Chapter 104

Ever since Xu Qing invited Yizhen to drink tea, Old Man Hu and his big daughter lived a happy life where the old were supported and the young were relied upon.

Cheng Caiyun, who had nothing to do, told everyone she saw how filial Old Man Hu's daughter was, not only taking the old man to the tailor shop to order new clothes but also taking him to the pear garden to listen to operas and to the temple to pray for blessings.

"If only I could have such a daughter."

"Boss Cheng is not yet thirty, and her beauty is still there. I'm afraid the people who miss Boss Cheng could line up from the beginning of the street to the end. If Boss Cheng wants to have a son or daughter, it would be responsive to every request..."

Cheng Caiyun blushed when she heard Xu Qing's praise, then cast a flirtatious glance at him and said:

"If your sister-in-law has a request for Scholar Xu..."

Not a bit!

Xu Qing rolled his eyes. Don't look at this widow who speaks without restraint; if it were for real, she would probably laugh and tremble, then say something like, "How shameful, I'm old enough to be your aunt, and you're taking it seriously!"

"It's better to rely on yourself than on others. Boss Cheng, you should find a way to solve it yourself!"

Xu Qing dropped a sentence and returned to the shop.

As soon as he entered the shop, a large golden-red rooster rushed out from the side and crowed at him.

Xu Qing looked at Jin Luan, who was picking up the tray and begging for food, feeling depressed in his heart.

Ever since Yizhen stayed in Linhe to take care of Hu Baosong, this troublesome stupid chicken had been boarded with him again.

Yizhen was comfortable being a hands-off shopkeeper, completely forgetting about the spiritual bird she raised.

Xu Qing thought, he still had a pile of things to do; how could he just stay in the shop and raise chickens?

The items he promised to buy for Xiuniang hadn't been bought yet.

The corpse-salvaging team at the port was working vigorously, and he wanted to go see what was going on. There were also famous actors in the opera garden; he planned to invite one back to be Xiuniang's master and teach her how to sing underworld operas.

This girl Xiuniang had an extraordinary talent for scaring people. If she was buried in his hands, what a pity!

The interest class must be arranged early!

Xu Qing was thinking about things in his heart when Xuanyu said from the side: "I'm going to wander for half a day. Does Immortal Xu want to go together?"

"Wander? Where?"

"Flower and bird market. That is Second Master Feng's dojo. There are not only various birds but also crickets and insects. It is a place like a fairyland."

Xu Qing's heart moved when he heard this.

The flower and bird market is the place where players love to go the most. There is everything strange and strange inside. Besides flowers, birds, fish, and insects, jade and playthings, antiques are also a major category.

Xu Qing was not interested in teasing birds and playing with insects, but he was interested in the antiques inside...

The refining materials for the Golden Armored Corpse require a large amount of Yin Gold. The so-called Yin Gold is the burial money buried in ancient tombs and old coffins.

Things like the Five-Zhu coins, horseshoe gold, unicorn-foot gold, and coffin-suppressing ingots buried in tombs all belong to Yin Gold.

However, Yin Gold also has high and low grades. Yin Gold buried for a short time doesn't have much specialty. Only Yin Gold buried for a long time or nurtured by geomantic treasure lands has more value.

This kind of thing is also commonly used by people in the Yin trade when refining 'Yin Treasures'.

Xu Qing looked at the golden chicken in front of him and then at the Xuanyu Immortal who was preparing to go to the flower and bird market, and he had already made a decision in his heart.

"Alright! Then let's go to the flower and bird market to play!"

As for the golden chicken in front of him...

This big rooster was too noisy. If no one was looking after the shop, who knows how much trouble it would cause him.

Xu Qing remembered how Second Master Feng looked when he came over, carrying his rooster, and he suddenly had an idea.

"Erniang, lend me those two walnuts of yours to play with!"

If you want to talk about a prodigal son, what kind of person is a master player?

That must be playing with a pair of mother walnuts worth a thousand gold in his hands, and he must give these walnuts a loud name, called the twin sisters.

