Chapter 86

After Song Qingming came to Qinghe Market, it was busy for another half a year. During this time, Song Qingming patiently learned the way of shop management and was already very familiar with the business in the Song family's shop.

In the few years of training in Guiyun Market, Song Qingming read many classics of the cultivation world in the Merit Pavilion of Guiyun Market, among which there were many books introducing various spiritual items, which also helped him a lot in learning to manage the shop here.

Now, Song Qingming basically handed over the trivial matters in the shop to Wang Cheng and several mortal assistants of the Song family. Only when they encountered those difficult customers or spiritual items they couldn't identify would they ask Song Qingming to come out to decide.

Wang Cheng was a loose cultivator hired by Fourth Uncle in Qinghe Market. He was about the same age as Song Qingming, but the two had a big difference in cultivation base. Song Qingming was already a late-stage Qi Refining cultivator, and his cultivation base was only at the fourth level of Qi Refining.

It was just as Song Changqiu said, Wang Cheng was an honest person, and like Fourth Aunt, he was also a cultivator from Qinghe Market. Song Changqiu hired this person mainly because he liked that Wang Cheng had a relatively clean background and many clansmen living in Qinghe Market.

If you rashly hire those loose cultivators from other places to manage things in the shop, it is inevitable that you are afraid of some desperate people who see wealth and rise to greed. After all, people's hearts are separated by skin. Whether it is a cultivator or an ordinary mortal, it is difficult for you to judge whether a person is good or bad in a short time.

Song Qingming now spends most of his time in the back hall of the shop every day. Besides cultivation, he also has a lot of free time to make spiritual talismans to earn spirit stones.

The shop managed by Song Qingming also acquires various low-level spiritual items and talisman-making materials. It is not difficult to collect these low-level materials in the market. After arriving here, Song Qingming used his skills as a talisman maker, and in more than half a year, he had also drawn many spiritual talismans on his body.

These spiritual talismans were all put directly into the Song family's shop for sale. Qinghe Market was full of loose cultivators with relatively low cultivation bases, and the low-to-mid-grade spiritual talismans made by Song Qingming were very popular here. In his spare time, he also used the materials received in the shop to make several sets of formations and put them in the shop, attracting many loose cultivators.

On this day, Song Qingming was sitting cross-legged in the back hall, and a mortal assistant of the Song family in the shop hurriedly came to the outside of his room door.

The assistant raised his hand and was about to knock on the door, but he didn't want the door to be opened from the inside at this moment. Song Qingming ignored the surprised look of the assistant and asked softly: "What is the matter for coming to find me."

"It is... a guest brought a special spiritual item, and Immortal Master Wang didn't recognize it, so he asked me to invite you to come and see it."

Song Qingming didn't speak, just nodded lightly, and walked in front.

His cultivation base had now broken through to the late stage of Qi Refining. When sitting and cultivating, his spiritual sense could be projected ten feet outside the body, and he could easily perceive the movement in most parts of the shop. Just now, when the assistant came to find him, he had already been sensed by his spiritual sense ten feet away from his room door, so he appeared at the room door in advance just now.

Song Qingming just walked to the front hall of the shop and saw several cultivators in the shop checking and buying spiritual items. Following the assistant's guidance, Song Qingming immediately saw an old man in yellow clothes with a long beard standing beside Wang Cheng not far away. The old man's cultivation base was not low, and he had already reached the late stage of Qi Refining.

Wang Cheng was holding a green spiritual medicine in his right hand and was discussing the spiritual medicine in his hand with the old man in yellow clothes.

Song Qingming, who was about to walk over, suddenly stopped, looked at the old man in yellow clothes carefully, and then turned around and retreated to the back hall.

The Song family assistant who had been following him saw Song Qingming suddenly return, and felt a bit puzzled in his heart. He didn't know what had happened, and didn't dare to ask, so he could only chase Song Qingming back to the back hall together.

"You go and tell Wang Cheng to let him take that guest to the side room in the back hall first, entertain him well, and I will come over in a while."

After retreating to the back hall, Song Qingming said softly to the assistant behind him, asking him to go and inform Wang Cheng. Then a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he took out a set of formation flags from his storage bag.

Not long after, Wang Cheng had already brought the old man in yellow clothes to the back hall. After greeting the old man to sit down in the side room, he asked the assistant on the side to serve tea.

"Old Senior, our proprietor will be here soon. You can talk directly to him about the following things. The junior will go out first, you talk slowly." After saying that, Wang Cheng smiled and retreated.

This old man in yellow clothes just picked up the tea and sipped it carefully. Not long after, he saw a young man in green clothes push the door and enter, and he hurriedly put down the teacup in his hand and stood up.

"This Old Senior, I am Song Qingming, the manager of this shop." Song Qingming, who walked into the room, first introduced himself, and then bowed to the old man in yellow clothes.

After seeing Song Qingming, the old man in yellow clothes' face changed suddenly, and then he pretended to be calm and asked: "Fellow Daoist is too polite, the old Daoist's surname is Chen. Looking at the young friend, he seems a bit familiar. I don't know if I have ever seen you anywhere."

"Old Senior Chen can still remember me, it's really not easy. Ten years ago in Qinghe County, that day you encountered the Eagle Nest Ridge bandits outside, can the senior still remember?" Song Qingming tapped the table lightly and said slowly.

The old man in yellow clothes sitting beside Song Qingming was the old Daoist priest Song Qingming encountered on the way back from Funiu Mountain to Spirit Source Mountain ten years ago.

Back then, this Old Daoist Chen was chased and killed by bandits, and happened to meet Song Qingming who had not been down the mountain for long. Later, he even dragged Song Qingming into it, almost making him die in the Cloud Mist Mountain.

Song Qingming did not have such a bad memory as Old Daoist Chen. For this old Daoist priest who was almost sent to a dead end by him, Song Qingming had never forgotten this person for ten years.

Just now, as soon as Song Qingming walked to the front hall of the shop, he immediately recognized Old Daoist Chen, so he specifically asked Wang Cheng to bring him to this side room in the back hall.

Old Daoist Chen heard Song Qingming talk about this matter ten years ago, and immediately recognized Song Qingming, looking at Song Qingming with some surprise and saying:

"You... you are the little friend Song from that day. The old man thought you had already encountered a disaster. I really didn't expect to see you again. Not only did the little friend escape the danger, but his cultivation base has also improved so quickly. He is really a person favored by heaven."

"Fellow Daoist Chen was trapped in a predicament that day, and later borrowed my energy to distract the other party's energy to escape. If I hadn't used a high-grade life-saving talisman given by an elder, I am afraid I wouldn't have the chance to see you again today." After Song Qingming finished speaking, he smiled and continued to fill a cup of tea for Old Daoist Chen.

"Back then, the old man was trapped in a predicament, and in order to survive, he had to ask the little friend for help. Later, he was lucky enough to escape. After the incident, every time I think of that day, the old man also feels ashamed in his heart. Being able to see little friend Song again today, I can be considered to have fulfilled a wish."

Old Daoist Chen touched the beard at the corner of his mouth, smiled awkwardly, and then took out a high-grade talisman from his body, put it on the table with some reluctance, and continued to say to Song Qingming:

"Since the old Daoist wasted a high-grade talisman of the little friend back then, today the heavens let you and me meet again, I think it is for me to make up for this talisman for the little friend. I hope the little friend will not dislike it."

(End of chapter)