Although Purple Maple City is one of the richest cities in the Southern Abundance Region, no matter how rich the city is, there are also poor and dark places.

Chen Long followed the young man, turned left and right in the city, and soon came to the west of the city.

The four major urban areas of Purple Maple City, the north of the city is where the city lord's mansion and the Danta are located, the south of the city with the largest area is the civilian area and the commercial area, and the east of the city is the area where many wealthy families and families live, such as the merchants of Shangping Blue are in the south of the city.

And the rest of the city is where the slums are located.

Looking at the dirty and messy slum in front of him, and even most of the buildings were thatched houses, Long Chen frowned, but still followed.

The young man walked through the dark and muddy streets, and the two bags of medicinal herbs were packed in a rag bag by him, and he walked forward with his head bowed in his hands, and did not look at the people around him, as if he was very vigilant.

However, he was so vigilant that he eventually ran into trouble.

I saw him walking forward with his head down, and a group of people came up in front of him.

This group of people seemed to be the kind of gangsters, and it seemed that they had already noticed the boy and came up with malicious eyes.

The strong gangster in the lead, when he saw the figure of the young man, smiled, and then took the initiative to come up and hit the young man with his shoulder.

Who knew that although the boy lowered his head, it was as if he had eyes on the top of his head, and he dodged sideways, and then continued to walk forward with his head down, completely ignoring these gangsters.

The leading gangster crashed into the air, and suddenly became a little annoyed and angry, and shouted: "The kid surnamed Yue, stop for me!"

It turned out that this young man's surname was Yue? Chen Long, who was hiding in the shadows, looked at his figure thoughtfully.

The boy walked on to himself as if he hadn't heard the thug's screams.

But the gangsters didn't let him go so easily, and as soon as the leading gangster looked at him, two thugs chased after him, grabbed the boy's arms directly left and right, and dragged him back.

Although the young man only has the cultivation of the fifth level of body refining, these gangsters are ordinary people, as long as he struggles hard, he will definitely not be able to catch him, but the young man doesn't know why, he didn't struggle, but let the two gangsters drag him back.

The leader of the gangsters, who had just lost face, went up and kicked the boy in the abdomen.

The boy snorted, a look of pain on his face, but did not speak.

"Damn, Yue Mingju, your kid has grown up, and when you see Lao Tzu, you don't even say hello?"

The leader of the gangsters walked over and grabbed the boy's hair and opened his mouth to scold, and the pedestrians around him avoided it.

The young man named Yue Mingju raised his head and looked at the leader of the gangsters, his eyes cold.

Just when Long Chen thought he was going to make a move, he saw that his face suddenly changed, and a flattering smile appeared on his face: "Isn't this Gangye? I'm really sorry, I didn't see you just now." ”

"Damn, Lao Tzu is such a big person, you say you can't see it? What about playing with Lao Tzu?" The gangster leader slapped him in the face: "I can't see you for the past few days, are you going to do something again?"

Yue Mingju's face changed slightly, but he still smiled: "Master Gang, I didn't give ......it to me two days ago."

Before he finished speaking, the gangster leader called Gangye slapped her down again and interrupted her words: "Damn, do you dare to fight back? Two days ago? You ate two days ago, and you won't eat today? It seems that you haven't fought for a while, and your guts are fat!"

Yue Mingju didn't speak again, and the leading gangster rummaged over him for a while, turning out a few pieces of scattered copper coins left over from buying medicinal materials.

"That's it? The leading gangster snorted, stuffed the money into his chest, and then went over Mingju's rag bag, took out a few packets of medicinal herbs and threw them on the ground, took a sip, and then kicked over Mingju: "Damn, it's these broken grasses again, you have the money to buy these broken grasses to support your dead ghost brother, it's better to use them to honor Lao Tzu." ”

The surrounding gangsters rushed up, punching and kicking, Yue Mingju lay on the ground motionless, allowing the gangsters' fists and feet to fall on him, without saying a word.

After a while, the gangsters finally got tired, and the leading gangster gasped and said: "Give Lao Tzu some memory, do you understand? You are a little waste, and you still want to learn to be an alchemist? ”

The thugs laughed and walked away, Yue Mingju got up, put away the medicinal herb bags scattered on the ground without saying a word, put them into the cloth bag, and then patted the dust on his body and continued to walk forward.

