Because the transportation in this world was much different from the world he was familiar with before, it was very inconvenient to rush from one place to another, so Jiang Xiaoyi's sudden arrival made him truly appreciate the joy of having friends from far away.
In addition, black sturgeon and iron-headed pike are rare, so he deliberately kept it secret and wanted Jiang Xiaoyi to recognize these two rare fish species that are of great benefit to practitioners. However, he did not expect that
Yes, compared with when he went out before, there were not only two large stone jars on the riverside platform in front of the small building, but four large stone jars. Not only did the two more large stone jars not count, there was also one more person.
A fat man wearing a blue silk short-sleeved silk shirt with the Hengrongchang logo on his left chest.
This fat man weighed at least 1,780 pounds and was very afraid of heat. Although it was already evening and the riverside was already very cool, he was still wiping his sweat with a small white square towel.
As soon as he saw Lin Xi walking in, the fat man with a friendly face suddenly beamed with joy. He stood up from the stone stool, cupped his hands, saluted to Lin Xi, and said: "Master Lin, I am the third shopkeeper of Heng Rongchang.
Ma Hongjun."
"Is it Shopkeeper Ma, who is known as the Iron Operator?"
Lin Xi was stunned for a moment and returned the gift. Heng Rongchang's third shopkeeper was also very famous along the Xizi River and was very good at settling accounts. It was said that Heng Rongchang would make no mistakes in any business that passed through him.
, a copper can be counted clearly.
And it is said that the most powerful thing about this iron counterman, Shopkeeper Ma, is that as long as he sits in front of a shop for a few days, he does not even need to look at the account books. He only needs to look at the usual incoming and outgoing goods and passenger flow to calculate the year of this shop.
The profit and loss down the line are absolutely the same.
"Iron Operator is just a joke that everyone calls him." Ma Hongjun wiped his sweat again and said with some embarrassment, "I came to chat with Mr. Lin today because it was specially requested by our boss."
Lin Xi was slightly startled again, "Does your boss want to see me for anything?"
"Who is this?" Ma Hongjun glanced at Jiang Xiaoyi behind Lin Xi and hesitated slightly.
"He is one of my best friends, not an outsider." Lin Xi felt that the expression of the third shopkeeper of Heng Rongchang was a bit strange. After taking a look at him, he said: "If you have something to do, it's okay to say it."
Ma Hongjun wiped his sweat with a square towel again and said: "Actually, it's nothing wrong. Our chief shopkeeper just wanted me to come to the Lord to explain a few words, so that the Lord would not misunderstand our Hengrongchang. That day Jiang Yanguan
Appearing here is because our boss specially sent someone to tell you."
Lin Xi and Jiang Xiaoyi couldn't help but look at each other.
It was indeed a bit unexpected for an official of Jiang Rui's level to appear in Donggang Town. Afterwards, everyone including Lin Xi naturally felt strange, but they did not expect that Heng Rongchang was behind it.
"Our big shopkeeper specifically asked me to talk about this, not to show off my merits in front of Mr. Lin." Ma Hongjun looked at Lin Xi who was a little confused and explained seriously: "Our big shopkeeper just wants Mr. Lin to understand that we are Hengrongchang
Attitude... We Hengrongchang's Song Guandai were indeed angry at the Lord's seizure of the ship at first, and were not very humble to you, but what you did made us Hengrongchang admire us very much. We Hengrongchang also hope that under Lord Lin's rule,
It will make this Xizijiang River more clear and clear."
Lin Xi pondered for a moment, bowed slightly to Ma Hongjun to thank him, and said seriously: "Actually, I was a little dissatisfied with your Heng Rongchang's attitude at the beginning, because I knew you were capable... but your attitude was a bit arrogant, and it was obvious that
You have the ability, but you have to stay out of it. To me, this means not reporting the knowledge and allowing people to get away with it, which is annoying. But later I found out that it was related to the military, and I can already understand your attitude. After all, you are Hengrongchang University.
, it is too easy for the military to deliberately cause trouble for you."
After a slight pause, Lin Xi looked at Ma Hongjun and said: "I'll ask Shopkeeper Ma to help me bring a message to the big shopkeeper. Naturally, I did something wrong in this matter. The big shopkeeper can ignore the past and try his best to help me.
Naturally, it is impossible for me to have any unfavorable thoughts towards Heng Rongchang. And I am a person who hates trouble. Generally, I will never look for trouble from others unless they come to me."
"People in several towns around Donggang must have seen very clearly what Mr. Lin is like."
