At the turn of spring and summer on the ground, even the mighty Great Chu Dynasty is collapsing, but in the cellar deep underground of Changling, there is not much change in temperature.

Hu Haiqi has a lot, and the skin on his body has become strangely pale, and even like many animals that have lived underground for a long time, there are even some faint fluorescences on his body.

However, there were not many scars on his body at this time, not even chains and other restraints, and he seemed to be able to move freely.

In front of him lay a stone plate with many bloody slices of flesh cut into thin slices.

These slices of meat are raw rat meat.

Because Shen Xuan stored a lot of food in this cellar, some rats often came to smell the food, and these rats naturally couldn't escape Shen Xuan's perception.

On the battlefield of the Qin and Chu wars at this time, rat meat is sometimes used as emergency food, and many armies will dig three feet into the ground to dig up plant tubers and rats to satisfy their hunger, but now these rat meats placed in front of Hu Hai have not been carefully cleaned, mixed with a lot of rat hair and dirt, and they look extremely disgusting.

Every time his eyes fell on these fishy rat meats, Hu Hai retched for a while, but he didn't dare to make a sound.

Shen Xuan was standing not far in front of him, wiping the blade of a knife fixed to the wall with a rag that was not very shiny.

The time in the cellar was unusually long, so his movements were slow and meticulous, as if he was polishing some jade, and he used this to pass the time.

"梼杌"

After a long time, he put down the cloth in his hand, said these two words, and then looked at Hu Hai expressionlessly, and said: "After eating it, it actually tastes very good, comparable to the most delicious food in the world." ”

"梼杌" is a legendary beast that has long been extinct.

This kind of beast is only recorded in the scriptures of a very small number of cultivators, and there is no authoritative record of how it looks.

Even the vast majority of cultivators now didn't know the name of this beast at all, let alone mention such an unusually obscure word.

However, the sound of these two words seems to have some strange magic.

Hu Hai, who had been retching uncontrollably, heard these two words, and a strange red cloud appeared on his unusually pale face, and even a naked greed appeared in his eyes.

It was as if he had seen the best delicacy in the world, and he almost threw himself on the stone plate.

He chewed heavily, not only eating all the bloody raw meat slices, but not even missing every drop of blood on the stone plate.

Shen Xuan looked at him silently, still expressionless.

It's just that in the next few breaths, he lowered his head, thinking that he should soon be able to go out to see the Changling Tomb above.

......

The Changling Tomb above is deserted.

The desertion came from a huge purge after Ye Celeng's defection and the Minshan Sword Sect's Baili Suxue entered the palace.

Many officials were involved, many died in the fighting, and many left quickly for fear of being implicated.

The most important thing is that many sword monasteries and practice places disappeared overnight, not because of the encirclement and suppression of the army, but because they could no longer stand the control of the imperial palace.

One of the more lively ones today is Honghe Town, a small town on the bank of the Wei River outside Changling.

It is a port where many merchant ships are anchored, and it is rich in clay that can be used to make pottery, and there are many merchant ships coming and going, and the mud at the bottom of the river is also red, making the whole river red.

The border war is in full swing, and the most scarce thing is food.

Next up is the carriage and horses.

Naturally, the most scarce of these are medicines, the most important of which are hemostatic drugs.

However, as the weather became hot and humid, medicines to relieve diarrhea and wound suppuration suddenly became important.

Most of the ships docked on the banks of the river in this town today are from some important businesses in Guanzhong, and the people who come ashore are the principals who are rarely seen on weekdays, and some legendary wealthy.

But the faces of these huge rich people in Guanzhong are very unsightly.

Because before everyone realized that all the medicines were in short supply, these huge people in Guanzhong suddenly discovered that several percent of the drugs to stop bleeding, as well as most of the medicinal materials used to make medicines to remove diarrhea and suppuration from wounds, had been collected by a mysterious wealthy businessman.

Having a sense of smell that precedes everyone else and hoarding scarce resources is understandable in the business world.

However, many finished medicinal materials belong to the control of the court, and some firms must complete a certain amount within a limited period of time, when these raw materials are monopolized by others, and the price of several percent is raised, the price of the finished drugs released by these firms cannot be increased.

This is not just a matter of taking advantage of the opportunity to make war money, it is simply stepping on the face of all the huge rich people concerned and taking money out of their pockets.

Who would dare to do that?

It's not just that the officials of various divisions have an inextricable relationship with these Guanzhong giants, it's not just that many cultivators have gone out of Guanzhong and become generals in the army. Even the vast majority of the cultivation sites in Changling receive funding from these Guanzhong wealthy people every year.

The only thing that kept these huge riches from completely attacking was that the money that this mysterious person had was terrifying, otherwise it would not have been possible to buy out many medicinal herbs quietly by such a thunderous means, and this mysterious person gave them a chance to talk.

Xie Lian should go ashore surrounded by several important people in Guanzhong and walk to one of the most secluded inns in the town.

As the head of the huge rich in Guanzhong, this kind of challenging matter is naturally led by him to negotiate, but he is worried at this time, but his mind is not on this.

After the Minshan Sword Sect was destroyed, his daughter Xie Rou, who was studying swords in the Minshan Sword Sect, was nowhere to be found, and before, Xie Changsheng was also nowhere to be found.

Compared to the news of a pair of children, this matter is not the most important thing for him at the moment.

However, when he walked into the deepest quiet room of this inn alone according to the other party's request, a voice that first came into his ear made him stunned for a moment.

"Father. ”

The sound of these two words is extremely familiar and yet unfamiliar.

"Changsheng?"

Xie Lianying's eyes widened, and he looked at the young man in disbelief.

The wings of his nose were inexplicably sour.

That's not the son he's been worried about all day.

In that dim light, the idle son of the past seemed to have become much more mature.

"In this way, you can come and get a chance to meet you, it's not really a matter of business and this herb. Xie Changsheng bowed deeply, saluted his father, who he also thought about day and night, and then said softly.

"What do you mean?"

Xie Lianying stayed for a long time, and came back to his senses a little, "What the hell are you doing, how can you do such a thing?"

Seeing the father and son in this situation, Xie Changsheng's mood was very agitated, his hands trembled slightly in his sleeves, but his face was extremely serious, he did not answer his father's question, but quickly said softly: "Zheng Sleeve is about to do something to us." ”