Izumo Castle is a small city close to the border of Yunzhou, although this city can only be built into the size of a small town due to the limitation of the terrain, but due to the geographical location, it is extremely prosperous.

Surrounded by mountains, Yunzhou is a huge basin, and there are only six official roads in and out of Yunzhou, and Izumo City occupies one of the smaller routes.

It is precisely because of its status as an important transportation hub in Yunzhou that Izumo Castle has a lush scene that some large cities are not as prosperous as possible.

As the largest inn in Izumo City, the business is even more popular, and I don't know how many merchants, people from the rivers and lakes or ordinary people pass by every day, and the Izumo Inn is just waiting to make money every day.

The inn was full of people, and although it was not yet noon, the hall was already full.

On the second floor of the inn, there are large and small private rooms for those who are wealthy.

In one of the large boxes, several young men pushed cups and exchanged lamps with each other, and there was a lively scene.

A tall and thin boy held a wine glass and said to the yellow-shirted young man sitting on the main seat: "Xiaoyi, this time you joined the Six Yang Sect, and since then you have soared into the sky, you can't forget our brothers." ”

Lu Yi was only fifteen or sixteen years old, he smiled and replied: "Brother Cai, what did you say, although we and the others are not blood compatriots, they are like brothers, and we will not forget a few brothers no matter what." ”

A few sons applauded loudly, and drank another cup to fill it again.

Although Lu Yi's face was calm, he was quite proud in his heart.

Although the relationship between them is quite harmonious because of the relationship between the elders on weekdays, how can there be such a scenery today?

The tall and thin man who just toasted him was called Cai Ming, the only son of the gang leader, the current young gang leader of the Iron Palm Gang, although he didn't have any shelf on weekdays, but he couldn't hide the kind of condescension in his mouth when talking to himself and others, and now he was so respectful to himself who was the son of a criminal elder in the gang, almost to the point of flattery.

In addition to Cai Ming, the rest of the sons are also the sons of the middle and high-level gangs, and their status is far higher than their own, and now they are all like Cai Ming, one by one, and the flattery is endless.

This is all because he cultivated the Qingyang Jue to the third level before the age of fifteen and reached the standard of worshipping the Six Yang Sect.

Since the news came out, not only the faces of his relatives and elders have bloomed, but there is also an endless stream of people who come to his house to celebrate, and the powerful gang leader who is not smiling on weekdays has personally come to congratulate and invited several banquets.

Even today, the deacon of the outer gate of the Liuyang Sect came to pick him up, and the young gang leader Cai Ming and others spontaneously prepared a send-off banquet for him to entertain him and bring the relationship between them closer.

couldn't help but feel unhappy in Lu Yi's heart.

Although their Lu family is also known as a martial arts family, and they are also considered a force in Izumo City, the most powerful one that has appeared in their ancestors is just a martial artist in the innate realm.

This time, he could have the opportunity to join the Six Yang Sect, thinking that as long as he could perform well in the Six Yang Sect and gain a firm foothold, the little Lu family would naturally rise with the tide and soar into the sky.

Just like the Nangong family in Jiangnan, isn't it because there is a Nangong Yaqin who was accepted as a disciple by an immortal sect, and then performed well and stepped into the ranking, the Nangong family jumped from a third-class small family in Jiangnan to a top family.

Nangong Yaqin's younger brother of the wine bag and rice bag even sat on the position of the head of the family, and also gave birth to a son known as the playboy, and the legendary Yinyue Gongzi was among the seven sons of Jiangnan, famous all over the world.

All of this is because there is a Nangong Yaqin who has joined the Xianmen and has stepped into the list, otherwise the Nangong family is still the dilapidated little family who doesn't know where to nest.

As the only disciple in the gang who has been selected by the Six Yang Sect in the past ten years, Nangong Yaqin is Lu Yi's role model, and he firmly believes that he can also lead the Lu family to the peak and become the second Nangong family.

However, there are so many family members who have joined the sect, and Nangong Yaqin is the only one who has really succeeded, which was subconsciously ignored by Lu Yi.

High-spirited and full of ambition is Lu Yi's state at the moment.

Lu Yi, who was accepting everyone's flattery with a ruddy face, drank a glass of wine, his eyes swept through the window, but he suddenly froze.

Seeing this, everyone looked down from the window.

I saw that at the gate of the inn, a young man dressed luxuriously and elegantly walked into the inn with the hands of a boy who was also dressed very richly, followed by a strong man like an iron tower and an old man with a peaceful face.

The boy was dressed in a moon-white robe, wearing a jade crown and waist with jade ornaments, and holding an ivory folding fan in his right hand. After walking into the inn, the dirt in the air in the inn seemed to be swept away with his arrival, bringing everyone an indescribable sense of purity and comfort.

His demeanor is even more docile and humble, and even the conversation with the inn junior is completely without a trace of the arrogance that nobles are used to, which makes everyone yearn for it.

The son of the deputy gang leader, Sun Song couldn't help but sigh lightly: "When has there been such a noble son in this city? This kind of behavior and posture must not be an ordinary family child, who do you know?"

