Chapter 120: Barren Mountain Ghost Market
"Xiao Yiyi, are you sure that we are going in the right direction?" Qi Tian said weakly, rolling his eyes.
Chen Yi touched his chin and said slowly: "Who is Uncle Ben? In the future, he will be called the president of the Qi Master Association, so this little matter of recognizing the road is naturally not a problem, you just have to follow along." β
Qi Tian sighed, secretly saying that he had heard this sentence an hour ago, but now the two of them were still walking in an unknown direction in a mountain col.
It had been ten days since the two of them had left Wind River City in a hurry under the arrangement of the three gentlemen, and at first the two of them rode on black-maned horses, and the speed was extremely fast, but in just three days, they left the boundary of the three cities and went straight to the East China Sea!
But both of them were the first to go out, some of them had too little life experience, and in just a few days, they accidentally stole their horses when they stayed overnight, so the two discussed that it was better to go to the hunter's camp, but Chen Yi was guilty of the taboo of not revealing his wealth, and he revealed a lot of blue crystal star coins when paying the fee, and then-that is, the two of them only had a dozen star coins left, and they relied on Qi Tian to catch prey in the jungle to fill their stomachs, and went to the East China Sea with their feet.
From this, Qi Tian also found that although Chen Yi was strong, he had extremely poor experience in surviving in the wild, and Xu had been practicing for a long time, and had little contact with things and people in the outside world.
Perhaps the sky was pitiful, and when the sun was about to set, the two finally heard the sound of someone talking not far away, followed the sound, walked through a rather rugged path, and finally saw a rather hidden mountain market.
The two of them could see that the lights in the col were dim, and they could barely make out the many people wearing masks of different colors, groups of threes or fives, or single people, picking out or buying something from stall to stall.
Chen Yi pulled Qi Tian to lie down behind a bush of not very dense weeds, and he watched for a while, and said with a serious face: "Xiaotian, my brother has something to tell you, don't be afraid when you hear it!"
"Oh? β
"Don't you think it's strange that a market has suddenly appeared in such a broken place in the barren mountains and mountains?"
"It's kind of weird. β
"That's right! This is the legendary ghost market, those goods and people are all ghosts, but you don't have to be afraid, to some extent, they are all a kind of ghost, and they can still be beaten. Chen Yi's expression was serious, and he took out a bronze spearhead from his arms, "This is the ancient qi martial art that my teacher gave me before leaving, and it has a miraculous effect on dealing with yin and evil things." β
Seeing that Chen Yi stretched his muscles and bones and really looked like he was going to eliminate harm for the people, Qi Tian was busy crying and laughing, and said: "Xiao Yiyi, this is a ghost market, but it is not a ghostly change, these are actually black markets opened by some people in the neighborhood." β
The so-called black market or ghost market was originally produced by the hunter group at the bottom spontaneously organized to trade privately in some secret places on a regular basis, and the things traded were exchanged and sold here by the hunters who went out to practice, and only specific groups could participate in it, with the continuous development, because it was secretive, it became the best place for many people to deal with stolen goods, and the Cangshan black market that Mr. Gao took Qi Tian to go to before was not bad because of the intervention of Lanyue Pavilion, but what was in front of him was obviously the kind of ghost market that could be held on behalf of the bad handling of thingsγ
finally made it clear to Chen Yi, and Qi Tian hurriedly urged Chen Yi to leave quickly, so as not to cause trouble.
At this moment, Qi Tian suddenly heard a rather familiar voice not far away, shouting and selling all kinds of weapons, what three stacks of white water and gold machetes, the black-backed knife that can cut off the iron-headed pig cow with one knife and walked towards this side.
"Hey, that person seems to be Zhang Laosan. Qi Tian squinted his eyes and said, "He has always been messing around in the Three Cities, how could he come here?"
He was thinking about it, Chen Yi was worried that the two of them would be discovered, but he saw that his body was lowered, and the next moment he suddenly appeared behind Zhang Laosan, and an iron hand pinched Zhang Laosan's neck.
I only heard Zhang Laosan's "ah" whisper, and before the two of them could speak, they took out a few star coins from their arms and said: "Two heroes and heroes, the villain is old and young, but it's just a hawker who walks through the mountains and the city, you take these star coins, just ask you not to kill me, don't kill me!" Before he finished speaking, he smelled a strong smell of urine.
Chen Yi "vomited", disgusted and let go of his hand to the side, who knew that as soon as Fang let go, he saw Zhang Laosan's body shrink, hugged tightly and was about to roll towards the ghost market in the mountain col.
Qi Tian's eyes were fast, his toes tapped the ground, and the whole person was like a dragon going out to sea, "whoosh" and pounced forward, accurately blocking in front of Zhang Laosan, and pressed his feet against his ass and said: "If you dare to run, I will chop you with a knife!"
"Hey, you are Brother Qi from Cangshan Town!" I saw Zhang Laosan's head sticking out from between his legs, looking at the two of them, and then accurately calling out the names of the two.
Qi Tian scratched his hair and said, "You know us?"
Zhang Laosan smiled "hehe" and said: "Little Brother Qi and I first met in the Cangshan Black Market, when Chief Deacon Gao brought you here, and the second time was on Fenghe Street. As for the young shopkeeper next to him, who doesn't know this!"
