Abandoned logging site terrain than the surrounding high, is a large area of flat land, because it has been a few years no longer in use, the flat land is full of weeds. Last year's luxuriant weeds after a cold winter, has long been withered, this year's weeds have just emerged from the land, has not yet grown into the climate, has not yet grown tall and wild all occupy the flat land, it looks desolate sense of inadequacy.
Five broken houses in the logging field on the south side of the flat, east-west direction, three sides have walls, the face of the north has no walls, the original is the use of wooden boards as a door, now because of the abandonment of the good wooden boards door has been removed, only the middle of a left two, which only left the two gates only the bottom of the intact, the wooden door shoulder-high place has been broken a number of holes, probably because of these holes, these two gates can be retained.
Because of the night to guard against ferocious beasts attack, the other four no door, has been densely inserted calf thick tree trunks as a door, to stop the invasion of wild beasts, tree trunks have more than one person high. This thick trunk is already the thickest tree around the lumberyard. At the east end of the ragged house, there were stables with ten horses of different colors, three mules, and three unloaded wagons.
Zhao Xuan followed Ma Ren forward to pay his respects to Zheng Yuming, and Bo Yao hurriedly dismounted his horse and followed in haste; in a strange land, he would not dare to let his lord be left alone, while Zhao's other guards followed the two guards left behind by Ma Ren and drove the horses to the lumberyard to settle down.
Zhao Xuan followed Ma Ren to the front of the broken house, glancing at the ten grazing horses, his eyes couldn't help but narrow, thinking that this benevolent and generous merchant's financial strength was quite good, and with such financial strength, he thought that he had an extraordinary life.
Zhao Xuan's feeling was right, when he saw Zheng Yuming sitting in front of the fire and roasting, even though he had seen a lot, he couldn't help but freeze for a moment, such a handsome young man was too rare.
Zhao Xuan flinched when he saw Zheng Yuming, and Zheng Yuming looked up and froze when he saw Zhao Xuan. He had come to Great Qin from more than three years ago, and he hadn't seen anyone as tall and neat as Zhao Xuan. Zhao Xuan's height was about one meter eight, and compared to the average Wu adult male who was less than one meter six and a half tall, Zhao Xuan's height really made Zheng Yuming look sideways. Zhao Xuan's features and Chu Zhaohui a little similar, just the outline of the face does not have Chu Zhaohui angular, appears much softer, less sharp than Chu Zhaohui, more elegant.
"This person is a merchant from the Kingdom of Chen, a merchant who buys furs, and has come here precisely to seek a place to escape the rain."
Ma Ren's introductory voice brought Zhao Xuan and Zheng Yuming back from their flabbergasted state.
"My humble self, Liang Xuan, thank you for the generosity of your merchant team." Zhao Xuan took a step forward and clasped his hands in salute.
"So you're a fellow traveler, disrespectful, disrespectful, I'm Chu Yu, a native of Lu, dealing in medicinal things." Zheng Yuming quickly stood up and returned the salute towards Zhao Xuan. He borrowed Chu Chaohui's surname, a character from his own name for his name.
"To say is fate, I am the first time to Qimen mountain acquisition of goods, life is not familiar with the place, only heard people say Qimen mountain hunters have fur to be sold, then recklessly come, if not to see your merchant team left on the roadside turnoff mule cart traces, Chu Xuan and escort fellows will have to sleep in the open field, to bear the pain of the miserable rain and cold winds." Zhao Xuan on the first time to meet Zheng Yuming is very good, save the heart of the mutual friendship, so the words with a strong sense of gratitude in it.
"I have not been here before, but I hired a local strong man as a guide to find shelter from the rain. I'm sorry to receive your praise, but I'm just borrowing the flowers to thank you... Borrowing other people's things to do favors, if we really want to thank, we have to thank the original owner of this lumberyard together." Zheng Yuming originally wanted to say borrowed flowers to thank Buddha, said the word Buddha, suddenly realized that there is no Buddha in Great Qin, and hastily shrunk his mouth and changed to a common saying.
