As the saying goes, travel thousands of miles and read thousands of books. Lin Fengjin really gained experience this time. This was the first time he saw this strange creature, like a snake, like an earthworm, twisting and turning, and still alive.
It has a weird comb and two small eyes that are shining with cold light, which makes your skin crawl.
Because this monster is very good at breaking apart on its own and then hurting people, these "Xunsakes" who were caught were placed in baskets made of a local kind of mountain vine. When the Xunsake comes into contact with this mountain vine, its whole body will become extremely soft.
, as if the bones have been removed, very safe. However, this basket can only be used for three days at most. After three days, the mountain vines will dry up and will become ineffective. Therefore, there are many shops that weave baskets. Counting this, it is another one.
What a unique industrial chain.
After wandering around the market for a while, Lin Fengjin walked to the finished product market. Here was a shop with a front, filled with jars of wine. It seemed that the supply was sufficient, and there were piles of it.
Regardless of whether it is a certain store, a certain restaurant, or a certain store, the wine jars sold by such and such a store all have ferocious snake patterns on them.
This is the famous snake wine. Although glass has appeared at this time, its cost is still quite expensive, so these snake wines are packed in jars because the conditions inside cannot be seen and the tricks in them are not used.
Of course, there are many, even some experts and regular customers, who have been deceived by these profiteers.
The shops selling Snake Wine are also very enthusiastic. When they see people, they will shout out to sell. The signs on the curtains are even more colorful and magical. It can be said that they are boasting to the sky, or they are bragging about the medicines that are paired with them.
It is said that it uses deer antler, tiger whip, etc., or it is a fuss about the main ingredient, and it is said that the snake used is extremely thick and long, it can be said to be unparalleled in the world!
Fortunately, a veteran like Lin Fengjin is also well-informed. He traveled extensively when the Lin family was a grain merchant, and he knows that one out of ten words spoken by these profiteers is true. He is already extremely kind, that is
After wandering around for a while, I walked out again, thinking that it would be better to go to the local old drug store that has been open for hundreds of years to buy some.
These old shops have been passed down for generations, and their reputation is much more valuable than anything else. The medicinal materials bought there will never be fake. Of course, the price will also be due to the century-old shop’s signboard.
Fame comes with a lot of premium.
At this moment, Lin Fengjin suddenly heard someone shouting from behind:
"This scholar, please stay, but... Mr. Lan?"
Hearing the title "Mr. Lan", Lin Fengjin's heart was moved!
Although Mr. Lan, who has the bloodline of the Sky Demon, has not seen it for several years, it must have fallen into a deep sleep. After all, Lin Fengjin fed it so many drugs that its cultivation level soared for hundreds of years.
It's very unsettling and the foundation is unstable. He has to cultivate himself. Speaking of which, Lin Fengjin still misses this guy.
Of course, this guy has bad habits, such as disguising himself as a Persian cat and acting coquettishly on his two fiancées, which must be strictly prohibited. It doesn't matter if he harms other girls or Lu Yu's wives.
The person behind him could actually call him "Mr. Lan", so he should be an acquaintance with his undersea eyes, so Lin Fengjin turned around and saw a middle-aged man with a pointed chin, triangular eyes, and a rather gloomy appearance.
, but there was a smile on his face, and he was surrounded by many followers. It was none other than the third master of the Ao family in the northwest of the grassland: Ao Xi, who had a close cooperative relationship with Lin Fengjin.
In fact, this Ao Xi seems to be very low-key, but he is also extremely powerful. However, his father Ao Ye is too cunning and cunning, and his brother Ao Xi is too perverted and has turned into a thunder dragon. Therefore, he was overwhelmed by these two outstanding people, so he became famous.
Not obvious.
Ao Xi takes a natural path in the development of personal strength. What is the natural path of a snake? One is the giant python type. The one he takes should be to prove the Tao with force, and the other path is poison.
Ao Xi follows the path of "venomous" snakes. His prototype is a small green snake with bamboo leaves. He captured and killed the extremely powerful ancient six-eared demon ape. If Ao Xi hadn't bit this guy without any sense of existence,
One bite, otherwise it is really possible for it to successfully escape.
At this time, Lin Fengjin cooperated deeply with the Ao family. Ao Xi's two sons also went to pilot the voyage. They gained a lot. They hadn't seen each other for three or four years. When they met in other places, they felt extraordinarily close.
.
At this time, Ao Xi warmly invited Lin Fengjin to the restaurant. Of course, he knew that Lin Fengjin's appearance here in disguise must have a deep meaning, so he kept calling "Lan Gongzi" without mentioning the word "Lin".
, without even letting the slightest hint of news come out, Lin Fengjin also called him Brother Long.
