Behind the wooden sign, everyone had vaguely seen Taoling County. At this moment, the sky is clear, and it is a good time. But look at the town under the beautiful sun and the wind, the peach contains the rain, the willow brings spring smoke, between the clear mountains and pure water, the clear clouds are light, and the flowers and birds are clear.

The group entered the town, the bluestone-paved streets were quaint and atmospheric, and the pedestrians passing by were bustling. The people are upright and prosperous.

"A border town like this is simple and elegant, and there is such a noisy avenue, which is the most endearing. "Mu Yuncheng loves a place like Taoling from the bottom of his heart, which is neither secular nor lonely.

As soon as Mu Yuncheng arrived in the town, his mood suddenly brightened.

"Let's go to this inn and eat something before we make plans. Yang Ling pointed to the "Yuehe Inn" in front of him and said to the four of them.

Yuehe Inn and Dahuang Qianzhuang are all over the world, they are extremely loud brands, and I don't want this Taoling county to have branches.

But I saw that the double-storey pavilion of the two gates of Yingjie was hung with a blue background and a light gold plaque, and the four big characters of "Yuehe Inn" were written on it. There is a small black ink plaque underneath, which reads "Guests from all directions are coming". On the second floor, the hollow wooden windows are all ajar, and the glazed tiles on the top are dazzling in the sunlight. There is a bucket arch supporting beam below, and on it is the eaves of the beast, which is beautiful and generous, elegant and extraordinary.

Entering the door, Wei Mu Yuncheng quickly ran to the counter and said to the shopkeeper: "Five ...... Space. His voice became smaller and smaller, but the frequency of the hand on his waist groped back and forth at an accelerated rate.

The shopkeeper looked up at him, and saw that he was dressed in brocade, handsome and handsome, and knew that he was the son of a rich family. But I don't know why.

"You wait. Mu Yuncheng hurriedly ran back to Mo Yiyue's side and whispered to him, "My money bag is gone, do you still have any silver?"

Mo Yiyue immediately unfolded the package on her back, and saw that in addition to the package containing the Yunyao Sword, only some scattered silver was turned out of the other. The five of them all fled from the ship in a hurry, and this little money was desperately brought out.

Mu Yuncheng held this bit of silver in his hand, and was a little embarrassed: "Five people, I'm afraid this money will be spent tomorrow." ”

"You use it first, and wait until tomorrow. When Mo Yiyue spoke, she was in her chest.

Mu Yuncheng paced to the edge of the counter little by little, bit his lower lip and said, "Open three guest rooms, have you seen enough?" The shopkeeper raised his eyes and glanced at the silver on the cabinet, but divided the silver in half, and returned it to Mu Yuncheng and said, "You want to stay for a day, these are enough." After that, he handed the door number to Mu Yuncheng and looked at this boy with a smile.

Mu Yuncheng has always been generous, and he has never worried about the matter of money, but this time it is really embarrassing. Seeing the shopkeeper looking at himself like this, Mu Yuncheng's face suddenly turned crimson, and he lowered his head and followed everyone upstairs, as if he had done something wrong.

The three rooms are next to each other, and they are clearly divided, that is, one for Mu Yuncheng and Mo Yiyue, one for Ye Feiyu and Yang Ling, and one for Mu Tangtang himself. All five of them went back to their rooms to rest first, and made an appointment to come down to eat together.

As soon as she returned to the room, Mo Yiyue said that she had something to do, so that Mu Yuncheng didn't have to wait for her to eat. Mu Yuncheng didn't know what urgent matter he could have here, so he just said that he was careless. I am close to him but not compatible, and I don't care about good things.

During the meal, Mu Yuncheng came out of the room alone, just as Mu Tangtang also walked out of the room. When the two met, Mu Tangtang asked Mo Yiyue why she didn't come out. Mu Yuncheng replied truthfully, and said that Mo Yiyue didn't have to wait for him to eat.

The two of them went downstairs together, and saw Ye Feiyu and Yang Ling waiting below, obviously hungry. The four of them sat down and ordered some ordinary food and drinks, so that they could eat enough, because there was not much money left.

The four of them were eating, and suddenly a white-haired old man sat down against the door outside the inn, and said with words in his mouth: "Those who learn swords listen to me, don't practice blindly." You must know the yin and yang inside and outside, and what kind of objects are. It is necessary to cultivate the way of the sword according to the swordsmanship, and cultivate the world according to the law of the world. Shun adult, reverse into immortal, one sentence is more than thousands. If you don't do anything about it, it's always in vain to have no law. To practice the sword, you must first visit the Tao, and you must visit the Tao, and the innate and the immortals are passed down orally to the immortals. Immortals, immortals, sleep only in flowers. ”

"That's a good point. Mu Yuncheng turned to look at it and smiled at the old man.

