Yongcheng lies in the north and south, dozens of miles longitudinal and horizontal, there are millions of people living here in the city, and the scale of the Da'an Imperial City is not much more than that.

The bluestone streets in the city extend in all directions, and are divided into four major downtown markets, east, west, north and south, and its eastern market is called the sleepless market in Yutang County. In just a few miles of Dongshi streets, there are all kinds of shops to eat, drink and play, which makes people fascinated and forget to return.

The head of Yunyang took Li Chao to walk in the East Market, but whenever he saw someone who loved to eat, he stopped to buy one or two.

"Wow, the rock sugar gourd in Yongcheng is much tastier than in Fenyang Town. ”

Li Chao held a rock sugar gourd in his right hand and a sugar willow crisp in his left hand, and his immature face was full of intoxication.

Daoist Yunyang stroked his beard and walked in front, and his wrinkled face was also full of smiles. After more than 11 years, I stepped out of Fenyang Town again and came to the crowded county town, which makes people sigh that life is short and time is in a hurry.

Until noon, the master and apprentice walked around the market, and in addition to the baggage, food, play, and clothing were also carried across their shoulders, and they returned with a full load.

The master and apprentice walked out of the downtown street with large bags and small bags, so that at this time, among the passers-by, two men and women in cyan robes passed by them from the other side.

The four of them each glanced at each other, and the man and woman paused slightly.

"Fellow Daoists stay. ”

Daoist Yunyang and Li Mingwu drifted apart, and the voices of the man and woman suddenly sounded behind them. The two turned around, only to see the men and women passing by pacing towards them.

The man and woman are not very old, about 20 years old, and the man wears a jade crown on his head, his hair is tied upside down, his sideburns are divided, and his eyes and teeth are bright, showing a more elegant demeanor. The woman also wears a jade crown on her head, the green silk is divided into dark cloud buns, and the smoke eyebrows are flowing, and she is touching in the blink of an eye. Both of them were dressed in a set of green shirts and robes, and they were obviously from the same school.

Sensing that the two were also wearing Taoist robes, Li Chao felt very cordial, and the two of them couldn't help but continue to speak, he took the lead in running to him, took a closer look, and asked with a smile: "Brother and sister, you are also Taoist priests?"

The young men and women were slightly stunned at first, and then bowed their heads slightly. And the woman said with a smile: "Yes, we are also Taoist priests." ”

She wanted to deny it, but she nodded. It stands to reason that they are hidden in the mountains, and although they wear Taoist robes, they cannot be regarded as Taoist disciples. Just because he didn't want to dwell more on this issue, he responded ambiguously.

As soon as he heard that the two were Taoist priests, Li Chao hurriedly ran to the Taoist chief of Yunyang, dragged him over, and said with a smile: "We are also Taoist priests, we are from Qingfeng Temple in Fenyang Town." ”

The young men and women looked at each other inexplicably, confused.

Apparently they had not heard of the name of this temple.

Suddenly, the corners of the young man's mouth on the side raised slightly, arched his hand, and said lightly: "It turned out to be a Taoist friend of Qingfeng Temple, and our senior brother and sister are from Eyun Mountain in Changshui County. Poor Dao Sun Yuan, since you and I are both disciples of the Daomen, then we can get closer and closer in the future. ”

Yunyang Daochang's dark eyes flickered inexplicably, he stroked his long beard, grinned, showed a row of yellow teeth, and said with a smile: "Since the two little friends are fellow Daoists, they can naturally be more close, I don't know what the two stopped my master and apprentice?"

Sun Yuan smiled, his eyes slowly moved to Li Ming's waist, and said: "It's really presumptuous to stop the two Taoist friends, but just passing by the street, I suddenly noticed that the wooden sword on this Taoist friend was strange, so I stopped each other, and the offense is not strange." ”

Hearing that Sun Yuan was here for the wooden sword, Li Ming's thick eyebrows furrowed slightly, and he said with a slight suspicion: "What's so strange about my wooden sword?"

Sun Yuan's expression paused slightly, he looked at the latter for a moment, and noticed that his expression did not seem to be fake, and he couldn't help but have a trace of suspicion between his eyebrows.

The woman beside her observed the words, was silent, paused, and said with a smile: "Our senior brother and sister have always been sensitive to spiritual objects, and just now we noticed that the little brother's wooden sword is quite spiritual, and it is very strange, so we want to bid to buy this wooden sword." ”

Hearing that the two of them wanted to pay for their own wooden sword, Li Chao couldn't help frowning, and his expression was inexplicable.

Although the wooden sword is made of peach wood carving, the price is not worth much, and it is something that no one cares about on the street.

But this wooden sword is extraordinary in Li Ming's eyes, this sword was a birthday gift from his master when he was six years old, and this wooden sword has been with him for six years. Now suddenly someone said that they wanted to spend money to buy his wooden sword, and he definitely wouldn't do it.

Thinking of this, Li Chao glanced at the wooden sword on his waist, shook his head, and said, "Don't sell it!"

Daoist Yunyang then smiled at the two of them, arched his hand towards the two, and apologized: "Two little friends, this thing belongs to the inferior disciples, since he refuses to sell it, he can't force it." ”

And after saying that, the master and apprentice turned around and were about to leave.

Seeing that the two of them were leaving, Sun Yuanjian raised his eyebrows slightly, and said loudly: "Why are you in such a hurry to leave, and listen to our price first, if it is not suitable, it is not too late to leave." ”

Li Chao paced excitedly, heard the words, turned his head, and said with a smile: "Tell me the price!"

