Chapter 19: Koi and Whale Shark (2-in-1)
Yang Ze used the sacrifice of the colorful glass bottle to reshape the two pieces of half-hung Lingbao, through two bids, auctioned a high price of 480 gold pounds, in addition to the largest treasure connoisseur in the royal capital, took a 10% tax commission, returned to the Red Mansion Yu everyone, by the way, smashed some more out of a mouthful of "evil gas", and there were 282 pieces in his hand.
Yang Ze could still imagine what kind of expression and anger Yu Xiaoxiao, who was sure that he couldn't pay him yet, and was still planning to exert all kinds of pressure, saw those gold, so he looked at the gold pound, which was a common currency with meticulous workmanship and willow leaves.
Money is really an excellent thing.
This kind of gold as currency is surprisingly light, not as Yang Ze imagined that he carried hundreds of gold pounds on his body, it must be a very sad situation to walk with a load. Even the hardness is different from the gold that Yang Ze has touched before. After enjoying it for a long time, it is inevitable to calculate horizontally and vertically what the purchasing power of these things is in the current era.
But in the end, he didn't have a strict conclusion, in short, two hundred gold pounds, I am afraid that it is already all the expenses of an ordinary family of three in the royal capital for several years.
Man's thirst for money is in a way endless. Yang Ze remembers that when he used to set foot in college, he communicated with some people who had successfully started a business, and when he talked about how the other party could earn 100,000 yuan a month, his eyes were always full of envy, and he thought that he would be satisfied if he could reach that point one day. But in just a few years, when Yang Ze really reached that point, he found that he still felt that it was far from enough, when a door that could make money at will was opened in front of him, he even wanted to pounce on it with all his heart and make money day and night, and rarely stopped to think about whether he did not compromise his means in the process, and even his soul could not keep up with the speed of his walking.
If an ordinary person obtains the ability of a spirit sculptor, I am afraid that he will be eager to make money immediately, buy a large number of useless spirit treasures, and then frantically shape high-grade spirit treasure items and ship them. There is almost no way or need to curb your thirst for money.
But for Yang Ze, he has already passed such a period of nouveau riche, so he knows how to control his greed in the process and think at the same time. In Shanglin's largest trading market, where it was rare to see level 7 or above spirit treasures for two or three months, suddenly flooded with such a large number of high-quality spirit treasures, then the firm's initial silence about him without asking about his origin would become a different situation.
There will be an immediate investigation, and there may even be an official intervention of Daye. Moreover, the reason why those two 7 and 8 level spirit treasures can be purchased at such a price is also because of a strange price hike, which is actually a bubble.
If he does not enter the market in mass production without restraint, it will not only put him on the cusp, but also make people examine the actual price of these spiritual treasures, and give them reasonable value. It is difficult to make huge profits, and this is a thankless act. Yang Ze naturally wouldn't be stupid enough to do this.
The current gold pounds were enough for him to cope with his unexpected needs, and even the pills and tonic medicines needed for his current cultivation were enough.
What's more, his current Spirit Shaping Technique only recalls and sorts out the most basic level of decomposition and remodeling, and it is only limited to first-order spirit treasures. Even the spirit treasure grade does not need to reach the second order, it is some first-order spirit treasure with abundant spiritual energy, and the one in his body is not enough to convert into qi extinguishing and decomposition. There are more formulas and laws that need to be memorized and explored by him. Improve in various practices.
Now Yang Ze hides a booklet on his body every day, using the English that he can understand that no one here can understand, recording some formulas about the transformation skills of the soul, if he has a flash of inspiration, he will record it at any time with a homemade charcoal pen, which is an effective way for him to recall the clues. After all, he was still in the stage of piecing together his broken memories for this skill profession, and if he wanted to completely recall such a vast and complicated discipline, it was a major event with the same heavy responsibility as the path of cultivation.
Therefore, he will still go to the treasure number to buy some inexpensive and low-grade spiritual treasures, and then take them back for integration and remodeling by himself, and then sell them, of course, there will be no too high grade, and then there will be some discount rate when reshaping and selling money, such as a first-order first-order spiritual treasure The aura reshapes three zero-order 3rd and 4th level spiritual treasures, although it cannot be sold at the original price. But the difference is the tuition he pays.
In the following days, in addition to taking time to recall and practice the spirit shaping technique every day, he did not leave behind the cultivation of a Qi Sea Rank Exercise Cloud Body Technique, and a Hidden Snow Knife with a deliberate lower level exercise.
