Chapter 14 Tea Stall

"Hu...Hu." Li Qi panted and moved with a staggering step.

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

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

In this world, most people will never leave their hometown in their lives, at least, this is the case in Lizhou.

The farthest place that people in the village have been to is probably the county town, and the farthest place that people in the county town have been to is the state city, and people in the state city may never leave the state city in their lives.

Li Qi has never been out of the state city, not once in more than three years. At most, he helps pull boats in the shallows against the current in the city, and comes back when he pulls them to the suburbs where the water flows smoothly.

If he hadn't been forced to do it, he wouldn't have wanted to leave the city.

He worked at the dock, pulling boats and sailing, and heard the gossip of various canal gangs and chambers of commerce, and he also knew the dangers of the wild.

There are monsters in the water. If you are lucky, they are carp spirits or turtle monsters. They are just teasing and will not hurt people. If you are unlucky, they are water monkeys. All the people on the boat will die in it. Unless they are protected by a superb practitioner, they can escape with their lives.

Don't go into the water, take the mountain road, but the mountains are also densely covered with forests and swamps, and there are snakes, insects, rats, ants, beasts and birds of prey everywhere.

The only truly safe place is where humans live.

Going out means danger.

He has been away for a day and spent a night on the tree. Fortunately, he did not encounter any problems and ate some wild fruits. According to the original plan, he was going to Fengxian, 300 miles away.

It is said that Fengxian is a relatively stable small county. Li Qi will avoid the limelight there, and then return to Lizhou City after a year or two. In this way, nothing will happen.

Trekking a hundred miles a day, all on rugged mountain roads, he is still wearing straw sandals, even with his current physical fitness, he is exhausted.

The only good thing is that it is still winter, so all animals hibernate and insects have not yet been born. There is no other torture on the way except tiredness.

"Even if you don't take the wrong road, it's still three hundred miles... Really." Li Qi walked on the path in the wilderness, looking around to see if there are any tea stalls or water shops on the side of the road. He has been walking for a whole day.

After looking for a while, he was lucky enough to find a tea stall on the side of the road.

He quickened his pace and reached out to take out two copper coins from the bag behind him.

The copper coin of Dalu Kingdom is called Dalu Wuzhu. It is purple in color and has a decent weight, but it is a bit thin. One coin weighs about half a coin. He now has about a thousand coins on him, which is one guan.

Dalu Wuzhu is the official currency of Dalu Kingdom. Most of the coins issued by Kaihe are of this type, but they are not worth much. The most common copper coin on the market is called 'Deyuan Tongbao', which is the most valuable. It contains a lot of copper and is widely circulated. It seems to be the copper coin of Tang Kingdom. One Deyuan Tongbao can replace five Dalu Wuzhu.

Even the weight of "one qian" in this world refers to the weight of a Deyuan Tongbao.

Even the weight unit is in other people's currency. Just from this, Li Qi already knows how powerful the Tang Kingdom in this world is.

Although this Tang Kingdom should have nothing to do with the Tang in his own world.

However, this world is a little different. Although there is official minting of coins, silver is not circulated. Economic activities are almost all completed by copper coins. Only in rare cases will gold be used to pay bills.

Even bills are recorded in copper coins. In very rare cases of large transactions, gold bills are used.

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

The one thousand Dalu Wuzhu that Li Qi carried on his body was one thousand coins in Dalu Kingdom. The purchasing power was actually quite good. It was enough to buy half a pig, that is, three or four hundred kilograms of meat.

Generally speaking, a pound of meat is the price of two or three qian. Two copper coins are enough to drink a pot of tea at a tea stall and eat two plates of small snacks.

However, Li Qi would definitely not be willing to eat these two or three coins in normal times.

Two or three coins are enough to buy two or three kilograms of rice. People in this world generally have a large appetite. Many people eat ten kilograms of rice in one meal. Two or three kilograms of rice, steamed, is only ten kilograms.

Besides, pork is cheap, and the expensive beef and mutton are two or three times more expensive. He really can't afford it. After all, being a boatman is still a physical job. If you don't eat enough, you will have no strength. So in most cases, he eats white rice. For vegetables, it's good to have some pickles. If not, he can make do with water plants and salt.

Occasionally, there are fish for a treat, but fish... Eating river fish without seasoning is really a torture. If it weren't for nutritional considerations, Li Qi would rather eat white rice.

Fortunately, there is enough white rice.

Pray for the farmer who grew the spiritual rice. If it weren't for him, I'm afraid that many people in this world would starve to death. At least the skills would not be so popular.

No matter what kind of skills, they must be based on eating. Without sufficient nutrition, everything is nonsense.

Oh, except for the magic, until now, Li Qi still doesn't know what the power of Niulishu comes from.

The existence of the spiritual rice prevents a physical worker like him from dying of exhaustion and starvation. Li Qi doesn't know the inventor and has never heard of it, but he often prays for the old man.

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

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

Now that he has the magic, he may try to find other ways to make money.

What he learned in his mind is said to be... derived from Qi.

But what the hell is Qi?

I don't understand. I'll learn slowly in the future. You can tell that the inheritance of divine will is not a common thing. If you want to do the Niuli technique again, it will take a long time.

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

"Dr. Tea, give me a pot of tea!" Li Qi slapped two copper coins and shouted loudly.

There were many people around, because although it was winter, the peddlers did not stop. They also gathered at this tea stand to drink tea and rest, and then carried their big backpacks to go to various villages for business.

However, the peddlers were also clearly divided. Different backpacks sat together, which was obviously a gang. Only Li Qi was alone, sitting alone between two peddlers, looking out of place.

"Okay! I'll be right there!" Dr. Tea shouted, and came over quickly, enthusiastically wiped the table for Li Qi, and then brought a pot of tea and two plates of cakes.

They were all rice cakes, made with spiritual rice.

After all, it was a gift, so it couldn't be too expensive. It was already pretty good to use rice cakes.

Li Qi picked up a piece and chewed it. Although the raw material was also rice, it was always more flavorful than white rice. Plus he was hungry, it tasted good.

After eating a piece of rice cake, he drank a cup of warm tea.

The temperature of the tea was not hot, just warm. After all, the customers of this kind of tea stall were hard-working people who came and went. It was impossible for them to endure thirst and wait for the tea to cool down slowly. Therefore, it was all warm water and tea leaves that had been soaked for a day. There was almost no fragrance to speak of. It could only be said that there was a little tea flavor.

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

However, at this time, someone suddenly said to Li Qi from behind: "Brother, are you going on a long journey alone?"