Tang Xiao had just stepped into the peach orchard, and his eyes suddenly lit up, and then he pounced into the forest like a hungry tiger pounced. The old man in gray walked straight to a thatched hut in the depths of the peach orchard, took out a small hoe, and prepared to weed the peach tree.

I have to say that the old man must have spent a lot of effort on this peach forest, each peach tree is tall and big, and the branches are full of fruits, and the red peaches are heavy, and the peach trees are bent over.

Tang Xiao was unceremonious, flexibly climbed the largest peach tree, stretched out his hand to pick a few big peaches, and took a bite, full of relish, sweet and delicious.

Then he kept tossing and turning on the branches, and kept picking peaches.

After a while, Tang Xiao fell to the ground satisfied, and asked the old man in gray for a sack, and packed a big bag to take away, seeing that the old man in gray shook his head and smiled bitterly: "This kid is really welcome, I'm luring a wolf into the room."

Tang Xiao packed the peaches, stepped forward again to thank the old man, and was about to leave.

The old man nodded slightly, as a farewell, and then continued to wave the hoe, he planted this peach forest is just idle, with his status, there is no longer a need to plant peaches for a living, but seeing that the big peach tree has been picked empty, suddenly his heart has become inexplicably empty.

Tang Xiao stepped out of the garden gate, carrying the heavy peaches, only feeling satisfied, and couldn't help but think that the old man in Tsing Yi was given to him, and he almost missed so many delicious foods.

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The north of Pansnake Ridge is the Xizi Kingdom, while the south is the territory of the Nanze Kingdom.

The ancient city closest to Pansnake Ridge in Nanze Kingdom is called "Northern Capital". It can usually be named with the word "capital", and it is often a powerful capital of a country, such as Kyoto, Liangdu, etc., but this northern capital is not among them, but has become a name with a stigmatizing and inspiring nature in the long history of Nanze Kingdom.

A long time ago, when the mysterious mountain of Pansnake Ridge had not yet descended on this land, the northern capital city was a veritable capital city because it was located on the plain and on the shore of Lishui, so it had a pleasant climate, convenient transportation, and rich products and people. However, Xiziguo, which was once the most powerful country in the world, looked weak in front of it.

In the past few decades, the Nanze Kingdom and the Xizi Kingdom have been at war, and the gates of the northern capital have been breached many times, and the lord of Nanze has been forced to move further south to escape the scourge of war under the unbearable humiliation. The re-establishment of the capital city and the call it the "Southern Capital", but the two capitals, one south and one north, have become a disgrace in the history books of the Nanze Kingdom. When the king of Nanze Kingdom has been indignant and strong for generations, and the national strength has become stronger and stronger after several hundred years, and finally grown into a big country that is proud of the world after a few hundred years, and he tried to send troops to attack the Xizi Kingdom, but suddenly this strange mountain appeared - Snake Ridge, with its poisonous snakes and beasts all over the mountains, it has become a natural danger to block the two countries, so that the war that should have appeared is completely annihilated in the bud.

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Under the gate of the ancient northern capital, two black-armored soldiers were guarding the north gate. He yawns incessantly and walks back and forth listlessly.

"This spring sleepiness is really disturbing, I just had lunch, why are you sleepy, San'er, I'll take a nap, you can take a look first", said one of the soldiers.

"Li Si, I'm also very sleepy, I didn't sleep well yesterday, I said okay, let's go for an hour alone!

"Okay, I'll go first. ”

These two soldiers in a bad mental state are also coincidental, one is called Zhang San, the other is called Li Si, in this era, ordinary people usually haven't read a few books, most of them are in the order of the child's birth, and they are named at random, but even so it is much better than the dog in the countryside, Li Da Dan or something, but a name like Tang Xiao is really unusual in the village.

