Chapter Eighty-Seven: Double-Headed Ginseng (Part II)
Xu Tianchang opened the box and looked at it, and saw that it was full of all kinds of jewels and large pieces of gold and silver, thinking that these bandits didn't know how much they had looted. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 He closed the box and said, "Everyone has worked hard today, you can take out half of the gold and silver in a while, and give it to the big guy, don't forget the two brothers at the bottom of the mountain and the people over there, and take the remaining half back and give it to the prince to dispose of." ”
When the captain of the pro-soldier heard this, he was very happy in his heart, he did not expect that he would be able to reap such a great benefit from this trip! Those golden soldiers were also overjoyed, half of the gold and silver was this whole box, although it took thirty people to divide, but one person could not share a small amount, where could it not be happy?
Xu Tianchang then asked, "Do we have any brothers killed or wounded?" The captain of the pro-soldier hurriedly replied: "There are a few who hang the lottery, but none of the injuries are serious, and none of them died in battle." Xu Tianchang nodded: "That's good." I don't think it's too early, so let's clean up this place, and we'll spend the night in the cave tonight, and we'll go back tomorrow morning. The captain of the pro-soldier hurriedly agreed.
So everyone worked together, carried all the corpses out of the cave, cleaned up the overturned tables and chairs, ate some of the food in the back kitchen, and arranged the sentry, and then each found a place to rest.
In the morning, the group carried two large boxes of gold and silver, Xu Tianchang cut off the head of Xu Da Ma stick, found something to wrap up, set a fire to burn the stockade, and went back down the mountain with everyone......
"What? did you really kill Xu Dama?" Zhao Dahao was still a little unconvinced. Xu Tianchang threw his head to the ground: "Brother Zhao looks at it himself, this head can't be faked, right?" Zhao Da hat looked at it, and sure enough, it was the head of Xu Da Ma Stick, and he immediately knelt down with a "plop" sound: "Master, can you see it?
After everyone's mood stabilized, Xu Tianchang took out the compass again, handed it to Zhao Da hat and said, "Brother Zhao, this is the compass you mentioned at the time, and I brought it back to you too." Zhao Da wiped a handful of tears, took the compass and looked at it carefully, nodded and said, "Well, it is really a relic of the master, brother, you really helped us a lot this time." He put away the compass, took out a brocade box, and handed it to Xu Tianchang: "Good brother, this is the thousand-year-old double-headed ginseng, you take it!"
After taking the brocade box, Xu Tianchang opened it to see, and smelled a strange fragrance, just smelling this smell made people feel refreshed and very comfortable. I saw a golden ginseng lying inside, this ginseng is about a foot long, the whole body is golden yellow, the most amazing thing is that it has two heads, but the body is connected together, people have to marvel at the magic of the heavens.
After putting away the double-headed ginseng, Xu Tianchang ordered someone to bring up another hundred taels of gold, and said, "Brother Zhao, this is a little bit of my heart, please don't refuse." Zhao Da hat waved his hand again and again and said: "I can't help my brother, this is absolutely unacceptable! What is the point of a mere ginseng, you have avenged our blood for more than ten years, and I am grateful to you on behalf of everyone for the great harm here! I can never accept this gold." ”
Xu Tianchang took his hand and said: "Brother Zhao is out of sight, the bandits are in trouble, it is the duty of the officers and soldiers to exterminate them, this ginseng is so valuable, and it is exchanged for the life of the respected teacher, don't say that it is a hundred taels of gold, I am afraid that a thousand taels may not be enough for its value, so please accept it!"
Seeing Xu Tianchang so insistent, Zhao Dahao had no choice but to accept the gold: "Okay, I'll take it." Xu Tianchang smiled and said goodbye: "Brother Zhao, take care, then we will leave." After bidding farewell to both sides, Xu Tianchang led people over the mountain and headed towards the mountain pass.
was only halfway there, and I saw Zhang Jinyan leading people to this side. "Third brother!" and "Second brother!" As soon as the two sides met, they were very excited.
"Second brother, I'm leading someone to look for you!
"Oh, third brother, that gang of bandits has been exterminated by us, and I have already obtained the two-headed ginseng. Look!" As he spoke, Xu Tianchang took out the brocade box and showed it to Zhang Jinyan.
