The so-called market town is just a village with a slightly dense population. Outside the canyon entrance formed by the two mountains, a large area of ​​houses appeared, most of which were thatched huts, but there were also several conspicuous wooden houses. Although the houses were old, they were well repaired. No houses were found that were even more dilapidated than Chen Xu's family. Because there are more populations here, they looked prosperous. The clothes worn by people coming and going were at least neat and tidy, and they were definitely not as ragged as those on Chen Xu and others.

Of course, not all the good ones are worn, and there are many people who are ragged and like beggars. They carry baskets and vine baskets on their backs, as if they are all from nearby villages to buy and sell things.

When Chen Xu and his group appeared in the market town and looked at the big snake seven or eight meters long on the big bamboo pole being carried by the two people, people on both sides of the street were alarmed.

Countless people ran out of the room and saw that it was strange. A group of children followed Chen Xu and others and kept shouting. So before the group could reach the center of the town, the inside and the outside were already surrounded by people.

"I can't walk anymore, so I'll sell it here!" Uncle Ma waved his hand, and a group of people put down the vine basket and backpack, and then used two tree branches to hang the snake up quickly, but most of it fell to the ground.

"Where are you from?" A middle-aged man in a half-new and half-old linen gown asked loudly in the crowd.

Uncle Ma frowned slightly and clasped his fists and said to the people around him: "We are from Xiaohe Village twenty miles away. Today we hunted a mountain pit of 900 kilograms and a big snake of 4 feet long. We came to Qinghe Town for sale. The mountain pit of 8 cents is fat, 5 cents is thin, 2 cents is bone-carrying, 10 cents is snake flesh per kilogram, and the whole snake skin is for sale, and 500 cents can be taken away..."

After Uncle Ma finished speaking, everyone around him became a little turbulent, and many of them showed joy. Some people with good clothes and decorations walked up to choose to see wild boar meat.

"Although Shan Pi is stupid, she is strong and upright. I am afraid that the most powerful soldiers in the Qin Dynasty, I am afraid that my Qin Dynasty's 900-pound Shan Pi is not able to compete. It is not easy to hunt and the price is not expensive. You can buy some back!"

"Yes, although there are many mountain pigs, the small ones are not fat enough. This head is thick and thick, which is really a big tonic. It just so happens that my mother is waiting to give birth, so she buys some tonic for the body!"

“It’s exactly!”

The people around began to whisper and saw someone buying pork, so they all gathered around in groups of three or three.

As a town with more than 300 households, and the surrounding area is flat and well-connected, both the fields and transportation are several times stronger than Xiaohe Village. In addition, some nearby villages buy daily necessities here, so the residents here are much richer and speak more gentler than those in mountain villages.

Today is not the day of opening the market, but there are still thousands of people in the town. At this time, due to the appearance of the big snake, it spread to hundreds of people. Almost all the people in the town were alarmed and kept coming around from all directions to watch the fun. Many people even climbed to the big trees or roofs on the side of the road to watch. Most of them were surprised at the big snake.

Because there are many people and the wild boar meat is relatively fat, the people around you will buy three pounds and two pounds, and they sold most of them in less than half an hour. A leather pocket that was filled with money quickly bulged in the ding-dang dang.

After about half an hour, less than a hundred kilograms of wild boar meat were left, almost all of them were lean meat, but no one bought the big snake, and even fewer people asked about it.

Just as many people were still watching and guiding around the big snake, several fast horses came from the west of the town, with old and young horses immediately dressed differently from those in Qinghe Town. They were obviously much neat and clean, and they were all imposing. Among them, there was a middle-aged scholar wearing a green robe and a long sword straddled his waist, with his hair tied in a Taoist bun, and three long black beards under his jaw drifted in the wind.

There was also a big red horse next to the middle-aged scholar. A girl of thirteen or fourteen years old sat on it, wearing a hat, a light blue woven skirt, and a short sword hanging around her waist. She was beaded eyebrows and starry eyes with a hint of heroic aura.

Several other men were wearing gray burlap clothes, and they all described them as tough.

These people seemed to have arrived from a very long distance, covered in dust, but their breath was calm and without any sign of fatigue. When they arrived at the town, they found hundreds of people gathered together to block the road, so they could only slow down and stop slowly. Two of them pulled out swords from the saddle and wanted to drive forward to drive away the crowd, but were stopped by the middle-aged scholar.

"Let's wait, don't be reckless. Go down Qingshan and find out why these people gather here!"

"Yes, sir!" The middle-aged man in front of him turned over and got off the horse, shouting in his mouth and then slowly squeezed into the crowd.

Because the street is not wide, hundreds of people are crowded together and blocking them for dozens of meters away, so the situation inside the crowd cannot be seen clearly. The girl sitting next to the middle-aged scholar couldn't help but stand up from the stirrup and look inside. Her little face showed a very dissatisfied expression and said, "Father, why should you tolerate these people in the mountains and fields? Just whip it over, so as not to waste time!"

"Yue'er, how did I teach you? Today's peace is the time for cultivation and rest. How can you whip the people at will? Besides, Qinghe Town will be my rule in the future, and these villagers will be my rule in the future. Do you want me to be the name of a poison official before I take office?" The middle-aged scholar turned his head and looked at the girl seriously.

"Dad, please calm down, my daughter dare not!" The girl instantly put away the dissatisfaction on her face and quickly lowered her head to admit her mistake.

"It's not your fault, but it's the etiquette!" The middle-aged scholar shook his head, and his serious expression on his face turned into peace. He pointed at the noisy scene with his fingers, "The great China has been in the Zhou Dynasty and Qin for eight hundred years, and there has not been such a unified situation. Although the world has returned to the world, the people have suffered from war. After a war, their wives and children are separated and their families are destroyed. Look at the villagers in front of him, they are not covered in clothes, and their bodies are not filled with food, and their faces are hungry and cold. What's the difference between them? The only thing they ask for is a piece of hot soup, and they have to bear extremely heavy land tax, tax, labor and labor to support me, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and millions of soldiers. If you treat them badly, they will treat you badly. The troubled times have been settled, but the Zhou rituals are not preserved... Oh, forget it, what's the use of telling you these!"

The middle-aged scholar sighed, watching the crowded crowd stop talking, and the girl also lowered her head and sat obediently on the big horse without any movement.
Chapter completed!