The two of them have been in the army for several years, at first they were full of enthusiasm, rushing to make a name for themselves, and went for the ideal of the prime minister, but what they didn't expect was to be arranged to guard the gate of the north city under the northern capital, which is glorious, but the north is surrounded by this big mountain, and there is not even a bandit in the mountain, let alone any foreign enemy invasion, slowly, the blood has already been boiled into cold water, and the seemingly glorious task has become to stop a few homeless people from outside the city from entering the city, so as not to affect the peace and contentment of the people in the city, almost the same as the current community security。

As soon as Li Si left on his front foot, a young man in a single suit appeared outside the city gate on his back foot, carrying a large bag of things and about to pass through the door.

Zhang San's eyes lit up with a yawn, and he quickly took out the rusty spear and stopped the young man.

"Where did you come from?" Zhang Sanxuan asked matter-of-factly.

"My lord, I am a resident of the village outside the city," Tang Xiao said with a flattering expression.

"Which village is out of town?"

"Qingyuan Village, Qingyuan Village", whether there is this village or not, Tang Xiao recited a name, there are so many villages outside the northern capital, it is estimated that the gatekeeper can't remember so much.

"What's the matter with entering the city?" Zhang San nodded after carefully recalling for a moment.

Tang Xiao didn't expect that there would be such a village, so he was overjoyed and said: "Go into the city to buy some cloth and bring it to my mother to make clothes for me."

"Well, it costs a copper coin to enter the city, pay the money to enter the city!" Zhang San said indifferently.

Tang Xiao saw Zhang San talking about the entrance fee, and his eyes inadvertently glanced elsewhere, and it was estimated that the money would go into his own pocket.

It's really good to see the king of Hades, the little ghost is difficult, Rao is Tang Xiao's acting skills and expressions are enough to get the Oscar statuette, but he was blocked out of the city by this money.

"If you can't get the entrance fee, walk away quickly, and don't delay the people behind you to enter the city. Zhang San looked at Tang Xiao's ragged clothes, he definitely couldn't take out this penny, and he was going to take him away immediately.

Zhang San and Li Si have been guarding this city gate for many years, and they have long been familiar with this matter of entering the city to get money, and they have exchanged a lot of good wine for their brothers.

Tang Xiao looked back, but there was no one behind him, where did this delay the others from entering the city? Immediately looked up at the city wall of the northern capital.

I saw the two big characters "Northern Capital" above the city gate, full of ancient meaning. The historic ancient city wall is full of ruins and ruins that have survived countless wars and years.

The height of the city wall is only about ten meters, which is considered a very high city wall in ancient times.

But in front of Tang Xiao, who has seen the "big world", it is obviously not worth mentioning.

Tang Xiao turned around, pretended to be helpless, and left the city gate, but after leaving Zhang San's sight, he quickly turned around and went around to the side of the city wall, tightened the wild fruit he carried, and after reconfirming that no one around had found it, he suddenly jumped up hard.

At this moment, Tang Xiao walked on the ancient city wall like a cornice, stepped on the ancient city wall, and then went straight to the city.

However, at this time, Zhang San, who was guarding the door, was still cursing Tang Xiao, a poor ghost, who refused to take out even a penny, and let him lose two taels of wine money, but he didn't know that this poor ghost in his mouth had already entered the city under his nose.

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Tang Xiao, who finally entered the city, was excited, and wandered around the city as if he was traveling in the ancient town.

Speaking of which, this northern capital is also a majestic city, with high walls, deep pools, extraordinary weather, and the people are quite wealthy, all wearing brocade. The main streets are crowded with people picking out the goods they need. And the house is even more weather, although they are all antique, but not at all like the same antique houses in the previous life, the ancients not only paid special attention to the pattern of the house, its materials and interior decoration are carefully selected, the strange flowers and stones in the courtyard of each house, the carved fence water pavilion, beautiful.

kept looking at the story building, which made Tang Xiao stunned. Suddenly, a smell of meat came to my nose, and when I turned my head to look, it was a bun shop.

There is such a delicacy as steamed buns here, which is one of Tang Xiao's favorite noodles. Although Tang Xiao was shy at the moment, seeing that the steamer was only a twelve or thirteen-year-old boy, he immediately smiled, took out two peaches and walked forward.

