Chapter 89: An Unexpected Encounter (2)
The four of them crossed the mountain road pass and did not rest after the pass, but continued to take the carriage to the turbid sea city in Haizhou!
Turbidity Sea City is located in the middle of Haizhou, built on the edge of the bend of the Tonghai River, originally only built a protective dam established by water conservancy according to local conditions, and later because of the merchant ships, often used here to stop, and gradually developed markets, villages, and then was built into a city!
Even if the city is built and strong troops are stationed in it, it still does not change the open and secret battles of the past! Speaking of which, this can be regarded as a major feature of Turbid Sea City, and ordinary people have common sense, the official family is always stronger than the local gangs, but in Turbid Sea City, it is the head of the gang, and the government can rarely intervene! Occasionally, most of the people who come forward are acting on the faces of the big gangs here! Of course, to say that there is no collusion between the two is a joke, but those who can be officials in Turbid Sea City are not ordinary characters! After all, the annual taxes paid by Turbidity Sea City and the "Mountain Road Pass" within its jurisdiction account for half of the country's total, and how can such a big piece of fat be handed over to an emperor like Yin Zilong, who is bent on centralizing power, into the hands of people who do not trust him? Naturally, the city lords of Turbidity Sea City who have taken office here are all cronies of the emperor who can no longer be close, and the power in their hands is so great that they secretly say that they are really "one person under ten thousand people", but they are ashamed to say it, even if their official authority is no longer great. The power is monstrous, and when they arrive in the city of Turbid Sea, they are also puppets that are set up in the air, except for the obedient retinue around them and the officials who cherish each other, no one listens to the words of the government at all! When they get here, it is the big gangs in the city that really hold the power! Therefore, some people jokingly call the city of Turbid Sea "Dragon Fu Yuan", which means that even if the real dragon son arrives here, he has to be like the dragon lying at the bottom of the abyss, and he has to bow his head!
Since we talked about the gang in Turbid Sea City, we have to talk about the general division of forces in Turbid Sea City by the way!
Ladies and gentlemen should know that big cities are generally divided into north, south, east, and west markets according to a symmetrical layout, and there is also the ancient architectural tradition of "Dongfang and West City"! Among the two cities in the north and south, Nanshi is the largest, and it is generally close to the important city gates, and most of the land is used for defense, and part of the land is used for making a living.
If you want to make a fortune and operate, then the East and West Cities are definitely the best choice, especially for gangs, it is related to their survival and development, and occupying the East and West Cities is a symbol of their strength and status!
Among the east and west, the "east" is respected, with reference to the layout of Qin'an City as the solution, the west market is generally a place of livelihood such as restaurants, tea houses, etc., and fireworks willow lanes are also arranged, there are often small merchants and hawkers on the street, and the crowds of people are also endless, generally the city is a prosperous place where the flow of people gathers, quite popular, and it is very lively! Compared with the desertion of the east market, the west market looks a lot more prosperous, even if it is a buying and selling transaction, people with a discerning eye can also see that the west market is more and more complicated! But in fact, the east market is related to the people's livelihood, military and political management, grain stores, salt shops, Cloth shops are quite ordinary, the key is refining, casting, etc., on the country to provide weapons, down for the people wholesale sales of clothing pendants, most of these businesses do not happen every day, but a single down, definitely more than the West Market!
There are more than a dozen gangs in Turbid Sea City, but the one that still occupies the East City is the "Turbid Sea Gang"!
When telling the story of Gui Wuyi and Ye Nan, I once mentioned the "former emperor" of the Giant Thunder Kingdom and the Turbidity Sea Gang! The Turbid Sea Gang was only a small gang that had just been established during the period of the first emperor, but because of the complex forces in Turbid Sea City, among which the "black party", that is, the gangs, colluded with each other and their power soared, and they had vaguely controlled Turbid Sea City and had a tendency to "become independent"! Therefore, the first emperor of the Giant Thunder Kingdom took the opportunity to support the Turbid Sea Gang, and through this means, after experiencing the legendary bloody stormy days, he finally made the Turbid Sea Gang ascend to the throne of the head of the gangs, deeply rooted here, and became an important tool for the imperial power to secretly control the Turbid Sea City, and even Haizhou!
