"Cousin, please let me use this horse first!"
Zhang Xuezhou knows the direct route from Fuping County to Rongcheng.
Although he lacked demonic power and couldn't fly, he could glide through obstacles from time to time, and it wasn't too late for him to reach the Taoist temple.
At noon the day after he reunited with Rong Tianding and others, Zhang Xuezhou ran back from Fuping County again.
At this time, Rong Tianding bought a yellow gelding as early as possible and was still happily feeding him fodder.
He didn't even warm the horse's butt, and Zhang Xuezhou took the horse's reins into his hands.
"Cousin, where have you been this late at night? Shall we set off now?" Rong Tianding said excitedly: "This horse is very honest. It will be no problem for the two of us to ride on it. I also brought meat cakes and water!"
"I'm in some trouble. Just wait for me. I'll be back!"
Zhang Xuezhou called out twice, then got on the horse, slapped the horse's butt and ran towards the south.
"Fuping County should be in the north!"
Seeing Zhang Xuezhou's figure riding away, Rong Tianding didn't understand for a moment.
He looked at the remaining hay in his hand, and at the ease with which Zhang Xuezhou rode his horse, and his head began to sink into deep thought.
"Okay, then wait for my cousin!"
Rong Tianding didn't understand what Zhang Xuezhou was going to do, but it was nothing for his cousin to ride a horse. Even if he lost it, he could still afford it.
By joining forces with Mu Tao Ren, the two almost monopolized the superstitious business in Chengdu.
When Mu Tao Ren passed away, Rong Tianding not only ate alone, he also inherited Mu Tao Ren's inheritance, resulting in his current wealth.
He didn't take it seriously. After waiting and watching for a while with no results, Rong Tianding closed the door of the Taoist temple and practiced the spell there.
"Lao Mu asked me to learn the art of controlling ghosts. Now that I have learned this skill, where can I find the ghost thugs?"
Rong Tianding now exorcises evil spirits from people in the city from time to time, but he has not seen a ghost in the past few years.
"It's all because of ghosts in my heart, but I can't use that kind of ghosts. I don't know what magic skills my cousin can teach me!"
His head was filled with thoughts, and he didn't come back to his senses until the Taoist temple door bang bang bang.
"Who is it? Come to burn incense so early in the morning?"
"Taoist Master, open the door!"
The powerful voice came, and Rong Tianding felt that it would be difficult for such people to come to temples and Taoist temples to burn incense and worship Buddha.
"Where are you from?"
Rong Tianding opened the door a crack, and then saw the other party hand over a broken piece of silver.
"We are members of the Feiyu Army. This horse is a little hungry after running for a long time. Can you buy some horse feed from the Taoist Master?"
In early spring, the ice and snow have not gone away, and the grass has not sprouted. It is difficult to eat grass in the wild.
Zhang Xuezhou felt uncomfortable being chased, and chasing Zhang Xuezhou was not easy either.
The man can still hold on, but the horse has a hard time.
Everyone in the Feiyu Army was hungry and followed the path shown by the magic mark to get here.
"It would be best if the Taoist priest has food here. We can pay for it!"
"Ingredients are a bit expensive now, and they are not the normal prices in the past."
"We pay for it!"
"I paid three hundred and a half taels for this horse material!"
Rong Tianding looked at the broken silver in his hand, and then at the four members of the Feiyu Army.
He weighed it and pointed to the military horse that was already munching grass outside the Taoist temple.
This made the generals stunned.
"This little fodder costs three hundred and a half taels?"
They thought they had paid a high price to buy fodder, but they didn't expect that the money they gave was not enough.
"I bought it from the horse dealer this morning. I wanted to sell it to passers-by and earn a few and a half taels, but I didn't expect that I lost money," Rong Tianding said.
"Your prices here in Chengdu are too high!"
In the past, the price of pork was one and a half taels per catty, and three hundred and a half taels could buy a pig.
But right now it's just a batch of green fodder, even a very small amount.
The generals looked at each other for a moment.
"How about I mortgage this sword?" said the military general surnamed Lu: "This heavy sword is a bit heavy on the horse, but it should be lighter without it. If you can exchange it for some food, it will save me from starving when I get cold!"
"That's fine. We've been running around all morning. Not only are the horses so hungry, but so are the people." Ning Cheng nodded.
"Taoist Priest, I will mortgage this sword with you, and I will redeem it when I return to the military camp and get the money!" said the general named Lu.
