Chapter 47: To the North
"Do you know what August 15 is?" Su Dong suddenly asked with a smile.
Old man Kong Jing was stunned for a moment, thought for a moment and said, "August 15 doesn't seem to be a special day. ”
Su Dong pointed to the north with one hand and said: "Every autumn, August 15th, it is the autumn trading event of the four northern countries, all the merchants in the entire north will go, this year's event will be held in Yanjing Yecheng of Daye Country, it is only ten days away from Cold Star City, we can bring Linggu there and sell it." ”
Kong Jing was stunned and puzzled: "Go to Yecheng!?"
This year is different from previous years, it is rumored that the ice age is coming, and the four northern countries are located in the northernmost part of the continent, assuming that the snow devils are infested, they are the most affected, if I guess correctly, this year's northern four countries trade fair will be more lively than in previous years. ”
"In the face of the threat of the Snow Devil, all countries will definitely rush all the war preparation materials, and the Spirit Valley and the elixir, as important strategic reserves, will definitely be able to sell at a better price than Cold Star City. Su Dong said calmly.
Old man Kong Jing slapped his thigh suddenly, and suddenly realized: "Yes, why didn't I think that Cold Star City is too small after all, and there are not many Spirit Valleys needed, and the four northern countries are the real big market!
As soon as Su Dong told the Lingnong about his thoughts, everyone agreed, since Gu Chengdong controlled the Linggu business in Hanxing City, then simply get rid of him, don't trade with him, and sell the Linggu and the elixir to Daye City farther away.
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The mansion of the Zhou Xing family.
Su Dong's sudden visit surprised Zhou Xing, this was the first time Su Dong took the initiative to come to him.
In the study, Su Dong walked around the study, looking at the valuable antiques on the treasure shelf, and said with a smile: "Zhou Jiaotou, you have completely different lives at home and in the martial arts hall, and being rich is not a bad thing, why deliberately wear those coarse cloth clothes, afraid of being robbed?"
Zhou Xing hurriedly said: "Hey, the money is our old man's, I have that little training fee and allowance every month, how can I not be considered a rich person, come on, what are you looking for me?"
Su Dong nodded, Zhou Xing, the rich second generation, is rare, there is not so much copper smell on his body, and he is more realistic.
"You also know that I have a very poor relationship with the city lord's brother-in-law, so I decided not to sell the spirit valley and elixir harvested by the Lingnong Society this time, but to transport them directly to Daye City for the Autumn Fair of the Four Kingdoms. Su Dong said calmly.
Zhou Xing smiled, patted Su Dong on the shoulder and said: "I thought there was a big deal, it turned out to be this, our Zhou family has no other skills, but the merchant is an expert, I will also go to the autumn fair in Daye City, by the way, I will bring the goods to you, I am also familiar with the merchants over there, and when the time comes, I will introduce you to you, and I will definitely not lose you!"
Su Dong was stunned, "You're also going to Daye City?" What's the matter, the sect leader is going to take over the family's business?"
Zhou Xing sighed and said: "This year, my little feather fell from the tree and was frightened, even with our old man, he was not very scared, and his health has not been very good recently, so I plan to accompany my father to Daye City, besides, the martial arts hall was originally going to go, but I was only two days in advance." ”
"The martial arts hall is also going?" Su Dong asked curiously.
Zhou Xing said: "You don't usually go to the martial arts hall, so there are some things you don't know, every year the northern four countries trade event lasts for a month, and there will be many celebrations near the end, one of the important ones is the martial arts match, and the fighters assigned by the major martial arts halls of the four countries will come out to fight." ”
"Our Cold Star City is not far from the four northern countries, so we are often invited to participate, and this time I received an invitation again. ”
Su Dong frowned and said, "It's a good thing to meet friends with martial arts, how do you look at the sect leader's sad face?"
Zhou Xing said helplessly: "Friends with martial arts are said to outsiders, who doesn't want to win the scenery? There are several martial arts halls in the four northern countries that are very inauthentic, and they often make shady moves, and there used to be a precedent for the soldiers of our martial arts hall to die there, but if you don't go, you will think that you are afraid of them." ”
Su Dong nodded slightly, he was a Lingnong now, and the martial arts competition had nothing to do with him, so he didn't care.
"By the way, how much is the output of the Linggu elixir this year? How many carts do you need? You tell me, I can make arrangements as soon as possible. Zhou Xing asked.
Su Dong said: "Oh, the elixir is enough for a big car, the harvest of Linggu is good, there are 54,000 catties, I plan to keep 4,000 catties for myself, and the remaining 50,000 catties will be sold at the fair." ”
"How much!?" Zhou Xing rubbed his ears and asked incredulously.
"I want to transport 50,000 catties. Su Dong repeated.
"There are only seventy acres of spiritual land in total, and you tossed out fifty-four thousand catties of spiritual valley!?" Zhou Xing said loudly with wide eyes.
Linggu is not an ordinary grain, it requires extremely harsh spiritual power, even if it is the Star Society's own high-grade spiritual field, the output per mu does not exceed two hundred catties, but Su Dong has let the inferior spiritual field grow close to eight hundred catties of Linggu per mu!?
