Chapter 4 Wine Shop Run
Ding Yu stood stunned for a long time, and when he stepped again, his face was cloudy.
Just now, he communicated with the voice in his head, and finally figured out what was going on between the so-called martial soul seed and this world.
What he was most worried about at first was the so-called "plot modification", because the advantage of the time-traveler is largely based on the pre-knowledge of the plot, and if the plot is modified, this advantage will be greatly weakened. Later, after explanation, I realized that these changes basically will not affect the plot, but make some reasonable repairs.
For example, according to the original work of the "Shooting the Condor" trilogy, the martial arts of the top masters have exceeded the power of the country, Hong Qigong entering and leaving the palace is like visiting his own backyard; Wanyan Honglie can also be free in the palace of the Great Song Dynasty with a group of first- and second-rate masters; Zhou Botong is strolling in the barracks of the Mongolian army; and Yang Guo threw a stone to death Meng Ge when the two armies faced each other!
According to this description, a top master can easily assassinate the Mongol Great Khan, and two or three top masters can work together to kill the commander and senior generals of the Mongol army overnight. In this way, the Northern Song Dynasty would not have died at all in Jin, and the Southern Song Dynasty would not have died in Mongolia. Don't say that the death of the supreme commander can not affect the victory or defeat of the national war, for the tribal countries of Jin and Mongolia, if there is no strong head to suppress, the tribes below will definitely fall apart, the real history of the Yuan and Mongolian Empire is also more than 100 years after the founding of the country, the imperial power gradually declined to the point that it could not suppress the major tribes below, which made the world's largest empire collapse into a bunch of nomadic tribes.
Therefore, when there are people in the world whose martial arts are high enough to assassinate the emperor at will, such a martial arts master is enough to affect the survival of the country. But if the Song Dynasty is not destroyed, "Shooting the Condor" will not enter "The Condor", and "The Condor" will not be able to develop to "Heaven and Dragon Slayer". To put it simply, Lao Jin wrote down the force value, which led to a contradiction with the historical process.
In order to avoid the instability of the plane caused by these contradictions, the power of the plane will arrange a large number of masters among various national forces, making it impossible to succeed in assassinating the emperor, but these masters will not enter the rivers and lakes, so it will not have any impact on the original plot.
Such a modification had no effect on Ding Yu, he originally didn't plan to go around the palace, and in the entire trilogy, there was only a fake "Wu Mu's Testament" in the Southern Song Dynasty Palace, which was not worth going to at all.
But the next self-introduction of the martial soul seed made Ding Yu have mixed feelings.
It turns out that this martial soul seed will reside in the souls of certain people, and this kind of person is like Ding Yu, who has both martial arts talent and a brave and ruthless temperament. After successful boarding, the martial soul seed will absorb the "martial power" on the host to grow, and the so-called martial power is the host's internal force.
However, this kind of absorption is not unavoidable, if the host and people do it, the martial soul seed can also absorb the power of the martial artist that escapes from the opponent's body, and when the host kills the opponent or beats it to a serious injury that is near death, the seed can harvest the most martial power.
The amount of energy absorbed by the soul seed is related to its own level: the newly awakened soul seed, that is, the one on Ding Yu's body, needs at least one unit of martial arts power per month (previously obtained when he beat Ergou into a near-death state), and when it absorbs ten units, the soul seed will be upgraded to level two.
Each upgrade of the soul seed will bring a reward to the host, allowing the host to selectively increase the quality of bones/muscles/meridians by ten percent, a benefit that may not be obvious in the early stages, but it is definitely against the sky in the later stages. It's just that every time the seed rises to one level, its energy demand will also increase by five times! That is to say, when the seed is at the first level, Ding Yu needs to beat the second dog to half death once a month, otherwise at the end of the month, he will be sucked out of fifty percent of the essence and spirit of his body, and the loss of this is similar to that of the all-night royal eighteen women.
And after ten months, if Ding Yu's physique does not improve much, either he will have to increase the behavior of "beating the second dog to half death" to five times a month, or at the end of the month, he will be sucked dry by the seeds. According to this calculation, when the seed reaches the tenth and eighth levels, wouldn't Ding Yu have to kill one hundred and eighty people a day to meet the energy needs of the seeds?
Fortunately, the Martial Soul Seed added that the stronger the opponent fighting against the host, the more martial energy it can absorb, and a senior disciple like Zhi Fang is stronger than killing one hundred or ten two dogs.
Rao is like this, Ding Yu still thinks that Yali Mountain is big, isn't this Laoshizi martial soul seed forcing himself to go to a master to fight all day long? Although the effect of dying and dying is the same, who can guarantee that he can control the intensity just right? If he is not careful, he will become a murderous maniac that everyone shouts and beats, or he will be beaten to death by a master! Why can't he get a ring old man who serves him wholeheartedly? Or it's a silent dedication to the sky in a small bottle, but he only has a martial soul seed with a strong tendency to violence!
"Phew!" Ding Yu spat at the mouth fiercely, leaving his self-pity behind him - what's the big deal, if the people of the rivers and lakes don't fight and kill, can they go to do pyramid schemes! Even if there is no such martial soul seed, don't the swordsmen in the Western Regions still live a life of swords and swords every day, so he can still waste it and exchange the opponent's martial artist energy for upgrade rewards, what else is there to complain about?
Thinking of this, Ding Yu smiled and walked briskly towards the medical hall.
