After passing through the chaotic bazaar outside the city wall that was flooded by snow and looked like a swamp, and then handing over his registration book, Tsurumi Chuyun entered Jua City smoothly.
Different from Yunqiu, Hengzhou, Wuchuan and other cities, Jua City seems to have experienced the baptism of a war. Once you pass the city gate, you can see a large number of collapsed or burned houses, with tattered clothes and homeless people. People can be seen everywhere, most of them gathered on both sides of the street, looking numb.
The atmosphere in the city was as oppressive as the gloomy December sky.
Walking down the street with her horse, smelling the turbid air, and being stared at by countless pairs of eyes, it only made her feel disgusted.
Although her body was stained with frost and snow, her clothes were too clean. It was in sharp contrast to the common people whose clothes were extremely dirty, and at the same time, it was full of a sense of dissonance.
Glancing down, she realized what was going on, so she got on her horse and sped up.
I don't know what happened to this Ju'a city. It seemed as if it had been bombed by bombers in turn. Along the way, there were almost no intact buildings in sight.
Standing high and looking into the distance, the collapsed buildings look like rotten straw, chaotic and desolate.
From time to time, dried and blackened blood could be seen on the ground.
When he came to a vegetable market, his horse stopped for a moment. Tsurumi Chuyun turned his head and looked at the execution platform not far from him. He saw dozens of people with their hands and feet tied, carrying a piece of paper with the words "Execute execution" on their backs. "The three-character sign kneeled on the stage, staring blankly ahead.
The audience was full of people, chattering and discussing, but it was hard to hear what they said.
Not long after, the two executioners each took a sip of strong wine and sprayed another sip on the cold sword. Then they came forward with the knife and started to chop off the head without saying a word.
The sword flashed moment by moment, and human heads rolled down from the stage. Blood spurted out like pillars, pouring on the bodies of the people watching below. The strange thing was that these spectators had no intention of hiding, and they bathed in the blood to their heart's content. , not at all afraid, on the contrary, they were a little ready to move, their eyes flickered, as if they were expecting something.
Five minutes later, the heads of the dozen or so people kneeling on the stage fell to the ground. The two executioners wiped the bloody knives with red cloths and turned away.
There was no expression on their faces from beginning to end. They chopped off so many heads, as if they had just completed a trivial job.
After the two executioners left, the onlookers swarmed in like hungry wolves grabbing food, surrounding the dozens of corpses.
The excited howls kept coming, making people's hair stand on end.
He Jianchu Yun frowned and Shen Yi grimaced.
After a while, the crowd dispersed, and the corpses on the execution platform disappeared, leaving only pools of blood and heads scattered around to prove that they had been there before.
She also rode away, unwilling to stay any longer.
…
In Jua City, the first thing she did was to find an inn in the east of the city and pay forty copper coins to stay. As soon as she entered the room, she released Shen Yi, threw down a dozen beast-acquiring pills, and He went to the corner and pulled up the screen.
"Who are you guarding there?"
"What am I guarding against?"
"What are you doing with the screen?"
"I...I want to change clothes!"
"You can just change it, I didn't say I figured it out."
"You..." Tsurumi Chuyun was speechless, too lazy to care about anything. He moved the screen and snorted: "Rogue!" Then he changed clothes rustlingly.
Shen Yi's throat squirmed and made a "grumbling" sound. Without making a sound, he threw the Yun Beast Pills into his mouth one by one and slowly finished it like eating jelly beans. Then he came to the window sill, opened the window and stuck his head out. look.
Changzhou's territory is indeed not peaceful, and there was indeed a war south of Ju'a City. The reason was that some demon cultivators sneaked in here, intending to silently kill all the people living in the slums in the south of the city. However, in He was discovered at a critical moment.
Although the powerful men from each major family took action one after another and successfully killed the demonic cultivators who had sneaked into the city, they seriously underestimated the opponent's strength and numbers at that time, resulting in the death of spiritual-level powerful men from two families in the battle.
As for what happened next, it’s a long story. The death of a spiritually powerful man is undoubtedly huge for the family. In order to make up for the loss or vent their anger, it is impossible for the two families to do nothing. In short, they squeeze The small families that lived in the cracks suffered.
At this time, Hejian Chuyun changed into a green suit.
"Okay, let's go."
Shen Yi also retracted his head and closed the window, nodded to her, and then turned into a ray of light and squeezed into her conscious space.
After leaving the inn, she put on a bamboo hat in a place with few people. The black veil obscured her appearance before she wandered around the city.
