The Qingjiang River is a tributary of the Bijiang River, which flows roughly from north to south, and flows into the Bijiang River in Tianyun City. Gudu Town is located in the middle reaches of the Qingjiang River, which also divides Gudu Town into east and west.

Fang Qingzhuo led everyone out of the stall where the lantern riddle was guessed, walked in the direction of Bijiang, and bought a few river lanterns on the side of the road, the river lantern was in the shape of a lotus, and in the middle of the lotus flower was a small candle, and the river lantern was lit and then put into the river, one is to represent the memory of the deceased, and the other is to pray for happiness.

Fang Qingzhuo and his party came to the river, there were many fishing boats moored by the river, and many people who put lamps and prayed for blessings had already gathered by the river. Fang Qingzhuo and the others lit the lamp and put it into the river, letting the small lamp float in the river. At this time, Fang Qingzhuo looked at Fang Yanfan, and at this time, Fang Yanfan was praying with his eyes closed, very pious.

"Sister, give this lamp to your eldest brother, and your eldest brother will help you put it, this riverside road is slippery and dangerous. ”

"No, I want to put it myself!" Fang Yanfan looked at Fang Qingzhuo, then carefully held the river lantern with both hands, bent down, let go of one hand, put the river lantern into the river, and watched the river lantern float into the distance.

At this time, the river surface was already full of river lanterns put by everyone, a gust of river wind blew, and the small candlelight swayed in the river lamp, flickering, like the stars in the sky, Fang Yanfan looked at this beautiful scenery in a daze. Many years later, Fang Yanfan also looked up at the starry sky for countless nights, looked at the starry sky and looked at the Milky Way like a ribbon, but always felt that the Milky Way was the Qingjiang River in his hometown, and the starry bucket was the river lantern in the river.

After putting the river lantern, everyone walked back, passing by the place where the candy seller was, Fang Yanfan swallowed his saliva, then stopped, and looked at the vendor's dexterous little hands walking on the iron plate, and after a while, a chicken was carved out of syrup, which was lifelike.

Fang Yanfan looked at the novelty, and the vendor was also shrewd, and saw Fang Yanfan's thoughts, so he said to her: "What does this young lady want to carve? ”

Fang Yanfan looked up at her mother, and Mrs. Fang immediately nodded, "Then carve my name!" In a moment, the vendor had already carved out Fang Yanfan's name.

"My sister also has a lot of strokes in this name, this is not a loss, hahaha!" Fang Qingyue said with a smile.

At this time, a teenager walked across from the peddler with a jug of wine in his hand and two bodyguards standing behind him. The young man's sunken eyes and bloodless face were not only drunk and walking, but he staggered when he was walking, and he staggered and walked over.

"Yo, who should I be, isn't this the eldest young master and the second young master of the Fang family?"

Fang Qingzhuo looked back, a trace of displeasure flashed across his face, and then he smiled again: "Isn't this the young master of the Chen family? ”

The young master of the Chen family - Chen Tianbao, the Chen family is the Chen family, the head of the three major forces in Gudu Town, the head of the Chen family is named Chen Potian, who was originally the second leader of the Black Wind Village outside Cloud City that day, and later washed his hands in the golden basin and made a fortune in this Gudu Town. Although he washed his hands in the golden basin, he still secretly colluded with the black wind village, one bright and one dark, doing some unsightly things, the Xu family and the Fang family were afraid of three points, and stayed away. And this Chen Potian is old enough to have a son, named Tianbao, he loves this precious son very much, lacks discipline, behaves misbehaving in Gudu Town, is arrogant and obscene, and Chen Potian always turns a blind eye.

"It's really a coincidence!" as he spoke, his eyes kept turning on Fang Yanfan, who was holding the candy man. And Fang Yanfan was curiously studying the sugar man, not noticing what was happening around him at all.

"There's still something to do at home, say goodbye!" Fang Qingzhuo saw the clue, and took Fang Yanfan by his hand and motioned for everyone to leave.

"Brother Fang, is this your sister, she is so cute and cute!" There was a little more obscenity in his eyes.

"Well, it's the sister-in-law!" Fang Qingzhuo didn't want to entangle with Chen Tianbao, so he pulled Fang Yanfan and everyone away.

At this time, Chen Tianbao looked at the people of the Fang family who were far away, and with a casual move, the two bodyguards approached, Chen Tianbao picked up the wine jug and took a sip and said, "You will investigate this woman for me!"

It is said that while Fang Qingzhuo and his party went to the Qingjiang River to release river lanterns, Fang Yongxing also hurried to the Xu family and came to the Xu family, where Xu Gang, the head of the Xu family, was waiting in the hall at the moment.

"I don't know why Master Xu came to me?"

