Long Chen didn't know what to say, he was actually quite afraid of this old man who suddenly appeared. Long Chen knew that this old man was the one who appeared on the grass before, thinking about the old man's skills at that time, it was easy to take his life, not to mention that he was now in a state of weakness, and the Xuan Qi in his body had only recovered a little bit, and it was impossible to act as usual in a short period of time.

It's no wonder that the old man complained too little when he tested Long Chen's Xuan Qi just now, and how did the old man know that Long Chen used up his Xuan Qi before he went to bed.

"Okay, I should go too, don't tell your parents that they have seen me, otherwise I will be known, hehe......"

The old man smiled coldly with a wrinkled face, and his eyes glowed faintly green like ghosts, and the old man seemed to think that this could have a very intimidating effect.

At this time, Long Chen opened his mouth and asked, "Will you still come?"

"Not anymore, but you should see me again once or twice. ”

After the old man dropped these words, his figure quickly disappeared, as if it had never appeared.

After a long time, Long Chen breathed a sigh of relief, and asked to himself in a very puzzled manner: "Grandpa, grandfather, it doesn't look like it, it shouldn't be so old, right? It looks like he's at least eighty or ninety years old." ”

Thinking about it, Long Chen didn't come up with a reason, the life span of the Xuan is much longer than that of ordinary people, and the higher the strength, the longer the lifespan, so maybe the old man is two or three hundred years old, and it is a futile thing to guess the identity of the other party from age.

However, judging from the old man's words when he left, Long Chen believed that he would meet the other party again one day, and it must be only at that time that he could figure out the old man's true identity.

So, Long Chen fell asleep.

The appearance of the old man is just a small episode in Long Chen's life, he didn't pay too much attention to it, Long Chen knew very well that the old man didn't have any ill intentions towards him, although he looked a little weird, smiled obscenely, and deliberately showed that terrifying appearance, in fact, he was an old naughty boy, he had seen a lot of such an old man in his previous life.

The day when the Xuanzong Hall sent people to Xinling Town to test the Xuanqi of six- to seven-year-old children and distribute forbidden canons was gradually approaching, during this period, a very shocking thing came out of Xinling Town, and this incident was a tragedy for many townspeople in Xinling Town.

During the period from 3602 to 3612 of the Xuanyue New Calendar, within ten years, all the genius children who were selected and taken away in the name of Xuanzong Hall seemed to have died.

I don't know exactly how he died, and the six major Xuanzong halls did not explain, but only issued a large amount of pension to all the families who were selected for their children, and it seems that each family gave a hundred gold coins.

For ordinary people, one hundred gold coins is indeed a large amount, it is equal to ten thousand silver coins, which can allow an ordinary family to not have to do anything without worrying about food and clothing for a hundred years, basically a life and a half without worry.

No one delves into how those genius children died, this is not something that ordinary people can delve into, and they can only rejoice in their grief that they can still get such a large sum of money, which is better than nothing.

After hearing the news from Qiangzi, Long Chen couldn't help but be a little glad that he had always been a child, otherwise I am afraid that the ending would be the same as those genius children, and at the same time, he was also a little puzzled, weren't those genius children selected to focus on training, how could they die inexplicably?

The things that a person should take care of depend on his own ability, Long Chen doesn't think that his current self has the ability to track down these things, since the parents of those killed children have not studied deeply, he will not be idle, at most he will speculate in his heart.

Day after day of familiarizing himself with the transformation of the control state and the ordinary state, night after night of extreme cultivation, Long Chen does not think that this kind of life is boring and boring, he likes this kind of life very much, but he still thinks that the days pass too slowly.

Finally, with the calculation of the day by day with the fart worm Hadron on his fingers, the day when the Xuanzong Hall sent people to Xinling Town is getting closer and closer, as long as he sleeps for two more nights, Long Chen can have a forbidden book that belongs to him, and the world of the Xuanzhi is about to open the door to him.

Late at night, Qingtian City.

As a small city near the western border of Nanluo country, the geographical location of Qingtian City is not very good, the road to the hinterland of Nanluo country is a cluster of mountains and mountains, more bumpy, not to mention bandits and rampant, Yue country business travelers rarely take this road, although the climate in the jurisdiction is suitable for farming, but the location is remote and the population is somewhat scarce, the number of people and the level of taxation directly affect the status of Qingtian City in Nanluo country.

Especially since the war 50 years ago, after the Great Yu retreat of 500 miles, Qingtian City was originally able to rely on the advantage of the border guards stationed to become a semi-militarized city and was quite valued.