There was a drama in his heart, Sun Yuan hurriedly stretched out three fingers and said, "Three spirit stones, how about it?"

What is a spirit stone? The word with a stone is naturally a stone. Li Chao looked suspicious, secretly pondering, Shao Tian suddenly remembered the scene of Zhang Quangui playing with stone beads, so he jumped to his feet and shouted: "You dare to play Taoist master!" As he spoke, he threw the cloth shoes with holes under his feet.

Hearing someone's disrespectful remarks, Sun Yuan was slightly stunned, so at this time, an afterimage flew over, and he held it in his hand casually. Leaning less, he looked fixedly, but saw that what he was holding in his hand was a shabby straw sandal, and his face suddenly became gloomy.

The woman's eyes flickered, the corners of her mouth flashed with a hint of banter, she looked at the man next to her, and then looked at the arrogant little Taoist priest with her head held high, and couldn't help but laugh.

"The kid is looking for death!" Throwing away the cloth shoes, Sun Yuan's face was gloomy to the extreme, he slowly raised Sen Han's eyes, and was about to have a seizure, but he saw the pedestrian Xi Xi in front of the street, and the two Taoist priests had long since disappeared.

No one has ever dared to talk to him like this, and now that he has been stroked by a tiger's beard, Sun Yuan is unwilling to give up. And he sneered at the woman beside him, "Isn't Senior Sister aware of it in the slightest?"

The woman's eyebrows frowned slightly, pretending not to know, and said, "What do you notice?"

Sun Yuan snorted coldly, disapproving his junior sister's attitude, he waved his sleeve robe, and said, "Those two Taoist priests don't have the slightest cultivation!"

If the junior sister didn't notice it, Sun Yuan naturally didn't believe it, and as he spoke, he stretched out his finger and hooked the woman's jade chin.

The woman was not angry at Sun Yuan's rude behavior, but only slightly opened her lips and sneered: "What does the senior brother want." ”

Sun Yuan withdrew his fingers, touched the leather pouch on his waist, and a strange smile rose at the corner of his mouth, and said: "The so-called puppet is innocent and guilty, and if such a spiritual weapon falls into the hands of two ants, it is naturally a tyrannical thing. ”

As he spoke, Sun Yuan left the woman alone and disappeared on the street.

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Angering the man and woman, the master and apprentice walked through the streets and alleys, seizing the way and fleeing. For a long time, even he didn't know where he had gone.

Ahead, there are many facades and depressed figures.

"Proud gambling house?" Seeing two huge gambling words written on a wooden sign in front of him, Li Ming's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but be interested.

Daoist Yunyang looked up and saw where the gambling house was, so he grinned and said, "Bastard, take you back to being a real man for the teacher!"

As he spoke, he took Li Mingjing and ran briskly towards the gambling house.

He is no stranger to the gambling house Li Ming, when he was in Fenyang Town, he did not fight those ruffians with wisdom, but when he came to Yongcheng, the places he saw were very different from Fenyang Town, so he was interested and wanted to find out.

And in his impression, Master also likes these places with a mixture of black smoke and miasma.

After thinking about it, the master and apprentice had already stepped into the gambling house.

"Come on, come on, bet big and bet small, buy and leave!"

As soon as I entered the door, the noisy shouts came into my ears, and at a glance, the gambling house was full of smoke and air, and the space in the house, which was only four or five feet, was occupied by people dressed in different clothes, and many women were mixed in it.

Looking at the gambling room, two long tables with dense dents are horizontal on both sides, and everyone is surrounding the front, pressing the bets.

"Two masters, please move to place a bet. ”

The master and apprentice stood in the doorway, looking at themselves, when a thin, sharp-mouthed man approached him, bowing down and leading them to the table on the other side.

The sharp-mouthed man noticed the master and apprentice as early as the first time, he saw that the two were dressed in shabby, but they were carrying large bags and small bags, and he knew that people should not look good, so he quickly stepped forward and pulled the two masters and apprentices who stopped to watch into the gambling house.

Eyes are fast and fast, this is his trick to pull business, and it is also an important means as a gambling house manager.

"Two masters, this table is three turns and one dice, buy and leave, Tong Su is not bullied. You only need to spend a small amount of money to entertain your mood, and the so-called small gambling pleasure is like this. The sharp-mouthed man led the master and apprentice to the table, and then explained the rules of the game. As he spoke, he set aside others to make room for him.

In his opinion, once he enters the gambling game, he is not afraid of not falling into it, and it is difficult to extricate himself. From the time he was a gambling house manager to the present, he really hadn't seen anyone who could get out of the house when he came to the proud gambling house.

Yunyang Dao was arrogant, and took Li Mix to the table, and he said to the sharp-mouthed man: "Well, our master and apprentice are new to the city, and we don't know what the rules are, but we still understand this truth when gambling and making money!"

The sharp-mouthed man was stunned, and he didn't understand the meaning of Yunyang Dao's long words.

He was stunned for a moment, but saw Yunyang Dao Chang take out a handful of gold and silver jewelry from the package, slam it on the gambling table, and said, "I'm betting small!"

Li Chao followed the master, and when he saw the master betting, he also took out a handful of jewelry, and grinned: "I bet big!"

The sharp-mouthed man was really shocked by the handwriting of the master and apprentice, he has been in the gambling house so far, and has seen many gamblers who spend a lot of money, but like the two in front of him, it is really rare to throw two handfuls of gold, silver and jewelry.

And his small eyes narrowed, carefully calculating the belongings on the gambling table, and he secretly felt a little surprised in his heart.

The property on the table is not to mention thousands of taels of silver, which is equivalent to a hundred taels of gold!