Outside Xu's mansion, an old man and a young man walked side by side.

The whole street outside the gate of Xufu was empty, and the scene of the door was full of birds, which formed a sharp contrast with the hustle and bustle outside the street. After all, a big family is a big family, and naturally small stalls and vendors cannot be allowed to be stationed at will in front of the door.

Xu Chen followed Lao Wu with a slow pace and walked towards the street.

After ten years of captivity, Xu Chen was already a lot unfamiliar with the hustle and bustle of the mortal world, so he was naturally a lot more curious, and when he came to the street, he naturally walked to the left, which was the direction of Fang City, which he remembered.

"Young Master, wait for me for a moment. ”

As soon as Xu Chen turned around, Lao Wu stopped him.

Xu Chen turned around and saw that Lao Wu was hobbling towards the corner of the street, and when he looked closely, it turned out that there was a beggar sitting on the ground on the corner.

The beggar, with his hair disheveled and curly, his tattered clothes covered in mud, and a crooked wooden stick in his left hand, sat down with his head bowed to the floor.

Lao Wu came to the beggar, silently turned out a few copper plates from his waist, dragged them in his hand and handed them to the beggar.

The beggar was stunned for a long time, afraid that no one had been so generous for a long time, he was suddenly ecstatic, threw away the wooden stick in his hand, grabbed the copper plate from Lao Wu's hand, and nodded with a mouth full of yellow teeth.

The Xu family is a big family in the town, and they are willing to give on weekdays, even their own servants.

Xu Chen looked at Lao Wu with a smile and walked back slowly, and said softly: "Uncle Wu, you are still the same as before. ”

Lao Wu didn't speak, but waved his hand, signaling that Xu Chen could go.

However, just after walking out of a distance, I only heard Lao Wu say in a low voice, "Young Master, if I don't accompany you out in the future, you won't leave the house." ”

Xu Chen frowned, turned his head, and looked at the thoughtful old Wu suspiciously, incomprehensible in his heart.

Lao Wu didn't turn his head, and said slowly: "Do you know, why did I give that beggar just now?"

"Haven't you always been like this?" Xu Chen replied casually.

Lao Wu shook his head, smiled slightly, and said: "Young master, you still haven't observed carefully enough, that beggar has been stunned for a while, I could have gently put the copper plate on the ground, which is not rude, but why didn't I?"

Xu Chen shook his head and stared at Lao Wu, he felt more and more that Lao Wu was a little mysterious.

Lao Wu turned his head at this time, with a worried face, "Young master, do you see, that beggar threw away the wooden stick in his left hand to get the copper plate in my hand, why didn't he simply use his right hand to take it, his right hand is idle." ”

"He's too excited, isn't he?" Xu Chen said with a wink.

"Haha!" Lao Wu laughed, "Young Master, you still don't care about the world, tell you that the beggar has a short sword hidden in the right cuff!"

"Huh?" Xu Chen was taken aback.

Lao Wu continued: "If my guess is correct, he is the swordsman who has been following you last night, and his cultivation is very high. ”

Xu Chen's heart was cold, "Could it be that the Bai family still doesn't want to let me go?"

Lao Wu sighed, shook his head and said, "I'm not sure about this, but it's certain that the Bai family is not at ease with you." So you should be more careful in the future, and you should not go out and walk around without me by your side. ”

"Then I can't come out with the others?" Xu Chen asked rhetorically.

Lao Wu nodded, and said softly: "Unless it is the head of the family, others are naturally not good, that person is the late stage of the third realm!"

Third or Late?

Xu Chen couldn't believe his ears, didn't that mean that the beggar had the same cultivation as his father. But he clearly saw that the beggar was not too sick, and he was only in his twenties, if it was true, what a talent.

"Young master, I think you should be happy!" Lao Wu suddenly said playfully, "At least the Bai family values you so much, unlike those stupid pigs of the Xu family, who have eyes and no beads." ”

Xu Chen smiled bitterly and nodded, but he was extremely helpless in his heart, not only was he not welcome at home, but there were also his second aunt and his younger brother who wanted to harm him, and there were still people staring at him outside, and he couldn't tell when he would stab him in the back, what kind of situation was this.

Although it is helpless, life must go on.

Xu Chen followed Lao Wu around the streets and alleys, and finally walked into a market in the north of Yongan Town.

This is the largest fang market in Yongan Town, and this fang market is controlled by the Xu family at this time.

Entering from the gate of Fang City, there are several swordsmen of the Xu family standing guard at the door, maintaining the order of Fang City.

But obviously, these swordsmen didn't know Xu Chen and Lao Wu. After all, Xu Chen had just come back last night, and Lao Wu was just an ordinary servant of the Xu family, so they just glanced at it coldly a few times and then ignored it.

Following the shuttling flow of people, Xu Chen and Lao Wu walked forward slowly, and finally stopped at a small stall.

This stall is full of all kinds of bottles and jars, and at a glance, you can see that it sells some of the pills commonly used by cultivators.

The stall owner was a middle-aged man, he looked ordinary, smiled at Xu Chen and the two, and signaled that he could take a casual look.

Lao Wu didn't reach out to touch the bottles and cans on the stall, but just straightened up, his eyes kept scanning the stall.

At this time, Xu Chen had no choice but to stand silently on the side, although Elder Sun gave him the names of some pills, but at this time, he believed in Lao Wu's eyesight even more, and did not buy it according to the list listed by Elder Sun.