"Not bad, we do want to thank the original owner for saving us from the rain pouring over our roofs." Zhao Xuan appreciated Zheng Yuming's frank honesty. "But Mister Liang still has to thank Chu Di for his favor."
"Brother Liang is polite, I see that brother's body is all damp, why don't you go to the fire and roast dry." The other party was kind, Zheng Yuming also warmly invited him, signaling Ma Ren to take a simple wooden stool and place it next to the fire for Zhao Xuan to sit down.
"Then Liang will not be polite." Zhao Xuan smiled brightly and took big strides towards the wooden bench next to the fire.
Just as Zhao Xuan was about to walk to the wooden bench beside Zheng Yuming, the wood 'suddenly' scurried to the front of Zheng Yuming, stopping Zhao Xuan and posing an attacking look at Zhao Xuan.
Zhao Xuan stopped and held with the wooden man-dog.
"Woody! Come here!"
Zheng Yuming smiled awkwardly, he didn't know why the wood's character had changed so much, it turned out that in the twenty-first century, the wood was only very vigilant at night, and people who went to the villa during the daytime such as if they didn't behave strangely, the wood wouldn't give out a warning bark, since being transported to Great Qin by the blue light, the wood turned into a vigilant heart towards anyone other than the master, especially towards taller people, the wood's reaction was even more powerful.
Zheng Yuming felt that it should be the initial hijacking of him by Chu Chao Hui, the appearance of the blue light, and the physiological change of Woody from a big dog to a little puppy that made Woody's temperament change drastically, becoming especially protective of his master and holding a grudge. And Zhao Xuan's cool appearance resembling Chu Chao Hui's figure touched Woody's sensitive dog heart.
When Woody heard his master's order, he let out a 'whimper' and was displeased, but his loyalty to his master made him obediently run to his master's side and crouch next to Zheng Yuming's feet.
"This wolf dog is very heroic." Seeing such a loyal and protective wolf dog, Zhao Xuan nodded his head in praise.
Zheng Yuming dotingly smoothed the dog hair on Woody's back. "Woody just grew up, a bit childish." Not bad, after growing for fourteen years, he had only just reached adulthood again, returning to his old age was what Woody was talking about.
Woody was on guard outside, his dog hair wet from the rain. As soon as Woody was taken care of by his master, he meekly laid down at his master's feet, lying on his own paws and faking a nap, his attention not leaving Zhao Xuan's left and right with his slightly closed doggy eyes.
Zhao Xuan walked to the fire and curiously looked at the folding simple bench that Ma Ren had opened for him, this kind of bench was covered with animal skins as a support for the wooden fork, and could be put away when not in use, making it easy to carry.
"Would you like some fresh tea?" The fire was covered with an iron frame, on which rested a copper kettle, in which was mountain spring water from beside the lumberyard, which had boiled by the time Zhao Xuan sat down on the bench.
"Thanks a lot!" As soon as Zhao Xuan sat down next to the fire, he felt much more comfortable, and if there was a cup of hot tea, it would of course be the best.
Ma Ren nimbly took the tea set, for two people to make hot tea, tea cups are made of bamboo tubes. Zheng Yuming this trip to go out in the field of utensils to solid and convenient to carry the main, like glass porcelain and other utensils because of the bumpy road will be damaged, are excluded from the luggage, and Zheng Yuming on the gold and silver utensils have no hobby, so most of the field eating utensils with bamboo, iron, copper and other materials.
Zhao Xuan held the bamboo cup, Zheng Yuming's merchant identity is certain, he thought, this team of merchants, although the ride advanced, but the utensils are very in line with the often walk outside the configuration, and the utensils of the non-extravagant, more proof of Zheng Yuming's identity as an ordinary merchant.
Zhao Wu Zai Bo Yao followed to the gate of the broken house, glimpsed that only Zheng Yuming was inside the broken house, so he stopped his footsteps and only stood at the entrance of the broken house to observe the surrounding situation. Zheng Yuming's appearance makes people feel unguarded, and compared to Zhao Xuan, who is talented in literature and martial arts, Bo Yao has more confidence in his lord.
