Happy Little Scholar

"Why aren't they moving?"

Someone in the forest hundreds of feet behind them uttered a low exclamation.

Since these foreign merchants left the Jinyu Pavilion, they have been ordered to follow them.

Fanbang is a foreign country, without any vigilance, carrying treasures worth hundreds of thousands of taels, just swaggering on the road, all the way out of the city, the road they walked became more and more remote, simply for the sake of those who followed them.

In the wilderness, killing people, seizing treasures, destroying corpses, there is simply no place more suitable for action than this.

When they walk a little further and reach a more remote place, they can take action.

Suddenly someone whispered, "Why aren't they moving?"

"They put their stuff down."

"Oh no, they seem to have discovered us!"

The leader was also stunned when he heard this, but then he slapped one of them on the head and said, "Why are you panicking? There are only five of them. Even if they discovered us, what can they do?"

"Do it!"

Twenty figures rushed out of the forest and flew towards the five people.

One of the men carefully put the bag he was carrying aside and said, "Brothers, take a break. Leave all these people to me."

A man next to him gritted his teeth and said, "Don't be like this. My second brother just broke into the Heavenly Ranking. Everyone treats me as a soft persimmon. I have been challenged eighteen times in three days. I can't let go of this anger in my heart..."

On the opposite side, the twenty people who took out the black cloth to cover their faces were surprised to find that the five people not only did not flee, but two of them actually came directly to meet them...

"Kill!"

The leader whispered and drew his long sword.

A quarter of an hour later, the twenty people were bruised and swollen, and their clothes were stripped off except for a loincloth. They were tied to the tree with their hands behind their backs, and their faces were extremely pale, with expressions of fear and despair...

"Mercy, mercy..."

Watching several foreign men tear off their loincloths, everyone's foreheads were sweating like rain as if they had thought of something.

"You, don't talk about morality!" One of the foreign men looked at them, stuttered a few words, and patted the long knife in his hand, which made everyone tremble in their hearts.

...

"Brother, why didn't you just kill them just now?" A slightly younger man in the forest stepped forward and asked.

The man shook his head and said, "Twenty lives, the government will definitely investigate to the end. If they find something by then, won't it cause trouble for the leader?

Don't worry, these people will not make too much noise after losing such a big face."

"It's a bargain for them."

The voices of the conversation became quieter, and the footsteps gradually faded away.

After an unknown amount of time, a sound came from another forest.

Two figures walked into the forest, vaguely showing a man and a woman.

"Sanlang, don't be in a hurry..."

There seemed to be a rustling sound of someone taking off clothes, followed by a worried voice from a woman: "Sanlang, you won't be seen here, right?"

"No." The man's breathing was a little heavy.

"Well, then." The woman whispered, and the rustling sound began to get louder.

"You two, can you wait a moment?"

A voice suddenly came from somewhere behind the two.

The woman's face turned pale in an instant, she turned her head and took a look, and the next moment there was a scream.

"-----"

"You two, you two, don't run!"

"Come back!"

"Please help us, we will definitely reward you in the future!"

...

"Twenty servants of the Cui family were stripped naked and tied up in the woods outside the city. They were found by woodcutters after a night?"

Li Yi rubbed his eyebrows, looked at Miss Liu Er, and asked, "Are the people you arranged reliable?"

Miss Liu Er waved her hand, and the servants of the Li family carried several large boxes into the house and retreated respectfully.

She swept her sleeves, and the lid of a box opened automatically. Various pearls, gemstones and jades randomly piled inside made the whole room brighter.

"Okay, let's do it!" Li Yi patted the table and said.

Liu League, meeting room.

"Have you all remembered your goals?" Lu Luo sat at the top and said in a low voice.

"Remember, Chuzhou, Jinyu Pavilion!"

"Qing'an Prefecture, Jinyu Pavilion!"

"Qingzhou, Jinyu Pavilion!"

...

After more than ten people responded, they walked out of the meeting hall, and carriages drove out of the square. After each carriage, there were more than ten people following, and they gradually disappeared on the official road in all directions.

...

In the past two days, from the dignitaries to the common people, the hot topic is naturally colored glaze.

The brothels have always known how to follow the trend of the public, and the stories circulated in the brothels have also kept pace with the times. In the past few days, several legends about colored glaze have been widely circulated among the people.

For example, in the Journey to the West mentioned earlier, the monk Sha was once the general of the heavenly palace, but he was demoted from heaven because he broke a glass lamp of the Queen Mother. It can be seen that even in heaven, glass is very precious...

For example, if you collect seven glass balls of different colors, you can summon a dragon...

There is also a legend that glass is the remaining stone used by Nuwa to repair the sky...

It is said in the Buddhist scriptures that Medicine Master Lazuli Light Tathagata made a vow when he was practicing the Bodhisattva path, that his body would be as clear inside and outside as glazed glass, pure and flawless; and that with the merits of this flame net, he would save all living beings from illness and suffering...

Of course, the powerful rarely go to Goulan to listen to that kind of thing. What they care about is the glass charity sale that the Wang family will hold in Furong Garden tomorrow.

The main residence of the Cui family in the capital.

Twenty people all knelt on the ground, their heads lowered, and their faces turned pale.

The man surnamed Cui shouted sternly: "Twenty of you can't beat five of them?"

The leader yesterday did not dare to say that the other party only sent two people. He buried his head very low and said: "Second Master, we didn't know that every one of those foreign merchants is a master!"

The face of the man surnamed Cui was extremely gloomy. If those colored glasses were not genuine and they did not lose money in this transaction, how could these people still be alive?

"I underestimated those foreign merchants..." He looked at the group of people kneeling on the ground and said coldly: "Go and receive the punishment yourself!"

Outside the city of Kyoto, in a manor, two men in purple stood at the front, followed by dozens of people in blue and yellow. Everyone knelt on the ground and shouted: "Welcome the empress!"

The middle-aged Taoist nun slowly floated down from the sky and walked into the courtyard. A man in purple pulled off the red cloth covering something in the courtyard, pointed to a towering white jade statue below and said: "My Lady, this is I sent a skilled stonemason and spent three months carving it out. It will definitely be able to..."

The middle-aged Taoist nun glanced at him and asked, "I heard that many temples in Kyoto have glazed Buddha statues?"

The man in purple was stunned and said: "Back to the empress, this is indeed the case. My subordinates also thought that if they could build a glazed statue for the empress, I am afraid it would attract countless believers. But except for Hanshan Temple from Fanbang, A businessman got a glazed Guanyin statue. The uncle from Chang'an County gave the eldest princess a glazed statue. Several others came from the palace and we have no access to them...

My subordinates have also sent people to find merchants from other countries, but have found nothing so far. However, the Luochuan Wang family will hold a glass charity sale in Furong Garden tomorrow. Our people will also participate, and we will definitely find enough glass to make a statue of the empress! "

"Uncle Chang'an County?" The Taoist nun frowned.

"Yes, Chang'an County Bo Li Yi." The man in purple nodded and said.