Chapter 710

"What is this?"

"What do you want to do?"

Everyone was amazed in their hearts, this battle was not trivial, and it made people feel a little uneasy. Could it be that you want to stop them and keep them from leaving?

Only Wang Chong smiled and said nothing.

"Sure enough, it's still here!"

Wang Chong's expression was indifferent, as if he had already predicted this scene.

"Patriarch, be polite. ”

Wang Chong's heart moved, and he didn't wait for the village chief to come over, led everyone, turned his head, and took the initiative to meet him.

"Master Hou, I'm sorry, I'm late for the delay. Last night, Hou Ye ignored his previous suspicions and came to the rescue. Great kindness, Jingwen and the villagers remember it in their hearts, and it is unforgettable. ”

The white-haired old man said with a straight face.

"Patriarch, you're welcome, it's just a gesture. ”

Wang Chong waved his hand, not caring at all. Those medicines were meant for them.

"Big brother, thank you for saving my grandfather.

On the side, a glutinous voice came, and the little girl Fang Xiaoyan also raised her head and said sincerely.

Seeing this girl's sincere face, thinking of her barbaric, willful, and unreasonable appearance twenty-five years later, Wang Chong almost laughed out loud in his heart.

"You're welcome, it's just a trifle. ”

Wang Chong touched her head and said.

With the intervention of the little girl, the atmosphere between the two sides suddenly eased a lot.

"Master Hou, thank you for your kindness, yesterday was our rudeness, in any case, please stay in our Wusheng Village for a few more days, and linger for a while, so that we can do our best to express our gratitude to the landlord. ”

The white-haired old man said.

Many things will not be noticed until a long time after the fact, and last night, despite Wang Chong's help, there were still eight villagers from Wusheng Village who had an early seizure, and died on the night of the lunar eclipse without waiting for Wang Chong's "antidote".

Their symptoms before death are exactly the same as everyone else's.

And as long as you think about the fact that there were four or five thousand people last night, on the night of the lunar eclipse, everyone was terrified. If it weren't for Wang Chong, last night would have been unimaginable.

It is not an exaggeration to say that Wang Chong is the great benefactor of Wusheng Village. No matter how much you repay this kindness, it is far from enough.

Thinking about the daytime, everyone treated Wang Chong and Li Siye with indifference, harshness, and unkindness, even the village chief of Wusheng Village couldn't help but feel ashamed.

"Hehe, we understand the patriarch's intentions, Pan Huan doesn't need to, we still have some things, let's leave first for the time being. ”

Unexpectedly, Wang Chong waved his hand and actually refused.

This answer was obviously beyond the expectations of the village chief and the elders of Wushu Village, and everyone looked stunned for a moment, and they were speechless for a moment.

"This ...... , Master Hou, don't hide it, the old decay actually has something to ask for. The kind of elixir that Hou Ye had last night is very important to us, I don't know if Hou Ye still has it there? In addition, Hou Ye mentioned rock salt yesterday, I don't know what it means?"

The head of Wusheng Village looked embarrassed, and although he was a little embarrassed, he still said it.

"To tell you the truth, I only have a hundred of that elixir in total, and I have already used all of them last night. As for the rock salt ......"

Wang Chong laughed as he spoke, and looked at the elders of Wushen Village opposite, with a deep meaning in his eyes:

"The village is separated from the outside world, there is neither trade nor exchange, although other things can be cultivated by themselves, and food can be replaced by kudzu, but no matter how it is replaced, three meals a day cannot be separated from salt. I don't know this, how did the village solve it?"

"This ......"

The village chief of Wushu Village was suddenly full of hesitation and speechless.

This young young marquis of the Tang Empire was much more perceptive than he imagined. This mountainous terrain is full of rocks, and it is not suitable for growing food at all.

Therefore, the people of Wusheng Village eat things like kudzu vine and yellow essence, which also makes them naturally strong and have stronger physical fitness than ordinary people.

However, there is only one thing that they can't solve with ordinary methods, and that is the salt that Wang Chong said.

Therefore, the salt eaten by the people of Wusheng Village is different from ordinary people, not sea salt, but rock salt, which is simply the salt on the cliff wall of the land.

The rock salt in that place was discovered by the ancestors of the Wushu people. The people of Wushen Village have been eating salt from there for generations.

"Hehe, the patriarch is reluctant to say it, is he afraid that the court will know that it will be accepted as public ownership and controlled?"

Wang Chong smiled freely, and saw through the scruples of the village chief of Wusheng Village at a glance.

In all dynasties, salt and iron have always been things under the control of the imperial court. Iron does not refer to ordinary "iron", but refers to coinage, and no dynasty will allow the people to mint money at will.

Because that would lead to monetary confusion.

As for salt, as Wang Chong himself said, it is inseparable from three meals a day. The court did this at first, just to prevent anyone from profiting from it, which led to a sharp increase in the price of salt, and the people could not afford to eat salt, so that the people rioted.

This has happened before.

Of course, it was later discovered that there were huge profits in selling salt, which was also later.