After walking through a few more dilapidated streets, Yue Mingju turned into a small alley next to it, and when he came to the end, there was a small river, and there was a dilapidated courtyard by the river, and the walls were half collapsed, and there were two equally dilapidated grass houses in it.

Yue Mingju walked into the courtyard with the medicinal herbs and shouted, "Mingsheng, I'm back." ”

In the grass room, there was a coughing sound, and then the dilapidated wooden door creaked open, and a thin figure walked out holding on to the door frame.

"Brother, you're back. ”

But it was a boy who looked a little similar to Yue Mingju, but he was a few years younger, and he looked like he was no more than eleven or twelve years old, but he was even thinner, his face was sallow, he couldn't even straighten his waist, and he looked crumbling, looking like he was sick.

When Yue Mingju saw the young man, his face tightened, and he hurriedly walked up to support the young man: "Mingsheng, why are you up, didn't I say that you should lie down and rest?"

The young man Mingsheng smiled reluctantly, looked at Yue Mingju's face, and there was a trace of worry in his eyes: "Brother, I'm fine, why do you have a wound on your face?"

Yue Mingju hurriedly wiped it on his face, and then said, "It's nothing, it's just that I fell down while walking, you go in and lie down." ”

With that, Yue Mingju helped Mingsheng into the grass house and lay down on a bed made of straw.

"Brother. Mingsheng lay on the bed and looked at Yue Mingju with a worried face: "Were you beaten by those people again?"

Yue Ming moved for a moment and did not speak.

"Brother. Mingsheng worried: "They are always looking for trouble with us, you are obviously better than them, why don't you resist." ”

Yue Mingju didn't answer, but reached out and pulled the dirty broken quilt on the side and covered Mingsheng.

After a while, he sighed and said, "They are the people of the snake master, if they beat them, it will be troublesome, Mingsheng, don't worry, I'm in good health, I'll be fine with a few hits." ”

Saying that, a smile appeared on his face: "Don't talk about this, you see, I made another big profit today, and I bought so many medicinal herbs back." ”

Mingsheng's face was still full of worry: "Brother, are you stealing again?"

Yue Mingju's smile froze: "What do you say? ”

"Brother. Mingsheng stretched out his hand from the quilt and grabbed Yue Mingju's arm: "Don't you steal anymore, last time you were caught stealing, you were almost beaten to death, it's too dangerous." ”

Yue Mingju's smile disappeared, he stretched out his hand to hold Mingsheng's hand, and said lightly: "It's okay, don't worry about me, you have a good rest, I'll go to do medicine, take medicine, and you will get better soon." ”

Chen Long, who had been observing the two of them, couldn't help but move when he heard this.

Mingsheng was silent for a while, and said: "Brother, don't continue, I know my own body, I won't live long, you don't want to steal things and buy medicinal materials for me, I just hope that Brother you can live well, the third uncle next door said that he will go to the spirit stone mine outside the city to work in a few days, you can go with me, don't worry about me, you go there to work, save a sum of money, and do some small business by yourself, you don't have to ......"

"Yue Mingsheng!" Mingsheng's voice became smaller and smaller, and at some point, Yue Mingju's face turned cold: "If you say this kind of thing again, I will really be angry." ”

Yue Mingsheng fell silent, Yue Mingju looked at his younger brother, and after a while, his face melted, and he stretched out his hand to touch his brother's hair: "You don't have to worry, you will definitely get better, you are my brother, I will cure you no matter what." ”

With that, he stood up, picked up the herbs, and walked out the door.

I saw him enter the courtyard and enter another thatched hut.

Seeing the things in the grass hut with his divine sense, Long Chen also sighed in surprise.

I saw that in the center of the grass house, it turned out to be an alchemy furnace.

This Dan furnace was pitch black, it looked very dilapidated, and there were traces of repair on it, it was estimated that some alchemist threw it away, and then was picked up by the young man.

Yue Mingju opened the Dan furnace, then lit a fire, and then began to process the medicinal materials in the bag, his movements were very skillful, obviously he had done it many times.

Long Chen looked at the scene in front of him in amazement.

This young man turned out to be alchemy.