Chapter 146: Haiqing Mansion
A young man in white and a middle-aged man in green clothes walked in Haitian City, the streets were crowded with people, and the shops on the street were lined up. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info is slightly different from other cities in that there are many kinds of seafood bought and sold in this city.
What's even more strange is that this huge city doesn't have a branch of Phantom Cloud City, which makes Ji Nineteen suspicious.
"Brother Huang, why doesn't there be a branch of Phantom Cloud City in this city?, is there something hidden?" Ji Nineteen Chuanyin raised his own questions.
"Brother Ji is cautious, and this foolish brother doesn't know why. It stands to reason that Xiongcheng should have a branch of Phantom Cloud City, otherwise how to meet the needs of the monks in the past. That's why Brother Fool hadn't been here before. Huang Dingtian replied and said some reasons.
"Hehe, the prosperous city is a big piece of fat, and I don't know why those characters in your Daqi Palace didn't directly touch this place. Don't say that there are other forces that even the Great Qi officials are afraid of here. Ji Nineteen continued to transmit the sound.
"Well, if that's the case, I'll be in vain. ”
"Not necessarily, if there is a force in Daqi that the officials are afraid of, we will come into contact with it sooner or later, sooner rather than later. ”
"What Brother Ji said is reasonable. The Haiqing Mansion in front of us is the source of those letters. I'm going to go up to the restaurant next door to take a look. Huang Dingtian proposed.
Ji Nineteen did not reply to him, and directly expressed his decision with actions. Turn around and walk towards the gate of the bustling restaurant in the city. The name of this building is Haibazhen Restaurant, and its name should be named after the delicious dishes cherished in the eight seas.
Before the two of them could enter the building, a young man with a cashmere towel on his shoulder had already rushed out to greet him, and said with a smile on his face: "Two distinguished guests, please." ”
The ground floor of the building is already full of friends, the aroma of wine is overflowing, the sound of persuasion, talking and laughing, guessing the sound of boxing and so on are endless, it is very noisy.
Ji Shijiu, who was walking in the head, couldn't help frowning, he didn't hate such a scene, but he was a little surprised that he hadn't heard this noise outside just now.
And that Xiao Er is an expert in observing words and feelings, Ji Nineteen's frowning small movements have already fallen into his eyes, although these two people are not served by the Da Bangzi, they are extraordinary people, and even more powerful than those high-ranking officials and dignitaries who often come. Don't think about it, it's also a rich or expensive character, in fact, it's a mistake for him, these two people feel that they are in the downtown area, and they feel that there is no need to hide their cultivation, but they don't hide their cultivation to show a trace of extraordinary majesty, which can deter Xiaoxiao and save them from causing those little troubles.
You need to know that in such a busy city, there are countless gangsters of those cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods, and these local snakes who were born here and grew up here are very fond of bullying, and the two faces have been observed many times by relevant people from a distance, and they found that they are not easy to provoke, so they scared off a lot of Xiaoxiao.
"Two distinguished guests, please sit upstairs. Xiao Er led the two to the private room on the second floor.
Once you stepped on the second floor, the noise on the first floor was much quieter, and such places were also rare, could there be any magic circle that could not be achieved?
The two people who were puzzled unfolded their divine senses and swept away in unison, and there was no sign of any mana fluctuations, which was strange.
Huang Dingtian looked over suspiciously, Ji Shijiu shook his head slightly and asked the shopkeeper, "I wonder if there is a vacant space on the third floor?"
Before entering, it has been observed, this building has a total of three floors, each of which is more than 20 feet high, which is much taller than the single floor of the ordinary building in that life. After entering the building again, I found that the sound insulation effect of this building is so good for some reason, of course, I want to go up to the third floor to see the situation in person.
"The two distinguished guests must be coming to Haibazhen for the first time, and the price on the third floor is not cheap. If you have the third floor, you must order the famous dishes of the building, Hai Bazhen, and a meal costs hundreds of taels. While talking about Xiao Er, he looked at the sleeves of the two of them. As if to remind the two of them, look at the two of you are extraordinary, although they may have some net worth, but they are all fresh faces, and there is no one to accompany them, presumably there is no large amount of silver to carry with them, or they will use some side dishes in the private room on the second floor, and it is not better to spend dozens of taels of silver.
