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Downstairs in the hall sat a few tables of sparse figures.

Seeing Matthew, the innkeeper Truger immediately greeted him warmly:

"Are you okay? When I passed by your door in the morning, I smelled something terrible, do you need me to buy you some holy water? ”

Matthew smiled and shook his head:

"No need, Mr. Truger, I'm fine now."

Truger glanced at Matthew in surprise, and then said to the corner of the hall:

"The guide you want has been found, oh, that's Lao Jitou, the best guide in Zeshui City, there is no one, he has crossed the rainforest 78 times unscathed, and he also led the way when Li Weiqi went to the Aruninland Sea."

Matthew looked over and saw an old man with dark skin and taciturn words.

He looked to be in his fifties and almost sixty, with a light, white beard and piercing eyes, and was sitting quietly at a table smoking a dry cigarette.

Catching up on Matthew's gaze, he nodded slightly.

"Matthew, you have to be careful, this man has several lives on his hands!"

Matthew's chest suddenly bulged, but it was Ella who popped out of the placket to warn him.

Matthew bowed his head to indicate that he understood.

But he didn't particularly care, how could someone who could survive crossing the rainforest many times be a good stubble?

And when it comes to human life, Matthew has a lot on his hands.

So he walked over generously and stretched out his right hand:

"Hello, Mr. Guide."

Lao Jitou glanced at him, moved away from the direction of the dry smoke, and after exhaling a circle of smoke, he shook his head and said:

"Just call me Lao Jitou, and young man, I want to give you a piece of advice - in Zeshui City, don't stretch out your hand to people casually, normal people won't shake hands with you, and those who shake hands with you will usually infect you with the plague."

Matthew showed a teachable expression:

"I see, thank you, old Jitou."

"Trugg told me that you were going to the Aru Inland Sea?" Lao Jitou asked:

"What are you going to do, is it convenient to reveal?"

Matthew thought for a moment:

"Just take a stroll and see the scenery on the sea?"

Lao Jitou laughed: "You might as well say that you want to see the hotness of the jungle woman - at least the last guest told me so, and I believed it." ”

As he spoke, his face became serious:

"I can take you, but you'll have to listen to me all the way! Remember, don't provoke the Jango, don't stuff everything in your mouth, and don't see a woman throw herself into your arms. ”

Matthew said with interest:

"Is there any explanation for any of these three prohibitions?"

Lao Jitou gently tapped the cigarette butt on the table:

"There's nothing to say, it's just three lives. The guest who provoked the Jango had his head cut off, and you can still see artwork made from his skull in a tribe of headhunters east of the rainforest;

The one who grabbed the wild berries and ate them had been rotting in the swamp for seven or eight years;

As for the last guest, he had spent several nights with a Jango native, only to abandon the woman who begged him not to go, and he ended up being eaten by Gu worms with half of his face and his entire second child. ”

Seeing Matthew's face with a look of horror.

Lao Jitou changed his words: "But as long as you listen to me and don't cause trouble, then the road I take you will be safe." It's a pity that with my experience of leading the way for so many years, it is really difficult to keep employers from causing trouble, and some people just don't have any number. ”

As he spoke, he kept looking at Matthew:

"I hope Your Excellency isn't that kind of person."

Matthew muttered, "In the rainforest, I will listen to your advice to the best of my ability, and I will not cause trouble if it is not necessary." ”

Lao Jitou put away the dry tobacco:

"That's the best, here's a list of things you need to go through the rainforest, you take it to the market and buy it, we'll leave tomorrow morning, by the way, I'm not just a guest on this rainforest ride, there's another guy who found me yesterday - the one who claims to experience the jungle woman's hotness, and he'll be with us for a while."

Matthew wondered, "What kind of guest is that?" ”

For the first time, Lao Jitou showed a complicated expression on his face:

"It's indescribable, it's a poet."

At this moment, a young man with an open heart and a bare head walked in from outside the hotel.

As soon as he entered, he walked towards Matthew with a smile:

"Oh, dear old Jitou, is this the companion who is about to cross the rainforest with us?"

Without waiting for Lao Jitou to agree, he leaned over and wanted to give Matthew a big hug:

"Lao Jitou taught me yesterday that I can't shake hands with people casually in Zeshui City, so I think I can only use hugs to express my irrepressible excitement.

Hahaha!

The genius poet Loren is about to embark on a journey through the terrifying rainforest with his fellow passers-by.

That's exciting! ”

Matthew glanced at the other party's unusually thick chest hair and quietly avoided it.

"Hello, Matthew."

He briefly introduced himself.

"Good name, Matthew, you're the name of the protagonist of my next work!"

