Blue Silver Grass Strategy

Upon hearing this, the man with a black face and yellow teeth immediately became unhappy and retorted:

"Hey! How can I sell you fake goods? Go ask around. I, Aqiang, have a great reputation on this street!"

"Let me tell you, my 'Blue Silver Grass' is not only fifty years old, but it has the potential to be cultivated to ninety-nine years old, or even break through to the quality of a hundred years. If my family wasn't short of money recently, I wouldn't sell it so easily—"

Listening to the man's chatter, the spit with a strange smell almost flew onto his face. The young man subconsciously took a half step back, his eyes swept over the vibrant light blue grass on the stall, and after a slight hesitation, he was finally replaced by determination. He touched his pocket and took out five silver coins: "Okay, okay, five silver soul coins, right? Here..."

"Oh, thank you, sir. Don't worry, my 'Blue Silver Grass' is definitely of sufficient age. I bought the young plants from 'Blue Silver Collar'. In order to cultivate it, my boys have worked hard every day--"

When the boss, A Qiang, saw the other party taking out money, his face immediately lit up. He took the money quickly, then put the "Blue Silver Grass" on the stall, which was about 20 centimeters tall and had four or five branched leaves, together with the small flowerpot, in a portable bamboo basket and handed it to the young man.

When the young man took the bamboo basket with joy on his face and looked at the large "Blue Silver Grass" with longing in his eyes, at the street entrance more than ten meters away, Ling Yi and A Yin were each leading two horses, one black and one blue, and witnessed the transaction that had just taken place.

Watching the young man's back as he walked away briskly, Ah Yin turned to look at the boss with a black face and yellow teeth, only to see him taking out a large-sized "Blue Silver Grass" exactly the same as the one before from the large wooden box behind him.

Ah Yin: "..."

Ling Yi, who saw the boss's actions like Ah Yin, did not say anything. He just led the horse to another middle-aged fat man with red rosacea. After exchanging a few words, he took out a Silver Soul coin and bought five kilograms of 'Blue Silver Rice Wine' in a brown clay jar.

Ten minutes later, two tall and fine horses, carrying a man and a woman on their backs, trotted away from the town.

"Brother Yi, what just now..."

Ah Yin thought about it again and again, and finally couldn't help it, so she opened her mouth to ask Ling Yi.

As they rode in the snow, their horseback was steady. Ling Yi was dispensing the sticky white wine in the clay pot into half-pound green porcelain bottles, while taking the time to respond:

"You mean to say that the Blue Silver Grass that person just sold is indeed only forty-nine years old, right?"

Ah Yin nodded: "Yeah."

Ling Yi turned his head and glanced at Ah Yin, then poured the wine in his hand into the mouth of the celadon bottle meticulously:

“But you should be able to sense that the Blue Silver Grass, or most of the Blue Silver Grass in the boss’s hands, although it is stuck at forty-nine years, is not because its potential has reached its limit. It is just in a dormant period. After accumulating enough vitality, it will naturally be able to break through to fifty years…”

"It should be that the boss was a little greedy, or eager for quick success, and cultivated a large number of "Blue Silver Grass" at the same time. Even if some of the "Blue Silver Grass" grew better, they didn't notice it, or they didn't care about it after they found it, and then they didn't choose to focus on cultivating it, which caused this batch of "Blue Silver Grass" to grow slowly when they grew to a certain age..."

"In this case, he may regard these "Bluesilver Grass" as 'defective products' with exhausted potential, and then choose to sell them off -"

"Looking at his skilled posture and how quickly he collected the money, he should have made quite a profit, not a loss."

"And the customer who bought the forty-nine-year-old 'Blue Silver Grass' has already accumulated a lot of vitality in the 'Blue Silver Grass' in his hand. As long as he uses his soul power to nourish it well, it should not take long for it to break through to fifty years.

Judging from the fluctuations in his aura, he should have just broken through to the ninth level of soul warrior not long ago. When he cultivates to the tenth level, the "Blue Silver Grass" under his cultivation may give him a surprise-"

Hearing this, Ah Yin recalled what she had seen and felt before, and found that everything was exactly as Ling Yi said, with a look of astonishment on her face, "So, these two people both made a profit?"

