Chapter 21 Qing Tan Town

A month later, after a period of running-in in the Tianlu Sword Academy, when all the work was done in an orderly manner, the time for the opening of the Sword Academy to teach the sword was also officially coming. 【Full Text Reading】Hand-typed Novel [-] Free Text Update!

After all this was on the right track, outside the gate of the Sword Academy on this day, Nie Lin said goodbye to Su Bo and Lu Zhaonan and others at the door, carried a sword and a burden alone, rode a fast horse, and left the Sword Academy and drove towards Xiazhou.

Xiazhou is the main city in the north, and its scale is twice that of Bazhou, but with the rise of the Tianlu Sword Academy, Bazhou has also begun to prosper in a few short months.

Nie Lin went to Xiazhou, in addition to meeting with Luo Changning and Wu Cheng and the imperial envoys at the predetermined place, he also planned to go to Qingtan Town in the north of Xiazhou.

The fast horse drove out of the city about ten miles away, in the ten miles of the pavilion, I saw a horse standing on the side of the road, gnawing on the grass on the ground, and a shadow, standing in the pavilion under a weeping willow, a green coat, a blue cloak, a pair of double swords hanging sideways, a jade pendant of the tassel swinging, the breeze drove her long fluttering, the scenery is picturesque.

The neighing sound of the horse made her turn around and look back, she was wearing a cyan veil, with a little expectation in her eyes, and her eyes were full of a mysterious and moving charm, which made Nie Lin can't help but think of the unusual dusk in the Fengzui Mountain, her hazy figure, and gradually imprinted in the bottom of his heart.

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Qingtan Town is located in the north town of Xiazhou, named after the clear water and clear pool, but it is not that the beautiful landscape here will take such a name, but that it is famous for the abundance of sword casting materials for 'clear water and clear iron'.

The geographical location of Qingtan Town is relatively special, there are many mountain springs here, and you can see the spring stream flowing everywhere, in Nie Lin's impression, this place is the most mysterious, and the place with ancient legends is a 'ghost spring', the legend is a spring leading to the netherworld, and it is also a passage to connect the souls of living beings.

After all, it is just a legend, no one has ever really come into contact with the mysterious netherworld through the soul, and the people who have lived in Qingtan Town for generations cannot farm or hunt, and most of them live on the Qingtian iron abundant here.

Three days later, a group of two galloping horses came to this peaceful town, which also alarmed the people of this town, and they stopped at the gate to watch.

The houses here are all special, they are all made of white stone, and even the roads are paved with white stone, which looks clean and pleasing to the eye.

However, the people here are more exclusive, Nie Lin had dealt with the people here in his previous life, unless he knew relatives or friends here, except for trading Qingtie, it was impossible for ordinary people to stay in this town for two nights.

Nie Lin and Gu Menghan came to a reception office in the town and dismounted, and after tying the horse there, an old man about seventy years old walked over with a fine forest cane, and felt a little trembling and slightly.

The old man glanced at Nie Lin and Gu Menghan, and asked, "Young man, you came to Qingtan Town, but you bought Qingtie?"

"Uncle, I'm looking for Luo Xiong" Nie Lin directly said what he meant.

After hearing this, the old man's face suddenly became strange, and he looked at the two of them a few more times, and said, "There is such a person in the town, but what are you looking for him, he is not in the town now?"

Hearing that he was not there, Nie Lin was not surprised, but said: "We are here, just to ask Luo Xiong on the way, since we are not here, then I hope that the old man can help us find a guide, we want to enter Longquan Mountain"

"You want to enter Longquan Mountain, don't" As soon as the old man heard this, his face sank, and he refused directly: "Longquan Mountain is the location of this town to worship the ancestors, how can outsiders be allowed to enter at will"

The voice here was louder, and at this time the people in the town were curious, so they came over, and a young and strong man with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and dark skin asked, "Thirteen uncles, what does this kid want to do?"

"They want to enter Longquan Mountain," the old man said.

"What?"

Immediately, everyone was shocked when they heard it, and they started talking, and some people saw Nie Lin and Gu Menghan carrying swords on their backs, as if they were not easy to provoke, so they whispered on the side.

But the strong man's face sank, his eyebrows were upside down, and he was a little vicious, staring at Nie Lin tightly, and said in a deep voice: "Boy, Longquan Mountain is a place where ancestors have been worshiped in this town for generations, how can you be allowed to enter casually...... Enter...... Ahem, it's actually negotiable......"

When the fierce strong man looked at the ingot of red gold in Nie Lin's hand, he immediately loosened his eyebrows, and he couldn't be fierce anymore, although he didn't show flattery, but his eyes were already shining.

"Bastard, don't let me go back to the house to stay" The old man saw that the strong man's eyes were open, he scolded, and beat him on the head with a cane.

The strong man seemed to be a little jealous of this old man, glanced at the red gold in Nie Lin's hand greedily, and went back to the house with a scolding, but after entering his house, he still stretched his neck to look here, even the other townspeople in the town, the same, looked at Nie Lin's eyes, a little hot.

