Chapter 4: Trickery
Because of the direction of the wind, the fleet traveled on the Huilong River for four or five days before reaching the wharf south of the Huilong River, and it also officially left the Great Sui and set foot on the land of the Southern Dynasties.
And the country that arrived was the Northern Ming of the twelve kingdoms of the Southern Dynasties.
The twelve kingdoms of the Southern Dynasties are different, although they are all located on the same land, or even close to each other, but the customs of each country are very different.
For example, the Northern Ming Dynasty is close to the Huilongjiang River, and trade is the most convenient, so it is the most prosperous country among the twelve countries. And Wu is close to Yunling Shengzhou, under the influence of Yunling Shengzhou, the whole country has the heart of cultivating immortals and seeking Taoism, and the realm is not at all like the appearance of Huangtian Jingzhou's martial arts. The country of Houliang is a huge plain, in the belly of the twelve countries, so most of the people live conveniently, and there is surplus grain every year, while most of the country in Yan is lofty mountains, so the traffic is very inconvenient, and the prosperity is more than other countries. Most of the people in the country are hunters, although the life is difficult, but the people are very strong, and the soldiers are also the most brave among the twelve countries.
In general, because the topography of the Southern Dynasties was very different, the national conditions of the twelve countries of the Southern Dynasties were completely different, and the differences were very obvious. Therefore, there will be friction between countries from time to time, and there have been many large and small wars in the past few hundred years, and the most surprising thing is that the weak Houliang has suppressed the always strong Chen State.
But the connection was not important to Jiang Lili at all, just like the experience on the ship, the twelve kingdoms of the Southern Dynasties were just a journey that he did not stop at.
The wharf of Houming is much smaller than that of Yangzhou Wharf, but the slender man on the wharf is much stronger than Yangzhou, it can only be said that the Great Sui has become more prosperous in recent years, and the people's vision has also risen, and there are fewer and fewer people who do this kind of wharf to find a living.
As soon as he jumped off the boat, he stepped on the solid ground, and the sense of security in his heart was born, and he let out a long breath, "Grandma's, I have finally arrived in the Southern Dynasty, if I stay on the Longjiang River for half a day, I am afraid that my intestines will vomit out! ”
In the two days of returning to Longjiang, Cheng Ru really lost more than ten pounds, with a yellow face and thin muscles, blank eyes, and a look of death.
Jiang Lili sneered, "You are useless, speaking of which, you are still a fisherman who grew up by the sea, and you can't even break through this little wind and waves, no wonder you don't have any ability in this life, and you can't even chase a girl, that is, you can beat the life of a bachelor!"
Cheng Ru's face was bitter, "Jiang Lili, can you not open which pot and which pot you don't mention?
Jiang Lili didn't care.
After leaving the wharf, there is a bustling street, although it is not as warm as Yangzhou rouge spring, but it also has a bit of scenery.
After finding a good-looking inn and sitting down, and ordering a few meat dishes, Jiang Lili began to pay attention to the people around him, thinking if he could find someone to ask for directions, which way can lead to South Korea.
Cheng Ru can't eat anything on the ship these days, even if he eats, he has to spit it out, this time he is really hungry, he drank half a pot of tea before he started to serve, and when he was served, he was even more wolf-gobbled, and the wind swept away, so that the Beiming people, who were close to Yangzhou in the Great Sui and had learned a little bit of scholarly demeanor, frowned slightly.
Xiao Er came over with another plate of meat and vegetables, and said hello with a smile, "Two of you."
Master, the dishes have been served, please use the two masters slowly, and the small ones will leave!"
"Wait!" Jiang Lili called out to the little two.
Perhaps because of Jiang Lili's accent, this Xiao Er's posture was extremely low. With a smiling face, he hunched over and asked, "Master, is there anything else?"
"Well," Jiang Lili nodded, "Do you know the way to Korea?
Speaking of South Korea, Xiao Er was slightly hesitant, "There are a lot of places to buy carriages, and you can see a lot of carriage sheds when you go out and walk east, but... ”
"Just what?" Jiang Lili didn't like this kind of style of talking half of it, and her brows furrowed.
Seeing Jiang Lili's dislike, Xiao Er hurriedly replied: "It's just that there have been a lot of strange things in South Korea over the years, and from time to time there are things that harm the living. Let's just say that this year, there have been no less than a dozen large and small incidents. And that's just the rumors, not to mention the fact that there are many things that happen in sparsely populated places that no one knows about. The little ones have also heard of ... ”
Speaking of this, the little two lowered his voice, "I also heard that in March of this year, there was a village in South Korea, and the population of the village was more or less a few hundred people, and all of them disappeared without a trace overnight. Therefore, nowadays Koreans are basically dragging their families to other places, and there are very few people who go to South Korea from other places, most of them are Taoist priests who slay demons and eliminate demons, and there are many young people who want to see new things.
