Although this is Xu Yuan's joke, it is actually a little serious.

Although he is staying at home now, the amount of money he needs is not a lot at all, and the showdown with that father on the night of the thirtieth night of the Chinese New Year's Eve directly put the matter of laying out the Sword Sect on the agenda.

It's going to be expensive.

And not only that, but his plan to use Li Yunqing to lay out Dongying also needed money and food.

Previously, when Li Qingyan was Li Qingyan's personal guard in the north, Xu Yuan had personally seen the logistics accounts of the Beifeng Army.

In peacetime, the elite of a battalion of 5,000 people will get about 300,000 taels of silver a month just for military salaries and spiritual food, but in wartime, the military merit subsidy plus the wear and tear of spiritual blades and war equipment add up to 700,000 taels.

Xiaobai's underground remnants are created due to the special environment of the Dead Silence Underground Palace, compared to the army of Great Yan, they are more like a religious army built by fanatics, as long as they are given food, the military salary is just a little meaningful, but the problem is that now this army only has personnel, no equipment, armor spirit blades and all kinds of ordnance need silver to create a new one.

Xu Yuan thought about finding his father to solve it, and at this point in time when the chaos was about to start, there was such a group of combatable soldiers out of thin air, and the other party had no reason to refuse at all, but the problem was that after the ordnance was installed by the Prime Minister's Mansion, this army could not be transferred by him at will.

So he had to figure out how to figure out the money himself.

Of course, Xu Yuan can also throw this mess to Li Yunqing, after all, he is the one who wants to borrow troops, and it is obviously reasonable for him to find a way to borrow troops.

It's just that in this way, this loaned army is easily manipulated and corrupted by Li Yunqing, and the religious army of fanatical believers does not have to doubt their loyalty, but they can't stand the fact that people have been "taking care of food".

It is best to maintain a certain amount of money and food supply for this loaned army, which may not be much, but at least it must be able to maintain the basic operation of the army.

No matter which of these two things is a bottomless pit, it needs a lot of money and food to fill, and Xu Yuan does not have a stable source of income now, so he naturally put his mind on the heads of these four sisters.

He raised eight million taels of silver for her by selling the exercises, and it makes sense for him to move a few million to do other things, right?

But it's a pity that Dora Yao didn't give Xu Yuan this chance.

As soon as the four sisters heard that they were going to move her scientific research funds, they directly knelt at the speed of light in front of Xu Yuan, and after sliding and kneeling, they left a sentence of "Third brother, I'm waiting for you below" and ran away.

The speed of the formation pattern magic weapon was not weaker than that of the great grandmaster.

Looking at the shadow that disappeared in an instant, Xu Yuan frowned and realized a problem.

This girl seems to have been letting him go all along.

If he really fights, he doesn't even seem to be able to beat these four sisters.

Hiss.

After Xu Xinyao left, Ran Qingmo still agreed to Xu Yuan's invitation, walked through the snow in the inner courtyard, and followed him towards the black prison through a secret room in the inner courtyard.

Looking at the dark road in front of them, there seemed to be no end to the pitch-black road, and the gentle footsteps of the two echoed carefully.

Walking out together for a long distance, Xu Yuan felt the breath of the girl beside him, looked at the dark environment around him, and suddenly whispered:

"Ran Qingmo, don't you think it's a little dark here?"

"Huh?"

Ran Qingmo groaned softly: "What's wrong?" ”

"In such a dark place, do you want to pull me?"

"Xu Yuan, my cultivation is higher than yours."

“.”

There was silence for a moment, Xu Yuan's face did not change at all, and he directly stretched out his hand to pull Ran Qingmo directly:

"I mean, I can't see the way a little."

Ran Qing Moyu leaned back to dodge, his eyes suspicious:

"But you've melted."

Seeing this, Xu Yuan went directly towards Ran Qingmo's slender waist, and his voice was sincere:

"I'm restricting the exercises, aren't you a great grandmaster and can't make fire?"

"But you can make a fire."

Ran Qingmo took a step back and flashed the salty pig hand that Xu Yuan caught, and after a moment's pause, she said softly:

"If you can't see clearly, you can light a fire now."

“.” Xu Yuan.

It's bad, he suddenly felt a little bit of Ran Jianli's mood just now, and what was even more desperate was that even if he wanted to use it, the gap in cultivation made him unable to touch this big ice lump at all.

was depressed, Xu Yuan suddenly felt that the hand he was retracting was pulled by a cold and delicate little hand.

Xu Yuan subconsciously raised his eyes, but met the girl's quiet and calm gaze:

"If you want to lead me, you can actually say it directly, Xu Yuan."

“.” Xu Yuan.

“.”

“.”

“.”

"The Black Prison is deep underground, some distance from the surface, and we may need to walk for a while." Xu Yuan took the boneless cold jade hand of the big ice lump, and said softly as he walked down: "When you get down in a while, remember to activate the temporary soul key that Xu Changge gave you." ”

"yes, okay." Ran Qingmo followed closely behind him and answered softly.