I originally thought it was a scene where an unscrupulous merchant was selling inferior goods and defrauding ignorant customers, or maybe the customers were making a fortune by taking advantage of the situation while the unscrupulous merchant was losing out on good goods.

Unexpectedly, after Ling Yi's analysis, it turned out to be a win-win situation.

He flipped his hand and put the empty clay jar into the storage soul guide, leaving a celadon bottle in his hand. Ling Yi tilted his head slightly and took a sip of the sweet glutinous rice wine.

"Well, not bad. Although the technique is average, the advantage is that the materials are natural and there is no added messy stuff..."

Savoring the lingering fragrance in his mouth, Ling Yi commented with a slight nod.

"It seems that Lao Li has put a lot of effort in this area in recent years. I don't know if it has delayed his practice."

"Brother Yi~" Ah Yin squeezed his legs against the horse's belly, driving Qingfeng closer to Taxue, and looked at the green porcelain bottle in Ling Yi's hand with some curiosity: "This rice wine has a fragrance of "Blue Silver Grass". I heard that person shouting before, saying that it was brewed from "Blue Silver Rice". Was it invented by the 'Old Li' you just mentioned?"

"Yes." Ling Yi took out another bottle of rice wine and handed it to Ah Yin who was leaning over. He nodded and smiled, "'Blue Silver Rice' was cultivated by me by chance through grafting, pollination and other methods before I left the [Shuimu Principality]."

"According to my plan, we should cultivate the first batch of grains in Shanhai Garden first, and then expand to the entire 'Blue Silver Territory'. As for whether it will be spread to the entire territory of [Shuimu Principality], it depends on the opinions of those people in 'Wood Planting City'."

"It seems that in the past few years since I was away, they have been quite receptive to the things that Blue and Silver Collar have spread."

'I guess part of the reason is because of Dugu Bo's consideration.' Ling Yi thought to himself, and continued speaking:

"And this rice wine was developed by my friend, Li Zhishu, using "Blue Silver Rice" as the raw material."

"He is a food-type soul master, and he is particularly talented in cooking and researching new types of food."

Chapter 239 Territory Guard

Blue Silver Collar, Beikouhe Town.

Dugu Xin followed Long Yin, each riding a horse, walking on the busy street. Behind the two horses was a neat team of eighteen people.

There were twenty people in the group, all wearing standard silver light armor. The difference was that Dugu Xin and Long Yin had two more blue patterns on the shoulders of their light armor.

It is the responsibility of the territory sheriff to patrol the territory every day and maintain public order.

As a baron-level territory, Blue Silver Territory is only allowed to have one hundred to five hundred guards. The specific number depends on what Blue Silver Territory itself can afford.

As a result of the various policies set by the Lord, the territory now has a population of more than 41,000. Only 500 guards are far from enough.

But fortunately, although the lord has not been here for the past few years, he had anticipated this early on.

Therefore, in addition to the 500-man guard team affiliated with Shanhaiyuan, the one town and 25 villages under the jurisdiction of Lanyinling all have militia teams "spontaneously" formed by the people.

Each household in Beikouhe Town elected a patrol team of 50 people. Other villages such as Shanghe Village had hunting teams consisting of as few as 7 or 8 people and as many as 14 or 15 people. They were all hunting teams formed in the name of guarding against wild beasts and bandits. In their spare time, they could go into the mountains and forests to hunt various wild animals to supplement the meat supply for the villagers.

With the spread of "Farmer's Three Styles", the yield of "Blue Silver Rice" has increased seven or eight times per mu, and every household raises chickens, ducks, rabbits, pigs and other poultry and livestock, the people of the entire Blue Silver Territory are all in good health. Those who can be selected into the guard team are elite soldiers with physique comparable to that of a tenth-level soul warrior. The town patrol team and the village hunting team are also experts in wielding guns and sticks, riding horses and shooting arrows.

It can be said that when necessary, the Blue Silver Leader can draw out an elite team of more than 800 people at any time.

Three days after returning to the Blue Silver Territory and inspecting the entire territory with General Ah Yin, Ling Yi arrived at Beikouhe Town with satisfaction. He looked at Long Yin, Dugu Xin and others who were on routine patrol with a smile on his face.

