Chapter 44: Rivals Gather
East of Shu Road, Jincheng. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Maybe it's after the sting, the spring equinox is approaching, compared with the early spring in Jincheng, it is obviously much more lively, in addition to a part of the people who have lived in Shu Road for a long time, there are still many rangers and merchants from other places.
Because the west of Shu Road belongs to the border of the Xiyue Dynasty, although there are 4,000 miles of mountains and rivers and deserts separated from the Ming Dynasty in the east of Shu Road, but it is precisely because of this that the two countries have rarely fought for thousands of years, so the control of business travel in the pass is quite loose, and the smuggling of salt and iron is not uncommon on this road, so it also ensures the prosperity of the large and small cities under the Shu Road.
In the past few days, many major events have happened in a small Jincheng, three of which are the most appalling, and Tang Moxue, a personal disciple with a very high status, is the first to enter Jincheng in Shu Dao. The second thing is that the newly appointed Acropolis Lord in Jincheng has been out of the city for a few days, but there is no news, according to his confidant guards, the Acropolis Lord is going east, and there is an important matter to deal with in the Ming State.
And today, ten days after the sting, after the beautiful immortal master entered the city and left, another young immortal master entered the city, and both of them coincidentally chose to drink wine and tea in the inconspicuous teahouse in Jincheng.
It's just that this white-clothed immortal master who came out of Shuyun Immortal Gate did not enter the city as openly as the previous beautiful immortal master, but only revealed his identity to the gatekeeper when he crossed the city pass, and he was not noisy, so he entered the city leisurely and mixed into the crowd, if he didn't look carefully, he just looked like a handsome ranger, so it didn't cause any uproar.
After Chu Tianqing entered Jincheng, he walked into the teahouse with few customers, and sat down on the second floor of the teahouse by the window.
Two dishes, two pots of wine, about seven taels of silver, a meal is not expensive, but the taste of this dish is the authentic Sichuan Shu flavor.
Chu Tianqing has always been simple in food, clothing, housing and transportation in the door, but he doesn't mind this meal of coarse tea and light rice, he sandwiched a chopsticks and spring bamboo shoots and ate with green bamboo wine, and he ate with relish.
However, just when Chu Tianqing sat down to solve the problem of food and clothing, another figure also entered Jincheng unconsciously, but unlike Chu Tianqing, the figure did not enter the city through the city gate, but chose a city wall with no one around, and the thief slipped over the wall to enter the city.
The owner of the figure is delicate and petite, so that people can see that it is a daughter, she is dressed in a plain green clothes, and she has a large mink hat on her head, perhaps the hat is too wide, not with the head, the brim covers the girl's delicate eyebrows, and also covers the beauty of the face, so that the girl's appearance will not be too shocking, so after entering the city, many troubles have been avoided.
After the girl in Tsing Yi entered the city, she followed the trajectory of Chu Tianqing, and also found the vicinity of the teahouse, glanced at the white-clothed man in the window on the pavilion, bit her thin and soft lips lightly, and her eyes full of aura narrowed slightly, looking at Chu Tianqing, who was leisurely drinking and eating upstairs, she couldn't help but snort lightly, and walked into the teahouse.
In the teahouse, Chu Tianqing sat casually with a lazy face, carrying a delicate wine jug in one hand, with a little force on his five fingers, buckled the mouth of the pot, and gently shook the turbid wine in the pot, without any drunkenness on his face.
The turbid wine in the pot was slowly drunk into his mouth and swallowed into his stomach, and in the time of a cup of tea, a pot of spirits was at the bottom.
Chu Tianqing drank the last sip of wine in the pot, but he couldn't help frowning, he didn't have any intention of drinking, raised his eyes and looked at the stairs from the first floor of the teahouse to the second floor, and said unhurriedly: "Those who come are guests, why stay behind the curtain and peep?"
"If you are willing to drink with me, Chu must be happy. Out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at the figure behind the grass, and did not see the slightest movement, nor did he reply, but he smiled, changed his tone, and laughed: "Besides, Chu is still quite good at the matter of chopping the qin and tuning, if you don't dislike it, Brother Chu might as well teach you." ”
"Who wants you to teach!"
When the person behind the grass straw heard this, he immediately waved the grass straw with his jade hand, and his figure jumped out from behind the grass and appeared in Chu Tianqing's sight.