After asking for a secluded single room in the restaurant, the two began to talk about their friendship after their farewell. Lin Fengjin first toasted Ao Xi and wished him a smooth transformation, because at this time he saw
Ao Xi's appearance is completely different from that of human beings. It should be the result of his own transformation, not the kind of illusion that is used to deceive others.
Ao Xi was also proud. He drank a cup and said that the catastrophe he encountered this time was also extraordinary. It was a very rare tribulation of the four golden gods. Among them, the gold master was so powerful that he was particularly powerful. Fortunately, Ao Xi was there this time.
The thunder dragon was there to protect him, so he was able to survive successfully, but there were still many benefits.
Then Lin Fengjin talked about his plan to go to Xirong, and did not hide it from Ao Xi. He said that he had heard that there were demons in Hushan Ridge, and that he had just been approached by the Xuanwu Gate Iron Guards, so he said that he would go to Xirong.
I took a detour here to see if I could "pick up the missing items".
Ao Xi pondered for a moment and then said simply:
"Yes, there is indeed a monster with the same fate as the young master in the Tiger Death Ridge. His name is Black Mountain Lord, and he has a good relationship with my father. This time I came here because my family received a request for help from his old man.
I heard the news, so my father came here to see if I could help, and unexpectedly I happened to meet the young master."
Ao Xi's answer was not surprising to Lin Fengjin, because his old man Ao Chi himself had said that he had dealt with demons and knew that demons had the ability to confuse the secrets of heaven. Otherwise, he would not have done anything to himself.
Show goodwill.
However, what shocked Lin Fengjin was that this demon-slayer was not only a human being, but also a monster?
Lin Fengjin was stunned for a moment and said with a wry smile:
"I really didn't know that such a thing could happen, that there are non-human beings among the demon-fated ones."
He looked at Ao Xi's face and smiled:
"He's not the only one who has evil destiny in the world. That's all. I'm going to give Mr. a face and not go to him to cause trouble. As long as this guy doesn't make any trouble to interfere with my ideas."
However, Ao Xi knew that Lin Fengjin was extremely powerful and his personal strength was also very tyrannical. Although the man from Hushanling was a peer of the old man Ao Ye, if Lin Fengjin really took care of him, he would really be worried about him.
The only thing I was afraid of was that I would have to shed a layer of skin even if I didn't die. Immediately, I felt relieved. I didn't dare to blame it, so I hurriedly thanked Lin Fengjin.
In fact, when Lin Fengjin learned that the other party was a very special monster, he was a little discouraged. Moreover, this guy actually had dealings with the guy from Aoxi, and his spiritual practice was at least a thousand years old!
No matter how powerful Feng Jin is, he also knows that in terms of physical strength and melee fighting skills, humans will always be inferior to monsters, let alone this one who is a monster?
If this was a grassland controlled by the Sanli Department, then Lin Fengjin would definitely not care about this. He would just mobilize a few thousand people to surround him. As long as you are not a being of the level of the Snake God, you will have to shed your skin even if you don't die. But
This is the territory of the Middle Tang Dynasty, so it is best to keep a low profile, and simply go along with the flow and sell Aoxi as a favor.
At this time, Ao Xi heard that Lin Fengjin was interested in looking for snakes. He had just walked out of the market, but he felt that the things inside were not very suitable, so he didn't buy anything, so he picked up the wine glass and took a sip, smiling.
road:
"Young Master, you're lucky you didn't buy it. Otherwise, your intestines would be broken! It's completely designed to deceive outsiders. Even if you buy it, the medicine you get back won't be very effective."
When Lin Fengjin heard that Ao Xi seemed to be an expert, he immediately wanted to hear the details. The two of them were drinking and having fun. Ao Xi took advantage of the alcohol and learned all the details.
The way comes.
It turns out that when this snake is used as medicine, the emphasis is the same as eating seafood. The four words that are important are raw, fierce, fresh, and alive. It is to infuse the ferocious vitality of the snake into the medicine.
Unfortunately, there is no way to raise this kind of snake in captivity. As long as it is caught, it will not eat no matter what it feeds. Therefore, those snakes like those in the market are said to be restrained by snake baskets. In fact, this is only a small part of the reason.
, most of them were seriously injured during capture, or were dying of hunger after not selling for too long. Even if you know how to prepare medicine, the medicine prepared with these inferior goods will definitely be inferior.
Secondly, the biggest use of the snake is to make wine, but there are four types of wine, raw wine, cooked wine, dipping wine, and the last one is called water wine.
Among them, the best quality is cooked wine, which is made from the most ferocious snakes, and then mixed with achyranthes, parsnips, wolfberry, Cynomorium cynomorium, distiller's grains, and fine glutinous rice to brew and ferment. After 23 days, the wine becomes a medicine.
