The town of Sumer, home to more than a thousand people, was already a small market town, but Amun had never been anywhere else, so he felt that this town was much smaller than Duk. But the sky here is very blue, and the people are mostly dressed in light linen or cotton clothes, and the fields and sheep on all sides, and the livestock and the free-range chickens and geese, are obviously much richer than in Duketown.

But the houses here don't look pretty and sturdy, and they seem to be poorer than in Duk Town. As they walked past the town's temple, Amon was even a little surprised—it was made of wood, and it was only two stories high! a far cry from the magnificent temple of lapis lazuli and white marble in the town of Duk.

He muttered in a low voice, "Why do the people here build the temple out of wood? Most of the houses are made of wood, so they are not afraid of fire?"

Yin Nanna explained in a whisper: "It is very expensive to transport stone from the mountains and reprocess, and it is cheap and convenient to build houses with wood here. ...... However, the temple is made of cedar wood, which is different from ordinary wood. ”

Amun: "In which kingdom is this, and what gods are enshrined in the temple?"

Yin Nanna: "This is the territory of the Barron Kingdom, and the temple of Enriel was built. ”

Amun asked again with some puzzlement: "I heard that the main god of the Kingdom of Baron is King Malduk, and the main god of Hati and Assyria is the great god Enril, why is the temple of Enril built here?"

Yin Nanna shrugged her shoulders and said: "Maybe the realm of the gods and the borders of the human world are not exactly the same, in the territory of Barron, the city-states east of the Eudi River built the temple of Marduk, and to the west of the Eudi River are built the temple of Enriel, but the temple is also dedicated to Mardok and other gods. ...... Anyway, they are all the same gods, and according to human legends, isn't Enriel Marduk's uncle?"

Amon nodded and said, "Oh, I see. ”

Amon didn't ask anymore, but Yin Nanna asked back, "Amon, don't you feel curious?"

Amon turned his head to look at her and said, "What's so strange about this, isn't Enriel Marduk's uncle? As far as I know, the king god worshiped in the entire Eju Empire is Horus, but the most important temple in the lower Eju is the Temple of Isis, which also enshrines Horus and other gods. ”

Yin Nanna blinked: "I mean this situation of dividing the temple along the banks of the Eudi River, how did it first come about, is there an agreement between the gods?

Curiosity about the gods, the lives of the old madman and Bell were sent in, and so many people were buried with them, and Amon couldn't help but embark on an unknown rugged and dangerous road. He didn't want to dwell on this question in front of Yin Nanna, and replied with a wry smile: "What's the use of being curious, I'm a little mortal, and I don't know Marduk or Enriel, so I have no place to ask." ...... Yin Nanna, you are familiar with this place, where are the clothes for sale? Let's go buy clothes first. ”

Yin Nanna pulled Amon into a side alley in the town, and entered a shop, where a young man of sixteen or seventeen years old greeted him and said, "Do you want to buy clothes, just take a look, our store has the best goods in the neighborhood, both fabrics and ready-to-wear." ”

Amon bought clothes very simply, pointed to himself and said, "I want ready-to-wear clothes, I can wear them." ”

The man glanced at him, and it was evident that Amon was not a nobleman, so he took a suit of the finest light cotton cloth, which was very beautiful and conspicuous with red stripes, but had no other colors and embroidery, and beckoned: "This suit costs thirty copper coins, and it is cool and breathable to wear on a hot day, and it is of good quality and inexpensive, and you cannot buy it anywhere else." ”

Amon thought that the fabric was not strong and wear-resistant, so he pointed to a set of burlap clothes that were also very light but very densely woven, and said, "I want this dress, plus pants of the same fabric, two sets." ”

The guy replied with a slight disappointment: "Even the pants are ten copper coins in one set, two in twenty, don't you look at anything else?"

Amon shook his head and said, "I don't need it. ...... Yin Nanna, what kind of clothes do you want to buy, pick it yourself. ”

Yin Nanna pointed to a long dress hanging on the wall: "This one is beautiful, I like it, will it be expensive?"

When the guy turned his head to see Yin Nanna's appearance clearly, there was a feeling of light in his eyes, staring at her face and body almost couldn't take his eyes off, and only when he heard the question did he come back to his senses and replied: "This young lady, you really have a vision, among the clothes sold in our store, this is the best clothing that civilians can wear, but it is a little more expensive, and it costs sixty copper coins." ”

The man glanced at Amon as he spoke. Amon didn't care what the guy thought of him, and without thinking about it, he took out a silver coin and handed it over, "That's all, I bought it." Do you have a place to change clothes here, let her change her clothes first. ”

The guy was very surprised and stunned, so he nodded again and again: "Yes, yes, enter the small door next to the counter, and you can change clothes in the house." Then he took the silver coins and found twenty copper coins for Amun.

