Myriad Paths

"Huh...huh." Li Qi breathed heavily and moved unsteadily.

It is more than a hundred miles away from Lizhou City. Although it has not left the jurisdiction yet, it is already sparsely populated.

To be honest, this is the first time Li Qi has gone so far in this world.

In this world, most people will never leave their hometowns throughout their lives. At least, this is the case in Lizhou.

The furthest place people in the village have traveled is probably the county town, and the furthest place people in the county town have traveled is the state town, and people in the state town may never leave the state town in their lifetime.

Li Qi had never been out of the city, not even once in more than three years. At most, he helped pull the boat against the current in the shallows in the city, and then came back after pulling it to the outskirts where the water flow was smooth.

This time, he would not have wanted to leave the city if he had not been desperate to kill people.

He works at the dock, pulls boats, listens to the chatter of various Caobang chambers of commerce, and is also aware of the dangers in the wild.

There are monsters in the water. If you are lucky, they are carp spirits and turtle monsters. They are just teasing and will not hurt anyone. If you are not lucky, they are water monkeys. A whole boat of people will die in it. Unless you are protected by a superb practitioner, you can escape with your life.

Instead of going to the water, take the mountain road, but the mountains are also densely covered with forests and swamps, and there are snakes, insects, rats, ants, vicious beasts and birds of prey everywhere.

The only truly safe places are human settlements.

Going out means danger.

He had been away for a day and spent the night in the trees. Fortunately, he did not encounter any problems and ate some wild fruits. According to the original plan, he was going to Feng County, three hundred miles away.

It is said that Feng County is a relatively stable small county, and Li Qi can avoid the limelight there, and then return to Lizhou City after a year and a half, so that nothing will happen to him.

He traveled a hundred miles a day, all on rugged mountain roads, and he was still wearing straw sandals. Even with his current physical condition, he was very tired.

The only good thing is that it is still winter, so the beasts are dormant and the insects are not born. Apart from being tired, there is no other torture along the way.

"Even if you don't go the wrong way, it's still three hundred miles... It's true." Li Qi walked on the path in the wilderness, looking around to see if there were any tea stalls or water shops on the roadside. He had been walking for a whole day. .

After looking around for a while, he was lucky enough to find a roadside tea stall.

He speeded up and at the same time reached out and took out two copper coins from the baggage behind his back.

The copper coin of the Dalu Kingdom is called Dalu Five Baht. It is purple in color and of fair weight, but a little thin. One coin weighs about half a coin. He currently has about a thousand coins on him, which is Yiguan.

Dalu five baht is the official currency of Dalu country. Most of them are made in Kaihe, but they are not very valuable. The most common copper coin on the market is "Deyuan Tongbao", which contains a lot of copper and is widely circulated. It seems to be the copper coin of the Tang Dynasty. One Deyuan Tongbao can be worth five big deer and five baht.

In fact, the weight of "a penny" in this world refers to the weight of a Deyuan Tongbao.

Even the unit of weight is in other people's currency. From here alone, Li Qi already knows how powerful the Tang State is in this world.

Although this Tang country should have nothing to do with the Tang Dynasty in our own world.

However, this world is a little different. Although there is official coinage, there is no silver in circulation. Most economic activities still rely on copper coins, and only in rare cases gold is used to pay bills.

Even bills and the like are recorded in copper coins, and in rare cases of large transactions, gold bills are used.

Silver seems to have been kicked out of the economic system, and Li Qi doesn't quite understand the specific reason.

The one thousand big deer and five baht that Li Qi was carrying was equivalent to one thousand bucks in the Big Deer Kingdom. His purchasing power was actually quite good. It was enough to buy half a pig, which is three to four hundred kilograms of meat.

Generally speaking, a pound of meat costs two or three coins. Two coins are enough to drink a pot of tea at the tea stall and eat two plates of complimentary snacks.

However, Li Qi would definitely be reluctant to eat these two or three dollars in normal times.

Two or three dollars is enough to buy two or three kilograms of rice. People in this world generally have large appetites. There are many people who eat ten kilograms of rice in one meal. Two or three kilograms of rice can only be steamed for ten kilograms.

Besides, pork is cheap, and the price of expensive beef and mutton is doubled or tripled, which is really not something he can afford. After all, the tracker is still a manual laborer, and he has no energy if he doesn’t eat enough, so in most cases, he just has nothing to eat. If you are full and have vegetables, it is good to have some pickles. If not, just use water plants and salt.

Occasionally, there are fish for tooth sacrifice, but fish... eating river fish without seasoning is really a kind of torture. If it were not for nutritional reasons, Li Qin would rather eat plain rice.

Fortunately, the white rice is enough.

Pray for the farmer who grew the spiritual rice. If it weren't for him, countless people in this world would have starved to death. At the very least, the technique wouldn't be so popular.

No matter what kind of exercise it is, it must be based on eating. Without enough nutrition, everything you say will be nonsense.

Oh, except for magic. Until now, Li Qi didn't know what the source of power of Niu Li Technique was.

The existence of spiritual rice prevented manual workers like him from dying of exhaustion and hunger. The inventor, Li Qi, did not know him or heard of it, but he often prayed for the old man.

This kind of achievement is enough to be honored as a saint.

While respecting the old man, Li Qi walked towards the tea stall.

Now that he has the technique, he may be able to try to find other ways to make money.

The things learned in the brain are said to come from Qi.

But what the hell is Qi?

I don’t understand, I’ll learn it slowly in the future. As soon as I hear the inheritance of divine will, I know it’s not a popular one. If I want to try the Niu Li Technique again, I guess it will take a long, long time.

Holding two copper coins tightly in his hand, Li Qi walked to the tea stall on the roadside.

"Dr. Tea, have a pot of tea!" Li Qi took down two copper coins and shouted loudly.

There were many people around, because even though it was winter, the traveling merchants did not stop. They also gathered at this tea stall to drink tea and rest, and then carried their large backpacks to do business in various villages.

However, the merchants were also clearly differentiated. Different backpackers were sitting together, and they were obviously from different gangs. Li Qi was the only one, sitting alone between the two merchant teams, looking out of place.

"Okay! Here we go!" Dr. Tea shouted as he quickly came over and enthusiastically wiped the table for Li Qi, then brought a pot of tea and two plates of cakes.

They are all rice cakes, made with spiritual rice.

After all, it comes with a gift and it can’t be too expensive. It’s already pretty good with rice cakes.

Li Qi picked up a piece and chewed it. Although the raw material was rice, it always had a bit more flavor than white rice. Coupled with the hunger in his belly, it tasted good.

I ate a piece of rice cake and drank a large cup of warm tea.

The temperature of the tea is not hot, just warm. After all, the customers at this kind of tea stall are hardworking people. They cannot endure their thirst and wait for the tea to cool down, so they only use warm water and tea leaves that have been brewed for a day. There is almost no fragrance at all, it can only be said to have a slight tea flavor.

"Huh..." But Li Qi was already very satisfied. At this speed, he should be able to reach Feng County tomorrow night, right?

However, at this time, someone suddenly said to Li Qi from behind: "Is this eldest brother traveling far alone?"