Chapter Twenty-Eight: Buying Food and Messages
"Shopkeeper Zhao, come over today, do I want to buy five buckets of polished rice and five buckets of brown rice, or let your guy plan to help me prepare first, my shopkeeper is still waiting for me to go back." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"
Although Zhao Gongming wanted to know more about this world, he didn't want to waste his time on the grain store manager for the time being.
Because the money shopkeeper and lark who returned from the Tiandu Mountain Range yesterday, the huge amount of information brought by what they experienced in the mountains is still waiting for Zhao Gongming to sort out and analyze.
Zhao Fengdeng gave the guy in charge of weighing the grain a look when he heard this, and then said with a smile: "Since you have something to do today, then we will talk another day, but I remember that in the past, when your shopkeeper came over, they all bought polished rice, why did you buy brown rice today?"
"But since my grain store is open to do business, of course the owner is at the mercy of the customer. Wait a moment, and the food will be ready for you. ”
Of course, Zhao Gongming would not tell the other party that he bought brown rice because in the memory of his previous life, the nutritional value of brown rice was higher than that of polished rice, which I am afraid that no one in this world can understand.
The grain store guy who got the shopkeeper's glance did not make any trouble when weighing the grain, and a full stone of grain was divided into two bags, and a flat pole was prepared.
According to the price of the grain hung at the door, the grain was a total of ninety yuan, and after Zhao Gongming paid it all, he went to his pharmacy with the burden.
What he didn't notice was that the shopkeeper of the grain store behind him had been staring thoughtfully at his back.
A few days ago, Zhao Fengdeng saw the money shopkeeper and a medicine picker girl out of the town, it is said that they entered Tiandu Mountain, and later the clan specially arranged for two people to track them down.
According to Zhao Gongming, the money shopkeeper has returned, but no one knows this news at all, how can the other party return from the mountains, how can he hide the eyes of so many people in the town, could it be that he entered the town at night at night.
Why did the other party need to return to the town in such a hidden way, Zhao Fengdeng was very interested in this, and he believed that the clan would also be very interested in this matter.
At this time, Zhao Wuyan had already received the news that Qian Chuan had returned to the Qian family pharmacy, and the girl who was collecting medicine with him had come back with Qian Chuan.
However, Zhao Wuyan was ordered by the patriarch to arrange the two family guards who were responsible for tracking down Qian Chuan and the others, and there was still no news, which made him feel that there must be something strange in it.
After all, this matter was the order of the patriarch, so Zhao Wuyan did not dare to hide it and reported the latest situation to Zhao Pan.
After listening to Zhao Wuyan's report, Zhao Pan asked, "Wuyan, what is the strength of the manpower you arranged?"
"Although these two guards are not congenital masters, their ability to track and photograph is one of the best in the clan, and this is why I arranged this matter to them. The implication of Zhao Wuyan's words was that the strength of these two people was not outstanding, but they were just good at tracking.
Zhao Pan couldn't find anything wrong with Zhao Wuyan's arrangement, after all, he had told Zhao Wuyan in advance, and he should pay attention not to be discovered by Qian Chuan when tracking.
Since it was not to start a head-on conflict with Qian Chuan, it was naturally unnecessary to arrange for the innate masters of the clan to participate in this matter.
Moreover, Qian Chuan's strength was already revealed more than ten years ago, although he didn't know the current changes in the other party's strength, it was obviously not something that a few innate masters could deal with.
The two family guards whose whereabouts are unknown, in Zhao Pan's opinion, may be more than lucky.
Regardless of whether these two people died because of the danger in the Tiandu Mountains, or were poisoned after being discovered by Qian Chuan, it is not appropriate to start a head-on conflict with the other party at present, and the Zhao family can afford the price of the two guards.
In the past ten years, once the tacit understanding formed between the Zhao family and the other party is broken, I am afraid that it will bring serious losses to the family.
And the news brought by the return of the convoy from the county seat this time gave Zhao Pan another choice.
When the family convoy returned to Caoxu Town yesterday, it was expected that the cart lost a few vehicles, but fortunately, the casualties were not serious, and a good seedling with a foreign surname was unearthed.
But the most unexpected thing is that Zhao Hao, who joined the team for exercise this time, was injured in the arm, but it was not caused by distress in Tiandu Mountain, but a head-on conflict with the children of the Zhao family in the county.
According to the report of the team leader Zhao Gao, Zhao Hao and Sun Zhao Tiansheng, the head of the branch of the family, had a public gambling battle in the county seat, although it seemed that both sides were defeated, but the final result was that Zhao Tiansheng publicly admitted defeat.
