Volume 1: The Beginning of the Edge Chapter 5: Before Departure
Time passed, and the last trace of heat completely dissipated in an autumn rain.
In the middle of the night of this day, Liu Chen and the others wore stars and moons and rushed back to the broken temple. Xu Yan moved his footsteps and jumped on the roof of the broken temple. I carefully swept the deserted and dilapidated courtyard nearby, and saw that there was no one, so I jumped off the roof.
Hurriedly running into the temple, Liu Chen was digging the dry loess behind the broken statue in the temple. Seeing this, Xu Yan had joy on his face, and ran to a corner with a smirk and started digging.
After a long time, the two of them were tired and panting like cattle, and each dug out a large pit half a meter deep. Groping in the dark, the two dragged out two hemp bags from the cave and put them in a pile, and Liu Chen lit a worn-out oil lamp in front of the clay statue.
By the faint light of the dusk, the two opened the two sacks and poured the contents on the ground, making a sound of metal colliding, all copper coins!
Looking at the copper coins piled up into a small mountain, both of them breathed a little fast, and their eyes seemed to be glowing.
"Count how much money we have, tomorrow we will go to the north of the city to find a big shop and buy some things, but we can't lose the money."
"How come, we are hiding so hidden, and this place has long been deserted, I will hold this sack to cultivate tonight, and I will never let it leave my sight for half a step! Hey hey"
Xu Yanxiao's eyes were about to narrow into a slit, and he kept playing with coins in his hands. After a while, the two of them regained their composure, gathered together in a pile, and counted the copper coins on the ground.
"There are a total of ninety-eight and more than sixty wen, which is nearly ten taels of silver!" Half an hour passed, Liu Chen took a deep breath, pushed Xu Yan, who was smirking at himself, and smiled at him.
In the past nearly a month, the two have worked several jobs, saved money, and finally saved considerable income.
Tomorrow, they are going to the north of the city, where the economy and trade are most developed, to buy some things to go into the mountains, and then go to a mountain field thirty miles away on the outskirts of the city.
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After another sleepless night, Liu Chen and the others stopped the operation of the Cangxuan Heavenly Spirit Technique, and after a hasty wash, one of them carried a sack on his back and walked briskly towards the south of the city.
For a month, the two of them practiced diligently every night, coupled with their extraordinary talents, they both opened more than 20 Xuanmen.
Since Liu Chen was recultivating the Enlightenment Spirit, with his own familiarity with the Spirit Technique, his cultivation speed gradually surpassed that of the talented Xu Yan. Now, Liu Chen has opened twenty-four paths, and Xu Yan only opened twenty-two paths last night...
A commercial street that is five zhang wide and four miles long spans most of the north of the city, and many vendors who can't afford to rent shops are selling along the street, and the street is full of acrobatic jugglers.
As the largest commercial street in Guangping City, Pingle Street is full of people all year round, in addition to countless restaurants and shops, many large shops have a large scale in this place. There are even several multinational chambers of commerce covering the seven countries in the lower reaches of the Mengjiang River, which have set up a façade here.
It's not that Liu Chen and the others have never been here, and when they were not driven out of the north of the city by the beggars in the north of the city more than a year ago, the two of them also begged here a few times. Now that the old land is back, things are not people, and Xu Yan can't help but sigh a little.
"Yo, aren't these the two stinky boys who were driven south of the city to beg last year? What a bold man, I said at the beginning, if you dare to come back once, the labor and management will beat you once, it seems that you owe a beating? ”
In front of a restaurant near the corner of the street, the two met Zhang Ergou, who was the most unpleasant to them in the beggar gang in the north of the city, a group of five, led by the man chewing a weed in his mouth, squatting on the ground with a sneer.
After this Zhang Ergou didn't beg for anything one day, he was jealous when he saw a lot of food that Xu Yan had begged for, so he wanted to forcibly take away some of it.
How do you know that this thin young man has a tough attitude, he doesn't give anything, his words are sarcastic, and the two don't talk speculatively and scuffle together, although they were finally resolved by the leader of the beggar gang in the north of the city, but because of this incident, they formed a relationship.
Later, the two had many quarrels, Zhang Ergou was in his prime of life, and he was a good hand in the beggar gang, and he was very popular. Xu Yan is notoriously stingy among the beggars, and he refuses to honor the beggars, which makes people dissatisfied.
In the end, Zhang Ergou found an excuse last autumn, and was driven out of the north of the city with Liu Chen and the four of them.
"Liu Chen, did you hear the dog barking? The barking of dogs is really annoying. Xu Yan scratched his ears and said to Liu Chen, but his eyes were slightly slanted at Zhang Ergou and the others, showing disdain.
"Stinky boy, you dare to scold me, look for a fight!" Zhang Ergou was furious when he heard this, jumped up, and smashed a punch towards Xu Yan's head, if this punch hit, even if he didn't die, he would lose half his life.
Xu Yan's face was slightly cold, he didn't expect Zhang Ergou to be so arrogant and so ruthless. Looking at the hideous smile on Zhang Ergou's face, Xu Yan felt an indescribable disgust in his heart.
The figure flashed slightly, and Xu Yan dodged the punch. The leg was raised and stretched forward, kicking Zhang Ergou's lower abdomen, and the huge force exploded when it came into contact, directly kicking Zhang Ergou, who had not reacted, two meters away.
