Chapter 44: Catching spies is my specialty
Agate Stone Plain, around the mouth of Indigo Mountain.
The Indigo Gorge and the Indigang Mountains are not together, similar to the relationship between the mountains and the highest peaks, and after entering the end of the Nanling Peninsula from the Indigo Gorge Pass, they have to go some distance northwest before entering the sphere of influence of the Avod Tribe, which guards the Indigang Mountains.
That is, the old nest of the Bailong Sect in Nanling.
Because of the food disaster and the rebellion of the mountain people, the number of caravans has decreased significantly, and most of the pedestrians passing by are in a hurry, but after all, it is a transportation hub, and a regular army of 500 people is stationed here, and it is also equipped with a large number of alchemical artillery, and in case of attack, the garrison fortress on the surrounding mountainside can send two more squadrons.
The town around the gorge looks small, but in fact the building density is quite large, and at first glance it is lined with innkeeper shops.
Ian and Qingchao arrived here in a horse-drawn carriage with a grain convoy from Nauman City.
This food team is the food supply given by Nauman City to the Bailong Sect, which also has a part of the Monster meat and other essentia supplements, as well as some intelligence-related letters, which should have been supervised and transported by another patrol knight, but since Ian has something to do, he will take the top.
Lifting the car window, Ian looked outside, the area around the mouth of Indishan Gorge was a distribution center for a large number of goods, and he had been calculating the price of grain in Nanling in his heart after following the grain team all the way here, and found that in the past month, there have not been many big fluctuations, most of them are about ten pounds and one fennig.
The grain regulation and control of the central Great Plains is still effective.
However, the transportation fee for transporting from the Agate Stone Plain into the mountain-controlled area is much more expensive, which is pure labor cost, after all, the imperial capital does not know that it is one thing for the mountain-people to rebel, and it is another thing for the autonomous region to become more and more chaotic.
The grain team wanted to buy another shipment at the distribution center, and Ian and Qingchao were bored in the car, so they walked around.
The last time Ian walked through the gorge, he was in a hurry, and he just wanted to hurry up and get his second-level potion raw materials from the Xia Hui Collar, and he didn't even taste the local food—now that he thinks about it, this kind of cargo distribution center will theoretically have a lot of delicious food, whether it is the traditional food of the empire or the mountain people.
In fact, it's not just that—because of the increase in elf merchants in recent times, there are even branches of the elf chamber of commerce in the towns around the gorge, and it is estimated that in another half a year, the elf restaurant should also be opened.
The food of the mountain people is rough and sufficient, for example, the roasted meat on the stone, it sounds like just a slate barbecue, in fact, it is indeed a slate barbecue, but this slate is the size of a door board, a mountain people chef uses a shovel the size of two hands to stir-fry the dough and a large pile of marinated minced meat on the polished smooth slate, while roasting on the spot while adding a variety of condiments, you can choose sweet sauce and sour juice, you can also choose spicy powder and mushroom chopped.
At the highest level, there is even a dried sea cucumber made into a powder, mixed with fresh sea urchin sauce.
After the minced meat is stir-fried, the chef wraps the meat in the dough and turns it into a long strip of meat, depending on the filling material, one serving of four to six fennig, which is quite affordable.
Ian prefers spicy powder and chopped mushrooms, while Qingchao still likes sweet, and the evaluation of both sides is 7.5 out of 10, because the quality of the meat is relatively average, most of them are chicken and goose meat.
These are the products of the mountain people's cultivation in recent years, in fact, if it were not for the recent rebellion of the mountain people, it is said that several large-scale farms would have been opened in the basin plains of the Baissen Mountains.
At that time, the meat products of Nanling did not need to be produced by the breeding estates on the other side of the Golden Plains.
In addition, there is also the mountain folk delicacy that Ian is quite familiar with, "mushroom stew".
All kinds of wild mushrooms in the mountains with meat stew are fragrant and soft, fragrant and incomparable, the recipes of each family are also different, some will add cream, some will add seaweed, and some of them will go home and make their own special garlic bread crumbs, in general, they are all hot and fragrant soup, a bowl can see a variety of mushroom meat and ingredients, can be described as a classic of mountain people's home cooking.
Ian and Qingchao drank a whole pot, but after drinking, Qingchao frowned slightly: "Delicious is delicious, but the boss ...... Maybe it's a delusion, right?"
He stared at the bowl and said with some suspicion, "What's wrong with this soup, it seems to be a little poisonous?"
"Not a delusion."
Ian shook his head, and he put down the spoon, "Mushroom soup and this kind of thing, especially a lot of wild mushrooms, do you still expect it to be not poisonous?"
As he spoke, he motioned to Qingchao to look at the clinic not far away: "Look, do you see it—there must be a pharmacy next to this kind of store."
Sure enough, there was an old brother in a mushroom soup shop next door who was rushed to the clinic by his own brother - looking at their familiar appearance, there was obviously no need to worry about safety.
Poison is used to belonging.
"The mushrooms here in Nanling are pretty good, and most of them aren't poisonous."