Huang Dingtian, who often purchases in major cities, couldn't see that this little er had some unpleasant thoughts, and with a wave of his hand, a few white flowers and silver ingots flew out of his sleeve and shot straight towards Xiao Er.
This really scared Xiao Er, isn't this a trick of those immortals who don't come often, I've never seen the faces of these two.
These silver ingots shot at a rapid pace, and they hovered in front of Xiao Er, who was stunned, and he didn't want to be hit by these silver ingots as he thought.
Secretly glad, he took a deep breath, finally came to his senses, grabbed a silver ingot weighing fifty taels, stuffed a corner into his mouth and bit it hard. That's right, it's really a high-purity silver tael. Hurriedly picked up no less than five hundred taels of silver, held it and pulled the muscles of his somewhat stiff face, showed a somewhat flattering and somewhat unnatural smile, and invited the two to the third floor.
The two of them specially asked for a luxurious private room facing the street, with a wide window, so that the young maid who had already stood here lifted all the curtains, the breeze was blowing, and the fragrance hit people, and it was a good place.
Sitting hastily, ordering the well-known dishes in this building, and retiring the girl who was standing, the two came to the wide open windowsill and looked at the railing.
Sure enough, you can look far away when you climb high, and the scenery of a large area of the neighborhood in front of you is in sight, and at this time, the houses are all smoke, and a huge mansion diagonally opposite is the boundary of Haiqing Mansion.
The whole is rectangular in shape, with a huge courtyard in front and a majestic main courtyard in the back, which are all large courtyards and small courtyards, and behind them are larger gardens. Judging from the newly renovated glazed tile roof and a few puffs of cooking smoke in the sun, it is still very prosperous, and it does not fall into the slightest dilapidation.
If it is really the descendants of those two who continue to preside over the housework, it is not bad, and they are not too losers. Judging from the surface architecture, there is no sign of the monk's deeds at all, which is something that the two of them are more satisfied with.
In order not to be too shocking, the two of them can't drive their swords to see the whole picture in the sky without knowing what they are doing, and if they meet a powerful person, they will be unlucky. At least on the surface, monks are not allowed to show their mana in front of the public to do those big actions that are different from ordinary people, if there are conspicuous monks, no one will find out, and if someone finds out, the high-ranking monks can be punished at will. It is said that there were still a few people in history who specialized in robbing low-level monks everywhere, and these people did not go to inaccessible places, and they specialized in waiting for rabbits in major cities, and at the same time looking for trouble with passing monks. Sometimes it leads you to rise from the hustle and bustle, and sometimes it directly buttons up the big hat, so that you can't argue, most of the monks can only eat coptis dumb and admit it, and there are also those who don't believe in evil, and none of them will end well.
The two of them were originally doing shady deeds, of course they didn't dare to be so ostentatious. Only then did I retreat to this highest restaurant across the street from Haiqing Mansion to observe first.
Ji Nineteen and the two have already inquired clearly, the mansion opposite has not changed hands in decades, and they are all inherited under a Beichen clan, and the Beichen clan is said to have multiplied in Haiqing City for an unknown number of generations, although most people don't know if it has anything to do with the Daqi royal family, but it is indeed an ancient family.
It is not uncommon for those side branches of the imperial family to switch to other surnames after leaving Shangjing, or even create a new surname on their own. As for whether this Beichen clan, which has a long heritage, is the inheritance of the Great Qi royal family, we can only know when the two of them explore it.
Haibazhen really lives up to its name, all of which are produced in the East China Sea, which is adjacent to this city, and the flavor of the east and west is unique, which is more delicious than the real seafood in the sea, and fresher than the inland river, and then through the unique cooking of the chefs.
As monks with stronger digestion and absorption ability than ordinary people, the two of them swept away a large table of dishes comparable to the Manchu and Han Dynasty that could only be used up by more than a dozen people.
The girl with the cloth vegetables, the little second who ran the hall, obviously not the first time to see the monk dine, did not show a trace of surprise.
A meal was used until the sunset, lunch and dinner were used together, the cups, plates and dishes were changed for many rounds, and the dishes were eaten without knowing how many dishes, and finally the whole money was spent on eight hundred taels of silver.
The two, who were not out of shape at all, walked out of the restaurant and walked towards the street with satisfaction.
'The monk is so good, it is very enviable, he can eat such a huge amount of food in one meal, and he hasn't run the toilet once in the middle, and I don't know where they have eaten?' The little two who had received them all the time muttered enviously in front of the counter.
