Soma is always mischievous, she either knocked over other people's stalls, or secretly killed other people's dogs and ate dog meat, so that Qin Dong gave her the aftermath all day long, Qin Dong wanted to be angry with her every time, but when she saw her innocent eyes, she lost her temper, Qin Dong wanted to sneak away with people and goods in the middle of the night, leaving the sleeping Soma and Daru, but unfortunately Soma was quickly recognized by Soma and caught up overnight, and the legendary bullshit plaster is estimated to be the same as Soma.

The caravan stopped and stopped like this, and the speed of its march was very slow, and it took about half a month to wait for Pethius, Gebuus, Charles, Afalde and others in the small town of Omer dozens of miles west of Constantinople.

In the past half a month, Pethius and Gebuus have basically recovered from their illness due to the rain overnight, and the soldiers in the battle of Dirmit City have basically recovered, and the whole team has regained its vitality.

After the two teams that had been separated for more than half a month reunited again, Peteus and the others were very happy, especially Gebuus, Qin Dong helped him get all the goods back, Gebuus was very grateful to Qin Dong, these are half of his net worth after all.

After the rendezvous, everyone camped together in an open field to the east of the town, preparing to leave for Constantinople early tomorrow morning, and it is estimated that they will be able to rush to Constantinople for lunch at noon.

"Hey, Qin, why are there so many people all of a sudden today, what are they doing?" When Qin Dong was talking to Peteaus, Gebuus, Afalde and others in the tent, Soma broke in, followed by her sidekick, the giant Daru.

Everyone in the tent couldn't help but look at the door when they heard this sound. When he saw Soma's outfit and face, his eyes lit up, but the old guy Peteaus turned his body sideways, obviously looking too revealing for Soma's clothes to look past him.

After everyone watched Soma, they all turned their heads to look at Qin Dong. I hope he can introduce it, Qin Dong had no choice but to introduce: "Uncle, Master Gebuus, let me introduce you, this is Miss Soma, she is a girl from the Bolgar tribe." We met halfway through the journey, and the giant behind her was called Daru, and he was her slave! ”

After introducing Soma and Daru. Qin Dong introduced Peteus, Gebuus, Afard, Cao Charlie and others one by one.

Soma didn't even look at Peteaus, Gebuus, and Afald, after all, these people were Europeans, and although the nationalities were different, Soma had basically seen people of all nationalities. Not curious about what they look like. But she is very interested in Charlie Cao, a middle-aged veteran.

"Charlie Cao? Why is the name so strange? Also, are you a missionary from the East? Soma stared at Charlie's face for a long time.

Even Charlie Cao, a Taoist who is profound, and who is not chaotic, was a little uncomfortable when Soma saw it, he made a joke, put his palm on his chest and said: "I have seen Miss Soma, the poor Taoist is a Taoist priest from the East, and his identity is similar to that of the missionary here, and I will ask Miss Soma to take care of it more in the future!" ”

"Shine? Oh, rest assured. I'll take care of it, and if you need my help with anything, come to me. This girl will definitely help you do it! Soma patted her chest and agreed on the spot, as if she were a master of her word.

Charlie Cao had to salute again: "Then thank you Miss Soma!" ”

"Well said, well said, haha!" Soma was very proud, and then asked, "Charlie Cao, what is the East like, and how far does it take to get here from your country?" Can you missionaries get married and have children? ”

Soma asked a big pimp question, not only Qin Dong had a little headache, but everyone else in the tent was a little afraid of her, Qin Dong hurriedly said: "Okay, okay, Soma, these questions will wait for Cao Daochang to be free, can you talk again?" Now we have something to say, you go out first! ”

Soma looked unhappy, she pouted and was about to turn away, when suddenly her eyes lit up and said, "You must be talking about the caravan, Charlie Cao is a missionary, and it has nothing to do with him, right?" Charlie Cao, let's go outside and talk, let's go! After saying a word, he walked over and grabbed Charlie Cao's arm and walked out, Charlie Cao didn't go, he didn't go, he could only let Soma pull out of the tent.