Rong Tianding looked at everyone and thought for a few seconds.
Zhang Xuezhou mentioned that he had caused trouble, and Rong Tianding felt that the group of people in front of him might be the trouble.
He glanced at the heavy sword, and when he reached out to hold it, he felt it was extremely heavy, almost making him unable to hold it steady.
"Your big iron sword is worthless at first glance. The most you can bet is a hundred and a half taels!" Rong Tianding shouted.
"My sword is mixed with black iron. It's not afraid of anything. It cost me forty gold to make it in the past. Now you tell me it's only a hundred and a half gold?" said the general named Lu in disbelief.
"This sword of yours is extremely heavy. No one uses this sword at all. If you don't come to redeem the sword in the future, I won't be able to sell it to anyone else, and I will have to lose a hundred and a half taels!"
"What you said is not completely unreasonable!"
"I still have a few pork pies in the temple. Each pie is worth one hundred and a half taels. If you pledge your sword, I will give you one piece of pie!"
“This is ridiculously expensive!”
The Feiyu Army in the Northern Territory is not an army from an evil country. They must act according to the rules in this land of the Northern Territory.
No matter whether the price is expensive or cheap, you have to buy it at any price when you are hungry.
Although everyone is aggrieved, those who should pay pay, and those who cannot pay can only mortgage.
"You have to mortgage a pair of iron plates for one hundred and a half taels. Didn't you form a group to eat my cake for free?"
With a heavy sword pressed down, Rong Tianding also looked back and took out a piece of cake.
His cake was as big as a man's face, and it was stuffed with various minced pork.
It had not yet been heated, so when everyone shared the cake, they felt it was delicious. However, after sharing one cake, everyone felt that their stomachs were only 10% full.
Ning took advantage of his magical weapon to pledge it, which was looked down upon by Rong Tianding as usual.
Rong Tianding was 50% ignorant and 50% stubborn.
Regardless of what Zhang Xuezhou did to offend the Feiyu Army, as a cousin, he would delay as long as possible and reduce the opponent's strength by three points.
He didn't know why Zhang Xuezhou ran south before, but now he completely understands.
Zhang Xuezhou not only had to run south, but also ran out of the northern area where Feiyu Army was located until he got rid of these people.
He accepted Ning Cheng's magic weapon with a look of disgust on his face, and then gave him the second piece of cake.
"Taoist Master, look at my sword!"
"A sword again? I don't want to mortgage this kind of thing anymore!"
"This is a good sword of mine, worth a hundred gold. Can't it be worth a hundred and a half taels now?"
"You said a hundred gold is a hundred gold. Why don't you exchange it for a hundred gold if you are worth a hundred gold? I...forget it, for the sake of Feiyu Army, this cake is yours!"
"My saddle?"
"No saddles!"
"What about my robe? This is a robe. Look, my robe can float three feet high!"
"Isn't it just a matter of pulling a thread on the robe and pulling it up?"
"I didn't pull the thread!"
"Forget it, I won't argue with you charlatans. The discounted mortgage is worth one hundred and a half taels. Please come and pick it up within three days. If you don't pick it up, I will sell it myself!"
Rong Tianding's temples trembled slightly.
He felt that what Zhang Xuezhou had caused was a bit big.
Iron weapons, robes, heavy swords, sharp swords, each of these can only be used by extremely high-level people.
Rong Tianding didn't know what big trouble Zhang Xuezhou had caused, which led to the need to send such people to chase Zhang Xuezhou.
He watched the half-full people riding away, thinking over and over in his mind.
But he soon became excited. The bigger the trouble Zhang Xuezhou could cause, the higher his ability would be.
Mu Taoist once told him that there is no great monk who does not cause trouble. A monk who does not cause trouble can only mean that he has no ability and will never be able to do anything that others admire in his life.
In a community of monks, everyone not only causes trouble, but often causes trouble.
The higher the level of the trouble, the greater the corresponding harvest.
For example, Rong Tianding was on the verge of causing trouble just now. In just a quarter of an hour, he harvested several heavy items.
Even if someone from the Feiyu Army did come back with credit, he would still have earned five hundred and eighty and a half taels.
"I have to follow my cousin out into the world to cause trouble!"
He hasn't mastered the skill yet, but the adventurous spirit in Rong Tianding's mind is very strong.
He looked at the small Taoist temple and felt that it was no longer possible for him to live as peacefully as before by selling pig blood paintings in the Taoist temple and collecting some incense money.
(End of chapter)
