The interior architecture of Xuanyu City is very luxurious, the houses are all built with black stones, the ground is also paved with black stones, there are street lamps on the side of the road, the houses are all very neat, it can be seen that it has been carefully planned.
This is not the point that Yan Mo and others are dumbfounded. The point is that everything in Xuanyu City that the eyes can see, from the street light poles on both sides of the road, the decorations on the edge of the house, to the statues, etc. are all made of a kind of golden metal. made. And the roofs of their houses shone with silver light, and when the sun shone, they were extremely dazzling!
Yan Mo's eyelids twitched, and he looked at both sides of the road and murmured: "Well, I actually saw a city that uses real money as building materials, very good, very good."
Yuan Zhan and Jiu Feng: What do you mean
Yuan Zhan: "Is the glowing metal?"
"Yes, the yellow ones are called gold, and the white ones are called silver. But people with horns may not call them that." Yan Mo finally recovered from the shock, and clapped his hands to remind everyone: "Stop staring dumbfoundedly, we have to Find a place to stay first."
Shame about the good chance last night. The white-horned boy Kadi had a good impression of them, Yan Mo wanted to make friends with him, and then use the other party to figure out the situation in the city, but the red-horned boy jumped out and intervened, and everything was gone.
But Yan Mo is not completely clueless, he still has the dominoes given to him by the black-horned youth named Bu Hua, which is why he chose to enter Xuanyu City instead of Luolan City, which has less prejudice against hornless people reason.
But he didn't intend to use this domino at will until he encountered a problem that was really unsolvable. Let the lord of Mingyue City see this domino and exchange it for a piece of land that is enough for thousands of people to live. One can imagine the importance of this domino, and one can also guess that Buhua's identity is definitely not an ordinary domino. Horn people.
How to make this domino play the most effective, he still has to think carefully.
Everyone was thinking about where to stay, and someone had already greeted them.
Just now Yan Mo and the others were all attracted by the infrastructure materials of Xuanyu City, and when that person came over to greet them with a smile on his face, they realized that there were many such people gathered at the crossroads entering the city gate.
Those people include those without horns and those with horns. But the hornless people didn't dare to look for a large group of people. For example, the hornless people walked towards them, probably because they had more hornless people and only one horned man led the team
"Hello, young master, do you have a place to stay in Xuanyu City?" The hornless man greeted us with a warm smile, "The little one is called Gerda, and I am here to welcome all distinguished guests by the order of the dental officer. If there is a place you want to go, the young one can lead the way. If you are not familiar with Xuanyu City, the young one can also introduce and lead the way for you. It only costs thirty bone coins a day."
Thirty bone coins are nothing, but Hou Shi couldn't help muttering: "It's so expensive!" He used to be begging for a living in Wugan City, and he only got five to eight bone coins after working so hard all day. about.
Gerda's ears were sharp, and when he heard Houshi's muttering, a trace of disdain flashed in his eyes, but the smile on his face was not missing at all, he just looked at Xing Liu.
Xing Liu didn't have many bone coins on him, so Yan Mo pretended to be the big butler, "Is it Gerda? Then I will trouble you today. We want to find a place where we can live for a while. What do you have that is moderately priced?" Do you recommend a safer and cleaner place?"
"Yes!" Seeing that the business was completed, Gerda cheered up immediately, "Don't worry, I, Gerda, am very familiar with the situation in the city. If you want to find a suitable place to stay, you can find me. Please follow me."
Geda talked to Yan Mo while leading the way, maybe because Yan Mo and him are the same hornless people, and the atmosphere around Yan Mo is easy to make people like him, Geda's expression is very relaxed, not at all. The restraint of speaking in front of Xingliu.
People who can serve as tour guides at the gate of the city are generally more eloquent than ordinary people. In order to show that he is familiar with the situation in the city, Gerda has not stopped giving various introductions along the way. Yan Mo also wants to know the situation in the city. , he deliberately led him to talk, and occasionally gave admiration, or looked at Gerda with a little admiration.
Gerda only felt comfortable all over, and seeing Yan Mo was more pleasing to the eye. Later, he even patted Yan Mo on the shoulder and said affectionately: "Brother Yan, I think you are a nice person, and we will not earn your introduction fee for your accommodation."
If he takes people to hotels and other places, those places must give him a certain commission. The more expensive the place he went to, the more bone coins he could get.
Yan silently expressed his thanks with a smile.
