From Wuxi to Xinjiang Province, it takes about three days to drive an off-road vehicle by yourself.

Four cars lined up, with Xiao Han's red Wrangler leading the way, and every four hours, the convoy stopped and rested for half an hour at the service station on the highway.

There are only two people in Song Jian's car, Song Jian and Zhou Tong, although Zhou Tong has just gotten her driver's license, but her driving skills are not bad, and Zhou Tong has pestered her father's driver to teach her to drive since she was very young.

Although the journey was very monotonous, Zhou Tong was very excited, looking at the scene outside the window, and Song Jian had a word without saying a word, when he was sleepy, he could go directly to the back of the car and lie down to sleep.

After two days and two nights, by the third day, the convoy had entered the Xinjiang Province.

The surrounding buildings were sparse and low, and it didn't take long for the convoy to seem to enter a large city, and slowly, the surrounding buildings became denser.

"We have arrived in the Hetian area, and after the Hetian area, it is the Tarim Basin. Let's rest here for the rest for the whole day today, depart tomorrow morning, and arrive at the Taklamakan Desert at noon. Xiao Han's voice came from the intercom in the car, and the intercom was equipped with one on each car to facilitate mutual announcements.

"Haha, is this Hetiandi, I have long heard that Hetian Yu is famous, and I can buy more today." Ding Jie said proudly.

"There are a lot of fake jade in this place, and the price is expensive, everyone should be careful, when we arrive, there is the hotel where we settled today." Xiao Han said, the car turned a corner and entered a luxurious courtyard, and in the center of the courtyard was a luxurious hotel, Hetian Hotel.

The itinerary and accommodation were all arranged for Xiao Han, and Song Jian and the others also ended up relaxed.

After the car was parked in the garage, fifteen people with backpacks on their backs checked into the hotel.

The rooms are all standard rooms, Song Jian and Zhai Hao live together, Zhou Tong and Qin Huayu live together, and the two rooms are next to each other.

Putting down the bag, Song Jian washed up a little, and was about to go to bed for a nap, but there was a quick knock at the door.

Opening the door, Zhou Tong and Qin Huayu both changed into neat clothes and stood at the door.

"Song Jian, let's go shopping, it's Bazaar today." Zhou Tong carried a small bag, wore a slim pink down jacket, and wore a small hat, and smiled at Song Jian.

Qin Huayu also nodded and said, "It's not easy to come once, let's go shopping." ”

"Okay, okay," Zhai Hao came out from behind, shaving his beard and said excitedly.

Song Jian thought for a while and said, "Okay, then let's go, what does Bazaar mean?" ”

Zhou Tong smiled proudly, "I won't tell you." ”

The four of them packed up and were about to leave, but they saw Ding Jie and two other young men also walking out, one of whom was still carrying a backpack with an excited face.

"Hey, beauty, let's go shopping together," Ding Jie came to know himself, and two other young men surrounded him.

Not long after, Xiao Han and the two women also walked out of the room, looking at their outfits, they were also going out shopping.

In this way, there were five men and five women, and everyone went out of the hotel together.

Ding Jie's eloquence is very good, and he kept talking and laughing with several women along the way, making Qin Huayu and others laugh non-stop, even Zhou Tong covered his mouth and snickered, only Xiao Han was expressionless, but he was worthy of her name.

After leaving the hotel, I didn't go far and saw a very large bazaar, which had both high-end jade shops and ordinary stalls selling glasses and hats.

Now that he is here, Song Jian also plans to find some things that may be used and bring them back.

When they arrived at the market, Xiao Han told everyone to be careful, and two hours later, they gathered in front of the jade shop at the entrance of the market, and everyone dispersed.

Song Jian, Zhou Tong, Qin Huayu, and Zhai Hao walked all the way to the west of the market.

When the Silk Road prevailed, Xinjiang Province used to be the largest cargo distribution center in Asia, and although it is no longer the largest, it is still possible to see all kinds of goods in these markets, including Han farming tools, handicrafts of ethnic minorities, European artworks and special snack products from Russia and Outer Mongolia.

It's more of an international trade market.

Song Jian searched all the way, but he didn't see anything worth buying.

Wandering around, the four of them came to a Chinese herbal medicine distribution center, many well-decorated Chinese medicine stores with open doors, on which are written authentic Cordyceps, authentic snow lotus and so on.

In the past two years, the smell of cordyceps sinensis has been hyped up to sky-high prices, and these pharmacies have also taken the opportunity to make a lot of money, and snow lotus has always been a relatively expensive traditional Chinese medicine, and the precious drugs in martial arts novels often have snow lotus as a flavored medicine.

Song Jian and the other three turned to the Chinese medicine store, and Zhou Tong didn't understand it, but they were surprised when they saw the prices marked on those cordyceps, and they didn't understand how it could be so expensive to speculate on Chinese medicine.

Song Jian, of course, would not listen to the deception of TV and hypemen, he changed a few shops, and then came to a small stall with safflower, licorice, astragalus and other traditional Chinese medicines produced in Xinjiang Province.

These drugs are all authentic herbs.

Song Jian stopped.

