From the gate of heaven

Chapter 1 [Lin Ze, a peddler from two worlds]

At the confluence of Yangchun River and Qingshui River, there is a cloud mountain range that stretches for hundreds of miles.

At the corner of the mountain range, in a secluded cave surrounded by vegetation.

There is a illusory door that emits a little white light, and the whole body is made of runes.

Immediately afterwards, a blindfolded donkey came out from behind the illusory door, pulling a covered wooden cart.

"Finally here, another world!"

Lin Ze, who was sitting on the donkey cart, looked at the familiar and unfamiliar scenes in the cave, whispering excitedly in his heart.

It is familiar because he has already seen the scenery here countless times through remote drone aerial photography.

But unfamiliar, it is because he came here through the All-heaven Gate for the first time.

Set foot on this piece of land that belongs to another world.
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What can one do with a portal that can be opened to connect to another world?
Five years ago, Lin Ze, who had just bound the 'All Heavens Gate', had such a question in his mind.

Looking at the opposite side of the door through the aerial footage of the drone, watching this different world in the civilization of the farming era.

Without thinking too much, Lin Ze got the answer.

He can use the productivity difference between the two worlds to make huge profits!

For example, in the modern world, condiments such as pepper and monosodium glutamate, which are extremely cheap, are exclusive to the nobles who are priced like gold in the farming society.

For example, some medicinal materials and ingredients that were not uncommon in the ancient world are extremely rare high-end luxury goods in modern society.

It only needs to circulate the materials of the two worlds, and Lin Ze will soon be able to earn a huge family business.

Such a bright prospect made Lin Ze, who came from an ordinary background, very excited.

In order to obtain this huge profit, Lin Ze started five-year preparations.

Observing the landscape of a different world through aerial photography with a small drone, and learning the language, customs and culture of a different world.

By exercising physical fitness and practicing traditional martial arts, one can gain the ability to protect oneself in a different world.

By the way, in the process of learning and accumulating, plan how to use the difference between the two worlds to earn the first pot of gold.

Now, five years later, Lin Ze felt that he was fully prepared before he really opened the door to another world.

He glanced at the goods piled up on his donkey cart, which was what he was going to sell next.

"Then, the life of a peddler in the two worlds begins today."

Lin Ze smiled and whispered in his heart.

The gate of the heavens behind him is closed.

Reaching out his hand to take off the blindfold that covered the donkey's eyes, Lin Ze drove the donkey cart out of the cave.

After seven turns and eight turns, it merged into the main road and headed towards Lianghe Village, the nearest human settlement.
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It was just dawn.

Outside Lianghe Village, a donkey cart drove a young man who didn't look like a weak crown.

"Sell the goods."

Lin Ze yelled in the official language of the Great Zhou Dynasty, which attracted the attention of the villagers.

Many villagers who were having breakfast gathered curiously at the entrance of the village with their bowls in hand.

Soon, most of the [-] adults and children in the whole village came to the head of the village.

Yunwu Mountain is rich in products, and most of them are rare medicinal materials.

During the slack season, the villagers living around the mountains will go into the mountains to collect medicinal materials and mountain treasures, and hunt by the way.

Therefore, many villages near the mountains often have businessmen coming and going, buying medicinal materials and furs collected by the villagers, and also bringing some necessities of life to sell to make profits.

Many villagers in Lianghe Village were not surprised by Lin Ze's arrival.

What made them curious was that the merchants who arrived this time were a little different from the previous ones.

In the past, the merchants had dark and rough skin because of eating and sleeping in the open.

The clothes on his body may be of good quality, but they also look dusty because of the rush.

But the young man in front of him has a fair complexion and a bookish face. His seemingly slender body is strong and powerful, with neat and white teeth.

Wearing a satin robe embroidered with blue lotus on a black background, her shoulder-length black hair tied in a crown.

The young man is not so much a merchant as he is an aristocratic son who is traveling.

In the main world, it is normal for Lin Ze to look unscathed.

But in this farming society with underdeveloped productivity, this is not a child that ordinary families can raise.

"You young man, I haven't seen it before, where did you come from?"

An old man in coarse linen clothes with a wrinkled face asked with a bowl in his hand.

"I've met an elder. I'm in Xialinze, and my name is Ziyi. I live in this Yunwu Mountain. Recently, my elders ordered me to travel down the mountain to collect some medicinal materials. I sold the goods so that I wouldn't return empty-handed."

"If you have high-quality medicinal materials such as ginseng and Polygonum multiflorum, you can sell them to me."

"In addition, I have a good frosting here. I can take some to replenish my vitality when I am tired or sick. Can the elderly buy some?"

Lin Ze glanced at the old man's big earthenware bowl with fat meat and dried rice.

Smiling and saluting, he opened his mouth and spoke the lines he had already thought up.

Lin Ze's name, 'Ze', has the meaning of Ze being the world.

It represents the expectations of the elders for his future.

To achieve this, it will undoubtedly take a long time to work hard, so the word Ziyi is taken as a compliment, so that he should not give up halfway.

Lin Ze came from another world, and he had no identity in this world where the civilization was in the feudal farming era.

In the past five years, Lin Ze has been learning the language of the world while also understanding all aspects of the world.

I have thought many times about the way I will act after I came to this world.

First of all, it is natural to have your own identity and origin. You can't just say that I come from another world, right?

In order to be able to integrate into this world smoothly, Lin Ze has two choices.

One is to directly pretend to be a refugee who has left their hometown after a disaster. If the local government appeases the refugee, they can resettle.

The second is to pretend to be mountain people.

The mountain people have no household registration. They live in the mountains, and their main purpose is to avoid being poll taxed.

But Lin Ze didn't look like he had suffered much. He said that he was a refugee, but no one believed him.

Therefore, Lin Ze chose a variant of the second method to explain his origin.

Martial arts exist in this world. Among the famous mountains and great rivers, there are many peerless masters who live in seclusion. For the convenience of life, these hermit masters will occasionally send disciples to walk down the mountain.

Lin Ze said this in order to mislead the villagers of Lianghe Village in front of him that he was a disciple of a hermit who traveled down the mountain.

If someone inquires about Lin Ze's origin in the future, he will not easily reveal that he is from another world.

And the status of the hermit master's disciple can also ensure that Lin Ze is generally respected by people, and will not be blamed for being a bandit in the first place.

And this kind of background can also explain that he is obviously a mountain man, but he looks pampered.

(End of this chapter)