Chapter 13: Trap?
Javed was completely exhausted by listening to their conversation. Big bird flew to us! No wonder I went after them! Coins, you need to steal them! Two at once! This is my chance to return!
Uh, where are they going? So much? Now also look for a horse?
Early in the morning the riders came out of Small An, went upstream of the rich Gold River. On the way, they saw peasants who were throwing sheep skins tied up on ropes.
Then they pulled them out of the water and carefully studied, sometimes pulling something out of them. These were grains of gold, sometimes small nuggets. The artels of the peasants, for a month, could have washed up to 15 jins. But not everyone was so lucky.
This business involved the most lost of the peasants. Riders were sent along arable land, rice fields flooded with water, they saw peasants who worked tirelessly in the field, then diverting water from the canals, then adjusting its pressure, or vice versa, not allowing water to get on their small arable lands.
The horses were full of strength, so the distance of 327 was not a big problem for them ... while Javed cursed with bad words, forced to leave his horse ... which had no strength, after the first 135 li ... now Javed had to rely only on his legs and alchemical preparations to maintain strength. Alas, for the horse, these drugs were not adapted ...
Javed followed on the heels, behind the group ...
Dara only slyly laughed, he was not averse to the ambitious Lee Bang, they took his cherished coin, she had already served her duty, she could only return Sir Pei back. If he lost this coin, he, Dara, then most likely for him it would mean a premature departure not only from the trade guild but also from life. If Li Ban had lost the coin, he would simply have been exiled for ten years to a distant garrison in the desert or mountains, he would have survived.
Such a lesson, in principle, was useful to him, it would be nice to teach him a lesson. Li Ban would learn a lot ... and the success is intoxicating, inevitably there would be enemies from the new protege who would kill him ... and it would be quite good to cool him down a little, give him food for thought.
Yes, and this young man, Javed, Dara knew well, he was a man of the Chief Minister of the Principality Small An. If everything is fine to play, then it will be possible to shake his position, and perhaps even drive him into the desert to eternal settlements. And this will give the clan Dara's huge advantages.
So with one stone, one could achieve several goals at once. What to pull the cat by the tail.
The mountain gorge is located on the southern slope of the Shining Mountains, there are also burial grounds and burial mounds, the remains of the smelting workshops ... the mountain gorge itself stretches for 7 li. Strange drawings are made on black rocks in the center of the gorge. The slopes of the gorge are covered with dense thickets of pistachios with sharp plucks and woody vegetation. The drawings are located on an area of 2 hair dryers in the gorge.
In the spring the slopes are covered with an amazing carpet of red, blue, yellow and white flowers.
There are legends about this mystical place, Dara remarked. Three centuries ago, a bright fireball fell from the sky ... and after it, unprecedented drawings appeared on the rocks. From which came a strange glow at night, the Taoist monks came, they said that the rich energy of the sky comes from this place ... three centuries passed ... almost nothing left of the former energy ... in the mountain gorge, besides strange drawings, there were also more and caves dug by monks, sects ... but they all left ... the last went east thirty years ago. Now the gorge is almost empty ...
There are about five thousand such places with pictures all over the mountain gorge! In the picture there is an image of people with three heads, horses, goats, bears, wolves, camels, huge snakes. There is an image of dogs, archers,
Li Ban looked into all his eyes, he remembered the instructions of his superior Sir Pei. Memorize strange phenomena, map old galleries, mines and smelting workshops.
They were just about one of them, Li Ban, took samples of smelting slags and put them in his bag.
According to the Gifts, silver was melted in this place, and in the forgotten sects, it was still possible to find fragments of old swords ... Li Ban's was interested in their material, he also collected these finds.
Dara promised to take him to the sites of the mines of turquoise in these mountains. And also show the iconic buildings of the ancient fire mages. There were 3 more before them ...
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