Chapter 282: Washington Mansion is robbed
Di Yunfeng stopped the movements of his hand, not that he wanted to remain mysterious, but that the girl opposite was so beautiful that he forgot about the world.
It can be imagined that the sassy autumn wind shears, the withered leaves fall, the green tiles and white walls and brown window sills, and the crimson red lips and white neon clothes.
This woman may not have Mu Xueyi's peerless appearance, but her temperament that is perfectly integrated with heaven and earth, soft lips, beautiful eyes, and expression, a touch of melancholy, a kind of delicate tenderness.
It is understandable that men want to take such a woman for themselves, and give it away three thousand times.
Di Yunfeng thought, such a good day, such a beauty, can have the same sentiment of appreciation as himself, even if he can't be a lover, it is okay to be a friend.
But the beauty only glanced at him indifferently, and closed the window tightly with a "snap".
"Uh...... Could it be that I'm not handsome enough?" Di Yunfeng stroked his big white face mask and said with a wry smile.
"Immortal, why are you stunned? It's time for us to go. Zhang Qiang's shout suddenly came from downstairs.
Di Yunfeng came back to his senses at this time, and almost forgot that he still had something to do, so he jumped down from the window: "Let's go, go buy Rendan." ”
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Ren Dan is a controlled product, not an ordinary merchant can be used to resell, if you want to buy Ren Dan, you must go to the designated official and commercial offices, small cities do not have it, big cities do not necessarily have, it must be the kind of big city that can be hand-picked by the imperial capital to sell Ren Dan.
Di Yunfeng didn't know much about what kind of dynasty the Ghost Empire was, but the emperor who could implement this system must be leveraged, not to mention his advantages and disadvantages, the introduction of this system not only ensured the entry and exit of the treasury, but also vigorously suppressed the flood of ghost cultivation.
The number of ghosts in the ghost realm is too large, and if all of them are included in the kingdom, there will inevitably be the drawbacks of careless management, so each ghost realm will introduce various policies to solve such situations. The Ghost Empire screens elite ghost cultivators through human pills, and the Nine Shadows are incorporated into ghost cultivators through coexistence, and I have heard that there are the other four ghost realms in the ghost realm, among which the corpse soul realm and the distortion realm are the most absurd, and unruly evil spirits are wandering there.
Moon Worship City is worthy of being a first-tier city set up by the imperial capital, it is not as flowery as Chang'an, nor does it have the chivalrous feelings of Zhenwu, and it is not as smart and lively as the fairy world. But the streets here are clean and tidy, passers-by do not ask each other, the world is quiet, peaceful, and live at a very slow pace, perhaps it has passed on to the years.
There is no life and death in the ghost world, so the status of the years here is not too obvious.
Di Yunfeng likes the ghost world a little bit again, there is no doubt that this is the life of "fine water and long flow" that he has always wanted in his heart, but this is the ghost world, no matter how beautiful it is, Mu Xueyi will not come, Di Yunfeng did not tell ghost stories to scare him before.
"Hehe......" Di Yunfeng couldn't help but smile.
"Shangxian, let's let it go. Zhang Qiang suddenly dragged Di Yunfeng to the side of the street and made a way.
Di Yunfeng came back to his senses and found that a large group of people were coming from the street, each carrying a sword and a sword, and they looked majestic and high-spirited.
Before, it was said that there was no atmosphere in the ghost world, but now that this group of people has come, they have added a little bit.
"What are these people doing?" Zhang Qiang muttered quietly.
"Looking at their heroic appearance, they should be righteous teachers. Di Yunfeng said that on the battlefield, he had seen many soldiers attacking in such arrays. He added: "They should be going to war, but there is no war, it is a small war." ”
"And a little fight?" Zhang Qiang wondered.
"To put it bluntly, it is to kill demons and eliminate harm for the people. Di Yunfeng smiled, he used to like to do this kind of thing, but now he will definitely not do it without giving money, so he dragged Zhang Qiang away: "Let's go, don't forget to get down to business." ”
Zhang Qiang looked back again and again, the curiosity in his heart grew, and he finally couldn't help but grab a passerby: "Friend, do you know what the pair of people are doing?"
The passer-by's face was pale, his eye sockets were deep, and his expression was dull, he raised his head blankly, stared at Zhang Qiang, raised his hand and opened it, and made a asking gesture: "Give it to the ghost jade, and I'll tell you." ”
Zhang Qiang raised his eyebrows: "You also want money if you ask?"