Seeing this, Chu Tianqing couldn't help but sneer and said, "I said Senior Sister Qian'er, your dress is really ingenious." ”
Indeed, Su Tian'er, who appeared in Chu Tianqing's sight at this moment, was wearing a mink hat that looked quite rustic, which did not match her with the dusty plain green clothes on her body, the mink hat was too wide, covering half of her face, and under the fluffy mink hat, her pretty face was blushing, as if she could squeeze out water, so with such a match, it did look a little funny....
Fortunately, the business of the teahouse was deserted, and there was no one else on the second floor except for Chu Tianqing and Su Tian'er, so no one paid attention to the noisy quarrel between the two little enemies.
"I said Senior Sister Ting'er, follow me all the way down the mountain, but what's the matter?" Chu Tianqing glanced at Su Tian'er briefly, then waved the bamboo chopsticks in his hand, picked up a chopstick, took a bite of it, and said with a smile on his face: "Isn't it that Senior Sister Ting'er thinks that Brother Chu on the Lingwu Platform that day was not trained enough, and this time she plans to be a fool of that tail?"
"You scoundrel!" Su Tian'er blushed when she heard this, gritted her silver teeth, and scratched Chu Tianqing fiercely with her rouge tiger eyes.
"Oh, then what are you doing here with me?" Chu Tianqing smiled and said, "It doesn't look like you're here to ask for music and rhythm. ”
"Then what are you doing here!" Su Tian'er snorted, but asked rhetorically.
When Chu Tianqing heard this, he shook the wine jug in his hand: "People ask for food and clothing, and food is the sky, and I am not one of those immortals who can live for a hundred years without eating or drinking, so I naturally come to drink and eat." ”
Su Tian'er was speechless for a while, and then realized that she had asked an unbearable question.
Chu Tianqing didn't mind, he just smiled: "Let's talk about what you came to Jincheng for? It is impossible to leave the delicacies of the mountains and seas in the Qingyun Pavilion and not eat, and plan to come to Jincheng to drink cheap turbid wine and eat coarse grains?"
Su Tian'er glanced at Chu Tianqing angrily, and took out something from her sleeve, which was a piece of parchment that had been rolled up, she raised the parchment in her hand and said, "In a few days, it will be the Spirit Hunting Contest in Shuyun Immortal Gate, this is an invitation." ”
Chu Tianqing asked, "Are you interested in the Spirit Hunting Conference?"
Su Qian'er nodded, sat opposite Chu Tianqing, handed the parchment to Chu Tianqing, with a slight shyness on her face, and said, "If you can form a team to participate, you will have a better chance of winning the championship." ”
"Not interested. Unexpectedly, Chu Tianqing replied bluntly without looking at it.
Su Tian'er looked at Chu Tianqing with a look of hope, but unexpectedly, the other party didn't think about it, so he refused, and couldn't help puffing out his cheeks, looking a little aggrieved.
Chu Tianqing smiled when he saw this, and said with a smile: "As long as you are willing, say hello casually in the Shuyun Gate, the disciples who want to team up with you can line up all the way from the gate of the Qingyu Peak Hall to Longshou Peak, compared to me, a half-baked person in the early stage of the Innate Realm, wouldn't it be greater to team up with those monk disciples in the middle and even late stages of the Innate Realm?"
Su Qian'er bit her lip lightly, her head was slightly together, her eyes were lowered, and she didn't speak, just put her hands on her legs and tugged at the placket.
The woman's face is thin, not to mention Su Tian'er, who has always responded to requests in Shuyun Xianmen and is deeply doted on by her master, this is the first time she has asked for someone like this, and she has achieved the ultimate and given Chu Tianqing enough face, but Chu Tianqing rejected the request so straightforwardly, obviously pouring cold water on Su Tian'er's head.
Chu Tianqing saw Su Tian'er's aggrieved appearance, but her face was indifferent, and she continued to laugh:
"Besides, the venue of the Spirit Hunting Contest is in the deep mountains and old forests, and the disciples who have always participated in the Spirit Hunting Conference are not young, their cultivation is not weak, and their methods are even more ruthless. They are far less beautiful than me, the girls' families, the red sleeves are fragrant, and the ink is so good, they always fight and kill like this, and they hurt and are elegant. ”
"You!"