Geda said with satisfaction: "You have never been to our Xuanyu City, so you don't know that there are so many doorways in our city, and it is not easy to find a place to stay. Except for those acquaintances who have acquaintances in the city, they can directly live in the homes of friends and relatives. There are only three types of residences for foreign guests."
Yan Mo pretended to be a countryman and asked curiously: "Which three are they?"
Gerda wiped his lips and raised his fingers: "The first type is that there are noble hotels provided by various nobles for people with status to live in. It is rumored that this kind of noble hotel does not even charge guests for accommodation. But this kind of noble hotel, if you do not have enough status , If you go there, you will only bring shame on yourself, if it spreads, it will be difficult to meet people in the city in the future. But if you can live in it, the higher the status of the owner of the noble hotel, the higher your status will be."
"Then what counts as identity?"
Geda carefully looked back at Eye Type Six, turned his head and lowered his voice and said, "It must be a great nobleman from various places. There are those with dominoes of great nobles that are recognized by the king's city. Warriors must be god bone warriors, bone craftsmen And at least level eight or above."
Get it, they definitely aren't qualified enough to go to these places on the surface. Yan Mo nodded, "What about the second type?"
"The second type is ordinary hotels. But the hotels are also divided into levels. Which one is good and which one is not, and which one collects less bone coins but is comfortable to live in. Outsiders don't know at all. Even if two hotels are close together, you see They are all similar, but there is a big difference when you go in! But if you want to stay in this kind of hotel for a long time, no matter how cheap it is, it is not cost-effective, and it is not convenient. You are going to stay in Wangcheng for a while, right?"
"right."
"So the place I'm taking you to is the third type. It's a house that can be rented out to foreigners for a short or long term. But the third type is also the hardest to find." Gerda kept silent.
"Brother Gerda, don't entertain me. Our young master can't live well. Our master will definitely clean up me when we go back." Yan Mo smiled wryly.
Gerda patted him understandingly and sympathetically, "Forget it, to tell you the truth, I took you to the lower city, and it is also the place where the hornless people live the most. But don't look at the lower city, there are many good places, Generally, those people with horns heard that it is the lower city where most people without horns live, and they don’t even want to take a look, these people deserve to be slaughtered by the people of Midtown and Uptown!”
Yan Mo smiled reassuringly, "Our young master is a good person, and he is good to people without horns. He does not reject living in people without horns, as long as it is clean and safe."
"You can rest assured that the place I'm looking for is safe! It must be clean!" Gerda slapped his chest.
Although Gerda said so, Yan Mo still turned his back to Yuan Zhan and gestured, asking him to be more careful. Who knows if Geda is a good guy or a bad guy
And beyond Yan Mo's expectations, the place Gerda took them to find was clean without bragging, and it looked safe, and it was not an ordinary residence.
Gerda smiled triumphantly, "How about it, isn't it good?"
"Very well, thank you Brother Geda. But isn't this a temple?" Yan Mo stood in the courtyard and looked at the surrounding buildings with obvious temple characteristics, puzzled.
Geda laughed out loud, and the old horned man who was behind and talking to Xing Liu came over and said with a gentle smile, "My child, this is not a temple, it's just a temple."
The word "temple" is the closest expression Yan Mo found after understanding the other party's language.
Geda continued: "There are many temples like this in the city, which are convenient for everyone to pray, find gods to heal, etc. I heard that there are more temples in Mingyue City?"
"Yeah, it's really convenient." Yan Mo smiled shyly, deliberately lowering his voice as if whispering: "Actually, we didn't come from Mingyue City, but live in a small town near Mingyue City. We also have Temple, but the attendant there always told us it was a temple."
The old god servant and Gerda laughed knowingly together, and the old god servant sighed: "Some god servants just bully some honest people who have never seen the world, even a small temple can be called a temple, it's really nonsense! "
Yan Mo didn't answer.
The old god attendant also said that it was fine, and led the crowd through the courtyard to a quiet small courtyard.
The small side courtyard also inherited the overall architectural style of Xuanyu City, which is grand and majestic, with black stone as the foundation, and gold and silver metals are used a lot.
"A lot of people came to the city during this period, but very few people went to the lower city to find a place to stay. You are very lucky. You were blessed by Pan'a God and met Geda. From now on, you can live here. There are kitchens, toilets and other facilities. There is a corner door at the back. You can go in and out directly through the corner door. After you go out, you can walk not far to the downtown market. You can buy everything there. If you want to go to the Midtown market , it will be closer if you walk from the front. If there is anything you don’t understand, you can come to me, and I will try my best to help you.”
