Crossing to the Wild
Chapter 111
The girl woke up.
She jumped up from the bed in an instant, yelling in panic.
Jiang Liu was holding a bowl of noodle soup, so frightened that he almost knocked over the bowl with his hand shaking.
"I... you... woo..." The girl with messy hair looked not sober, Jiang Liu couldn't help worrying, maybe it was the encounter in the forest that scared this pretty little beauty into a fool, right?
"Don't be afraid." She smiled as friendly as possible, her teeth were white and bright: "I beat that tiger away and didn't bite you, don't be afraid!"
"..." Ah Shen gradually came back to his senses, thinking in horror, what kind of tiger, where is this, my God, it smells so good!
She has been hungry for three days, and now her mind has only one single thread: eat.
She didn't care about weighing the danger, and the black-skinned girl in front of her looked rather silly, so she couldn't feel any sense of vigilance, so she tried to say, "Hungry."
"Oh!" Jiang Liu immediately brought her the noodle soup, sat on the edge of the bed, and asked worriedly, "How are you? Can you hold it with your hands? Does it feel heavy? Do you want me to feed you?"
"..." Ah Shen was shocked. Why is this person so diligent? He didn't really fall into the enemy's trap, did he?
However, her hands were really weak and limp. Even if there was poison in this bowl of soup, she might still eat it. Anyway, the ending would be death, so it didn't matter.
Thinking of this, she carefully opened her mouth and caught the spoon Jiang Liu sent out.
"Oh!" Ah couldn't help but yelled affectionately, and even wanted to shout, go out and run around, and tell the world that she just ate a super delicious food!
"What is this?" she asked eagerly.
Jiang showed a distressed expression: "This is just a bowl of noodle soup? You are so pitiful, how could you be so hungry? From now on, you can stay in our Xingyue tribe, and you will eat a bite of food. Work... Forget it, you don't need to work, I'll cover you."
"???" Ah Shen was startled: "Wait, where do you think this is?"
"Xingyue Tribe." Jiang Liu said blankly.
Star Moon Tribe.
Ah Shen almost cried with joy.
Heaven and earth, she was able to reach her destination after wandering around in the woods. She is such a lucky woman, and she will definitely become a master of alchemy!
Jiang Liu: "I picked you up. Why did you go so far north? There are very few tribes nearby."
Ah Shen: "..." Oh, so I didn't come here.
Feeling a little embarrassed by his thoughts just now, Ah Shen blushed, and asked timidly: "I originally wanted to come to the Xingyue Tribe...but I went to the wrong place."
"That's it!" Jiang Liu was happy: "Why do you want to come?"
Ah Shen clenched his fists and said loudly, "Because your leader has formed a contract!"
"...?" Jiang Liu: "So?"
"It's very good, very good!" Ah Shen asked: "I got it right, right? Is the contract already formed? You won't marry twice, marry third, and marry fourth, right?"
"will not."
Tianyang and Rongyue heard movement here, knew that she was awake and was walking over, and they heard such a strange question.
Tianyang was inexplicably upset, directly denied it, and glanced at this unknown person unkindly.
"Ah..." Ah Shen's face turned red, and he hurriedly made amends: "No, I just want to say that I really like the leader who has made a contract..."
Rong Yue and Tian Yang: "?"
"No, no! It's good to have a bonded leader, um, does the leader want to have a cub? I don't have a big ass, really..."
Rong Yue and Tian Yang: "???"
Jiang Liu was stunned by the side, and the girl's heart was broken.
What's the meaning?This little beauty likes Tianyang?Willing to have cubs for him without even needing to form a bond?
What kind of Mingshan-style scumbag behavior is this!Tianyang will not do this!
Ah Shen found that his mind was really broken, and the more he said, the more outrageous he was, but he didn't know how to make amends, so he cried while talking: "Woooooo...I really don't want to talk about the bond...I just want to talk about it." A woman who is a master alchemist..."
"Master alchemist?" Rong Yue held back her laughter just now, and now she didn't want to bully the child anymore, so she answered the question quickly.
"Well, my name is Ah Shen. I know two kinds of stones, red stone and bluestone. These two kinds of stones can be made into hard and good utensils, as long as they go through a certain process...I won't lie to you, really!"
Listening to this description, why does it seem to be talking about smelting?
Rong Yue was excited: "What redstone? Can you explain it carefully?"
"Okay!" Ah Shen's eyes lit up, he drank the soup first, wiped his mouth, and showed some enthusiasm on his face.
"I picked up some stones before, with dark red lines on the surface, so I called them red stones... Later I discovered that if you burn red stones hot enough, you can squeeze out a lot of black water. Black water, etc. If you don't heat it, it will solidify and become very hard, which is very suitable for making utensils."
She said she was excited just now, but then she remembered what the lord of the City of Valor had harmed her before, she froze, and said in a low voice: "You... want to hear how to build a blast furnace? It's very powerful, because there is a lot of firewood..."
Rong Yue was dumbfounded.
Where did this come from? This understanding of chemistry and physics is simply a science genius.
And what did she say she studied?Smelt metal!
Iron exposed to oxygen will oxidize and turn rust red.It must be the origin of this "red stone".
And the bluestone she mentioned is probably copper, and if the copper is impure, it will easily turn green. In Rong Yue's common sense, bronze ware could even represent an era at one time.
In other words, if this girl can really make a difference in this matter, the whole world will usher in a new revolution.
Bronze ware and iron ware are superior to stone ware in many respects, just like Tianyang's bone knife, if it wasn't for the bone of the magic snake and the compression help of senior Xuangui, it wouldn't be as durable as it is now.
Stone hoes and stone shovels in the tribe are often in short supply, and a workshop has to be set up to make them.
Rong Yue has been looking for iron ore. These years, she spends two months every year to go on a tour with Tian Yang. However, except for the ancestral iron product of the Forest Iron tribe, there is no other iron or copper shadow.
But gold is too soft to make utensils, and the output of gold mines is actually not high. In order to control the price of goods and jewelry, Rongyue’s mining is also very planned, ensuring that gold can only be used for jewelry, or small Gold beads, thin gold leaves.
In the past two years, everyone has had enough to eat, began to care about beauty and ugliness, and pursued their appearance. The gold jewelry produced by the tribe can be sold a lot every year, and the price is also very high.
If this continues, until the credit system of the Xingyue Tribe is truly stable, gold will become a common currency like the pearls of the Blue Sea Tribe.
Ah Shen talked for a while, seeing that Rongyue was just listening, not echoing her excitedly, her voice became smaller and smaller.
In the end, she wanted to cry without tears and said: "Well, don't you also look down on my method? It can really make utensils. It is a bit cumbersome to set up the stove, but once it is set up, it can be used for a long time... "
Ah Shen's crying became more and more serious, and his heart ached from the broken dreams he had dreamed about in the future: "It's just a waste of wood."
"Don't cry!" Jiang Liu was anxious: "Why are you crying? We didn't say we didn't believe you, did we, Yueyue? What you said about burning stones to boil water, our tribe will know it."
"Ah?" Ah Shen was stunned for a moment: "You will too?"
Rong Yue smiled and spread her hands, Tian Yang snapped her fingers, and a golden leaf with distinct veins appeared in her hand, which was placed on Rong Yue's hand.
"Look, this is the golden leaf made by our tribe." He handed the leaf to Ah Shen who was dumbfounded, Ah Shen took it, his hands trembled, and suddenly burst into tears: "My God, how could it be so beautiful?" color, my redstone and bluestone both lost..."
It was an hour later that Jiang Liu finally comforted Ah Shen by jumping up and down.
During this period, she finally calmed down and told Rong Yue and Tian Yang what happened to her in detail.
