Chapter Sixty-Nine: Dongmulao County
Dua Niu was asked by Suifeng like this, and actually stopped on the spot, and looked at Suifeng and Takahashi with some hesitation.
Sui Feng caught a glimpse of him hesitating, and didn't say much, but only paused for a moment, turned around, and walked towards the dock below. At this time, Ah Niu reacted suddenly, apologized to Takahashi, and hurriedly chased in the direction of the wind.
Sui Feng heard the footsteps following him, and the corners of his mouth only raised, but he didn't say anything. It's just that no matter how smart Sui Feng is, he definitely didn't expect that Du Aniu would follow him through this strange environment, not really because he broke through the closed mouth because of his words.
Dua Niu has no other skills, what he is best at is watching popularity and talking. Suifeng has been from a prominent family since he was a child, and his temperament and demeanor are not owned by ordinary people. What's more, he later learned martial arts, which added a bit of dust and closeness to nature, if ordinary people imitate it, they can't pretend to be it. And Ah Niu himself went to Takahashi's house, and it was difficult for him to have a way out with his ability, but it was different with the wind. The martial arts knowledge of the wind is in front of you, and the day of coming out will not be far away. As long as he is reused by the wind, then as a brother who follows him, how can his status be worse?
Sui Feng thought that Ah Niu had really changed his mind, but unexpectedly almost caused big trouble in the future.
Takahashi stood quietly on the deck, and the noise and excitement around him didn't seem to affect him at all. A person quietly walked out of the shadows behind him, leaned into his ear, and asked in Japanese, "This young man is definitely a master, isn't it a pity to let him go like this?"
Takahashi smiled casually, but replied in Chinese: "It's okay, he's just going around in a circle." ”
At this time, Sui Feng had already taken Ah Niu down from the boat to the dock, and it was so noisy all around, so naturally he wouldn't hear what Takahashi on the deck was saying.
As soon as the two of them reached the ground, the people of Fusang, who had come to greet the envoy ship, saw the pure Middle-earth costumes of the two of them, and immediately surrounded them, and began to talk and gesticate.
"There are so many people here, are they all here to welcome us? What did they say?" Ah Niu couldn't help but be a little nervous when he was surrounded by so many people for the first time.
With the wind frowning, he and Mr. Takahashi learned Fuso Chinese for less than a month, and even if the same words were put into the mouths of different people, the sound was different. After pondering for a long time, he replied to them in non-standard Japanese, somewhat unconvinced, and pointed in Mr. Takahashi's direction. Then he said to Ah Niu: "I didn't fully understand, as if I was asking if we had successfully arrived in Datang and what we brought back from there?"
After saying a word with the wind, the people around him immediately dispersed and headed towards Mr. Takahashi.
But some of the remaining people muttered again, and their eyes stared at Sui Feng with even more admiration.
"What's going on?" Ah Niu leaned back and leaned in with the wind, as if he was a little scared.
"I just said that I didn't send Tang envoys, but people from Middle-earth. I didn't fully understand what they said, it was roughly that they welcomed us here, and there were other things, as if they admired Datang very much. Sui Feng tilted his head and whispered to Ah Niu.
It was as if someone in the crowd could see that Suifeng was not proficient in Japanese, so someone stood up and spoke slowly while gesturing. "You mean...... Want us... Stay? and ...... Tell... Soil...... You guys?" guessed the meaning as he watched the gesture in the wind. I finally got a rough idea of what it meant.
Seeing that their costumes were all made of coarse linen and simply braided, compared to the silk of the south of the Middle River was simply heaven and earth. From this point of view alone, Fuso's backwardness and poverty can be seen. ...,
But each of them had a longing glint in their eyes, and they were shocked when they saw Suifeng. If you want to talk about Middle-earth and Fuso, this is a gap of thousands of years, and it can be said that there is a difference between cloud and mud in comparison. Decades ago, Fuso gave rise to a wave of national oriental learning, which is the embodiment of the desire for progress and development. And the eyes of the Fuso people who surrounded him conveyed such a message.
However, from the monarch to the lazy and lascivious and lascivious, down to the common people, they boast that they are in a prosperous era of a powerful country and do not take the world in their eyes.
How long can Middle-earth be strong? 100 years, or 1,000 years? After this period of time, which of Middle-earth and Fuso will be stronger or weaker?
Just as Sui Feng fell into his own thoughts and couldn't help but sigh, a woman who looked very old also came to the outside of the crowd. Seeing the old man coming, the reaction of the surrounding crowd was very peculiar, as if they had seen something they didn't want to see, they gave way to the surroundings, and the old woman arrived in front of them very smoothly.
"Guests from afar, such a long distance must be tired, go to the old home to rest. As soon as she opened her mouth, it turned out to be standard Chinese!
Not only did Ah Niu not expect it, but he didn't expect it even with the wind.
The old woman glanced at the two of them, and said with a smile: "The two of you don't need to doubt the old body, the old body opened a hotel inn in this East Mulou County, and I want to invite two distinguished guests to the old body hotel as guests." "It's better with the wind, Ah Niu simply engraved the words of disbelief and doubt on his face.
Sui Feng and Dua Niu were both pensive and did not answer.
