Chapter 457 The soft persimmon comes to the door
Chapter 457 The soft persimmon comes to the door
Above the big swamp, four wide-bellied arks with deep drafts of water were drifting towards the valley.
Liang Qu and Ran Zhongshi entered the center of the cabin from the stairs on both sides and walked through a narrow corridor. The cold white air blew in their faces and sank vaguely.
"Phew, it's much more comfortable inside than outside."
Liang Qu exhaled a breath of hot air, stepped into the ice storage room filled with white mist, stretched his shoulders, and felt refreshed all over.
It was late May outside, the sun was scorching and the heat was incredibly hot. The slightest movement would make one sweat.
The cabin was like a cold storage.
Take a few steps inside and the white mist will dispel the scorching heat and make you feel extremely comfortable.
People walked past the side of the dark blue ice, and the cold air flowed along the folds of their clothes.
The entire cabin was surrounded by a layer of insulating cotton material, and the ground was sprinkled with saltpeter powder to ensure that the old ice melted as little as possible. There were also several machines that hummed and emitted cold air.
The principle seems to be similar to that of an ice table. When you reach out your hand, the temperature of the air blown out will be lower.
The surface of most ice blocks combines with water vapor to grow white frost. You have to scrape off an inch-thick layer before you can see the dark blue old ice inside.
Liang Qu used the blue wolf to dig out a fist-sized piece and placed it at the junction of sunlight to observe. The light blue light and shadow cast by it looked pure and flawless.
Bai Yinbin is right.
This batch of ice is very pure.
The steward accompanied him and said, "When we mined it, we got nearly 1.25 million kilograms. Even if we tried our best, we still melted tens of thousands of kilograms."
"The loss rate is quite small." Ran Zhongshi brushed his fingertips across the ice, flicking away the frost. "The manager knows why we are here, right?"
"Understood, Lord Lu, Lord Ren has said that please rest assured that our Tianbo Chamber of Commerce has a good reputation.
Anyone brought here today will never come within a 20-mile radius of the vision, and will leave as soon as they are sent away.
If anyone violates the rules, once discovered, there is no need to ask me and let the adults handle it."
"There's no need to be so serious. There are only a few people on your four cargo ships... No one is following you, right?"
"No!" the steward said firmly, "We collected ice and went down the Blackwater River without any supplies along the way.
No one knew where we were going, let alone what was on the ship or why we were passing through. There were so many merchant ships passing through the Great Lake every day that basically no one noticed us. "
"Not really." Liang Qu suddenly interrupted, "I noticed quite a few rats sneaked onto the ship."
Ran Zhongshi and others looked at him sideways.
The steward was a little puzzled: "My Lord, why don't you make your words clearer."
Ran Zhongshi took two steps forward and asked in a low voice, "Did you find anything?"
Liang Qu put Qinglang back on his waist and took out a black water arrow.
"When I boarded the ship, some people looked at me with hostility, or more precisely, at 'us'."
Lu Kaiyun, Ren Yipeng, Bai Yinbin: “?”
They had been on the boat for half a day, so how come they didn't feel anything?
Ran Zhongshi considered his words carefully: "The look in your eyes... is full of malice? Are you kidding?"
Warriors can indeed convey murderous intent and malicious intent through their eyes, but they must do so actively.
If the other party had sneaked up here in secret, how could he be so open and aboveboard?
Afraid that the enemy doesn’t know?
"I have a special method."
Ran Zhongshi raised his eyebrows: "Is it accurate?"
"Nothing has gone wrong."
Ran Zhongshi's eyes fell on the steward and his palm reached back slightly.
Liang Qu grabbed Ran Zhongshi's wrist and said, "The manager is fine, otherwise I wouldn't come in and say that. The few people outside are strong and powerful, so they should be spies."
Bai Yinbin's eyes turned: "Ghost Mother Cult?"
After listening to a few words, the manager gradually understood the situation. Although he should be happy that he had cleared himself of the matter, as a member of the Chamber of Commerce, he could not be blamed for what had happened.
"That shouldn't be the case, my Lords. Our ships and people collected ice without stopping along the way. We even had to send people to row for half a day every day. There were no personnel changes. We hurried along..."
Liang Qu interrupted, "Maybe it's during transportation, otherwise it wouldn't be that easy!"
Bai Yinbin asked, "Li replaces Tao, sheep replaces cow?"
Liang Qu raised his head and stared at the steward: "In normal water transport, the fleet would not cross the center of the lake, right?"
The steward bowed and said, "Your Excellency is right. The Jianghuai Marsh is extremely deep and crisscrossed, with many water beasts. Ordinary water transport caravans usually take a long detour along the shallow waters.