"Is there such a thing?" Rong Yue raised her eyebrows in surprise: "Is the City of Courage already so arrogant? It wasn't like this during the transaction last year."
Tianyang said: "Not necessarily, we only come into contact with low-level caravans."
Rong Yue thought for a while: "That's right, I haven't had the chance to visit these few years, but seeing their caravans are very polite, I thought their city lord was also good, I didn't expect..."
Jiang Liu let out a chuckle: "Maybe it's the first time I came to that team of idiots who suffered a lot and taught them."
A man with a mustard who travels far away in the sky: Ah Choo!
"So why did the city lord insist on marrying you?" Rong Yue was curious.
Ah Shen blushed: "I heard that their city lord couldn't give birth to cubs, and changed twenty wives. When I went to meet him, he felt that I, I looked good enough to have cubs, so he wanted to marry me by force. I won't let you go."
Speaking of this, she said in a low voice: "I also snatched away my luggage. There are red stones and bluestones carefully selected by me. I could have shown you...but you have already made such beautiful golden stone water. You must look down on my black water."
"How come, we are very fond of it." Rong Yue comforted her, and broke off the gold leaf with her hands, and said, "Look, is it bent?"
"Hey..." Ah Shen was surprised: "This golden stone water is so soft!"
"That's right, so gold can't be used to make utensils, but the molten iron you mentioned can."
"molten iron?"
"It's the water after the red stone melts."
Ah Shen was almost fascinated by this white-haired priest, how could he understand everything?
"You have been of great help." Rong Yue said with a smile: "Our tribe has been looking for the red stone you mentioned for more than five years. .We started to expand to the eastern plains last year, and there is no clue until now. You brought it here today, and you are a distinguished guest of our tribe."
Jiang Liu echoed: "Yes, yes, you are really amazing!"
Honorable...guest...
The white-haired priest is too good-looking, he looks so charming when he smiles, oh, he is sweating all over, he is so tall, if you want to form a bond, you should find someone like this... wait, he is already married to the leader.
Ah Shen's expression changed several times, and finally fell on his back with a snap.
"What's the matter? What's the matter with her?" Jiang Liu rushed over and pinched Ah Shen's face in a hurry. Rong Yue probed and said, "It's okay, I'm too emotional, and she's hungry, let her have a good sleep."
***
Redstone, iron ore.
Bluestone, copper ore.
Interesting... Rong Yue thought with great interest.
The new wife that the chief of the city of courage married ran away on the eve of their wedding. The news has not yet spread to the west of Hoshino, but it will happen sooner or later.
Over the years, they have consolidated the Snowmelt Valley into an impregnable state, and the Xingyue tribe has established a deep-rooted dominance, and the policy continues to respond to every response.The entire Snowmelt Valley is getting closer and closer to unity, because the seeds cultivated every year have to be obtained from Xingyue, and the high-quality and healthy livestock cubs have to be bought from Xingyue, not to mention the things that need to be processed are basically sold to Xingyue. Get the most benefit.
Everyone is gradually getting used to this way of life, and Rongyue is also constantly delegating power, gradually handing over some mature technology to suitable tribes, so that the Xingyue tribe can focus on innovation.
It is obviously not Rong Yue's ultimate goal to just get rid of the life of drinking blood, starving, and freezing to death in winter.He also wanted to have a real machine, and a power source.
Unfortunately, on this point, it has not been smooth.
The energy source of the Xingyue Era is magic—magic lamps, various mechanisms driven by magic, automatic doors of magic, etc., combined with advanced mechanical engineering, constitute the basic framework of the Pentagon Continent.
For the real world where the game is built, it seems that oil and coal are their main energy sources.
Rong Yue didn't know much about this. For a while, she was obsessed with what oil was and where to dig coal. She even rolled up her sleeves and found a place to drill a well. Finally, she dug to a depth of more than 200 meters in rock formations, and finally couldn't dig. It can't be melted with holy light.
Only at this time did he realize that his abilities were really limited. Even Shengguang couldn't do things.
So he quietly gave up this idea and began to torture Hei Lang.
That's right, that's why he abducted the black wolf back then - what amazing things the magician can do, why can't he convert this energy into energy?
If magic power, divine power, exists in animals, plants, and the world, then in theory, the Wild Continent can also become a magical country like the Wumang Continent, inventing mechanical engineering that uses special energy as the power source!
... of course, the current progress is almost zero.
He can't experience this power personally, so he can't practice and change it. He can only imagine it beautifully.
Besides that, there was another thing that bothered him.
He can't move up the ranks.
At the beginning when level 99 was opened, the skill [Oracle] that had not been installed had always made him curious. He thought he would finally be able to unlock it after accumulating for so many years. However, the progress bar was stuck at the end of level [-], and his experience was overflowing. Still can't untie.
Rong Yue guessed what conditions must be met.
But what is the condition?
Sitting at the table thinking with a quill pen, Tian Yang opened the door and came in, unexpectedly said: "Why haven't you slept yet?"
"Thinking about something." Rong Yue tapped the paper on the table: "The location of the iron mine that Ah Shen mentioned is not clear, but it's quite far away. We have to consider going a long way."
Tian Yang stroked his shoulder-length hair, it was soft and slippery, it would slip off soon after being wrapped around his fingers, and he said with a smile: "Want to go out to play?"
Rong Yue also smiled: "I want to go further."
Over the past few years, Tianyang's appearance has not changed at all, and the black lines on his body have grown by one centimeter, tending to be stable.
But Rong Yue has changed a lot, and now she almost looks like the Pope himself.
It's just that his facial features are somewhat similar to the original Yue, and the period when he became the fastest was the development period of the tribe, and now he is in front of everyone's eyes every day, and the subtle changes are invisible to everyone.
After all, there is no camera, and everyone will only occasionally feel that the longer the moon priest looks better, or the longer the moon priest grows, it is hidden from the past.
Rong Yue doesn't know what will happen to him and Tianyang in the future, whether they will live forever together, or if he follows the time and Tianyang stays forever.
After all, Hei Lang's age is right there, and the magic envoy in Hoshino also lived a long time.
And he hasn't changed, he hasn't aged, he can't tell it himself, just from the outside, he is still in his heyday.
"It's far away, maybe there will be some adventures again, so I can figure out the nature of the magic power." Rong Yue said: "I always feel that time is urgent, although I don't know how urgent..."
Tianyang dragged him to the bed and blew out the oil lamp: "Sleep."
"...Warcraft come every year, and one is more powerful than the other!" Rong Yue pushed him with a blushing face, "I haven't finished talking yet."
"Then beat him to death." Tianyang leaned up to kiss him, the two rolled together, and both got up late the next day.
"What, is there a big show the day after tomorrow!" Rong Yue was startled: "I haven't read this year's plan yet!"
He rubbed his waist and sat in the conference room, Ah Jiu signed each piece of paper: "It's okay, I've read it."
Rong Yue: "..."
He thought for a while, and suddenly felt that this was not bad, and said happily, "Then can I leave earlier? You and Yunye are already standing alone, and I can concentrate on finding the mine..."
Ah Jiu took a deep look at him, and said slowly, "Do we have the right to refuse?"
After speaking, he slapped the signed paper on the table and left with a cold face.
"...What's wrong with him?" Rong Yue asked Yun Ye who was sitting next to him guilty.Yunye said with a good temper: "He hasn't had a vacation for two years, and he promised to go out with Guoguo to play, but he hasn't been able to go until now."
Seeing Rongyue showing self-blame, Yun Ye chuckled and said, "Don't worry, he's just venting his anger. Guoguo wants Zai Zai, but they haven't been able to figure it out."
