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It's just that when I found out that Mandarin Man had made an open space by herself, I found that she didn't go back to rest because of overconsumption this time. But she also consumed a full box of gold to replenish the energy she consumed......
Just for the open space that is only used once? Or is it specifically for bonfires? I consumed a large box of gold for this little thing~ I don't know what words to use to describe the super 'loser' behavior of Mandarin Duck...... They're too bad! Obviously, you can open it on the side of the road, why did you reclaim a vacant land and pave the road with yellow sand? Wait a minute, I remember that the yellow sand used by the mandarin ducks to cast spells was actually absorbed and stored from the desert! That's a matter on the grassland, and now I use so much paving~ What can I do after consuming the yellow sand!
I've seen her absorb the yellow sand from the desert, but now there is no desert around! If she runs out, she won't want me to take her on another trip to the desert, will you?
As a result, after the mandarin duck discovered what I was thinking, he glanced at me and said, "Why don't you just be stupid and forget it, and just put it away after you use it?" And ~ I read it in your book, didn't it say that the sea is also full of sand? ”
After listening to the words of the mandarin mandarin, I was stunned for a long time! Oh, yes! Now it's not in battle, just use it up and put it away! However, when she said, "The beach is full of sand", she wouldn't have thought so after looking at some pictures of the beach. Because in my memory, it seems that the seaside is not all sand! The beaches in many scenic spots are actually specially transported......
Again, my cranky thoughts went astray.
On the other hand, after seeing that the bonfire was really raised, the people of the girlfriend group also began to celebrate happily and started the barbecue...... The people who came over to see the excitement were stunned! Although all the businessmen from Datang were well-informed, they had never seen anyone running into the woods here to have a party. So it wasn't just the caravan people who followed, but even a lot of people in that small town were attracted to it. As it became more and more lively, it even attracted people from nearby villages. The girls of these girlfriend groups are so noisy that it is estimated that people within a radius of dozens of miles can hear the noise they make. Of course, this is also because the duck brought them out several 'portable speakers for square dances' to soundtrack......
It is said that although this place is outside the Tang Dynasty, many people here can still understand the official language of the Tang Dynasty. A lot of people from the surrounding villages who came to join in the excitement are also, plus a group of girlfriends who love to be lively and very hospitable and generous. Not only did they distribute the barbecue and sake they took from the mall, but they also danced and had a great time!
And the people who came to join in the excitement around were not empty-handed, and they either brought all kinds of fruits, or brought a lot of dried fish, grilled fish, and a bunch of local food they didn't know. Then they all got together and sang and danced together.
When I asked, I realized that there was originally a custom of having a party here. Generally, when there is a celebration or festive event, a bonfire party will be held directly. Then the people of the surrounding villages will also watch the fire at night and join in the fun.
It's just that usually this kind of party doesn't take place in the woods. Instead, find a place near a river or in the middle of a village.
Then I saw a swarm of flying insects and all kinds of mosquitoes coming, and I understood why it wasn't in the woods. Even if the mandarin ducks and ducks cleared the place and cleared a large area of open space, they also paved it with yellow sand. But it can't stop more and more flying insects from coming......
It reminds me that this is not a rainforest, though. But after many mosquito bites, they will also bring special infectious diseases! So I could only watch the people in the middle of the crowd continue to dance without paying attention. While trying to find a way to make a deworming treatment for the people here......
The first thing that came to my mind was the last time I spent the night in the woods, I had smeared the outside of my car with wind oil essence and cooling oil.
So this time, I directly turned out all the wind oil essence in the medicine cabinet in the mall. It's just that there are only a few dozen bottles of this thing, and they are all very small bottles. So you can't sprinkle everything around at all.
For this reason, I had to settle for the next best thing and took out all kinds of toilet water and mosquito repellent water in the mall. After mixing these with water and mixing them, a watering can was used to spray the area around the clearing.
Then the whole clearing was filled with the pungent smell of wind oil...... Sure enough, the number of mosquitoes is much less. And the people dancing inside who were still excited by the smell began to cry in the wind.
But this was not enough, I found that the number of mosquitoes was significantly less than half after being sprayed with these toilet waters. But it had no effect on the various other insects that flew at them. Especially a very large moth, that thing is not afraid of people. Directly pounced on people, it will make people stick to the powder, and then it will be itchy and unbearable. After seeing that even the girlfriend group was injured, I had to take the insecticide spray out of the mall again. Regardless of whether it will pollute the barbecue meat and fruits in the middle, it will be sprayed everywhere...... Anyway, the insecticide I took said that it did not contain highly toxic ingredients, or what 'pyrethroid' was the main ingredient. So it shouldn't poison people!
Anyway, I told these people not to eat those barbecues anymore.
But then again, this insecticide works really well! Not only did most of the bugs kill and disperse, but even the people dancing here were dispelled by the strange smell...... Because I sprayed too much, I smoked people away!
Because I directly ruined the party, I was complained about by the people of the girlfriend group! It was because one of them was 'stung' by some kind of big fluttering moth that made me start deworming. Why did you start complaining about me in the end?
But when everyone had dispersed from the clearing, the leader of the caravan came to me coughing and confessed to me before leaving. It seems like I'm spraying too much......
I felt that the girlfriend group was too troublesome, so I didn't dare to go back to the warehouse to rest. After I could only let the mandarin duck and the duck clean up the mess around me, I took out the cash truck and began to rest in the field. I was supposed to go back to that small town to rest. However, I feel that this place has been completely dewormed, so it must be more comfortable to rest here. I've been bothered by mosquitoes for a long time lately. Even in the cash truck, there are some small black flying insects that are several times smaller than ants. I don't know how these little worms got into the cash truck. Later, I learned that this small insect is a small insect found on all the trees that grow fruit here. It's not poisonous, but it's biting!
