The city lord took the note handed by Ling Guang, frowned slightly and looked at the time and number of people for each caravan passing written on it, groaned slightly, pressed the note on his desk and said to Ling Guang: "Okay, I know about this matter, these people are now guests in your house, and I will entertain them well when I go back." ”

After saying these words, the city lord said to Qin Wen again: "This Danshi, our Twin Star City rarely has contact with the outside world, even if there is a caravan coming, the agreement also says that you are not allowed to stay overnight in the city, after going back this time, I hope you will not pay attention to the affairs of our Twin Star City, and after the city defense of our Twin Star City is opened to the outside world, I still welcome you to come to our Twin Star City as a guest again." ”

Qin Wen was stunned, and immediately understood in his heart that this was the city lord's eviction order, he should have been a little dissatisfied with Qin Wen's interference in the dispute between the Ling Guang brothers, and he also tactfully warned Qin Wen not to come to Double Star City in the future, but this was Qin Wen's worry about coming to see the city lord and let go, after all, the city lord just wanted to drive him away, not to disadvantage him.

Ling Guang didn't expect his father to deal with this matter like this, but Cheng Guan understood the city lord's mind at this time, and knew that the city lord did not intend to maintain Lingdian, but more because he didn't want the ugliness of the family to be publicized, but now was the best time to take Lingdian, so he simply put all the credit on Qin Wen's body and said: "City Lord, Qin Danshi also found a person in Lingdian's mansion this time, and even followed Lingdian to the teleportation array, his subordinates looked at this person a little familiar, but they didn't dare to confirm it, you can take a look." ”

As he spoke, Steward Cheng took out the jade talisman and handed it to the city lord, who took the jade talisman with some doubts, and entered the vitality into the jade talisman, waiting until the image of the hat monk on the jade talisman slowly appeared. The city lord's casual expression suddenly became solemn, and his eyes instantly became extremely sharp, staring straight at the hat monk in the jade talisman.

After about half a cup of tea, he looked at Qin Wen with a gloomy face and said, "Master Qin Dan, did you see this monk near the teleportation array?

Qin Wen nodded, but did not speak. Steward Cheng was afraid that Qin Wen had made a mistake in his words, so he hurriedly spoke: "City Lord, my subordinates didn't believe this person when they first saw it, so I went to Lingdian Mansion to check it out in person, and found that this person was indeed in Lingdian's Mansion, I felt that the matter was important, so I hurried to ask to see the City Lord with my son." ”

At this time, the city lord looked at Ling Guang and Qin Wen's gaze becoming a little softer, and his face returned to a kind expression, so he opened his mouth and said to Cheng Guan: "You have done a good job in this matter. What is being done now? Don't let him escape from the city. ”

Steward Cheng nodded hurriedly and said: "City Lord, don't worry, when I got this jade talisman at that time, I wasn't sure if it was the Sixth Master, so I asked a few old people in the Gongzi's Mansion to let them confirm, and when they were all confirmed, I knew the importance of the matter, so I sent the monks in the Gongzi's Mansion to Lingdian Mansion to secretly investigate, so as not to find a trace when they walked out of Lingdian's Mansion." In addition, there is also the teleportation array, and I also sent all the spirit level cultivators in the Gongzi Mansion to temporarily block the teleportation array. ”

The city lord nodded slightly and said, "Old Cheng." Your response is correct, the monk on this jade talisman is indeed the sixth child, Qin Danshi was reckless to me just now, and I hope that Danshi will not care. As he spoke, he apologized to Qin Wen again.

Qin Wen had already learned from Ling Guang's mouth that the city lord tended to close the teleportation array, and from the point of view of words, this city lord was also relatively generous. But Ling Dian touched his reverse scales this time, and he just happened to find out about this matter, so he hurriedly said: "Actually, we also came here to ask the city lord for something, our Qin family has some festivals with the Huang family in the city of expulsion, and Huang Wuye has always wanted to open up the trade route." Attack our Qin family. ”

"So the main purpose of our coming here is to ask the city lord to refuse the agreement with the Huang family to use the teleportation array, if the city lord has any difficulties, our Qin family is also willing to share one or two. ”

The city lord waved his hand and said: "Our Twin Star City has been existing since the invasion of the demon race, it is adhering to the rules formulated by the ancestors, originally Adian and the Huang Mansion signed an agreement that has violated the rules set back then, but the elders will also agree this time when there is no way, after all, the situation in the city is getting worse and worse, and the city wall formation that is activated once a year needs to be changed twice, and it may be more frequent in the future, and we also need a lot of spars in the city." ”

"I just gave Huangfu a five-year period, that is, now I have figured out some mysteries of the formation, basically after five years, I can reduce the spar to activate the formation by half or even more, so this is also an expedient measure, and now it seems that opening a trade route is not just a problem, there are many more serious problems that will appear. ”

Qin Wen couldn't help but ask with some doubts: "Does the opening of the city wall formation have any impact on the city? Why do you have to open it once a year, how many crystals do you need at one time?"