Good, it can be said to be the most effective medicine.
Next, the raw wine is made by bringing selected spirits that have been brewed, and throwing in the ferocious snakes and medicinal materials for a month. However, the wine is ready-made, and the snakes are not brewed with the wine, fermented, and have medicinal effects.
Not bad either.
The so-called dipping in wine is to add medicinal materials to ordinary white wine, and then throw the Xunshe that has been soaked in raw wine for a month to soak... The dipping in wine is also divided into two, three and four soaks.
This is named after how many jars of wine the Xunshe inside has been soaked in. As the name suggests, the Xunshe in the second-pao dipping wine has been soaked twice in the rest of the wine, while the four-pao dipping wine has been soaked twice.
Four times......
It is worth mentioning that most of the products sold in the market are dipping wine. What is even more despicable is that if Lin Fengjin, an outsider like Lin Fengjin, sells it, he will probably end up giving you a jar of four-bubble dipping wine.
I will give you two "seeking snakes" that have been soaked five or six times and have almost no medicinal effect. You will have to thank me profusely!
As for the water and wine, it is a one-time transaction that is deceptive and deceptive. Water is added to the wine, and even the "snake" soaked in it is made by cutting off the skin of an ordinary snake! But for this
The people who did this were mostly brokers wandering around the market. They found out about the outsiders who liked to take advantage of the situation and lured them into taking the bait. I don't know how many people were harmed.
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Lin Fengjinrao is well-informed, and after hearing Ao Xi's 1510 talk, he was dumbfounded. He never expected that there would be so many twists and turns. But Lin Fengjin suddenly remembered it again.
Ao Xi is actually a bamboo-leaf green snake, and he is also a poisonous snake. Wouldn't you feel sad when you see this snake soaking in wine?
But then he thought about it, humans and monkeys still looked the same among other species. Would people feel the same way because they saw monkeys in the zoo being imprisoned and ravaged? Of course not.
After listening to what Ao Xi said, Lin Fengjin just wanted to get a few jars of Snake Cooked Wine back. Among the gentlemen of Donglin Academy, there should not be too many with old arms and legs. Bee venom, formic acid, snake venom
.They are all the nemesis of difficult and complicated diseases such as rheumatism and rheumatoid. Even if they cannot be eradicated, they can still provide excellent relief from the pain.
If the gentleman from the academy directly gives you a gift, it can be said to be ostentatious, but you may not be able to get a favor. So giving some of this Snake Cooked Wine is not ostentatious, but it can also make people think of yourself, so why not do it?
In short, just throw these things into the Xumi Mustard Seed Ring, and you don’t have to worry about transportation trouble.
At that moment, Lin Fengjin told Ao Xi what he meant, but Ao Xi frowned and shook his head:
"If you want to buy good raw wine, as long as you are willing to spend money, then you can still do it. However, the Xunshe used for this cooked wine must also be of high quality, so the materials are extremely scarce, and it is a tribute. I don't know how many pairs of eyes are watching.
, how many hands are waiting, where will there be inventory? Otherwise, the outrageous thing of using snakes to pay for corvee would not have happened. Of course. This matter is nothing more than plundering, but you have to hide it at the same time, sir.
It’s really difficult to deal with my own identity.”
The last time Lin Fengjin saw Mr. Hai's "One Feather in the Sky" movement, Duan felt that it was extremely abnormal. This old man seemed to have the symptoms of cold legs. If he paid tribute to him with two jars of cooked wine, he would be happy.
.Wouldn’t the two tips be of infinite use? At least if they are used for running away, safety is guaranteed. In addition, Lin Fengjin is determined and determined, so how can he back down? After thinking about it, he clapped his hands and smiled and said:
"It's better to ask for help than to ask for help yourself. Anyway, I still have plenty of time, so why don't I go up to the mountain and catch a few snakes? As for the medicine and wine jars to match, that's a trivial matter."
After hearing what Lin Fengjin said, Ao Xi's expression changed again and he continued to persuade:
"Young Master, please don't be careless. Do you know why I came to this place? Firstly, I wanted to send a letter to Senior Black Mountain Lord on Hushang Mountain for my father. Secondly, I felt that my cultivation had reached its limit.
I just want to come here to temper my body with the very rare underground poisonous veins here. You know my background. Even when facing these snakes, you have to be careful, because once bitten, it will be really tricky.
Very.”
Lin Fengjin was surprised after hearing what Ao Xi said:
"Underground poisonous veins, what the hell is that?"
