Chuyun Village.
You can see the place where the morning clouds are born in the early morning. On the mountainside of a certain mountain outside the Luoxia Mountains, the largest city under the mountain is Fengcheng, which is located in the extreme west of Penglai Country. This common sense is all he knows for an illiterate Orion boy whose farthest place he has been from birth is the county town at the foot of the mountain.
As far as Lin Luoran is concerned, the most useful information is the name of this country, Penglai State.
She finally got involved with Penglai, of course she was happy in her heart. Facing the honest "savior", Lin Luoran just followed the old lady's words and made up the identity of Fengcheng Noble Girl, and only said to go home and thank them well.
The old woman looked at her honey-colored skin, and was dubious about her words. Lin Luoran secretly thought, in ancient times, there were probably no noble ladies with a skin color like hers at this time, right? But the words have already been spoken and cannot be taken back, Lin Luoran can only let nature take its course.
She stayed in Chuyun Village for a few days and got a lot of words out of the young hunter named Azhi.
Knowing that this world advocates martial arts, the world is a bit chaotic and has not yet affected this small mountain village, but the whole country is not peaceful. Ah Zhi has never heard of monks. Legend has it that there are immortals flying around in this land, and that has happened thousands of years ago.
Like Ah Zhi's father, who was conscripted into the army a few years ago, there has been no news for a long time. If the boy hadn't grown up and learned to hunt, the family would have been even poorer. The life of orphans and widows is not easy, and Ah Zhi does not get prey every day. Even if he does, except to take care of the "wounded" Lin Luoran, most of the game will be made into bacon, and together with those leather goods, waiting for the teenagers If you have accumulated too much, you will take down Shanjin County and sell it.
Seeing the mother and son eating coarse grains and vegetables, Lin Luoran felt particularly uncomfortable drinking pheasant soup in front of the wounded. The wounded couldn't pretend anymore, and her "illness" healed naturally, and she could get out of bed and walk around on the third day.
Everyone in the village came to see this strange "noble lady". Lin Luoran endured the onlookers of the village women while taking the opportunity to collect useful information. However, the mountain people are stupid, and the village women have less experience. They can talk about trivial things about winter melon and eggplant for a long time, and Lin Luoran doesn't touch any of them that he wants to hear.
Living in the mountains is leisurely, but she is not thinking about it at this time, she is thinking about how to say goodbye, and soon the opportunity comes.
Two days later, the boy Ah Zhi came back happily before noon.
It turned out that the trap he usually dug caught a firefox, only the hind leg was injured, and it was still alive. The blood of the Firefox is great, and the fur is extremely rare. For the Azhi family, selling this Firefox is a huge sum of money.
Firefox was hard to feed, so Ah Zhi decided to go to the county seat the next day.
Lin Luoran offered to leave at the right time. The reason was that the delay was too long, and the family members might be worried.
After drinking the pheasant soup made by the old lady for two days, Lin Luoran felt uncomfortable, thinking of the large pile of gold dug from the Dragon Palace in the space, she quietly squeezed a few pea-sized gold beads, pretending that they were hidden in the The life-saving money of the heel is used to reward the old lady.
The old lady refused, but Lin Luoran said in a warm voice, "I can't repay you for saving my life. These are just my food expenses for a few days at my aunt's house. When I return to Fengcheng, my family will give me a thank you gift."
The old lady was embarrassed, at this moment, she really believed that Lin Luoran was a well-educated noble daughter in Fengcheng.
"Sister Lin, let's go down the mountain together tomorrow and take you home first, lest the family worry that this is absolutely right."
Ah Zhi's subordinates were weaving bamboo cages, and they agreed with what Lin Luoran said. Although the young man is simple, he is not stupid. He worked hard to save Lin Luoran back, and the latter is willing to give a few golden beans, and he will not object.
As for Lin Luoran's thank you, Ah Zhi didn't take it to heart.
The next day, the three of them got up early, and Ah Zhi Niang said that all kinds of bacon were threaded on strings, hung on both sides of the pole, and there were bundles of leather goods, weighing no more than two hundred catties, thanks to Ah Zhi's strength. Only when he is big can he walk like flying with these two hundred catties on the mountain road.