With walnuts, find a teahouse or tea building, carry the birdcage, call the waiter, and let him serve the bird well!

Only a master player like this is authentic.

Xu Qing was carrying the big rooster, locked in a large birdcage, and went to the flower and bird market all the way.

If you want to talk about what kind of master, there is what kind of cat.

Xuanyu, who was following behind him, also learned the same way. Although it didn't have a bird to walk, it had a big black rat following behind it.

We don't know what that rat was thinking, daring to come to Jingxia Street to beg. Now everyone knows that this street is covered by the Cat Immortal Hall. As long as you dare to come, don't think about going back.

At this moment, Xu Qing hadn't reached the flower and bird market yet, and the old and young men, pretty widows, and little wives on the street couldn't take their eyes off him.

They thought, we common people just don't have the knowledge and don't know how to play. If you want to talk about someone who really knows how to play, it has to be this young master!

Linhe Square is not big, but not small.

Xu Qing was wearing good clothes, playing with walnuts, and carrying a big birdcage. He had only walked through two streets when he met Daoist Yizhen, who was taking Hu Baosong out for a walk.

This female Daoist had recently changed into clothes worn by ordinary women. Although the color of the fabric was a bit plain, it couldn't hide the fact that this big girl was beautiful!

Xu Qing waved happily, wanting to go up and talk.

But when Yizhen saw his master player outfit and the little black cat following him, her face changed suddenly, and then she pulled Hu Baosong and walked away as if avoiding a plague god.

The female Daoist had a quiet temperament and a thin face. What she feared most was being pointed at.

Seeing Xu Qing's flashy appearance, she felt it was better to pretend not to know him.

As for Jin Luan, who was greeting her in the cage, Yizhen indicated that she didn't know it either.

Xu Qing was confused.

It wasn't until he saw the rat following Xuanyu that Xu Qing suddenly realized: "You say you, what's wrong with bringing anything when you go out? Why do you have to bring a rat? What kind of master player plays with this?"

"Look, you scared Senior Sister away."

Xuanyu was confused. In its eyes, rats were so cute. The Cat Immortal Hall takes orders, and most of them are orders to control rat infestations. If it didn't deal with rats, its hall's business would have to be reduced by more than half.

Arriving at the flower and bird market, you could see people teasing cats and walking dogs everywhere.

Some bird-selling vendors deliberately taught parrots and mynas to learn to speak.

As soon as they opened their mouths, they were all bright words to flatter people.

Some vendors saw Xu Qing's upper-class outfit and thought he was a trendy master player.

They hurried up to promote their birds and beasts.

Xu Qing was not interested in those things. He wandered all the way and finally stopped at the place where antiques were sold.

When the Qi-Looking Technique was opened, Xu Qing shook his head.

Nine out of ten antiques sold on these stalls were fake, and the remaining one was even more fake.

However, there were real ones here, and that was to find those new goods that had just been unearthed, that is, burial objects.

Xu Qing had burned incense and sent letters in the Cat Immortal Hall before. Second Master Feng knew he was coming today, so he waited early in his teahouse.

"Brother Xu wants burial objects? Could it be that you want to refine Yin Treasures?"

Xu Qing laughed and didn't deny it.

"Then you've come to the right place. The flower and bird market is the place that lacks these things the least."

"It's not easy for ordinary people to enter this circle. But since Brother Xu found me, Second Master, I definitely won't let Brother Xu go back empty-handed."

Second Master Feng, carrying his rooster and playing with a pair of new walnuts, led Xu Qing around and around, and came to an alley.

"What a strong Yin energy!"

Xu Qing opened his Qi-Looking Technique, and the entire alley was filled with all kinds of gloomy and dirty auras.

On those stalls, some antiques were still stained with new mud and soil, as if they had just been dug out not long ago.

Second Master Feng laughed: "These people, some run to the ancient river roads, although ten out of eight don't come back, as long as there are those who come back, they will inevitably dig up treasures."

Xu Qing thought, these are not treasures. If an ordinary person who doesn't understand buys them back, who knows how much bad luck they will have.

