Chapter 43 Southern Bazaar
Dressed in civilian clothes and riding a horse, even though it was night, He Le also had a bit of pride. Since he came out of the Southern Wilderness, this moment is his most refreshing moment. Those trappers will not wake up until tomorrow morning, and the people on the official road will soon be discovered, but it will be five days before they can issue a sea fishing document to arrest him across the ground. He Le had already seen the process of dealing with bandits by the officials of the Great Zhou Dynasty from Shang Gongzi, and it took two days for first-level bandits to complete the process of reporting them step by step.
He hasn't killed or injured anyone now, at most he can only be counted as a third-level bandit to deal with, and it is a special case to let the state government issue a sea fishing document in five days, and it is normal for the intermediate link to be delayed for seven or eight days. With this little time, he would have run away for an unknown amount of time.
When he left, He Le rode a horse and brought one as a replacement halfway, and ran for dozens of miles overnight before resting in a remote mountain nest. It was only when he sat down and thought about it that he realized that he hadn't looted their silver taels, but was only looking for something to eat, and those trappers would think he was stupid enough!
He was also calm, after all, if he really had to take the silver taels, the matter would become big or small. Taking away the food is different from the nature of the horses, taking the silver taels is really a bandit, I think the Shang Gongzi and Uncle Zhang will definitely be unhappy to know! Thinking of this, he is also comfortable, and continues to eat the fine dry food prepared by the captors, it is really delicious!
"Squeak......" the little thing stuck its head out of his arms and screamed.
"Do you want to eat, why don't you try it!" He Le was just joking, and took out a dry food and brought it to his mouth.
The little thing licked, looked up at him again, then licked again, and then got into his arms again. Looking at that expression, it seemed to be sullen.
Apparently it was hungry, but it didn't have the right food.
He Le looked at the surrounding environment, this should be the border between the two places, and there was no trace of people. This mountain nest is nearly a mile away from the official road, and no one will come if you want to come at night. So he tied his horse and went into the dense forest in the mountains, and it took him about half an hour to find a small guinea pig. Sure enough, this place can't be compared with the Southern Wilderness, there are wild beasts everywhere, and you really want to be willing to find wild meat at any time.
Small things can still barely accept meat, at least better than fine dry food. After settling the little things, He Le leaned against the stone wall and took a nap, and did not wake up until early in the morning.
I walked along the official road for a morning, and he didn't dare to stop when he passed by the tea shop halfway, so he was really shy. It wasn't until noon that he saw a large restaurant that he decided to stop and rest.
"Yo, what does this master want?" The bartender saw at a glance that He Le's horse had the seal of the government.
He Le had already thought about it, and said with a serious face: "Come to a bowl of tea, there are still important tasks." ”
"A bowl of tea!" the bartender shouted and left.
He Le also knew that this did not seem good, but he was also so thirsty that he did not see a well or a stream along the way. Usually, the tea in the restaurant on the official road does not charge money, and the tea shop will only charge a copper.
With the tea, He Le hurriedly ate the dry food and was about to leave, when a big man came over and sat opposite him.
"We've seen it?" the big man turned out to be a Northland dialect.
He Le was stunned, he definitely didn't know each other when he looked closely, but his accent was very cordial. But in the past few years, there have been many displaced people who have fled from the north, and they can no longer be regarded as villagers with tears in their eyes when they see their fellow villagers.
"I haven't seen it!"
"Then how can you ride Lao Zhuang's horse?" the big man glanced at the horse tied to the door again.
"The state's priorities, do I need to tell you!" He Le rolled his eyes and glared.
"In this way, forgive the little rudeness......" Dahan was shocked by He Le, not sure whether what he said was right or wrong. But if it is really an important task in the state, it is really not something he can manage, and if he lets the government know, he will not be able to eat and walk around. That Lao Zhuang is related to him as a family, and he usually knows that his horse is baby, so it is strange.
After drinking and retreating from the big man, He Le tidied up his clothes again before getting on the horse and leaving. It wasn't until he was more than ten miles away from the restaurant that he burst out laughing. It turns out that the official authority is just like this, and the little people are really scared!
In the restaurant, he heard the discussion of the people around him, and only then did he know that this was Bianzhou, and not far from that was Kaizhou. The Guangling Prefecture he was going to was adjacent to Kaizhou, and it took about ten days to ride a horse, and he had to cross the entire Kaizhou.
Knowing the direction, He Le didn't dare to delay, and quickly rushed towards the east. There are also advantages to riding official horses, ordinary people will avoid it, even some small officials will take the initiative to give way. But He Le didn't dare to be too ostentatious, he would try to choose to run when there were few people, and find a place to rest when there were many people. After three days of doing this, he had run out of dry food and was now faced with a dilemma. The horses carried with them belong to official horses, have official seals, and cannot be sold. Looking at it again, there is nothing else to sell......
He Le touched the snake skin and the cunning horn in his arms, but he didn't know if he could exchange it for silver taels. After thinking twice, he decided to try, there were at least seven or eight days to travel in Kaizhou, and about five days to Qingzhu County in Jiangxia Prefecture, so he still had nearly half a month to go. If he didn't make money, he would either have to beg or become a bandit, neither of which he wanted.
