8. Boating on the lake
8. The gladiatorial arena driven by the Nine Rank Spar is not a problem to trap the cultivators of the Shangyuan Zun Realm, but it is a pity that Qi Hengji has a cow, a divine beast cow, and many cultivators who transform into gods do not have a cow to ride. If such an accident does not happen, like Li Chongran riding a sacred cow and traveling in all directions, there will soon be a female cultivator who transforms into a god and takes the initiative to propose double cultivation, why, because someone has a cow.
Qi Hengji rode the ox and flew in the air, looking for the flaws in the spar air shield and breaking through the air mask time problem.
"My cow!" Li Chongran deliberately pretended to be very disappointed.
When Xiao Yun and the others saw him appear in the gladiatorial arena, they immediately surrounded him and guarded him.
Xiao Yun said, "You're fine." We protect you, that Great Yuan Venerable cultivator is hiding in the gladiatorial arena just for the sake of the divine beast. ”
"You protect me, why did you stuff the waist card into my hand?" Li Chongran looked at the five women in surprise and stuffed the waist card, he wanted to refuse, but the strength of the other party's Transformation Yuan Realm did not allow it. With a gesture, seal him securely.
The unicorn hit the weakest part of the air shield, and a small hole was drilled at the tip of the horn, Qi Hengji and the sacred cow turned into a ray of light, rushed out, and disappeared into the blue sky.
This process was less than half an hour after Li Chongran received the waist card.
After Qi Hengji escaped, the State Supervision Department also sent someone to check everyone's waist cards, saying that the gladiatorial fight was over and was not going to be held, but all the gladiatorial fights before this one were counted.
Everyone has not left, and the eunuchs in the palace have taken the king's edict and rewarded Li Chongran.
"Xuanda Wang Order, Feng Baiyun Sect disciple Li Chongran as a gilded talisman master, the Marquis of the Bishui Pavilion, a hundred households, no official products for the time being, quasi-build a gilded talisman master's mansion. Congratulations to Lord Hou, congratulations to Lord Hou. The seal of the marquis and the document of the marquis, three months later, at the marquis ceremony, the king personally awarded the marquis seal. Now temporarily give Hou Ye a pair of silver waist cards in case of emergency. ”
Li Chongran, a disciple of the White Cloud Sect, thanked the king for his grace. Li Chongran knelt on the ground and accepted the Hou Ye's waist card.
Before the eunuchs in the palace left, they said something to Xiao Yun of the five major business families.
Li Chongran and Li Sanwa concentrated on looking at the waist card.
"Senior brother Li Chongran, the sect master said that since the junior brother has been made a marquis, there is no need to go back to the garrison outside the city. All the luggage of the junior disciple, the sect master will send someone to the mansion. This junior brother Li Sanwa, please go back with us. ”
"Brother, then I'll go. Be careful yourself. Li Sanwa said goodbye and left with the disciples of the White Cloud Sect.
Li Chongran pinched the silver medal, gilded talisman master, Bishui Pavilion Marquis, Li Chongran These words are all engraved, with the injection of aura, and the king seal is also engraved.
Xiao Yun came alone: "Congratulations to Hou Ye Li, the people's daughter Xiao Yun, the Kyoto business family, Hou Ye's food, clothing, housing and transportation for the past three months are all responsible for the five major business families in Kyoto." ”
"Your name is Xiao Yun, what about them?"
"When the time comes, I will meet and introduce to Hou Ye. Master Hou, please get into the carriage. ”
"Four horses?" Li Chongran glanced at and saw the Xiao family's family logo.
"All those who are marquis of the Great Qin Rite Law can ride a horse. ”
Li Chongran got into the carriage first, and Xiao Yun got into the carriage later.
The carriage was very spacious, with a small sandalwood table with refreshments and a fine copper incense burner.
"Master Hou, please take care of yourself. Xiao Yun walked to the back, closed the curtain, and continued: "The folk girl wants to change her dress." ”
Li Chongran almost didn't squirt out the tea, I drink tea, you change your clothes.
He peeked at it, the curtain was thin, faintly...
"Master Hou, when you see something, your heart beats fast. ”
"I can't hide it, I was born in a remote village, I know that I am not talented in civil and military affairs, I have no fame and no martial arts, and I accidentally carp jumped over the dragon gate and became a marquis. Say it, I'm not afraid of you jokes, it's the first time I've been in a carriage, it's closed, and it's still so big. The ox carts and donkey carts in the village are all open-topped. ”
"Hou Ye is humble. Xiao Yun wanted to say: You haven't ever made a carriage, you lied to the ghost.
