Tianxiang County is close to the east and west, the shape of the north and south are far away, the Dayu Inn is located in the east of Tianxiang County, it is a three-storey small inn, because it is located in the middle of nowhere, there are not many guests at ordinary times, so there are not too many people paying attention, but this time because the exhibition is imminent, a large number of tourists have poured into the county, resulting in each inn is full, so some individual small inns are also overcrowded.

Tianyun Guojing led everyone from the west of the city and soon came to the Dayu Inn located in the east of the city.

The entrance of the Dayu Inn was also full of people.

Tianyun Guojing walked in the front, leading Zhou Tianshen and the others straight to the back of the inn.

There was an iron door at the back of the inn, which was locked, a gray stone lock.

Tianyun Guojing leaned forward alone, bent her fingers, and knocked lightly on the door.

With a squeak, a small window opened from the door, and a cigarette stick stretched out of the window, and a small purple cigarette pouch hung on the cigarette stick, Tianyun Guojing tore a hexagonal token from his waist, and a colorful cloud was painted in the middle of the token, and a four-clawed golden dragon was carved around the cloud.

The golden dragon opened its teeth and danced its claws, and the two were entrenched together.

The token was placed in the pouch, the cigarette stick was retracted, and there was a sound of discussion behind the iron door.

In a few moments, the iron door was pulled open from the inside, and the stone lock split into two, each inlaid on either side of the iron door.

The innkeeper's surname is Pu, his name is like Jin, and he is a small old man with a small beard and a smile.

Boss Pu stood behind the door, took one hand behind his back, touched the beard on his face with the other hand, and said with a smile, "Your guests have arrived, and you have missed the distance, please forgive me." ”

The crowd walked into the backyard of the inn.

Tian Yunguo said quietly, "Boss, take the trouble to prepare a few good rooms." ”

The innkeeper also did not say the true identity of Tianyun Guojing, waved his sleeves, and said in an atmospheric manner, "I have already prepared it for you." ”

Boss Pu led everyone up to the third floor, which was different from the crowding on the first floor and the hustle and bustle on the second floor, the third floor was empty and very quiet.

There are five rooms on the third floor, and there is a good-looking maid at the door of each room, the maid is slim and elegant, with a little powder, and each person has a gray-black dragon bracelet on her wrist.

This kind of accessory is not what ordinary people and ordinary inns should have.

After allocating the room, Tianyun Guojing walked downstairs with the innkeeper.

The innkeeper put his hands behind his back and said with a big belly and a smile, "The family has written from a long time ago that there will be big people coming here, let us prepare the room and assistance in advance, I thought it would be the eldest son and the second son of the family, but I didn't expect it to be you, second miss." ”

Tianyun Guojing crossed his hands on his hips and sighed, "The eldest brother and the second brother have something to do temporarily, and the eldest sister doesn't like to move around, and my father has no choice, so he can only let me go through this troubled water." ”

Pu Xiangjin wondered, "Why doesn't the young lady have the protection of family servants and dead soldiers around her?" Could it be that the group of people just now?"

Tian Yunguo waved his hand quietly and said in disappointment, "They are villagers from Laohuai Village, and they are here to participate in the exhibition in Tianxiang County. Due to the lack of information, the dead soldiers who followed me died except for Uncle Zhongfa. ”

Pu Xiangjin's eyes narrowed slightly, his fingers habitually touched the mustache, his footsteps paused, and his tone was calm, "I didn't expect such a terrifying existence in the nameless mountain, Miss, you weren't injured, right?"

Tianyun Guojing stretched out his right leg and tore off the bandage, the wound on his leg was already scarred, "I thought I would die at the hands of those cave beasts, but fortunately, I met the cultivators of Laohuai Village and rescued me and Uncle Zhongfa." ”

The short and fat old man quietly breathed a sigh of relief, "As long as it's okay, miss, what are your plans for next?"