Walking into Charlie Cao's tent, Soma saw several boxes in the tent, some bottles and cans on the ground, and even crystal containers, which contained liquids of various colors, her eyes lit up and she walked over and squatted on the ground to watch, and turned back and said, "Charlie Cao, are you an alchemist?" ”

Charlie Cao took out a porcelain cup, poured a glass of water, walked over and handed it to Soma, and said with a smile: "Come, drink water first!" In fact, we Taoist priests are not only missionaries, but also alchemists, we believe in nature, believe that everything in the universe has its own laws, what we human beings have to do is to follow this law, not to break it, if we want to forcibly destroy this original law, we will inevitably be punished by the way of heaven ......".

"Oh my God, what a beautiful cup, Charlie Cao, did you bring this from the East?" Soma interrupted Charlie's gushing with a scream.

Yes, just now it was in vain, Charlie Cao was a little helpless, nodded and said, "Yes, Miss Soma, this is what I brought from the East!" ”

Soma was very interested in the things in Charlie Cao's tent, and she pointed to the jars on the ground and asked, "Charlie Cao, what are these utensils in?" ”

Charlie Cao walked over and introduced: "These are basically the things I extracted from herbs and ores, and here, these are saltpeter, sulfur and other things, all of which are materials used for alchemy!" ”

"Alchemy? What is alchemy? Is it a curative medicine? Soma asked, curious.

Charlie Cao said with a smile: "Alchemy is to refine the pill, the pill is not just as simple as curing diseases, our Taoists pay attention to the unity of heaven and man, and cultivate the inner pill and the outer pill at the same time, the outer pill is the pill we refine ourselves, reaching the point of ascending in the daytime, that is, ascending to heaven after the completion of cultivation, which is the same as going to heaven in the west." It's just that you believers here can only ascend to heaven with the permission of the gods, while we Taoists can enter heaven after the completion of our own cultivation, and it is entirely by our own efforts. Instead of the mercy of the gods, when you go to heaven, you can rely on the primordial gods to cultivate the flesh and live forever! ”

Charlie's words completely attracted Soma, who had studied in a monastery in Justancinople, and of course knew the Christian doctrine, which said that good people will be blessed by God to ascend to heaven and enjoy eternal peace after death. Now Charlie Cao told her that she believed in Taoism and was able to practice on her own, and ascended to heaven through her own efforts. Being able to cultivate the physical body again and reach the point of immortality made Soma very interested.

Both the West and the East, since ancient times. Humanity has never given up on the dream of immortality or immortality. Even the emperor hoped to be able to become a believer or practice through guò to achieve the goal of immortality or eternal life, and he was happy to do it, not to mention the common people, the life of the common people in ancient times was hard, and it was really difficult to endure without spiritual sustenance, and the emergence of the sect solved their urgent need.

"Immortality and immortality? Is there really immortality? Soma asked, her eyes lit up.

"Absolutely!" Charlie Cao said with great certainty: "People who have lived more than 100 years old through guò cultivation have seen a lot of poor people, and it is not uncommon to live more than 200 years old. There are also some female Taoist friends, who practice guò. The creation of heaven and earth, the ability to rejuvenate the face, and the appearance of his youth has been maintained before and after death".

"Do you always look like you were young?" Soma was amazed at this.

"Yes, Miss Soma!"

While chatting, the two introduced these bottles and jars on the ground, Soma listened to Charlie Cao's introduction, while holding the crystal container and pouring the blue liquid into another clay pot, Charlie Cao was talking, he was shocked when he saw it, and hurriedly said: "Oh, Miss Soma, this can't be mixed casually, something will happen!" ”

Before Charlie Cao's words were finished, Soma had already poured the liquid into it, only to see smoke suddenly rising from the clay pot, Charlie Cao was shocked, and hurriedly pulled Soma out of the tent.

At this time, Qin Dong and the others were discussing how to enter the city in the tent, and they decided that the archers should be led by Barhan with a hundred people, together with more than two hundred war horses, to stay in the small town of Ermer, stationed in a forest twenty miles from the town, and open up a clearing in the forest, where it is hidden, where no one goes, it is not easy to be discovered, in that kind of remote place, Balhan can also take the archers for training, but to prepare more food in advance.

In addition, Qin Dong, Pethius and Affold went to Constantinople with the remaining seventy or eighty people, these soldiers disguised as coachmen and men, and a dozen Germans such as Alfald disguised themselves as mercenaries.