Even if Zhao Gao explained that the victory in this competition was Zhao Hao's use of the rules of the gambling fight.
But for the side branch of the Zhao family, Zhao Hao was able to make the children of the same generation bow their heads and admit defeat in public, and the opponent was still the identity of the grandson of the head of the branch, which made the family greatly face.
Since the ancestors of the Zhao family side branch were forced to come to Caoxu Town, this Zhao family has been suppressed by the county town's side branch, and the branch has continued to suck blood from the side branch through unequal trading methods.
As a result, in order to obtain the resources to cultivate their own family members, the Zhao family in Caoxu Town not only allowed their own family members to fully control the commercial activities of Caoxu Town, but also adopted low-entry and high-exit commercial methods to try their best to squeeze the townspeople with different surnames in the town.
This practice not only made the Zhao family the controller of Caoxu Town, but also made the Zhao family gain the hostility and hatred of the townspeople with different surnames, but due to the strength of the Zhao family, these hostilities and hatreds are still deeply buried in the hearts of the townspeople.
But as the patriarch of Zhao Pan, he knew that once all the hatred that had been hidden for a long time was released, the Zhao family in Caoxu Town would definitely be wiped out.
This is also the reason why the Zhao family and Qian Chuan quickly reconciled after the conflict more than ten years ago.
In addition to the huge price that Qian Chuan may make the Zhao family pay, the more important reason is that once the Zhao family loses enough deterrence, those townspeople with different surnames who have been suffering from Zhao for a long time may take the opportunity to completely destroy the Zhao family.
This time, Zhao Hao did make the Zhao family side branch of Caoxu Town breathe a bad breath, but then, when Zhao Pan knew the message conveyed by the Zhao family branch through Zhao Gao, his face changed again.
The message brought by Zhao Gao was sent by Zhao Tiansheng's Changfang, who claimed that Zhao Tiansheng would arrive in Caoxu Town to visit in a month, and at the same time would re-engage in a public competition with Zhao Hao.
At present, only Zhao Gao and Zhao Pan know this news, and Zhao Gao has previously explained that Zhao Hao's strength is indeed inferior to Zhao Tiansheng, and the battle in the county town is just a trick.
Now the message from the head of the Changfang shows that the other party wants to save the face he lost before, and this kind of dignified strength crushes, so that Zhao Pan really can't find a way to deal with it, and it is difficult for the Yan branch to slap back the previous one.
And after Zhao Hao returned to Caoxu Town, in addition to being reprimanded by the elders of Sanfang because of the fracture of his arm, he was very satisfied with his performance in the county.
Because the shadow brought by the Zhao family's branch to the Zhao family in Caoxu Town has affected several generations of the Zhao family.
These elders of Zhao Hao have grown up in these shadows since they were children, and their jealousy and fear of the county town have completely soaked their bodies and minds.
It's rare that Zhao Hao, a junior, has shaved the face of his grandson this time, how can he not make these elders happy.
However, Zhao Hao is self-aware, he knows that Zhao Tiansheng admits defeat, and he is just a trick. If you talk about real strength, you are still far from your opponent.
In order to improve Aoki Jue's cultivation realm as soon as possible, on his way back, he began to refine the wood essence he had won.
Compared with the efficiency of absorbing the vitality of plants and trees, the wood essence contained in wood essence is easier to absorb, and its purity far exceeds the essence that Zhao Hao absorbed from plants and trees in the past.
Maybe this wood spirit is just a dispensable plaything for the eldest grandson of the Changfang of the Yan Branch, but for Zhao Hao, this wood spirit is a rare treasure that he can't obtain in Caoxu Town.
However, the wood essence contained in a wood spirit was limited after all, and Zhao Hao had already absorbed it the day after returning to Caoxu Town.
As the wood essence turned into powder, Zhao Hao's mood also fell. Indeed, as the remnant soul said, this wood spirit was enough to add six leaves to Zhao Hao's heart seedling.
However, Zhao Hao had already learned from the mouth of the remnant soul that Zhao Tiansheng's realm of cultivating Aoki Du had reached the realm of "flowers falling and fruits were born", and he was only one step away from the innate realm.
The gap between himself and the other party is so big, so that Zhao Hao has a sense of powerlessness, he is really a frog at the bottom of the well, maybe only a character like Zhao Tiansheng can really be called a genius.
Since the remnant soul possessed Zhao Hao in that fight, it seems that his vitality has been greatly injured, and there has been no movement since he retracted into the ring. Although Zhao Hao had already become suspicious of the remnant soul, the current situation made him urgently need the guidance of the remnant soul.