"Rod, you don't even take me, your fiancée, seriously!"
The Rhodes people were numb.
Only then did he realize that what he had gained was actually favorability? !
"No, your hobbies are too weird, aren't they?"
Chapter 299 Sincerity can move mountains and open up new horizons (5k
Yangmen Prefecture City.
Yu Wang Qingli looked at the black-robed girl Yuli with a bruised face and nose, and a look of surprise appeared on his face.
"In this Southwest Province, there are actually people who can hurt you like this? Is it a super warrior from outside, or a monster? How dare they do that?"
In the entire Southwest Province, even if you include Qing Li, the half-demon, there are only a handful of top-notch warriors.
In fact, this is the result of the development of martial arts in recent years. Forty years ago, there were only about ten top martial artists in the world.
Anyone who dares to become an enemy of the flying fish demon Yuli cannot be a local super-class warrior in Southwest Province, because the local super-class warriors all know the consequences of becoming an enemy of Yuli.
Even if you win, it is still a shame.
After all... practicing martial arts is not about training your sphincter. No matter how high your martial arts skills are, your sphincter may not be much stronger than that of an ordinary person.
If vomiting and diarrhea really start, even a super martial artist may not be able to withstand it.
Yuli is a poisonous monster that walked out of the poisonous cloud swamp in the Ten Thousand Mountains. Every breath he takes is filled with poison gas, and he usually has to restrain himself in order to live in the same room with ordinary people.
This Yuli looks like a pretty girl, but if she exerts her full strength, there will be no city that cannot be conquered by the Yu Wang Army.
Wherever he went, there was thousands of miles of yellow earth, stretching for thousands of miles... Yu Wang Qingli had always been reluctant to use such a powerful weapon, mainly because he thought the consequences would be too horrific.
"My enemy is not a human, but a demon from outside..." Yuli explained the whole story and then said:
"But I was prepared. I had already poisoned the merchant Luo Cheng."
"Even if we are thousands of miles apart, I can track him through this poison."
Yu Wang's eyes suddenly became a little strange:
"Is this poison of yours the kind that causes incontinence?"
If the toxin of fecal incontinence is used as a tracking mark, then doesn't that mean that the traveling merchant Luo Cheng has to mark a section of the road wherever he goes, and she has to follow him by smelling the scent
"Of course not." Yuli blushed and argued:
"It's blood poison. The blood from his wound will leave a special smell..."
Yu Wang Qingli breathed a sigh of relief for some reason.
The gold of the Golden City is what she wants to get. Now that even her trusted confidant Yu Li has been defeated, it is natural for her to take the lead.
If she had to chase after him for thousands of miles smelling the dung, the scene would be too beautiful...
..
In the mountains and forests.
"Senior Qiao, now that things have come to this, I will take my leave first." Long Shankong, with both arms wrapped in bandages, said:
"My arms are injured. If I move with Senior Qiao, I will just be a burden. It's better for me to go first."
Long Shankong was originally just a middleman, just to find the merchant Luo Cheng, and now he can be said to have retired after completing his mission.
He was not very interested in the Golden Country, but was quite interested in Peach Blossom Villa.
It is difficult to find a place like Taoyuan Villa in the world where there is no prejudice against one another and many martial artists can exchange their skills.
Now that he has succeeded, he can't wait to go back to the villa and practice more.
Qiao Mu did not try to keep him, but pulled the traveling merchant Luo Cheng all the way towards the depths of the Shiwan Mountains.
He originally grabbed Luo Cheng and wanted to get the details of the so-called Golden City and the Philosopher's Stone.
Unexpectedly, this traveling merchant was actually just a middleman. He knew nothing about where the Golden Country was. He only revealed the source of the gold in his hands, which was given to him by the head of his own family, the Luo family.
The head of the Luo family, and even the entire Luo family, settled deep in the mountains, in a place called Taotie City.
So, the two people and the cat walked along the mountain road, making many twists and turns.
