Ruoxu Mountain is not in the Central Plains, but a mountain island in the sea.

All the way east, you can reach it by boat across Xuhai.

Although Xuhai is not wide, it is turbulent, and Ruo Xushan is lonely and barren, so few people come.

The boatman is unprofitable and dangerous, so there are no boats going to and from Ruoxu Mountain. If you want to go, you must hire a boat alone, and you can only sail on a calm and auspicious day.

This is also the reason why Huaqian and the others set off early.

After walking eastward from Yuji Mountain for more than a month, Hua Qian and the others arrived at Duckweed Town at the mouth of the sea.

The gate of the town is very strict, and all people entering and leaving the city must enter the city on foot.

Hua Qian and others got off the carriage, and their pass was at the height of the mountain. While waiting for the passage, she stood on the big rock beside her and stretched, and she could look at the whole seaside town.

But the more look at it, the more strange it becomes.

She frowned and asked, "Tang Jin, don't you think the structure of this town is strange?"

This town is close to the sea, but it is built on the mountain. The whole presents a V-shape that goes deep into the interior, as if a giant axe splits the cliff from it, and separates the buildings on both sides of the mountain.

The buildings are connected by layers of wooden bridges in mid-air.

And the whole town only opens up a mountain road leading to the inland, and the customs clearance is checked layer by layer.

Hua Qian felt very rare.

It stands to reason that most of the small towns near the sea are located at the mouth of the sea, and they are all sheltered bays with flat and wide terrain and calm waves.

But Duckweed Town went the opposite way. It was built between these steep cliffs, and even hesitant to open up mountains and dig rocks to build a harbor to avoid boats, which is a thankless thing.

Tang Jin looked down the mountain and suddenly asked, "What do you think this town looks like?"

Hua Qian was taken aback: "Like what? Shanzhai?"

She remembered that the cottages on TV were all such overlapping wooden bridges.

Tang Jin shook his head.

At this time, Fu Lang had already handed over the customs clearance documents, Hua Qian jumped off the stone, and the group of three walked towards the town.

Between the sea and the sky, the dark clouds are rolling over the city as if covering the sky and the sun, and they are about to engulf the storm and devour everything.

Into the town, it is another scene.

The streets of the town are peaceful, and there are many stalls selling all kinds of exquisite imported goods.

Seeing that there was still a glass mirror at a stall, Hua Qian ran forward in surprise and picked up a mirror to play with.

It is indeed a flat mirror that can clearly see a human face, like glass, not made of sapphire polished smooth.

"Boss, where did you get this mirror from?"

Seeing this, the stall owner smiled and said, "You really know this girl. This is a good shark fairy mirror. Last month, the shark tide all appeared on this side."

Hua Qian was confused: "Shark tide? What is that?"

The stall owner was surprised when he heard this: "The girl is a foreigner."

Seeing Huaqian nodded, he said: "It's been a long time since we have been outsiders. It's not surprising that the girl doesn't know about shark tides. This is a unique spectacle in Duckweed Town."

"There are two shark tides in Xuhai every year. The shark tide is the coming-of-age ceremony of the sharks. At that time, the sharks will come in from the deep sea to fight and plunder the fishermen and boatmen for food. The sharks are fierce and cruel. Originally, the residents in this area fled It's all gone. Later, a master taught our ancestors of Duckweed Town to split the mountain and set up an array, encircle the mermaids in a narrow path, and hunt with traps. Only then did we gain the upper hand. This mirror was obtained from the shark tide .”

Narrow road?

Hua Qian looked at the cliff that split suddenly not far away, it turned out that it was built for hunting sharks.

The stall owner said with a smile, "Most of the handicrafts made by the merman are exquisite and unique, which are rare in the Central Plains, but the income is rare. The girl is really lucky today. This mirror is the last treasure in my stall."

Hua Qian took out his purse: "How much is this mirror, I bought it."

"Two hundred and fifty taels of silver."

Hua Qian paused the hand that took out the money, and said in shock, "How much?"