Ma Hongjun laughed, tapped the four stone jars on the other side, and said: "Our chief shopkeeper knows that Master Lin is not an ordinary warrior, and he should have some special recipes, so he brought some things that ordinary people can't use.
Give it to your lord. He knows that your lord is not willing to take it for free, so these things will be bought according to the market price. If your lord is interested, I will buy them for ten taels of silver. If you are not interested, I will let them go."
"Oh, by the way." As if remembering something again, Ma Hongjun patted his forehead and said very apologetically: "Those two large stone tanks were sent by people from the fish market, and they also contained three iron-headed pikes in them.
They were sent together, and the things our chief shopkeeper sent you are just in that other stone vat."
"Pike?"
Jiang Xiaoyi was shocked when he heard these four words.
"I have five of them, but I didn't expect that Xu Sheng and the others actually caught three more." Seeing Jiang Xiaoyi's reaction, Lin Xi knew that her friend must already know the iron-headed pike very well, laughing.
After saying this, he curiously walked towards the big stone jar that Ma Hongjun ordered.
Listening to Ma Hongjun's words, he knew that what Heng Rongchang's big shopkeeper sent him must also be some aquatic product that was very beneficial to practitioners.
Jiang Xiaoyi was also very curious, and instead of first going to see what the iron-headed pike looked like that was making the water in the tank roar, she followed Lin Xi and first took a look at the things in the large water tank.
Another old Jiang group?
Lin Xi was stunned at the first sight. In this huge water tank, there was a disc-shaped thing lying quietly, and the surface was covered with algae and other things. Jiang Xiaoyi thought it was a Laojiang Tuan at first glance.
But at the second glance, Lin Xi and Jiang Xiaoyi immediately saw the difference between this Jiangtuan and the ordinary Laojiangtuan.
The skirt of the shell on the back of this Laojiangtuan is extremely long, several times longer than the skirts on the shells of ordinary Laojiangtuan.
"This is the Yunmeng skirt Laojiang group?!"
Suddenly, this name popped into Lin Xi's mind, and she couldn't help but blurt it out in shock.
Ma Hongjun wiped his sweat, chuckled, and said, "Master Lin really has good eyesight. He saw it right away."
Lin Xi and Jiang Xiaoyi couldn't help but take a deep breath.
Laojiang Tuan refers to the old turtles in the river that have a very long history.
There are many types of soft-shelled turtles in the river, and one of them is called the Yunmeng soft-shelled turtle.
This kind of turtle has the longest skirt and is also the most generous.
However, this kind of soft-shelled turtle is recorded in some local chronicles around it as having become extinct decades ago and is hard to find.
The reason for the extinction is also clearly recorded. It is because when these turtles breed, they have to follow an almost fixed route and run to the beaches of some islands to lay eggs and hatch them. The incubation period is more than ten days.
They are also guarded on the island.
This is of course very easy for ordinary fishermen to catch, and over time, no one will be caught.
If this kind of turtle grows into Laojiang Tuan, for practitioners, the tonic effect will be several times higher than that of ordinary Laojiang Tuan, and its efficacy is higher than the "black gold seeds" of black sturgeon. Moreover, this kind of turtle is similar to
Compared with ordinary old turtles, they grow more slowly. The old turtle in the tank now is bigger than the one Lin Xi had before, and it is probably at least two hundred years old.
"Shopkeeper Ma." Lin Xi was surprised in her heart. She couldn't help turning her head to look at Ma Hongjun and asked: "Isn't the Yunmengqun Laojiang group in the river extinct? How did you get this one?"
Ma Hongjun gave a thumbs up again, made a gesture to identify the goods, and explained: "This old turtle was accidentally caught by a hunter in the swamps in the Longshe Mountain Range. When it was being sold in a border town, it was picked up by us.
The people from Heng Rongchang bought it back. In ordinary rivers, this kind of thing has indeed disappeared, and you can't even see it at one end."
"Thank you so much, great shopkeeper."
Lin Xi knew that this Yunmeng skirt Lao Jiangtuan would definitely be of great benefit to his cultivation, so he saluted Ma Hongjun again to express his sincere gratitude.
"Since Mr. Lin has friends here, I won't disturb Mr. Lin." Ma Hongjun didn't waste any time. After bowing, he said goodbye to Lin Xi and Jiang Xiaoyi.
Lin Xi took out ten taels of silver and handed it to Ma Hongjun. One of them paid and the other received. They both felt embarrassed and amused, and they couldn't help laughing.
