Valkyrie Returns

Chapter 19 Shopping in the Bazaar 1 Step Count

Before Lu Bu set off, he had planned long ago that he would take Xiuyuan on a tour of the Northland along the way. Apart from the bad guys from the personal guards, the only person he would bring with him was Cao Xing, whom Xiuyuan had specially explained.Because there are not many people, it is very convenient and flexible to move.

Xiu Yuan looked at the new carriage up and down, and found that the interior lining of the carriage was made of azure felt cloth, which was naturally made by the Huns in the North.From the frequency of Chitu's horseshoe sound, Xiuyuan knew that they were walking very slowly, but the howling north wind outside still rattled the shafts of the car, obviously the weather was bad.

Xiu Yuan twitched the finger that was pressed by Lu Bu on his palm, but failed, turned his head and smiled at Lu Bu, and took the lead in breaking the silence in the carriage: "Master, it's so cold outside, why bother to let those half-grown guards The children are suffering, so let's walk faster." Lu Bu shook his head and did not answer, but just opened the curtain of the car casually, revealing a corner of the bustling market.

It turned out that the muffled sounds that Xiuyuan heard were not the whistling of the north wind, but the cries of foreigners in the Beidi market in an unknown language: "This is Shawar, the market place of the Huns." Today seems to be a festival of the Huns, the street market is very lively, it is rare to come to Mobei, how about going down to have a look?"

Xiuyuan nodded heavily: "It's a rare opportunity, so I'll go and see it. The more people there are, the more information I can get. There are many brave and good fighters among the Xiongnu tribe. Who is the real ruler of the Xiongnu tribe? What we are most concerned about is, after all, Xiliang is adjacent to Mobei, if we can establish a good relationship with the Xiongnu tribe in advance, we will be able to fight for three parts of the world in the future."

After finishing speaking, Xiu Yuan climbed onto the back of Chitu's horse with the curtain raised by Lu Bu and talked to Tang Wu who was driving: "Xiao Wuer, since we are in a crowded place, it is obviously a burden to carry such a big carriage. Find a few people to deal with the carriage together, and ask Xiao Shi to come see me quickly, and Master Hou and I will go down and take a walk first."

Tang Wu nodded and accepted the order, and took the noose of the carriage from Chitu's neck. After a few vertical leaps, he disappeared from Xiu Yuan's sight. Xiu Yuan opened his mouth to say something, but seeing Tang Wu had already left, he had to be embarrassed. He rolled off the Chitu horse's back, but fortunately the Chitu horse was standing still so that Xiuyuan wouldn't fall on all fours in the street.

As soon as Lu Bu got out of the car, he saw Xiuyuan's light-colored clothes covered with dust, frowned slightly, and swept it with his palm: "Why is it so urgent, why don't you come down with me? To wrestle."

Xiuyuan took advantage of the situation and pulled Lu Bu close to him and put it close to his ear, "Fengxian, there are two or three people on the right who have been staring at Chitu, are they harboring evil intentions?"

Lu Bu smiled brightly and said, "Qinghe, you are overthinking. When I was young, my father and I visited the Huns several times. The Huns only robbed gold, silver and women, and never robbed horses. Horses are super important to every Hun." It is more important than imagined, so they will definitely not put their wrong ideas on the horses, if you don’t believe me, just wait, in less than an hour, there will definitely be nobles from the Huns sending people to buy horses.”

After listening to Lu Bu's words, Xiuyuan's eyes lit up and he said happily, "Since that's the case, then as long as we walk around this market, the dignitaries of the Xiongnu will naturally come to our door. It's really very convenient."

Although Lu Bu didn't quite understand why Xiu Yuan was so happy, he also laughed out loud, "Since there's nothing to do now, it's not bad to simply go shopping in the market seriously, since we came out of Jiuyuan, we haven't been so leisurely for a long time. "

"But Marquis, we don't understand the language of the Huns at all, so how do we buy things?" Because he left the carriage, Xiu Yuan could hear all kinds of sounds in the market more clearly than before, but even if he No matter how hard I try to open my ears, I can't understand what these strangely pronounced words mean.