"Don't you need time to talk? If you don't give money, get out, and if you bother me again, you have to give money. The passer-by's words were literally impulsive, but when they came out of his mouth, they seemed weak.
Zhang Qiang really wanted to know, so he reluctantly stuffed half a piece of ghost jade to the passerby and said: "It's not much, you can say it quickly, what are those people doing?"
When the passer-by saw the ghost jade, his godless eyes finally lit up, and he blurted out: "I'm going to die." ”
Zhang Qiang frowned and said, "What do you mean? ”
The passer-by pointed to the front and said: "Do you see that gloomy mountain forest? There are very powerful evil spirits there, these people are going there to catch ghosts, it is already the third batch, and the first two batches have not returned." ”
Zhang Qiang pursed his lips: "Could it be that these people went to die in vain......"
Passers-by said disdainfully: "Are you a fool? Of course it is impossible to send death in vain, the first batch of people, the applicants were each rewarded with a hundred pieces of ghost jade, and when they all did not come back, the Red Mansion organized a second batch, and the bounty was increased to two hundred pieces of ghost jade per person, and after the second batch was hung up, it was the third batch that had just passed by, and the bounty was increased to five hundred pieces of ghost jade." ”
"Five hundred pieces of ghost jade!" Zhang Qiang exclaimed, looking at Di Yunfeng with open eyes, and proposed in a soft voice: "Shangxian, five hundred pieces of ghost jade for one person, and one of us for two people!
Di Yunfeng shook his head: "It's indeed a big deal, but you never know if you can come back alive, do you think your life is more important than five hundred pieces of ghost jade?"
Zhang Qiang suddenly extinguished the passion in his heart.
At this time, I listened to the passer-by: "At the latest, tomorrow, the official family will organize the fourth batch, and I am afraid that the bounty given when I see it is a thousand ghost jade...... Snort, are you afraid of death when you are alive, and you are still afraid of death when you die?
After the passerby finished speaking, he put half a piece of ghost jade into his chest and staggered away.
"If you think about it, there's nothing wrong with what he's saying. Zhang Qiang was still obsessed with the thousand pieces of ghost jade.
If he understands it so thoroughly, why don't he go himself?
Send to death?hehe......" Di Yunfeng said with a light smile.
"I think if the fourth group is organized tomorrow, he will definitely participate. Zhang Qiang said.
"What if he won't?" Di Yunfeng asked.
Zhang Qiang's eyes rolled: "Then why don't we make a bet?"
Di Yunfeng said with interest: "Okay, how are you going to bet? What is the bet, let's listen to it." ”
Zhang Qiang smiled and said, "Look at this, if he participates in the fourth batch of monks tomorrow, how about we also participate?"
Di Yunfeng thought about it and agreed: "Okay, I'll bet with you!"
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While the two were talking and laughing, they had already come to the gate of the official business.
I thought that there would be a long queue of people to buy necessities like Ren Dan every day, but when I actually arrived at the gate, I saw a different deserted scene.
The inscription on the official and commercial plaque is: "worship the moon in Huafu", there are two stone statues in front of the door, the left is Pixiu, the right is the unicorn, and the door guards twelve ghosts with knives, the situation is solemn and majestic.
Thirty feet away from the gate stood a group of people, men, women and children, all yellow-skinned and thin, and malnourished, lying, sitting, crawling, as if waiting for death.
Di Yunfeng's mind thought of the passerby who had just asked, and his appearance was not much different from these regretful people.
There were few people coming in and out of the gate, and the business in Washington seemed to be a little bleak, when three or two ghosts ran out of the door, stopped in front of those regretful people, beat them away, and said to each other viciously: "It's all you stinky people who want food, blocking the wealth of Washington, hurry up and get out of the way, or I will arrest you and go to the eighteenth layer of hell!"
"Poor master, you should do well, give a human pill, we really don't want to be driven out of the city!"
"Yes, Lord, look at the dark and dense forests outside, if we are driven out of the city, won't it be equivalent to death......"
"Fuck you, what are you pretending to be pitiful? A few dozen pieces of ghost jade, how can you say that you will send it? Why don't you hurry up and get out of here, or I'll shave you before you finish taking off your skin!"
Several officials became more and more energetic the more they beat and scolded, and many people were beaten with blood. Di Yunfeng really couldn't stand it, so he stepped forward and said, "Stop! As an official, how can you wantonly beat the common people?"
