This is a young man with a somewhat wooden face, and some of his green facial features are covered by wind and dust, and it is easy to misjudge his age if he does not observe carefully.

He was dressed in coarse cloth clothes, with a package hanging from his chest, and behind his back were three straight knives with slight rust, which were not common in Jiang Guo.

He drooped naturally with one hand, and with the other he held a little girl with short hair, whose face was dusty and dirty, but upon closer inspection, he could tell that she was younger than the boy.

When Wei Feng looked at them, the young man was also looking at Wei Feng, with inquiry, vigilance, and defense in his eyes, while the little girl looked down at her feet, hiding her face under her bangs.

This combination of one big and one small immediately attracted Wei Feng's attention, and he walked straight over there.

When the young man saw Wei Feng approaching, he subconsciously wanted to touch his back with his free hand, but his arm stopped immediately with only a slight movement, and his movements were a little stiff.

Wei Feng had been observing the two of them, and he noticed that almost at the moment when the young man's arm was about to be raised, the little girl next to him held his hand and clenched it a little, this small action attracted Wei Feng's attention.

He walked up to the young man in a few steps and chuckled, "Hello, my name is Wei Feng, what's your name?" ”

The young man fine-tuned his position before he approached, half-protecting the girl behind him, facing Wei Feng's smile, he reacted a little woodenly, and did not make a corresponding expression in time, but replied in a low voice: "Bu Ji." ”

"What?" Wei Feng didn't hear clearly.

Buji repeated it again, as if he had just remembered to smile back at the face of the smile, but the smile on his face was really stiff.

Wei Feng said curiously, "Are you going to Tianyang City?" Or where? ”

Although the caravan's destination was Tianyang City, it also had to pass through many large and small counties along the way.

"Skyyang City." Buji's words were very succinct.

It was the time for the caravan to gather, and the travelers who followed the team didn't know each other, seeing Wei Feng and they were talking, they naturally paid attention to it, although the young man seemed to be dusty, but if you looked closely, you could see that he was still young.

A few travelers in ordinary clothes around couldn't help but laugh and said, "Why do you three children have to go so far, don't the adults in the family care?" ”

Wei Feng and Bu Ji looked at him in unison, quietly staring at the man who spoke, without saying a word.

Somehow, the man was stared at by the two of them a little cold, and turned his head stupidly, and the two of them withdrew their gaze.

Wei Feng was curious: "Where did you come from?" This trip is not close, I heard that you will not be able to reach the next town until at least tomorrow night, do you have enough dry food with you? ”

He saw that the package between the two of them was not large, so he asked this question, in fact, he said the second half of the sentence more so that the first sentence was not too abrupt, and this kind of words that sounded concerned on the surface could always ease the atmosphere a little.

Buji: "Mottled lake, enough." He seemed to be thinking before he had said enough, and what he said was extremely serious.

"Mottled Lake!" Before Wei Feng could answer, the person next to him exclaimed again, obviously this place name was a bit special.

Wei Feng looked at the man suspiciously, as did the surrounding people.

When the man saw everyone looking at him, he pretended to be surprised and said, "You don't all know about the mottled lake, do you?" ”

It seemed that it was time to show off, and the man raised his voice and said, "You know about the 100,000 barren mountains, right? ”

"Nonsense, how can anyone in our Changping County not know about 100,000 barren mountains." The other scoffed.

"Do you know where is the other side of the 100,000 barren mountains?" The man asked again.

"Is there another side?" The man who had just spoken was a little surprised.

At this time, another citizen who had been listening chuckled and said, "Zhou State, it is said to be a big country like our Jiang State. ”

"That's right!" The man slapped his face: "Zhou State is a big country like my Jiang country, what kind of bullshit Yu country, the founding time of the country is not as long as the old locust tree at the gate of our city." ”

These words resonated with the people around them, and they immediately burst into laughter, and one of Jiang Guoren's favorite things was to ridicule Yu Guo.

"You didn't say anything about the mottled lake." After laughing, one of them reminded.

"Don't worry, I was about to say." The man cleared his throat: "Do you know about the 100,000 barren mountains, but do you know the Hengduan Valley?" ”

This time, no one answered, and the man unconsciously raised a smile on his face: "I don't know, Hengduan Valley is in the northwest of Changping County, and it will take several days to reach it on horseback."

It is said that the cliffs on both sides of the valley are straight, as if they were cut by a knife, so it is named Hengduan Valley, and from this end of the Hengduan Valley, the other side is the Zhou Kingdom. ”

"And what does this have to do with the mottled lake?" One person was impatient that he had been selling off, and couldn't help but ask.

"Of course it matters, you can get to Zhou through Hengduan Valley, so who do you think will go there? Of course, it is some outlaw people, who dare to go straight through the 100,000 mountains of ordinary businessmen.

Many wanted criminals, or people who were hiding from their enemies, ran to the Hengduan Valley, and when there were too many people, they had to eat, drink, and Lazar, and then someone established a small town at this end of the Hengduan Valley, and the town was called Mottled Lake. ”

"Why is such a town called a lake?" Someone couldn't help but say.

"Then how do I know where to go, that's what everyone calls it anyway." The man continued to talk to the people around him about some of his hearsay, and Wei Feng was no longer interested, so he turned his gaze back.

At this moment, a gong was struck in front of the caravan, attracting everyone's attention, and the man who struck the gong shouted that the hour had come, and it was time for the caravan to leave, and the convoy drove out of the city.

Since they had just set off, everyone was full of physical strength and energy, and they had just gotten acquainted with each other, so it was inevitable that there would be times when they took care of each other on the way, so everyone was more interested in talking, and Wei Feng also heard a lot of information from their conversations.

For example, this Shengshi Commercial Bank, unlike the Fortune Gathering Commercial Bank, which is the head snake of Yanzhou, the industry of Shengshi is all over the territory of Jiangguo, involving the intertwined industries, and the management of this large chamber of commerce is naturally more refined.

Shengshi Chamber of Commerce adopts a five-level shopkeeper management system, and the first-level shopkeeper who handles business for Wei Feng is responsible for various businesses that directly connect with small customers, and the second-level docking of larger customers and businesses that come faster to make money, and then be responsible for a region, such as the chief shopkeeper of Changping County is the third-level shopkeeper.

As for the fourth-level and fifth-level shopkeepers, these mud-legged people are only hearsay, and they don't understand the division of business.

Another example is the several big cities that pass along the way, as well as the routes of major chambers of commerce, etc., involving customs and culture, local customs, these travelers can say a lot, listen to their tone, and have been walking outside a lot over the years.