Ao Xi also said everything he knew, and said everything he said:
"The world is so big, how strange is it? Do you know why Xunzhou is the only place in the world that produces this Xunsnake? It's because there is an innate underground poisonous vein here. This underground poisonous vein is not just poisonous.
, there is an indescribable power that seems to penetrate every cell in your body."
"Therefore, the snakes and earthworms living near the underground poisonous veins began to mutate, and slowly formed the unique species of seeking snakes. Because these underground poisonous veins tend to expand, the number of seeking snakes is also
It has been increasing, but thanks to the huge market in Xunzhou, the number of hunts is also increasing day by day, so it does not cause disaster."
Lin Fengjin was shocked when he heard Ao Xi's description, because if Ao Xi's description was correct, the underground poisonous veins he mentioned seemed to be radioactive and could cause mutations in the surrounding creatures! That's why
Forming such a stable snake-seeking group.
However, at this time, Lin Fengjin was not sure whether the underground poisonous vein itself was radioactive, or whether its outlet happened to be near an open-air highly radioactive mine. If it was the latter, Lin Fengjin could use the radioactivity
The characteristics of the ore are used to assassinate people. For example, if a small piece of radioactive ore is sewn into the opponent's pillow, within half a year, the opponent will probably be suffering from serious illnesses such as brain tumors, leukemia, cataracts, etc., killing the person invisibly.
Upon thinking of this, Lin Fengjin became even more enthusiastic and immediately said:
"Then this time I have to trouble Mr. Ao Xi even more. I am very interested in this underground poisonous vein. Mr. Ao Xi really wants to take me to see it. In addition, of course, looking for snakes also requires catching a few."
Ao Xi didn't expect that she didn't give up Lin Fengjin's idea, but made him even more curious. He couldn't help but smile bitterly:
"That place is really dangerous, sir. You don't know that at the source of the poisonous spring, everything seems to be out of order. Many snakes that are born nearby will often have some strange phenomena, such as
The body is mutilated or deformed.”
"However, it is precisely because of this obvious flaw that the snake hunter after this mutation will become more ferocious and dangerous. I have encountered a blind snake hunter before, but...
It is extremely good at spraying venom. Once it splashes on the skin, it will cause endless trouble even if it does not touch the wound!"
"There is also a mutated snake, which only has a life of seven days, but has long pectoral fins like a flying fish, and is extremely fast. The most terrifying thing about this snake is not its toxin, but its venom.
It was hit by it while it was gliding in mid-air! It was like being hit in the front by an iron pulley. Ordinary people would even have their sternum shattered on the spot!"
The more Ao Xi said this, the more determined Lin Fengjin became. It was not that he had any rebellious psychology, but judging from these phenomena, the radiation source here must be very strong and stable.
If there are radioactive minerals in the open air, they must be of extremely high purity. They can kill people invisibly, and they are an extremely hard-to-prevent weapon. Of course, they cannot be let go easily. When the time comes to let the armored beast Greedy Wolf go to collect it, it will be easy to do without surprise.
Risky, safe and convenient.
Seeing that the persuasion was ineffective, Ao Xi had no choice but to agree to Lin Fengjin to go into the mountain with him. Of course, Lin Fengjin had to arrange a lot of things before entering the mountain. It happened that Ao Xi had just arrived,
He also needed to prepare some gifts to visit the elder in Hushan Mountain. After the two of them finished their meal, Lin Fengjin followed Ao Xi, who was familiar with the place, to stay in an inn, and then the two of them went separately.
Make preparations and set off tomorrow morning.
What was Lin Fengjin going to do at this time? Of course, he used lead to make some protective gear in the blacksmith shop. After all, he knew that lead was the best anti-radiation thing. In a world where gold and silver are the economic standard,
Among them, metals such as lead should be familiar, because when silver is produced, lead is an incidental thing.
Of course, for a long time, the purpose of lead was to put it into dice to make it easier for others to cheat, so the price was quite cheap. So Lin Fengjin found the blacksmith shop owner and asked him to help him build a lead helmet.
When he was wearing a lead coat, this guy looked at Lin Fengjin with a crazy look: Who doesn't know that lead is heavy and very soft, so it's used to make armor? That's just to entertain me.
?
But when Lin Fengjin took out fifty taels of silver, the blacksmith shop owner immediately nodded and obeyed, but his eyes turned into those of a prodigal and an idiot, which made Lin Fengjin really feel
I was extremely depressed:
Well, although I am a rich second generation, I am the kind of rich second generation who is better than others. You idiot blacksmith shop owner, do you know what this lead helmet and lead armor are for? They are for radiation protection.
...Well, you definitely don’t know what radiation is. I, I will be the prime minister in the future, and I want to strive to be able to punt a boat in my belly!