It is far, but safer. If we cross it like we do, although the route is several times shorter, we have to spend more money to buy the exorcism ointment.
Even so, there is still a risk of being attacked by water monsters, so we hoisted the flag of the river port halfway through our journey."
If you can’t govern the imperial court, how can you govern the caravan?
A caravan without background and bad luck is just a can of gold and silver traveling on the water.
Open one and make a fortune.
Lu Kaiyun asked: "How is it now?"
Liang Qu looked at Ran Zhongshi. "A Shui, can you recognize all the people?"
"As long as they look at me, yes!"
Ran Zhongshi didn't hesitate: "Try to catch them alive and see if you can get any clues from them. Manager, gather all the people on the deck under the pretext of arriving at the destination and transporting ice!"
"Yes!"
The steward left in a hurry.
“What an unexpected gain.”
Bai Yinbin sighed.
Brother Xu is not good at fishing, but he is quite accurate in other things.
The decision to send Liang Qu and Ran Zhongshi was a spur-of-the-moment decision, and no one expected that they would actually dig up something dirty.
"It is rumored that the East Snake, North Fish and the Ghost Mother Cult have a secret connection, which may not be groundless. Even if it is true, the Frog Tribe and the Ironhead Fish have been confronting each other for so many days, and they will not be idle after learning the news. It's just that I don't know which lineage the people who came are from?"
"Hey, no matter which lineage, the Martial Saint is hard to move. If they want to continue hanging around in Daze, they dare not send out their Grandmaster.
Just these two points, from now on, no matter how many come, it will be our military merit! Ah Shui is not here today, hiding secretly can still cause some trouble, but now, it is impossible to cause trouble. "
Liang Qu thought about it.
"That makes sense. The Ghost Mother Cult lives in a vast lake and dares not completely evil Nanwa. It reduces its own vertical and horizontal space, but it is in a period of transition..."
Ordinary spiritual practice is in the form of a pyramid, with fewer people as you go up, just like the food chain.
The situation of the Duguimu Cult is different because it is based on historical issues.
In the last chapter, the Huang family branch was headed by two grandmasters, but under them there were only two great martial artists!
The grand master has a long life span, and one person can pass on his skills to ten generations, even if the father is gone, the grandfather is still around.
If the great martial artist does not take the treasure that can prolong his life, he can only live to a hundred and thirty or fourteen years old at best. The remnants who fled to the swamp would have died early.
However, the new generation has a small population base, limited resources, and is difficult to train. It is already extremely difficult to become a great martial artist, and most of them are in the middle or lower realms...
If we really send someone here, they will only be at this level.
"The easy target is now at my doorstep!"
Several people started to think and became more spirited. They quickly took action with Liangqu as the center, clearing out the giant rats hiding in the darkness one ship at a time.
The people who deliver the ice are busy, and the people who collect the ice are also busy.
Long Binglin, Long Eying and Long Yanrui prepared to complete the battle and drive the ironhead fish out of the valley in one fell swoop.
Dulong Zongyin brought his own people to receive the goods.
"Is it or isn't it..."
Long Zongyin moved the pearl string on his wrist, with a lot of thoughts in his mind.
Two days, almost three days, were enough time for Long Zongyin to find Long Pingjiang and Long Pinghe. He then took the white sturgeon to discuss with the first and second elders for a whole day and came up with a preliminary plan.
"You two, you didn't even tell the clan about such a big thing."
Behind Long Zongyin, Long Pingjiang and Long Pinghe looked ashamed.
At first, the two of them guessed and thought that Liang Qu was the Dragon King.
The will of the Dragon King is naturally higher than the will of the dragon clan.
After dealing with the snake demon, the two realized that their guess might be wrong, but they were too embarrassed to reveal the whole matter of Liang Qu.
Liang Qu treated them well.
He did not intentionally take advantage of the two because of his similarities with Long Jun, and he always verbally denied that he was Long Jun.
It's just their own wishful thinking.
Therefore, I was entangled and kept it on hold.
Unexpectedly, just a few days after they came back, the elder found them by name and yelled at them.
Couldn't hide it.
A lot of things came out.
The two brothers did not say anything about the White Ape, but the truth revealed by the White Ape was very different from that of the Dragon King.
Long Zongyin did not press the issue, he did not need to know the specific results.
The truth is irrelevant. The key point is that he is "not a dragon sign". Combined with the attitudes of Long Pingjiang and Long Pinghe, it is doubtful whether the other party is the Dragon King. It will take time and evidence to slowly deduce.
As for the current relationship with the other party...
After discussing with the other two elders, the three of them all felt that the matter was not difficult to handle, and could even be said to be simple.
There is only one way for the dragon people to go back and forth.
It’s definitely a good idea to make friends.
All correct.
(End of this chapter)