Chapter 22: The Bazaar

"Then it's the auspicious words of the shopkeeper." Li Hou smiled, and thought it was the shopkeeper Fang who said a good word.

Immediately, Li Hou and Huang Da waved goodbye to the shopkeeper and left Huiyuan Hall.

Outside the door, Huang Dashuang took back the unicorn waiting alone outside the door of Huiyuan Hall, and stroked the head of the unicorn with his right hand, as if he apologized for leaving it alone outside the door to wait.

"Brother Hou, I'm going to find a place for the unicorn to settle down and provide it with feed, my old guy took the two of us to run for a morning, and I have to let it take us back when we go back, I still want to treat it." Huang Dashuang turned his head and said to Li Hou with a smile, "I see that you are quite interested in the market on East Street, so you can go over there for a walk." As he spoke, Huang Dashuang took out a cloth bag from the pocket of his close-fitting clothes and handed it to Li Hou.

"Big brother, don't you go to the market to have a look?" Li Hou asked strangely, and took the cloth bag handed by Huang Dashuang.

Huang Dashuang waved his hand, pointed to the unicorn beside him and said, "Today is rare, I'm going to clean up my old buddy's fur, so I won't go with you to join in the fun." And usually my prey has a fixed buyer, so there is no need to try any luck on East Street. When you turn around, you come to the Sifang Inn in the town to find me, and you will know where it is by asking a random person on the way. ”

Li Hou nodded in understanding. Then he opened the cloth bag in his hand curiously, and looked inside, and there were actually square flakes shining with wonderful red copper metal brilliance, and the words of the official system of the girder were engraved on them, roughly counting, there were about fifty pieces.

"This bear bile also has a credit to you, Brother Hou, if it weren't for Brother Hou, I wouldn't have been able to find this black bear, let alone bear bile. Although the bear bile was replaced by me with a talisman, I can't treat you badly, so after discussing with the village chief, I decided to compensate you with these fifty-eight red copper coins. Huang Dashuang said in a firm tone.

"This ......" Li Hou was a little hesitant in his tone, he felt that he hadn't actually made much effort, and it was really useless, but seeing Huang Dashuang's rigorous expression, Li Hou suddenly couldn't refuse, so he had to sigh slightly and put away the cloth bag in his hand, "Then I might as well be respectful." ”

Although Li Hou felt that he was really embarrassed to receive money for no reason, but he just wanted to go to the lively bazaar, and maybe he would fancy something at that time, although he didn't know how much the value of the fifty-eight red copper coins that Huang Dashuang handed him was, but it would not be a small amount, and it would not make Li Hou look shy in the bazaar.

After thanking Huang Dashuang and thanking him, Li Hou immediately parted ways with him, and one walked to the market on East Street where the relics of the cultivators were left, while the other led the unicorn to the only Sifang Inn in the town.

Although Li Hou was only in this town for the first time, it was not a big place in itself, and the street where Huiyuantang was located was the south street of the town, so Li Hou only needed to walk all the way forward, and when he could hear the noise of people somewhere, he walked to the right and quickly arrived at the market.

Far away, Li Hou saw the crowd surging in the distance in front of him, and the noisy voices did not stop for a moment, and kept echoing in Li Hou's ears. Moreover, this noisy sound became more and more intense after Li Hou approached the market, and it could break through the eardrum and penetrate into the brain at any time.

It wasn't until Li Hou walked into the crowd and turned into one of the drops of water in the sea of people that Li Hou was finally able to clearly hear what these shouts were expressing.

"Come and take a look! The gold and iron fragments left behind by authentic cultivators are definitely parts of the magic weapon of the flying sword, and buying it is definitely the best treasure to ward off evil spirits in the town's house, and can be used as an heirloom to stabilize the future of fortune and bless the descendants of Ze. In front of a booth that was very simple, just spreading the parcels on the ground, a middle-aged man with dark skin who seemed to be honest was pointing to the scattered pieces of wrapping cloth and shouting loudly.

And similar to the middle-aged man's hawking can be seen everywhere in the whole market, just like the young man next to him, it is also just a stall made of cloth, on which there are scattered some blue-green stone fragments, looking at its appearance is just a strange color of broken stone, but in the mouth of the young man is the fragments left by the spirit stone consumed by the cultivator when fighting, there is still a trace of weak spiritual power left on it, as long as the gravel is brought with him all the year round, it can definitely play a wonderful miracle effect of prolonging life and no disease and disaster.

However, it is clear that every stall owner is constantly shouting and publicizing, but most of the pedestrians around are standing onlookers, and few people will ask for the price, let alone buy one or two items on the stall.

