"Master, the master has already recognized me, you can't disobey the master. ”

Dahan ran to Wu Song and said seriously.

"Let's go first, let's talk about the apprenticeship later. ”

Wu Song was very big, and after speaking, he walked forward alone.

Dahan followed behind happily, looking like he was a small follower of Wu Song.

Soon, everyone knew the origin of the big man.

His name was Niu Jianing, and he was from a small city more than 30 miles to the west.

When he was five years old, he met a monk who looked at his palms very seriously and said that he was a natural cultivator.

And taught him a book of exercises, saying that as long as he practiced well according to the above cultivation methods, he would attain the Great Dao in the future and become an immortal who could fly to the heavens and the earth.

In order to get that exercise, Niu Jianing stole all the family's savings and gave them to the foot monk.

As a result, Niu Jianing's father beat him angrily, and his mother scolded him fiercely, Niu Jianing was angry and ran away from home. Before leaving, he put down his cruel words, saying that he would definitely become a monk with advanced cultivation, and if he did not become a monk, he would never go back.

He firmly believes that he will get ahead, and plans to wait until he is successful in his cultivation before returning home to honor his parents.

As a result, he never went back.

"Did you really practice that exercise?"

Wu Song said curiously.

"After practicing for a year, after a year, I realized that the so-called "Innate Dafa" is actually a very common qi conduction method in the world.

However, I had already put the cruel words down, and all the neighbors in the neighborhood heard them. If I don't have any cultivation, I just go back like that, it will be a shame.

So I traveled around and took every opportunity to practice.

However, I don't know if it's my bad luck or if it's really not the material for cultivation, in short, after so many years, my cultivation is just the pinnacle of the body refining realm. ”

Niu Jianing sighed.

Wu Song didn't know what to say, at Niu Jianing's age, he really couldn't say anything like persistence to succeed. Cultivation is extremely important to the foundation, and the realm of refining the body realm is, to put it bluntly, laying the foundation.

The time to lay the foundation is generally three to five years, and people with high talent can lay a good foundation and break through the body refining realm within three years. And those with slightly inferior qualifications, generally speaking, will break through the body refining realm in five years at most.

If you haven't broken through the body refining realm for more than five years, it can only mean that this person is not suitable for cultivation, and if you go on reluctantly, it will only be a waste of time, and you are destined to not have much achievement.

That's why there are so many people who spend a lot of money to hire famous teachers and buy elixirs, so that their children can break through the body refining realm as soon as possible.

Niu Jianing is now nearly forty years old, and he is still at the peak of the body refining realm, which can only show that he is not suitable for cultivation.

"Then since you are bent on cultivating, why did you fall into the grass?"

Wu Song asked.

"It's not about filling your stomach. I stayed in the sect for a while, but then I didn't enter the realm and was expelled from the sect. Later, as I got older, the cultivator sect stopped accepting me.

In the Xiuzhen sect, you don't have to worry about eating and drinking. Then I came out, and I had to support myself.

I left home as a teenager and didn't learn much of a craft other than my practice.

I don't need to be a boy in a restaurant, but I'm a monk anyway, so what kind of system would it be to let me do the work of serving tea and pouring water? ”

Niu Jianing said.

"But is it glorious to be a bandit, and is it worthy of your status as a monk?"

Wu Song couldn't help but want to laugh, what did Niu Jianing's brain think.

"When you are a bandit, you don't have to look at other people's faces, and I am a bandit with principles, I only rob money and not sex, women and children will never start, poor people will not rob, only officials and rich businessmen will start. ”

Niu Jianing said proudly.

"You're a thief. ”

Wu Song said with a slight teasing.

Although Niu Jianing is not suitable for cultivation, he is really a good travel companion.

He has traveled north and south since he was a child, and he is familiar with everything on the rivers and lakes. Moreover, he is humorous and well-informed, and he talks about the interesting things he has seen, which is endless.

With him, the journey of Wu Song and his party became much more interesting.

For the first two days, Wu Song was still thinking about how to drive Niu Jianing away. Later, he saw that Niu Jianing was loyal and loyal, and his life experiences were a little pitiful, so he dispelled the idea of driving him away.

On this day, everyone came to a place called Da Mocheng, just in time for the heavy rain in the sky, and it was impossible to spend the night in the wilderness, so they had to go into the city to find an inn to stay.

Sure enough, after eating, the store said that the money had already been paid.

When everyone returned to the guest room, Niu Jianing thought that Wu Song knew someone here, and praised Wu Song's friends all over the world.

Wu Song had no choice but to tell him the whole story.

"So, you still don't know who paid for it?"

Niu Jianing said.

"yes, ask the storekeeper, and no one will say. I guess even if they asked, the store wouldn't say it, because they didn't know about it. Naturally, the person who pays wants to hide his whereabouts and will not let the store know his identity. ”

Wu Song speculated.

"In other words, as long as you live in the hotel, you don't have to pay for it yourself. And you have not found anyone following you. That just means that when you enter the store, the person in the store tells someone about your whereabouts, and then that person comes to pay for you. ”

Niu Jianing said.

