Taming beasts starts with understanding bird language

After reassuring Qilang, Gu Chan asked, "By the way, brother Qilang, why don't you have a surname?"

"I was abandoned by my parents when I was born. I grew up in our village eating at many people's homes. Everyone called me Qilang, so naturally I don't have a surname." Qilang said with a smile.

"Ah! So that's it!" Gu Chan sighed, with a trace of pity in her eyes.

Qilang didn't care about all that. He just ate the food on the table in big mouthfuls, like a starving ghost reincarnated.

Gu Chan said distressedly, "Eat slowly, no one will snatch it from you."

"As expected of someone who owns such a large merchant ship, the food alone is so delicious. I haven't had such delicious food in a long time." Qilang said as he ate, looking extremely happy.

Gu Chan really couldn't bear to watch it anymore, so she told Aunt Hong to cook him a few dishes and bring them to the table.

After an incense stick of time, Qilang had cleared out the entire table of dishes.

Sitting slumped in the chair, he said with a satisfied look on his face, "Manager Gu, thank you for your hospitality. I'm full now. If you have any questions, just ask me!"

"When we were crossing the border, we heard that there was some strange disease on the border of Yexing Country, and many people died of the disease. Is this true?" Gu Chan asked.

"Of course, otherwise the city lord would have paid us to retrieve the body!" Qilang said unhappily.

"Is it a plague caused by these corpses?" Gu Chan said with a frown.

Qi Lang shook his head. "That's not the case. This strange disease appeared three months ago. At that time, there was no flood in the upper reaches of your Tiancang country! For three consecutive months, the city lord invited many famous doctors to find the cause of the disease, but they couldn't find it. Now the bodies are being retrieved because there are too many corpses in the river. The city lord is afraid that these corpses will cause a plague. When the plague and the strange disease are combined, the people on the border will suffer even more."

"So that's how it is! Then I feel relieved." Gu Chan sighed.

Anyway, as long as it wasn't because of the floods upstream that washed away hundreds of corpses and caused strange diseases on the border of the Yexing Kingdom downstream, she could rest assured temporarily.

Qilang added, "We fished out all the bodies and burned and buried them, so that they could rest in peace."

"Then I have to thank you on behalf of Lord Jiangnan of Tiancang Kingdom!" Gu Chan said gratefully.

"Hmph! That damn lord, so many people died in his territory, and he couldn't even fish out the bodies to let his own people rest in peace. What's the point of you thanking us on his behalf? To put it bluntly, he shouldn't thank us. He should apologize to those drowned people." Qilang's face suddenly darkened and he cursed angrily.

Gu Chan turned her head away awkwardly. She really had no temper at all after being scolded.

Cheng Hao couldn't listen any longer and said coldly, "Boy, you don't know the specific situation, how can you be so self-righteous and scold our Jiangnan lord! He doesn't want so many people to be drowned! What's more, this flood is not his fault, he has saved many people!"

"Our city lord said that no matter what the reason, as the leader of a place, if he cannot protect his own people, he is an incompetent leader." Qilang said frankly.

Cheng Hao wanted to argue with him, but Gu Chan stopped him with a wave of her hand. "Okay, stop talking. I think what Qi Lang said makes sense. Maybe this is how the common people view the lord."

"Manager Gu, I think you are a good person. Since you invited me to dinner, I won't eat for free. Starting from tonight, the merchant ship will sail downstream for three days and three nights, and you will reach Yaoye City, the largest city on the border. Then you can do business in the city. Remember not to stop ashore on the way, otherwise you will be infected with a strange disease and it will be terrible." Qilang reminded.

"So what are the symptoms of this strange disease?" Gu Chan asked.

Qilang said with a frightened look on his face, "People who are infected with the strange disease will initially feel like they have caught a cold, with coughs and weakness all over their body. But after a while, they will suddenly become extremely bloodthirsty and will bite people crazily and eat their blood. After more than a month, they will disappear without a trace for some reason."

"Oh my god! There is such a strange disease? Could it be that there are zombies in this world?" Gu Chan's eyes widened and she exclaimed in her heart.

Before she traveled through time, the zombies in the zombie movies she watched seemed to be similar to this!

Of course, she thought so in her heart, but she didn't say it out loud. She just said in surprise, "That's very strange."

"Master, this strange disease is unheard of and unseen! It's so scary." Cheng Hao said in a trembling voice.

"That's right. Ergouzi from our village was infected with this strange disease. It bit his parents, and as a result, his parents also got infected with the disease. Last month, the three of them disappeared. No one knows where they went. The village chief has sent people to look for them for more than half a month, but there's no sign of them!" Qilang said, spreading his hands.

Gu Chan and Cheng Hao looked at each other, both of them had doubts on their faces.

First of all, this strange disease on the border of Yexing Country is real. Second, this strange disease is very strange and the cause is unknown. Third, after the patients become ill, they will disappear without a trace and it is impossible to find them.

Considering these three reasons, it is extremely difficult to thoroughly figure out what kind of disease this strange disease is.

After understanding all this, Gu Chan made a prompt decision and had someone bring up two hundred taels of silver, placed it in front of Qilang and said, "Brother Qilang, let's do a deal! I'll hire you for a month with these two hundred taels of silver. You will go with us to the Yaoye City ahead tonight. We need a local to lead the way."

"Wow! Manager Gu, are you so generous? Two hundred taels! This is enough for me to build a house in the village, buy a pig and marry a wife." Qilang said with shining eyes.

Gu Chan was stunned. "What did you say? You can do so many things with two hundred taels? Are the prices at the border of your Night Star Country so low?"

"Our Yexing Kingdom is not like your Tiancang Kingdom. The common people don't have to pay head tax." Qilang said with a smile.

As he said this, he silently reached out, grabbed the two hundred taels of silver, and stuffed it into his arms.

Gu Chan no longer bothered about the price of goods. She stared at him and said, "I'll take the money as your promise. Go and take care of your fishing boat, then come back and we'll set off together."

"What about Manager Gu, what about one month later?" Qilang asked.

"If you can do my job to my satisfaction, I will hire you as long as I stay at the border of Yexing Country." Gu Chan said readily.

"Okay, it's settled. I'll go find the village chief and hand over the bodies on the fishing boat first. You guys drive the boat to the small pier in front and wait for me." Qilang said happily.

After saying that, he hurriedly got up, got out of the cabin, quickly got off the boat and returned to his fishing boat, paddling away.

In the cabin.

Cheng Hao sat at the table and said, "Master, aren't you afraid that this guy will run away with the money?"

"Don't worry, this makes much more money than recovering corpses. He will definitely not run away. And even if he does run away, just think of it as me doing a good deed and helping him." Gu Chan said nonchalantly.

Cheng Hao nodded quietly.

Gu Chan said no more. She ordered the boat to stop at the small pier in front and waited quietly on the boat.