Although he had never met Dugu Xin, he had learned from many people in the past three days that Dugu Bo had brought his son Dugu Xin to Lanyin Territory four years ago, in the summer of the 2608th year of the Douluo calendar. Although Ling Yi was not surprised by Dugu Xin's existence.

Thinking of this, Ling Yi suddenly felt a little emotional. It turned out that he had been away from here for four years.

Through perception, the 19-year-old Long Yin has now become a Soul Master. Judging from his aura, it seems that he has only hunted for the third soul ring not long ago.

On the contrary, Dugu Xin, who was following behind Long Yin, was young, but his strength had surpassed that of Long Yin. Not only did he also break through to the Soul Master level, but his aura was also more condensed. He should have broken through earlier, and his current soul power was also ahead of Long Yin.

Maybe it was because of the sensitivity of the snake martial spirit, and also because Ling Yi did not deliberately hide it. When Ling Yi's gaze lasted for more than five seconds, Dugu Xin suddenly felt something in his heart, and following the feeling in his heart, he looked in the direction where Ling Yi was.

"Um?!"

At first sight, Dugu Xin was stunned.

"What's wrong, Sanjin?" Long Yin turned around and asked after hearing Dugu Xin's voice.

However, before waiting for Dugu Xin's reply, Long Yin followed the other's gaze and saw a familiar yet unfamiliar face at the crowded street corner.

“Brother Yi——?!”

Long Yin's eyes widened, with an expression of disbelief and astonishment on his face.

……

Half an hour later, Shanhaiyuan.

Several figures ran at high speed and rushed to the hall used to discuss territorial policies. Before they even got close, they shouted loudly:

“Brother Lei! I just saw Taxue being led to the stable. Is it that big brother is back?!”

This is my younger brother Ling Shan.

"Brother! Are you back? Brother——?!"

This is my younger sister Lingsi.

Following behind were cousin Zhang Miao, mother Zhang Xiaoyu, and aunt Ling He.

The family reunited, and naturally there was another round of happy conversation about each other's well-being. Half an hour later, Zhang Xiaoyu and Ling He linked arms and said to Ling Yi:

"Xiao Yi, you guys chat here. Your aunt and I will go to the kitchen to prepare some food for Miss Yin..."

After saying that, he nodded to Ah Yin who was sitting next to Ling Yi with a kind smile on his face.

This smile made Ah Yin feel a little strange, and her heart felt inexplicably warm.

……

At the same time, thousands of miles away, at the border of Fasno Province of the Tiandou Empire.

In a caravan that was about to leave the Tiandou territory and enter the territory of the [Xingluo Empire], a beautiful and heroic young lady riding a chestnut horse suddenly sneezed.

Rubbing her upturned nose, Yang Xueli looked up at the clear sky in some confusion, wondering why she would have such a physiological reaction when she was now one step away from becoming a Soul Master.

"I don't know if Brother Yi has returned to the [Shuimu Principality]. After talking to Old Yang and Sister Hong, I will rush to the [Shuimu Principality] as fast as possible!" Yang Xueli thought secretly.

That’s right, Yang Xueli calls her father and mother Old Yang and Sister Hong.

……

Shanhai Garden, martial arts arena.

An extra-long table was filled with all kinds of meat, vegetables, fruits, and drinks. Not far away, five large barbecue grills were spitting flames. The fat dripping from the skewers of meat fell onto the red-hot charcoal, making a "sizzling" sound while a rich aroma spread out.

Li Zhishu was busy with all kinds of grilled skewers and spices on the three grills with his hands.

Despite being so busy, Lao Li had a long-lost, heartfelt smile on his face.

Chen Tianqi and Gao Yanlun each stood in front of a barbecue grill, their hands moving without slowing down at all, and occasionally taking the time to communicate with each other through eye contact.

Chen Tianqi raised his eyebrows: "See, the Lord is back, the teacher's mood immediately improved."

