Chapter 17 Commonplace
The accident in Xinling Town eight years ago made many people miserable, and it also made many unrelated people spend a long time in panic, but there were some people who lived more comfortably because of this, including Long Furen.
On the day he learned that Xinling Town had been slaughtered, Long Furen's first reaction was that a stone in his heart had finally fallen, because he no longer had to stare at a waste who had been driven down from the position of the head of the family for seven or eight years, and the second reaction was a little regretful, regretting that he had no chance to complete the dirty thoughts that he had stored in his heart for several years.
Of course, Long Furen would not be bored to ask if this matter in Xinling Town was done by Long Zongzheng, firstly, this kind of thing is not what he should ask, and secondly, it is in vain to ask, anyway, the people in Xinling Town are dead, except for the fact that he can see blood everywhere and occasionally have some severed limbs, the whole town has a smell of blood, and he can't even find a corpse, he also has reason to believe that the family must have finished playing, and he didn't even think much about why he was so sure.
Moreover, after another thing that Long Furen did not expect, he was not interested in thinking more about the affairs of Xinling Town, not long after the accident in Xinling Town, to be precise, it was a year and a month, and Gou Cha, who had been the city lord of Qingtian City for eleven years, suddenly returned to his hometown, and Long Zongzheng went to Kyoto in Nanluo Kingdom, and it was less than a month after he came back, and an edict made everyone a little dumbfounded.
The head of the Long family, Long Zongzheng has become the new city lord of Qingtian City.
This matter is another good thing for Long Furen, because since Long Zongzheng served as the city lord of Qingtian City, the management of the Long family's original large and small shops fell into his hands all at once, although since the change in Xinling Town, Long Zongzheng no longer seems to regard him as a confidant, he is no longer qualified to participate in many things, Long Zongzheng has also become more mysterious, and there are suddenly more than a dozen monarch-level mysteries in the Long family's mansion, but these have not had much impact on Long Furen.
Long Furen knew very well what he could do, he was already an account office, and at most he could only manage the income and expenditure of the shop, if he was really asked to get involved in more things, he would not be able to do it at all, and he would not be willing to do those thankless things.
With money in his hand and being able to use it casually, raising a few of his subordinates to swagger through the market in Qingtian City, doing some things that bully men and women, and others dare to be angry and dare not speak, this kind of day has always been Long Furen's favorite day.
In the past, Long Zongzheng would more or less ask about the accounts, and Long Furen didn't dare to blatantly spend money casually, so he could only put usury or pick some small profits, and he also had to honor the Gou Cha who ate people and didn't spit out bones, but now, he alone has the final say in the one hundred and thirty shops in Qingtian City, and Long Zongzheng is the lord of Qingtian City, in Qingtian City, he is basically above ten thousand people under one person, what do you want to do, and when you see the daughter-in-law of that family, she ordered her subordinates to catch and play with this kind of small thing, and he has done it more than a hundred times in the past six or seven years.
"Master Long, why did you leave so quickly, play more and then go, the sisters blame me for always dominating you, you must give me a chance to introduce other sisters to you this time, otherwise I will have to be squeezed by the sisters when I go back." ”
"That's it, it's so early, Master Long, you don't have a tigress in the house like those poor men, it's hard to come today, just spend the night here, Master Long, you don't know, Tianxiang can't look at other men now, and I think about you all day long, you leave so soon, Tianxiang must not be able to sleep at night." ”
It is usually difficult for ordinary men to even look at it, let alone the two red-card peonies and Tianxiang in the Red Ying Building, which can spend the spring in the air, but at this moment, they are both attached to Long Furen's left and right, like two pink snakes wrapped around a fat pig, constantly rubbing Long Furen's arms thicker than their thighs with their tightly wrapped towering breasts, and whispering in Long Furen's ears, one by one persuading Long Furen to stay in the Red Ying Tower for the night.
"You two little hooves, don't you persuade me to spend the night here just because I want me to give you more rewards? But I like to listen to your words, I feel comfortable listening to them, and this comfort will have your benefits, a hundred silver coins per person, how about it?