Lorain didn't mind Matthew's evasion, he leaned against the wall pillar in a dashing manner, and his face was full of confidence and sunshine:

"You don't look good, is it a fever? I bought a lot of holy water if I needed holy water. ”

Ma Xian wanted to refuse.

Who knew that the other party actually conjured up a set of light blue glass tubes as if they were magical, and then forced them into Matthew's hand:

"Even if you're not sick, it's fine, keep it for backup, there are many insects and snakes in the rainforest, when it's always useful, don't worry about me harming you, look at the packaging of the holy water, I just bought it from the "Feathered Serpent Temple", and I haven't opened it yet!"

"Don't shirk, Lao Jitou also accepted my holy water, don't believe you ask him, just treat it as a gift for the first meeting."

Matthew looked at Lao Jitou suspiciously.

The latter shrugged.

Matthew hesitated for a moment, this set of holy water was indeed unopened, and even the price tag was not torn, it said "20 gold coins/6 sticks".

Loraine's enthusiasm was uncomfortable for Matthew.

He shirked it a few times.

But the other party's look of turning his face if he didn't accept it finally made Matthew accept the meeting gift.

"That's it!"

Lorain happily patted Matthew on the shoulder and said:

"Take the gift, you are my true friend of Loraine!

I spent some time in Cloud City, where the cloud elves have a reputation for being arrogant and barely interact with humans, but they get along well with me.

Later, someone couldn't help but ask me: Luo Lan, what is so special about you that you can make the arrogant cloud elf your friend?

And my answer is only one sentence -

I'm super rich! ”

These words caught the attention of several people in the hall.

A pair of malicious eyes cast him.

However, Loren was not afraid at all, he smiled and pulled open his robe, revealing the scrolls and charms pinned to his belt, and said to the others:

"Don't try to attack me just because I'm rich, see, "Forbidden Spell Scroll" and "Legendary Charm", don't put your life on the line for a little money, it's not worth it."

"You know, there are a lot of things that really rich people can do to save their lives, don't test my wallet with your life."

in the hall.

Lao Jitou smoked silently and didn't say a word.

The others slowly withdrew their greedy gaze.

Matthew looked at Loren with some curiosity, are the rich people in this world so flamboyant?

Loren seemed to be interested in him, and after pulling Matthew to sit down and instructing Truger to bring some local food, he began to chat.

Most of them are Loren in the mouth of the river:

"Why should I become a bard? Because there is no talent for anything else!

I came from a family of super-rich, my grandfather was an archmage, my father only danced with knives and guns, I was the only son of this generation, but I couldn't do anything.

My mother was worried about this, and she was afraid that I would not be able to keep the family business, so she found her first love, a dashing and legendary poet, and she asked him how to raise her son to become a powerful bard.

The man replied: Give your son a large sum of money, let him go to the big city to wander, tell him to go in and out of the women's pile, and after much experience, he will naturally become a poet.

My mother was convinced of her first love, so at the age of seventeen, I went to the drunken "Deep Blue Harbor" alone with a large sum of money.

The man was right.

After more than ten years of tossing, I achieved nothing, and then I became a poet. ”

"Before coming to Watertown, I spent a while at Smandi, which is rich in perfumes, spices and beauties, and is also known as the City of Flowers.

I mix well in Smandi and have a lot of friends.

Honestly, I really don't want to leave there, Smandy has a lot of fascinating women-

The smell of a lady lingers on me, and the fragrance of a girl intoxicates me.

But the distance was calling to me, and I was met with a revelation from heaven in Smandi—

Afterwards, I realized that if I wanted to write better, I had to experience more new things, so I had to turn down my tearful lovers and come to this mountain town in the north of the rainforest, and it was really exciting to say that we were about to enter the rainforest. ”

……

Hearing this, Matthew couldn't help asking:

"A revelation from heaven?"

Lorraine replied lazily:

"Once, when I was cheating with a noble lady and her daughter, I was discovered by the male owner of the family, and their family immediately fell into madness."

Matthew gasped.

"It must have been embarrassing." Matthew said.

"That's true."

Luo Lan sighed: "Especially the man who asked me in front of his wife and daughter, 'Then what am I?' I instantly realized that it was a revelation from heaven that it was time to leave the City of Flowers. ”

It's not just Matthew.

Even Ella, who was lying on his chest and listening with relish, was stunned!

"Just kidding!"

Lorain suddenly laughed:

"You don't really believe that I can sleep with the whole family, do you?

Even the most lame poet will put a hook at the end of a piece of work, which is necessary to attract the audience.

As for the real reason why I left the City of Hundred Flowers, I will tell you in detail next time.

It's not too early, it's time for us to go to the market and buy what's on the list, hey, what about the old Jitou man? ”

……

(End of chapter)