Chapter 65: The Salt Workshop
Li Tianqi was worried that he would encounter Huo Duwei and others and increase unnecessary trouble, so he found a secluded alley and hid in the alley and thought hard about where to go next to find clues. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Zi Nan Yuan, Zixia Villa, Ziyue Cave Heaven, and Purple Robe People, these purple, do not have clues, hey, I hate the indestructible ancestor, but I killed the pine caterpillar monster at that critical moment, otherwise even if one more word is revealed, it will be enough. Li Tianqi sighed helplessly.
He fiddled with the small stone of the straw rope necklace and said with a wry smile: "Stone, stone, when can you summon a group of small animals, tell me some clues, alas......"
The figure flickered, and the man in the black straw hat suddenly appeared in front of Li Tianqi, he gently raised the brim of his hat, his eyes were round and staring at Li Tianqi, and there was a red tire mark on his left cheek! It's him again!
I saw this person stretch out his hand and point to Li Tianqi's small stone, and said in a hoarse voice, "Give it to me." ”
Li Tianqi hurriedly stuffed the small stone back into his clothes, and said, "Who are you?" ”
"Give it to me." The man in the straw hat didn't pay attention to Li Tianqi.
"Why for you?" Li Tianqi remembered that he seemed to have met this person before he lost the necklace on the streets of Qingshui Town.
The man in the straw hat was no longer speechless, and suddenly showed a short knife in his hand, and immediately slashed at Li Tianqi's neck, the action was extremely fast, Li Tianqi was about to use his body to dodge, but it was too late, the clothes from the neck to the chest and abdomen had been cut out by the short knife, and the man in the straw hat was so precise, it seemed that he didn't want to hurt Li Tianqi, he just wanted to take his necklace.
Li Tianqi was shocked, and he waved his hand to slap the short knife away, but the man in the straw hat turned his wrist and slashed against his neck again, and the blade picked up the straw rope necklace, but it kept cutting.
The man in the straw hat was stunned for a moment, Li Tianqi took the opportunity to slap the chest of the man in the straw hat with both palms, and the man's figure shook slightly, but he was fine.
These are the two palms that Li Tianqi shot out of the internal force of his whole body in a hurry, and the internal force of twenty years has at least two hundred catties of strength, even if he is a master, he has to take a few steps back, but this man seems to be a master among masters.
The straw hat man did not stop, and grabbed the straw rope necklace with his hand again, trying to pull it out of Li Tianqi's neck, but unexpectedly, the straw rope necklace suddenly became smaller, like an iron ring, firmly stuck on Li Tianqi's chin.
"Hey!" Li Tianqi felt like an old cow, his head was grabbed, and the man in the straw hat grabbed the straw rope necklace and dragged Li Tianqi off the ground, but the straw rope necklace still couldn't be taken out.
The man in the straw hat was dumbfounded, and he threw Li Tianqi against the wall of the alley, and Li Tianqi's back hit the wall hard, and he felt a burst of pain.
"You, get out." The man in the straw hat seemed to have no choice, but he didn't want to give up, and ordered viciously at Li Tianqi.
"Phew!" Li Tianqi spat at the man.
The man didn't dodge, he stretched out his hand to wipe the saliva, his face turned gray, he was angry, and lit up the short knife again, "Do you want to force me to kill you?" ”
With a vicious voice, a faint black mist suddenly spread from this person's body. Looks like he's going to attack.
Li Tianqi was secretly surprised, thinking that he must not be his opponent.
At this moment, the man in the straw hat suddenly stopped moving, his expression was a little panicked, and with a soft "bang", the thick black mist scattered and drifted away, and he suddenly disappeared.
After the black fog dissipated, Li Tianqi saw a person behind the place where the straw hat man had disappeared, a man wearing a hat, the wide brim of the hat covered most of his face, the golden gourd was still pinned to his waist, and the faint smell of wine drifted into the tip of Li Tianqi's nose again.
Without raising his head, the man in the hat said, "Don't show your little stone easily, he will feel it." ”
After saying that, it disappeared in the blink of an eye.
"Senior, who are you?" Li Tianqi asked in that direction.
Although the figure of the man in the hat was no longer visible, a voice as thin as a mosquito came from his ears: "You will know it in the future." ”
This is a martial arts mastery - "transmission of sound into the secret". Of course, Li Tianqi didn't know if he thought he was daydreaming, and in front of him, two people disappeared out of thin air. Two strange people, one wearing a straw hat and the other a hat, are unwilling to show their true colors.
He suddenly bit his wrist hard, and there was a pain, and he was sure he wasn't dreaming.
Who are these people? Why do you always keep an eye on your magical necklace? A series of questions came to his mind? Five spirit beads? Blackstone? And this pebble on his body, will they be connected?
It seems that in order to solve the mystery of the stone on his body, he must first find his mother and ask her about the origin of the mysterious little stone on his body. But to find the mother, you must first unravel what the word "purple" represents?
was dizzy again, and Li Tianqi still couldn't think of a reason......
"Salt making?" Li Tianqi raised his eyes and saw two big characters floating on the flagpole not far away.
That workshop is where the imperial court used seawater to refine sea salt.
To make salt and make salt, go to Lianzhou to find purple, will it not be purple but made? Looking for a salt workshop in Lianzhou? The homophony of the two words is also similar, could you have heard it wrong? Li Tianqi once again thought of the shameless rats who shouted loudly from Huo Duwei, in fact, he didn't mean shameless, but specifically five feet. Could it be that the old monster is not referring to places with purple characters, nor to people or things with purple features, but to "salt-making" workshops?
