Chapter 177: Wenzhou Nangang Market
After sleeping soundly all night, Yao Ruoyu finally recovered. After getting up, he and Song Kai and others had breakfast. Under the urging of the Bingdian, a group of people left Wenzhou Commercial Bank in a mighty manner and rushed to the market in the south port.
Although they are both cities in Zhejiang, the street style of Wenzhou City is very different from that of Hangzhou and Jiaxing. The styles of the latter two cities are closer to the Jiangnan water town. The buildings in Wenzhou City have a somewhat modern city style. Everyone walks on the streets and feels like they are returning to the modern world.
Looking around, a little bitterness suddenly arose in Yao Ruoyu's heart. He had been traveling to this world for a long time. He thought he had adapted to this world, but when he saw this modern and modern street, he still couldn't help but feel a little ripples in his heart.
This is true for Yao Ruoyu, Li Huan and Hu Xian. Both girls rarely say anything, but just stare at the surroundings silently. However, Song Kai and Jiang Siyu have been here for a long time, even if they have mood changes, they can still hold on well.
Bingdiandian didn't notice the change in expressions of the few people. As a landlord, she enthusiastically introduced the scenery along the way to them. She also ran to the snack bar on the street from time to time to buy some snacks and distributed them to everyone.
"There are many business stores in Wenzhou." Suddenly, Yao Ruoyu held up his glasses and chuckled and said to Bingdiandian.
When he was in Nanhu, he was besieged by many warriors because of the Zhanhu sword. He had no choice but to leave Jiaxing directly. He thought that his glasses would be left in the inn, but he didn't expect that Song Kai helped him bring his glasses to Wenzhou before leaving, so he put on his glasses again after getting up today.
Hearing his words, Bing Diandian nodded with a smile: "Yes, in addition to our Wenzhou Commercial Bank, there are also large-scale commercial banks such as Sujia Commercial Bank, Donghai Commercial Bank, and Daming Commercial Bank, as well as many small commercial banks."
"Wouldn't the competition be very fierce?" Yao Ruoyu laughed unconsciously.
"It's okay!" Bing Diandian smiled with some complacent smile, "We have many experts in Wenzhou Commercial Bank. Even if there are many competitors, our Commercial Bank is not afraid."
After holding off his glasses, Yao Ruoyu said in confusion: "Master?"
"She is a business expert," Song Kai shook his head knowingly and explained, "Wenzhou Commercial Bank has great talent training and recruitment in this area."
Yao Ruoyu nodded suddenly, which made Song Kai praise him, which shows that Wenzhou Commercial Bank is indeed very good.
As they were talking and laughing, the group finally arrived at the market in Nangang. Before they got close, the crowds on the street became obviously denser, and there were a lot more shops along the street than before. People came and went, and cars came, which seemed very prosperous.
After a while, Bing Diandian smiled and pulled Yao Ruoyu, pointed to the distance and said with a smile: "Look, there."
When Yao Ruoyu heard this, he looked in the direction she pointed, glanced at her for a few glances, and frowned unconsciously, "What?"
"Didn't you see it?" Bing Diandian immediately pouted, "Western people! Didn't you see it?"
Yao Ruoyu was stunned when he heard this and looked there again. Several golden and blue-eyed Westerners were walking through the crowd. The other party did not notice Bingdian's fingers, but was talking to himself.
"I saw it, what's wrong?" Li Huan frowned slightly and said in confusion.
"No, why are you not surprised?" Bing Diandian pouted depressedly and said dissatisfiedly, "Song Kai and Sister Jiang were like this before, and now you are like this too. Don't you find it strange to see Westerners?"
Yao Ruoyu understood what Bingdian meant at this time and immediately scratched his head with some amusement. Indeed, it was just the golden and blue-eyed Westerners who did look very strange. However, time travelers such as Yao Ruoyu and others have never seen Westerners in modern times. In that world of information explosion, Westerners have long been used to seeing it and will not have any strange feeling.
I think when Bingdian came here with Song Kai and Jiang Siyu, he was showing off his mind to guide the existence of Westerners, but he was so uncomfortable with the indifferent attitude of the two. So this time he wanted to do it again, but he ended up eating it silently again.
Not to mention Bingdiandian was depressed, Yao Ruoyu walked for a while and then walked into a blacksmith shop next to him.
Seeing him come in, a friend came up with a smile and nodded: "Customer, do you want to buy weapons? Or do you want to buy some household utensils?"
"Do you have scabbards here?" Yao Ruoyu took out the Zhanhu sword tied around his waist and said lightly, "My sword has never been equipped with scabbards."
"Yes, what material scabbard do you need?" the guy asked with a smile when he heard this.
After thinking about it, Yao Ruoyu shook his head and said, "I don't know much. What material do you have here?"
The guy replied with a smile: "We have a lot of materials for scabbards, shark-skin, iron, steel, and spiritual masters specially carved spiritual arrays to warm up the sword. The audience needs it."
While speaking, he had already brought Yao Ruoyu to the counter on one side, with many scabbards displaying inside the counter.
Song Kai and others naturally followed Yao Ruoyu in. Seeing that he was going to buy a scabbard, Bing Diandian couldn't help but curl his lips and said, "Brother Yao, why don't you look for me if you want to buy a scabbard? Our business also has its own blacksmith!"
