However, the man bluntly rejected Li Chen's proposal.

Li Qian was not annoyed, and said, "Then let's make a deal." ”

"We don't do business with outsiders."

"You were an outsider in their eyes before you came here, right?" Li Xuan raised his eyebrows: "The bitter cold here is abnormal, people may be born barbarians, but they shouldn't always be like this, you should give them a chance to change." ”

The middle-aged man's posture was relaxed, and his tone was determined: "They don't need to change, change means danger." You want the iron ore here, right? ”

Li Qian nodded.

He went into the mountains, including him who took the initiative to choose Beichuan because there are mines here. This is what Concubine Ping knew many years ago when she was still alive as a story.

However, with these tourmalines, Li Xuan was even more surprised by the identity of the other party.

This place is vastly restored, and it is a field that Daning has not been explored but is too lazy to explore.

The reason why a military palace like Beichuan has not as many garrisons as Xiliang and other places is because Daning does not take this area to heart. Uncivilized savages are not even barbarians, and Daning, who claims to be a state of etiquette, certainly can't look down on it.

But Li Qian doesn't think so.

"Change means risk, but it doesn't have to be danger, and risk has the potential to be rewarding. I don't know why you're here, but you must be thinking they're doing better. ”

The middle-aged man shook his head: "Let's go, their ancestors are buried under the iron mine, and they won't agree." ”

Time is running out, Li Qi is in a hurry to build weapons, otherwise he would not choose this place as a fief, let alone send people into the mountain when the snow covers the mountain, this time the operation takes a great risk, and the people sent out by the other two teams are afraid that they are already dead.

Therefore, having paid such a big price, where can he give up easily, but the other party does not seem to be able to compromise easily.

"Let's go, now you can find a cave to avoid before dark, if you sleep in the snow for the night, you will never see the sun tomorrow." The middle-aged man urged.

"Then we'll find a shelter here, and we won't attack indiscriminately." Li Qi expressed his attitude, which means that you should not attack us easily.

"It's useless." After the middle-aged man finished speaking, he disappeared into the ice and snow with the savages.

And Li Qi, as he said before, did not go far, and found a half-hidden cave nearby, barely able to cover the wind and snow, and had to light two fires at night to barely hold on to the cold.

After waiting like this, another half a month passed.

In the past half month, Li Qi took people to explore the mine, although the snow cover is not necessarily accurate, but there is probably some spectrum in his heart, the dumplings he brought before coming have been almost eaten, Qin Feng will go out to hunt every day, and when he was lucky, he also hunted two roe deer.

And the wild people have never been far away, and have been watching them from a short distance.

Li Xuan turned a deaf ear to this, as long as the other party didn't attack, then just watch it.

That night, a fire was lit in the cave, and Qin Feng set up a pot stove and threw the prepared dried mushroom packet into the boiling water, which was also prepared by Shen Qiutan, in addition to the dried wild mushrooms, there were also dehydrated green onions, coriander and salt.

The material package is not as satisfying as dumplings, but it is not heavy, and it is very suitable for long-distance travel.

Everyone drank the soup and poured their water to their heart's content, and suddenly a seven or eight-year-old savage child came from the mouth of the cave.

He was dressed in animal skins, and his cheeks were red from the cold, but he didn't seem to be afraid of life, and pointed to the pot and said something, but no one understood.

Seeing this, the child took two more steps forward, staring at the mushroom soup without blinking.

Li Qian asked, "You want soup?"

The child was chattering and croaking again, and Li Qian instructed Qin Feng: "Give him a bowl too." ”

Qin Feng handed the soup to the child, the child took a sip, it was hot, and then he drank it in small sips like Li Xuan, and after a while, a bowl of soup was at the bottom, and he returned the bowl to Qin Feng, as if he still wanted a bowl.

"Ahh A woman appeared at the entrance of the cave, and when she saw the savage child holding someone else's bowl in her hand, she went up and knocked it down, and then ran away with the child.

One of the soldiers said, "It's really a savage." We don't have enough to eat, how can we give them so much, I don't even know how to do it. ”

Li Qian shook his head indifferently.

A few days later, the little savage came twice, and the second time he brought two other savage children, together two men and one woman.

The eldest was a girl, who seemed to be the older sister of the child who came first.

Seeing that her brother took the bowl and drank it, she stopped it, but when she saw that her brother was drinking very happily and said something to her, she hesitated and drank two sips, and her eyes lit up.

I don't know if Li Qian thinks of his children or what, he seems to be very tolerant of these children.

On this day, Qin Feng hunted a deer, and just after cleaning up the internal organs and marinating the venison, the three savage children came again.

But the Savage Kids don't seem to be very interested in roasting venison, and I think so, judging by their fur, they still hunt for a living.

If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Li Xuan wouldn't have believed that there was such a group of uncivilized savages under the same sky.

Li Qian took the meat and ate it, and the children also chose a piece of meat familiarly, who knew that the things they often ate seemed to have a different taste.

Qin Feng was proud when he saw the surprised and surprised looks of several children, this venison was marinated with cumin and chili powder, of course, it was different from what they ate.

After the meal, Li Qi even ordered Qin Feng to open two cans.

This is something that no one expected.

Qin Feng was a little distressed, these are all hawthorn and ringo boiled in sugar water, the princess said that it can be stored for three months if it is sealed, it will not be bad, he has eaten it before, it has a sour and fruity taste, it was originally left by the princess to the prince to occasionally beat his teeth, but he didn't expect it to be cheaper for these savage children.

However, in the face of Li Xuan's order, Qin Feng was reluctant and had to hand over the can.

The children wanted to eat it on the spot, they were very smart and learned quickly, and they found the lid all at once.

Now that they are no longer afraid of Li Qi's group, Li Qi took two steps forward and held the child's hand to open the lid: "Take it home and eat it." ”

The child didn't understand, Li Qian ordered someone to wrap a piece of venison and handed it to him, and pushed the person out, and the child understood a little.

Then the three ran out together, and the snow quickly buried their footprints.

Qin Feng shook his head: "Lord Wang, I'm afraid it's not cooked, and even if it's fed, it's just a few children, and it's useless." ”

"Hmm." Li Qian responded casually, with a casual attitude.

He looked at the vast white snow floating in from the entrance of the cave and was slightly distracted, and he left for a long time, and he didn't know what happened to Qiu Tan and the children.