3. Visitors from small towns
Feng Nantian and Huo Mang almost seemed to be crazy. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ ο½ο½ο½ο½
They rowed hard, rowed, rowed, rowed......
The feeling of wanting to dock is stronger than ever.
Not even on the night when the storm hit and almost drowned at the bottom of the sea.
However, they could not get close to the shore.
I don't know if it's because the waves on the sea are too big, or if their strength is too small.
Even more sorrowful, when they struggled to row the tortoiseshell boat, the boat, not only did not get close to the land, but even had a tendency to drift farther and farther with the current.
Fortunately, the people on the land also saw them.
Although it is a city on the sea, there are not many people who can sail far away from the sea.
So, as soon as they appeared at sea level, people on land saw it.
The first to row towards them was the guardian of the city, the city guard.
The city guards wore ornate and cumbersome armor, and drove towards them in a cruise ship far smaller than that produced in Zhongzhou,
One of the city guards, who looked like a leader standing at the bow of the ship, held the hilt of the sword hanging from his waist, pointed at Feng Nantian and Huo Mang on the tortoiseshell boat, and said loudly, "Hey, who are you? Where are you from?"
That Chengwei spoke an ancient language that was completely different from Zhongzhou, but not only Feng Nantian, who was full of poetry and books, understood it, but even the fire of half full poetry and books actually understood, as if someone used an on-site translator to transmit the translated language to his ears at an international forum in later generations.
Feng Nantian saluted them with his fists in the unique demeanor of Confucian scholars in the great country of Middle-earth, and then replied in Zhongzhou dialect: "Xiaosheng is a person from the East of China, just because he relieves his depression and his subordinates go to sea to relax, I don't know what's going on, so I came here, dare to ask what your place is called?"
These words were sour, and the city guard actually understood.
He waved his hand at the subordinates who were waiting behind him, motioned for them to put away their longbows and crossbows, and said loudly: "Oh, it turned out to be from Zhongzhou, come here!"
Feng Nantian looked at them, pointed to his tortoiseshell boat, and shrugged his shoulders and made a very helpless expression.
The leader of the city guard seemed to understand something, and with a wave of his hand, his subordinates released a zipline towards Feng Nantian's tortoiseshell boat.
Hooks made of fine iron were hooked into the side of their ship.
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With all his strength, he dragged the boat ashore.
Huo Mang was a little frightened, and whispered, "Young Master, who are they?"
Feng Nantian said: "Looking at their vulgar appearance of rhinoplasty, blue eyes and yellow hair, they must be the rumored Western barbarians." β
Huo Mang shrank and said, "Young Master, I once heard that barbarians in some places like to eat people the most. β
Feng Nantian said: "Hugh is talking nonsense, only uncivilized barbarians can do such barbaric things, I see that their gestures even have a rare politeness in our Zhongzhou people, and besides, this city seems to be so prosperous, it should be a civilized country, and will never do such a rude thing." β
As he spoke, he suddenly bared his teeth and said, "If they are man-eating barbarians, I will throw you out first, you see that you have a fat head and big ears, it will definitely suit their appetite." β
Huo Mang was so frightened that he almost knelt down, and said again and again: "Young master, don't, at sea, I shouldn't have stolen dried fish." Young master, don't throw me out, the villain will never dare to be greedy in the future. β
Feng Nantian slapped him the back of the head and said, "Look at your dead appearance, it's really embarrassing to the young master, okay, I'm joking for you." I remember that there seems to be such a record in a certain book, saying that in the west of the vast sea, there lived a group of blue-eyed, yellow-haired, rhinoplasty people, with the same degree of civilization as Zhongzhou, and were called Westerners, right...... I remember they also had a song that went like this: On the other side of the mountain, on the other side of the sea, there is a group of Westerners, they are lively and intelligent......" (Isn't the melody a little familiar?)
Although Feng Nantian and Huo Mang had long been prepared to be surprised, they were still taken aback.
It's not because these Westerners want to eat them raw, but because almost all of them put down their work, run out of their homes, pour into the streets, watch them, and keep pointing and pointing: "Hey, look at it, foreigners and foreigners! I said that his second uncle, you old people are well-informed and travel from south to north, do you know who they are? Look at their skin, why is it so yellow? It's like." Why are their noses so straight? It's as if they've been run over by a wagon. Hey, they're still black-haired and black-eyed...... Could it be a variant of the Big Bear?"
The one he called the second master slapped the back of the head of the man who spoke, and scolded loudly: "Net nonsense, is there such a good-looking big bear in the world? Wait a minute, hey, my goddess, the two of them can't be the legendary Zhongzhou people, right?"
This kind of scene is a bit similar to the situation when people in Dongtu Zhongzhou meet foreigners for the first time.
At that time, the scene was almost a little out of control.
If it weren't for the guards who escorted them, the enthusiastic Westerners would have almost stripped them of their clothes.
At that time, the Westerners were full of curiosity about Zhongzhou, which was located in the Eastern Continent, and the rumors of some irresponsible barnyard officials made everyone believe that Dongtu was a prosperous world full of gold and diamonds, and everyone living there had a sense of wealth and nobility.
Therefore, the whole city regarded him as a wealthy man from the East who came to scatter his wealth.
Even if you don't get the reward of these two rich men, being able to touch their bodies and tear a strip of cloth from them can bring them wealth.
So, you touch it, he touches it...... Endless.
Moreover, every time he touches it, Feng Nantian and Huo Mang's bodies will have an extra black handprint, and the clothes on their bodies will have one less strip of cloth.
If the march continued, they had no choice but to swim naked.
Fortunately, the station where the foreigners were to rest was not very far from the shore where they were docking.
The chief of the city guards who escorted them temporarily placed them in the post station, and let the post man eat and drink like a god of wealth, and went to report to his superiors.
Feng Nantian and Huo Mang stayed in the post station like this.
But the king, the lord of the city, seemed to have forgotten them, and never summoned the two strange men from the east.
However, the inhabitants of the city were always concerned about their existence.
Every day, local nobles and wealthy merchants would come to the post station to pay their respects and test whether the two wealthy men from Middle-earth had any ideas of trading.
Looking at the boxes and cabinets of gold and silver coins they brought, Feng Nantian really wanted to trade with them.
But he really couldn't offer anything to trade with them.
Of course, if they thought that the clothes on his Feng Nantian and Huo Mang's bodies, which had been moldy, sour, and smelly for an unknown amount of time, were babies who wanted to trade with him, he would never object.
It's a pity that those people don't seem to be asking for that.