Chapter 62: Searching for the Little Queen (I)
"Qi Da Sima, the big yellow croaker is a specialty of Changsha, and the raw smoke tastes the most beautiful, let me take you to taste it?"
"Qiqi Da Sima, Hunan women can sing and dance, gentle and affectionate, let me take you to pick one, right?"
"Don't go, Da Sima, in addition to delicious food and beautiful women, Changsha County also has green mountains and green waters, places of interest and historic sites...... What do you draw your sword for? ”
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Xiao Yi is cautious, so he rarely makes mistakes, but rescuing Huang Xu is an exception, if he does it all over again, he will never give him a cold ice Gu, but will ask for a dumb medicine, so that he will never be speechless!
I never thought that General Huang Zhong, who has a dull personality and is taciturn, will have a chattering, hyperactive, gluttonous, and playful son, who is simply an ancient version of a non-mainstream teenager!
Since coming to the barracks, Huang Shu has jumped up and down, his mouth has never been idle, except for eating and talking, even when he was sleeping, he didn't stop talking in his sleep, and the noisy people's brains were rising!
So much so that Xiao Yi asked Huang Zhong several times and very vaguely if he picked up a baby boy more than 20 years ago and took him home as a son to raise him...... If it is a biological father and son, why are their personalities so different?
If it's just a Huang Xu, Xiao Yi still has a way to deal with it, no matter how capable Sun Monkey is, he can't jump out of the palm of the Buddha's hand, but within a few days, the 'student army' came to Changsha County, and the black-bellied teenagers in the south and north finally won the division!
Huang Xu, Guo Yi, Deng Ai, and Hao Zhao immediately formed a dark gang when they saw it, some people planned, some people carried out, and some people led the way...... Don't make big mistakes every day, keep making small mistakes, and make the big camp miserable!
For these rebellious teenagers, Xiao Yi couldn't suppress or educate them, so he had to push the boat down the river and follow them to the disaster, while he was not too old, let's reminisce about the feeling of juvenile madness!
It happens to be November 13 - the Winter Solstice Festival, the people of Changsha County will gather on the shore of Xiangshui to solemnly worship the 'Xiangshui Goddess', praying for smooth wind and rain and abundant grains!
In ancient times, Emperor Shun inspected the south in his later years, died of illness in Jingzhou-Cangwu Mountain, his wife Empress E, Nuying heard the news and went, and was overly sad, both jumped into Xiangshui to be buried, and were respected by later generations as 'Xiangshui Goddess!' ’
Worship the goddess of Xiangshui, the scene is very lively, the four bad boys are naturally going to go, and under their encouragement, Xiao Yi is also ready to go and see, one is to go out for a walk and understand the customs!
The second is to investigate and secretly visit, looking for a person's whereabouts, he came to Changsha County for many days, and asked many people, why there is no news of her?
On this day, the 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 Xiangshui Goddess Temple is twenty-five miles away, on a mound near the water!
Changsha County has just been pacified, and the public security in the territory is not stable, how can Da Sima Weifu pay a private visit, how can he be unprepared, Cao Xing and Xiaobin took hundreds of personal soldiers, disguised as farmers, businessmen, and tourists, and secretly followed behind!
"Drive! Drive! --Da! Da! ”
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There are a lot of pedestrians along the way, all of whom are worshipping the goddess of Xiangshui, including the boy and brother who are freshly dressed and angry, the farmer in ragged clothes, and the Yue people who wear a cloak and a gold ring in their ears - helping the old and the young, and the voices are boiling!
On people's carriages or bamboo baskets, there were many goods loaded, including grain, linen, animal skins, and medicinal materials...... There are all kinds of things, and some strong men even carry large wooden cages with howling beasts inside!
Changsha County is located in the south of Jingzhou, close to the Jiaozhou-Baiyue tribe, is a place where Han and Yi live together, and it is also a good place to do business, so whenever there is a grand festival, people will bring local products to take the opportunity to trade!
The emperor descended to Beizhu, his eyes were sorrowful,
The autumn wind curls around, under the wavy leaves of the Dongting,
Ascend the white sage, and the good time is sunset,
What is the bird, what is the wood,
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The temple of the goddess of Xiangshui, located on a mound, has a vast area and a rough building, and there are two white stone statues inside, showing the appearance of a woman crying, which is the two imperial concubines of Empress E and Nuying!
The temple is on the left side of the surging Xiangshui, the right side is against a large bamboo forest, the bamboo pole presents a little scar, there are purple, snow-white, and blood-red, this is the 'Xiangfei bamboo', according to legend, it is dyed by the blood and tears of the goddess!
There are also dozens of sorcerers, dressed in colorful costumes, holding jade gui, golden axes, silver ge, bronze spears, and iron yue...... While dancing and singing loudly, they sang "Nine Songs-Mrs. Xiang"!
A generation of patriotic poets Qu Yuan, with the tone of missing Mrs. Xiang, depicted the melancholy mood of looking at the gods from afar and praying for nothing.