Jiang Lili was a little curious about what Xiao Er said, and she was also a little puzzled, thinking to herself where there would be so many harmful ghosts coming out to run rampant, could it be because something happened in South Korea?
Just thinking about this, the little second said again: "I don't know if you want to go to South Korea after you know about this, but our inn has prepared a brief road map of the twelve countries of the Southern Dynasties for travelers, which can be used as a reference no matter where you go." ”
"Oh?" Jiang Lili raised his eyebrows, "How much silver?"
Xiao Er replied with a smile: "Look at what the master said, this road map is not worth a few dollars, just give it directly to the adult, where do you need any silver?"
Jiang Lili, you are single, "Then come to the next one." ”
Xiao Er hurriedly said yes, turned around and walked back, and soon after brought a map and put it on the table, and said: "The master has come a long way, if you need accommodation, just tell the villain directly, the villain must be properly prepared for the master." ”
Turning his head to look at Cheng Ru's spiritless face, and then looking at the fact that it was not early, Jiang Lili said, "Come to two first-class rooms." ”
"Haole, master!"
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Cheng Ru was really tired, and after gobbling up, he dragged himself into the room and fell asleep, Jiang Lili scolded the thing that dragged his legs and returned to his room.
The room was extremely clean, with incense at the head and foot of the bed to help you sleep, and calligraphy and paintings of all kinds of famous people on the walls, although certainly not genuine, but they could be decorated.
The overall style of the room is somewhat like the Red Mansion private room in Yangzhou, although some of them are painted according to the gourd
, but it's not bad.
Jiang Lili didn't lie on the bed, he sat at the desk with the oil lamp and opened the map, the map roughly drew the location of each country, wrote the direction, size, and even made some specific marks on the map, for example, in a big mountain between Korea and Chen, it was marked that there were many bandits and bandits here, and you should be too careful when traveling!
Jiang Lili was a little satisfied, thinking that this inn still knew some roads, and did everything very well.
Just looked at Han Jiang Lili and remembered what Xiao Er said, and couldn't help but be confused.
Originally, he had heard Wu Zhou talk about a ghost town in South Korea, so he was not particularly surprised by ghosts harming people. It's just that I didn't expect that ghosts were rampant in South Korea at this time, not to mention that they had already harmed the people of an entire village! This South Korea is at least a country, even if the domestic martial artists have no way to cultivate ghosts, but after all, there are a few strange people who practice magic, right?
At this point, Jiang Lili suddenly remembered one thing, it seems that Xiao Er's words have not leaked any news about the ghost town in South Korea at all, is this Xiao Er not mentioning it, or does he not know at all?
Jiang Lili couldn't figure it out for a while, so he slapped the ghost bag and summoned Wu Zhou.
"What's the matter? Something is wrong? I can tell you, I really don't have any other treasures on me!" Wu Zhou was very vigilant.
"Why are you so stingy? Aren't you just using a piece of your spiritual soil?" Jiang Lili snorted coldly, "Besides, that spiritual soil is useless to you!"
"Cheng Chengcheng, I'm stingy!" Wu Zhou waved his hand, obviously unwilling to talk too much on this topic, and said directly: "What happened again?"
Jiang Lili said: "Do you know the approximate location of the ghost town in South Korea you said?"
Wu Zhou pressed his eyebrows and thought for a long time, and finally smiled helplessly, "I really don't know this very well, and I have told you the reason." But if I can get to that ghost town within a radius of ten miles, I should be able to have some memory, but it's not very deep. After all, more than ten years have passed, and no one can tell what has changed in that place. ”
Jiang Lili nodded, licked his lips and asked: "Fang Cai Xiaoer said that there are many ghosts and ghosts in South Korea now, and in March this year, people in a village disappeared out of thin air, without any news, and it is said that it is also the handiwork of ghosts, what do you think?"
Wu Zhou was a little unconvinced, "Is there really such a thing?"
"Can I get rich by lying to you?"
Wu Zhou smiled, and then his face became solemn, "When I came to South Korea with my family more than ten years ago, I didn't think there was a lot of black smoke and miasma in South Korea, but logically speaking, ghost cultivation really doesn't do much good to harm people! Therefore, except for the ghost cultivators who really have great grievances, most of the ghost cultivators are just playing tricks on people, and there will definitely be no such thing as harming a village!"
"You mean???" Jiang Lili frowned slightly.
Wu Zhou laughed, "It's okay, just say a few words at will, now I can't guess anything out of thin air, and I'll know when I get to South Korea!"
Jiang Lili nodded, waved his hand and took Wu Zhou back into the ghost cultivation bag, and then exhaled and blew out the oil lamp.