Chapter 251: Old Dragon City
In the past thousands of years, Dongbao Aquarius has been the emperor of flowing water in the north, and there is an iron-clad Fu family in the southernmost part.
The old dragon city Fu family, very rich, how can they be rich? Let's just say that there are three magic weapons that are worse than the immortal soldiers, and all of them are bought with money, and then passed down from generation to generation, until they reach the hands of the current head of the family, Fu Qi, I heard that now the Fu family has gone to the Middle Earth Divine Continent and just came back, which is not adding another half-immortal soldier. It's just three things? The Fu family didn't pay attention to this.
There are many interesting things about the Fu family, such as never writing a family tree, and the names of children and grandchildren are always arbitrary. The status of women in the Fu family is extremely high, and the female heroes who served as the city lord in history can't be counted with one hand. The children of the Fu family can read and buy books and collect books, and the private bookstores have the largest number of rare books in Aquarius, but even if the Fu family who left the old dragon city was biased, they never participated in the imperial examination, and did not give any emperor and monarch a military general and minister, just lying in the gold and silver mountains, it is okay to eat and wait for death, and the heads of the family have never been prejudiced against this, and they have all been raised.
Therefore, the rich Fu family, many handsome children who are the most powerful in chess, calligraphy and painting, and piano skills, as well as the descendants of the Fu family have written the most classic recipes, published popular landscape travelogues across the continent, and bought countless mountains in the vast territory of the north, but they are all empty and do not build immortal mansions, leaving them to be wasted.
There are too many weirdos and wonderful people in the Fu family.
But the Fu family has a house rule, and the thunder can't be moved.
Only the strongest person in the family can wear the ancestral old dragon robe.
The ferry port where the sheep fat hall ferry docked, more than 300 miles outside the old dragon city, is not a secluded place with a landscape shape, nearly 100 ferries of all kinds are stranded here, noisy and boiling, overcrowded, there are both dead ferries built by Mojia craftsmen, and there are living ferries similar to Kun boats, the light is strange, Chen Ping'an is on the way down the ferry, he is dizzying.
Before the ferry docked, Chen Ping'an heard a saying that an ordinary man living in the city would never be able to visit the old dragon city in his life.
Chen Ping'an was on the ferry before, trying to overlook the whole picture of Old Dragon City, but found that there was a sea of clouds covering him, and he was a little regretful. Due to the appearance of Liu Baqiao, the old man of the Sheep Fat Hall who was in charge of the ferry took the initiative to come to Chen Ping'an's side to solve his doubts, it turned out that those rolling clouds were a half-immortal soldier of the old Dragon City, if you looked up at the sky from the city, but you would not see half of the clouds, the old man also told Chen Ping'an a shocking legend.
Legend has it that eight hundred years ago, there were nearly a thousand evil monks who were crooked, and they slaughtered the old dragon city, among which there were two earth immortals, the top qi practitioners of the Jindan Yuan Infant Realm, as many as ten people, this group of powerful and domineering people, in order to plan to occupy the old dragon city, nearly a hundred years of secret management, inside and outside, everything is ready, when the army pressed the realm, it happened to be the old city lord died, At the critical moment before the new head of the family came out, the twelve rooms of the Fu family in the old dragon city had already been infighting, and their vitality was greatly damaged, especially the two ancestors of the Fu family, each holding a half-immortal soldier, and the fight was earth-shattering, even if there were layers of magic prohibitions, which greatly suppressed the lethality of the half-immortal soldiers, it was still the destruction of half of the old dragon city.
After she appeared, she glanced at the old dragon city with gunsmoke under her feet, and then at the gathering of more than a thousand qi practitioners, after she yawned, she reached out and grabbed it, occupying the sea of clouds within a radius of thousands of miles, and was condensed into a bead in the palm of her hand, and then she sneezed.
In the South China Sea, there were hundreds of Gangfeng tornadoes, blowing away from the sea to the north, for the demon path qi practitioners who were bound to win in the old dragon city, not to mention the indiscriminate filling, just responsible for waving the flag and shouting the lower five realm qi practitioners, just the middle five realm immortals, were blown to death by the gang wind, after that, the group of demons who escaped the catastrophe retreated in a hurry, and then were chased and killed by the stable Fu family for a whole hundred years.
Chen Ping'an was stunned when he heard this.
The old man finally smiled and asked, "What, don't you believe it?"
Chen Ping'an shook his head, of course he didn't believe it. How could anyone in the world be able to blow to death so many Qi practitioners in the Middle Five Realms with just one hand of supernatural powers.