"It turns out that this is the iron-headed pike. It is as ferocious as the records say."
"This fish has such a long black body and such a huge body. It seems to be the black sturgeon in the records. Lin Xi, I didn't expect that you have accumulated so many of these rare things. But among the many students in our Qingluan College, I'm afraid you are the only one.
To be able to solve that case so quickly."
Jiang Xiaoyi looked at the other big fish in the tanks and couldn't help but sigh again.
Lin Xi's eyes once again rested on the package he was carrying, "What are you carrying?"
"Take a look." Jiang Xiaoyi stopped being pretentious, smiled, took off the package on her body, and opened it.
Groups of white pom-pom-like things appeared in Lin Xi's sight.
"Snow bird's nest!"
Lin Xi was immediately surprised and recognized what it was. She couldn't help but raised her head, looked at Jiang Xiaoyi and asked, "How could you have so many snow bird's nests?"
"I didn't give this to me because the people loved it, it was just a coincidence."
Jiang Xiaoyi smiled and explained everything.
It turns out that this snow bird's nest is also a very rare type of bird's nest, and it also has a great tonic effect for practitioners. This kind of bird's nest is very unique. When building the bird's nest, they hold an unknown white herb from the mountains, and this kind of bird's nest is very unique.
The bird's nest is so clean that even if its own feathers fall into the nest, it will be carried out. Therefore, this bird's nest is as white as snow. It can be eaten after being soaked in warm water for a few times. Compared with ordinary bird's nests, it has many fewer limbs.
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Jiang Xiaoyi chose the Huigu Town Engineering Department and the Royal Engineering Department Supervision. His official position is to manage the daily mining of some mines, the refining of some ores, and the casting of weapons. There is a Huishan Mountain in Huigu Town.
There was a tin mine among them. It was when he was inspecting this tin mine that he accidentally discovered that there seemed to be traces of snow swallows on several cliffs. After he managed to climb down with a rope, he discovered that there were not only snow swallows in some mountain cracks.
There are now bird nests built by snow swallows, and there are also many nests left by old swallows in the past.
In this way, he bundled up such a large package, which weighed at least thirty kilograms.
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The snow bird's nest is added with red ginseng and brown sugar according to the recipe, and is stewed in a large pot full of it.
Lin Xi cut two iron-head pike, paired them with some sauces, fruit and vegetable side dishes, fish fillets and thick reddish snow bird's nest, both salty and sweet, facing the river view outside the window,
The two of them had a great time eating.
Sometimes happiness becomes happier because of friendship and sharing.
"By the way, Lin Xi, when you met me today, you said that Cao Cao was about to arrive. What's the matter?" The two of them drank up a large can of snow bird's nest. Jiang Xiaoyi touched her round belly and said,
I was a little worried about whether I could eat the remaining fish fillets. I suddenly thought of this and couldn't help but turn my head to look at Lin Xi and ask.
"There is a general manager named Wei Xianwu. He is the one who brought troops to Donggang Town and wanted to escort me back. Although he was blocked by Jiang Yanguan, I always felt that he would not give up." Lin Xi looked at Jiang Xiaoyi and replied:
"He wanted to hide his murderous intention in front of me before, but he couldn't hide it. Then he simply stopped hiding it. It should be that among the assassins I killed, there was someone who was extremely important to him and had a deep friendship. And he must be arrested for this case.
So I thought he might soon lose his patience and want to deal with me. I alone may not be his opponent, so I thought of you and Bian Linghan, and wanted you to come over, and then we can think of a way to deal with him.
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Jiang Xiaoyi understood Lin Xi's thoughts instantly, "Lin Xi, you want to lure the snake out of its hole... to see if he can really do it?"
Lin Xi nodded.
At this moment, there was faint thunder coming from the distant river surface, and the river wind began to become a little more stuffy and moist.
"It rains a lot this year."
Lin Xi knew it was going to rain. Thinking of the benefits of practicing in the rain, and feeling the heat rising in his body, he smiled slightly.
At this moment, a middle-aged farmer wearing a pair of straw sandals was coming towards the small building by the river where he was. Hearing the thunder, the farmer's face, whose face was covered with traces of wind and sun, was filled with tears.
There was a hint of worry.
At this time, a fat man with a kind smile opened his umbrella early and walked into Donggang Town.
After wiping his hands on his sleeves habitually, the fat man with a kind smile murmured with satisfaction: "It would be better if it rains harder... The heavier the rain is now, the better the weather will be when we get up tomorrow morning.