Wenshui, eight thousand miles south of the border city, is located in the hinterland of the plain, where the climate is like spring all year round, warm and humid, and the scenery is beautiful.

Wenshui City is different from other Xiongguan built on the mountain, and it is defended according to danger.

The city of Wenshui rises on the plain in this way, the city wall is not majestic, but the door hole of the city wall seems to be high and wide, the width is enough for two carriages to drive side by side, the city gate is also beautiful and magnificent, the other city has four gates, but Wenshui City has eight gates, and the eight are exactly the same magnificent city gates.

Because Wenshui City is an octagonal city composed of eight equal city walls, the whole city is like a spider web, and the road extending from the eight city gates is like a woven web on the spider web.

In the very center of the city are two two-storey arc buildings, separated from each other, with a curvilinear street in the middle. From above, it looks like a complete circle divided by a sinuous curve, and the two buildings are like two swimming fish. Even better, each building has a round tower at the head of the fish, which looks like the eyes of a fish.

Eight straight streets begin here and end at the city gates, and the houses are also regular, and the alleys that divide them in the middle do not have a single corner, but are connected together in a complete circle, and one by one extends to the city gate.

No one knows why the city was built the way it is, the city has existed for too long, the craftsmen who built the city have long since known how many lives have been reincarnated, but there is no official record of this, and even the people have not left a legend about the construction of the city.

Except for Wenshui, there is no city on the mainland that has eight city gates, and no city has such an architectural layout.

Wenshui City is the largest city in the whole continent, from the east gate to the west gate if you count the straight-line distance, it is a full thirty-three miles, which is one-third larger than the imperial capital Licheng, it is strange that no one seems to have cared about this matter in the emperors of all dynasties, perhaps because Wenshui City is the largest city in the whole continent and the richest city in the mainland.

Wenshui City contributes astronomical taxes and abundant materials to the empire every year, which may be another reason why the empire can tolerate Wenshui being bigger and more prosperous than the imperial capital.

There are strict limits to the size of cities in each county.

Genshan Street, a street with a strange name, the corresponding city gate is called Genshan Gate. Su Yan and a young man in Tsing Yi were dressed in white and ascended to the second floor of a teahouse facing the street on Genshan Street.

It was the morning, and the teahouse was full of people, and the old storyteller was telling some strange things in an allegro, and he would get stuck at every critical moment, until the listeners took out some scattered silver coins before they were satisfied to continue.

The old man who sang babbled and played the huqin, and the young girl in yellow sang coquettishly: "...... When will the small meeting be happy and turn into a parting relationship...... , a loneliness by whom, counting the preface, is always light...... Repentance for not keeping ......"

The girl's crisp voice is like a yellow warbler out of the valley, and she sings a song of resentment with joy and joy, and when she sings the last sentence: "I don't think about it for a day, but I also save my eyebrows a thousand degrees", I am even more happy, not like a thought, but like a first encounter.

The girl doesn't know the taste of sorrow, how can she sing sorrow, even if she sings white, she still doesn't worry, she doesn't worry.

As soon as the song ended, the tea guests burst into laughter, laughing and shouting that it was not like it, but they threw the loose silver coins from their pockets into the plate of the old man playing the harp in front of them.

The old man who played the huqin kept bowing with a smiling face, and kept saying nice words, and the hands that took out the money became more and more refreshing, and after a while, there was a lot of harvest on the plate, and the song was sung well, no matter whether she sang like or not, not to mention listening to the girl in yellow singing, it seemed that this song should have been so happy.

Wenshui County is indeed a rich place, and Wenshui City is indeed worthy of being the richest city in the mainland

The people here are born bold, and there is no softness in other rich lands.

Su Yan picked a window seat and sat down, and then beckoned the young man in Tsing Yi to sit opposite him, and Xiao Er, who had already had a teahouse, walked over quickly, and asked enthusiastically: "Two sons, what kind of tea do you drink?"

Su Yan smiled slightly, the sunlight shining in from the window fell on the handsome face, the girl in yellow who was singing had just turned here, her eyes couldn't help but tremble slightly, and her face was inexplicably red.

Su Yan also happened to look over, and suddenly felt a little flustered, and didn't dare to look at the girl's eyes again.