When Yin Nanna changed her clothes and came out, Amon couldn't help but light up. The outfit she chose was extremely fitting, very fine white cotton, printed with indigo stripes, just right to outline the delicate figure, almost everywhere was not seductive. The young man's eyes were straight, and Yin Nanna turned around in place and asked playfully, "Amon, is it good-looking?"

Amon nodded: "Good-looking, you are already good-looking, and it is even more beautiful when you wear this dress." ”

The guy also exclaimed on the side: "Girl, you are so beautiful, may I ask what is your name?"

Yin Nanna looked back and smiled: "My name is Yin Nanna, I bought such expensive clothes as you, can I give another pair of shoes?"

Is it really expensive? Amon has no idea about this, since the clothes cost money, of course they are expensive, but it is not a big deal, a total of only eighty copper coins to buy two sets of clothes and a skirt, not enough for the cheapest bottle of wine in the town.

And the guy's bones were almost crispy when he was laughed at by Yin Nanna, and he took out a pair of cloth tripping shoes from behind the counter, the thick soft linen sole looked very comfortable, and said with a smile: "Of course you can, you can come often when you have time, we have all kinds of beautiful clothes here." ”

Yin Nanna smiled at him again, but did not say thank you, and pointed at Amon and said: "It's not the shoes I wear, but he paid for the money, you should give him a pair of shoes that he can wear, these are too small." ”

The guy said "ahh He took another pair of shoes that Amon could wear, and handed them to Yin Nanna along with the original pair and said, "Okay, I'll give you one more pair, and the other pair of shoes will be considered as if I give it to Miss." ”

Yin Nanna covered her mouth and smiled: "You little guy gave me two pairs of shoes at once, so you are not afraid that the boss will come back and scold you?"

The young man suddenly came to his senses, puffed up his chest and said, "What are you afraid of, the boss is my father, and this store is my family...... Miss, you must come often, I will give you a cheap price. Listening to the tone of this and looking at his eyes, I don't know whether I want to take advantage or take advantage.

After changing into the new clothes they bought, the two walked to the town again, which was even more eye-catching. Passers-by almost all eyes were on Yin Nanna's body—her face, her breasts, her body. A different person will definitely be very uncomfortable to look at, but Yin Nanna is as good as ever.

When he left the shop, Amon asked, "Where are the sheep sellers?" ”

Yoonna: "Of course it can't be on the street, there's a market at the other end of town. ”

The countries of the Tianshu Continent have similar regulations, slaves are not allowed to wear dyed cloth, and people are not allowed to have embroidered clothing. Yin Nanna claimed to be a shepherd slave girl, but she wore a floral dress dyed with indigo stripes. However, Amon was still inexperienced in this area, as there were almost no slaves in Duk Town.

Almost all the residents of Duke Town are miners, and only the mayor and Lord Xiao Gu have slaves who serve their daily lives. In the mines outside the town, there are miners who work like miners, and they wear the same clothes. Amon just thinks that Yin Nanna looks too good when she changes this dress, and even he can't help but always turn his face sideways and look twice.

The two came to the market town, and the dazzling Yin Nanna caused a lot of twitching. Amon was not afraid of being looked at, thinking that he had dared to look directly into the gaze of Echo-Maria, who had been worshipped as a god in the caveman tribe, and who had been the center of attention more than once in Duk Town, what was it to be looked at by these townspeople? He only vaguely felt that something was wrong, but he did not think clearly what was wrong.

Almost every stall owner would come over to greet him politely, and then his eyes inadvertently swept over Amon's sackcloth and straw sandals, looking a little strange, as if he felt that it was a pity for Yin Nanna to stand with him.

But when she walked around the bazaar, she didn't find the white sheep with black spots that Yin Nanna said, and she looked disappointed as if she was about to cry again. Amon comforted: "Is it okay to change another sheep? Anyway, what you lost is a sheep, and I can give you a bigger and better one." ”

Yin Nanna pouted and shook her head, "No, what I'm looking for is that kind of sheep." Out of town from here, there's a pasture for sheep, and there's more sheep there, so let's go to the shepherd and buy one, shall we?"

Amon nodded, "Alright then, let's keep looking." ”

They had already swaggered around Sumerian Town, and almost everyone in the town was talking about a young man in straw sandals and a burlap coat who had brought a very delicate girl here. The girl was dressed in shabby clothes, and the young man led her to Joseph Sr.'s tailor's shop, where she bought a beautiful and expensive new dress. It is said that the young man bought only two sets of coarse linen clothes for himself, and he was very stingy and took advantage of it, so that the girl asked little Joseph for two pairs of shoes.

