Yu Family Refining Hall.

Although the gold and iron smelting in the entire Yu County is basically controlled by the He family, the Yu family, as a big family in the inner city, is not completely restricted, and there are also forging and smelting places belonging to the Yu family in the station.

"Need to pair it with the finest Darkiron?"

When Chen Mu heard the answer of the smelter in the Refining Hall, he couldn't help but show a deep groan.

The smelter said respectfully: "Quicksilver ore is a flexible mine, which adds the toughness and sharpness of weapons, in fact, it is not that it cannot be used to refine weapons alone, but most of the ones that are refined with it are 'soft swords'...... If it is combined with other ores, although it can also be refined, then it will be a bit of a waste of such a piece of quicksilver ore. ”

"That's right."

Chen Mu nodded slightly.

At present, the Xuan Iron Ore in Yu County is produced by a Xuan Iron Vein, which is fully responsible for the Smelting Division, and the Smelting Division and the smelting industry of the entire Yu County are controlled by the He family, so the Xuan Tie produced will naturally impose various controls on the Yu family.

Now that the Yu Family's Refining Hall lacks Xuantie, Yu Zuting took a piece of quicksilver ore to him, perhaps hoping that he can solve this matter, but one or two pieces of Xuaniron are easy for him to obtain, and it is not easy to completely open this road.

Although in his capacity as the supervising Si Du Si, it is completely possible to directly suppress the Smelting Division, force it to bow its head, and completely open the trading channels of Xuan Tie to the Yu family, but this is to use Yan Jingqing's momentum to suppress the He family.

And four months ago.

Yan Jingqing has already beaten the He family once, so that the He family has been honest in the past four months, and basically can't find any fault, and he will take advantage of the situation to force the He family, which is tantamount to a personal vendetta, and the matter will reach Yan Jingqing's ears, which is not good.

But this is not easy and only relatively speaking, as long as he gets the handle of the He family and has a suitable reason to make trouble, then no matter how he flattens and pinches the He family, there is no problem.

And as the Department of Supervision.

Isn't this what is the supervision, what is the observation?

The He family has been low-key in the past few months, and there is no fault, it is just because he has been practicing meditation and practice in the past few months, and he doesn't bother to pay attention to it at all, after all, he has always disliked tedious fights, and it is really meaningless to force the He family to take a few steps back by relying on the identity of the supervision department.

I thought about it.

Chen Mu put down the quicksilver ore in his hand and said, "This quicksilver ore will be placed here first, you first take an ordinary fine iron knife for me to use temporarily, and then refine it when I get the dark iron." ”

The smelter replied respectfully, carefully put away the quicksilver ore, and then carefully searched for it, took out the highest quality from the refined iron knife, and handed it to Chen Mu.

Whew!

Chen Mu took it and waved it twice, nodded with satisfaction, and then turned around and left the Refining Hall and went straight to the Supervision Division.

……

Soon.

Chen Mu arrived at the Supervision Department.

The main building of the Supervision Department has six floors, the top floor is the main hall of the Supervision Envoy Yan Jingqing, the fifth floor belongs to the head of the Supervision Department, and the fourth floor is the place where he and the other two Metropolitan Directors handle their daily affairs, and there are three different halls.

"Toji-sama."

Along the way, some officials of the Supervision Department along the way saluted Chen Mu respectfully.

Chen Mu came all the way to his hall, and at this time, there were a lot of miscellaneous documents on the table, which were all kinds of information from all directions of Yu County, most of which were mainly based on the movements of the disciples of the four major sects, a small part of them were about the four major families in the inner city, and there was also some information about the infestation of monsters.

Chen Mu habitually read them one by one, and then classified them one by one, belonging to the Heavenly Sword Sect and the Hehuan Sect, sorting out the parts that are more worthy of attention, putting them on the other side, waiting to be presented to Yan Jingqing.

But.

Just as he was looking through all kinds of information, suddenly one of them caught his attention.

"The Black Cloud Thief Master Yan Wansi?"

Looking at the description in this information, Chen Mu showed a thoughtful look.

Black Cloud Thief, this is a name that has been forgotten by him for a long time, in the early years, he was suspected of robbing a batch of Yu family's salt goods, Xu Hongyu and some Yu family horses went to investigate, and also had a conflict with the Black Cloud Thief, and was a little injured.