I ordered tea casually, and took out a piece of broken silver and put it on the plate of the old man who played the huqin, and the old man couldn't stop thanking him, but his eyes secretly glared at the girl in yellow, and there seemed to be anger in the spoiling.

At this moment, the voices of several big men on the table next to him came,

I only heard the voice of one of the big men say: "Have you heard about the two brothers? The old king who sells mutton soup pots on West Street went to the town to buy live sheep before dawn today, and when he came back and passed by a small hill five miles away from the city, he saw a fairy. ”

The man who spoke gestured with both hands: "I heard that the fairy stepped on a glowing long sword, and flew over Lao Wang's head with such a swish, if it wasn't for Lao Wang who turned around and saw the bright light in the sky, he thought that he had spent his eyes." ”

The more the man talked, the more energetic he became, as if it was not Lao Wang who saw the fairy, but he who saw the fairy: "Lao Wang came back to his mother-in-law and said that the fairy was one foot tall and had a three-foot-long white beard. ”

Speaking of this, he ignored the other two big men who were staring at the other two big men who were waiting for the following. Picked up the tea bowl on the table and took a sip, I wanted to pinch it, and the old man who learned to tell the story bought a pass, but he couldn't bear it.

Without waiting for others to urge, he continued: "The immortal is dressed in multicolored glow, with a halo on his head, and a colorful crane ...... riding under him."

He stepped on a long sword and rode a crane.

Su Yan originally listened to it with interest, but when he heard that the strong man was talking more and more outrageous, he couldn't help but be bothered, and glanced at the old man who told the story, it was a pity that the strong man didn't tell the story.

The voice of the next table became smaller and smaller, as if he was afraid that others would hear it, "Two brothers, I can tell you, if it weren't for our friendship for many years, I would never tell others, and the mutton that Lao Wang killed after he came back was reluctant to sell it, saying that it was stained with fairy energy, and he could live forever if he ate it." ”

"It just so happened that I passed by Lao Wang's shop this morning, and I bought the ten catties of mutton that Lao Wang killed today, and the two brothers will go to my house to share one of your catties later. ”

One of the two men spoke: "Lao Li, didn't you say that Lao Wang won't sell the mutton today? Why did he sell you ten catties?"

The other man also nodded, apparently the same way.

Seeing that the two of them didn't believe what they said, the face of the man who spoke first turned red: "He didn't sell the mutton that Lao Wang killed today, it was secretly given to me by his mother-in-law, so you should believe it now." ”

"Oh......" the other two sighed meaningfully, "No wonder there are rumors in the neighborhood that someone saw you sneaking to Lao Wang's house while he was going out, it turned out to be like this."

Okay, you are an old Li next door, Su Yan heard that a sip of tea almost sprayed on the young man in Tsing Yi opposite.

The three big men were worried about the ten catties of mutton stained with fairy energy, and they didn't have the heart to drink tea, so they called Xiao Er to take the tea money and hurriedly went downstairs and left.

The grandfather and grandson who sang didn't know when they left, Su Yan searched everywhere, stunned.

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After Su Yan returned to Wenshui County, he went home, since he was five years old when he was taken away by the teacher, he rarely went home, the most recent time he went home was three years ago, the teacher lived far away, far, far away, he had to be busy with cultivation, it was not easy to come back.

The Su family is the largest surname in Wenshui City, and it is also the largest family in the whole country.

The Su family has several characteristics, some of which are well-known, but some are very secretive.

The Su family is the largest family in Wenshui, but the accumulated wealth is not as much as other families, the richest man in the city is another family surnamed Qian, but the patriarch of the Qian family is respectful every time he visits the Su family, lest he be a little less polite.

The second feature is that each generation of the Su family is single, and in the generation of Su Yan's father, although his father does not have only one wife like his grandfather, Su Yan's father married seven partial houses, but his son is only Su Yan, and the other rooms are all queenless.

In this way, Su Yan turned out to be the only seedling of the Su family.

The third point is that the Su family's house is actually the other half of the circular building in the center of the city, which is the very center of the entire city, and no one knows what the other half of the building does, and there are even rumors that it is also the Su family's property, but it is just a rumor, at least Su Yan has not been there since he was a child.