"Is the tea still to the taste of the Hou Ye?" Xiao Yun changed her dress, opened the curtain, and naturally sat opposite Li Chongran: "My Xiao family has always been under the king's orders and dare not slack off, and the Hou Ye should also be ordered by the king to join the five major trading families." ”
"Rich?" Li Chongran thought to himself, I have become a marquis, and I am still in charge.
"A lot of people would rather be a male pet than get rich. Therefore, the king sealed you a marquis, and a hundred marquis can be seen everywhere in Qindu. Many of the Wuxun families are all marquis of a hundred households. Of course, if you can get the fief at the feudal ceremony three months later, you will only be counted as half of the money. ”
"Fiefdom??"
"The gladiatorial arena you see today is also the altar of heaven for Great Qin, and the marquis ceremony will also be held here, and all the newly canonized marquis will shoot their fiefdoms with bows and arrows on the field. The fief is engraved on a meteorite tablet and thrown into a rotating Chaos Sphere. The meteorite card is specially made, constantly flashing different lights, and the marquis who shoots the fiefdom stands five hundred paces away, shoots the bow and arrows, and has three chances. If you can't shoot, you can only stay in Kyoto, arrange a mansion at random, and allocate a fief on the outskirts of Kyoto. The expenses in Kyoto are large, and a hundred families like you can't afford to support a hundred households, and you have to pay taxes to support the people of your fiefdom. ”
Li Chongran swallowed the tea and said, "So I was forced to be helpless." ”
"It's okay if you don't get into it, Master Hou can take Wuxun to arrive. Hou Ye has been on the battlefield, how did Wu Xun get it, he should understand. ”
"I..." Li Chongran saw Xiao Yun's eyes, and seemed to say, you pretend, you pretend: "This marquis has been on the battlefield, the battle of Tianshu." Li Chongran said very calmly: "My name in the army is Wang Cong, and I am a double slave. ”
"You use a pseudonym, Daqin requisitioned a pseudonym from the army, unless..."
"In a small village, poor, rich families paid for it, so we sent out to fight for their sons, but we couldn't use their names, so we had to change their names, and they made a paperwork for their adopted sons..."
Xiao Yun was silent for a while and said, "I thought these were all ... I didn't expect that there would really be a pseudonym. Master Hou's life experience..."
Moved, Li Chongran secretly thought that when his father fled back with him, he had already given Wuxun to Wang Cong's family, and besides, the two of them had not registered in the army at all.
"Xiao Bingqi. ”
"What's the matter with the head of the family?" Xiao Bingqi who drove the carriage.
"The battle of Cha Tianshu, Wang Cong..."
Li Chongran shouted loudly: "Wang Cong, Ningfu City..."
"Master Hou, this identity verification will also be handled in the palace. ”
In the palace of King Qin, on King Qin's desk, a detailed information about Li Chongran had long been placed there.
The carriage stopped at the main entrance of the Shaw Mansion.
Countless people watched, it is not a matter for Hou Ye to enter the Xiao family in Kyoto, I have never heard of the gimmick of the gilded talisman master, and it is the first time that the gilded talisman master has entered the Xiao family in Kyoto.
"Master Hou, please. ”
Li Chongran got down from the carriage and didn't look back, with the temperament of a big man, and walked towards the gate.
He stretched out his hand and pushed the door of the Xiao family. The door does not move.
He pushed harder, but the door still didn't move.
"Hello uncle!" A maid really couldn't stand it: "Uncle, the door of the Xiao family can only be opened if the second grade is cultivated or above." ”
Xiao Yun, who went up the steps, said: "Cao'er, talk a lot." Why can't Master Hou open it!"
embarrassed, Li Chongran was embarrassed.
At this time, a disciple of the White Cloud Sect flew from the air with a burden and a Chongran sword in his hand, and floated down in front of Li Chongran: "Senior Brother Li Chongran, this is your thing." ”
"Thank you, brother. ”
"You're welcome. Leave. The Baiyun Sect disciple quickly flew away.
There was a lot of discussion in the crowd: Look, this is the Baiyun Sect, the sect of cultivating immortals, coming and going without a trace, just now it was the flight of the imperial talisman. The gladiatorial fight of the Baiyun Sect this time is very powerful, the uncle of the Xiao family is from the Baiyun Sect, I heard that it is very powerful, and the king named him the Hou Ye...