The only person in Zhao who has seen Zheng Yuming is Zhao Xuan's shepherd Wu Mian, who was also surprised at Zheng Yuming's handsome face when he met with King Wu Sheng's ministers. However, compared to the outstanding appearance of Zheng Yuming, Wu Mou on the same outstanding appearance of Chu Chao Hui the deepest impression, Chu Chao Hui in that meeting, sang the main role, the aggressive posture of the State of Zhao, so that Wu Mou memorized, Wu Mou back to Zhao Xuan report, Chu Chao Hui described the most important, Zheng Yuming deliberately showed modesty, to Wu Mou to the warm and soft posture. When Wu Mou returned to Zhao Xuan description, Zheng Yuming is a modest beauty.
As for beauty, Bo Yao and Zhao Xuan shared the same belief that beauty was delicate and should be hidden deep in the court house and should not appear in the wild mountains. And Zheng Yuming's slender and upright figure, not at all related to weakness, at the first time, both Bo Yao and Zhao Xuan did not connect the handsome businessman in front of them with the word Zheng Yuming.
Ma Ren poured tea for Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui, then retreated to the door and invited Bo Yao, who was observing the surrounding area, "This good man, please follow me forward to look at the house."
"Please!" Bo Yao hastily clasped his fists in appreciation.
Ma Ren led Bo Yao to the west head and pointed to the two houses on the west side, "These two houses are for your use."
"Thanks a lot!" Bo Yao bent down and offered his hand to show his gratitude, turning back to greet the guards to carry the luggage into the broken house, there was a broken hole in the corner of the broken house, but because of the wind direction, the rainwater that beat in wasn't too much. Zhao Xuan's team didn't carry a tent, when they slept out in the open, Zhao Xuan lived in one of the wagons of the team, and the other guards started a fire on the spot, and slept on the ground next to the fire, and now that there is rain outside, it's a blessing to be able to find a place to shelter from the wind and the rain for the people who slept out in the open.
"North of this lumberyard, there is a large stream with clear water for food and drink." Maren again told Bur Yao where to get the water.
The reason why the lumberyard was built here had something to do with the large stream in the north, the transportation of the logged wood was inconvenient, the stream originated from the Qimen Mountains and flowed from the west to the east, throw the logs into the stream, the stream would transport the logs to the confluence of the rivers below, and from there transport them by wagons for use in the city, the stream helped the owner of the lumberyard to save half of the transportation power.
Bo Yao appreciated each and every one of Ma Ren's kindness, and his defenses against this caravan were then lowered.
The tea that Zheng Yuming entertained Zhao Xuan with was fried tea, the tea was fragrant and cool and sweet in taste, Zhao Xuan loved it.
"This tea is good, is it a specialty of Lu?" The tea that Zhao Xuan drank was boiled, this kind of tea made directly with boiling water had never been seen.
"This is a specialty of Azure Mountain in the Kingdom of Wu, purchased by my family's caravan when they went to sell goods."
Zheng Yuming carrying tea is this year's spring tea, is the Eagle Tribe in the surrounding mountains picked baked good, Tuo Xiong sent a fast horse to Kang City offered to Zheng Yuming drinking. Yu Kui on behalf of Zheng Yuming, tea technology transfer to the Eagle Tribe, and the Eagle Tribe jointly opened a tea company. Eagle Tribe last winter, the surrounding hills on the wild tea trees transplanted to a place, and grafted tea seedlings, three years later, the tea company will have a large number of tea can be sold to the public.
"Ulsan specialty ah!" Zhao Xuan's eyes narrowed slightly, the place of Ulsan touched his nerves. "Has Chu Di ever been to that place?"
"Not yet, this is also the first time I have been sent by my family to Wu to pick up goods." Zheng Yuming lied naturally, a version of this rhetoric was set before he left. The reason why he chose the state of Lu was because Zheng Yuming knew Zhou Cheng's hometown better, Zheng Yuming's language carried a Mandarin accent, and the language of Lu also had a Mandarin accent.
