Chapter Twenty-Four: The Marquis of Zhenyuan?

At the exit of the first twenty floors of the Spirit Pagoda, there are merchants who have reached a cooperative relationship with the academy selling some groceries, such as food and drinking water, which can be purchased with a small amount of spirit stones or silver taels, of course, the cultivation exercises, low-level elixir talismans can also be bought, but the price will be several percent higher than that sold by the outside chamber of commerce, and the first layer of the Spirit Pagoda has the most monks, and all kinds of vendors are naturally a lot more than other layers.

"Wu Daozi's true handiwork, fifty taels of silver or a low-grade spirit stone!

"Wang Shusheng's "Orchid Pavilion Preface" is genuine, only eighty taels of silver!"

"Lanling's masterpiece "Golden Vase Plum"! And there are colorful illustrations by the artist, now it only costs one hundred and eighty taels of silver!"

It seems that something strange has mixed in, Lin Yuan stood in front of this calligraphy and painting stall with a headache, and sighed wordlessly: "If the authentic work of Painting Saint Wu Daozi is calculated according to the spirit stone, I am afraid that tens of thousands of top-grade spirit stones may not be able to buy, as for Wang Xizhi's Lan Tingxu, it has been extinct for I don't know how many years, he really dares to open this mouth."

Liu Ziyi smiled and said: "Although they are all fakes, the imitations are still very careful, but the asking price is a bit black, and a low-grade spirit stone is enough to exchange for a hundred taels of silver outside, and it can only be equivalent to fifty taels of silver here." ”

"After all, few people carry a large amount of gold and silver with them, and the space ring is not something that ordinary monks can afford, and as for the spirit stone, it is much more convenient to carry, so there are many profiteers here who deliberately raise the exchange ratio of silver and spirit stone" Liu Ziyi explained while flipping through the framed somewhat shoddy picture scrolls on the calligraphy and painting stall: "Brother Lin Yuan, if you like it, you can also buy it for collection, although it is said that the framing is a little rotten, but the painting work is still quite standard." ”

At this time, a young fat man holding a picture scroll with his head down not far from Liu Ziyi suddenly raised his head and looked at Liu Ziyi as if he had found a soulmate: "This little brother is worthy of being a person in my Dao, and I don't know how much higher than those short-sighted ordinary people and ordinary people! Come on, come on, this Lanling Xiaoxiao masterpiece is for the little brother, and it should be regarded as a meeting gift!"

Looking at an extremely beautifully decorated ancient book handed over by the young fat man, the little guy took it curiously and flipped through it, and then his face turned red instantly, and he handed the ancient book back, lowering his head and not daring to reply.

The young fat man smiled, and no longer insisted, but patted the dust on his body, and said: "Look at this little brother is very pleasing to the eye, if you want the things in the stall, they will be converted according to five, and the price will be marked next to them, just come here to pay after picking." After speaking, he happily picked up the ancient book that was thrown back by Liu Ziyi, and looked at it gracefully.

"Huh?" Lin Yuan, who was originally just passing by, inadvertently glanced at the bookstall twice, and the casual color in his eyes suddenly turned into surprise, in the corner of the bookstall, there was a dusty picture scroll, for some reason, on this picture scroll, Lin Yuan felt an indescribable breath, but this breath was fleeting, and when he looked at it again, this picture scroll was no different from an ordinary picture scroll.

Lin Yuan slowly walked to the side of the scroll, gently spread out the scroll, and what caught his eye was several irregular curves, which could be said to have no painting skills at all, and the chaotic lines covered the entire scroll like a naughty child's graffiti.

"Hey, you actually fell in love with this painting" The young fat man's voice was a little unexpected, he scratched his face full of fat, and said with some embarrassment: "Are you sure you want to buy this painting?"

Lin Yuan's fingertips gently stroked the worn-out scroll and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Well, it's not, it's just that I've always felt that this painting is a little ominous, this painting is a relic of my grandfather, he looked at this painting for a lifetime, and always said that this painting is not ordinary, but until the day he died, I couldn't see anything famous, and then I also invited a few elders in the courtyard who are good at painting and calligraphy to come to identify, but they unanimously decided that this painting is just an ordinary graffiti, if you like it, I can give it to you, just make a friend. ”

"Then thank you Brother Tai for your generosity, I don't know Brother Tai's surname?" Lin Yuan arched his hand towards the young fat man very seriously, and asked solemnly.

The young fat man's attitude was very casual: "Master Hou, my surname is Luo, because my mother is from the Western Regions, and the name is difficult to remember, so my friends call me Luo Fat for convenience."

"Master Hou, is it possible that Brother Tai still has a title in his body?" Lin Yuan looked at the young fat man whose clothes looked a little shabby, and said in his heart that although Bailu Academy was the territory of cultivators, it would more or less give the Great Qin Empire some face, after all, it was a marquis of the empire in other people's territory, and the position of the fourth rank would not be so down.

"Grandpa was young in the military department for several years, participated in the war of the Three Kingdoms against the Tang Dynasty, and sealed a hereditary Zhenyuan marquis, but unfortunately my father was unlucky, a few years ago in the war with the demon clan unfortunately fell, although the Hou Ye I also held the title of the Marquis of Zhenyuan, but the talent for cultivation is really a little unsightly, more than 20 years old to the Broken Dan Realm Sanchong, to go to the front line is completely to send death, fortunately, a few friends of my father coordinated from it, and sent me to the White Deer Academy where my grandfather once stayed, mixed with the identity of a disciple of the outer courtyard, and set up a stall on weekdays to sell some copied paintings, so as not to starve to death on the street。 ”

"Seven years of beacon fire, ten rooms and nine empty military households, more than half of the civilian households were killed and wounded, if it weren't for the immortal envoy in the name of the immortals, coupled with the iron-blooded means of the Terran Alliance, I am afraid that there would have been a large-scale uprising long ago, but even so, there are also many small-scale uprisings in various places now, if the war continues, I don't know how many years this country can last" Liu Zixuan sighed, thinking of his family's experience, and couldn't help but feel a little sympathy for Luo Fatzi:" Except for a place like the Three Dao Sect where Tianzun-level figures are in charge, how can the whole world be exempted from the conscription orders issued by the Terran Alliance? I think that back then, my Hengyang Liu family was also a first-class family in the Hengyang realm, but in the end, it didn't end up being almost wiped out?"

Perhaps it was the pain in his heart that was aroused by Liu Zixuan's words, Luo Fatzi pressed it on the dark grid of the shelf next to the stall, took out a bottle of extremely well-packaged white porcelain wine jug from it, and said: "The same is the end of the world, why should we have known each other when we meet?" Today Hou Ye I am in a good mood, come and come, this bottle of wine is the monkey wine that the palace rewarded my father back then, I have always been reluctant to drink Hou Ye on weekdays, I will invite you to drink a meal of Lao Wu today, go to Hou Ye and I will go to the old man Zhao next door to call a few dishes, today Hou Ye I am not drunk!"