"Little brother, do you want Chinese medicine? All of my medicines are wild, and our family has picked them from the mountains. Behind the stall was a strong man in his forties, seeing Song Jian coming to see the medicinal herbs, he hurriedly greeted, and behind him, there was also a motor tricycle.

Song Jian nodded and said, "Do you also have medicinal herbs on your mountain wheel?" ”

The man stretched out his hand, lifted the plastic sheet on the tricycle, and said in non-standard Mandarin: "Little brother, don't worry, the samples I put here are the same as those on the tricycle." ”

Song Jian let out a "hmm" and said, "How is the astragalus sold?" ”

"One hundred yuan per kilogram." The man said.

"Where's the safflower?"

"Seven hundred dollars per kilogram."

Song Jian nodded, although the price of this medicine is more expensive than the medicine in the pharmacy and the Bozhou medicinal material market, but because it is an authentic wild medicinal material, the quality is much better than ordinary medicinal materials.

"Okay, I want all the medicinal materials for your car, how much is it in total." Song Kendo.

"Huh?" The man was stunned for a moment, and then showed a surprised expression, "A total of 11,000 yuan, I count the little brother 10,000 yuan." ”

Song Jian said "um" and said, "Okay, you clean up the stall, go to the hotel with me in a while, and load the medicinal herbs in my car." ”

The man cleaned up the stall neatly.

"This is a deposit of five hundred yuan, you drive the car to the gate of the market, and in about an hour, we will leave the market, and we will go together when the time comes." Song Jian gave the man five hundred yuan.

The man didn't answer, and said with a smile: "At first glance, the little brother is a person who understands medicinal materials, I believe in you, little brother, okay, I will wait for a few at the gate of the market." ”

Seeing that the man was so refreshing, Song Jian smiled and nodded, "Okay!" ”

After buying this batch of medicinal materials, Song Jian was still very excited in his heart, among those astragalus, there were several astragalus plants that were more than thirty years old, and they would definitely be able to be used in the future alchemy.

"Let's go to the jade shop to have a look, since we have come to Hetian, why should we bring some souvenirs," Zhou Tong proposed.

Zhai Hao immediately responded.

Song Jian didn't know much about jade, but Zhai Hao usually knew a little about jade.

picked a jade shop at random, and Song Jian and the four of them walked in.

The store is quite large, and there is an old man and four young guys in it.

Seeing that Song Jian and the four of them were foreign tourists, the old man with a goatee hurriedly greeted them, "Are the four of you here to buy jade?" If you look at it casually, if you like it, our store can engrave patterns or handwriting for free. ”

"Can you still engrave your name?" Zhou Tong was a little surprised when she heard this, and then she walked around the cupboard, her eyes fixed on a jade ring in the cupboard.

The index price of the jade ring is nine hundred.

"Boss, you take this ring out and I'll take a look," Zhou Tong pointed to the ring.

The old man walked over, took out the ring, and said: "This girl is really good eyesight, this ring is authentic Hetian white jade, you look at this texture, this color, you can't be wrong." ”

Song Jian and Zhai Hao also surrounded him.

"Huh? It's still a little angry and fluctuating? Song Jian was a little surprised, since the crossing, Song Jian found that his sensory ability is particularly strong, in addition to being able to feel danger in advance, he can also sense the strength of a person's strength, including the vitality of the patient's body.

It's just that Song Jian didn't expect that on this jade ring, he could also sense anger.

"No wonder the emperor and concubines in the Great Song Dynasty liked to wear jade, and always said that jade is alive, and it seems that real good jade can indeed bring vitality to people." Song Jian thought like this in his heart, so he nodded at Zhou Tong and said, "Just buy this." ”

Zhou Tong smiled and said, "But, I don't have enough money, what should I do?" ”

Zhai Hao on the side heard this, and hurriedly said, "It's okay, I brought a lot." ”

"Not a lot of mouths!" Qin Huayu's foot stomped on Zhai Hao, and then grabbed Zhai Hao's ear and walked aside.

Zhai Hao looked at Qin Huayu aggrievedly.

Qin Huayu made a color towards Zhai Hao, and Zhai Hao suddenly realized that Zhou Tong meant to let Song Jian buy it for her.

Song Jian glanced at Zhou Tong, and then said to the boss: "That's it." ”

"Okay, by the way, girl, do you want to engrave any pattern, mascot or surname?" The boss took the jade ring and walked behind the counter, saying.

Zhou Tong thought for a while and said, "Just carve a simple rose." ”

The goatee's boss picked up the carving knife and carved it neatly, and soon a lifelike rose appeared on the surface of the ring.

"Alright, I'll wrap it up for you," the boss said.

"No need, just bring it, Song Jian pays," Zhou Tong stretched out his hand and was about to take the ring.

Song Jian's eyes swept over, and he sighed in his heart, although this ring now looks exactly the same as the ring just now, but the vitality in it is gone, and he can't feel it at all.

"Boss, this ring ......," Song Jian said.

"What happened to the ring? Young man, you just asked for it, and asked me to carve roses, let me tell you, after carving the pattern, you can't return it! The goatee's boss spoke.

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