Chapter 400 Something feels wrong
Jiangnan is located in the south of Tiancang Kingdom, separated by a Tiancang River.
The Tiancang River is the mother river of the entire Tiancang Kingdom. It can be said that all other rivers in the Tiancang Kingdom are branched out from the Tiancang River. For hundreds of years, the Tiancang River has nurtured countless Tiancang Rivers. The children of Cang Kingdom are an important source of water for the survival of Tian Cang Kingdom.
The area south of the Tiancang River is the entire Jiangnan area, and the north includes many important cities in the Tiancang Kingdom.
A city like Nancheng, although named Nancheng, is actually located in the area north of Tiancang River. To be precise, Nancheng does not belong to the Jiangnan zone, but borders the Central Plains zone. Just south of Tiancang Kingdom.
Gu Chan led the caravan from Nancheng via the official road to the crossing of Tiancang River for seven days.
At dusk that afternoon, the caravan had just arrived at Dujiang Town.
This town has the only safe river crossing in the south. It is also an important turning point for Tiancang Kingdom's water transportation. Usually many merchant ships will stop here to replenish supplies before continuing their voyage.
Fortunately, Gu Chan and others did not encounter too many dangers because they took the official road, so it was considered a safe journey.
After dark, Gu Chan led the caravan to stay at an inn in Dujiang Town.
After checking into the inn, Gu Chan discovered that the whole town was particularly lively at night. Not only were there many stalls on the street, but people from all over the country were also crowded in an endless stream.
Sitting in the lobby on the first floor of the inn, Gu Chan was eating and looking at the bustling scene outside the window. She couldn't help but smile and said, "It is indeed the most developed commercial area in Tiancang Kingdom. Just this place A small town crossing the river mouth is so lively. If you cross the river and reach the Jiangnan area, I don’t know how lively it will be!”
“Yes! The farther you go to the south of the Yangtze River, the hotter it becomes, and it doesn’t even feel like winter here! "Yes." Ma Zheng said as he took off his thick cotton jacket.
Di Lin and Yuan Jie did not speak, but looked at the people sitting in the inn.
After looking at it for a while, Di Lin carefully said in Gu Chan's ear, "Shopkeeper, I always feel that something is wrong here. Look at the group of people sitting in the inn, they all seem to be secretly looking at it. We are the same, this is completely different from when we were at the Yuanlai Inn in Nancheng.”
"Yes! I feel something is wrong too, as if they are watching some prey." Yuan Ying also followed suit.
When the two of them talked like this, Gu Chan noticed this.
She did not deny that what they said was indeed true. At this time, the group of people sitting in the lobby on the first floor of the inn were eating and peeking at them from time to time. It gave people the feeling that they were Look at them to see if they can be offended or not.
This feeling is still very uncomfortable.
At this moment, the waiter came over with a pot of wine. After putting the wine on the table, he looked at Gu Chan and said with a smile, "This little guest, you must be here for the first time. A caravan from Dujiang Town?”
"Yes! What's wrong?" Gu Chan asked with a smile.
“We have some rules here, I wonder if you want to know them.” The waiter whispered.
Gu Chan became interested and said, "I think so! Just tell me!"
"Two taels of silver." The waiter stretched out his hand to Gu Chan and said.
Obviously, it is an established rule here to use money to inquire about information. This is also a very important source of income for waiters like them, otherwise he would not be so casual.
Wanting to understand this, Gu Chan didn't waste any time and directly took out two taels of silver and handed it to him.
After the waiter put away the money, he said with a smile, "We have three major rules in Dujiang Town. First, this place is only used for resting and replenishing supplies. There must be no traffic between caravans and caravans. Do business here; secondly, there are green shops and red shops here. Men go into the green shop and women into the red shop. Don’t go wrong, otherwise you will be responsible for the consequences; thirdly, after midnight here, It's best to stay in the inn and not go out. If you insist on going out, you will suffer the consequences. "Oh! This is interesting!" Gu Chan said with wide eyes.
She really didn’t expect that in such a small riverside town, there would be such three weird rules. It was quite shocking!
Di Lin asked aside, "Brother, of these three rules, we can still understand the first one, but what do the last two rules mean?"
"I won't say much more about this. This is also our rule here. You just have to figure it out yourself." The waiter said with a smile.
After saying that, he turned around and left, seriously not explaining too much.
Gu Chan reached out and touched her chin and muttered, "That's interesting. It seems we have to go out for a walk tonight. I want to see why we can't go out after midnight."
"Boss, what is a red shop?" Ma Zheng asked suddenly.
Gu Chan spread her hands and looked confused, "I didn't know, this is the first time I've heard of it! I had never heard of Hong Kong before, whether it was at the border, Zhongyuan City, or Nancheng. Shop a place like this.”
"Brother Di Lin, Sister Yuan Jie, do you know?" Ma Zheng looked at them again and asked.
The two of them also shook their heads in confusion, expressing that they had no idea about this.
After all, they have been hanging out in the Central Plains all year round. They have never been to Jiangnan, so they don’t know much about the customs and customs here.
Gu Chan reached out and patted the table, and said immediately, "Okay, after dinner, we will arrange for everyone to rest, and the four of us will go out for a walk. I want to see what is unique in this town. "Boss, why don't we just be obedient and stay in the inn and forget about crossing the river tomorrow? There is no need to cause trouble for ourselves!" Ma Zheng said tremblingly.
"You know nothing. You've already come here, so of course you have to see it. Otherwise, if people ask about our affairs in the future, wouldn't it be very embarrassing for us if we don't understand?" Gu Chan said angrily. .
After hearing what she said, Ma Zheng finally put down his worries.
After that, the four of them became quiet and continued eating.
Half an hour later, after the four of them had eaten and drank enough, Di Lin went to arrange for the other eight people in the caravan to stay in their respective accommodations. Then he left the inn with Gu Chan and the other three and went to the town for a stroll.
And since it was still more than an hour before midnight, the streets were still busy with people coming and going, and there was nothing wrong at all.
After shopping around for a while, Gu Chan said, "There's nothing unusual now. Let's go! Let's go find a red shop."
"But didn't the waiter say that only women can enter the red shop? Ma Zheng reminded.
"Go over first! Just stand outside and take a look. It's okay if you don't go in!" Gu Chan said with a smile.
After saying that, she took the lead and walked forward.
Ma Zheng and the others followed her with great interest.