"Poof! What are you doing in a daze, kill this little bastard for me! Zhang Ergou landed, spurted out a mouthful of blood, covered his lower abdomen in pain, and struggled to yell at his companion.
The other four people hesitated a little when they saw the boss being beaten like this, and when they heard Zhang Ergou's roar, they rushed towards Xu Yan and Liu Chen.
"Shoot lightly, don't kill you" Seeing this, Liu Chen shook his head helplessly and said to Xu Yan.
The two of them have also practiced for a lot of time, and their speed, strength, and reaction power are far from being comparable to ordinary people, and if they don't control their own strength, it is easy to miss and kill people directly.
Xu Yan nodded when he heard this, took off the sack he was carrying and threw it to Liu Chen, and hooked his fingers very defiantly towards the four people who rushed over.
The four of them were still a little afraid, but when they saw him like this, they immediately raised their fists and attacked Xu Yan with red eyes.
Xu Yan was naturally not afraid at all, and when his footsteps moved, he dodged most of the punches that swung at him, and a small part fell on him, as if tickling him.
But his attack is different, and the opponent who can hit him with any punch staggers back. With a little force, one of them will fly to the side like a leaf blown by the wind, and after falling, he will roll on the ground, and he will have no strength to fight again.
The eldest person was two heads taller than him, full of oppression, and when the sandbag-like fist attacked Xu Yan, he did not dodge or dodge, and also threw a punch.
The two fists collided, and the result was of course obvious, and the big man only heard a "click" and his bones shattered. The grim smile on his face had not disappeared, and immediately the color of pain appeared again. Holding his arms, he cried in pain.
It only took a few breaths of the fight before all four fell to the ground, struggling and moaning. Xu Yan naturally didn't care about these people, but slowly walked in front of Zhang Ergou.
"I forgot about your little role, but you had to stick your face over and let me beat me, and I was helpless." Xu Yan leaned down, looked at Zhang Ergou who was lying on the ground and didn't dare to struggle anymore, his face was full of fear, and spread his hands.
"Smack, click! Ahhh ”
Just as Xu Yan stood up straight and was about to leave, Zhang Ergou breathed a sigh of relief. Xu Yan suddenly made a move, slapped Zhang Ergou in the face, lifted his foot, and stepped down fiercely.
Zhang Ergou's pale and bloodless face instantly turned the color of pig liver because he was afraid, and a miserable howl similar to a pig's cry sounded, attracting sideways glances from the surrounding passers-by.
But Zhang Ergou didn't care about any face, and he didn't care about one side of his cheek that was swollen like a steamed bun, he just hugged his left leg and howled uncontrollably, and his heart was desperate. He knew that his left leg was broken.
"Bad luck, get rid of these lying on the ground!" The shopkeeper in the restaurant rushed to hear the sound, looked at the five people lying on the ground in disgust, waved his hand, and a few small people came out of the restaurant and dragged a few people into the distance...
At this time, Liu Chen and the others had already left in front of the restaurant and stopped in front of a low-class shop. The two glanced at each other, and they both saw the joy in each other's eyes, as if nothing had happened just now, and they couldn't disturb the mood of the two of them in the slightest.
"Just this Ruofeng Pavilion, we should be able to buy what we need here." Liu Chen said to Xu Yan, who heard the words and looked at the shop with a beautiful decoration, although his heart was a little weak because he came to such a high-end place for the first time, but he pretended to be calm on his face and nodded.
The two of them said no more and stepped into it. Although the waiter at the door was a little strange about the two of them's dress, seeing Liu Chen's calm expression, he couldn't help but want to interrogate the two. After guiding the two into the pavilion, he beckoned a seventeen or eighteen-year-old waitress and asked her to introduce the two of them to the major sections of the shop.
Although this Ruofeng Pavilion is only one floor, it covers an area that is not too small, and there are many kinds of goods. Every customer has a waiter next to him, introducing the products to the customers.
The waiter beside them did not despise the two of them because of their tattered clothes, and tried his best to explain the product information to the two of them, knowing everything.
"We want to see the weapons." After looking at it casually for a while, Liu Chen said to the waiter.
"Please follow me" The waiter was a little puzzled and a little excited, but his face was not revealed, and he respectfully led the two to the area where weapons were sold.
The reason why she was puzzled was because weapons were mostly expensive for civilians, and it seemed that the two of them were not dressed like consumers. But if she can really complete a large order, the commission alone may be comparable to her salary for a few days, so she is naturally a little excited.
Coming to the counter selling weapons, Liu Chen carefully observed each weapon within the price he could accept, and after listening to the waiter's careful explanation, he discussed with Xu Yan for a while, and bought a Tang knife, a seven-foot sword, and two short daggers.
Later, under the leadership of the more and more respectful attendants, the two of them purchased two more sets of samurai power suits, some healing ointments, fire folds and other items necessary for survival in the wild.
When paying at the front desk, the two poured out a mountain of copper coins that really stunned everyone, after all, ordinary people will go to exchange a large number of copper coins for silver, which is easy to carry. But because of the tight time for cultivation to make money, the two of them have never been to Qianzhuang, so this famous scene was triggered.
After purchasing what they needed, Liu Chen and Xu Yan only had one or two silver and three copper coins exchanged in the shop, and they were very satisfied with the pile of items they bought.
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