A bright crescent moon hangs in the sky, dark clouds float all around, and stars shine.

The streets of Qingyang City are full of traffic, people come and go, and the noise is endless, a prosperous scene.

Today is the annual festival of lights, the streets are lit up on both sides, red banners are pulled up next to the plaques of various shops, and the quiet and narrow alleys and stone bridges in the past are now full of people, dense and lively.

Xu Shiyuan and Xu Yunxi walked side by side, and from time to time they saw a group of children running by.

"Shi Yuan, this year's lantern festival is much better than last year's, you see, there are still dragon dances. ”

The light of the red lantern shone on the girl's pretty face, her skin as white as a snowflake was smeared with a layer of bright color at this time, she pointed to the intersection not far away, turned her head and smiled at Xu Shiyuan.

Looking along the place where Xu Yunxi's jade finger was going, he saw that among the lively crowd, there was a team dancing dragon, the team was about thirty people, all adult males, all of them were adult males, and when they shook the dragon's head and body, the red and yellow dragon made of grass and trees was like a living thing, rolling its body, and its eyes were full of red light.

Staring at the girl's lively and lovely smile, Xu Shiyuan felt a sense of peace in his heart, and at the same time had an indescribable sense of joy, he slightly curled the corners of his mouth, took out something from his arms, and said: "Yunxi, I hunted a Purple Shadow Tiger today, this Lingyuan was taken from the Purple Shadow Tiger, I will give you this thing." ”

"You fought with a one-star demon beast?" Xu Yunxi looked at the valuable demon beast material, although he was very surprised, but when he thought of the scene of the young man fighting with the vicious purple shadow tiger, he couldn't help but become worried, and frowned: "Shi Yuan, you are too risky! You, are you injured?"

Xu Shiyuan shrugged his shoulders, his face showing confidence, "I'm fine, I've successfully killed the Purple Shadow Tiger." ”

Hearing this, Xu Yunxi let out a 'hmm', and then muttered: "Lingyuan is the life essence of the demon beast, even if it is a star, it can be sold for a lot of money, you better keep this thing for yourself." ”

"Take it, don't be polite to me. Xu Shiyuan didn't mean to take Lingyuan back into his pocket, he handed Lingyuan to Xu Yunxi, hoping that the other party could accept it.

Xu Yunxi frowned, suddenly thought of something, patted his white palm, and said with a smile: "That's okay, let's go to the material store and sell Lingyuan, and we will spend the money together tonight!"

"Good idea, let's go. Xu Shiyuan agreed with her proposal, nodded slightly, and walked in the direction of the material store.

"Don't go so fast, wait for me. Xu Yunxi moved the lotus step, quickly followed, and then hooked the young man's arm with his wrist.

Feeling the girl's soft and warm skin, as well as the faint body fragrance, Xu Shiyuan blushed slightly, and then pulled the corners of his mouth down, pretending to be serious.

Walking into the material store, behind the one-meter-high counter, a middle-aged man with a ****** looked at the two with interest and said, "Dear guest, I have everything in this store, I will definitely give you the best price!"

"I have a piece of spirit yuan here, you can take a look. Xu Shiyuan handed Lingyuan to the owner of the material store, and immediately turned his head to look at Xu Yunxi, and when he saw her smiling face, he also smiled at her.

The owner of the material store took the one-star spirit yuan, put it close to his face, and after carefully observing it for a few seconds, he said: "Although it is a one-star spirit yuan, the quality is good, and it can be regarded as a good product... I'll give fifty gold coins. ”

Ten gold coins is a month's living expenses for an ordinary person, and fifty gold coins is indeed a lot.

Xu Shiyuan touched his nose and was about to make a deal, when Xu Yunxi preemptively said: "It's only fifty gold coins? Just now we went to the material store in the east of the city, and the boss offered seventy gold coins, and we didn't sell it!"

When did we go to the east of the city? Xu Shiyuan wondered in his heart, but he immediately reacted, this girl... I want to raise the price.

"Seventy gold coins? Are you kidding? The price I offered is already very fair, generally speaking, this Star Spirit Yuan is only thirty or forty gold coins. The owner of the material store was suspicious of Xu Yunxi's words, and his brows were tightly locked.

Xu Yunxi smiled slightly and said, "Since that's the case, then we won't sell it, Shiyuan, let's go, go to the east of the city!"

Seeing that she was about to drag the young man out of the store, the owner of the material store, who had been silent for a long time, twitched the corners of his mouth twice, and finally couldn't help but speak: "Okay, it's seventy gold coins!"

After the transaction was completed, the two left the material store.

Xu Shiyuan looked at the gold coins in the small cloth bag, and while he was excited, he couldn't help but sigh, sure enough, bargaining and raising prices is a woman's natural ability!

"Shiyuan, how do you want to spend this money?" Xu Yunxi took his arm and asked softly.

Xu Shiyuan lifted his fingers, gently slid the hair in front of her forehead, and said with a smile: "Let's go to the pill pharmacy first, haven't you always wanted to become an alchemist? Let's go buy some pill formulas." ”

"Uh-huh. Xu Yunxi had already planned this, and he was immediately happy when he heard that his proposal coincided with his own ideas.