Rong Yue let out an ah, remembering this.
"I checked it for them, and it's all right, it should be able to pick it up."
"That's why Guoguo is in a hurry." Yun Ye whispered: "Many people have cubs these years, Ah Jiu doesn't seem to care, but Guoguo really wants it. Some people think that Ah Jiu can't do it... No wonder he angry."
"My fault." Rong Yue was ashamed: "They should be given a holiday, three months, and locked up together. I don't believe it and I can't figure it out."
Yunye took a deep look at him, bowed his head and signed: "...if you are willing."
Rong Yue... Rong Yue was reluctant.
Three months is too much, how can he and Tian Yang run away! ?
But this incident also told him that it was time for the tribe to promote the backbone, so that the first group of people would not work hard day and night, which was too hard.
"Just this winter." Rong Yue clenched her fists: "Organize an exam, screen the team leader and team leader, and then each of you choose a few successors, and bring them with you to teach you how to do things, how about it?"
Yunye's eyes lit up: "This is not bad!"
Rong Yue smiled: "Although you have many assistants and apprentices, you still have to delegate some power and let them take charge of their own affairs. Don't be afraid of making mistakes, and only by doing it can you gradually become familiar with this position. Take it for a while, and you will be free in the future! "
Yunye: "...that's how you deal with us."
Rong Yue rubbed her nose, carried the cup of tea away.
Yunye shouted from behind: "You still have to talk at the big fair! Don't forget!"
***
The city of courage is heavy. Recently, there are fewer pedestrians on the road, and most of the people walking are trembling.
This is all thanks to the woman who ran away.
It is rare for the city lord to marry a woman from outside. This is obviously a great reward for her. Who knew that this woman didn't know good and bad, and ran away the night before the contract was formed! ?
Poor city lord, he got up early on the day of the deed, washed and dressed, and put on the gown, looking bright and beautiful.While admiring himself in front of the water mirror, the guard suddenly came to report that the woman had escaped.
Ran! ?
The city lord was furious immediately, and beat up the guards, the old grandmother who had a lot of contact with her, and others, and imitated what the Xingyue tribe did many years ago, and released a reward.
There was a short woman with freckles, dark blond hair, and red eyes. Whoever caught it and sent it to the City of Valor would get nine thousand pieces of jerky!
As soon as the news came out, everyone was very excited at first, you said catch, I said catch, but soon everyone found out that this reward is not easy to get.
First of all, everyone doesn't know where this woman is, and blindly searching in the wild is like looking for a needle in a haystack, of course it's useless.
Secondly, this kind of thing is very easy to hide. If you put a hat on your head, you can’t see anything. You can’t catch a person on the prairie and ask him if he can take off his hat to see?
The bounty soon fell silent, the city lord was furious, and really used his brains to find out who this woman had said those things to after living in their tribe for so many days.
As a result, the owner of the noodle shop was caught out, and the shop owner said with a sad face, "I didn't say anything, we just said that the noodles of the Xingyue Tribe are delicious..."
The mayor was thoughtful.
Star Moon Tribe.
The name has been really popular recently, and many people go to them to buy sugar cubes, dry crispy snacks, and various noodles and noodles.
In fact, the city owner also ate it once, and what he ate was bread.
It was the first time he ate such a soft food, almost no need to chew it, it melted in his mouth, from then on, he never dared to underestimate the Xingyue Tribe when eating.
But in other respects, is Xingyue that strong?Not really.
No matter how good it is, it's just a tribe, but they're a city!The city lord sneered, and his face quickly became gloomy again.
So humiliating.
Has this face been thrown west of Hoshino?
After all, he heard that those people in the west are barbarians who don't understand etiquette at all, and think that the people in the plain east of them are too poor to eat good food... All kinds of words to laugh at him.
Thinking of this, the city lord held his breath and almost pissed himself off.
As the lord of a city, he couldn't even give birth to cubs!
As for the woman who made him lose face, she must have gone to the Xingyue tribe.
Must be.
"City Lord..." Under the huge stone chair, a guard bowed his head and suggested to him: "In about eight days, it will be the important event west of Xingye - the day of the Snowmelt Valley Fair. I heard that all tribes will set up stalls there , exchange salt, sell specialty products, and exchange needed supplies. If the city lord really wants to find that woman, this is a good opportunity."
The city lord thought for a while, and said slowly: "If she really entered the Xingyue tribe, she might not necessarily go to Daji."
The guard said, "We don't need to catch her in Daji."
"Oh?" The city lord became interested: "Then why go to Daji?"
"It's to spread the news, Lord City Master." The guard said firmly: "The nine thousand pieces of jerky you offered as a reward can already feed an ordinary family for a year. There are actually many people who are tempted. Some people say it's meaningless, but It’s because I couldn’t find it, so save yourself some face.” He paused and said, “I don’t believe that the people of the so-called Snowmelt Valley Alliance can be any different from us.”
The city lord's eyes flashed brightly: "There is no difference, not all of them are human."
"As human beings, they will be greedy for cheap, and they will not be able to resist the temptation. I believe that even if the Xingyue tribe recognizes that woman as an official member of the tribe, there will still be people who will take risks and spread the real news about her for jerky. of."
"Not bad!" The city lord was happy, waved his hand and said, "Just do as you say!"
……
Snowmelt Valley Collection.
The bustling crowd has filled every corner of this valley, after all, now everyone can come to set up a stall, because the road is easy to walk.
Those who are close come directly, but one day, those who are far away hire a horse from Shenjun, and it takes almost a day to drive back and forth. Only those who are too far away will choose people who can go in the tribe , take part in the name of the tribe and show your face.
The salt exchange point of the Ministry of Salt has become a fixed building, built in the middle of the entire valley.
In order to prevent the house from being submerged when the snow melts, the house uses thick bamboo poles from the nearby Dasun tribe to build a strong frame, and the ceiling is empty underneath.Rong Yue called it Diaojiaolou.
When the snow melts, the building looks like it is floating on the lake. It is very beautiful. Some travelers come to visit and say that it is a wonder to the west of Hoshino.
In autumn, the ground is full of green, and this stilted building has to rely on stairs to go up.People queue up in an orderly manner, register, get signs, and change salt. Every link is simple and clear. There will be no accounting errors, wrong salt changes, or crowd congestion.
After all, from another perspective, it is not as difficult for everyone to eat salt as before, and the purchase and exchange are placed in normal times.At this time, the purpose of changing one is for the discount, and the other is for the sense of ceremony.
Yes, everyone has begun to pursue a sense of ritual... Otherwise, I always feel that something is missing in autumn...
Rong Yue Tianyang walked through the bustling and orderly market with the distinguished guest Ah Shen, accompanied by Jiang Liu who couldn't get rid of him no matter what.
It was the first time for Ah Shen to come here, and he was dazzled by the sight, and made admiration noises from time to time.
"What is this!?" She exclaimed in surprise, "It's such a big and long bird feather..."
Rong Yue laughed, Jiang Liu interjected: "Hey, look at the sign next to it, it's not for sale."
Ah Shen doesn't know how to read, but in the past few days, he has gradually learned about their shocking reading and writing skills. He asked curiously, "Why don't you sell them? If you don't sell them, you still stick them in such a conspicuous place?"
It is also surrounded by bamboo fences, which is very precious!
Jiang Liu was already covering her stomach with laughter, and Rong Yue told her: "This is all fake stuff, it's a place to show the fraudsters' fakes, to remind everyone not to be fooled."
"Ah?" Ah Shen was stunned: "This...is this fake? Such a long and red tail feather!"
