Chapter 4 Wanhu Zhou (Part 2)

  In places where ancient wheel paths are dense, there are specialized cargo channels that even ordinary people can use. However, opening the channel still requires a cultivator, at least a Mysterious Wheel Master. This kind of channel is limited to specific locations and the distance will not exceed 800 kilometers. The crystal used is the same as the wheel ring, and using the wheel ring can also open it. Of course, the wheel ring is more precious. Lei Xingfeng himself can also condense this kind of crystal.

  Watching the single-horned water buffalo pulling a large cart, one after another entering the arched gate, disappearing in an instant.

  Tan Da and Wu Zhen were also seeing it for the first time, standing there with their mouths agape. After a while, Tan Da said: "This is too convenient! We don't have this where we're from."

  Lei Xingfeng said: "The place where we are... is too remote, the ancient wheel path there can only be used by a very small number of people, it's impossible to open this kind of... uh, commercial path. It can be confirmed that in ancient times, Wanhu Zhou was extremely prosperous."

  Tan Da nodded and said: "The merchant teams in our place are all using boats, and the scope of activity is extremely small. At most, it's just a few hundred kilometers, which is already very impressive. Where is it as convenient as here?"

  Lei Xingfeng knew the benefits of convenient transportation in his previous life, so he said: "Alright, let's go. Ah, I was just stunned earlier, we should ask them about it."

  Tan Da said: "No need, just from the road they came... past, hehe, I believe it should be a densely populated area. Even if there is no big city, there should be a town."

  Lei Xingfeng nodded and said, "Alright, let's go over there." They could only walk over, as this place was the starting point of the Wheel Point, but it was quite deserted. Even if it were a merchant group, not every merchant group could use the Wheel Point to transport goods through the ancient wheel passage. Only those large business firms probably had that ability.

  Three people walked along the main road where the convoy came from.

  After about half a day, the three of them saw some farmland by the side of the road, scattered and not forming large tracts of land. Most were paddy fields, as expected by Leixing Peak, all were rice paddies. The farmlands here were all fenced off, probably because there were too many wild animals at this time, and if they weren't blocked, it might affect the harvest.

  In the distance, a small village can be faintly seen, hidden among the trees, with wisps of smoke rising gently into the air. Along the way, Lei Xingfeng couldn't stop praising it, saying it was like a beautiful painting scroll, with scenery along the road that was breathtakingly beautiful.

  Along the way, I rarely see people, and it's often after walking for over 10 minutes that I can see a few ordinary people busy in the fields far away. The number of people is extremely small, just two or three. This place is considered a densely populated area, but compared to the previous life on Leixing Peak, there are still too few people here.

  Gradually, the road surface became obviously better, with a road surface paved with gravel, at least easier to walk than muddy ground.

  There were more people on the road, mostly farmers carrying loads and baskets in the same direction as Leixing Peak. He also noticed that most of the goods in the loads and baskets were agricultural products, so these people should be going to the market town to sell local specialties.

  Lei Xingfeng smiled and said: "There must be a settlement ahead. If we're lucky, there might even be a city."

  Tan Daixiao said: "There must be, hehe, so many people carrying things on their backs, and there's no market town in front of us, that's a strange thing indeed."

  As expected, turning along the main road and passing through a forest, I saw a sea of black rooftops. Due to a patch of low-lying trees, these rooftops seemed like small boats floating on green waves, layered upon one another with no end in sight.

  "This is a big city!"

  Tan shook his head and said, "It shouldn't be a big city..." He had a bit more experience than Wu Zhen, having heard descriptions of some big cities before. Now it seemed that these houses were not enough to prove that this was indeed a big city.

  Lei Xingfeng smiled and said, "This is a small town, it won't be too big... at most two or three streets." In his view, a small town has only one street, a medium-sized town has two or three streets, a large town has about five or six streets, and the maximum will not exceed ten streets. As for small cities, there are at least more than ten streets, let alone big cities, without hundreds of streets, it is impossible to form the atmosphere of a big city.

  Wu Zhen exclaimed: "This is a real market town! That big city... how big can it be?"

  Tan Da said: "This time you come out, you must be able to see big cities."

  These two guys are typical country bumpkins, really inexperienced in the world. In a remote water town in Wanhu Zhou, where there is only one gathering point on the water with at most a thousand or so people, they were both shocked to see such a large settlement all of a sudden.

  According to Lei Xingfeng's estimate, this town would have no more than 20,000 people, and in his mind, that was just a very ordinary small town.

