Chapter 974

Wu You was quite capable. Within a few days, he found an old carriage in good condition. It had good sealing performance and not much space, but it was no problem for three or four of them to sit in it.

Especially he and Tao, who were still children and did not take up much space. Wu You had to drive the carriage, so the carriage was still very empty.

It took three days to reach the destination after more than a hundred miles. Gu Zheng and his team arrived three days early, and the big market would not start for three days. Even if this was excluded, there were already many people coming to the big market.

There was a town under Mangshan Mountain, and the big market was held in this town. Those who came early had already rented a farmer's house in the town, and many people slept on the ground. People who came at this time were basically selling things. They came early because they wanted to occupy a good position in advance.

After the big market started, a street that stretched for four or five miles was full of vendors. The streets in the town were not enough, and the two sides were extended a lot. People with experience knew that the closer the position was to the middle, the better. There were enough people there, and the possibility of exchanging or selling was greater.

At this time, some people had already started trading. Gu Zheng did not show up, but just asked Wu You to come out and take a look. They lived in a place ten miles outside the village. This place was not a forest, but just a small mound. However, if you did not go in and take a look, you would not find that someone lived here.

Gu Zheng made two tents, one for Aunt Cui and one for him and Tao. As for Wu You, he let him sleep in the carriage. Cloth was not cheap in these days. It was a very valuable thing and could even be used as currency. Gu Zheng did not need good cloth, so he asked Wu You to change some coarse cloth and make these two tents.

That's how it was, and a lot of things were used up. Before coming here, Gu Zheng rode a horse to hunt a lot of things. Now there are eight porcupine skins, tiger skins, leopard skins, cow skins, etc. There are also several pieces, various bones, dried meat, and two silver ingots. These are all the wealth that Gu Zheng has accumulated during this period.

These wealth are used to exchange for what he needs at the big market.

As long as he likes it, he must take it, even if others don't sell it, he will take it. Now is not the time to talk about benevolence and righteousness, especially there is a big monster behind him as a hidden danger. At this time, in order to improve his strength, he must do whatever it takes.

Of course, forced buying and selling is fine, but Gu Zheng will not kill people. He still has his own bottom line. At worst, he will compensate them after he succeeds in cultivation. In short, this time, in order to improve his cultivation, he must find enough things.

Until now, Gu Zheng has not been able to break through to the third level. It is not a problem of immortal power. His immortal power has been achieved long ago, nor is it a problem of state of mind. He has cultivated to the state of mind of a quasi-saint, and there is no obstacle in this regard.

After thinking about it, Gu Zheng can only think of one possibility, that is, opportunity. Opportunity is something that cannot be seen or touched. He is now inexplicably stuck here. If there is no such opportunity, it is possible that he cannot break through for two or three months. If he finds this opportunity, he can break through at once.

Opportunity is really uncertain. Gu Zheng can't bet all his treasures on this aspect. He can only take a stupid way, that is, force a breakthrough.

Break through by force, forcibly increase the immortal power, and forcibly break this obstacle. There is a limit to the immortal power that Gu Zheng can bear in his body. After breaking this limit, he can't help but break through. Although this will have a certain impact on the body, Gu Zheng doesn't care about this impact at all. He has many ways to regulate his body and recover.

The most important thing for him at the moment is to improve his strength. As long as there is a way to improve his strength, it doesn't matter if he pays a little price.

Living here, he won't be noticed by others. It's not far from the big market. After finding this place, Gu Zheng still practices every day. When Gu Zheng is watching, Tao will also practice, but if he doesn't pay attention, he will be lazy and run out to play. Wu You and Aunt Cui can't control him at all, and they dare not control him.

They saw with their own eyes that when Tao was playing by himself, he was accidentally tripped by a stone, and then he angrily slapped the stone, and the stone instantly shattered.

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Since then, Wu You has been very cautious when facing Tao, fearing that he would offend him by mistake and give himself a 18th chapter. In that case, he would definitely die.

He was afraid of Tao from the bottom of his heart.

He was also afraid of Gu Zheng, but this fear was completely different. He said it was fear, but it was better to say it was awe. He was really afraid of Tao. How to say it, Gu Zheng gave him the feeling that although he looked small, he was thoughtful. Communicating with Gu Zheng was just like facing an adult, and a very powerful adult.

Tao was different. He was a real, pure child. You couldn't figure out the thoughts of children, and they were moody, so he was afraid of Tao, even terrified. He didn't stay with Tao if he could, and always tried to avoid him.

Aunt Cui was okay. After all, she had taken care of them for a while and knew Tao's temperament. As long as you followed his will, Tao was still a good child and easy to coax, but he was not as mature as Gu Zheng.

Aunt Cui couldn't understand why two identical children had such different personalities. She would never have thought that one of the two children had a consciousness from the future and was a powerful quasi-saint.

Three days later, the big market started on time. Before dawn, the whole town was already crowded with people. This was just the beginning. There were more people coming, and some latecomers. When the big market was the busiest, that is, on the fifth and sixth days, the number of people would be at least half of what it is now.