"Young man, how do you sell this bun?"

"Two pennies, no bullying!" replied the young man confidently.

Tang Xiao made a color, picked up two peaches and handed them to the young man: "How about two peaches for one meat bun for you?"

When the young man saw that the two peaches were red and big, tender and juicy, his eyes suddenly flashed. The thief glanced at the back hall, quickly took the peach and stuffed it into his pocket, and then handed a big meat bag to Tang Xiao, and whispered, "Hurry up, go quickly, otherwise Daddy won't be able to change with you when he comes."

Tang Xiao quietly left the steamed bun shop with a sense of comprehension, and continued to wander around the street while eating fragrant steamed buns. In ancient times, the productivity was backward, and there was less meat and more vegetables in the buns, but the advantage was that the skin was thin and the filling was large, the entrance was soft, and it was also very sweet and delicious.

Thinking about it, it seems that the biggest problem now is that he is penniless, as the so-called penny can stump the hero, and now he has a clean sleeve, but he has personally experienced what it is difficult to move an inch without money.

"No, we have to find a way to make some money!" Tang Xiao looked at the wild fruits and peaches in his hand and rushed to the market selling vegetables and fruits.

Although it is ancient, it is not for people to buy and sell everywhere, all pigs, cattle and mutton, fruits and vegetables have their own markets to buy and sell, and the streets are usually lined with shops, and it is not allowed to set up stalls at will.

After asking a few passers-by, Tang Xiao soon arrived at the market specializing in selling vegetables and fruits, and after shopping around and asking about the price of peaches, he randomly looked for a vacant lot, took out all the peaches, and added three colorful wild fruits to the ground, and then wiped the dust off the peel with his sleeve to make them look more attractive.

The colorful wild fruits and red and large peaches that I have never seen before immediately attracted many buyers.

"How do you sell these peaches?" asked an ordinary aunt.

"Three or two catties for a penny" This is the market price that Tang Xiao just asked, and it is quite moderate.

The aunt saw that the peaches were selling very well, and she didn't bargain, so she simply planned to buy all the peaches, but Tang Xiao didn't plan to sell all the peaches, so she left half of them and planned to eat them slowly, and the half of the sales was enough to be ten catties.

However, this colorful wild fruit is difficult to Tang Xiao, this wild fruit is rare, although the taste is not very good, but it is enough to cover three days' rations, it is cheap to feel very loss, and no one wants it when it is expensive, so I had to set a price of one or two, but after several buyers asked, I still left decisively, the reason is still too expensive.

"Little brother, how do you sell this little colored fruit?", at this time, another scholar in Tsing Yi came to Tang Xiao's stall and asked.

Tang Xiao said indifferently: "One tael of silver."

"It's so expensive, but what's so wonderful?" When the scholar in Tsing Yi heard the offer, he still patiently asked the reason for the price.

"Hungry and unpalatable"

The scholar in Tsing Yi was not calm when he heard this, "It's unpalatable and characteristic, I'll go to the foot of the mountain to cut some weeds, can't I buy one or two silver?"

Tang Xiao also felt quite reasonable when he heard him say this, and nodded: "It seems to be really similar, but I'll sell one or two, don't buy it and don't block me from doing business."

Hearing Tang Xiao say this, the scholars in Tsing Yi were all angry, and said angrily, "It's not a small tone at a young age, do you dare to make a bet with me?"

"What's the gambling method?"

"If you can sell a wild fruit before dark, my ten taels of silver will belong to you, if you can't sell it, then how about I take your bag of wild fruits to try it?" The man in Tsing Yi took out a silver ingot from his pocket, which was the silver ingot officially issued by Nanze, a silver ingot of exactly ten taels of silver, no more, no less.

"Okay! Bet on it!" Although Tang Xiao was not sure to sell it, as a person who had traveled through the world, he could not lose in terms of momentum, so he ran back to the mountains to eat wild fruits.

