A disease was born with the discovery of Ice Jade. It has no cure and can only be alleviated by taking Fire Cicada Shell.

As the miasma in the Baijing River spread, more and more people suffered from bitter colds, and more and more people needed fire cicada shells.

From then on, there appeared new professions among the people called jade pickers and cicada catchers. These two professions were the kind that could make a lot of money, so people stopped farming and only thought about getting rich overnight.

But how many people can understand the bitterness behind these two professions?

The Kunlun Sword that Ding Guo and others are looking for is in Yuwu Town.

However, before Ding Guo and others could enter Yuwu Town, they were stopped by someone.

The person who stopped them was an old man who was walking on a crutch and wearing a black cloth with a tiger pattern on his head.

"Fortune telling, fortune telling, if it doesn't work, no charge, would you like to have a fortune told?"

The old man was leaning on a crutch, leaning against the wooden bridge. He lifted a piece of cloth on his head with his hand, revealing one eye.

"You are such a mysterious person, I don't believe your story."

Ding Guo made some sarcastic remarks, walked around the old man and headed across the bridge.

"Oh? Old man, we are really destined to meet here?" Nobita held Yunxiang's arm and looked at the old man Wusheng in front of him, very surprised.

That’s right, this fortune-teller was Wusheng, who had pestered Nobita for fortune-telling in Baiyun Town before.

When Wusheng saw Daxiong and Yunxiang beside him, his old face was squeezed into a chrysanthemum shape with a smile, and he quickly bowed and said, "Hello, young master, hello, young lady, this old man greets the young master."

Yin Feng walked forward, looked at the old man, then looked at Daxiong, frowned and asked: "Do you know this person?"

"I don't know him. He's just an old fortune teller."

Nobita ignored Wusheng and helped Yunxiang slowly cross the bridge.

"Young Madam, what do you think of my prediction? The beautiful bird is lucky to be out of the cage, and it is majestic after escaping the disaster. Once it is successful, it will soar into the sky and go anywhere it wants. Hasn't it found your ideal husband?"

Wusheng didn't get angry when he saw that Nobita ignored him. He just shouted at Yunxiang and asked her to turn around.

"Old man, you?" Yunxiang heard Wusheng's words and suddenly remembered that the old man said the same thing to her in the yard that day.

"My lady, forget about him, let's cross the bridge quickly, this broken bridge may collapse at any time."

Daxiong and Yunxiang hurriedly walked towards the other side, and Yin Feng and Xiao Du followed.

Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, the old man Wusheng leaned on his walking stick and shouted: "The Yima star is moving, everyone, if you want to look for someone now, you may have made a wasted trip."

Yin Feng turned around and asked, "Do you know who we are looking for?"

"I don't know. I'm Wusheng, the fortune teller who sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. I don't know whether today's fortune telling will work or not."

Wusheng turned his back to Yin Feng and looked up at the sky at a 45-degree angle, looking mysterious.

This old man feels something.

Yin Feng was somewhat curious about this old man, but what happened next instantly shattered her image of Wusheng as a great master.

"Bah, old man, you're crazy all the time. Only a psychopath would care about a psychopath. My lady, let's go."

Nobita rolled his eyes at Wusheng, spat, then turned around and left with Yunxiang.

When Wusheng saw that Daxiong had really left, he quickly chased after him and said, "Hey? Young master, take care. Do you still want to tell fortunes? This old man will tell your fortune for free. I guarantee it will work."

Wusheng's eager look, like a dog, made Yin Feng frown.

"Lick a dog can't die!"

Yin Feng pursed his lips and followed him. All his curiosity about Wusheng disappeared.

How can the guy who licks Shen Xiong be a good person?

Chapter 51 Chili Oil

Most of the residents of Yuwu Town had caught a cold. As Nobita and his companions walked along, they saw that everyone was wearing cotton-padded clothes, cotton-padded pants, and cotton-padded quilts, lighting charcoal and burning firewood, or huddled together, or gathered together to warm themselves by the fire.

The environment in Yuwu Town is also different from the outside. The temperature is much lower than outside. Nobita put a fox fur cloak, gloves and earmuffs on Yunxiang. The town and outside of the town seem to be two different worlds, one summer and the other winter.

"It would be profitable to open a bath center here. We could connect it to a hot spring and set up a hot spring bath center, with health care and a buffet. That would be pretty good." Nobita took out a wooden stick. There was a red line on the stick, a black line in the middle of the red line, and many small black lines used as scales around it. The red line fluctuated up and down around the black line, sometimes rising and sometimes falling, and finally stayed in a range. Nobita threw the stick aside.

