Chapter 49: The Unique Wandering Soul Castle
The Wandering Soul Castle is different from other places in the Tang Dynasty. In any city in the Tang Dynasty, there is no rule for passers-by to pay city gate tax. However, there are not only merchants, but all people in the city.
It doesn't matter if you enter the city because you don't charge money. However, when you leave the city, whether you are a prominent official or a young child who is still in his infancy, you can make a hundred cents per person according to the head record.
It was written clearly on the wall on one side of the city gate.
Therefore, few people who enter the city go out. These people come to the city to make a living. If they are not capable, a hundred cents of money may be considered as all their belongings and they are reluctant to leave the city. Some of them have a good time in the city. Where can they make a living after leaving this city?
There are horse thieves on this side of the city, and there are Turkic barbarians on the other side of the city. These people in the city can understand it.
There are thirty-six businesses in the city, but in the city, for a commoner, the most profitable businesses are those who run brothels, pubs, pharmacies, and weapons shops. Even if they don’t have money, they can still be a slaughter.
This is the Xiongcheng of the border of the Tang Dynasty. There are countless men from the world who come here to seek a living. Killing a Turkic barbarian outside the city can be exchanged for copper coins, a full thousand dollars!
But in the hands of these men in the world, they only have a few days of glorious days. When they have money, they drink and eat meat and go to brothels.
Therefore, the business of the taverns and brothels in the city is good, but they cannot be private. If you want to open a tavern, brothel, you must first report to the city's officials and wait until the official approval is issued before construction can start. It must be admitted that it was jointly run with the official, and 60% of the net income must be handed over to the official.
In the end, the money was transferred and then it was in the hands of the official. These shops were not unprofitable. How many men are there in the Wanhun Castle? It’s not a big deal. Even if you remove the expenses, more than 20% of the profits fell into your pocket.
It sounds like I don’t make much money, but the man in the Wandering Soul Castle didn’t run inside every few days.
The remaining two businesses are a little worse than those of taverns and brothels. In ordinary places in the Tang Dynasty, these business can barely make ends meet, which is different here.
What is the best thing about the people in the martial arts world? They compete for martial arts. Because of trivial matters, there are many people who are fighting each other. In addition, these people will go out to the city to fight face to face with Turkic barbarians. They have not had any wounds on their bodies all year round, and are embarrassed to go out to meet people.
If you ask why those who open weapons shops can make money in this city? Who doesn’t want a handy weapon? A good sword and a good knife, at least ten taels of white silver, is the most common price.
However, those who run weapons shops are all officials in the city. Even if they are the son of the deputy gubernator, they do not have the status of an official, so don’t think about being able to make trouble.
Guo Xiaojiu and the Huoshui entered the city. The city was very lively, unlike the bustling places in ordinary places. The streets were full of fireworks alleys. At first glance, there were seven or eight of the ten open shops, including taverns, brothels and clinics.
There are many people in the world wearing swords and swords on the streets, and even next to this city gate, there is a family who specializes in doing business for dead people.
Death in this city is not a rare thing, but the business is not very good. People in the world die, and they die if they die. There are no relatives and friends. It is a good treatment if someone helps to wrap a mat and bury it. Every year, there are countless corpses in the yellow sand outside the city, which are eaten by wind and sand.
"Two guests, do you want to have a bowl of clear soup beef noodles? It's delicious and not expensive, it only costs two cents a bowl!"
Next to this city gate, there is a noodle stall and it also does wine business. Unfortunately, there are not many customers, and they are all ordinary families.
The man in the martial arts world with swords and swords still likes to go to the big restaurant in the city, drink wine, and then find a clear place of love and beauty around the restaurant, or simply go directly to drink wine.
What is hidden is not the style of a man from a martial arts world.
Without waiting for Guo Xiaojiu to answer, Huoshui had already sat on a table in front of the stall and raised two fingers: "Two bowls."
She sniffed, playing with the black folding fan in her hand, and suddenly raised her head and smiled at Guo Xiaojiu, very charming: "I don't have money."
"Okay!" Although Guo Xiaojiu saw countless restaurants and brothels from a distance, he did not plan to go there to have fun. The money Zhou Ziheng had given him had already been spent on a lot of money, and there was not much left. In addition, with this little girl around him, he couldn't be too ostentatious after all.
