Chapter six hundred and forty-two verrucous disease
Huotu is a small tribe among the thousands of tribes in the Southern Wilderness. It occupies a small area. The entire town is three miles long from east to west and four miles from north to south, totaling 12 square miles. The interior is mostly made of earth, stone and wood, and the middle part is exquisite.
group of bamboo buildings.
Although the Huo Tu tribe is small, with only more than 10,000 people, they are usually very prosperous. They have a vast fragrant forest, which is rich in fragrant flowers and has a strong fragrance. The upper-class people of the surrounding tribes will bring expensive clothes or bring them from the north.
The silk purchased by merchants was sent here for incense. Therefore, although the Huo Tu clan did not have much farmland, their life had always been prosperous.
However, now the town of the Huotu tribe does not look at all prosperous and lively. There is almost no one in the deserted streets and markets, and it looks lifeless.
In the largest and most exquisite main building in the middle of the group of bamboo buildings, a middle-aged man was pacing back and forth with an anxious face, glancing at a small door on the left from time to time.
After a moment, the small door creaked open, and an old man with a skinny face and a dark cloak came out.
"Great Wizard, how are you doing, Turan..." The middle-aged man stepped up to the old man and asked urgently.
The old man shook his head and said calmly: "Patriarch, Turan has been completely eroded by the dark leechworms. Prepare to let her return to the embrace of the God of Fire!"
The patriarch froze suddenly, his eyes filled with sadness, and asked: "Great wizard, can you hold on for a few more days?"
The old man looked at the clan leader quietly, waved his hand and said: "Tulan can't insist on distributing Cordyceps to the big Futeng, clan leader, don't have any more hope!"
After speaking, the old man lowered his head. The dark hat on his cloak covered half of his face, and then walked out slowly.
The patriarch turned around and entered the small door just now. Inside was a small bedroom. On the bamboo bed, a ** year old girl closed her eyes tightly and breathed weakly.
The child was extremely thin, with almost only skin and bones left. His little face was tinged with a grayish color, and he could tell at a glance that he was going to die soon.
The patriarch stood beside the bed, gently caressing the little girl's cheek with his thick palms. Two lines of tears flowed down uncontrollably: "Tulan, I'm sorry, there is really nothing we can do! The fragrant tree is the lifeblood of the entire Huo Tu.
.Abba can’t give up…”
"Clan leader!" Just as the middle-aged man was muttering to himself, a low voice came from outside the door.
The middle-aged man paused, took back his palms, wiped away his tears, took a deep breath, turned around and walked out.
There was an old man in linen standing in the empty hall. When he saw the clan leader coming out, he immediately said: "Clan leader, just now the guards of the fragrant forest reported that a group of businessmen who seemed to be from the north almost broke into the fragrant forest. And the cultivation level of this group of people is very high.
…”
"Huh?" The clan leader frowned and asked, "Are there any casualties among the guards?"
Now there is a large-scale outbreak of leechworm. Half of the people in the entire town have died, and the cordyceps saved in previous years have been exhausted. If the remaining people are injured again, the tribe will be even more miserable.
"There is no conflict!" The priest shook his head and said: "The two sides did not understand each other. When our guard saw them walking forward, he shot an arrow. But the group retreated... I don't know if they were invited by Sapporo.
people!"
"Huh~" the clan leader breathed out and said: "The better if there is no conflict...Those merchants in the north must be unfamiliar with the road and went astray! Sapporo doesn't have the guts to rob or plunder, otherwise it wouldn't use cordyceps to threaten them.
Me!"
"That's what the patriarch said!" The priest nodded after hearing this, then glanced at the inner room and asked, "How is Turan?"
As soon as Turan was mentioned, the patriarch's expression darkened, and he said with some difficulty: "The situation is not good, the great wizard said, I'm afraid..."
"Can't you just hold on for a few more days? The Cordyceps will be removed from the Great Futeng!" The priest frowned.
"I can't hold on any longer!" After the patriarch said these words, all the strength in his body seemed to be taken away, and his body swayed a little.
"Hey!" The priest stamped his foot vigorously and sighed: "If I had known that Turan would get sick, I would have asked the great wizard to keep some to remove the Cordyceps!"
The patriarch was silent for a moment and said: "This is not the fault of the great wizard. Who would have thought that this year's leechworm disease would be so severe! So many people in the town are sick, so of course the great wizard will do his best to treat them... I also didn't expect that Turan would also do it later.
Being infected with this disease!”
"Don't worry, Patriarch, haven't you already sent people to several other tribes? If we pay such a high price, we will definitely be able to buy some cordyceps to delay Turan's illness!" said the priest.
Hearing this, the clan leader sighed again: "Two people have already returned, but they didn't buy anything at all... This year's verrucous outbreak was too violent, and several surrounding tribes are not easy... And Sapporo has already bought from them.
A lot of cordyceps have been removed, but they have nothing left to sell to us!"
"Sapporo, he is actually... so unscrupulous!" The priest breathed heavily, gritted his teeth, and his eyes could spit out fire.
"There must be some at Karon. He is the largest tribe, we are all under his jurisdiction, and he has the most cordyceps in his hands, so we can definitely..."