Life in a small town is already dull and boring, and this kind of thing is the easiest topic to spread. People were talking that the young man must have abducted someone's girl and eloped through here, and the two must have come from a long way away, because the young man spoke with a Harti accent.

Amon followed Yin Nanna to the outside of the town, and sure enough, he saw the free-range sheep grazing leisurely there. Yin Nanna suddenly pointed in surprise and said, "Look, that's the sheep I'm looking for!"

Amon turned his head and was stunned: "Yin Nanna, why are you pointing at me?"

Yin Nanna patted him: "Look over there." ”

Amon turned his head to look to the other side, and sure enough, there were a few little lambs with black spots in the flock. At this time, Yin Nanna had already run over in small steps, squatted down and picked up a sheep and shouted in surprise: "It's it, Amon, it's the sheep I lost!"

"Miss, don't talk nonsense, that's my sheep!" cried the shepherd, who was carrying a long leather whip, from a distance, and was very unhappy, a burly old man.

Amon hurriedly walked over and reminded Yin Nanna: "How can this be your sheep, it can't fly, and it can come here from such a distance, are you mistaken?"

The old man glanced at Amun, and then said to Yin Nanna: "This is my master's sheep, I drive them to the hillside to graze every morning, and then drive them back to the sheepfold every evening, and I will carefully count them every day, this sheep is definitely not yours." ”

Yin Nanna held the sheep and didn't let go, and began to cry at Amon again: "But this is the sheep I lost, I know it, Amon, you help me!"

The shepherd was angry: "You can't be so unreasonable, beautiful girl! ”

Seeing that the two were about to argue, if Yin Nanna was not a girl, the old shepherd would probably have to whip him. Amon hurriedly stood in the middle and persuaded: "Maybe it's a sheep that looks similar, she has been looking for it for a day, so it's inevitable that she is a little anxious." So, I want to buy this sheep, how much is it worth?"

Before the shepherd could speak, Yin Nanna stood up and grabbed Amun and said, "This is obviously my sheep, why do you still spend money to buy it? He stole my sheep!"

The shepherd finally became angry, and pointed his whip at the tip of Amun's nose and said, "Stranger, have you brought this girl to be a robber?

Yin Nanna hid behind Amon and said, "We are not robbers, you are thieves, you stole my sheep!"

Amon didn't care about the shepherd's whip, and opened his arms and said, "Uncle, don't be angry, she lost an identical sheep, thinking that this is hers." ...... I promised to help her get it back, and I could spend money on your sheep. ”

The shepherd snorted coldly, waved his hand and whipped it, saying, "Not for sale! ”

Amon: "If I give you more money, your master will not blame you, but will be happier." ”

The shepherd glanced at him, stretched out two fingers, and said disdainfully, "Well, two silver coins, do you like to buy them or not!" He was disgusted with the two strangers, and the girl said that he was a thief, and a young man looked even more hateful in front of the girl, so he said a very outrageous price, and wanted to send the two away.

Unexpectedly, before the words fell, Amon had already taken out two silver coins and handed them over, and the shepherd's eyes widened and he was stunned, and he even forgot to reach out to take it. Amon took his hand, put the silver coin in his palm and said, "This is the money, you take it, can you give me a rope, I can lead the sheep away." ”

The things outside the mountain are really cheap, and Amon has already said that he is willing to pay more, but he didn't expect to ask for two silver coins. And the shepherd glared at Amon as if he were looking at some monster, the sheep was not big, two silver coins could buy five, and today he made a small fortune.

He looked at Amon for a long time, and then he suddenly came back to his senses, and simply ripped off his whip rope and handed it to Amun: "Take this to tie the sheep, there is no other rope here." Then he lowered his voice and whispered, "Young man, you are a generous and good man! If you have money, why don't you buy yourself a good dress?...... That girl is beautiful, but you can't afford to squander it. ”

Amon thanked him and led the sheep out of the pasture with a rope. When they were far away, Yin Nanna hugged Amun's arm and whispered in his ear, "Amon, do you think I'm unreasonable? But this sheep is indeed mine, and I swear that it is exactly the same as the one I lost." ”

Amon smiled bitterly: "Maybe it's yours, maybe it's not yours, but there is no evidence, it's in someone's flock, and unless someone proves that the sheep ran from your flock, you can't take it away." ...... The place where you lost the sheep is so far away from here that it's unlikely to come over on its own. There were also quite a few black spots in that flock, which may be about the same. ”

Yin Nanna: "The spots of each sheep are different, of course the sheep herder can recognize them, and I want to thank you for buying this sheep anyway." ...... But why do you spend so much money? You're strong, you don't have to be afraid of that shepherd's blackmail, who is your opponent?"

