Taoism moves mountains

Chapter 172: Exploring information
  This behavior prevented Jiang Yang and the others from being expelled immediately.

In addition, the appearance was good enough, which allowed them to trade a lot of good things, including some rare mountain game and rare medicinal materials.

At the beginning, Jiang Yang and others kept making gestures, but the communication barrier was very obvious.

Can you understand playing the piano to a cow? That's pretty much what it means.

Fortunately, among the Bai and Yi people who came later, there were also many people who could speak Mandarin, which prevented Jiang Yang and the others from the embarrassment of chirping and gesticulating all the time.

It's just that no matter where you are, there are always good and bad people, and greedy people exist everywhere.

No, there was a young man from the Bai ethnic group who was about twenty-five years old, who actually wanted to trade a tattered snake skin for twenty pounds of fine salt, and he cleverly approached the simple and kind-hearted Hua Ling'er.

No other Bai people spoke as openly as he did.

"I'm afraid this won't work. Your snake skin is too tattered and useless. We won't accept it." Hua Ling'er explained, firmly rejecting the Bai youth's unwanted transaction.

"Yes, you can see that the snake skin is pure color. It is not only beautiful, but also tough. It can be used for many purposes after repairing it." said the Bai youth.

Seeing this, Jiang Yang quickly leaned over, took the tattered snake skin from him, looked through it casually, and said calmly: "Twenty kilograms of fine salt will definitely not work, five kilograms at most."

This snakeskin is tough and can be used as shoes, money bags, or handles for sealing weapons. Trading for five kilograms of fine salt is already a premium!

"Okay!" Seeing the extraordinary temperament of Jiang Yang, the Bai youth rolled his sly eyes. He felt that Jiang Yang was difficult to deal with, so he stopped bargaining.

After the Bai youth took the fine salt that Hua Ling'er weighed for him, he suddenly asked Jiang Yang in a low voice: "Do you want to collect the water-sinked wood?"

"You have water and sunken wood?" Jiang Yang asked in surprise.

"Really? Then come with me to get it. The wood is too big for me to move alone." The Bai young man looked around and then whispered, as if he was afraid that others would know.

Water-sinked wood: As the name suggests, anything that can be put into water without floating, does not affect the water quality, and will not be rotted by water can be called water-sinked wood.

This water-sinked wood is a precious wood, also known as sunken wood.

It was formed because sudden natural disasters such as earthquakes caused a large amount of forest wood to be buried. Generally, it has been buried under the river bed for more than three thousand years. Only a few have not rotted. Some wood is as hard as iron after drying, and some have a unique aroma. odor.

And not all trees can evolve into dark wood. So far, there are only five types of dark wood found: green bar, hemp willow, camphor, red toon, and nanmu.

This gloomy wood is called the "Oriental Sacred Tree" by Westerners.

In ancient times, the coffins of most princes and nobles for their ancestors were gloomy wood, and later it was the turn of golden nanmu.

High-quality fallen wood is formed by sinking in decaying and acidic swamps, so it is acidic.

In addition, water-sinked wood is not afraid of insects and is famous for being incorruptible for thousands of years.

This is the reason why the rich people in ancient times gave priority to gloomy wood for their coffins.

Chen Yuguan and Min Gushao, who heard the conversation between Jiang Yang and the Bai youth, couldn't help but look at each other.

It is not easy to find a place where gloomy wood can appear.

In the Yunnan-Guizhou Highlands, there are mostly rocks and cliffs, and the geology should be alkaline. The presence of dark wood indicates that the place is unusual.

Chen Yuguan and Min Gushao figured this out, and Jiang Yang could naturally figure it out, so they took a liking to this greedy Bai youth.

After all the fine salt and rare dry goods were replaced with mountain products from the village, Jiang Yang asked the Bai young man to lead the way.

This young man from the Bai ethnic group is called Yang Mou. Because when he was a child, he went to Dali City with his elders to ask for work, so he learned a good Mandarin. Also because he has been exposed to many things in the world, he understands that profit is the most important thing than the people in the village. This is why Jiang Yang and others It feels like he is more greedy than others.

Yang Mou took Jiang Yang to his home, and after he put away his things, he took Jiang Yang and others to the gloomy wood place.

There were also old parents in his family. When they saw Jiang Yang and others, they thought they were his son's friends and treated them with tea very politely.

"Brother Yang, is that place far away?" Min Gushao asked. It is true that they brought more things.

"It's several miles away!" Yang Mou replied.

"In that case, let's temporarily place the things and horses at your house first, and then come back after we get the sunken wood." Min Gushao pointed at their horses and mountain goods.

In fact, the precious medicinal materials had been secretly stored in the storage space by Jiang Yang, leaving only some ordinary mountain goods.