At this moment, an earth-shattering explosion suddenly came, everyone in the tent felt that the earth was trembling, Qin Dong and the others hurriedly ran out of the tent, only to see that a tent not far away collapsed, and a fire ignited, and in a moment, the entire tent was burned, it was Charlie Cao's tent.

Everyone hurriedly ran over, and Qin Dong shouted and asked, "What's the matter, what's going on?" ”

People who have something to do, people who have nothing to do all gathered around, talking about this explosion, Qin Dong also faintly heard some of the soldiers saying that this is the spell made by Charlie Cao, this is a means of God, they looked at Charlie Cao with a sense of fear in their eyes, only to see Charlie Cao and Soma both have black faces, obviously smoked by the smoke from the explosion.

Seeing Qin Dong coming over and asking, Charlie Cao hurriedly briefly explained what had just happened in the tent, and after listening, Qin Dong understood that there must have been a chemical reaction between two or more substances that had exploded.

Qin Dong didn't think about getting the gunpowder out now, something that was too advanced was actually a double-edged sword, a bad control would hurt himself, and his current power was too small, once the power of gunpowder was revealed and known by other big countries and big forces, even if he was a traverser, I was afraid that he would die without a place to be buried.

"Okay, okay, it's not a big deal, this is the heavens urging us to enter the city tomorrow, it's not a disaster or a warning, it's all scattered, it's all scattered!" Qin Dong said loudly, driving the soldiers to disperse, doing whatever they had to do.

The ancients were very superstitious, and they could only use things they did not understand as means of the gods when they could not find out the truth, such as lightning, explosions, sunrise and moon setting in nature, and so on.

After the matter calmed down, Qin Dong quickly returned to the tent and continued to discuss, after the end, he sent people to the town to buy grain and forage, if there are beans, they also buy, horses eat beans and grains are easy to gain weight, which is the fine food of horses. It's not enough to leave these 100 Hun archers here, they are all Huns, if Constantinople finds out that there are so many Hun cavalry hidden here, it will definitely cause trouble, so someone must also contact the outside world to help them buy grain, vegetables, meat and forage, and this person in charge is best Eastern Romans, Pethius finally recommended his retinue Ziger, Qin Dong and others went to Constantinople Division, and Ziegal was responsible for contact with the outside world, Help the 100 cavalry archers led by Balhan deal with the things of life.

Before evening, Ziger, who was in charge of buying grain, vegetables, meat, and forage, returned, and he bought a large quantity of supplies, and he almost bought up all the surplus food in the town, and the townspeople made a small fortune for it.

After dinner, Soma walked into Qin Dong's tent and shouted, "Qin, my stomach is full of food, you go out for a walk with me!" ”

Qin Dong saw that Soma was coming, and hurriedly said: "You came just in time, tomorrow we will go to Constantinople, and you and your Daru will stay here!" ”

After hearing this, Soma didn't agree on the spot: "No, I'm going to Constantinople, I haven't been there for two years, this time I've arrived in the small town of Omer, it's only a few dozen miles away from Constantinople, how can I not go?" ”

Qin Dong said helplessly: "If you want to go, you can go, from tomorrow morning, we will have nothing to do with you from now on, go our own way, don't make trouble for me again!" ”

Soma suddenly burst into tears and said, "Qin, do you hate me very much?" ”

"Huh? What's going on, what's going on? I didn't care much about you, don't you cry? Qin Dong was a little big.

Soma wiped a handful of tears from her eyes and said, "Do you think I'll get you in trouble if I go with me?" Will it hold you back, I promise not to make trouble? Once in town, I'll go see my friends at the monastery and won't trouble you!" ”

Qin Dong asked, "You promise?" ”

Soma nodded seriously: "I promise!" ”

"No remorse?"

"No remorse!"

After Soma left happily, Qin Dong walked to the door, and Charlie Cao suddenly came out of nowhere and said, "My lord, I think she should like you!" ”

Qin Dong pursed his lips: "Dao Chief, your eyes are not good, you should eat more foods that clear the liver and clear your eyes, I think this is good for you!" ”

"Hehe, my lord, don't admit it, I can't do it, you didn't see it!"

", I'm going to sleep!" (To be continued......)