Chapter 81: The Underground Black Market
In a few days, it will be the day when the auction will be held at the Green Snake Gate in Pingyang City, and he has to leave a few days in advance, Mu Sheng is dressed in a good suit, carrying a sword at his waist, and is ready to go on a long trip.
At this time, Yun'er was carefully taking care of Mu Sheng's clothes, and even the wrinkles on his clothes had to be smoothed with her own hands, Yun'er turned around and took a robe and put it on him, for fear that Mu Sheng would be cold.
Mu Sheng has long been accustomed to Yun'er's meticulous care of him, and since she got along with Yun'er that day, she seems to be a different person, gentle as water, sticking to him every day.
Mu Sheng turned around and held her soft, and said softly, "When I come back, I will go to my uncle's house to formally propose marriage and welcome you through the door." ”
Yun'er raised her head slightly, and said softly, "Husband, go ......and come back quickly."
Out of the inner courtyard, Mu Sheng went to the back door, only to see Hua Zilan dressed in a tight-fitting uniform, leading the horse to wait for him in the backyard early, accompanied by more than a dozen guards dressed in rivers and lakes, guarding the left and right, and more than 200,000 gold was stored in the car in the middle of the convoy, which was a huge amount of money, and it was not allowed to be sloppy.
Mu Sheng took the reins and turned over on the horse, and with a wave of his hand, the horse team swept out of the mansion and went straight to the east gate of the capital.
After leaving the city, Mu Sheng looked around along the way, the accompanying cart behind him, and the horse team of dozens of people, always felt like a dart game, but now that the world is unified, the mountain and forest road bandits have long been swept away by the iron hooves of the empire, and there is really no need to be so cautious, as long as no one knows that there is a cash truck behind him, no one dares to block the road and rob it.
There were good mountains and rivers along the way, Mu Sheng looked at the scenery along the way, and his thoughts returned to Yun'er's initiative to dedicate himself that day, and he always felt that something was wrong......
"Feng Jiu."
When Hua Zilan heard this, she stepped forward and marched hand in hand with Mu Sheng: "Childe? ”
Mu Sheng turned his head to look at Hua Zilan, who was pretending to be heroic, and asked, "Feng Jiu, I ask you something, you have to answer honestly." ”
Hua Zilan seemed to feel something.
"When Gongzi asks something, his subordinates know everything."
Mu Sheng snorted: "Feng Jiu, do you know about Yun'er drugging me?" ”
Hua Zilan's face turned red when she heard this, and she bowed her head slightly and said, "My subordinates know ......."
Mu Sheng was speechless for a while......
"You got the medicine too?"
Hua Zilan was like a child who had done something wrong, lowered her head, and said softly, "Son, I'...... Miss Yun is infatuated with Childe, I relented and agreed to Miss Yun's request, and my subordinates also want to fulfill Miss Yun and Childe... So ......"
Mu Sheng waved his hand helplessly and said, "Forget it, don't use this kind of indiscriminate tricks on the rivers and lakes in the future, and don't teach Yun'er badly." ”
Hua Zilan nodded embarrassedly and said yes.
Thinking about it, Yun'er has lived in the deep palace since she was a child, how could she get this kind of tiger and wolf medicine? Mu Sheng thought about it, and only a ranger like Hua Zilan might have a channel to get it.
"By the way, Feng Jiu, do you still have that kind of medicine?"
Hua Zilan looked at Mu Sheng with an incredulous expression, and said, "Childe... I ......"
Mu Sheng waved his hand and said, "Don't get me wrong, I don't usually rely on this kind of tiger and wolf medicine, I mean, why can this medicine you get seal the sea of qi?" I'm curious that I can't use Qi? ”
Hua Zilan: "This is a secret medicine that I learned in the past, uh~ It is specially used to deal with monks, I am afraid that Gongzi you will use Qi to dissolve the medicinal properties of aphrodisiacs, and make a big mistake, so I added a little secret medicine, so that it is foolproof......"
Mu Sheng was in a cold sweat when he heard it, fortunately he took her into the account, if it was an enemy, it was really impossible to prevent it, this time for her sake of fulfilling herself and Yun'er, he didn't expect to be "plotted" by the two closest women around him......
The group galloped on the official road, and finally arrived at the destination of Pingyang City after the team passed through the city gate, Mu Sheng went directly to the city to charter an inn as their temporary station.
Mu Sheng arranged to command everyone to take two shifts off, optimistic about the car loaded with huge sums of money, and went to the porch of the inn to draw the secret mark of the Green Snake Gate, and waited for the people from the Green Snake Gate to take the initiative to contact him.
However, as soon as he made a stick of incense, a man dressed as a handyman sneaked into the inn and came forward to contact him.
After checking the signs of Mu Sheng and Hua Zilan, the miscellaneous servants confirmed that they were correct, and said, "The two immortal chiefs, please go with the villain to the drunken immortal building in the north of the city." ”
After that, Mu Sheng and Hua Zilan put on their cloaks and masks, and followed the miscellaneous servants to the auction station, which is also the rule of the Green Snake Gate Fair, to prevent people from seeing through the identity of the buyer and thinking of killing people and grabbing treasures.
