The First Auxiliary Road from the Imperial Examination

Chapter 1077 Reason

"Sir, what I said was not a joke, but a true story!" The chief guard replied, "On the way back, the caravan encountered a Western merchant who we traded with from time to time. He looked embarrassed and staggered forward holding a piece of wood carving.

The leader of the caravan could not bear to eat with him, and when he heard him complain during the chat, he learned that he had just made a big deal in Ruan Zhi, but he did not expect that he would be robbed. All the boxes of jewels, spices, gold and silver were stolen, and even his horses and other belongings were taken away.

Only the half-foot wooden sculpture that he hastily picked up to protect his head was preserved because of its ordinary material.

The leader of our caravan felt sorry for him and thought that he would have difficulty returning home without help, so he gave him two portions of labor and some silver so that he could return home earlier.

This was originally a kind thought, but the merchant was also honest. He said that he might not come out again for a while after returning to his country, and it would be a long time before they met again. However, he had to repay the caravan's kindness, but he had no valuables now, and the only thing he could take out was the wood carving. Although the wood carving was not valuable, it was fine as a keepsake.

He promised that if our caravan crossed the sea to his hometown, we would be able to get close to the palace and contact him with this wood carving, and he would reward us generously.

The caravan leader thought that helping him was just a matter of convenience, and taking over the wood carving was also to make him feel at ease. As for crossing the sea, Thorn didn't need to do that."

"...Can you get to the point?!" Sheng Yuan and An Yu sat in the main seats, listening with great interest for a while, and suddenly remembered the buzz outside, and couldn't help but patting the table.

"Yes! Yes! Let's get to the point!" An Yu smacked his lips in satisfaction and responded twice. He couldn't help but add, "Is there something wrong with the wood carving you got?!"

The captain of the guards was about to respond when he heard the voice, but suddenly he remembered which of the two people sitting there could make the decision, and immediately looked towards Sheng Yuan.

Seeing Sheng Yuan also blinking and waiting for him to continue, he hurriedly quickened his speech and said, "After sending off the merchant, the caravan headed for Zezhou again. The leader didn't take the wooden sculpture seriously and put it in his sleeve pocket until they stopped outside the city to await your dispatch...On the eve of the New Year, when the leader of the caravan was changing his clothes, he forgot that there was something in his sleeve pocket and accidentally threw the wooden sculpture out. The wooden sculpture fell to the ground in two pieces, and a copper box immediately rolled out.

When the person in charge saw it, he guessed it was something extraordinary, but the lock of the copper box was a bit strange, and it was not easy to open it. It took another day and a half for the skilled craftsmen accompanying the caravan to find a way to open the lock.

A craftsman inside had some experience. He saw the seal in the box and said it looked familiar. It seemed like the seal on the picture of the Great Yan Imperial Seal handed down from ancestors!"

  "Just because it looks familiar, how can you say it's the real thing?" Sheng Yuan felt that this matter was a bit too legendary. The emperors after Emperor Chen Xian wanted to dig deep into the ground to find this thing, but they couldn't find it after so many generations. But her caravan got it easily?

Even the storytelling and opera scripts wouldn't dare to perform it like this!

"What's more, since the seal was only obtained yesterday, how come it has been spread so widely in such a short time?" Sheng Yuan felt that even she and her group of angry pen pals were not as fast as this in arguing with each other.

  "This time it was because the craftsman was good at bragging!" The head of the guards was also annoyed that his subordinates were too careless and did not control the craftsman. "The craftsman was originally a veteran of the caravan. He was senior, had a lot of experience, and made many contributions. He was trusted by the caravan leader. Who would have thought that he was a braggart. He had never shown it before, but this time he was so happy that he let the secret slip to his disciples after a few drinks! This news was spread by his disciples!"