Zhang Jinyan also took out a brocade box, opened it with a smile and said, "Second brother, you can also see what this is!" Xu Tianchang looked at it, and there was also a golden double-headed ginseng lying in the brocade box in Zhang Jinyan's hand! Looking at the color and size, it seemed to be better than his own!
"Third brother, who are you?" Xu Tianchang couldn't believe it, the two-headed ginseng that he was looking for at the beginning had become a rotten radish at this time? There were two of them at once! This really made him unbelievable.
Zhang Jinyan explained the origin of ginseng: it turned out that at the southern foot of Changbai Mountain, there was a large family, which started as a medicinal material business, and they specially purchased various medicinal materials from Changbai Mountain and nearby herb pickers and medicine farmers, and then sold them and made a fortune. But the hearts of this family are also very black, between buying and selling, they specialize in bullying medicine farmers, lowering prices, if they dare to disagree, they will be beaten by their family, snatch away the medicinal materials, and then leave a very small amount of silver. The medicine farmers dare to be angry but dare not speak. When they resold it, they raised the price again, and it can be said that most of the entire medicinal herb business in Changbai Mountain was monopolized by this family. Zhang Jinyan also heard from some nearby medicine farmers that this family accidentally got a thousand-year-old double-headed ginseng a few years ago.
After getting the news, he couldn't help but be very happy, and took people to this family's house, and after explaining his intentions, Zhang Jinyan proposed to buy this ginseng, but they actually offered a sky-high price of 10,000 taels of gold! Although Zhang Jinyan is rich, he also does not want to be slaughtered as a wronged leader, not to mention that he does not have so much, if he says that within 1,000 taels, he can still find a way to make up a little, 10,000 taels of gold, which is more than a city's tax revenue in a year! But the owner of this family let out wild words, there is no 10,000 taels of gold, and if you want to take away the double-headed ginseng, it is a dream!
This can make Zhang Jinyan annoyed! He left in a hurry with his popularity, but he couldn't do without ginseng! So he turned his heart sideways, and he also decided to slaughter such a rich and unkind big family, and also to seize the double-headed ginseng! So he did what he said, and that night, Zhang Jinyan led his soldiers into this house, killed all their people, and captured this ginseng.
After listening to this, Xu Tianchang couldn't help but be silent for a while, although they really needed this ginseng very much at that time, but it was really hurtful to destroy people like this. But Zhang Jinyan was also for Dugu Jian, and it was inconvenient for him to accuse him of anything, so he could only remain silent.
Zhang Jinyan saw his expression, and immediately understood what his second brother was thinking, and immediately persuaded: "Second brother, I know that you can't bear it, but for this kind of rich and unkind big family, oppressing the good, and there may be many murders in your hands, I will kill them, which can be regarded as removing a harm for the place." Besides, I also scattered their property to the nearby medicine farmers, which can be regarded as making up for it, second brother, you don't want to do this. ”
Xu Tianchang nodded: "Third brother, you see, now that we have two double-headed ginseng, I think it will be difficult to run out this time." Zhang Jinyan asked: "Second brother, when I came back in the morning, I learned from the people left behind that you also had the whereabouts of the double-headed ginseng, but how did you exterminate that gang of bandits?" So Xu Tianchang told Zhang Jinyan about last night's actions, and pointed to the two big boxes behind him and said: "Second brother, you see, this is the harvest this time, not only to remove a harm for the people nearby, but also to get so much property." ”
Zhang Jinyan looked at it and said with a smile: "The second brother is better than me, not only did he get the double-headed ginseng, but he also got so much money, he really deserves to be an elder brother." The through train waved his hand: "Third brother, don't laugh at me, I have already told everyone, let everyone share this half of the money, it is considered the reward for coming with us this time, and the remaining half, you bring it back to the little prince." He then lowered his voice and said in Zhang Jinyan's ear: "What we are trying to do, it can't be done without financial support, although these are not much, but they are a lot of money, and after the matter is completed in the future, you must persuade the little prince more, let him and the Great Song Dynasty draw the Great Wall and rule." (To be continued.) )