The old man smiled and said, "Actually, I don't believe it either. It is the Heavenly Monarch Qi Zhen of the Divine Sect, the sword immortals and saints of the Fengxue Temple and the True Martial Mountain, who joined forces to strike, and they should not have this might. It's just a rendering of the romance of later generations, but then again, this kind of scaring story still has to be exaggerated like me to be interesting. β
Saying goodbye to the old man, Chen Ping'an got off the ferry, one after another high-rise buildings were lined up, the street was unbelievably wide, and the feasible people were still side by side, Chen Ping'an was wrapped up in it, and he had a headache, this has not yet entered the old Dragon City, it is already like this, how to find the dust pharmacy and Zheng Dafeng. In the previous casual chat with the old man of the Sheep Fat Hall, Chen Ping'an tentatively inquired about the Inverted Hanging Mountain, wondering if he could take the cross-continent ferry to go, but the old man looked dazed, and only said that of course he heard that the mountain character seal of the second disciple of the Taoist Ancestor was very domineering, and a Taoist master in the world elsewhere was able to nail such a big nail in our vast world, and he couldn't help but take those gods and saints in the Temple of Literature seriously.
But the old man had never heard of the old Dragon City ferry, and there was a ferry to go here. The old man didn't even know the exact location of the Inverted Hanging Mountain, only that it was relatively close to the South Po Continent.
So Chen Ping'an, who got off the boat, was like a headless fly, he could only take one step at a time, first honestly walked three hundred miles, and then entered the old Dragon City. After asking all the way, after determining the general direction, Chen Ping'an found that in the middle of the avenue, there were no people on foot, many vehicles came and went, coming and going like the wind, there were carriages with splendid treasures, the horses pulling the carts were more handsome and peculiar than a horse, and some people's mounts were tigers, long snakes and big turtles and cranes, although everyone was a qi practitioner, but the streets were orderly, and no one dared to rampage.
Old man Yang and the old man surnamed Cui, as well as Wei Yan, all suggested that after entering the four realms of martial arts, they would take the old dragon city ferry to the inverted hanging mountain, so before that, Chen Ping'an was not too obsessed with hurrying, but when Chen Ping'an landed with his feet in the realm of the old dragon city, for some reason, he especially wanted to rush to the inverted hanging mountain as soon as possible.
The entire Aquarius has gone north to south, millions of miles away, have gone down, Chen Ping'an has never been so urgent, so he is on the side of the street in a similar post station, Chen Ping'an is unprecedentedly generous, spent ten snowflakes to hire a carriage, two snow-white horses, the coachman is not a young man, but a young girl in a good posture, with a natural heartiness, not shy at all, after Chen Ping'an got into the carriage, he suggested that the employer might as well sit next to her, she will be on the way to the drive, for the guests to introduce those famous shops on both sides of the streetWhat are the gluttonous delicacies and antique calligraphy and paintings at staggering prices, she grew up in the ferry outside the old dragon city since she was a child, and she is very familiar with it, and she chose to take her carriage this time, which is worth the trip!
The carriage slowly passed through the sea of people, and after driving into the middle of the street, the girl suddenly whipped up her horse and drove quickly with other vehicles in the direction of the west gate of the old dragon city, Chen Ping'an sat behind the girl who was skillful in driving, eating dry cakes, and did not dare to drink. Because the sword gourd had been wrapped in cotton cloth on the back of the crossbody by him before he got off the boat, Wei Yan had reminded him that the immortals and saints of the Ten Realms above the Jindan Yuan Ying could still see through the tricks he cast and recognize the sword gourd.
The girl is very cheerful and outgoing, talking endlessly, telling Chen Ping'an about the historical origin of the high-rise buildings, introducing what great mountain gods are in it, what bold words and what feats have been done, Chen Ping'an walked through the rivers and lakes under the mountain of the "Great Demon of the Five Realms", until today, I found a place similar to my hometown town, like the gods of the Five Realms, and finally not so valuable.
Chen Ping'an asked the girl if she had ever heard of the dust pharmacy in the city, the girl shook her head and said that the situation in the old dragon city, she didn't know much, because the old dragon city is too big, and it is divided into the outer city and the inner city and the city, every time you pass through the city gate, you have to pay a high fee, as long as you are a foreigner, let you be the old fairy of Jindan Yuan, the same is the king of heaven and Lao Tzu is no exception, so she has only been to the outer city of the old dragon city a few times, every time she goes, the money bag that she has finally accumulated will definitely dry up.
However, if it is the Fu family and the rest of the five surnamed children of the old dragon city, not only does it not cost money to cross the border again and again, but also can travel against the wind in the inner and outer cities, of course, if you have the ability to buy an old dragon turning cloud pendant with the Fu family, you can also be chic and resist the wind, except for the Fu family city in the center of the old dragon city, it is not allowed to sweep through the air and be unrestrained. The girl driving asked Chen Ping'an an an old dragon over the clouds jade pendant, can you guess how much it is?