"It's dyed with flower juice..." Jiang Liu said proudly, "Speaking of this feather, there is a long story. The team sent a congratulatory gift, and there was such a feather among them, what kind of fire bird Toba... I died laughing."
Ah Shen: "So it's not?"
"It was dyed with flower juice by a liar. It used to be sold at our Snowmelt Valley Fair every year, and someone always fell for it."
Rong Yue explained: "At that time, the information was not circulating, and people who realized that they had been deceived had no way to tell others. That liar relied on dyeing the long white tail feathers in red, pretending to be a fire bird or a divine bird, and deceived everyone for many years. "
Rong Yue then pointed to the sign hanging on the wall of Diaojiaolou: "That sign says, 'Treasure your personal belongings, beware of being deceived', it tells everyone not to trust liars easily, and be careful when buying things. Otherwise, the loss will only be yours bear."
Ah Shen sighed: "It's too profound, your Snowmelt Valley Alliance is really lively..."
The exhibition hall brings together fakes that have been debunked over the years.
Some painted patterns to pretend to be eggs laid by mysterious birds, some said they were precious horn combs, but they turned out to be loose rock-polished combs, what else can be worn to keep the whole family safe, and what to eat can carry cubs, bye One worship can marry the gods and gods like the leader of Xingyue.
Jiang Liu laughed wildly again when he saw the "Spine of the Divine Beast" who "could marry the leader of Xingyue with just one obeisance".
"When this was confiscated last year, my stomach hurt...so many people were watching...the stall owner said it was God's will, and said, hahaha, that he wore it next to his body before the Moon Festival..."
Ah Shen's face was devastated.
Rong Yue added expressionlessly: "Oh, we arrested the stall owner and publicly criticized him, and confiscated the rest of his counterfeit goods. One of the items is also very magical, saying that 'if you eat it, you can get stars and moons'." The Great Priest's Cub's magical medicine."
"Hahahaha hiccup—" Jiang Liu hiccupped from laughing.
Tianyang sighed: "Some people really believed it. Later, we could only send more people to investigate these, and held several alliance-wide presentations, just to remind everyone not to dream."
Looking at these fake things, Ah Shen could feel how popular the two leaders of Xingyue were.
They walk together in the ordinary crowd, forming an aura that others cannot enter, with tenderness and love hidden in every frown and smile.
When the members of the alliance see them, they will not tremble with fear, they will all greet them with a smile, and they will also get an approachable response.
This is not at all the same as when she saw the city lord of the city of courage.
The lord of the city of courage is immersed in his own world, thinking that he is superior.He doesn't know anyone, and most of the residents in the city don't know him either. They only know that there is a city lord who is very powerful, and those who oppose the city lord will not end well.
How uncomfortable.
Ah Shen thought, if there was no comparison, she would also be immersed in the fear of the Lord of the City of Valor, and the illusion that the leader should be like that, like a lonely god.
But after seeing Moon Sacrifice and the leader of Tianyang, he realized that the real god will bring people happiness and happiness.
"Ah Shen?" Seeing someone falling behind, Jiang Liu called back to her.
"Here we come!" Ah Shen adjusted his expression and followed with a smile.
***
At the same time, on the hillside at the edge of the snowmelt valley, there were two sneaky people with grass rings on their heads, lying on the ground, half-hidden in the grass.
"Is this the Melting Snow Valley?" One person was shocked: "It's so big!"
"Idiot, this place is so big, there are so many people!" Another person scolded him.
Most of the tribes belonging to the Snowmelt Valley Alliance are used to wearing clothes. Except for the hot weather, men rarely wear their upper body.
But the city of courage has maintained the tradition of wearing animal skins. In fact, it has something to do with poverty. If you can’t get enough to eat, how can you have extra rations to exchange for the not very warm linen?
The person who spoke first had unibrowed hair on his chest and arms, and the person who called him a fool had a pair of triangular eyes with extremely small eyeballs, which at first glance seemed to be rolling their eyes for a long time.
These two are low-level gangsters in the city of courage, who make a living by running errands for others.This time they took on a big task, which was personally sent by the higher-ups—announcing a reward from the City of Valor in the Snowmelt Valley Gathering.
"Brother Dabai, you said we go straight down, find a drum to beat, talk about it and it's over, why are you hiding here?"
"Idiot!" The white-eyed man scolded him: "Amodi, is your brain just for display? You don't even think about it. If this works, why did the leader send so many people to do this?"
"Oh..." Amao thought thoughtfully, "Then why not?"
Dabai rolled his real eyes, and pointed down with hatred: "Of course it's because we have enmity with them!"
Dabai said it firmly, and Amao was full of doubts: "When did we have an enmity, why haven't I heard of it?"
"You idiot, Boss Hu was sent by the city lord to participate in the ceremony of the Star-Moon tribe five years ago, and he vomited blood after returning, don't you know? This is a feud, idiot."
"Didn't Boss Hu say that he vomited blood only when he got angry?"
"Believe it when he says it! Since then, Boss Hu has convulsed when he heard the words "xingyue" or "sun, moon, or heavy snowfall." This must be a painful memory."
"No wonder he refuses to go west again..." Amao finally nodded.
Dabai heaved a sigh of relief, and felt tired of explaining to this fool, so he rested for a while before saying: "People in the west are very cunning, we must not take it lightly after we go down."
Amao nodded: "Okay Brother Dabai, I must be more vigilant."
The two cheered each other on, and with a slink, they jumped into the crowd without anyone noticing.
After an hour, the two returned with a full load.
"Brother Dabai! Look! This is the best silk scarf in the legend! It is said that it can float up when the wind blows. It is so beautiful. Five years ago, Xingyue's wedding ceremony tied this and that stall owner. Said, give it to the woman you like, and I will definitely make a contract with you!"
"A Maodi, look at me! The legendary 'God Chopsticks'! It is said that people who can't use chopsticks can use this kind of auxiliary chopsticks with grooves, and they can use them freely and freely in three days. Back then At Xingyue's wedding ceremony, everyone used this!"
"Brother Dabai, watch this again!..."
"Amodi, and this!......"
Two people, one for you and one for me, introduce them a bit, and show off for a while, they are so happy that they are about to fly.
Stuffing these odds and ends into the burlap bag, Dabai suddenly murmured, "Why are we going down?"
Amao said, "Uh...shopping?"
"Ah, it's about spreading a reward!" The two said in unison.
"It's terrible," Dabai said with a serious expression, "I think there must be some kind of mysterious power in this market, making us completely forget about our mission and only remember to buy things."
Amao half understood: "But, these things are good..."
"Shut up!" Dabai scolded him: "Be sober! This is all a trick of the enemy! Let's go down later, we must not forget about the reward."
Amao feels wronged: "I know..."
The two screamed again and jumped into the crowd.
With the previous experience as a base, the two of them focused a lot this time.
Dabai looked around, and his eyes locked on a young man who looked very down and out.
The young man's hair was cut so short that he probably didn't even have any cloth strips to tie it.Wearing a thin linen waistcoat and carrying a cloth bag.
This cloth bag looks very shabby, as if it picked up a lot of leftovers that others didn't want, and then slowly pieced them together and sewed them together.
What's more pitiful is that the seams are also poorly sewn, and the overlapping parts of the cloth panels are just left out like this—it's too miserable.This man must be hungry.
That should be of interest to the big deal of nine thousand pieces of jerky.
"Hey, this brother." Dabai reached out to pat the man on the shoulder, but when his eyes dazzled, the man turned around and looked at him.Um?Did he catch it or not?very strange……
Wait, don't think about it, it's more important to get to the point.
"Brother, there is big news about making money quickly, do you want to listen to it?"
Dabai looked at this person expectantly.
