The next morning, Ruan Yunxia and the others had breakfast, simply bought some dry food to carry on the road, and followed Xiao Wanyun to ride to the imperial city of the Great Qi Kingdom - "Bitou City". Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the middle of the way, several people from the rivers and lakes left, except for Shen Xian and Ruan Yunxia and others, only Guo Da and Hou Junsheng still followed Xiao Wanyun. These two people can't say that they have bad intentions, but there are always calculations, Shen Xian looked at the two of them occasionally laughing lewdly, and it was not difficult to guess what the two of them were thinking. I think I plan to follow Xiao Wanyun to the imperial city, first, to see the world, second, to seize the opportunity to steal into the palace, and third, to use Xiao Wanyun's prestige as "King Zhenyu" to show off everywhere, adding identity to myself and their small sect.

It's just that Shen Xian still looks down on the two of them, these two people are usually big spenders, like to eat, drink and have fun, and their brains are also clever, but they always think about how to make money. If you want to say that the mind is not right, it is just the oil and water of a profiteer, and you want to engage in some "industry" by changing your methods. It is said that the two of them are also quite good at business, and there is a so-called "family business" in the territory of Wenxiao Country, although it is not as magnificent as all over the world, but it is also famous. Now they don't care about their own sect, and they are much more concerned about things in the business field, and they are still thinking about it at this time, and they are still thinking about it, and they will go back to get a batch of good fabrics, just say that Xiao Wanyun has used it, and it will definitely attract some followers, and it will be a harvest when the time comes! The two of them were not happy at the thought that there would be white silver in their pockets again, but their smiles seemed a little lewd and obscene in the eyes of others.

For Guo Da and Hou Junsheng, I won't talk much about them here. It is only said that Xiao Wanyun and others rode their horses all the way, and when it was close to noon, they arrived at the foot of Bitou City. Speaking of this "Bitou City", it is also a bit of a source. The word "Bitou" is related to the customs in the territory of the Great Qi Kingdom, referring to the custom of wearing a hosta on its head. People with a little wealth in China like to wear jasper hairpins on their heads to show that their status is different from ordinary people. This hairpin is also very particular, ordinary people can afford to wear it, only a vermilion nephrite hosta, slightly larger households, often use white hostas. The jasper hairpin is a favorite thing of the princes and nobles, and due to different customs and status, the more hairpins are worn on the head, the more it can show its wealth and its status in the court. It is said that the emperor of Daqi wears a golden hairpin on his head, a total of nine, and five jasper hairpins, following the number of ninety-five, symbolizing that the emperor is the supreme of ninety-five! Because there are many people wearing jasper hairpins in the imperial city, sometimes you can see people wearing hairpins all over their heads, and there are blue heads at a glance, so the imperial city of Daqi is called "Bitou City"!

Xiao Wanyun told Shen Xian that if he wanted to enter the palace to meet the Emperor of Great Qi, he must first follow the folk customs here and wear a hosta. But outsiders don't need to be ranked according to the number, so they only need to wear one.

Shen Xian felt that this custom was really peculiar, but when he thought of the emperor of the Great Qi Kingdom with fourteen hairpins on his head, wasn't that with a long hedgehog on his head?

"This is Bitou City, there is no contact with the Imperial City for the time being, I'll go first!" Gan Jiu Arc said, rode into the Imperial City, and disappeared.

"It seems that if you want to enter the palace, you have to wait for a while, if you feel tired, you can follow me to the inn in the imperial city to stay temporarily!" Xiao Wanyun said to everyone.

"Everything is up to Xiao Ye's arrangement!" everyone replied. Xiao Wanyun nodded, and led everyone into Bitou City.

Bitou City is the imperial city of the Great Qi Kingdom, and its magnificence is not comparable to Qin'an City. Although it is rumored that Qin'an City was built by Duke Lu Wu to imitate the specifications of the imperial city, which is comparable to the imperial city of the Giant Thunder Kingdom "Tianxiao City", but Shen Xian observed this Bitou City, and felt that those rumors were exaggerated, the imperial city was magnificent, where could a small feudal country be compared?

The city wall of Bitou City is towering, and its width alone is as wide as a street in Qin'an City, and it is enough for fifty zhang. The top of the wall was slightly smaller, about thirty zhang wide, and the troops patrolled back and forth in it, without feeling narrow at all. The imperial city is far larger than Qin'an City, the city wall is lined up, about ten miles long, repaired on all sides, like a giant dragon that is sleeping on the earth, it is very grand!

Shen Xian followed Xiao Wanyun into Bitou City, and the layout of the city is also the East and West Market Fang Restaurant, which is the same as other cities, but the scale is more than doubled! Shen Xian rode a horse, with a wide field of vision, but when he saw the heads of people on the street shaking, like a piece of green grass occasionally blown away by the wind, and like the blue waves undulating and rippling, just at a glance, he felt that it was very consistent with the name of "Bitou City", and it was really the "green head" of the city!

