Yazhou is not as prosperous and lively as Quanzhou, and there is no Yaxing here, replaced by Shibosi.
All merchants who travel north and south and do business across regions need to have a "certificate" in hand, which is equivalent to the ID card from the previous life.
Xu Ling's shipping department showed that he had carried the official certificate with him, which meant that he had entered Yazhou legally and could do business here.
I have to say that the weather in Yazhou is really different from that in Quanzhou. Although both belong to the south, it was snowing in Quanzhou not long ago, but the weather in Yazhou is sunny and sunny, and the temperature is suitable.
The people on the street were wearing single clothes and doing business in a language they couldn't understand. Many of them had to use both hands and mouth to communicate.
However, there are also some special groups of people who understand Mandarin and some local languages, so they can act as intermediaries between foreign businessmen and locals.
When Xu Ling first arrived in a strange place, he did not take action immediately. Instead, he walked around, observing and understanding with his own eyes.
Yazhou here is different from the previous life. This is a barren land. Except for this small town, looking outside, the tall trees in the virgin forest make people feel chilly. Not to mention the changeable weather here and the typhoons that visit every year.
The land is vast and sparsely populated, and the imperial court does not pay much attention to this place. In addition to some aboriginal people, there are also some special residents, those who committed crimes or were relegated and exiled here.
They settled here, multiplied, and knew some Mandarin, but their lives were no different from the aborigines here.
There are no tea shops here, instead there are coconut stalls that can be seen everywhere on the streets. A coconut only costs three pennies, which is high quality and cheap.
Xu Ling asked for one, opened the coconut, inserted the rhizome of an unknown hollow plant to serve as a straw, and walked on the street with it, quite leisurely.
"Give it! Come on! Is there anyone who can help him?"
"What's up with him?"
"We were cutting down trees in the forest, and he suddenly fell to the ground and foamed at the mouth! I don't know what happened!"
"That's bad. Either he was bitten by a snake or crawled by a poisonous spider. It's hopeless. It's hopeless."
An old man wearing a raincoat and straw sandals, holding a bamboo pole in his hand and carrying a fishing net behind his back, walked out of the crowd and asked someone to put the injured person on the ground.
Squatting down and skillfully pulling off the injured man's clothes, Xu Ling stood in the crowd of spectators and saw that the man gradually lost his breath in a few breaths, his face became more and more livid, his body twitched, and foam kept pouring from his mouth. out.
Even if Daluo Jinxian comes, it will be difficult to save him.
The old man had just pulled off the man's shirt when he suddenly shouted "Give me!"
Everyone was startled and quickly moved away. Xu Ling also hid further away and saw a large colorful spider crawling out of the man's armpit. The old man stepped directly over the man and trampled him to death with his straw sandal. spider.
"She is actually a poisonous widow! How pitiful!"
The spider was trampled to death, and the bitten man lost his breath. The old man sat back beside him again, took out a string of wooden beads from his clothes, put his other hand on the man's head, and muttered something. Purana Sutra.
On the other side, the deceased's companions hugged each other and cried.
Xu Ling learned from their chats with others that these people were not locals in Yazhou, but laborers from elsewhere. They came to Yazhou with their employers to cut trees and pick betel nuts to support their families.
"His wife just got pregnant. How am I going to explain to his family when I get back?"
The leading man burst into tears and was extremely sad.
"Hey, then why don't you wear long pants, long sleeves and tie your trouser legs?"
The old man who was reciting sutras stood up and said earnestly and consolingly: "Now that the matter has come to this, you must take this as a lesson. You must never wear shorts and go into the jungle. Don't talk about poisonous spiders. Even those ants and bugs can be eaten by you." All the suffering.”
Xu Ling was most afraid of these strange insects and spiders. Goosebumps were rising and his hair was standing on end. He swore in his heart that he would never venture into the jungle.
"I don't know!" The crying man was also confused. They just came to Yazhou yesterday and were called to work today. No one told them this. They just thought it was similar to their hometown and talked and laughed while working. Laughing, "He just said that he could make a lot of money just by cutting down a few trees, and he wanted to buy a gold hairpin for his wife when he went back! How did it become like this?"
The merchant who brought them here was a fellow businessman from their hometown. He knew that the price of agarwood and other spices here in Yazhou was high, so he came here to cut down trees, hoping to transport them back and sell them at a high price.
As for the money given to the tree cutter, it is far less than the price that an agarwood tree can be sold for.
Most of the locals are aware of the dangers in the woods, and are extremely cautious when accepting jobs, and they ask for more money.
Compared with locals who pay high wages and are picky, many businessmen will deliberately conceal the facts, deceive their fellow villagers, and use their lives to fill the hole of desire.
Xu Ling looked extremely helpless. Like most people watching the excitement, he had no other choice but to accept this painful lesson.
I can only remind you: "Don't cry anymore. Take your friends and find the businessman quickly. Ask him for as much money as you can."
Someone looked back at Xu Ling and saw that he was carrying a baggage and dressed like a businessman from a foreign country. He only thought about money when it came to his life. His hatred suddenly shifted and he cursed: "A businessman is a businessman! How heartless and unjust!"
"Hey, you can eat whatever you want, but don't talk nonsense." Although Xu Ling was used to being scolded for his status as a businessman, he still couldn't help but defend: "I'm doing this for his own good. People can't be resurrected after death, but his family can't." He has to live. If crying can make someone cry alive, we can all help him cry together, but since that can't happen, what's wrong with me thinking about his family?"
Xu Ling spoke with righteousness on his face, and after speaking, he took another sip of coconut milk.
His words were nice, but he seemed heartless.
Some people don't like him, so they stay away from him and don't associate with him.
Some people think Xu Lingyan is reasonable.
For example, Bao Li, a fellow villager of the deceased, hesitated and asked: "But what if he doesn't give it?"
"Since you are fellow villagers and people he recruited, if you die because of your work, how can he not deny it?"
Xu Ling frowned. The relationship between fellow villagers nowadays is not as simple as in the past life. No matter how evil-hearted a businessman is and does evil things to his fellow villagers, his family's ancestral graves will probably not be spared from disaster.
Soon, Gu Hong, a businessman from the same town as Baoli and others, came and cried a few times when he saw the deceased.
After just a few words, he immediately wiped his tears and began to distance himself from the relationship.
"Bao Li, when a few of you from the same village came out with me, we signed a contract and agreed that we would be responsible for any casualties. I am running a small business, but since we are fellow villagers, after the trees are cut down, I will pay more Your three taels of silver can be considered as his funeral expenses, what do you think?"
As soon as this statement came out, there was an uproar.
More and more people were watching the excitement, and Xu Ling was reluctant to leave.
Bao Liqi's face turned livid, "Gu Hong, when you tricked us into cutting down trees, you didn't tell us that there would be such a danger! Could it be that three taels of silver can buy my brother's life?"
