039, The Lost Lamb
The town of Sumer is home to more than a thousand people, which is already a large rural market town. However, Amon has never been to other places and thinks that this town is much smaller than Duke. However, the sky here is very blue, and most of the clothes people wear are lightweight, thin linen or cotton clothes. Looking at the fields and flocks on all sides, as well as livestock and free-range chickens and geese, it is obvious that the town of Duke is much richer.
But the houses here do not look beautiful and solid enough, and seem to be poorer than Duke Town. When they walked through the temple in the town, Amon was even a little surprised - the temple here was actually covered with wood, and it was only two low-rise floors! It was far worse than the magnificent temple built by lapis lazuli and white marble in Duke Town.
He murmured in a low voice: "Why do people here use wood to build temples? Most of the houses are made of wood, so aren't they afraid of fire?"
Yin Nanna whispered: "It is very expensive to transport stones from the mountains and process them. It is cheap and convenient to use wood to repair houses here... But the temple is built with snow fir, which is different from ordinary wood."
Amon: "Which kingdom is this? What kind of god is worshipped in the temple?"
Yin Nanna: "This is within the Kingdom of Barron, and the Temple of Enrile was built."
Amon asked again in confusion: "I heard that the main god believed in by the Kingdom of Barron is the King of Marduk, and the main god believed in by Hathi and Assyria is the great god Enriel. Why was the Temple of Enriel built here?"
Yin Nanna shrugged and said, "Maybe the realm of God is not exactly the same as the boundaries of the world. In Barron, the city-states east of the Youdi River are built by the Malduk Temple, while the Temple of Enriel is built by the Enriel, but the temple is also enshrined in the temple....Anyway, they are all the same gods. According to the legend of the world, isn't Enriel the uncle of Malduk?"
Amon nodded and said, "Oh, so that's how it is."
Amon stopped asking questions, but Yin Nanna asked back: "Amon, don't you be curious?"
Amon turned his head and looked at her and said, "What's so strange about this? Is Enriel not Marduk's uncle? As far as I know, the king god believed in by the entire Eju Empire was Horus, but the most important temple in Lower Eju is the Temple of Isis, which also enshrines Horus and other gods."
Yin Nanna blinked: "I mean the situation of dividing temples along the banks of the Youdi River. How was it formed at the earliest? Is there a agreement between the gods? Aren't you curious?"
Curious? Curiosity about the gods sent the lives of the old madman and Bell, and there were so many people buried with him, and Amon couldn't help but embark on an unknown and rugged dangerous road. He didn't want to bother with Yin Nanna, and replied with a wry smile: "What's the use of curiosity? I am a small mortal, and I don't know Marduk or Enriel, so I have no place to ask... Yin Nanna, you are familiar with this place, where can I sell clothes? Let's buy clothes first."
Yin Nanna pulled Amon into a street alley in the town and entered a shop. A sixteen or seven-year-old guy greeted him and said, "Do you want to buy clothes? Just take a look. Our store is the best goods in the nearby area, including fabrics and ready-to-wear."
It was very easy for Amon to buy clothes, and pointed at himself and said, "I want ready-made clothes, as long as I can wear them."
The guy glanced at him. It was obvious that Amon was not a nobleman, so he took the best set of thin cotton clothes with red stripes printed on them, which were beautiful and conspicuous, but there were no other colors and embroidery. He greeted: "This set of clothes requires thirty copper coins, which are cool and breathable in hot weather, good quality and low price, you can't buy them elsewhere."
But Amon thought the fabric was not strong or wear-resistant, and pointed to a set of thick linden cloth next to him, which was also light but densely woven, and said, "I want this piece of clothing, and add trousers of the same fabric, and two sets."
The guy replied slightly disappointed: "Even ten copper coins in trousers, two sets of twenty, are you no longer looking at anything else?"
Amon shook his head and said, "I don't need it anymore...Yin Nanna, choose what kind of clothes you want to buy."
Yin Nanna pointed to a long skirt hanging on the wall: "This one looks good, I like it, will it be very expensive?"
When the guy turned his head and saw Yin Nanna's appearance, he immediately felt a radiant feeling in his eyes. He stared at her face and body and could hardly turn his eyes away. He came back to his senses when he heard the question and replied: "Miss, you really have a vision. Among the clothes sold in our store, this is the best clothing that civilians can wear. It's a little expensive and requires sixty copper coins."
The guy glanced at Amon with his eyes while talking. Amon didn't care how the guy looked at him at all. Without thinking, he took out a silver coin and handed it over and said, "That's all, I bought it. Do you have a place to change clothes here? Let her change the clothes first."
