Chapter Forty-Eight: The Next Day, the Families of Loro City
"Huhu, I'm scared to death Chen'er, but I just want to beat you to obey me, you're good, if you can't beat me, I'll find a short-term view, it's fun not to play and jump off the building at an old age! I don't want to think about what I should do if you die! If my uncle knows that I killed someone in the game, wouldn't he scold me to death? Deliberately harm me~" Luo Qinchen returned to the ground from the tree, tore open the deadly spider silk that was entwined with Yuan Wei, and scolded when he saw Yuan Wei's face, ignoring the fact that Yuan Wei had just walked out of the ghost gate, not to mention that Yuan Wei was still entangled by the tenacious life-killing spider silk and couldn't move, and the vexatious childishness was completely reflected from Luo Qinchen's body at this moment, which was extremely consistent with the body of only sixteen years old.
By the time Qin Chen scolded to the point that he couldn't scold anymore, it was already a hot afternoon, and it was then that Yuan Wei had a chance to speak, "Why save me?"
"Didn't I say that if my uncle found out that I had killed someone, he would scold me to death. Qin Chen raised the leather bag containing water in his hand, took a sip, and said slowly in a disdainful tone, as if everything he did was just reasonable. "You regret it, though?"
"Well, I regret it. ”
"Then ......" Qin Chen re-plugged the mouth of the leather bag with the wooden stopper, casually placed the two broken hand crossbows on the ground, leaned against the trunk of the tree defenselessly, and said softly, "Then let's start talking." ”
"Good. Seeing Qin Chen's lax state, Yuan Wei had to re-evaluate the sixteen-year-old girl in front of her in front of her, her extraordinary ability to deduce, nuanced insight, and unusually intelligent mind...... All of this proves that Luo Qinchen is extraordinary. Although he didn't want to admit it, Yuan Wei still remembered Qin Chen's life-saving grace in his heart. "I don't know what Yuan might answer for you?"
"I wonder why you're participating in this hunting tournament. Qin Chen took out a ceramic utensil from his backpack, threw the few plants in his hand that were so small that people had forgotten their names into the utensils one by one, and then took out a small and delicate ceramic utensil, and used this utensil to grind the plants in the vessel slowly, and his focused demeanor was like a puppet with a persistent expression, which made Yuan Wei stunned for a while, almost forgetting what he was going to do, and after a long time, Yuan Wei recovered from this state of distraction under Qin Chen's reminder. "Isn't there anything to say?"
"Oh, sorry. That is true...... As you said, the current head of our Yuan family, and indeed the mortal cultivator rank of the fire attribute physique is the mortal body level of the forging period, and except for me and Silent Ming, the other Yuan family disciples are all fire attribute physiques, and the number of mortal cultivators accounts for one-tenth of all the disciples, that is, twenty-nine, most of them are the strength of the mortal level soul forging stage. Because of the mutual restraint of the attribute physique, the other children, including the head of the family, all dislike and exclude us, and as for my title of elder, it is just a gift from the ancestors. In order to subvert this situation, Silent Ming and I had no choice but to participate in this hunting competition, trying to compete with the current head of the family for the power of the Yuan family by virtue of the status of the city lord's mansion guest secretary. ”
"Then why do you have to be the guest of the Luoluo City City Lord's Mansion? Why do the thirty-six main cities of the Heavenly Wind Empire have to be Luoluo City? Although you are not a mortal cultivator, you should be able to deal with mortal level cultivators, right? In this case, you should not be afraid that there is no place to live, right? Why?" Qin Chen didn't raise his head, he asked softly, his hands were still grinding the plants in the vessel, if there was anything different, it was probably only the smell. At this time, the plants exude a bitter medicinal fragrance under the grinding of the morning.
"This, really?"
"You don't have to say it. Qin Chen was still grinding the plants in the vessel, and the speed of his hand remained constant, as if he was carving a piece of flawless jasper.