The mountain roads in the Ten Thousand Mountains are rugged and difficult to travel. Many times, the road ahead is almost invisible, and one has to walk entirely on grass that is half a person's height.
Without the guidance of the traveling merchant Luo Cheng, Qiao Mu would not have been able to find where Taotie City was.
After trekking through mountains and rivers for a whole day, we finally saw the light ahead and a mountain city emerged.
The so-called Taotie City is located in a valley between mountains, surrounded by rugged mountains and even cliffs on three sides. There is only one mountain road on the north side for outsiders to travel in and out, making it difficult to find.
Qiao Mu originally thought that since this Taotie City was named after Taotie, it should be extraordinary, perhaps a majestic city in the mountains.
However, when he stood in front of Taotie City, he only saw a circle of low city walls. The moat had long dried up, leaving only dry yellow soil. Even a small part of the city wall had collapsed. The wall surface was mottled and old, with traces of time.
"I shouldn't have expected that... Also, how could there be a majestic city among the mountains?"
Qiao Mu muttered.
When he entered the mountain, he followed the traveling merchant Luo Cheng to walk along the mountain road, and he also had to rely on his memory as a martial artist to find his way, so he walked slowly.
The next time he goes out of the mountain, he can rely on his lightness skills to climb walls and fly over eaves, so it won't be a problem for him to go out of the mountain.
This mountain town is obviously not wealthy.
The city walls are low and dilapidated, most of the pedestrians are thin and pale, and the houses are scattered and dilapidated.
But the further you go along the road, the taller and neater the houses become, and occasionally you can see a few wealthy people wearing all kinds of silk, gold and jade on the road.
Obviously, although Taotie City is a mountain city, like other cities in Kyushu, the inner city and the outer city are almost two different worlds.
The Luo family, where Luo Cheng was going to take Qiao Mu, was in the inner city area of Taotie City.
The two were walking on the road, and before they reached Luo's house, they suddenly heard a shout:
"Luo Cheng, don't leave!"
A white-haired old man with a goatee came over angrily, his finger almost poking Luo Cheng's nose.
"The ten ounces of gold you exchanged with me before were clearly just stones!"
"I used real gold and silver to exchange it with you!"
"My son worked in the city's Shanzhenlou for a year, saving forty taels of silver. I'm giving it all to you."
"You cheated your father out of money? Give me back the money!"
"Stop making trouble here!" The traveling merchant Luo Cheng shouted without fear.
Just as he shouted, he remembered Qiao Mu was still beside him, his face twitched slightly, and his voice softened a little:
"You are also from Taotie City, not an outsider."
"I explained everything to you clearly when we exchanged for gold." Seeing that the pedestrians around were attracted by the quarrel, Luo Cheng deliberately lowered his voice:
"I have already explained how to turn the gold in this Golden Country into gold. I have not hidden anything from you!"
"How about that, can your forty taels of silver be exchanged for ten taels of gold from me? Is it you who is not smart enough, or is it me?"
"It was obviously you who were not sincere and failed to turn the gold into real gold. Now you blame me?"
When the old man with a goatee beard heard this, his face turned red and his beard trembled slightly. He immediately rolled up his sleeves and prepared to catch Luo Cheng.
At this time, several young and strong men on the roadside came over and blocked the old man like a human wall, shouting:
"Don't act like a jerk here, you old rascal. Do you think our Luo family is easy to bully?"
"If you lose money in the gold business, then you will bear the losses on your own. Now you want to blame our Luo family for the loss. How can such a good thing happen?"
"Anyway, you don't want to suffer any loss, you don't want to take any risk, you just want to make a lot of money?"
"If there is such a good thing that is sure to make money, will it be your turn? There are thousands of mouths to feed in our Luo family."
The old man with a goatee was surrounded by several strong men and scolded. He couldn't argue with them, and he couldn't push them away. He became more and more anxious. Finally, someone pushed him and he fell flat on his face.
