He thought it would be a city made of bones or directly bone tools, but it wasn't.
The main body of the city is built with stones, the main material is a large bluestone, which looks extremely hard.
Because it is a double-layer structure connected by four castles, except for the square on the lower floor, most of the places are a bit dark. There may be abundant underground water sources, and some corners are covered with moss.
I don't know what happened to the upper layer, but the lower layer seems to have about the same number of people with horns and people without horns, and there seem to be more people without horns.
Obviously, people with horns have a higher status than people without horns. This can also be seen from the fact that people with horns walk with their heads held high, while people without horns tend to shy away. There is still a clear divide in the streets.
People with a personality like Houshi also become more cautious after entering the city, and even pay attention to avoid horned people and avoid touching them.
"My lord, there are two herbal shops on the first floor of the city, one in the East Market and one in the West Market. Which side do you think we should go to first?" The queen daughter stepped forward and asked.
Yan Mo withdrew his gaze from the various bone tools worn by the horned man, and turned his head, "What's the difference between the two sides?"
The stepdaughter seemed to be waiting for his question, and immediately replied: "The herbal medicine shop in Dongshi is quite well stocked, even the horned nobles who live on the second floor will occasionally send people to their shop to collect medicinal herbs. Most of the horned nobles and bone crafters like to go to their shop. However, the herbal medicine shop in West City has a lot of rare goods, and it is said that they can often get some rare medicinal herbs that others can’t get.”
Yan Mo decided instantly: "Go to the herbal medicine store in Dongshi first."
"Yes, my lord, this way." The rear girl walked in front of the side and led the way, and the rear lion moved behind.
Yan Mo, "Do you know who is behind these two shops?"
The stepdaughter froze for a moment, then shook her head. It wasn't enough in his capacity to know these things.
Yan Mo understood, and continued to ask: "The shop is run by a man with horns or a man without horns?"
The stepdaughter laughed, and he could answer this question: "Of course it was opened by people with horns. All the people who can open shops in the city are people with horns. How can we people without horns have the qualifications to open shops in the city?"
This social status is low! Yan Mo thought to himself, no wonder they walked all the way, the horned people passing by didn't look at them much. The saying that people rely on clothes is true. Once the clothes are changed, he and Yuan Zhan are no different from most hornless people.
In order not to attract attention, he and Yuan Zhan deliberately restrained their aura, keeping their heads down as much as possible while walking.
"Then we hornless people go to the horned people's store to buy herbs, will they be willing to sell them?"
"Don't worry about this, my lord. Horned nobles often send hornless slaves to do things and buy goods. Those shops are used to trading with us hornless people. As long as they have enough bone coins, they can buy what they want." Afterwards The woman didn't even think about whether Yan Mo had bone coins on him. He felt that since he was the son of God, he could have as many bone coins as he wanted.
But this problem is one of the important problems that Yan Mo urgently needs to solve.
All the way through the streets and alleys, the road that the stepdaughter took them seemed to be a small road, and they even passed through a place that looked like a slum. But just like what the stepdaughter said, the law and order in Wugan City was pretty good, and they didn't encounter any thieves, let alone robbers along the way.
However, they, who looked like outsiders at first glance, still attracted some attention. It was not the people with horns who paid attention to them, but the people without horns.
The rear lion suddenly whispered from behind: "Let's go faster!"
Yuan Zhan and Yan Mo didn't ask any further questions, but out of the corner of their eyes, they saw a few youths without horns appearing at the intersection of the slum area they just passed.
One of the young men with a particularly strong figure spit on the ground looking at their backs, and cursed: "Damn, they run fast!"
Then he told other people around him, "Go, follow them, and see if these few are looking for work in our East City."
The person who was ordered laughed strangely, and immediately followed Yan Mo and the others.
Yan Mo turned around and asked Hou Shi: "Do you know that person just now?"
The rear lion was a little nervous, "That man is the magistrate of the hornless people in Wugan City, and the hornless people are afraid of him."
"Dentist?"