"Well, I'll say it then. According to the information sold by the Jinling Chamber of Commerce, I know that the city lord of Luoluo City has the secret art of catalyzing mortals into mortal cultivators, and it is rumored in the rivers and lakes that no one in the Luo family is not a mortal cultivator, including the maids who are subordinates in the City Lord's Mansion. It was in this view that Silence and I came to participate in this hunting competition, praying that we could enter the Luo family's mansion and let the Lord of Luo City help me and Silence Ming become mortal cultivators, so that I could have the ability to compete with the current head of the family, Yuan Muxiao, for the power of the Yuan family......" Speaking of this, Yuan Wei looked at Qin Chen's expression uneasily, but found that Qin Chen was not moved by this secret at all, and it was only now that Yuan Wei knew that Qin Chen's power was not his extraordinary inference ability, nuanced insight, and unusually intelligent mind, but his mentality! Not to be shaken by the outside world in the slightest mentality!!
"Hurry up and rejoice, I'm glad I met here. ”
"For ...... Why?"
"The so-called methods of catalyzing mortals into mortal cultivators are just a few of them. For example, if you squeeze all your life's potential to a point, you can instantly become a mortal cultivator or even a mortal at or above the mortal level, but instead your lifespan will be greatly reduced to only a few years, and you will be taught the lifelong natural power of another mortal cultivator, if the meridians that have not been exercised can withstand the impact of non-origin natural forces, you can barely become a mortal cultivator, but the price is that the meridians are permanently damaged, if you can't bear it, you can only be supported by the surging natural force to burst your own meridians, and the meridians of the whole body will be broken and die。 It may be a bit cruel to say this, but the other so-called secret techniques are almost the same as these two methods, so if you know the facts, are you still willing to try this? Even if the meridians are broken and you die, even if you don't live well, even if you don't live well, think about it, old man!" Qin Chen is still grinding the plants in the ceramic vessel, but the current "plants" can no longer be called "plants" The half scoop of viscous dark green liquid contained in the vessel was being carefully stirred by Qin Chen, as if he wanted to make the half scoop of viscous liquid more smooth and fluid, and the bitter medicinal fragrance became faint for this reason, leaving only a faint trace of smell under the flow of air, which seemed to have stayed on the clothes.
"That ......"
"Okay!" Qin Chen threw away the ceramic utensils in his hand with satisfaction, clapped his palms, as if he was patting off the dust on his hands, and then put his hand into the rucksack he carried with him and seemed to grope carefully, and after a while, he took out several porcelain-white medicine bottles from this rucksack.
"Tell me about the main city of Luoluo, I, a country girl who has never stepped half a step out of Aoki Town and the commercial center, is very interested in the affairs of the big city! You won't let me down, right?" Qin Chen looked at Yuan Wei slyly, his two eyes shining, as if a hungry wolf was staring at his prey, which made Yuan Wei feel furious in his heart, and for the first time in history, he was afraid of his juniors.
"Well, of course it will!...... hehe, hehe" Under the gaze of Qin Chen's abnormal eyes, Yuan Wei had no choice but to be helpless, and agreed with his head bowed. At this time, Qin Chen was holding a small medicine spoon that he didn't know where to take out, spoonful after spoonful of the dark green liquid in the ceramic vessel, spoonful after spoonful, into the medicine bottle stacked on the side, one spoonful is one bottle.
"This girl, can't she be a doctor?"
Looking at Qin Chen's skillful movements, Yuan Wei couldn't help but guess that for this mysterious girl who easily saw through her stealth skills and forced herself into a dead end with her overwhelming strength in the personal duel, Yuan Wei kept a deep fear of her all the time, and at this moment, because of her life-saving grace, she had to temporarily let her send it, so thinking about it, Yuan Wei was also relieved, and there was no concealment at the moment, and the situation of the main city of Luoluo was explained in detail.