Tian Yun Guojing said bluntly, "Uncle Zhongfa is still healing his wounds in Miaoshouzhai, he was seriously injured in order to save me, I must remember this kindness, so I can't live here, but I told them that I will participate in the exhibition and auction in the afternoon." ”

Pu Xiangjin smiled, "That's good, by the way, I heard that the eldest lady of the red-clothed family has also come to Tianxiang County, if you meet it, you must calm down, and when our people arrive, you will do it." ”

Tianyun Guojing didn't have a good breath and said, "Don't worry, I'm not the one I used to be, I only know the fighting Tianyun Guojing, and when I meet her again, I must impress her." ”

Pu Xiangjin smiled and didn't speak.

At the door of the iron gate, stood two men wrapped in black cloaks.

Pu Xiangjin explained, "These two are killer assassins that I have cultivated for many years, Wuhe Country is different from Xiangyun Country, everything here is dangerous to us, before arriving in Xiangyun Country, let them follow Miss." ”

Tianyun Guojing did not refuse, and arched his hand, "Then thank you Boss Pu." ”

The innkeeper hurriedly bowed and said respectfully, "Miss is really tormenting the old man." ”

Straightened up, Pu Xiangjin's face was full of red light, and the spring breeze was proud, although he was just an ordinary family slave with a foreign surname, but he asked himself, since the establishment of the Tianyun family, how many people have been treated like this by family members. I have to say that the eldest lady has really grown a lot.

The old man said loudly, "From now on, you just have to follow Miss, if something happens to Miss in your hands, bring your head to me, including your family." ”

The cloaked man knelt on one knee, his right arm resting diagonally on his chest, and a muffled voice came from the mask, "Swear allegiance to the Tianyun family." ”

Tianyun Guojing's eyes signaled, the cloaked man flew away, Pu Xiangjin's left hand was held behind him, the iron door closed silently, his left hand was actually held, and a layer of spiritual power barrier covered the two, and outsiders could not listen to the conversation between the two.

Tianyun Guojing took out a strange-looking plant from his arms, the plant emitted a faint fluorescence, and there were small particles at the roots, Pu Xiangjin squinted his eyes, and even his decades of eyesight could not see the true body of this plant, "Miss, this is?"

Tianyun Guojing said, "This is the goal of this outing, which is to refine the second-grade elixir of the Heart Herb." ”

Pu Xiangjin sighed, "Such a small plant, our Tianyun family has lost so many people, I really don't know what kind of chaos will occur after that pill is refined." ”

Tianyun Guojing put away the Punishment Grass and stored it in the auspicious cloud token, "I still want to lend you a few more people, be sure to send things to the family at the end of this month, the ancestor can't wait that long." ”

Pu Xiangjin nodded, "The old slave will do it immediately." ”

Putting away the barrier, Pu Xiangjin walked up to the third floor, and Tianyun Guojing left from the main entrance.

In the room, Zhou Tianshen, who had unloaded the bamboo basket, sat alone at the table, drinking the herbal tea on the table, spreading out a copy of "Tianshou Diary" in his hand, and watching quietly.

Living with Zhou Tianshen is Lu Anshi, the oldest child in the village.

At this time, Lu Anshi was sitting cross-legged on the bed, wiping the double swords he had been hiding in his sleeves, bowing his head and asking, "Tianshen, are you really not going to the exhibition?"

Zhou Tianshen raised his head and replied, "I wanted to go and see it before, but now that there are too many people, I think it's better to read in the room, according to this situation, the auction may have to be delayed until tomorrow." ”

Lu Anshi put away his two swords and placed them on the bed, the sword body shining with cold light in the sunlight.

Lu Anshi didn't force it, and said, "Tianshen, please help me look at the green pepper and garlic." ”

Green pepper and garlic are the names of the sword.

What a strange name.

Zhou Tianshen lowered his head and snorted.

Walking out of the guest room, Lu Anshi came to the next room, and the maid who had been standing outside the door helped him open the door.

Lu Anshi walked into the room, just in time to see Wang Duo dipping something into his mouth, the oily and powdery Bai Xiaosheng hurriedly put away the package and chased Wang Duo to beat him.

Bai Xiaosheng shouted, "Wang Duozhan, you kid likes to take advantage, I must clean you up today." ”

Wang Duo covered his mouth and dodged around the table, and when he opened his mouth, white debris spurted out of his mouth.

Lu Anshi looked at the farce between the two with a black line on his face, and said speechlessly, "What's wrong with them?"