The guy was stunned for a moment, then nodded repeatedly and said, "Yeye yeye, go in the small door next to the counter and you can change your clothes in the room." Then he took the silver coins and found Amon's twenty copper coins.
When Yin Nanna changed her clothes, Amon couldn't help but lit up. The clothes she chose were extremely fit, with very thin white cotton cloth, dyed indigo blue stripes, which just outlined her beautiful figure, almost all of which were tempting. The young man's eyes were straightened, and Yin Nanna turned around and asked playfully, "Amon, is it good?"
Amon nodded: "It looks good, you are pretty, it's even more beautiful when you wear this outfit."
The guy also exclaimed: "Girl, you are so beautiful. What's your name?"
Yin Nanna looked back and smiled and said, "My name is Yin Nanna. Can I get another pair of shoes after buying clothes that are as expensive as you?"
Such expensive clothes? Are they really expensive? Amon has no idea about this. Since clothes cost money, they will certainly be expensive, but it is no big deal. In total, they only cost 80 copper coins and bought two sets of clothes and a skirt. It is not enough for Duke to buy a bottle of the cheapest wine in Duke.
The guy was almost slim when Yin Nanna laughed. He took out a pair of cloth tripping shoes from behind the counter. The thick soft and soft bottom looked very comfortable. He smiled and said, "Of course it's OK. Come often when you have time. We have all kinds of beautiful clothes here."
Yin Nanna smiled at him again, but did not say thank you, and pointed at Amon and said, "It's not the shoes I wear, but he paid for the money. You should give him a pair of shoes that he can wear. This pair is too small."
The guy said "ah" and was obviously disappointed, but Yin Nanna still looked at him with a smile. He took another pair of shoes that Amon could wear and handed them to Yin Nanna and said, "Okay, I'll give you one more pair, even if I give you the other pair to Miss."
Yin Nanna covered her mouth and smiled, "You guy gave me two pairs of shoes at once, aren't you afraid that the boss will come back to scold you?"
The young man suddenly became energetic and raised his chest and said, "What are you afraid of? The boss is my father, this shop belongs to me!... Miss, you must come often, I will give you a discount." After hearing this, he looked at his eyes and expressions, and I don't know if he wanted to give it or take advantage of it.
After changing into the new clothes he bought, the two walked to the town again, which was even more eye-catching. Almost all the passers-by looked at Yin Nanna - her face, her chest, and her body. If someone else was about to be seen, they would definitely feel uncomfortable, but Yin Nanna smiled pretty well.
After leaving the store, Amon asked again: "Where are there people who sell sheep? Let's go buy sheep."
Yin Nanna: "Of course it is impossible to have a market on the street, there is a market at the other end of the town."
All countries in the Tianshu continent have similar regulations: slaves are not allowed to wear dyed fabrics, and people are not allowed to have embroidered clothes. Yin Nanna claims to be a shepherd's female slave, but wears a flower skirt dyed with indigo stripes. However, Amon still has no experience in this regard, because there are almost no slaves in Duke Town.
Almost all residents of Duke Town are miners' families, and only the mayor and Xiao Gu's family have slaves serving their daily lives. There are slaves who work in mines in the mines outside the town, and the work they do is similar to miners, and the clothes they wear are no different. Amon just thinks that Yin Nanna's dress looks so good, and even he can't help but turn his face and look at it again.
When the two came to the market town, the dazzling Yin Nanna caused a big commotion. Amon was not afraid of people watching him. He thought that he dared to look at Aiko-Maria directly at the gaze. He was regarded as a god in the cave-dwelling savage tribe. He became the center of attention more than once in Duke Town. What is it that these townspeople see? He just vaguely felt that there was something wrong, but he didn't think clearly about something wrong.
Almost every stall owner would come over to greet him diligently, and then his eyes inadvertently swept Among's maroon and straw sandals, with a strange look, as if he thought it was a pity that Yin Nanna and him stood together.
But when he walked around the market, he could not find the white sheep with black spots that Yin Nanna said. Her expression seemed disappointed and seemed to be about to cry again. Amon comforted him: "Can you change a sheep? Anyway, what you lost is a sheep, I can give you a bigger and better one."
Yin Nanna pouted and shook her head, "No, what I am looking for is such a sheep. From here, there is a sheep farm where sheep is herding. There are more sheep. Can we go find the shepherd to buy one?"
Amon nodded and said, "Okay, let's continue looking for it."
They had already swayed around Sumer, and almost everyone in the town was talking about a young man wearing straw sandals and squash clothes, leading a charming girl to the place. The girl was wearing shabby clothes, and the young man took her to the old Joseph's tailor shop and bought a beautiful and expensive new skirt. It is said that the young man only bought two sets of squash clothes himself, and he took advantage of it very stingy, so he asked the girl to ask for two pairs of shoes.