The final late winter is coming to an end, and the sleet is getting denser.
Yang Ze stood in his own courtyard, standing in the rain and snow that fell from the heavens and the earth, but the strange thing was that the rain and snow that made the passers-by in Shanglincheng avoid or hold up umbrellas one after another, but it was rare to wet his body, and even in addition to some water stains and unwilling raindrops on his clothes and hair, the splashing rain seemed to be unable to avoid his body. As long as you look closely, you will see that his body exudes all kinds of heat, and those raindrops that fall from the sky are spontaneously blocked by the heat of his body, and they are unwilling to be blown away in close proximity, and the clear snowflakes are also broken. Only occasionally a drop or two of water with great potential energy could penetrate the heat from his body and stain the placket of his clothes, leaving a trail of water.
Cloud body technique is a technique that uses true qi to stimulate various acupuncture points to improve potential explosiveness and protection, and now Yang Ze is only at the lower level after mastering it, this technique is practiced to the top level according to the record, and even there will be air flow protection around the body, which can rebound and wait for idle melee attacks.
These two eldest brothers have things arranged in the Hou Mansion, and they are naturally not as good as Yang Ze, an idle person who has been forgotten for the time being. It was because Yang Ze also suffered less from flesh and skin, and was able to devote himself more to practicing the two exercises. And with the refinement of the true qi in his body, the exercises have become more and more proficient.
He turned in place, the rain and snow around him were swept away, and more pounced on him, and his clothes immediately became wet, but Yang Ze didn't care, but ran a few steps quickly and stepped on the ground, just like the three steps on the court before, and swung a fist at a bluestone stone wall in the courtyard.
A snow-white sword qi burst out of the fist, and hit the stone wall first, with a crack, and the skin on the periphery of the stone wall flew up, revealing cracks radiating from the center!
Yang Ze landed, and then turned around in a row and blasted out two knife qi. Smack, smack, splinters.
The center of the stone wall falling fist was dented into it, and it was enough to have the depth of a slap!
To be able to perform the Tibetan Snow Knife in the Qi Sea Realm, which is a true qi transformation form, is a level of artistic conception. With Yang Ze's age, it can be said that it is extremely rare to be a real king, and it is no wonder that when Yang Ze sent it casually, the second brother Yang Wenyuan was surprised.
It was different from Yang Ze's first successful use of the Tibetan Snow Knife, which was just a faint layer of sword qi. Now it has a perfect prototype, and the snow-white sword qi is becoming more and more intense. It's just that at present, with the true qi stock of the three grades of the other Qi Sea Realm, he can only send out three hidden snow knives.
Despite this, with a lower-level technique of artistic conception, if Yang Ze is now facing the enemy with his second brother Yang Wenyuan, who has reached the second grade cultivation of the Qi Sea Realm, if he ignores Yang Wenyuan's rich experience in facing the enemy, and he, Yang Ze, as long as he is not Tai Er, can almost win the battle.
From the first time human beings looked up at the starry sky, they were destined to never stop pursuing the ultimate truth of civilization.
These extremely subtle cultivation results also opened a skylight in front of Yang Ze at the same time. It made his ** exploration of this Heavenly Dao Mysterious Road more and more profound and surging.
He pursues power because in this world, only strength can maintain and grasp the things he wants to protect.
In the courtyard, the rain and snow in late winter, there is the Qichun Marquis Mansion where prosperity and liveliness coexist with indifference and silence, and there will always be some people who will be forgotten. For example, at the moment, he only cares about practicing every day, sometimes pouring some spiritual treasures to shape the spirit, and at the same time studying Yang Ze, who is quite interesting in the world's humanities and history.
Although this year's late winter has not passed, the cold wave predicted by Yang Ze really did not come one after another, so even if there is still sleet and snow, this winter is still much better than in previous years.
Therefore, Yang's mother Cheng Ying did not rush to make that cold-resistant robe for Yang Ze again, and occasionally boiled some winter soup for him at night, and ate together every day.
Especially seeing that Yang Ze is no longer idle, he and Wang Du and a group of second- and third-tier gentlemen mingle in the gambling streets and willow alleys every day, but instead ponder historical and humanistic classics and science all day long, and even look at some anecdotes of practice. This kind of relief is simply unprecedented for the second elder. Even at night, Yang's father and Yang's mother would whisper, "If this naughty child had been thinking so hard, why would he not be able to worry about the Chengren ceremony in the spring?"
