The vast area of ​​Khaki Mountain has created a rich variety of products. Native wood such as red sandalwood and cloud pine have become buildings or furniture materials that are in short supply in other places. Rare animal skins like Khaki Tiger have also become one of the goods that wealthy businessmen compete for. In addition, inexhaustible wild medicinal materials are continuously transported from the mountains, making the market towns near the Khaki Mountains gradually flourish. Qilin Town is one of them. In fact, Qilin Town is far away from the Khaki Mountains, and it has gradually become a transit station for goods trading because it is located between the Khaki Mountains and the harbor city of Haizhou.

In recent years, Qilin Town has been expanded with the circulation of trade and has become a small city. Like the products produced in the Khaki Mountains, most of the people who come and go to Qilin Town are wood merchants, or fur and medicinal merchants. Compared with Haizhou, Qilin Town has a small passenger flow, but unexpectedly, there are more than 120 inns. Because the goods transported by merchants passing by here occupy a very large area, the inns are much larger than other places, and most of the area is used as warehouses. In this way, the inns account for almost one-third of the commercial stores in the market town, becoming the most prosperous industry.

Qilin Town has two streets, such as a "新" that runs through the town. There are various buildings on both sides of the street, most of which are commercial facades. The streets are nine miles from east, west, south and north, so the merchants who come and go are also called Qilin Town Jiuli Town. Qilin Town is located on a plain between the Khaki Mountains and the East River Sea. It is only because of its low terrain that forms a unique basin here, called Qilin Basin. The name of Qilin Town comes from this. Basins like Qilin are extremely rare, with only three related to the Khaki Mountains, and Qilin Basin is in the middle. Qilin Basin is not big, about one hundred square kilometers, and most areas are covered with forests. Only a river channel washed out by rain leads to the outside, and Qilin Town is built on the east bank of the river.

The Qilin Basin is affected by the warm current of the eastward sea, and it is almost rainy season from spring to autumn. In other words, there is water in the river most of the time except in winter, but the river channel runs straight from the mountain, and the huge drop cannot allow the ship to sail. However, when it reaches Qilin Town, the river channel becomes flat. Therefore, the wood merchants use the river channel to rush down the logged wood along the river and then salvage it on the banks of Qilin Town.

The winter in Qilin Town is busier than in other seasons. After the riverbed is frozen, the river channel that cannot be opened to the ship becomes the flattest road, and the ice truck pulled by the khaki wolf dogs becomes the hurried figure in this area. The medicinal materials dug from spring to autumn and the fur made from hunting are transported out of the mountains at this time. Therefore, the winter in Qilin Town is the time when fur merchants and medicinal merchants smile the brightest.

It is winter now, and ice and snow cover the forest. Only Qilin Town is like a black dot on the holy feathers. The huge chimney of the inn is emitting thick black smoke, melting the cold sky. Pedestrians on the streets are constantly flowing out of the inn, coming out of the inn or walking in. The people in the houses enjoy the warmth of the fire, the dancing women dance with their long sleeves, swaying figures, and the singing men and women sing vast songs with cheerful music.

A few men who were already confused about drinking staggered to the middle of the dancers and twisted their plump butts, looking like clowns in a circus, laughing, which attracted bursts of laughter and joy, and most of them were making fun of them. For several drunks, this doesn't matter, because they sometimes stretched out their greasy palms to touch the female dancers, and then sighed at the softness. But then a crisp sound would sound, leaving a clear fingerprint on their faces. Some would fall down immediately and scold, "Who is it, which bastard pushes me." Some touched their hot faces, stood there for a long time, and then left tactfully.

The merchants sat around the table and ate fruit gracefully and smelly barbecue. The noble ladies in gorgeous clothes surrounded the merchants, holding the wine bottle with a slightly drunkenness, and persuaded them: "Do you have another drink?" The merchants catered to it, opened their mouths that looked a little small on their faces, and drank the wine in a bottle of wine. After drinking a few cups, they lost their original reserve and noble demeanor. They spent a lot of money on their words, wandering around the noble ladies' gorgeous clothes, with a wretched smile on their faces.

