Chapter 80: Back to Shuangping
Xiao Ziyang walked down a few zhang again, and there were many forks in the hole. He chose a fork in the hole and drilled into it.
When he walked through this tortuous hole for nearly a stick of incense, he finally came to the end of the hole. Under the light of the torches, the round stone that appeared on the side of the cave shimmered with an earthy yellow shimmer made him understand everything at once.
This turned out to be a spirit stone mine!
Xiao Ziyang was suddenly a little excited, he took out his thick-backed knife and dug the spirit stone from the hole, and then turned around and walked out.
He searched carefully for every demon he encountered along the way. But to his disappointment, he walked through most of the mines, but only found three spirit stones.
It seems that although this is a spirit stone mine, it is very barren. Xiao Ziyang gave up the search with some disappointment.
By the time he crawled out of the mine, there was already a glimmer of light in the eastern sky. He searched the cave for most of the night. The desire and greed for the spirit stone made him forget the danger, and he couldn't help but be a little afraid, if the monk of Qingyangmen still had his companions, wouldn't he become a turtle in the urn when he was scurrying around in the cave!
Xiao Ziyang glanced back at this dangerous cottage, and walked down the mountain without looking back.
Qingquan Town, like Hefeng Town, is the last station to enter the Shangling Mountains, the two towns are one south and one north, and they are located in the mountain pass that merchants from the south to the north must pass.
Xiao Ziyang rushed to Qingquan Town, and it was already noon the next day. He found Wen Jin and the others who were already waiting very anxiously in the largest inn in the town.
"Wu Daxia, you're here, we're really worried to death. Sitting in the hall of the inn, facing the table full of dishes, but unable to swallow the people, they were all overjoyed when they saw Xiao Ziyang, Wen Jin rushed towards Xiao Ziyang, and almost knocked over a table.
"Wu Daxia, how did you get out, those black-faced people are really terrible!" Wen Jin asked while grabbing Xiao Ziyang's sleeve.
Xiao Ziyang smiled and said: "Although those black-faced bandits are infinitely powerful, they are not very flexible, after you left, I took advantage of their unpreparedness, broke out of the encirclement, and fled into the mountains to hide all night. ”
Wen Jinlian said: "That's good, that's good, I know that Wu Daxia will be fine." After speaking, he pulled Xiao Ziyang to the hall, and said as he walked: "Wu Daxia, you haven't eaten for more than a day, this wine and food are still hot, we haven't touched it yet, Wu Daxia will make some cushions first, and I will order some good dishes and wine." ”
At this time, everyone in the Wen family's caravan saw that Xiao Ziyang's attitude was completely different, and everyone greeted him one after another and let him into the seat.
Xiao Ziyang was indeed hungry, he casually dealt with everyone's questions, and munched on the desk. Wen Jin called Xiao Er on the side and asked him to quickly and carefully tidy up a table of good dishes and replace them with good wine.
After eating and drinking, everyone accommodated Xiao Ziyang's fatigue and rested in the town for another night.
Because of the loss of goods, everyone traveled lightly, and there were horses to transfer, which was supposed to take more than 20 days, but everyone walked in half a month.
Coming to Shuangping Town again, Xiao Ziyang was quite embarrassed.
Seeing Xiao Ziyang, the clerk looked very enthusiastic on the outside, but Xiao Ziyang could see that his gaze was a little evasive. Seeing him like this, Xiao Ziyang's heart sank slightly.
Xiao Ziyang didn't mention the matter of the 100,000 taels of silver very interestingly, but he was willing to take a break, not to mention that Xiao Ziyang's cultivation of "Purple Jade Smoke" was like burning money, even if he didn't need silver urgently, he wouldn't easily give up such a large sum of silver. 100,000 taels of silver, that's enough money for a person to be rich for a lifetime.
Intellectually speaking, Xiao Ziyang should not have come to the Wen family again, just secretly took the silver. However, Xiao Ziyang still came with a fluke mentality.
The clerk seemed relieved to see that Xiao Ziyang did not mention the bounty. A rich feast was prepared that night, and he was treated with great enthusiasm.
After the banquet was over, Xiao Ziyang was already stumbling, and his face was red. The clerk personally arranged Xiao Ziyang to sleep on the east side of the Wen Mansion, in the very quiet Cuiming Residence.
After settling everything outside the clerk and returning to the study, he was already holding the lamp, and he was walking back and forth in the study with a gloomy face.
The clerk stopped, caressed the desk with his hand, and said to himself, "Half? That's more than 100,000 taels of silver! Hmph! A wanderer, how much is your life worth?" After speaking, there was a murderous flash in his eyes, and he shouted outward, "Someone!" A subordinate hurriedly walked into the study, bent down and waited for his orders.
"Go, call the head of Wudu, Steward Su and Steward Wen. ”
"Yes," the subordinate bowed to respond.
After the servant left, he sat at his desk and wrote a letter.
The clerk's letter has not yet been written, Wudutou, Su Steward and Wen Steward have come to the study one after another, and the three of them saw that the clerk was writing at the desk, so they stood aside and waited.
The clerk finished writing the letter, sealed it in an envelope, and sealed it with fire paint. Raising his head, he handed the letter to the two of them respectively: "Wudu Tou, you send these two letters to Tang Pei Tang Daxia and Jin Shengjie Jin Daxia Mansion in Shangyuan City respectively; Don't delay, the two of you set off overnight. After speaking, he took out another piece of letter and said to Steward Wen: "You send this credit flying pigeon to the Shangyuan Wen family's firm, and let the shopkeeper Li act according to the instructions in the letter." ”
"Yes, sir. The three of them took the letter and said nothing, turned around and walked out of the study.
On the east side of the Wen Mansion, Xiao Ziyang, who seemed to be sleeping very deeply, suddenly sat up. I saw him dressed neatly in three or two, turned around and made the bed look like someone was sleeping with his head covered, and opened the window and floated up to the roof like a puff of green smoke.
Xiao Ziyang cat was on the roof, and found that the courtyard he was in was quite remote, and the nearest yard was thirty or forty zhang away. Suddenly, he let out a sneer and unfolded his body and fled into the night sky.
Xiao Ziyang's light skills at this time are several times better than those of the red silk guests back then, and in addition, the martial arts of the Wenfu Nursing Institute are low, and there are few third-rate masters, so naturally no one can find him.
Xiao Ziyang walked through the Wenfu and came to the roof of a shop opposite the ear gate on the west side of the Wenfu and fell down.
This west ear gate is a special passage for people under the Wenfu to enter and exit.
About half an hour later, the ear door suddenly opened, and out of the door came a black knight and a carriage.
With Xiao Ziyang's eyesight, he naturally saw that this black-clothed knight was the head of the martial capital. Xiao Ziyang hesitated for a moment, turned into a cloud of green smoke and followed the carriage from afar.
When the carriage was far away from the town, Xiao Ziyang slid across the night sky like a bat, and landed on the roof of the carriage silently. Xiao Ziyang opened the curtains and turned over into the carriage.