods they have accumulated.

However, those big businesses usually have Luozhong's business to maintain, and only on the fifteenth day of the new year will they rush to the mountain field to buy and sell, and bring salt, cloth, farm tools and other daily necessities to sell, because they usually do not trade, the mountain people accumulate a lot of mountain goods, and the things they buy in a day are more than in a month.

And those local second-class dealers, without the income support of daily trading, could not afford to support many men, and when the mountain people poured in, they did not have many manpower, so they were not busy at all, and the purchase price was lower than those big businesses, so naturally not many mountain people were willing to trade with them. There is no longer the good thing of the past, which usually buys and accumulates the scattered gangs taken by the mountain people, and then sits on the ground and raises the price when the big business comes, so as to earn the difference.

Although there are also many local second-tier dealers who try to receive goods on weekdays, all of them are resisted by the big business in Luozhong, and they insist on not trading with them. As a result, the original mountain people who opened shops in Erdaoguan all closed down and took up hoes to farm again. Most of the houses on the street have also become storehouses for large merchants. Without the second dealer, the income of the mountain people is naturally higher than on weekdays, so there are more people who come to the market on the first and fifteenth days of the new year.

By the time of the Republic of China, the scale of Erdaoguan had surpassed that of nearby towns, and there were many people who came to sell mountain goods on market days. And because the time is too short, many businesses have not been completed, and the mountain farm has been closed. As a result, both buyers and sellers find it inconvenient. As a result, the market days have been changed from the original first and fifteenth days of the new year to a single-day market every month of the lunar calendar, and the two days are closed. This rule has been passed down to the present day.

When Zhou Hong and his wife arrived, they were just in time for the market day, just after the New Year, the villagers in the mountains were a little nervous, and there were naturally a lot of villagers from ten miles and eight villages to rush to the scene, and the tea spring where the Jinjiao Dao people were located was in the middle of the mountain field, and the two couldn't squeeze in at all.

The couple had no choice but to wander outside, and waited until evening, when the mountain field was dispersed, and then slipped to the spring in the middle of the town. The tea mountain behind this tea spring is also quite famous, and the tea produced on the mountain is famous in Luozhong for the best Xianhao.

From the top of the hill, a clear stream flows into the tea spring, and then flows into the cold water river near the town through another natural outlet. The villagers in the town usually drink water from the upper entrance. However, the water that flows from the spring cannot be drunk indiscriminately, and it is said that those who are not sick drink the water and will bleed to death at night.

And those who are infirm and sickly, especially those whose functions have withered in that respect, take water from the spring, and then ask the local witch Gu to practice the secret refining method, and after drinking it will surely regain their vigor. But now no one in the town is rushing to drink the water from the spring, because the town health center has warned that the spring is so polluted that people who drink it will surely die, and the only witch doctor who can mix the water from the spring died in the nineties, and no one dares to drink the water in the tea spring.

And now the water is not only foul-smelling, but also yellowish-brown in color, looking like sewage from a chemical plant. According to the local elders, in the past, when the spring water turned yellow, the local people had to pour a large amount of tea leaves picked from the tea mountain into the spring, as long as the quantity was sufficient, the spring water would become clear the next day. And every year in February, when the second dragon raises its head, it will also pour 999 catties of good fried green into it to ensure that the spring water is no longer turbid.

However, this statement was immediately resisted by the leaders at the village and town levels, and even few of the younger generation believed it. Wouldn't the water be more polluted? Some people even think that it is because they throw too many tea leaves into the spring that the spring water is made like this.

When the dragon lady and his wife arrived at the tea spring, they found that the spring water had turned dark brown. The dragon girl, who knew the reason, couldn't help but sigh again and again: "These human beings are really ungrateful, no wonder my father and Venerable haven't come back, it seems that something happened to Uncle Jin Jiao!" ”

(To be continued.) )