The rich gold and silver headdresses that looked a little thick on the head of the noble lady began to tremble. They twisted their waists and said half-pushedly: "Master, don't you want this?" But their hands firmly hugged the merchant's neck. Then they put their bodies closer and said something in their ears. The next day, they would always have one or two precious jewelry or a bag of heavy silver in their hands. In their memory, they would not remember what happened yesterday for a long time, and they would only deeply believe that these things were their own.

At this time, the inn in the southeast corner of East Street, Qilin Town seemed a little deserted. There were only a few sparse guests in the wide hall. On the table in the southeast corner, four men looked like lumberjacks, wearing clumsy cotton hats and long cloth gowns. One of the men had a two-inch hole in the long gown, revealing the wheat-colored skin below. It seemed that they were unaware of it in the cold winter. They only had a plate of peanuts and four kilograms of soju wine. It seemed that they were about to get drunk before going back.

Two men were sitting on the table near the counter. The old man was fifty years old, with a silly smile on his face, and his meticulous hair was tied into a bun and tied together with a wooden hairpin. He was wearing a fur coat that looked a bit old, and a fur hat with the same color as his fur coat on the table. The boy was wearing a snow-white cloak. Judging from the fur collar, it was undoubtedly snow-fur. The fur hat he wore was obviously made of snow-fur, and the whole person looked snow-white and clean. Although the snow-fur is not as precious as khaki tiger skin, it is also extremely rare among fur goods.

Anyone who knows knowledgeable knows that people who can afford such a suit must be valuable. So the shop owner's eyes have been wandering around the table and never left. The boy seemed not interested in the roast chicken on the table, but looked at the moth flying towards the oil lamp with his eyes. His two sword eyebrows were frowning, as if thinking: Why is this moth so stupid? He actually goes to the fire with his body. The two are Old Man Zhu and Zhu Zhu. At this time, they have become absolute fur merchants. Zhu Zhu transformed into a rich young man, and Old Man Zhu transformed into a housekeeper.

A man sat on the table near the door, with long hair tied up like a ponytail, revealing his clear and handsome face, and his profound eyes looked like two star diamonds. He was wearing a moon-white robe, which looked brighter on his straight body. However, this was a single dress, which seemed a little thin at this time. What was strange was that the man deliberately sat at the door, facing the cold wind blowing in through the crack of the door, and seemed not afraid of the cold. On the left side of the table was a yellow brocade bag. No matter what was inside, the brocade made of just a bun was already very expensive, and it was woven into cold silk on the east stream sea. Most of the pot of wine had been drunk by the man, but the plate of beef on the table did not move at all.

At this time, a man and a woman came down from the upper floor. The man looked fair and handsome, and was a little more handsome than the man on the table at the door. He was wearing a pure white fox fur coat, which looked even more elegant. The woman's round face was dotted with freckles, her eyes were bright and full of aura. She seemed to be talking without opening her mouth. She was wearing a fiery red fox fur coat and stood next to the man with great conspicuous relationship. The two were intimate, and they separated their hands that were tied together until they went down the stairs.

After seeing the boy wearing a snow fox cloak, the man smiled and walked forward with his hands in his back. They found a table to sit down. The man shouted as if no one was around: "Shopkeeper, come two bowls of beef noodles, two pounds of beef, and one pound of wine." The waiter, who had been following him since they went downstairs, said helplessly, but he accompanied him carefully: "I understand, guest." When the waiter shouted to the back hall, the woman whispered to the man, "Don't drink today." As she said that, she winked at the man. The man immediately noticed it, and then looked at the other people's table intentionally or unintentionally, and then his face became a little ugly.

He quietly reached into his arms, and he felt something before he calmed down. Then he grabbed the woman's hand, his face full of pity, and said with concern: "Qianmei, your hand is so cold." The woman smiled charmingly and said in a sweet voice: "Of course it's cold outside! If you care about me, why don't you go to the room?" The man understood it, immediately stood up, took out a piece of silver from his arms and threw it on the table, and then held the woman's hand and walked upstairs. While walking, the two of them were bound together, and they even wanted to be together.

The waiter came over with the food but disappeared. He stood in shock for a moment. Seeing that the silver on the table was enough for food, he had to withdraw the silver and brought the food down.

(End of this chapter)
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