"I just thought of it." After explaining with a smile, Yao Ruoyu continued to look at the scabbard inside the counter.
What he said was the truth. When he saw the blacksmith shop just now, Yao Ruoyu wanted to come in and see the weapons, but suddenly he thought that his Zhanhu sword had not obtained the scabbard since he got it. The Shuangxi sword also used ordinary scabbards. Sometimes when fighting suddenly, he would directly break the scabbards when he controlled the flying sword, so he thought about just coming here with two scabbards.
Song Kai and Hu Xian are spiritual masters, so they are not very interested in these things, so they stand at the door and chat. Jiang Siyu and Li Huan enter the store and watch the weapons placed in the store.
After considering it for a while, Yao Ruoyu bought a shark skin scabbard with a pattern engraved with the spiritual array. It is said that the core of the spiritual array is a gold-type spirit stone and a water-type spirit stone. The former can stimulate the sharpness of the sword edge, while the latter can warm the sword edge and avoid wear.
When he left Hezhou, Xu Xuanrong prepared a lot of gold and silver for them, but when he was in Jiaxing, he stayed in the inn and was brought to Wenzhou by Song Kai and Jiang Siyu. However, since Yao Ruoyu had met them, he naturally had to stuff a little into his pocket. Therefore, although this scabbard was expensive, he did not take it seriously.
Buying a scabbard was just an episode, and then everyone continued to go shopping in the market.
It has to be said that although the size and number of shops in modern times are nothing, in this world, this market is already considered to be a rare large-scale market with prosperous times.
Everyone walked along the way, including blacksmith shops, pharmacies, clothing shops, and even Western shops, innumerable categories. It can be said that just such a market will at least concentrate products from southern China and the West.
"But it's a pity that our Song Dynasty and several other countries have been fighting fiercely for years, and their business roads are not well open," Bingdian showed a little serious appearance and sighed, "So almost all goods from the north, northwest and southwest cannot be circulated here."
"If it was a city on the border, it would have been better, right?" Yao Ruoyu said in confusion when he heard this.
Nodded, Bing Diandian smiled bitterly: "Yes, but the cities on the border have experienced wars all year round. The city must be dominated by the army, and business will not pay too much attention to it."
Hearing this, Yao Ruoyu, Song Kai and Jiang Siyu looked at each other and felt a little bit in their hearts. No wonder Wenzhou Commercial Bank traveled thousands of miles to Hezhou City to open a branch. At first, everyone thought there would be problems, but now they think it is mostly for the purpose of opening a business road in the northwest in the future.
Before we knew it, everyone had been shopping for a whole morning. Seeing that everyone was hungry, Bingdian raised his hand and laughed and said, "I know there is a restaurant that tastes great! Let's take you to try it."
To be honest, Yao Ruoyu has already had some doubts about Bingdian's aesthetic throughout the way. This little girl seems to be very optimistic about the things coming from the West. She has recommended many Western shops to everyone along the way. So if his estimate is not wrong, Bingdian's so-called restaurant is mostly related to Westerners.
Sure enough, just as Yao Ruoyu's expectations, Bingdian led everyone to a Western-style shop. As soon as he arrived at the door, Yao Ruoyu and others looked at each other and silently spit out two words - bar!
Yes, in front of them, there were bars that could be seen everywhere in later generations, and the style of this bar was obviously the kind that cowboys in the west often went to in the movies, and even everyone could see several Han people wearing denim suits.
After rubbing his nose silently, Yao Ruoyu smiled bitterly, "The kind of clothes just now... were also bought from Westerners, right?"
"Hey? Brother Yao, how do you know?" Bing Diandian's eyes lit up when she heard this and she smiled, "How about it, the style is very unique! The young people here all like to wear this kind of clothes..."
Seeing Yao Ruoyu glance at him, Bing Diandian scratched his head embarrassedly and said dryly: "Of course I'm wearing it at home, otherwise I'll be able to find out if my family knows it, and I'll beat you..."
(For this era, it is good that you who dare to wear denim clothes will not be beaten to death...)
He complained silently in his heart, Yao Ruoyu took the lead and walked in. Song Kai, Jiang Siyu, Hu Xian and others followed closely. Several people found a seat to sit down in a familiar way. Then Yao Ruoyu raised his hand and snapped his fingers, shouting: "Waiter."
"Brother Yao, have you been here?" Bing Diandian couldn't help but exclaimed.
Hu Xian slid her red lips slightly, and smiled and said, "Jing..."
Before she could finish speaking, Song Kai had already interrupted her and said lightly: "I've heard of it."
"Oh," Bing Diandian was not very scheming, and with his obsession with Song Kai, he didn't doubt anything at all. He nodded and believed their explanation.
However, when he saw Song Kai lying, Hu Xian was also a little confused, obviously not understanding why he wanted to deceive Bing Diandian.
"Do you want people to know that we have traveled through time?" Yao Ruoyu whispered in her ear, "I'm afraid there are only bars in this era. Don't make people doubt our origin."
Hu Xian, who had just understood this time, nodded quickly and said that he understood.
ps: The sixth update!
Chapter completed!