Seeing the Tsing Yi scholar and Tang Xiao making such a fuss, it immediately attracted a lot of people to watch nearby, and they were also very curious about this wild fruit that they had never seen before, but when they saw Tang Xiao's price so high, they all turned away.

Time passed quickly, Tang Xiao's wild fruit was still not sold, and the scholar in Tsing Yi had an expression of victory.

But at this time, a ten-year-old boy in brocade clothes pulled an old man who was nearly sixty years old into the fruit and vegetable market.

When the people passing by saw the old man in the branch, they greeted each other, and it was obvious that the old man's status was not low.

"Grandpa, what's going on over there, let's go over and take a look."

The young man in brocade saw that so many people had gathered in front of Tang Xiao's stall, and in curiosity, he insisted on pulling the old man forward to take a look.

But the old man didn't look at it, and he was suddenly surprised when he saw it: "Caiguo! It's actually Caiguo, where did you get it, little brother?"

The old man picked up a few wild fruits from Tang Xiao's stall and looked at them again and again in front of him, as if he had seen some incredible treasure.

Tang Xiao saw that the old man was so excited, for fear that the old man would crush the wild fruit in a hurry, so he hurriedly snatched it and guarded it on his chest, and said vigilantly: "One or two pieces of silver, don't touch it if you don't buy it!"

"What, you sell this fruit for a tael of silver?" the old man seemed a little surprised.

"Yes, at this price, you can't buy it if it's too expensive"

The scholar in Tsing Yi also recognized the old man at the first time, the old man's name is Cai Chun, who is the most famous doctor in Nanzeguo, with a lot of medical skills and good medical ethics, and is quite praised and loved by the people. At this moment, the scholar in Tsing Yi saw that Cai Lao was so excited, and thought that this old man was bound to win, but when he asked this, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

But then, the old man's words made the Tsing Yi scholar feel at the bottom.

"Silly boy, how can this colorful fruit be such a violent thing as you, such a treasure, let alone one or two, even if you give me a hundred taels, you can't buy it!" Cai Chun was obviously very distressed by Tang Xiao's wasteful behavior.

"Does the old man know its origin" Tang Xiao was a little confused, isn't this thing everywhere on the Snake Ridge, so it has become a treasure.

"In fact, it's no wonder you don't know, this thing is extremely rare, the place of birth is infested with demon beasts, it is one of the favorite foods of demon beasts, although the colored fruit is only the size of an egg, and the taste is not good, but young people can strengthen the tibia when they eat it, and the old man can prolong his life after eating, it is a rare treasure, although this thing has been recorded in the medical book for a long time, but it is really difficult to find, I also happened to see it once in the national teacher's mansion in the southern capital city by chance."

"Are you still planning to sell it? Why don't you sell it to me?" Cai Chun told the origin and efficacy of the colored fruit, and he had already made up his mind to take it into his pocket.

The surrounding onlookers were amazed when they heard this, although they were a little unbelievable, but from the mouth of Cai's family, it must be true, and they were already envious of this little boy at this moment.

"Sell, of course" Tang Xiao didn't expect this wild fruit to have such a big background, thinking of Tang Xiao's dislike of it along the way, he was really wronged by it.

"Okay, you have three fruits here, even if I get you a small bargain, how about selling me for three hundred taels?" Cai Chun was also very simple, and immediately took out three silver tickets of one hundred taels and handed them over.

Tang Xiao was not polite, immediately took the silver tael, wrapped the colored fruit and handed it to Cai Chun, the two immediately cleared the money and goods, Cai Chun was satisfied, and left with his favorite little grandson.

Tang Xiao was also excited, three hundred taels of silver was a lot of wealth, and besides, he didn't know how many colored fruits were left in his bag, wouldn't he want to send them?

Tang Xiao's eyes flashed with the light of money, he put away the silver ticket, and there were still ten taels of silver confiscated, so he quickly stood up and grabbed the scholar in Tsing Yi, who had already turned into a bitter gourd face, and said with a sly smile: "It's too beautiful a promise, because it's too young!"