"I have been to Shawar several times. I remember that there is a red rope tied next to the storefront of the Huns, and there are bells on the rope. If the customers do not understand the Huns, most of the Huns who do business can write Chinese characters. , Fortunately, Qinghe, your small script is very beautiful, otherwise, Lord Hou, I would really lose face in front of those bad boys." Lu Bu walked to a stall selling glutinous rice cakes with great interest. He shook the bell on the red string.

Standing in the shadow behind Lu Bu, Xiu Yuan carefully observed the slender figure of the Hun merchant. He was quite surprised. When the stall owner got closer, Xiu Yuan realized that the shop owner was actually a man with a veil covering his face. , A young woman who has not yet left the pavilion, I saw that woman stretched out her thin white wrist covered with bracelets and thin bells, and calmly wrote on the apricot-yellow bamboo piece in front of her: "Fifty Wen a furnace."

Xiu Yuan slightly turned sideways to look carefully at the windless automatic stove beside the woman, reckoning that the so-called one stove would not be too heavy, so he picked up a pen and wrote three characters on the bamboo slice, the woman seemed extremely Surprised, he was stunned for a long time before soaking the bamboo slices in the kettle at his feet to wash them clean, and handing over dozens of glutinous cakes to Xiuyuan in a delicately woven bamboo basket.

Seeing that the bamboo basket was exquisite and beautiful, Xiu Yuan was about to write and then asked the price of the basket, but was embarrassed to find that he had no money on him, so he tugged on Lu Bu's sleeve in a hurry: "Master, do you have any money on you?" Before Yuan finished speaking, he heard the woman who bought the glutinous cake chuckle lightly.

Her smile made Lu Bu's expression stiff, and he hurriedly dragged Xiu Yuan back to the middle of the road without taking any cakes, pointed at the woman in purple and asked sharply, "Since you have martial arts and can understand the Central Plains dialect, why are you here?" Do you still want to do business in the market?"

The woman was not angry when Lu Bu gave him such a cold look, but she asked in a cold voice: "The government has never issued a rule that people who practice martial arts cannot do business, let alone this is a century-old market called Shawar. Anyone who has lived in Mobei for three years can do business here."

The woman said to Lu Bu that she still didn't forget to sell and yell in the Hun language with the basket of freshly baked glutinous ointment in her hand, and she didn't intend to entangle Lu Bu at all.Xiuyuan heard the woman tell about her life in the Xiongnu for three years, guessing that she was not a tight-lipped person, so she raised her hand and knocked on Lu Bu's head several times as soon as she turned her eyes, and said with a smile: "This What the girl said is that my guards were too careful when I went out for the first time, but my servants have gone to work and have no money on me. Please ask the boss to save those glutinous ointments for me first, and stop selling them. Two masters are always wrong."

Lu Bu was beaten several times by Xiu Yuan for no reason, seeing Xiu Yuan apologizing to the woman, he rushed forward to cooperate with him and clasped his fists, which was quite a bit of a knight-errant: "I was being rude just now, I hope the boss Haihan .”

When the purple-clothed woman saw Lu Bu's deliberate low-key posture, a bit of disgust suddenly appeared on her brows: "Although I don't know what kind of tricks you two are playing, I just heard you call this big man to act Marquis, why did the master and servant change when I came here?"

Seeing that the woman didn't believe her, Xiu Yuan became more and more convinced that the woman was not an ordinary person, so he took out the bronze mirror he found from Qin Jue from his sleeve and handed it over: "Although I have never traveled far, I have never traveled far. I’ve heard quite a few people say that people’s hearts are sinister, and that name is just a deception, if you don’t believe me, please look at this mirror, is it a precious thing?”