eurekapd Chapter 315 Bang!
Chapter 315 Bang!
Three days later.
Xiuyuanzhou and Yaoshan Salt Field.
Zhao Qing and the other two had already left Mingshang for tens of thousands of miles and traveled here on a spirit boat. Hong Ning just took a look from afar and instantly became interested.
After midnight, the cold wind howled fiercely.
But here, the entire mountain city is lit up, and the night market stretching for dozens of miles is bustling with people.
And it's not just mortals, occasionally you can also see cultivators in the Qi training or even foundation building stage.
The aunt stood at the edge of the spirit boat, deep in thought. She glanced at Hong Ning's sparkling eyes, and her cold face gradually softened. She smiled and whispered to Zhao Qing, "Ning'er has a cheerful personality and loves to play and make trouble. Sometimes I really feel like Shu Yue is by my side."
Zhao Qing: ...
That's really an illusion.
Shuyue is so well-behaved, her personality is completely different from Hongning's!
However, more than ten years ago, when Shuyue had just married me, she also liked to play with fragrant flowers and plants, and would be attracted by all kinds of novel things when shopping... She loved to help me pick clothes, play with swords and gossip, and drag me to the City God Temple to pray for peace.
Even if you dig a cellar at home, you can be excited for a long time...
It’s a pity that the days in those two years were far from as easy as they are now. Most of the time, she could only wait for him at home. Apart from that, she was with Qinghuan on Zizhu’s spirit boat.
Later, when she arrived in Lanxian Town, she was able to sit around at Bu Niang's house, go to the market with Qin Lian, and go shopping in Lin'an County... However, not long after, Qin Lian got married and left Lanxian.
If I had been the descendant of Yongning at that time, would Shuyue be as lively as Hongning?
It’s a pity... During those years when Shuyue was the most green and immature, she didn’t have any abilities.
Zhao Qing sighed inwardly, raised his eyes slightly and looked at his aunt, then turned to look at Hong Ning: "Shall we go downstairs for a walk?"
Hong Ning's face lit up instantly, her sparkling eyes gazing at the distant lights. "This must be Xiuyuan's ghost market, open only at night. There's a mix of good and bad people here, and there are many tricks... We're definitely going to get scammed."
Although she said this, she couldn't hide the expectation in her words. My aunt smiled and nodded in agreement.
The three of them immediately put away their spirit boat, rode the wind down, and began to wander slowly along the foot of the mountain.
The topography of Xiuyuan Prefecture is roughly similar to that of Mingshang, both of which are endless glaciers, except that Xiuyuan occasionally has islands protruding from the snowfield.
For example, the Yaoshan Salt Field is the largest salt producing area in the northwest of Xiuyuan. Over time, it has attracted many peddlers and merchants to gather here.
At night, the place is brightly lit, with stalls everywhere. However, most of the items sold are valuable items of dubious origin, or strange gadgets of unknown function. There is also a small street that is a ghost market for casual cultivators.
Hong Ning walked briskly, and even visited the small stalls at the foot of the mountain where there were few customers. She searched for all kinds of pen holders and jade wares with her eyes full of curiosity.
With his spiritual sense scanning the surroundings, it was not difficult to discover the rules of this place.
It is called the Ghost Market because transactions only take place at night and the market closes at dawn, making it almost impossible to find sellers again. If you go to the same location the next day, you will definitely see different sellers.
The second is that this place is a mixed crowd, with all kinds of strange objects that are difficult to distinguish between true and false. Many are stolen goods, and there are also burial objects of the dead.
At this moment, my aunt picked up a painting casually. The brushwork was smooth and the colors were simple. The mountains and rivers on it were vivid and the layout was ingenious. The painter obviously had an excellent foundation.
My aunt's beautiful eyes swept over the signature and she asked doubtfully, "Does Master Xu Lang have any other handwritings?"
She was born in Yongning Chu State and obviously did not know who this Master Xu was, but he was probably a well-known scholar in the nearby counties.