With the support of the emperor, the Turbid Sea Gang is in full swing, and its power is so great that it spreads all over Haizhou, so it can be said that as long as there is water, there is definitely the Turbid Sea Gang!
However, everything has its prosperity and decline, and after the death of the first emperor and the ascension of the new emperor to the throne, the Turbidity Sea Gang lost its halo on its head and once again became a "gang" and was no longer used by the imperial power! Its position was so prominent, how could it not arouse people's covetousness? Its power was so great, how could it not be coveted by the new emperor? Therefore, once it lost that "halo," the Turbid Sea Gang was again called the "black party," but its power was really strong, and it was deeply rooted in the city of Turbid Sea, and it was impossible to complete it without a considerable amount of time if it wanted to be uprooted! Even so, anyone with a discerning eye can think that the Turbid Sea Gang will be declining day by day, and the day of destruction is not far away!
When Shen Xian and the four of them came to Turbid Sea City, it was already dusk the next day. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info The carriage convoy has entered the Turbid Sea City, and it is impossible to say that it is not eye-catching!
Ling Yaoguang wants to go to Tianxiao City, the imperial capital of the Giant Thunder Country, although it is still early to leave the Spring Music Festival, Ling Yaoguang still wants to play in the Giant Thunder Country now! And the first place to go to the Giant Thunder Country is Leizhou, where there are many handsome mountains and rivers, and there are also many open horse farms, all of which are gathering places for people who like elegance and fun!
Shen Xian and Yue Yin got out of the carriage, but Ling Yaoguang didn't want to stay in Turbid Sea City for a long time, she was a delicate woman, she just smelled the brute spirit in the city and couldn't stand it, so she made a decision, hurry out of the city, and didn't want to stay longer for a moment! Shen Xian and Ling Yaoguang met this time, but they were in a hurry again, watching Ling Yaoguang's carriage go away, Shen Xian's heart was not good! This time was even more hurried than the last time, and for some reason Ling Yaoguang didn't like this Turbid Sea City, but he didn't want to stay for a night!
Yue Yin saw that Ling Yaoguang was gone, although the expression on her face did not change, she was still happy in her heart, she also admitted that when she saw Ling Yaoguang and Shen Xian, she would be jealous, especially Shen Xian was invited by Ling Yaoguang to go to a music and rhythm event, and Shen Xian volunteered to make a good piano for Ling Yaoguang!
Shen Xian had never given anything to herself! Although Yue Yin didn't care much, it was only for herself, and seeing that Shen Xian was going to give gifts to other women, Yue Yin's heart was not very comfortable!
Shen Xian saw that Yue Yin's face was unhappy, and his heart was a little clear, he smiled at Yue Yin and said, "Why are you so angry? I'm thinking, your father gave me the personal sword when he left, and the gifts are still exchanged, as the 'son-in-law of the Yue family', and he is still a 'lord', he should always show it! Hehe, I have already planned your gift in my heart!"
As soon as Yue Yin heard that Shen Xian was going to give her something, she immediately swept away the previous haze, maybe she was too surprised, she didn't even care about the words "son-in-law of the Yue family" that Shen Xian said, she just looked at him expectantly to see what he came up with!
"Naturally, I won't take this gift with me, if I don't get chased and killed by the two of them, I would have already thrown it away in the middle of nowhere! Come on, let's go to the refining room first, and I'll refine it for you myself!" Shen Xian said, taking Yue Yin's hand with a smile and heading towards Dongdajie. Yue Yin didn't care about Shen Xian's refining technique, anyway, as long as it was Shen Xian's mind, she would be very satisfied!
The two of them went to the refining room on East Street with great interest, which was obviously different from the refining rooms in other cities that Shen Xian had seen, just looking at the façade, if there was no flag to indicate it, I am afraid it would be difficult to imagine that this was the refining room, obviously living like a big restaurant!
