Chapter 22: The City of Pusaro
In the area of Erzhu in the southwest of the Tang Dynasty, there are all kinds of large and small tribes, which are not subject to the county system of Tangzhou, and the people of the Middle Earth are called barbarians, Nanban, Nanyi, etc., among which the six are the strongest: Mengwei Zhao, Yue Xi Zhao, Langqiong Zhao, Cheng Zhi Zhao, Shi Lang Zhao, Mengshe Zhao, because of the south, all are the six edicts of Nanban.
The six edicts of the barbarians, according to their class level, are divided into black and white Yi, with the barbarians as the top, the white barbarians are controlled, the barbarians who live in the six edicts are all local natives, and the white barbarians are mostly the monstrosians who moved from China before and after the Western Jin Dynasty.
Therefore, the white barbarians, who ploughed the fields and raised mulberry for a living, were similar in writing and language to Chinese, and the Wu barbarians, who were mainly animal husbandry, could not understand Tang dialect, and their economy and culture were not as high as those of the white barbarians, but because of their large population, they were the ruling class.
The Wuman and Baiman tribes all believe in ghosts and witches, with the ghost master as the former leader, the big tribe has a big ghost master, and the small tribe has a small ghost master.
After leaving the Python Mountain, they stayed in Kemo Town for two days, and when Li Tai transferred a group of people from the south and took away their income in the Python Mountain, Yiyu and Li Tai set off together with a team of 30 silver, turned into a business traveler, sold silk and woven wine, and continued to travel south, passing through Lizhou, and went straight to the Six Edicts of Erzhi.
It was winter, the days were short and the nights were long, there were many robbers, and it was difficult to walk at night, although Yu Yu heard Han Li's news from Li Tai, and he couldn't wait to fly over, but he was still patient, and his line slowed down, stopping and stopping all the way, and when he entered the Nanyi ruling land, he had entered the moon.
Along the way, the humanistic customs gradually change, there is Li Tai this mobile geological encyclopedia, the relics are very evil to make up for the knowledge of barbarian foreigners, in addition to a period of water and soil adaptation, the road is not boring, not very difficult, and the more you live south, the warmer the weather This hand-made version was first published in the 55ab community, from the climate alone, it is more comfortable than last winter in Chang'an.
It is worth mentioning that the "proprietor" who emerged in the Shunfeng Inn stuck to it like honey, and he couldn't get rid of it all the way.
Yi Yu was a little concerned at first, but later, seeing that Li Tai only acted as if they didn't exist, he followed them like flies, and every time he was driven away by the escort who pretended to be a business traveler.
"Master, two miles further on, there is the city of Pusharo." A man rode from the front of the caravan to the middle of the caravan, reporting to the man on one of the red horses.
Pushaluo City, a large city of the Yue Zhao tribe, where the black barbarians and white barbarians live together, is one of the largest commercial gathering places in the east of the Six Zhaos, and the fur and medicinal herb trade is dominant.
This big city is also the place where the person Li Tai is looking for is now settled.
"Get ready, enter the city and stay for a while." Li Tai looked at the faintly recognizable white stone city wall in front of him from a distance and commanded.
"I thought I wouldn't be able to get there at night, but now it's okay, I don't have to sleep outside." Yi Yu turned her head to Li Taidao, she rode on the back of a brown horse, walking beside him, wearing a set of neat light-colored men's clothes, her hair was tied up high, and the wooden hairpin was solid, revealing a slightly frosted little face, in the past half a year, her riding skills have made great progress, with a gentle horse, careful galloping can also be done.
"Find a place to stay today, and act tomorrow." Li Taidao, who camped and stayed outside for the first two nights, also knew that she was tired, and people would not run in the city, so it was better to rectify and rest first.
The ants were talking for the first time, and after a while, Yi Yu clearly saw a circle of gray-white stone city walls, which were much neater and more magnificent than the small cities he had seen before, but they were far from the height of Chang'an City.
The climate of Erhai Lake is warm, and half of the vegetation grows luxuriantly in winter, which is a verdant green that is rarely seen in winter elsewhere, and the white city wall is matched with tall and low shrubs and green trees, which makes people feel clean at a glance.
The head of the city was engraved with a text that the relics did not recognize, and outside the gate stood several Yi people dressed in strange clothes and armed with weapons, checking the goods of the merchants, and they were not strict, and their line was only a quick glance, and they were allowed to enter the city.
The houses in the city, the main body is mostly white stone walls, the roof is larger than the middle soil slope, the eaves are curved, the ground is paved flat dry land, I don't know whether it is intentional or unintentional, there are many colored pebbles embedded in it, it is very beautiful, the house is not high, there is occasionally a two-story small building, and there are one or two yellow-green dwarf trees planted in front of every house.
The pedestrians who come and go, most of them are local residents, and there is a clear difference in the color of the clothes, there are white long clothes and long skirts, covered with flower cloth Pikan, which is a white barbarian with low status, and there is a long black dress lined with a long skirt with a flower cloth on the shoulders, which is a black barbarian.
