CH 70

"When... this rotten seed and cracked jade, three or two..."

"Three or two?! That's unacceptable!" Li Huowang felt extremely unhappy and picked up the jade pendant, walking towards the pawnshop outside.

This jade pendant was worth 400,000 yuan in the real world, but here it was only worth three or two. This pawnshop was truly unscrupulous.

As he walked out the door, Li Huowang turned back to look at the signboard of the pawnshop. "This place is so unscrupulous, they must have made a lot of money. Why don't I just come back at night and rob them?"

As soon as this thought arose, Li Huowang suddenly felt a shock and punched himself in the face with his fist. He then walked irritably back to the inn.

Back in his room, Li Huowang spread out the map on the bed and said to Bai Lingmiao, who was sewing with a drumskin next to him, "Go get Xiaoman."

Li Huowang's finger slid slowly down to the south. Before he died, Li Zhi mentioned that there was a group of black-robed nuns in the south who might be able to solve the problem of Danyang Zi on his body.

Now, Danyang Zi was constantly influencing him, and he had to find a way to solve him as soon as possible. This was more important than anything else, even more important than the Black Tai Sui.

Li Zhi said that those nuns were barely good people, but Li Huowang didn't believe it. After what happened before, he didn't believe anyone now.

If he wanted to ask those nuns to solve Danyang Zi, he had to offer them something they couldn't refuse while ensuring his own safety.

Li Huowang's gaze fell on the Tian Shu next to the Longevity Gourd on the bedside. This was all the chips he could offer now.

But that was all for later. The most important thing now was to find the nuns that Li Zhi mentioned.

"Li Shixiong, did you call me?" Xiaoman, who was panting, walked over. Except for a slight redness in the corners of her eyes, she showed no emotional changes.

"Where did you just go?" Li Huowang asked.

"I went to find a caravan and gave them the paper with the last words from Siqi in Sizhi, asking them to take it back."

"Let others do these things. You should hide for a while so that the town's catchpoles won't bother you." Li Huowang said to her.

Xiaoman's eyes flickered slightly, and she shook her head calmly. "It's okay." Then she added, "My mother didn't report it to the officials."

"Oh, then come over and help me look at this map. You're a local, so you should know this area well."

Xiaoman walked over and looked at the location that Li Huowang was pointing to on the map. "Do you know where there's a nunnery around here? They wear black clothes."

"A nunnery? Black clothes?" Xiaoman thought for a moment, then pointed to a mountain in the southwest with her furry fingers. "That should be it, Henghua Mountain. I heard that Mr. Sun from the town went there to worship the golden body Buddha."

"Golden body Buddha! How much do you know about this nunnery?" Li Huowang collected as much information as possible about the place."I don't know much about it. Our family is poor and can't go far to burn incense and worship Buddha, but I heard that the temple there is very prosperous."

"Um..." Li Huowang shook his head inwardly. This was as good as saying nothing. The incense at the Zhengde Temple was just as prosperous.

"Is there anything special about this nunnery? For example, the Zhengde Temple is very effective for praying for children."

Xiaoman thought for a long time before finally speaking up, "I've only heard that the nuns there are all very fat."

"Very fat, is that considered special?" Li Huowang thought for a moment and knocked on that spot with his hand. "Let's go and take a look."

Li Zhi's half-decent clothes were replaced with dry rations and thin rice noodles, as well as a large jar of lard. Li Huowang and his companions set off for their next destination.

They were not alone on the road, as many people were traveling with them. From their snippets of conversation, Li Huowang could tell that these people felt that war was imminent and that it was not safe to stay on the border, so they were all heading inland.

They stopped and started, and as they passed through one fork in the road after another, the crowd slowly dwindled.

Just when Li Huowang thought that soon only their group would be left, a large body of water blocked their path.

A breeze blew over the water, causing Li Huowang's Daoist robe to sway slightly.

"Is this the sea that Second Uncle mentioned?" Gouwa asked in surprise.

The vast expanse of water was like a mirror between heaven and earth, and it was impossible to see the edge at a glance.

Li Huowang took out the map again and looked at it. "No, this is not the sea, it's just a lake, a very big lake."

Siqi was already quite watery, so it was not surprising that there was such a large lake here.

"Senior brother, why is the water in this lake a bit black?"

The color of the lake water was a bit dark, and even standing at the edge of the lake, one could not see the bottom, which made people feel a bit fearful.

Li Huowang put away the map and looked at the other people standing by the water's edge. "Let's wait and see what they do."

When a small black dot appeared in the distance, the people on the shore began to move. It was a wooden boat, and the people here were crossing the lake by boat.

The boat looked very old, but it was also very big.

"Come on, come on! Everyone get on the boat, it's seventy wens per person." A boatman stood on the deck and shouted at the other people on the shore.

"Why is it seventy wens now? It was only forty-six last year." Someone on the boat expressed dissatisfaction with the price.

But the barefoot boatman didn't give in, glaring at him with his eyes. "I'm asking you if you want to ride or not. If you have the ability, swim across yourself."

Seeing the man obediently pay up, the smug boatman spat on the lake surface. "We're on the brink of war, and there are still so many rules. What's wrong with raising prices?"

"Let's go, let's get on the boat." Li Huowang walked towards it. In this unfamiliar place, he wasn't afraid of paying more, but he was afraid of others having ulterior motives.

The boat carried dozens of people and slowly headed towards the center of the lake.

People who had never been on a boat before were easily seasick, but Li Huowang felt fine.He turned his head to the boat master and asked, "Master, how long until we reach the other side?"

"Hehe, we'll be there in two hours. Don't worry, we'll definitely arrive before it gets dark."

Li Huowang nodded and looked cautiously at the lake water that was broken open in front of the boat.

The ink-black lake water looked very depressing, as if something terrifying was about to emerge from it.

"There shouldn't be anything in this lake that eats people, right?"

After experiencing so much, Li Huowang was like a startled bird.

"You're talking nonsense. Those are all made up by idle people. I've been living on this lake for nearly twenty years. You see, I'm still alive and well. Don't worry, nothing will happen. I'll definitely do my job for the money."

Hearing this, Li Huowang's heart felt a little more at ease.

As the boat slowly moved forward, the sun in the sky was gradually shifting to the west.

When the clouds in the sky were dyed red by the setting sun, the boat slowly entered a large reed marsh.

"We should be almost there." Li Huowang thought to himself as he looked around at the reeds.

Just as he was thinking this, there was a "plop" sound and the sound of someone falling into the water behind him.

When everyone who heard the sound turned around subconsciously, they found that the boatman and the boat master who were paddling the boat were both missing!

"Oh my god! They were eaten by something in the water!!"

Someone shouted, making the dozens of people on the boat suddenly panic.

"Sit down! Do you want the boat to capsize?" Li Huowang's reprimanding voice made the boat quiet down a bit.

He turned around and looked at his own people. "Who knows how to paddle a boat?"

But the response was unanimous shaking of heads.

Just as Li Huowang was thinking about what to do, there was movement in the reeds around them.

Several small wooden boats, carrying men, women, and children with weapons in their hands, surrounded the big boat.

On one of the wooden boats, Li Huowang saw the boat master from earlier.

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At this moment, he was scraping his face with a small knife. When he saw Li Huowang looking at him, he smiled and said, "Little guy, hehehe, do you want to eat knife-cut noodles or wonton noodles?"