"You say that, and it does. If that's the case, then the next time we enter the hotel, we can find the person who paid by following the suspicious clerk in secret. ”

Wu Song said, such an obvious thing, he didn't think of it before, but Niu Jianing reminded him, and then he reacted, it really shouldn't be.

In fact, this is because Wu Song has not walked much in the rivers and lakes and does not have so much experience in guest houses, so he did not expect it.

The next day they got up and hurried, and in the evening they found an inn to stay.

It's just that only Zhang Yilu, Gangfeng, Yang Shuang and Niu Jianing entered the inn this time, and Wu Song was outside the inn, observing if there were any guys from the inn leaving.

Not long after Zhang Yilu and the others entered, sure enough, a guy left from the back door of the inn.

Wu Song secretly followed, followed the man through the alley, and finally entered a very imposing small building.

There is a plaque hanging in front of the door of the small building, on which the word Chamber of Commerce is written.

Wu Song wondered in his heart, could the person who paid the money be in this chamber of commerce?

Wu Song no longer hesitated, sneaked into the small building, and found the guy.

He entered a room and was talking to a middle-aged man in a long robe.

Wu Song was far away, so he couldn't hear the two of them talking.

After listening to the man's words, the middle-aged man took out a piece of paper from his arms, on which two portraits were drawn, one of which was Wu Song and the other was Zhang Yilu.

The guy pointed to Zhang Yilu's portrait and nodded, the middle-aged man pointed to Wu Song's portrait and asked the guy a word, and the guy shook his head.

Then, the middle-aged man waved his hand, and the guy withdrew and left.

The middle-aged man put away the portrait and sat on a chair in contemplation.

Wu Song thought about it for a while, turned over and got off the roof, and walked into the room.

The middle-aged man was thinking about the portrait, and suddenly saw Wu Song on the portrait really walking in, startled, stood up, and said, "You...... You...... How?"

Wu Song smiled, "Why did I come here? I came here to ask you, why do you have to pay for us? Do I know you?"

The middle-aged man quickly calmed down and said in a deep voice, "Your Excellency is really powerful, you can find this place, and I admire it." ”

"Alright, let's keep compliments along, who the hell are you, and why are you paying for us?"

Wu Song said.

"It's not that I'm paying for you, it's someone else. ”

The middle-aged man sat on a chair and looked at Wu Songdao.

"Oh, let's hear it. ”

Wu Song said.

"I am the president of the Chamber of Commerce in this city, and half a month ago, I received a letter with this portrait in addition to a piece of stationery. The letter stated that whenever a person in the portrait went to the city to stay in a hotel, the money spent would be paid by the Chamber of Commerce.

The writer also made it clear that if you two find this place, tell the truth.

The person who wrote the letter is the steward of the Heavenly Empire Chamber of Commerce, and the following chambers of commerce are all branches of the Heavenly Chamber of Commerce, so we all have to listen to them.

So it's not me who pays for you, it's the Tianyu Chamber of Commerce that pays for you. ”

Middle-aged humane.

Wu Song and the Tianyu Chamber of Commerce had never been in contact with each other, why did they have to pay for themselves?

This is a letter from the time, and if you don't believe me, read it for yourself. ”

The middle-aged man handed Wu Song an envelope, which contained a letter, the content on which was exactly what the middle-aged man said, and at the end of the letter, the signature was the Tianyu Chamber of Commerce.

"So where is this Celestial Chamber of Commerce?"

Wu Song asked.

"The capital of the Celestial Empire. ”

Middle-aged humane.

The capital of the Celestial Empire is located in the northern part of Dongzhou, thousands of miles away from here.

Wu Song returned to the inn and told everyone about what he had discovered.

"So, the people who paid for us in front of us are also the Tianyu Chamber of Commerce?"

Rigid air ducts.

"It must be, as long as you are in business, you will be under the jurisdiction of the local Chamber of Commerce, and the local Chamber of Commerce will obey the orders of the Tianyu Chamber of Commerce. So as long as we stay in the hotel, we can't escape the eyes and ears of the Tianyu Chamber of Commerce. ”

Wu Song said.

"I have heard of the Tianyu Chamber of Commerce, it is the richest organization in Dongzhou, there is a saying that Dongzhou is very rich, and seven points are in Tianyu. And the reason why the Heavenly Empire is so rich should be the first credit to the Heavenly Chamber of Commerce.

It's just that none of us here are in business, and we don't have any connection with the Tianyu Chamber of Commerce, so why would it pay for us?"

Zhang Yilu was also puzzled.

"No matter what, it's better for us to stay in fewer hotels in the future, after all, it's not profitable to be early, and the Tianyu Chamber of Commerce must have something to do with us. ”

Wu Song frowned.

In the days that followed, everyone could still stay in the store without staying in the store, and sleep in the open all the way. Although it is a little inconvenient, they are all cultivators and can bear it.