This time when he entered the city, Chen Mo also brought some money from his family to save money, which was ready for emergencies.

Fuze Village is ten miles away from the county seat, and there is still goose feather snow in the sky, Chen Mo tightened his clothes, and covered the firewood knife pinned to his waist with the tail of his clothes.

Not long after, Chen Mo came to Pingting County, the city wall is not high, less than two zhang by sight, made of loess and stones.

Not many people came into the city.

At the gate of the city, guarded by four gray-clothed messengers, when they saw Chen Mo coming, the leader stretched out his hand expressionlessly: "Reason." ”

The reason is the identity certificate of the Great Song Dynasty.

If you can't come up with a reason, you will be a black household, and once the government finds out, you will be fined, confiscated into the army, or sent to a prison cell, serving as a scapegoat for a certain case.

Before going out, Chen Mo took it with him.

"Fukuzawa Village..."

Chen Mo was keenly aware of a smile on the officer's face, and said, "It costs eight cents to enter the city." ”

"Do you have to pay money to enter the city?" Chen Mo was stunned, he hadn't heard Han Anniang and Song Tian say it, even the memory of the original body didn't have anything about it.

"Can you get in or not?" Hearing Chen Mo's question, the messenger was immediately a little impatient, and he didn't plan to explain to Chen Mo at all.

"Enter." It's all here, Chen Mo can't turn around and leave now, he paid the money silently, and the messenger did a good job of registering.

Chen Mo also saw with his own eyes that the messenger remembered when he entered the city.

"Remember, remember to go out of the city before the time, if you delay the hour, you will have to wait for tomorrow, and you will have to pay ten wen for the overnight stay when you go out of the city."

seemed to feel that Chen Mo was happy to pay the money, and the messenger led by him reminded him.

Chen Mo: "......"

After entering the city, he did not rush away, but watched the people entering the city inside.

He found that some people paid and some did not.

After they entered the city, Chen Mo hurriedly stepped forward to ask.

Some people were not willing to answer Chen Mo at all.

was rejected, Chen Mo was not annoyed, and continued to ask another person.

asked a few people in a row, and finally someone gave him a solution.

It turns out that as long as you don't live in Pingting County, you have to pay a fee to enter the city.

And if you want to stay in the county, you have to spend money to buy a house in the county, so that the government will issue a certificate of identity of the city, if not, you have to pay an overnight fee of ten wen for every day you stay in the county.

Of course, this ten cents does not include the cost of your accommodation, but only means that you can stay in the county.

This decree was implemented a month ago, and of course Han Anniang and Song Tian didn't know.

Here, Chen Mo found a big loophole.

If a person enters the city, he hides, does not go out at night, and comes out again during the day, there are so many people in the city, you can't interrogate them one by one, and then hide from the errand officials, so that you can stay in the county forever.

However, when Chen Mo saw that someone was out of the city, and the messenger also checked the reason, and also checked the registered book, he didn't think so.

You can stay in town all the time according to this loophole, but you have to pray that you will never be discovered, and if you do, you will pay the money you owe for the night, which is astronomical.

……

Chen Mo walked on the streets of Pingting County, his eyes were also sweeping around, and the first thing he was surprised was that there was not much snow on the streets, and he could clearly see the traces of sweeping.

The city is also more lively, with vendors on both sides of the street setting up their stalls, their hands in their sleeves on both sides, dressed in bloated clothes, stomping their feet and shouting.

The "cityscape" is also good, relatively tidy, and there are no beggars and refugees in sight.

As for law and order, just look at the children laughing on the street, you can know a thing or two.

Inside and outside the city, there are two completely different worlds.

Suddenly, Chen Mo's face was stunned, and he saw a big man with a cheeky face standing guard at the door of a shop, and there were actually two red numbers "31" on the door of his head.

There was a board hanging next to it.

Today's grain price is 30 wen a pound of rice.

Corn twenty-five wen a pound...

"What's that number?"

Chen Mo's gaze swept to the people on the street again, and there were no numbers on their heads.

Chen Mo rubbed his eyes and looked at the big man again, the number 31 was still there.

What is it?

The big man noticed that someone was looking at him, and his eyes suddenly swept over coldly.

Chen Mo hurriedly staggered his gaze and continued to walk forward, on the way, when he passed several grain stores, there was also a big man standing at their door, but there was no number on the door of these big men's heads.

At this moment, he saw a group of messengers coming over, wearing official knives at their waists, presumably on patrol.

And the person who is the leader has a red number 55+6 on the door of his head.

The vendor next to him greeted him flatteringly.

"Master Peng."

"Hello Peng Ye."

"Master Peng, the freshly steamed big white steamed buns, you can taste them."

“……”

Through the discussion of the vendors next to him, Chen Mo learned that this person named Peng Ye was the head catcher in the yamen.

At this time, Chen Mo seemed to understand something.

These people with numbers on their heads should be martial artists who have entered the product, and that number is the strength of the other party.

The group of catchers just now was fast, and only Peng Ye had numbers on his head.

Chen Mo didn't stare at Peng Ye, walked away, came to a more luxuriously decorated "Li Jiabu Shop", and walked in.

When he walked in, Chen Mo smelled a faint fragrance, there were not many people inside, most of them were women.

And a man stopped him and asked, "What for?" ”

Chen Mo saw a red number "36" on his head, and said, "Do you accept animal skins?" ”

The man glanced at Chen Mo up and down: "Collect it all, what do you want to sell, what are you selling?" ”

"It's a wild boar skin, I'll ask the price, if you collect it, I'll sell it again."

The man glanced at Chen Mo, as if he knew what he was planning, and said with a smile: "You go out to inquire, when it comes to fur trading, there is no one with a high bid from our Li family cloth shop." If your boar skin is of good quality, I can pay more than two dollars, and the exact amount depends on the color of the fur..."

Chen Mo nodded, and after leaving the Li family cloth shop, he went to several other cloth shops, and even the Chamber of Commerce inquired, and learned that the price was not as high as the Li family cloth store.

Chen Mo returned to the Li Jiabu shop.

The man seemed to know that Chen Mo would come back, and said with a smile: "Have you inquired clearly?" ”

Chen Mo didn't explain, he took off his clothes on the outside, only to see that the inside of the clothes was tied with rolled up wild boar skin.

"Look." Chen Mo gave the wild boar skin to the man.

"The fur is good, but the craftsmanship of the handling is not good, it is damaged, and the tanning is not good...", the man is an expert, and after picking it up and looking at it a few times, he said the advantages and disadvantages.

Chen Mo was noncommittal.

Tanning leather is very troublesome, there are more than a dozen processes in large and small sizes, and it takes at least a month to tann such a large piece of wild boar skin, and Han Anniang has only been tanning for a long time.

Chen Mo nodded: "How much do you have?" ”