Seeing that Di Yunfeng was dressed richly, the official didn't have a bad attitude, so he only said: "You don't know anything about this adult, these beggars are like dogs, they come back after they rush and come back, they come back after they are rushed, we really can't do it, we can only move a little realistically." ”
Di Yunfeng said coldly: "You guys are also called a little realistic? I just heard you say that you are going to pluck their skins! Is this what people say!"
"My lord, I saw that you were rich and noble, so I bowed down with you, you don't want to get an inch!"
The three ghosts raised their knives one after another, and they wanted to give Di Yunfeng a dismount! Who knew that Di Yunfeng did not hesitate to kick out! A dragon swing tail, only to hear the three sounds of "pop papa", the ghosts' sabers were kicked away, embedded in the stone wall for three points, such a force, it can be seen.
The ghost was stunned!
"Next time, I'll kick you all to the north gate!"
"Don't get out of here!"
Di Yunfeng let out a loud sigh, so frightened that he almost forgot to pull out the knife, and the three of them hooked their heads with their tails between their legs, and ran towards Washington in a gloomy manner.
"Thank you for rescuing me, thank you for rescuing me......"
Everywhere the suffering people went, they knelt in front of Di Yunfeng, weeping silently, tears staining their clothes.
"Alas...... Everyone, please get up, I can't save you, and I'm very tight in my pocket. Di Yunfeng sighed and helped everyone up. In the past, in the fairy world, there were so many spirit crystals that there was no place to spend them, but now in the ghost world, he is poor and looks like this bird.
Zhang Qiang also helped to support the people, and comforted: "If you can't afford this luxurious life, let's not come here to suffer, you see, you are beaten and scolded, you are oppressed when you are alive, and you will suffer if you die?"
Zhang Qiang's words caused a burst of ghost crying, and he heard the vicissitudes of life say: "We are also forced to do it, the dark and dense forest outside the city has not been peaceful, where can we go out of the city to send to death......
"That's right, our group of people lacks soul power and ability, and no one wants to be slaves...... I didn't do anything bad in my life, my children were filial, and even if I died, I didn't have a grievance, so why should I go to hell to suffer like this...... Woowoo woo ......"
The right way in the world is the vicissitudes of life, and the right way in the ghost world is suffering, and it is said that the evil spirits and evil ghosts occur in the world, but when they arrive in the ghost world, they find that this is the source of evil.
Di Yunfeng sighed leisurely, and he had some numbers in his heart, and he said to the people: "You go back first, find a place to take refuge, otherwise those ghosts will come to beat you." ”
The people didn't want to block Di Yunfeng, so they thanked each other a few more times, and walked towards the end of the street by supporting each other.
"Well, it's really heart-wrenching. Zhang Qiang sighed.
Di Yunfeng muttered to himself, "I'd better give it a try......"
"What?" Zhang Qiang heard it, but he didn't hear it clearly, and he didn't understand what Di Yunfeng meant.
"It's nothing, let's go buy Ren Dan first, the time is coming, don't wait for the door to close." ”
Di Yunfeng didn't want to run in vain, so he smiled and walked towards the mansion.
Zhang Qiang was confused and didn't know where to ask, so he had to scratch his head and keep up with Di Yunfeng.
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There are eight storefronts in Washington, perhaps because there is not much business, six are closed, and the remaining two are open, one is empty, and the other shopkeeper has long since disappeared, and only a young man who is buried in the accounts is left in front of the counter.
"Man, I'll buy Ren Dan. Di Yunfeng knocked on the door of the counter.
"I'm busy, I'll be there. The man lowered his head and said indifferently.
Di Yunfeng has a good temperament, so he waited, but after waiting for nearly half an hour, the guy was still bowing his head and settling accounts. That's a bit of a stretch.
"Man, are you still busy?" Di Yunfeng lifted his toes, trying to see what the guy was doing through the fence net, but the railing was so high that he couldn't even see his head at the height of his eight-foot-tall figure.
"Well, busy, I'll be tomorrow
Come on. "The guy won't look up.
Zhang Qiang was angry, and just wanted to scold, but Di Yunfeng shouted to him: "Don't be noisy, be careful to call the guards, then it will be yellow today." ”
"I'm really aggrieved, who are these people......" Zhang Qiang held back his anger and blushed.
Di Yunfeng said to the guy in front of the counter again: "You guy is really interesting, you don't answer the door of the customer, do you want to do business? What is your name, believe it or not, I complained about you? I don't know if you saw those people squatting outside Washington when you went to work just now, they are jobless vagrants who have lost their jobs, and they have no money to buy Dan, only to be expelled from the city, do you want to do the same?"