Another point is that the Su family is very rich, although it seems that there are not as many as the rich family, but it is still impossible to deny the wealth of the Su family, because the Su family only does three kinds of business. The first is to open a money bank, the second is to make weapons, and the third business is related to the second business, which is to open mines, gold, silver, and iron mines.

The Su family is not the richest family, but it is the most profitable business.

So much so that the old man of the Su family sometimes puts such a sentence on his lips:

"The thing I regret most in my life is that I made too much money ....... ”

This sentence is not widely known, not many people have heard this sentence, and those who have heard it have been to death.

It's really angry alive

No wonder he has always guarded against his grandson from getting involved in the family business.

The home is still the same as before, there are many people and many things.

Except for a few gray hairs on Daddy's head, on the contrary, Grandpa, who was full of silver hair when he left, was still the same as before.

After staying at home for three days, he was kicked out by the silver-haired old man, who, in his words, had a strong copper smell at home, and didn't want him to be smoked.

He never saw his mother, supposedly because she died shortly after giving birth to him.

Dad is still the same as before, he drinks every day, and he doesn't care about the family business, he relies on the old man to take care of it, and the strange old man has never blamed him.

Before leaving home, Su Yan was still young at that time and didn't feel it, but as he grew up, this feeling became more and more obvious: he always felt that the old man had something to hide from him, and even the drunken father who drank every day seemed to be hiding some secrets.

He asked, but no one told him.

Grandpa has something to hide from him, Dad also has something to hide from him, and the whole family is peaceful on the surface, but it must be hiding secrets that he doesn't know.

For example, about his mother, he has never seen him so old, even if he died soon after giving birth to him, but what about his mother's mother's family? What about his grandparents and uncles? How did the family know the teacher? Why did the teacher accept him as a disciple? Although the Su family said that the money was rich and powerful, he knew that these could not affect people like the teacher, and he once asked the teacher, and the teacher always said that it was not yet time to tell him, what time did such a character like the teacher need?

He must have known many secrets about his origins, and he had not asked them again since he had asked them once when he was ten years old, because when he came home and asked about his mother, he saw tears and sadness in his father's eyes.

didn't sit in the teahouse for too long, about the time of a cup of tea, Su Yan called Xiao Er to settle the tea money, and beckoned the young man in green shirts who had been silent and didn't speak with him to go downstairs.

The young man in the green shirt is called Xiaodao, and he was rescued on the way back to Wenshui.

When they met, the young man was unconscious, lying in the mud beside the road, his upper body was naked, and only half of his body was wearing a pair of shorts.

If it weren't for the fact that Su Yan was a great cultivator of the Destiny Realm, his sense was different from ordinary people, and other people would only think it was a corpse.

When he woke up, the young man had lost his memory, forgot what his name was, forgot where he lived, and couldn't remember everything in the past.

The name of the knife was taken by Su Yan, and when he passed by the weapons shop on the way back, the young man stared straight at the knife hanging on the wall, which was a standard war knife of the army, which was rare outside, and he didn't know where the shopkeeper got it, and when he saw the young man looking at the knife, Su Yan bought it for him.

Since the young man had the knife, he kept the knife in his hand all day long, whether he was eating, walking, sleeping, looking at the knife as if he were looking at his lover.

The young man doesn't like to talk, he often has a cold face, and his eyes are inadvertently and occasionally sharp, Su Yan feels that he is like a knife.

So the knife became the name of the youth.

The knife is the youth, and the youth is the knife.

In less than a day, there were stories about the gods everywhere in Wenshui City.

More and more legends about the appearance of immortals appear all over the continent.

The strange thing is that no one knows about the red night that night, and people don't seem to be able to see the redbud flower that shines red like the red sun, the sword light that crosses the night sky, and the three colorful butterflies dancing around the red sun.

Su Yan knew that these ordinary people really didn't see it, because it belonged to the world of cultivation.

When the sun casts its last rays of light, and darkness covers the earth like a great curtain,

Under the faint starlight, two figures appeared above the city wall of Wenshui, one white as misty as smoke, and the other cyan as upright as a javelin.

The figure was already a hundred feet away in a flash, and the cyan color gradually blended with the night, leaving only the white figure faintly visible.

One of the soldiers defending the city rubbed his eyes,

A handful almost pushed the soldiers off the side of the wall:

"Look, the gods have flown in the sky!"

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