Ye Qin was just an ordinary herb picking apprentice in the Medicine Picking Hall, and this identity was indeed not qualified to go to the Treasure Fair on the third floor of the Yongfu Building, where the elders of the major gangs gathered.

He laughed at himself helplessly, and when he was about to leave, he suddenly remembered something. He seems to have a piece of Treasure Order, which was given to him by Elder Huang of the Treasure Gang two months ago, saying that as long as he holds this Treasure Order, he can go to him anytime and anywhere. With this token, should be on the trade fair.

He had an idea, and then he turned to leave.

A quarter of an hour later, Ye Qin returned to Yongfu Tower again.

At this time, he changed his outfit, wearing a black strong suit, wearing a hat, carrying a three-foot-long sharp cold knife on his back, and smearing a light herb on his body to hide the smell. The mysterious man in black who sold the Heart Clearing Pill to Elder Huang two months ago has reappeared.

Ye Qin stepped into the lively Yongfu Building, passing through the ordinary guest floor on the first floor, and the Shangbin Building on the second floor, and he slowly walked up to the third floor. At the staircase on the third floor, there are four strong-dressed men of the Jumbo Gang who are standing tall.

The men in the strong clothes saw a man in black wearing a hat come up, but they couldn't see the origin, and secretly wondered.

The first man in strong clothes blocked Ye Qin's way, and shouted in a deep voice: "This brother, the third floor has been chartered by my Treasure Gang, and a trade fair is being held, and it is forbidden for idle people to go upstairs." Only the guests of my Treasure Gang can enter it. Please show me the invitation, or explain the origin of your identity!"

Ye Qin didn't speak, and directly took out a finger-sized, golden small gold token from his arms, and lit it up.

The big man's eyes lit up, and he exclaimed in a low voice:

"Treasure Order! It turns out that Your Excellency is my honored guest to help Elder Huang, and it is rude and rude! Elder Huang has specially instructed that as long as someone comes with his Treasure Order, he will be notified immediately. Please, the little one will inform Elder Huang that there is a distinguished guest coming. ”

The big man knew the important surname of this small golden token, and led Ye Qin into the trading hall. Then he walked briskly out of the hall and went to a private luxury compartment on the third floor to find Elder Huang.

Inside the luxury compartment.

Elder Huang was sitting on a sandalwood chair, carefully wiping the rare treasures on the table, such as swords, swords, and gold silk inner armor, and wiped them spotlessly and shiny.

These dozens of treasures will be the highlight of tonight's fair.

Before each transaction, Elder Huang would get used to handling them in the best state, enhancing their appearance and increasing the price of the transaction. At this time, no one is usually allowed to disturb him.

He couldn't help frowning when he heard a hurried footstep at the door.

Outside the door, a man in a big cloth stopped at the door and hurriedly reported: "Elder Huang, there is a man in black who has come to participate in today's treasure fair with your treasure order. As you command, whenever anyone comes with your command, he will report it to you at all times. ”

Elder Huang was slightly stunned, then stood up suddenly from the sandalwood chair, a trace of unusual excitement appeared on his ruddy face.

Is the man in black here?

Ignoring the treasure being wiped in his hand, he strode out of the luxurious compartment and walked towards the trading hall outside.

The big man in yellow hurriedly followed, he was very surprised, Elder Huang's excited demeanor now didn't look like a steady elder of the Treasure Gang at all, but seemed a little reckless, what kind of person was that man in black, who made Elder Huang so excited?

Elder Huang's excitement was beyond words.

came, nearly two months later, the mysterious man in black finally reappeared.

Only he knew why he was so excited.

The man in black claimed to be from a certain family, and exchanged a Qingxin Pill for a piece of green jade pendant that was said to contain spiritual energy, all of this was so familiar that he had to think of a memory that had been sealed for a long time.

Speaking of which, that was twenty years ago.

At that time, the rivers and lakes in Pingzhou were completely different from the rivers and lakes in Pingzhou now.

Twenty years ago, there was a mysterious and powerful family in Pingzhou, and this family controlled the top ten gangs in Pingzhou behind the scenes. This mysterious family is known only to the leaders of the Ten Gang and their heirs. Every order issued by this family, the gang leaders of the top ten gangs in Pingzhou must be unconditionally executed, and a batch of goods must be paid to this family every year.

At that time, the order of the rivers and lakes of Pingzhou and the ranking of the strength of the gang were completely in the hands of this mysterious family. All the gangs that dare to resist, no matter how big or small the gang is, no matter how strong the gang's martial arts are, and how tightly guarded, even if it is the number one gang in Pingzhou, if it offends the authority of this mysterious family, its core high-level and top masters will also disappear without a trace overnight, with no bones left, and the strength of the gang will plummet overnight.

This family has been in Pingzhou for hundreds of years. After a long time, among the top ten gangs in Pingzhou, none of the gangs dared to resist the iron-fisted rule of this mysterious family.

Twenty years later, Elder Huang was only in his forties at the time, and he was a middle-level core disciple of the Jumbo Gang, and he was also one of the most promising successors to the next gang leader of the Jumbo Gang.

As one of the heirs of the leader of the Treasure Gang, he followed the previous old leader of the Treasure Gang and pulled a whole cart of rare jade, rare and valuable grass, rare wood, and all kinds of strange things, with a total value of tens of thousands of gold leaves, and gave them to the patriarch of that family as an offering to the Treasure Gang every three years.

So he was fortunate enough to get in touch with a little bit of the inside story of that family, and to meet the members of that family. There were about six or seven members of that family, old and young, male and female.

Each of them is said to be at the level of a peerless master or above.

Of course, no one has ever seen them use force, and those who have seen them are probably already dead.

After inspecting all the goods in the carriage, the patriarch of that family only picked out more than ten pieces of jade, two pieces of precious wood, and a few small things, and all the rest were evaluated by the patriarch as auraless waste, and scolded the old gang leader.

The old gang leader didn't dare to say anything.

After the patriarch of the family scolded the old gang leader, he still rewarded the old gang leader with a "panacea" that was said to be able to prolong life and eliminate all diseases, and encouraged the old gang leader of the Jumbo Gang to send more jade, plants and trees three years later, promising to give more of these elixirs in exchange for these jade.

The old gang leader got the elixir, regarded it as a peerless treasure, treasured it closely, and refused to show it.

However, he had only seen this triennial tribute once.

Later, for unknown reasons, all the members of the mysterious family disappeared without a trace overnight and never appeared again. Where exactly it went, no one knows. Naturally, the Ten Gangs also stopped paying tribute once every three years.

Elder Huang still didn't understand one thing, why the big cart of jade didn't have aura, but only the ten small pieces of jade and precious wood had aura. In his eyes, they were all the same jade, and they couldn't be distinguished at all, so why could the people of that mysterious family be able to see the difference between them?

It's an unsolvable mystery.

Twenty years have passed, and the previous old gang leader of the Jumbo Gang has long since abdicated. His Golden Tiger was unexpectedly defeated at the hands of another emerging gang leader candidate, and instead of ascending to the throne of the Treasure Gang leader, he became the chief elder of the Treasure Gang.

The top ten gangs in Pingzhou, which were once ruled by that family with an iron fist, were also loosened and no longer subject to any constraints from that family. The competition between the top ten gangs for the position of the overlord of Pingzhou's rivers and lakes has also become fierce.