Wang Cunyuan, who looks delicate but behaves a little timidly, is Wang Duozhen's cousin, that is, Wang Buliu's eldest nephew, Wang Zailiu's son, he shrunk his neck and explained in a low voice, "Bai Xiaosheng's father, that is, Uncle Bai, made him a lot of delicious pastries, and he originally wanted to share some with everyone, but as soon as he opened the package, Duozhan grabbed a lot of it and stuffed it into his mouth, and then, they were like that." ”

Lu Anshi walked to the middle of the house, stopped the two chasing and fighting, and said, "Tianshen is not going to the afternoon exhibition, we need to go early to occupy a good position, you prepare first, and I will inform the others." ”

Bai Xiaosheng put down the package in his hand, pointed at Wang Duozhan, and said, "I don't want to sit with him." ”

Wang Duo drank two sips of water and reluctantly swallowed the pastry in his mouth, "You think I'm willing to sit with you, what a broken pastry, it's hard to eat." ”

Bai Xiaosheng put the package on the bed, covered it with a quilt, and said, "It's drugged, if you want to live, hurry up and find Doctor Zhang." ”

Wang Duo pouted, spit out his tender red tongue, and made a popping sound, "The ghost believes your words." ”

Bai Xiaosheng said regretfully, "Alas, anyway, I have already said what I should say, if you don't believe it, I can't do anything, save the distance, let's go, see if my brother gives you a good position." ”

Wang Cunyuan, who was cowardly by nature, followed behind Bai Xiaosheng, and didn't look at Wang Duozhan from beginning to end, and Wang Duozhan also looked down on him as a cowardly cousin.

Just as he left, Wang Duozhan thought to himself, and took out a dozen taels of silver hidden in his clothes, which his mother gave him to use to stay in the inn, but now that someone has paid for the room, then these ten taels are his own.

Wang Duozhan hid the money in his clothes, walked out of the room, the waiting maid closed the door, Wang Duozhan turned around and walked into Zhou Tianshen's room.

Zhou Tianshen is still reading the book "Tianshou Diary" that he has read many times, for him, this book that describes most of the human geography and customs of Tianshou Continent, no matter how many times he reads it, he will not feel bored, and what is written in the book is very helpful for going out, he takes it with him every time he goes out, so he doesn't even hear the maid open the door.

Wang Duozhan rushed to the opposite side of Zhou Tianshen with an arrow step, jumped directly on the table, and made a loud noise, Zhou Tianshen frowned, looked up at him, "What's wrong?"

Wang Duozhan stretched his neck, wanting to see the contents of the book, "Where did you see it? ”

For the little boy's request, Zhou Tianshen refused for the first time, "No, this paragraph is not suitable for children, and there are many words I don't know, I can't read it to you, aren't you going to visit the exhibition, if you don't leave, others will occupy the place." ”

Wang Duozhan twisted his head to the position of the window, and said nonchalantly, "It's not rare, and it's not that I can't see it anymore, next time I come by myself, I can see the same treasures." ”

Zhou Tianshen closed the book, stood up, stretched his waist, then walked to the bed, put the book under the pillow, put away the two short swords on the bed, stacked them together, and put them under the pillow with the book, "Then you still follow us this time, isn't it boring to be boring." ”

Wang Duozhan jumped off the table and sat on the bench, his fingers tapping on the tabletop with an annoying clicking sound.

Zhou Tianshen, who had just been lying down for a long time, covered his ears and said in disgust, "Can you stop knocking, it's noisy." ”

Wang Duozhan stopped the movement in his hand and began to play with the teapot, pouring the tea into the cup, and then pouring the water from the cup into the teapot, so back and forth, which made people angry more than knocking on the table.

Somehow, Zhou Tianshen fell asleep in the monotonous sound of pouring water.

Wang Duozhan said, "Zhou Tianshen, you just stay in bed all the time and don't go out to have a look? I heard that there are a lot of street performers in the city, so I finally came out for a trip, you can accompany me to have a look." ”

didn't hear a reply, Wang Duozhan turned his head to look back, and just saw Zhou Tianshen holding the quilt, turning his back to him, and falling asleep.

The little boy sighed, got up and left the room.