After Li Chongran got the burden and Chongran sword, he secretly thought: Xiao Yun, you are giving me a horse, and this marquis will not eat you.
"Friends, this marquis is not talented, the runes of the Baiyun Sect are unpredictable, and you can only learn two or three out of ten, if you want to learn the runes, you can go to the Baiyun Sect to sign up. Between the words, Li Chongran danced the Chongran Sword with an extremely chic posture, and if he fought, he would not use such a cumbersome and gorgeous move.
A runic light pressed on the gate of the Xiao family.
Xiao Yun snickered in her heart, the second grade cultivation is the door to open, no matter how beautiful you are, it is not just an open door.
"Mountain moving??" Xiao Yun watched in surprise as the gate of the Xiao family rose into the air, and together with the wall, it pulled out an arc.
Exaggerated and gorgeous, it's not so exaggerated, Xiao Yun was surprised, not to mention the crowd of onlookers.
"Lake, lake..."The sharp-eyed man saw that the original gate had moved to the lake.
The maid Cao'er said, "Master, isn't this Bitan Lake in the house? There is also a boat for swimming in the lake to pick lotus seeds..."
Li Chongran looked back and smiled handsomely: "Miss Xiao, please get on the boat." ”
The lake moved to a part, from the gate to the front of the hall.
Li Chongran sat in a small boat, shaking the sculls while reciting: "The flowers bloom, the mangroves are crying, the grass grows, and the egrets in the Pinghu Lake fly." The wind and the sun are sunny and the people are good, and the sunset is full of drums. ”
With a wave of his hand, the rune conjured up a line of egrets circling and flying above their heads.
The women of the other four major trading families were already at the entrance of the hall.
"This situation..."Han Chen covered his mouth and said, "It's so romantic..."
Zhang Juan said: "It seems that our husband is a veteran of the love field..."
Bang, a bubble of white bird feces landed on Li Chongran's crotch.
Li Chongran said embarrassedly: "I'm sorry, I didn't control it well." ”
The white bird droppings, there again, are too eye-catching, Xiao Yun couldn't help it, turned her head and said, "Is your charm so fancy?"
"You forgot, I gave me your blood. The virgin blood of the Shangyuan Realm is more than enough to do this fancy thing. ”
"It's not serious..."Xiao Yun fled in a hurry, flew up from the boat, landed in front of the hall, and deliberately pedaled the boat with hard feet.
"Ahh Help, I can't swim..."
"Who believes!" the women scoffed.
Li Chongran submerged in the water.
The gate of the Xiao family stood firmly in its original position, the lake had returned to its original place, and the road from the door to the front hall was also dry, but there was no shadow of Li Chongran.
"What about others?"
"Oops, go to Bitan Lake to find him..."Xiao Yun took the girls and flew to Bitan Lake.
"Li Chongran, Li Chongran, come out quickly!"
"Li Chongran..."
Li Chongran's invisible figure appeared on the top of a pavilion in Bitan Lake, he hung on the edge of the pavilion with one foot, sat on the pavilion, and took out detailed information about him in his hand: "The efficiency of the big family is fast. The information from the pseudonymous king from the expedition has arrived so quickly?"
"Ningfu City has a branch of the Xijing Wang family, and the one that Wang Cong replaced is the branch of the Wang family, and the Wang family has also become the real martial arts family in Ningfu City because of Wang Cong's martial arts. Wang Cong's family also got a share of the benefits, purchased land in the town under the jurisdiction of Ningfu City, and became a landlord. Han Chen raised his head and said, "Li Chongran, you are really bold. ”
"This marquis is not afraid of heights. It's a great view..."
Han Chen hurriedly covered his chest with his hands and said, "I said that you are bold, and you are going out on behalf of others. Wang Cong became the adopted son of the Wang family's sect, and before he set out on the expedition, he died unexpectedly, and his family was worried, so you will solve problems for his family, for two hundred first-grade spars?"
"Isn't it cool up there?" Xiao Yun said coldly: "Your clothes are not suitable for your status as a marquis." ”
"Cao'er, take the Hou Ye to change his clothes, we are in the conference hall. ”
The Xiao family, ranked first among the five major business families, is naturally extraordinary in strength, and this mansion is as big as half a village of Lijia Village.