I went to a restaurant for drinking. I went to a brothel, not necessarily for those graceful beauties to be able to stay in bed, maybe just for someone to drink with me.
There was a beauty in front of me, who was the best beauty in the world. Thinking of this, Guo Xiaojiu smiled happily and felt relieved: "Give me a pot of wine first!"
The Huoshui is very beautiful. As soon as he sat down, the guests around him looked at each other from time to time. When he saw Guo Xiaojiu carrying a sword, he didn't dare to be too arrogant.
Guo Xiaojiu looked indifferent, just look at it. Anyway, this girl has nothing to do with him. She just met by chance. This girl was so mean and she had to follow him. He didn't know why she was the purpose and didn't dare to ask.
If you can't beat it, you will definitely not dare to ask.
Even along the way, Guo Xiaojiu guessed in his heart whether this little girl, who seemed to be one or two years younger than him last year, was an old woman who had practiced some special skills and could have the ability to keep her face.
He still didn't dare to ask, and could only hold it in his heart. If it was true, he felt that he would definitely not be able to enter this Wandering Soul Castle.
It's fake, and you have to be beaten.
After eating noodles, it was not over yet. The girl Huoshui had to find a bigger inn and change it. Guo Xiaojiu didn't care. She was exhausted along the way and was really tired. He was preparing to take a break while taking advantage of this skill.
But, this girl, Huoshui, had to let him wash up, and he could not do anything to the point, so he could only follow this girl.
A gust of breeze hit, and Guo Xiaojiu opened his eyes. It was an hour or two later, and the sun had already turned to the southwest.
Guo Xiaojiu looked for a week before she saw the girl Huoshui in the house. She has now recovered her former aura and is no longer walking from the desert. The dirty but pleasant little girl.
Huoshui squinted his eyes and smiled. The lethality of this smile is probably more effective than the plasters in the Wandering Soul Castle.
"Do we want to go out to the street and take a look?" Huoshui turned his ears and listened to the hustle and bustle in the streets outside the house.
"No!" Guo Xiaojiu turned his head, continued to squint his eyes, and lay down.
After all, he couldn't beat this little girl, and the girl ran to his ears provocatively and blew gently. Guo Xiaojiu said silently in his heart: "Fairy, fairy, you can't blame me, I really have no choice."
I could only accompany this little girl to wander around the city. After entering the city, the disaster seemed to have become a different person. I had a bit of a master's demeanor and a cool and gorgeous aura that wanted to keep people from thousands of miles away.
Now, all those things are thrown behind.
There are not many tailor shops in this Wandering Soul Castle, and there are also female heroes in the martial arts world, but who would come to this place in the martial arts world? Those rich female heroes, such as the woman who is known as the number one swordsman in Mobei, can't be as fond of these small shops?
The poor female heroes don’t even have enough money to drink. The ordinary people in the city only buy two pieces of cloth and go back to their homes to do some needlework. Men make money outside, and they won’t be too bored at home.
The most expensive thing in this place is rouge powder, which is not a expensive brand outside. You can even call a good price in this Wandering Soul Castle.
After all, rare things are precious, and rouge and water are all from outside. You have to travel far from the north of the desert to transport them to the city. Which women in the romantic places should not come to this place for consumption several times a month?
As for why these women failed to make the tailor shop popular, there are great questions here. This is Mobei, and there are so many romantic places. Don’t you go to any house? You have to have your own characteristics. If you use these tailors outside to make some ordinary women’s clothes, how can you attract attention?
But the disaster just visited these extremely high-priced shops, which made Guo Xiaojiu follow behind. Every time he heard the offer, he would tremble in his heart. He quickly calculated in his heart whether the remaining money was enough to make ends meet. This girl seemed to know Guo Xiaojiu's embarrassing situation, but she just looked at it and never even touched it.
Guo Xiaojiu followed Huoshui listlessly and shuttled through the streets and alleys in the Wandering Soul Castle. In just a short time, he had already visited several streets and alleys.
In other words, it would not have made Guo Xiaojiu complain. He did not immediately look for Zhou Ziheng. He should be in the city, but the city is so big, where can I find it in the short time?
As Huoshui walked into a jewelry store, Guo Xiaojiubai was bored and wanted to reach out to touch the scabbard, but was stabbed by the sound of bells on his hands, which made him think of the girl in his heart.
Chapter completed!