Chapter 9 Xinfeng County
After moving, he needed to be quiet, and after tossing and turning in the mountains for many things, Cheng Kun was honest at home for a few days.
After finally saying his true thoughts in front of his parents, Cheng Kun felt a lot more relaxed.
For his own kung fu, he also "confessed leniently" to his father and mother, the reason is that he created himself. To his surprise, Dad naturally accepted this explanation, which saved him a lot of words.
As everyone knows, in Cheng Zhen's opinion, since no one in the village has the ability to teach such martial arts, the only explanation left is that his son created it himself. Anyway, he has accepted that his son is a "demon", so it's nothing to exaggerate.
After that night, his father had already told him that he was going to find a master for him in the city, and if nothing else, he should be a master he knew in the army. This made him a little curious, his father has always been secretive about his experience in the army, and this time he finally used his relationship in the army for himself.
Coming to this world for so long, I haven't had the opportunity to see a real master, I think the story describes that the military generals can be a hundred enemies on the battlefield, and the powerful ones can even take the head of the general from the army, even if it is a bit exaggerated, it should not be weak.
In the past few days, Cheng Zhen has not been idle, he simply disposed of the fur of the tiger, wolf king and black bear hunted during this time, and prepared to take it to the county seat to sell. According to his judgment, these three skins are very rare, especially the skin of the wolf king, which is much larger than the normal wolf skin, and the material is better, and more importantly, these three skins are in good condition, and they must be sold for a good price.
This money, except for the part distributed to everyone in the hunter team, did not leave the rest to his family, but planned to use it all for his son to learn martial arts.
Poor and rich, he knows this truth too well. From the beginning of the body, martial arts training requires a large number of medicinal materials, without the nourishment of medicinal soup, just blindly practicing hard, and in the end it will only practice five labors and seven injuries. When I talked to my wife, she agreed.
And this, he didn't plan to tell his son, in his heart, this is what a father should do.
After everything was ready, Cheng Zhen took his son into the city.
Although the territory of Great Chu is wide, the administrative area is mainly divided into three levels: state, county and county, and there are 13 large state cities, more than 60 subordinate counties and hundreds of county seats. Chengjia Village, where Cheng Kun grew up, is located in Jinyang County, Youzhou, in the north of the Chu Dynasty, near the border, and the nearest county seat is Xinfeng County. Like many other border cities, Xinfeng County was initially used for military purposes, but it gradually prospered as a result of the north-south flow of merchants.
Chengjia Village is more than 100 miles away from Xinfeng County, and Cheng Kun and his father walked all the way, and they were a little tired when they walked to the place.
At the city gate, all the passers-by were queuing up to be interrogated by the soldiers, peasant women selling vegetables, woodcutters carrying firewood, and merchants carrying special products from other places ready to enter the city to sell, all kinds of people gathered together, which made Cheng Kun feel a little kind.
After all, people are social animals and are eager to communicate with others, but Cheng Kun has spent most of his ten years in the village, and there are no other families within a radius of dozens of miles, and the total number of people in each family is less than two hundred.
After queuing for about half an hour, Cheng Kun and his father finally entered the city, and the soldiers in front of the city gate only briefly checked Cheng Zhen's package and released it after receiving five copper coins.
At this time, it was noon, and the two people with empty stomachs first found a restaurant, and one of them ordered a big bowl of clear soup noodles. After eating and drinking, Cheng Zhen took his son to a shop called "HSBC Tang".
Walking in the door, an old man with gray hair who was more than half a hundred years old was dialing the tray in front of the counter and accounting the account books, and when he heard someone coming in, he looked up and showed a hearty smile: "Who am I, it turned out to be your black charcoal, you should also enter the city on the counting day, and what good things did you bring to me this time?"
Cheng Zhen didn't say much, untied the package behind him, took out three furs and put them on the cabinet in front of the old man.
The old man took it in front of him, looked at it carefully, and slowly, his expression became serious.
After a while, he put down the fur in his hand and said to Cheng Zhen: "Sure enough, it's a good product, I don't see much tiger skins and bear skins in such good condition, and this wolf skin is even rarer, if I'm not mistaken, this should be the fur of the wolf king." ”
Cheng Zhen smiled slightly, and his voice was low: "The king's shopkeeper has good eyesight, it is the wolf king skin, this time up the mountain, the big guy almost folded in the mountain, it is because of the wolves led by this beast." ”
Hearing Cheng Zhen say that he had encountered wolves when he went up the mountain, Shopkeeper Wang narrowed his eyes slightly.
When he saw this wolf king skin, he was a little surprised, although there are not many tiger skins and bear skins, but the HSBC Hall where he is located is a famous big business, so there are a lot of them, but the wolf king skin is really rare.
What is a wolf king, only the leader of the wolf pack born in the hundreds of wolves can be called the wolf king!