The young man squinted at him, and slowly uttered a word: "No."
She jumped up from the bed in an instant, yelling in panic.
Jiang Liu was holding a bowl of noodle soup, so frightened that he almost knocked over the bowl with his hand shaking.
"I... you... woo..." The girl with messy hair looked not sober, Jiang Liu couldn't help worrying, maybe it was the encounter in the forest that scared this pretty little beauty into a fool, right?
"Don't be afraid." She smiled as friendly as possible, her teeth were white and bright: "I beat that tiger away and didn't bite you, don't be afraid!"
"..." Ah Shen gradually came back to his senses, thinking in horror, what kind of tiger, where is this, my God, it smells so good!
She has been hungry for three days, and now her mind has only one single thread: eat.
She didn't care about weighing the danger, and the black-skinned girl in front of her looked rather silly, so she couldn't feel any sense of vigilance, so she tried to say, "Hungry."
"Oh!" Jiang Liu immediately brought her the noodle soup, sat on the edge of the bed, and asked worriedly, "How are you? Can you hold it with your hands? Does it feel heavy? Do you want me to feed you?"
"..." Ah Shen was shocked. Why is this person so diligent? He didn't really fall into the enemy's trap, did he?
However, her hands were really weak and limp. Even if there was poison in this bowl of soup, she might still eat it. Anyway, the ending would be death, so it didn't matter.
Thinking of this, she carefully opened her mouth and caught the spoon Jiang Liu sent out.
"Oh!" Ah couldn't help but yelled affectionately, and even wanted to shout, go out and run around, and tell the world that she just ate a super delicious food!
"What is this?" she asked eagerly.
Jiang showed a distressed expression: "This is just a bowl of noodle soup? You are so pitiful, how could you be so hungry? From now on, you can stay in our Xingyue tribe, and you will eat a bite of food. Work... Forget it, you don't need to work, I'll cover you."
"???" Ah Shen was startled: "Wait, where do you think this is?"
"Xingyue Tribe." Jiang Liu said blankly.
Star Moon Tribe.
Ah Shen almost cried with joy.
Heaven and earth, she was able to reach her destination after wandering around in the woods. She is such a lucky woman, and she will definitely become a master of alchemy!
Jiang Liu: "I picked you up. Why did you go so far north? There are very few tribes nearby."
Ah Shen: "..." Oh, so I didn't come here.
Feeling a little embarrassed by his thoughts just now, Ah Shen blushed, and asked timidly: "I originally wanted to come to the Xingyue Tribe...but I went to the wrong place."
"That's it!" Jiang Liu was happy: "Why do you want to come?"
Ah Shen clenched his fists and said loudly, "Because your leader has formed a contract!"
"...?" Jiang Liu: "So?"
"It's very good, very good!" Ah Shen asked: "I got it right, right? Is the contract already formed? You won't marry twice, marry third, and marry fourth, right?"
"will not."
Tianyang and Rongyue heard movement here, knew that she was awake and was walking over, and they heard such a strange question.
Tianyang was inexplicably upset, directly denied it, and glanced at this unknown person unkindly.
"Ah..." Ah Shen's face turned red, and he hurriedly made amends: "No, I just want to say that I really like the leader who has made a contract..."
Rong Yue and Tian Yang: "?"
"No, no! It's good to have a bonded leader, um, does the leader want to have a cub? I don't have a big ass, really..."
Rong Yue and Tian Yang: "???"
Jiang Liu was stunned by the side, and the girl's heart was broken.
What's the meaning?This little beauty likes Tianyang?Willing to have cubs for him without even needing to form a bond?
What kind of Mingshan-style scumbag behavior is this!Tianyang will not do this!
Ah Shen found that his mind was really broken, and the more he said, the more outrageous he was, but he didn't know how to make amends, so he cried while talking: "Woooooo...I really don't want to talk about the bond...I just want to talk about it." A woman who is a master alchemist..."
"Master alchemist?" Rong Yue held back her laughter just now, and now she didn't want to bully the child anymore, so she answered the question quickly.
"Well, my name is Ah Shen. I know two kinds of stones, red stone and bluestone. These two kinds of stones can be made into hard and good utensils, as long as they go through a certain process...I won't lie to you, really!"
Listening to this description, why does it seem to be talking about smelting?
Rong Yue was excited: "What redstone? Can you explain it carefully?"
"Okay!" Ah Shen's eyes lit up, he drank the soup first, wiped his mouth, and showed some enthusiasm on his face.
"I picked up some stones before, with dark red lines on the surface, so I called them red stones... Later I discovered that if you burn red stones hot enough, you can squeeze out a lot of black water. Black water, etc. If you don't heat it, it will solidify and become very hard, which is very suitable for making utensils."
She said she was excited just now, but then she remembered what the lord of the City of Valor had harmed her before, she froze, and said in a low voice: "You... want to hear how to build a blast furnace? It's very powerful, because there is a lot of firewood..."
Rong Yue was dumbfounded.
Where did this come from? This understanding of chemistry and physics is simply a science genius.
And what did she say she studied?Smelt metal!
Iron exposed to oxygen will oxidize and turn rust red.It must be the origin of this "red stone".
And the bluestone she mentioned is probably copper, and if the copper is impure, it will easily turn green. In Rong Yue's common sense, bronze ware could even represent an era at one time.
In other words, if this girl can really make a difference in this matter, the whole world will usher in a new revolution.
Bronze ware and iron ware are superior to stone ware in many respects, just like Tianyang's bone knife, if it wasn't for the bone of the magic snake and the compression help of senior Xuangui, it wouldn't be as durable as it is now.
Stone hoes and stone shovels in the tribe are often in short supply, and a workshop has to be set up to make them.
Rong Yue has been looking for iron ore. These years, she spends two months every year to go on a tour with Tian Yang. However, except for the ancestral iron product of the Forest Iron tribe, there is no other iron or copper shadow.
But gold is too soft to make utensils, and the output of gold mines is actually not high. In order to control the price of goods and jewelry, Rongyue’s mining is also very planned, ensuring that gold can only be used for jewelry, or small Gold beads, thin gold leaves.
In the past two years, everyone has had enough to eat, began to care about beauty and ugliness, and pursued their appearance. The gold jewelry produced by the tribe can be sold a lot every year, and the price is also very high.
If this continues, until the credit system of the Xingyue Tribe is truly stable, gold will become a common currency like the pearls of the Blue Sea Tribe.
Ah Shen talked for a while, seeing that Rongyue was just listening, not echoing her excitedly, her voice became smaller and smaller.
In the end, she wanted to cry without tears and said: "Well, don't you also look down on my method? It can really make utensils. It is a bit cumbersome to set up the stove, but once it is set up, it can be used for a long time... "
Ah Shen's crying became more and more serious, and his heart ached from the broken dreams he had dreamed about in the future: "It's just a waste of wood."
"Don't cry!" Jiang Liu was anxious: "Why are you crying? We didn't say we didn't believe you, did we, Yueyue? What you said about burning stones to boil water, our tribe will know it."
"Ah?" Ah Shen was stunned for a moment: "You will too?"
Rong Yue smiled and spread her hands, Tian Yang snapped her fingers, and a golden leaf with distinct veins appeared in her hand, which was placed on Rong Yue's hand.
"Look, this is the golden leaf made by our tribe." He handed the leaf to Ah Shen who was dumbfounded, Ah Shen took it, his hands trembled, and suddenly burst into tears: "My God, how could it be so beautiful?" color, my redstone and bluestone both lost..."
It was an hour later that Jiang Liu finally comforted Ah Shen by jumping up and down.
During this period, she finally calmed down and told Rong Yue and Tian Yang what happened to her in detail.