The city lord showed a little sadness on his face and said: "Our Twin Star City can only exist in the desert for thousands of years, mainly relying on the protection of the city wall formation, at the beginning, the wind and sand are not so big, basically we can only advance one or two zhang a year, we can open the city wall formation once in three or five years, and we can drive the wind and sand back to the control of the city." ”

"As other places are gradually swallowed up by the wind and sand, since my grandfather became the city lord, the wind and sand began to get bigger and bigger, and now once a year to open the city wall formation can not stop the approach of the wind and sand, for this matter my father also thought of many ways, including improving the formation, when he handed over the position of the city lord to me, he also handed over his unfinished formation modification to me, and finally in five years I will be able to completely modify this formation. ”

Qin Wen was slightly stunned and said, "Since the city lord is about to complete the modification, why do you still agree to let the Huang Mansion use the teleportation array?"

The city lord shook his head lightly and said: "In the past two years, the wind and sand have swallowed the seedling valley of Frost Zhi outside the city, and it takes nearly a thousand spars to activate the formation of the city wall every year, which is not a small amount, so if you wait for another five years, and wait until the seedlings of Frost Zhi in the valley are dead, then even if the formation is successfully modified, the residents of the city will have no income for nearly ten years, which is a huge blow to Twin Star City." ”

"At that time, Ling Dian persuaded those elders to use this reason, and the spar given by the Huang Mansion was just enough to make up for this vacancy, so I set a five-year deadline. ”

Qin Wen couldn't help but nodded, this is a matter of time, if you want to solve the drying up of the frost mushroom seedlings, it is a contradiction with the repair of the formation, but the number of five thousand spars in five years is not too big for Qin Wen, even if there is no income from the caravan, just with the spar mines in the mountains and forests, Qin Wen can also take out these spars, if it really doesn't work, he will take out all the spars in the past five years, as long as he can block the trade route of Huangfu, it is also worth it.

However, now that Qin Wen has just met the city lord of Double Star City, he can't make such a promise, so as not to threaten himself with the trade route of Double Star City at that time, not to mention that even if he doesn't mention this condition, the city lord still has to deal with Ling Dian, and he can wait until Ling Dian loses control of the teleportation array before making the next preparation.

At this time, the city lord and Qin Wen slightly explained the situation of the teleportation array in the city, then turned to Cheng and said: "You go and ask the monks guarding outside the Adian Mansion now, see if the sixth brother has come out of the mansion, I will let Ling Sheng go with you, if the sixth person does not come out of his mansion, let Ling Sheng bring Adian over, remember, you must not let the sixth person run out of the teleportation array." ”

Steward Cheng nodded and agreed, and the city lord said outside, "Come on, call Ling Sheng to me." ”

After about half a cup of tea, a middle-aged steward hurriedly walked into the study, and the city lord spoke: "Ling Sheng, you go and follow Lao Cheng to Lingdian's mansion, everything is under Lao Cheng's orders, and finally bring Ah Dian here for me." ”

Ling Sheng looked at the steward, so he bowed down and agreed, and then the two hurriedly left the study, the city lord frowned slightly at this time, and called another steward, asking him to take the eight spirit level monks in the mansion to block the teleportation array, from now on, no one can pass through the teleportation array.

Even if a monk enters from the outside, he must be temporarily quarantined, and as for when the blockade will be lifted, everything must be subject to the orders of the city lord.

After arranging this matter, the city lord looked at the three Qin Wen standing next to him, and said to Ling Guang with a slight mutter: "Okay, this matter of Lingdian will be handled by me, you take Qin Danshi to the backyard first, I will soon gather all the elders, as for the matter of the agreement with the Huangfu Teleportation Array, when I finish handling this matter, Qin Danshi, let's discuss it again." ”

Qin Wen knew that the city lord was going to deal with the affairs of Double Star City himself, and it was inconvenient for him to be an outsider, so he said goodbye to the city lord, and then followed Ling Guang out of the study, and along a path next to him, Ling Guang led Qin Wen and the three of them into a small courtyard not far from the study.

The small courtyard is relatively neatly tied, but there is also a little wild grass on the stone path under the feet, it should not have been cleaned for a while, Ling Guang casually pushed open the closed hall door, looked at Qin Wen who was slightly puzzled, and explained: "This is the house where I lived when I was young, I don't come often after the division of the house, or Cheng Steward and the Third Steward occasionally clean it, today we will not go back to the house first, it is more convenient to wait for news here, after Lao Cheng comes back, he must know that we are here." (To be continued......)