The biggest improvement in life is that maybe Yang Ze changed the impression of the elders in the mansion a few years ago, because when Lord Hou rewarded Yang Ze's eldest brother and second brother this year, he also opened the inner treasury for him.
Although there are not many things to receive for free, a few quilts, a few heating oil boiling lamps for winter, and more than a dozen catties of lamp oil, there is no elixir that is difficult to find for practicing the way of heaven, and there is no snow-capped mountain Daiginjo with abundant spiritual energy. But it is also enough to make the corner of the Yang family next to this corner of the compound appreciate a warm winter.
Then the late winter passed. The steep spring came overnight.
In the year 333 of the kingdom calendar, a page was turned here, and in 334, the Spring Festival of the Hou Mansion quietly arrived.
His Majesty in the deep palace even issued a pardon order, sparing hundreds of prisoners of minor crimes from prison, and awarding the merits of the eastern water-governing prefecture and county, commending the left general Wang Zhao who won the border war with Anhui and Jinjin, and the right general Qi Leyi, who firmly stopped the strong enemy Liushuang Country in the western Gongga Mountains. For a while, the reputation was profound.
Under the rule of the Emperor of the Great Yede Zhaotianzi, although there were still disasters every year, the kingdom was surrounded by strong enemies, the official system [***] was still ill, and the study of Wei Wei cultivation urgently needed to be reformed from the foundation, but it was still quite popular with the people. The whole people hope that the Daye Association will develop and solve these shortcomings and stride towards a strong country in the Kushan continent, which is their most simple and beautiful wish.
After sorting out the material use for the younger generation in the mansion according to the list of the Spring Festival in the Hou Mansion, Xue Ran, who was busy with the list in the inner library, raised her head in the spring light, and occasionally sorted out her temples.
Being favored by the number one beauty in the family seems to be the greatest achievement of countless young people in the mansion in addition to taking a step forward in their cultivation.
But in fact, Xue Ran, who is indifferent in appearance, is almost unapproachable, but some young people who feel that they are qualified and only have a blood relationship do not give Xue Ran gifts, and she occasionally shirks and refuses.
Those who are rejected are depressed, and those who are accepted as gifts feel that they are one step closer to success. But almost no one would automatically think that Xue Ran would give a gift in return.
In the royal capital Shanglin, there is almost an unwritten rule for the pursuit of all celebrities and nobles. When a man pursues a woman's gift-giving, if the woman returns the gift, it means that the woman also agrees. Such a style of gift-giving has made many good stories, and of course, it has also made many people suffer from not receiving a response and wandering in the troubles and depression of youth.
For Xue Ran, she may accept some gifts from young people with better relationships out of affection, so as not to hurt people's self-esteem with cold refusal. But if she responds, it doesn't mean the same. Over the years, Xue Ran has received countless gifts, but he has not seen any of the young talents in the family who are favored, but there are still a few outstanding competitors.
Even from Yang Ze's point of view, although Xue Ran is not as good as Dong Xuan, she is also a rare beauty, especially the beautiful calves under the gauze skirt, which are extremely attractive.
"Where the hell are you looking!" Before the family banquet, in the hall of the clan's banquet, Xue Ran couldn't stand Yang Ze's gaze from time to time and glanced at his legs, and said coldly, that look, probably if there was no one around, she might have kicked towards Yang Ze. And with her cultivation of the five grades of Qi and Sea, Yang Ze should never be able to avoid her kicking, I am afraid that if she falls and gnaws, Xue Ran will feel better.
Yang Ze was stunned, and when he came back to his senses, he was a little stunned, after all, it was him who was wrong, even if he was thinking about things, but after all, he couldn't stare at the legs of other girls to see if it was right. So he smiled at her and looked away.
And Xue Ran has been quietly looking at him since he entered the hall, and recently I heard that Yang Ze has indeed changed a little, and she combined with Neiku to give him a burst of ridicule, but he didn't look like a thunderbolt, and felt that this was really the case. So I couldn't help but pay more attention to him, but I didn't expect to see that guy aiming at his legs,
Seeing his faint smile again, although he felt that his whole person was indeed different, the anger in Xue Ran's eyes still floated, but then he was stunned, and it flashed again.
Yang Ze wore a cardigan that was rarely worn today, and from the angle from which she stood in front of him, she happened to condescendingly see that there was a bruise on his neck. She was such a delicate person that she immediately saw the corresponding bruises along his collarbone, and even thought of seeing his face a little swollen in Neku, when she naturally hated him and ignored him, and was accustomed to despising him.