Life in the town is already dull and boring, and this kind of thing is the most likely topic to spread. People are talking about it. It must be the young man who cheated someone's girl and elopeed here. The two should have come from a long distance, because the young man spoke with a Hadi accent.
Ameng followed Yin Nanna to the outside of the town, and indeed saw the flock of free-range sheep eating grass there leisurely. Yin Nanna suddenly pointed in surprise and said, "Look, that's the sheep I'm looking for!"
Amon turned his head and was stunned: "Yin Nanna, why are you pointing at me?"
Yin Nanna photographed him: "Look over there."
Amon turned his head and looked at the other side. There were indeed a few little lambs with black spots in the flock. At this time, Yin Nanna had already run over, squatted down and picked up a sheep and shouted in surprise: "It's it, Amon, it's the sheep I lost!"
"Miss, don't talk nonsense, that's my sheep!" The shepherd with a long whip came over from a distance and shouted unhappily, it was a burly old man.
Amon hurried over and reminded Yin Nanna: "How could this be your sheep? It can't fly. You can run here from such a distance. Have you read it wrong?"
The old man glanced at Amon and said to Yin Nanna: "This is my master's sheep. Every morning I drive them to the hillside to eat grass, and every evening I drive them back to the sheep pen. I will carefully count them every day. This sheep is definitely not yours."
Yin Nanna held the sheep and started crying at Amon again: "But this is the sheep I lost. I know it. Amon, please help me!"
The shepherd was angry: "Beautiful girl, you can't be so unreasonable! It's the sheep I put."
Seeing that the two of them were about to argue, if Yin Nanna was not a girl, the old shepherd might have whipped her whip. Amon quickly stood in the middle and persuaded: "Maybe it is a sheep that looks similar. She has been looking for it for a day, so she is inevitably a little anxious. So, I want to buy this sheep, how much is it worth?"
Before the shepherd could speak, Yin Nanna stood up and grabbed Amon and said, "This is obviously my sheep, why do you still have to pay for it? He stole my sheep!"
The shepherd finally got angry and pointed the whip at the tip of Amon's nose and said, "Foreigner, did you bring this girl to be a robber? Be careful of my whip!"
Yin Nanna hid behind Amon and said, "We are not robbers, you are the thief. You stole my sheep!"
Amon didn't care about the shepherd's whip and opened his arms and said, "Uncle, don't be angry. She threw a sheep exactly the same, thinking that this was hers... I promised to help her find it back and I could spend money to buy your sheep."
The shepherd snorted coldly, waved his hand and whipped it and said, "No! This is my master's sheep."
Amon: "I will give you more money, and your master will not blame you but will be happier."
The shepherd glanced at him, stretched out two fingers and said contemptuously: "Okay, two silver coins, don't you buy them!" He hated these two foreigners very much. The girl said he was a thief, and a young man seemed even more hateful to protect the girl, so he said a very outrageous price and wanted to send the two people away.
Unexpectedly, before he finished speaking, Amon took out two silver coins and handed them over. The shepherd stared wide and was stunned, even forgot to reach out to pick them up. Amon pulled his hand over and put the silver coins in the palm of his hand and said, "This is money. You can hold it away. Can you give me a rope so that I can take the sheep away."
Things outside the mountain are really cheap. Amon has already said he is willing to pay more, but he only needs two silver coins. The shepherd stares at Amon as if he is looking at some monster. The sheep is not big, and he can buy five silver coins. Today he made a small fortune.
He looked at Amon for a long time before he suddenly came to his senses. He pulled down his whip rope and handed it to Amon and said, "Take this to tie the sheep, there is no other rope here." Then he lowered his voice and came over and whispered: "Young man, you are a generous and good person! Why don't you buy yourself a good dress if you have money?... Although that girl is beautiful, you may not be able to squander."
Amon said thank you, tied the sheep with a whip rope and led it away from the ranch. After walking away, Yin Nanna hugged Amon's arm and leaned in his ear and said, "Amon, do you think I'm unreasonable? But this sheep is indeed mine. I dare to swear, it is exactly the same as the one I threw."
Amon smiled bitterly and said, "Maybe it is yours, maybe it is not yours, but there is no evidence that it is in the flock of people. Unless someone proves that the sheep came from your flock, you cannot take it away casually... The place where you lost the sheep is far away from here, and it is unlikely that it will come over by itself. There are also many black spots in the flock of sheep, which may be really the same."
Yin Nanna: "The spots of each sheep are different. Of course the sheep's shepherd can recognize them. I want to thank you for buying this sheep... But why do you spend so much money? You are very strong and don't have to be afraid of the extortion of that shepherd. Who is your opponent?"
