It is more than one meter wide, and the clear stream flows from west to east from the town. This is exactly the origin of Lanxi Town's name. If this town built against the stream water is placed in the Central Plains, it will be a small village. Because the population of the town is less than 60 households and about 200 people.

In the depths of this valley that is almost isolated from the outside world, the town is naturally in short supply of various living and production items, and only the wood on the mountain is enough. However, the few strong labor here also makes it impossible for them to build decent buildings like other towns. Houses made of many grass and trees can barely live in. Only in the middle of the town is a tall building with two floors. It is the residence of the respected old man in the town. He means half a town mayor.

Li Ling and his four were sitting on the ground in this spacious hall. In front of them were the old man with white hair and skinny faces, as well as his two sons, Shanmi, Yam, and Grandson Shan Stone. Outside the door, many residents from the town gathered. They all looked at the foreigners who came from the mountains with surprise, both curious and a little bit of fear.

While drinking white water, Li Ling and others also observed the residents outside from time to time. The people here, regardless of men or women, looked dark and thin. It was obviously caused by the hardships of life, but they still had the simplicity of the residents in the mountains. When they saw them, some looked dodging and some were smiling and greeting.

"So... you are businessmen from outside the mountain and want to do some business in Qianzhou?" After a while of silence, the old man in Shan said slowly in a bit of a stiff official language. The reason why he can be the most prestigious old man in the town is not only because of his age, but also because of his knowledge. He was also a person who had been outside for two years and learned Mandarin.

Li Ling and the others reported their identity as businessmen before, because in his opinion, it was a bit troublesome to say the identity of an official, because for these remote people, the head of the Ministry of Revenue is an extremely unfamiliar concept, and the other are also worried that they will scare them. After all, the government may not have a good reputation in such a border area.

"Good old man, we plan to check the situation in Qianzhou first. If we can make a deal, it will be the best. I wonder how many roads there are from the county town and the capital city. Is it difficult to go there?"

"Well, it's far away. If you want to leave, it will take ten days to say. There are many mountains on the road, there are wolves and tigers, so it's not easy to walk." The old man from the mountain looked at them and said.

When Li Ling and his wife heard this, they frowned. Qianzhou is too vast and sparsely populated. A town here is ten days away from their county town?

At this time, the youngest mountain stone also spoke: "Several, my grandfather is right. It takes ten days for us to go west to reach Wuxikou, which is the county town. As for the city, it will take more than half a month to walk and cross many mountains."

His official language is better than his grandfather. I don’t know where he learned it, but Li Ling and the others were happy: "It seems that it is really not easy to go to the county town. We are also from other places and are not familiar with the place. It would be great if we could find a guide. Brother, are you willing to take us to the county town? I am willing to pay ten taels of silver to hire you to take this trip."

Ten taels of silver are naturally nothing to be considered in Luoyang, but in Qianzhou, it is obviously not a small number. Maybe ordinary townsmen have not saved up so much silver in a year. But Shan Shitou's reaction was beyond their expectations. He saw him shook his head gently: "I have something to do, I really can't accompany you this time. And silver is useless for us..."

"Hmm?" The four of them were stunned at the same time. They really didn't expect that there would be such a saying. Is there any useless money in the world?

The old man in Shan smiled and touched the beards under his chin and helped his grandson explain: "We really don't need silver here, even if we have few copper coins, what do we want, do we make our own things, or exchange them with people..."

OK, now Li Ling understands it. It’s too backward here and the commodity economy has not developed. Therefore, many people are just self-sufficient. At most, they can exchange goods for goods, so naturally the money is useless.

Seeing this, Yang Chen suddenly smiled: "What if we pay you something, such as the whole wolf skin."

These words immediately made the old man Shan’s grandson lit up: “Do you have wolf skin?”

Yang Chen nodded, and Li Moyun quickly took out one of the wolves from the package he carried with him and placed it on the low table in front of several people. They went along the way, not only took the meat, but also peeled the skins, especially in the forest this morning, when burying the dead little panda, they also peeled off the skins of the four or five wolves, including the gray-white wolf skin of the leader of the special wolf pack.

Their appearance of the wolf skin immediately caused a burst of surprise from the villagers outside, and rustling discussions suddenly arose. However, they were talking about the local dialect here, but Li Ling and the other four didn't understand a word. However, it can be seen that the people here were still quite moved by these wolf skins.