He Yi, the son of the chief manager of the gang, followed: "I once had the honor to meet a prince at the birthday banquet of a certain big man, and the demeanor and temperament of that prince are just like this, and the nobility of that prince is actually comparable to that of His Royal Highness the prince. ”

In fact, he wanted to say that he was more noble than the prince, but when the words came to his mouth, he felt that it seemed a little too much, so he changed his words.

Another said: "This son must be passing by here, that's why he is so faced, why don't we go up and make friends and have a good fate?"

Everyone was about to say yes, but the sharp-eyed Cai Ming found that Lu Yi's face on the side had begun to become ugly.

Lu Yi, as the protagonist of this banquet, has been the center of everyone's flattery for the past few days, but at this time, a person suddenly appeared and stole his scenery, and the limelight overshadowed him all of a sudden, and Lu Yi's mentality was suddenly unbalanced.

Cai Ming hurriedly said: "You guys, when did you also learn to judge people by their appearance?"

Some of the more sensitive people had already reacted after seeing Lu Yi's face, but only a few who were slightly dull asked rhetorically, "What do you say?"

Even Lu Yi suppressed the unhappiness in his heart and looked at him curiously.

Cai Ming pointed out: "Although the son's clothes are gorgeous, it can only mean that his family is rich and his demeanor is humble, and it only shows that he is full of poetry and books." ”

"But you see that the sideguard behind him is just a martial artist of the acquired realm, at most a few people better than you and me, so it's not surprising that he is so old. Although the old butler was agile in his hands and feet, as if he had practiced his fists and feet for two days, he did not have the slightest internal strength. From these two people, it can be seen that the son is just an ordinary rich and noble family. But the prince and the prince and the son of the family don't even think about it. ”

After listening to Cai Ming's analysis of the Tao, Lu Yi couldn't help but be stunned.

"Which of the few people here is not Wanguan's wealth, and how is that son worth our painstaking friendship?"

Cai Ming turned to Lu Yi and said, "Not to mention the small meaning, he is about to join the Six Yang Sect is the worldly immortal gate, no matter how huge the worldly wealth is, it is meaningless to the people in the immortal gate." ”

The rest of the people had also come to their senses, knowing that Cai Ming's move was to flatter Lu Yi by belittling the son. So I couldn't help but belittle the boy one by one to uselessness, and praised Lu Yi to the sky.

Lu Yi swept away the depression in his heart, happily accepted everyone's toast, and swallowed a glass of wine directly in his stomach.

On the other side, Huang Qi, under the leadership of Xiao Er, had already come to a private room on the second floor, which happened to be far away from Lu Yi's private room.

After three days of travel from the temple on that day, Huang Qi and the others finally came to Izumo Castle and arrived in Yunzhou.

Huang Zhen took the menu and reported several delicacies in one go, all of which were the dishes that several people here loved to eat.

Along the way, under the deliberate influence of Huang Qi, Huang Zhen's original arrogant temperament of only caring about himself has gradually been worn out, and he began to know that he cares about people.

At least I'll show it to others.

Huang Zhen said curiously: "Big brother, isn't there my Huang family's property in this city?"

In the past, everywhere I went, the inns I went to were basically built by the Huang family themselves, but today Huang Zhen didn't see the familiar word "yellow" on the plaque, so he asked.

Huang Qi smiled: "Yes, there is, but there is no inn." Although this is a small town, the various forces behind it are intricate, and outsiders do not want to open those large-scale industries that make money here. ”

The main industries of the Huang family are concentrated in Jiangnan, firstly because Jiangnan is the most prosperous place in the Great Song Dynasty, and secondly, because outside Jiangnan, the forces of the Xianwu sects in various states are mixed.

Although the Xianwu Sect itself has no sense of money, the large and small forces that depend on them to survive are different, just like this small Izumo City, this Izumo Inn was opened by a force called the Iron Palm Gang, and the Iron Palm Gang was founded by an outer disciple of the Liuyang Sect, which is a second-class Xianwu Sect in Yunzhou.

It is precisely because the Iron Palm Gang has maintained a close relationship with the Six Yang Sect all the year round, and has been protected by the Six Yang Sect, that it has been able to develop and grow to this point.

If it weren't for this, this Izumo Inn, which is making money every day, would have been swallowed by people with red eyes and no bones left, how could there be such a scene?

Huang Zhen has never been out of Jiangnan, and Jiangnan is full of inns and inns opened by the Huang family, so this situation will be encountered when he goes out of Jiangnan this time.

In the states outside the south of the Yangtze River, the forces of various sects are as complex as the rhizomes of an old tree, penetrating into every corner of all walks of life, and in addition to confrontation and cooperation with each other, they are intertwined to form a huge network of forces hidden in the shadows.

For the sake of their own interests, under the overt or covert obstruction of these sects, the relevant decrees of the imperial court will never be effectively implemented.

This led to the continuous decline of the prestige of the imperial court, which made the people of various states only recognize the immortal gate, not the imperial court, and worship the immortal gate more above the imperial court.

All of this eventually led to the big move of the imperial court.