Amon shook his head and said, "I went to buy sheep, not to steal the sheep. If it can be proved that the sheep is yours, I wouldn't mind snatching it back for you. Unfortunately, I can't prove it, it's not that I don't believe you."
Yin Nanna lowered her head and said, "But in this way, I owe you too much, how can I repay you?"
Amon smiled: "You have already repayed me. You have brought me to the town and delivered me such delicious cakes."
Yin Nanna: "But your sheep is too expensive. If I didn't speak so much, you wouldn't have spent so much money."
Amon shrugged: "It's not expensive, I think it's very cheap."
Yin Nanna took the whip rope from Amon and led the sheep. The two walked through the market and returned to the town. Amon wanted to find a place with people to experience various people and things, and had no specific purpose. When he returned to the town, he found that people were looking at them with a strange look and pointing behind their backs and talking privately. But when he turned his head to look over, people avoided their eyes again.
Although Amon had no experience of going out, he was not really stupid. He quietly swept over with his detection magic, probably knowing what people were talking about, and he couldn't help but feel a little funny. At this time, he also realized that Yin Nanna was definitely not an ordinary shepherd's slave. He saw many people outside the mountain, including many women, who were not as tender and beautiful as Yin Nanna.
When walking through the tavern in the town, Yin Nanna suddenly stopped and walked: "Among, are you tired? If you are tired, you can go in and have a drink."
Amon suddenly remembered something. Mayor Dusty once said that the cheapest glass of wine in the tavern outside only costs one copper coin. He was skeptical and really wanted to see it. So he said to Yin Nanna: "I don't know if I'll waste your time when I go in and have a drink? Otherwise, I'll send you back first. It's dark not far from the town."
Yin Nanna asked back, "Do you want to send me back?"
Amon: "You have to go a long way after dark. Of course I want to send you back. I'm not in a hurry anyway, so the market town is here."
Yin Nanna smiled and said, "Thank you! It will be dark anyway if you drink or not. There is still a long way to go after it is dark. Let's go in and rest for a while."
Wine is a luxury, but it is not just a noble. Many civilians drink a few glasses in a tavern when they are rich and leisure, which is the most luxurious enjoyment on weekdays. In the war-torn era in the history of the Tianshu continent, some countries once banned civilians from drinking because brewing wine consumes a lot of food and needs to be controlled during difficult periods of shortage of materials.
People always like to complain when they drink too much, saying things they don’t dare to say, and doing things they don’t dare to do, so the tavern is often one of the most chaotic places in a town. Amon took Yin Nanna into the tavern and heard a noise immediately. But when they saw them coming in, many people were talking in a low voice. It was obvious that the topic of discussion in the tavern just now was the two foreigners who came to the town today.
Amon found an empty table to sit down. There were two bosses here. The boss came over and asked, "Young people from afar, what do you want to drink? We have the best wine nearby."
Amon spoke very directly, and the first sentence was what he cared about the most: "Is the cheapest wine here a cup of copper coins?"
The boss was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Yes, a cup of copper coins, are you going to have a cup?" Although he was laughing, he looked a little contempt. He had heard about the things that the foreigner was in the town. This young man was very generous to the girl, but he was very stingy. Now he saw that it was indeed the case.
How can a glass of wine be enough? Amon waved his hand and said, "Come on a pot."
The boss greeted the guy and brought a pot of wine and two cups. Yin Nanna naturally reached out and picked up the pot and poured Amon a glass of wine. However, she did not sit down and stood beside Amon holding the pot.
Few women would come to the tavern to drink. Occasionally, most of the prostitutes in the town are prostitutes. The brothels are another chaotic place in the market town. Such a beautiful woman came to the tavern by Amon. Everyone's eyes were focused on Yin Nanna, waiting to see the beauty drink. This was much more enjoyable than eating side dishes, but she didn't expect that she would not drink it.
Amon was about to greet Yin Nanna and sat down, the owner of the tavern asked first: "Girl, why don't you sit down? Is there someone not letting you sit down?"
Yin Nanna explained with a giggle: "No, I am a female slave, I can't sit here and drink...Among, drink slowly, I'll pour you wine while standing."
So that's it! The whispers in the tavern suddenly became louder, like a flies buzzing. The girl was a female slave brought by a young man from a foreign country. He wore cheap clothes himself, but he dressed the female slave beautifully and showed off in front of everyone. He even bought her a dyed skirt in violation of the rules.
If Amon was a noble adult, no one would meddle in the clothes of the beautiful female slave he loved. But Amon was wearing straw sandals and thick jackets, drinking the cheapest bad wine in the tavern, and having to bring the beautiful female slave so arrogant, would have become a sin.
Chapter completed!