While looking for face in the ghost market, he was also familiar with the environment in Jua City.
But the old witch was really lucky. Before it got dark, she found a fabric store with a black cat tied to the door.
After hesitating for a moment, she tightened the hat on her head and walked inside.
The store is not big, about the same size as the elixir shop in Fenghe Town, and is filled with clothing materials of different colors.
The shopkeeper was a middle-aged woman, sitting elegantly on a chair and eating grapes. When she saw someone coming, she didn't raise her head and said: "Boy, a guest is here, why don't you hurry up and entertain it?" "
branch~
As soon as he finished speaking, the small door on the right was opened, and a young man walked out, looking at Tsurumi Chuyun walking towards him with a smile on his face.
"Sir, please choose whatever you want. We have golden spring silk here, light tobacco silk cotton, and here, from Qi State, the finest moon-hugging flying flowers. We have some outside, and we have some here too... …”
The young man introduced enthusiastically, but unfortunately it was a hot face but a cold butt. Tsurumi Chuyun completely ignored him, walked around him, and walked straight to the female shopkeeper.
The other party paused while eating the grapes, sniffed and smelled the clean virgin body fragrance on her body, and couldn't help but laugh out loud: "Girl, just ask my store clerk to buy silk and satin. Although I am the shopkeeper, But I’m not good at entertaining guests.”
"Then what are you good at?" Tsurumi Chuyun asked, his voice was very cold.
The woman smiled again and said, "It depends on what business the girl has with me."
Hearing this, Hejian Chuyun turned around and glanced at the black cat outside the door, thinking for a while.
"I want Tianxiang Caiyundian, do you have it?"
The woman frowned, with a look of confusion on her face. She looked at the young man and asked, "Tianxiang Caiyun Satin? Do we have any here?"
The young man was lost in thought and quickly shook his head: "No, I have never heard of Tianxiang Caiyun Satin." After hearing what he said, the woman looked at Tsurumi Chuyun.
"Girl, did you hear about the fragrant clouds in the sky from the storyteller in the teahouse, and did you come here to tease me?"
"No." She shook her head.
"What do you mean, girl?" At this point, the female shopkeeper's words were slightly unkind, but Tsurumi Chuyun said calmly: "I came from a foreign country and met an old immortal in the mountains. I waved my hand. Call me a gust of breeze to send me here, saying that you will have heavenly fragrance and colorful clouds and satin."
"Oh, really?" the other party asked back, and then stopped talking.
He Jian Chuyun was also silent for a moment, and quickly remembered something, and said again: "Don't worry, shopkeeper, I have money."
As she said that, she took out five taels of silver and put it on it, and intentionally or unintentionally revealed the traveler's crow mark hanging on her waist.
Sure enough, the female shopkeeper's eyes were instantly attracted to the traveler's crow mark. When the crow mark was covered by her clothes, she looked away, and the smile on her face disappeared and became serious.
She looked around and saw that there was no one in the store, so she said generously: "Girl, you have found the right place. At midnight tonight, just go in through the fourth door on the left hand side of Youjie Alley. The market closes at five o'clock."
"Um."
"Girl, if you have nothing else to do, please come back. We have to do this business." The female shopkeeper said and put away the five taels of silver in front of her, but Tsurumi Chuyun did not move.
"What? Is there anything else?"
"Um."
"Just ask."
"When I came here, I saw a tree by the river. The bark had been stripped off to make clothes. I saw how pitiful the tree was, so I wanted to get some bark from you, the shopkeeper."
"I see, there is ready-made bark in the store, girl, do you want it?"
"want."
After that, the female shopkeeper got up, went to the right side of the store, opened the small door, and motioned for her to come in.
There is a room inside, which is not much larger. Apart from some furniture, it is a textile machine.
She asked Tsurumi Chuyun to find a place to sit down, while she opened a cabinet and picked up a large wooden box from the inside. After placing it on the table and opening it, there were three masks neatly placed inside, one in black and the other in black. White, red.
There is no decoration on the mask, and it looks ordinary, but it feels very extraordinary.
And these masks are the magic tools used by people to perfectly conceal their identities when entering the ghost market.
It is said that the person in charge of the ghost market is also very meticulous. There are three styles of masks used to hide the identity for people who want to enter the ghost market to choose according to their preferences. The more people buy it, the more people use it. People who entered the ghost market later had to buy from people in the ghost market.
If you want to find a craftsman to customize a mask that suits your aesthetics, you also have to consider whether you will be targeted when you enter the ghost market to buy and sell things.