"Brother Xu, take a look and see if there are any items you want."

Xu Qing played with the walnuts in his hands and wandered all the way. There were many antiques, calligraphy, paintings, porcelain, and jade, but he didn't see high-quality Yin Gold.

"Second Master, why don't I see any good-quality burial money? Even an ingot would do!"

Second Master Feng said upon hearing this: "I'll go ask for you. This Yin money is mostly nested in sacks and jars; what's displayed on the stall is only a sample..."

Xu Qing took advantage of Second Master Feng's inquiry and began to browse the stalls.

Burial objects generally don't escape the categories of the Four Treasures of the Study, Five-Emperor Money, Fortune-Shading Soil, and Five-Colored Grain.

The Four Treasures of the Study are the most numerous, and there are quite a few Five-Emperor Money. Xu Qing, based on the idea that even a mosquito's leg is meat, collected quite a lot of Emperor Money along the way.

If you want to refine a Golden Armored Corpse, you must first build a Yin Gold coffin, put Fortune-Shading Soil inside, and refine four Yin Treasures at the four corners of the coffin, symbolizing the four corners pressing the corpse, and the corpse flourishing.

Second Master Feng's efficiency was extremely fast. After a while, he found Xu Qing and brought him into a residence.

Xu Qing looked at it, good heavens!

I saw jars of burial money neatly arranged in the courtyard.

"Second Master, there is quite a lot of money, but the quality is too poor. The only ones I can take a fancy to are these few jars."

Xu Qing collected a few jars of better-quality burial money, but it was still far from enough to build a Yin Gold coffin.

Second Master Feng said helplessly: "This money is no different from copper-cast iron things; it's heavy as hell, and the key is that it's not worth much! Those with good quality are quite a few in the ancient river roads, but those who really go to dig tombs, who would want porcelain and calligraphy and paintings, and prefer to take this heavy and unsellable burial money?"

"Gold cakes, silver cakes, square ingots, horseshoe gold, and unicorn-foot gold should always have some..."

The two discussed for a while, and Second Master Feng nodded and promised: "These things you mentioned are all hot items. They are sold out not long after leaving the soil. In this way, I will keep an eye on them for you in the future. As long as there are these items, I will collect them and send them to you."

"That would be great. It's just that I have to trouble you, Second Master, to spend more effort."

"What are you talking about? We disciples of the immortals have always been one family. In my place, Second Master, you don't have to be so polite!"

After dealing with the Yin Gold coffin, Xu Qing asked Second Master Feng about the situation of the corpse-salvaging team at the port.

"Do you want to join the corpse-salvaging team?"

Xu Qing nodded: "It's the fish season now. I heard that water ghosts are taking advantage of the situation to make trouble, harming quite a few people. I'm used to doing funeral work and can't bear to see people's corpses soaking in the water, unable to even be buried in the earth for peace."

"As long as I can join the corpse-salvaging team to salvage corpses, even if I don't want money, it's fine. It's just that I, this summoner, am accumulating Yin virtue for the immortals."

When Second Master Feng heard this, his eyes looked at Xu Qing with a bit more respect.

"Brother Xu is a kind-hearted person. I'll handle this matter for you. Tomorrow I'll go to the port and tell the corpse-salvaging team..."

"But having said that, the water ghosts at the port are very fierce. If Brother Xu goes, you need to be cautious and guard against it, so as not to fall into their trap."

Xu Qing narrowed his eyes and smiled, "Thank you for your concern, Second Master. I will definitely pay more attention."

With Second Master's reminder, he would definitely pay attention to the water ghosts' movements. Once discovered, he would never let them run away easily!

After all, catching ghosts is his specialty.

Thinking of the female ghost he had just trained in the Shuimen Bridge residence, Xu Qing asked Second Master Feng about the pear garden actors.

"Do you have a lover who wants to learn opera?"

"Not a lover, it's my second cousin."

"Hey, it's about the same," Second Master Feng smiled: "I'm familiar with the pear garden; I go there often. This matter is easy to handle."