Amon shook his head and said, "I'm here to buy sheep, not to rob them." If I can prove that the sheep is yours, I don't mind helping you get it back, but unfortunately I can't, it's not that I don't believe you. ”

Yin Nanna lowered her head and said, "But in this way, I owe you too much, how can I repay it?"

Amon smiled: "You have already repaid me by bringing me to the town and giving me such delicious cakes." ”

Yin Nanna: "But your sheep are too expensive, if I didn't talk like that, you wouldn't have spent so much money." ”

Amon shrugged: "It's not expensive, it's not expensive, I think it's cheap." ”

Yin Nanna took the whip rope from Amon and led the sheep, and the two walked through the bazaar back to the town. Amun's search for a populated place is nothing more than to experience all kinds of people and things, and he has no specific purpose. When he returned to town, he found that people were looking at them strangely, pointing behind their backs, and talking in private. But when he turned his head to look over, the people looked away again.

Although Amon has no experience in going out, he is not really stupid, and he quietly swept through with the detection magic technique, and probably knew what people were talking about, and he couldn't help but feel a little funny in his heart. At this time, he also realized that Yin Nanna was by no means an ordinary shepherd slave girl, and he saw a lot of people outside the mountains, including many women, who were not as soft and beautiful as Yin Nanna.

While walking through the tavern in the town, Yin Nanna suddenly stopped and said, "Amon, you are not tired, if you are tired, you can go in and have a glass of wine." ”

Amon suddenly remembered one thing, Mayor Dasty had said that the cheapest glass of wine in the tavern outside was only a copper coin, and he had always been skeptical, and he really wanted to see it, so he said to Yin Nanna: "I don't know if I will delay your time if I go in and have a glass of wine?" ”

Yin Nanna asked rhetorically, "Do you still want to send me back?"

Amon: "You still have to walk a long way after dark, of course I have to send you back, anyway, there is no hurry, the market town is here." ”

Yin Nanna smiled: "Thank you! Drink or not drink anyway, it will be dark, there is still a long way to go after dark, let's go and rest for a while." ”

Wine is a luxury, but it does not only belong to the aristocracy, many commoners have money and leisure to drink a few glasses in the tavern, which is the most luxurious enjoyment. During the war years in the history of the Tianshu Continent, some countries once forbade civilians to drink alcohol, because brewing consumed a lot of food, and it needed to be controlled in a difficult period of material shortage.

People drink too much and always want to be cranky, say things that they don't usually dare to say, and do things that they usually don't dare to do, so the tavern is often one of the most chaotic places in a town. Amon walked into the tavern with Yin Nanna and immediately heard a loud noise. But when they came in, many of them whispered again, and it was clear that the topic of discussion in the tavern was the two strangers who had come to town today.

Amon found an empty table and sat down, and there was a boss and two men here, and the boss himself came and asked, "Young man from afar, what do you want to drink?" ”

Amon spoke very directly, and the first sentence was what he was most concerned about: "Is the cheapest wine you have here a copper coin for a cup?"

The boss was stunned, and then smiled: "Yes, a cup of copper coins, do you want a cup?" Although he was laughing, there was a little disdain in his eyes, he had heard about the things of foreigners in the town, this young man was very generous to the girl, but he was very stingy, and now he saw that it was so.

How is a glass of wine enough?" Amon waved his hand and said, "Let's have a pot." ”

The boss beckoned the guy to bring a pot of wine and two glasses, Yin Nanna naturally reached out and took the wine jug, poured a glass of wine for Amon, but did not sit down, only stood beside Amon with the wine jug.

Few women come to the tavern to drink, and the few who do come are mostly the town's maidens, and the keiin is another chaotic part of the market town. There was such a beautiful woman in the town, and she was brought into the tavern by Amon, and everyone's eyes were focused on Yin Nanna, waiting to see the beauty drinking, which was more enjoyable than a side dish, but I didn't expect her to drink it.

Amon was about to beckon Yin Nanna to sit down, when the tavern owner asked, "Girl, why don't you sit down?

Yin Nan Na Jiao smiled and explained, "No, I'm a slave girl, I can't sit here and drink." ...... Amon, you drink slowly, and I'll pour you wine while standing. ”

I see! The whispers in the tavern suddenly became louder, like a fly buzzing up. This girl was a slave girl brought by a foreigner, and he himself wore cheap clothes, but he dressed the slave girl beautifully and showed off in front of everyone, and he also bought her a dyed skirt in violation of the rules.

If Amon had been a noble lord, and there had been any transgressions in the dress of the beautiful slave girl whom he favored, no one would have to meddle with it. But it was a sin for Amon to wear straw sandals and burlap clothes, to drink the cheapest liquor in the tavern, and to carry a beautiful slave girl so ostentatious.

(To be continued)