"Okay, I'll ask my father to help you feed the horses, but you have to pay for the food and fodder." Yang Mou made another small calculation. "Ha, don't worry, I won't treat you badly." Chen Yuguan gave him a reassuring look.

Yang Mou nodded, then went to explain to his old father, and ended in a few words.

After that, Jiang Yang and the other six followed Yang Mou and left the village.

On the way, they were inevitably stopped by people from the village to ask questions. Jiang Yang and the others couldn't understand what Yang Mou and those people were saying, and they could only see that the tone of those people was somewhat vicious.

Jiang Yang looked at Chen Feige, who shook his head and whispered, "I don't understand either."

His understanding of the Bai language is just some simple conversations.

After that, although those people let them go, they did not give Jiang Yang and others a good look, and their faces were full of caution.

"Brother Yang, why were those people looking at us like that just now?" Chen Yuguan stepped forward to inquire with a kind face.

"It's nothing, I just saw you guys didn't leave after you changed the goods, so I asked out of curiosity." Brother Yang replied casually.

Jiang Yang and others could naturally see that Yang Mou was perfunctory.

They asked themselves, they had not committed any taboos, so why were they being excluded and targeted for no reason?
  It was several miles and could not be covered in a short while.

Jiang Yang and the others would definitely not miss this opportunity to inquire about the news.

Of course, this matter will be carried out by Chen Yuguan, who is full of dexterity. After all, he is more eloquent.

"Brother Yang, I heard that your Bai tribe had a very happy relationship with the Ma Zhen gang, which imposed excessive levies. Why are you so actively opposed to it now that the self-sufficient Luo ruffians are ruling?" Of course Chen Yugan would not directly ask the ancient Dian Kingdom matter, so I will use this topic to pave the way.

"Are you the spies from the Ma Zhen Gang?" Yang Mou asked with a wary look on his face after hearing Chen Yuguan's words.

"Hahaha, even that scoundrel is worthy of having us serve as his lackey spies." Chen Yuguan laughed a few times and replied angrily.

What he said was true and not false at all. Luo Ruffian was indeed unworthy of people like them working for him.

Hearing that Chen Yuguan dared to scold Luo Ruffian like this, Yang Mou relaxed his guard.

"This is not a secret thing. No matter what the Ma Zhen Gang says, they are all from Yundian. Although they are a bit tyrannical, they have never killed any of our Bai people. But the new Luo ruffian just occupied On the first day in Dali City, he directly killed many Bai people. Of course, the Bai people will not agree with his rule." Yang Mou answered what Chen Yugan just said.

After hearing this answer, Chen Yukuan felt very sympathetic to the ruffian.

Although those Yunnan troops resisted, you, Luo Ruffian, should at least find out the origins of those resisting Yunnan troops before dealing with them. What the hell is this!
  ……

As they walked and talked all the way, Chen Yuguan quickly took off Yang Mou's guard. The two chatted happily, chatting about all kinds of things...

"I heard that in ancient times, this place was very deserted. I don't even know if anyone lived here. You Bai people must have moved here later, right?"

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"You have a mysterious ancient Dian Kingdom two thousand years ago. It was established near the Dian Lake in Kunming City. I don't know if it is true?" When the conversation was in full swing, Chen Yuguan waited for an opportunity to involve the ancient Dian Kingdom. Come in.

No matter how clever Yang Mou is, he is still only a twenty-five-year-old young man, and he will definitely not be able to prevent Chen Yuguan's unexpected move.

really……

"That must be true. Just half a year ago, someone in our village got a treasure from the ancient Dian Kingdom in the mountains, and then became prosperous." Yang Mou replied without thinking.

"One treasure can make you prosperous? Then why don't your village look for treasures?" Chen Yuguan asked while others were talking.

"Why didn't you go? But if you go and not many people come back, who would dare to go?" Yang Mou retorted angrily. Obviously there was something hidden about him.

"Is that place dangerous?" Chen Yugan asked curiously.

"Danger? Not only danger can be said... why do you ask this?" Yang Mou answered with a somewhat frightened expression, but suddenly he realized that he had almost exposed some secret, and he began to be wary of Chen Yuguan again. .

"It's nothing, I'm just curious. I heard that the Miao village in southern Yunnan can use poison. You shouldn't be afraid of poisons, right?" Chen Yugan asked, mentioning the poison of the Miao people.

"Poison? It's just some insect-raising techniques. It is raised and controlled by people. As long as you take proper precautions, you don't need to be afraid of poison. But not everyone can resist the unknown poisons in the deep mountains and old forests." Yang Mou His eyes were full of disdain for the Miao poison, but he was only afraid of the poisons in the jungle.

(End of this chapter)