Chapter Seventy-Four: The Ghost Market
Zishou broke through the Heavenly Immortals after two years of retreat, and just experienced the taste of flying wantonly in the sky, so he returned to the Zhuhuang Palace and secretly agreed on two plans with Bigan.
The first is to come to the Zhendong Army, in the name of review, directly lead the fleet, and the tide knife blade is directed at Dongyi.
The second is to solve the problem of private salt, which has become a problem for the henchmen of the dynasty.
Although there have long been reports that Chenghou is the culprit of smuggling smuggled salt, he is extremely careful and never gives the secret agent a chance to find evidence.
If there is no evidence in Dashang, who has extremely heavy criminal laws, even if the Son of Heaven speaks, there is no reason to kill his courtiers privately, not to mention that Chenghou is still an elder of the son, and the court and the central government do not know how many officials have privately accepted bribes from Chenghou.
If Zishou was not the king of Shang, but just a chivalrous warrior who couldn't get used to Chenghou, he could kill the powerless Chenghou like pinching an ant to death.
But he is the king of Shang, so he cannot take such extreme measures.
Sometimes power brings a lot of convenience, but it can also be somewhat restrictive.
What's more, it is useless to just kill Chenghou alone, because he has a deeply hidden smuggling system in his hands.
If this poisonous tree is not uprooted, Dashang will still face the dilemma of salt shortage, and even if a few more large deposits like the salt mines in Le'an County are discovered, it will be useless.
This requires that the person in charge of this matter not only have a keen sense of smell and cautious patience, but also be able to find out the flow of private salt and the mobilization of funds, and also have the strength to be able to get out of trouble at any time when in danger.
When finalizing the candidates, he originally wanted Gu Ji to bring a few masters to do this in person, but Yongtan, who had been standing behind Zishou bored, stood up and volunteered to go to investigate the case alone.
Since you want to investigate the case secretly, of course, the fewer the number of people, the better, Yongtan, who is already in the Earth Immortal Realm, is indeed more suitable and can ensure his own safety.
So Yongtan embarked on a journey to Le'an County alone.
After receiving the spy report, he first lurked in the Chenghou Mansion, secretly observed the behavior of the seemingly ordinary servant "Xiao Yan", and then abducted him out of the Hou Mansion, and a mask with Xiao Yan's appearance was made for him.
As for the fate of that real Xiao Yan, in order to avoid the risk of exposure, he naturally killed.
Yongtan wore a mask, imitating Xiao Yan's behavior and voice, and lived in the Hou Mansion for three days, and then received an order to escort the goods with a convoy.
Yongtan, who thought he was going to lurk for a while longer, knew that business had come to the door when he saw the "Boss Zhang" for the first time.
How can a convoy transporting tea need more than a dozen martial artists above the Transformation God Realm to suppress the formation?
What's more, that Boss Zhang has already touched the threshold of the Mahayana realm, and the lean Hou San'er and the rugged Wu Laosi are also masters of refining the virtual realm.
When he personally looked for an opportunity to check the carts of "tea leaves", he saw white and shiny salt grains under the surface of the tea leaves!
It's actually tens of thousands of catties of refined salt!
At that time, Taishi Wenzhong retreated from Beimang for 800 miles, and the reward he received was only 10,000 catties of refined salt.
If it is converted into rough salt, it is enough for the people of a town for a year.
Yongtan was secretly resentful, and he strengthened his determination to eradicate these moths.
He followed the convoy for two days and one night, eating and sleeping with them without finding any flaws, but he did not want to be exposed to the hands of a blind old man.
I'm still too young, and I can't compare to these old foxes who walk the rivers and lakes all year round.
Fortunately, he is strong, otherwise he may really be planted in the formation of the blind old man or Zhang Laobu.
However, now that the jade slip has arrived, he knows the next step of this batch of refined salt, as long as he takes the lead in finding out the flow of refined salt before the Chenghou Mansion discovers the abnormality, and then he will have the opportunity to get human or physical evidence.
As for the batch of refined salt, he had already included it in the space magic weapon, and now it was hanging in a fluttering brocade bag beside him.
The scene in front of him kept changing, retreating backwards at a very high speed, blurring the shadow of the Dao Dao clothed in silver moonlight.
The cold air of late autumn frantically poured into his lungs, and Yongtan used his speed to hurry for the first time since he broke through to the Earth Fairyland, feeling the strong wind in his face and the scenery behind him that kept retreating, he wanted to let out a long howl.
But after all, the master came out to investigate the case, so it's better to keep a low profile.
Yongtan changed into the appearance of "Xiao Yan" again, he looked at the map all the way and picked the shortest distance to run, and soon arrived at the destination after moving at full speed, so he quickly slowed down and became cautious.
The jade slip in his sleeve should also be a magic weapon, and those small points of light that appeared in his sea of consciousness marked the next direction of the refined salt, but thinking that each delivery would have a different location, and only through the blind old man who guarded this map could he know the specific transaction location.