This made Li Hou feel very strange, according to the shopkeeper of Huiyuantang, among the pedestrians and buyers in this bazaar, there are many wealthy businessmen who are famous from other places, and there should be no shortage of money, even if most of the things in the stalls have long lost their wonder, but casting a wide net and catching more fish, it is always possible to buy one or two treasures that are still effective, and they should have started to buy them a long time ago.

Li Hou, who felt strange, came to the stall of the young man who was said to be selling spirit stone fragments, squatted down and looked at the spirit stone fragments on the ground, and found that the green jade luster was very similar to the spirit stone in the space ring in his hand, but it was not as good as it, but he thought that the spirit stones were all of different grades, so he didn't care much about it.

However, at this time, Li Hou's keen hearing captured the whispered discussion of the two behind him after entering the middle stage of qi refining.

"Look, someone went up, I don't know if he will buy it." A man whispered to his companion that the person he was talking about should be Li Hou.

"Who knows, this stall has been set up for a day, but it still hasn't opened a single business, all because of the fake news that came out two days ago." The man's companion replied.

Li Hou, who pretended to select the spirit stone fragments, but focused on the conversation between the two behind him, suddenly realized that it was obviously a strange commodity to live in, and there was no need to sell it like an ordinary bazaar.

It turned out that the atmosphere in the market was not like this two days ago, although there were still constant shouts, but it was the sound of buyers arguing and comparing when they were competing for the same item, and the sellers were all smiling on the sidelines, quietly watching the price of the goods soaring, far exceeding their expectations.

However, in the past two days, a news suddenly came out that the number of cultivator relics in the bazaar was very abnormal, and the amount of items traded was even about to account for one-third of the relics collected by the real people. Most of the sellers actually mixed counterfeit goods in their stalls, specifically to take the opportunity to make a profit.

What's more, in fact, he didn't collect any relics of the cultivator at all, but just glanced at the appearance of the thing from a distance, and then directly put out similar counterfeit items to deceive buyers, which is commonly known as fishing for fat sheep.

As soon as this news came out, the fiery atmosphere in the bazaar suddenly cooled down a lot, and many people began to be much more cautious when buying, which led to the current atmosphere of the bazaar.

Li Hou probed his divine sense into the space ring, randomly selected a spirit stone, used his divine sense to surround the spirit stone, went deep into it, and began to use the divine sense exploration method recorded in Pei Yuan Gong that only monks in the condensation period could perform.

The Divine Consciousness responds to a wonderful image in mind, a small turquoise solid space, resembling a stalactite cave. There are many small crevices in the space, and there are often fluid substances like thick slurry wandering around, coming out of one crevice and entering another, like microcells living in groups in the culture tank.

"These fluids should be aura...... "Feeling the cheerful and comfortable feeling that came from his divine consciousness as he swiped through the fluid, Li Hou judged thoughtfully.

Taking his attention away from the spatial ring, Li Hou picked up a fragment of the so-called spirit stone on the stall, and his divine sense once again poked out and penetrated deep into the fragment. However, not to mention the aura in this fragment, even the gap that should exist in the spirit stone to keep the aura circulating and active is gone, it is just an old-fashioned and boring ordinary gravel.

"This brother, if you want to buy a spirit stone fragment, this is a good thing, even if we mortals who don't have a spirit root, staying with this spirit stone containing spiritual energy all year round can also strengthen our bodies and prolong our lives." When the young man of the stall owner saw the gravel that Li Hou had picked up, he hurriedly showed great hospitality and promoted his fakes.

In this regard, Li Hou just waved his hand and shook his head, and left the stall without saying a word.

Not to mention that Li Hou already knew that the so-called spirit stone fragments on this stall were just forgeries, even if this was genuine, but Li Hou's space ring still had a complete spirit stone like a small mountain, and it was also an extremely precious high-grade spirit stone, so why waste money to buy some fragments.

After such a small episode, Li Hou suddenly felt that his interest was much lower, and he no longer had much hope for the stalls in the market. After all, this is just some waste left over from the condensation period monk's fighting method at most, and it is basically useless for Li Hou, a trickster who has already condensed his divine sense, but has much less true qi than the condensation period monk.

In this way, Li Hou only wandered around with the mood of looking, and looked at whichever stall owner's shouting was harder and more interesting.

Until passing by, a stall owner did not shout, but just quietly watched the newcomer buyers shuttling past in front of the stall, and Li Hou's attention was attracted by it.

"That's ...... Talismans? ”