Chapter Thirty-Eight: Vote for Me with a Peach and Repay It with Qiong Yao (Thanks to TDSJ's 30,000 Starting Coins)
After Zhao Li taught the wolf a lot of things, he let it comprehend by himself, and he practiced in his dreams, until he was about to reach the limit, he took the initiative to disperse the white space, and entered a deep sleep from the state of falling asleep.
By the morning, he had opened his eyes.
Several of the men of the chamber of commerce had already gotten up and began to pack up their things, filling the fire with firewood, on which was a dark clay pot in which pieces of animal meat were boiled, and large pieces of plant roots, similar to turnips or potatoes, all cut into small pieces.
It seemed to have been cooked for a long time before he woke up, the meat was cooked well, the soup was dark, the vegetables and plant roots, and the bread that was torn two fingers wide were soaked in gravy, and the mustache was visible to the naked eye, and the leader of the caravan stirred it with a wooden spoon.
The pale white water vapor rushed up, dispelling the cold atmosphere near the forest.
The leader of the caravan threw a piece of meat into his mouth, inhaled hotly, his beard trembled, and he was reluctant to spit it out, noticing that Zhao Li had woken up, he hissed, swallowed the piece of meat, and the scars on the hot old face twitched, and then made a gesture and said with a smile:
"You're awake, Brother Zhao. ”
Zhao Li pretended not to see the hot and twitching face, and said with a smile:
"Well, my brother got up early. ”
The leader of the caravan, Chen Hao, smiled heartily:
"Walking outside, getting used to it. ”
"You go and change into our dry clothes first, and then eat, today you can go to a small village, the people there are very good, but there is not much knowledge, although the war is almost over, but you are dressed like this, it is still easy for people to misunderstand." ”
Zhao Li looked at the clothes on his body, it was a simple suede armor, there was blood in many places, it was dried blood, revealing a dirty black and red, his hair was also messy, and he was carrying a bright steel knife on his back.
Thinking of the future of being driven by uncles and aunts with rotten eggs and rotten vegetable leaves, Zhao Li had to go to a slightly deeper jungle and change the hunting clothes on his body into Tianqian clothes.
There happened to be a young man in the caravan of his stature, still a little wide, but barely able to wear, dressed in black, tied around his waist with white cloth belts, and his cuffs and ankles were tied with light brown hemp rope to make it easier to move.
He pulled out the bloodstained steel knife again, looked at it, and brought it to the front of his neck.
In a posture that would scare people half to death, he carried this big blade that had killed people and scraped the stubble that had grown savagely.
Zhao Li took a picture of the stream, his beard was shaved clean, and he was a little embarrassed, he was playing with the knife more and more, so he returned to his hometown, and he could use this expertise to find a job, such as ......
Haircut and shaving?
He thought of the way he danced two watermelon knives and gave people a haircut, and laughed.
Looking down at the reflection of the stream, it looks like he is already a very qualified Tiangan man, his hair is a little long, he straddles the knife around his waist, his right hand is casually on the hilt, his black eyes look at himself in the stream, and a sentence suddenly comes to mind in his head.
"Alone in a foreign land as a stranger......"
He turned and walked towards the caravan's men.
Only this time, it's a little farther away.
So far away that when you look up, you can't see the same bright moon.
........................
The party hurried along the way, risking to gather some medicinal herbs in this large forest, as well as a unique incense wood that could only grow in the forests of Sidi, and it would take thirty years to grow to the height of a sixteen-year-old boy, straight, slender, and not stout.
It will naturally exude a delicate fragrance, like the natural body fragrance of an exceptional beauty.
Incense made from this incense wood is quiet and long-lasting.
Not only did the princes of Tianqian Kingdom like it, but even in the imperial capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty, there were many nobles who liked it, which also brought a lot of profits, which were so huge that these pilgrims could still come to the forest to look for fragrant wood as usual at the risk of being involved in the conflict between Tianqian and Xidi.
Zhao Li had to think of the words in Capital and sighed at the wisdom of his ancestors.
But such a chamber of commerce, the leader has the same arrogance as a big brother in the rivers and lakes, and the hand holding the knife is very steady, Zhao Li has seen him kill a colorful leopard with one knife, simply neat, I don't know what kind of business he did before.
After eight days passed, he finally arrived in the border city of Tianqian Kingdom, Zhao Li took out the gold artifacts he got from Wu Zhu, and gave some to the caravan leader, as a reward, the big man put the gold in his mouth and bit it, slightly surprised, and said with a smile:
"Brother Zhao is refreshing. ”
"But we just brought you out by the way, where do we need so much gold? With Brother Zhao's sword skills and martial arts, even one person can walk out of the forest unharmed. ”
He threw all the gold back to Zhao Li, and then beckoned, and the person next to him gave a wooden box that had already been prepared, I don't know what it contained, it was a little heavy, and the green tendons on the palms of the people holding it jumped a little.
The leader of the caravan handed over the wooden box, and after opening it, it was a knife-shaped bronze coin, which was threaded with a thin hemp rope, Chen Hao smiled and said: "There are not many knife coins here, they are originally prepared for Brother Zhao, if you don't dislike it, please accept it." ”
"Although the brother said that he got gold from the barbarians of Jiuli, it is not convenient to spend it after all. ”
"It's like a goodbye gift between friends. ”
Zhao Li looked at the face of the caravan leader, only saw heroism, shrugged his shoulders and smiled:
"Then you're welcome. ”
"I knew that I should cry poor, and I should be able to make a lot of money. ”
Chen Hao laughed out loud and said, "That's it, I still have to save my son's wife's book." ”
Zhao Li raised his eyebrows and said, "Brother Chen already has a child at home." ”
"When you come back this time, do you want to rest for a while?"
Chen Hao didn't know why he talked about this, thinking of the children at home, his smile softened, and said:
"Yes, that seven-year-old mud baby, it's not worry-free. ”
Zhao Li smiled: "We weren't much better when we were young. ”
"That's just as well. ”
Zhao Li stuffed the golden cake into his arms, carried the wooden box, then took it out of his arms, and casually threw out a small cloth bag into the leader's arms, smiled casually, and said:
"In that case, let's give these stone beads to Brother Chen's children to play with. ”
"When I was a child, I liked to play glass beads, and I won a lot, tsk, not bragging, I was the boss of that street, and the fifth grade won me to cry, that was both men and women, invincible, known as a dragon at the corner of the street, the little overlord of marbles. ”
Bounce glass beads?
Chen Hao was stunned, didn't care, put it in his arms at will, and watched Zhao Li leave.
It wasn't until he returned to his hometown after two months that his wife scalded wine for him, Chen Hao talked about it, smiled and sighed: "This guy trampled the golden wine cup used for the Jiuli sacrifice into a golden cake, and the pattern was also destroyed, and he could only sell it at a price of one percent." ”
"Why didn't you tell him?"
"I think I said that he would be so distressed that he couldn't sleep for a few days, haha, it's better not to say it. ”
"By the way, I also brought a gift for childcare. ”
Chen Hao took a sip of wine and opened the pocket casually, his pupils contracted, and he looked at the pocket that was thrown out by Zhao Li in disbelief-
Inside the bag are a few sparkling gemstones, which shine brightly in the light.
PS: The gem that Zhao Li knocked down from Wu Zhu's scabbard~