After the Fairy Disappeared

   Grabbing May's tail, the Shimen caravan entered the territory of Beja.

  The sky is clear and the fields around you are endless. The crops are green, and the farmers are busy weeding.

  He Lingchuan is looking at these crops.

   Not rice, not wheat, not even tea. "What grows in this field?"

   It's hard to say that he doesn't distinguish between grains. When he helped his father find out the counties around Dunyu, he ran around in the fields and looked at them.

   But he had never seen this kind of plant before. The scale was at least dozens of hectares, which was very spectacular. They walked for more than an hour and hadn't seen the second crop yet.

  Shi Erdangjia is by his side: "Tobacco leaves."

   "Huh? This is tobacco leaves?" This answer was beyond He Lingchuan's expectation, "The land is so flat, I thought they would grow crops."

"Crops don't grow well on this kind of red land. But, no matter good or bad, this large piece of land on the border is planted with tobacco leaves." Shi Congshan said with a smile, "Almost every demon king's territory will grow tobacco leaves. This thing is much more expensive than food."

  「Then do they still grow grain?」

   "Grow, of course. The territory of the demon kingdom is so vast, and there are countless fertile fields. Are you afraid that the food they grow is not enough?" Shi Congshan said with a smile, "Don't worry about them."

  He Lingchuan looked at the tobacco fields beside him, and suddenly remembered the chewing tobacco that He Chunhua distributed to his subordinates before he entered Xiazhou.

  Exquisite, delicious, mandatory import.

   "This thing, Fuguo will also buy it?" He remembered the helplessness on He Chunhua's face. Yuanguo and Bejaguo had signed an agreement, and it would be fine if they didn't buy it.

   "Of course." Shi Congshan said, "But people in Fuguo like chewing tobacco. There is no need to apportion, and various chambers of commerce are rushing to do this business." He pointed to the caravan behind, "We also do."

  An important business of the Shimen Chamber of Commerce is to provide "cage beads" to the green jade bamboo in the southern border of Baoshu, that is, the ball that plugs on the bamboo tube.

  It was only after his explanation that He Lingchuan realized that the same chewing tobacco was produced in different countries in terms of quality and packaging. The chewing tobacco in the southern part of the Baoshu Kingdom should be sealed with Yunxiang wood, which not only keeps the aroma of the smoke from leaking out, but also has a special aroma in addition to being moisture-proof. After brewing in the bamboo tube for a long time, it will add a new flavor to the chewing tobacco .

   Over time, this has become a very important feature.

  However, Yunxiang wood is rarely distributed in Bega, but it is more common in Fu country. Therefore, the latter opened up Yunxiang wood forest farm to provide processed Yunxiang wood beads, that is, "cage beads" as accessories for the southern border of Baoshu.

  They really want to name it "Dragon Ball", but they have to avoid it.

  The Shi brothers worked hard for many years, and only spent a lot of money to contract two forest farms. They carefully maintained, felled, and processed, and supplied goods to the south of Baoshu three times a year.

   Don't underestimate these humble wooden beads, they support many chambers of commerce in Fu State.

   This is just an industry owned by a demon king in Bega, not even a pillar.

   This way, the Shimen Chamber of Commerce crossed the border along the periphery of the Demon Nest Swamp, and entered the territory of one of the thirteen demon kings——Baoshu King, that is, Baoshu Kingdom. With the help of the Chamber of Commerce, He Lingchuan passed the customs smoothly without encountering any obstacles.

  In fact, the checkpoints are very loose. The customs declarers sitting there are a few ape monsters, not as tall as a person, with white lips, and they keep yawning when they have nothing to do. They are obviously old. After collecting the road tax, they stamped and let them go without looking closely at the people and goods.

  After passing the border, He Lingchuan asked Shi Congshan: "Even the border is so perfunctory?"

  The border checks in the Kite Kingdom are extremely strict, especially if you don’t say Brother Kong Fang, you don’t know how much trouble you will have to suffer.

   "For customs clearance, you must pay attention to efficiency." Shi Congshan pointed back, "Do you see how many teams there are here, can they afford to wear it? Besides, the tax on the Beja Country Road is low, why is it necessary to block people?"

   In the past on Hongya Road, He Chunhua was the one who bought road money, but he had an official status. So He Lingchuan is very clear that the road tax on Hongya Road and Heishui City is very high, and the business travelers who can't get the total income to enter the country are screaming. For example, Liu Baobao's family always finds ways to steal it. Now when he asks, Baoshu

  The kingdom only charges one-fifth of the road fare!

Shi Erdao laughed again: "Although the road tax is low, some checkpoints will collect taxes under clever names, which is higher than the original road tax. After the current Tai Tuo came to power, he cracked down hard and arrested tens of thousands of people and sent them to prison. It's much clearer now."

   It's no wonder that this commercial road is bustling with people, busier than the main road outside Shihuan City.

  He Lingchuan even noticed that the road behind the customs is the smoothest and widest official road he has ever seen, which can accommodate seven carriages side by side.

  Although the wilderness is flat and the roads can be repaired casually, most countries don’t spend so much effort.

   After walking for another two hours, the outline of a town appeared in front of me, and the roadside was no longer a tobacco field, and finally there were some normal crops.