"Presumably Master Fang has already read the note. ”

Fang Yongxing nodded, and then said, "Is it about Rong Lingshi?"

Xu Gang nodded and said, "That Rong Ling Stone was found on the iron ore. ”

Five years ago, an iron ore was discovered in Gudu Town, and the Chen, Fang, and Xu families agreed to mine together, first by the Chen family for three years, and then by the Xu family's turn to mine for two years, and then by the Fang family. And this is the second year of Xujia mining.

"I don't know what happened?"

"Yesterday, I routinely went to inspect the mine, urging the progress of the mine, after all, I will hand over this mine to you, Master Fang, at the end of the year. There was a hint of embarrassment on his face when he said this, but Fang Yongxing smiled, and then said: "Master Xu doesn't have to mind, if it were me, I would do the same thing." ”

"At this time, I went to see the results of their mining, but I vaguely felt that there seemed to be a trace of aura on this iron ore, I was not sure, after all, it was impossible for this iron ore to be attached to the aura, so I asked our housekeeper to also run the aura and feel it, and then our housekeeper also said that he felt a trace of aura. I thought about it for a long time, I don't know why?"

"Suddenly, the workers in the mine came out and told me that the iron ore had been mined, and that what was left was ordinary stone, not iron ore. Immediately, I went down to the mine to observe, and only then did I know that the iron ore had indeed been mined, and what was left was an ordinary stone, but a Rongling stone mine, and the aura remaining on the iron ore was overflowing from the aura attached to this Rongling stone!"

When Fang Yongxing heard this, his back was cold, you must know that the Rong Ling Stone Ore is the key to creating a spirit weapon, ordinary weapons cannot contain the spiritual energy, and forging this Rong Ling Stone into this weapon, when people use it, injecting the spiritual energy in the body into the Rong Ling Stone can greatly increase the attack power of this weapon, and this weapon with Rong Ling Stone is called a spirit weapon, and it is an indispensable weapon for cultivation in the Shenzhou Continent. And what does a large piece of Rongling Stone Mine mean, it is naturally self-evident.

"Master Xu, this matter is very important, how many people know about it?"

"Master Fang, don't worry, after I found the Rong Ling Stone, I went back to the ground and evacuated the workers, and then paid them double the wages to let them go home, fortunately, those mining workers didn't know the cultivation method, so they didn't know about the Rong Ling Stone. Immediately, I sent the most trusted person in the mansion to guard the Rong Ling Stone Mine, and presumably no one knew about this news. ”

Fang Yongxing nodded and said, "That's fine, but why did Master Xu tell the old man about this?"

"I thought about this matter at home for a night and decided to cooperate with Master Fang. One is that this Rongling Stone Mine is indeed a big fortune, but it is very difficult for me Xu to swallow it alone, in case the news leaks out, then it is unknown whether this Rongling Stone Mine is a blessing or a curse. He shook his head and smiled.

"And in this Gudu Town, I think the only reliable person in this matter is you, Master Fang. As for the Chen family, although it is powerful, although I dare not monopolize it, but with the Chen family's style of acting, I am worried that the Chen family will monopolize it; the second is that I will hand over this mineral to the Fang family at the end of the year, and the Fang family still has two years of mining time, we can cooperate to mine iron ore on the surface, and secretly contact buyers to sell Rong Ling Stone, and this iron ore Our family still has some inventory to hide from people's eyes. In addition, the mined Rong Ling Stone and I will divide it with Master Fang, after all, my Xu family only has a few months of mining time left. ”

When Fang Yongxing heard this, he felt that this might be the last life-saving straw for the revitalization of the Fang family, and he was excited! But he felt that the sharing ratio was inappropriate, so he said: "This mine was discovered by Master Xu, and Master Xu doesn't have to inform me about this, since the two families want to work together this time, then our family must not occupy the majority of the share, and our two families will still divide this proportion by fifty or fifty!"

Xu Gang nodded and said, "Master Fang is really a kind person, since this is the case, this matter will be decided like this for the time being!"

"That's okay, Fang Mou will leave, and it will be inconvenient to go out for too long in the Mid-Autumn Festival today, besides, Rong Lingshi has to start arranging this aspect!"

"Please remember that Master Fang must keep this matter a secret!"

Fang Yongxing nodded immediately and left the Xu family.

In the hall of the Chen family, Chen Potian sat in the first seat, holding a small note in his hand, which read: "The Xu family iron ore found the Rong Ling Stone, and it may cooperate with the Fang family to mine it!"

"A good Xu Gang and Fang Yongxing, they are actually embarrassed, they haven't touched you all these years, you really think I, Chen Potian, are so kind-hearted!" Immediately, he put the note on top of the candle and burned it.