Seeing the worries and doubts in the hearts of the two, the old woman continued: "The two of you who have just come to Fusang must be extremely unfamiliar with everything here. Without the guidance of the locals, it would be difficult for the two of them to do what they wanted to do and who they wanted to find. It's better to go to the old woman's hotel to rest for a few more days, and wait for the old man to explain all kinds of matters in Fusang to you. ”
The old woman seemed to say it casually, Suifeng and Ah Niu were both slightly shocked, and Ah Niu's face was a little more awkward, and anyone with a discerning eye could see the nervousness in his heart. With the wind, he didn't skim it, and he didn't seem to see Ah Niu's abnormality at all.
Sui Feng looked at the crowd around him, and he was very messy Fusang Chinese, and he didn't know anything about Fusang, and indeed as she said, she needed to find a local person to get to know better. Otherwise, whether it is to live in a certain family or to venture on your own in the future, it will be extremely beneficial.
After thinking about it carefully, what this old woman said was indeed very reasonable, so she nodded and said, "Since my mother-in-law is so hospitable, it is not easy to refuse." Well, it's bothering over there. ”
The old woman laughed twice, and the wrinkles on her face seemed to be gathered together, and even her eyes were narrowed so that she could barely see them.
"You follow the old man, the inn is not far from here, in the middle of the county. The old woman said, and turned away.
The so-called county in Fuso and Middle-earth are not exactly the same concept. The county refers to the huge amount in Middle Earth, and there were only 36 counties in the country at the beginning of the Qin Dynasty. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "ten thousand households become marquis, and thousands of households become counties". In Fusang, it is much smaller, similar to the market town and county, although there are also merchants from all over the world, but their group is very small, and the logistics turnover in each place is also very limited. It is far from being comparable with the kind of international traveler and merchant exchange in Datang.
However, this place is surrounded by a natural harbor, and the exchanges with various envoys and merchant ships of the Tang Dynasty are quite frequent. The two of them followed the old woman out of the port and entered the town, and the people they saw were moving, and all kinds of shops, although the scale was not large, but they were also very exquisite. ...,
Not long to the old woman's inn, the triangular sloping roof is very similar to the style of Middle-earth, but the slope is larger, the whole inn is made of wood, there is no earth and stone structure. The most distinctive thing is that the bottom of the wooden house hangs half a foot in the air, just like the ethnic groups living in the rainforest in Dali in Middle-earth. Outside the wooden house, there is a wooden plaque with two Chinese characters "Wangtang" on it.
"Come on in, don't stand stupidly outside. The old woman opened the door, and Ah Niu followed into the house, and Sui Feng was still looking around outside the house, and couldn't help but remind with a smile.
Sui Feng reacted at this time, smiled a little awkwardly, and stepped into the store.
When I entered the door, I found that the furniture in the hotel was all in the style of the Tang Dynasty, which was both cordial and nostalgic. The only difference is that there is a wooden statue at the entrance, and a statue of a god is placed in the wooden silk, and he only glanced at it in a hurry with the wind, and this statue is dressed in the style of the Qin Dynasty in the Middle Earth, and I don't know which god it is worshipping. Maybe it's not the gods and Buddhas of Middle-earth at all.
"The inn I opened was always very crowded, but someone gave me an idea to change it to the style of the Tang Dynasty. Unexpectedly, after such a change, the inn was full every day, and some young people in the neighborhood especially wanted to go to Middle-earth to have a look, but how could Middle-earth be so easy to go? The old woman swept the floor and smiled kindly.
The old woman is still bending over to take care of such a large shop at such an age, and fortunately someone has come up with such a method. Sui Feng also had a little compassion in his heart, looked at the unknown god statue in the wood in front of him, and asked casually: "Old woman, you are so old, don't you hire someone to share some of the work in the store?"
The old woman smiled, swept to the feet of Suifeng with a broom, saw the wooden silk in front of Suifeng at a glance, and said with a smile: "It's not troublesome, fortunately there is the protection of the emperor, and the old body is busy moving even though he is old." Why bother to hire others so much, besides, the young people nowadays are all high-spirited, so naturally they don't look down on our small land here. ”
Sui Feng only responded, but his heart was clear for a while, it turned out that this wooden qi was dedicated to the legendary Emperor Shenmu of Fusang, but why was this emperor dressed as Qin Shi?
The old woman seemed to have a premonition of something, raised her head, and said with a smile: "By the way, I almost forgot, you came from Middle Earth, I don't know if you have heard of the warlock Xu Fu?"
Du Aniu only thought that Sui Feng was chatting with the old woman about family life, and he didn't care, but Sui Feng was suddenly startled, and almost all of his things all the way were related to Xu Fu. This is true of the dragon platform, and so is the mysterious sword technique he has learned. Suppressing the eagerness in his heart, he pretended to be careless and said: "The warlock Xu Fu is the most favored alchemist by the side of the First Emperor of Qin, and it is said that he once led three thousand boys and girls to seek immortals in the East China Sea. The name is so loud, how can you not hear of it?"
The old woman raised her head and smiled kindly, "Then you definitely don't know that on the outskirts of this Dongmulao County is the tomb of Xu Fu Warlock." ”
Xu Fu's tomb turned out to be in Fusang? Didn't it mean that there was no trace of him after he went to sea to seek immortals, how could there be any tomb in this place? Sui Feng's face was full of shock, and he was speechless for a long time.