  「Huh, youkai?」

He Lingchuan saw at a glance that the cattle in the field were different. Not only did they have two tails, but they were also extremely strong, two circles bigger than ordinary buffaloes, and weighed at least five or six thousand catties. They looked like short animals that could move. house.

   Humans stood beside them, looking very small.

  He Lingchuan has hunted this thing in the Chipa Plateau. As long as it goes crazy, the whole village can be demolished for you. In the past two months of Emperor Liuzhi, the guards often encountered these savage cow monsters.

  But these cow demons in front of them are actually plowing and plowing the fields obediently.

   Of course, the plows they are specially equipped with are very large, each with four plowshares. The cow walks in front, and two or three people support it in the back. After all, it will automatically turn around, and the efficiency of turning the ground is extremely high.

   Judging by their skillful movements and tacit cooperation, these cow demons should have been doing farm work for quite a long time.

  Seeing that he couldn't take his eyes off, Shi Congshan smiled and said, "Everyone who comes to the Demon Country for the first time has this expression on you."

  He Lingchuan withdrew his gaze: "It's because I'm ignorant."

  His medicine ape can make alchemy, the octopus of Panlong City Boosting Department can probe people's meridians, and the ape monster sitting in the checkpoint just now can declare customs, so it is not surprising that monsters do human affairs.

   At most one hour before sunset, the caravan decided to settle down in the town and move on tomorrow morning.

  He Lingchuan felt fresh and looked around. However, this town is no different from Jiaguo's in terms of scale. It is also dominated by human residents. There are more than 300 registered local residents, including more than 70 monster residents.

  In addition, there are more than 400 foreign merchants.

  It’s not far from the border. Obviously, the town is used to the traffic of tourists. Food shops, blacksmith shops, post stations, and inns are in sufficient supply.

  There seems to be a market today.

  They were already very familiar with this road. After Shi Er master arranged all the chores, he was going to invite He Lingchuan to drink.

  As soon as the words fell, there was a gong beating in the center of the town, and someone shouted: "The execution at the street crossing has begun!"

  Shi Erdao let out a sigh: "What a coincidence, today is the execution of the death row inmate? I have walked this road more than 30 times, and I have only encountered it twice including today."

  He Lingchuan shook his head: "What kind of good thing is this?"

  As soon as he finished speaking, a six or seven-year-old girl ran past him, with a flushed face, beautiful and cute.

  She giggled and pulled her mother forward: "Quick, quick, this time we want to grab the front row!"

   "Slow down..." Mother staggered.

  My daughter complained to her: "Last time, Ah Dong was the first to watch, and then told us that blood was splashed on his face."

  He Lingchuan looked at the townspeople who had gathered around them, all of them were laughing and laughing, and some of them chatted about homework on the spot.

  It was as lively as a festival.

   When he looked at the execution platform in front of him, it was different from other places.

  In the execution of criminals in other places, a high platform is built of wood, and then the prisoner is taken to hang or beheaded.

  There is a huge earth pit at the street entrance of this town, which is about half a foot lower than the ground. I don’t know if it was originally a fish pond, and the bottom is stained.

  He knew at a glance that these were dried blood.

   Now a lot of people have gathered beside the pit, no wonder the little girl said that she couldn’t see clearly if she didn’t grab the front row.

   At this time, the guard also came out with two prisoners in fetters. The beheader declared him a felony, and the divine grace sentenced him to "be devoured".

  He Lingchuan heard it as "stoning by stoning" and thought it was stoned to death. After all, the platform is sunken, which is convenient for throwing heavy objects. Stone punishment is also a very ancient punishment.

  When the two prisoners heard this, they trembled like chaff, and their faces were pale.

  One got wet, the audience pointed at him and shouted, "Pee, pee!"

   At this time, someone shouted outside: "The executioner is here, everyone, let me go!"

  The crowd of onlookers made way for a passage without daring to delay.

   Only two shocking roars were heard, and two huge shadows passed through the crowd and walked in like no one else was there.

These are two huge tiger-like creatures. Their body shape is very similar to that of a fierce tiger, but their forearms are longer and thicker, and their hind legs are slightly shorter. Their shoulder height is more than four feet, and their body is stronger than ordinary tigers. Distributed on the back.

  The paws on the ground alone are three times the size of the palm of an adult man.

  He Lingchuan has never seen this kind of monster in Yuan Country, but he seems to have seen a drawing in a travel journal, and knows that this beast is called "Pseudo-Tiger", and he likes to hunt giant beasts such as rhinoceros and elephants.

  But they don't seem to reject human flesh, just look at the eyes they stared at the prisoner, which is really called tiger's eyes.

  He Lingchuan finally understood that this "biting punishment" was the "biting" of biting.

  Bihu licked his lips, and a prisoner immediately collapsed to the ground.

   The guard pulled and found that he had passed out.

  Although the other prisoner was trembling all over, he gritted his teeth cruelly while the guard bowed his head, and hit the post with a "bang".

  The sound is loud.

  He Lingchuan heard a "click", and based on experience, he could judge that this person's brain was cracked. Seeing him fall down as soon as he hit it, the blood soon stained the ground red.

  The guard quickly bent down to feel his neck veins, and after a while he said to the supervisor: "He's dead."

  The surrounding townspeople booed.

  Without one living person, the excitement of this show will be greatly reduced.