The stall owner smiled: "Two hundred and fifty taels of silver is a lot of money. Girl, this treasure is very lucky and hard to find. I have only found two sides in so many years, and the last one is for the palace. Ordinary people can't even see Li Niangniang."

Hua Qian threw back the silver he took out and tied it tightly in his pocket.

"I think you are only two hundred and five! You really think I'm easy to deceive. If this mirror is really so rare, the palace will have arranged for people to collect it after the shark tide every year. How can it be your turn to set up a stall outside to sell it?"

"Furthermore, sharks live on the bottom of the sea, but the patterns carved on the back of the mirror are horned deer. Horned deer are resistant to cold, and most of them live in the cold places in the northern inland. They have nothing to do with sharks. How could it be?" Brought by the shark tide? Most of these are goods from overseas merchants."

The stall owner shuddered when he heard this, and said with a smile: "It turns out that you are an expert, girl. Although this product is not obtained by Shachao, it is indeed a good thing. How can ordinary people find such transparent and clear ones?" Mirror."

Hua Qian shook four fingers: "Forty taels."

Seeing that the stall owner hesitated, Hua Qian immediately picked up the mirror and observed carefully.

"Although this mirror is fun, the workmanship is not fine. There are bumps on the edges and corners, and there is a little dirt that has not been cleaned up in the gaps. I am afraid it is not a normal imported product. It is a felony to sell seafood privately, but the business is hard. I Then add another ten taels, fifty taels is not much."

The stall owner's expression changed several times when he heard this, and finally he waved his hands and said, "That's all, I'm at a disadvantage today and I met an expert, so I'll give you this mirror."

Hua Qian immediately took out the silver with a smile, and put the small mirror into the sachet.

"Thanks!"

Tang Jin, who was watching the whole process, raised his eyebrows slightly: "I can't see that you are very knowledgeable."

Huaqian was in high spirits, proudly and coquettishly said: "Who made me a supernatural and cute little angel~"

"Where did you live in your last life?"

Seeing Tang Jin suddenly ask, Hua Qian was taken aback: "Why do you ask that?"

"The horned deer is not owned by the Central Plains. The occasional deer skin is also presented as a tribute to the palace. Ordinary women don't know about it. You don't behave like a noble lady in the palace. Could it be that you were from the Northern Territory before your death?"

Tang Jin shook her fan and asked curiously, "The Northern Territory is far away from the Central Plains, how did you drift to the Central Plains?"

With the wind......

It seemed that he really regarded himself as a lonely ghost.

No, strictly speaking, she was a lonely ghost.

In a sense, Tang Jin really guessed right.

Tang Jin has a characteristic. What he thinks is that if a hundred cows come to pull, he can kill all the cows, step on the cow's carcass, and proudly say, "Go to hell, I'm right."

Hua Qian's life experience is inherently mysterious, although Tang Jin seems to be quite receptive, but she doesn't want to spend any more words, so she fluffed her hair and said proudly.

"I wasn't really a noble lady in the palace in my last life, but I wasn't from the Northern Territory either. I just like to read books and have a lot of knowledge. I just happened to have seen it in ancient books."

"You? Like reading books?" Tang Jin couldn't help but mocked when he heard this, "A comic strip?"

In order to protect the little face saved in the residence, Hua Qian immediately retorted: "The comic strip is also on the drawing paper, which is called entertaining!"

After a moment of silence, Tang Jin asked again, "Then what was the place you lived in before? I heard that you have an older brother and a good cooking skill. I think your family is not bad."

Hua Qian was a little surprised to hear him ask.

Tang Jin is not someone who likes to chat with others, so why is he so curious now.

But there is nothing to hide. Seeing his curiosity, Hua Qian did not hide it.

"My parents died when I was a child, and it was my elder brother who brought me up. Although he is an elder brother, he is like a father and a mother, which made me suffer a lot less grievances."

Hua Qian lowered her head and stroked the glass mirror in her arms, as if looking at another world through the mirror.

"If it wasn't for my brother, maybe I would have died in the cold winter and snowy night."

Tang Jin disapproved and said lightly: "If you die early, you can meet me sooner."

Huaqian: "..."

I don't really want to die.