Before dawn the next day, the father and son were already busy, carrying the water tanks containing fish in the shallow water one by one onto the horse-drawn cart, and then pulling the cart full of fish and setting off for the market in Wutong City. This carriage was borrowed from the village chief's house, and was pulled by two horses, one black and one yellow, and this horse was said to be a war horse, tall and strong, and could travel more than 800 miles a day. Luoshui Han sat in the front of the car, driving his horse forward, and Luo Yin sat in the back of the car, taking a nap while protecting the boxes of fish.

After walking for about an hour and a half, the sky was already bright, and the sun was already above the treetops, and they finally entered the city of Wutong and came to the market.

On this day, only the morning market is the most lively, all kinds of vendors, farmers and fishermen inside and outside the city are gathered in this long market street, one stall after another, all kinds of fresh melons and fruits, chickens, ducks and fish, antique utensils, steamed bread, rouge gouache, clothing, shoes and hats, too many to mention, this food and clothing are readily available. Shuttling all the way is dazzling, dazzling and dizzying, very novel and fun.

When he arrived at the fishing market area, Luo Shuihan stopped the car, bolted the horse, and instructed Luo Yin to line up the boxes of live fish and place them on the bluestone platform on the street for trading. So the father and son moved out of Maza, sat down beside the fish, and began to shout. I saw Luo Yin roll up his sleeves, his hands on his waist, clear his voice twice, and then call out to the pedestrians coming and going on the street.

"Hey, come and take a look, fresh and fat big live fish, calm the nerves and nourish the brain, invigorate the blood and invigorate the qi, eat fish smart and smart, eat fish moisturizing and beautiful, it will be sold out if it is late!

Luoshui Han sat aside, listening to Luoyin's call, and couldn't help laughing.

However, it was said that Luoyin's shouting attracted many people who came to buy fish, and everyone couldn't help but admire when they saw the fish. There is a large population in this Wutong City, and the fish itself is in short supply, and it is rare to see such a fat and tender sea fish on weekdays, so within an hour, these boxes of live fish were sold out. Luo Yin held the heavy silver bag in his hand, and couldn't help but be happy. Luo Shuihan loaded the empty box into the carriage, and was not in a hurry to drive away, but led the horse to a manger outside the market, bought two bundles of hay, entrusted the manger brother to watch the horse, and walked to the city with Luoyin himself.

"Dad, where are we going?" asked Luo Yin curiously.

"I'm going to change two sets of decent clothes for you, you are also older, when you go out in the future, or come to this Wutong City, or go elsewhere, you should have decent clothes, and you can't keep wearing this horse coat and shorts, making people laugh. Falling Water Han said softly.

After hearing this, Luo Yin's heart was moved, and he was even more happy. And said: "Dad, you can also take me with you when you go to sea in the future, and I can also collect the net and do chores to help you." You don't have to work so hard. ”

"No, you can't. Luo Shui Han looked serious and said, "I said yesterday that I want to send you to learn some serious skills, and you must not be like your father again, and you will have no interest in your life." ”

"But ......" Luo Yin wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Luoshui Han, "No, I have been thinking about it for a long time in the past half a month, you are active by nature, unrestrained, and you have lived in a fishing village for a long time, and you have not been involved in the world, so I asked an old friend in this city to take care of him, and sent you to the White Tiger Overseer to experience the experience, first, to learn some skills, and secondly, to protect my villagers." ”

"Dad, the White Tiger Overseer you are talking about is the same high priest who guarded the northern frontier of Cangyan ten years ago and shot fifty wolf-headed monsters with the power of one person?" Luo Yin asked curiously.