"Is there such a thing?" Rong Yue raised her eyebrows in surprise: "Is the City of Courage already so arrogant? It wasn't like this during the transaction last year."
Tianyang said: "Not necessarily, we only come into contact with low-level caravans."
Rong Yue thought for a while: "That's right, I haven't had the chance to visit these few years, but seeing their caravans are very polite, I thought their city lord was also good, I didn't expect..."
Jiang Liu let out a chuckle: "Maybe it's the first time I came to that team of idiots who suffered a lot and taught them."
A man with a mustard who travels far away in the sky: Ah Choo!
"So why did the city lord insist on marrying you?" Rong Yue was curious.
Ah Shen blushed: "I heard that their city lord couldn't give birth to cubs, and changed twenty wives. When I went to meet him, he felt that I, I looked good enough to have cubs, so he wanted to marry me by force. I won't let you go."
Speaking of this, she said in a low voice: "I also snatched away my luggage. There are red stones and bluestones carefully selected by me. I could have shown you...but you have already made such beautiful golden stone water. You must look down on my black water."
"How come, we are very fond of it." Rong Yue comforted her, and broke off the gold leaf with her hands, and said, "Look, is it bent?"
"Hey..." Ah Shen was surprised: "This golden stone water is so soft!"
"That's right, so gold can't be used to make utensils, but the molten iron you mentioned can."
"molten iron?"
"It's the water after the red stone melts."
Ah Shen was almost fascinated by this white-haired priest, how could he understand everything?
"You have been of great help." Rong Yue said with a smile: "Our tribe has been looking for the red stone you mentioned for more than five years. .We started to expand to the eastern plains last year, and there is no clue until now. You brought it here today, and you are a distinguished guest of our tribe."
Jiang Liu echoed: "Yes, yes, you are really amazing!"
Honorable...guest...
The white-haired priest is too good-looking, he looks so charming when he smiles, oh, he is sweating all over, he is so tall, if you want to form a bond, you should find someone like this... wait, he is already married to the leader.
Ah Shen's expression changed several times, and finally fell on his back with a snap.
"What's the matter? What's the matter with her?" Jiang Liu rushed over and pinched Ah Shen's face in a hurry. Rong Yue probed and said, "It's okay, I'm too emotional, and she's hungry, let her have a good sleep."
***
Redstone, iron ore.
Bluestone, copper ore.
Interesting... Rong Yue thought with great interest.
The new wife that the chief of the city of courage married ran away on the eve of their wedding. The news has not yet spread to the west of Hoshino, but it will happen sooner or later.
Over the years, they have consolidated the Snowmelt Valley into an impregnable state, and the Xingyue tribe has established a deep-rooted dominance, and the policy continues to respond to every response.The entire Snowmelt Valley is getting closer and closer to unity, because the seeds cultivated every year have to be obtained from Xingyue, and the high-quality and healthy livestock cubs have to be bought from Xingyue, not to mention the things that need to be processed are basically sold to Xingyue. Get the most benefit.
Everyone is gradually getting used to this way of life, and Rongyue is also constantly delegating power, gradually handing over some mature technology to suitable tribes, so that the Xingyue tribe can focus on innovation.
It is obviously not Rong Yue's ultimate goal to just get rid of the life of drinking blood, starving, and freezing to death in winter.He also wanted to have a real machine, and a power source.
Unfortunately, on this point, it has not been smooth.
The energy source of the Xingyue Era is magic—magic lamps, various mechanisms driven by magic, automatic doors of magic, etc., combined with advanced mechanical engineering, constitute the basic framework of the Pentagon Continent.
For the real world where the game is built, it seems that oil and coal are their main energy sources.
Rong Yue didn't know much about this. For a while, she was obsessed with what oil was and where to dig coal. She even rolled up her sleeves and found a place to drill a well. Finally, she dug to a depth of more than 200 meters in rock formations, and finally couldn't dig. It can't be melted with holy light.
Only at this time did he realize that his abilities were really limited. Even Shengguang couldn't do things.
So he quietly gave up this idea and began to torture Hei Lang.
That's right, that's why he abducted the black wolf back then - what amazing things the magician can do, why can't he convert this energy into energy?
If magic power, divine power, exists in animals, plants, and the world, then in theory, the Wild Continent can also become a magical country like the Wumang Continent, inventing mechanical engineering that uses special energy as the power source!
... of course, the current progress is almost zero.
He can't experience this power personally, so he can't practice and change it. He can only imagine it beautifully.
Besides that, there was another thing that bothered him.
He can't move up the ranks.
At the beginning when level 99 was opened, the skill [Oracle] that had not been installed had always made him curious. He thought he would finally be able to unlock it after accumulating for so many years. However, the progress bar was stuck at the end of level [-], and his experience was overflowing. Still can't untie.
Rong Yue guessed what conditions must be met.
But what is the condition?
Sitting at the table thinking with a quill pen, Tian Yang opened the door and came in, unexpectedly said: "Why haven't you slept yet?"
"Thinking about something." Rong Yue tapped the paper on the table: "The location of the iron mine that Ah Shen mentioned is not clear, but it's quite far away. We have to consider going a long way."
Tian Yang stroked his shoulder-length hair, it was soft and slippery, it would slip off soon after being wrapped around his fingers, and he said with a smile: "Want to go out to play?"
Rong Yue also smiled: "I want to go further."
Over the past few years, Tianyang's appearance has not changed at all, and the black lines on his body have grown by one centimeter, tending to be stable.
But Rong Yue has changed a lot, and now she almost looks like the Pope himself.
It's just that his facial features are somewhat similar to the original Yue, and the period when he became the fastest was the development period of the tribe, and now he is in front of everyone's eyes every day, and the subtle changes are invisible to everyone.
After all, there is no camera, and everyone will only occasionally feel that the longer the moon priest looks better, or the longer the moon priest grows, it is hidden from the past.
Rong Yue doesn't know what will happen to him and Tianyang in the future, whether they will live forever together, or if he follows the time and Tianyang stays forever.
After all, Hei Lang's age is right there, and the magic envoy in Hoshino also lived a long time.
And he hasn't changed, he hasn't aged, he can't tell it himself, just from the outside, he is still in his heyday.
"It's far away, maybe there will be some adventures again, so I can figure out the nature of the magic power." Rong Yue said: "I always feel that time is urgent, although I don't know how urgent..."
Tianyang dragged him to the bed and blew out the oil lamp: "Sleep."
"...Warcraft come every year, and one is more powerful than the other!" Rong Yue pushed him with a blushing face, "I haven't finished talking yet."
"Then beat him to death." Tianyang leaned up to kiss him, the two rolled together, and both got up late the next day.
"What, is there a big show the day after tomorrow!" Rong Yue was startled: "I haven't read this year's plan yet!"
He rubbed his waist and sat in the conference room, Ah Jiu signed each piece of paper: "It's okay, I've read it."
Rong Yue: "..."
He thought for a while, and suddenly felt that this was not bad, and said happily, "Then can I leave earlier? You and Yunye are already standing alone, and I can concentrate on finding the mine..."
Ah Jiu took a deep look at him, and said slowly, "Do we have the right to refuse?"
After speaking, he slapped the signed paper on the table and left with a cold face.
"...What's wrong with him?" Rong Yue asked Yun Ye who was sitting next to him guilty.Yunye said with a good temper: "He hasn't had a vacation for two years, and he promised to go out with Guoguo to play, but he hasn't been able to go until now."
Seeing Rongyue showing self-blame, Yun Ye chuckled and said, "Don't worry, he's just venting his anger. Guoguo wants Zai Zai, but they haven't been able to figure it out."