It's not a miracle, it's a miracle!
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On the eighth day of the eighth month of August, Su Dong and more than 20 members of Lingnong Society followed the convoy of the Great Zhou Commercial Bank on the mountain road to Daye City.
Su Qinian behaved very strangely again, early in the morning Su Dong wanted to say goodbye to him, but Su Qinian had already gone to the school, it seemed that he was not worried about Su Dong's first trip to the north.
When they arrived outside the city, they had to separate, and Bai Xiaoya and Bai Qing followed another team of the Zhou family to the south to seek refuge with relatives.
The two little foxes were crying, which made Su Dong feel very uncomfortable, he smiled and comforted them: "It's just a temporary separation, why bother like this? Maybe one day the snow devil really comes, and I will go to the south to join you." ”
"Really?"
Su Dong said it casually, but Bai Xiaoya actually took it seriously, wrote down the place she was going to clearly, and then stuffed it into Su Dong's arms with her own hands.
"Remember, you must go to me. Bai Xiaoya blinked her eyes and said softly.
"I will. ”
"You're going to find me!"
"I will. ”
"If you don't go, I'll hate you for the rest of my life!"
"Uh..."
Turning back one step at a time, Bai Xiaoya and Bai Qing sat in the carriage, crying and walking south.
Su Dong was also a little sad in his heart, how vast the continent is, one south and one north, a fox clan and a human being, how can they say that they will meet each other? I really don't know what year and month it will be when we meet again.
Let the brother Suning return to the city, Su Dong and Zhou Xing rode horses and walked in front of the team.
Zhou Xing looked very happy and said with a smile: "The first time you went to the north, I don't know the situation over there, the four northern countries, Daye, Qianpu, Dingwen, and Hanxing are all places with good scenery, but unfortunately it is too close to the Far North Wasteland, and it is often attacked, so the development is worse." ”
"By the way, who are you with those two girls just now? You have hidden them both deep enough, I have never seen them, and when I saw them today, I realized that they were so beautiful, no wonder you had to arrange for them to go to the south in person. ”
Su Dong said disapprerovingly: "Didn't I tell you, two old neighbors, if you can help, you can naturally help." ”
Zhou Xing shook his head and lowered his voice: "I'm not gossiping, but these two girls are weird. ”
Su Dong said lightly: "It's just two little foxes, what's weird?"
"So you know their identities!?" Zhou Xing said in surprise, most humans are hostile to the spirit beast clan, but Su Dong made friends with two little foxes, which made Zhou Xing feel very surprised.
"You don't think the two of them are anything, but in Yanjing, they are commodities that many people can't ask for, and each person can sell more than 100,000 taels of silver, but don't worry, the people and horses I arranged to escort are all our henchmen, and there will be nothing wrong." Zhou Xing said with emotion.
The season after the autumn harvest is the busiest trading season in the entire north, and not far from Cold Star City, Su Dong and they bumped into a team of people, all of them are five big and three thick, with blades, and they look menacing.
It's just that this group of people are either missing hands and feet or have no eyes, and they are all seriously injured, and I don't know how it was caused.
Su Dong was very curious, so he asked Zhou Xing.
Zhou Xing lowered his voice and said: "These are explorers, specializing in business in the northern wasteland, and now that it is autumn, the explorers have begun to evacuate to the south. ”
Su Dong was stunned for a moment, and asked curiously: "Business in the wasteland? Isn't that the base camp of the snow devil?
Zhou Xing pursed his lips and said: "Big risk is great gain, in ancient times, there were many god wars, the gods led their warriors to crusade against the northern wasteland where the snow demon was located, and countless gods of war died in that frozen land. ”
"Later, the gods found that the snow devils were completely unconquerable, so they retreated to the south and built the wall of the gods to keep the cold and the snow devils out of the north, and we, the forgotten ones in the north, have become the forgotten continent. ”
Zhou Xing said very sadly, the Forgotten Continent is a good saying, to say that the northerners are the food left by the gods to the snow devils, and every time the snow devils come to the Forgotten Continent during the glacial period, harvest the lives of the northerners, and eat the people in the north, the snow devils will no longer disturb the south.
So the people behind the wall of the gods were safe, and the gods were safe, and only the forgotten people in the north became unjust souls.
That's why the Northern Continent is so advocating force that it's natural for warriors to kill people.
"Is the explorer a hunter who went to the Northern Wasteland to hunt snow demons?" asked Su Dong again.
Zhou Xingdao: "The Northern Wasteland has carried out many divine wars and killed a large number of gods of war, so there are many battlefields and relics of ancient divine wars, and these explorers are taking advantage of the midsummer season, when the snow devils do not come out, to go to the Far North Wasteland to find treasures." ”
Su Dong suddenly realized that the so-called explorer turned out to be a treasure hunter.
"When we get to Yecheng, there will be more explorers who have retreated from the north, maybe we can exchange one or two treasures of the ancient god of war!" Zhou Xing said excitedly.