Traveling through the Prosperous Pastoral of Peasant Girls

Chapter 23
Chapter 24 Mountain delicacies

As the closer to the Northland, the population becomes less and less crowded. For safety, they bypassed Wanquan Mountain, and the closer they entered the border, other small caravans also joined in continuously. The thieves will not come head-on.Along the way, sometimes there are inns to stay in, and sometimes I just spend the night in the wilderness. Although it was hard work, I didn't experience any major dangers, and I arrived at the Shuangzishan barter area safely.

This barter area covers an area of ​​hundreds of acres, and is sandwiched between several hills. On a large flat land between the two mountains, a mile and a half long docking barter belt is planned, with each side occupying one side, and various Cargo partition transactions.If personnel need a transit barter belt, it is equivalent to going abroad, and they must pay a deposit to exchange official documents.The barter belt is managed by the officials of the two parties, who restrain their respective merchants to abide by the rules, and have tax officials measure and collect taxes.On the outskirts of the trading area are warehouses and restaurants, all of which are in the nature of large car stores, where cars can be stored and accommodation can be stored. There is not a single restaurant for eating.

Some of those inns are not open to the outside world, they are all well-known large companies in the Daqing country, Jin Yang even saw a few houses built on a steep flat-topped hill not far away, the one near the barter area is a A person who understands the building like a city gate told him that it was the Dazhai of the horse bandits in the past, and now it is where several businesses live. The gate is closed at night and the drawbridge is lifted, because there are full-time night guards. Northern soldiers will attack.

This is the largest barter area on the border of the Northland. War facilities can be seen everywhere. On both sides of the road are moats to prevent the brigade of cavalry from rushing through. There is an alarm beacon on the top of the mountain not far away.There is a small river three miles behind the barter area. The width of the small river varies from more than 100 meters to 500 meters. The caravan vehicles in the Northland choose to wade through the wide area, so it should be the border river between the two countries. .The back of the boundary river is the same as here, there are many warehouses for Northland merchants to rest and eat.

It is said that after crossing the Boundary River and walking one hundred miles to the north by the sea, the junction of Qinglang Country and Xiaoyan Country is a port shared by the two countries. The mountains are much closer, and Liangshan Port is over four hundred miles away.Therefore, a certain proportion of the goods in Shuangzishan are imported from overseas countries.

It was in the afternoon when they arrived. This barter area is not just for bartering and exchanging goods. Common currencies such as gold and silver can still be used. If the goods are exchanged for gold and silver, you can still buy what you want. It's a peace of mind when the goods are replaced with gold and silver.Because it was afternoon, when there were relatively few people, the bulk of cloth and medicines among Zhang Guo's goods were in high demand, and all transactions were completed within an hour, and a large number of high-quality hides were exchanged.Jin Yang has seen it, they are all cowhide, lamb skin, and some wild deer skin, fire fox skin, raccoon dog skin and otter skin.A lot of other goods have also been exchanged. Jin Yang cares about selling half of the crispy rice from his own family, but unfortunately Jin Yang's dried shrimps and dried black wolf fish are rarely bought.Live horses, cattle and sheep are also traded in large quantities, but Jinyang has not seen high-quality dairy cows.

Food and agricultural products are also bulky. In my hometown, if the year is good, wheat can be sold for one tael of silver, 150 catties. In the worst year, one tael of silver can only be sold for seventy to eighty catties. This year is good. Here, the transaction price is one Ninety catties of silver.The price of fruit almost doubles here, cloth and clothes are traded, and due to the raging mosquitoes and flies, a scarf is also a bestseller.

In the evening, they stayed in an inn in "Fate from the Eight Directions". The price of accommodation and food here was "deadly expensive". All the dishes can cost three or four hundred copper coins.Fortunately, a single stove in the kitchen can be borrowed, and merchants can heat their own dry food and jerky.Some merchants don’t care about the price of the food because the barter went well this time and they made a lot of money, because tomorrow they will embark on the return journey of eating and sleeping in the open, so they will reward the Wu Zang Temple, which has suffered excessive losses along the way, but they and Jin Yang The false fire like the old yellow rises, eager to get green leafy vegetables to maintain the nutritional balance of the body.

Jin Yang and Lao Huang had their own old wine and dry food and bacon. After eating for many days in a row, coupled with the fatigue of the journey and the monotonous food, the chapped lips and hoarse voice were caused. Jin Yang strolled on the hillside behind the inn for a while, pinching I bought a large amount of wild leeks and wild garlic ash, and cooked a stir-fried shrimp with leeks and braised dried fish with wild garlic, and mashed wild garlic with blanched ash vegetables.It attracted some merchants living together to salivate, and those who knew each other came to ask for it with a plate. Even the innkeeper came to smell the fragrance, and brought a plate of delicious small sea fish called flying fish for them to taste.

Looking at the three remaining dishes, those people replaced them with more cooked meat and dried meat. Except for the flying fish, the two of them did not touch other meat. Looking at these meat that made ordinary people drool, the two of them Can't help laughing bitterly.However, Jin Yang went to the shopkeeper to borrow a pot, planning to make these dried shrimps and fish into dishes and sell them while waiting to buy cows. There are two bags of dried shrimps and two bags of dried fish.However, he saw that behind the barter area there are many small chicken feather shops, which specialize in lunch at noon. Some people are busy with trade and have no time to go back to the inn for dinner, so they just deal with it there. Some are very lively and can watch the bustling crowd. Have a few drinks.

The next day, I bought two black-and-white cows for only 18 taels of silver in the morning. This is a unique breed in Quanhe. Among the cows, the estimated milk production is the best, not to mention that the two cows both have calves, so they can produce milk as soon as possible.He sent the cow back to the inn, walked around again, and asked Lao Huang to watch in the barter area. When he saw a good-quality cow, he bought it with money, and told him to buy a cow with a calf. But I found a small tarpaulin shop, and discussed with the owner to use his venue and materials for cooking. After discussing the profit sharing, I went to collect wild vegetables to prepare materials.

His two dishes must be sold well, because not many of the dishes at other stalls are seafood, and the rest are meat except for meat. At best, some pickles and leek flowers are made of vegetables.It is far away from the Central Plains, and there are few people here, let alone vegetables.The merchants smelled the aroma of vegetables and river fresh food and searched everywhere until they traced the aroma to the stall where the golden seedlings were located.

It's a pity that Jin Yang's estimate was wrong. He only made more than ten dishes, and the wild leeks and wild garlic were gone. The stall owner saw that each dish was sold for half a tael each, so he asked his wife to help Jin Yang and volunteered Picking wild vegetables, one day, he sold more than 60 plates of dishes, and made a profit of 40 taels of silver. There are still many people who can't wait to eat.

(End of this chapter)