Chapter 275 Arrival at Bashu
It's not a short distance from the capital to Bashu, so Jiang Xinyu and his group naturally wouldn't change their disguises early.
When they went out of town, they wore low-key men's clothing and painted their faces with a skin-nourishing dark yellow dye to make their skin brown.
No other changes were made.
The conditions of sleeping in the open during this journey were indeed harsh, but fortunately Jiang Xinyu had water-related abilities that allowed him to refill his water bag even if he missed the stream or river.
The accompanying secret guards were curious as to why the governor and his wife always had dry food, but no one asked.
I just thought that the two masters were too expensive to eat this dry and hard stuff so they consumed it slower than them.
In fact, people in ancient times would not have lacked food if they were not in a hurry.
The common people were in need of someone who could do anything they wanted, so these people not only carried bows and arrows, but most of them were also good at darts.
It's more than enough to catch a rabbit or a bird.
It’s a pity that we were in a hurry and didn’t have much free time. The best thing we could eat was to pack some meat from a small restaurant along the way.
Small mountain restaurants naturally cannot afford expensive ingredients such as mutton and venison, so they are already considered good if they can serve pheasant and smoked rabbit.
Once you enter the Bashu region, the ingredients become gradually more abstract.
The most delicious thing is snake soup, and the hardest to swallow are spiders, scorpions, centipedes and the like.
It's not that it's bad. When you chew it with your eyes closed, you can taste the crispy chicken flavor. But if you open your eyes, you can't swallow it.
No wonder this place is called the Land of Abundance. The food here alone is better than many other places.
Not only is the land fertile and has sufficient sunlight so that crops grow well, but the wild animals that grow naturally can also feed many of the lower-class people.
As long as you are not lazy, you can make money by going up the mountain to chop some firewood, hunt, and pick some herbs.
At the very least you can dig some wild vegetables and mushrooms and catch some snakes and insects.
Those are all high-quality proteins, some of which taste very good. They can be eaten at home or sold to restaurants.
Jiang Xinyu and his friends dressed up as a group of gangsters, and Xiao Yuan also changed into gray clothes and put on a beard.
He covered his eyes with a thin, translucent blue cotton cloth, looking like a martial arts master who was not to be trifled with.
Jiang Xinyu and Xiaodie didn't look like men when they dressed up as men, and they didn't think they could hide it that way.
She just used a special blue-black paint to paint the exposed skin and dyed her nails black.
Xiao Die is good at using poisons. She said that their image is that they have been trained to be poisoners and drug addicts since childhood, and ordinary people in the underworld are unwilling to provoke them.
The other secret guards dispersed after entering the city, at least to connect with the vanguard troops first.
Xiao Yuan only left a big guy, and now there are four people, two men and two women.
Xiao Yuan is a blind old man who uses a strange curved knife. Jiang Xinyu and Xiaodie are a pair of poisoners disguised as men.
There is also a tough fighter who looks very powerful. This combination looks like someone who is not easy to deal with.
Each person carries ten lives.
People in the underworld tend to bully the weak and fear the strong, and they always look to others for their own favor. After all, losing a fight of words is only a loss of face, but losing a fight of martial arts may cost you your life.
The more cool and weird your clothes are, the less likely people will approach you.
If they are old people, women and children, then the buffs are even more stacked, and second- and third-rate people in the world are unwilling to eat in the same room with you.
How can you be normal when you are dressed like this?
How unfortunate it would be for them if he was the kind of antisocial person who had the habit of sprinkling a handful of poison after meals to liven up the mood.
Bashu is a distribution center for medicines and poisons, and not only people from Dajin come here.
Some drug chemists and pharmacists from other countries also come here to look for medicines and exchange ideas.
Xiao Yuan and Xiao Die both speak the Bashu dialect, so Jiang Xinyu started learning it along the way, but she has only learned it in bits and pieces.
But it doesn't matter, she has a good personality.
It makes sense that a medicine man who is full of poison would speak in a strange tone after being poisoned and become stupid.
As long as I am happy saying it, it is none of my business if others feel uncomfortable listening to it.
Their image is naturally not suitable for gathering information everywhere.
After moving into the inn, except for Xiaodie who made trouble outside by taking the opportunity of selling poison, Jiang Xinyu and Xiao Yuan stayed in the inn waiting for news.
The secret guards have already gone to look for the spies who entered the city a few days before them, hoping to find out more useful information.
Only by knowing both yourself and your enemy can you be invincible. He must first find out how powerful the people under Yu Sheng are.
His wife would let him off the hook and his sister-in-law would thunder, it was really hard for Governor Xiao to believe in science again.
He now strongly suspected that Yu Sheng also raised a monster, perhaps a snake or centipede monster from the mountains.
His wife never told him what its true form was. Although he guessed it was a fox, what if he was wrong?
He was unwilling to take risks without knowing the other party's background or his own true identity.
There has been a steady stream of news in the past two days, including news that two spies have already infiltrated the general's mansion.
But there hasn't been much definite news yet.
There are indeed a few strange people around Yu Sheng.
A skinny old man with a goatee, who liked to wear green clothes and wave a blank white paper fan.
The spy said that he seemed to be in disguise and his accent sounded like that of a person from the capital.
There is also a snake woman with a hot body and revealing clothes.
There were two snakes coiled around the woman, one black and one white. It was said that there was a bigger snake in the house that accompanied her as she slept.
Every month in the general's mansion, a maid would have her blood drained by that woman and fed to her snake husband.
There is also a strong man with a red scorpion tattoo on his forehead. It is said that he is so fierce that he can smash a person's head with one slap.
These three are the people who accompany Yu Sheng when he goes out on a daily basis. Whenever he leaves the General's Mansion, at least one of them will follow him.
The old man with the white folding fan has only been with the general this year, but the snake girl and the red scorpion man have been with Yu Sheng for several years.
It takes three streets to get from the general's mansion to the government office. Naturally, the common people have deep memories of these special people.
As for the story that the Red Scorpion is a strong man who can smash people's heads and the Snake Woman sleeps with a giant python, there is no way to verify this.
Maybe someone has seen it, or maybe the rumor has become more and more exaggerated due to the excessive spread.
If it weren't for his wife watching here, Xiao Yuan would really want to kick these garbage out one by one.
What kind of bullshit is this? When did Dongchang rely on gossip to handle cases?
I don't know anything except the difference between men and women. How can you come to me with such a shameless report of gold digging in shit?
If I want to hear this kind of gossip, I'll find two vegetable vendors who can tell the story in more detail than you.
The Dongchang guys saw that their supervisor told them to leave quickly, but they all had bitter faces.
The two men, whose Bashu dialect was confusing enough, had already infiltrated the general's residence. They were obviously outsiders, so the information they could get out was very limited.
Yu Sheng had accumulated a lot of influence in the Bashu region, and they were afraid of being reported directly by enthusiastic people if they asked too many questions.
In the past, people who tried to get information in the capital city usually had to lie on the roof beams or squat on the walls.
The civil and military officials in the capital dare not keep many people from the martial arts world at home, so this skill is more than enough for them.
But this place is different!
Not to mention how many experts Yu Sheng has around him, just the elusive scorpion worms are enough to give them a drink.
One of their elders encountered a scorpion and was so blinded that he fell off the roof.
One of their seniors screamed when a snake got into his pants.
One of their predecessors had the General's Mansion thrown into a mass grave and eaten up by insects.
They are afraid even though so many people have been defeated!
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