After a while, Lao Wu stretched out his hand and pointed to a few bottles on the stall, and said to the stall owner: "I want all of them, let's wrap them all." ”

"The old man's eyesight is really not ordinary, these are all high-quality elixirs and potions, and many guests don't know the goods. The stall owner said complimentarily as he picked up the bottles and cans.

Xu Chen and Lao Wu naturally knew that the other party was just pretending to be polite, no matter what the guests bought, the stall owner would be so complimentary.

After a while, the stall owner carefully wrapped the bottles in a pocket and handed them to Lao Wu, "Old man, no more, no less, a total of two hundred taels of silver." ”

"Two hundred taels?"

Lao Wu sank in an instant, you must know that two hundred taels of silver is the annual expenses of an ordinary person, and it is not a small amount.

"Boss, do you want to deceive us if one of us is a dying old man and a child who is not a child of the world? Hehe! In my opinion, these are only one hundred and fifty taels at most, and we don't want one or two more. Lao Wu said angrily.

The stall owner's face immediately turned red, knowing that he had met an expert, and he was able to get the price just stuck on his cost, and couldn't help but say shyly: "Okay! Old man, I'm out today, but one hundred and fifty taels is really not good, you can take one hundred and seventy taels! You have to let me earn something!"

Lao Wu smiled, reached out and took the pocket, and looked at Xu Chen beside him.

Xu Chen reacted immediately, reached out and took out the thick stack of silver tickets from his arms, he took out a few of them, just one hundred taels and handed them to the stall owner.

The stall owner took it with a smile on his face, and said complimentally, "Young master, you are really a big family!" This sentence is not bad, who can go out with such a thick stack of silver tickets like Xu Chen.

At this time, Lao Wu had already walked towards the inside of the market with his pockets, Xu Chen smiled at the stall owner and went to chase Lao Wu.

"Uncle Wu, what do we have to buy, not enough of that?"

Xu Chen came to Lao Wu's side and asked tentatively.

Lao Wu nodded, and said with a smile: "Young master, don't worry, there are still more things to buy! ”

"Oh!"

Xu Chen replied, stopped asking, and followed Lao Wu to continue to walk around the market.

......

It's noon.

Danyang City, in a secret room of the Bai family.

A beggar-like man stood with his head bowed, wearing tattered clothes with dirt hanging from them, and a crooked wooden stick in his left hand.

On the opposite side of the "beggar", a white-haired old man stood with his hands in his hands, standing with his back to the "beggar", and there was silence in the secret room.

After the time of the half-pillar of incense passed, the old man slowly turned around and said coldly to the "beggar": "Ghost Five! Are you sure you can't do it at this time?"

Ghost Wu couldn't stop nodding, and his messy hair kept swaying, "Master! I'm sure that old man is by no means an ordinary person! At least, I will definitely not be his opponent!"

The old man frowned, thought for a moment and said, "How is this possible, our Bai family has a lot of dealings with the Xu family, why have we never heard of this person?"

"I'm afraid that old man is deliberately hiding his strength! So I haven't found out all these years, if he hadn't deliberately kneaded the copper plates together when he gave me them today, I'm afraid it would be difficult for me to find out. Ghost Five said firmly.

The old man nodded, picked up the copper plate in his hand, and looked a little stupid.

I saw that several copper plates on the old man's right hand had been twisted and deformed, and if you didn't look carefully, it was difficult to know how many they were. The copper plates are only staggered with each other, because the external force is too great, they have been glued together, and now it seems impossible to break it completely.

"Ghost Five, then in your opinion, what level of cultivation can that old man reach?"

The old man asked blankly.

"The subordinates are incompetent, and they can't find out!" Ghost Wu clenched a fist in his chest, "But the subordinates have a bad premonition!"

The old man raised his head suddenly, looking at Ghost Five suspiciously, he could obviously feel that Ghost Five was trembling, although it was very weak, but it was enough to prove that things were not ordinary, he comforted softly: "Ghost Five! You don't have to make a fuss, the world is so big, there are no surprises, and there is no need to be like this when you see a few masters." What's the matter? Could it be that his cultivation can surpass mine?"

The old man has enough confidence, within a radius of a few hundred miles of Danyang City, there are not many people who can barely compete with him, let alone those who can surpass him, otherwise, how can his Bai family dominate one side.

"Master! it's worse than that!" Ghost Go's lips trembled, "He—he could be a hermit!"

"Hermitage?"

The old man's face suddenly became extremely ugly, and he unconsciously opened his mouth, because of shock, he didn't have a long time for a long time, "Are you sure?"

Ghost Wuyi shook his head slightly when he heard this, bit his lip and said: "Master, I'm just guessing, I carefully observed the old man, there is no trace of his hands holding a sword, so it is difficult for his subordinates to draw conclusions, after all, hermits also need to use a sword, even if they don't use it now, but as a cultivator, the traces of holding a sword will be there for a lifetime." ”

The old man looked at his right hand and nodded approvingly, "Okay, you go down first, this matter will have to wait and talk." Also, don't go to Yong'an Town to spy on that kid Xu Chen, I have other plans. ”

"Yes!" Oni Wu respectfully clenched his fists and turned to leave.

The old man raised his head, frowned, and said silently, "Hidden cultivators, could it be that Xu Chen's kid still has any connection with the hermitage of the past? No! It can't be! The hermitage has disappeared for more than ten years! And doesn't it mean that all the remnants have been cut down and killed? Alas......"