The reason I'm asking right now is just because I like it and want to take a closer look.
The stall owner, who had seen this happen so often, smiled and said sincerely, "I bought it from the pawnshop, and this is the only landscape painting among all the calligraphy and paintings I've collected."
……
Zhao Qing didn't understand calligraphy and painting at all, he just watched from the side.
"Shuyue slept with Qinghuan?"
He said silently.
As the Yin Hua rippled slightly, the scene in the small alchemy room emerged in his mind.
Only Si He was leaning against the head of the bed with a thin quilt in his arms, with freshly cut fruits at hand, and he was obviously watching the live broadcast with great interest.
It is midsummer now, and it is the season for sweet and delicious fruits in Yongning Prefecture.
The white-haired girl crossed her legs, dangling her feet leisurely, and said lazily, "No."
"They went to decorate their new home. The palace on the top of the mountain has just been built."
Si He smiled and said, "Do you miss Shuyue?"
"Well, I'll be back in the next two days."
"I just thought that if Shuyue came to a place like this, she would definitely drag me around..."
Zhao Qing chatted with Si He in a random manner.
After wandering around for a while, my aunt returned to the original stall, picked up the painting, and asked, "How much is it?"
The stall owner had a handsome face and bowed to Zhao Qing, then turned to look at my aunt: "If my madam wants it, it will only cost eight thousand taels."
!! ?
Zhao Qing cursed in his heart, what is this thing worth eight thousand taels.
This is almost as much as two Soul-Refining Pills... How dare you sell a painting for eighty spirit stones?
Fortunately, Shuyue didn’t watch the live broadcast, otherwise she would definitely be so angry that she would curse.
Zhou Xiaoyi raised her eyebrows slightly. She understood that this was a matter of judging the person's status and charging as much as possible. In her opinion, this painting was worth at most a hundred or so taels of silver.
Moreover, there are countless paintings and calligraphy works in the Chu imperial palace that are more exquisite and extraordinary than this.
However, before she could put down the calligraphy and painting in her hands, Sister Ning had already pressed eight banknotes to the ground and ordered generously, "Frame it."
"Hey! Hey!"
"okay!"
The stall owner respectfully took the scroll from my aunt and began to take care of it carefully.
My aunt smiled helplessly and said nothing.
Hong Ning whispered in her ear, "There's a pen holder over there, carved from ice crystal jade. It's quite old... We don't have that over there."
Not long after, the two of them spent another three thousand taels of silver to buy a pen holder.
Zhao Qing followed behind and began to ponder.
He seemed to smell something familiar...
He muttered silently, "Did you spend your spirit stones this way before?"
Si He snorted disdainfully.
"How can I possibly be picky in a place like this?"
"I always buy them in bulk, a lot at a time."
Zhao Qing was speechless for a moment, and suddenly felt that Ning Mei's behavior was not so extravagant.
However, he never expected... this was just the beginning.
The ghost market in Yaoshan stretches for dozens of miles.
Hong Ning was shopping almost all the way, never stopping at all, and even my aunt bought a lot of things with her.
Zhao Qing couldn't help but sigh that Ningmei was really rich.
An hour later.
He wore a gorgeous jade pendant around his waist. The surface was warm and crystal clear, but there was a floc-like light flowing inside.
The aunt was holding the small round fan given by Hong Ning in her hand, and wearing a jade hairpin on her head. Her beautiful eyes looked at the birdcage in Hong Ning's hand with confusion.
Hong Ning paid the money, carefully put the birdcage away, and said jokingly, "We can raise birds in the future."
Zhao Qing: ...
Sister Ning obviously remembered the idea of raising birds after seeing the birdcage.
Finally, the three of them crossed mountains and rivers, crossed a dark and deserted ice bridge, and came to the ghost market that belonged only to independent cultivators.
Feeling the chaotic fluctuations of spiritual consciousness and spiritual energy around him, as well as the dazzling array of jade slip fragments, Zhao Qing's heart suddenly tightened.