"It's this person. Luoshui Han replied, "This person was originally the moon * priest of my Jialan clan, the head of the twelve guards, and was later appointed as the Zhenbei Overseer of the Alliance, leading three hundred cavalry and one thousand archers to resist the five thousand Shesheng vanguard army in the south, because of his meritorious service in resisting the enemy, he was named the White Tiger General, and now he is guarding this Wutong City as the Zhennan Grand Overseer, with an infantry battalion, a cavalry battalion and a mage battalion of 15,000 sergeants, and he is one of the four major generals of the Dawning Alliance. ”

Originally, there was some resistance and reluctance to be confined to the army and no longer able to live freely, and when he heard this, he couldn't help but feel a wave of heart, and a feeling of yearning and worship arose. The Jialan tribe has always been not a large clan, with a population of only a few tens of thousands, mainly living in the southern part of the Dawning Continent and the peninsula region, far less than the prosperous Cangyan tribe with a population of more than five million. In addition, the dwarves in the west and the Feihuang in the east also have hundreds of thousands of people. It is really a proud and inspiring thing for Jialan to have such a heroic figure among the four generals of Dawn. Thinking of this, Luo Yin couldn't help but be a little excited.

"Dad, when am I going?"

"On the fifth day of the next month, it's the end of the month, and you're also packing up at home these days, preparing what you want to bring. ”

"But, Dad, who is this old friend of yours, how can you have such the ability to get acquainted with General Baihu and help me arrange errands?" Luo Yin asked, in his heart, his father was just a fisherman, poor and white, and he had never seen him socialize with any dignitaries, why did an old friend suddenly appear and climb such a powerful character, he was puzzled for a while.

"It's just an old friend for many years, to be exact, it's also based on your deceased mother's affection, you don't know. Luoshui Han smiled, didn't say much, and said, "You see there is a tailor shop in front, let's go in and have a look, and pick out two suitable clothes." ”

Seeing that his father refused to say more, it was difficult for Luo Yin to ask again. This is the temperament of this falling water cold, he is silent on weekdays, his face is gentle, and he won't say a word if he doesn't want to say anything. After entering the tailor's shop, the father and son carefully selected the color and style of the fabric, and the tailor master measured the size for Luoyin, paid a deposit, and agreed to pick it up three days later. Just about to go out, Luo Shuihan looked down and saw that the pair of straw shoes on Luo Yin's feet were really broken, and there were many wounds and blood blisters on the instep and ankles.

"Dad, this will cost a lot of silver, right? I, I still don't want it. Luo Yin was a little distressed and reluctant to wear it.

"Today's harvest is good, and you don't have to worry about the rest of the money. Taking advantage of the tight fish market, two days after tomorrow, I will go out to the sea with your Uncle Song twice, and I can earn a few more boxes of fish money. Falling Water Han comforted.

Luo Yin then changed into shoes, which were much more comfortable than the original pair of straw sandals, neither pricked feet, but also walked without being hurt by the stones on the road.

"I'll go to the front and buy some more rice, flour, grain and oil, or something, why don't you go around and see if there's anything else to buy, and we'll meet at the east end of the market at noon." Luoshui Han said, and gave Luoyin a few more pieces of broken silver.

When Luo Yin heard this, he agreed repeatedly. It's rare to be in the city once, and I wish I could see more and more fun things. As soon as he slipped away, he went to the City God Temple, where there were often some jugglers, which was very attractive. At this time, life was already boiling in front of the City God Temple, and there were a lot of people of all ages who came to see the excitement, and it turned out that a troupe was singing on the stage. Luo Yin didn't understand, he just looked at it, and on the stage in front of him, a little student wearing a face mask and an octagonal little monk's hat on his head was spinning a spear and spitting a fire dragon in his mouth, which attracted the audience to cheer and applaud again and again.

Luo Yin also applauded, looked at it for a while, and then wandered elsewhere. On this side, the two warriors are performing on the street with a large vat above their heads, gravel on their chests, and swallowing swords in their throats, which is not exciting and exciting. Just as I was looking at it, I suddenly felt someone tap me on the shoulder. Luo Yin looked back and saw that it was Liu Qin'er from the same village, wearing a red gauze skirt and a butterfly bun on her head, which was very good-looking.

"Hey, Qin'er, why are you here?" Luo Yin asked with some surprise.