Ding Yu found the old Wang Tou and told him about the job he led to the wine shop, although the old Wang Tou regretted but didn't say anything, he originally hoped that Ding Yu could come to the pharmacy to help, one is the fat shortage, and the other is that the old Wang Tou takes turns to sit in the pharmacy to teach him medical skills. But in his impression, Ding Hao's skills were only ranked in the middle and lower reaches of the sixteen disciples, and it was normal for him to not be able to compete for the waist card of the pharmacy.
As everyone knows, Ding Yu's skills have increased greatly at this time, if he gets serious, none of those teenagers is his opponent, but he is more willing to go to the wine shop to run the hall than to work in the pharmacy. At the moment, his first priority is to collect news about the rivers and lakes, and the Martial Spirit Seed only told him that it was the Condor World now, but he didn't say what time period it was, he had to figure this out in order to make the next step, and the wine shop was undoubtedly the best place to inquire about the news. As for the old king's medical skills, he could have found another time to learn, and he couldn't afford to stay in the pharmacy every day. And when it comes to the silver reward of the guests of the pharmacy, he really can't look down on it, relying on those silver bounties to save five hundred taels of silver, it is impossible to save five hundred taels of silver in ten or eight years.
Bidding farewell to the old king, Ding Yu walked for half an hour and came to the "Ali Old Wine" in Yiwu City from the King Kong Gate. Lao Zhang, the shopkeeper, had already gotten the news, so he instructed Ding Yu to be on duty in the afternoon of a single day and at night on both days and nights, and not in the morning, because the morning is the time for the disciples of the Vajra Sect to practice martial arts. Then tell him the price of the various drinks and meals in the shop, and how to greet customers when they come.
This Ali Lao Liquor takes the route of the Lower Riba people, and the wine is only the upper, middle and lower third-class wine, the entrance is like a knife, and the mare's milk wine, which is the favorite of the grassland people; the food is simpler, mainly beef and mutton, even chickens, ducks and geese are few, not to mention Haihe fresh, and the method is only sauce and roast, but it can't stand the swordsmen of the Western Regions just take this bite, and there are five or six tables of people carrying scimitars in broad daylight, and they drink wine with a big bowl of meat.
Ding Yu used to work as a waiter in a restaurant when he was in high school in his previous life, so the work of this running hall is also very familiar, which is nothing more than "the guest is coming", "the guest is please", "what do the guests want" and "the guest is good to go, come often when you are free". And the martial arts people in Yiwu City also know that Ali Laojiu is the industry of King Kong Gate, so it is not strange to see a bald little monk shuttling back and forth.
Ding Yu listened with his ears pricked up on the side, some boasted about his knife skills, some talked about the girls who slept last night, and some said who was a BMW and a good horse, but there was no information that interested him. It wasn't until it was nearly dinner that the conversation between the two Hu merchants finally lifted his spirits.
I only heard the thinner Hu merchant complain: "That Agude's hands are getting darker and darker, last month I hit the banks of the Anga River, he increased the passing silver by 30%, and if this continues, I will wait for the merchant to have no way to live!"
The fatter Hu Shang comforted: "Look away, Brother Bhatti, in this world, who doesn't live one day at a time." Although his words were miserable, there was a lightness in his tone.
The thin Hu Shang is also a good person, and he asked, "Brother Gammali, do you have any way to fail?"
Fat Hu Shang smiled slightly, but did not answer.
Thin Hu Shang was even more curious, and guessed: "Is it difficult, do you have a White Camel Mountain Order?" He was careless, his voice raised a little, and as soon as the four words "White Camel Mountain Order" were finished, the five or six tables of people turned their heads to look at it, and their eyes were full of envy.
The fat Hu Shang was very proud, and lifted his robe, revealing a bronze token tied around his waist.
The thin Hu merchant grabbed the token and looked through it carefully, only to see a Bactrian camel outlined with a few strokes on the front, but on the back was the mark of the fat Hu caravan, which was the White Camel Mountain Order that passed through the Western Regions. He asked enviously: "I heard that as long as you hold the White Camel Mountain Order, you don't need to pay the passing silver when you travel all over the Western Regions, which is better than the seal of the Black Khitan, but is it true?"
Fat Hu Shang nodded and said: "That's right, I was also lucky to come two months ago, when I passed by the foot of Wulan Mountain, the bearded sixth man saw them, and they didn't even dare to let out a fart, so they let me pass." ”
Thin Hu Shangqi said: "Doesn't it mean that there are a number of tokens, and all of them are snatched up at the beginning of each year?
Fat Hu Shang smiled but didn't answer, and poured himself a drink.
The slender Hu Shang immediately understood: "Brother Gammali, you point out the little brother, and the little brother will be rewarded." As he spoke, he took the fat Hu Shang's hand and covered it with a wide sleeved robe. He didn't want to do anything with the fat Hu Shang, but a means of communication for the Hu Shang in the Western Regions, the two of them touched their fingers and covered the numbers with their sleeve robes, which meant that I offered this price.
The two exchanged for a while, and the fat Hu Shang showed a satisfied smile, he asked the thin Hu Shang to come over with his ear, and said in a low voice: "I paid tribute to Ouyang Ke, the young master of the White Camel Mountain, two stunning beauties in exchange for this token." Although his voice was low, Ding Yu, who was standing in the corner behind the two, could hear it clearly.
Ding Yu breathed a sigh of relief—he finally got a more accurate time node—he remembered that Ouyang Ke, the unlucky child, had never returned to the Western Regions since he brought a group of concubines to the Central Plains, and was finally stabbed to death by Yang Kang, the second generation of officials. Since this fat Hu Shang said that he sent Mei Ji to Ouyang Ke two months ago, it means that the plot of the protagonist Guo Jing and Huang Rong has not progressed much.