According to Hong Ning's previous attitude, if he doesn't have 100,000 spirit stones tonight... he might not be able to leave the Yaoshan Salt Field.
The red lemon water eyes lit up instantly, as if she had discovered something new. She gently pulled Zhao Qing's sleeve and rushed to a dark place.
My aunt was also strolling along, following behind me from a distance.
The stall owner was a beautiful woman in the middle stage of foundation building. She was dressed in gorgeous clothes and had a light veil covering her face. She exuded a faint fragrance. She didn't react at all when she saw Zhao Qing and the other two coming straight towards her.
Hong Ning casually picked up a small jade ball and asked doubtfully, "Isn't this a pill?"
Zhao Qing glanced at it, pondered it for a moment, then shook his head and said, "No."
"This is used to clear the meridians of monsters. Some low-level monsters have too low intelligence, so it is a waste for them to take elixirs and spiritual medicines. Only cultivators can control this thing with their spiritual consciousness to help regulate their internal organs and meridians." The beautiful woman said softly.
Hong Ning's slender hand trembled, and she quickly threw the small jade ball back to its original place.
The female cultivator covered her mouth and laughed sweetly: "I have never used it, so don't worry."
Ning Mei thought for a moment, then pointed to another stone plate: "What about this one?"
Zhao Qing and his aunt also looked sideways, and were also curious about the object that looked like a formation plate but had no formation patterns engraved on it.
They had never seen such a thing in Yongning Prefecture.
"Spiritual Transformation Pillar."
"This strange stone comes from the Qingming Sect's secret demon refining realm. Imprinting it on the dantian will cause the spiritual energy to become disordered and scattered, colliding with the meridians and causing extreme pain."
The female cultivator pondered for a moment, then added, "Qi training monsters don't have spiritual consciousness, so this is the only way to discipline them."
Hong Ning nodded thoughtfully, and then realized that the remaining items were also used for monsters. These should have come from a beast-taming sect in Xiuyuan.
"Thank you, fellow Taoist, for informing me."
Just as Zhao Qing and the other two turned to leave, the female cultivator suddenly added, "It can also be used by others."
???
Hong Ning looked back in surprise, then glanced at the necklaces and jade table on the stall. Without saying another word, she took her aunt's arm and left.
She chuckled and whispered to Zhao Qing, "She's selling herself here. She should be practicing the Qigong method and looking for a furnace for fun."
Zhao Qing was amazed. Noticing the contemptuous look on his aunt's face, he knew that Sister Ning was probably also helping her with science education.
Hong Ning was then attracted by another stall. She was holding a set of formation weapons with thirty-six small swords in her hand and carefully examined the patterns on them.
At the same time, he continued to transmit his voice jokingly, "My desire is planted in you, and it will become your furnace."
"Are there any of those items you like? I'll keep them for you to play with later."
There is such a good thing! ?
Zhao Qing asked in return, "Am I not your furnace?"
"whispering sound!"
"One thing you say, one thing you mean~"
"If you like, I'll go crazy with you."
Hong Ning was playing with a few small swords in her hands, her mind had already drifted away, her watery eyes were blinking, and there was a playful smile at the corner of her lips.
Zhao Qing didn't hesitate and chuckled, "I don't like it."
How could a decent person possibly like that kind of thing!?
Although Hong Ning usually drives very fast, she felt ashamed when the time came.
Zhao Qing was almost certain that if he really wanted to bully her, there would be no resistance at all... After all, Ning Mei's attitude towards the vermilion seal that day had already explained everything.
But Ning Mei is so nice, I can't even feel sorry for her, how could she do such an excessive thing! ?
...if she stopped deliberately messing up her own mentality.
The three of them spent the entire night wandering around the Yaoshan Salt Field.
I brought Shuyue a new top-quality soft sword, a set of high-quality bone swords and hidden weapons, and a soft ivory comb.