"Devil's money?"
The young girl named Xue Hua opened her eyes wide, "What is that?"
Obviously, this rustic rural girl, who has never seen much of the world, is extremely unfamiliar with this term and has no idea what it is.
Ling Zhen thought for a while and tried his best to explain in plain language: "That's right...by the way, have you two heard that in the far south, south of the South China Sea, there is a continent over there called Scorched Earth Continent, have you heard of it?”
The two siblings, Xue Hua and Xue Cao, looked bewildered and had no idea what nonsense Ling Zhen was telling them.
Ling Zhen felt that this was reasonable. Of course, it was impossible for ordinary ordinary people to come into contact with these secret things. Otherwise, excessive anxiety and worry would probably cause panic, causing the human race to lose heart, so they were cautious. explained: "In that barren land of thousands of miles of loess, there lives a race that is completely different from us humans. I won't say what race it is specifically. That race that is different from us is very powerful. For thousands of years, some of the top experts in their race have been killed in the flames of war. Their corpses flowed into the Hanlan Continent of our human race, and they are called "devil sloughs". Each demon slough has a It is the magical power of the strong men in ancient times, so it is very precious."
The Xue family brothers seemed to have listened to an incredible piece of heavenly scripture, and the fog above their heads was indeed cleared a little, but they were not able to completely accept such remarks at once. After all, no one else in their situation would be able to accept it. It is impossible to receive all knowledge without any obstacles.
The melon seeds in his little head were spinning rapidly, and his younger brother Xue Cao suddenly asked: "Benefactor, since their corpses after death are called demons, then the race you are talking about... is called demons?"
Ling Zhen was quite surprised by the little boy's thinking ability. He was stunned for a moment at first, then he laughed, stretched out his hand and rubbed the little boy's little head a few times, hummed, and said: "Wow, you are so smart, kid. Since this is the case, I won't hide it. The name of that race does have the word "magic", but it is not the demon race, but the heavenly demon race. They are particularly strong and sturdy, aloof, like gods, looking down on the world. All living beings are like chickens and dogs, and they are all vulnerable!"
The local girl Xue Hua became a little scared when she heard this. She hesitated for a while and asked tentatively: "Master Ling, since they are so powerful, what should we do if they come over to attack us?"
Ling Zhen raised his head and laughed loudly, waved his hands and said: "It's okay, don't think so wildly, it's impossible to escape. As early as a thousand years ago, all the demons on the Scorched Earth Continent were sealed. There’s no way to escape.”
Xue Cao's eyes widened and he asked hurriedly: "It's sealed. Wow, who sealed them?"
"Not one person, but six people."
Ling Zhen said, "It was a war a thousand years ago. Six otherworldly and peerless powerful men joined forces to form a magic circle and sealed a continent, so that the vicious and violent demons on the continent could no longer exist. There is no free space for movement, and you can’t go anywhere except staying in that wasteland-like burnt-yellow land!”
After the younger brother asked, Xue Hua, as the elder sister, planned to ask to the end, and asked: "Who are those six gods?"
Ling Zhen smiled and said: "They are not gods, but they are all strong men of their respective races. This knowledge is far away from you. There is no need to know it in such detail. It is meaningless to you. You only need to know one thing. Six Among the people, there is a strong man from our human race, and that is the great emperor of the human race who currently lives on Tongtian Island, Zhuge Jielu!"
Another brand-new name that they had never heard of jumped out of Ling Zhen's mouth. The Xue family siblings were once again very interested, and their two pairs of little eyes opened much wider than usual.
"This Emperor Zhuge has divine power and unparalleled swordsmanship. As a main force in the Millennium War, he guards one-sixth of the magic circle. The center of the magic circle is located on the island where his magic power is concentrated. The island's name is Tongtian. , also called the Island of Sorrow... This island is very, very mysterious. It is located to the south of the South China Sea and north of the Scorched Earth Continent. If ordinary people are just ferrying, they can only drift aimlessly in the South China Sea. It is very difficult to rely on. To reach the Island of Tongtian with your own strength, you can only do so unless you have a map or a personal recommendation from Emperor Zhuge."
My younger brother Xue Cao asked curiously: "My benefactor, have you ever seen the great emperor named Zhu?"
Ling Zhen smiled and said: "His surname is not Zhu, but Zhuge. It is a compound surname, just like Ouyang and Nangong. It has two characters. As the younger generations, we should all respectfully call him Emperor Zhuge. Even calling him by his first name does not count. Respect, I think I just said it once, hey, how disrespectful... Of course I have never seen it. To be honest, in my life, I have never even visited the South China Sea, let alone the Shang, which is further south than the South China Sea. Even if I can take a step back and say that I can land on that island, Emperor Zhuge is the man who stands at the top of the entire human race. His status is so noble, how can he just say that he can see it? I would like to see it. I have no idea what the legendary power who fought against demons looked like back then, people probably don’t want to see me, haha!”