Sure enough, after spending the night in this place where I was sprayed with excessive pesticides, I really didn't get harassed by the bugs!
Then I was in a good mood because I had slept comfortably, so I rode back to the town, ready to trade with the local merchants at noon.
Because of the need for a large number of people, I released all the members of my girlfriend group before entering the city, and made them all fully armed and put on full body armor and horse armor. Then they went into the city together. However, when I entered the city, I found that because of the large number of people and the appearance of amazing combat effectiveness in full armor, the guards guarding the gate did not even dare to charge us for entering the city...... Anyway, even the guards here are bullying the soft and afraid of the hard? Yesterday, when I entered the city with the merchants, they not only collected a full hundred Wen of Kaiyuan Tongbao from me, but even had to hand over a piece of coarse cloth. When all kinds of merchants led their teams into the city, they were all sky-high......
Now that so many of us are in town together, I'm ready to break the bank. They all had dozens of pieces of cloth and thousands of copper coins on them. Oh yes! For these people outside Datang, what they love the most is the Kaiyuan Tongbao issued by Datang! It is cheaper to pay with this than with other copper coins or real money...... Datang basically does not use silver as a currency to circulate. But there is a shortage here, whether it is gold or silver. It's just the price of the exchange~ I don't know if it's because of the purity problem or other reasons, it's even darker than the pawnshops in Datang~ One or two gold here can only be exchanged for about 30 Kaiyuan Tongbao of Datang. That price is simply scary compared to the official ratio of 1,000 copper coins for one tael of gold in Datang! I don't even want to do this kind of business once. After all, for me, gold is the 'hard currency'......
But I'll leave that for later. Now it's better to get the grain deal done quickly, and then hurry home!
Don't look at it, it's been less than a month since I left Datang. But I've had enough of the environment. It was humid and muggy, and full of mosquitoes and unknown bugs. Plus commerce here is really underdeveloped. There is nothing else except that every town has a market...... It's hard to buy something special. Even when I went to the village outside the small city, I had to buy some fruits by bartering, which made me, who already felt that even Chang'an City was not lively enough, even more irritable......
"Alas! Sure enough, I'm a lonely person! But I like to be lively, I like to be prosperous~ That's right! Anyway, Datang also has this condition. It's just outside of Datang~ It's really disappointing! ”
It was finally noon. Our group went to the merchants of the market to prepare for trading. And the Datang Chamber of Commerce saw that we were fully armed, and also thought that we were enough to 'deter' those people, so they didn't get involved, but just took a picture of the shopkeeper who opened a business here, mainly to prevent us from misunderstanding directly due to the language barrier in the middle, and we were afraid that we would be pitted~ In the eyes of these Datang businessmen, we are officials representing the imperial court! For business matters, it must be easy to be deceived.
But they weren't mistaken, although we weren't sent by the imperial court, most of us also had an official identity. In fact, we all belong to the unbuilt 'women's army'.
When I arrived at the market, I saw that the other party was exactly the same as the merchant who led the way yesterday said, and the other party had gathered hundreds of people directly. Each one was holding either a wooden stick or a variety of axes, hammers, and other weapons. Oh yes, there are two or three big brother-looking people in the middle, who are carrying a big knife and a long sword. It seems that the other party really has the kind of plan to 'do it if you don't agree with it'!
But we're ready for it.
Although the number of people is small, it is only a few dozen people. But we're all dressed as heavy cavalry! All of them were wearing the kind of black full-body armor that imitated the 'Tang Elite Xuanjia Army'. Plus the majestic mask, as well as the tall mount and the mount's horse armor. Don't look at the small number of us, but as soon as this appearance appeared, hundreds of people on the other side were scared back several steps! We still haven't shown our weapons...... Of course, the Fang Tian painting halberd that the middle lieutenant Chi Zhenjin has been carrying doesn't count~ This girl will not let go when she carries it.
Here, except for Yu Chi Zhenjin, who is Fang Tian's halberd, and the girl who won the award uses two short sticks. The weapons of the others were basically expensive horse lances and horizontal knives.
So we don't have to hold the weapon in our hands, we can shock the other party and dare not speak!
On one side is the elite heavy cavalry, and on the other side are the gangsters and civilians whose weapons are blunt weapons such as sticks~ No matter how you look at it, the cavalry can crush the gangsters who have multiplied the number several times!
So the transaction basically went very smoothly, and we exchanged all kinds of low-quality porcelain and tea purchased cheaply from Datang for a few cents a piece and tea for ten cents a catty...... It is said that this small town is obviously small and dilapidated. There are even more than 30 granaries stored. It's full of the finest rice!
"So much food, it should be enough for the people of Luoyang City to eat for a few months!" I silently calculated in my mind.
Although a lot of grain was purchased on this trip, if you count the rations for a year to supply Luoyang City, it is still not enough! I'll have to make three or four more deals, if I can buy so many!
It's just ~ how can they store so much food here?
But just as we were about to complete the deal, the unexpected happened......
I was leading the other party to inspect the grain in the granary everywhere. Because the transaction volume is very large, I have to go around all the more than 30 granaries, even if it is relying on mandarin ducks and ducks to collect the grain, it will take some time. After all, I have to pay attention to the impact this time, and I can't let the food disappear out of thin air in front of everyone like last time in Luoyang City......
But after I quietly took away four or five granaries, I was about to go to the next granary to check the rice inside, and then let the mandarin ducks and ducks put away the grain after spending the locals. As a result, I saw dozens of local thugs-looking people suddenly run to the lead and whisper a few words. Then I felt the atmosphere change......
"What! Wait a minute! What are you going to do? Stop, I'm here to trade! Don't come here! Otherwise~ I'm going to do it! ”