"Yizhou silk, Yanzhou porcelain, and Xuzhou's refined salt - everyone come and take a look!"
"The big wild boar I hunted last night - two feet of fangs, fat and thick meat, at least more than 400 pounds!"
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After the festival is over, the lively market begins, and the open space near the temple is full of stalls, both Han merchants and Baiyue natives, and the goods are even more varied:
Grain, wine, cloth, weapons, porcelain, pottery, agricultural tools, animal skins, medicinal herbs...... The lively mountain monkeys, the big pythons of dozens of catties, and the slaves and maidservants with straw sticks on their heads!
In the lively market, the four boys had a lot of fun, and their mouths were not idle for a moment, constantly tasting the delicacies of the Han and Yi ethnic groups, even snake meat, bamboo rats, and pangolins!
Xiao Yat was not interested in game, and was attracted by some Yue medicinal herbs: musk, gastrodia, rhino horn, yellow essence, hundred-year-old Polygonum multiflori, centuries-old Ganoderma lucidum...... And something strange that has never been seen and heard of!
When a famous doctor saw the precious medicinal materials, just like a warrior saw a peerless sword, he immediately couldn't move, Xiao Yi came out in a hurry, and he didn't have anything gold or silver with him, so he had to untie a jade pendant worth a thousand gold, and wanted to buy these medicinal materials, but he was worried that the other party would not make a move and would extort a higher price!
As expected, the Yue people really refused to trade, the reason is ridiculous, not that Xiao Yi's jade pendant is not good, but that people don't know each other at all, and they don't even want gold and silver!
Baiyue tribe - the economy is backward, the folk customs are simple, people rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, rely on the water to eat the water, there is no concept of currency at all, if you need something, it is barter!
A bundle of silk for a piece of animal skin, a cow for a few sheep, or a few catties of salt for a woman, as long as it is necessary for life, they will exchange, as for the value between the two, it is uncertain!
Now that Xiao Yi is using a 'broken stone' to exchange the medicinal materials that others have worked so hard to collect, the Yue people naturally stop doing it, and they still hold the hunting knife on their waists and stare very vigilantly, thinking that he is going to bully the market!
"If you want to trade with the barbarians, some things are better than gold, you see!"
Huang Xu, a native of the Yue people, knew the customs of the Yue people, immediately ran to the Han people's stall, talked in a low voice, and then exchanged a few pieces of broken gold for a bag of refined salt, and began to trade with the Yue people!
There is no need to communicate in words, and there is no need to bargain, if you look at the medicinal materials in that stall, you can directly grab a handful of salt, and you can take it casually, and the natives of Yue will be grateful and show a smile that takes advantage!
In the Baiyue tribe, refined salt is a hard currency, which can be exchanged for everything, including women and children, and now only some medicinal materials that are common in the mountains and picked at will are exchanged, and the natives are naturally willing!
After exchanging all the way, the mule cart was quickly overloaded, and there was still a small half bag of refined salt left, and the Yue natives rushed over, and a few Yue women with sturdy bodies and slightly dark complexions were also introduced, and they were scribbling at Huang Xu for a while!
There are enthusiastic people to help translate, it turns out that the Yue people want to exchange a few girls for the remaining refined salt, this kind of 'bold' Han family, they rarely encounter, naturally have to exchange to the end!
Yue women are not as gentle as Han women, and they don't know how to dress up, but they are better than being vigorous, lively and cute, and they live in the mountains and forests all year round, so that they have some wildness and have a different attraction to men!
Huang Xu, Guo Yi, and Hao Zhaoxin were all wiping their saliva wildly, only Deng Ai was unmoved, and continued to gnaw on a roasted bamboo rat, he was still young, and he didn't understand the love of men and women, thinking that girls were far less important than food!
Fortunately, a few guys knew that they couldn't covet women now, so they politely refused, and gave the remaining refined salt and white to a few Yue people, so that they would have good medicinal materials in the future, and they would send them to Linxiang City-Huangfu, which naturally had a suitable price!
Some people can't help but think, just a bag of refined salt, can be exchanged for a mule cart of good things, and can also be exchanged for Yue people and girls, isn't the business travel in Han land rich...... This is very true, but there is another sentence, behind high interests, there must be high risks!
Jingzhou is rich in products, but does not produce salt, must be transported from Xuzhou, Qingzhou, Yangzhou coastal areas, now is the war period - the war is chaotic, the road is blocked, the official road is impassable, if you take the remote road, it is easy to encounter robbers, beasts!
I don't know how many Han merchants are buried in the reckless wilderness, ten caravans can get one, that is, God blesses, even so, the merchants still keep coming, because the benefits they get are hundreds of times as much!
Compared with the Yue natives, the Han merchants are much more savvy, in order to attract more customers, they organized wonderful performances, won bursts of applause, and between the walks, Xiao Yi was attracted by a few words - Wanwu Merchant Company!
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