Hou Shi said bitterly: "That person is responsible for the sale of hornless slaves and war slaves in the East City and the South City. Foreigners who come to work in the East City must obtain his consent, and must give half of their income to him every day. , otherwise no one will be able to do it for long. If you do things behind his back and don’t pay him bone coins, you will not only be beaten, but in serious cases, you will even be beaten to death, or put in a cell.”
"He's in charge of the East Market, what about the West Market?"
Hou Shi saw that Yuan Zhan was asking the question, but he didn't understand, so he looked at Yan Mo, who translated for him, and he didn't dare to neglect, so he hurriedly said: "There is also a dental officer in West City, but not as good as the dog tooth in East City. Greedy, I used to go to the West Market to find work, but Gouya sent a message to me to bring people from the village to work in the East Market, but if I didn’t go, he probably hated me.”
Yan Mo took the question, "Is the magistrate a member of the Youjiao family in Wugan City?"
The rear lion nodded.
"Then should the benefits they receive also be handed over to the upper part?"
"I don't know about that. I just know that dog teeth in Dongshi are more expensive than turkeys in Xishi."
The names of these two dentists made Yan Mo speechless for a while, but he was still very interested in hearing the name turkey. Maybe there really is a creature like turkey here
Yuan Zhan put his palm on Yan Mo's shoulder, "There are people following us."
Yan Mo said indifferently, "Let them go."
Seeing that Yan Mo didn't care, Yuan Zhan was even more lazy to deal with the stalkers behind him.
There was no delay along the way, and they arrived in Dongshi soon.
The scale of the East Market is not as large as that of Jiuyuan, but you can feel the sense of historical accumulation when you look at their shops. Not to mention the shops themselves, just look at the buildings of those shops for a long time.
The shops in Dongshi were divided into left and right sides, and the road was not wide enough to allow four horses to walk side by side. There was a patio above the road, which let in a little light.
This market road is quite lively, some hornless people are squatting at the door of some shops selling some wild vegetables, dried meat, bones and so on, and the people in those shops did not drive them away.
There was even an open-air booth surrounded by many people, including those without horns and those with horns. There were constant laughter and screams, and occasionally there were loud curses.
The rear lion enviously said: "It must be distinguishing bones over there."
"Identify the bone? Identify the bone? Why are you so surprised?" It felt like picking up a leak. Yan Mo has already discovered that this place is indeed the territory of the bone refiners, and the bone refinery industry is very developed. They only walked a third of the street and already saw no less than two boneware shops, each of which still had customers. Now the open-air stalls even have similar The nature of gambling has come out.
Hou Shi, "It's all about being happy or unlucky. Often people, especially some wandering warriors, will bring some weird bones and ask a price that is not high or low. If you know the goods, you can buy them back and sell them to others. Boneware shops can make a lot of money, but there are still few good ones, and most of them will spend bone coins in vain."
Yan Mo was secretly happy, it was as expected as he thought, and the roaming brave in Hou Shi's mouth was probably similar in nature to mercenaries and rangers
Yuan Zhan heard Yan Mo's curiosity, and proposed: "Want to go and have a look?"
"Let's talk about it later, let's go to the herbal medicine store to see if there are any herbs I need."
The facade of this Dongshi herbal medicine store is quite large, with the name of the store engraved in the characters of the Bone Refining Tribe on the door.
Yan Mo learned bone refining skills through bone inheritance, and naturally came into contact with a lot of characters and languages of the bone refining clan, but after thousands of years of changes, he was dizzy looking at the current bone refining clan characters, and only recognized four characters A "white".
Stepping into the store, the storekeeper only looked up at the four of them and ignored them. It wasn't that they looked down on people, but that there were already many customers in the store, and they were too busy to greet them. Their status as hornless people is not worth the store's giving up other customers to greet them.
Yan Mo couldn't wait for this, he was very curious about the herbal shop he saw for the first time in this world, and wanted to take a good look at it.
Interestingly, perhaps because there are too many herbs stored, this herbal store is like a traditional Chinese medicine room, with four rows of medicine cabinets placed in a space of about 200 square meters behind the counter.
