Turning to the third day, this morning around four o'clock, the entire villa had already woken up, Zheng Yuming was busy cooking breakfast and preparing dry food, while Chu Chaohui packed out a set of baskets, one of which was full of hunting game, which was prepared to be a gift for Wu Dazhong. The other basket was prepared to put the Huo siblings and the wood. The two adults don't know how many days they will be away from the villa, so the children and the wood can't be left at the villa, and they are going to bring them to Nambu to entrust Wu Da's wife to help take care of them.
Huo siblings to the villa after the rich food, hands and feet on the frostbite began to itch, itchy two children sleep at night can not sleep well, Zheng Yuming take frostbite ointment to help them wipe after the two children are not allowed to walk around, to prevent scarring frostbite wounds cracked. Chu Zhaohui with a basket loaded to Wu Da's game, is to facilitate the two children and wood together with the pick to take away.
The temperature in the late winter morning is below zero, all the way to the grass is white frost, Huo siblings one hand holding a two big apples sitting on a rock, sandwiched in the middle of the wood, the basket is crowded to the full. Huo siblings weight is too light, together only half the weight of the game basket, only in the basket to put a stone to balance the weight of the two ends of the stretcher.
From the villa to out of the valley has come out of a small road, now from the villa to walk to the slopes below the gap exit, as long as an hour and a half, just from the slopes down the hill, just in the small road to see Wu Da's mule cart, it turned out that Wu Da early in the morning driving a mule cart to pick them up.
Three people meet a greeting, baskets and people are on the car, Wu Da saw two become a new face bald children, surprised to measure half a day, only to turn around driving a mule cart to the village, while driving while the heart secretly sighed Huo siblings are rats jumped into the grain silo, to vigorously enjoy the blessings.
Nambu village village people have begun in a busy day livelihood, the dock has two new moored wooden boat, wooden boat boss is directing the laborers to the shore to carry goods, these goods to be transported to the city to sell. Nambu village in addition to Yu Kui's wine shop and a blacksmith store, and then there are no other stores, people's daily needs are with the travelers of the goods trade, these goods are not every day to Nambu, but once or twice a month, each time the arrival of the goods, but next to the goods will be full of trading villagers, today's Nambu dock, there are two goods have arrived. Wooden boats are busy disembarking goods, the noisy trading sound around the cargo man, will be the pier of Nambu embellished with vitality.
Wu Da drove the mule cart directly into the yard, once in the yard, Wu Da's wife and Wu Feng already stood in the yard to greet. After Chu Chao Hui and Zheng Yuming got off the mule cart and met with Wu Da's wife, they offered a basket of wild game and took two apples from the hands of the Huo siblings and handed them to Wu Feng, leaving the remaining two apples for the Huo siblings. The remaining two apples were left for the Huo siblings. These four apples were the last fruit stock of the villa. Wu Feng received the apples and was full of joy, the apples were fragrant and sweet, with plenty of moisture, and the flavor was so good that he had never tasted it before. The apples given to him in the previous three days had long been eaten into his stomach with the skin and core.
Wu big couple accepted the game even thanked, to know, because of the lack of hunting tools, this time and space people hunting is not easy, to go into the mountains to hunt have to be in groups, good luck, each person will share a little bit more prey, bad luck, in addition to some small animals, people will sometimes return empty-handed. Chu Chaohui and Zheng Yuming this time to send two wild boar legs, five hares, six pheasants, these game is up to three months of meat meat Wu Da family.
Wu Da's wife and servant Peng women day and night rushed out two sets of deep clothes, the two travelers wear on the body immediately changed temperament, in the eyes of the travelers is to cover up the modern gas become literate, in the eyes of the ancients is to become dignified and identity.
Changed clothes, Wu Da, Chu Chao Hui and Zheng Yuming left for Dacheng, Huo siblings and wood stayed in Nambu, before leaving, Zheng Yuming and asked Wu Da's wife to help Huo siblings nab two pairs of shoes, these two children have no suitable shoes to wear on their feet.