Li Tianqi couldn't help but feel a little excited about his bold idea. Since Providence has made me here, I just want to go in and have a look.
Li Tianqi immediately walked in front of the salt factory, only to see two sergeants holding spears guarding the gate. It seems that I had to climb over the wall and enter. It seems that since he met the thief who came and went without a shadow, he had become a thief who came and went without a shadow, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart.
He walked to the edge of the courtyard wall of the workshop, and was looking for some place to climb over the wall, but when he saw that the sky was so bright, he decided to go in again in the evening. In order to facilitate his movement tonight, he went around to the back to observe the environment, but when he walked over, he found that the back of the workshop had been blocked by a tall courtyard wall, which was connected to the city wall of Lianzhou. But I saw the masts of more than a dozen large ships in the workshop, and there were small flags with the words "salt transportation" floating on the masts.
Seeing that the workshop could accommodate such a number of ships, it was already possible to judge that the workshop must occupy a huge area. You can also faintly hear the shouts and dense footsteps of porters carrying goods. Presumably, they are all loading sea salt into the ship. Except for the gate guarded by soldiers, no guards were found on either side of the workshop.
At this time, Li Tianqi saw the soldiers patrolling back and forth on the city wall, and then he came to his senses, presumably because there was a side here that relied on the city wall, and the soldiers who patrolled the city back and forth on the city wall would deter people who came here to steal salt and grab salt when they passed by, so there were not many guards. Speculating on such a situation, Li Tianqi also had some confidence in his heart, after all, he didn't want to have too much contact with these officers and soldiers. He also saw some holes in the wall that had not been repaired for many years, just enough for him to easily step on it and climb over the wall.
When Li Tianqi was about to leave, suddenly there was the sound of footsteps behind him, and he turned his head and saw hundreds of sergeants divided into two teams, one team went around to the left side of the workshop, and the other team went around to the right side of the workshop, a burly team was leading a team of fifty people to the right, and saw Li Tianqi standing on the side with his head down, and quickly shook his hand and shouted: "Idle people wait to go away." ”
Li Tianqi didn't know what was going on, and when he heard the words, he immediately ran away, and as soon as Fang turned around, he saw that this group of soldiers was gathered under the wall on this side of the workshop, and stopped, as if God had read his deliberate arrangement in mind.
This...... Are you kidding? As soon as he stepped on it, Li Tianqi looked helpless. Glancing out of the corner of his eye, he found that a red shadow had come into view, and he quickly hid in front of a stall on the street, pretending to look at calligraphy and painting.
The red shadow was Du Tao, who was following Huo Duwei, and he shouted in his mouth: "Everyone show me a good look, a young man about five feet tall, don't let him run away by boat."
Is this talking about me? Li Tianqi was suspicious, thinking that when he left the forest in the morning, he caught a glimpse of Huo Duwei's hesitant eyes, and he had been pondering, maybe he was doubting himself. Li Tianqi was sure that Du Tao must be preventing him from escaping from the city, so he transferred troops to arrange manpower here. In this way, it is estimated that it will be difficult to get out of the city gate.
Li Tianqi was secretly glad that he didn't climb over the wall to enter, otherwise, he would have been blocked in the workshop, just thinking of this, he suddenly slapped his thigh, oops, there are so many people, how can you get in tonight?
The vendor with a short beard was startled by Li Tianqi's sudden movements, and hurriedly urged: "Hey, I don't have any money to go, don't be surprised." ”
Li Tianqi saw the short-bearded peddler, and with an idea, he took out some broken silver from his arms and asked, "This eldest brother, the younger brother has just arrived, have you been doing business here for many years?" ”
The short-bearded peddler saw that it was a teenager, and he didn't want to deal with him, but when he saw the broken silver in his hand, he quickly opened his eyebrows and smiled: "Of course, I am a native of Lianzhou, I grew up here since I was a child, and I know very well what Wanwan Cave is in Lianzhou City." He pointed to his head.
Li Tianqi said: "No, you just need to tell me where I can quietly enter this workshop, and this is yours." As he spoke, he raised the broken silver in his hand.
The short-bearded peddler squinted his eyes and smiled, "I can't see that you, a little boy, actually do this for a living." "He's stealing, of course.
He continued: "You have too little money, but the private salt is a huge profit, this secret ......"
Li Tianqi simply took out the last remaining silver ingot, and the vendor immediately reached out to take it, Li Tianqi immediately held the silver ingot and shook his head.
The short-bearded peddler whispered mysteriously, "Come, come with your ears, I'll tell you......"
Li Tianqi listened to the mouth of the peddler and heard from the hawker that there was a dry well under a large ginkgo tree nearby, which could lead directly to the salt farm, and the hawker also said that two friends had gone into the salt mill from the dry well to steal sea salt and sell it to make huge profits.
"However, they went in last month, and they haven't come out, I don't know what happened, boy, you better pay attention." The short-bearded peddler finally said, and he suddenly thought of something again, and hurriedly said, "If you are caught by the officers and soldiers in an accident, don't tell me." ”
"Don't worry, I'll do it alone." Li Tianqi nodded, put the object in his hand into the short-bearded peddler's hand, and said, "Thank you." ”
With that, he turned and left.
The short-bearded peddler looked at his distant figure and shook his head, "Alas...... It's all about the money. ”
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