This is a thermometer made from a non-biological hypnotic horn, used to detect the temperature in Yuwu Town.

The temperature in Yuwu Town is affected by the tributary of Baijing River. The closer to the river, the lower the temperature. The highest temperature in the town is only twelve degrees, but near the river, the temperature is close to zero, and in some places in the river, the temperature is below minus twenty degrees.

Natural refrigerator!

Baijing River?

Bai Jinhan!

"Xiao Du!"

Nobita suddenly stretched out his hand and called Xiao Du.

"Master, what's the matter?" Xiao Du came to Nobita in a short suit.

Xiao Du was now full of admiration for the young master. It was so cold in Yuwu Town and he didn't even bring any spare winter clothes. The young master gave him some cream, and after applying it on his face, his whole body felt warm.

If only the people in Rain and Fog Town had this kind of cream...

"Xiao Du, did you hear what I just said? Were you distracted just now?"

Nobita was a little displeased when he saw that Xiao Du was distracted.

Seeing that Daxiong was unhappy, Xiao Du quickly bowed and apologized: "It's unfair, Master, I was not distracted, I was just scared by your appearance. Master, have you found that you are getting more and more handsome recently?"

Nobita touched his face and said with a silly smile: "Really? Why don't I feel anything?" "Yes, if you don't believe me, look, don't you feel handsome?"

Xiao Du presented the mirror in time. Nobita took it, looked at it, and nodded with satisfaction.

"Well, it's true that you have become a lot more handsome recently. Well, let me tell you again, I want to open a bath center, that is, a bathhouse in Yuwu Town. I thought that the children in your orphanage have nothing to do, and begging for food is not a big deal, so I plan to...blah blah." Nobita told Xiao Du about his plan for the Baijinhan Bath Center, and Xiao Du was fascinated and smiled happily.

It’s not that Xiao Du was happy to hear that there was money to be made, but he was happy to think that the little ones in the orphanage would have a proper job in the future and wouldn’t have to go hungry.

The master and servant were chatting. Wusheng, who was following behind them, stretched out his hand to Xiao Du's back and calculated. He said in surprise: "Strange, how did this man get rid of the blood disaster on his face? It is true that seeing a dragon in the field is beneficial to seeing the master."

Thinking of the hexagram he had gotten from divination before, Wusheng smiled even more happily.

He has met a noble person, and from now on, his life will be very good.

The crowd came to a big house. On the house there was a plaque with only one red word.

Ding Guo went forward and knocked on the door. When he saw the servant opening the door, he asked to see Madam Hongyan. However, the servant said that Madam Hongyan was not in the house, but had gone to the bamboo forest in the southeast to meet a distinguished guest. If he wanted to find Madam Hongyan, he could only go to the bamboo forest.

"Hahaha, you see, my divination is correct, right? You guys have come here for nothing. Do you want me to read a few more divinations?"

Wusheng was leaning against the stone lion with his crutches, looking like a hermit.

"Not counting."

Ding Guo didn't give Wusheng any face at all and turned around and left.

"Old man, if you are so accurate in your calculations, can you help me calculate when I can get married and have children?"

Although Xiao Du was asking Wusheng, his eyes were on the pretty figure in the red dress standing beside him.

Wusheng didn't think much about it. He just looked Xiao Du up and down and replied, "The tree-lined path you long for is actually covered with white frost every morning and night. Young man, the fallen flowers are willing to follow the flowing water, but the flowing water has no intention of lingering on the fallen flowers. Change one."

Xiao Du: “???”

……

In the bamboo forest, Nobita and others finally saw the target they were going to meet this time, Madam Hongyan, and the handsome Yu Hou beside her.

Madam Hongyan came to do business with Yu Hou. She exchanged the ice silk jade for the fire cicada shell to treat the residents of Yuwu Town.

A few pieces of fire cicada shells ground into powder and mixed with other medicines would be enough for the entire town's residents to use for a month.

"You are Yu Hou? The biggest buyer of ice jade in Qiantian City?"

Yin Feng showed hostility towards Yu Hou. If this man hadn't been buying up ice jade in large quantities, there wouldn't be so many people suffering from the cold in Yuwu Town.

"Miss, meeting is fate, this ice jade is for you."

Yu Hou didn't say anything. He asked his men to give Yin Feng a piece of ice jade and then came to Daxiong.

"I heard that there is a new seller in Qiantian City recently. The ice jade he sells is crystal clear without any flaws. Little brother, do you know about this?" Yu Hou walked up to Daxiong and asked condescendingly. "Uncle, if you want to do business, just do it. Aren't you tired of going around in circles? No problem, you pay the money, I pay the jade, it's business, why not do it? I just don't know if you can take it all?"

