On the second day, Shang Xia did not go out of the city to hunt again, but after saying hello to Haimin, he wandered around the city.

About as soon as the sun had risen, Shang Xia estimated the hour and turned to a blacksmith shop in the south of the city.

According to Shang Xi's letter, this Wu Ji blacksmith shop should be an extremely secret hidden pile.

However, judging from the tone of my aunt's mention of this secret stake in her heart, it is obvious that she did not know anything about this place in advance, and this place may not have anything to do with the merchants.

But this is normal in Shang Xia's opinion, if he expected it to be true, he asked Yan Nier to bring back the news in Tongyou City before, and the family may have already informed Tongyou Academy.

Seven or eight out of ten of these hidden piles should also be secretly arranged by the academy.

And judging from the information revealed in the letter, the academy is obviously sure that this secret stake has not been exposed.

Then there are only two possibilities, one is that this hidden pile has another identity cover, and the other is that this hidden pile is always in a latent state, and it is very likely that he is the first person to wake it up.

Thinking of this, Shang Xia couldn't help but silently recite the joint code recorded on the letter again, and then walked straight in.

The people of Youzhou are fierce, and most of the things made in this blacksmith shop are weapons such as knives, guns, swords, axes, etc., and many of them seem to be of good quality.

Seeing Shang Xia walk in, a shirtless man soon came forward, and said with a little smile: "Guest officer, what do you like, you can choose by yourself, our shop can be regarded as the old number in the city......

Shang Xia glanced at it casually, and heard the sound of "clanging" from the back of the store, as well as the heat wave gushing out from behind the curtain, and said casually: "Is your shopkeeper here?" ”

The guy was slightly stunned, looked the young hunter in front of him up and down, and hesitated: "Little brother, what do you want to find my master?"

Shang Xia said "um", and said lightly: "You just said that it was 'an old friend from Youzhou who came to find the third child', just tell me the original words!"

The guy glanced at Shang Xia suspiciously, turned his head and lifted the curtain into the backyard.

Shang Xia walked around the shop at will, and soon walked to a few boxes of arrows, picked up a few at random, and considered the quality.

At this time, the curtain was lifted, and an unkempt old man with a pyrotechnic face walked out, saw Shang Xia turn around, and asked with a smile: "Do you want to buy some arrows, or ready-made arrows?"

Shang Xia threw a few arrows back into the box in his hand and replied with a smile: "Ordinary arrows need a bundle, and it would be better if there were arrows made of fine iron throughout." By the way, old man, how many hammers do you need to forge for the ten catties of fine iron from your family?"

The old man did not answer at the first time, but took advantage of Shang Xia to turn his head to look, squinted his eyes and looked carefully, and then slowly said: "The reputation of our own business is the most important, ten catties of fine iron 3,600 hammers, one hammer is not much, one hammer is not a lot!"

Shang Xia nodded slightly, and continued: "Is it a sledgehammer or a small hammer?"

The old man replied, "Six hundred sledgehammers, three thousand small hammers!"

Shang Xia said again: "I only need a piece of fine iron that is forged with a sledgehammer for nine hundred. ”

The old man replied, "Then you have to wait three days!"

After a conversation, the old and the young fell into a brief silence at the same time.

Then Shang Xia smiled and said, "Uncle, what's wrong with the juniors?"

The old man sighed: "This shop has been in business for nearly twenty years, if it weren't for the little brother mentioning it today, I'm afraid that what I just said would have been brought into the coffin." ”

Shang Xia couldn't help but be in awe when he heard this, and bowed respectfully to the old man before saying, "The juniors want to see the person in charge here, but the seniors are in person?"

The old man shook his head and said, "There is someone else you want to meet, and go back and wait, and you will come again tomorrow morning." ”

Shang Xia nodded, but just as he was about to leave, he suddenly turned around and said, "The old man said that there are ready-made arrows here, right?"

............

Shang Xia wandered around the streets for most of the day, almost visiting the entire Changfeng City, and at the same time imprinted the layout of the entire city in his mind.

Especially the city lord's mansion where the city lord Yang Hu was located, Shang Xia went around in a circle from afar.

The afternoon time in winter is very short, when Shang Xia returned to the small courtyard, he brought a bag of donkeys to roll, half a catty of sauce beef, and sold a roll of hemp rope and wooden boards, ready to build a swing for Xiao Yuan in the small courtyard.

When night fell, except for Changfeng Street, the most prosperous street in the city, it was still noisy, and the rest of the place had long been silent.

In the middle of the night, Shang Xia woke up from a deep sleep and noticed that someone had sneaked into the small courtyard and coughed lightly under the window of the upper room.

After a while, Shang Xia heard Hai Min get up, and he didn't know what to talk about when he welcomed people into the house, and there may have been an argument during the period, but he still kept his voice down, and Shang Xia vaguely only heard words such as "Tongyou Academy", "Asking for help", "Identity", and "Belonging".

In less than a cup of tea, the two parted unhappily.

After the person left, Haimin lay down again, but under Shang Xia's induction, he kept tossing and turning, obviously unable to sleep.

Shang Xia got up early in the morning and made a swing under the pear tree, and when he saw that Hai Min looked haggard, he asked, "Didn't you sleep well last night?" ”

Haimin smiled, unable to hide her low mood, but still concerned: "You still have to go out of the city and enter the mountains today?"