In addition, the second leader of the Black Cloud Thieves was once instructed by He Mingxuan to try to attack and kill him, but he was killed by him, and then in order to create a more chaotic situation to cover himself, he simply attacked He Mingxuan's residence at night and killed him in the courtyard, which also caused the first huge turmoil in Nancheng District, making Xu Hongyu step down as the chief officer......

The Black Cloud Thieves are the second in charge and have a connection with the He family, so it is very likely that the entire Black Cloud Thieves are the 'black gloves' of the He family, doing some inconvenient things for the He family, such as killing people and stealing goods, robbing the Yu family's salt transportation, and so on.

Now.

Yan Wansi, the master of the Black Cloud Thieves, is suspected of appearing in Yucheng.

The news of the Supervision Department cannot be groundless, even if it is only a mention of suspicion, most of the people have witnessed a person similar to Yan Wansi at least several times, but they cannot completely determine their identity, so they will use the word 'suspected'.

"Yan Wansi, the master of the Black Cloud Thieves, a figure in the Forging Bone Realm, entrenched in the barren mountains of Yu County, with no clear territory, haunting and plundering everywhere, is a vicious and vicious criminal, and offers a reward of 26,000 taels of silver ......"

Chen Mu found out the wanted warrant for Yan Wansi from his memory.

Well.

Whether it is or not, they are all characters worthy of his investigation, even if they don't mention the possible connection between Yan Wansi and the He family, just because this person once let Xu Hongyu track down all the way and was injured because of it, it belongs to the existence that he will not let go.

……

East City.

Perfume Lane.

This is the famous flower street in the eastern part of the city.

Because Yucheng is very large, almost every urban area is comparable to a county government, and it is divided into four city health divisions in the southeast, northwest and west, which are relatively independent of each other, and each urban district has a place where the flower street is hooked.

And now it is a cold winter, the river surface in the outer city is frozen, the most famous flower boat painting boat enters the off-season, only the flower streets in each urban area are still operating, and the most famous of them is the east of the urban area, it is rumored that whether it is a singer and dancer, or those Qing people, or a prostitute with a thousand pillows with jade arms, the appearance and figure are a lot higher than the flower streets in other urban areas.

Only the Inner City Flower Lane can match it.

However, the cost of Flower Lane in the inner city is far greater than that of the outer city, and it is not possible to enter unless it is a dignitary, and it also seems to have a connection with the legendary 'Hehuan Sect', which also makes some people prohibitive.

Of course, there are also rich squires who are eager to taste the taste of 'Hehuan', and are willing to spend a lot of money to go to the inner city flower alley to have a round, after all, the four major sects belong to them as high existences, and it is also worth boasting about being able to taste the Hehuan disciples.

It's a cold winter.

But the perfume alley in Dongcheng District is still very lively, a whole street and alley are lit up, there are squires wearing thick brocade robes and cotton clothes, looking at the flower buildings, under the warm welcome of the old bustard, pacing slowly walked in.

There are more than squires on the street, there are also thinly dressed, but not cold, at first glance, there are martial arts characters walking, and all the flower buildings are all received.

Suddenly.

A man wearing a black cloth hat and a plain green coat with a knife at his waist strolled over.

This image was not common before the four major sects entered Yujun, but after the disciples of the four sects entered Yujun, it was gradually not surprising, and there were often disciples of the four sects who dressed up like this and hid their faces, which also attracted many gang characters and martial artists to dress up like this, after all, it can not only hide their faces, but also not attract too much attention because of the gradual popularity, which is very suitable.

Chen Mu came to one of the flower buildings, looked up and saw that there was a plaque of 'Huangli Pavilion' hanging on the flower building, so he casually took out a silver ingot from his sleeve and threw it to the old bustard who invited customers in front of the door.

"Oh, this distinguished guest, please inside."

The old bustard took the silver and weighed it, and welcomed Chen Mu in with a smile on his face, and he didn't ask about his origin and identity at all, let alone the hat that Chen Mu wore to cover his face, there are not too many people who do this kind of appearance these years, as long as he has silver, it doesn't matter what his origin and identity are.

What's more, according to the old bustard's understanding, all such people are often generous, and some don't even like pleasures, but only watch the song and dance on the second floor, listen to the singing, drink two cups, and then throw down the silver and leave.