Hearing Ling Zhen's self-deprecating laughter, Xue Hua tried to comfort her and said slowly: "Master Ling, you are so strong, you will definitely be able to go to the island in the future. The human emperor named Zhuge will definitely It would be great to see you because..."
Xue Hua tried hard to use her words and finally straightened out the logic, "Because he is from the human race, you are also from the human race, and you are so powerful. As a human ancestor, he must be very interested in his descendants."
Ling Zhen laughed very loudly, patted Xue Hua on the shoulder, and gave a thumbs up. It was obvious that he was very impressed by these words, "Okay, then I will borrow your good words. If I really come here in the future, When I got to the island, I met Zhuge Jie... Bah, Emperor Zhuge, I will definitely thank you very much when I come back!"
Xue Hua and Xue Cao said hello in unison, and they were all extremely happy and excited about Ling Zhen's words.
"You haven't told me yet why the devil's elm money belongs to your family. Such miraculous things may not always be found in the prince's mansion. Why do you..."
Ling Zhen continued to ask questions based on his own doubts.
Xue Hua, who was more knowledgeable and more understanding than her younger brother, said: "That spiritual beast is an ancestral possession of our family. My mother passed away a few years ago and left that spiritual beast as a relic before she left. Come down, let us really have no money to use it in the future, so we went to sell it. I heard that things in the Dingsheng Auction House can be sold for high prices, so I brought my brother over, hoping to buy more money. I took my brother there Eat something delicious, who would have thought..."
"Who would have thought that you, as sellers, are not even qualified to enter because of your shabby clothes, and you have to be beaten, kicked, and scolded, right?"
Ling Zhen said bitterly, "This shop is really a bully. This shabby auction house is really heartless. It even bullies customers like you. Maybe they even plan to swallow all your money." Do you understand the principle of government and businessmen protecting each other? They took all the money from the auction as their own. You were so angry that you went to report it to the government, but it was of no use at all. The government boss had already collected the money from their auction shop. , so I will never speak up for you. Maybe you will have a bad reputation for being framed, and you won't get even half a penny for it, but you will be slapped with a stick, beaten until your skin is bruised, and you will be imprisoned until you die... …”
Xue Hua became anxious after hearing this. She blushed and shouted, "Why? That's our thing. What's the difference between them and bandits?!"
Ling Zhen smiled, "There is really no difference. It's just that the robbers will be killed by the government, but they will be supported by the government as landlords. Don't you think it's ironic? This is the way the world is. If you have money, you are Uncle, if you don’t have money, a dog can come over and bully you a few times.”
Even the ten-year-old boy Xue Cao understood it now. He was as anxious as his sister and said, "What should we do? Can we stop selling it and get the little gold back?"
Xue Hua's face was red and she was panting, but she didn't answer her brother's question.
Ling Zhen said calmly: "Unfortunately, it is definitely impossible to come back. Their auction has already started, and it has been so long. If you take away their top product today, who would be happy to replace it?" , I guess there are a lot of big guys who are just going after that demon slough."
Quickly taking a look at the expressions of the Xue siblings who were about to cry, Ling Zhen was not a cold and heartless person, so naturally he would be affected, and said calmly: "But it doesn't matter, you are short of money, right? As long as their auction house can According to the agreement, it shouldn’t matter if I give you the proceeds from the auction, right? In that case, let me take the initiative.”
Ling Zhen turned around, lowered his head and said to the girl in white, Ling Xiaoxiao: "Sister Xiaoxiao, I told you before I came here just now that in this Jinyuan City today, the devil must be our Ling Yuqian. It’s all in the family’s pocket, right?”
Ling Xiaoxiao nodded heavily, "Yes, didn't you say before that in the northern land, if a copper plate falls from the sky, everyone must be named Ling!"
"That's right, sister, you said it well!"
Ling Zhen clapped his hands fiercely and said happily, "So, I will enter now, and then I will buy your elm money after entering, and ask the auction house to return the money to you. Isn't this enough? You got it. Money, and as for me, I got the magic transformation that I longed for, killing two birds with one stone, and my family is happy, how about it?"
Xue Cao tilted her little head, not quite understanding why Ling Zhen would call a girl so much shorter than herself her sister.
Xue Hua suddenly understood Ling Zhen's words and knew that the great benefactor in front of her decided to help her again. She was so moved that she almost cried on the spot. She lowered her body and knelt down to Ling Zhen.
