Chapter 380

The journey was calm and peaceful.

Until a month later, they arrived at the first destination of this trip, Xiulan City.

Xiulan City was a large city located to the east of Bibabu City.

It was also the city closest to Bibabu City when traveling east.

This sounded a bit exaggerated, because they had been walking for more than a whole month.

But in fact, during this month, they were not walking on the road the whole time.

There were also many villages and towns in between where they could stop and rest.

If there weren't, they would camp and rest on the road.

Of course, they certainly wouldn't block the road.

Moreover, it sounded like they had walked for more than a month, seemingly having traveled a very long distance.

But in fact, such a distance would take less than ten days by horse. It wasn't that far.

And this was even when riding a horse without rushing.

If one were to whip the horse to go fast, without traveling day and night, only traveling during the day, one could arrive in as fast as six or seven days.

Xiulan City was a very magnificent and huge city, with very high and thick city walls.

It looked as if it was defending against something.

After all, compared to Bibabu City, which was further west and closer to the border between countries.

Xiulan City, which was relatively still in the interior of the kingdom, logically speaking, did not need to defend against so-called foreign invasions.

So what they were guarding against should not be enemies.

Then, only monsters or weirdness remained.

How could weirdness be defended against by walls?

Therefore, there must be powerful monster tribes around Xiulan City, and they were very likely to pose a threat to Xiulan City.

When Qin Feng saw the city walls of Xiulan City from afar, he had such a series of judgments.

These judgments were all based on the fact that he had played many games and had experienced many battles in that game before, which allowed him to make such judgments.

Otherwise, who would think so much upon seeing a city?

Xiulan City not only had higher city walls than Bibabu City, and thicker city walls than Bibabu City, its area was also much larger than Bibabu City.

Moreover, it was also much more prosperous inside.

On the main road, the flow of people was bustling, and the voices were clamorous.

The expressions on people's faces were relatively more relaxed, and the traces of toil for a living were fewer.

And in this Xiulan City, this was the first time the caravan had stopped and stationed in a city, planning to stay for a few days.

It was not because they had walked a long way and needed to go to a big city to rest for a few days before continuing.

But because Xiulan City, as an important stop on their merchant route, was one of their trading locations.

After all, even if this caravan was so large, it was impossible to transport all the goods to Yunzhou at once to sell.

If that were the case, there would be no income and no trading during this period, only investment, which did not conform to the interests of merchants.

On the way to Yunzhou, the caravan had trading plans and trading locations in some large cities along the way.

Xiulan City was just the first one.

No.

Actually, to be precise, Bibabu City was their first trading location.

Don't look at the fact that Bibabu City was the starting point of their departure, but this caravan was not a caravan from Bibabu City.

How could a city like Bibabu City, which could not be considered very prosperous or large, have such a large caravan?

They were originally a caravan from a large chamber of commerce in the neighboring Green Kingdom.

And the status of that large chamber of commerce in the Green Kingdom, although not as high as the Qilian Chamber of Commerce in the Mobis Kingdom, was not much weaker.

It was just that after entering the Mobis Kingdom, they chose the nearby Bibabu City as their base.

They established a chamber of commerce of their own in Bibabu City.

And there were people stationed there for a long time, goods were often transported there, and they even had large warehouses built there.

Therefore, many people who were unaware would think that this chamber of commerce was a chamber of commerce in Bibabu City.

At first, Qin Feng also thought so.

But after looking at the scale of this caravan, Qin Feng felt it was not normal.

After asking the system, he learned that this was a large chamber of commerce from the neighboring Green Kingdom.

Of course, the chamber of commerce stayed here, besides selling specialty products to this Xiulan City, they would also acquire some items in this Xiulan City to sell in other, more distant places.

After all, things are valued for their rarity; sometimes, across a long distance, things will be completely different.

Things that might not be worth much in one city might be worth ten thousand gold in another city.

And around this Xiulan City, there was a specialty called "jumping grass," and the fruit it bore was small round grains.

About the size of a soybean.

The taste was sweet and clear, not inferior to sugar.

After putting it into the mouth, the fruit of the jumping grass would jump around, making a crackling sound in the mouth, which was both delicious and fun.

It was very popular.

It was just that, for some reason, jumping grass could only grow around Xiulan City.

Once it left Xiulan City, it could not survive, so there was no way to farm it elsewhere; one could only buy or collect it in Xiulan City.

And then transport it to other cities to sell.

Qin Feng tasted this jumping grass.

He rarely showed a look of surprise.

Good fellow, isn't this popping candy?

It's just that the popping candy in the Nine Provinces is artificially synthesized, while the popping candy in this world grows naturally.