Nie Lin turned to the old man at this time and said: "This is fifty taels of red gold, which can be exchanged for five thousand taels of silver, if you buy all the Qing Iron from Guizhen, I'm afraid Guizhen won't be able to take out so much, right?"

The old man looked indifferent and said: "If the little brother wants to buy Qingtie, this town makes a living from Qingtie, one catty of Qingtie is twenty taels of silver, and the town can't take out two hundred catties of Qingtie, and each family can make up to one hundred catties."

Nie Lin said, "Presumably there are blacksmiths in the town, right?"

"There are blacksmiths too, I don't know what the little brother wants to build, if you cast a sword, there is no swordsmith in the town, and the little brother has to go to Xiazhou City to find it"

Nie Lin said: "I want all the hundred catties, but I have a few requirements."

The old man nodded and said, "Please speak."

As soon as he finished speaking, he caught a glimpse of many of the townspeople in the town, holding packages in their hands, looking very excited, and Baba looked at this place with fiery eyes, hoping that the deal would be concluded.

Nie Lin naturally felt the change in the expressions of the townspeople, ignored it, and said: "We want to stay in the town for one night, the town should be a place to entertain, in addition, this batch of clear iron, I need you to find someone to transport, the salary is the same as mine, and this clear iron should be irregular shape for you to collect, I ask you to forge it into a square shape for me, one catty is a piece, one hundred catties is one hundred yuan, this money will be used as an advance payment for you to accept, more refunds and less compensation."

"This ......" The old man hesitated, not knowing whether to accept the red gold or not.

At this time, there were several old men with crutches in the town, the age difference was not too big, and one of the quite dignified old men came over and looked at Nie Lin a few times, and said, "Thirteen, what's the matter, how much Qingtie does he want?"

This person should be the mayor of the town, Nie Lin said in his heart.

The old man saw the majestic old man, and said respectfully: "Fourth brother, this young man's request is very special, he wants to beat the Qingtie into a regular shape, and he wants a square pound of pieces, and he also asks us to send someone to deliver the goods, they want to stay in the town for one night, but he paid five thousand taels of silver to buy, we, we ......"

When Nie Lin heard this, he said: "Qingtie should not be very difficult to make a clear rule shape, one catty and twenty taels of silver, you can only take out a hundred catties, then the rest of the labor costs, manual fees, our food and lodging here, and your transportation and other expenses are all included, if it is not enough......"

"No, that's not what it means...... "The old man immediately said: "No one in this town has ever purchased so many Qingtie at one time, some families have a dozen catties that have been accumulated for many years, the amount of Qingtie casting swords is not too large, one catty of Qingtie is enough to have the amount of three or five swords, so the little brother has bought so much, we want to know the use of the little brother......

After Nie Lin listened, he understood, and said with a smile: "A few people may be worried about the whereabouts of my acquisition of this Qingtie, you might as well tell you, we are from the Tianlu Sword Academy, I accept these materials, and the spare materials in the inventory of the Sword Academy, I just want to establish a cooperative relationship with your town today, and in the future, how much Qingtie will be collected in the town, and the Tianlu Sword Academy will collect as much as possible, and you can decide the price."

"It turns out that the little brother is from the Tianlu Sword Academy, we have heard about the Tianlu Sword Academy recently, since the little brother is purchased for the Sword Academy, the hundred catties of clear iron can be sent to Bazhou tomorrow."

After the majestic old man saw that everything was clear, he spoke, and said, "Since you plan to spend the night, the old man will arrange it for you, and the town has its own place for hospitality, please come with me......"

After Nie Lin and Gu Menghan glanced at each other, he winked at the black man who was looking at him again, and after the man was stunned, he was excited, snickered and entered the house, and Nie Lin followed the old man to the reception office.

There are not many people in this town who buy Qingtie on weekdays, maybe this town can't sell fifty catties a year, the layout of the guest house is relatively simple, the majestic old man settled the two, and asked the women in the town to pack the bedding and send food, and then said goodbye and left.

After the old mayor left, Gu Menghan said, "Senior brother, do you plan to act at night?"

Nie Lin nodded and said: "When I asked about Longquan Mountain and Luo Xiong, those old men dodged their eyes, presumably there must be something in this Longquan Mountain, maybe there is something related to Luo Xiong, I want to ask the reason from them, I guess they won't say, but that black man can be used today, if nothing surprises me, he will automatically come to the door at night, you and I will wait."

Gu Menghan said: "The name of Longquan Mountain, I have heard of it, there is a well spring in the mountain, called Longquan, its dragon spring water can also be used as alchemy materials, legend has it that there is a dragon fish under the deep pool of this spring, its scales are colorful, there is a magical ability to swallow clouds and spit fog, control water into ice, this dragon fish likes to swallow some rare and exotic grasses, strange rocks and mountain insects, ferocious, for ancient things, extremely rare"

Nie Lin nodded and said: "The legend is like this, but few people know that where there is an Arowana, it must be an extremely cold place, in that spring, there is a kind of Yin Yin Grass growing there, which is born from the root system Yin Spring Water Grass, but in that place, there are some foreign spirits, which can possess human bodies and devour souls, which is very dangerous."

Gu Menghan suddenly raised her head and looked at Nie Lin, and after staring at her affectionately, she understood.