Look at the old way again, the crane has a childish face, and two white eyebrows fly obliquely on the sideburns. With his pale and long hair in his hand, he smiled at Mu Yuncheng and said, "The little boy can hear the deep meaning of Lao Dao's words, which shows that his qualifications are extraordinary. Lao Dao said it, his mouth was a little dry, I don't know if the little boy can give saliva to drink. ”

"It's easy to do. Mu Yuncheng could hear the deep meaning of his words, but he just thought that what he said was more interesting, so he answered. At this moment, Lao Dao wants to drink saliva, Mu Yuncheng is already kind, how can he not give it? But where is there a water bowl here, he casually picked up the wine jug on the table, walked over and handed it to Lao Dao: "Is there any wine?"

Lao Dao took the flask, nodded and said, "The same, the same." ”

"Mu Yuncheng, can't you eat well? What are you going to do! You gave wine to this stinky Taoist priest, what are we going to drink?" it was Ye Feiyu who shouted angrily at Mu Yuncheng.

Mu Tangtang, who was on the side, heard Ye Feiyu shouting at Mu Yuncheng, so he also shouted at him: "Ye Feiyu, what are you shouting at my eldest nephew! It's just a pot of wine, why don't you order it again?"

Seeing that Mu Tangtang was angry about this, Ye Feiyu didn't dare to say more. The main reason why he was angry was that he also knew that everyone was short of money at the moment. And Mu Yuncheng was just stupid, and gave the most expensive wine on the table to the stinky Taoist priest. And he was the best at taking Mu Yuncheng out, so he shouted out in one breath, but forgot that Mu Tangtang was beside him.

Mu Yuncheng felt a little aggrieved, just a matter of a pot of wine, and everyone was unhappy about it. The reason is that there is no money.

But when he turned his head to look again, only the pot of wine was left outside the threshold, and the old Taoist priest had disappeared.

Mu Yuncheng was puzzled, and he had no intention of eating again, so he said goodbye to Mu Tangtang, and went upstairs to rest.

Mu Tangtang saw that Mu Yuncheng didn't have the heart to eat, so he pushed away the chair and went back to the room.

Mu Yuncheng was lying on the bed, but all he was thinking about at the moment was how to exchange for some silver. There is still a long way to go, but the silver on my body has been used up, and if I don't redeem some more, I'm afraid it will be a problem to even survive.

Originally, he still had a jade pendant tied around his waist, but he lost it with the money bag. Then there is the jade ring on the middle finger that has been worn, this jade ring was left to him when his mother died. Verdant and bright, clear and crystalline. It has an oily feeling to the touch, soft and smooth.

How can this be sold? My father asked for it from me many times, but he never gave it to him. Just because this is a relic left by my mother. This is a family heirloom, and the mother said that it must be worn on the hands of the future daughter-in-law of the Mu family, so that she can look at it. This is absolutely impossible to sell.

Again, it's Yunyao Sword.

The Yunyao Sword given by the second uncle, the time has come for you to make meritorious contributions.

Mu Yuncheng himself doesn't know how to use a sword, and his feelings for swords are not very deep, so he ......

Mu Yuncheng secretly walked out of the room with the package containing Yun Yao's sword, after all, he was going to pawn something, and it was not very glorious. The last thing he wanted to be seen by Ye Feiyu was that he would have a reason to laugh at him.

This Taoling county town is not big, and I found a pawnshop after turning around. Mu Yuncheng had never pawned anything, and after entering the store, he was still a little apprehensive in his heart.

"I'll be the stuff. Mu Yuncheng hugged Yun Yao and said to the shopkeeper in the store.

The shopkeeper looked Mu Yuncheng up and down, and then said politely: "What does the son want to be?"

Mu Yuncheng handed Yun Yao up, bit his lip lightly and said, "This." ”

The shopkeeper was immediately happy, shook his head and said, "Childe, we don't accept this." After that, he pointed to a small plaque standing at the door of the store and said, "It is clearly written on it, no weapons will be accepted." ”

This is indeed the rule of some pawn shops to not accept weapons, and there are several reasons. First, this weapon is a hurtful thing, and the government must investigate and take care of it. The second is that most of the people who are generally used as weapons are people in the rivers and lakes, living a life of licking blood from the edge of the knife and hanging by a thread, and few people can really come back to redeem the things they pawned. The third is that if you don't redeem this weapon, the store won't be able to sell it, and if you collect it, it will be smashed into your own hands. Therefore, there are generally few pawnshops that accept weapons.

