A small remote town in Ximan Province, called Xixia City, the small city is not large, only a radius of dozens of miles, and it is about the same size as a small county town in the central area of Ximan Province.

On this day, a scholar came to Xixia City, a scholar with a graceful demeanor and white hair, he shook the folding fan lightly, Shi Shiran walked into the small city, and wandered around in this Xixia City at will.

Wandering around, he stopped at an inn in the center of the town.

Huang Pu looked at this inn with interest, located in a place that extends in all directions, decorated magnificently, and the guests in front of the door came in and out, in an endless stream. The name of the store welcomes the guest building, the cheesy can no longer be cheesy, but the interesting thing is that there is a big signboard hanging in front of the store, and at a glance, it is a 10,000-year-old store, which is amazing, but you can find that there are words on this signboard, but compared to the "10,000-year-old store" four words, it is small and does not know how many, if you connect it, the signboard reads: There are 9,758 years from the 10,000-year-old store.

Huang Pu smiled, walked towards the welcome building, before entering the store, there was a shop boy out of the welcome, the white scarf to the shoulder, smiled and bowed, and at the same time flattered Huang Pu shouted: "The guest officer, please, hit the tip or live in the hotel?"

Huang Pu said: "Eat first." ”

The shopkeeper shouted, "Okay, the guest officer comes with the little one." ”

With that, he bent down and welcomed Huang Pu into the store.

After entering the store, it is even more lively, the hall on the first floor is already overcrowded, but it is not the point of eating at this time, it can be seen that the business of this inn is really booming.

There was no place on the first floor, so the shopkeeper led Huang Pu to the second floor, the second floor was a lot quieter, Huang Pu found a place by the window and sat down, and the shopkeeper shouted with a smile: "What do you want to eat?"

Huang Pu casually took out a spirit bead, casually threw it to the shopkeeper, and then said: "Just serve a few of your store's best side dishes, you can look at the arrangement." ”

The shopkeeper took the spirit bead, and his attitude suddenly became more enthusiastic, the bowed body, his head was about to hang to the ground, and he listened to Huang Pu's instructions, and immediately responded: "Okay, the guest officer will wait a while, and the little one will arrange it for you." ”

Huang Pu nodded, stopped talking, and watched the shopkeeper retreat respectfully, then sat on the seat and looked around, and his divine sense was also released, with Huang Pu's current cultivation of the Seven Tribulation Star Venerable, as soon as the divine sense was released, everything in this Xixia City was reflected in his mind for him to extract some useful information.

After a few moments, Huang Pu closed his eyes, and his divine consciousness was retracted, because everything that should have been known was already known.

The owners of this inn are two people, one is called Ma Sanshan, and the other is called Cheng Banshi, both of whom are cultivators of the realm of knowing fate. The two came to settle in this Xixia City two hundred and fifty years ago, and they don't know where the nouveau riche came from, anyway, they are rich and tight, in just two years, they opened such a welcome building, but what everyone didn't expect is that these two nouveau riche touched the old hat to really do business, just a few decades, the welcome building was taken care of into the Xixia City's premier inn, and then, based on this inn, gradually penetrated all walks of life, now, more than two hundred years have passed, these two guys have long become the richest man in this Xixia City, and in this Xixia City is even more prosperous, the city lord's mansion has to give them some face。

There are many popular people, the more famous the two of them are, the more curious people are about their origins, and all kinds of speculations are also overwhelmingly spreading, Huang Pu listened to those speculations, smiled and felt that there was no credibility.

It's just that Huang Pu does have a strong interest in this Ma Sanshan and Cheng Banshi, because since Huang Pu set off from Hangu, it has been two hundred years, and in the past two hundred years, Huang Pu has always followed the method of seeking opportunities from Lu Chang, the star of the Heavenly Machine, and has traveled all over the Shura Realm, looking for the whereabouts of the fat man, but there has never been much progress, but today, the method of finding opportunities tells him that this inn, or the two owners of this inn, must be inextricably linked with the fat man.

The meal is very fast, the shopkeeper is really clever, and the dishes on it are very refreshing, but Huang Pu only moved the chopsticks twice, and then stopped eating, no way, I am used to eating the food made by Tuoba Huai, and there are few things in this world that can get drunk on Peach Blossom Island.

But sitting like this is also very boring, so Huang Pu took out a pot of peach blossom brew by himself, and while drinking himself, he waited for people, Huang Pu and other people, of course, Ma Sanshan and Cheng Banshi.

After drinking half of the pot of wine, Huang Pu and the others arrived, Huang Pu nodded secretly, thinking that it was okay, these are two people who know the times, and they didn't play any tricks.

After a while, a thin and slightly fat middle-aged man stood tremblingly at Huang Pu's table, and repelled a few guys who wanted to come forward to greet the boss with stern eyes, and then, reluctantly settled down, the thin middle-aged man respectfully took out a string of Buddhist beads and a storage ring from his arms and put them in front of Huang Pu.