Long Furen smiled lewdly and took out two fat hands and pinched them on the round buttocks of Peony and Tianxiang, and kissed the two of them fiercely, then took out a handful of silver tickets from the inner pocket, took out two and stuffed them into the **** of Peony and Tianxiang respectively, and said with a wicked smile: "I still have something to do early tomorrow morning, so I will spare you tonight, and I will come back another day to play with you slowly." ”
After finishing speaking, Long Furen raised his hand, and the four capable subordinates wearing black clothes and black pants who were guarding outside the Red Ying Building immediately walked over, Peony and Tianxiang said thank you to Long Ye and retreated, the two of them just said such idealistic words just for this last reward, I didn't expect Long Furen to spend the night in the Red Ying Building, and now the benefits are scratched, so it is natural to be interested and not continue to entangle.
"Let's go. ”
Long Furen turned around and walked towards the carriage parked on the side of the avenue opposite the Red Ying Tower, and the four subordinates followed, calling for wind and rain in Qingtian City for so many years, and doing so many bad things, if he didn't watch out for someone who would jump over the wall to attack him, he would be a fool, although he couldn't find a bunch of powerful monarch-level mystics to be guards like Long Zongzheng, but it was not difficult to find a few beginner-level master-level mystics who could easily deal with ten or twenty ordinary people.
The four subordinates who followed behind Long Furen, two of them were beginner-level beast masters, one middle-level insect master, and one beginner-level bird master, all four of them were the kind of down-and-out mysteries who were not talented enough to enter the Xuan Academy for further study, but they had forbidden scriptures.
There are many down-and-out mysteries in the domestic continent, and the definition of down-and-out mysteries is specifically to refer to those who have not entered the metaphysical academy, whose strength has reached the level of middle-level scholar or above, and who can open more than two original pages in the forbidden canon.
Generally speaking, at the age of six, after testing, the amount of Xuan Qi is only a person who can possess the minimum standard of the forbidden canon, which also symbolizes that the person can receive the forbidden canon and summon the forbidden canon.
However, if these people still don't have any improvement in the retest at the age of ten, then basically before the age of twenty, don't expect to be able to open the second original page of the forbidden canon and step into the intermediate rank, after the age of twenty, if you can't open the second original page within five years, the Xuan Qi vein is finalized, and the amount of Xuan Qi will not increase again.
For ordinary people, being granted the Forbidden Code is largely just a matter of improving their status, because those who have not reached the standard of a middle-level scholar can only support the summoning of the Forbidden Code at most, and it can't last too long.
As for using the original page in the forbidden book to ingest the ability, the limit of the ability of a person who can only open an original page is also the limit of the ability to ingest only first-order things, and even if many people ingest it, when they want to use it, they often just summon the forbidden canon, and the Xuan Qi in the body is no longer enough.
Therefore, only those who have reached the intermediate rank or above before the age of twenty-five and have opened two inner pages can be called a down-and-out mysterious.
And those who have entered the Xuanzong Academy, even if they are not selected by the Xuanzong Palace, after completing their studies, the worst is the intermediate master level, and they have the badge given by the Xuanzong Academy is nominally protected by the Xuanzong Palace, these people are naturally the objects recruited by various kingdoms, and they don't have to worry about having no livelihood after they come out, in fact, these people are also relatively potential, and there have been many such people in history who have been promoted to the sect level strength later!
After carefully observing the four guards who followed behind Long Furen, Long Chen could basically conclude that these four people only had the standard of a middle-level master at most, and there were many ways to judge whether a mystic person had monarch-level strength, and the simplest one was to observe his eyes.
Empty eyes, breath and stop qi, these are the two methods commonly used by those above the monarch level to hide their strength.
Correspondingly, if you want to judge the strength of the opponent before summoning the forbidden canon, you need to observe the eyes of the mystic and sense the aura emitted by the opponent.
Generally speaking, the eyes of a scholar-level mystic are not much different from ordinary people, and there is no special aura exposed outside the body.
After reaching the level of a master, the eyes of the mystics will be covered with a faint layer of color due to the category of their own mystical qi, which is difficult for ordinary people to detect, and only the mystics can distinguish it.
