Chapter 30: Rumors Spread
A day passed, and there were no waves.
Aside from the thunder that exploded from time to time in the sky overhead, the enthusiasm of the people in the city continued unabated, and the discussion of the upcoming festival became more and more intense.
Compared with the nearby state capital, Jinzhou is indeed very much like a paradise, and the war is rarely affected, so there are not a few inheritances here, and the Wulin rivers and lakes are much more prosperous than Xizhou and other places.
Walking on the road at this moment, meeting a person everywhere may have a few strokes, and even more importantly, there are many levels of strength, and with the approach of the Ten Methods Meeting, as the largest recent prosperity of thousands of miles around, all parties gather, and there will only be more martial artists in the future.
Not long ago, several more teams came to the city one after another, led by the second-rate masters who penetrated the dragon and tiger, and lived in the west city.
Jinzhou's well-known local 'Flying Snow Knife' and 'Amazing Heroes' and other first-class martial artists are also coming.
There are even rumors that on Guangwen Mountain, which is 400 miles away from Los Angeles, there are top masters who have walked down, and some of the big faction families of tens or hundreds of years have also come out of many old figures, and they will arbitrarily come up with a place that was famous in the first place!
When there are many people, housing is naturally tight.
Nowadays, not only the inns in the urban areas, but also the idle courtyards have been occupied, and when there is no empty space, those who come after have to temporarily move their eyes from Los Angeles and cast their eyes on the nearby villages and towns.
It's just that the outside of the city is not as good as the city, even in Jinzhou, there are not no bandits and thieves, but most of the people who have gathered now are armed with martial arts, but they are not afraid of those rabble who have fallen into the grass.
The flow of people is like weaving, the cries of selling are getting higher and higher day by day, all kinds of tea shops and wine shops on the side of the road are making a lot of money, and even the small stalls and vendors are also smiling from ear to ear.
It's been a long time since I've been able to sell as early as these days. Some gadgets that are a little new to outsiders are especially easy to sell, and they are often swept away soon after they are moved out.
"I haven't seen anything like this in years."
In the city, the people have gradually realized the difference from the past, they may not know much about the so-called puja, and they do not know much about the meaning, but the excitement is always not fake, and the cold atmosphere caused by the chaotic situation is slowly warming up, as if returning to the light festival a few years ago, the noise and noise are mixed together to make a comfortable fireworks fluttering over Los Angeles, many people secretly sigh, I don't know whether to remember the past, or sigh whether they can see such a scene again in the future.
The time came to October 26.
At the earliest, several forces of the Ten Dharma Sects began to come out of front of the people, first visiting some well-known sects that had arrived in the city, and sending gilded invitations to invite them to participate. Then a notice was widely issued, and a competition platform and a discussion platform were set up in the city, and one of them even took out a hundred taels of gold as the first prize.
The atmosphere was further hyped up, and when the news came out, it was heard by many lone rangers in just half a day, and at the same time, some sects that were hidden from the world and avoided disasters couldn't help but step out of the mountain gate.
The hustle and bustle of the world is all for profit, and the gold is worth three or five lifetimes of ordinary farmers without worrying about eating and drinking, and whether it is for the lone knight who fights the sword world, or the martial arts sect of more than a dozen people and dozens of people, this money is also enough to meet their martial arts expenses for a long time.
Poor and rich in martial arts, most of the strength to cultivate the body needs herbs and pills, and the injury medicine is also readily available, and the cost is really not low.
In fact, a hundred taels of gold is still second, just yesterday a few more at the same time stood up, took three treasures, among which there is a work from a casting master in the ancient southwest country six hundred years ago, is a fish intestine short sword, after hundreds of years is still sharp, the cold is exposed.
Another thing comes from the moonlight jewel on the coast of the East China Sea, which is clothed in brilliant jade brilliance, with a large head and feet and a fist, which is rare in the world.
And what really makes those hidden people excited is the third treasure - a flowing elixir with a faint blue light.
Truly extraordinary!
Chen Yu learned about this in the evening of the same day, he heard it from a diner on the side when he was in a noodle restaurant, and he was curious, I don't know if it was a gimmick or something, but when he went to the place where the three treasures were placed, he took a look and found that the herb really had a spiritual connotation!
Oh, home-grown, that's fine.
"It's hard for them to be able to transport it all the way from Xizhou, I don't know how much effort it takes."