Huang Pu looked at the two things in front of him, sighed, and was speechless for a long time, since the fat man was robbed by Mu Batian, three hundred and eighty years have passed, and today, he finally found the clue of the fat man, Huang Pu has relatives in his heart, and he is inexplicable.

But Huang Pu's emotion and speechlessness brought Ma Sanshan and Cheng Banshi great depression, because until now, the two of them didn't know who the white-haired scholar in front of them was, what was the relationship with the fool back then, and what was the purpose of coming here, they only knew that this person's cultivation was unfathomable, and it was definitely not something they could provoke.

Recalling the scene that had just happened, the cold sweat of the two slipped down again, and their bodies couldn't help but tremble.

At the time of the incident, the two were incense in the ancestral hall built by the fool back then, which was a daily trivial matter, but they didn't think that there was an accident today, because, just when they finished the incense and wanted to leave, a strong coercion suddenly fell from the sky, pressing the two of them to the ground in an instant and couldn't move, couldn't speak, couldn't hear, and even their consciousness was black, which made the two think they were dead.

Seeing that the sky was pitiful, the coercion did not want to kill them, and slowly retreated, and when it was about to dissipate, a sentence sounded in their hearts: "Take the Buddha beads and rings, go to your welcome building to see me, a pillar of incense is limited, and if it is outdated, it will die." ”

The coercion dissipated, the two stood up with difficulty, only to see that the other party was pale, sweating profusely, and his legs were trembling, and the two looked at each other in horror, and the tacit understanding cultivated over hundreds of years instantly knew each other's thoughts, that is, it was impossible to escape, and only by following the meaning of the owner of that sentence and finding that person in the shortest possible time, so that there would be a glimmer of life.

So, the two picked up the Buddhist beads and rings, and rushed to the welcome building as fast as they could in their lives, and then turned a blind eye to the full house of guests, and ignored the poet who greeted them, and went up to the second floor, and saw the white-haired man sitting by the window drinking himself.

The two didn't dare to be the slightest slack, respectfully put the Buddha beads and rings on the table, and then stood aside with their hands down, not daring to speak, anxiously waiting for Huang Pu's question.

But Huang Pu looked at the Buddha beads and rings for a long time and was silent, the longer the time, the greater the pressure on the two, the sweat on his face continued to flow, blurring his eyes, and he didn't dare to wipe it.

Finally, Huang Pu opened his mouth, and sure enough, he asked about the owner of the Buddha bead and the ring, and Huang Pu asked: "Tell me, how did these two things come about?" Let me remind you first, you only have one chance, so you should cherish it and don't lie." ”

Ma Sanshan and Cheng Banshi glanced at each other, and then Ma Sanshan gritted his teeth, took the lead and knelt down, and said in a sincere tone: "These two things were stolen by my two brothers in the early years, please remember the secret of my brothers' desperation in the early years, and be angry at our sins, the younger two are willing to spend all their family wealth, just in exchange for our lives." ”

After saying this, the whole hall was shocked, and there was an uproar, it turned out that the two bosses of the welcome building turned out to be thieves in the early years, and this is repaid, this is big news.

After listening to Ma Sanshan's words, Huang Pu's brows furrowed, and then he heard the increasing noise, and then he snorted coldly, and then, the coercion of the Seven Tribulation Star Venerable dispersed, and in an instant, everyone in the entire welcoming building was unable to move, and the birds were silent.

After doing this, Huang Pu continued: "Tell the truth about the situation at that time, and there must be no concealment in the slightest. ”

Ma Sanshan nodded in fear, and then, tremblingly, he carefully said the original thing, Huang Pu asked some details, and finally, with a wave of the folding fan, a lifelike image of the fat man appeared in the air out of thin air, and asked: "You stole it, but this person." ”

The fat man is already tall, and his face is even more angular, which is easy to be remembered by others, and he does not dare to forget it for more than 200 years with the addition of this Ma Sanshan and Cheng Banshi, and the fat man's face has long been deeply imprinted in his mind.

The image dissipated, and Huang Pu closed his eyes again, on the surface he was very calm, but the constantly beating eyeballs under his eyelids exposed Huang Pu's restless heart at the moment.

With the narration of Ma Sanshan and the others, Huang Pu summed up a few clues.

First, two hundred and fifty years ago, the fat man was in a state of stupidity, so it means that Mu Batian at that time did not succeed in taking the fat man.

Second, the two of them later went to the small county town, but they did not find the fat man, that is, the fat man had left the small county town.

Third, according to what Ma Sanshan and the others said, they didn't see the fat man's Ruo Gong stick at the beginning, and just now he used the Seven Tribulation Star Venerable's divine sense to brutally break the fat man's storage ring, and he didn't find the Ruo Zheng stick, that is to say, in more than two hundred years, the fat man summoned the Ruo Gong stick, which means that the fat man was experiencing a crisis at that time, and it also means that the fat man at that time was able to control his body for a short time.

With these three points, Huang Pu is almost certain that the fat man is not dead, and Mu Batian's old thief has not succeeded for the time being, thinking of this, Huang Pu can't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and now the top priority is to go to the small county where the fat man was originally located, follow the clues there, and continue to track.