Half a month later, we entered the boundary of Lingzhou.

Lingzhou was called Lingyuan in ancient times. Its hills are undulating, with lush grass and sparsely populated areas. Looking around, you can see the extremely high sky and the extremely wide earth.

The Xujia caravan was walking one after another on the official road, and at the end was a shaking carriage.

I rode around the neighborhood on a little dark horse.

Suddenly, a thin man appeared next to the mound in front of him.

The man was carrying a rattan basket in his hand, covering it with cloth, and kept shouting: "Barou, barbou, good big barbou."

A gust of cold wind blew and the man sneezes.

"Little lame." The long-haired sister unveiled the curtain of the carriage and said to me: "I have eaten dry food for a few days in a row. I can buy a few steamed buns to try."

So I turned my horse's head, ran to the man, and asked him, "How do you sell these steamed buns?"

"It's very cheap." The man's local accent was full of, "Ten large sums per piece."

"Is this cheap?" I curled my lips.

In Yuanzhou, steamed buns usually cost two large sums per coin. No matter how expensive the price is, it does not cost more than two large sums per coin. His words are ten large sums, which is simply awesome.

But I didn't care, so I just threw a piece of silver to him: "I want it all, my master."

If you have money, you are so willful!

"You'll pick it up." The man's eyes lit up and he handed me the rattan basket directly.

"No matter how good the steamed bun is, there is no meat." I sighed, uncovered the cover, and prepared to take a steamed bun to taste it.

As soon as the cover was opened, my hand shook violently and the basket almost flew out.

The ‘stewed buns’ in this basket really contain meat!

What steamed buns are filled with round heads.

Fortunately, I didn't foolishly take the basket back directly, otherwise I would have been frustrated with flesh and blood.

I glanced at the man with a squint eyes.

The man was probably afraid that I would snatch the broken silver back, so he covered his hands tightly and said, "The goods... will not be refunded if the goods go out."

"Do you have a door here?" I was so angry that I was furious.

"Guest...guest..." the man stuttered, "You... are from another place."

"It's easy to bully people from other places?" I said to him.

"No." The man explained, "You are from another place and don't understand the saying in the countryside. I am a savage head, but I am not your steamed bun."

He talked for a long time before I figured out the difference between Mantou and Mantou.

It turns out that this barbarian head is the head of the barbarians.

"Can the heads be sold for money?" I was very curious, "Who would want this thing? What's the use?"

"Guest, this is actually like this..." The man calmed down a lot when he saw that I had no intention of asking for money, so he said everything and told me carefully about the whole story of this sage business.

Speaking of Lingzhou, it is a prefecture on the west side of the ninety-nine states. The landform here is mainly hills, Gobi and deserts, bordering the ancient barbarian land. From time to time, barbarians will cross the border and burn and kill and plunder.

The dangers of barbarians are that as long as they do not cross a certain boundary, the official army does not want to care. Instead, there is a civilian force in the desert who has been dealing with the barbarians for many years and has made great achievements.

This force is called "Sand Thieves".

In Lingzhou, there has always been a saying that “one wolf and three camels”; one of the wolf refers to the barbarians, and the three camels are: Tang cavalry, Sand Thieves, and Golden City.

Tang Qi, let’s not talk about him for the time being, just talk about this sand thief. Although the name is "steal", they emphasize robbing the rich and helping the poor, killing the barbarians, dividing gold and silver, and protecting the people. Therefore, they are deeply loved by the people and often go to join the group.

But sand thieves are not about recruiting workers in stores, and they can join them at will, and they have to go through the test.

Everyone believes that this kind of test is a little bit clear.

Sent a letter!

Simply put, it is to kill a person as a token of joining the gang.

The biggest enemy of the Sand Thieves is the barbarians. What they want is naturally the heads of the barbarians.

However, there are countless people who want to join the Sand Thieves. How many are there who are capable of killing the barbarians and committing a lawsuit?

So, the business of selling mantou came into being.

As the saying goes, there is a deal if there is demand, and there is a deal if there is a killing. Because of this business of selling barbarians, the number of barbarians entering the country has been greatly reduced in recent years, and the power of sand thieves is at its peak, which people did not expect in advance.

After listening to the man's story, I couldn't help but secretly amazed that everything in the world is indeed strange. If you don't have a strange thing like "selling the barbarian head" if you don't have it?

"You killed these barbarians?" I asked the man again.

"How can the young man have such ability?" said the man honestly, "these are all killed by others, and the young man is just a middleman."

Although I was very interested in the strange folk customs in Lingzhou, I didn't even come to the bottom of it, so I returned the rattan basket full of "barbarian heads" to the man and left directly.

When they returned to the carriage and told the story of Changfa Sister and Xiaohua, they all felt incredible, and they had a little more understanding and alertness about this sturdy Lingzhou.

Walking for another day, sand gradually appeared in the wind, hills disappeared, and replaced by the flat Male Gobi.
Chapter completed!