Although it is not as spectacular as the modern large-scale trade fairs, it is quite spectacular in the absence of hypermarkets in ancient times.

Almost as soon as the prince and his party arrived at the door of the venue, Smith and his party also arrived.

“Good morning, count Smith.” Hua Ronghua smiled and said, "The prince has been waiting."

Smith bowed slightly to the prince and said, "Thank you for waiting. We are late to prepare some goods.”

Hua Ronghua translated the words to the prince, and looked up at the people behind Smith, and sure enough, there were six people carrying eight boxes.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince smiled and said a few kind words, and then the attendants led everyone to the venue.

Fanbang people's booth is in the middle of the entire exhibition, and it is also the largest booth.

“The count put the goods here. The two men are Fulai and Dong, and if they ask, they will help you.” Hua Ronghua pointed to the two guys standing behind the booth, who learned the fastest among all the students, not only learned those numbers, but also learned a few daily words from her, although they were not very proficient, but a simple inquiry quotation was still no problem.

Smith looked at the booth and thanked the two smiling guys, "Mrs. Hua is doing very well. Thank you very much.”

“These are arranged by the prince.” Hua Ronghua smiled and looked at the prince who was a little uncomfortable on the side.

“Thank you, prince.” Smith saluted the prince again.

Although the prince didn't understand what he was saying, he also understood that he was thanking himself, and he smiled and bowed his head. Previously, Smith only cared about talking to Hua Ronghua, and he simply regarded her as the master, which made the prince feel a little unhappy, but it was difficult to say anything, who let himself not understand the language! Now that I'm finally involved, I'm finally feeling a little more relaxed.

The two Fanbang people put their goods on the booth, and the prince and others saw so many Fanbang products for the first time, full of novelty, and Hua Ronghua looked at it a few times and felt a little kind. Music boxes, gemstones, perfumes, kaleidoscopes, pocket watches, and even a telescope.

Smith picked up the binoculars with a look of surprise when he saw Hua Ronghua, and explained with a smile: "This is my spare binoculars, which I can see very far away, and if Mrs. Hua wants it, she'll give three thousand pieces of silver." He is already very proficient in using the silver of Beipeng's common currency.

Hua Ronghua translated the words to the prince while handing him the binoculars.

The prince didn't understand, how could a small iron cylinder be sold so expensive, not jade? When he brought the cylinder in front of him, he couldn't help but be startled, why did Mrs. Hua get so big all of a sudden? Take away the binoculars and look again, Mrs. Hua is still Mrs. Hua, but when you put it in front of your eyes again, you find that the scene in front of you has changed again.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, this telescope is looking into the distance." Hua Ronghua saw that the prince looked suspicious, and hurriedly explained beside him.

The prince raised his telescope and looked into the distance, which startled him, only to see the distant scenery suddenly clear, as if it was in front of him, and then look to the side, many officials' carriages have arrived, and they are showing the entrance cards in their hands to the soldiers guarding the door, although the entrance is about two hundred meters away from here, but he still sees every beard of the official very clearly.

"This ......," the prince clutched the telescope in his hand tightly, and for a moment did not know how to describe his feelings.

"Prince, this thing is good, it should be usable, why don't you buy it?" Hua Ronghua whispered on the side.

As the crown prince of a country, he still has vision, and of course he knows the value of this telescope.

"Ask Earl Smith how many more of these telescopes he has? This king is gone. The prince thought to himself that if this kind of telescope was given to the generals in the field, it would be equivalent to giving those generals clairvoyance, wouldn't the odds of victory be greatly increased?

The prince looked at Hua Ronghua and Smith who were talking in a fanyu with a look of anticipation, but the final result disappointed him, only to see Smith and Mrs. Hua spread out their hands and shrugged their shoulders after saying a word, with a look of regret, it seems that there is no more.

Sure enough, Hua Ronghua said on the side: "The earl said that there is only this one, this is still his spare telescope, if it weren't for the fact that he doesn't have too many goods now, he won't take out the telescope." ”

"Then this one will be bought." The prince directly motioned to Father-in-law Cui to pay.

But Father-in-law Cui was a little speechless and stopped, his face was blue and red for a while, he thought that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was the organizer of this exhibition, not here to buy things, and who is rare in Fanbang those things? So he didn't bring a silver ticket at all. But at this time, the prince suddenly wanted to buy thousands of taels of things, and Grandpa Cui suddenly sweated like rain, if he broke the master's business, a few lives would not be enough to compensate!

didn't see Grandpa Cui coming over immediately to clean up the aftermath, the prince was a little strange, "Grandpa Cui? ”

"Oh, Your Highness, the old slave is here." Father-in-law Cui wiped the sweat from his forehead and bent over to stand beside his master, not daring to let the prince see his pale and panicked face, and quickly thinking about how to get this matter over today.