Nambu is about forty kilometers away from Dacheng, the mule train to run three hours to arrive, along the way to pass through three large villages, the nearest village from Nambu is the last time Wu Da hit the tip of the back slopes of the stay overnight, the back slopes of the past is the former village, the village of Qiuzhuang, Qiuzhuang, the past forty minutes to Dacheng. After the slope, before the village and Qiuzhuang these three villages have earth fence around the village, the reason why there is no earth fence, because the south is a new village, more than ten years ago, the village is only half of the current population, there is no manpower and no financial resources to build their own village on the protection, coupled with being in the waterway, the enclosure of the fence is also connected to the outside world, so this time and space must be built on the fence is not constructed, the good thing is that there is no large group of bandits around the bandits, there are small groups of bandits harassment were not able to get away. There is a small group of bandits harassment by the villagers of Nambu concerted efforts to drive away.
Dacheng's protective wall is stone and brick building up, the wall is only four, five meters high like, not two people in the movie to see seven or eight meters as tall, around the wall there is a moat trench, trench because of the dry climate, there is no water, only a little bit of mud. Dacheng has three city gates, the south city gate, the north city gate, and the west city gate, the south port in the southeast of Dacheng, into the city to go to the south gate.
There are three or four guards at the entrance of the southern city, and every citizen who enters the city gate must pay a fee to enter the city, which is one Wu copper coin for one person, and two Wu copper coins for a horse-drawn carriage. Zheng Yuming converted the price of goods, a Wu copper coins is about five yuan in the former time and space, this calculation, the charge for entering the city is very high, outside the city gates, standing on the side of the road in ragged people, they can not afford to pay a copper coins to enter the city, can only be outside the gates of the city to the pedestrians to peddle their own goods, most of the goods peddled are firewood, their own agricultural products, hunting game, a few people selling cloth, but also to sell their own goods, the goods are not the same, the goods are not the same. Most of the goods were firewood, farm products and wild game from hunting, while a few people sold cloth, which was not dyed in color and was slightly yellowish white. Seeing these white coarse cloths, Zheng Yuming and Chu Zhaohui realized that the yellow colored clothes worn by many people were made of this white coarse cloth, because of the unclean washing, the white gradually turned into yellow. In this time and space, the price of color dyed cloth is one third higher than white coarse cloth.
The city gate guards are generally taller than Wu Da, with a height of 165-170 centimeters, wearing coarse green cloth clothing, no armor protection, their hair is only wrapped in green cloth of the same color as their clothes, and they have different weapons in their hands, there are iron clubs, there are bronze swords, and there is also one that uses a spear. These weapons are all they brought with them, this era soldiers are born of nobles, peasants are not qualified to fight, the ruling class of the previous time to the Warring States period, with the expansion of the war only allowed peasants to participate in the war.
"Master Wu, you've come to Dacheng to make a fortune again." One of the tallest soldiers among the guards greeted Wu Da.
"Guo Huben! All the soldiers have worked hard!" Wu Da got down from the mule cart and respectfully saluted this guard, Huben was an honorable title for soldiers.
"These two are?" Guo Huben looked at the two crossers who came down from the mule cart and was filled with astonishment, Chu Chao Hui's 183 stature stood at the entrance of the city as if he was a giant, while Zheng Yuming's outstanding appearance made this noble soldier look at him even more.
"These two stalwarts are overseas people who were shipwrecked and drifted here, this time they came to Dacheng to buy some things." Wu Da introduces the identity of Chu Chao Hui and Zheng Yuming.
"So it's an overseas strong man." Guo Huben arched his hand towards the two travelers.
Chu Chaohui and Zheng Yuming hurriedly clasped their fists and saluted the guards at the gate, the people of this time and space revered force and believed that strong and tall people were godsend, the height of the two men immediately won the guards at the gate to look at them in a different way, and the guards returned the salute to the two men one after the other.
"Guo Huben, this is the city gate fee." Wu Da handed over five copper coins.
"There's no need to pay, how can you charge a gate fee for such an outstandingly handsome man to visit Dacheng." Guo Huben was still staring straight at Zheng Yuming, he had never seen such a handsome man before and his eyes were a bit inadequate.