There are also two large shelves placed on both sides of the front hall of the store. The shelves are divided into five layers, and each layer has some open baskets, which contain fresh or processed herbs.
Yan Mo walked to the baskets first.
Yuan Zhan made up his mind to follow Yan Mo, like a silent guardian warrior.
It was the first time for the queen daughter and the queen lion to enter this herbal shop, and they were both a little cramped.
Yan Mo wants to prepare Huoxiang Zhengqi Powder, this traditional Chinese medicine can not only treat wind-cold and four-season colds, but also has good curative effects on malaria, heatstroke, and cholera vomiting and diarrhea. When it is formulated, it can be used as a standing medicine.
But there is a problem here, the name of the medicine he used to know must be different from the name of the medicine here, and some herbs may not exist in themselves, but other herbs with the same medicinal properties can be substituted.
Even drawing pictures, according to the previous experience of asking Yuan Zhan and others to collect herbs, it may not have good results. Sometimes it is obviously that kind of herb, but the shape can change, not to mention that some herbs look very similar, but their medicinal properties are fundamental. different.
If he hadn't learned the bone refiner's sayings about various herbal medicines in the bone inheritance, he might have spent a lot of money in this shop today, and he may not necessarily gain anything.
Yan Mo didn't know most of the herbs in the basket. But that's okay, he has a guide.
After the guide introduced the medicinal properties of those herbs, Yan Mo wanted to collect at least two of them. It would be best if they were fresh and had seeds. If he bought them back, Yuan Zhan could help him grow more.
"Do you want to buy herbs? Which ones do you want? How much?" A corner store clerk walked over to see off the customers and asked.
"How do you sell these two herbs?" Yan Mo first asked about the herbs that are helpful for his current treatment of cholera.
The store clerk signaled Yuan Zhan to give way, and Yuan Zhan took a step back.
"These two kinds, one is twenty bone coins, two are forty."
The queen lion and the queen daughter widened their eyes when they heard the quotation, Yan Mo just nodded, and asked the prices of several kinds of herbs.
The store clerk got impatient after answering twice, "Which kind do you want to buy?"
Yan Mo calculated the price, and felt that the bone coins brought by the Queen Village Witch might not be enough, so he had to settle for the next best thing: "Do you have any herbs here to treat diarrhea or vomiting?"
The store clerk rolled his eyes, "How do I know which herb can cure what disease? I'm not a pharmacist!"
Well, he expected too much, this is just a herb shop, there is no sitting doctor, and most of the main customers of the herb shop here may be bone craftsmen.
"Then do you have Lamancao here?" Lamancao is what the Bone Refining people say. Herbs with the same medicinal properties are called Patchouli in Chinese medicine.
"Do you want Lamancao? Yes, how much do you want?"
When Yan Mo heard that the main medicinal herbs were available, he was delighted, "Are there any fresh ones?"
"How can there be fresh Lamancao?" The store clerk looked at Yan Mo with contempt, "It is an exotic herb that can only be cultivated by the Loran City Temple, and it has already been refined when it is sent to the herb shop outside."
It seems that there is no original patchouli in this continent, and the existing ones of the Bone Refining Clan are probably brought from the Eastern Continent for later cultivation. Yan Mo asked unwillingly: "What kind of seed?"
"It's even more impossible to have seeds! As I said, they are exotic herbs that are only found in the temple of Lorraine City."
Yan Mo looked at Yuan Zhan, without fresh branches and leaves, can you still spawn them
Yuan Zhan saw what he was asking and shook his head amusedly.
Yan Mo was disappointed, so he could only say to the shop assistant: "Then I will take as many Lamancao as you have."
"Both? Laman grass is an exotic grass cultivated by the temple, and it comes from the distant city of Lorraine. One plant costs one hundred bone coins. Are you sure your master wants it?" the shop assistant asked suspiciously.
"I'm very sure. How many Lamansicas do you have in total? By the way, can you show me one? If it's not processed well and loses its medicinal properties, I won't want it."
The clerk at the shop with horns seemed a little surprised at the boldness of the man without horns. While guessing who the owner behind him might be, he frowned and said, "Wait a minute."