"Smack!" the guy put down the pen in his hand, raised his head and pointed at Di Yunfeng's nose and scolded angrily: "What's wrong with the poor? Are you very rich and amazing? Who is not born naked? What if you can bear it, what if I don't sell your pill today!"
"Hiss......" Di Yunfeng took a deep breath, he was choked speechless by this guy's words!
Zhang Qiang argued: "You sissy doesn't understand anything, just teach people here, do you know how to do business?
The guy stood up excitedly and pointed to Zhang Qiang's nose and said, "Are you deaf? I don't sell your Rendan, I don't sell you, I don't sell it!"
Zhang Qiang scolded in a loud voice: "Stinky sissy, don't point your finger at me! Don't think that I won't dare to touch you if you do things for the government!"
The guy smiled and provoked: "Then you come, start beating me, I want to see how big your temper is, but I will alarm the guards outside later, and arrest you to the eighteenth layer of hell, and I won't kill you!"
"Ridiculous! It's ridiculous! Because the officials are not clear, they are unkind, they exploit the people's fat and the people's ointment for their own use, and regard the grass people as dogs, is there still the king's law, and is there still the law......" Zhang Qiang was so excited that he moved out of his mouth all the ways of the sages he had read.
"A mercenary hypocrite, a useless stinky scholar, who wants to be a man, has no door!"
After the guy finished scolding, he moved his hands to open the gate to thank the guest, but Di Yunfeng took a step faster and held down the gate!
"What are you doing? You dare to obstruct the work of government and business!" the man's big eyes were dark and round.
Di Yunfeng didn't let go, but asked in a deep voice: "This little brother, are you really on duty in this pawnshop?"
There was an occasional fluctuation in the man's eyes, and he immediately said, "You dare to doubt the officials and businessmen?"
Di Yunfeng shook his head slightly, leaned his head close to the counter, and asked, "I don't dare to doubt you, but I think you are very familiar, have we met somewhere?"
"I see that you have a clear hole in your brain, and you wear a mask and let people recognize each other!"
Di Yunfeng touched his big white face: "Such a conspicuous mask, don't you really have an impression......
"Not impressed!" the guy slammed his hands on, "Smack!"
"Could it really be that I feel wrong?" Di Yunfeng frowned, falling into a moment of deep thought.
"Shangxian, what should we do now? Do we really want to run for nothing today?" Zhang Qiang clenched his fists and was indignant: "I forgot to look at the yellow calendar when I went out today, and I encountered such strange things, it was really eight lifetimes of mold!"
"It's okay, today's events are a little strange, and my mind is very messy now, so let's be quiet and talk about it first. ”
Di Yunfeng paced around Washington a few times with a calm mind, and after thinking about it for half an hour, he couldn't solve the doubts in his heart. Helplessly, he pinched his brow and walked to another open door.
There is a sign erected in front of the other door, on which the exchange rate between the spar and the ghost jade is counted: one green crystal is equal to half a ghost jade, one for ten pieces, and twelve pieces for one hundred...... Obviously, this shop was a government-run exchange house for the gold diggers' trading counters.
In the black market, the exchange rate of spars is thirty percent higher than that of officials and merchants, ten is three more spirit stones, one hundred is thirty more, and one thousand is three hundred...... With such a terrifying gap, it's no wonder that the big guys are trading on the black market.
If Di Yunfeng wasn't in a hurry to use the money, he wouldn't be willing to sell it to these black-hearted officials and businessmen. Seeing that it was really not early, he didn't delay, so he stepped forward and knocked on the counter and shouted, "Boss, business is coming to the door!"
No one answered.
"Shhh...... It's really strange, why can't I sell things today?"
"Shangxian, I haven't seen anyone in this pawnshop since we came in, I see, there is no one in this shop at all...... Snort! The empire will be doomed sooner or later if it raises such a bunch of moths!"
Di Yunfeng finally felt that something was wrong, so he jumped on the counter lightly, he just looked down at the situation inside, just a glance, his face changed greatly!
"Let's go!" he hurriedly jumped off the counter and pulled Zhang Qiang out the door.
"Shangxian, this ...... What do you see?" asked Zhang Qiang in a low voice.
Di Yunfeng said in a deep voice: "I saw the corpse of the shopkeeper. ”
Zhang Qiang covered his mouth in shock: "You...... You mean ......"
"Washington has been robbed. ”
The fact that Washington, which was hand-picked by the Empire, was murdered and oversold was enough to shake the earth!