msmithbooks Chapter 179 Year 2 Dry Season
Chapter 179 Year 2 Dry Season
"Su Aogu, stop for me!"
In a huge black city with black roc carved on the city wall, a beautiful girl in a golden tube top dress and a golden long veil ran on the street, holding a palace fan in one hand to protect herself from the sun, and holding a hand in the other. The skirt chased the blond boy ahead who was striding off the street.
The boy had already walked out of the city gate and came to a village with crowded houses ten kilometers outside the city.
The houses here are not only crowded, but also the ground is not very clean. Compared with the clean and tidy city, it looks like a slum.
The well-dressed girl stood on the avenue outside with some distaste, with her arms akimbo angrily, and within half a second she was so sun-burned that she raised her palace fan to her head again: "Su Aogu! I told you to stop, did you hear me? Don't think that my father You can disobey me if you value you!"
Just like before no matter how she chased him, the boy's footsteps never stopped, now she threatened, but the boy still didn't look back, and quickly disappeared into the densely packed houses.
"You!" The girl stomped her feet angrily, her eyes were red, and she grabbed a little white rabbit that was walking upright and holding a basin of water in its front hooves, "Hey, go, call me Su Aogu!"
The little white rabbit was shaken by being dragged, the water on his hand was almost spilled, and he nodded tremblingly: "Yes, yes."
"Hmph! Hurry up!" The girl pushed the little white rabbit, "I'll give you 5 minutes!"
The little white rabbit flew into the basin holding the water basin, and it took 5 minutes just to get to the boy's house.
There are a few potted plants in front of the boy's hut, with a few clumps of wild flowers planted inside, which is as simple as the simple stone house in front of him.
Both of them were objects that he could not afford to offend. The little white rabbit yelled in fear: "Su, Young Master Su, Miss is calling you."
After a few seconds, there was no movement in the room.
The little white rabbit had a bad premonition, and yelled a few more times, but there was no movement in the room, not even the sound of breathing.
Now he understood that Young Master Su didn't know where he went, just like before, he disappeared when he came back.
To say that this eldest lady and Young Master Su are really a pair of enemies, the relationship between the two is well known in their Black Crow City.
The matter started half a year ago, when it was snowing heavily, the city lord went out and brought back a golden egg, a golden eagle hatched the next day, and was closed by the city lord on the third day disciple.
But for some reason, the relationship between Young Master Su and Missy is not good. Everyone can often hear Missy beating and scolding him. In order to hide from Missy, Young Master Su simply moved to live in their small village.
After that, they can often see today's scene.
If anyone is unlucky to be caught by the eldest lady, generally speaking, they will not be able to find Su Shao. At that time, the eldest lady must be even more angry. If luck is better, the eldest lady will ignore them and run home by herself. Bad luck Well, then ask for more blessings.
But... on a certain level, being caught by Missy isn't bad luck.
Besides, the eldest lady who was waiting outside under the scorching sun knew that the rabbit demon hadn't found him after seeing the person coming out for more than ten minutes. She stomped her feet angrily, frowned, raised her skirt, and walked in on tiptoe. .
When she came to the front of the stone house, the eldest lady raised her foot and kicked the door open without looking at the rabbit monster waiting outside.
The stone house was empty, not to mention people, not a single bird feather.
"Su Aogu! You left me again!"
The little white rabbit huddled by the side of the road holding the water basin, watching the girl run out angrily.
"Whoo~"
As soon as he breathed a sigh of relief and was about to continue working, a young man came out of the room and glanced at him.
Su, Young Master Su?
Are you not here?
The boy put a spirit mine under the feet of the little white rabbit, and said in a cold voice, "Go back quickly."
"Thank you, Young Master Su!" The little white rabbit's eyes flashed with joy, and he picked up the spirit mine and ran home with the water basin in his mouth.
This is the time when luck is good. Young Master Su has always been kind to them, and Young Master Su will give them some compensation after the eldest lady leaves. These compensations are nothing to Young Master Su, but to the little demon who lives in the village But it's two or three days' wages.
When there were no more monsters in front of the door, Su Aogu sighed and squatted down to water the potted plants at the door.
On the other side, the eldest lady ran back to the city lord's mansion with tears in her eyes, and came to a courtyard full of cold plums with ease. As soon as she entered the door, she opened her voice and cried: "Father! That Su Aogu bullied me again!"
The Lengmei in the yard has just grown flower buds, and there is a cold spring in the middle. The whole yard is chilly, not affected by the hot dry season at all.
Beside the spring is a plum tree hundreds of meters high, under the tree there is a square stone table, and sitting beside the table is a tall and straight young man in a black robe with gentle features.
