Chapter 662 I want them all!
Fang Wujiu started talking to the two men in Nanyue dialect.
Xiao Xixi listened to their chattering, keeping a confused look on her face the whole time.
She suddenly remembered the fear that dominated her English listening comprehension during previous exams.
No one knew what Fang Wujiu said, but it actually made the two men gradually let down their guard, and they even happily invited Fang Wujiu and Xiao Xixi to visit their village.
On the way, Xiao Xixi asked the senior brother in a low voice.
"What did you just say to them?"
Fang Wujiu smiled slightly: "I said we are traveling doctors, passing through Nanyue Country, and wanted to come here to experience the customs and practices of Nanyue, and by the way, exchange experiences with the doctors here."
Xiao Xixi: "Did they believe it?"
Fang Wujiu: "They were skeptical at first, but I told them about a few cases I had cured. I tried to make the illness sound more serious and described the treatment as miraculous, and then they believed it."
Xiao Xixi was speechless.
Fang Wujiu: "I also told them that I developed a magical medicine that can bring people back to life. They were even happier when they heard it and wanted me to sell the magical medicine to them, so they invited us to the village to discuss it in detail."
Xiao Xixi smacked her lips: "They are too easy to fool, aren't they?"
Fang Wujiu: "They are just desperate and trying all kinds of treatments."
Xiao Xixi didn't understand.
Fang Wujiu: "Before I set out, my master warned me that he had figured out that King Nanyue was seriously ill and might not live long."
Xiao Xixi suddenly understood.
No wonder these people were so happy when they heard there was a magic medicine that could bring the dead back to life.
It turns out that they wanted to buy the magic medicine and present it to King Nanyue!
Xiao Xixi then became even more curious.
Since Master has already calculated that King Nanyue will not live long, why is he still unwilling to come and meet King Nanyue?
Is a vow more important than the life of an old friend?
I really don't understand.
There are thirty-two villages of varying sizes in Nanyue Kingdom.
Xiao Xixi and Fang Wujiu were taken to one of the villages.
They soon met the village chief.
The village chief is named Yue Gang, a man in his thirties.
He was tall and strong, with bronze skin. He was wearing clothing that was very characteristic of the Southern Moon. He had a turban on his head and his sleeves were rolled up on both sides, revealing his strong arms, which were covered with dense tattoos.
In the Southern Moon, the more tattoos one has, the higher one's status.
The village chief in front of him not only had tattoos on both arms, but also had many tattoos on his cheeks.
He could speak a few simple words of Dasheng Mandarin, but when it came to real conversation, he still had to use Nanyue dialect.
So Xiao Xixi once again fell into the vortex of terror dominated by foreign language listening.
Yue Gang and Fang Wujiu were talking earnestly, but Xiao Xixi didn't understand a word they said from beginning to end.
Later she simply gave up, ignored everything and just focused on eating.
The village chief had people prepare food for them.
Fried silkworm pupae, roasted snakes, stir-fried bamboo worms, roasted frogs...
They are all things that are very characteristic of Nanyue.
Xiao Xixi tasted them one by one and thought they all tasted good, so she started eating them happily.
After Yue Gang finished talking with Fang Wujiu, he looked back and saw that almost all the food on the table had been eaten by Xiao Xixi.
Yue Gang was surprised, but he said something to Xiao Xixi sincerely.
Fang Wujiu helped translate.
"The village chief praised you for your courage."
Generally, outsiders who come to Nanyue cannot get used to the food here, and some timid people may faint on the spot out of fright.
But Xiao Xixi ate so much without even blinking, which was totally inconsistent with her well-behaved and cute appearance. In Yue Gang's opinion, this girl was really brave.
Yue Gang originally wanted to take a look at the magic medicine in Fang Wujiu's hand first. If it really had miraculous effects, he would buy the magic medicine directly and present it to King Nanyue.
But under Fang Wujiu's lobbying, Yue Gang changed his mind again.
He decided to send Fang Wujiu directly to King Nanyue and let Fang Wujiu present the magic medicine to King Nanyue himself.
If the magic medicine can really cure King Nanyue, King Nanyue will definitely not forget him as the matchmaker and will definitely reward him greatly.
If the magic medicine is useless, it means Fang Wujiu is a liar. If King Nanyue questions him, Yue Gang can just make a fuss and push all the responsibility onto Fang Wujiu.
In this way, he will be able to reap the benefits, but he won't have to take responsibility if anything goes wrong.
It’s a guaranteed profit!
But before that, Yue Gang still had to test the two outsiders to see their abilities.
It was getting late, so Fang Wujiu and Xiao Xixi were arranged to rest for a night at the village chief's house.
Most of the houses here are built with bamboo, usually in the form of two-story lofts. Some people build their houses directly on tree trunks, mainly for ventilation.
Nanyue is located in the south. Once spring and summer come, it will be extremely humid, especially in summer, which is not only humid but also hot and stuffy.
Therefore, it is important whether the house is easy to ventilate.
But such a house also has a disadvantage, which is that it is easy for snakes, insects, rats and ants to crawl into the house through the cracks.
In the middle of the night, Xiao Xixi suddenly felt her calf tighten.
She opened her eyes, sat up and saw that a poisonous snake had wrapped around her calf.
The poisonous snake noticed that she was awake, and immediately raised its upper body, opened its mouth, showing its fangs, and hissed out its tongue.
A normal person would be terrified seeing this scene, but Xiao Xixi just yawned, and then, with the determination to cover her ears and avoid being caught in the act, she grabbed the snake's vital point and broke it with force.
The poisonous snake died before it could bite anyone.
The snake body that was originally tightly wrapped around Xiao Xixi's legs softened instantly.
Xiao Xixi originally wanted to throw the poisonous snake away, but then she felt it was a pity.
This snake looks quite fat, and you can eat a lot of meat if you stew it.
So she threw the snake's body on the table and went back to bed to continue sleeping.
The two people outside the house stayed on guard for a whole night, but they never heard any sound coming from inside the house, and the poisonous snake never returned.
When it was almost dawn, they quietly went to the village chief's residence to avoid being discovered.
They reported the matter to the village chief.
After listening to this, Yue Gang said nothing and waved his hand to let them all go.
When Xiao Xixi woke up, it was already bright outside.
She walked out of the door slowly, holding a poisonous snake in one hand and yawning in the other, and happened to meet Fang Wujiu who lived next door.
Fang Wujiu has already washed up.
He smiled and asked, "Did you sleep well last night?"
"It's okay, except that I was woken up once by this little thing in the middle of the night." Xiao Xixi shook the dead venomous snake in her hand.
Fang Wujiu seemed to have expected such an outcome.
He said, "I had a snake here last night, and I killed it. The body is still in the house. Do you want it?"
Xiao Xixi followed him into the house and took a look. Seeing that the venomous snake was fatter than the one in her hand, she was immediately delighted.
"Yes, yes, yes, I want them all!"
She ran to find the village chief with two poisonous snakes in her hands.
Yue Gang was still wondering how the two outsiders would react after discovering the poisonous snake.
Seeing Xiao Xixi and Fang Wujiu coming, he immediately stood up. Just as he was about to greet them with a smile, he caught a glimpse of the two poisonous snakes in Xiao Xixi's hands.
His smile froze on his face immediately.
Xiao Xixi threw the two poisonous snakes onto the table.
"Breakfast isn't ready yet? Why don't we just have snake soup?"
(End of this chapter)
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