Chen Ping'an tried his best to guess the sky-high price, saying a thousand snowflakes.
That's a million taels of silver.
The girl laughed heartily, turned her head and stretched out a palm towards Chen Ping'an, "Five thousand!"
Chen Ping'an was afraid that there would be a mistake in the carriage, so he couldn't care about the shock in his heart, and hurriedly said: "Girl, drive carefully." β
The girl heyed, turned around, and turned her back to Chen Ping'an, but the girl raised her chin high, and said proudly: "Childe, it's really not me bragging, even if I release the reins with both hands and close my eyes, the carriage can run safely and steadily to the west gate." It's just that lest the guests be worried, I pretend to drive seriously. β
Chen Ping'an said softly: "Don't pretend. β
The girl laughed, "Okay, take it seriously to your son!"
Chen Ping'an looked at the girl's back, couldn't help laughing, and then turned his head to look at the bustling scene of the street on the side, the breeze was blowing, it was very strange, all the way south, there was often wind and sun, Chen Ping'an's complexion was a little fairer, and he was no longer the black charcoal-like potter.
The girl seemed to have eyes behind her back, and knowing that the foreign boy was looking at the street, she turned her head secretly, and then quickly turned her head again, just a glance, and secretly glanced at the side face of the young man with a negative box.
The young man is not handsome, but he is really pleasing to the eye.
The girl suddenly laughed: "Childe, you are very good-looking." β
Chen Ping'an was probably infected by the girl's cheerful mood, and said with a rare joke: "Give the girl a few more looks, can you charge me one less snowflake money?"
Chen Ping'an has this change, presumably Ah Liang, Xu Yuanxia, Liu Baqiao, these guys are all the culprits.
The girl smiled, "That's not going to work. From the shop to the city gate, it was nearly 600 miles back and forth, and I had to run ten times to earn a snowflake money. β
Chen Ping'an nodded and said, "It's very hard." β
The girl with her back to Chen Ping'an shook her head vigorously, "Childe, what's so hard about this, I like to run back and forth like this since I was a child, even if I have my own shop in the future and make a lot of money, I will still drive back and forth in person, and I can meet many, many guests, just like Childe." β
The girl was a little worried, "But it costs a lot of money to buy a shop, I think I'm going to be in this life, hanging." β
The girl laughed loudly: "Hanging!"
It turned out that in the end, the little girl still ended happily.
Chen Ping'an smiled to help cheer up, "Earn slowly, today is richer than yesterday, tomorrow is richer than today, and the day after tomorrow is richer than tomorrow!"
The girl suddenly had high morale, turned her head and smiled brightly at Chen Ping'an.
At the beginning, because of Fu Nanhua, the young city lord of Old Dragon City, Chen Ping'an actually had a very bad impression of Old Dragon City, which was not much better than Zhengyang Mountain.
But Chen Ping'an likes this girl from the bottom of his heart, of course, it is not the kind of love between men and women, but there is a feeling of sunshine and flowers in the girl, Chen Ping'an is willing to deal with this kind of person, and the young Taoist priest and the bearded man who have been separated are also the same.
The girl continued to introduce the streets on both sides, and Chen Ping'an followed her finger and looked at them one by one.
Time passed to the sound of horses' hooves.
In less than an hour, Chen Ping'an could already see the high outer walls of the Old Dragon City, which were much higher than the walls of any pass city he had seen before.
Before he was about to stop the horse, Chen Ping'an asked, "Do you know Sun Jiashu?"
The girl turned her head in surprise, "Who?"
Chen Ping'an had to repeat the name on one side, "Sun Jiashu." β
The girl couldn't help laughing, and didn't speak for a long time, until the carriage stopped, and the girl suddenly stood up, pointed to the street behind her, and drew a big circle with her arms, "Childe, do you see it?"
Chen Ping'an nodded.
The girl's eyes narrowed into crescent moons, "From here at our city gate to the ferry, the shops on the streets for three hundred miles are all his!"
Chen Ping'an stood on the carriage with the girl, a little confused, "It's all Sun Jiashu alone?"
The girl nodded vigorously, extremely proud, "Yes! It's all Sun Gongzi's!"