And if you want to kill the wolf king under the protection of so many wolves, it is much more difficult than killing bears and hunting tigers. What's even more rare is that this wolf king's skin is only damaged in one place under the ribs, and the rest of the skin is intact, which shows that the person who killed the wolf king was very calm at that time, and there is still room to protect the value of the wolf skin.
From this point of view, this person is definitely a master!
Cheng Zhen, the shopkeeper Wang has also seen many times, and it doesn't matter how familiar he is, after all, he is just a hunter, he just adheres to the principle of "harmony and wealth" of businessmen, and he will chat a few words every time they meet. But because the quality of the goods he brought was generally higher than that of others, he also kept some snacks.
But this time, the shopkeeper Wang was really a little surprised, no matter how you look at it, Cheng Zhen doesn't seem to know a master who can kill the wolf king. He couldn't imagine that the master he was thinking of was the child who stood behind Cheng Zhen silently when he entered the door!
What did she think in her heart, after the shopkeeper Wang had gone through all his hands, he had a rough idea of the value of the three furs, and asked Cheng Zhen again: "Let me ask more, Brother Cheng, these three furs are going to be sold to me HSBC Tang?"
Cheng Zhen replied: "Exactly, please ask the shopkeeper to make a price." ”
After hearing this, the shopkeeper Wang groaned for a while, and then spoke: "Brother Cheng and I are not outsiders, so let's just say it." In these three furs, I bid 800 yuan for the tiger skin, 1,000 yuan for the bear skin, and 1,200 yuan for the wolf king's skin, a total of 3,000 yuan, I don't know what the old brother thinks?"
The price is very fair, and it is even a little higher than the normal price.
Cheng Zhen breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, although he had a hunch before he came, he had a hunch that this harvest would not be small, but he never thought that there would be so much, and his heart was suddenly a little unsettled. He took a deep breath, slowly spit it out, and only after his mind calmed down a little did he say to the shopkeeper Wang: "Okay, it's three thousand yuan." A little tremor could be heard in his voice.
Cheng Kun stood behind his father and secretly rolled his eyes. From the moment he entered the door just now, he didn't say a word and handed everything over to his father, because he knew very well that he was just a child now, and no one else would take anything to heart, so he didn't bother to think about it.
He didn't have a clear idea of the value of money at this time, and although he knew that it was a lot of money, he still felt that Daddy's performance was a bit embarrassing. If Cheng Zhen knew what his son was thinking at this time, he would have to beat up this stinky boy.
Shopkeeper Wang asked Cheng Zhen again if he wanted to buy something in the store, and Cheng Zhen simply refused. He didn't ask any more questions, turned around and took out three thousand dollars from the store.
At this time, the society did not have the concept of paper money, and the exchanges were all metal money, and a thousand coins were strung together with a rope, which was called a hanging. Five thousand dollars is the whole three hanging money (I feel that it is called inexplicably with a feeling), each coin is a mixture of copper and iron, and a horse is engraved on the front, which is the beloved horse of Xiang Yu, the founder of the dynasty. After the battle of Qixia, although Xiang Yu broke through the siege and stabbed Liu Bang, the king of the Han Dynasty, but the crotch of the black horse died of exhaustion, Xiang Yu was very sad, so when the coinage was minted in the opening dynasty, the master craftsman engraved the pattern of the black horse on the coin, so the money of the Chu Dynasty is also called "Wu Qian".
Cheng Zhen put the three hanging coins in the package, and the weight of almost thirty catties was not too heavy in his hand, and he carefully observed the surroundings when he walked out of the store.
Cheng Kun saw his father's movements in his eyes, and he also felt a little funny, he had seen this kind of look a lot. In a previous life, someone took out a large amount of cash from the bank and went out to see everyone like a thief or a robber!
After selling the fur, Cheng Zhen felt that a big stone had fallen in his heart, and he was going to give the five thousand yuan to the other people of the hunter team fifteen hundred yuan, which was already a lot, after all, the black bear and the wolf king could be killed by Cheng Kun as the main force, and as for the rest, it was all left to his son.
At this time, Cheng Kun didn't know what his father thought, he was thinking about what reason to ask his father for pocket money, he had long wanted to buy some medicinal materials to cooperate with the next step of exercise, and buy a few jars of good wine, go home to soak tiger bone wine and drink, strengthen bones and muscles.
The first purpose of entering the city this time has been achieved, and Cheng Zhen decided to find a place to settle down first.
At this time, most of the hostels were government-run and used to receive officials or foreign guests, and there were very few private ones. Therefore, Cheng Zhen used to go to the city to find an acquaintance to live in his home temporarily, and this time was no exception.
After walking half the street, Cheng Zhen came to the front of a butcher shop, the stall was empty, and the things had been sold out early.
Cheng Zhen knocked on the door hard: "Fan Tuzi, don't come and open the door yet." ”