A motorcade was walking on the official road covered with snow.
The wheels ran over the clean snow, leaving a dirty rut mark.
On a tall black horse, Du Kang was chewing on a wolf leg wrapped in oil paper.
Suddenly, his expression changed, he turned his hand, and there were already a few nails in his hand. He raised his hand and flicked it, and the nails shot into the snow.
The nails with astonishing force instantly opened several small snow pits in the snow. In the snow pits, several small snow-white snakes were all broken into two parts and were struggling and squirming in place.
"Master Du is such a hidden weapon!"
A guard on the side exclaimed repeatedly when he saw this nailing method, and quickly stepped forward to catch the broken snake and put it into the bamboo basket he carried with him.
"This snow snake is nourishing. I'll make a bowl of snake soup for everyone today."
Du Kang finished chewing the wolf leg in his hand, dropped the leg bone into the snow, and then gave instructions to the guard.
"Yes, Mr. Du is kind-hearted, and we can drink fresh snake soup today."
The first half of the sentence was addressed to Du Kang, but in the second half of the sentence, the guard had already shouted and ran towards the chef in the team.
This snow snake is not afraid of the cold and can move freely in the heavy snow in cold winter. Its meat can nourish yin and yang. Eating it in the winter can remove dryness from the body, making it a rare winter tonic.
Unfortunately, snow snakes only appear in winter, and they only shuttle and walk under the snow layer, making them extremely difficult to catch. I was able to catch these few today thanks to Du Kang's luck.
Ever since he left Luohan Temple, Du Kang had been causing trouble to the wild beasts on both sides of the official road. Sometimes he would kill a bird, sometimes he would kill a wolf. Whenever he set up camp, he would let the team cook roast meat and make soup for him.
After roasting in the evening, he kept talking all day long. The key was that he only ate and did not poop. No one had ever seen him go to the toilet. Lin Zhiyuan even suspected that he was practicing the gluttonous method.
Sometimes when he hunted too much and couldn't finish it, he would share it with the people in the convoy, so that the convoy would have more fresh food.
It has been ten days since we left Luohan Temple. Even though there were two monks guarding the convoy during these ten days, one individual and one guard died in the convoy. One was bitten by a snake and poisoned, and the other was dragged away by a monster during the night vigil.
Running all the way has made everyone exhausted, but fortunately the destination is almost here.
At this time, cheers suddenly came from the front of the motorcade, and the content was that Tonggu County had arrived.
After riding the horse and walking forward for dozens of steps, we turned around a mountain pass and suddenly saw a bright view.
Looking up and looking ahead, there are mountains covered with snow all around. On a small basin surrounded by mountains, a city with a small area but tall walls stands.
This is Tonggu County.
The fatigue of many days of running seemed to be gone, and the convoy rushed towards the city not far away.
At the city gate, after comparing the letter issued by the Yangchun County government, Lin Zhiyuan handed the money to the captain guarding the city. After briefly checking the goods, the convoy was released into Tonggu County.
Compared with Yangchun County, Tonggu County is more crowded. The shops on both sides of the street are narrow and the alleys are even more complicated. They are full of privately built shacks and can barely leave a passing path.
Fortunately, the road was still smooth, and the convoy followed the road to the delivery school yard in Tonggu County.
While Lin Zhiyuan was busy inspecting and delivering the goods with the buyer at the school yard, Du Kang had already handed over the dark horse that had been with him for more than ten days to the Lin family's guards and walked into this new city.
When Qi Heng told him that a caravan was coming to Tonggu County, Du Kang decided to come here without hesitation. He did not choose blindly.
Tonggu County is a small thalassemia county, closed and conservative, and is a good place to avoid disaster, but Du Kang decided to come here because the owner of Tonggu County is a martial arts school.
Tonggu means the place where Wutong takes root and the Phoenix settles down. The Feng family moved here two hundred years ago and opened the Xiaofeng Martial Arts School to protect the tranquility of the place.
Xiaofeng Martial Arts School teaches martial arts for free, and both local and out-of-town residents can practice martial arts. They can even spend money to buy spells at the martial arts gym.
If you have outstanding talent and are officially accepted as a disciple, you will be taught the core spells of Xiaofeng Martial Arts School and have the opportunity to become the leader of Tonggu County in the future.
Sao Feng Martial Arts School is a place where you can learn spells for a fee. Du Kang has never heard of a more generous force than this one after traveling for so long. There is no novice village more suitable for him than here.
If he can be placed here at the beginning, he will definitely grow faster than he does now.
None of the spells he is practicing now can be advanced in a short time.
Although he still had a few spells in his hand that he had not yet practiced, these spells either lacked materials or would cause great demonization to the human body, so he did not dare to practice them at will.
But it would be a pity if it is not conducive to getting up because the gold finger that has more and more lives is in your possession. No one cares about longevity.
We walked to the main street, picked out the largest restaurant in sight, and walked straight towards it.
As soon as he reached the door, the waiter standing outside the restaurant lifted the thick door curtain and waved him in.
Du Kang walked into the restaurant lobby with a gust of cold wind outside.
As soon as I lowered the curtain, a wave of heat hit my face. It was dinner time, half of the hall was filled with diners, and the sounds of changing glasses and chatting filled my ears at the same time.
This long-lost smoke and fire from the human world dispelled the coldness and chill that Du Kang had spent half a month running around, and now it looked like the human world.
In the center of the first floor, a high platform was built.
A slender girl wearing a thin green dress was playing the pipa on the stage and singing a local tune that Du Kang could not understand.
The sound of the pipa was clear and sweet, and the girl's voice was graceful and charming. Although he couldn't understand what was being sung, Du Kang could tell that it was a good song.
He walked up the stairs to the second floor and chose a seat by the window to sit down. The child who had been following behind him immediately pulled off the cloth strip on his shoulders and wiped the table again. He poured another cup of hot tea before speaking: "
Sir, what would you like to eat?"
"I saw a lot of ducks on the first floor, please bring me a duck first. Also, I want to ask you something."
"Okay! One of the crispy roast ducks in the private dining room on the second floor." The waiter sang loudly at the counter before turning to look at Du Kang: "Sir, what do you want to ask? There is no news on the market that I don't know about.
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Du Kang is a foreigner who is not familiar with the area in Tongyuan County. Naturally, he wanted to inquire about the news when he first arrived.
Although I also got some information from Lin Zhiyuan, he only came to Tonggu County once every six months, so how could the locals know the information well?
"I want to become a disciple of Xiaofeng Martial Arts School, but I don't know what the martial arts school's requirements are for accepting disciples?"
"Sir, you are not a local, right? The locals know that it is free to learn martial arts. Xiaofeng Martial Arts School has dedicated personnel to teach martial arts." The waiter introduced, and suddenly the conversation changed.
"However, it is of no use for us ordinary people to learn martial arts. It is not about practicing magic. It doesn't matter if we learn martial arts to be superb. When we encounter monsters, we just need to resist a few moves. We only learned a few months when we were young, and how many times did we learn?
It’s just self-defense.”
Du Kang couldn't help but nod when he heard this. The martial arts in this world are just a summary of enemy-killing skills. Mortals can only strengthen their bodies and maintain a strong body through practice.
Compared with practicing martial arts desperately, licking blood from the blade of a knife, and fighting monsters, ordinary people still prefer to do ordinary work, marry a wife and have children, and live a plain life.
"But, I thought that what Sao Feng Martial Arts School is learning is magic." Du Kang drank the hot tea in the cup in one gulp, letting the fragrance of tea linger on his tongue.