Since the news of the imperial edict came back one day later, Ouyang Wende also left.
The Duan family is fine, Shanjiabao is fine, the wedding continues, and more preparations need to be made, because Shanjiabao's reputation has grown, and many people from the world will come to join in the fun.
It’s not for anything else, just to take a look and go around in a circle.
When the news of the convoy's departure came back, the fort once again sent the third fortress, Lord Shanlu, to greet them.
…
On the other side, the suburbs of Beijing.
While the convoy was queuing up to pass the checkpoint, Yamazaki and Shandai listened to the gossips of those who were also queuing up, and finally heard the name of the Jade Stealer.
Everyone in the world feels sorry for him, and when he talks about the Jade Stealer, he is envious and jealous because he snatched away Situ Xuefu from the Situ family.
People don't care about Situ's family, what they care about is that Situ Xuefu is ranked among the top ten in martial arts.
Such a beautiful woman, alas!
…
Shan Dai winked at Yamazaki, and Yamazaki wiped away the frightened sweat.
Fortunately, he killed the person, otherwise he might have been entangled with the Situ family for the rest of his life.
Shandai asked the second aunt's grandmother on the carriage about the Jade Stealer, and the second aunt's grandmother knew about it.
The flower-picking thief who ran rampant in the martial arts world twenty years ago disappeared and was thought to have been killed by his senior martial arts masters. Unexpectedly, he reappeared.
When he is around for a day, all the beauties in the world are frightened.
Shan Dai continued, "Grandma Er Gu, what about the Four Wonderful Swords on the Green Forest Road? I heard people talking about them when I came here. They are very powerful?"
The second aunt's grandmother smiled and said: "I don't know about that, I'm not a Jianghu person."
The steward who was driving the carriage interjected that he had recently heard about the Four Wonder Swords and that they had robbed a medicine dealer from the south, and that the medicine was supposed to be sent to the Imperial Hospital.
Shandai was happy, and Yamazaki changed the subject, "Second aunt, grandma, how do you know about Mr. Jade Stealer?"
The second aunt's grandmother said casually: "He came to the capital and caused a lot of trouble in the city."
"It can't be such a coincidence, right?" Yamazaki thought, "Second aunt, did he disappear after that?"
The second aunt's grandmother was surprised, "It seems so. What did you think of?"
"Master Yunxiao Pan Yunxiao," Yamazaki said, "Master Jade Stealer and him, maybe something happened to them at that time, and then Master Stealing Jade was defeated, and now Pan Yunxiao appears, he also came out."
Shan Dai questioned, "No way. Even if he loses, he doesn't have to stay out of the world for twenty years?"
"Who knows, maybe I have never been sure of winning Pan Yunxiao," Yamazaki said, "or maybe there is an appointment. Jianghu people sometimes mean what they say, but sometimes they will make a promise."
"Well, that's true." Shan Dai smiled and said, "Forget it, I don't want to think about it anymore, he can't come to me anyway."
The second aunt's grandmother laughed, but it was hard to say anything. It was hard to praise Shandai for being beautiful, and it was also hard to say that Shandai wasn't beautiful, so she just didn't say anything.
Yamazaki knew that Shandai was proud that she had managed to deal with such a top expert.
But it’s hard to say, so I won’t say it.
…
After leaving the checkpoint, it was another day before I saw the carriage of Master Yunxiao Pan Yunxiao.
Many of them walked, covering hundreds of miles for nearly twenty days, and their pace was not slow anymore.
Pan Yunxiao met Yamazaki again and already knew everything about him.
Without opening the curtain to look, one could tell by listening to the message that Yamazaki was only second-rate now.
Knowing that he had recently taken medicine to strain his muscles and bones, he didn't pay much attention to him.
Such people have top-notch martial arts skills.
No matter how resourceful he is, he cannot defeat his enemy with just one move.
…
Yamazaki waited for Pan Yunxiao's motorcade to go away, and then he breathed a sigh of relief, and then he unblocked the second aunt's grandfather's acupuncture points.
The second aunt's grandfather is now full of energy and doesn't know how to restrain himself. If he doesn't put him down, it will be really difficult to hide it from a top master like Pan Yunxiao.
Next, you can start taking the medicine made from poisonous blood.