On this day, he deliberately made a detour into a state city, Pinggu City. Pinggu City can be regarded as the second largest city in Kaizhou, second only to the state city. According to the record of state-owned assets, Pinggu City has a registered population of 230,000, and is located in the center of the southeast, northwest and northwest arteries of Kaizhou.
He Le only remembered a rough idea and knew such a county seat.
When he was about to reach the gate of the city, Ho Le went down to the horse and led him away. Because it is not wartime, there is no military ban at the city gate, as long as it is not too ostentatious, no one will come to investigate. There are not many pedestrians in Pinggu City, but they are all gathered in the tea shop and tavern, and the market is at the east end of the city, where there is the largest market in the whole of Kaizhou. Many rare items from the Southern Wilderness will appear here, and then be exchanged by shrewd merchants and brought to Lin'an, and all the rare items in Lin'an will be worth a hundred times and be collected by the royal nobles.
The Great Zhou Dynasty, which fled south, began to be extravagant in the second year of Jianlong, and from Emperor Jianlong to the ministers below lived a corrupt life of drunkenness and gold. Some businessmen who have heard the wind have complied with the will of the high-level and purchased antique treasures for fun and recreation, so the market in Pinggu City has also been extremely lively in recent years.
He Le didn't know these things, he just found a small inn, stored the two horses in the inn, and changed out of the official uniform outside, and went out in only the civilian clothes inside. Follow the direction of hello and walk towards the market.
On the way, He Le remembered what happened in the inn, and he was also surprised. Only today did he know that it was the middle of August, and he had set off from Yuntan Sect in May, and the journey took less than two months, so where did he go for more than a month?
The only explanation is that he has been lying in the mud pit for more than a month, which can explain that all the injuries on his body have healed after waking up, but what did he live on that month?
When we arrived at the market, it was already the middle of the day, and it was also the most lively time. Watching people come and go to the market, it is the first time in my life to come into contact, and it is really very strange. There were many things that he had never seen, and there were also some items that could be used in pills, and he even saw that there were merchants dealing in piles of Five Element Stones. It turns out that there is a Wuxing mine that has been mined for many years in this vicinity, except for Jinxingshi, the other four kinds are very large.
Of course, he also saw the skin of the snake, but it was just the skin of the snake Jiao, which was marked with 100 gold by the merchant. And the horns of the cunning lizard are even more outrageous, they are actually cut into slices and sold, ten pieces of silver, and one piece is so thin that it is transparent.
He Le instantly felt that he was worth a hundred times, so that the money he could get in exchange was enough to support him to Qingzhu County. But things are not as simple as he thought, not everyone can sell them here casually, get the city government to change the road guide, and pay 50 wen to buy a sign engraved with the word Shang.
Both of the above things stumped He Le, and the only solution was to sell the goods in his hands to local merchants, so that the government would allow it. It's just that the prices offered by merchants are very low, sometimes less than one-third of the market price. In fact, such measures are mainly aimed at the natives of the Southern Wilderness, forcing them to sell their goods to merchants and not allowing them to trade directly with merchants. And the merchants did not dare to go out of the city to trade with the natives without permission, which was too risky.
"This little brother, do I have something good?" He Le was still strolling, and a man who seemed to be a local green-skinned man came over and asked mysteriously.
He Le gave him a strange look, and saw that he showed a small piece of beast horn in his arms.
"Five hundred years of cunning lizard horns, the lord of Lin'an City points to this thing every night to cut down on the bed. Qingpi said extremely slippery, but unfortunately He Le recognized it at a glance that it was a truncated sheep's horn, and the lines of the cunning lizard were completely different. Of course, the most important thing is that for the first time, he knew that the horns of the cunning lizard had this effect, so it was no wonder that it was hyped to a sky-high price. He Le had already seen the sound of the rich in books, and it was only confirmed in reality.
He smiled and shook his head, and walked around him to leave, but the green-skinned man grabbed him as if to say something, but He Le could already feel his hand reach into his arms.
"What do you want to do!" He Le squeezed his hand and asked coldly. He didn't exert much effort, but Qingpi was so painful that he couldn't speak.
"Little ...... Little brother...... Let go ......"
He Le looked around, and there were already four or five green skins ready to gather. Qingpi, who was pinched in his hand, raised his hand to stop the actions of several people, and what they did was to bully the soft and fear the hard.
"Don't get out of here!" He Le didn't fake his color, still with a cold face.
Qingpi smiled and stepped back, and only shouted when he took five steps: "This person has a forbidden thing!"
As soon as Qingpi's words fell, three officials on duty rushed over, waving the knives in their hands. He Le realized at this time that he must have been framed, and at this time, he didn't know what was stuffed into his arms by the green skin. But he told himself not to panic, he had to be calm. The conflict with the official in the downtown is not a joke, no matter how high his martial arts are, it is difficult to get out.
"Do you want to plant a false accusation!" He Le stretched out his hand to block the servant and asked the green skin coldly. The green skin suffered He Le's loss, and looked at the scoundrel's smile and shrank back.