Peerless Young Master

Baiyun Village.

Clean and bright room.

Xiao Xuan looked at the yellowed, ancient-looking half piece of animal skin paper in her hand. There were densely packed small dots engraved on it, forming some kind of mysterious pattern.

She reached out and touched the surface, trying to see what was painted on it.

Looking away, there is a palm-sized token on the table. It is made of pure copper with the word "pure" engraved on it and a landscape pattern on the back. It looks quite historical.

"What on earth is this? It doesn't look very valuable. Why did the thief hide it so carefully? Is it because I didn't understand?"

Xiao Xuan looked at it for a while, wet the animal skin paper with water, and even tried roasting it over fire, but there was still no change.

This made her even more curious, and she wanted to find Xiao Yidao to see if he could find out something.

But on second thought, the other party has been staying in the mountain and rarely goes down the mountain. It would be better to ask Li Xuan, after all, scholars know more.

So she brought the animal skin and token and came to Li Xuan's room.

I knocked on the door, but there was no response, so I pushed it open and went in.

"Where have you been?"

She looked around and couldn't find Li Xuan, so she put the things on the table and sat down waiting for him to come back.

Something on the table caught her attention. She took the paper and saw many lines drawn on it, as well as words she couldn't understand. It was as puzzling as the animal skin.

But she understood that this should be the road outside the village.

"I didn't expect him to be so attentive and keep looking for a new route down the mountain."

Obviously, Xiao Xuan thought that Li Xuan was thinking about a new route down the mountain.

After a while, Li Xuan came back, pushed the door open, and saw Xiao Xuan sitting on the table, holding her chin with both hands, looking bored.

Then he looked at the table and his heart tightened.

"You're back." Xiao Xuan became energetic when she saw Li Xuan.

"Let's go sit with Brother Damo"

Li Xuan walked over calmly and glanced at the papers on the table. The token and animal skin paper on the side attracted his attention.

"What's this"

"I don't know either. I'm showing it to you. Aren't you a scholar? Scholars are knowledgeable and experienced. See if you can recognize it," Xiao Xuan said.

Li Xuan sat down and while studying the animal skin, he quietly folded up the route map he drew. In order not to arouse suspicion, he did not put it away, but put it aside and blocked it with his body.

Then he looked at the animal skin paper. There was no text on it, only patterns formed by lines.

He touched it with his hand and found that it was not painted on, but embroidered with needle and thread.

"How is it? What did you find out?" Xiao Xuan asked curiously.

"This looks like a pattern, but not really. It looks a bit like a map." Li Xuan pondered it and gave his opinion.

"map"?

Li Xuan nodded, and based on his years of experience watching TV, he made a bold guess: "This looks like a treasure map. The map on it should show the location of the treasure."

"Treasure map, where is the treasure?" Xiao Xuan's pupils shook, very surprised.

"What are you thinking? This is obviously incomplete. Only if it were complete could we reveal the location of the treasure. And judging by the animal skin, it's probably quite old.

Whether it can be found is one thing, whether it exists is another."

Li Xuan put the animal skin aside, looked at the token, examined it, and even bit it with his teeth, but found nothing.

"Alas, it was all for nothing."

Xiao Xuan was a little disappointed. It wasn't that she really wanted to get the treasure map, but she was very interested in the process of searching for the treasure, which was much more interesting than staying in the mountains.

“Where did you get these things?”

"I got it from a thief I met last time I went up the mountain."

"Where did the thief get it from?"

"He stole it from a wealthy family. I heard they were very angry and were looking for him all over the city, so he wanted to sneak out and hide, but I ended up meeting him."

"What about the thief? Since he stole this thing, maybe he knows him."

"Dead"

"Dead," Li Xuan's tone became heavier, and he was a little surprised.

"He knows the location of the cave. If he tells anyone and the officials find out and seal it, we won't be able to enter the county anymore."

Xiao Xuan didn't want to kill anyone, but she couldn't bring the thief back to the village. She couldn't let him go either, so she had to kill him. He was not a good person anyway.

Immediately, she realized something, her face changed, and she said in a low and serious voice: "This is a secret. Only my father and Uncle Damai know it. You must never tell anyone."

A cave? Could it be a dog hole dug somewhere in the city wall? Li Xuan's eyes flickered, as if he knew how the other party entered the county town.

"Don't worry, I won't tell anyone."

After getting the guarantee, Xiao Xuan laughed and said, "I thought these were some treasures, but they turned out to be useless. I'll give them to you."

"Give it to me? You don't want it anymore?"

"No, it's useless to keep it. But we've agreed that if you can finally find the treasure map, you must give me half of it."

"Okay, I'll give you half." Li Xuan also smiled. There was nothing going on, so why was he so obsessed with money?

The two chatted for a while and then Xiao Xuan left.

Li Xuan looked at the animal skin and token, placed them under his pillow, then looked at the map of the route down the mountain and said bitterly, "Last time I only got to Daxing Village, and I have no idea how to get to the two villages behind.

If you want to draw a complete map of the route down the mountain, you have to go out for a walk;

The last time I went out, an accident happened. If I go out again this time, it will definitely arouse suspicion... It’s a headache.”

…………

More than ten days passed in the blink of an eye, and two months had passed since the mountain was closed due to heavy snow.

During this period, many villages disappeared and many people died.

The food in those small villages that still exist has basically been eaten up. In order to get food, many villages have begun to go out to look for wild animals to survive the winter.

If you are lucky enough to find their nest, you can have food for several days.

There are also some villages that can only rely on robbing to survive. In order to survive, they attack other villages. If they win, they will sell all the opponents to Heiya in exchange for food.

It can be said that the next month will be the craziest time in Heilongshan.

However, for Gao Quan, the next month will be the most profitable time.

Those villages have run out of food. If they want to survive, they must buy food from him, and he has the final say on the price.

In the past ten days, some village chiefs have come to his house quietly and wanted to buy food at a low price, but he politely refused them all. He didn't have much food in stock, and he had to tighten his belt to save money.

How could these people not know Gao Quan's intention? It was just a matter of adding more money.

In this way, Gao Quan sold another 200 kilograms of grain and earned a total of 3,000 taels of silver.

He hid all the silver in the room he lived in. Every time he opened the door, the bright sunlight would illuminate the entire room, making him very happy.

If it weren't so cold, I'd really like to sleep on this silver.

However, there was also one piece of news that gave him a headache, that is, the news of selling grain was somehow known to Black Wind Village, and Tiequan sent people to bother him many times.

As a last resort, he sold him 20 kilograms of rice at a low price to get rid of him.

Of the five hundred kilograms of grain, two hundred and thirty kilograms were left.

"The next is your doom. You have completely run out of food. If you want to survive, you can only come to me to buy food.

This time, I will empty all your family assets, then leave Black Dragon Mountain, and from now on, I will be free to roam freely in the vast world."

"Boss, Black Wind Village is here again!"