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In the evening, stay at the inn.
Yamazaki told the second aunt's grandma that she could let the second aunt's grandpa take medicine. With the medicine's power to boost her power, she no longer had to keep all her inner energy in the second aunt's grandpa's body.
Although the second aunt's grandmother trusted Yamazaki, she still couldn't help but ask.
"Will the medicine worsen the condition?"
"It's the heaviest now. As long as the inner energy is there, it won't get any heavier."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, and if nothing else, there will be extra surprises."
"What surprise?"
Yamazaki held up his hand and said, "If I told you this, it wouldn't be a surprise."
The second aunt's grandma didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Okay, I will trust you again."
…
Everyone traveled by carriage, but Yamazaki still asked everyone to take medicine and practice martial arts.
I just adjusted the amount of medicine to reduce the amount of medicine that replenishes qi and blood and strengthens muscles and bones.
In the morning, I would do a round of boxing until I was tired, and then I would vomit on horseback.
In the evening, I also beat myself until I was tired, then took a shower and went to bed.
Of course, the innkeeper can provide bath water, so you just have to pay for it.
Thanks to Mr. Stealing the Jade Master, I now have over a million taels of silver notes, and the money for the Four Wonder Swords is only a fraction.
Banknotes become useless paper if they are not used, so wherever I go, I always visit pharmacies to buy good medicinal materials.
The second aunt's grandmother also wondered where the two got the money. The two bluntly said that they had found a place to steal it after they had no money.
The second aunt's grandmother was so funny that she didn't ask any more questions.
When she thought about it, this was all contributed by some corrupt official. People in the world have been doing this kind of thing all the time.
…
Shandai didn't want to take care of the accompanying guards, but Yamazaki convinced her.
In a word, taking good care of it is like slapping the emperor in the face.
"Second aunt's grandfather has been an upright official all his life. The emperor rewarded him with ten thousand taels of silver and even said that he would return to his hometown to buy a house."
“It sounds nice to say it, but it’s another matter in calculation.
"One acre of fertile land costs ten taels of silver. Why is it so expensive? Because you have to pay taxes and hire people.
"
“One acre of land produces one year, and roughly half of it has to be handed over.”
"A farmer can take care of five acres of land, and hiring a farmer costs one hundred taels of silver per day, and 300 taels of silver during busy farming hours. Including the annual rewards, it will cost at least fifty taels of silver a year."
"One mu of land yields twenty to forty bushels, and five acres of land yields fifty to one hundred bushels."
“Ten buckets of rice is worth one tael of silver, and five acres of land is only worth a few taels of silver throughout the year.”
"And a big house with a thousand taels would need at least twenty servants."
"This salary is equivalent to one thousand taels of silver a year."
"In other words, you need to buy at least one thousand acres of fertile land so that you can have one thousand taels of silver every year to pay your servants' salaries."
"And one thousand acres of fertile land costs ten thousand taels of silver, so you can barely manage to be a small landowner."
"You have to have good weather, otherwise you won't be able to pay your taxes for a year, and the government will ask you to go to jail for room and board."
"In other words, if the emperor is not incompetent in his duties and does not know the people's sentiments, so he thinks that these ten thousand taels of silver are a lot and rewards them at will, then the emperor is cheating people again."
"As for these officers and soldiers, I saw that they eat and drink very sparingly every day. It's obviously their own money."
"In other words, the higher-ups only gave them outing allowances and then ignored them."
"Because this matter is obviously the emperor's whim. There is no such special expenditure in the treasury, so we might as well draw up a field service to save trouble."
"So, we took care of their food and drink along the way, gave them banquets every day, stayed in inns, and spent enough money."
"Dozens of taels of silver a day, every tael of silver is a slap in the emperor's face."
"Spending ten thousand taels of silver will tell the world that the emperor is stingy and stingy."
"Look, you gave Master Duan 10,000 taels of silver, but the guards you sent spent it all in just a few dozen days."
"You still ask people to go home and buy land for their homes, bah!"
"This is the truth. The more money you spend on the officers and soldiers, the louder the slap will be on the emperor's face. If it exceeds ten thousand taels of silver, the emperor's face will be swollen."
"Stop talking about face, we are going to strip him of everything this time and make him look embarrassed."