Along the way, the two followed this "handyman" to the largest restaurant in the city, and when Mu Sheng saw this, he wondered how much more upright the Green Snake Gate was doing things now?
The handyman gave an explanation to the guard at the door, then turned and went to the back hall.
After a while, another neatly dressed waiter led the two to the lobby of the restaurant, where monks in cloaks kept coming in and out, and the waiter led them to a private room on the second floor, where food and wine were already prepared.
The waiter stretched out his hand and invited: "The two immortals will prepare wine and food to entertain the distinguished guests, the auction will be held for three days before and after, and there will be heavy treasures for sale on the last day, and the auction will start in half an hour, please wait." ”
Mu Sheng bowed slightly, indicating that he knew, Mu Sheng glanced at the free wine and food on the table, and directly picked up the chopsticks and ate unceremoniously.
Hua Zilan sat on the seat, did not move to eat, watched Mu Sheng feast, and admonished, "Childe, my subordinates have participated in several auctions before, and there are also a lot of good things for sale in the first two days of the Green Snake Gate, and there are all kinds of magic weapons and cultivation methods. ”
Mu Sheng touched a box on his left hand side, and said with a smile, "There are 30,000 gold here, and I don't know if I can spend it." ”
The 30,000 gold is still the salary of the garrison commander who was paid to "Liu Zhang" by the East Palace, and it was given for nothing anyway, and it was not spent in vain.
Hua Zilan: "It should be enough, if the son is just going for the magic weapon, save some money, and we can come back on the last day." ”
Mu Sheng waved his hand and said, "It's okay, I also want to increase my knowledge and see the essence of this Green Snake Gate." ”
Half an hour later, when he was full of wine and food, the waiter appeared in the box on time and took the two of them to the backyard of the restaurant.
He unconsciously let go of his five senses, and felt that the aura was basically the same as him, and the middle and low-level monks who were basically the same as him, Mu Sheng and Hua Zilan found a place and sat down, looking forward to the opening of the trade fair.
At this moment, a middle-aged man came up from the high platform in the middle of the backyard, who was the director of the Green Snake Gate named Niu Sanpi they had seen before.
Niu Sanpi stepped forward and bowed to the monks in the audience, and said with a smile:
"It is an honor for my Green Snake Sect Niu to come here to cheer, and then this door will display the immortal magic weapons collected in recent years."
Niu Sanpi clapped his hands, and several waiters stepped forward in turn with plates covered with cloth, and Niu Sanpi began to introduce its functions for public auction.
Niu Sanpi lifted the cloth, took a sword-shaped magic weapon, and introduced, "This magic weapon has been identified as a high-grade magic weapon by this door, the sword is three feet six inches long, and the sword body can be sharpened like mud, and the hair is blown and broken, you can please see it......"
Then there was a monk from the True Yuan Transformation Qi Realm on the stage, holding a sword to demonstrate to everyone, and for a while, the sword qi in the stands was vertical and horizontal, the sword light and sword shadow, and everyone in the audience was eager to try it.
Seeing that the atmosphere had arrived, Niu Sanpi hurriedly shouted and sold, and the crowd began to shout.
The auction lasted for about an hour, and Mu Sheng, who had auctioned the magic weapon before, was not very interested, so he didn't pay much attention to it.
Mu Sheng turned around and asked Hua Zilan beside him: "Feng Jiu, if you like something, ask for the price directly, and I'll pay for it." ”
Hua Zilan was a little embarrassed: "Childe, I still have some private money myself, and I also brought it today, I understand Childe's kindness." ”
"Good! If it's not enough, tell me......"
It wasn't until Niu Sanpi introduced the thirteenth magic weapon that it finally caught Mu Sheng's attention, this is an inner armor made of some kind of demon beast scales, this kind of defensive magic weapon is very rare, the starting price of three thousand gold was immediately topped to a high price of five thousand gold, and it is rare for a magic weapon to be sold at this price.
Mu Sheng also immediately stepped forward and shouted, "Five thousand three hundred gold ......"
Mu Sheng directly shouted this price, and there were not many people who shouted, but there were still a few monks who were a little unwilling, and then increased the price by one hundred gold and one hundred gold.
Seeing this, Mu Sheng simply went straight to six thousand gold, but this price still made the crowd a little commotion, and they all cast benign or malicious glances at him.
It wasn't until Niu Sanpi shouted three times that no one raised the price, Mu Sheng got up and went forward to deliver the treasure, paid the money with one hand, and delivered the goods with the other, and returned to his seat.
Those monks who have given up may have good things behind them, and these people don't want to spend all their budgets on it.
Looking at the inner armor of this magic weapon in his hand, Mu Sheng touched it back and forth, to be honest, it still hurts a little, if this magic weapon is sold directly, it may be about 4,000 gold, and 6,000 is indeed a bit high, but the place where the auction makes money is here, if you encounter the right thing, even if the price is inflated, you have to admit it, if you miss it, it will be difficult to meet a more suitable one.
Next, Mu Sheng won some rare pills, and he also spent 6,000 gold before and after, but there was nothing special about the magic weapon that made him particularly excited.
However, Hua Zilan surprised Mu Sheng a little, and actually spent more than 10,000 gold out of her own pocket to buy a lot of good things.
Mu Sheng looked at the small box in her hand, and estimated that there was still a lot of money left, okay! I can't see that she is still a little rich woman, is it too little to give her 300 gold per month this month? No, I have to give her a salary increase when I go back......
After the auction, the two of them were very fruitful.
The waiter welcomed the two out of the backyard auction, and Mu Sheng turned around and asked the waiter, "Are there any rules for the auction the day after tomorrow?" ”
The waiter replied respectfully: "The two immortals, it is said that there are heavy treasures for sale the day after tomorrow, and if you want to participate in this internal auction, you must pay a deposit of 30,000 yuan to this sect to be eligible to participate." ”
Mu Sheng didn't think about it, and said in a firm tone, "Okay, take me there immediately." ”
He came all the way here to rush to the magic weapon.
After that, the waiter took the two of them to an office in the Green Snake Gate to pay the deposit, and the waiter replaced Mu Sheng's wooden brand with copper, he looked back and saw that Hua Zilan spent so much money, and the brand was still made of silver, and said in his heart, it seems that the VIP level of this Green Snake Gate is not easy to rise! It's really not something that ordinary kryptonite bosses can stand up to.
The two of them went down to the third floor of the restaurant under the guidance of the waiter, which had been transformed into a small market, and all kinds of fairy consumables used in daily life were sold.
Of course, the two of them still couldn't help but go wild and consume, and the purses of the two of them bottomed out at a speed that was visible to the naked eye.
Mu Sheng looked at the cash box in his right hand that was gradually empty, and said in his heart, hey! Being a Dharma Master is a costly ......
After leaving the restaurant, the two returned to the inn where the horse team was stationed. After returning to the room, Mu Sheng took out the inner armor and put it on, Yun Qi injected it, and the scales of the inner armor would automatically shrink just to fit his figure, and it would not affect his activities at all, Mu Sheng couldn't help but admire when he saw this, it was indeed a good thing, and he felt that the six thousand gold, nearly 600,000 yuan, was spent on a huge amount of money.
Mu Sheng remembered Hua Zilan's suggestion, so he didn't go to the auction the next day, and paid a deposit of 30,000 yuan and waited for the last day to be a heavy treasure.
Until the early morning of the third day, the Green Snake Sect sent someone to pick up the two of them, and this time they didn't go to the restaurant, but took them to an inconspicuous courtyard in Pingyang City.
After the two of them passed through the gate of the courtyard, they felt that the air around them began to become very viscous, and they felt like there was an invisible wall of qi in front of them, until the whole body passed through the gate, it was much better.
Mu Sheng and Hua Zilan subconsciously glanced at each other, and said in their hearts, it turns out that there is an enchantment here, it seems that it should be the handiwork of an ancestor-level master, think about it, after all, if you want to sell a heavy treasure, you really can't take it lightly.
Under the guidance of the waiter, the two came to the courtyard, only to see that the few people standing in the courtyard were all like the two of them, and the masks and cloaks could not see their true faces.
Mu Sheng probably glanced at the two of them, and there were only eight people on the scene, too, this kind of thing is indeed untouchable and unaffordable, it is a heavy treasure that consumes more than 10 million dollars.
He sensed the aura of the monks in the courtyard, and four of the monks Mu Sheng couldn't tell the difference, they should be at the same level as Hua Zilan, but the momentum was still faintly above Hua Zilan, and it was estimated that they were the peak of the Heavenly Master, the old rivers and lakes of the Dao Realm.
Hua Zilan had only just broken through the Yuan Phase Realm, and had only cultivated into two Law Phases.
Generally speaking, the gap in strength between low-level monks, true yuan qi realm, middle-level cultivators, refining qi and anti-imaginary realm, is not so big, in actual combat, relying on some of the lower three ways to defeat the strong with the weak, but once you reach the high-level monks, the Qi Vein Source Flow Realm, and the Heavenly Master-level monks, the gap will be very wide.
Heavenly Master-level cultivators have evolved from the Spirit Phase, Yuan Phase, Xuan Phase, and Dao Phase over time, and the strength corresponding to each law is also very different, and only by cultivating the four Dharma phases can they reach the next realm and the four phases will return to one realm, that is, they will reach the realm of the elders of the Yuzhen Sect, and they can be called the ancestors.
In this world, as long as they don't provoke the imperial court, these ancestors can basically go sideways.
If you don't provoke the imperial court, is it because the imperial court also supports a group of ancestor-level guest monks, and they dare to violate the ban by force? Just wait to be chased to death by the imperial eagle dogs.
What's more, there are still millions of troops in the imperial court, what about the Yunhua Sect, the first sect in the monk world, back then? It was not wiped out by the 100,000 army of the imperial court.