Chapter 739 Lunar Sun
Chapter 739 Lunar Sun
"How much did Patriarch Quan say?!"
"In reply to your Excellency, one hundred mermaid tears! The Quan and Leng tribes will each offer fifty! I have counted them myself, there is no mistake!"
Quan Linghan slammed the brown bag to the ground with a loud bang, and raised it three points higher in his hand.
At the end of July, the second batch of Huangzhou’s shark silk dividends arrived. The amount was shocking. With two more waves of dividends from large-scale trade transactions between the court and the sea, good days were clearly ahead.
A man who eats someone's food is grateful, and a man who takes someone's money is grateful. Being able to give back to Liang Qu makes the mermaid feel happy!
"Okay, okay... Chief Quan sent me a hundred mermaid tears tonight. I really don't know what to say. It's such a pleasant surprise!"
Liang Qu held up the leather bag, his face flushed with joy.
He felt the heavy weight in his palms and the bulging sense of satisfaction.
Really!
Really!
The mermaid's tears collide with each other, making a dense and crisp sound, more pleasant to the ear than real gold and silver!
The amount of essence contained in a mermaid tear is roughly two thousand five or two thousand six, and some contain as much as two thousand eight or two thousand nine.
This bag is conservatively estimated to be worth two hundred and fifty thousand!
Not only Liangqu, but also the fat catfish, fist-shaped fish and other water animals in the water were happy.
The fat catfish flapped its fins and struggled hard.
Look at the three extra long wisps of air coming out of Ze Ding.
One red, one gold, and one silver.
The circulation is full of vitality.
hiss~
Liang Qu's mind was a little groggy for a moment. He suspected that he had inhaled the white mist of the Little Mirage Dragon before going to bed and had not yet woken up, and unexpectedly, such good things happened one after another.
nice!
So pretty!
The moon was high in the sky, the light of the stars and the moon was flowing, the occasional barking of dogs was heard, and the quietness was rare. The eaves of the houses seemed to be covered with a layer of mercury.
The leaves in the courtyard rubbed against each other, and fluorescent green spots danced in the corners. The fireflies that Long Yao and Long Li brought back from Huazhu County last year survived the winter and stubbornly lived to this day.
Really down to earth.
It is not easy to chase the mermaid away immediately when she presents such a great gift.
Liang Qu temporarily put aside the urgency of exploring the [Sun] and [Moon] energies in the cauldron, waved his hand to call over the [Rattan Soldiers], and asked Quan Linghan to sit down and talk in order to win their hearts.
"Chief Quan said earlier that there are two tribes: the Quan tribe and the Leng tribe... Could it be that the Leng merman has now become independent from the tribe?"
Quan Linghan was surprised to see the vines moving in the pond, but he did not show any abnormality.
“Your Excellency has misunderstood. Although there are people with the surname Leng in the Quan Clan, their number is very small. The Leng Clan is not a branch of our clan, but another group of river mermaids in Pengze, and their number is larger than ours.
Now the leader of the Leng tribe is returning to Pengze, planning to gradually relocate his people to Jiangchuan County. By then, it is estimated that there will be more than 2,600 mermaids living in the entire Jiangchuan County!
I came here today to give you the Mermaid Tears as a token of my gratitude; on the other hand, I also want you to inform the River Port Office to send someone and a boat to pick you up as soon as possible, with flags and escort, to avoid any problems along the way."
It’s actually a new tribe!
Where did it come from?
Liang Qu was puzzled: "Chief Quan returned to Pengze and found it by accident?"
Quan Linghan explained: "In order to prevent the Huaijiang mermaids from being caught in one fell swoop, the Quan and Leng tribes rarely contacted each other. Only a few older mermaids knew about it..."
Liang Qu listened and waved his hand, asking Aunt Zhang and La La to go and prepare two side dishes, and then open a can of green plum wine that he got from his master this year.
He doesn't like drinking, so the so-called green plum wine has a light taste, but is sour and more appetizing.
A plate of cucumbers, a plate of braised pork, and a dish of fried peas were placed on the table first.
Otter opened a small plate and poured vinegar and shredded ginger on it.
The origins of the two tribes are finished.
Liang Qu suddenly realized.
"It's so."
"Master Liang, I did not conceal it on purpose. It was just that I was not happy..."
"It's okay. You shouldn't have the intention to harm others, but you must be on guard against others. If I were the leader of the Quan clan, I would definitely do the same thing. Come, have a piece of braised meat. Dip it in vinegar, it tastes delicious!"
As long as the result is good, Liang Qu doesn't care whether Quan Linghan hides it or not.
The number of mermaids in Jiangchuan has doubled, and it is well received.
Chief Quan, a great and loyal minister!
"Thank you, sir. I have been living in Jianghuai for more than half a year since last winter. Pingyang is a good place. The mermaid tribe is thriving and dozens of little mermaids have been born.