"How does Ao Gu have the time to bully you every day?" The young man smiled helplessly, opened the white folding fan in his hand, and fanned it slowly, "Have you chased Ao Gu out of the city again?"
"He is disobedient!" The eldest lady sat on the stool with a sobbing sound, "He is just an orphan whom no one wants, yet he dares to disobey me, father, you must punish him severely."
"Then the father ordered him to be grounded for half a month?" The young man looked at his daughter slightly teasingly.
A trace of hesitation flashed in the eyes of the eldest lady: "Ten days, if the ground is too long, it is estimated that his study progress will fall behind again, and the father will still be angry at that time, it is not worth it."
"Wouldn't it be better to be grounded in the City Lord's Mansion?"
The eldest lady's eyes lit up: "Well, since it doesn't affect the mood of the father, let's imprison him for a year or so."
"Aogu has only been here for more than half a year, and you are going to ban him for a year and a half. Isn't this punishment too severe?"
"Hmph! He deserves it!"
The young man in black shook his head slightly, closed his folding fan, and gently tapped his daughter's forehead: "You."
"Father, please give the order." The eldest lady touched her forehead and urged.
"Just for this matter, the footsteps are ordered. How should I be proud in the future." The black-robed young man stood up, "You, don't embarrass Ao Gu all day long. You hid outside the city without seeing Ao Gu hiding? If you really like it People, don't do such annoying things."
"He is just an orphan you picked up in the ice and snow. How could I like him? I hate him to death."
"Huh? Okay, I don't like it, but you will make Aogu tired of you." The black-robed youth raised his eyebrows, "The aura of the body protection magic weapon on Aogu's body is not simple, if it is not a close relative, why would you leave him a body protection method?" Qi, if one day someone's parents come to the door and sue proudly, father and king will not be able to help you."
"If his parents are so capable, they still dare to act wildly in my black black city?" The eldest lady is not afraid of this.
The young man in black shook his head, sighed helplessly, and the smile on the corner of his mouth was slightly suppressed.
This is not necessarily the case.
The eldest lady continued to pester her father and king to give orders, and the young man in black robe kept his mouth shut and did not cooperate with his daughter to mess around.
After a while, the black armored guard came to report: "City Lord, two humans have come outside the city, they are both awakened seven times, and they say they are from the Kunlong Chamber of Commerce."
"Kunlong?" The black-robed youth subconsciously glanced at his daughter, and his eyelids twitched, "What a coincidence, let's go and have a look."
"I'll go too!" The young lady jumped up.
"You stay at home." The smile on the young man's face subsided, and he gave his daughter a warning look, "Be good to me these two days, don't cause trouble for me, or you won't regret it in the future."
"Father, my daughter did nothing wrong."
The young man ignored her dissatisfaction, and casually summoned a bird servant: "Look at Miss."
The servant put his wings to his chest and bent slightly: "Yes."
There is a post station in Heiwu City, the interior is richly decorated, and it is specially used to entertain foreign guests. However, since the city was built, this post station has been empty and has never been used. Almost thought I was on vacation.
However, two guests came to Heiwu City today.
Although the post station is just an inn, there is a lot of space inside, even if there are tens of thousands of people, it will not feel crowded. Each courtyard is divided into different levels for different guests to live in.
Yi Cheng, who had been free for a long time, heard the report from the black armor guard, saying that there were two guests who asked him to arrange a place to stay, and immediately became energetic. Hearing who the guests were from the Kunlong Chamber of Commerce, the word "Kunlong" It sounds domineering, although Yicheng is not good at directly arranging people in the courtyard of Tianzi level, but excitedly brings people to the courtyard of Dizi level.
The yard is clean and tidy. There are some flowers and plants planted in the yard. There is a big tree over there. There is a swing and a stone table under the tree. The furniture in the house looks very expensive. Qi Jiang and Su Qing often take care of it. People who have clutter at home will know that the materials used for decoration inside are all good materials.
There are several rooms in this yard, but there are only two of them.
"Mr. Qi, Mr. Su, this is your residence. There are all kinds of furniture inside. If the two of you need it, you can also arrange a few slaves and servants for you."
Qi Jiang smiled gently and nodded slightly: "No need, we husband and wife are used to being taken care of by servants at home, so we don't need to bother Yayi Cheng."
Yes, this Yi Cheng was born in the crow clan, and he was also a crow.
The race of crows is often regarded as ominous in modern times, but in the world of practice, crows are a race of divine crows, a rare auspicious bird among the monster race.
The reason why it is said to be rare in the Yaozu is because most of the auspicious beasts in the world belong to the fairy clan, but there are very few in the Yaozu.