Ling Zhen quickly went up to support Xue Hua so that she would not give him such a big gift.
There were crystal clear tears in Xue Hua's eyes. She lowered her head and did not look directly into Ling Zhen's eyes because she was too excited and was afraid that her uncontrollable gaze would offend her great benefactor Ling Zhen, who was under twenty. The poor girl who was 20 years old said: "Mr. Ling, thank you. With money, my brother can go to a private school and study. It's really great..."
Ling Zhen saw that his whole body was too excited and even a little incoherent, so he kindly patted Xue Hua on the back and tried his best to comfort him: "Okay, okay, it's not a big deal, I, Ling Zhen, lack everything." , that is, there is no shortage of money. As long as it is a problem that money can solve, it is not a problem. Your brother is so smart. He must be a natural-born scholar. In the future, he will be named on the gold medal list and become a literary champion. How great. The whole family will be rich. Ronghua, you will be comfortable for the rest of your life!”
Xue Hua finally managed to calm down. She raised her head and looked directly into the eyes of her benefactor Ling. With tears streaming down her face, she said in a trembling voice: "Young Master Ling is so kind, and I really can't repay this little girl..."
Ling Zhen was a little anxious, and immediately planned her words, "No, no, no, never, you must not say anything like promising yourself, I am not the kind of ruthless and lecherous person, I want you to What do you want me to do? Just take good care of your biological brother. When you are away from home, the most important thing is for siblings to take care of each other."
Ling Zhen said, hugging the shoulders of his biological sister Ling Xiaoxiao, "This is my sister Ling Xiaoxiao. She is a few years older than me. Even though she looks a bit dainty and petite, she actually has a very bad temper. She has a typical appearance and... The inner discrepancy... Oops!"
Ling Zhen screamed out. It turned out that Ling Xiaoxiao was dissatisfied with his brother saying bad things about him in front of her, so he pinched a piece of flesh on Ling Zhen's lower back with two fingers, and then squeezed hard, causing Ling Zhen to feel pain immediately. Then he cried out.
Xuehua and Xuecao were very surprised to see this pair of siblings with very different looks and bodies. They felt that the world was really huge and there were all kinds of strange things. A young man with a height of more than eight feet actually wanted to call a cardamom girl. The little girl is my elder sister, and he lets her beat and scold her without fighting back. It's really weird.
"Okay, we're going in."
Ling Zhen said loudly, "You two, just wait here. If someone bullies you, just shout out. Although I am inside, I have very sharp ears. As soon as I hear you calling for help, I will immediately I will come out to help you, so you don’t have to worry about being bullied again.”
With that said, Ling Zhen took the hand of the eighth sister Ling Xiaoxiao and took confident strides into the venue where the conference was in full swing.
After entering the hall, Ling Zhen joined on a temporary basis, which was not allowed according to the regulations. After all, he was a latecomer. Ling Zhen didn't care much. He just generously handed over twenty times the membership fee and became a member. With the exclusive privilege of talents, I came to the main hall when the conference had reached the middle and backcourt, and sat down with my sister on a seat near the aisle.
This top auction venue in the entire North, located in Jinyuan City, is exactly as rumored. Everyone inside is a powerful and wealthy gentry. It seems that every one of them is wearing something that just takes them off. He can beat poor people to death, and his wealth is clearly revealed, as if he has only one purpose in life - to show off his wealth!
Thinking about it, many of them came to this prosperous auction house for the purpose of making people respect them more and gain more reputation and prestige.
Because the people who are qualified to come here, without exception, are all high-class people with extremely noble and distinguished status, people who are superior to others.
And as long as they can use their own financial resources to take a good treasure of extraordinary quality from the conference, then even if they are among the best people, they will be surrounded by countless people and support them. They feel that this person is really rich and wealthy. The meaningful value of the product itself actually seems less important than those false names.
The venue was different from an ordinary auction venue. It was surprisingly quiet. Maybe it was because the attendees were generally very well-educated, or maybe it was because there was an explicit rule prohibiting noise. Anyway, except for the voice of the person hosting the auction on the stage, there was almost no sound below. It is difficult to hear any other sounds.
Ling Zhen just sat quietly in his seat, watching this grand event. Treasures were successfully auctioned one after another. The sales were completed again and again, each time with astronomical figures that would stun ordinary people. The goods sold, For Ling Zhen, who came from a powerful lord family, he really had no attraction and was just a formality.
He has only one ultimate goal today, and that is to buy the magic elm money with his own hands!
Soon, the auction came to an end, and the last item was brought up.
Four people carried a small wooden plate and walked out from behind the curtain.