"At present, in the main city of Luoluo, there are nine major families, namely the Yuan family, the Luo family, the Yan family, the Ren family, the An family, the Ji family, the Cen family, the Lan family, and the Qu family. Among them, our Yuan family ranks fourth among the nine major families, and the first is the city lord's mansion of Luoluo City, the Luo family. Originally, there were only eight major families in Luoluo City, and the Luo family, as a government agency, could not become one of the families to which Luoluo City belonged, and could only silently carry out all the will directly issued by the royal family. Today's nine families, the Yan family monopolizes the textile business, the Ren family monopolizes the grain business, the An family monopolizes the medicinal material business, and the Ji family monopolizes the mineral industry. The Cen family and the Lan family are cooperating to collect the alchemists in Luoluo City, which means that all the places that need alchemy in Luoluo City have to go to the Cen family or the Lan family to rent an alchemist at a high price, as you know, in the current world where mortal cultivators are declining, alchemists are miracle makers who replace mortal cultivators, so no one dares to provoke the Cen family and the Lan family in the battle for a long time. The Qu family did not participate in any economic activities, but they were the best surviving of all the families in Luoluo City, and the reason for this has not been known. Yuan Wei has been carefully telling Qin Chen everything he knows about Luoluo City, and Qin Chen has already taken care of his own affairs, holding his chin and listening carefully to Yuan Wei's story.
"What about the Luo family?" Sensing that Yuan Wei had ignored the affairs of the Luo family, she hurriedly asked, in her opinion, the so-called family information of the Yan family, the Ren family, and the Lan family, which were in a monopoly position, were not as important as the Luo family, because when he saw Luo Longchuan, Qin Chen thought of an idea that even he couldn't believe, in order to verify the existence of this idea, Qin Chen had to dig out the Luo family's information even if he dug three hundred feet into the ground.
"Luojia...... The Luo family was originally only a government official mansion, and has not been involved in the commercial and economic affairs between the eight families, but one day twenty years ago, the city lord of Luoluo City suddenly held a family meeting, and summoned the eight families to the city lord's mansion for this meeting of foreign economic talks, and soon after the meeting, the Luo family intervened in the business economy of the eight families, and got a share of the various monopoly industries, in this short twenty years, the wealth accumulated by the Luo family is much higher than the wealth accumulated by the eight families for almost a hundred years, and it has jumped to the top of the nine families in one fell swoop。 ”
"Do you know the reason why the Luo family participates in the commercial economy of Loro City?"
"No one knows, it's just flowing out of the rivers and lakes, two days before the Luo family decided to hold a meeting of the eight families, the city lord's mansion held a funeral for two people at the same time, one is the younger brother of the city lord, who died of illness at a young age, and the other is the younger daughter-in-law of the city lord, it is said that she hung herself on the beam of the house because of the departure of her husband. Before the first seven of the two of them had passed, the city lord of Luoluo hurriedly held a meeting, and during that period of time, the entire Luoluo City was talking about all kinds of things. But the rumors must eventually stop, and under the wash of time, it will not be taken seriously. As for what the truth is, no one knows. ”
It's true! It's true! Although some things are adapted from pure hearsay, some are written, directed, and acted by the Lord of Los Angeles, and even his brother's death may be fake. However, it is precisely because of the existence of this funeral that Luo Longchuan dares to meddle in the business economy between the families......!
"Well, I probably know, you see, it's dusk, why don't we go back and see how the two children are playing?" ”
As soon as the words fell, Yuan Wei took the lead and jumped on a branch in the distance with a sudden kick, Qin Chen did not make reservations, and under the ingenuity of the purple jade flute, he quickly shuttled between the jungles. After a while, Qin Chen and Yuan Wei both returned to the place where Mu Li and Yuan Mingming competed, only to find that both of them were so tired that they were lying on the dirty ground panting. Seeing this, Qin Chen "fluttered", did not hold back his laughter, and laughed heartily without any image, and Yuan Wei, under Qin Chen's infection, went from chuckling to laughing, and finally couldn't help laughing arrogantly.
"Don't laugh !!" Mu Li and Yuan Mingming suddenly gained strength when they heard Qin Chen and Yuan Wei's uninhibited laughter, and shouted loudly, but after that, they really lost their strength and fainted from exhaustion.
The closer you get to night, the more dangerous it becomes. A hint of vigilance unconsciously spread to Qin Chen's eyes, as if there were one or several pairs of eyes staring at him near him, or a hungry wolf who had lost his mind finally smelled the breath of a person and was rushing over desperately......