A glance floated by, confirming that it was cultivated by the spiritual machine, the herbs were all green, perhaps the roots and leaves were dyed a little purple after being desoiled for too long, and the spirituality continued to overflow, stirring the surrounding air and distorting a halo of light.
Others only think that these blue lights are the magic of the elixir, but Chen Yu knows that the herbs have run out of oil, and when the blue light is dimmed, it means that they will completely lose their spirituality, and they should turn into the color of dead wood at that time, and they will no longer be of any use.
If someone takes it abrasively, it can even backfire and cause stomach mucosal damage, bloating, migraines, etc.
His expression was slightly regretful, but he hoped that the people of Jinzhou would really find a strange elixir.
As a result, the elixir in front of him not only knew him, but was about to lose his healing effect and turn into poison.
Others don't know, and they don't know what means they used to get this spiritual plant from the local forces in Xizhou, but when the 'Immortal Blessed Land' is produced in the treasure medicine, and the treasure medicine is immortal for thousands of years in their imagination, where can they still think of such a thing as a 'shelf life'.
On the other hand, the effect of the spiritual plant is also spread mysteriously, and it is easy to let the governor open up the gods, or prolong life and soar on the ground.
But Chen Yu remembered that this plant cultivated from the soil worm did not have a superfluous effect, the adult plant was thick and long, and contained more spiritual light, but in addition to being able to replenish qi and blood and nourish the activity of flesh and blood organs, the only feature was to maintain the neck glands and have a high resistance to some diseases.
In other words, the probability of getting a big neck disease after taking this spirit plant will be greatly reduced, and even if you have it, you can be cured by taking the spirit plant in a short time.
"In short, taking medicine to achieve immortality is just a rumor."
So far, dozens or hundreds of spirit plants have been planted, and there are almost no plants that can achieve the rumored effect of the elixir, even if there are several types of plants after the second spirit machine cultivation.
At that time, he considered that this kind of spiritual plant could still cure the big neck disease, which was not useless, so he cultivated it a little and left some seeds.
The spirit plants planted on the nameless mountain and covered by the large array have spirit seeds left, otherwise they will not survive now, and they will wither and die when they mature.
Seeing the root of the elixir, Chen Yu lost interest and returned to his residence to continue pondering the thunder marks of the inner inscription.
In the outside world, the news of the appearance of an elixir in Los Angeles is flying all over the sky like wings.
According to rumors, this elixir came from the southwest thousands of miles away, and it was from a blessed land of immortals!
It was taken by the local family, and it took several months to send it all the way, and to see that its luster became more and more contained, and the old sage who had identified pharmacology exclaimed again and again, saying that this is a great medicine, which can be called auspicious in the world.
Elixir is also rare in Xizhou, mostly controlled by big forces in hand research, and very few are exiled to other states, usually in the past few months about the elixir there are only some true and false news, most people do not believe it, at this moment it is really seen and confirmed, and it is suddenly boiling.
There is a lot of talk on the streets.
"The local people are said to have gotten a lot of elixirs, but they are not as good as this one, and you can know the difference by looking at the ......."
I don't know whether intentionally or not, similar words continue to be passed on in the community, more and more, and some even contradict themselves, with a strong mythological color.
After that, someone brought dozens or hundreds of lifu to build a large area near Nancheng District. A few more stands were built, and perhaps the number of visitors had been underestimated before, but now he found that the three treasures attracted too many people, so he hurriedly made up for it.
"There are more people, and it is more lively......"
Click, close the door, Chen Yu no longer cares about the trivial matters of the outside world, except for the night market when he goes around to buy some snacks and local characteristics to satisfy his appetite, the rest of the time he stays in the courtyard, and he inscribes the thunder marks one by one, from the finger to half a finger, and then to most of the palm, the progress is visible to the naked eye.
……
On the way to wait for the festival to begin, an incident suddenly happened - a fleet crossed the Cangjiang River and Huaichuan, and was attacked by water bandits when they rushed to Los Angeles to the junction of the Kang River.
The ship contained the family wealth accumulated by the nobles for decades, bundles of silk and satin, boxes of jewelry, and piles of gold and silver at a price of more than 10,000 taels!
As soon as the news came out, people's hearts were ready to move, and at this moment, there were too many people gathered near Los Angeles, some of them came for the festival, and some of them couldn't find opportunities elsewhere, and they came here just to make a fortune and make a name.