Cao'er was impressed by Li Chongran's gorgeous moves when he entered the mansion, and his eyes saw that Li Chongran was full of worship. Her cultivation is a pseudo-gold three-grade, two grades higher than Li Chongran.
Li Chongran probably knew about the five major business families from her mouth.
"Uncle, after the change, I seem to have changed as a person. It's completely a personable son.。 ”
"Cao'er, you said that Xiao Yun's marriage to Ding Qiu at that time was a last resort?"
"Yes, Ding Qiu is the city commander of Tianshu City. Our Xiao family was responsible for the supply and escort of the Qin army's food, and at that time, the battle was fierce, and the soldiers in Tianshu City were insufficient, so our Xiao family's merchant group was likely to be requisitioned to the battlefield. Lord Ding mentioned marrying the head of my family, according to the laws of Daqin, the Xiao family business group of 2,300 people in Tianshu City did not need to go out to fight, got the customs clearance documents, and returned directly. Half a month later, Tianshu City fell, and Ding Qiucheng was martyred. Until now, the head of my family still treats the people of the Ding family well. ”
"Lord Ding has an original wife and has a daughter and a son. ”
"Xiao Yun was a concubine at the time??"
"Second lady. But now I have you, uncle. ”
"For two, two, three hundred?" Li Chongran was a little surprised.
"Uncle, those two thousand three hundred people, but the elite of the Xiao family, are all cultivators above the Golden Immortal Realm. In fact, the choice of the head of the family was right, otherwise the Xiao family would not have become the first big business family. ”
"In the battle of Tianshu, if you don't leave Tianshu City, you are all dead. ”
"Murong Yingying and Ji Xiaomeng, nearly half of their two caravans were lost in Tianshu City, and they were defeated. ”
"The two of them??"
"They got married, Murong Yingying's younger brother joined Ji Xiaomeng, and Ji Xiaomeng's younger brother joined Murong Yingying, they all died in Tianshu City..."
"Is that okay?"
"Uncle, it's not like you're in the five families. ”
Li Chongran asked, "Didn't the family get the martial arts?"
"According to the laws of the Great Qin, all those who take martial arts must register in the Terracotta Division, and martial honors are given priority to farmers, farmers, tenant farmers, and finally merchants. In the end, there were not many martial arts for the merchants. Now that I have an uncle, as long as I go out on the expedition, no matter how much the escort team of the five major families gets Wuxun, it will be recorded in the name of the Hou Ye, and then the five major families are half of the Wuxun family. ”
"Cao'er, do you have anything to eat?"
"Yes, uncle, I'll take you to the kitchen. But my uncle can't eat meat dishes..."
"What? can't eat meat?"
"When my uncle didn't come back, I heard from the four families that my uncle would participate in the marquis ceremony and the fiefdom shooting ceremony three months later. The bow and arrows used to shoot the fiefdom were made of silver pith..."
"Is the silver pith made of mercury?"
"Uncle, do you talismans also use the silver pith?" Cao'er turned around as she led the way: "The silver pith is very expensive. ”
"Silver marrow, the material used by kings. A mercury mine can't refine one or two silver pith, and this silver pith is also divided into grades, and one or two silver pith can refine nine products, which is about five yuan. To refine a pair of silver pith soft armor, you need three taels and eight coins of silver pith, which can defend against twenty deadly attacks in the god realm. The mercury mines known to Great Qin could not make three sets of silver pith soft armor. The silver chalcedony bow and arrow used in the marquis ceremony were left by ancient times. Before using the silver pith, you must fast for three days and wear the silk gloves of the cinnamon to avoid desecrating the soul power on the silver pith. But any appliance made by adding silver chalcedony, once it is successfully refined, there will be a silver soul. The silver soul can be cultivated like a mortal immortal cultivation level. Except for the soft armor of the princes and kings, there are almost no magic weapons made of all silver marrow. ”
"Uncle, it's so powerful, the slave maid has also read books about silver marrow, but I can't remember it. Uncle, you see, the light over there is the kitchen, and when you are hungry, you will go to the kitchen to get food. ”
Li Chongran followed the direction of Cao'er's finger and saw a house. The kitchen, which is taller than the restaurant, is it the Qin people who are rich or the Xiao family who are rich. In the gladiatorial arena, those widowed red spider silk dresses have made him incomprehensible, and poverty limits his imagination.