"It's so lively!"

Tao was very excited to see so many people. Aunt Cui and Wu You also kept looking around. Only Gu Zheng was very calm. There were many people in the market, but he had seen better markets and it was no longer interesting to him.

He went to the big market just to collect what he needed.

"I want to eat this!"

After walking two steps, Tao pointed at something similar to a candied haws and shouted. It was similar to a candied haws, in a string, but the color was black and there was no sugar. It was not tied on a round haystack, but was placed directly there.

"Worry-free fruit, very delicious, do you want some!"

When the stall owner saw them, he immediately said with a smile, and his eyes narrowed so much that people could hardly see them.

Observing Gu Zheng's expression, Wu You immediately stepped forward and asked about the price of this fruit. Soon, a deal was reached. In the early days of the prehistoric times, although gold, silver, copper coins and other currencies had appeared in places where humans lived, the number was small and they were mostly used in cities. In this kind of rural market, 80% of them were barter. Wu You was very experienced in this regard, and Gu Zheng was very relieved.

Wu You exchanged two bunches of fruit, both in Tao's hands. Gu Zheng was not very interested in this kind of fruit, but the taste of this fruit was okay, and the quality was also ordinary. It was completely OK to eat it as a snack.

Unlike the earth, in the early days of the prehistoric times, ordinary-level ingredients were everywhere, and there were many medium-level ones. Only excellent and high-level ones were rare. In addition, there were relatively few inferior, low-level, garbage and poisonous ingredients that Gu Zheng had not seen. The environment here was very good, without any pollution. Unless it was deliberately destroyed by humans, it would be difficult to have garbage ingredients.

Tao was very happy to eat, and Gu Zheng led them and walked slowly in the crowd.

There are a wide variety of items on both sides, including food, such as eggs, various meats, and livestock and poultry. There are a lot of these things in the big market. Some families usually save them and go to the big market every year to exchange them for some other things they need.

In addition to food, the most are various tools.

There are many tools for farming, hunting, breeding, and even building houses. There are many tools for daily household use. There are also various raw materials, made of iron, wood, and even stone, etc., which are very rich. In addition, various seeds can also be classified as tools. After all, no one will eat the seeds after buying them. They all have to wait for the harvest.

Aunt Cui saw the most of these things. She had only heard of many things and had never seen them. This time she was able to broaden her horizons.

These two categories accounted for more than half of the goods, and the rest were a variety of things.

There are also cloth, but very little. Cloth can be used as currency in this place, so not many people exchange it alone. Most people take it to see what they want. There are even fewer finished clothes. At least Gu Zheng has not seen it yet. However, Wu You has heard before that there are people who sell clothes, but they are not new, but old clothes.

In addition to clothes, there are also various jewelry, which will appear here, but the price is very high. They are generally in the center and will not appear on the edge. Because of their high value, in order to prevent someone from having the intention of murder, most of the sellers of this kind of things are several people, not just one person.

In addition to these categories, the rest are various small things, including beautiful stones obtained from the wild, and some people bring some things with low residual value after hunting, hoping that someone will like them and exchange them for useful things, which is better than throwing them there.

There is another category that is not large in number, that is, various herbs.

Although the medical skills in the early prehistoric times were not very advanced, herbs had already appeared. However, most people did not know the medicinal properties of these herbs. The few that everyone knew were also very common, but there were still people selling them. As long as one of these herbs had saved people, no matter what disease the other person had, they would think of using it. At this time, the understanding of medicinal properties was not that deep.

This situation reminded Gu Zheng of a person, Shennong in the Chinese mythology. I don’t know if Shennong has appeared yet. It seems that he has not appeared yet. Even if he has appeared, it has not been spread here. After Shennong tasted hundreds of herbs, he determined the medicinal properties of various medicines. After that, herbs were used reasonably, and the profession of doctors gradually emerged.

These herbs are one of Gu Zheng’s goals.

Among the herbs, there are some things he can use. Many of them are actually herbs in food cultivation. As long as he sees someone selling herbs, he will pay attention to it and observe whether it is what he needs.

In addition to herbs, Gu Zheng sees the most various kinds of food, not meat and food, but those small things, such as the worry-free fruit that Tao had eaten before. There is also a possibility that what he needs may appear in these things, so he also needs to observe more.

Finally, there are those strange things. Among these things, there may be something useful. Even if you don’t do food cultivation, it’s good to make a magic weapon. It’s best to be a fairy weapon. Unfortunately, he can’t forge a fairy weapon now. A good fairy weapon can greatly increase a person’s strength and even kill people above their level.

Gu Zheng had a lot of treasures before, and he knew the importance of having good weapons.

“No more, I want more!”

Tao, who had been led by Gu Zheng’s hand, suddenly broke away and raised his hands, indicating that he had finished eating the two bunches of fruits just now. He was not satisfied and wanted to continue eating.

“Go to the front, I will find you something better later!”