"Ah......" Mu Yuncheng stretched out his voice, full of regret.

"If Childe is in urgent need of money, I can accept this jade ring in your hand at a high price. The shopkeeper was shrewd, and at a glance he saw that the jade ring between Mu Yuncheng's fingers was not good, so he said to him.

Mu Yuncheng shook his head and said weakly: "This is left to me by my mother, I don't sell it." After that, he picked up Yun Yaojian and went out.

Back on the street, Mu Yuncheng was a little confused, this Yunyao Sword can't go out, what should he do next?

He immediately put the Yunyao sword on the ground, squatted next to him, and looked at the pedestrians on the street with a distraction.

Just when Mu Yuncheng was wandering outside the universe, a white folding fan opened in front of him.

"Dare to ask this son, are you selling this sword here?" the voice was extremely crisp and pleasant.

Mu Yuncheng followed the voice and looked up, he didn't understand, why did this person know that he was going to sell swords?

But seeing that the person in front of him was also dressed as a son, Mu Yuncheng looked at him carefully, it was a face that made people jealous, not to mention the fair and delicate skin and delicate facial features. Not to mention the eyebrows like green feathers and the bright teeth like shells, just talking about the clear eyes like the lake water under the moon, Mu Yuncheng was crazy. If this is a woman, can it still be done?

Seeing Mu Yuncheng looking at him stupidly, the boy was obviously a little angry, so he shook the folding fan in his hand in front of his eyes, and said, "This son, if you don't say it, I'll leave." ”

"Don't go, I do need money from the sale of this sword. Mu Yuncheng stretched out his hand to stop this son, and said hurriedly.

The young man bent down and picked up Yun Yao from Mu Yuncheng's side, and the moment he pulled it out of the scabbard, it was like a lightning bolt in front of his eyes, and it was very powerful. I couldn't help but say hello secretly for this.

Look at this sword again, the sword body is slender, cold as water, and shining. The shape of the small cloud-shaped sword grid is peculiar, and the sword body is also engraved with colorful cloud patterns, which is very exquisite. The boy kept rubbing the sword body with his hand, showing that he couldn't put it down for Yun Yao.

Mu Yuncheng saw that he liked it, and he was also happy, and said in his heart that the matter of the silver had finally been settled.

But seeing that the son took Yun Yao back into the sheath, he smiled at Mu Yuncheng and said, "In Xia Lu Xiao, dare to ask the son's name." ”

"Mu Yuncheng. Mu Yuncheng was a little strange, but he also replied politely.

Lu Xiao lowered his head and muttered for a moment, then raised his head and said to Mu Yuncheng: "Brother Mu, your sword is a priceless treasure, I don't want to lie to you." So I don't want to buy this sword from you, but I want to make a bet with you, I don't know if you dare to take it?"

"What do you mean? You don't have any money. Mu Yuncheng stood up and said with some understanding.

Lu Xiao shook his head, took out the silver ticket of one thousand taels of Desert Money Village from his arms, handed it to Mu Yuncheng, and then said: "I like to bet with people in my life, and when I see you, I am the kind of son who is used to living a life of fine clothes and jade food." Let's not bet on anything else, just bet on whether Brother Mu can earn a tael of silver in the next three hours. If you do, I will lose to you this thousand taels of silver tickets. If you lose, the Yunyao Sword will be mine. What do you think?" he looked at Mu Yuncheng confidently, not knowing whether he was confident in his own idea, or confident in his ability to underestimate Mu Yuncheng's ability to make money.

When Mu Yuncheng heard his gambling agreement, he felt humiliated, so he said: "I met your son, why did you insult me like this?

Lu Xiao heard a hint of a smile in his eyes, and then the folding fan in his hand was lightly spread, and he swayed from side to side: "It's not humiliation, it's just to win the bet." ”

Seeing Mu Yuncheng snatch Yun Yao, he was so angry that he gasped and said, "I'm just selling swords, don't bet!"

Hearing this, Lu Xiao nodded and said, "I knew I wouldn't be mistaken, you are the kind of little boy who can't even earn a tael of silver." When he had said this, he made a gesture to leave. But Mu Yuncheng grabbed him from behind, and only heard him say: "You wait, I'll bet with you this time." Not just for the money, but for my dignity. ”

"For three hours, I'll wait for you here with an incense case. One or two pieces of silver, no borrowing, no grabbing, even if you earn it within the specified time, even if you win. As soon as he finished speaking, he saw that Mu Yuncheng had already left with the Yunyao Sword on his back, but he saw Lu Xiao shake the folding fan in his hand and said with a smile: "Interesting." ”