"Hahaha! When the time comes, the treasure of the Ma family should be owned by the tiger head knife, and the family will go first, and the first name of the festival will be left to you to play! ”
The first one to shout out was called Zhang Jin, and he slashed a lot of ninth-rate people with a three-ring long knife, exuding a bloodthirsty aura all over his body, and people didn't dare to approach.
With the first leader, soon there were many places in the city, and hundreds of people went to the upper reaches of the Cam River, intending to take down the ten thousand years of life that they had to take and not enjoy, so as to force the treasure left behind by the fleet.
"Oh, do you believe in such things? Have pies ever fallen from the sky? ”
While some people were eager to try, there were also people who were unmoved, they didn't believe that such an accident had happened on the Cam River, Los Angeles was only one hundred and fifty miles away from the place where the fleet was killed, and many people had been there, where were there any 10,000-year-old water bandits, in their opinion, this news was too fake, and the whole article was a lie!
In the afternoon, there was continued news that several treasure pills appeared in Donggu Mountain on the edge of Jinzhou, which were extremely similar to the ones used as lottery heads in the city.
This remark drew laughter, and few people believed it.
The elixir is so rare, so far, except for the news that there is an output in the southwest mountains, many other places have been falsified.
However, that night, more than a dozen pharmacies in the four major urban areas were closed one after another, and the rest of the pharmacies were also kept in the dark, not knowing the reason. For a while, rumors abounded, and the good deeds revealed that the family behind the medicine shop had secretly joined forces to arrange a large number of people to go to Donggu Mountain, unlike the immortal blessed land in the southwest, this time the big family in Jinzhou united, and wanted to completely block it, so as not to miss a single plant.
"Hurry up, it's too late, you won't be able to catch anything."
Some people are still puzzled, "If you want to collect medicine, you can arrange manpower, why do you want to close the pharmacy?" ”
"It's probably just a part of the family union, and there is a shortage of people. Didn't you see it, the rest of the pharmacies still looked confused, they should have been hidden. ”
The news was true or false, and there was great confusion, and soon, all kinds of rumors were flooded in the city, and every hour and a half, one was put on the teahouse and wine shop for people to discuss.
"Half a month ago, there was a golden light under Longting Lake, yesterday a villager dreamed of the Dragon King, saying that there were demons descending into the world and causing chaos, and now the officials and soldiers of the military government in the nearby county government have gone to ......"
“…… Not only Jinzhou, there is a mountain collapse in Yuezhou in the south, revealing the inside, it is actually a majestic Buddha! ”
"Buddha? What is that? Haven't heard of it. ”
"It's... I don't know, I just heard them say that it seems to be a god worshiped by a sect of the pseudo-Qi in the north, probably an unknown Taoist monarch. ”
"Also, I heard from the helper of the merchant just now that the blessed land of immortals in the southwest has descended again! There are countless immortal pills in it, and there is an immortal golden pill that can become an immortal after taking one pill! ”
"Shhh Is the news real? ”
"Of course, Brother Li, have you ever lied to you? It's a pity that this news is too late, the blessed land was born more than half a month ago, and now it is estimated that I will not be able to see Jindan. ”
"This is not necessarily, I heard that when the immortal blessed land appeared, there were still elixirs that were constantly brought out for more than a month, if you go at this time, not to mention becoming an immortal golden pill, with you and my martial arts to buy one or two elixirs."
"What about the puja?"
"Hehe, Brother Zhang, do you know how many masters there are here? Although there are no grandmasters, there are several top bigwigs with great strength! How many treasures are counted, and you can compete with them? ”
“…… It's too far away, let me think about it......"
……
Dongcheng, in a courtyard that is a few points larger than Chen Yu's courtyard.
Jiang Qin'an walked quickly and found Yue Haiping, who was flipping through the books, only to see the other party holding a sword in front of him and constantly gesturing, and turning the page lightly with the other, watching with relish.
"Senior brother! Something hasn't been quite right in L.A. lately! ”
"What's wrong?"
"There is a lot of news, all kinds of it, and the mess makes it impossible to distinguish the true from the fake."
Yue Haiping stopped his sword, closed the book, and glanced at the junior brother who had lost his sense of proportion again, the other party looked in a hurry, and couldn't help but get up and press it on the seat and sit down.