Therefore, this Yayi Cheng can be regarded as a mascot.
Even though they declined, Yayicheng felt that they were embarrassed, after all, they didn't see any servants with them, did they?
He went back and recruited more than a dozen servants who had been idle for half a year like him: "This is the first single student in our inn... It's the first time to entertain foreigners, you all be careful, don't lose I have lost face in Heiwu City."
More than a dozen servants looked excited, twisted their waists which had been idle for a long time, loosened their muscles and bones, and replied in unison: "Yes!"
"Okay, it's getting late at this time, the guests haven't washed up yet, hurry up and serve me tea and water, oh, and the kitchen, hurry up and serve me food, don't let the guests get hungry."
"Yes!"
Everyone came out in a file, Yayi Cheng stroked his little mustache, and sat down on his chair with satisfaction: "It can be regarded as opening."
But over there, the servants were gearing up to walk towards the guest courtyard where Su Qing and the others were staying, and they were stunned as soon as they entered the door.
There are already more than a dozen people standing in this yard, all wearing different clothes, and their appearances and heights are also different, but to the monsters in this station, these people are all familiar faces.
"Didn't it mean there were only two people?"
"Master Crow said there were only two people, maybe he was talking about the master, and these are the servants brought by the guests?"
Hearing this, all the demons nodded one after another.
"Then shall we go in? It seems that there is nothing else to do."
"Oh, look, everyone's food is ready."
"There are still people waiting at this door, so what should I do?"
"Here, ah, there are washbasin towels in the room, and my work is gone."
All the monsters looked at it with regret, and after watching for a while, one monster whispered: "You... have you noticed that the expressions of these people have not changed?"
Hearing this, all the demons shivered, looked at each other, took a step back, then turned and ran back.
Yayi Cheng lay comfortably in his chair, drinking tea leisurely, he did the same in the past, but today he felt very comfortable.
The tea was just poured out and it was still hot, before Yayi Cheng had time to take a sip, there were a few panicked shouts from outside.
"Master Crow! Lord Crow! It's not good!"
Yayi Cheng was so angry that he slapped the table on the table: "What are you doing in such a panic? Didn't you ask you to take care of the guests?"
"Master Crow, there is a group of strange people in the guest house, it looks scary."
"Yeah, and they did all our work."
"Yes, my lord, the servant brought by the guest looks like a monster, which makes the monster very scared."
Yayicheng rolled his eyes angrily: "What kind of monster is the monster, is it so scary? You are the monster, I'm afraid they will do it... Wait, we are only two guests, how can there be so many people?" ?”
All the monsters looked at each other in blank dismay: "The guest has brought a servant."
Yayicheng asked angrily: "A group of idiots, if the guests bring servants, why do I ask you to serve them?"
All the monsters looked at each other in blank dismay: "But the guests really brought them."
Yayicheng became even more angry now, stood up abruptly, and strode out: "Take me to have a look!"
All the demons hurriedly followed him out, but before they could leave the courtyard, another person ran in in a panic: "Master Ya, Lord Ya, it's not good!"
Yayicheng took a deep breath: "You are not good! What happened here?"
"Yes, yes..." The servant gasped for breath, he didn't know whether he was tired or frightened, and was speechless for a while.
Yayicheng slapped his forehead anxiously: "I am really a crow who came to the door and reported the funeral. He looks clever on weekdays, but why are they all so unreliable in critical moments?"
All the monsters looked at him with subtle expressions, and Yayi Cheng was out of breath, and shouted in a low voice: "Stop panting, what happened?"
The person lying on the ground pointed to the door: "Yes, yes..."
"My seat is here." A black-robed young man walked in from the door, with a worried face, "Crow Eleven, this is the first time we have a visitor from Heiwu City, and your inn is really well-trained."
Yayicheng immediately knelt down, and all the monsters behind him threw themselves on the ground tremblingly, and said in unison: "The city lord, forgive me!"
The city lord looked cold, glanced at Yayi Cheng on the ground, and said lightly: "Where is the guest?"
Yayi Cheng didn't dare to raise his head: "Go back to the city lord, here, in Lanyuan."
He said the place, but he didn't get up to lead the way. The city lord frowned almost invisibly, and then relaxed it quickly.
The black armored guard on the side shouted: "Is it impossible for the city lord to find it in person? Why don't you lead the way?"
Yayicheng woke up like a dream, and quickly got up and ran to the front: "Hey! Okay, the city lord please."
A group of three walked into the prefecture-level courtyard, and the city lord's expression was slightly grave: "This guest's origin is unknown, why did he arrange it directly in the prefecture-level guest courtyard?"