But looking at this look, this kind of bruise on Yang Ze's body, I'm afraid there are many unimaginable places on his body, I recently heard that after the eldest prince and the second prince came back from winter vacation, they had trained Yang Ze in a surprise attack, is it really true?
But do Yang Ze's two eldest brothers have a grudge against him in this kind of training? The most important thing is that Yang Ze is really willing to accept this kind of cool training. Could it be that he really changed his surname, and really paid enough attention to the Chengren crown ceremony a month later, hoping to pass the crown ceremony and really get a place in the mansion to be recognized?
She finally understood why Yang Ze would find Neiku and ask for those herbs that nourished her body, and finally left unexpectedly.
This feeling of epiphany made her very uncomfortable, and even had a sour and unclear taste in her heart.
But she didn't regret slandering him at the beginning, this little bastard, what's the use of having an epiphany at this time, the slow accumulation of the path of cultivation is extremely important, what did he do earlier?
After the New Year's feast, it is time for some of the younger generations of the clan to invite and gather.
And often at this time, you can distinguish the best among the young people in the family, because generally this kind of person is surrounded by a lot of people, talking about interesting things, who is popular or not, through these clusters of crowd circles, it is clear at a glance.
For example, Liu Qian, the most famous of the younger generation of the Qi family, was surrounded by a group of men and women at the moment, and the stars asked him about his experience and experience of entering the four grades of the Qi Sea Realm, as well as some explanations from the elders of the family to him several times, and some people even suspected that the family had promised Liu Qian a bright future, so that he could practice without distractions. It's just that they can know that.
Yang Ze's two eldest brothers were personally dragged by Qi Chunhou, and he was naturally alone.
After the feast, he sat in the lively young generation for a while, and no one had anything to do with him, so he felt a little bored and prepared to return to his own courtyard. Passing by Liu Qian's group, he saw a crack in the surrounding youth, and everyone looked at Yang Ze with Liu Qian's gaze, and then he said, "Cousin Yang Ze." ”
Yang Ze stood still and looked at him. It seems that some people in the family obviously show that they don't care about his uninterested demeanor.
Liu Qian was quite complacent, and took a few steps forward, attracting the people around him to move with him, which made him feel a kind of pleasure brought by status. You must know that Yang Ze in front of him is the descendant of the lineage, but in the Hou Mansion, he has always spoken with ability and strength, and at present, although he is not as good as Yang Ze in terms of blood connection with Qi Chunhou, he has successfully surpassed Yang Ze with talent and resources. It is well-known among the elders of the family.
He had been silently watching Xue Ran just now, both of them were two new stars, in fact, Liu Qian was also the person with the most qualifications for Xue Ran in the Hou Mansion. But just now I saw Yang Ze looking at Xue Ran's legs intently, and saw Xue Ran's compassion when he was about to get angry, and seemed to think of something. Liu Qian was very displeased.
He frowned, put on an old-fashioned appearance, and said, "It's not me who said, I'm a cousin, although I'm only one year older than you, but I still have to teach you a few words, you have a good day of leisure and hard work, and you don't want to be motivated, that's it, and I still read out in front of the boat of the Red Mansion what 'I have focused on the Hou Wang', we are all brothers and sisters in the same clan, so it is naturally inconvenient to say anything to you, but you listen to the rumors about you outside, you should also be conscious." It's long overdue to keep your feet on the ground, do what you're supposed to do, and don't spend all day chasing those illusory things!"
This is a vague statement, but the warning is obvious. With his current status in the family, I am afraid that he will soon be cultivated on a large scale, and in a few years, some industries and discourse rights in the Hou Mansion will naturally be inclined to him, and at that time, Yang Ze's status will be even more incomparable, although it will not secretly rectify you, but there will be something good at the top, and it will be even worse at the bottom. When the time comes, you Yang Ze will have a difficult time, and you will be worse and worse than your peers, but you really can't blame others.
And a more subtle meaning is to let Yang Ze pay attention to his current situation, although the blood relationship with Xue Ran is extremely small, but don't dream of extravagance and delusion, the toad wants to eat swan meat, it will always be illusory.
After Liu Qian finished speaking, after a while, Yang Ze, who had some secret taste of these words, grinned, "Is there something wrong with you?"