Gurgling, when he got a cup of white water, he handed the tea bowl to Daoist Jiang.
Yue Haiping said without changing his mind: "It's indeed a bit too much, ordinary news may not be able to cross a hundred miles in three or five days, but recently, not only around Los Angeles, but even hundreds of thousands of miles away things have come out, and they are still spreading in a day or two." ”
He has traveled to many places, and his knowledge accumulation in a few years is far from comparable to Jiang Qin'an, even if the junior and junior disciples in front of him may be much older.
"Someone must be pushing it, but the ultimate goal is unknown."
As the words fell, he glanced at the book and sword in his hand, and continued, "At present, those who have come to see this matter have roughly two points of departure. First, spread rumors, and second, lead the warriors here to leave. ”
"Rumors can be understood, it's nothing more than taking advantage of the crowd to make some mess, it doesn't matter if it's true or not, just release enough news in a short period of time."
Hearing this, Jiang Qinan told the news he had roughly collected on the street, and there were more than 30 of them!
"So much?!"
The middle-aged Taoist himself didn't realize it when he listened outside, he only knew that it was chaotic and disorderly, and at this moment, he suddenly realized that most of them were regular.
Most of them are treasures that appear in various places, which are exciting. This looks in line with the second point that his senior brother said, it seems that the person behind it wants to attract the martial arts out.
"Yes...... Why? ”
yes, shouldn't it be easier to cause chaos if there are many warriors? If you really want to lead it out in one go, the city will return to its former state, there are officers and soldiers here, unlike other places, the government in Los Angeles is very strong, and the idle people can't afford to make a mess at all.
Anti-thief? Mobster? Thieves?
If there was really a driving force in this turmoil, Daoist Jiang couldn't think of anyone who would make such a move and make contradictory methods.
"Either there are more people than others...... Either the artist is bold and not afraid of the soldiers, but for what? Elixir, is this thing really that precious? ”
"......", glanced at Daoist Jiang who frowned, Yue Haiping raised his forehead, the rarity of the elixir does not need to be said at all, this is a treasure in the world, and Haiyun Guan is located in Shiya County, and cooperates with the rest of the sects to take the lead and harvest a lot of elixir, otherwise how can he say such a thing.
"It's not impossible for you to say that it's possible, it's true that there is a possibility that thieves will create rumors about stealing treasures."
Without waiting for the other party to speak, he changed his words, "But there is also a possibility that more than one party ...... release the rumors."
After all, the most reasonable reason for the conflict is that the two parties coincide with each other and adopt similar methods, but the content and direction are very different.
"That's it, let's stay in the yard for the time being, buy some rice and grain later, and come back to prepare, and wait for the storm to pass."
Bang!
As soon as the words fell, a huge thunderclap exploded in the high dome, and when I looked up, I didn't see any clouds and rain.
There was a wisp of incomprehension in his eyes, Yue Haiping secretly said that there seemed to be too many drought and thunder in the past two days, could it be that there were really treasures born in Jinzhou?
"By the way, Senior Brother, they appeared in the southwest again in the Immortal Blessed Land, and this news is also fake?"
“……”
Yue Haiping stood up silently, patted Jiang Qin'an's shoulder, wanted to speak and stopped, and finally had to sigh.
"It doesn't matter if it's true or fake, there are elders of the sect over there, and they are more taken care of by the old cultivators. Besides, now thousands of miles apart, could it be that we can still fly back overnight? ”
After sending his junior brother to buy rice and grain outside, he continued to swing his long sword, feeling that the mountains and rains were about to come and the wind was full of buildings these days, and I hope it will not interfere with the festival.
He is quite looking forward to discussing the Tao with all forces, taking the essence of it, removing the dross, and confirming each other, so that he can go further in cultivation and martial arts.
Speaking of which, if the driving force behind it is not stupid, it is very likely that the holding of this ten methods meeting will also be one of them, so it is difficult to estimate it without being affected......
"Fortunately, the official office in Los Angeles is not rotten, and it can probably help maintain order."
Well? Yamen...... Yue Haiping's heart jumped, as if he had realized something, and he suddenly raised his head and looked straight at the sky outside the courtyard.
That direction is where the state government is located.
Can't write...... The IQ is not enough, ahhh
Pendulum.
(End of chapter)