"what?"
"Ah what, I asked you something." The black armored guard on the side almost couldn't help rolling his eyes.
"Oh!" Yayi Cheng swallowed, "Yes, it was the black armor guard who said that the guest came from the Kunlong Chamber of Commerce. This subordinate sounds really domineering. It should come from everyone, and the subordinate arranged this. courtyard."
A trace of disgust flashed in the eyes of the city lord: "Forget it, you don't have to follow."
"Ah?" Yayicheng paused for a moment, then stepped aside, "Respectfully send the city lord off."
The city lord and the black armored guard gradually walked away, and when they turned a corner, the black armored guard said in a low voice: "City lord, this postman looks really incompetent, do you want your subordinates to find another suitable candidate?"
The city lord rubbed the folded fan in his hand, and the hesitation on his face became a little heavier: "Go and find another monster clan who has awakened the blood of the god crow for me?"
This is not easy to find. In the territory of Heiwu City, there are tens of thousands of crows in the entire crow clan, and there is only such a god crow. Otherwise, Crow Eleven is so stupid, and it is impossible for the city lord to give the shape-changing pill. Turn into a human form and sit in the position of Yi Cheng.
But on the other hand, there are puppets taking over the chores in Lanyuan, Su Qing and the others have nothing else to do, and it is not easy to take out a tablet to watch surveillance videos in Heiwu City, so they simply took out another tablet to check these The production situation at the secret factory since the days.
The tablet was held by Qi Jiang, and Su Qing leaned on him, looked at the same tablet as him, and took a bite of the fruit Qi Jiang fed from time to time.
This tablet is similar to the tablet of Qianji Mother Bird, it is a magic weapon made by Qi Jiang, and it is as convenient as a computer.
They only looked at it for a while, and the city lord Heiwu walked out of the Lanyuan, looked at the busy servants inside, and narrowed his eyes slightly.
The black armored guard didn't have this kind of vision, and when he saw so many humans, his face was displeased: "City Master, the people of the Kunlong Chamber of Commerce are too arrogant. They clearly only reported to two people, but secretly treated so many servants. They must be uneasy and kind. Should you Subordinate..."
He did know how to come up with ideas, but they had all walked to the door, and he had no eyesight to knock on the door.
The expression of the Heiwu city lord remained the same, but he couldn't help but lament the helplessness of starting from scratch. It was hard to find a caring and sensible servant. Why are everyone around here so unreliable.
However, it doesn't matter if others are unreliable, he still has a reliable apprentice.
Thinking of this, the Lord of Heiwu couldn't help laughing, put the folding fan on the open door, knocked twice, and patiently explained to his subordinates: "This is a puppet, not a real person."
What puppet?
The black armor guard didn't know what it was, and his face was a little confused.
The puppets waiting in the courtyard came over, and Hei Wu looked them over carefully, and found that these puppets not only had a special shape, but also had a very special breath, almost exactly like real people, and I don't know which puppets they made.
"I've met the two adults." The puppet housekeeper clasped his fists slightly and saluted, "Did the two adults come to look for my master?"
The housekeeper was courteous and thoughtful, except for his expression, which remained the same as a real person.
Hei Wu couldn't help but feel a little moved. His subordinates had just transformed from beasts to monsters. Most of them were simple-minded, even if they were shrewd, they were limited. They might as well be clever like a puppet.
If you can buy a batch...
"Tell your master that Hei Wu is here to see you."
In the room, Su Qing, who was watching the production report, sat up: "Hei Wu? He is a majestic monster, and he is still the city lord. We should go and see him. Why did he come here?"
Qi Jiang felt something was wrong: "In short, it's not because we like the name of our Kunlong Chamber of Commerce, or because we think we are better than him."
As for why...
The two looked at each other, and both decided to have a look before talking.
The demon emperor and city lord came to the door in person. Of course, Su Qing and the others couldn't really wait for the housekeeper to report, so they quickly put away the tablet and went out.
The two met the butler in the courtyard, and the butler saluted: "Master..."
"Go down first." Qi Jiang waved.
"Yes!" The puppet butler continued to manage his subordinates.
Hei Wu was even more moved. This butler is much more sensible than his subordinates. This kind of vivid puppets were rare even in the past. It is not a loss to buy a batch of these things, even if they don't have any combat power.
Qi and Su walked to the door, looked at each other, and saluted together: "Junior Qi Jiang/Su Qing has seen Senior Hei Wu."
Heiwu raised his eyebrows: "Kunlong Chamber of Commerce has produced many capable people, you two know this seat?"
"There is an elder in the younger generation's family, and he told the younger generation about Senior Hei Wu." Qi Jiang stretched out his hand to invite, "Senior, please come in."