Hua Ronghua was more careful, and felt that there seemed to be something wrong with Father-in-law Cui, and the prince's face also sank, and she hurriedly said: "You don't have to buy it with silver, right?" Aren't we here to make money? Isn't it cost-effective to spend it without making much money? Let's see if there's anything of equal value to exchange with Smith! ”

The prince thought for a moment and nodded slightly, and also felt that Hua Ronghua's method was quite practical, and it was naturally much better to barter than to buy with money when the treasury and silver were tight. Although he still has some private treasury, he doesn't want to be so lavish when his father is worried about silver.

After thinking about it, the prince directly took off a piece of jade pendant hanging on his waist and handed it to Smith, and said to Hua Ronghua: "This is a piece of warm jade, but in terms of material or carving, its value is more than three thousand taels, this king is willing to use this jade pendant to exchange this telescope with him, you ask him if he agrees." ”

Smith listened to Hua Ronghua's translation while carefully looking at the jade pendant in his hand, and finally nodded, and said, "It was a beautiful piece of jade, better than the one I had bought from the shopkeeper."

After Hua Ronghua finished translating for the two, he suggested that the prince accompany Smith to walk around the fair, if you want to make money from other people, you have to let people see the goods!

At this time, those ministers also began to arrive at the fair, in order to facilitate the prince to avoid everyone from kneeling, otherwise it would be a very troublesome thing for someone to kneel for you when you took a step.

These officials originally scoffed at this kind of merchant transactions, and they didn't want to be contaminated with this kind of copper smell at all, but the person who couldn't stand the order was the emperor! And it is said that it is to show the national strength of the people of Fanbang, and as a courtier, he should share the worries of the saint, so these officials who came today are dressed in silk and satin, and jade belts, and those female dependents are even more gorgeous, although few people dare to go to the side of Fanbang, but the metropolis is far away to watch this side.

Smith and the prince walked in the middle, and the other Fanbangs and the guards walked behind, and occasionally Fanbangs took a fancy to the goods on the stalls, and there would also be trained guys on the side to make quotations, and they really sold a lot of things.

Smith has been watching from the side, and said happily to the prince: "It is the first time in this country that I have seen so many different kinds of goods sold together, and my partners are very happy."

The prince was also very happy to see that there were really people buying things at the fair, and after listening to Hua Ronghua's translation, he said: "Tell him that the fair lasts for three days, and he can have a good time." ”

After listening to Hua Ronghua's translation, Smith nodded happily, "I certainly wouldn't miss this opportunity."

It just so happened that they were now walking to a stall selling headdresses, and Smith picked up a phoenix hairpin with a falling tassel and praised, "Good workmanship. Is this for women?” As he spoke, he was about to take the phoenix hairpin and insert it into Hua Ronghua's bun.

The people around were stunned, didn't this kind of thing of inserting hairpins and flowers for women do to the lady? Now what's going on? For a while, everyone's eyes became weird, and their eyes kept lingering back and forth on Hua Ronghua and Smith.

The prince opened his mouth, he wanted to open his mouth to stop Smith's behavior, and then he thought about it, Hua Ronghua himself didn't refuse, why did he waste his efforts, besides, now it is the most important thing to let these Fanbang people buy more goods, but now when he saw that Hua Ronghua planned to accept gifts from other men and did not refuse, he inevitably felt that Hua Ronghua was more frivolous in his heart.

Hua Ronghua didn't want to accept the hairpin in Smith's hand, but he didn't react for a while. In the past, when Smith liked something, he would usually pick it up and show it to Hua Ronghua, and then ask a few words in a few words. Now he handed a hairpin to him, Hua Ronghua thought that he wanted to let him see the color of the hairpin, and was about to reach out to pick it up, when he suddenly felt that the direction of the phoenix hairpin was going a little higher, and he couldn't help but be startled.

Reluctantly, he tilted his head back and asked with a bit of anger, "What are you doing?"

Smith was stunned, he just wanted to put this hairpin on his hair to see the effect, but he couldn't see it when he put it on his head, and the woman closest to him was undoubtedly Hua Ronghua, but he didn't want Hua Ronghua to seem to be angry, why is this? For a moment, Smith froze there with a phoenix hairpin in his hand.

At this moment, I heard a roar from behind like thunder, "What are you doing?" ”

As the roar sounded, a figure shot to Smith and Hua Ronghua's side in an instant, and when he raised his foot, he kicked Smith, who was still holding a hairpin, out of the air, and wrapped Hua Ronghua into his arms with a long hand.

It was too late to say that it was too late, and everyone only felt that Smith screamed as soon as they saw a flower in front of them, and the royal guards were not vegetarians, shouting 'catch the assassin', and in a blink of an eye, they surrounded the suddenly arrived figure in the middle, protecting the prince.

When they could see it clearly, everyone could see clearly that the assassin who suddenly arrived in the middle was full of armor, his chin was covered with a short beard, and he was holding Hua Ronghua tightly in his arms.