And the monarch-level mysteries, not only the color on the pupils of the eyes will be stronger, but also exude a special breath, which will cause a faint sense of oppression to ordinary people, so except for a few monarch-level mysteries with flamboyant personalities, the vast majority of monarch-level mysteries will use virtual means to cover up the different colors in the pupils, and will stop breathing and restraining the breath as much as possible.
But the four guards who followed behind Long Furen obviously did not have the strength of a monarch-level mystic, because even if they used a virtual purpose, the different colors in the pupils of their eyes would either be completely hidden, or they could only remain in their original state, and Long Chen didn't need to look too closely to see a little heterochromia in the eyes of those four people, so he was sure that the four of them were all division-level mysteries.
"Two beast masters, one insect master, one poultry master, it's really careful enough, the four people add up to barely equal to a monarch-level mystic, it's a little tricky to face each other, there is no way to get rid of these four people at the same time in a short period of time, and here is a ten-minute walk from the Long family's mansion, if one person escapes and runs to move the rescuers, and it is a monarch-level mystic who comes, then I only have two minutes to leave Qingtian City, and the time is not enough at all." ”
Long Chen frowned, the number of guards around Long Furen exceeded his original expectations.
Although the four division-level mystics can only be equal to one monarch-level mystic, and now Longchen also has an eighty percent chance of winning against the previous monarch-level mystic, but the other party is better than the number of people, if the four down-and-out mystics know that they can't defeat him and choose to flee, he is obviously a little beyond the reach of the whip alone.
But since he has already come to Qingtian City, and he has encountered such a good opportunity for Long Furen to be outside, if he gives up this time, Long Chen will probably have to stay in Qingtian City for a few days if he wants to wait for the next opportunity, but the longer he stays here, the more likely he is to be exposed, so he has to do it this time no matter what.
"Looks like the only way to lure the snake out of the hole. ”
Long Chen took a light breath, stood in an inconspicuous dark place and watched Long Furen and the four down-and-out mysteries enter the carriage together, and after the carriage drove in the direction of the Long family's mansion, he picked up a few small stones from the side of the road, and followed slowly.
When the carriage arrived at a three-pronged dark alleyway that the Red Oriole Tower had to pass through to the Long family's house, Long Chen suddenly quickened his pace, and shouted "Long Furen, you are ****** a big fat pig!" and threw a stone in his hand towards the carriage curtain with only one part of his strength.
There was a faint sound of "pop", and the stone very skillfully drilled through the gap in the curtain, and smashed it on the face of Long Furen, who was startled by this sudden sound, although the stone was like tickling for his fat cheeks, but this undoubtedly annoyed the number two person in Qingtian City, the number two person in the Long family, and everyone had to grovel when they met.
Long Furen stood up suddenly, touched his cheeks and screamed: "Damn! What bastard threw a stone! Stop, stop! Zheng Er, you ****** go and get that bastard back! Lao Tzu has to pull out a layer of skin from him today! Dare to throw me a stone! I don't want to live anymore!"
"Don't worry, Master Long, I'll go and get him back for you!"
The man called Zheng Er by Long Furen is burly, with a face full of horizontal flesh, and a scar obliquely on the corner of his eyebrows, he belongs to the type that is enough to deter ordinary people just by his appearance, and he is also a beginner beast master, and the forbidden book has opened four original pages, and the ability to ingest is not only one of the beast smells that is necessary for the beast system, but the other three are all the ability to enhance arm strength.
If Zheng Er, who was just a beginner beast master, used those three abilities at the same time, he could burst out ten times his strength in an instant, and one punch could break through the gold and iron shattering boulders, although the Xuan Qi in his body could only last for about ten seconds, but no one had been able to survive in the more than ten seconds he used his ability.
When Zheng Er jumped out of the carriage and chased after the black shadow who had lost the stone and ran, the eyes of the other three down-and-out mysteries in the carriage were obviously a little gloomy.
There is no fixed salary for Long Furen to be a guard, only after receiving Long Furen's order and getting things done well, he will get a large bounty, in fact, Long Furen is also quite generous, as long as he can receive an order once a month, it is basically equal to the income of other division-level down-and-out Xuanxuan for a month.
