Great Wei Nengchen

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Xiao Yi was cautious, so he seldom made mistakes, but rescuing Huang Xu was an exception. If he did it all over again, he would never detoxify him from the ice gu, but would give him a dose of dumb medicine, so that he would never be able to speak!

He never expected that General Huang Zhong, who has a dull personality and taciturnity, would have a son who is talkative, hyperactive, gluttonous, and playful. He is simply an ancient version of a non-mainstream boy!

Ever since he came to the barracks, Huang Shu has been jumping up and down, and his mouth has never been idle, except for eating and talking, even when he was sleeping, he didn't stop talking in his sleep. It's all up!

As a result, Xiao Yi asked Huang Zhong several times in a very cryptic manner, did he pick up a baby boy more than [-] years ago, took him home and raised him as a son... If it is his own father and son, why are their personalities so different? ?

If it's just a Huang Xu, Xiao Yi still can't deal with it. No matter how capable Sun Houzi is, he can't escape the palm of the Buddha. But in a few days, the "student army" came to Changsha County. The black-bellied youngsters from the south and the north Finally the master of victory!

Huang Xu, Guo Yi, Deng Ai, and Hao Zhao hit it off immediately, and immediately formed a dark gang, with some planning, some executing, and some leading the way...every day, no big mistakes were made, but small mistakes kept making the big camp a mess!

For these rebellious teenagers, Xiao Yi couldn't suppress and couldn't educate him, so he had no choice but to go along with them and go to disaster with them. Before he was too old, let's relive the feeling of being a teenager!

Just in November [-]th - the Winter Solstice Festival, the people of Changsha County will gather on the banks of the Xiangshui River to solemnly worship the "Goddess of the Xiangshui River" and pray for good weather and good harvests!

In ancient times, Emperor Shun visited the south in his later years and died of illness in Cangwu Mountain in Jingzhou. His wife Ehuang and Nvying went there after hearing the news. They both jumped into the Xiangshui River to be buried in grief, and they were honored as the "Goddess of Xiangshui" by later generations ! '

Sacrifice to the Goddess of Xiangshui, the scene was very lively, the four bad boys naturally wanted to go, and under their instigation, Xiao Yi also prepared to go and see, one is to go out to relax and learn about the local customs!

The second is to investigate secretly, to find the whereabouts of a person. I have been in Changsha County for many days, and I have asked many people, why is there no news of her?

On this day, five people got up early, changed into ordinary people's clothes, drove a white mule cart, and went directly out of the east gate of Linxiang City. The Temple of the Goddess of Xiangshui is 25 miles away. On the hill!

Changsha County has just been pacified, and the law and order in the territory is not stable. How could Da Sima be unprepared for his private visit? Cao Xing and Xiao Bin led hundreds of soldiers, disguised as farmers, businessmen, and tourists, and secretly followed behind!

"Drive! Drive!--da! da!"

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There are many pedestrians along the way, all offering sacrifices to the Goddess of Xiangshui. There are sons in fresh clothes and angry horses, farmers in ragged clothes, and Yue people with disheveled hair and gold rings in their ears-supporting the old and the young, and there is a lot of people!

On people's carriages or in bamboo baskets, there are many goods loaded, including grain, linen, animal skins, medicinal materials... all kinds of things, everything that one expects to find. Some strong men of the Yue people even carried large wooden cages. Howling beast!

Changsha County is located in the south of Jingzhou, close to Jiaozhou-Baiyue Tribe. It is a place where Han and Yi live together, and it is also a good place to do business. Therefore, whenever there is a grand festival, people will bring souvenirs to take the opportunity to trade!

The emperor's son descends to Beizhu, his eyes dim and sorrowful,

The autumn wind curls up, the waves in Dongting come under the leaves,

Climb the white and look forward, and the good times come and go,

Where is the bird in the apple, and what is the bird in the tree?

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The Temple of the Goddess of Xiangshui, located on a mound, has a large area and a rough building. There are two white stone statues inside, showing the shape of a woman crying. They are the two emperors, Ehuang and Nvying!

The temple is facing the surging Xiang River on the left, and a large bamboo forest on the right. There are some scars on the bamboo poles, some are purple, some are snow-white, and some are blood-red. This is the "Xiangfei Bamboo".

There are also dozens of wizards, dressed in colorful costumes, holding jade kui, golden axes, silver daggers, copper spears, and iron axes...while dancing lightly, they sang loudly. !

Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet of a generation, with the tone of missing Mrs. Xiang, described the melancholy mood of looking forward to the distance and praying for not coming.

"Yizhou silk, Yanzhou porcelain, and refined salt from Xuzhou—come and see!"

"The big wild boar hunted last night - the tusks are two feet long, the fat is thick, and it weighs at least 400 catties!"

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After the sacrifice, the bustling market began. In the open space near the temple, there were stalls everywhere, including Han businessmen and Baiyue natives, and the products were even more diverse:

Food, fine wine, cloth, weapons, porcelain, pottery, agricultural tools, animal skins, medicinal materials... lively mountain monkeys, boa constrictors weighing dozens of catties, and slaves and maidservants with weed marks on their heads!

