After walking out of Wanquanzhai with an indifferent expression, Liang En immediately took a vehicle and went straight to the airport, and then took the earliest plane to Ljubljanas to return to his residence.
"I really made a fortune this time." Looking at the extra 85,000 euros in his bank card on the plane, Liang En took a deep breath, because in his first trade trial, he made an amount equivalent to the EU's per capita annual profit.
2.5 times the income.
"But we need to think carefully about the next trade items. At least in that ancient world, not everything was easy to sell."
Especially unlike the previous temporary transaction situation, the next transaction will be long-term, so choosing trading items has become the top priority now.
"You must not touch things like steel and salt, otherwise they will be easily targeted by the officials in the ancient world. For silver, it is okay to make one or two orders occasionally, but it is not suitable for daily business."
"As for spices, cloth, etc., although there is not that much risk, the guild is a hurdle that cannot be bypassed. If you do business without the permission of the guild, the consequences will be absolutely disastrous."
In the ancient world, if you want to do business, you must obtain permission from the guild. Otherwise, the other party will at least find someone to harass, set up traps, and cause trouble in all aspects of the goods from transportation to sale. At worst, it will organize hundreds of people.
Thousands of people came to smash up the store, set fire to it, and killed people.
Although the protagonists in many time-travel novels would choose to have a fight with these local organizations, Liang En did not intend to do so. After all, he came to the ancient world to seek wealth, not to seek anger.
"Forget it, let's go to the ancient world to take a look at the situation before making a decision. If you just think about it in the air here, you won't be able to come up with a result in ten thousand years."
After thinking about it for a while, Liang En realized that he was just talking on paper and simply gave up thinking. Then he took some daily items he had prepared before and contacted the bronze tripod in his mind, and then traveled through time and space.
...
In an instant, the surrounding environment changed. The originally small apartment room turned into an Oriental-style building with wooden beams and white walls. The moonlight passed through the translucent oil paper on the window lattice, bringing a glimmer of light into the room.
There is an ironwood canopy bed placed in the corner of the room, and a screen is placed in front of the bed. The dressing table and wardrobe are placed near the window. Several cabinets are placed in the remaining space.
With tables and chairs.
Whether it is the brightly colored silk quilt, the cotton mattress, the travel shoes under the bed and the lantern placed on the bedside, they all illustrate the unique identity of the owner.
"Uncle Zhang, where is Uncle Zhang?"
After shouting a few words, Liang En found no response from the servant and lit the lantern with a lighter, then grabbed the electric baton and walked out of the room.
He didn't worry about the servants running away with the money. After all, Liang En was hired through a formal contract signed by the guild. Whether he ran away or stole, the price would be fatal.
What's more, he had nothing in the room except some daily necessities. Not many people in their right mind would put themselves in danger for such things.
Sure enough, when he opened the door, he saw Aunt Zhang standing at the front door, leaning on the door frame and looking carefully, while Uncle Zhang was holding a pitchfork and staring nervously at a corner of the yard.
"Master, are you back? Move back a little. There is an eel in the yard. I'm afraid it will hurt you."
After hearing the footsteps, the gray-haired old man held a pitchfork and stared at the corner behind the water tank and warned.
"Who do you think your young master is? Although I haven't done much menial work, I won't be killed by an eel - wait, are all the local eels this big?"
At first Liang En thought that Uncle Zhang was making a fuss, but when he raised the oil lamp and walked over, he found that this thing that Uncle Zhang called an eel was actually as thick as his own thigh and five or six meters long.
"I have never seen such a big eel in my more than 50 years of life." Uncle Zhang shook his head and said.
Seeing the eel nesting in the corner and not moving much, Uncle Zhang also relaxed and explained to Liang En the reason for the incident.
Because Liang En had told them not to enter the bedroom of the main room unless summoned by themselves, the Zhangs and his wife usually would not go near the main room, but would only move around in the side rooms and the front.
Just half an hour before Liang En came back, Aunt Zhang, who was cleaning the kitchen in the wing room, heard a crashing sound from the yard, so she looked outside through the crack in the door.
As a result, I happened to see a big black thing suddenly jump out of the well like a gust of wind, and then disappeared into the darkness in the corner of the yard.
What happened next was what Liang En saw: After some searching, Uncle Zhang and the others, who were called out, found the eel hiding in the corner behind the water tank, so they confronted each other.
"Old man, do you think this thing is a monster? Otherwise, how could such a big eel come from?" After Uncle Zhang gave a general introduction to the current situation, Aunt Zhang said in a low voice.
"Isn't this how the son of Lao Li from our village died the year before last? I heard that he was swallowed by a big snake that could swallow a cow in one bite when he went hunting in the mountains."
"Hiss - don't tell me it's really possible. I've seen the head of the big snake killed by the Taoist priest of Shangzhen Temple before. It was really bigger than a human -"
The word monster made Liang En's attention suddenly focus, so he began to guide Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhang to tell them the information they knew about monsters.
Obviously, Uncle Zhang and the others were not prepared for Liang En to tell them information that was similar to common sense in their eyes, so after ten minutes, Liang En felt as if his whole outlook on life had been reshaped.
According to Mr. and Mrs. Zhang, there are city gods in this world who protect the world, there are Buddhists and Taoists who can subjugate demons and eliminate demons. There are even swordsmen who can spit out sword pills and kill people's heads from thousands of miles away.
But except for the big and weird snake head a few years ago, they had never seen these ghostly things with their own eyes, so naturally they couldn't tell whether this eel was just an ordinary eel with an astonishingly large size or a monster.
The news he heard shocked Liang En, because when he was wandering around the city a few days ago, he heard that a plague broke out in such and such a place. The nearby Taoist temple sent people to deal with the soil disaster, or there was a long-lasting drought in some place. The county magistrate led
News about people going to the Dragon King Temple to burn incense.
But he had always thought that this was just an ordinary folk custom. After all, in an era when science and technology were not developed enough, praying to ghosts and gods for help was considered a normal practice in the capitals of various ethnic groups around the world.
But who would have thought that those legends in this world are actually true, and even now there is an eel in the yard that looks like it may be related to these gods and ghosts.
"I think this eel won't be too dangerous even if it's really a monster."
After thinking for a few seconds, Liang En shook his head gently and made a decision.
"Because according to what Aunt Zhang just said, this eel can swim faster than a galloping horse and is also very agile. If it really wants to harm people, the three of us together can't stop it."
"It makes sense." Uncle Zhang nodded. "Then what should we do next, Master?"
"In this way, I brought some chicken and pork back this time. I will feed him some first, then get some minced meat and put it into the well to see if I can get it away. If not, we will think of other ways.
"
After speaking, Liang En turned around and went back to his room, planning to take the five kilograms of pork and a live chicken he had brought before and try to feed the eels to see if he could lure this uninvited guest back into the well.
To be honest, if this was an ordinary-sized eel, he would eat eel paste at noon tomorrow. But as an ordinary person, when he doesn't understand the situation, he still treats these guys who are very different from the same kind.
With some respect.
What's more, if there were to be a fight, there was little chance that a weakling and two old men in the yard could defeat this eel that was bigger than a Burmese jungle python.
Therefore, in his opinion, it is best to resolve this matter peacefully, and there is no need to cause a conflict.
But just when he turned around to get the meat, there was a sudden knock on the yard door.