The facial features of the Yi people are slightly different, the eyes are large, the lips are slightly thick, the complexion is darker, and their hair is wrapped in a circle with strips of cloth, and the outer layer is decorated with fine down, feathers, tortoiseshell and other things, which is unique.
Because there is no shortage of merchants in Middle-earth in Pusaro City, seeing them outsiders, or driving lambs, or locals holding buckets, will look at them more or less, and there is no curiosity, most of them scrutinize, Li Tai put on his special mask to cover his eyes before entering the city, although it is still eye-catching, but it is more exposed than the whole face, and the lethality is greatly reduced.
Yi Yu looked up at the mountains covered with white clouds in the distance, and then swept around the city of Pushaluo, which revealed the simplicity and fresh taste everywhere, and liked it, turned his head to Li Tai and said:
"The book says that Fanbang is barbarian, unreasonable, rumao drinks blood, and teaches less to teach, so it can be seen that he can't be trusted."
Seeing that Li Tai did not answer her, but looked at the road ahead and rode slowly, she paused and added:
"It's a warm and humid place in winter, and it's very inhabitable.
"It's hot in the summer."
Listening to his evaluation, Yi Yu chuckled twice, not forgetting that he was extremely afraid of heat, in this summer in the deep mountains, once the effect of snake gall wine passed, he would go to the creek in the south of the village with Shen Jiantang every day to cool off, and when it came to summer, this man who was already silent. You will talk less than usual, and you will have little appetite for eating.
Pusaro City has a special place to provide accommodation for travelers, translated into official dialect, it is a place called the Southern District, Li Tai's subordinates are good at Yi language, after asking the way, the group went to the south of the city.
The southern district only occupies a small part of the city, and there are rows of densely packed houses built in it, and there are no copper coins, gold and silver or goods here, which can be used to pay off, Li Tai and Yi Yu and his party, found the local people in charge in the southern district, spent twenty catties of ordinary tea bricks, picked a row of more than a dozen secluded houses to rent, and his subordinates neatly packed up the largest room for Li Tai to live temporarily.
Yi Yu got off the horse, and stood on the street between the two rows of houses, looking at the merchants of Middle Earth who came and went to stay here, Li Tai saw that she gathered in front of the merchants who communicated with each other, and did not call her, but only instructed the two swordsmen and the subordinate who knew the local dialect to take care of her together, and then led Fang Cai from the south of the city to find a man dressed as a white barbarian, and entered the house.
Different from the stone wall and stone road outside, the furnishings in the house are all bamboo, and there are some leather blankets that are not very valuable on the ground, Li Tai is sitting on a bamboo chair, and there is a person standing on his left and right hands.
“…… He now lives in the east of the city, but there is one thing that cannot be explained in the letters of his subordinates. ”
"What?"
"That lady, I don't know how to use it, came here for a year, and befriended Pudosin, the eldest wife of the ghost lord Mondstadt in this city, and then moved into the eastern part of the city to live in the Wumansha, if you want to take people away, I'm afraid you can't come openly."
"Just meet someone, you can arrange it." Li Tai didn't have any intention of captive, all he had to do was to find the woman, tell the last words of his biological mother Concubine Jin, and fulfill the wishes of the deceased.
"It's not difficult, the subordinates will arrange it, find someone to introduce on their behalf, and come back tomorrow morning, master, you have traveled all the way, please rest well."
"Go ahead."
After the people retreated, Li Tai thought for a while, and then explained some things to the left and right for them to do.
The southern district is not only a place for all kinds of merchants, but also a trading area, where merchants from the south to the north spread a mat in front of the house, and put some of the goods on the outside, such as tea bricks, porcelain, fabrics, ornaments, etc., and the locals who live in the city like to live here and run, using the fur handiwork on their hands to exchange for something they like.
At this time, the first chapter of the ant hand group is in the middle of the afternoon, it is the most lively time in the southern district, Yu Yu because someone is following, not afraid of getting lost, she walked along the road to the stall, walked farther, called her rare is not the stall people sell things, but the locals take out the things to exchange, with tree roots carved birds and beasts, with colored feathers tied into ornaments, and other interesting handicrafts.
The interpreter she brought with her, called Dai Jing, was a middle-aged man of nearly thirty, the local dialect was good, and if Yu Yu didn't understand, he asked him, and walked two streets, she saw a small stall of a local man under a tree, with large and small wood carvings on it, and Yu Yu squatted on the side of the road and looked at it, only to be surprised.
These things, a flower and a bird are carved very realistically, she is playing with a fist-sized flying eagle, only to feel like the appearance of Yinxiao, is talking to Dai Jing, asking him to ask the stall owner how to change, the street suddenly resounded one after another, from far to near the sound of gnashing:
"Miss Lu is here! All the good things are put out of the lotus! ”
"Miss Lu is here! All the good things are put out of the lotus! ”
After seven or eight sounds, Yi Yu understood the Chinese dialect with a different taste, and turned his head to see that the stalls on this street, except for the local man in front of him, suddenly became busy, and each ran back to the house, and soon ran out with something in his arms, and hurriedly placed them on the mat.
What's going on? Yi Yu asked Dai Jing suspiciously.