Although Wang Chong did not know when the people of Wushu Village escaped into this valley, even in the Eastern Han Dynasty more than a thousand years ago, salt and iron were nationalized and controlled by the imperial court.

Even if the people of Wushu Village have little communication with the outside world, they should understand this, and it is obvious that they are also afraid that the rock salt mine in their hands will be discovered and controlled by the imperial court.

"Hehe, blessings and misfortunes are relied on, and misfortunes and blessings are lurking, I don't know if the patriarch has heard this sentence? Wusheng Village has been suffering from generation to generation, since the age of three, he has been suffering from a dark disease, and the pain is unbearable. And the older you get, the more frequent the attacks, the worse the pain, I wonder if the elder has ever thought about what all this is?"

The breeze came slowly, Wang Chong's robe gently swayed in the morning sun, looking at the patriarch and the elders of Wusheng Village opposite, Wang Chong seemed to be smiling, if there was a deep meaning.

Others don't know the secrets of Wushu Village, but as the commander of the Wusheng Iron Cavalry, Wang Chong knows it clearly. The wounded person is accompanied by severe pain all his life, his skin is blue, his whole body is convulsed, and the pain is unbearable.

And every time the cloudy qi is at its best, especially on the night of the lunar eclipse, it will be severe. This did not change at all even after Wang Chong recruited them.

Later, it was Wang Chong who recruited all the most outstanding pharmacists and martial arts powerhouses in the world, including all the famous physicians of the foreign countries such as Uszang, Mengshezhao, Turkic, Goguryeo, etc., and it took eight years and repeated adjustments to finally develop an elixir to solve the lifelong pain that accompanies the Wushu people.

——That is, the kind of elixir that Wang Chong gave them to swallow!

This is also the real reason why Wang Chong came to Wushu Village this time, full of confidence, and was able to subdue them.

It's just that the only problem is that this elixir is very difficult to refine, and in a hurry, Wang Chong has refined about a hundred pills, all of which have been used in this lunar eclipse night crisis.

The patriarch of Wushu Village chuckled in his heart, and that strange feeling floated again. The young man in front of him is at most sixteen or seventeen years old, that is, his grandchildren.

But for some reason, he couldn't see through this teenager at all. For the first time, in a young man, the head of Wushu Village felt an unfathomable taste.

And the most incomprehensible thing to him is, how did he know about rock salt?

This young man's body is like being shrouded in layers of clouds, which people can't see through.

"What does Master Hou mean......?"

The head of Wushu Village frowned, his face thoughtful.

"Hehe, patriarch, some salt can be eaten, some salt cannot be eaten, not all salt in the world can be eaten casually. At least, not like the village of Wushen. ”

Wang Chong said lightly.

Rock salt is actually toxic, it contains a lot of components, most of which have some toxic substances, which must be specially treated and filtered.

Not only rock salt, but also sea salt, all of which require special treatment. And if you eat industrial salt, it can even lead to death.

- For Wang Chong, who has memories of another world, all this is common sense. But for the people of Wushen Village, they obviously don't know it yet.

Since childhood, the poisonous substances have been eating that kind of poisonous rock salt, and the toxic substances have accumulated over time and continue to enter their bodies, so by the age of three, this toxicity begins to appear.

The most obvious thing is that the three-year-old child began to have convulsions all over his body and felt pain. Later, the toxicity continued to increase, penetrating deep into the flesh, hair, skin, bones and even bone marrow, so although the Wushu Village is full of masters, there are not too many people who have lived past the age of fifty.

And even fewer people who live to be seventy or eighty years old. The entire Wusheng Village, with a population of fifty or sixty thousand, is only twenty or thirty old people.

And if you are unfortunate enough to encounter the night of the lunar eclipse, just like last night, the black wounded will be killed and injured heavily.

- This is the Achilles heel of the black wounded people, and it is also the price behind the great power of the black wounded people!

"What do you mean, Master Hou, all this is caused by our consumption of rock salt?"

The village chief of Wushu Village said.

"Hehe, don't eat the rock salt in the village anymore, this is my advice to the patriarch and the elders, for the sake of Wusheng Village, and for the sake of all the villagers. Of course, believe it or not is a matter for the patriarch and the elders. ”

Wang Chong said.

His face was calm, and his face was light and light. Some things are too much, and if they are too obvious, they will turn the other person off.

Therefore, although Wang Chong really wants to help Wusheng Village and the villagers, he can only do it like this, and then he can only add to it.

"Buzz!"

As soon as Wang Chong's words fell, the patriarch and all the elders of Wushu Village looked at each other. There have been many theories about why people in the village get that disease, including curses, genetics, environmental factors, and so on.

However, no one thought that Wang Chong would actually say that all this is related to the most inconspicuous and ordinary rock salt they eat daily.

It's like saying that a person bleeds because he takes an extra breath of air.

But on the other hand, Wang Chong didn't have any reason to deceive them, which was meaningless, and as the other party's prince, it would be too unseemly to do so.