However, Yongtan had seen the map around Le'an County before the action, and then inspected the surrounding area of this emerging county town...... Glowing green?
Could this be...... The legendary ghost city?
Therefore, according to legend, every night when the yin qi is at its peak, there will be a group of ghosts gathering in the yang, turning a wasteland into the appearance of a workshop city, exchanging yin things in it, and taking what they need is also reminiscing about their life in the world.
At night, these wastelands are called ghost markets.
Once a living person enters the ghost market, there is no return.
Yongtan, who likes to be adventurous by nature, has a rare opportunity to leave Chaoge, and is very excited to see this strange scene, and now he is barely an immortal, he is obviously not afraid of ghosts, if he can really see the legendary group of ghosts gathering and returning to the "ghost market" of the yang world, it is worth the trip.
Could it be that Chenghou is actually trading with ghosts?
On Yongtan's simple face, a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, a little stiff because of the mask, and it seemed to be a little mocking.
He approached the entrance of the market lightly.
At the entrance were two faint green lights, ghostly, and a faint white smoke slowly diffused as it burned, exuding a strange fragrance.
Yongtan stretched out his hand and waved, beckoned a little white smoke to his nose, and sniffed it gently.
"This is ecstasy incense? such a dose, even mortals can't be smemored, right?"
He frowned, and found that instead of feeling dizzy, he was more excited, and his eyes lit up, and he thought of something, and his somewhat stiff face showed a playful smile.
"It's kind of interesting. ”
Yongtan raised his feet and was about to walk into the market, when he suddenly heard the breathing of two people.
The smile in his eyes became more pronounced, and then changed to a somewhat wary look.
Two black smoke rose from the ground, and two figures shrouded in black robes suddenly appeared, and Yong Tan's originally vigilant expression suddenly changed, looking panicked and uneasy.
"Tokens?"
A slightly taller black-robed man asked, his voice eerie, as if he was really a soul returning to the world.
"Xiao Yan" forced his composure, his right hand trembled and reached into the cuff of his left hand, and he took out a jade slip in fear.
Seeing Yu Jian's attitude, the attitude of the two changed completely, and they immediately bowed down:
"It turned out to be a distinguished guest, please inside. ”
The tall black-robed man said respectfully, and walked in with Xiao Yan, his voice at this time was no longer so gloomy and miserable.
There are green lights around the desolate city, and there are stalls on both sides, dressed in strange costumes, but people who can't see the appearance come and go shuttle among them, and from time to time there are low conversations, and then a light of different colors is instantly bright and is in the bag, it should be that the transaction has been completed.
And there are some guys in black robes standing at every corner of Fang City, they should be cultivators who are responsible for the security of this Fang City, Yong Tan quietly investigated, although these people have uneven strength levels, but at least they are monks at the peak of Yuanying.
It is enough to prevent many people in the trading crowd from fluctuating without mana, and it is obvious that mortals have bad intentions.
"Xiao Yan" quietly wiped his sweat, and said with some fear:
"Why make it so weird every time. ”
"It's just a trick to scare the fools. A delicate voice sounded, "Lord Xiaoyan is a regular visitor, why are you still so timid?"
Different from the rest of the people in the market, this woman wears a round-necked narrow long-sleeved floral coat, the length of the dress reaches the calf, and the pattern of the clothes is complicated, and the lower leg she exposes is white and tender like a lotus root, like a blooming gloom in the dark market.
Her white and slender jade legs are swinging one after another, her eyebrows are picturesque, her eyes are like water, and her cheeks and smiles are all kinds of styles, incomparably bewitching, but incomparably moving.
This beautiful and bewitching woman twisted her waist and walked over, her weak and boneless arms wrapped around Xiao Yan's waist, and led him forward.
Yong Tan's gaze stayed on her delicate side face and round breasts for a moment, and a burst of aroma suddenly came from the tip of her nose, rich but not smoky, but it only made his already excited mind more sober.
Confirming that this aroma has the same hallucinogenic effect as the "ecstasy incense" at the entrance of Fang City, Yong Tan's eyes became more and more blurred, and he swallowed his saliva and said:
"The fairy laughed, when he saw the fairy's face, how could he be afraid?"
As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and looked like a natural ...... slapped the woman's buttocks, the woman was suddenly startled, but her face changed very quickly, and her eyes were like silk in an instant, and her dimples smiled deeply, as if she was about to burst out of the water.
Well...... It's a nice touch.
Yongtan was thinking about it in his heart, but he was suddenly alert, he thought that he was very sober, but he forgot that the little words of the Chenghou Mansion were obviously a cautious character, and it would be like he was used to the amorous style of the Qinglou in Chaoge, and suddenly he was so habitually patted ......
It seems that the fragrance on this woman's body still has some effect, he thought with a wry smile in his heart, and was a little worried about how to explain this "stroke of genius", and the woman next to him regained her coquettishness, as if she had never noticed the unusual thing about this "little talker", and directly led him to a secret door.
Then she left with a smile, but before leaving, she glanced at Yongtan with deep meaning.