This is a young man with a somewhat dull face, and his youthful features are obscured by the aura of dust. It is easy to misjudge his age without careful observation.
He was wearing coarse cloth clothes, with a package hanging on his chest, and three slightly rusty straight knives slung on his back. This kind of knife was not common in Jiang State.
One of his hands was hanging down naturally, and the other hand was holding a little girl with short hair. The girl's face was dusty, and the dirt covered her face, but after careful inspection, she could tell that she was older than a teenager. Smaller.
When Wei Feng looked at them, the boy was also looking at Wei Feng, with probing, vigilant and defensive eyes. The little girl lowered her head to look at her feet, hiding her face under her bangs.
This combination of big and small immediately attracted Wei Feng's attention, and he walked straight over there.
When the young man saw Wei Feng approaching, he subconsciously wanted to touch behind him with his free hand, but his arm only moved slightly and immediately stopped, his movements a little stiff.
Wei Feng had been observing the two of them. He noticed that almost at the moment when the boy's arm was about to be raised, the little girl next to him held his hand and tightened it for a few minutes. This small movement attracted Wei Feng's attention.
He walked to the young man's side in a few steps, chuckled and said, "Hello, my name is Wei Feng, what's your name?"
The young man adjusted his position slightly before he approached, half-protecting the girl behind him. Facing Wei Feng's smile, he reacted a bit dullly and did not make a corresponding expression in time. He just replied in a low voice: "Buji."
"What?" Wei Feng didn't hear clearly.
Bu Ji repeated it again, as if he had just remembered to smile back when faced with a smile, but the smile on his face was really stiff.
Wei Feng asked curiously: "Are you going to Tianyang City? Or somewhere?"
Although the caravan's destination was Tianyang City, it had to pass through many large and small counties along the way.
"Tianyang City." Buji's words were very concise.
It was time for the caravan to gather. None of the passengers in the caravan knew each other. Seeing Wei Feng and the others talking, they naturally paid attention. Although the young man looked dusty, if you look closely, you can tell his age. Still small.
Several tourists dressed in ordinary clothes around them couldn't help but joked: "How come you three children have to go so far, and the adults at home don't care about you?"
Wei Feng and Bu Ji both looked at him, watching the speaker quietly without saying a word.
For some reason, the man was slightly coldly stared at by the two of them, and turned his head angrily, before the two of them looked away.
Wei Feng asked curiously: "Where did you come from? This trip is not close. I heard that it will take at least tomorrow night to reach the next town. Do you have enough dry food?"
He saw that the package between the two of them was not big, so he asked this question. In fact, he said the second half of the sentence just so that the first sentence would not be too abrupt. This kind of seemingly caring words can always lighten the atmosphere.
Buji: "Mottled Lake, enough." He seemed to be thinking before he said enough, and what he said was extremely serious.
"Mottled Lake!" Before Wei Feng could answer, the man next to him exclaimed again. It was obvious that this place name was somewhat special.
Wei Feng looked at that man in confusion, as did several other people around him.
Seeing everyone looking at him, the man pretended to be surprised and said, "Don't you all know about Spotted Lake?"
As if it was time to show off, the man raised his voice and said, "You know One Hundred Thousand Barren Mountains, right?"
"Nonsense, who among us in Changping County doesn't know about the Shiwan Barren Mountains?" Another person sneered.
"Do you know where the other side of the Hundred Thousand Barren Mountains is?" the man asked again.
"Is there another side?" The person who just spoke was a little surprised.
At this time, another commoner who had been listening chuckled and said: "The Zhou Kingdom is said to be as big a country as our Jiang Kingdom."
"That's right!" The man clapped his hands and said, "The Zhou State is as big as my Jiang State, and what a bullshit Yu State was. It was founded before the old locust tree at the gate of our city has grown."
These words resonated with the people around them, and they burst into laughter. One of Jiang Guoren's favorite things was to tease Yu Guo.
"You haven't mentioned the mottled lake yet." After the laughter, one person reminded.
"Don't worry, I was about to say it." The man cleared his throat: "You know the Shiwan Barren Mountains, and do you know the Hengduan Valley?"
No one answered this time, and a smile appeared on the man's face unconsciously: "I don't know, Hengduan Valley is in the northwest of Changping County, and it takes several days to reach it by horseback.
It is said that the cliffs on both sides of the valley are straight, as if cut in half by a knife, so it is named Hengduan Valley. Passing through the Hengduan Valley, the other side is the Kingdom of Zhou. "
"Then what does this have to do with the mottled lake?" One person couldn't help but asked, impatient that he kept pretending.
"Of course it does matter. You can reach the Kingdom of Zhou through the Hengduan Valley, so who do you think would go there? Of course they are some desperate people. Who among ordinary merchants would dare to go straight through the Hundred Thousand Mountains?
Many wanted criminals, or those fleeing from their enemies, ran to the Hengduan Valley. When there were too many people, they had to eat, drink, and have sex. Later, someone built a small town at this end of the Hengduan Valley, and that town was called Spotted Lake. . "
"Why should such a good town be called Lake?" someone else couldn't help but said.
"Then how would I know to go? Everyone calls him that anyway." The man continued to chat with the people around him about some of the things he had heard from others. Wei Feng was no longer interested and turned back.
At this time, a gong was beaten in front of the caravan, attracting everyone's attention. The man who beat the gong loudly told everyone that the time had come and it was time for the caravan to set off. The convoy drove away from the city in a mighty manner. .
Since they had just set off, everyone was full of energy and energy, and as they had just gotten to know each other, it was inevitable that there would be times when they looked after each other along the way, so everyone was chatting quite happily, and Wei Feng also heard a lot of information from their conversations. .
For example, this Shengshi Trading Company, unlike Jucai Trading Company, a local snake in Yanzhou, Shengshi's industries are spread all over Jiang State, and the industries involved are intricate. The management of this large chamber of commerce is naturally more sophisticated.
Shengshi Chamber of Commerce adopts a five-level shopkeeper management system. The one who handles business for Wei Feng is the first-level shopkeeper, who is responsible for various businesses that directly connect with small customers. The second-level shopkeeper handles larger customers and businesses that bring in money faster, and those above are responsible for it. The principal shopkeeper in a region, such as Changping County, is the third-level shopkeeper.
As for the fourth- and fifth-level shopkeepers, these idiots only heard about it and did not understand the business division of labor.
Another example is the several big cities passed along the way, as well as the routes of major chambers of commerce, etc. These travelers can tell a lot about the local customs, culture, and local customs. From their tone, it seems that they have been traveling a lot in these years.