As a native of Nanling, Ian is also quite emotional: "I heard Anfa say that the mushrooms on the Canaan Moore side are poisonous even in winter, but some of them are relatively weak, and eating them can enhance the umami, so some people deliberately choose poisonous mushrooms to eat."
"But if you eat too much, you will definitely miss it...... Mushrooms that are less toxic will occasionally be highly poisonous, and at that time, it will not only be a little bit of an illusion of 'seeing a dragon flying in the sky', but maybe you will go directly to the Heavenly Father and His old man's house."
Not to mention the poisonous mushrooms in this place of Terra, they grow all year round, and the same mushrooms may be poisonous in summer, not poisonous in autumn, not poisonous in winter, and poisonous in spring.
That is to say, Terra's physique is strong, otherwise, the number of people who are poisoned by eating mushrooms alone will probably exceed 1,000 every year.
"Understood." But Qing Chao completely understood this, and he smiled and said, "You can't eat seafood indiscriminately - there are often people who eat oysters and sea urchins on the side of Whale Song Cliff, especially those who like to eat jellyfish, you can see them at three heads and two heads."
That being said, but the Sublimator can almost completely ignore these food-grade toxins - in order to really harm them, ordinary biotoxins are useless, and at the very least, they must have a harmful essentia structure in them.
So the two continued to eat.
Food must be eaten, poison must be eaten, this is sound!
After eating and drinking, Ian asked the head of the food team how long it would take to stock.
The other party knew that Ian and Qingchao were big shots, so they respectfully told the two that there was something wrong with the docking grain merchant, and the goods were not replenished, and they were temporarily contacting another reliable grain merchant to replenish the goods, and they would be able to set off again in two hours.
Ian wasn't in a hurry for such a little time, he was idle anyway, so he asked to go over and have a look.
Can the person in charge disagree? So he personally took the two of them over to see it.
It's okay not to look at it, but you can find the problem when you look at it.
When he arrived at the grain merchant he was connected to, Ian could tell at a glance that the shopkeeper was a Flying Flame Land spy.
At least he is also a supporter of the rebel mountain people, and the color and temperament are simply unobstructed in the foresight horizon.
"Huh." Ian thought, "It seems that the original grain merchant had an accident, and it was really not an accident - I still remember when I first returned to Nanling, the owner of the bakery was almost taken in for investigation because of a problem with the food channel."
"Now it seems that I just met it."
There are indeed many grain merchants around the Agate Stone Plain, for example, the Chamber of Commerce of Mr. Yinfang, an acquaintance of Ian, is mainly engaged in building materials and grain, and it assisted in the construction of Harrison Port at the beginning, and received preferential treatment from Viscount Grant.
And Mr. Yinfang also came to Ian's aid to Xia Hui Ling, and Ian naturally reciprocated.
There are those who support the lords of the empire, and naturally there are those who support the mountain people, and it is certainly not surprising that they support the rebellious mountain people.
Without saying anything, Ian gave Qingchao a look, and the other party nodded in understanding and pressed his hand on the hilt of the sword.
— In this respect, Qingchao is ten times more sensitive than him in government affairs!
In the grain store, the staff is handing over, the boss himself is settling accounts with red mist, and several waiters on the side are busy sorting out the goods and pulling the camel truck into the warehouse behind.
Ian and Qingchao swaggered into the grain store, and the person in charge who was told not to follow had a headache, but they could only obediently obey the order and stay outside to see what the two big men were going to do.
Today, the trip was delayed due to an accident, and if it is delayed, they will all be fined!
"Wait, you two, you're still busy here."
Seeing Ian and Qingchao entering the store, the shopkeeper looked up and hurriedly took the time to greet him.
This is a thin-eyed Jin Zhimin, with a kind smile on his face, and his slightly curled goatee shaking with the sound of his voice.
He saw Ian's image and temperament clearly at a glance, no matter how he looked at it, he didn't look like an ordinary person, and the Qingchao on the side was too, although his face was kind and smiling, no one would think he was good.
—Probably the more common rich young masters and guards traveling. Anyway, it doesn't look like he's here to buy food, and when the time comes, he can coax it out, so as not to hinder the plan.
There's a lot of stuff to be busy with these days.,Let's finish the things for the Dragon Worship Sect first and then get busy with the rest.。
In this way, he said, "There is a price on the side of the grain next to it, and if you want to know, you can ask me."
"Let's see for ourselves." Ian didn't plan to arrest people directly, that would be too much.
Others didn't know he was a prophet, so they had to find some proof.
I really can't, and I have to pretend to find evidence.
"Okay, let's see for yourself, then." The shopkeeper motioned to the waiter to wait to receive Ian and them, and then went on to busy himself.
The bulk of the grain store has to go to the warehouse in the storage area at the back or even not far away, and the shops are all scattered wheat noodles for household use, and all kinds of grain are available, probably also open samples for inspection here, and there are wooden boards erected next to them, and the price is marked.
Ian even saw a bag of golden nuts in the corner next to him, a highly nutritious nut that tasted like a walnut but was shaped like a giant melon seed, and the price was six hundred and sixty pounds of one pound, or ten pounds and five thalers, which was half a luxury.
This is not ordinary grain, and if you want to buy it in bulk, you have to be a big chamber of commerce.
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