Qi Tian nodded, there was nothing wrong with what he said, and it was exactly the case, "Then how did you get here?" I remember that you have always been doing business in the Three Cities. β
"Little Brother Qi doesn't know. β
Zhang Laosan said: "The villain's business is to buy some weapons scrapped by the smelting family at a low price near the East China Sea Country, and then sell them upside down, so I won't come here where to go." β
It turned out to be a smuggler...... Qi Tian secretly thought, it is true that the weapons and armor of the three cities have always relied on trade with the East China Sea Kingdom, so before Luo Qing and his party were able to do whatever they wanted in the three cities, relying on the strength of the East China Sea smelting industry to give them confidence.
Since then, some smugglers have been derived, and they have relied on colluding with some smelting families in the East China Sea to resell spirit forging weapons, all of whom are people with strong identity backgrounds, but Zhang Laosan is not even a small fight, at most he is a slag in eating steamed buns.
Qi Tian felt that there was nothing wrong with Zhang Laosan, so he motioned for him to hurry up.
I saw Zhang Laosan "hehe" smiled, and got up busily, Chen Yiyi next to him heard that Zhang Laosan was also from Sancheng, and immediately the fellow saw the fellow with tears in his eyes, thinking that because of his other party, he wanted to hold Zhang Laosan up, and then thought that he was urinating in the crotch of his pants, and retracted his hand.
Zhang Laosan looked indifferent, in front of the two of them, he took out a pair of washed white pants from the cloth bag on his back and changed them, and stuffed the wet pants back into the bag at will, and then asked: "Where are the two young masters going, aren't they also here to sell things?"
Qi Tian was about to speak, but Chen Yi preemptively said: "We are going to Blackwater City in the East China Sea, but our things have been stolen, so we got lost in this place." β
Then under Zhang Laosan's words, he told him all the things he had encountered along the way, even if Qi Tian was crazy, it was useless, fortunately, Chen Yi did not tell the two of them about sending the letter.
At this time, Zhang Laosan also figured out the situation of the two of them, and suddenly said: "I have a way to let you go to the East China Sea as quickly as possible." β
Qi Tian raised his eyebrows and arched his hand: "Please also ask Brother Zhang for guidance, he will definitely have a good reward when he returns to the three cities one day." β
Zhang Laosan raised his right hand and waved, and said: "They are all fellow villagers of the three cities, what do you say about the reward or not, as long as you give me a thousand eight hundred star coins." β
Chen Yi hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Before it was stolen, I gave it up, but now we don't have any money." β
Zhang Laosan immediately showed an unhappy look on his face, and was about to speak, but when he saw Qi Tian's eyes, he immediately said: "Actually, the solution is in the ghost market below, this ghost market is the industry of moving mountain halls, they will regularly buy goods from Blackwater City, you just need to go with them, and it will be there in less than half a month." β
"But why did they take us with them?
"Because I'm familiar with the owner here!" Zhang Laosan showed a smug look and said: "I used to move the mountain hall, and the owner who managed this place was my former brother, what do you want to do with me?"
Qi Tian and Chen Yi glanced at each other, and discussed in a low voice for a moment, although they felt that it was too much of a coincidence, but they thought that with the skills of the two of them, they were not afraid that Zhang Laosan would make a mistake, and finally felt that it was worth a try.
So, they followed Zhang Laosan towards the ghost market, and the two of them took a shallow step, and under their leadership, they only walked for half an hour to the gate of the ghost market.
I saw a plaque hanging on the tattered lintel, with the four characters of barren mountains and ghost markets written on it, Qi Tian smiled secretly and said in his heart: This name is quite appropriate.
"Hey, I'll follow me in, and then I'll introduce you to the owner, but you have to remember to carry me!" Zhang Laosan held his big teeth and repeatedly emphasized that he must remember to carry him when he returns to Sancheng in the future. β
Qi Tian nodded helplessly, urging him to hurry up and find the owner.
Seeing Zhang Laosan's figure disappear, Qi Tian lowered his head and groaned, and suddenly heard the voice of someone next to him, and when he looked up, he saw that a group of people in white and blue robes were hurrying towards this side not far away.
I only heard a young man in a white robe with a spear in his hand say to a yellow-faced man: "Brother Wang, why is your face full of bad luck? Is it that there is no good harvest this time?"
The yellow-faced man sighed with a look of chagrin on his face, "Brother Zhang Hao, don't mention it, this time I met Lin Yuan from Lishan Hall, and it is good luck to come back alive......"
"Hmph, it's Lin Yuan's bastard again, if my eldest brother is here, how dare they beat your idea, senior brother. β
"That's it, the strength is not as good as people. The yellow-faced man waved his hand, groaned slightly, and said in a muffled voice: "Actually, it's not without gain." As he spoke, he opened the package in his hand, and spread it out, and there was a purple herb inside.
"Tiger Bone Grass! It's a good product for internal refining and forging bones," Zhang Hao couldn't help but exclaim loudly just by looking at it.
This exclamation caused the surrounding people to gather around, and when they saw the blue-purple tiger bone grass in the hands of the yellow-faced man, a touch of envy appeared in their eyes.
Because Qi Tian didn't know any herbs, and he didn't intend to be called a Baicao Qi Master, he didn't care about the conversation of a few people on the side.
Just as Qi Tian was about to pull Chen Yi away, Chen Yi's voice came from his ear: "This brother, can you show me what is in your hand?"