Chapter 39: Simple Folk Customs
In the western region of the empire, the folk customs are simple. As soon as Broly, Red Eyes, Black Eyes and others left the water area, a passing caravan took the initiative to accept them.
Although the caravan chose to attack them the next night because of the package of pearls, it also sent them a pile of food, transportation, and other commodities and other supplies.
After that, on the way to the border town on the map, they encountered two slave-catching teams. When the slave-catching team saw that the owners of the caravan were a group of children, they not only wanted the goods of the caravan, but also wanted to Broly and others were captured and made into slaves.
As a result, the entire slave catching team rushed to the streets, and the slaves who worked hard to capture were liberated. Those who could go home went home on their own, while the slaves who could not go home or were homeless joined the other slaves. Broly became a member of the thugs in his eldest brother's caravan.
Later, near the main road, perhaps because they were a caravan, they were attacked by eight groups of thieves from different forces.
Five of the groups did not say hello, but directly attacked and injured the caravan members. The angry Broly evaporated the place where they ambush with energy bombs.
The remaining three groups only wanted to collect tolls and were relatively well-behaved groups. However, because of the friendly exchanges before the robbery, they successfully found a job in Big Brother's caravan. Guard work.
"Sir, have mercy on us. We only came out to commit suicide because the taxes were too heavy and we couldn't survive.
Since our debut, we have only robbed wealth but not lives. We just want to survive. We are just going down, please show mercy and spare us this time..."
The process of applying for a caravan guard was basically the same as above. Fortunately, these gang members with sallow faces and thin muscles were able to kneel faster, so they were not directly killed by Broly.
Sitting in the carriage and chewing the sweet purple thorn berries, Broly felt that the people in the western border of the empire were too enthusiastic. Before they even reached the first city marked on the map, there were many people sending them to him. Various supplies and manpower arrived.
It would be great if there were people like this on Wampa Planet who sent him various supplies. Unfortunately, there are no such good people on Wampa Planet.
“Yu!”
The caravan suddenly stopped.
"What's going on? Has a good person come to the door again?"
Broly stuck his head out of the car and asked.
“It’s not robbers, but we have arrived at the border checkpoint and are now queuing up to cross the border.”
Nahasiu explained, he was wearing a well-tailored former caravan leader’s clothes, right He wears a single-sided spectacle frame on his eyes, and his skin is tan, but he has the demeanor of a young man taking charge.
The apparent age seems to be at least four or five years older than the actual age.
"Isn't a good person coming to the door..."
Broly was a little disappointed. Since it wasn't a good person coming to the door, he got back into the car and continued to eat the fruit inside.
The inspection after crossing the border and entering the city is not very strict. The reason is that three years ago, the military salaries for the western border armed forces were withheld by the central government of the empire.
In order to maintain the border army and prevent the army from mutiny, the commander-in-chief of the armed forces here took action on the customs clearance fee. Now, as long as the customs clearance fee is sufficient, the soldiers guarding the border and even the vehicles transporting supplies can Won't open for inspection.
This situation has also contributed to the prosperity of this border town. Some of the original smugglers no longer took some dangerous private trade routes to smuggle into this border town, and customs inspections were not strict in all cases. , as long as you give enough money to pass the customs, you can come in and out of the empire's border towns.
"However, this also makes the population structure of this city very complicated. There are people from all religions and nine schools, such as bandits like me, or visitors from the West, foreign peoples from the wild areas..."
By Bro The bandit leader who had regained the city by force introduced the situation of this border city. It can be generally regarded as a large-scale goods trading market where the Eastern Empire and Western kingdoms, plus some foreign nationalities, come together.
In the city, there are border troops maintaining order and it looks peaceful, but once outside the city, it is a place where everyone shows off their magic and everyone shows off the simple style of the Lucy border.
Everyone is a merchant, but everyone can also become a robber. The main camps are roughly divided into three parties, among which the Western Merchant Group composed of the Imperial Chamber of Commerce is the largest, and then there are the chambers of commerce from various Western kingdoms. In order to fight against the foreign business groups formed by the Western Business Group, the foreign people were finally regarded as uncivilized wild people.