"I heard that there are many novelty goods in that place." Zhao Xuan had already sent people to investigate the source of many luxury goods in the Zhao market, and many clues pointed to Ulsan.
"Not bad, the brocade and silk in Ulsan's south port is exquisite, and all the fabrics used to plant clothes at home are purchased from there. It is said that ceramics and four-wheeled carriages all come from there, if brother Liang is interested, he can go there to purchase." Zheng Yuming this team of people all utensils are from the south port and the valley, afraid of someone to distinguish out to reveal the cloven foot, simply give a source of reason.
Now Nambu has the whole Wu can rely on, no longer afraid of Xiao Xiao prying, Zheng Yuming want to make Nambu Ulsan's industrial products sold to all parts of the Great Qin, of course, have to do publicity for the commercial products there.
"Oh, Mister Liang will definitely go there in the future." Zhao Xuan's heart sank, the products of Wu's Azure Mountain were known even to merchants far away from Lu, so it seemed that they should not be underestimated.
Just as the two of them were talking, Da Niu came in carrying a netful of fish. "My lord! Look what Big Bull caught when he went into the stream behind him!"
Fishnet is made of hemp fiber, hemp fiber is easy to absorb water and swell, easy to rot when wet, such a fishnet on three days, you have to sun two days, three days to fish, two days to sun net idiom is this way.
"..." Zheng Yuming stroked his forehead, is Da Niu making a fool of himself? Isn't calling out to His Excellency betraying his identity?
After yelling, Da Niu catches a glimpse of a stranger sitting next to Jung Yoo Ming, and sees Jung Yoo Ming rubbing his forehead with his hand, realizing that he has spoken out of turn.
"My lord, eh! When did this lord come?" Although Da Niu slipped up, but he remedied the situation quickly, and then addressed Zhao Xuan in the same way, he played the role he was originally identified as, a mountain folk rude and illiterate in etiquette, and it was not strange to address people indiscriminately by their name.
"What's all the yelling about? Come quickly and greet the guest." Zheng Yuming held down the wood that jumped at the sight of a fish with one hand while scolding Da Niu and turning his head to Zhao Xuan, he explained, "This is the guide hired by my caravan, a mountain dweller from this area who doesn't know how to be courteous."
Zhao Xuan was slightly suspicious in his heart when he first heard Da Niu call Zheng Yuming 'Lord', but Da Niu's later address to him dispelled the doubts in his heart.
"There is no hindrance! This strong man is straightforward. Chu Di don't blame him."
"Greetings, my lord!" Da Niu saluted Zhao Xuan as soon as he carried his fish pockets, he felt that he had addressed him wrongly anyway, so he might as well be wrong to the end.
"Be excused!" Zhao Xuan had something to tell Da Niu, and his attitude towards Da Niu was unusually amiable. "I heard that there is a great sage in Qimen Mountain, has the strong man ever seen him?"
Hearing the businessman in front of him suddenly ask about Daehyun, Da Niu could not help but be wary, and he glanced toward Jung Yuming, noticing that he nodded at him, imploring him to speak truthfully.
"Of course I know! Who at the foot of Qimen Mountain doesn't know about Daxian! I've even chopped firewood for Daxian!"
"Oh, can you tell me about Daxian?" Zhao Xuan was happy, being able to know about Daxian from the mouths of the local residents would help him understand Daxian better.
"Daxian came to Qimen Mountain nine years ago, I only know that Daxian's surname is Gongsun, Gongsun Daxian came to live here after helping the surrounding people to make a waterwheel car water irrigation, rain and wind to tell us in advance ...." Da Niu's favorite thing to say about Daxian, since Zheng Yuming told him not to be scrupulous, he talked as much as ever. When Da Niu spoke in detail, Zhao Xuan listened very intently.
Zheng Yuming sip tea, carefully observe Zhao Xuan demeanor, Zhao Xuan's demeanor has a kind of superior person's unique momentum, and Zhao Xuan's special attention to Daxian, let Zheng Yuming suspicious, Da Niu had said, there are many of the side of the power and wealth to ask the Daxian to come out of the mountain, could it be that Zhao Xuan is that side of the power and wealth?