Sir Liang gave up most of his share of the Jiao silk dividends and gave them to the Jiao people. Whenever I think of it, I always want to give back and also want to help other tribesmen."
Tata opened his hands and brought the grilled fish to the table.
Shad, although shad is not in season in August, is also a great delicacy.
Quan Linghan picked up the fish, put it into his mouth, and savored it silently.
Since arriving in Pingyang, the entire mermaid tribe has fallen in love with hot food, which is much more delicious than eating raw fish. However, after all the food they eat, the river otters under Liang Qu's command are still the best.
Seeing that he liked it, Liang Qu pushed him to the opposite side and said, "Chief Quan is a man who values friendship and loyalty."
"Chang Qi Yixing is far inferior to Lord Liang. It's a coincidence. In fact, the 100 mermaid tears from these two tribes should have been delivered to you in June." "Oh? Why then..."
"The chief of the Leng tribe accepted my invitation in May and stayed until June. He was very satisfied with everything. However, in late June, the demon king of Jianghuai Lake was in turmoil and thunder struck. He was frightened and thought that Jianghuai was in the midst of war and turmoil. He wanted to leave in a hurry. I persuaded him to stay reluctantly. We agreed to wait for another Binghuo day to observe the situation."
"Why do we need a Bing Fire Day?"
"On the day of Bing Fire, two or even three days of the fire are in the sky, everything is restless, there are often fights, water monsters attack, and even young mermaids have many conflicts.
Therefore, the court has a curfew. I have agreed with the Leng clan leader that if nothing major happens during the Binghuo period of more than 20 days, and no monsters attack, we will make a new decision.
Fortunately, the Hebo Office was very good at managing the waters, and the entire Binghuo Day passed peacefully without any fighting or quarreling. Only then did Chief Leng believe that the incident in June was a sudden accident. "
Liang Qu bathed in the moonlight, stretched out his chopsticks to pick up a piece of fish belly meat. He never expected that there would be such a thing. He had his own reasons for being late in realizing it.
No wonder two great happy events happen at the same time today.
Everything is connected.
A mermaid sheds only one or two tears in her lifetime; many never shed a tear at all.
One hundred pieces is by no means a small number.
There is indeed gain in loss.
To win over the mermaids, we must rely on the mermaids themselves to exercise their subjective initiative.
In the end.
"Sir, please take care of the matter of going to Pengze to pick up the mermaid."
"Don't worry, Chief Quan. Once the mermaids are registered in Pingyang and have paid the two taxes, they will become our Dashun subjects. We cannot afford to let them go. I will arrange the fleet tonight and we will set off tomorrow morning!"
Simple eating and drinking.
Liang Qu fulfilled his promise, rode up Chishan Mountain, called Li Libo and Chen Jiechang, and asked them to wake up the officials at all levels of the Hebo Office and work a "night shift".
It won’t take more than two minutes.
The pier was very busy, so the treasure ship was temporarily dispatched.
The night wind blew, the reed flowers were immersed in the water, and the slender reed leaves cast shadows, with clear boundaries.
On a Bing Fire day, not only is the sun bright, the moon is even brighter. There is no need for torches at all, and it does not hinder the supply and mobilization of the fleet.
Liang Qu sat upright on his horse, with Wu Long following closely behind him, lowering his head to sniff the air, and raising his claws to grab the jumping frogs and crabs.
Looking at the busy officials at all levels, he reached into the brown bag around his waist.
[Water Essence +2489]
[Water Essence +2841]
[Water Essence +2317]
……
Each mermaid's tear was collected in a small net bag to distinguish which ancestor left it. Liang Qu took out all the ones that had been touched and put them into another bag to prevent any leakage.
One is worth more than two thousand, so five coins will cost ten thousand.
Inside the Ze Ding, the fluorescent blue water tide rose rapidly at an extremely exaggerated speed.
With one hand he touches the essence of the water, while with the other he focuses on exploring the energy within the cauldron.
[If you obtain a ray of the sun's long energy and merge it with the essence of thirty thousand water bodies, you will give birth to a spirit fish, which has mysterious effects.]
[If you obtain a wisp of Taiyin's long energy and merge it with the essence of thirty thousand waters and lakes...]
【The Sun: Yang creates and Yang kills.】
【Taiyin: Yin grows and Yin hides.】
[The Sun and the Moon: When the Yang reaches its zenith, the Yin appears; when the Yin reaches its zenith, the Yang appears; the Sun is exhausted and returns; the Moon is full and rounded; there is no going without returning.]
Thirty thousand essences prove that the quality of the two long strands of energy is extraordinary.
However, Liang Qu's perception of the effects of the two long wisps of air was vague. He only knew that one was full of vitality and the other was calm and restrained.
and……
Red air, sun.
It turns out they are not the same thing?
(End of this chapter)