Then the girl lowered her voice and said mysteriously: " I heard the shopkeeper say, Sun Gongzi is a good person, although he is the most good at doing business, but a first-class Bodhisattva heart, almost the older generation on the street with a bad temper, also talked about the good of Sun Gongzi and his parents, saying that in the early years, there was a fire on the street, which burned down two or three thousand shops of the Sun family, and Sun Gongzi, who had just become the head of the family at that time, not only did not pursue it, but also helped everyone rebuild the store building at his own expense, and I also heard many women and women say that Sun Gongzi is very handsome, so he is the most kind and handsome man in our old Dragon CityοΌβ
There are still a hundred zhang away from the city gate, the road is full of such vehicles, and then in the flow of people, a young man in plain white linen walked straight to the carriage where Chen Ping'an and the girl stood, the man was slender, and the jade tree was in the wind, but it would not give people the invisible pressure of standing out from the crowd, it was just a clean temperament, like a scholarly family who walked out of the family, gentle and elegant.
Clustered between the gaps in the vehicles on both sides of the road, there were many pedestrians hurrying away, and someone accidentally hit the man's shoulder and hurriedly apologized, the man smiled and shook his head, saying it didn't matter.
The girl turned her head to look at Old Dragon City and muttered, "Childe, how can you say that there is such a good and good Sun Gongzi in the world?"
Chen Ping'an was speechless.
The young man, who had been standing for a while, finally raised his head with a smile, looked at the two people, and whispered to the girl, "Thank you." β
The girl was confused, looked down, and wondered, "What are you thanking me for?"
The young man smiled, did not explain the reason, and then looked at Chen Ping'an, "You are Chen Ping'an, I am a friend of Liu Baqiao, and I just received a summons from his flying sword not long ago, so I came here to wait for you." β
Chen Ping'an jumped out of the carriage and stood so high to talk to people, it was too unsophisticated, and asked tentatively: "You won't be ......"
After that, Chen Ping'an finally couldn't help but say it.
The man nodded and said, "Yes, I am Sun Jiashu." β
The girl sighed and said helplessly: "This son, alas, why do you have the same name as Sun Gongzi, how wronged you are." β
The young man smiled and did not speak.
The girl said goodbye to Chen Ping'an, the carriage slowly turned around, and finally turned to leave.
Chen Ping'an followed Sun Jiashu to the west gate of the Old Dragon City, and couldn't help but ask, "Sun ...... Sun Gongzi, the whole street is yours?"
Sun Jiashu didn't pretend to be reserved, nodded and smiled: "When the ancestors were at their most beautiful, the entire outer city of the old dragon city belonged to my family, and later the old dragon city became bigger and bigger, and our Sun family lost several big deals, so it became less rich than the Fu family." But now the Sun family is of course still very rich, well, even if I, Sun Jiashu, am rich. β
Chen Ping'an secretly glanced at Sun Jiashu, there were no hanging ornaments on the man's body, and he couldn't even see any wealth.
Sun Jiashu said with a smile: "No one in our Sun family has it, and I am no exception, in fact, I want to buy it, but the rigid rules handed down by the ancestors do not allow future generations to be extravagant in such trivial matters, and I have no way to change the family law of my ancestors, so I have to endure it, which is actually very annoying." β
Chen Ping'an wanted to speak and stopped.
Sun Jiashu turned his head and said, "What, do you want to say that the twenty snowflakes can be returned to you?" Of course not, friends are friends, and business is business. β
Chen Ping'an scratched his head, "I want to ask if Old Dragon City is so big, do we have to go all the way to your house?"
Sun Jiashu didn't speak, and looked at Chen Ping'an with a smile.
Chen Ping'an sighed and confessed: "Okay, if you don't pay it back, you won't pay it back." β
Sun Jiashu said suddenly: "No wonder Liu Baqiao said that we would fall in love." β
Chen Ping'an asked curiously: "You are often scolded for being a money junkie?"
Sun Jiashu couldn't laugh or cry, shook his head lightly and said, "Liu Baqiao said that we both like to be poor and generous. β
What is it, Liu Baqiao said this inexplicably.
Be generous and don't say it, Sun Jiashu is poor?
Sun Jiashu said suddenly: "I have a biased ability, that is, I can see a person's money without holding it. β
Then he stopped, turned his head to look at Chen Ping'an, and said in a word, "The things you sent out are worth more than the entire Old Dragon City." β
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In the inner city of the old dragon city, in a secluded alley, there is a newly opened small pharmacy, but the palm-sized place, the man in charge of the shop, actually hired seven or eight beautiful women and delicate women, they are all without exception, they all have a pair of long legs, men have nothing to do all day long, never worry about the business of the pharmacy, busy talking to them, saying some self-proclaimed meat, the women seem to be shy on the surface, and they roll their eyes when they turn their heads.
This man took a small bench today, sat at the mouth of the alley, swallowed melon seeds, looked at the women passing by on the street, the man's eyes lit up, thinking that it was indeed a house flower that was not as fragrant as a wild flower.
Then today there was another woman on the street, walking in front of the man's eyes, dressed very fancy, as for her appearance and figure...... Anyway, the man had already lost the melon seeds, picked up the bench and ran away.