On that wooden plate, there is a thick-haired, gold-and-silver exotic beast with a single horn on its head. It is extremely beautiful and cute. If you take a look at it from a distance, you will be attracted to it and your eyes will be drawn towards it. I couldn't help but marvel at the fact that there are such beautiful and rare animals in the world.
That animal, which was about the same size as the family's guard dog, was the demon slough named "Xiao Jin" by Xue Cao - Yu Qian.
It is the top selling item in this high-end auction today. It can be said that only one-third of the wealthy people came to this venue in person because they covet this strange beast.
It is rumored that this demon-slaughtered beast with demon blood has great divine power. As long as people can form a contract with it and bind their spirits to each other, then it will work for people, and it can spit out a lot of gold, silver, or other things from its mouth. thing.
It is equivalent to saying that as long as you can make it recognize the owner, it is tantamount to moving a whole mountain of gold and silver back home. From now on, there will no longer be any pressure on money, and you can truly achieve the legendary "richness that rivals the country" !
Although it is unknown whether the devil can recognize his master, but as long as there is such an excellent opportunity to get rich overnight, the rich people who have always been shrewd and vicious will certainly not want to miss it and will fight with the hungry The wild wolf was indistinguishable, staring at this piece of fat and salivating.
Although Ling Zhen was not a wild wolf, he was definitely one of them, and he was also thinking about the big golden cat-like demonic beast.
The little beast with a horn on its head had its limbs tied up. It didn't look too tight, but it probably couldn't break free, so Yu Qian chose not to struggle, but just lay on the wooden plate, feeling comfortable. He fell into a deep sleep, and his body seemed quite agile even when he was breathing in and out.
It should be said that it is indeed a different kind of demon that is superior to the spiritual beasts in the world. The forms that the demons take after death all have such a form. I don’t know how majestic and arrogant this beast will be in ancient times. exist? It makes people shudder just thinking about it!
The wooden plate with the magic elm money lying on it was brought to the center of the hall stage. There was a relatively high platform in the center, which was about half shorter than a person. It was just placed on it for the buyers below. Looking at it, it is clear that under the illumination of the stage lights, every piece of gold and silver fur looks radiant and moving, like a fairy's pet. Its appearance has been greatly improved, and anyone can't help but touch a few. Down.
Of course, this is not allowed. Here, only the person who bought the exotic beast is qualified to touch it.
The auction for the last item has officially begun.
The starting price is frighteningly high. How high is it? In this way, if a poor family earns ten taels of silver a year, they should have been saving money since ancient times at least, but they may not even be able to save enough!
It's such an exaggeration. The rich are not short of money. Even with such terrible figures in front of them, there are still people who keep shouting the prices higher.
A man named Peng Mingshanxiang, after shouting seven or eight times in a row, finally beat the crowd with a price even more astronomical than the astronomical figure, and no one around him could challenge him anymore.
From this point of view, the magic elm money should be Master Peng's thing!
Just when the host shouted for the second time and was about to drop the hammer that symbolized the deal, a young man's voice suddenly sounded out of thin air, and it was extremely out of place. The sound shook the entire auction house.
I heard the young man shout out the price just quoted by Master Peng again, and then added another one or two silver dollars on this basis.
Just like that, the last item belonged to Ling Zhen again.
Peng Shanxiang was really angry and shouted loudly, adding an additional five hundred taels of silver to the original amount.
After a while, Ling Zhen repeated the figure of Master Peng's money just before the transaction was completed, and then added one tael of silver to this basis.
After repeating this routine three times in a row, the jerk next to Mr. Peng became angry. He yelled at Ling Zhen on the other side of the aisle: "What do you mean? If you want to shoot, just shoot well. Why do you always do it to our master?" A mere tael of silver is added to the amount of money, which is so insignificant? What can one tael of silver be used for?!"
Ling Zhen didn't look back, just stared at the golden magic elm money on the stage, and responded very simply: "I'm happy, this is how I like to buy things, a little more than others, not much." , just one tael of silver is enough, as long as I am happy."
The host of the auction house stood on the stage. Seeing the strong smell of gunpowder in the audience, he said with some embarrassment: "Sir, you add one tael of silver every time, which is too little. It will be difficult for us to deal with it..."
Ling Zhen sneered a few times and said lightly: "It's difficult, isn't it?"
While speaking, Ling Zhen slowly raised one leg.
Suddenly, the foot suddenly fell from the suspended state.
The seat in front of Ling Zhen happened to be empty.
Hearing a loud click, in full view of everyone, the chair was instantly smashed to pieces with huge force!
There was silence.
There was still only Ling Zhen's voice, he said: "It's difficult to handle, then don't do it!"