In the bustling market, the four boys had a great time playing, and their mouths were never idle, constantly tasting the delicacies of the Han and Yi ethnic groups, even snake meat, bamboo rats, and pangolins!

Xiao Yi was not interested in wild game, but was attracted by some Yue people's medicinal materials: musk, gastrodia elata, rhinoceros horn, sealwort, century-old fleece-flower root, hundreds-year-old Ganoderma lucidum... and some strange things that he had never seen or heard before!

When a famous doctor sees precious medicinal materials, he is like a warrior who sees a peerless sword. He can't move immediately. Xiao Yi came out in a hurry and didn't bring any gold or silver with him, so he had to take off a jade pendant worth thousands of gold, and wanted to take these medicinal materials. If you buy it, you are worried that the other party will not sell it and will extort a higher price!

As expected, the Yue people really refused to trade, the reason was ridiculous, it wasn't that Xiao Yi's jade pendant was bad, but that they didn't know each other at all, and they didn't even want gold and silver!

Baiyue Tribe - The economy is backward and the folk customs are simple. People rely on mountains to eat mountains and water to eat water. They have no concept of currency at all. If they need something, it is barter!

A bundle of silk is exchanged for a piece of animal skin, a cow is exchanged for several sheep, or a few catties of salt is exchanged for a woman, as long as it is necessary for life, they will exchange it. As for the value between the two, it is erratic!

Now that Xiao Yi used a 'broken stone' to exchange the medicinal materials collected so hard by others, the more people naturally quit, and they still held the hunting knife in their waists, staring very vigilantly, thinking that he was going to bully the market!

"If you want to trade with the barbarians, some things are more useful than gold, just look at it!"

Huang Xu was born and raised, and knew the customs of the Yue people, so he immediately ran to the Han booth, had a low-pitched conversation, and then exchanged a few pieces of broken gold for a bag of refined salt, and started trading with the Yue people!

You don’t need to communicate with each other, and you don’t need to bargain. If you like the medicinal materials at that booth, you can just grab a handful of salt and take it casually.

Among the Baiyue tribe, refined salt is a hard currency, and it can be exchanged for everything, including women and children. Now it is only exchanged for some medicinal materials that are common in the mountains and picked at will. The natives are naturally willing!

After exchanging all the way, the mule cart was quickly overloaded, and there was still a small bag of refined salt left, and some native Yue people rushed over, and they also pushed out a few Yue girls with strong figure and dark complexion, and slapped and pulled at Huang Xu for a while. !

Enthusiastic people helped with the translation. It turned out that the Yue people wanted to use a few girls to exchange the remaining refined salt. This kind of Han people who are "hands-on" are rarely encountered by them, so naturally they have to exchange to the end!

Yue girls are not as gentle as Han girls, and they don’t know how to dress up, but they are more vigorous, lively and cute, and they live in the mountains and forests all year round, which makes them a bit wild and attractive to men!

Huang Xu, Guo Yi, and Hao Zhao were distracted, all drooling wildly, only Deng Ai was unmoved, and continued to gnaw on a roasted bamboo rat. Girls are far less important than food!

Fortunately, a few guys know that they can't be greedy for women now, so they politely refused, and even gave the remaining refined salt and white to a few Yue people, so that they will have good medicinal materials in the future, and send them to Linxiang City -Huangfu, naturally there is a suitable price!

Some people can't help but think about it, a mere bag of refined salt can be exchanged for a mule cart of good things, and it can also be exchanged for Yue people's girls. Isn't the business travel in the Han area rich... This is very correct, but there is another saying, Gao Behind the benefits, there must be high risks!

It is true that Jingzhou is rich in products, but it does not produce salt. It must be transported from the coastal areas of Xuzhou, Qingzhou, and Yangzhou. Now it is a time of war-the army is in chaos, the roads are blocked, and the official roads are impassable. If you take a remote path, you are likely to encounter robbers , Beast!

I don't know how many merchants of the Han family were buried in the wilderness. If ten caravans can reach one, it is God's blessing. Even so, the merchants still keep coming, because the benefits they get are hundreds of times as much!

Compared with the native Yue people, the Han merchants are much smarter. In order to attract more customers, they organized wonderful performances and won rounds of applause. While walking, Xiao Yi was attracted by a few words—— Wanhuo Merchant!

Chapter 1259 Looking for the Little Queen

"Take a look, take a look, don't miss it when you pass by, Wanhuo Trading Company - complete items, fair prices, the first in the nine counties of Jingzhou!"

"Walk around, turn around, don't be afraid of not knowing the goods, but afraid of comparing goods, the goods of Wanhuo Trading Company are absolutely high-quality and cheap, and no one can deceive anyone!"

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The booth of Wanhuo Trading Company occupies a large open space, and the goods are even more dazzling, ranging from iron farm tools to small needles and threads... They are all necessities of life, so the business is extremely prosperous!

A fat man in his forties with a short stature was standing on a high place and yelling, and his more than [-] guys kept moving out various goods, introducing their advantages and cheap prices in detail!

In order to attract customers, they also set up a high platform, on which there are four young women, wearing dark green skirts, dancing in a circle, with a two-foot-sized pink lotus flower in the middle!