When he was in the Ghost King's Tomb, when Princess Yanning's opera voice started, Xu Qing, a zombie, felt terrified. Xiuniang was also a female ghost. If she didn't invite a famous teacher to study as soon as possible, she would sooner or later be compared by her peers.

We can delay anyone, but we can't delay the child's future, right?

People often say a pavilion every five miles, a shop every ten miles.

According to the regulations of the Yong Dynasty, a post station was set up every ten miles between official roads of important counties.

Twenty miles away from Linhe, someone set up a checkpoint to block the road, just to block one person.

Those people were riding fast horses, and their aura was unusually fierce.

"Kid, you used empty-handed white wolves to swindle our money, and you still want to leave Linhe?"

"I ask you, you sold four treasure fish in the martial arts school and fish stall these few days. What method did you use to catch these treasure fish, and where did you catch them?"

Wang Liang, who was riding a yellow-maned horse and looked like a weak student with a fair face, was looking at the bandits blocking the road with suspicion.

He had clearly disguised himself, so how could he be discovered by these people?

"Don't pretend to be like that. The day you sold the fish, you had the tracking powder I sprinkled on you. Even if you dressed up as a woman, I could still find your trail!"

Wang Liang's heart sank. He thought he had been cautious enough, but he didn't expect to still underestimate the means of these Jianghu people.

"The fish has already been sold, and the money and goods between us have long been cleared. You chased after me just to want back the money for the fish."

"That fifty taels of silver can be returned to you in full. I just hope you won't make things difficult for a junior like me."

"Cleared? You just left, and a thieving cat stole the fish catch. Do you think I can't see that the cat is one you raised?"

Wang Liang frowned. When had he ever raised a cat?

After hesitating for a moment, he instantly realized that this must be an excuse the other party came up with. It was fake that he stole the fish; they wanted to rob him of his silver and ask where the Spirit Fish came from.

Seeing that this matter couldn't be settled well, Wang Liang hardened his heart, gritted his teeth, took out a strength pill from his bosom, and swallowed it.

Feeling the surging blood in his body, the boy drew a curved knife, clamped the horse's belly with his legs, lowered his body, and rushed toward the Jinmen Gang thugs.

The curved knife was like the moon, cutting toward the person blocking the road.

The leading head also waved his knife to resist.

Metal clashed, and the leading head exclaimed in surprise, pulling the horse to withdraw the distance.

"Good kid, your skin and flesh, I'm afraid you've already finished changing blood. No wonder you're in such a hurry to sell Spirit Fish to exchange for silver. I think you want to take this money to exchange for an internal refining prescription, right?"

A gang member reminded: "He wants to refine internally, so he will definitely leave one or two treasure fish as medicine leads. In that book box, there must be treasure fish."

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Wang Liang decisively threw out the book box on the horse's back, and two Star Fish swung their tails in the air with water splashes.

Taking advantage of the distraction of several people, he clamped the horse's belly and rushed out with all his might.

The leading head couldn't dodge in time, only seeing a handful of white ash covering his eyes. He relied on instinct and swung his knife at the horse's back.

But he didn't expect that the boy, who looked honest, had hidden in the stirrup while throwing the lime powder. At the moment the two crossed, the curved knife in the boy's hand slashed fiercely.

The leading head only heard his horse neigh. When he came back to his senses, the two front hooves of the horse under him had been cut off by the boy.

Rolling on the ground in embarrassment, the leading head looked at the back of the boy riding the yellow-maned horse and running away, cursing his mother in his mouth.

"What are you still doing? Why don't you chase him!"

Far away from the post station, a group of people happened to witness the scene of the boy defeating the internal refining martial artist and breaking through the encirclement.

A guard's eyes lit up and said: "This person is quick-witted and decisive, calm in the face of danger. If he can enter the army to be tempered, he will definitely be a brave general in the future."

Hearing this, the little fatty who had been silent suddenly said: "Such a brave man is hard to find. You go and assist him quickly; you must leave his name."

(End of chapter)