The next day, Shang Xia did not go out to hunt in the city again. Instead, he greeted Hai Min and then wandered around the city.
After the sun rose, Shang Xia estimated the time and then moved outside a blacksmith shop in the south of the city.
According to what Shang Xi said in his letter, Wu Ji's blacksmith shop should be an extremely secret hidden pile.
However, judging from the tone in which my aunt mentioned this hidden pile in her mind, it was obvious that she knew nothing about this place beforehand, and it may not have anything to do with the merchants.
But this seems normal to Shang Xia. If his expectations were correct, the family might have already informed Tongyou College about the news he asked Yan Nier to bring back to Tongyou City.
This hidden pile should most likely be a secret arrangement of the academy.
And judging from the information revealed in the letter, the college is obviously sure that this hidden secret has not been exposed.
Then there are only two possibilities. One is that this hidden pile has another identity cover, and the other is that this hidden pile is always in a latent state, and he is very likely to be the first person to wake it up.
Thinking of this, Shang Xia couldn't help but silently recited the joint code recorded in the letter again, and then walked straight in.
The folk customs in Youzhou are fierce, and most of the things made in this blacksmith shop are weapons such as swords, guns, swords and axes, and many of them seem to be of quite good quality.
Seeing Shang Xia walking in, a shirtless waiter soon came forward and said with a bit of a naive smile: "Sir, if you like whatever you like, you can choose it yourself. Our shop can be regarded as one of the best in the city." It’s an old role here…”
Shang Xia glanced at it casually and heard the "ding-dong-dang" knocking sound coming from the back of the shop, as well as the heat waves pouring out from behind the curtains. He casually said: "Is your shopkeeper here? I want to see him."
The waiter was slightly startled, looked up and down at the young hunter in front of him, and said hesitantly: "Brother, what do you want to see my master for?"
Shang Xia said "hmm" and said calmly: "Just say it's 'an old friend from Youzhou who came to look for the third child'. Just tell him the exact words!"
The waiter glanced at Shang Xia suspiciously, then turned around and opened the curtain and entered the backyard.
Shang Xia walked around the shop casually, and soon walked to several boxes of arrowheads, picked up a few at random, and considered the quality.
At this moment, the curtain was lifted, and an old man with a shaggy head and a smoky face came out. Shang Xia turned around and asked with a smile: "Sir, do you want to buy some arrows, or ready-made arrows?"
Shang Xia threw a few arrows in his hand back into the box and replied with a smile: "Ordinary arrows require a bundle. It would be better if there are arrows made entirely of fine iron. By the way, father-in-law, what are the arrows in your family?" How many hammers does it take to forge ten pounds of fine iron?"
The old man did not answer immediately, but when Shang Xia turned to look, he squinted his eyes and looked carefully, and then slowly said: "Reputation is the most important thing in our business, ten pounds of refined iron costs three thousand." Six hundred hammers, one hammer is not too much, one hammer is too little!"
Shang Xia nodded slightly and continued: "Are you using a big hammer or a small hammer?"
The old man replied: "Six hundred for the big hammer, three thousand for the small hammer!"
Shang Xia added: "I only want a piece of fine iron that can be forged with a sledgehammer for nine hundred cents."
The old man replied: "Then you have to wait three days!"
After a conversation, the old man and the young man fell into a brief silence at the same time.
Then Shang Xia smiled and said: "My father-in-law, what did this junior do wrong?"
The old man sighed: "This shop has been run for nearly twenty years. If I hadn't mentioned it today, I would have ended up in the coffin with what I just said."
Shang Xia couldn't help but be awe-struck when he heard this. He bowed respectfully to the old man and then said, "This junior wants to see the person in charge here, but senior in person?"
The old man shook his head and said: "There is someone else you want to see. Go back and wait. Come back tomorrow morning."
Shang Xia nodded, and when he was about to leave, he suddenly turned around and said, "My father-in-law said before that there are ready-made arrows here, right?"
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Shang Xia wandered around the streets for most of the day, almost visiting the entire Changfeng City, and at the same time imprinted the layout of the entire city in his mind.
Especially the city lord's mansion where the city lord Yang Hu was located, Shang Xia circled far away.
The afternoon in winter was very short. When Shang Xia returned to the small courtyard, he brought a bag of donkey rolling, half a catty of soy beef, and sold a roll of hemp rope and wooden boards to build a swing for Xiao Yuanyuan in the small courtyard. .
As night falls, except for Changfeng Street, the most prosperous street in the city, which is still noisy, the rest of the place has long fallen into silence.
In the middle of the night, Shang Xia woke up from his deep sleep and noticed someone sneaking into the courtyard and coughing lightly under the window of the upper room.
After a while, Shang Xia heard Hai Min getting up. He didn't know what to talk about when people came into the room. There might have been an argument during the period, but he still lowered his voice. Shang Xia vaguely heard "Tongyou Academy", Words such as "asking for help", "identity" and "affiliation".
In less than a cup of tea, the two broke up unhappy.
After the visitor left, Hai Min lay down again, but under Shang Xia's influence, he kept tossing and turning, apparently unable to fall asleep.