"Thank you, Lord Servant." Yan Mo put his right fist on his left chest to express his gratitude.
The old man shook his hand and said kindly: "You can call me Zhong Shenshi, or you can call me Shenshi, you don't need to call me Sir."
The old man left, Gerda stayed, and the others were very satisfied with this temporary place. They opened the door and looked inside. The basic furniture was all available, and the bed was covered with clean quilts. Even Yuan Zhan and Jiu Feng felt that It's not bad here.
Yuan Zhan hugged Jiufeng and went to settle him down first. When he came out, he said that Jiufeng had already fallen asleep, but in fact, Master Jiufeng had turned into a little bird and flew out of the window. Now that he is full of energy, he plans to explore this place. It's a new site.
Gerda was proud, "How about it, isn't it good?"
Yan Mo nodded sincerely, "Thank you very much. How much bone coins do I need to rent here?"
Geda waved his hand, "Zhong Shen Attendant will not ask for your bone coins, if you sincerely want to give them, just throw some in the alms box when you leave. Zhong Shen Attendant is very kind, he treats us hornless people and horned people Similarly, this temple is the largest in the lower city, but it is here that we hornless people come here most often. If you encounter any troubles in the future, you can find Zhong Shenshi, what he said just now is not polite to you, wait for you to stay for a long time Once you see it, you will know that it is a Lord Servant who truly serves in front of God."
Yan Mo took out a small bag of bone coins and stuffed them into Gerda's hand, the amount was far more than thirty bone coins.
Gerda was a little surprised. He took the bag into his hand, and he could feel no less than a hundred pieces just by the weight. Even if he took Yan Mo and others to live in other expensive hotels, the reward plus his daily salary would not be more than this.
Yan Mo smiled, "Brother Gerda, if you don't rush to leave, can you stay and tell us about the situation in the city? Especially about this bone tool competition."
"Of course I will make it clear to you! Thirty bone coins are the price of a day, and it really can't be that much." Gerda wanted to return the bone coin bag with a bit of reluctance.
Yan Mo didn't answer, "If it wasn't for you, Brother Geda, we still couldn't find such a good place to live, so you can stay here, or do you think it's too little?"
Only then did Gerda laugh and put away the bone coin bag.
Under Yan Mo's secret hint, Xing Liu put down all airs and confessed that he is a country man with horns. He said that he was full of yearning for Wangcheng but didn't know anything about it, and asked Gerda to say some common sense content.
It was rare for Geda to see a man with horns respect him so much, and with the pride of a townsman, he became more and more verbal.
Sunset found the kitchen, boiled water and brought it out for everyone.
Geda sat down happily, but he only dared to sit on the stool with half of his buttocks.
Under Gerda's introduction, Yan Mo finally had a clear understanding of the overall situation of the horned man.
For example, the common king of the horned people is said to be jointly elected, but in fact the patriarchs of the three clans take turns to sit on the throne, and each clan takes ten years. During this period, if the king is unpopular, or has made any major mistakes, he is likely to be forcibly pulled down, and then another member of the family will take power until the other two families are satisfied.
The only person with a special status is the high priest of Pan'a God, who can sit in this seat until he dies. And before the high priest dies, they will generally get a sign, and then train the next generation of selected high priests.
Each generation of high priests is appointed by Pan'a God, and the candidates are generally selected from the great witches of the three cities. If Pan'a God is dissatisfied with the great witches of the three cities, the temple will call all the horned witches on the mainland to the king city to participate in the sacrifice, and pray to Pan'a God to designate the next generation of high priests. From ancient times to the present, there have only been two times where the high priest was selected from among the wizards in other towns.
"My young master, I think you should know who the current king is no matter how remote you live?" Gerda took a sip from his water glass.
Form 6: "Yes." Regarding these common senses, the warriors of the abyss have gone out to inquire deliberately, and he memorized them by rote before he came out.
"Then you should also know that this year is the last year in power for King Neil of the Red Horn Clan, and this year's Bone Artifact Contest will be so lively and so many people will come, it is also related to the next king's candidate. Who is the next patriarch of the Horn Clan."
Yan Mo didn't understand at first, and then realized after turning his head, "The next king is the turn of the Black Horn Clan, and the one who can sit on the throne must be their patriarch, so everyone is concerned about who will be the next patriarch of the Black Horn Clan? Isn't it the son of the current patriarch?"