Hei Wu glanced at Qi Jiang, then looked at Su Qing, and smiled meaningfully: "I don't know what kind of blood this person has?"
Su Qing smiled slightly, but did not answer: "Senior, let's go in and talk, it's not very convenient outside."
Hei Wu didn't ask any further questions, and walked ahead into the hall, habitually walked to the first seat and sat down.
In today's world, strength is the most important thing, and the two behind Qi Su naturally fell to the next seat.
"This city of Heiwu has nothing to do with the world, and it is located in a remote place. You two don't know why you are here?" Heiwu sat obliquely on the upper seat, and lightly tapped the palm of his hand with a folding fan.
"The investigation team from the chamber of commerce came to report that there were signs of social activities nearby, so the two of us came to find out." Qi Jiang spoke neither fast nor slow, neither humble nor overbearing.
"Oh?" Hei Wu raised his eyebrows, "Now that I have found it, what are your plans?"
There was a gentle smile on Qi Jiang's face: "If the city lord is willing to do business, we can build a teleportation formation. If not, then we will do some business here. We will talk about the future."
Hei Wu was a little confused: "Just for business? Not for other reasons?"
Qi Jiang originally felt that there was something wrong with Heiwu coming to the door first today. Hearing this, both of them smiled and said in unison: "It depends on the situation."
"I wonder what kind of business you two plan to do here?" Hei Wu asked again.
"Our chamber of commerce has a lot of products, and there are several hot-selling products, such as flying carpets, storage instruments, communication instruments, and talismans. The appearances of several products were projected into the air, and finally the smile deepened, and then a transformation fruit was projected, "The transformation fruit that the monster race likes, our chamber of commerce also has."
Seeing the storage bag that only stayed for a few seconds, Heiwu's pupils shrank slightly, and his face remained unchanged: "Don't sell puppets? I feel that these puppets in the two yards are clever."
"Senior was joking." Qi Jiang put away the tablet, "Puppets are expensive to make, and the puppet masters in our chamber of commerce are complaining endlessly within the supplier association, so we can't sell them outside."
Actually, it was Qi Jiang who didn't want to sell.
Just like doing business in modern times, how can anyone sell robots from the beginning?This sells the robot, do you want to sell other basic commodities?
Hei Wu didn't ask further questions, and didn't ask about other products, but asked about another product that wasn't on the sale list: "I don't know, does your Chamber of Commerce have any magical artifacts for sale?"
"No." Qi Jiang shook his head.
"Oh?" Hei Wu gave a slight pause as he tapped the folding fan in his palm, "Never sold it?"
Qi Jiang felt a little puzzled, quickly went through the things they had sold these days, and shook his head: "I have never sold them."
This is strange.
The style of the arrogant Qiankun bag is clearly the same as that of the Kunlong Chamber of Commerce, but the Kunlong Chamber of Commerce does not sell magic weapons for body protection.
Could it be that Ao Gu's body protection magic weapon was really given by the elders?
The Kunlong Chamber of Commerce has puppets, flying artifacts, storage artifacts, communication artifacts and talismans, and even a teleportation array. Except for the elixir, everything else is included.
It is not impossible for the two of them to buy a protective magic weapon from within as a gift to the younger generation.
After all...the aura of the other quiet person named Su Qing was somewhat similar to that of Aogu.
More importantly, Ao Gu's surname is the same as his.
"If I want to buy a batch of magical artifacts for body protection, would your chamber of commerce be willing to sell them?" Hei Wu continued to probe.
"Our chamber of commerce has no plans to sell other magical artifacts in recent days."
"Can't get it inside?"
Qi Jiang still denied it: "I can't get it."
Heiwu still wanted to continue probing, but a black armored guard rushed in from outside the door, saluted everyone slightly, and then quickly ran to Heiwu's ear and whispered in a whisper: "City lord, Miss, I don't know what's wrong, she's making a fuss again, He was walking towards the city gate, saying that he wanted to settle accounts with Young Master Su."
Hearing this, Hei Wu's expression was a little tense, he frowned, stood up and nodded slightly to Qi Su and the two: "I have something to do today, so I can't accompany you, there are some empty shops in Hei Wu City, you can go there by yourself Dental lease, farewell."
After finishing speaking, he hurried out with a faint displeasure on his expression.
Qi Jiang and Su Qing tacitly took out their tablets to look, and found that there seemed to be a lively place in the city. They looked at each other, curious why Hei Wu was so nervous.
If the puppet is too close to the black crow, it is easy to be discovered, so the two of them will not do these hidden dangers, put away the tablet and go out together.