After a crackling abacus of the shopkeeper dressed as a scholar with three long hairs and delicate hair in the counter, he raised his head, and then threw out an ingot of five taels of silver, and coldly admonished: "Run your hall well, take care of your mouth, the affairs of the monk are less to worry about, and the benefits are indispensable to you subordinates." Otherwise, I don't know how it disappeared that day. Got it?"
Xiao Er, who had stars in his eyes, hurriedly grabbed the ingot of silver, and replied in a loud voice: "The little one understands, the little one understands." ”
As for whether he really understands or fakes, I don't know.
The shopkeeper stopped paying attention to him, and continued to bury his head and look through the thick account books that he would never get tired of reading.
The two who left did not go far, and went around to a side street where the back garden of Haiqing's mansion was located, and finally shortly after nightfall, the two figures flipped into the wall lightly.
There are countless rockeries, ponds, arch bridges, pavilions, small bridges, flowing water, tree-lined paths, and all kinds of trees and flowers in the garden. The trees hugging by the roadside, the mottled paving stones, and the ancient and luxuriant flowers and vines all mark the rich history of this mansion.
With the help of divine sense, the two quickly figured out some underground darkroom passages under the rockery in the garden.
After quietly probing dozens of darkroom tunnels, the two of them were shocked, these places were usually storage places, some gardeners' tools, and fertilizers for planting flowers and plants.
And in the depths, there are more secret rooms for cultivation, and the traces on the walls of the caves are all cave rooms of the age. Although the interior is simply furnished, it is probably some futons, stone benches, stone chairs, stone beds, stone bathtubs, basins and other things made of local materials. However, many things are spotless, and there are even traces of recent use by people in a few rooms.
Ji Nineteen and the others didn't dare to stay in the ground for more, and after searching for the flowers, they had already realized that although this back garden was a cultivation place where some people often came, they didn't leave anything useful, let alone the spirit stones and spiritual materials that the two of them needed.
The two people hiding in a hidden corner of the rockery communicated with each other.
"Brother Huang, looking at the situation here, I'm afraid that the cultivation inheritance of this Beichen family has not been broken. Ji Nineteen said worriedly.
"Yes, the cultivation inheritance has indeed not been broken. I don't know if there have been geniuses for so long. Huang Dingtian replied, his meaning is very clear, without the support of the royal family, if the qualifications of the latecomers are worrying, even if there is a legacy, it is impossible to build a successful foundation by relying on spirit stones or something, and if there is no corresponding foundation building period to cultivate as a monk, it is impossible to pose a threat to the two. Even if there were Qi refining cultivators in Beichen's family now, it would be just a matter of searching for things for them, and they would not pose any threat.
"That's true, but I don't know how much of those remnants of the year can be left to maintain such a prosperous family?" Ji Shijiu understood what he meant, and continued to ask. In his opinion, if such a family asks him to get some silver and gold ingots or something, it may be a lot, but if you want to talk about spiritual stones, spiritual materials, magic weapons, and pills, which are things that monks urgently need, then there may not be much.
"Brother Ji filtered. According to Brother Yu's investigation, all of the ancient families of this Great Qi were eager for cultivation resources, and they were all buying and exploring these things on a large scale. As long as the family has been in the family for hundreds of years, even if there is not half of the monk's race, they have more or less some savings, you can rest assured that this is true. And from time to time, those lucky people in the mundane can detect some small spirit stone veins, and those elixir spiritual materials in inaccessible places are often obtained by these people. Huang Dingtian comforted, he has more say in this point than Ji Nineteen. He didn't deal with these big families once or twice, and he learned from various sources that these people would collect something openly and secretly. It's just that there are many ordinary people in this world, and those monks don't have enough energy to directly manage them, and most of the places are managed by sheep, looking for agents. After a long enough period of time and a corrupt enough system, people's hearts are selfish, and deception and concealment occur from time to time, and there is no direct management of monks, and there are countless cultivation resources left in the people. After all, in the world of Taoism and sainthood, everyone has their own dream of immortality, even if they can't realize it, they hope that their children and grandchildren can produce such a good seedling without a teacher.
There are really those geniuses in the world, not only can they be self-taught, but they can also have higher cultivation monks, as for whether it will be one in a hundred years or one in hundreds of years, in that country and that family, it can only depend on the will of heaven.