Chapter 805 Everyone Is Happy

The interruption of the crazy sand season had already made the locals exclaim in surprise. The brave ones ventured to the edge of the desert for a few laps and found that the originally manic local creatures did not attack people much, and ordinary people could also step into the desert without being eaten.

At night, the clear sky of the desert appeared distorted red light, which looked like the aurora, and it was like the sky of this world was smashed into pieces, and it was unknown whether the red light was shining from the ground or from the outside.

After some time, the red light formed a blurred shadow, beautiful but abstract.

Later, it gradually became clear, as if there were mountains, buildings, rivers... like a mirage.

No one knew what was going on. As close as Heishui City, people can enjoy this wonder by standing on the city gate tower or even on the nearby hill.

So the second part of Liu Baobao's letter is about the new guests in Heishui City.

Heishui City is the closest to Panlong Desert. All those who are curious about the changes in the desert choose Heishui City as their first stop.

It followed the Panlong Desert and slowly welcomed strange guests.

These new guests, some of them called themselves traveling merchants, and some of them called themselves merchant groups.

Liu Baobao thought they were all talking nonsense.

They didn't seem like that. Liu Baobao's family ran a merchant group, and he could recognize the temperament of a merchant group at a glance.

The identities of these new guests in Heishui City are questionable.

Liu Baobao occasionally saw several groups scolding each other. Judging from their accents, at least one of them seemed to be from Baling.

As the number of outsiders in Heishui City increased, so did the number of accidents.

The number of explorers entering Panlong Desert increased day by day. They replenished water and exchanged for mounts in Heishui City, and then headed north.

Some returned quickly, but some could not.

As a native of Heishui City, Liu Baobao had of course heard the legend of Panlong Ancient City, and knew that most people here should be heading for the Panlong ruins.

But there were very few explorers who found the Panlong ruins.

Most people lost their way in the desert. Only with good luck can you return unhappy, but with bad luck, you will lose your life.

One of the adventurer teams had ten people at the beginning, but only five returned. The five survivors got drunk in the tavern of Blackwater City and said that they had indeed found the Panlong Ancient City, which was a ruin during the day, but turned into a city that never sleeps at night, with people coming and going in the market, children coming and going, and it was very lively.

Two adventurers were curious and bold, and they actually went to the restaurant in Panlong City to order food.

But they didn't expect that these foods that looked steaming hot and delicious would be very bland after entering their mouths, and even had an indescribable bitterness.

They couldn't eat it, turned around and were about to leave, and the waiter came to collect the money.

Four dishes and one soup, but they actually shouted out a sky-high price.

How could these people pay?

The waiter shouted: "Someone here wants to default on his debt!"

A dozen officials ran in from outside and fiercely stepped forward to arrest people. The adventurers refused, and the two sides fought.

Of course, the fight was just their version of the incident. The real situation was that they were beaten to the ground and lost consciousness.

During this period, no matter whether they paid with copper coins or silver, no one would accept it.

Later, these people were awakened by the scorching sun during the day. When they opened their eyes, they found themselves lying in the ruins with dry lips and almost dehydrated.

But their companions, the five companions who had eaten the food in the restaurant, had already died.

After hearing about it, Liu Baobao went to ask the great shaman.

The great shaman Zhaomandu said that there is a difference between life and death. The mistake of this group of people was that living people ate things they shouldn't eat.

But most people were lucky, at least they came back alive.

Another team was even more unlucky and was wiped out.

Others saw them in the heart of the desert. At that time, everyone was very happy and said that they saw the lights of Panlong City from afar at night. But more than ten days later, their bodies appeared on the edge of the desert. The cause of death was beating, puncture, violent trampling, etc.

From the center of the desert to the edge, it is at least more than 200 miles. I don't know how they died.

But these misfortunes failed to stop the footsteps of the newcomers, and the number of foreign visitors to Blackwater City increased day by day.

After reading Liu Baobao's letter, He Lingchuan had an idea in mind.

After resting for a night, the hooded crane, which received silverfish as a reward, set off at noon the next day and flew back west.

Two days later, another batch of mortgaged assets of Yuan State was evaluated.

Perhaps because of the strictness and harshness of Hu Qin and others, the accounts of this batch of assets were very clear and basically had no major problems. He Lingchuan readily signed the second and last batch of loans, which was money, grain and materials with a total value of 3.74 million silver.

The news of General Changning's victory in the south had spread, and Yuan State had obtained a loan of more than 3 million. The king ordered Yuandu to celebrate for one day, and it was as lively as a festival.

There was a constant stream of cars and people in front of the He Mansion, all of which were teams coming to give gifts.

Everyone could see that this long-awaited victory would make the He family's career great and promising!

The most popular new nobles in Yuan Country must be the He family.

Under such circumstances, the He Mansion closed its doors and refused all gifts.

This was He Chunhua's request before leaving.

Even Madam Ying stayed at home and did not socialize with the noble ladies.

"As soon as they saw me, they wanted to push the girls in their family over before they said three words." She looked at her eldest son, "Chuan'er, do you want to..."

"No." He Lingchuan refused, "I am not interested in mediocre women."

Beautiful skins are all the same.

In a blink of an eye, the affairs of Yuandu were completed. He Lingchuan left five Rongshan disciples to continue to monitor the items of funds, and he took Qiu Hu and others to prepare for the journey to the west.

Shan Youjun volunteered to accompany He Lingchuan.

He Lingchuan sat in the yard and looked at him, and suddenly sighed: "Did you pay back the fifty taels of silver you borrowed from Sun Hongye?"

Shan Youjun's face changed. He never expected that Young Master He would ask this.

"You are really not a spy." He Lingchuan's eyes were full of understanding, "Dad sent you to monitor me. You have to report my every move to him, right?"

Shan Youjun opened his mouth to argue, but found that the gleam in He Lingchuan's eyes seemed to be able to penetrate people's hearts.

At this moment, he understood, and it was useless to argue.

He Lingchuan had seen it and determined it.

Qiu Hu slowly walked over from the side, staring at Shan Youjun.

His gaze made Shan Youjun feel like a thorn in his back.

He Lingchuan said calmly: "He who knows the current situation is a hero, I don't blame you."

In the Battle of Han River, He Lingchuan was washed away by the flood and disappeared for more than a year. Shan Youjun was originally his personal soldier, and at that time he had to transfer to work under He Chunhua.

If you take someone's money, you have to work for them.

When He Lingchuan suddenly came back, Shan Youjun faced an embarrassing choice:

Should he work for He Lingchuan next, or continue to obey He Chunhua?