Shang Xia got up early in the morning and made a swing under the pear tree. Seeing Hai Min looking haggard when he got up, he asked, "Did you sleep well last night? There are few things in winter. You can take a nap after dinner."
Hai Min smiled, unable to hide his low mood, but still asked with concern: "Are you going to go out of the city and into the mountains today?"
Shang Xia suddenly put his hand on Hai Min's shoulder and said softly: "Don't worry, everything will be fine."
Hai Min seemed to want to hide at first, but for some reason she stopped. She let Shang Xia's big hands touch her shoulders. She didn't know whether she was ashamed or cold, but her face became increasingly red. .
Shang Xia could clearly feel the slight trembling of Hai Min's body. He pressed his hand lightly for a moment, then raised it again to say hello to Hai Yuanyuan who had just woken up, and left the house.
Shang Xia first came to Wu Ji's blacksmith shop and soon met Mr. Wu.
"There is a maple forest ten miles west of the city. The person you want to find has agreed to meet there."
After Old Blacksmith Wu met Shang Xia, he directly told him the address of the meeting.
A pot of thirty ordinary arrows and a pot of twelve arrows made of fine iron were added here. After Shang Xia left the south city gate as usual, he turned to the west.
Ten miles west of the city, with Shang Xia's eyesight, he quickly discovered the maple forest with an area of only about ten acres.
Shang Xia took the long bow slung across his shoulder in his hand and walked into the maple forest.
"There won't be any prey in such a small forest!"
A sudden voice made Shang Xia startled.
Shang Xia suddenly turned around and saw a man with short eyebrows and short beard, wearing a short silver-grey robe, standing more than ten feet away from him.
A fourth-level warrior must be another fourth-level warrior!
Shang Xia almost groaned in his heart. He would not underestimate himself. He was confident that no warrior below the fourth level could get close to him within twenty or thirty feet without being aware of his own perception.
The only person who can do this, apart from using means like the Cloak of Tranquility, can only be a warrior of level 4 or above who is far above him.
It's just that Shang Xia never imagined that Tongyou Academy could actually bury a hidden stake of a fourth-level warrior in Changfeng City!
You must know that fourth-level warriors are no better than others. Even in a martial arts holy land like Bailu Paradise, fourth-level warriors are enough to become elder-level figures.
Shang Xia tried hard to maintain his composure, cupped his hands towards the visitor and said, "I've met senior!"
"The grandson of Shang Bo, no wonder you asked me to come out to protect you. You should be the last person to see Boss Kou. Once your identity is exposed, hehe..."
The visitor casually took two steps closer, looked at Shang Xia up and down and said casually.
Shang Xia was slightly shocked when he heard this, and couldn't help but said: "Senior, did you misunderstand something? This junior came here not to ask for senior's protection."
When the visitor heard this, he stopped and was slightly startled and said, "Then what are you doing with me?"
Shang Xia then recounted what he heard in Yan Laiju that day, and at the same time briefly talked about the current situation in Tongyou City that he might not have time to take care of.
But what Shang Xia didn't notice was that during the process of his narration, the visitor had a rather strange look on his face.
Finally, Shang Xia remembered something and hurriedly said: "I haven't asked my senior yet how to address me?"
The visitor thought for a while and said: "My surname is Bu, you can call me 'Mr. Bu'!"
Shang Xia nodded and said: "That's what happened. From the junior's point of view, as long as Fan Tongyou City can free up his hands, I won't let the junior come to seek help from Sir. But what is Mr. Shibu's plan for this?" "
Mr. Bu said in a deep voice: "Although I have been anonymous for twenty years, I am not completely ignorant of the current situation in Tongyou City. Hum, they are still too impatient after all and want to swallow the entire Coral Forest Mysterious World. Now, Now I am afraid that the entire Tongyou City has been sealed by a space barrier. I want to be a turtle, but my shell is not hard yet."
Shang Xia couldn't help being shocked when he heard this, but considering that this person was a fourth-level warrior, he was most likely an old acquaintance of Chief Kou Shan, Ji Wenlong, and his grandfather, so he was naturally qualified to object to Shang Xia's plan in Tongyou City.
But he always felt that Mr. Bu had a hint of resentment in his tone beyond his words.
But considering that the person in front of him has lived in hiding for twenty years, Shang Xia can naturally understand.
I just don’t know what the reason is that makes this fourth-level warrior willing to do this.
Just as Shang Xia's thoughts were spreading, he suddenly heard Mr. Bu say: "So, Tongyou City asked you to come to me to deal with Yang Hu?"
Shang Xia thought for a moment, and although there was still some collusion between the Jizhou forces and the Changbai Holy Land in the Cangling Realm, all the crux would eventually fall on Yang Hu. It would not be an exaggeration to say that he was dealing with Yang Hu.
Seeing Shang Xia nod, Mr. Bu added, "Then do you think you and I can deal with Yang Hu, who has been operating in Changmaple City for twenty years?"
Shang Xia deliberately said that Mr. Bu, you have been lurking here for twenty years, don't you have some hidden power and means?
But when the words came to his lips, he said: "I wonder if senior has any suggestions?"
Mr. Bu looked at him deeply and said, "Come with me, there may be a good show happening nearby!"