Nobita doesn't like this kind of roundabout way of talking, especially since the uncle in front of him is more handsome than him.

"Little brother, I will take as much jade as you have, but I don't know..."

"This jade necklace is for you. When you go to Hongyuzhai in Qiantian City, just say you want the Bingwan jade."

Throwing away the bracelet in his hand, Nobita turned around and pulled Yunxiang away. He had no intention of having a detailed conversation with Yu Hou and his attitude was very arrogant.

bass!

The masked man behind Yu Hou drew the long sword from his waist, revealing his murderous intent.

"Don't be too busy."

Yu Hou glared at his men, and the masked man immediately retracted his sword.

Turning his head, Yu Hou shouted to Daxiong's back: "Little brother, we will meet again if we meet again!"

Nobita didn't even bother to reply and just turned and left.

It's time to eat!

……

The restaurant was already full of guests, but except for Nobita and his friends, all the other guests were just there to drink hot water and keep warm.

Everyone holds a teacup in their hands and covers themselves with a quilt, asking the waiter to add a cup of hot water from time to time. This is the life of the people in Yuwu Town, boring and tedious. Everyone is suffering from the bitter cold in their bodies. They are not like the guests in the inns in other towns, who chat casually about mountains, women and their experiences.

Oh, it's not that they didn't want to talk. All the guests were talking about was the price of Ice Jade and the price of Fire Cicada Shell. In the end, they all started sighing.

Mutton soup, pancakes, and hand-pulled lamb, this is the lunch for Nobita and others.

Tear open the baked pancake, wisps of hot steam will spread from the pancake, put the torn pancake into the milky white mutton soup which does not have such a strong smell, stir it with a spoon, and the aroma of chopped green onion and coriander will spread in the room. The guests sitting nearby will twitch their noses, sniffing the tempting aroma.

"Sir, your hand-pulled mutton is here. Please enjoy it slowly."

The waiter brought a large plate of chopped mutton, shouted something, and then quietly left.

Nobita tasted the mutton soup first. A warm stream of milky fragrance flowed down his throat into his stomach, dispelling the coldness in his body. He took a bite of the softened pancake, which was plump, juicy, soft and fragrant. The mutton soup burst out from the pancake, and the hot Nobita exhaled hot air.

As Nobita started to eat, Xiao Du and Wusheng beside him also started to eat. One old and one young, they held large bowls and slurped the mutton soup.

"What's wrong, Yunxiang, why don't you drink?"

Nobita noticed that Yunxiang next to him didn't move his chopsticks.

"Husband, I'm not very hungry. You guys should eat first."

Yunxiang pushed the mutton soup to Nobita, looking like she had no appetite.

Daxiong looked at Yunxiang, thought for a while, and said, "Well, Yunxiang, wait a moment, I'll be back soon."

Putting down his chopsticks, Nobita went straight out and came back after a while. What was different from when he left was that he was holding a small bowl in his hand. There was a layer of red oil in the bowl, which smelled a bit pungent.

"Husband, what is this?" Yunxiang had never seen such a thing, but after smelling it, she felt a little choking.

"This is chili oil. How can you drink mutton soup without chili oil? Come on, my lady, give it a little and try it yourself."

Nobita took out a spoon and put in just two drops. Two red spots of oil appeared on the milky white mutton soup.

Yunxiang picked up the mutton soup skeptically and tasted it.

Bang!

The spoon fell on the table. Yunxiang raised her little hand and fanned her tongue, saying incoherently: "My husband, it's so dry, so painful, so hot, shashasha..."

"Do you have an appetite?" Nobita picked up Yunxiang's spoon, rinsed it with tea, and put it in Yunxiang's hand.

"Hmm... strange, a little bit. And after eating this chili oil, my body feels warm and comfortable. It's not so cold anymore."

Yunxiang savored the food and found that after drinking the chili oil, her body felt warm and her appetite improved. The soup that had smelled a bit disgusting just now now made her want to eat it.

"Master, what is this? It looks delicious."

Xiao Du came forward, his eyes full of desire for chili oil. Daxiong looked into Xiao Du's eyes, poured a little chili oil into his bowl, and handed it to Xiao Du: "Not much, it's very spicy."

Xiao Du didn't hear what Nobita said at all. He used his spoon to scoop up a spoonful of water from the bowl, even scooping up the chili powder underneath. In an instant, the white soup turned into red soup.

suck!

"Cough, cough, cough!"

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