For these down-and-out people, money is an indispensable thing for them to improve their strength.
If the down-and-out mystic wants to go further on the path of the mysterious, there are only two options, the most basic is to try to improve the ability level on the original page of the forbidden canon, and spend a lot of money to buy the page.
The one-star square page with the lowest ingestion rate in the domestic continent currently requires two silver coins on the black market, and every time you are ready to find the ingestion ability of the target thing, you must prepare at least a thousand square pages.
The next level of choice is to spend a lot of money to buy some magic stones to increase the amount of Xuan Qi in the body, and strive to open more original pages and step into the ranks of monarch-level Xuan Qi.
Only the stronger the strength, the more competent tasks can be done while saving their lives, the more people who are willing to ask them to do things, the higher the reward, and the faster the strength will grow, which is an eternal cycle between the downtrodden mysteries in the continent.
Although there are not as many division-level down-and-out mysteries as there are in the Hainei Continent, it can also be said that there are countless of them, and if you want to get ahead among the many division-level down-and-out mysteries, in addition to risking death to enter the Misty Continent, the only way is to find ways to make more money.
This time, such an easy task was actually caught by Zheng Er, and the other three down-and-out Xuanren were naturally a little unhappy, and even they were still thinking in their hearts that it would be best for Zheng Er to never return this time, so there would be one less person to grab a job with them.
After leaving the carriage, Zheng Er thought that as long as he caught the guy who threw the stone back, he would be able to get five hundred silver coins, that is, five gold coins, according to the agreement signed at the beginning, and the pace under his feet immediately accelerated a few points.
This month, Zheng Er has already helped Long Furen do five shady deeds, three of which are to extinguish the mouth, and two are to rob women, plus this time, he will be able to get thirty gold coins at the end of the month, and he can go to the black market to buy more than a thousand one-star square pages, and if he is lucky, he can raise the second ability of the forbidden code to level ten.
Or buy some first-level magic stones to increase his own Xuan Qi volume, so that his strength will increase again, and at that time, among Long Furen's current four guards, he will only be weaker than that middle-level insect master.
When Zheng Er's golden knife walked into the dark corner of the alley, he smiled and quickly approached the shadow that seemed to be running with all his strength, and after hearing the panting sound of the shadow in front of him running, he didn't even bother to summon the forbidden canon.
To deal with this kind of ordinary person, it is a very wasteful thing to use Xuan Qi.
"Boy, stop if you get acquainted, maybe I can still plead with Master Long for you and leave you with a whole corpse, otherwise, you will not be the only one who will die, and your family will have to die." ”
When Zheng Erzui's words were just finished, he found that the kid who was only a few meters away from him really stopped, but before he could say a few more sarcastic words, the kid in front of him actually asked.
"You helped Long Furen do things, have you ever killed anyone?"
Zheng Er was obviously stunned for a moment by such a very absurd question, and then grinned and sneered: "Murder? ”
"Oh. ”
The dark shadow standing in the shadows replied thoughtfully, and then seemed to want to say something more.
"Stop. ”
Zheng Erhu scolded, obviously a little impatient, he was about to step forward and grab the kid, suddenly a green light flashed in front of him, and he secretly said in his heart that it was not good Just wanted to take a few steps back to the side, there was a feeling of being tightly entangled by something at the same moment.
Zheng Er didn't have time to see what was under his feet, and he didn't have time to summon the forbidden canon, when a cold wind came directly to his face, he only felt that his heart was suddenly cold, and all his strength poured out.
It wasn't until then that Zheng Er saw clearly that the person standing in front of him was only a teenager.
"Since it's commonplace, then I won't spare your life. ”
Long Chen said in a low voice, pulled out the dagger, raised his hand and swiped it lightly under Zheng Er's neck, Zheng Er, who had saved the last bit of strength and wanted to shout, opened his mouth wide, stared at him and fell to the ground like soft mud.
"There are three more, and there should be no accidents. ”
Long Chen muttered, and the forbidden code beside him turned the fourth page, revealing a picture of blood ant larvae, a blood-colored aura flashed under his feet, and the whole disappeared into the deep alley like a gust of wind, and rushed towards Long Furen's carriage.