Of course, there are also many fellow people in the rivers and lakes, most of them come from other places, and like Shen Xian and others, they don't wear hostas. It's just that these people are not among the people of the imperial city, and if they don't look carefully, I'm afraid it's really difficult to find. It's just that there are too many people wearing hairpins here, and occasionally a few people are mixed in, and it seems to be with a green head at a glance, which is really difficult to distinguish.

Shen Xian was a little curious, listening to Xiao Wanyun say that wearing a jade hairpin on the head is the preference of the princes and nobles, why are there all kinds of people wearing hostas on the streets here? Could they all be princes and nobles? Even the vendors who set up stalls on the streets?

Xiao Wanyun only smiled at Shen Xian's doubts, did not explain, and only led everyone to the "Wanfu Inn" on West Street. As soon as a few people arrived, some men came out to lead the horses, and beckoned everyone to go inside.

Shen Xian dismounted, and before he could lift his feet and go inside, he saw an old man with a gray beard sitting outside the inn, and in front of him lay a wrapping cloth, on which were all kinds of hairpins, and one of the rows was all turquoise hostas! Shen Xian saw that the old man was dressed plainly, and he didn't look like a rich and noble person, why did he sell these precious hostas? He was curious for a moment, so he went up and squatted on the edge of the wrapping, picked up the hosta and looked at it.

Shen Xian is a beginner refiner, but he is an "apprentice", although the level of the artifacts that can be refined is not high, but he has whimsical ideas, and he has a unique vision, even Zhou Lao thinks he is a talent that can be made!

It turns out that this hosta is not really carved from high-quality jade, but with a refining material called "bluestone", with some nephrite jade. Shen Xian asked the old man a few words, only to know that most of the green hostas seen in this city are made of this kind of "green jade", because the refining is simple, and the materials required are few, so it circulates here, and it is very marketable! Speaking of which, this thing called "green jade" is a failure, a waste, worthless in the eyes of refining experts, but I didn't want to come to this Bitou City, and use this waste to make a hairpin, but it is liked by everyone, this is a strange thing!

Shen Xian unconsciously had a bold idea in his heart, and asked the old man about some things, so he left Xiao Wanyun and the others for the time being, and hurriedly went to the refining room on East Street!

Xiao Wanyun didn't care where Shen Xian went, he originally brought Shen Xian here to broaden his horizons, this time Shen Xian wanted to wander around the city, so naturally he wouldn't interfere, just gave Shen Xian a little silver taels, and took Ruan Yunxia and others into the inn.

Xiao Wanyun and the others didn't say much about resting in the inn, only saying that Shen Xian went all the way to the refining room on East Street, asked the steward of the refining room about some information, and then took out the brocade box containing the seven-colored spider silk of the "Colorful Clever Spider". He took out the stripper on his waist, turned his fighting spirit, carefully cut off a short piece of spider silk, put it in a brocade box prepared by the steward of the refining room, and smiled at it: "According to what I said before, please also ask the steward to take what I need, and then rent you a good refining room here!"

The steward closed the brocade box and said with a smile: "Don't worry, Childe, you wait in the inner hall first, and I'll go get what you need!" Saying that, he called the little steward to take Shen Xian into the inner hall, picked a clean and tidy refining room, and after a while, he personally pushed the small wooden cart to find Shen Xian.

The small wooden cart is called the "road carriage", which is specially used to transport materials in the refining room, and some materials are heavy and cannot see the light, so they are pushed by the cart, and then covered with a pitch-black cloth on it, which plays a role in temporary storage.

Shen Xian took a look at the black cloth and saw that the cart contained a long sword, a few strange-shaped stones, several forages packed in brocade boxes, and some unknown materials. But seeing Shen Xian's happy face, he accepted these materials and entered the refining room, closed the door, and didn't know what to do inside.

The steward of the refining room also muttered in his heart, this kid looks young, he shouldn't be a refining master, but what does he want a refining long sword? And he can get an extremely rare material like seven-colored spider silk, could it be the son of a certain nobleman, who came to play with money? It's just that his clothes are really ordinary, and he doesn't have that kind of bearing.

The steward of the refining room was puzzled for a while, but after all, Shen Xian had paid for these materials, so he couldn't ask more, so he just scratched his head and walked away.

Besides, Shen Xian was fiddling in the refining room, because there was a furnace burning here, it was very stuffy, and there was no one around, so he was not afraid that others would see the eight pictures of the dragon hanging around his neck. So he took off his shirt directly, first melted the long sword into the furnace, and then picked up the hammer and smashed the strange stones repeatedly, and then grinded the strange grass that had been smashed into the brocade box into juice. When both were done, the sword had been calcined in the fire, and it was no longer clear what it was. At this moment, Shen Xian poured the broken stones and grinding juice into the furnace at once, closed the lid of the fire, sat aside to rest, and waited for the contents to be refined into shape!