Three days later, Tianzhen Pavilion. 【】

"Pavilion Master Xu, what do you mean?"

Shi Zhiyi looked at the box in front of him and said strangely.

"This is the decision of the elders of the clan. Since the Heavenly Waterfall Sword is the property of your friend of the Young City Lord, our Tianzhen Pavilion did not notice that it was a mistake to auction it for a while, so how could we collect your money again? ”

"But after all, the Heavenly Waterfall Sword was bought by you with money, so wouldn't you have to make it your own to bear this huge loss?" Shi Zhiyi asked.

"Thank you Young City Lord for thinking about the Pavilion, but the purchase price of the Pavilion is far lower than the three million taels you offered, and the Tianzhen Pavilion can still bear this loss. We, the Xu family in Fanzhou, just want to express our apologies to the young city lord in this way. ”

Shi Zhiyi thought of his 70,000 taels of gold sold, and when he turned his head, he was photographed with 500,000 taels of gold at a high price of dragon scales, and he knew it in his heart, but he was still grateful: "In this case, Shi Zhiyi thanks the elders of the Xu family for their kindness." In the future, if Tianzhen Pavilion is interested in opening a branch in Yunqi City in the north, he will definitely do his best to help. In addition, the information of the seller of this Heavenly Waterfall Sword, have the elders promised to tell me?"

The Xu family spent such a large amount of money to befriend Shi Zhiyi, not because he was greedy for what help he could bring to the Xu family now, but because he hoped that when he ascended to the position of city lord in a few decades, he would still remember the Xu family's goodwill today, so that they could cooperate in strategic coordination and business exchanges between the two sides.

And Shi Zhiyi directly said that he would open a branch in Yunqi City, and with this sentence alone, the Xu family was already worth back the three million taels of gold. As the hub of north-south transportation in the mainland, Yunqi City's business area can be described as a valuable piece of land, and due to the restrictions of laws and regulations, merchants from other places may not be able to buy land even if they have money.

Based on Shi Zhiyi's words, if the Xu family really wants to open a Tianzhen Pavilion branch in Yunqi City in the future, I don't know how much trouble it will be missing.

As the master of Tianzhen Pavilion, Xu Jingchun suppressed the excitement in his heart and replied: "The seller of the Tianpu Sword is Daxi Xiunan, the second son of the Daxi family. He sold this sword to our Tianzhen Pavilion, about August last year, as for how the Tianpu Sword got into his hands, he naturally wouldn't tell the truth. ”

"Thank you Pavilion Master Xu, Shi Zhiyi is grateful!" "Shi Zhiyi went to Wangjiang Tower last time, because he didn't have a targeted target, so he didn't get any valuable information, now that he knows the seller, it will be much easier to carry out the next step of intelligence gathering.

Since the relationship between the Da Xi family and the Xu family itself was not harmonious, Xu Jingchun naturally considered that Shi Zhiyi would be worried about the possibility of whether he deliberately framed Da Xi Xiunan, and specially called the appraiser who was in charge of the reception at that time, and recalled the process of the transaction and some scenes at that time.

Based on all aspects of information and verification through some third-party intelligence channels, it is not difficult to judge the authenticity of what Xu Jingchun said.

So far, both sides have achieved their respective goals, and the atmosphere is harmonious for a while, and the guests and hosts are happy. Shi Zhiyi was concerned about Helian Mingzhi's safety, so he didn't stay longer, and got up to say goodbye later.

Shi Zhiyi's lunch was naturally eaten in Wangjiang Tower. This time he had a clear goal, as a guest of honor in Wangjianglou, he successfully obtained a series of information about Daxi Xiunan, the second son of the Daxi family, judging from his whereabouts and other aspects, basically verified what Xu Jingchun said.

According to the information in hand, Shi Zhiyi analyzed that Helian Mingzhi should have met Da Xi Xiunan about half a month to a month after separating from him, and the meeting between the two was not mentioned in the intelligence.

More than half a year has passed since the incident happened, and Helian Mingzhi has already encountered an accident? If you want to continue south from Luzhou City, the most convenient route is undoubtedly along the river. To tell the truth, if Da Xi Xiunan really killed someone, he threw the corpse into the river, and no matter how many hands and eyes reach the sky, he would not be able to find any clues at all.

Da Xi Xiu Nan is the second son of the Da Xi family, and there is naturally a lot of information about him, and there are two thick books. Shi Zhiyi didn't care about reading them one by one, so he only picked him to leave Yuzhou more than half a year ago, and went to Tianzhen Pavilion in August to see it.

Suddenly, Shi Zhiyi discovered a problem, that is, when Da Xi Xiunan boarded the ship in Leyang City in Yuzhou, there were two carriages and more than 30 knights in the convoy, but when he arrived at Thundering City at the junction of Yuzhou and Fanzhou to change ships, the convoy became three carriages.

At the junction of Yuzhou and Fanzhou, there is the world-famous Thundering Waterfall, and the Thundering City next to it is also named after it.

Due to the topography of the mainland, it gradually decreases from the Yudai Mountains to the south, showing a trend of high in the north and low in the south, so the distance of tens of thousands of miles of the river is not under the river, and there are many waterfalls formed due to the rapid decline of the terrain.

Among all the waterfalls, the most magnificent nature is located more than ten miles northeast of Yunqi City, one of the eight views of the mainland. The river flows here, as if it was slashed by the magical power from the nine heavens, and the riverbed was suddenly lowered by more than 40 zhang, forming a heavenly slash waterfall with a width of more than 100 zhang and a height of more than 40 zhang.

The river water falls straight down, I don't know how many years after the river has been scoured, the whole cut is extremely smooth, looking from afar, like a rectangular mirror hanging between heaven and earth.

And the thundering waterfall is located in the middle reaches of the river, the junction of Yuzhou and Fanzhou, the width of the river of more than ten miles here has three levels of a total of up to 50 zhang drop, the sound of the water rumbles, like thunder, far away more than ten miles away in the thundering city can be heard clearly.

When boats on the river reach these waterfalls, they need to go ashore and travel overland past the waterfalls, and then go to the other end of the waterfalls to change boats again. For example, Yunqi City is located in the upper reaches of Tianqi Waterfall, near the Yundu Wharf and the downstream of Tiancho Waterfall near the north gate of Yunqi City, and between the Yunshu Wharf near the west gate of Yunqi City.

The same is true of Thundering City, except that Thundering City is divided into North City and South City, which belong to the Daxi family and the Fanzhou Xu family respectively. There is a pier on each of the upper and lower reaches of Thundering Falls, and each of these two houses has one. Merchant travelers passing through this area by water had to disembark at these two piers and re-board them.

This Da Xi Xiunan's convoy is obviously a light car, and with his identity, it is common to add a carriage halfway, but combined with the disappearance of Helian Mingzhi and the appearance of the Tianpu Sword in his hands, Shi Zhiyi naturally paid attention to it.

With Helian Mingzhi's physique, he would be noticeable wherever he went, and if he was not killed but captured, hiding him in a carriage was undoubtedly the best option.

According to the intelligence, Da Xi Xiunan's convoy traveled south along the river all the way, and finally arrived in Kyoto, where it entered a manor about 20 miles southeast of Kyoto. [This chapter was first published.love.have.sound.,Please remember the URL ()]