"What's all the fuss about, I often go out with my father to run errands, walking around in this Wutong City, and unlike you, the whole nest is in that village. Liu Qin'er said.

When I heard the words, I was speechless for a while, and I didn't know how to speak. Liu Qin'er realized that what she said was inappropriate, which hurt Luoyin's self-esteem, and quickly changed her words: "Look at my broken mouth, I didn't mean that, Luoyin, don't be angry." My dad happened to come out to buy some medicinal herbs, and I was panicked at home and came out to play. ”

Luo Yin raised his head and smiled, "It's okay, how can I be angry, don't you care." ”

"What about you, why are you here, I guess you pulled fish with Uncle Luo to catch the fish market, right?" Liu Qin'er said with a wink of her eyes, showing her cleverness.

Luo Yin nodded.

"What about Uncle Luo?" Liu Qin'er looked at it twice and asked again.

"My father went to buy a family, because he was going to send me to the battalion of General Baihu of the Great Overseer Army in the south of the town on an errand on the fifth day of the next month, so he asked me to go around and buy something useful. I didn't know what was useful out there, so I just looked around. Luo Yin replied.

"Wow, this is a good place to go, and General White Tiger is a terrible character!" Liu Qin'er sighed, "But, it will be difficult to see you in the future, and no one will play with me." ”

It turned out that this Liu Qin'er was the same age as Luoyin, and the two often played together since childhood. Liu Qin'er saw that he was lonely since he was a child, because his father was weak, and other boys in the village often bullied him, so he was particularly distressed and unfair, and he was often implicated by Luoyin, and was chased and beaten by a cadre of boys in the village together. The two of them can be regarded as friends in distress and have been in love for many years. As soon as she thought of this, and thought of the few days she would meet in the future, Liu Qin'er felt a burst of loss from the bottom of her heart.

"This may not be, you will often come to this city in the future, maybe we can meet often. Besides, after ten days and a half months, I have to go back to the village to see my father. "Fall into the shadows.

"That's right. Liu Qin'er turned from yin to sunshine and smiled, "By the way, I still have to hurry up to see what beautiful pearl hairpins there are, and my father will have to urge me to leave after buying the medicinal herbs in a while." ”

"Well, let's go, we'll see you later. "Let's say, Luo Yin waved his hand at Liu Qin'er, and watched her disappear into the crowd with a red figure.

Not long after being separated from Liu Qin'er, Luo Yin looked around again, and happened to pass by a monkey artist, so he stopped and watched for a while, so he was not satisfied. After reading and estimating that the hour was almost up, he looked up at the sky, and turned and walked in the direction of the bazaar, so that he could meet his father.

I didn't take a few steps, but I was suddenly blocked by the person in front of me. When I looked up, it was really a narrow road, It turned out to be Xiao Hei, the son of Wang Mazi in the same village, whose name was Wang Jinbao. He was dressed in light iron armor and armed with a spear, and was accompanied by three samurai in the same costume. Xiao Hei was obviously a little surprised to meet Luo Yin on the road in Wutong City.

"Yo, isn't this a retreat, why did you have time to come to Wutong City today?" Xiao Hei sneered.

"Hmph, I'm here to sell fish in the city, and I'll take a look around. Luo Yin has never liked Xiao Hei, nor does he like his bullying father Wang Mazi. The two didn't deal with each other when they were in the village, this little black often relied on his fists and feet, took a few little brothers who were in the same stream, bullied other children in the village, and Luo Yin couldn't see it and often stood up to reason with him, and inevitably ended up fighting each other, both of them had blue noses and swollen faces, but they were not convinced by each other. In the past two years, Xiao Hei went to the city gate to guard the errand, and he has rarely met him, and he never thought that he would meet here today.

"That's too, I'm afraid I can only look around, you definitely can't afford to buy it. With that, Hei laughed with the warriors beside him.

"Hmph, the dog's eyes look down on people, and you are just a dog guarding the city gate now, what's there to be proud of?" Luo Yin snorted coldly, don't turn his face, don't want to pay attention to him anymore.

