Chapter 42: Elephant Trunk Mountain
The next day, Zhu Youdao was still practicing on the second floor of "Zhu Ji Lingza", and he heard Lao Chen shouting: "Mr. Zhu, Captain Liu is here to visit!"
Zhu Youdao came down and saw that Lao Chen was nodding and pouring tea for Liu Changsong.
Zhu Youdao greeted him with a smile: "Brother Liu, welcome, you are here, the small shop is shining!"
Liu Changsong said: "I was patrolling in Fang City, passing by here, and I happened to come to see Brother Zhu!"
Zhu Youdao and Liu Changsong sat down at the only table in the store, Lao Chen poured tea for them, and went upstairs with great interest.
Liu Changsong lowered his voice: "Brother Zhu, recently there is a group of monks from Fengzhou who are buying supplies everywhere, and many families have rushed over, have you heard the news?"
Zhu Youdao nodded: "Yes, our Zhu family has been established for a short time, and we don't have much family background, this time I did everything I could to empty my home, just to get in touch with the people in Fengzhou and see if I can change one or two Jindan period exercises!
Liu Changsong nodded: "Brother, you have a good idea! The three major sects in Fengzhou fought in a scuffle, implicating their respective vassal sect families, and everyone was almost unable to hold on. If you want to earn spirit stones, it is more difficult, and they lack this even more. But if you want to change some exercises and secret techniques, it is still possible. These things are usually very precious, and if you mention them, people will fight hard with you! But now it's different, they are all about to go bankrupt, and if they lose, these exercises and secret techniques are all trophies of others, so except for their most fundamental core exercises, they may exchange other things for you! It's a pity that you're a little late, brother!"
Zhu Youdao asked suspiciously, "What do you mean by this?"
Seeing that there was no one in the store, Liu Changsong released a soundproof spell before he said: "An order has been issued from above, prohibiting the families of Yunzhou from directly trading with people from Fengzhou. If you want to trade, you have to sell things to the Zhou family, and then the Zhou family will sell them to the people from Fengzhou!"
Zhu Youdao was speechless, this Vientiane Zhou family is blocking the opportunity for other families to grow!
Seeing Zhu Youdao's disappointed face, Liu Changsong lowered his voice again and said: "Youhuancao has been personally brought to Vientiane City by my brother-in-law, and it is estimated that I will be able to come back in more than ten days!
After he finished speaking, he secretly stuffed a paper ball from his sleeve to Zhu Youdao, and then said loudly: "Brother, I am on official business, I will invite you to drink when I go back, let's see you back!"
Then he got up and left.
Zhu Youdao sent him out of the door, hurriedly returned to the second floor, unfolded the paper ball, and saw a simple map drawn on it, and some small characters underneath.
It turned out that some of the monks who came from Fengzhou were in Zhenjiang City, and the other part was in Elephant Trunk Mountain in Yongzhou.
And what Liu Changsong gave to Zhu Youdao was a map to Elephant Trunk Mountain.
The large and small families in Yunzhou, under the pressure of the Vientiane Zhou family, have no room to grow at all.
Most of the family's cultivation exercises stop at building a foundation, and in normal times, there is no way for these families to obtain higher inheritance exercises.
This war of closure gave the small and medium-sized families in Yunzhou a thought. With the same mind as Zhu Youdao, there are not a few people who want to exchange for a high-level exercise.
The Fengzhou monks traded directly with the Zhou family, and they were exploited a lot, so they sent a part of their men to Yongzhou and established a temporary base in Elephant Trunk Mountain in Yongzhou.
No matter how domineering the Vientiane Zhou clan is, they can't control Yongzhou, so many people have recently crossed the Bailongjiang River and gone to Yongzhou to trade.
The Vientiane Zhou family knows these things, but they just stared at a few Jindan families in Yunzhou to death, and a small Zhuji family like the Zhu family will not be put in the eyes of the Zhou family.
After being reminded by Liu Changsong, Zhu Youdao immediately asked Lao Chen to inquire about the latest ferry to Yongzhou.
A few days later, Zhu Youdao got on Bailongdu and headed towards Yongzhou.
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Elephant Trunk Mountain is not majestic, and there are no spiritual veins on the mountain, so it is not occupied by the Xiuzhen forces.
The Fengzhou monks came over, bringing a lot of benefits to Yongzhou, they occupied here, and naturally no one came to find trouble.
When Zhu Youdao came to Elephant Trunk Mountain, a fang market had already been formed here.
The family sects in Sanzhou, and even many hawkers who are loose cultivators and traders, also heard the news, and in a short period of time, this place has become very lively.
When Zhu Youdao entered the market, he saw many monks setting up stalls on the side of the road to sell.
When he first arrived, he couldn't figure out the situation, so he sat down on the edge of the booth of a kind-faced old man and started talking to him.
It was only very soon that he figured out the general situation in the market.
Elephant Trunk Hill is currently unmanaged, and the stalls and sales are all voluntary, but you can't make trouble here.
It is said that a few days ago, someone used himself to build a foundation period for cultivation, and forcibly bought a spiritual object for loose cultivation during the Qi training period here, and was thrown out by a monk who came from Fengzhou.
This line of Fengzhou monks, composed of one Jin Dan, three Zhuji, and more than ten Qi cultivation monks, can be regarded as a powerful force in the case of the three clans of Yongzhou not showing their heads, which is enough to suppress this.
Zhu Youdao still plans to take a look at the situation first and then contact them. After all, the goods they brought were worth a lot of money, and the other party had a Jindan monk, once they had bad intentions, it would be difficult to deal with.
He took out a piece of animal skin, spread it on the ground, and placed a few dozen spirit runes and a few magic weapons, all of which were first-order things, and set up a stall here.
The old man who had just talked to him next door was selling some low-grade pills and messy spiritual materials, and when he saw that Zhu Youdao's magic weapon spirit rune was of good quality, he asked, "What is the price of Daoist's magic weapon spirit rune?"
Zhu Youdao didn't want to make money with this, so he quoted a price slightly lower than the market.
The old man was overjoyed: "Daoyou, this price is real, my old man is a vendor who runs a business, can I sell some things for you?"
Zhu Youdao nodded in agreement, took out five magic weapons, ten dozen spirit runes, and asked, "Are these enough?"
The old man said happily: "Enough, enough, the old man has a small profit, and he can't eat more goods!"
The old man put the goods he had just received on his stall, added one and a half percent of the price, and then sold them.
After a while, a guest came over to ask the old man about the price, and when he came to ask Zhu Youdao again, he raised his price by two percent.
The two of them had the same thing, so people naturally went to buy the old man's cheap ones.
After the guests left, the old man said gratefully: "Thank you for taking care of my old man." ”
Zhu Youdao smiled and didn't answer.
For most of the day, Zhu Youdao set up a stall absentmindedly, just paying attention to the tent where the monks of Fengzhou were stationed.
He saw several waves of monks who looked like families enter, and after a moment came out with a happy face, clearly satisfied with the outcome of the transaction.
Suddenly, Zhu Youdao saw a young monk come out of the tent, he looked around boredly, stretched his body, and returned to the tent.
Zhu Youdao was a little puzzled, the young man just now actually gave Zhu Youdao a feeling of acquaintance.