Cangwu County is the county seat under the jurisdiction of Zhuya County and is also the last county.
This way, we pass the towering Tianqiong Mountain and then enter Qionglong County.
It had been raining heavily and lightly for more than half a month, and it finally cleared up today, but there was a dry heat in the air that made people feel irritable.
Gongliang took Migu and Yuan Gungun to the outside of Cangwu County. He didn't even bother to take a look at the towering city walls, and went straight to the inn in the city. It was really uncomfortable to rush in this kind of weather, and he broke out into a sweat not long after walking.
, his whole body was wet and unbearably sticky. Therefore, what he wanted most now was to find an inn to take a good bath and have a comfortable sleep, instead of admiring the ghost scenery.
Entering the city, he found the largest inn, walked in, and called: "Innkeeper, come to a room."
When the innkeeper saw him, he quickly said respectfully: "Master Huang, I'm so sorry, the inn is full, please go to other places to have a look."
Gongliang turned around and left without saying a word, heading to the next house.
"Master Huang, you are late. Someone has just checked into the last room in the hotel."
"Sir, I'm so sorry, the shop is full."
"Sir, you're late. The hotel's guest rooms are already full."
After walking through several inns, every inn in the city was packed. Gongliang had never encountered such a situation during his whole journey. It was really strange. I had no choice but to go to the next inn. Cangwu County is not big, and there are not many inns.
Fortunately, he was lucky. When he walked from the south gate to the north gate, he found another inn and walked over quickly.
Just as he reached the door of the inn, two people suddenly came out and stopped him.
One of them shouted: "This store is not open, please leave immediately."
Gong Liang looked forward and saw that the door of the inn was wide open. Is this guy blind?
After finally finding an inn to stay, how could he leave? I didn't bother to talk nonsense with him and walked straight in.
"Hey you"
Another person heard him shouting and quickly grabbed him and whispered: "You are looking for death. Didn't you see that he is a deserter? These savages all have bad tempers. If we offend them, none of us will be able to offend him.
Maybe his life is in danger. Anyway, it’s just him, so it won’t be a problem if he goes in. Even if the hall master knows, he won’t say anything.”
The man thought for a while, looked at Gong Liang's tall and strong body, and finally said nothing.
This place is very close to the wilderness, and there are often people coming and going from the wilderness. Some of the people in the wilderness have bad tempers, and they get into fights when they disagree. There are many who are unlucky and get beaten to death, so it is better not to provoke them as much as possible.
Gong Liang walked into the store with Mi Gu and Yuan Gun Gun, and found that it was empty and quiet, without even a sound, like a haunted house.
After standing for a moment and seeing no one coming out, Gongliang shouted loudly: "Hey, is there anyone inside?"
After a while, a middle-aged man opened the curtain behind and walked out. When he saw Gong Liang, he was surprised and said: "Hey, Mr. Huang, why did you come in? Could it be that the guards outside are not there? Mr. Huang, please leave quickly.
Lest those people come back and harm Mr. Huang."
"What's going on? Are you open but not doing business?"
Gong Liang stared at him. He had never seen anyone soliciting customers into his shop, but he had never seen a fool push customers away.
"Master Huang, of course the store also wants to do business, but I'm just afraid of hurting you. The store has its own reasons. I'm really sorry. Master Huang, please go to another store and have a look." The store owner said repeatedly.
"What are the difficulties? Let me tell you."
Gongliang walked to a low table, sat down cross-legged and asked.
I glanced at the table and floor. It was spotless. It seemed that even if there was no business, the store was still cleaning.
Seeing that Gongliang seemed to be refusing to leave, the shopkeeper had no choice but to sit aside and said, "Oh, it's all the trouble left by our ancestors. My ancestors were monks back then, but unfortunately they had poor bones and became a middle-aged man."
There was still no progress in the year, so I simply left my apprenticeship and traveled down the mountain. When I arrived here, I saw the extraordinary scenery here, so I simply stayed here, married a wife and had children. Later, because of my livelihood, I opened this store. Although my ancestor has no bones
Not good, but extraordinary. After his research, he carefully developed a medicinal diet using the cicada flowers produced in Tianqiong Mountain. This medicinal diet is very extraordinary. It can not only heal wounds and remove hidden diseases, but also calm the soul and calm the mind.
Therefore, as soon as the medicinal diet came out, there were a lot of diners, the inn was full every day, and the business was very prosperous.
It's a pity that this medicinal food seems to have disappeared as soon as the ancestor passed away. I and other descendants can't cook it anymore, and the business has also declined. Now, it can only open an ordinary inn.
Originally, our family was able to support ourselves by relying on the inn, and even had a little surplus.
But who knew that the people at Yuma Tang also knew that my ancestors had sold medicinal diets, and they forced me to hand over the medicinal diet formula.
It was handed down from our ancestors. How could we hand it over casually? That would not make our descendants unfilial.
That's when things started happening at my inn.
The people from Yumatang came in and drove away all the guests in the inn. They also sent people to guard outside and did not allow anyone to come in and stay in the inn. Those who did not listen to the previous advice were all driven away. Those who could not be driven away had their hands and feet broken and thrown away.
