"When~~ a piece of rotten jade is cracked, three liang~~"
"Three taels?! That's inappropriate!" Li Huowang, who felt extremely unhappy, picked up the jade pendant and walked out of the pawn shop.
This jade pendant is worth 400,000 yuan in the real world, but it’s worth only 3 taels here. This pawn shop is really evil.
After walking out of the door, Li Huowang turned to look at the pawn shop's plaque again, "This place is so shady, and a lot of money must have been stolen. How about coming over at night and robbing him?"
As soon as this thought came to his mind, Li Huowang was startled. He made a fist with one hand and punched himself hard in the face, then strode toward the inn in an irritable manner.
Returning to the guest room, Li Huowang found the map and spread it out on the bed. He said to Bai Lingmiao who was doing needlework with a drum skin next to him: "Go and call Xiao Man over."
Li Huowang's fingers slowly slid along the south side. Before he died, Li Zhi mentioned that there was a group of black nuns in the south, and they might be able to cure the Danyangzi in themselves.
Now, Danyangzi is constantly affecting him, and he must find a way to get rid of Danyangzi as soon as possible. This is more important than anything else. Hei Taisui has to back off in everything.
Li Zhi said that those nuns were barely good people, but Li Huowang didn't believe it. After what happened before, he doesn't believe anyone now.
If you want to ask those nuns to deal with Danyangzi, you have to pay them a favor that they can't refuse while ensuring your own safety.
Li Huowang looked at the Heavenly Book next to the bed, next to the Yangshou gourd. This was all the chips he could give now.
But this will all happen later. The first and most important thing now is to find the nun Li Zhi mentioned.
"Senior Brother Li, are you looking for me?" A panting Xiaoman came over. Except for a slight redness at the corners of her eyes, she had no emotional changes.
"Where did you go just now?" Li Huowang asked.
"I went to find an escort agency and gave them the last note I wrote in Siqi and asked them to take it back."
"You can just let others do these things. You should hide for a while to avoid the town's police officers from making trouble for you." Li Huowang said to her.
Xiaoman's eyes flashed slightly and she shook her head calmly. "It's okay." Then she added, "My mother didn't report to the official position."
"Oh, then come over and help me look at this picture. You are a local and know everything about this area, right?"
Xiaoman walked over and looked at the position pointed by Li Huowang's finger on the map.
"Do you know where there is a nunnery near this area? Wearing black clothes."
"Nun? Black clothes?" Xiaoman thought for a while, and pointed to a mountain in the southwest with her furry fingers.
"That should be here, Henghua Mountain. I heard that Sun Yuan from the town went here to worship the Golden Bodhisattva."
"Golden Bodhisattva! How much do you know about this nunnery?" Li Huowang collected as much information as possible about that place.
"I don't know much about it. Our family is poor and we can't go so far away to burn incense and worship Buddha. I just heard that the incense is quite prosperous."
"Hmm..." Li Huowang shook his head secretly in his heart. Whether he said this or not, the incense in Zhengde Temple was equally prosperous.
"Is there anything special about this nunnery? For example, Zhengde Temple is very effective in praying for a child."
Xiaoman thought for a long time and finally said: "I only heard that the nuns there are very fat."
"I'm very fat. What's so special about this?" Li Huowang thought for a while and tapped that place with his hand. "Let's go and have a look at this place."
Li Zhi's half-money was exchanged for dry food, thin rice noodles, and a large jar of lard. Li Huowang and his party set off for their next destination.
They are not alone, there are many people walking with them on the road.
From their few words, Li Huowang could tell that these people felt that a war was imminent and that it was not safe to live on the border, so they all planned to run inland.
Just walking and walking like this, as we passed through the forked roads, the crowd began to gradually decrease.
Just when Li Huowang thought they would be alone again, a large body of water blocked their way.
The breeze blew across the water, also causing the Taoist robe on Li Huowang to sway slightly.
"Is this the sea that my second uncle talked about?" Gou Wa said in surprise.
The vast water surface appeared in front of them like a mirror between heaven and earth. At a glance, they could not see the edge at all.
Li Huowang took the map away and looked at it again. "No, this is not a sea, this is just a lake, a very, very big lake."
Siqi already has a lot of water, so it’s not surprising that there is such a big lake.
"Brother, why is this lake so dark?"
The color of the lake is a bit dark, and even if you stand on the edge of the lake, you can't see the bottom, which makes people feel intimidated.
Li Huowang put away the map and looked at the other people standing by the water. "Wait and see what they do."
When a small black dot appeared in the distance, the heads of people on the shore began to move. It was a wooden boat, and the people here took the boat to cross the lake.
This wooden boat looks very old, but it is also very big.
"Come on, come on! Everyone get on the boat, each head is worth seventy cents." A boat boss stood on the board of the boat and shouted to other people on the shore.
"Why is it seventy cents? It was only forty-six last year." Someone on the boat expressed dissatisfaction with the price.
But the barefoot boat boss didn't tolerate him at all. He glared at him angrily. "I'm just asking you if you want to sit down. If you are able, you can swim over by yourself."
Seeing the man obediently paying the money and submissive, the proud boat owner spat at the lake. "It looks like a war is about to begin, and there are still so many rules, so what's wrong with me raising the price?"
"Let's get on the boat." Li Huowang walked up. In a place where he was unfamiliar with life, he was not afraid of expensive things, but he was afraid of other people's evil intentions.
The boat carried dozens of people and began to slowly move towards the center of the lake.
People who have never been on a boat are prone to seasickness, but Li Huowang thinks it’s okay.
He turned to the boat boss and asked: "Master, how long does it take to get to the other side?"
"Haha, we'll be there in two hours. Don't worry, we'll definitely arrive before dark."
Li Huowang nodded and looked warily at the lake in front of him where the bow of the boat was broken open.
The inky black lake looks very depressing, as if something terrifying has come out of it.
"There shouldn't be anything that can eat people in this lake, right?"
After experiencing so many things, Li Huowang was as frightened as a bird.
"What you said is right. Those are all made up by idle people. I have lived on this lake for almost twenty years. Do you think I am not living a good life? Don't worry, it will be fine. I will definitely do something with the money."<
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Hearing this, Li Huowang felt a little relieved.
As the boat slowly moves forward, the sun in the sky is gradually moving westward.
When the clouds in the sky were dyed red by the setting sun, the boat slowly sailed into a large reed swamp.
"It should be here soon." Li Huowang thought to himself as he looked at the reeds around him.
Just when he was thinking this, there was a "pop" and the sound of falling into the water came from behind.
When everyone who heard the sound subconsciously looked back, they found that the boatman and the boss of the boat were missing!
"Mom! They were eaten by things in the water!!"
A shout from someone unknown made dozens of people on the boat suddenly panic.
"Everyone sit down! Do you want the boat to capsize?" Li Huowang's scolding made the boat quieter.
He turned around and looked at his own people. "Which of you can punt?"
But what they got was unanimous shaking of heads.
Just when Li Huowang was thinking about what to do, there was movement in the reeds around him.
Several small wooden boats, carrying some men, women and children with weapons in their hands, surrounded the big ship.
On one of the wooden boats, Li Huowang saw the boat boss just now.
At this moment, he was holding up a small dagger to scrape his noodles. When he saw Li Huowang looking at him, he said with a smile: "Little young man, hehehe, do you want to eat hob noodles or wonton noodles?"