Chapter 159 Bazaar Turmoil
The bazaar of Tubo Dali is completely incomparable with the best bazaar in the Tang Dynasty, the trade of Tubo is not as developed as the Tang Dynasty, and Tubo has been in the midst of war over the years, and it is not much better than the Tang Dynasty. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
It is said to be a market, but in fact it is just a place where a group of vegetable and sheep sellers get together to do business. The region of Tibet is not very good, and it does not produce a lot of grain, but nomadism is relatively developed, which also makes the local business not as prosperous as Datang.
Sima Wu regretted hanging the ring head knife and swaggering around the bazaar, but it was not easy for him to find some useful information. But fortunately, people in Dali have paid special attention to the Thunder Knife recently, whether it is a person in the market or a person in business, most of the things that talk to each other also revolve around this matter. Originally, a prince of his own country was besieged by a neighboring sect in his own territory, this matter is enough to attract people's attention, and what is even more outrageous is that this sect retreated safely after the siege, and even now there are still many forces left in Dali, this thing is inconceivable in any country, but it happened in Tibet. And during this time, it was as if this had never happened in the entire Tibetan court, Prince Bart was gone, and all the Tibetan troops did not come to Dali to clean up, all of this was too abnormal.
But this anomaly also proves the influence of the Bloody Hand Gate on the court, and it has vaguely shown a lot of power in the Tang Dynasty Bloody Hand Gate, but everyone didn't expect that their power in Tubo was even greater.
However, this is also a misunderstanding, in fact, the cooperation object of the Bloody Hand Gate in the Tubo region is only Bartel, to say that Bartaier is not a person in the court at all, but it is precisely because he never plays with the rights and wrongs of the court that he is more important by the Tubo Emperor and has become the only celebrity around the emperor. And this Bartair is not greedy for money or close to women, but he is very obsessed with martial arts, and the bloody hand gate only used some kung fu in exchange for the cooperation between the two sides, and this time the surprise attack on Dali was that Bartel covered the bloody hand gate from beginning to end, and even when his imperial brother was attacked, the Tubo emperor still knew nothing.
Today, an old man led a sheep and walked slowly to the market. The old man was dressed in tatters, his face was wrinkled, his dark skin had a pair of deep eyes, and his gray hair was sparsely visible, and he looked like a poor man with a side plug, but the bazaar was open, and anyone who had goods could come and sell them, even if they were small, as long as the price was right, they could always be sold.
The old man led the sheep and walked to an empty seat, which was quite similar to the image of the old man, so it was also black and thin, and there were no spots and stripes on the body, it turned out to be an all-black goat, and the goat that was being led seemed to know his fate, and had been roaring in a low voice.
Black is an ominous color in Tibet, not to mention a goat with a black body without any speckled patterns, many people passing by not only did not look twice to ask the price, and even many people walked around, even with a few traders around this old man are distressed, since this old man came, no one is willing to come to ask the price even if the objects they put are good.
Within a stick of incense, one of the people who was doing business next to the old man had gone somewhere else, leaving the old man alone, leading the black goat to sit helplessly on the ground.
"Old man, how do you sell this sheep?"
The old man saw the clothes of the visitor, and his eyes showed a lot of timidity, the clothes of this person were completely different from the ordinary people around, but it was a half-body khaki gown, plus a crimson shawl, this kind of clothing is not rare in the Tubo region, but it is not easy to be able to dress like such a character.
Lao Suo's right hand trembled a little, opened five fingers, and did not dare to raise it, this pure black sheep is all his belongings, if it were not for the eldest son of the family, Tubo, who suffered from a serious disease, he would not have taken it out and sold it. Ordinary goats can be sold for about twenty taels, and the stronger ones can be sold for about thirty taels, and the old man thinks that his goats are all black, and he is afraid that it is a little taboo, so he thinks that he can sell about ten taels, but the character in front of him is completely offended.
The largest temple in Tubo is Yongzhong Sect, the monks in this temple are superior in the Tubo area, whether it is sacrifice, exorcism or divination, only monks can do such things, so the status of monks in Tubo has risen, especially after Bartaier became a popular person around the emperor, and the Yongzhong Sect, which has a great relationship with primitive Buddhism, is very popular in Tubo, even some local officials dare not offend the monks in the temple, let alone this old man who has no status and no identity. He felt that his black sheep was taken care of, and he would definitely suffer a loss, so he first made a half-price, and then stretched out a palm.
"You're still very sensible, old man, okay. Then I'll buy your sheep!"
The monk reached inside his underwear and shook it, and five copper coins fell to the ground with a clanging sound. This scene made Lao Suo completely stunned, although he was a goat in his prime, although it was a little unlucky to be pure black, but this sold five copper plates, what is going on.