"Then thank you military gate, I will send green wine to thank you when I leave the city." Wu Da looked at Guo Huben infatuated eyes a little helpless, this Guo Huben is famous for judging people by their appearance, good-looking into the city without charging, ugly-looking charge double, or simply not allowed to enter.
Chu Chao Hui felt that this gatekeeper was really unlike him, and could not help but narrow his eyes and sweep down Guo Huben, who was only up to his neck in height.
Guo Huben was swept away by Chu Chao Hui's cold eyes and realized that he was too out of line, and quickly raised his hand for his companions to move the barricade and let Wu Da and his party into the city.
"Guo Huben wants to share a bed with that slut?"
Homosexuality in this time and space only exists among the nobles, these guards are from the nobility, friends and relatives "intimate child molester" is often heard, Guo Huben preferred male sex, and he never hid his own fetish, a few guards at the city gate to see Guo Huben to the back of the distant overseas people are still obsessed with the, can not help but loud coaxing.
"If I can really be favored by the cunning one, Guo Mou's death will be enough!"
"I see that there is someone guarding beside the cunning one." One of his companions poured cold water on Guo Huben.
"If the cunning one favors me, it doesn't matter if there's a caretaker or not." Guo Huben seemed very confident in himself.
"I see that these two have an extraordinary temperament, they must have been born into a great family." The two travelers saluted them without being overbearing, and with a sense of propriety, the gate guards could not help but begin to speculate about the two men's origins.
"The Azure Lord's elegance is not even close to being comparable to a slasher." Guo Huben still couldn't get enough of Zheng Yuming.
"Guo Huben be careful what you say, Lord Azure is the Lord of our Kingdom." Although Guo Huben's companions agreed with the assessment in their hearts, they still spoke up to stop Guo Huben from speaking out of turn; the Lord Azure in their mouths was the Azure Mountain King, the Lord of Dacheng, the second son of the King of the Kingdom of Wu.
The streets of Dar City were paved with stones, some of the houses in the city were made of stone bricks, others were a mixture of mud bricks and stones, and some of the nobles' houses were all green bricks and tiles, which looked much neater on the outside. These gray buildings in the eyes of the people who traveled through the city are already the most decent buildings in the hundred miles around Dar City.
The streets of the city were bustling with people, from citizens and people from outside the city, to nobles sitting in carriages driven by their own slaves, and downtrodden samurai. These people all had one expression of amazement when they saw the two travelers. And wherever the two travelers stood, they stood out from the rest, they were too conspicuous.
Wu Da first led the two travelers to live in the inn, and then put the glass beads to find a family in Dacheng, this family is Wu Da's distant cousin, grandparents in Dacheng business, in Dacheng already have a doorway, know some of the nobles of the city. It was through this distant cousin that Wu Da wanted to find a buyer for the glass beads. After entrusting the beads to his cousin, Wu Da went back to the inn to wait for news.
The next afternoon, Wu Da's distant cousin sent a message that the colorless glass bead had been offered twenty-one pairs of Dacheng cloth, asking if this price was acceptable.
Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui already felt that the glass ball was ridiculously expensive when they heard Wu Da's estimation, and now that they heard that it could be sold for twenty-one pairs of Dacheng cloth, they hurriedly asked Wu Da to go and tell their distant cousins that they would accept this price.
In the evening, Wu Da's mule cart loaded with nineteen pairs of Dacheng cloth returned to the inn, missing two pairs of Dacheng cloth is to give Wu Da Dang brother as a commission, this is the rules of business transactions in Wu Kingdom, all business through intermediaries, have to take a tenth of the commission to thank the intermediary.
Zheng Yuming and Chu Zhaohui only received fifteen pairs of Dacheng cloth, the remaining four pairs to Wu Da, the two of them on the clothes is Wu Da to provide, along the way is Wu Da to take care of the glass beads and Wu Da to help sell, to send four pairs of cotton cloth as a reward, in the eyes of the two travelers is really not a lot of beads this time is just a way to explore the villa in this space and time is counted as a treasure of things there are a lot of things that they need to be sold to the money they need. With a trustworthy sales channel, they can ensure that they do not lack of money in the future.