  People in this world dress similarly, as Lei Xingfeng put it, just to cover their bodies and keep warm. Of course, cultivators are an exception. The precious fabric is silk, which has some differences from the silk in his hometown in his previous life. The silk here has more vibrant colors, and besides mulberry silkworms, there is also a type of spider silk that is woven into fabric. This spider silk is stronger and more colorful, but its production volume is smaller.

  As for ordinary people, very few can wear silk, the price is really not affordable for ordinary people. Ordinary people's clothing is mostly made of hemp and cloth, and there is also a kind of clothing made from tree bark, so the colors are mostly gray, white, black, and dark blue, with dull colors. Therefore, on the road, as long as you see someone dressed in bright clothes, they are almost always cultivators, and it's very easy to distinguish them.

  So Leixingfeng and his two companions became very conspicuous as soon as they entered the small town, because they were wearing silk clothes.

  Almost all ordinary people, when they see the three of them, have an extremely respectful expression and retreat with their heads bowed, not daring to get close.

  Lei Xingfeng laughed and said: "We are like wild beasts entering the city, hehe, everyone is hiding from us."

  Wu Zhen said with some puzzlement, "They're afraid of us!" In the water town, although ordinary people also had a certain reverence for cultivators, due to their small numbers, they were all very familiar with each other and communication was completely without issue, almost without any great divide. But here, there seemed to be an invisible gap separating ordinary people from cultivators.

  Lei Xingfeng said: "Nonsense, you are a cultivator, a thousand wheel master, killing them is like killing chickens, they don't fear you, who will they fear?"

  Wu Zhen shook his head and said, "I won't kill people for no reason, there's no need to be so afraid."

  Lei Xingfeng said, "You wouldn't kill people without reason, but that doesn't mean there aren't cultivators who slaughter indiscriminately. If there are just a few of these kinds of people, do you think ordinary people will be afraid? Just like the ones we encountered earlier... The entire town was almost slaughtered by cultivators. What can they do?"

  "So ordinary people will follow the cultivators... Hehe, this place must also be within the sphere of influence of some sect. Outsiders who cultivate won't randomly kill people, that would offend the powers protecting them."

  Lei Xingfeng nodded and said: "I think so too. A village without a cultivator's protection is almost like a fat sheep."

  Wu Zhen asked in confusion: "What is a fat sheep? What is a fat sheep?"

  This world has sheep, but there aren't any in Shui Xiang, so Wu Zhen doesn't understand.

  Tan Da replied, "A very gentle animal, with delicious meat."

  Wu Zhen suddenly understood what a fat sheep was, and it was delicious! The so-called fat sheep is the one that people slaughter to eat. He said, "Hmm, I understand, but there are very few towns like this, even in our local town, there are cultivators stationed, and places without cultivators, I haven't seen any."

  Lei Xingfeng had gone through a period of training and also understood that in this world, cultivators occupied only a small part of the total population. However, they were scattered all over the world, and it was true that every corner could be seen. The local tyrants and villains of this world were almost all cultivators. Even if they failed in some places, as long as they could find a place with people, they could live comfortably. Their means were far beyond the strength of ordinary people.

  Wu Zhen said: "I'm hungry, it seems like there's a restaurant up ahead."

  Lei Xingfeng nodded and said: "Go take a look, I'm hungry too."

  Tan Da said, "I don't know what good food there is here, I hope there are some special dishes." Being able to taste the local specialties is also a right of cultivators. In this world, only cultivators have the ability to travel long distances and visit various places. This is a kind of experience and also an experience that can be boasted about. Due to cultivation, every cultivator has a good appetite and can eat more food than ordinary people.

  This is a small restaurant by the street, with a thatched shed outside, three long tables, and inside there are two square tables and a circle of wooden stools. Under the thatched shed outside, there are also two or three peasants eating, while the two tables in the room are empty.

  Lei Xingfeng and the other two swaggered in, Wu Zhen ordered: "Come on!" With a standard old master's demeanor, except that there was no servant by his side. The most regrettable thing was that this old master had to take matters into his own hands and do the work of managing the servants himself.

  Fortunately, there were many cultivators in this place, and the shop owner was not afraid. He ran in with a smile, bowing his head: "Three masters, what can I do for you?"

  "What special dishes are there? Bring them all up, I'm starving!"

  Lei Xingfeng couldn't help but laugh, and he started calling himself "Big Brother". Unfortunately, this Big Brother's momentum was still a bit small. However, the shop owner didn't find it strange at all, and repeatedly said: "Please sit down, please sit down, I'll personally cook for you. Hehe, I don't dare guarantee that Master will be satisfied, but it will definitely be the best dish in our humble restaurant."

  "A bit more."

  "This is also a characteristic of practitioners. The boss was very clear and said: "I understand, haha, please sit down, I'll be right back!""

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