Before the priest finished speaking, the clan leader shook his head and said: "The people who went to Karon have also come back, and they can't buy cordyceps either."
"Patriarch, you only have this daughter, if you really can't do it..." The priest stopped mid-sentence, his expression hesitant.
"Needless to say!" The clan leader waved his hand to interrupt the sacrifice and said: "I will never sell the fragrant trees to Sapporo, not even a single one!"
"But you just look at Turan..." the priest said unbearably.
"Let's look around again. If we still haven't removed Cordyceps... then we can only blame Tulan for his misfortune!" The patriarch's voice became choked when he said this.
The priest shook his head sadly and sighed...
At dusk, outside the Huotu Clan's village, Jiang Xingchen and his party finally came over.
"Tianxia Commercial Bank boasted very much, saying that it had opened up the Southern Wilderness line and occupied the market here, but we found several tribes and couldn't see their sales points. They are so deceptive!" Zhao Danqing said with some disdain.
He said that they searched several tribes for human traces, but they could not find the Tianxia Trading Company, not even a merchant from the north.
"Boy Zhao, if you don't understand, don't talk nonsense. Tianxia Commercial Bank has only established permanent bases in the three largest tribes in Futeng, Jiuli and Nari Southern Wilderness. Those three tribes have a population of millions, which is comparable to a large
Lord, it is quite impressive that the Tianxia Trading Company can establish a permanent presence in three tribes at the same time... If you don’t believe me, just ask him!" The old man retorted and pointed to a thin and dry middle-aged man next to him. This is their
I finally found the translator and guide.
Zhao Danqing was a little puzzled as to how the old man knew the news about Tianxia Commercial Bank. But at this time, he was beaten by the old man and had no time to think about it. He immediately asked the man: "Have you heard of Tianxia Commercial Bank?"
"I've heard of it!" The thin little man nodded repeatedly and made a strange tone, which made Jiang Xingchen feel happy, just like a foreigner speaking Chinese.
"You see, even the people in the small tribe here have heard of Tianxia Trading Company, imagine how influential they are!" The old man laughed, as if he had won.
"Humph!" Zhao Danqing curled his lips and turned away. Only then did he realize that the old man must have asked the guide just now.
Jiang Xingchen looked at the two of them speechlessly, then turned to the thin man and said, "Please lead the way, let's go in!"
When the thin man heard this, he waved his hands in horror and said, "I only promised to bring you here, but I didn't promise to enter the Huotu tribe!"
"Hey!" A member of the group quit and said loudly: "We have said that we are hiring a translator and a guide. Can we give you a yuan stone as a reward? You can't earn so much in a year!"
"But...but I said, take you to the place..." the thin man said weakly, his voice getting lower and lower.
"What you said was too ambiguous. You didn't express your meaning clearly at all. How would we know if you don't go in... No, you have to come with us..."
The thin man was so frightened that he backed away and wanted to run away, but these people were obviously masters and he would never be able to run away. Otherwise, he would lose the money, but he really couldn't bear to part with it. He wouldn't be able to earn a single Yuan Stone for several years.
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"Is this Huotu tribe so scary? Why are you so scared?" Jiang Xingchen stopped the Iron Sword member and asked the thin man.
"There is a big outbreak of leechworm this year, and several tribes in this area are the worst affected. Among them, the Huotu tribe is even more severe, with half of the people being infected..." said the thin man.
"Leechworm disease!" Jiang Xingchen turned to look at the old man.
"Leechworm disease! No wonder a northern businessman can't see it..." The old man also frowned.
"Is this disease difficult to treat?" Jiang Xingchen asked in a low voice.
"It's not difficult to treat, but it requires a lot of cordyceps... Cordyceps is a specialty of the Southern Wilderness, and this disease is also common in the Southern Wilderness! However, it was occasionally found in Dali... At that time, there was an outbreak in a village in Yuenan Territory
Huang Shi, Qingyun and I have been studying this disease for more than three months!"
The old man paused for a moment and said: "However, this disease is a high-incidence disease in the Southern Wilderness. It occurs almost every year. Every tribe that removes Cordyceps should have it!"
The guide said: "For some reason this year, verruculiasis broke out very suddenly, and the scope was very large. Many tribes did not have enough cordyceps! It is the worst here in Xianghuotu. The cordyceps have long been gone, and now there is money.
I can't even buy it... I couldn't sit still for the past two days, and I want to distribute all the cordyceps in stock to all tribes!"
"Since there is Cordyceps that can be used to remove hair from the big body, what are you worried about? It can be cured even if you get sick!" Jiang Xingchen asked.
"There are many tribes that need to remove Cordyceps, but we may not be able to get enough... If I get infected and don't remove Cordyceps, I will be dead!"
Jiang Xingchen frowned and asked the old man again: "Is this disease highly contagious?"
"Actually, as long as you pay more attention when eating and drinking, there will be no problem. People here are used to drinking raw water..." The old man smiled and said it was okay.
"That's good!" Jiang Xingchen breathed a sigh of relief, took out another Yuan Stone, sent it to the guide, and said: "We will ensure that you will not be infected, go or not!" (To be continued, please search Piao Tian Literature,