"Who do you say, who do you say?" Xiao Hei was so stimulated that he was speechless for a while, he was furious, and he didn't know how to talk back, so he had to look sideways, grinning his teeth, and just caught a glimpse of a pair of brand-new cloth shoes on Luo Yin's feet, so he said, "Yo, no wonder, it turns out that you are wearing a new pair of shoes, it's really strange, why don't you wear your broken straw sandals?

"What do you want to do?!" Luo Yin couldn't help but be alerted.

"It's just your incapable father, I guess he is reluctant to spend money to buy you such good shoes, your shoes must have been stolen. Little Black shouted.

"Fart, this is obviously bought for me by my father this morning with the money from the fish trafficking, do you want to take care of it?" Luo Yin took a sip.

"Who do you say farted?"

"I said the watchdog was farting, do you want me to tell you again?"

"Hmph, stinky boy, dare to scold Lao Tzu for being a dog, I'll clean you up today!" After that, Xiao Hei threw his spear and waved his hand, beckoning his colleagues, "Brothers, go up together, take off his shoes and tear them!"

The three samurai, together with Xiao Hei, rushed towards Luoyin. Two grabbed their hands, two grabbed their feet, and then they were about to take off their hidden shoes. Luo Yin kept struggling, and when the two took off their shoes, he saw the right time, kicked his legs and kicked them on the chins, so painful that the two samurai let go of their hands and covered their chins and trembled. Then another mouthful of saliva spit went straight to Xiao Hei's face, fascinating his right eye, so he had to let go of his hand to wipe his face, and took advantage of the gap to follow the waist tight, a swallow turned over, shook off the hand of another samurai, and pushed him hard, just pushing Xiao Hei to the ground together, and then picked up the two shoes on the ground and quickly slipped towards the crowd.

Xiao Hei and the others got up in embarrassment, resentful in their hearts, picked up their weapons and chased after them, shouting and scolding as they chased. The little black wiped the spit off his face with his sleeve as he ran. "I'll kill you if I catch you again!"

After turning around several times, after making sure that no one was following up, Luo Yin stopped, held on to a wall and gasped for air. While panting and cursing in his heart, this bastard Xiao Hei can't deal with me anywhere, what a plague god. After resting for a moment, and when his breathing was calm, he got up and walked slowly towards the market. When he arrived at the east end of the market, Luoshui Han had already driven the carriage and waited there, and the empty water tank and some household things were placed on the cart.

"Where did you get into trouble again, why are you covered in mud?"

"Oh, I ran too fast just now and accidentally fell. Luo Yin lied.

"It's not in the way, but where is the injury?" said Shui Han with concern.

"Out of the way, let's go. Luo Yin jumped into the car and waved his hand.

Falling into the water and cold stopped talking, shook the reins in his hand twice with a "huh", and drove the carriage out of the city.

Luo Yin sat behind the cart, took care of the items, took off his shoes and carefully patted the dust on the upper of the shoes with his hands, and blew them with his mouth from time to time, cherishing them. Luoshui Han looked sideways in his eyes, didn't say anything, and still focused on the road ahead of him. After cleaning his shoes and putting them on, Luo Yin began to pat the dust on his coat and pants. When his hand touched his waist, he was suddenly startled, and the stone tablet hidden in his waist disappeared. He hurriedly searched around, groped his sleeves and trousers, but still found nothing. I was suddenly lost in my heart, and I sat on the cart in a dejected way, and I couldn't tell my father, so I had to complain to myself. After thinking about it again, I'm afraid that I lost the stone plaque during the fight with Xiao Hei just now. At this time, he had been out of the city for more than dozens of miles, and it was impossible for him to get out of the car to find him. Even if you look back, the street is full of people, and I am afraid that it has already been picked up.

Until the evening, when he returned to the fishing village, Luo Yin was always sullen, and when Luoshui Han asked him, he didn't answer, only said that he was a little tired. When I got home, I lay on the wooden bed, staring at the ceiling.