After a while, the store clerk took out a Lamansia plant from the medicine cabinet and put it on the counter, beckoning Yan Mo to take a look.
Yan Mo wanted to pick up the herb, but the shop assistant reached out and slapped it away, although he missed.
Yuan Zhan moved his fingers, Yan Mo quickly held his hand, and smiled at the shop assistant: "Why, you don't even let him see?"
"Do you know herbs? Just pick it up and look at it. If it breaks, can you afford it?" The shop assistant was even more unhappy.
Yan Mo listened to the friendly, even flattering conversation between another guy next to him and the horned guest, and then looked at the guy in front of him, once again nakedly feeling the greatness of the status of the hornless man and the horned man. difference.
However, the patchouli that this guy took out doesn't look badly processed. I don't know if the medicinal properties have been lost, but it should work. It's just that their processing methods are different from those required by traditional Chinese medicine. The leaves and rhizomes are not processed separately and then mixed, but the whole plant is dried.
"What happened?" Seeing the discord here, someone who seemed to be in charge appeared.
The store clerk immediately whispered something to the manager, Yan Mo heard it clearly, the other party was complaining, and even scorned him severely.
The steward looked him up and down, focused on Yuan Zhan, and asked directly, "Who is your master? Why did you buy so much Lamancao?"
Yan Mo: "...my master is myself." He also thought about pretending to be a slave of a horned tribe, but he could only give up when he thought of the bone coins he might use in the future. It can't be that he has a master, and he doesn't have bone coins to pay for the herbs, right
"You want to buy it yourself? Have you brought enough bone coins?" The shop assistant of the man with horns sneered and asked even more bluntly.
The steward asked again: "Aren't you from around here? What do you want to buy so much Lamancao for?"
Yan Mo said lightly: "Cure the disease."
Steward: "What disease is being treated?"
In order to reduce more scum, Yan Mo didn't mind telling him: "To treat diarrhea, vomiting, heatstroke and other symptoms, Lamangan grass is just one of the herbs I need."
"Are you the great witch of the Hornless?"
"right."
The steward looked away from the bone necklace on his chest and the dagger stuck in his waist, and nodded, "I don't care who you are, as long as you bring enough bone coins, I will sell you the herbs. I have a total of 102 Laman grass plants here, if you want them all, you can take them all for only 10,000 bone coins."
Ten thousand bone coins! The queen daughter and the queen lion fainted when they heard the price. They didn't even have a deposit of more than two hundred bone coins, so where did they get 10,000 bone coins
But... the envoy of God should have so many bone coins, right
God's Envoy really doesn't have any bone coins. It turned out that he had received some bone coins when he was in Black Earth City, but the bone coins used in the Nine Great Upper Towns are completely different from the ones here.
"You only accept bone coins here? Do you accept other valuable things?"
"Do you have anything of value? Can you replace the bone coins? Let me see first." The steward tapped his finger on the counter, and the guy immediately put away the Lamansia plant.
After thinking twice, Yan Mo took out a fifth-level Yuanjing coin.
The steward took the Yuanjing coin, a gleam flashed in his eyes, "Is this the Yuanjing that controls the bones?"
"right."
"You wait." The manager didn't leave with the Yuanjing coin. If it was fake, he would not be able to tell when the time came. He untied a dagger from his belt in front of Yan Mo, put the dagger on the Cut out the inlaid Yuanjing, and then inlaid the Yuanjing coins that Yan Mo gave him.
The crystal groove does not depend on the size of the crystal, as long as there is a crystal close to it, it will automatically absorb, unless it is removed by a special method.
The five-level Yuanjing coin was successfully absorbed into the concave nest, and the steward showed some satisfaction on his face. How could the bone coin compare to the Yuanjing? If there was Yuanjing, he would of course be more willing to accept Yuanjing.
In the last step of verification, the steward used his soul power to activate Yuan Jing, wanting to make the dagger show its special effect - the fire blade.
The first push, no response.
The steward thought he had made a mistake, so he urged it again, but the bone dagger still didn't respond at all.