When Su Tian'er heard this, her heart was deflated, and she immediately snorted, and her tiger eyes glared at Chu Tianqing viciously.
"Okay, don't stare at it, I know that Sister Ting'er's eyes are the best. Chu Tianqing took a sip of the spirits and said with a smile: "But it's not impossible for me to team up with you." ”
Su Qian'er's eyes lit up and asked, "Is this true?"
Chu Tianqing nodded with a smile, and after a little thought, he said, "But I naturally have conditions. ”
Su Qian'er asked, "What are the conditions?"
Chu Tianqing put down the bamboo chopsticks in his hand and said with a smile: "What is the reward of the Spirit Hunting Competition?"
Su Tian'er saw that Chu Tianqing had the intention of agreeing, her face was overjoyed, and she replied: "The top three in the Spirit Hunting Conference will all be rewarded, the crown can get three thousand spirit stones, seven eight-rank Peiyuan Dan, and the second place will have..."
"Okay!" Before Su Tian'er finished speaking, Chu Tianqing interrupted Su Tian'er's words with a good word, and he agreed, and then he said: "If I can win the crown, I don't want the three thousand spirit stones, and the seven eight-grade Peiyuan Dan will belong to me, can I?"
Su Qian'er frowned slightly, thought about it, and nodded in agreement: "After three days, see you in Shuyun City." ”
Chu Tianqing responded, immediately smiled, waved his hand at Su Tian'er, and pointed out the door: "Then, Senior Sister Ting'er, please." ”
Su Tian'er saw that this guy had given the eviction order first, and she was very displeased, and she didn't let Chu Tianqing take advantage of it, so she immediately picked up bamboo chopsticks from the table, grabbed a small stir-fry of spring bamboo shoots that had been cooled by chopsticks, and handed it to her mouth.
At the entrance of the bamboo shoots, Su Qian'er's ethereal and slender willow eyebrows frowned tightly, but Su Tian'er, who has always eaten in fine clothes and jade food, eating delicacies from the mountains and seas, and drinking elixir and jade dew, could swallow this crude peasant stir-fry, and immediately pursed her lips tightly.
Seeing this, Chu Tianqing sneered, and just wanted to drink a sip of the strong wine in the pot, but unexpectedly, Su Tian'er actually snatched the pot of green bamboo wine in his hand, as if drinking water, and poured it into his mouth with his head up, wanting to swallow the bamboo shoots in his mouth and the turbid wine together.
But this green bamboo is not the warm and fragrant ambergris tea after all, but a real spirit, after Su Tian'er drank a big sip of green bamboo wine, her brows frowned even more, and there was a burst of heat in her throat, but because of her stubbornness, she clenched her silver teeth, wiped the wine stains on the corners of her mouth with her jade hand, and glared at Chu Tianqing fiercely.
Chu Tianqing really couldn't help laughing this time, and immediately laughed out loud and said, "This green bamboo wine is a famous wine in Shu Dao, but it still fits the taste of Senior Sister Tan'er?"
"Humph!"
Su Tian'er snorted lightly and glanced at the scoundrel in the market, perhaps because of the relationship between drinking this small half pot of green bamboo spirits, a pretty one, visible redness.
After negotiating with Chu Tianqing, Su Tian'er turned around and left, but her figure couldn't help but stumble a little.
Chu Tianqing shook his head with a smile, picked up a chopstick of spring bamboo shoots, put them in his mouth and tasted them, and couldn't help but exclaim: "Spring bamboo shoots are really the most delicious when they are still about to be stunned by the spring equinox." ”
With that, he got up, carried the half pot of turbid wine, and walked to the window.
This teahouse is in an excellent location, just in time to see the majestic green hills outside the city through the window on the second floor.
Chu Tianqing sighed softly: "The food is a good dish, and the wine is a good wine, it just depends on who tastes it." ”
He drank the jug in one gulp and turned away.
For the spirit hunting competition three days later, he also had some expectations in his heart, and he also wanted to try if he could fight with the disciples of the previous generations with his strength.
I don't know if with my current cultivation, can I fight with a real mid-stage Innate Realm cultivator?
The fruits of cultivation in the past few days will depend on the next Spirit Hunting Competition!