Near the ferry, the market is still lively.

It's just that today is not as lively as last time.

There are few people running boats on the water.

The people living nearby were not too affected.

There was a private house in the middle of the market, and a stall was set up at the door of the main house, selling shoes.

Most of what is sold are some grass sandals and cloth shoes. The good ones are just thicker soles and embroidered with moire decoration on the uppers. They are mainly practical. There is only one pair of shoes with exquisite soles and red uppers.

The rabbit pattern is embroidered with gold and green thread, which is exquisite yet playful and cute.

These shoes are not like those that ordinary people would wear or buy. Even if ordinary people get married, they cannot wear such good shoes. Rather, they look like they are worn by the daughter of a noble family in the royal palace.

It really looks out of place in this shoe stall.

Everyone who comes and goes here casts their gaze at it.

But no one dared to ask the price.

Even the young couple guarding the stall had some doubts.

"Will anyone really buy these shoes?" The young woman couldn't help but worry, "How can anyone in this place afford such good shoes?"

"There should be." The man also frowned.

"If we can't sell it, we will lose all the money we made in two months."

"There should be, my father and I make a pair of shoes like this every ten years, and different people come to buy them every time, and they will definitely do the same this time," the man said with a frown.

"Could it be that your short-lived parents lied to you?"

"Why did they lie to me about this? Besides, I remember that my father also made this pair ten years ago, and someone actually came to buy it!"

"Where in the world can such a thing happen..."

The woman didn't believe it, she was just worried.

The woman who fell into the water, the goddess who rescued people, the shoe-making agreement, the different people who came to buy shoes every ten years, passed down from generation to generation, and the two hundred years, all sounded like stories in a book.

Is there really such a thing in the world?

The woman didn't know. She only knew that these shoes were made of the best fabrics and threads, which cost her a lot of energy. If she couldn't sell them, she would suffer a big loss.

While I was thinking about it, three people came to me.

There were two young men and women in Taoist robes, and a muscular warrior with a beard holding a sword. The Taoist made people approach him, but the warrior made people fear him.

The three of them saw the pair of shoes at a glance.

"How much do these shoes cost?"

Upon hearing this, the young couple were stunned.

"Six, six taels of silver."

"Six taels?"

Just as Luo Seng put his hand into his arms, wanting to use the piece of silver to pay the bill, when he heard the quotation, his hand suddenly froze, and he, Lin Jue, and the junior sister looked at each other in confusion.

Then he took out the willow branch.

"Look at the size."

"How many... but... did you buy it for the River Goddess?" the man asked stumblingly.

"You also know?"

"Of course I know!"

The young couple were startled again and looked at each other with their eyes wide open.

Someone actually came to buy shoes for the goddess!

Then the man hurriedly said: "Then there is no need to compare, just this pair, they are just this long."

"Um?"

Monk Luo gestured with the willow branch, and it turned out just right.

Lin Jue asked: "You don't have a lot of quotations, do you?"

"How dare you? That's the price!" The man didn't dare to misunderstand this matter and said hurriedly, "Ever since our ancestors were rescued from the water by the goddess, we have been making this pair of shoes every ten years for generations.

The price is the same, so don’t dare to shout about it.”

"Look at the workmanship, it took me half a month to sew it together!" The woman also said, "This fabric and gold thread are also unusual!"

"It sounds like you have been making shoes for the River Goddess for generations?"

"It's hard to say that." The man said coyly, "I only have one pair in ten years."

"Are they all at this price?"

“This price has always been the same, I dare not lie!”

"I see."

Lin Jue couldn't help but frown:

"This woman..."

Monk Luo had already untied the package and took out six taels of silver.

"Buy it!"

Not long after, the three of them picked up their shoes and left.

The young couple were left standing there, relieved but also surprised.

Wonderful things in the world have been passed down from mouth to mouth in the past, but I never expected that they would now reach my doorstep.

…

The three of them returned to the river.

The water was still empty, and most boats were tied to the shore. There was a tent boat rocking gently, and a beautiful white fox on the boat jumped on the boat board, catching damselflies flying from the shore.

"Wow..."

The three people boarded the boat one by one, and the rocking boat stirred up waves.

The fox landed on the board of the boat and stopped immediately. He no longer paid attention to the damselflies and only focused on them.

"Thank you for your hard work. I didn't see any restaurants in this market, and there was nothing delicious for sale. I only bought a few leaf cakes." Lin Jue opened a leaf wrapped in layers, and inside were a few leaf cakes.

, he took apart two more and handed them to his fox, "Let's pad them first, and if there are other food for sale at the next ferry, buy some more."

The fox came up obediently, opened his mouth and took it.

Luo Monk took a pair of shoes and threw them into the water.

"The shoes are for you!"

With a pop sound, the shoes stirred up some water.

A xuan'er hit the river, and the pair of light cloth shoes sank immediately.

"Remember to make up the money!"

Luo Monk stood on the bow of the boat and shouted into the water.

But there was no sound coming from the water.

After a while, there were two popping sounds, and two carp jumped out of the water, jumped onto the board of the boat, and kept flicking their tails and struggling.

"Oh……"

Luo Monk laughed and had no choice but to pick up the fish.

I thought I could use it to feed Lin Jue's foxes.

However, Lin Jue had already fed two leaf cakes into Fuyao's mouth, and Fuyao was lowering his head and eating hard. The stuff was too sticky, and his mouth was not good at chewing it, so he had to bite it one at a time while eating it.

Biting one side and turning his head in circles, as if fighting it.

Lin Jue was laughing beside him.

Luo Monk ignored it and pushed the shore with his oar. As soon as there was a slight ripple in the water, the tent boat immediately left the shore and slid towards the middle of the river.

Many people on the shore looked at me, wanting to see which ignorant person dared to walk by water these days.

However, the people on the boat seemed completely unaware. The boat was rowing down the river and soon became blurred in the morning mist and water vapor.

There is a red sun rising in the distance.

It's more than a hundred miles along the way.

It passes through several ferries. Because the waterways here are developed and there are often merchant ships and cargo ships on the Weishui River, there is a market not far from almost every ferry. There are also signs of stalls at many ferries. However, in these few days, there are no

No one, empty.

At dusk, the tent boat suddenly arrived at a wide area of ​​water. Amidst the mist and mist, the line of sight was limited. If it weren't for the shadows of mountains on all sides, it would have seemed like it was traveling to a vast and vast place.
To be continued...