Chapter 401 Jinfan Thief, Gan Ning Gan Xing Ba! (Three in One)

In today's era, cloth is a very important and valuable material.

In addition to being used to make clothes and bedding, it can also be used directly as money to buy the things you need.

Even when the quality of the new money minted and issued by the government declined drastically, when conducting transactions on weekdays, people were more keen to trade with cloth.

Ordinary linen is so extraordinary, so something like brocade produced in Xichuan is even more valuable.

Ordinary people, if anyone can bring out a piece of Xichuan brocade as a dowry when their daughter gets married, no, even if it is only half a piece, she can straighten her waist and puff out her chest.

From now on, when the new daughter-in-law arrives at her husband's house, she will appear more imposing when speaking and doing things.

Of course, the good tradition of dowry began to fade in many places in later generations, and even basically disappeared.

All that is left is the desperate need for a betrothal gift.

In this era, when people marry their daughters, if the daughter's dowry is poorly prepared, not only will the daughter be unable to hold her head high in her husband's family after she gets married, but the parents will also feel disgraced.

The dowry is usually equal to the bride price, which is called matching the family.

But in later generations, it will no longer be possible.

People in many places are no longer ashamed to give their daughters something good in marriage.

The concept that dowry and bride price are of equal value has also basically disappeared.

There are even some families who, after asking for high-priced betrothal gifts, hold them all in their hands, and basically do not give anything to their daughter when she gets married.

She has no regard for the quality of her daughter's life after she gets married.

After letting her daughter get married, she started to pay off the debts with her husband's family...

The value of Xichuan brocade is so high today, but now it is used by this man with a copper bell around his waist to make ship's cables. This shows how luxurious it is.

It would be fine if he just used it as a cable. Anyway, this thing can be reused many times in the future.

Except for the first time, it costs a little more, and then it’s fine.

But this man knows how to show off.

When you come to the ship, you don't even have to untie the mooring rope.

Just cut it off with a swipe of the knife.

The boatman on the boat pushed the bamboo pole a little harder to the shore, and the boat, which was freed from the rope, immediately left the shore and headed towards the deep water.

Only the cable made of brocade was left, seemingly lonely on the shore.

To say lonely is not too lonely.

Therefore besides it there were four other cables made of brocade which had been left on the shore.

These were four other companion ships of the same specifications that also set off.

Five ships set off one after another.

The ship went away, and there was a tinkling sound of copper bells on the water.

About a mile away from the shore, there were many ordinary local people standing guard there, poking their heads and looking eagerly at what was going on here.

After seeing this group of people walking away and cutting off the brocade cables and leaving them as before, they couldn't bear it any longer.

Some brave people began to run towards the shore, aiming for the cables.

Many people originally thought of waiting a little longer and going over to grab it.

But after seeing some people running over there, none of them could stand it any longer.

They all started running wildly.

They were obviously just a group of ordinary people, but when they started running, they ran with the momentum of future athletes competing in the 100-meter final.

Even more impressive than the 100-meter final.

After all, what the brocade thief left behind was a cable made of brocade!

Although it has been made into a cable, it cannot change its brocade essence.

After grabbing it, I took it back, took it apart, flattened it again, and did some stitching. It was more expensive than ordinary intact linen.

Even if some of them are too fine to be sewn, they are still very good for tying the hair of women and daughters at home.

Even just tying up your hair with a small piece of brocade can immediately make your mother-in-law and daughter look radiant and become the most dazzling person among the villagers and neighbors.

The first person to run here, regardless of being out of breath, quickly untied a cable tied to the tree and held it in his hand.

Then go and solve the second root.

But he was kicked hard on the butt by the other people running behind him.

He ran forward uncontrollably for two steps, and with a thud, he plunged into the river.

My nose was full of water.

But even so, the man did not throw away the cable in his hand.

Instead, he wrapped it around his body and tied it tightly.

He pointed at the person who kicked him on the bank and cursed a few times, then turned around and came to the deep water of the river.

I swam downstream for a while, landed ashore, and ran away in a flash.

The rest of the people on the shore were now fighting for the remaining four cables.

Some people were beaten and beaten.

Some people even lost their luck...

On the five ships that left, someone pulled the rope and raised the sail.

Suddenly a dazzling brilliance arose.

Because the sail that was pulled up was not an ordinary white sail, but was also made of brocade!

This is also the main reason why these people are called Jinfan thieves.

"Hahaha... you people look at this, how funny it is.

They are just some discarded things that we throw away casually, and they are just fighting for them.

Just like a fly sees blood, a hungry dog ​​sees shit."

There was a person on the boat with big eyes and protruding eyeballs.

The face looks thin.

He looked at the chaotic scene on the shore and said this aloud, with a condescending and mocking tone.

"Yes, so I still have to work hard to climb up and become a better person.

Otherwise, this life will be too pitiful, like an ant, wanting nothing.

We are born for a lifetime, but we live like ants for a lifetime. Isn't it too pitiful and sad to be depressed and aggrieved?

If this is really the case, I really won’t be able to close my eyes until I die.”

On the leading ship, another person spoke and said so.

He wore a copper bell on his waist, brocade clothes on his body, and a sword on his waist.

Carrying a crossbow on his back.

This was the man who had cut the brocade cable on the leading ship with his sword.

They are also the leaders of these people.

His surname is Gan, his given name is Ning, and his courtesy name is Xingba. He is a native of Linjiang, Bajun, Yizhou.

"The commander is right!

When a man is born in the human world, how can he always be under others?

If you really have to live a life of such oppression and humiliation, it would be really unpleasant."

Another person answered the call.

This man had a dark complexion, his chest was exposed, there was a patch of gallbladder-protecting hair on his chest, and there was a scar on his face. He looked very fierce.

"So, is this the reason why you, the commander, are going to Wu County to find trouble with Zhang Liao and Zhang Wenyuan?"

Another person asked aloud.

This man has long hands and legs, is good at swimming, and is called a water monkey.

"That Zhang Wenyuan is not easy to deal with, he is not an ordinary person.

He is the top general under Uncle Liu Huang who marched eastward from Mianzhu and is invincible."

The man with the protruding eyes was no longer as wanton as before when he mentioned Zhang Liao's name.

"How can he be considered invincible?

The main reason was that none of the prefectures and counties they passed through did not resist, and just opened the city to welcome them.
To be continued...