The expression on the steward's face changed, and he pushed it a third time for confirmation, but the bone dagger remained motionless.
"Crack!" The steward quickly took down the Yuanjing coin and slapped it on the counter, angrily scolded: "You guys are so brave! You actually lied to me with a fake Yuanjing! Dazhuo, go, find the city guard, and take these hornless liars away!" Take them all to jail!"
"Okay, I'll go right away!" The store clerk had long been displeased with Yan Mo, and when he heard that he was a liar, he immediately showed a gloating smile.
"Wait! I didn't lie to you. If you don't believe me, I can show you how to use it." Yan Mo was stunned, so it turns out that Yuanjing can also fake it here
Yan Mo wanted to replace his dagger with Yuanjing coins, but when he pulled out the dagger, he realized that it was just a third-level bone tool, and he hadn't prepared an inlaid nest for Yuanjing at all.
"Use it." Yuan Zhan pulled out Mo Sha and handed it to Yan Mo.
Just as Yan Mo raised the ink to kill, the steward thought he was going to attack, grabbed his own dagger and quickly replaced it with the Yuanjing just now, the blade of fire came out and aimed at Yan Mo.
Yuan Zhan aimed at the fire blade without any nervousness.
"It's all a misunderstanding." Yan Mo had to use his soul power to appease the steward and said, "Please believe me, maybe the crystals we use are slightly different, but my bone tools can be stimulated by using this crystal. Move, look, it's true, I won't lie to you."
Yan Mo grabbed the fifth-level Yuanjing coin on the counter and pressed it into the groove of the Mosha's Yuanjing. In the past, when using Mosha in battle, he didn't need Yuanjing to activate it. Now that the Yuanjing is added, the top of the Mosha blade turned Another foot-long blood-red phantom appeared.
The dark green blade with the blood-red blade tip phantom has an indescribably weird beauty.
At this time, all the customers and staff in the shop stopped the transactions they were doing, and looked at Yan Mo and the manager together.
The steward saw that Yan Mo's use of the Yuanjing actually activated the bone vessel, and he hesitated in his judgment.
Seeing that the steward was a little shaken, Yan Mo increased his output of soul power in his voice: "If I were a liar, I would never use such a trick that can be seen through so easily, are you right?"
Steward: Exactly. The true and false Yuanjing can be known only by using the bone vessel inlaid with Yuanjing.
"Maybe our Yuanjing is a bit different from yours. If my bone coins hadn't been used up on the way, I wouldn't use them for trading." Yan Mo felt cheated, so he said It should be thought that the composition of the vitality here is different from that of the Eastern Continent, how could the composition of the primordial crystal of the vitality condensate here be the same as that of the Eastern Continent
The steward still had an angry look on his face, "I don't care if what you say is true or not, but I won't accept your Yuanjing. If you want to buy our Lamancao, you have to use bone coins or other more valuable things Come change!"
As a businessman who opened the shop, the manager didn't want to cause trouble, so he immediately called the guy back. Although he looked down on the hornless people, he was still a little afraid of those big witches among the hornless people. You must know that there are many legends about the hornless people's big witches killing the horned people in the horned people.
At this moment, a guest suddenly said: "The hornless witch, show me the bone knife in your hand, if it is good, I am willing to buy it."
Yuan Zhan and Yan Mo looked at the horned man together, they thought to themselves: This man has a good eye, but it's a pity they don't intend to sell Mo Sha.
Yuan Zhan even directly took Mo Sha and inserted it into the scabbard, and then inserted it back into his waist.
The horned guest showed regret, but he didn't force it. Yan Mo looked at his horns and found out that he was from the Baijiao tribe.
After all, if you want to buy medicinal herbs, you still need to earn bone coins first. Yan Mo originally thought that he could save this step if he had Yuanjing coins in his hand, but the facts told him that there is no way to be lazy!
He could also take out bone implements and pills in exchange, but maybe there's an easier way
As a result, among the onlookers at the bone-bending stall they saw before, there were four more poor people of the Hornless tribe who wanted to pick up the leak.