Chapter 014: Pack Inquiry! Wheels within wheels!
If the inside of the city is a paradise for the rich, outside the city is a hell for the poor.
Qinghe City is orderly inside, but outside the city is chaotic.
The slums built against the walls of the city conceal countless evils.
The smell of feces and urine came from the alleys, the beggars that could be seen everywhere in the corners of the streets, and the suppressed roars from the dilapidated yards.
Accustomed to this slum in the south of the city.
It stands to reason that the south of the city is close to the Qingshui River Wharf, and it controls the water transportation of the entire Qinghe City, so it should be extremely prosperous, but this is the most chaotic place.
From Xiao Er's mouth, he learned that the Xiao Pai Gang controlled this place, and the order here was also managed by the Xiao Pai Gang, and the Yamen basically turned a blind eye to this place.
If the city is a paradise for the rich, then in this area, it is a paradise for those who have no money, scattered people, and ruffians.
Underground gambling houses, secret prostitution, and all kinds of shady transactions are concentrated here.
According to the instructions described by Xiao Er, Jiang Xuan shuttled through the alley, passing by the scattered people and ruffians who came and went, attracting a lot of side eyes.
But Jiang Xuan didn't pay attention to these people's gazes, and there was an aura of no one entering his body, which made those ill-intentioned eyes slightly restrained.
Eventually, he stopped outside a small yard at the end of an alley.
Looking at the empty door, he was about to push the door in, but at this time, the door opened from the inside, and a middle-aged man in a black robe, dressed as a Jianghu person, walked out from inside.
Looking at Jiang Xuan standing outside the door, he couldn't help but look at it for a moment, and then the two of them staggered by.
Jiang Xuan walked towards the courtyard, the middle-aged man had already walked a few steps, but suddenly turned around and glanced at Jiang Xuan's back, with a look of doubt in his eyes.
It wasn't until Jiang Xuan's back disappeared that he turned around and left.
And Jiang Xuan, who entered the courtyard, naturally felt the peeping eyes behind him, but he didn't look back.
At the moment when he misturned, he sensed a latent power in the other party's body, and he woke up like a sleeping beast.
But there was silence for a moment, but, just for a moment, his whole heart was lifted, and his whole body was tense.
The aura that this middle-aged man suddenly revealed made him feel a strong sense of crisis, which showed that this person's cultivation was at least too much better than him.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help frowning, looking at the room opposite the courtyard, there was a table in the middle, and behind the table sat a strong man with a pockmarked face, but at this time this strong man was a little frightened.
"Wang Mazi? Nosy Parker? ”
Jiang Xuan walked to the door, looked at this Mazi and asked, Xiao Er told him to come to this Wang Mazi, that is, to inquire about the bag in the city, and to know all the news in the city.
Hearing Jiang Xuan's voice, the man seemed to come back to his senses, and the look of shock on his face disappeared without a trace, but it was replaced by a cold and frightened look.
Seeing Jiang Xuan, he suddenly showed a touch of impatience.
"Want to know what? According to my rules, if you ask me to answer, a message is a tael of silver, ask if you can accept it, and get out if you can't accept it! ”
Wang Mazi seemed a little impatient, just now someone asked for news without giving money, but the key was that he didn't dare to refuse, causing him to lose at least a hundred taels of silver.
At this time, when he saw Jiang Xuan, who was like a thin scholar, he suddenly felt angry.
Hearing his words, Jiang Xuan frowned, according to the news he wanted to know, I am afraid that it would be difficult to inquire clearly without hundreds of taels.
Still, he walked in and sat down across from him.
Aggressive~!
With two soft sounds, two silver ingots the size of adult fists were placed on the table by Jiang Xuan, and with a light press of his fingers, the two ingots suddenly sank into the table like melting snow, only half of them leaked.
Seeing the two silver ingots, Wang Mazi swallowed a mouthful of saliva, his eyes showed a touch of joy, and he was about to stretch out his hand but saw Jiang Xuan's hand, and suddenly his neck stiffened, and his outstretched arm was also stiff, a trace of fear flashed in his eyes, and his face twitched fiercely.
"Guests... What do you want to know? He asked flatteringly.
Compared with the previous guest, at least the one in front of him was willing to take out the silver, and in order to avoid falling short, he still suppressed the unhappiness in his heart.
"What do you answer when I ask, if I am satisfied, this hundred taels is yours, if I am not satisfied..."
Jiang Xuan looked at the other party with a smile and said, he naturally knew that the other party was sitting on the ground and raising the price, and when he came, Xiao Er told him that Wang Mazi likes to pit people, ask for prices indiscriminately, and bully the soft and afraid of the hard.
Especially for the living people who have never seen it, the price is sky-high, so there is a scene just now!
"I must know everything... Everything...! ”
Hearing this, Wang Mazi immediately showed a flattering look.
Seeing this, Jiang Xuan began his own inquiry.
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Beep beep beep~
In the suburbs, in the small temple in the barren mountains, there was the sound of dry firewood burning.
The four of them sat around the fire, and on the fire was a muntjac shelf, roasted with oil.
The middle-aged man Jiang Xuan had seen before was one of them at this time.
"Luo Lie, can there be any results from the news of entering the city today?"
At this time, a majestic middle-aged man sitting directly above put down the wine bag in his hand and asked.
Luo Lie was the name of the middle-aged man.
"There are some clues, but there are not many, many ancient temples have basically been destroyed, and only a few of them have been preserved.
There are a lot of temples around Qinghe County, there is a river temple in Qingshui River, but the history is only a hundred years, there is a mountain temple in Dawang Mountain, the age is far away, three or five hundred years old.
However, I heard that the idol is new, and the land temple is the most, so it is difficult to say whether there is such a thing.
The City God Temple has long been undocumented, and it can't be found unless it can open the Yin Si Netherworld. ”
When Luo Lie heard this, he told the news he heard one by one.
The dignified middle-aged man couldn't help frowning when he heard this, and the other two also showed the colors they had expected.
"It has been decades since the aura of heaven and earth was revived, it stands to reason that those things should also be revived, other temples are not easy to say, it should be possible to open the Chenghuang Yin Division, Qinghe County is located in a remote area, if you use the Yin Soul to follow the sacrifice array, it may not be impossible to open!"
At this time, one of them spoke coldly, and his tone was full of life and death meaning.
The middle-aged man at the head shook his head: "This is not a frontier, after last year, we were targeted by Xuanyiwei, and now there are many masters in Qinghe County, and I don't know if I have received the news, or be careful!" ”
"The affairs of the temple can be slowed down, but how about the affairs of the river god?"
"It's not sure if it's the one in the Yuanjiang River that escaped here, most of the people in the rivers and lakes are also here for this, and they need to spend time exploring!"
Luo Lie shook his head when he heard this and said.
"Then tomorrow the three of you will go your separate ways, if you can't find the golden body of the temple, it's okay to get a monster to go back, it's better than going back empty-handed!"
The three of them nodded when they heard this, and just when everyone was silent, Luo Lie suddenly thought of Jiang Xuan, who he saw in front of the gate of that courtyard in the afternoon, and hesitated for a moment to speak.
"By the way, I saw a person today, and he is seven or eight points similar to His Royal Highness the Prince..."