Five copper plates are not enough to buy a pair of medicines, let alone ask the healers in the city to consume a pulse. To put it bluntly, now these five copper plates are forcing this old man to die to get the price, but the five copper plates that fell to the ground in Tubo made this old man not react for a while, he was completely stunned, he was still thinking about not fighting with the monks, he would definitely suffer a loss, although he said that he sold it very badly, but he could still afford to hire a doctor and buy medicine. By the time he came to his senses, the monk was already leading the black sheep and was about to go out of the city.
Although Lao Suo did not want to cause trouble, but now this situation, he has to argue, to say that this monk is not short of money to spend, there are many people in the temple every day to donate money, Lao Suo's mind is a little messy, but in an instant or immediately went up, hugged the monk's waist.
"Master, you can't just send me away! this is our family's life-saving money!"
Lao Suo hugged the monk tightly, and his heart was like ashes.
"Four twos...... No, no, just give me three taels of silver, my child is still waiting for this money to save his life!"
"Your damn dead old man, so uninteresting. Don't you know that this sheep is going to be dedicated to Master Zampu, Lao Tzu giving you five copper coins is already considered a charity, what else do you want!"
The monk's strength was not small, and his temper was also very great, and he grabbed the belt of Lao Suo's trousers with his right hand, and then fell heavily to the ground.
"You old man is really shameless, do you even want to rob Master Zampu's things?"
Said by the monk, this old man also trembled in Tibet, if it was an ordinary monk, but this Zanpu master in Tibet has a very high reputation, it is the thirty-third generation of Zanpu master from the neighboring country to introduce Yongzhong Buddhism, now each generation of Zanpu Master is the Tubo Dynasty Yongzhong Sect of the great mage, and this Zanpu master is a descendant of the royal family, whether in the temple or in the court is a very powerful person, and in the Tubo area, offended the Zanpu master, you don't even have the qualification to go to the temple to incense, although this Lao Suo also wants to get back his son's life-saving money, but really offended the Zanpu master, I'm afraid that this family will not even have the qualifications to go to the temple to receive the blessing in the future.
"Go, old thing. ”
The monk kicked Lao Sue in the chest, and how could the thin old man resist this kick, he immediately rolled twice on the ground and fell heavily into the corner. The monk shook off his coat and led the black sheep to the gate of the city.
"It's just unreasonable!"
The scene that happened in the bazaar was seen by Sima Wuregret, but just now he was listening to the news from the teahouse next to him, and as soon as he saw this monk's behavior, he immediately rushed downstairs. At this time, Sima Wuregret wanted to step forward and give this arrogant monk two slaps, so that he would know that he could not run rampant in the future.
But the teahouse that had just come out was stopped at the door, Sima Wuregret was a little angry, there were still people here who would stop him, could it be that this monk's accomplice could not be.
Sima Wuregret looked up and saw that it was two people, or two familiar people.
On the left hand side is one of the five little tigers of the Jiangnan Five Tiger Gate, the paper tiger Qiu Duanlang, and the right hand side is Qiu Duanshui. At this moment, Qiu Duanlang was looking at Sima Wuregret with a smile, while Qiu Duanshui on the other side didn't give Sima Wuregret any good look, and deliberately tilted his head and ignored him.
If it was just Qiu Duanshui, Sima Wuregret would naturally not give him any face, but Qiu Duanlang was different. Sima Wuregret still has a good impression of him from the bottom of his heart, this person acts above board, and he can be regarded as a righteous gentleman. And he has a bookish atmosphere, and he seems to be a very knowledgeable person, since he stopped Sima Wuregret, he didn't make Sima Wuregret have anything disgusting.
"Brother Sima, can you have a little tea in the teahouse with our senior brothers?"
"Yes, but I'm going to teach that monk a lesson first, and then ...... that."
When he was talking, Sima Wuregret wanted to reach out and pull Qiu Duanlang's arm away, but it seemed that Qiu Duanlang had no intention of letting go, which also made Sima Wuregret a little surprised, it stands to reason that there is no need to do this for a monk as Qiu Duanlang.
"Brother Sima, don't worry, I've already asked the door below to handle this matter, we might as well go upstairs for a small gathering. ”
I don't know why, Qiu Duanlang said this, so that Sima Wuregret was very relieved, if this matter was handed over to Qiu Duanlang, he believed that it would be done beautifully, at least not worse than himself, so he also turned around and went upstairs, but there was also Qiu Duanshui beside him, which made Sima Wuregret a little embarrassed, or show his identity as his uncle to scare them?!(To be continued.) )