Chapter 206: Assessing True Intentions
After reading the book, the address of [Wanbenshen Station]: Avoid the pain of chasing books!
After the shopkeeper expressed his three questions, he explained his ideas to the crowd.
"At first, I thought that the purpose of this assessment was to allow us to solve the problem of our whereabouts being exposed, but I soon found out that things are not so simple. The shopkeeper's analysis: "First of all, it is this street, I came to this Hundred Flowers City, although I have just arrived, I have already heard of the name of the gold cave in this Hundred Flowers City, the price is needless to say, but the hawker who sells sugar gourds only costs three pennies for a string of rock sugar gourds, this price is inevitably too close to the people, how can a hawker who sells rock sugar gourds sell only three pennies in this notoriously high price Hundred Flowers City?"
Bai Xiaosheng was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized: "I'll just say something that feels wrong, it turns out that the problem is here." β
"Secondly, there are passers-by. The shopkeeper smiled: "I don't know if you have noticed that although the conversations with these passers-by are all off-topic, they all have one thing in common." β
Everyone wondered: "What do you have in common?"
"Yes, the common denominator, and this common denominator is the key to breaking through the status quo. The shopkeeper pointed to the tallest tower-like building in Hundred Flowers City: "What do you think the purpose of the founder of the Wangji Tower is to hold the chivalrous qualification examination?"
"Purpose?" Xiao Dao frowned: "Isn't the purpose to strengthen the supervision of the Jianghu guests and completely stabilize the turbulent Jianghu?"
Now the rivers and lakes have different opinions on the watchtower, good and bad.
Some people say that the establishment of the Wangji Tower marks the loss of the most important thing for Jianghu passengers: freedom.
Although the rivers and lakes are dangerous, but the rivers and lakes are free, and the life of the rivers and lakes is dangerous, but it is also a unique scenery in the life of the guests.
However, since the establishment of the watchtower, the Jianghu guests have begun to rush around, in order to entrust the watchtower.
What do Jianghu people value? Naturally, it is the word fame and fortune.
Since ancient times, the word fame and fortune has always been the goal pursued by the Jianghu guests, and after the establishment of the chivalrous qualification assessment system of the Wangji Tower, many unknown Jianghu guests have become household names overnight.
In the past, what people discussed after tea and dinner was nothing more than the disturbances made by some people in the rivers and lakes, but so what, did it have anything to do with the lives of ordinary people? At that time, the lives of ordinary people and the rivers and lakes were like two worlds, and they did not match each other.
In the eyes of ordinary people, those masters of the rivers and lakes are inviolable.
However, since the Wangji Tower launched the Hundred Missions, the lives of ordinary people have begun to communicate with Jianghu guests.
Urgent letter?
In the past, you could only go to the post station, and you had to queue up, but now it's different, you only need to go to Wangji Pavilion to issue tasks, and naturally there will be light masters who will take the initiative to knock on your door to serve you.
Got a beast?
In the past, you could only put a scarecrow near the village by yourself, or the villagers made some traps by themselves, or waited for a strange and enthusiastic traveler passing by to come to help, but compared with the latter, the former is more reliable.
But now it's different, you only need to go to Wangji Pavilion, and naturally there are Jianghu guests who take the initiative to come to the door to eliminate harm for the people.
"Before, our eyes were tied to the word assessment, and we couldn't see further away. Bai Xiaosheng spoke: "But if you think about it from a different angle, think about it with the thinking of the questioner, what kind of person is the Jianghu guest that Wangjilou wants?"
The shopkeeper nodded: "Xiaobai's thinking is very quick, yes, that's what I mean." β
Everyone fell into deep thought when they heard thisβexcept for Guo Xiaodao.
"Wait, wait, why didn't I get it. Guo Xiaodao scratched his head: "Don't play dumb riddles, can't you say it directly?"
In other words, the purpose of this exam is to see if we are nosy. The shopkeeper smiled: "I don't know if you have noticed that although those passers-by are talking bulls and horses, they are talking about themselves." β
Saying that, he took the lead and approached the carpenter's mansion, everyone looked at me, I looked at you, and they all followed, and the old man behind Mo Xiaoxiao also followed.
The old man didn't say a word when everyone was talking outside the door, as if he was asleep, but as soon as he entered the mansion, the old man seemed to be alive again: "Cuiyun, look at this courtyard, when I was young, I set a dresser here, and you specially asked me for a silver ingot and gave it to the carpenter."
Listening to this, Xiao Dao snorted and laughed, and Mo Xiaoxiao raised his eyebrows: "What are you laughing at?"
"I didn't think you had this hobby. Xiaodao smiled: "It has always been the old cow that eats tender grass, but I didn't expect it to be the other way around when I came to you." β
Mo Xiaoxiao rolled her eyes: "Do you believe it?"
Xiaodao shrugged his shoulders: "Naturally, I don't believe it, let's not talk about whether you are really good at this, this old man said all about his youth, looking at his appearance is enough to be your grandfather, presumably you were not born at that time." β
The two of them didn't avoid the old man when they said this, but the old man chattered to himself as if he hadn't heard it.
The shopkeeper came to the door of the lobby, and the carpenter was still sitting in the lobby like the shopkeeper and Guo Xiaodao before leaving, and the shopkeeper pointed to the lobby: "Miss Mo, you go in first, don't say anything after you go in, if someone asks you, you can choose what the other party is willing to listen to." β
Mo Xiaoxiao asked, "Why is this?"
The shopkeeper's face was mysterious: "If you want to get rid of this old man, do as I say." β
Mo Xiaoxiao perked up when he heard this: "If you do what you say, can you really get rid of this kraft candy?"
"Why don't you try it?"
Mo Xiaoxiao walked to the hall in the eyes of everyone, but the old man who had pestered Mo Xiaoxiao to ignore everyone had other actions, only to see the old man walking to the center of the hall: "Even the carpenter, I haven't seen you for a long time." β
The carpenter raised his hand: "This one looks familiar, I don't know if I've seen it anywhere?"
The two of them talked as if no one was around, and the content of the conversation between the two was roughly that they hoped that the carpenter would make the dressing cabinet of the year again, hoping that they could use this to awaken the memory of the "old green clouds".
"Coincidentally, I made two sets of cabinets back then, and now the other set is left with me, you wait here, and I will go and get it. β
Soon after, the carpenter moved the dresser to the lobby, and the old man looked expectant: "Cuiyun, what do you remember?"
Mo Xiaoxiao looked at the dresser in the middle of the hall, confirmed that he had never seen this dresser, and just wanted to tell the truth, but when the words came to his lips, he thought of the shopkeeper's words, and changed his words: "I remembered, I remembered everything." β
The old man's face was happy: "It's good to think about it! It's good to think about it! I don't have any regrets in my life, but only this matter can't be forgotten, since I lost you back then, I naturally don't have the face to stay in front of you anymore, this thing should be my self-comfort, you take it, how to deal with it you judge for yourself, the old man goes!"
As he spoke, he stepped out of the hall and disappeared into the crowd of people on the street.
(End of chapter)
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