The business of Dan Pharmacy is much more prosperous than other shops, and because of the lantern festival tonight, there are a lot of customers in the store now, and the atmosphere is warm.

The two of them shoulder to shoulder, burrowing into the crowd, looking for suitable elixir formulas on those elevated shelves.

At the end of the Dan Pharmacy, there were few customers and it was quite quiet, but the price of those goods on the elevated shelves was five or six times more than that of other elevated shelves, and the two of them now could not afford to consume the goods over there, so when they were about to walk into the end, the two looked at each other, smiled awkwardly, and turned around and walked away together.

"Yunxi, what do you think of this Spirit Pill?"

Xu Shiyuan saw a pill on an elevated shelf, and in the glass cover, there was a note with the name and benefits of the pill.

"Lingluo Pill, after taking it, you can recover a part of your spiritual power, and increase the recovery speed of qi and blood within two minutes. Looking at the elixir that Xu Shiyuan was referring to, Xu Yunxi pondered for a moment and said, "It can not only restore spiritual power, but also enhance the recovery speed of qi and blood, this elixir is indeed good... ”

His eyes swept down, and when he saw the price of the elixir formula, the corners of Xu Yunxi's mouth flashed a wry smile, "Fifty-three gold coins, this price is too high, if you spend money to buy this elixir formula, then there will only be seventeen gold coins left, so what should you do?"

Xu Shiyuan said with a smile: "Let's buy it first, we will spend the remaining seventeen gold coins slowly, and we can go to the street to eat something delicious." ”

"Se Yuan, you are so good to me. Xu Yunxi lowered his eyebrows slightly, and his jade hand fiddled with the corner of his skirt.

"Let's go, let's go pay the bills. ”

After chatting with the owner of the Dan Pharmacy, the two of them bought the Lingluo Pill formula on the elevated shelf.

"When I go back in the evening, I'm going to study it. If the refining is successful, I will refine it for you every day in the future. Carefully put the secret recipe of the Spirit Pill in his pocket, Xu Yunxi said happily.

"You'd better add some sugar, I don't like to be bitter. Xu Shiyuan said seriously.

Hearing his words, Xu Yunxi smiled and bent over, and said, "You think this is candy! Medicine, it will always be bitter." ”

The two were talking and laughing, and unconsciously came to the edge of the stone bridge.

At this time, there were several stalls by the stone bridge, and one of the stalls was for making lanterns, and the boss shouted: "Come and see, everyone, the lantern riddle contest is about to start! Whoever guesses the more lantern riddles will get this necklace!"

There was a red box on the table, and a sapphire necklace was lying quietly.

The sapphire necklace is made of sterling silver and glows a faint white glow in the nightlight.

"This is my ancestral treasure, priceless, whoever can win the championship today, I will give this sapphire necklace to me!"

Seeing that valuable sapphire necklace, many people turned their attention to this side, especially those women who were interested in jewelry, and there was already a glimmer in their eyes.

"The registration fee is ten gold coins! If you want to try your luck, hurry up and sign up!"

The boss shouted loudly, attracting many onlookers, and in just a few minutes, more than 20 people had paid the fee to sign up.

Looking at this lively scene, Xu Shiyuan clenched Xu Yunxi's palm and said with a smile: "Yunxi, that sapphire necklace is good, you must look good when you wear it." ”

"Ah, but I don't have that blessing. Xu Yunxi pursed his lips and smiled.

"Who says you're not blessed?

Xu Shiyuan laughed, immediately squeezed into the crowd, and quickly retreated after paying the money to sign up.

"Shiyuan, with so many people participating, it's hard for us to win. The girl was worried.

"Don't worry, guess the lantern riddle, don't be afraid, haha!"

After Xu Shiyuan let out a hearty laugh, the lantern riddle contest was about to begin.

Since today is a lively lantern festival, most couples sign up to participate.

"The lantern riddle contest has officially begun!" said the boss.

As soon as he finished speaking, a couple rushed to the shelf, hurriedly pulled out the note of the lantern riddle, and thought about the answer.

"What book has no words?" Xu Yunxi looked at the note he snatched, and looked puzzled, "What is the problem?"

"Book from heaven. Xu Shiyuan took the note from her hand and quickly wrote the answer on it.

"Tears and hatred disappeared. The answer is the eye. ”

"The other party is under the grass bridge. The answer is battalion. ”

"Single-mindedly changing the old look is a 'constant' word. ”

“......”

Xu Shiyuan's shot was like thunder and lightning, and it only took a second or two to take the note, think, and write the answer, and the time for this lantern riddle contest had not yet arrived, and the lantern riddles on the shelf had already been answered by him.

When the surrounding couples saw that there was no riddle on the shelf, they were both envious and helpless, so they could only obediently retreat to the back.

"Shiyuan, what kind of hand speed are you?" Xu Yunxi was dumbfounded.

"The game is over! I announce that the winner of tonight's lantern riddle contest is... The boss approached the boy and asked quietly, "Boy, what's your name?"

"Xu Shiyuan. The boy replied lightly.

"The champion of tonight's lantern riddle contest is Xu Shiyuan!!"