The document was sent back to the Pacification Commission, and Liu Zhenyuan soon replied, saying that Divine Physician Shan, the "Hell King's Adversary," had already set out for Liaodong.
He was a close friend of the Medicine Immortal and an exceptional physician in his own right. They trusted he would find a way.
Cao Jinxing and Shen Xiang both breathed a sigh of relief.
Liu Zhenyuan also told Cao Jinxing to assist Shen Xiang with the investigation and not to rush back to report... With Shen Xiang there, Cao Jinxing was hardly needed at all. This was essentially giving him a holiday.
Cao Jinxing was delighted, of course. The next day, he went around the Horse Market with Lei Zongliang and the others, leaving Shen Xiang to miserably keep digging for answers alone.
The supposedly largest Horse Market was really nothing special.
The Mongols of the Three Guards of Duoyan brought large numbers of horses and Mongolian specialties into Camel Gully to trade for grain, tea, porcelain, silk, and other goods.
One Mongol noble traded three large wagonloads of premium sable pelts and ginseng for the thirty thousand bolts of silk Lei Zongliang had brought.
The deal had been arranged beforehand.
Lei Zongliang completed his task that very day. To avoid complications from a delay, he decided to take the goods back to Jiangnan first.
Before he left.
Lei Zongliang repeatedly assured Cao Jinxing that once the firearms were finished, he would have them delivered to his residence in the capital. He also gave him a waist pouch made from Golden Flame Snake skin and eagle feathers, specially dyed silver-white. It looked like a combination of a belt and a shoulder bag, and was exquisitely made.
"Several of the brothers worked through the night to prepare the materials, and Guangning's