But now the western border guards of Nanluo have all moved to the west bank of the Qingrong River for hundreds of miles, and the Yue merchants who rarely pass through Qingtian City have chosen to land from other places on the Qingrong River, and Qingtian City has gradually become a nondescript place.

Fortunately, the specialty apples in the jurisdiction of Qingtian City, although it is not the largest apple producing area in Nanluo Country, it is still ranked in some places, and many merchants come to buy in large quantities every year, so that Qingtian City will not be completely forgotten on the territory of Nanluo Kingdom.

Qingtian City is nothing in Nanluo country, but the scale is not small, after all, it has the background of a former border town, the moat is wide and deep, the city wall around it is high and thick, the turret city crossbow trebuchet is also everything, there are three thousand iron horsemen stationed in the city, and there are thousands of private soldiers of the city lord.

Today is the fifty-second birthday of Gou Cha, the city lord of Qingtian City, the entire Qingtian City is decorated with lights and joy, and now the lights are bright in the middle of the night, making it as if it is the New Year, this city lord has been in Qingtian City for ten years, but this does not mean how conscientious and popular he is, on the contrary, his reputation is very bad, and he is privately called the dog city lord.

Every year, the lord of Gou City will hold a birthday banquet, which is also the time when the merchants of all sizes in Qingtian City pay tribute every year, if it is just like this, but it is the birthday of the father of the lord of Gou City in a few months, and then the birthday of his mother, and then the birthday of several wives and concubines, and it is almost a birthday banquet for his son and daughter, and the annual birthday gift alone is enough to scrape off nearly forty percent of the profits of the merchants in Qingtian City.

At the gate of the City Lord's Mansion, a pair of huge stone lions were lying prone on both sides, and two guards who were not angry but full of iron armor and holding iron guns stood straight beside the stone lions, staring at the front with cold eyes, shocking those merchants who came and went from the gate with smiles on their faces, but scolded the eighteenth generation of ancestors in their hearts.

Ordinary merchants come and go quickly, and the people who are qualified to stay in the city lord's mansion to participate in the birthday banquet in the real sense are all representatives of big families who have been operating in Qingtian City for several generations or even dozens of generations, and only these people can sit at the same table with Gou Cha and drink and talk happily, and barely recover some losses, although it is less than one thousandth or one ten-thousandth of what was sent out.

It wasn't until the time of the child that the heads of the various families who participated in the city lord's birthday banquet walked out of the gate in twos and threes, said goodbye to each other after greeting each other, and got into the sedan car parked on the side of the road with a tired face and a smell of wine, and returned to their respective mansions.

When the sedan cars parked outside the city lord's mansion were almost gone, there were bursts of loud noise and laughter from inside the gate, and a middle-aged man in a splendid costume and a majestic man and a slightly chubby Gou Cha in a vermilion official uniform walked side by side in front, followed by several bookkeepers and staff, walking out of the gate unhurriedly.

In Qingtian City, there is no one who can sit on an equal footing with Gou Cha, except for the head of the Long family, there is no second one, even if it is the Chu family, which is similar to the Long family, he has to give up half of his position when he walks with Gou Cha, which shows how transcendent the status of the Long family is in today's Qingtian City.

The group stopped beside the stone lion outside the door, patted Long Zongzheng's shoulder with a drunken face, shook his head and sighed: "I said, Brother Zongzheng, you are too polite this time, where is the relationship between us still need to give this kind of gift, brother, I am ashamed of it, if Brother Zongzheng holds a birthday banquet another day, I don't know what to give back." ”

Long Zongzheng smiled faintly, and replied with a guilty face: "It's not a great thing, besides, it just happened to be in my hands, it didn't cost much, I don't know how to appreciate it, and it's a waste to put it, so I naturally want to give it to people who know how to taste, and only Brother Gou knows how to appreciate them in the entire Qingtian City, and I have long wanted to give it to Brother Gou, but I've been a little busy with affairs recently and haven't had a chance, and I'm worried that I can't find the right thing for Brother Gou's birthday, so I'm just cheeky as a birthday gift." ”

Gou Chahaha laughed, and said very happily: "Look at you, you are still talking about these crown words, don't you see the outside? You are just not very good at this, where can we two use this kind of hypocrisy? Okay, I don't expect you to change this problem, go back and rest quickly, it's not too early, you are much busier than me." ”

When Long Zongzheng was about to say goodbye and leave, Gou Cha seemed to remember something, and pulled Long Zongzheng and whispered: "Brother Zongzheng, are you going to let your nephew live so well? ”

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