The first floor of the inn is already full of guests, the shopkeeper is carrying a teapot, running dizzily between the tables and chairs, the towel on his shoulders has long been soaked, looking at the men, women and children who are constantly coming in and out of the inn door, the young man who has just come to the inn to work for a few days muttered in his heart, doesn't it mean that there are few guests here, at that time he still thought that the salary was reasonable, and he was not tired, so he came here, why did so many people come today, it should not be an evil one.

Stopping his legs that were about to break, the shopkeeper sat behind the counter panting, and working with him was a white-haired old man who was obviously old, only to see the old man holding a tray in one hand, and four plates with melon and fruit pastries on the tray, and a teapot in the other hand, walking between the guests with ease, so repeated several times, without leaving a drop of sweat.

Taking advantage of the break, Xiao Er asked the white-haired old man, "Grandpa You, with the same job, why do you look so much easier than me, and you don't feel tired." ”

The old man with white hair, a clean face and few wrinkles held a clean porcelain bowl filled with sake, the old man took a sip, his eyes narrowed slightly, and recalled, "Because I have been working for a long time, you have only been here for a few days, so you will naturally feel tired, if you are like me, you will work steadily for decades, you will be so relaxed." ”

The shopkeeper withdrew his gaze that stayed at the door of the store, nodded as if he didn't understand, "Grandpa You, why is the street so busy today, which has always been deserted, is there something important going to happen?"

The old man surnamed You lowered his head and drank sake, and after being silent for a while, he raised his head, his clear eyes became dim and confused, "Today is the exhibition conference of Tianxiang County, you just came here and didn't know that the exhibition conference is a grand ceremony to be held every three years in Tianxiang County, there will be many big people coming, and there will be a lot of treasures appearing at the exhibition conference and auction conference, and it will be another day of making a lot of money." ”

The shopkeeper looked up at the floor on the second floor, "When I have money, I will also open an inn, which will be opened in the most prosperous area of Tianxiang County." ”

The old man drank all the wine in the porcelain bowl and put the porcelain bowl on the counter, "I'll go to sleep, you watch here." ”

The shopkeeper retracted his thoughts and began a busy afternoon.

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The Treasure Pavilion is one of the best trading places in the Tianshou Continent, and the transactions here are not only auctions, but also private transactions. Its position in many trading places is the same as the status of Huang Zhaozi Temple in Zhongzhou, which can be described as a dominant one.

There are many branches of the Treasure Pavilion, although the scale is different, but one thing that remains unchanged is that the Treasure Pavilion will always be established in the most prosperous territory, because the daily transaction volume of the headquarters in Zhongzhou has reached nearly 10 million taels of silver per day, and even in Tianxiang County, a small remote county, there are tens of thousands of taels of silver per day.

According to the surrounding environment, the Treasure Pavilion in Tianxiang County is only four stories high, although it is lower than many time-honored inns, but it must not be ignored because of this, because the headquarters of the Treasure Pavilion in Zhongzhou is rumored to be nearly thirty-three stories high.

The exhibition was held on the third floor of the Treasure Pavilion, while the auction was held on the fourth floor.

Lu Anshi and his party stood outside the door of the Treasure Pavilion, and in front of them was the flow of people, and they only took a small step forward with all their might.

Zuo Su didn't carry his horned big bow on his back this time, but only hung a short sword on his waist, he looked around and said, "Otherwise, let's go directly from the third floor." ”

Chenfu looked ahead and said, "No, you see, the two guards at the door, although they look ordinary, but everyone has a cultivation that is not inferior to the realm of others, the first floor is still like this, not to mention the heavily guarded third and fourth floors, if you act rashly, you will only lose your life in vain." The first pavilion in the world really lives up to its name. If you follow the customs, you still have to know the rules. ”

Zuo Su scratched his ears and cheeks, "Then what should I do, I'm coming from afar, I can't go back before I go in." ”

Lu Anshi said calmly, "Although there are many people who want to enter, the Treasure Pavilion has its own set of rules. ”

Zuo Su suddenly realized, "I remember, it seems that cultivators can enter first, so what are you waiting for, hurry up and go, there will be no place if you go late." ”

Gu Zhiwen looked at the others in Laohuai Village, "What should they do?"

Lu Anshi said firmly, "It's okay, I have a way." ”