The staircase rotated downward, and the stone walls on both sides were unlit, and in a short time, the two entered a large stone chamber.

The six inner walls of the stone chamber are all regular and flat, only there is a spherical line engraved on the ground on the ground, like a round platform.

Pulling Ran Qingmo to the middle of the ball, Xu Yuan said softly:

"We've arrived at the entrance, now activate the soul key, and we'll be able to go down after the formation identifies your identity."

"Good"

When Ran Qingmo heard this, he immediately activated the soul key in his hand with his soul.

The next moment,

A rumbling tremor sounded without warning, and with this tremor, the round platform began to descend slowly.

Looking at the vibrations around him, Ran Qingmo glanced around with a little curiosity, and asked in a low voice:

"Xu Yuan, it seems that this round platform is not driven by a formation?"

Accompanied by the sound of heavy gears, Xu Yuan explained with a smile:

"Yes, all the building materials in the black prison have the attribute of the absolute spirit, so naturally there is no way to engrave the ordinary formation, this formation is just an activation method, and the lifting round platform uses a gear mechanism."

Speaking of this, Xu Yuan paused for a moment and instructed:

"By the way, remember not to take out the source crystal below, the monsters imprisoned in the black prison may cause chaos even if there is only the slightest trace of Yuan Qi."

"Oh good." Ran Qingmo.

The Black Prison is a huge underground building complex, although it is far less than the Dead Silent Underground Palace, but in order to avoid the detection of the Emperor An's strong people, it is still far from the surface, and the lifting round platform descends all the way from slow to fast, until half an hour later, it slowly slows down and stagnates, and when it completely stops, a deep and cramped corridor meets the eyes of Xu Yuan and Ran Qingmo.

Stepping into it, the torches hanging on the wall of the road provide some lighting, reflecting the shadows of the two people, and when they go out for more than ten zhang, a quaint wooden door quietly emerges at a fork in the road.

This is the entrance to the inner courtyard of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and it is also the end of the Black Prison, where the living room of the Black Prison Priest is located.

It was the old room where Xu Yuan had come before.

Just as he was hesitating whether to take Ran Qingmo in to say hello to Qing, Xu Yuan found that the wooden door had been pushed open from the inside.

A tall figure in a black robe walked out slowly.

As soon as he wanted to speak, the corners of Xu Yuan's eyes jumped uncontrollably.

In his spare eye, he caught a glimpse of the big ice mound beside him touching the ink sword.

The atmosphere in the cramped corridor instantly froze.

The moment she saw the black-robed man, Ran Qingmo felt a piercing cold killing intent enveloping her.

The tense atmosphere lasted for a moment, and Xu Yuancai sensed the killing intent in the air in hindsight, and his spiritual vision swept over in an instant, and he was immediately relieved.

Qing was staring at the hand he was holding with Ran Qingmo.

A single dog is like this, and he can't show affection, not to mention that his spirit is a little unstable.

Thinking about it, Xu Yuan sighed in his heart.

And

Kiyoshi should have seen him as someone else.

Raising his hand and shaking it in front of Qing, Xu Yuan reminded in a low voice:

"Hey, hey, you can see clearly, although it may look a little similar, but don't think of me as my father when he was young."

“.”

The words fell, and the killing intent dissipated instantly.

Qing who was shrouded in black robes retracted his gaze, and his sweet and lovely voice came out faintly, with some disgust and disgust, as if he was looking at a plague god:

"Xu Changtian, why are you here again?"

Xu Yuan didn't care about the other party's tone, and said softly:

"You came out just in time, I want to go to the heaven-level prison to see someone."

"You have the soul key, why don't you just go over there?"

With that, Qing took a step back and retracted into his room.

Seeing this, Xu Yuan hurriedly said:

"I'm going to Yinliulan's prison cell, and that place needs you or Lou Ji's soul key."

"Silver Willow Orchid?"

Qing's footsteps stopped, and his gaze under the black robe was a little scrutinized:

"What are you going to do there?"

"My father asked me to go there today on an errand." Xu Yuan thought about it and opened his mouth to talk nonsense, anyway, it was impossible for Qing to go to his father to confirm.

Hearing this, Qing's eyes hidden under the black robe flickered for a moment, and he whispered:

"That's right, today seems to be the first day of the new year, come with me."

With that, she was ready to lead the way.

Seeing Qing's natural move, Xu Yuan was stunned for a moment:

"Huh? What is the first year of junior high school? ”

The clear and cold gaze immediately swept over, and the look in his eyes was a little funny:

"Xu Changtian, other people may not know, but I am the black prison master, what is the identity of the prisoner in Yinliulan's cell, I know very well, what are you pretending to be in front of me?"

(End of chapter)