Shan Shitou's eyes also swept back and forth on the wolf skin, and finally said tentatively: "I... can I take a closer look?"

"Of course." Li Ling smiled and made a gesture of asking for advice. It would be great if the other person could like it, so he would be confident to convince the other party.

At this time, Old Man Shan fell on the package that Li Moyun had not tied back. A corner of another wolf skin appeared. After staring carefully for a while, he suddenly said, "That, can you see that one?"

Li Moyun was a little puzzled, but he still took out the wolf skin with a corner as he wanted. Then he found out that it was the leader of the wolf pack that was torn in half by a panda, so the wolf skin was divided into two pieces, and there was a clear damage. While handing over it, he also explained: "This is damaged for some reason. I think the price should not be as good as the whole one..."

But the other party didn't care about his explanation at all. He snatched the wolf skin and looked at it carefully for a while, then opened his mouth and screamed: "Kan Huan Gu..." As soon as this sentence came out, the townspeople who were already a little strange were completely frightened. Some people didn't care about any superior guests at all. They immediately rushed into the hall, rushed to the old man in the mountains, and also went to look at the wolf skin carefully.

And the sammi and yam, who had not spoken, stood up together, looked surprised, and said in a daze: "Kanhuangu..."

Their actions surprised Li Ling and others. The Yang brothers quickly stood up and stood in front of Li Ling. Li Moyun even bowed his body and was ready to take action at any time. However, Li Ling was quite calm and soon saw that these people were more excited and happy, so he tried to ask: "Old man, is there anything you say about this skin?"

"You met this wolf on the mountain ahead, and then you killed it?" The old man in the mountain's voice became harder this time, and he was trembling. His hands holding the fur were shaking, and his mood was obviously extremely aroused.

Li Ling hesitated for a moment and wanted to say that the wolf was not actually killed by them, but at the end he nodded: "That's right, this is a leader. The situation was critical at that time. My brothers didn't care about hurting the fur, so they cut it in half with one knife."

"Kanhuangu, Sidaka Kanhuangu..." The old man whispered again. The others were completely excited and immediately knelt down and started to scream, but Li Ling and the others were stunned. Finally, he could only shout loudly: "Old man, we really don't understand what you are saying!"

"This is the most terrifying wolf king on Heiling Mountain. Kanhuagu means the wolf king you talk about." The old man was still excited. "He has been here for five or six years. He is the most fierce and cunning. We dare not enter the depths of the forest, making our lives more and more sad. There are more than a dozen good hunters in our town, all of whom were bitten to death by the wolf cubs under his command. Unexpectedly, it died in your hands today. You are my distinguished guests of Lanxi Town. Thank you!"

After explaining, the old man Shan had already turned over and knelt down at Li Ling and the others, and shouted a few more local dialects. Although Li Ling couldn't understand, he quickly understood that this should be a greeting everyone to thank him and others, because soon, all the people around him fell to the ground, shouting local dialects, and bowed to them.

"This... this is not something you can do!" Li Ling saw this and rushed forward to support him, "Get up quickly, we can't stand such a great gift."

At this time, Li Moyun and the Yang brothers also helped everyone around them, but dozens of people knelt down and bowed, making them unable to get through for the moment.

The old man was forced to help him up by Li Ling, and his expression of excitement continued to diminish: "Thank you, you have really saved our entire town this time. If we can't get rid of this evil wolf, our town will not be able to pay taxes, and then we will be arrested by Master Long to be a coolie."

Shan Shitou, who was also helped up, looked at Li Ling and others with admiration: "Brothers, I tell you the truth. I originally planned to go to Heiling Mountain with a few companions in the past two days to find it, so I didn't want to take you to the county town. Now, we can all feel at ease. I promise to take you to the county town. If you want to go to the capital town, that's OK."

When Li Ling heard this, he felt happy: "That's good, let's set off tomorrow, how about it?"

Just when Shan Shi Tou was about to agree, the old man in the mountains interrupted with a smile: "That won't be true. You are our benefactors. Our Lanxi Town must treat you well before you can let you go. In the past two days, you will have a good rest here, eat and drink enough, and we will prepare enough dry food for you, and then set off on the road!"
Chapter completed!