Gu Zheng smiled slightly. No matter what happened to Tao in the future, at least he was a child now, and a child connected to him by blood. Gu Zheng had no brothers or sisters before, and he had no children. Now Tao was not only his brother, but also like his own child.

Gu Zheng doted on Tao in more ways than one.

Aunt Cui and Wu You said privately that sometimes these two people did not look like brothers, but like father and son. Also, Gu Zheng never said who was older between the two of them, but privately, they all thought that Gu Zheng was the older brother and Tao was the younger brother, which was completely based on their performance.

"Okay, it must be delicious!"

Tao nodded immediately, looking very excited. He had never seen so many people and so many vendors, and he felt very novel everywhere.

Walking slowly, the sky soon brightened, and there were more people, almost all crowded. Aunt Cui and Wu You followed Gu Zheng and them closely, fearing that they would be squeezed and dispersed by the crowd.

In fact, every year at the big market, many adults lose their children. If they are lucky, someone will help take them in and find them later. If they are unlucky, their children will be gone forever, and no one knows where they went. At this time, no one will kidnap children, but you can't help but someone likes your child and takes him home to raise him.

Poor families will certainly not do this, but those with a little foundation have this possibility. The survival rate of children nowadays is not high. Even if there is a family foundation, there are still children without children, but they are only a minority.

"Wu You, go and change that back!"

After walking a short distance, seeing Aunt Cui staring at a vendor selling needles and thread, Gu Zheng smiled and asked Wu You to change a set.

Aunt Cui has her own needles and thread, and he sews everything in the house, but she left in a hurry and left quickly last time, so she didn't take these things with her, and now she has nothing, which is also Gu Zheng's responsibility.

Wu You quickly exchanged for a set of high-quality bone needles. At this time, bone needles are the mainstream. Iron needles are also available, but not many. They are only used by wealthy families in the city. Although they are made of bones, the bones are very hard, and the quality of the needles is also very good.

Aunt Cui also had bone needles before, and there were also good and bad bone needles. This set was obviously better than the previous one, with more quantity and more varieties. Aunt Cui took it happily, picked up one, looked at it for a while, then picked up another one, looked at it again, without stopping.

Aunt Cui didn't have any wishes. It was good before. She had a husband and parents-in-law at home. Although the two children she gave birth to before didn't work, her family never blamed her. At that time, she felt very happy and just wanted to try hard to have another child, preferably a boy, to make the family happy.

Unfortunately, a disaster completely changed her family.

Especially after her mother-in-law passed away, some clansmen from her parents-in-law's family wanted to drive her away. If it weren't for the young people who came back and fought to protect her, she would probably have been driven away. Those people thanked her father-in-law and husband for sacrificing their lives to protect her, and would never let others bully her, a widow.

It is precisely because of these people that Aunt Cui, a widow, can live in the village all the time.

In the past few years, some people have suggested that she remarry, but she refused all of them. She thought her heart was dead, but she didn't expect that after the villagers sent Gu Zheng and Tao to her that day, her heart seemed to come alive again. She didn't know who the families of the two children were or where they were, but at that time she only wanted to take good care of the two children. Perhaps, the two children awakened her maternal love.

Sometimes she wondered if it was because her first two children did not succeed, and God had pity on her and sent two more children.

Because of this, when the immortal came to preach, she did not hesitate to give the two children the qualifications that she could exchange for a lot of wealth, just hoping that they would have a better future in the future, but she didn't expect that the immortal preaching was actually a scam, which almost harmed the two children.

However, because of this incident, she knew that these two children were not ordinary people at all, but powerful immortals.

In her eyes, Gu Zheng was already an immortal. She didn't know the meaning of cultivating to become an immortal at all. She didn't know that only when she reached the stage of refining essence into qi could she be called an immortal. Before that, she was just an immortal cultivator.

Aunt Cui is easily satisfied. She doesn't care about Gu Zheng's status. It's enough for her to take care of these two children and watch them grow up. Just like now she is very happy to get a set of good bone needles.

"This, this, I want to eat this!"

Tao suddenly pointed to the roadside again. This time it was not a string of fruits, but someone was frying a kind of food, exuding a faint fragrance.

Because the fragrance was very strong, many people gathered here, especially many children, biting their lips, eagerly looking at their families and the food being made, and Tao was also attracted.

Gu Zheng only took a look, then smiled and shook his head and said: "This smells good, but it tastes ordinary. The oil he used is crude oil, and it has been a long time. It tastes very ordinary. If you smell it carefully, is there a bitter smell in the fragrance? Fuming bitterness!"

These are ordinary people. There is no good oil. The oil they use must not be willing to throw away. I don't know how many days this oil has been used, and it has already gone bad.

Although Gu Zheng is not a spirit and cannot directly identify ingredients from a distance, he can make a rough guess. The food made with this oil will not be higher than the second-rate, and the most likely possibility is low-grade. The taste of such things is limited. Tao was raised by Gu Zheng, so it would be strange if he could get used to it. Now he is just curious.

Sure enough, after hearing what Gu Zheng said, Tao frowned immediately after smelling it carefully and no longer asked to eat this thing.