Gao Yanlun quickly flipped a handful of mutton skewers in his left hand, sprinkled cumin and other spices with his right hand, glanced at his teacher Li Zhishu, then looked at Zhang Lei, Long Yin and others who were surrounding Ling Yi not far away, and returned a look to Chen Tianqi: "It's not just the teacher, the whole Shanhaiyuan and Blue Silver Collar are all excited, okay——"

"You two—"

At this moment, Li Zhishu's voice rang in the ears of Chen Tianqi and Gao Yanlun: "Pay attention. If one of the skewers is ruined, don't tell others that you are my disciple. You can't afford to lose face!"

As soon as the voice fell, Li Zhishu walked towards the center of the crowd with two large plates of skewers that he had just grilled.

The three empty barbecue grills here were taken over by the three chefs from Shanhaiyuan.

"Old Li," Ling Yi put down the wine glass in his hand and walked towards Li Zhishu. He looked at the plate in the other's hand with an undisguised look of anticipation on his face: "I haven't tasted your cooking for a long time. I'm so greedy——"

Take a day off tomorrow

Chapter 240 The dove takes over the magpie's nest

After eating the delicious skewers and drinking two glasses of wine, Ling Yi looked around with emotion at the dozens of people on the martial arts field and sighed, "That's great. Looking at you, I know that the existence of this 'Blue Silver Collar' is correct."

"Of course!" Long Yin bit off the whole skewer of mutton in one bite, and said with a greasy smile: "The entire [Shuimu Principality], let alone the territories of those marquises, even the capital city 'Muzhi City' is not as good as our 'Blue Silver Territory'——!"

“That’s right!”——Zhang Mufeng, Qingqiu Xin, Ling Shan…

While his friends and younger brothers responded in unison, Li Zhishu sensed some different meaning from Ling Yi's words.

Back then, he, together with Ling Yi and Jiang Yuan, had experienced the farcical and dark battlefield on the border of the two empires.

In terms of sensitivity, Li Zhishu is now no less sensitive than Zhang Lei in the entire Shanhai Garden. After paying some price, he, who used to only know how to bury his head in the kitchen, has already matured.

"Ayi," Li Zhishu didn't laugh like the others, but frowned slightly and asked in a low voice: "Do you... want to leave [Shuimu Principality]?"

After a pause, perhaps because he felt that he had not explained it clearly enough, Li Zhishu continued, "I mean, have you ever thought about leaving the [Shuimu Principality] completely?"

Because Li Zhishu deliberately lowered his voice, no one could hear the specific content of what he said next to Ling Yi, except Ling Yi and Zhang Lei who was closest to him.

When Zhang Lei suddenly heard Li Zhishu's words, he was surprised at first, but when he carefully thought about Ling Yi's sigh just now, he couldn't help but show shock on his face.

"Ayin, Axin, Afeng...please help me get some more grilled skewers, and those fine wines brewed by Lao Li, give me some of each..." Ling Yi looked at Long Yin and others who were laughing and playing around him, and said with a smile.

"Okay! Brother Yi——" *N

Soon, only Ling Yi, Zhang Lei and Li Zhishu were left there.

"Ding--!"

The two wine glasses collided with each other, making a crisp sound. Ling Yi took back the wine glass in his hand, took a sip, and said to Zhang Lei with a calm expression: "Calm down, Brother Lei."

After saying that, he raised the wine glass in his hand and extended it to Li Zhishu.

Li Zhishu raised his glass in response, and after another "Ding!", he and Zhang Lei looked at Ling Yi.

"I do have the idea of ​​leaving [Shuimu Principality], but not now."

Ling Yi took another sip of the wine in the glass and said lightly.

After hearing the definite answer from Ling Yi, Zhang Lei's expression was under control. Together with Li Zhishu, he looked at Ling Yi quietly, waiting for his plan.

"Brother Lei," Ling Yi did not tell Zhang Lei about his plan right away, but asked him first, "How are the Blacksmith Association Shuimu Principality Branch and the Mercenary Guild developing in the Principality?"

Zhang Lei didn't think much about Ling Yi's question and answered immediately, "At present, the [Blacksmith Association·Shuimu Principality Branch] has completely integrated all the blacksmiths in the principality, as well as the ironware and raw material markets. Based on this, it has already expanded into the Biqi Province in the neighboring [Tiandou Empire]..."