A carriage walked out of the backyard of the drunken fairy building, the yellow handle style of driving is the famous road pass of Luming City, when the four words of Shijing Hutong were clearly heard in the black canopy, the yellow handle style shook the horsewhip, and the carriage walked towards the north city.

Out of the East City, the pedestrians on the side of the road are sparse, the lights are still on in the shops that have been closed on the side of the road, and there is a faint sound of abacus occasionally, but the residents inside are already pitch black, mixed with a few dog barks, and suddenly feel a lot calmer.

Shijing Hutong is not small, just enough to accommodate two carriages side by side, which should be unique in the Hutong of Beicheng, and the courtyard inside is much larger than the Hutong next to it, and the carriage stopped in front of a black-painted gate.

Xiang Hao, who was wearing a bamboo hat on his head, walked down, and after instructing him to wait in front of the door, he walked up the steps of the gate and gently pulled the knocker, the sound was very soft, but slightly rhythmic.

The black-lacquered door opened gently, revealing an old face, and asked Xiang Hao, "Who are you looking for?"

Xiang Hao slightly supported the bamboo hat and said, "Fan Changyi." The old man hurriedly withdrew when he heard the name, and gently opened the door, and Xiang Hao immediately walked in, and the door was closed again.

Passed through the gatehouse, until walked into the main hall, the candle flame inside had just been lit, and there was a middle-aged man in a coat standing inside, looking at Xiang Hao who came in with a solemn face, and asked with some doubts: "Who sent you?"

At this time, Xiang Hao took out a spirit stone token from his arms, which was carved with a hidden dragon hidden in the water, and the dragon's eyes were inlaid with two red spirit beads, reflecting the majestic dragon head.

The middle-aged man hurriedly knelt down on one knee and saluted: "The subordinate Duan Changyi does not know that the envoy is coming, please forgive the sin." ”

Xiang Hao raised his hand slightly at this time and said, "Get up, I have something urgent to find you today, so I don't have to salute." ”

Duan Changyi got up at this time and asked, "If your lord has anything to do, just give me orders." ”

Xiang Hao pondered for a moment and said, "Have you been to the elixir depot of the city guards?"

"I've been there, but I've always gone as Duan Yan's city guard, and I haven't revealed the identity of my subordinate Long Xiangwei. ”

"Okay, you can dress up tonight, and then use the identity of Long Xiaowei to get these elixirs back for me, and I will wait for you in the carriage outside the door. ”

"But," Duan Changyi took the note handed by Xiang Hao at this time, and looked at the elixirs that were more than five hundred years old, and his face was slightly embarrassed.

Xiang Hao knew what he was thinking, so he said directly: "At this time, the elixir that Long Xiangwei urgently needs, you can report it to the Wei Mansion when you report it monthly according to the normal secret message channel, including this number." As he spoke, he showed Duan Changyi the token number in his hand.

Duan Changyi didn't have the slightest hesitation on his face at this time, he confessed and entered the inner room, and when he came out, he dressed up as a businessman, even his face changed, and his voice was hoarse: "My lord, please." ”

Xiang Hao nodded with satisfaction, and the two walked out of the courtyard of the Duan family one after the other, and after going out of the gate, Duan Changyi gave up his hand, and then his figure flashed, and he disappeared into the vast night, and Xiang Hao also got into the carriage and sat quietly in the dark canopy.

After running for a stick of incense, Duan Changyi came to the city guard barracks in Dongcheng, and the guards outside stopped him and said, "Who are you? What are you doing in the barracks so late?"

Duan Changyi took out a token made of dark iron from his arms at this time, the pattern on this token was the same as the one in Xiang Hao's hand, but the two eyes were inlaid with ordinary medium-grade spirit stones, and he shook in front of the guards and said, "Long Xiangwei, where is your captain?"

The two guards glanced at each other, and one of the guards hurriedly ran into the barracks, and then called out a shirtless bearded man, the bearded man looked at the token in Duan Changyi's hand with scrutinizing eyes, and asked with some caution: "I wonder what happened when the adults came to the barracks?"

Duan Changyi said at this time: "I want to find the master of your elixir storehouse." ”

The bearded man didn't care about the cold, put on a dress sent by the guards, and walked to the door of the elixir library with Duan Changyi, and after verifying the token, he also opened the door of the elixir library with a worried face, took the note in Duan Changyi's hand, and walked into the inner library of the elixir warehouse accompanied by two chores.

After about half a pillar of incense, the main Bo walked out with the bag haode elixir, Duan Changyi took the elixir, let the main Bo enter the number of the token into the jade slip, and then left the barracks with the bearded man.

When he returned to Xiang Hao's carriage, it had been nearly an hour, and he handed the elixir to Xiang Hao, Xiang Hao nodded, and let Huang drive the carriage back to the Drunken Immortal Building.