Shang Xia suddenly stretched out his hand and pressed it on Haimin's shoulder, and said softly, "Don't worry, everything will be fine." ”

Hai Min seemed to be hiding at first, but not only did she stop for a while, but let Shang Xia's big hand touch her shoulder, and her face didn't know whether it was shy or frozen, but it was more and more transparent.

Shang Xia could clearly sense the slight tremor of Hai Min's body, his hand just pressed lightly for a moment, then raised it again to say hello to Hai Yuanyuan, who had just woken up, and left the house.

Shang Xia first came to the Wu Ji blacksmith shop and soon met the old blacksmith Wu.

"There is a maple forest ten miles west of the city, and the person you want to find has agreed to meet there. ”

After the old blacksmith Wu saw Shang Xia, he directly explained the address of the meeting.

A pot of thirty ordinary arrows and a pot of twelve arrows made of fine iron were added here, and Shang Xia turned west after leaving the South City Gate as usual.

Ten miles west of the city, Shang Xia's eyesight quickly discovered the maple forest with an area of only about ten acres.

Shang Xia took the longbow that straddled his shoulders in his hand, and immediately walked into the maple forest.

"With such a small wood, there will be no prey!"

A sudden voice made Shang Xia startled.

Shang Xia turned around suddenly, but saw a person with broken eyebrows and short beard, dressed in a silver-gray short robe, standing more than ten zhang away from his side.

A fourth-order martial artist must be another fourth-order martial artist!

Shang Xia almost groaned in his heart, he would not be arrogant, he was confident that a martial artist below the fourth order, it was impossible for someone to be able to approach his range of twenty or thirty zhang without concealing his own perception.

Those who can do this, except for means such as the Cloak of Tranquility, can only be a fourth-order or higher martial artist who cultivates far above him.

It's just that Shang Xia couldn't have imagined that Tongyou Academy could actually bury a fourth-order martial artist in Changfeng City!

You must know that a fourth-order martial artist is no better than others, even in a martial arts holy land like the White Deer Blessed Land, a fourth-order martial artist is enough to become an elder-level figure.

Shang Xia tried to maintain his composure, arched his hand towards the comer, and said, "I've seen my senior!"

"Shang Bo's grandson, no wonder he will let the old man come forward to protect him, your kid should be the last person to see Boss Kou, once his identity is revealed, hehe......"

The person who came casually took two steps closer, looked Shang Xia up and down, and said casually.

Shang Xia was slightly stunned when he heard this, and couldn't help but say: "Did the seniors misunderstand something? The juniors came this time, but they didn't come to ask the seniors for protection. ”

When the visitor heard this, he was slightly stunned and said, "Then what are you looking for the old man to do?"

Shang Xia recounted what he had heard in Yanlaiju that day, and at the same time roughly talked about the current situation in Tongyou City, which might not have time for him to take care of.

It's just that Shang Xia didn't notice that in the process of telling the story, there was a bit of a strange look on the expressions of the people who came.

At the end, Shang Xia remembered something, and hurriedly said, "I haven't asked my seniors how to call them?"

The person who came thought about it and said, "The old man's surname is Bu, you can call the old man 'Mr. Bu'!"

Shang Xia nodded and said, "That's the way it is, in the eyes of the juniors, if the Tongyou City can free up their hands, it will not be possible for the juniors to come and ask Mr. for help." I just don't know what Mr. Bu's plans are for this?"

Mr. Bu said in a deep voice: "Although the old man has been incognito for twenty years, he is not ignorant of the current situation in Tongyou City. Hmph, they are still too anxious after all, they want to swallow the entire Coral Forest Xuan Realm, and now the entire Tongyou City is probably closed by the spatial enchantment, and they want to be turtles, but the shell is not hard. ”

Shang Xia couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, but thinking of this person's identity as a fourth-order martial artist, it was very likely that he was an old acquaintance with Kou Shanchang, Ji Wenlong, and his grandfather, so he was naturally qualified to make a difference about Shang Xia's plan in Tongyou City.

It's just that he always feels that this Mr. Bu is not only talking, but there is also a bit of resentment in his tone.

However, thinking of the twenty-year latent career of the person in front of him, Shang Xia can naturally understand.

It's just that I don't know what the reason is that this fourth-order martial artist is willing to do this.

Just as Shang Xia's thoughts were dissipating, he suddenly heard Mr. Bu say: "So, Tongyoucheng asked you to come to the old man for the purpose of dealing with Yang Hu?"

Shang Xia thought about it, although there was still collusion between the Jizhou forces and the Changbai Holy Land of the Cangling Realm, but all the crux of the problem would eventually fall on Yang Hu, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that it was to deal with Yang Hu.

Seeing Shang Xia nodding, Mr. Bu said again: "Then do you think that with only you and me, you can deal with Yang Hu, who has been operating in Changfeng City for twenty years?"

Shang Xia had the heart to say Mr. Bu, haven't you also been lurking here for twenty years, don't you have any hidden forces and means?

But when the words came to his lips, he said, "I don't know what advice my predecessors have?"

Mr. Bu took a deep look at him and said, "Come with the old man, there may be a good show to be staged nearby!"