In the façade of the refining room is a row of counters arranged according to the restaurant, and there is a steward standing in the counter, fiddling with the abacus beads, as if he is calculating some kind of account! And there are several tables and chairs in front of the counter, and there are still people sitting there eating! When those people saw Shen Xian and Yue Yin coming in, they all looked over here!
Shen Xian looked at the posture here, he really felt weird!
Shen Xian asked the person in charge: "I don't know if this is a refining room or a restaurant? If it is a refining room, I don't know if I can rent a room?"
The man in charge looked up at Shen Xian, and he didn't have any extra expression, but just replied: "The flag outside says 'Refining Room', then it is naturally the Refining Room! Do you want to rent a refining room?
"What, twenty taels, this amount is to be rented in other places, and you can rent three or four rooms!" Shen Xian said in surprise.
"It's okay if you don't rent, then please!" said the steward, ignoring Shen Xian, but lowering his head to settle his account.
Shen Xian saw that this person was not in a good mood, he pulled Yue Yin out of the refining room, and walked around the East Street, only to find that there was only this one refining room here! Shen Xian looked at Yue Yin, saw the expectation on her face, and thought about it again, isn't it just to spend more money, it can please the future daughter-in-law, and it is worth it!
After thinking about it, he took Yue Yin back again. In Shen Xian's mind, the person didn't wait to see him before, probably because he was dressed shabbyly, so when he went in, he smashed the "treasure" he had collected for a long time on the counter, and said, "Exchange the contents of the bag for silver!"
The person in charge opened Shen Xian's cloth bag and took out a slender purple-black thorn from it, he looked at it twice, and said in surprise: "Is this the stinger of the 'Purple Hedgehog'?" Then he found a small piece of purple-black skin in the bag, carefully took it out, and said in surprise: "Is this the skin of the 'Purple Hedgehog'?" Then his eyes fell on Shen Xian, and he said, "These two things are enough to tattoo a hundred taels of silver, do you plan to exchange it for silver here, or do you want to exchange it for some materials?"
Shen Xian understands what the steward asks, this is the rule of the refining industry, all the refining materials on the table can be regarded as priceless treasures, and can be exchanged for gold and silver in the refining room, or in exchange for other refining materials of the same rarity! And the purple hedgehog's stinger and a small piece of fur that Shen Xian has on his body can be regarded as very rare materials, so when he heard the steward asking, Shen Xian smiled confidently: "Part of it is exchanged for silver taels, as the cost of renting the refining room, and part of it is exchanged for materials!"
"Yes, yes, I'll ask Childe to write down the materials that need to be exchanged for later!, but before that, can you tell the villain how many of these treasures Childe still has?" the steward asked respectfully, changing his previous attitude.
Shen Xian smiled: "Naturally, there are a lot, you know, I have walked in the miasma mountain and got a lot of rare things, if you are attentive here, the master will change some more things!"
"Are there really a lot of them?"
"Really!"
"That's good!" the steward cried in a long voice, "the guys!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the sound of the "Qiang Qiang" sword coming out of the sheath behind Shen Xian and Yue Yin, and then the people who were eating and drinking before all stood up and walked towards Shen Xian.
"My God, in broad daylight, you want to rob money!" Shen Xian said in surprise, and after finishing speaking, he felt that something was wrong, glanced at the dark sky outside the door, and just wanted to say something, but he heard a familiar voice outside the door and said: "Your 'broad daylight' is really not the right time, it should be the moon is dark and the wind is high, and it is the time to kill people and sell goods!"
When Shen Xian and Yue Yin heard the sound, they couldn't help but look in amazement, but they saw a woman dressed in a purple and black light veil, walking to the door with her bare feet fluttering, and the lights in the door shone out her bewitching face, so that Shen Xian and Yue Yin couldn't help but shout in unison: "Concubine Lianyu!"
Concubine Lianyu smiled softly, as if she had met an old friend, that smile was extremely bright, and suddenly her eyes fell on Shen Xian, and she didn't know what she was looking at! But Yue Yin had to focus on the demon girl, because she was shocked to find that Concubine Lianyu had actually broken through that layer of bottlenecks and had cultivated to the realm of martial arts......