Chapter 218 Jiangliu
Songxian County, the sun is rising.
This is a small inn, the food is not exquisite enough, the bed is not soft enough, and it even smells a bit musty.
Only now did Xue Ling understand that Xiaohun Inn was not the bottom line of the inn. On the contrary, Xiaohun Inn followed a small but refined route.
However, at least one good thing about this inn is that it is mediocre and cheap enough.
Sheng Junqian doesn't like the fact that it's cheap, because he never seeks the best, but the most expensive.
But Xue Ling likes mediocrity very much.
Mediocrity means the inn is unspectacular.
Last night before nightfall, Xue Ling and Sheng Junqian checked into this inn. In the end, Sheng Junqian took on the role of a poison tester. After Sheng Junqian had eaten for an hour and a half and confirmed that nothing was wrong, Xue Ling ate a little. Jerky broth.
The county seat of Songxian County is actually at the foot of Baiyun Mountain. After leaving the county seat and walking about ten miles, you will enter the mountainous area of Baiyun Mountain. Therefore, whether you are looking for information here or making preparations to enter the mountainous area, the county seat of Songxian County is It is necessary to stay.
Early the next morning, Xue Ling paid the rent, and then she and Sheng Junqian led the two horses to the post station in Song County to let the grooms there help take care of the feeding - it was okay for the horses to travel on the official road, but in the mountainous areas , the mountain road is rugged and steep, making it difficult to walk.
Xue Ling is currently working hard to learn all-round bee wing skills, but now she is just applying what she has learned.
"So then we will go to Baiyun Mountain?" Walking on the street of Song County, Sheng Junqian couldn't help but ask Xue Ling.
Xue Ling shook her head: "I may want to go, but not now."
"Because we don't know where Tian Bu Lao is now." Xue Ling said.
"Isn't Tianbu Lao in Baiyun Mountain?" Sheng Junqian said.
"Yes, Tianbulao is in Baiyun Mountain." Xue Ling nodded: "But Baiyun Mountain is so big, with a radius of nearly a hundred miles. Throwing a few people in is like finding a needle in a haystack. We can't enter Baiyun Mountain just by relying on those few words. ."
Sheng Junqian nodded thoughtfully, then looked at Xue Ling: "Then where are we going now?" "
Of course we are going to ask those who may know the news about Tian Bu Lao." Xue Ling said.
"How do you know?" Sheng Junqian asked.
Xue Ling smiled, looked at Sheng Junqian, and softly uttered two words.
"Drug store."
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If you want to ask about medicinal materials, of course you have to ask the drug store.
And regardless of the town, people will get sick, and when they are sick, they need to seek medical advice. There are doctors and pharmacies.
Xue Ling and Sheng Junqian went from left to right in Song County and asked almost every drug store they saw. However, when they wanted to buy medicine, as long as the words "Tian Bu Lao" were mentioned, the other party would open their eyes wide. He looked at the two of them, and then walked away as if swatting away flies.
We don't know that there is such a medicine. Are you here to amuse us?
It was like this in several places, which made Sheng Junqian feel a little discouraged, but Xue Ling was not shocked.
Because if Tian Bu Lao was easy to find, two people would not have to travel hundreds of miles to Baiyun Mountain to find Tian Bu Lao's whereabouts.
And unknowingly, the two people found it from morning to noon, but still found nothing.
It was still midsummer and the sun was scorching hot. The two of them sat down at a nearby tea stall and each ordered a bowl of herbal tea to relieve the heat.
After sitting down, Sheng Junqian sighed: "I didn't expect that people here have never even heard of the medicine Tianbulao."
Xue Ling shook her head seriously: "No, I don't think they haven't heard of it." I've heard of it, but I've heard of it, and I'm taboo about this medicinal material."
Sheng Junqian took a big sip of herbal tea and looked at Xue Ling in disbelief: "How did you tell?"
Xue Ling still didn't touch the herbal tea in front of her. I asked for two bowls just because it was weird to ask for one bowl.
"I'm just asking about medicine." Xue Ling said quietly: "If it's not there, it's not. Why did the other party kick us out?" "Is it
because of our foreigner accents and origins?"
"Or something else?"
"In short, there must be something in it. Weird."
Upon hearing this, Sheng Junqian suddenly fell into deep thought.
What Xue Ling said does make sense.
"Then let's ask again?" Sheng Junqian looked at Xue Ling: "This time we pay a large price to buy, maybe there will be a different effect." "No." Xue Ling shook her head and said, "I don't think the effect may be the same
. It will be huge."
"Why?" Sheng Junqian said unconvinced.
"Because the other party is taboo. If we are taboo, the higher the price we offer, the more suspicious they will become." Xue Ling shook her head and said, "If you want to break the situation, the best way is to use a familiar face to take action." "A familiar face?" Sheng
Junqian asked.
"Yes, familiar faces." Xue Ling confirmed: "Only familiar faces they know themselves can have a chance to gain their trust." At
this moment, someone next to him laughed out loud: "You are not afraid of being criticized when you talk loudly like this. Did anyone else hear it?"
Xue Ling and Sheng Junqian looked towards the place where the sound came from, and saw a somewhat dirty boy squatting aside and saying.
"Who are you?" He looked almost like a little beggar. He was estimated to be fourteen or fifteen years old. Xue Ling couldn't help but ask.
"It doesn't matter who I am." The boy stood up and laughed: "You look like strangers at first sight. There are a few of them every year. I don't know how many people are hired in the city, but when I enter I couldn't even find the beech hair."
"If you're lucky, you can come back alive." "
If you're unlucky, you just risk your life in the mountains." "
So the news that the sky never grows old has been circulating in Song County for a long time. ?" Xue Ling couldn't help but ask.
The boy chuckled: "My mouth is dry, please let me drink some tea."
Xue Ling raised her hand to ask Dr. Tea to pour another bowl of tea, but the boy waved his hand and looked at Xue Ling: "I want you. That bowl of tea."
"Anyway, you haven't drunk it until now."
The image that Xue Ling recalled at that moment was "Uncle, if he had the intention, he would drink half of the remaining wine from the slave family."
But she did not have this bowl of tea. After drinking, the girl did not say she had any mental mysophobia. She nodded and pushed the bowl of tea to the boy: "You can drink it."
The dirty boy walked over in a swagger, held the tea bowl in both hands, and took a sip. He took a deep breath and wiped his mouth: "Thank you, girl, for the tea."
"My name is Jiang Liu."
He looked at the two of them with dark eyes.
"You are looking for immortality, right?"
"Then you know what immortality is?"
"What is the use of seeking immortality?"
The young man named Jiang Liu asked questions like a barrage of questions.
Xue Ling looked at him and replied quietly: "In order to treat a friend of ours, we are looking for Tian Bu Lao. We heard about the Tian Bu Lao in Baiyun Mountain before." "That's why we came here from Luo City
. ."
When Jiang Liu heard this, he burst out laughing: "Is that why?"
(End of Chapter)