Rong Yue let out an ah, remembering this.
"I checked it for them, and it's all right, it should be able to pick it up."
"That's why Guoguo is in a hurry." Yun Ye whispered: "Many people have cubs these years, Ah Jiu doesn't seem to care, but Guoguo really wants it. Some people think that Ah Jiu can't do it... No wonder he angry."
"My fault." Rong Yue was ashamed: "They should be given a holiday, three months, and locked up together. I don't believe it and I can't figure it out."
Yunye took a deep look at him, bowed his head and signed: "...if you are willing."
Rong Yue... Rong Yue was reluctant.
Three months is too much, how can he and Tian Yang run away! ?
But this incident also told him that it was time for the tribe to promote the backbone, so that the first group of people would not work hard day and night, which was too hard.
"Just this winter." Rong Yue clenched her fists: "Organize an exam, screen the team leader and team leader, and then each of you choose a few successors, and bring them with you to teach you how to do things, how about it?"
Yunye's eyes lit up: "This is not bad!"
Rong Yue smiled: "Although you have many assistants and apprentices, you still have to delegate some power and let them take charge of their own affairs. Don't be afraid of making mistakes, and only by doing it can you gradually become familiar with this position. Take it for a while, and you will be free in the future! "
Yunye: "...that's how you deal with us."
Rong Yue rubbed her nose, carried the cup of tea away.
Yunye shouted from behind: "You still have to talk at the big fair! Don't forget!"
***
The city of courage is heavy. Recently, there are fewer pedestrians on the road, and most of the people walking are trembling.
This is all thanks to the woman who ran away.
It is rare for the city lord to marry a woman from outside. This is obviously a great reward for her. Who knew that this woman didn't know good and bad, and ran away the night before the contract was formed! ?
Poor city lord, he got up early on the day of the deed, washed and dressed, and put on the gown, looking bright and beautiful.While admiring himself in front of the water mirror, the guard suddenly came to report that the woman had escaped.
Ran! ?
The city lord was furious immediately, and beat up the guards, the old grandmother who had a lot of contact with her, and others, and imitated what the Xingyue tribe did many years ago, and released a reward.
There was a short woman with freckles, dark blond hair, and red eyes. Whoever caught it and sent it to the City of Valor would get nine thousand pieces of jerky!
As soon as the news came out, everyone was very excited at first, you said catch, I said catch, but soon everyone found out that this reward is not easy to get.
First of all, everyone doesn't know where this woman is, and blindly searching in the wild is like looking for a needle in a haystack, of course it's useless.
Secondly, this kind of thing is very easy to hide. If you put a hat on your head, you can’t see anything. You can’t catch a person on the prairie and ask him if he can take off his hat to see?
The bounty soon fell silent, the city lord was furious, and really used his brains to find out who this woman had said those things to after living in their tribe for so many days.
As a result, the owner of the noodle shop was caught out, and the shop owner said with a sad face, "I didn't say anything, we just said that the noodles of the Xingyue Tribe are delicious..."
The mayor was thoughtful.
Star Moon Tribe.
The name has been really popular recently, and many people go to them to buy sugar cubes, dry crispy snacks, and various noodles and noodles.
In fact, the city owner also ate it once, and what he ate was bread.
It was the first time he ate such a soft food, almost no need to chew it, it melted in his mouth, from then on, he never dared to underestimate the Xingyue Tribe when eating.
But in other respects, is Xingyue that strong?Not really.
No matter how good it is, it's just a tribe, but they're a city!The city lord sneered, and his face quickly became gloomy again.
So humiliating.
Has this face been thrown west of Hoshino?
After all, he heard that those people in the west are barbarians who don't understand etiquette at all, and think that the people in the plain east of them are too poor to eat good food... All kinds of words to laugh at him.
Thinking of this, the city lord held his breath and almost pissed himself off.
As the lord of a city, he couldn't even give birth to cubs!
As for the woman who made him lose face, she must have gone to the Xingyue tribe.
Must be.
"City Lord..." Under the huge stone chair, a guard bowed his head and suggested to him: "In about eight days, it will be the important event west of Xingye - the day of the Snowmelt Valley Fair. I heard that all tribes will set up stalls there , exchange salt, sell specialty products, and exchange needed supplies. If the city lord really wants to find that woman, this is a good opportunity."
The city lord thought for a while, and said slowly: "If she really entered the Xingyue tribe, she might not necessarily go to Daji."
The guard said, "We don't need to catch her in Daji."
"Oh?" The city lord became interested: "Then why go to Daji?"
"It's to spread the news, Lord City Master." The guard said firmly: "The nine thousand pieces of jerky you offered as a reward can already feed an ordinary family for a year. There are actually many people who are tempted. Some people say it's meaningless, but It’s because I couldn’t find it, so save yourself some face.” He paused and said, “I don’t believe that the people of the so-called Snowmelt Valley Alliance can be any different from us.”
The city lord's eyes flashed brightly: "There is no difference, not all of them are human."
"As human beings, they will be greedy for cheap, and they will not be able to resist the temptation. I believe that even if the Xingyue tribe recognizes that woman as an official member of the tribe, there will still be people who will take risks and spread the real news about her for jerky. of."
"Not bad!" The city lord was happy, waved his hand and said, "Just do as you say!"
……
Snowmelt Valley Collection.
The bustling crowd has filled every corner of this valley, after all, now everyone can come to set up a stall, because the road is easy to walk.
Those who are close come directly, but one day, those who are far away hire a horse from Shenjun, and it takes almost a day to drive back and forth. Only those who are too far away will choose people who can go in the tribe , take part in the name of the tribe and show your face.
The salt exchange point of the Ministry of Salt has become a fixed building, built in the middle of the entire valley.
In order to prevent the house from being submerged when the snow melts, the house uses thick bamboo poles from the nearby Dasun tribe to build a strong frame, and the ceiling is empty underneath.Rong Yue called it Diaojiaolou.
When the snow melts, the building looks like it is floating on the lake. It is very beautiful. Some travelers come to visit and say that it is a wonder to the west of Hoshino.
In autumn, the ground is full of green, and this stilted building has to rely on stairs to go up.People queue up in an orderly manner, register, get signs, and change salt. Every link is simple and clear. There will be no accounting errors, wrong salt changes, or crowd congestion.
After all, from another perspective, it is not as difficult for everyone to eat salt as before, and the purchase and exchange are placed in normal times.At this time, the purpose of changing one is for the discount, and the other is for the sense of ceremony.
Yes, everyone has begun to pursue a sense of ritual... Otherwise, I always feel that something is missing in autumn...
Rong Yue Tianyang walked through the bustling and orderly market with the distinguished guest Ah Shen, accompanied by Jiang Liu who couldn't get rid of him no matter what.
It was the first time for Ah Shen to come here, and he was dazzled by the sight, and made admiration noises from time to time.
"What is this!?" She exclaimed in surprise, "It's such a big and long bird feather..."
Rong Yue laughed, Jiang Liu interjected: "Hey, look at the sign next to it, it's not for sale."
Ah Shen doesn't know how to read, but in the past few days, he has gradually learned about their shocking reading and writing skills. He asked curiously, "Why don't you sell them? If you don't sell them, you still stick them in such a conspicuous place?"
It is also surrounded by bamboo fences, which is very precious!
Jiang Liu was already covering her stomach with laughter, and Rong Yue told her: "This is all fake stuff, it's a place to show the fraudsters' fakes, to remind everyone not to be fooled."
"Ah?" Ah Shen was stunned: "This...is this fake? Such a long and red tail feather!"
"It's dyed with flower juice..." Jiang Liu said proudly, "Speaking of this feather, there is a long story. The team sent a congratulatory gift, and there was such a feather among them, what kind of fire bird Toba... I died laughing."