After Xiang Hao returned to the courtyard, he found that Qin Wen had rested, and he didn't disturb him, so he returned to his room, and saw that the light in Lao Gao's room was still on, so he pushed the door and walked in. ”

Xiang Hao nodded and said, "It's relatively smooth, the elixir has been taken out, and I'm waiting for tomorrow's alchemy." ”

Lao Gao hesitated at this time and said: "Today, the old slave and Qin Wen talked about the matter of making the young master's pill offering, and there should be no problem listening to his tone, but I didn't reveal the identity of the young master, so as not to make any mistakes in this Luming City." ”

Xiang Hao let out a sigh and said faintly: "I don't want to do anything about the pill offering now, as long as I can heal your injuries, I will have the confidence to return to the capital." ”

Lao Gao said with a relieved tone: "Young master, don't be discouraged, the difficulties in front of us are only temporary, as long as the young master can keep saving, we will soon have the ability to protect ourselves." ”

"This time we came to Luming City can be said to be in vain, and you were so seriously injured, I made a decision on the carriage today, once you are injured, we will go back to the capital, what red pulp mine, I don't want it." ”

Lao Gao shook his head and said, "If the elixir can really be successfully refined, I would like to stay in Luming City for a while longer, and then we will close Shuo to see if there is any other turn for the better." ”

"What else can there be, you also saw it when we entered the city today, the entire Xicheng is full of refugees, I think there are more than 10,000 city guards left in Luming City at most, you just saw Guan Shuo, what can he do, okay, don't talk about these troublesome things, you can also rest." After speaking, Xiang Hao walked out of the door, stood in the courtyard, looked up at the stars in the night sky, and couldn't help but sigh.

When he got up early the next day, Qin Wen got up early, but found that Bai Shi had already stood outside the room with a basin of water, and when he saw Qin Wen coming out, he hurriedly said: "Young master, I have already made the water, you can clean it first." ”

Qin Wen nodded, and then saw Shuang'er standing behind Bai'er, so he said casually: "Shuang'er, why don't you go and memorize the exercises, I don't have anything to do here, you can go back and memorize the exercises." ”

Shuang'er replied timidly at this time: "Young master, I have already memorized it." ”

Looking at Shuang'er's red eyes, Qin Wen knew that she might have memorized the exercises after she hadn't slept all night, so she said with some pity: "Go back to the room to make up for sleep, I have some other things to do in the past few days, and when I finish dealing with these things, I will explain to you how to practice this set of exercises." ”

At this time, Xiang Hao walked out of the room and saw Qin Wen and said, "Brother Qin, are you still used to resting here?"

Qin Wen smiled slightly: "I've been living in a cave these days, and I still feel comfortable lying on the futon, how about it?"

Xiang Hao nodded and said, "Now that the things are in my room, Brother Qin will check them first and see if there is anything missing." ”

Qin Wen hurriedly wiped his face, and walked to Xiang Hao's room, and the Bai family next to him also cleaned up the basin and returned to the side room with Shuang'er.

Qin Wen sat in front of the Eight Immortals table, looked at the elixirs placed on it, carefully checked it, and found that it was indeed exactly what he wrote, so he nodded slightly, but he was even more curious about the origin of Xiang Hao and the others, these elixirs can be completed in one night, and it is definitely not something that can be done with spirit stones.

At this time, his eyes suddenly swept to the paper bags that packaged the elixir, these paper bags he often saw when he went out with the army, they were special elixir bags in the barracks, it seemed that these elixirs must have been obtained from the elixir warehouse in the army, which also showed that Xiang Hao's origin must be not small.

Xiang Hao saw that Qin Wen had finished inspecting, so he asked, "Brother Qin, are these elixirs enough?"

Qin Wen nodded and said: "The elixir is enough, now I just have to find a place to refine the elixir, I have a few Dan furnaces for refining the elixir, I am not familiar with this Luming City, I don't know where there is a fire." ”

Xiang Hao groaned for a moment at this time and said: "This is a question, I haven't been in Luming City for a long time, so it's better to ask Lao Gao." ”

The two walked into Lao Gao's room, and Xiang Hao asked, "Lao Gao, do you know where there is an earth fire for refining pills in this Luming City?"

Lao Gao shook his head slightly and said: "There are not many earth fires for refining pills in the city, all I know is that there are a few places in the pill room of the City Lord's Mansion, but now we can't go, by the way, Brother Qin, where did you refine the pills before?"

Qin Wen thought of the earth fire in the medicine valley at this time, and replied: "Our Qin family's manor has a earth fire pill room, if you really can't find it nearby, then you can only charter a carriage to go to the manor, but now there is no one in the manor, and you have to bring some food items." ”

Xiang Hao nodded and said, "There is no problem with the carriage, I will let Xiao Er prepare all the items to be used, and we can go after breakfast." ”

The sun in the east was just higher than the city wall, and the two carriages went out of the west gate one after the other, Qin Wen and Shuang'er's mother and daughter sat in front, and the one behind was Xiang Hao and Lao Gao, after leaving the city gate, they ran in the direction of Qin's manor.