"Of course not!" Geda seemed to find Yan Mo's idea amused, "Who said that the next patriarch must be the son of the current patriarch? There are very few cases like this in the history of the horned people. The nobles are competing with each other, anyway, no one knows who the next patriarch will be until the election is made, and there is a game dedicated to this in the city, if you are interested, you can also participate."
Yan Mo thought to himself, no wonder the history and civilization of the Horned People can be maintained until now, maybe it has something to do with their election system. Although the big aristocrats still take advantage of it, it is not a world system after all. Even the kings are played every ten years, which is most likely to avoid the emergence of kings who do nothing or even corrupt the country.
Yuan Zhan listened very carefully. The horned man's governance method has inspired him a lot and is worth learning from. Jiuyuan will definitely develop greatly in the future, but how to develop healthily and for as long as possible requires the painstaking efforts of those in power and the people below. Experience, at this time a relatively sound system and the development experience of other forces are very important, at least listening more can save them from detours.
Gerda looked at Xingliu strangely, these common senses that people without horns know, there is no reason that people with horns don't know, no matter how remote they live, they always have to contact with people with horns in other towns, right
Geda couldn't figure it out, and it was inevitable that he looked down on the white-horned boy who had turned into six shapes, but he didn't show it. He even thought that maybe because the white-horned boy was so stupid, the hornless man who served him could speak for him, and even help him make decisions, without any expression of fear of his master on his face.
But that's good too, Geda is lucky for his new little brother Yan Mo, it's better to have such a master than to be with a strict and cruel master.
Yan Mo felt that he was already paying attention, even only Xing Liu and Gerda were sitting, and he, Yuan Zhan and others were all standing and talking to Gerda. But he didn't notice at all that even if he and Yuan Zhan deliberately hid themselves, after a long time, the self-confidence from the soul would wash away all their disguise.
Well, this is probably the difference between a real beggar and a person with billions of dollars who acts like a beggar—the appearance is similar, but the spirit is not.
Then Yan Mo began to ask what qualifications are required to participate in the Bone Artifact Competition.
Gerda told them that the prerequisite for participating in the bone tool competition is that you must be a bone tool master, or at least a bone tool apprentice.
The place of registration is in the central square of each city, and the registration is divided into levels. The bone craftsmen of all levels will check and review the participating bone wares first. Because it is a bone wares competition, the relevant review of whether the bone wares are made by the bone craftsman is not strict. Of course, if you want to advance, you have to take the bonesmith's promotion exam, and there is no possibility of cheating.
If the registered bone tool passes the test, the bone maker who brings the bone tool can live with the bone tool in the residence officially prepared by the competition. Of course, if you don't worry, you can just leave the bone vessels.
Then there is the first round of selection. Bone tools of the same nature will be assigned to the same arena, regardless of level. The bone tool owner or designated operator will control the bone tool competition. Only the top two can enter the next round. At this time, the selection of applicants from the three cities is separate.
In the second round of selection, the winners of the three cities will be divided into the same arena, and then the champion and runner-up will be determined.
The third round of selection can only be attended by the first place players in each field in the second round. After showing their respective attributes and abilities, the final ranking will be determined.
"It's called the Bone Artifact Competition, but it's actually not that serious. The main thing is to have fun with everyone every five years. There will be various situations in each competition, and more people will bid for those bone artifacts in each competition. , Many bone toolers participated halfway through the competition, in order to avoid damage to the bone tools, they could sell their own bone tools on the spot when they heard a good price, and then directly withdrew from the competition." Gerda laughed.
"I heard that the first place in previous years is usually made by a big bone craftsman?" Yan Mo asked casually.
"No, you said it the other way around. Who is the big bone tooler? How could he lower himself to participate in the competition? Usually, the first place at the end of the competition will attract the attention of the big bone toolers who are the referees, and then evaluate him , some people were lucky enough to pass the examination and become the new great bone tool maker. But it takes only a dozen people to do this for thousands of years. A dozen people sounds like a lot, but for more than seven thousand years, every five Once a year, if you think about it, how low this amount is."
Gerda said here and sighed: "So people who can become a great bone tooler are very amazing, and I don't know when we will have a big bone tooler in our Hornless people."
After speaking, he himself felt it was funny, "Don't be a big bone tooler, if you can produce a high-level bone tooler, we hornless people are all blessed by God!"