He was also good, he just rolled on the ground, crying:
"This is my son's annual salary. He works as a helper in Shanzhenlou, getting up early and going to bed late every day... I wanted to give him this salary so that he can get married in the future..."
"Stop howling." Luo Cheng was sneering when his eyes suddenly twitched and he noticed Qiao Mu who was silent next to him.
He gritted his teeth and patted the shoulder of a man in front of him:
"Ah He, do you have any money on you? Lend me forty taels to compensate Old Yang."
"Uncle Cheng? Are you serious?" The two young men widened their eyes.
"Hurry up, hurry up." Luo Cheng felt more and more like a needle in his back, and urged:
"Just think of it as your uncle lending it to you."
Several young men looked at each other, discussed the matter, and collected forty taels of silver from their pockets and handed it over.
When the old man with the goatee saw the money, the tears on his face were wiped away immediately, and his whole demeanor was completely different.
"Luo Cheng, you are a good person." He snatched the purse and ran away. His movements were quite efficient and he disappeared in a flash.
"Mr. Qiao..." Merchant Luo Cheng sighed this time:
"You may think I am excusing myself by saying this."
"But that old guy... Old Yang is really not a good person. It's true that his son works as a helper in Shanzhenlou, but he himself is a chronic gambler."
"Who knows if these forty taels of silver can be returned to his son?"
"Oh." Qiao Mu said:
"He is a gambler who doesn't deserve sympathy, and you are a profiteer who cheated the gambler out of his money?"
The traveling merchant Luo Cheng's eyes twitched, but he didn't dare to refute.
"Uncle Cheng, is this person from outside?" Several young men turned around and looked at Qiao Mu with cold faces.
"It's a distinguished guest from outside." Luo Cheng said quickly:
"Where is our clan leader now? I have something important to discuss with him."
"The clan leader? He's in the ancestral hall. It's quite lively there right now. You can still catch up with him if you go over there."
Luo Cheng sighed inwardly, and hurriedly took Qiao Mu to the Luo Family Ancestral Hall.
The Luo family is considered a relatively large clan in Taotie City, with thousands of members.
The ancestral hall was originally a place for clan members to hold meetings. It would only become lively when important events occurred or when ancestor worship was being offered.
Today, when Luo Cheng rushed to the ancestral hall, there were already dozens or even hundreds of clansmen sitting there. It was crowded and bustling.
Today is not the time to worship the ancestors, but the Luo family members are discussing something in the ancestral hall, and the discussion is in full swing.
"Brother, I can sell you ten taels of gold for only fifty taels of silver. If it were an outsider, I wouldn't sell it so cheaply." A big man said to another person in a low voice.
"Is this ten ounces of gold of yours real gold?"
"... .almost."
"What do you mean by almost? True is true, false is false."
"No, according to my experience, I estimate that in three days, it will turn into ten taels of real gold. Do you want it?"
"What happened three days later can be counted? I said I could pick up a thousand taels of gold in three days!"
"That's different. If I hold on to this stone for another three days, it will turn into real gold."
"I don't believe it. Wait until it turns into gold."
"You fool, you don't know the value of something... If it really turns into gold in three days, the price won't be the same anymore." The man sneered.
Qiao Mu frowned slightly when he heard this, and then he turned his ear to another place, where several men were also having a lively conversation:
"You want to sell it to me for fifty taels of silver? But I remember the price of gold yesterday was not this amount, but thirty taels?"
"Oh, the price of gold changes every day, sometimes high, sometimes low. If someone takes over, the price will go up, and if no one takes over, the price will go down. But according to my experience, the price of gold will go up in the next few days."
"I am willing to take you with me to make money because we have a good relationship."
Inside and outside the ancestral hall, the topic discussed by many Luo family men mostly revolves around one word: gold.
Even when the merchant Luo Cheng had just entered the ancestral hall, he was soon approached by an acquaintance: