When Shi Cheng saw today's morning report, his slightly dark face seemed to be frosted, so that in the eyes of outsiders, it seemed to have turned dark blue.

It was a long time before he threw the morning newspaper on the table and sighed.

Wu Neng couldn't remember how many times he had seen Shi Cheng sigh recently, he glanced at the table curiously, and was immediately attracted by an eye-catching headline in the newspaper.

"Dongdankou attacked Xilan, and the official army counterattacked and reaped a great victory"

"This ...... What's going on? He cried out in surprise.

Tie Mian also saw the headline in the newspaper, and he was also shocked.

"I can't stay at all now." Shi Cheng put the cutlery in his hand on the plate.

Tie Mian didn't sigh with Shi Cheng, "Don't you think all this is a bit too coincidental?" ”

Iron Mask's words made Shi Cheng, who was in distress, stunned.

"You mean, after the martial arts conference, this kind of thing actually came right after, and it looks like it was arranged?" Shi Cheng asked.

Iron Mask nodded.

Wu Neng couldn't help but echo: "Lao Shi, it's really like this, I think what Lao Tie said is not unreasonable." ”

Shi Cheng thought carefully for a while, but still shook his head and said, "No, I don't think so. Because I'm still in that opinion, they don't have that much energy yet, otherwise we would be dead by now. ”

Shi Cheng continued to analyze: "Just imagine, if the conflict between the Guanwu Conference and Xilanzhou was done by the Lu forces, then how terrible their energy would be. It is necessary to be able to control the important ministers, kings and even the governor's palace of the Western Desert Kingdom in order to achieve the scene at the military viewing conference. Similarly, they must at least be able to control the border armies of the Western Desert and the Eastern Dan in order to plan the conflict in Xilanzhou. Personally, I think that if there is really a shadow of the Lu clan behind all this, then their role is just a lubrication effect. ”

Shi Cheng didn't say anything more when he said this, in fact, there was still a word in his heart that he hadn't said.

"In the final analysis, the real reason behind all this is the increasingly intensifying contradictions between countries."

Thinking of this, Shi Cheng's heart suddenly struck, "Wait, if the Lu clan really played a lubricating role in the process of intensifying the conflict, then what is their real purpose?" ”

"Of course, it can't be for the three of us little shrimps, before the incident in Redwood City, they probably didn't know that there was such a person as me Shi Cheng." Shi Cheng's heart shuddered a little, "If it can really stir up chaos in the world and the war of the kingdoms resumes, it will undoubtedly be the best time for Lu Zun to make a comeback." ”

"Old Shi, what are you thinking?" Wu Neng's voice interrupted Shi Cheng's thoughts.

Shi Cheng raised his head and said, "It's nothing, it's not the time to dwell on this aspect right now, let's plan our future actions first." ”

"When are you going to deal with Huang Yuan?" Iron Mask asked.

"Tonight, after the auction, if appropriate." Shi Cheng replied.

Wu Neng's mouth was stuffed with food, and he said vaguely: "So fast." ”

"We don't know how many more days we can stay here, I asked Dou Jin to send someone to the high-rise building near the Camel Bell Chamber of Commerce yesterday to keep an eye on the movement of the Chamber of Commerce, as long as Huang Yuan is still in the Chamber of Commerce today, let's do it immediately, if it drags on any longer, who knows if he will run outside again."

After breakfast, the three of them went back to their rooms to wash up, and then boarded the carriage that had been prepared.

After today's morning report came out, there were more people in Shi Chengfu who decided to quit their jobs, even including a fellow villager friend of Li Doujin.

The carriage drove out of Yulin Lane and headed towards Huibao Pavilion.

The group did not stop at the door of Huibao Pavilion, but stopped in a nearby jujube forest according to the agreement between Shi Cheng and Xu Jincheng.

"Brother Shi, you've arrived." Xu Jincheng had already been waiting in the jujube forest, and as soon as he saw Shi Cheng get out of the car, he immediately greeted him.

After Shi Cheng and Xu Jincheng greeted each other, Shi Cheng asked with a wry smile: "Shi is already a street rat in Wangcheng now, I don't know if Brother Xu can let the three of us join this auction smoothly?" ”

It is not easy to enter the auction hall of Huibao Pavilion and get the identity of a buyer. First of all, the buyer will need to show proof of assets to ensure that you have enough financial resources to participate in the auction. Secondly, since the auction items are all rare spiritual treasures, guests who want to participate in the auction must present a letter of recommendation from an officially certified sect, family, or cultivation organization in each country to the Huibao Pavilion. This rule once attracted a large number of protests from the scattered cultivators, but due to the insistence of the Huibao Pavilion and the Luo family behind it, coupled with the fact that there are few chambers of commerce in the world that can compete with the Huibao Pavilion in the auction of spiritual objects, the scattered cultivators finally accepted their fate and asked for help from people they knew in the sect to obtain the qualifications to enter.

The last requirement is that buyers must present real identity certificates, there were once Jiangyang thieves who wanted to fake, but they were seen through by the deacons of Huibao Pavilion at a glance, and a generation of thieves was arrested.

"Brother Shi, if it's just that the guys in the pavilion can't get used to you, then the younger brother, as the deacon in the pavilion, can still help talk to the master of our branch pavilion. But last evening we received an urgent order from the Imperial Court to remove all guests associated with the Eastern Dan State and the Union Khanate from the auction. ”

"Deacon Xu, you mean, we can't attend the auction today, do you?" Wu Neng asked a little anxiously, after all, today's auction was about whether he could use the mechanism normally for a period of time in the future.

"No, no, no, that's not what my little brother meant." Xu Jincheng waved his hand, "That's the case, the younger brother thought of a workaround, although the three of them can't participate in the auction as buyers, they can still enter the auction hall." ”

Seeing that Shi Cheng and the others were puzzled, Xu Jincheng then explained: "Brother Shi should still remember Elder Chen Zhu who fought with you at the Martial Arts Viewing Conference? ”

Seeing Shi Cheng nodded, Xu Jincheng said, "That's the case, yesterday morning, Elder Chen sent someone to send me a letter, telling me that he was willing to take you to the auction together, and he also happened to take the opportunity of the auction to talk to you about something." ”

Shi Cheng was quite surprised in his heart, "Are Deacon Xu and Elder Chen Zhu friends?" Why did he find you and ask you to send me a letter, and why did he know I was going to the auction? ”

Xu Jincheng shook his head, "Elder Chen said that someone else told him, and he didn't reveal it to me who it was, if Brother Shi has any doubts, he can ask Elder Chen face to face." In short, it was indeed Elder Chen who found me at the beginning, and he said that he knew that I knew you well and wanted me to build a bridge, and he wanted to talk to you face-to-face. I was surprised, but I also realized that this was a good opportunity for you to participate in the auction. After talking to Elder Chen, he also agreed. Elder Chen had come up with the idea of having the three of you attend the meeting as his retinue. Speaking of this, he looked at Shi Cheng and the three of them with some embarrassment, "I don't know the three of them...... Would you like to? ”

One of the important ways for many casual practitioners to successfully enter the auction is to trade with the person who has obtained the qualification to participate in the Huibao Pavilion auction, and then enter as an entourage, although they do not nominally participate in the auction, but they can bid and entrust the person who brought themselves into the venue to auction the auction item for themselves, and then pay to buy the auction item into their own hands. Although you will be charged a layer of difference, many people still think that it is worth it.

Of course, there are many other casual monks who disdain to adopt this method because they do not want to be nominally retinues of others, and self-taught monks often have better self-esteem than other monks.

Xu Jincheng was originally a little worried that Shi Cheng and the three would be angry because of this, but Shi Cheng's reaction still reassured him.

Tie Mian waved his hand, indicating that he didn't have any opinions, and Wu Neng didn't care about these.

Shi Cheng didn't have any obstacles to this in his heart, in his opinion, as long as he didn't break through the bottom line, the way to help him get things done was a good way.

Seeing that the three of them had no objections, Xu Jincheng said: "In this case, the little brother in clothes is ready, and you only need Shi Gongzi to cover your face." The person in charge of checking the guest vouchers in the VIP channel is an envoy sent by the Luo family, she only came to my Xidesert yesterday morning, and she usually doesn't like to read the Di newspaper, so she shouldn't know what happened at the martial arts conference. Even if she knew most of it, it didn't matter, Brother Shi was not the only one in the world named Shi Cheng, and with Elder Chen by her side, maybe she would think it was just a coincidence. As long as Brother Shi doesn't let the guys in the backyard find out, I'm ninety percent sure that I can successfully bring you into the venue. ”

"Let's go something safer." As he spoke, Seok Cheng pulled out a disguised mask from his storage bag and put it on his face.

"Brother Shi used to be able to disguise himself, but the younger brother was too worried." Xu Jincheng said with a smile.

The three of them quickly changed into neat and uniform entourage clothes, and looked like three miscellaneous disciples who were doing chores in the martial arts hall.

After instructing Li Doujin and the others to wait in place, Shi Cheng, Wu Neng, Tie Mian and Xu Jincheng walked to the VIP entrance in the backyard of Huibao Pavilion together.

Near the entrance of the backyard, there was a carriage painted with the logo of Jiyu Village, and Chen Zhu, the head of the Classics Institute of Jiyu Village, was sitting in the inside of the carriage.

Chen Zhu was a little strange when he first met Shi Cheng and the others, and after Xu Jincheng explained to him, he couldn't help but admire Shi Cheng's superb disguise skills.

"At the martial arts conference that day, thank you to Brother Shi's men for their mercy, so that Chen and Xi Mo were able to save face." Chen Zhu said ashamedly.

Xu Jincheng was taken aback, he didn't know the scene from Shi Cheng from Shi Cheng soon after the conference ended like Tie Mian and Wu Neng, he always thought that Shi Cheng was really defeated by Chen Zhu, and finally lost at the martial arts conference.

"Your country is also one of the best countries in the Southern Wilderness, I really didn't expect you to use such a means to deal with Lao Shi at the Martial Arts Conference." Wu Neng, who was outspoken, said very dissatisfied.

"Shi knows how to measure." Shi Cheng smiled, not annoyed.

Chen Zhu could also understand Shi Cheng's voiceover, his face was very embarrassed, and he sighed lightly: "This is the current court princes." That's it, it's inconvenient to say more here at the moment, today Chen is the east, even if it is an apology for the three of them. In addition, what Brother Shi said before leaving the scene that day made Chen very puzzled, and he would like to hear it in detail today. ”

Shi Cheng nodded and said, "The matter of the Lu clan is very important, since Elder Chen has the heart to inquire, Shi knows everything. It's just that I don't know how Elder Chen learned about the relationship between Deacon Xu and Zaixia? ”

Chen Zhu replied, "It was Qu Changqing who told me. ”