Ah Shen: "So it's not?"
"It was dyed with flower juice by a liar. It used to be sold at our Snowmelt Valley Fair every year, and someone always fell for it."
Rong Yue explained: "At that time, the information was not circulating, and people who realized that they had been deceived had no way to tell others. That liar relied on dyeing the long white tail feathers in red, pretending to be a fire bird or a divine bird, and deceived everyone for many years. "
Rong Yue then pointed to the sign hanging on the wall of Diaojiaolou: "That sign says, 'Treasure your personal belongings, beware of being deceived', it tells everyone not to trust liars easily, and be careful when buying things. Otherwise, the loss will only be yours bear."
Ah Shen sighed: "It's too profound, your Snowmelt Valley Alliance is really lively..."
The exhibition hall brings together fakes that have been debunked over the years.
Some painted patterns to pretend to be eggs laid by mysterious birds, some said they were precious horn combs, but they turned out to be loose rock-polished combs, what else can be worn to keep the whole family safe, and what to eat can carry cubs, bye One worship can marry the gods and gods like the leader of Xingyue.
Jiang Liu laughed wildly again when he saw the "Spine of the Divine Beast" who "could marry the leader of Xingyue with just one obeisance".
"When this was confiscated last year, my stomach hurt...so many people were watching...the stall owner said it was God's will, and said, hahaha, that he wore it next to his body before the Moon Festival..."
Ah Shen's face was devastated.
Rong Yue added expressionlessly: "Oh, we arrested the stall owner and publicly criticized him, and confiscated the rest of his counterfeit goods. One of the items is also very magical, saying that 'if you eat it, you can get stars and moons'." The Great Priest's Cub's magical medicine."
"Hahahaha hiccup—" Jiang Liu hiccupped from laughing.
Tianyang sighed: "Some people really believed it. Later, we could only send more people to investigate these, and held several alliance-wide presentations, just to remind everyone not to dream."
Looking at these fake things, Ah Shen could feel how popular the two leaders of Xingyue were.
They walk together in the ordinary crowd, forming an aura that others cannot enter, with tenderness and love hidden in every frown and smile.
When the members of the alliance see them, they will not tremble with fear, they will all greet them with a smile, and they will also get an approachable response.
This is not at all the same as when she saw the city lord of the city of courage.
The lord of the city of courage is immersed in his own world, thinking that he is superior.He doesn't know anyone, and most of the residents in the city don't know him either. They only know that there is a city lord who is very powerful, and those who oppose the city lord will not end well.
How uncomfortable.
Ah Shen thought, if there was no comparison, she would also be immersed in the fear of the Lord of the City of Valor, and the illusion that the leader should be like that, like a lonely god.
But after seeing Moon Sacrifice and the leader of Tianyang, he realized that the real god will bring people happiness and happiness.
"Ah Shen?" Seeing someone falling behind, Jiang Liu called back to her.
"Here we come!" Ah Shen adjusted his expression and followed with a smile.
***
At the same time, on the hillside at the edge of the snowmelt valley, there were two sneaky people with grass rings on their heads, lying on the ground, half-hidden in the grass.
"Is this the Melting Snow Valley?" One person was shocked: "It's so big!"
"Idiot, this place is so big, there are so many people!" Another person scolded him.
Most of the tribes belonging to the Snowmelt Valley Alliance are used to wearing clothes. Except for the hot weather, men rarely wear their upper body.
But the city of courage has maintained the tradition of wearing animal skins. In fact, it has something to do with poverty. If you can’t get enough to eat, how can you have extra rations to exchange for the not very warm linen?
The person who spoke first had unibrowed hair on his chest and arms, and the person who called him a fool had a pair of triangular eyes with extremely small eyeballs, which at first glance seemed to be rolling their eyes for a long time.
These two are low-level gangsters in the city of courage, who make a living by running errands for others.This time they took on a big task, which was personally sent by the higher-ups—announcing a reward from the City of Valor in the Snowmelt Valley Gathering.
"Brother Dabai, you said we go straight down, find a drum to beat, talk about it and it's over, why are you hiding here?"
"Idiot!" The white-eyed man scolded him: "Amodi, is your brain just for display? You don't even think about it. If this works, why did the leader send so many people to do this?"
"Oh..." Amao thought thoughtfully, "Then why not?"
Dabai rolled his real eyes, and pointed down with hatred: "Of course it's because we have enmity with them!"
Dabai said it firmly, and Amao was full of doubts: "When did we have an enmity, why haven't I heard of it?"
"You idiot, Boss Hu was sent by the city lord to participate in the ceremony of the Star-Moon tribe five years ago, and he vomited blood after returning, don't you know? This is a feud, idiot."
"Didn't Boss Hu say that he vomited blood only when he got angry?"
"Believe it when he says it! Since then, Boss Hu has convulsed when he heard the words "xingyue" or "sun, moon, or heavy snowfall." This must be a painful memory."
"No wonder he refuses to go west again..." Amao finally nodded.
Dabai heaved a sigh of relief, and felt tired of explaining to this fool, so he rested for a while before saying: "People in the west are very cunning, we must not take it lightly after we go down."
Amao nodded: "Okay Brother Dabai, I must be more vigilant."
The two cheered each other on, and with a slink, they jumped into the crowd without anyone noticing.
After an hour, the two returned with a full load.
"Brother Dabai! Look! This is the best silk scarf in the legend! It is said that it can float up when the wind blows. It is so beautiful. Five years ago, Xingyue's wedding ceremony tied this and that stall owner. Said, give it to the woman you like, and I will definitely make a contract with you!"
"A Maodi, look at me! The legendary 'God Chopsticks'! It is said that people who can't use chopsticks can use this kind of auxiliary chopsticks with grooves, and they can use them freely and freely in three days. Back then At Xingyue's wedding ceremony, everyone used this!"
"Brother Dabai, watch this again!..."
"Amodi, and this!......"
Two people, one for you and one for me, introduce them a bit, and show off for a while, they are so happy that they are about to fly.
Stuffing these odds and ends into the burlap bag, Dabai suddenly murmured, "Why are we going down?"
Amao said, "Uh...shopping?"
"Ah, it's about spreading a reward!" The two said in unison.
"It's terrible," Dabai said with a serious expression, "I think there must be some kind of mysterious power in this market, making us completely forget about our mission and only remember to buy things."
Amao half understood: "But, these things are good..."
"Shut up!" Dabai scolded him: "Be sober! This is all a trick of the enemy! Let's go down later, we must not forget about the reward."
Amao feels wronged: "I know..."
The two screamed again and jumped into the crowd.
With the previous experience as a base, the two of them focused a lot this time.
Dabai looked around, and his eyes locked on a young man who looked very down and out.
The young man's hair was cut so short that he probably didn't even have any cloth strips to tie it.Wearing a thin linen waistcoat and carrying a cloth bag.
This cloth bag looks very shabby, as if it picked up a lot of leftovers that others didn't want, and then slowly pieced them together and sewed them together.
What's more pitiful is that the seams are also poorly sewn, and the overlapping parts of the cloth panels are just left out like this—it's too miserable.This man must be hungry.
That should be of interest to the big deal of nine thousand pieces of jerky.
"Hey, this brother." Dabai reached out to pat the man on the shoulder, but when his eyes dazzled, the man turned around and looked at him.Um?Did he catch it or not?very strange……
Wait, don't think about it, it's more important to get to the point.
"Brother, there is big news about making money quickly, do you want to listen to it?"
Dabai looked at this person expectantly.
The young man squinted at him, and slowly uttered a word: "No."
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