After all, the masks worn by everyone else are all three kinds: black, white and red. You are the only one wearing a gold mask with exaggerated carvings. This is too big a target.
And the person in charge of the ghost market can make a lot of money by selling this kind of magic weapon.
After a while of picking and choosing, Hejian Chuyun finally chose a white mask at Shen Yi's suggestion. She pointed to the middle of the box and said with some hesitation: "Let's have this one."
The female shopkeeper nodded, picked up the white mask in the middle, and handed it to her, but Tsurumi Chuyun did not reach out to take it, but asked: "How much does this cost?"
"Sixty taels of gold."
"Gold..." She was stunned for a moment and shook her head: "I don't have gold."
"If there is no gold, then eight hundred taels of silver."
Eight hundred taels of silver. Hejian Chuyun sighed inwardly when he heard this number. Where does she have eight hundred taels of silver on her body now?
Before, his entire body totaled only one hundred and fifty-seven taels of silver, but now he had to pay five taels of silver to enter the market, which he couldn't afford at all.
"Can I borrow it for one night? After I sell the things, eight hundred taels of silver will be sent to me tomorrow morning." She said sincerely, but after hearing this, the female shopkeeper put the mask into the box, her slender face Their legs were crossed together, with a half-smile on their face.
"Little girl, I don't need to tell you what kind of place this is. There has never been a precedent for this tree bark to be paid on credit with nothing."
Tsurumi Chuyun nodded slightly and keenly captured a key word from the other party's words.
"Empty-handed...does that mean we can get credit?"
"It's quite smart." The female shopkeeper nodded, and then said: "You can borrow it, but you have to keep your life here."
"The God of Destiny..."
He Jian Chuyun's eyes narrowed and he fell silent.
In the consciousness space, Shen Yi almost burst into tears when he heard the female shopkeeper's words, and shouted: "Old witch, I also want to see what that ghost mayor is like. If you dare to keep me here, you will be finished."
With his voice echoing in his mind, Tsurumi Chuyun felt helpless.
"I didn't mean to stake you here."
"Hmph, you make up your mind anyway. If I expose you, you will be finished." Shen Yi snorted, and He Jian Chuyun was certainly not stupid. Let's not talk about the appearance of Shen Yi, a contracted beast that has never been seen before. How many people will notice you in your sight, and what dangers you will face if you are suspected.
Even if not, with his temperament, if he were to be held here, he would not be able to live in peace in the future.
Taking a deep breath, she looked at the female shopkeeper and said seriously: "I won't bet my life on this, can you focus on other things?"
The female shopkeeper smiled and quickly replied: "Of course, a magic weapon worth several times more than the bark of a tree is enough, but does the girl have it?"
Tsurumi Chuyun thought for a moment and took out the Aoba Dart from the storage space.
"How about this?"
A strange look flashed in the female shopkeeper's eyes, and she took it and examined it carefully.
"It's a bit interesting. It's actually made of iron cloud iron mother. But girl, what I just said is a magic weapon worth several times more than the bark of a tree. Although your little thing is good, it's not enough."
"you……"
"We are not interested in your things, we are just waiting for you to keep them. If you hand over the money, the things will be returned to you. Although the bark is not priceless, those who run around in the world are thinking about it, especially girls like this. Do you think he is the person on the arrest list?"
"If you have nothing else to stake, just stake your life here."
Tsurumi Chuyun stopped talking. Under the black veil, she looked at the female shopkeeper with a flash of murderous intent in her eyes, but such murderous intent came and went quickly.
In an instant, she figured it out, it was just a destiny god, and it wouldn't matter if she just kept it here. However, she refused to trust the destiny god. Instead, she explained in disguise that she had some secrets that she could not let outsiders know.
If a person doesn't want others to know what her destiny looks like, she is most likely a wanted criminal. Besides, she is still wearing a hat.
After struggling for a while, she finally put away the green leaf dart, took out the flower god hairpin and put it on the table.
"How about I bet this on you?"
Her eyes lingered on the flower hairpin for a while. The female shopkeeper seemed to be shocked and quickly picked it up to check.
"It turns out to be a spiritual weapon. The identity of the girl is not simple. This thing is going to be sold here, and it will cost at least several thousand taels of gold. Are you sure you want to deposit it here?"
"I'm not selling it, I'm just betting it on you."
"Okay, then I will keep this spiritual weapon for the girl... By the way, the bark you bought from us cannot be returned. You have seven days to deliver the eight hundred taels of silver. You will not see the silver after seven days. , this spiritual weapon belongs to our boss." (End of Chapter)