Lin Luoran followed behind him carrying the bamboo cage, still wearing Ruyi shirt.
After the snowmelt day, the weather is getting hotter every day, and summer is coming soon, which is one of the reasons why Ah Zhi is anxious to sell bacon and leather goods down the mountain.
In the bamboo cage she held in her hand, there was a fiery little fox imprisoned inside, without a single hair on its body, so it should be able to sell for a good price, right
After walking for two or three hours, they finally came out of the mountain. It was noon, and Lin Luoran finally saw the county that Ah Zhi was talking about.
It was much smaller than expected, and the wooden houses on the street were not tall, and looked like a town. A Zhi sold all the bacon to the restaurant. I heard that this two-story wooden building is the largest restaurant in the county. Many catties of cured meat were sold for less than two taels of silver.
In Lin Luoran's eyes, wild game is only a little more than two pennies per catty than pork.
For the remaining dozens of skins of different sizes, the fur shop only gave four taels of silver, which was slightly more valuable than bacon, and it was also ridiculously cheap. Ah Zhi was not very satisfied with the price, because he went to the rice store to inquire about it. The current situation was turbulent, and the price of brown rice had risen to 300 Wen a stone, and 120 catties was a stone. After threshing, there would be at most 80 catties of brown rice left.
Now that the price of rice is soaring, it makes no sense that the price of meat should not rise. Needless to say, Ah Zhi, who has not been out of the mountain for a long time, was cheated by profiteers before selling cured meat and leather goods.
Although five or six taels of silver can buy a lot of brown rice, the bacon and leather goods are all accumulated in a long winter, and life is not just about eating.
To pull cloth, to grab medicine, to eat salt... The trivialities of life have greatly reduced the purchasing power of six taels of silver, and Ah Zhi still wants to save money to buy a good bow. At this time, he can only pin his hopes on the unsold red fox .
The owner of the leather goods store wanted to buy this Firefox, and lowered the price by two or two taels. Naturally, Ah Zhi refused to sell it, and covered the bamboo cage tightly. After ordering two stones of brown rice at the rice store, Ah Zhi waited on the side of the street for someone to buy the Firefox.
The teenager's affairs were not handled quickly, and he forgot to send Lin Luoran "home" for a while.
Lin Luoran followed him silently all the way, but in fact, his consciousness was scattered, and he was receiving useful news from all directions in the small county.
From the mouths of the two merchants in the restaurant, she knew the reason for the soaring prices.
Two months ago, the Kingdom of Ying attacked the northern part of Penglai. The Penglai Kingdom, which suffered serious civil strife, fell into a dilemma of internal and external troubles.
When the national war broke out, the news spread to this small county in the far west. People were panicked, and it was common for prices to soar.
The merchants were talking about the difficult situation, Lin Luoran's thoughts had already flown to one side. Ying country? There are Sanxian Mountains overseas, which are named Penglai, Yingzhou, and Abbot. She had already heard two related names.
Only mortals who have gone through many tests can climb the fairy mountain. Lin Luoran thought of the concluding statement in "Wood Essence Classics", and felt deeply cheated. She is not afraid of the test, she is just worried that she does not know what the test is.
"Hey, this little fox is so pretty, black guy, are you willing to sell it?"
A bright girl in a red dress was riding on a horse, looking down from above, but her tone of voice was too impolite, and she opened her mouth to call someone a "black guy", which Lin Luoran didn't like very much.
As Ah Zhi was about to answer, there was already a commotion at the end of the street.
The girl in the red skirt said it was really troublesome, flicked a few golden beans into A Zhi's hands, swung the whip and rolled towards the bamboo cage.
Isn't this a strong buy and sell
Lin Luoran frowned, and gently placed her hand on the bamboo cage that held the Firefox.
The whip rolled up, but the bamboo cage remained motionless, and the girl in the red skirt let out a slight sigh, and then looked sideways at Lin Luoran, who had been silent all this time.