This kind of character is undoubtedly the most welcome guest of Hualou.

As for the specific identity...... Or what kind of sect disciple, or whose son, or what kind of thief, no matter which one is not suitable for further study, anyway, there is money to earn.

"Hello official, I'm Xiaolian, do you want to listen to the music, or do you want to rest earlier?"

As soon as Chen Mu walked in, a petite girl, but with a fertile jade peak, took the initiative to greet her, leaned closer, blinking a pair of big watery eyes, Chu Chu moved the world and had a trace of love, which made people want to pity and bully.

Chen Mu belongs to people who are used to seeing big scenes, and he has been to the place of Goolan more than once when he was on an errand in the past, and he has long been accustomed to these scenes, so he took out a silver bean and threw it in the middle of the snowy mountain:

"Listen to the music."

"Thank you for the reward, please official, there is a private seat on the second floor, and there is a private room......"

"It's good to sit down."

Chen Mu responded casually.

The place to listen to music is very open, it is a hall, there are seats everywhere, and the private room is not a closed room, but an open window, you can see the singing and dancing scenery in the hall outside, often with some dignitaries and dignitaries of the people, and it is also more eye-catching, but it is a 'private seat' everywhere, which is not very eye-catching, which he is very familiar with.

In the past, he was still a little interested in the land of Goolan, but now with the rise of his strength and status, his interest is no longer great, after all, if he wants, he will directly bring a whole group of maikos, and it is nothing to enjoy singing and dancing every day.

Soon.

Xiaolian led Chen Mu to the main hall on the second floor, which occupies an open area, and there is a wave of warmth, the cold wind outside can not penetrate in the slightest, many people have taken off their cotton jackets, only thin clothes, each sitting behind a few cases, or talking and laughing, or watching the maiko in the field shake their slender waists, enjoying the looming beauty.

Chen Mu's arrival did not attract the slightest attention, there were as many as seven or eight people dressed like him on this floor, all of them were wearing black cloth hats, and they couldn't see clearly, and some of the singers who served next to them were also very interested in not touching and opening them.

Come to a nondescript corner and sit down.

Xiaolian saw that Chen Mu did not let her retreat, a pair of big watery eyes suddenly showed a hint of joy, and quietly knelt aside, obviously the guest in front of her belonged to the type of generous hands, if she could stay with her for a while, maybe she could get more rewards.

And.

This guest is not the type with a big waist and a round waist, and the hand that handed out the silver is not rough, and there is no fierce atmosphere, unlike the type of bandits, maybe it is a rich young master in the Eastern District who wants to maintain a good reputation outside, so if the other party who serves is happy, maybe there will be a chance......

Suddenly, it occurred to her that it was taboo to distinguish the true identity of such guests, Xiaolian quickly interrupted her nonsense and waited cautiously on the side.

“……”

Chen Mu didn't let Xiaolian retreat, not because he was greedy for the snow mountain, but because it was even less eye-catching.

He glanced at the song and dance casually, and his eyes swept from the hall one by one, focusing on the few people who were dressed like him and wearing black cloth hats, but he couldn't really distinguish any identity based on his body alone.

As for the others.

After looking around, there was no one who matched Yan Wan's four faces.

"No wonder Yan Wansi's information is all in the Flower Street, this is indeed a suitable place to hide."

Chen Mu showed a thoughtful look.

Originally, there was no such trouble in the past, the government forcibly took off the mask and checked it one by one, but after the four sects were stationed, it became troublesome, and they were more inclined to the Jianghu mode, these people who wore black cloth hats like him, under that black cloth, there may be wanted bandits like Yan Wansi, but it is also very likely that they will be disciples of the four sects, and even Bao Buqi will set off a real message and make a big surprise!

Although it is unlikely, there is still a probability, and it is difficult to say whether there will be a preference for listening to music.

After all.

Even he, the dignified supervisor of the department, is sitting here wearing a hat and listening to music!

However, for ordinary people, it may not be possible to distinguish the identities of these people one by one, but Chen Mu is an artistic conception level character after all, if you perceive it carefully, unless it is the kind of Blood Hidden Building that is very good at concealing qi, or the existence of the five visceral realms, it is still difficult to hide the general breath in his perception, after all, 'breathing' is also a kind of wind, which is within the scope of his 'autumn wind sense'.

(End of chapter)