He went out. So I advised Mr. Huang to leave quickly, so as not to get involved in the shop and kill Mr. Huang."
"Didn't they arrest you and torture you to ask for the formula of medicinal food?"
"That's not true. Apart from not allowing people to come in and stay, everything is as usual. Maybe it's because I still miss my fellow countrymen!"
"Innocent, they don't care about the feelings of fellow countrymen, they are obviously afraid that something will happen to you and you won't be able to get the medicinal formula."
Gongliang was speechless and asked again: "You have never thought about leaving this place?"
"How could I not have thought about it? My wife and I walked through it with our children so many times, both covertly and covertly, but they caught us every time. We had no choice but to stay in the store. Fortunately, we still had some money left at home, so we could
We are barely getting by. But the money is getting less and less every day, and we are about to be unable to survive. I don’t know what to do?"
When the store owner thought about his future life, he was filled with tears of sadness and couldn't help crying.
There was also a suppressed whimpering from behind, which sounded like a woman's voice. It seemed that she must be the shopkeeper's wife.
Gongliang felt uncomfortable and said, "Don't cry. Go and arrange a guest room for me. I can earn some money so that you can survive for a few more days."
"How can this be done? This will bring trouble to Mr. Huang." The store owner said quickly.
"What about getting involved? I'm afraid of those sleepwalkers? If those people come in, just ask them to come to me and see how I deal with them. Besides, the inns outside are always full and there is no place to go. How can you let them go?
Where will I live?”
"Now is the season for picking cicada flowers, so there are a lot of people. When the cicada flowers are gone, people will disperse. Mr. Huang can stay in the temple in the city, and those who can't find an inn will stay there.
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Gongliang didn't know what to say. He had already told him clearly that it was none of his business if those people came in, so why did he still persuade him to go out? It was really stupid.
He couldn't help but stare and said: "Why do you talk so much nonsense? Hurry up and arrange a high-class guest room for me. Bring me any good wine and food."
"Master Huang"
"Cough cough cough"
The shopkeeper wanted to persuade him again, but suddenly there was a cough from behind. The shopkeeper turned his head and saw a hand stretched out from the curtain at the front and back to wave to him. He immediately said: "Master Huang, please wait a moment. I'm going to go."
Come as soon as you go."
The shopkeeper got up and walked back.
As soon as he opened the curtain and went in, he heard his wife scolding him in a low voice: "You stupid bastard, you don't even have a look. You didn't even look at who Mr. Huang is. Look at the spiritual pet he brought, maybe he is
Coming from the upper part of the wilderness, how can we be afraid of those people from the Yuma Hall? Besides, even if the people from the Yuma Hall come, they can't fight or run away? And you and I are like this now, are we still afraid of being implicated by him?"
"That's right. My husband is confused. Then I will arrange for Mr. Huang to stay here."
"Go for it!"
The shopkeeper came out from the back and said to Gong Liang: "Master Huang, please come with me. I will arrange a quiet room for you."
"Um"
Gongliang followed the store owner to the upper room upstairs. It was very clean and the decorations were exquisite. Gongliang nodded and said: "That's right, this is it. You go and prepare a table of your store's specialty dishes for me. Let's
The food is very big, so please arrange it five times as much as a normal person." After saying that, he took out another dozen taels of silver and handed it to the shopkeeper.
"Save the money in the cabinet first, then worry about it if it's not enough."
The store owner said hurriedly: "That's enough, that's enough. You don't need so much money to eat something."
"Then go make arrangements! I'll take a bath first and lie down for a while. You can call me after you prepare the things."
"Okay, you want to take a bath down there."
"Um"
After dinner and a night's sleep, Gongliang regained his energy and felt refreshed. The same goes for Mi Gu, who no longer seemed to want to doze off. His round hair, which was stained by dust and was gray and black, was washed last night.
Later, the brightness returned to the past.
"Woo"
Mi Gu stretched a little, and when he saw Daddy waking up, he crawled over and rubbed his face against her.
She does this every morning, she likes to rub her daddy like this, she likes daddy the most.
But Yuan Gungun was still sound asleep.
Gongliang woke it up, washed it, left the inn, and wandered around the streets of Cangwu County.
When eating last night, he heard from the store owner that the cicada flower, a specialty of Cangwu County, is grown from wild cicadas that have been dormant in the ground for twelve years.
Extraordinary.
This cicada flower is divided into upper, middle, lower and three grades.
Low-grade mortal items are suitable for mortals and can be purchased with money; medium-grade spiritual items can be made into some low-grade elixirs, pills, etc., each worth ten spirit stones; high-grade extraordinary items require hundreds of spirit stones, which are very rare.
The high-grade Lingchan Pill made from it has various miraculous effects such as calming the mind and calming the soul, removing distracting thoughts, etc.
Therefore, every time during this season, many people will flock to Cangwu County to dig cicada flowers.
In fact, the cicada flowers are not only produced in Cangwu County, but also in the mountains near Tianqiong Mountain. However, only the cicada flowers in Cangwu County are of the best quality, and are slightly worse in other places.
Gongliang didn't expect that this small county town actually had such a specialty, so he wanted to stay here for a while to dig some before leaving.