Usually the first two are at odds with each other, but they will unanimously suppress the caravans of the foreign nation in order to obtain cheaper goods.
However, some powerful foreign ethnic groups are not easy to mess with. They are the real border robbers, the kind who steal money and even kill people.
Of course, when other people steal money and kill people, they usually blame foreign nations. After all, it is possible for uncivilized barbarians to do anything.
Therefore, although they are obviously a relatively weak group among the three parties, the reputation of foreign nations is the worst. Even in this border town, not many people welcome the caravans of foreign nations.
“No wonder Hongye clan leader can’t come here to do business.”
The disunity of different ethnic groups everywhere is one reason, and the tacit agreement between the Eastern and Western Chambers of Commerce to suppress foreign ethnic groups is another reason.
"Does the steward need to move goods? We have good laborers here and the prices are cheap."
"No, our caravan has its own laborers."
Send away The broker who came to look for business, Nahasiu returned to the car.
"Brother Broly, you go to eat first, I will take care of the goods in the caravan."
"Can't we just leave it to others?"
"I don't worry about leaving it to others. It's better for me to stay and keep an eye on it." The others were just forced to join or joined halfway. Who knows if someone might take the money and run away. Nahasiu felt that he had to help his elder brother keep an eye on it. these wealth.
“We will bring you food.”
Some people chose to stay and help, except for the foodies.
"If any of you hurt them, I will beat you to death."
Broly said seriously to the recovered bandits.
“Don’t dare.”
This group of people waved their hands quickly. Most of them had seen Broly make waves and attack some bandits who came directly without saying a word, vaporizing the scene for everyone. people.
The terrifying scene where even the terrain changed made them feel in awe of this seemingly harmless boy.
Because of the terrifying power, I was afraid, but at the same time, I was respected because the other party did not kill them, who also came to rob them, and gave them a way to survive.
In the lively border town, Broly smelled various smells on the streets, and finally walked into a noodle shop with a group of children.
The noodle shop was bustling with people. The thick soup made from unknown animal bones was added with spices at the front, and the aroma spread almost half the street.
“It tastes so good, boss, give us a hundred bowls of noodles first!”
“Okay, wait, a hundred bowls of noodles, can you kids eat so much? ?”
“The money is here, I can’t eat it, so I’ll just pay the bill.”
"Sorry, noodles, come right away."
Seeing the money, the noodle shop owner no longer cares about whether the customers can eat or not.
As long as you can pay the bill, you can smash his noodle restaurant.
In addition to noodles, the noodle shop also sells other foods.
It has to be said that the same barbecue, with spices and without spices, is completely different when grilled.
"It's delicious."
Broly devoured it, and the other children were no exception. Everyone at the table was satisfied with the delicious food.
. . . .
But there are satisfied children, and there are dissatisfied children. They are the street children in this border city.
They stood on street corners and alleys, casting envious glances at those who had money to eat in restaurants.
There is longing in his eyes, hoping that the guests sitting at the tables outside will eat some leftovers.
That was one of the few places where street children like them could get good food.
As for the inside of the hotel, they dare not go in because they will be beaten by the hotel people.
The leftovers inside are the food leftovers that the children in the group fight for.
“Boss, check out!”
As the customer sitting on the table outside the steamed bun shop said this, several pairs of hungry little eyes looked over. When they saw some leftover steamed bun dough on the other party's plate, the street children sitting on the street corner couldn't help but Swallowed.
But they didn't dare to go there, just like stray cats, they were afraid that they might make the person unhappy and get hurt.
Even if children like them are beaten to death, the person who beat them to death may just need to pay a street cleaning fee to the street peace officer here.
But even among stray cats, there are differences, such as those that are just hungry but not yet starved to death, and those that are about to starve to death.
“Excuse me, sir, can you give me these bun wrappers that I don’t want on the plate?”
The girl wrapped in a dirty scarf showed a cute smile. She came to the customer who was about to check out and asked cautiously from a distance of two meters.
My stomach was growling, and Ma Yin had not eaten for two days.
(End of this chapter)