The Heishui Town Market opens on even-numbered days and is the busiest market within a radius of dozens of miles.
Inside the square, there are tailor shops, rice shops, butcher shops, and vendors selling groceries. Outside the square, there is a livestock and poultry market.
The so-called "fang" is a place surrounded by earthen walls built with rammed earthwork to the height of a person. Some wealthy towns and counties will even build walls with stones.
The earthen wall has been repaired over the years and has become very strong, which can ward off wild beasts. There is also a gatekeeper gift given by the sect in front of the square gate, which can slightly resist ordinary evil spirits.
The people who live in the village are all wealthy households in the town and local celebrities.
However, the celebrities and wealthy households in a small market town are actually no different from ordinary people. At least when Ye Xuan walked among them, he did not notice any difference between the "celebrities" with yellow faces and muscles walking around him and the common people outside the village.
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Just as the market was opening, the square was quite lively, and the sounds of various hawkers could be heard all the time.
The small vendors spread a rag on both sides of the street and put the goods for sale on the cloth for you to choose from. People coming and going occasionally stopped in front of the stalls to bargain with the vendors, either hand over the money and leave, or not.
Looking at each other and smiling doesn't hurt the friendship.
This was Ye Xuan's first time visiting Heishui Market. He was not in a hurry to buy bran and leave. He said goodbye to Butcher Hu first and walked through the crowd with his daughter.
Occasionally, they stopped in front of some stalls selling novelties and took a look. Along the way, they bought a rattle and two fairy-faced dogs for their daughter, which made other children who were also visiting the market envious.
Ye Xuan first took his daughter to a tailor shop, asked the tailor to measure her height, etc., and asked someone to tailor a spring shirt and a winter coat for her. He also bought a set of ready-made clothes, plus the deposit, which cost a total of
Nine big coins.
He also collected the incense money from the Taoist temple and paid off the remaining payment for buying piglets. He still had twenty large coins on him, so he immediately spent nearly half of it.
Then, the two went to the rice shop. Ye Xuan ordered two hundred kilograms of bran and two hundred kilograms of polished rice, a total of thirty-seven big coins. Ye Xuan first paid five big coins as a deposit, and waited for the rice shop clerk to bring the grain to the Taoist temple.
Pay the balance.
After finishing all the big things, Ye Xuan only had four big coins left on him.
Even though he was mentally prepared, he still suffered from heartache for a long time, thinking about how much savings he would have left after paying the final payment to the tailor shop and the rice shop.
I also thought about building a garden in the back hill, and it was inevitable to ask for help, which was another expense. After carefully calculating it, I suddenly took a breath of cold air.
However, life is like this. There is no reason to only go in but not go out. Of course, if you only go out but not go out, you have to think carefully about whether your treatment of money expenditure is too extensive?
Originally, Ye Xuan wanted to take his daughter for a stroll in the market, but he didn't have much money left, so he gave up the idea. After making an agreement with the rice shop and tailor shop, he went to Butcher Hu's butcher shop to pick up five kilograms of ribs.
, walked along the road to the outside of the square.
When he bought the rattle and the masked man, he made a three-part agreement with his daughter. Therefore, although she still wanted the other novelties, she did not pester Ye Xuan. She obediently pulled Ye Xuan and shook the rattle in her hand, which was quite satisfying.
Its fun.
Halfway through, he saw many people gathered in front of a stall, gesticulating and talking. Ye Xuan wanted to avoid the crowd, but a wisp of breath suddenly floated over, passing through his skin, making him feel a chill.
The weather is hot now and I don't feel cold at all.
Ye Xuan was always alert again, and this breath immediately caught his attention.
He traced his breath and led Nannan unconsciously into the crowd. Seeing his arrival, the people around him greeted him one after another and moved out of the way.
"Master Dao is also coming to the market?"
"Let's take our ox cart back in a while. I'll follow you on the way!"
Ye Xuan smiled and responded one by one, then turned to look at the stall where everyone was gathered.
The middle-aged man with stubble on his face, many scars on his face, and a turban sat in front of the stall. When he saw Ye Xuan coming, he said hello slightly nervously: "Master Dao, these are all new steaks."
You can take a look at the furs and dried game."
Why is he nervous?
Confusion flashed through Ye Xuan's heart, but his face remained calm. He smiled and nodded, looking down at the products displayed on the rags.
A large black ball of fur immediately attracted his attention, leaving him no time to pay attention to anything else.
This large ball of fur was placed in the middle, surrounded by two or three deer skins, deer skins, and game such as whole badgers and small wild boars.
Ye Xuan squatted down and moved closer to touch the black skin. He felt that the coldness was even worse, and the blood-stained fur had a slightly pricking feeling.
This fur is no ordinary thing.
"Such a big piece of skin, it must be a bear's skin, right?" Ye Xuan asked the hunter setting up the stall with a smile.
Orion, who was setting up the stall, swallowed his saliva, but before he could reply, there were comments all around him.
"Such a big piece of skin is definitely a black bear skin, it's unmistakable!"
"When did Wang Er become so capable that he dared to hunt black bears?"
"I must have happened upon a dead bear and got a big deal! Wang Er, do you want to sell me your skin? I'll pay you two big bucks!"
After some discussion, everyone had already guessed about 70% of the truth.
Orion Wang Er nodded and said hesitantly: "This skin, this skin is indeed a dead bear that I encountered."
He thought for a while and then added hesitantly: "It doesn't look like a common black blind man. He must be one and a half times the size of other black blind men."
As he said that, he turned up the fur and pointed the bear's head towards Ye Xuan: "Show it!"
Wang Er did not peel off the bear's head, and it appeared completely in front of Ye Xuan's eyes, like a skull face, with an evil and sinister look to it.
Ye Xuan touched the bear's head with his palm, and the seal in his arms was heated.
The Dragon Bird Seal has a new harvest, obtained from this bear skin!
He was shocked and pretended to observe it, but he didn't actually recognize what kind of bear it was, so he honestly replied: "I don't recognize it."
Wang Er was immediately disappointed: "The Taoist priest can't recognize it. It's an incredible mountain bear. This bear skin is so big. If it is made into a robe, you won't feel cold all winter..."
"Taoist Priest, if you want this skin, how about I sell it to you for ten big coins?" His eyes were bright and he asked Ye Xuan.
Villagers from all over the country know that although the Taoists in Guanli do not like Aduwu, they must not be short of it.
But that’s the temperament of most Taoist priests. Wang Er had his mind set on Ye Xuan, but he really missed Ye Xuan’s ‘character’!
The onlookers all looked at Ye Xuan in silence, with playful eyes.
However, they did not intend to remind Ye Xuan what was special about the bear skin. They only wanted to see if the Taoist priest was smart enough to see the strangeness in it.
If they can see it, they will naturally give him a few words of praise; if they can't see it, can they give him less money for worship when they ask the Taoist priest to do things in the future?
What happened in the Zhang family has not yet spread in Blackwater Town, and most people don't know that Ye Xuan, who they regard as gentle and kind, has witnessed the loss of dozens of lives, and has even been involved in the advent of the evil god.
Although they were close to Ye Xuan, they were not in awe of him.