Then in the midst of the confusion of the crowd, he said, "Can this be the same thing? Just like the koi fish in captivity in the Hou Mansion, all you pursue is to be able to wag your tail every day, swim to the bottom of the sand layer on time to suck the fertilizer fed by your master, and swing your body to show off your fat and useless color when a group of people are watching, so as to win some eccentricity-like praise." Can your so-called pursuit be compared with the whale shark in the ocean that fights for pleasure in order to dominate the top of the food chain on a certain current, chooses fat and eats, and eats for strength? Don't show me these ridiculous theories in front of me, that will only make me feel that you are like those glamorous and useless koi in the Hou Mansion, the ethereal that you cannot understand, and that is the point and realm that you cannot reach in your life. ”
When a person is not on the same level as you, no matter how much you explain to him, he will only play the harp to the cow. It's like a wolf and a sheep talking about how to get sharp in their claws, how to get sharp in their teeth? No, a wolf will tear a sheep to keep its claws sharp and its teeth sharp.
Yang Ze remembered that this Liu Qian, when the prince's mansion was broken, was also a character, and he did not run away like most young people. It is to defend to the death, but after all, it is a koi fish kept in captivity, how can it compete with those hunters who forage for food, it is just a tragic mantis arm as a car.
After Yang Ze finished speaking, he found that Liu Qian and the others' expressions became extremely ugly, obviously because of Yang Ze's words, he actually compared them to fat koi, and they were angry for a while, wanting to refute, but they were so snorant that they didn't know where to refute. When you meet a person who is a waste of firewood shamelessly compares himself to a whale shark, and the rest of the people to empty koi, it is also this kind of grievance that I don't know how to refute.
"Whale sharks will only prove themselves with strength, not with the speed of their tongues, so what's the difference between that and a koi fish that has nothing to say?"
Yang Ze turned his head to look, Xue Ran was clasping his hands and looking at him coldly.
Yang Ze's heart was on fire, thinking to himself why this woman had repeatedly targeted herself, she didn't want to deal with her, she was still unyielding, did she have to subdue her and spank her hard to know how powerful she was?
Seeing Xue Ran appear, Liu Qian and the other clansmen immediately felt refreshed, especially Xue Ran's current position, which made Liu Qian feel in a good mood.
And then I saw Xue Ranlian move lightly, came to Yang Ze with a long body, and handed him a long box wrapped in a pink handkerchief in his hand, his eyes were still cold, "This is what you asked for in Neiku last time, you remember what you said, the whale shark wants to prove itself with strength." Let's work the Chengren crown ceremony, maybe I'll look forward to it. ”
Immediately, Xue Ran turned around and left, bringing a gust of incense, paused a few steps away, turned his head, and said without emotion, "However, you still owe the inner treasury those silver money, I will record it, and then apply for a monthly deduction from the food after your Chengren crown ceremony." ”
Yang Ze held the wooden box in his hand that was very well packaged and still had some orchid fragrance, looked at the back of the woman, and was stunned, not knowing whether it was angry or funny, and for a while he felt that Xue Ran's businesslike appearance just now was quite cute. smiled for a long time, ignoring Liu Qian and the others with straight eyes, and left with his own idle back.
Leaving many children in the clan to look at each other.
After a while, one person muttered, "I was not wrong just now, Sister Xue Ran" He swallowed his saliva, "I actually gave Yang Ze a gift in person?"
Someone was still stunned and said, "It is said that Yang Ze once bullied Sister Xue Ran when she was a child, and it was very ridiculous to kiss her face at that time, and that time it was a big trouble, and Sister Xue Ran sued the old lady Sister Xue Ran has always been such a cold and cold picture that people can't see through her thoughts, shouldn't it, in fact, her heart has always been to the past"
Immediately, someone tugged at the speaker's shirt and signaled to Liu Qian, whose face was getting darker and darker, so everyone restrained themselves and didn't say a word.
The gloom on Liu Qian's face was retracted in a negligent way, worthy of being the top figure of the next generation of relatives carefully cultivated by the family, the city government was restrained, and smiled at everyone, "Since the third son of Yang has this ambition, we should be like Sister Xue Ran, and express our support." ”
He said it beautifully, implying that Xue Ranna was not a gift, but just a kind of help to him. Immediately, he also put himself on the same view and front as Xue Ran, invisibly close, and also had the generosity of not being as knowledgeable as Yang Ze.
Everyone replied again, talking and laughing, and still secretly scolding Yang Ze for his previous madness.
Turning his head with a smile and looking in the direction where Yang Ze had left just now, Liu Qian's heart couldn't help but snort coldly.
Thinking that since Yang Ze compared himself to being a whale shark, then when the crown ceremony came at the end of this month, he really wanted to see how this idiot had the capital to call himself a whale shark!
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