Chapter 171 The Second Technique
The setting sun shines obliquely on the river, causing ripples on the water.
On the deck, four brothers from Huazhu County clasped their fists together.
Liang Qu was surprised.
He didn't expect that someone would want to come and seek refuge with him, and he fell into deep thought for a moment.
Can I actually become someone else's supporter?
Yan Qingshan and others held their breath and lowered their heads.
I thought that I could do my job well and gain resources for myself after entering the Hebo Office.
I didn't expect that there were two such distinct factions inside. They didn't even work together and were separated into two ships.
After asking around, the four of them chose the more moderate Xu Yuelong's faction, but after entering, they found that it was true that where there are people, there is the world of martial arts.
There is no place where it is easy to get lost.
There is external competition outside and internal disputes inside.
The sons of nobles above the seventh rank looked down on the four country bumpkins, and the locals looked down on those from outside. They banded together and didn't include them, and there were invisible walls everywhere.
There are no good tasks to take, and there are a lot of bad tasks. It’s a lot of work but little reward.
If people are like drizzles, they are not wider than the sky.
Coincidentally, news came that Liang Qu had made a great breakthrough in Fengbu County. The four people who had been running into obstacles everywhere remembered Liang Qu and started to inquire about him.
He also came from a humble background, but he had a close relationship with the deputy leader. He was young and promising, and had a very good reputation. Although he was still in a low position and not very powerful, he was a potential dragon in the abyss. If he could follow...
The four people's hearts were pounding.
"Sorry, please find someone else."
Liang Qu refused outright.
baffling.
The younger brother chooses the boss, and the boss chooses the younger brother.
Suddenly four people appeared and wanted to follow me. Who knows what their true nature is?
It's really not nice.
The four of them felt like they had lost their parents.
Yan Qingshan bowed his hands and said, "This is very rude of you."
"It's okay. We are all in the Hebo Office. We are colleagues and we just need to do our best."
Liang Qu saluted in return, turned around and jumped off the boat.
Only four people were left on the deck, casting long shadows.
"Hey."
Yan Qingshan let out a long sigh.
"We were too impatient."
……
Liang Qu walked along the street and stepped over the threshold into a money shop.
According to Liu Jie, the three thousand taels of silver notes could be exchanged at Tongbao and Tongshun Money Houses.
It just so happened that there was a Tongbao Money House in Pingyang County. Tongbao and Tongshun were allies, and they had connections with several prefectures around. With silver bills, one could withdraw them from any banknote number in the surrounding prefectures.
When a distinguished guest comes, the servant greets him with a smile.
"Is the guest depositing or withdrawing money? Can I bring a receipt when withdrawing money?"
Liang Qu shook out four banknotes and said, "Withdraw the money."
"Sir, please come this way."
The servant led Liang Qu to the counter, behind which was an old shopkeeper.
Seeing someone coming, he put down the account book in his hand, put on the lens, took the Liangqu silver bills and examined them one by one, then put down the lens after reading them.
"The only three of the four banknotes you have can be exchanged for are these. I'm sorry, I can't exchange this one."
Liang Qu looked down and found that two of the three that could be exchanged were damaged, while the one that could not be exchanged was intact.
“Why can the broken ones be replaced, but the unbroken ones cannot?”
The shopkeeper held the unredeemable banknote with his fingers and said, "Your Excellency, the two banknotes are damaged in insignificant places, and the patterns are intact.
Although this one is not damaged, its two colors do not match and the color is lighter. As expected, your banknote has been soaked in water, right?"
"Yes."
"I'm really sorry, this banknote has faded, and I'm just following the rules, so I can't change it." "No problem, then please ask the shopkeeper to issue a new banknote for me. I'll deposit 600 taels and issue six 100 tael banknotes, and then help me withdraw 300 taels."
Liang Qu's worst plan was that two of them could not be exchanged, but two could be exchanged. Now he could exchange three for nine hundred taels, and he was satisfied.
"Please wait a moment, my dear. Please rest in the backyard. I will have someone make you some tea."
The fragrance of tea lingers.
The shopkeeper quickly prepared six silver notes with a face value of one hundred taels. The servant followed behind him, holding a tray covered with red cloth and presenting three hundred taels of silver.
One horseshoe silver treasure weighs fifty taels, which is as big as a fist. Three hundred taels make six of them, which can be put in a small box.
Liang Qu collected the banknotes and silver, and went out to various shops to buy some things as gifts.
Senior Brother Xiang has a crystal mountain pen holder, Senior Brother Hu has a ring, in addition, there is a jade waist ornament, a coral ornament, a purple bamboo flute, a white corundum grinding stone...
Liang Qu prepared something for everyone, which cost him nearly two hundred taels of silver.
It really is money spent like water.
The same thing can be expensive. The bamboo and wooden pen holder, the ceramic pen holder, and the stone pen holder have three different price ranges.
Those wealthy and powerful people really have tens of thousands of wealth in their homes to maintain their "dignity" in all aspects.
After buying the things, Liang Qu was not in a hurry to deliver them and planned to wait until the next day.
After Poxueguan became a martial arts master, he wanted to treat everyone to a dinner. It was getting late, and I guessed that everyone had already eaten, so it would be better to get things done together tomorrow.
Carrying a lot of goods, Liang Qu passed by a restaurant, packed up a few delicious dishes, told the address, and then took the food box and took a boat home from the pier.
Eleven days passed in a flash, and there was no dust in the house as it was cleaned.
The door to the west wing was open, but the old monk was not seen.
"I wonder if the old monk has found the evil monk he mentioned."
Liang Qu shook his head, went into the house, put his things away and went to the kitchen.
The lady who cooked had already gone home at this time, but there was some leftover food and rice in the pot, which should have been left for the old monk.
Liang Qu scooped some rice into the basin, opened the lunch box, and ate the rice with the dishes he had packed from the restaurant.
Halfway through the meal, the old monk appeared in the yard.
"Donor, long time no see."
"Hmm!" Liang Qu swallowed his rice and greeted, "Master, have you eaten yet? I have two vegetarian dishes here. Let's have some together?"
The old monk clasped his hands together, picked up the bowl and chopsticks to serve the rice, and sat down silently opposite.
Liang Qu moved the vegetarian dish to a new position in front of the old monk.
"Master, have you found the evil monk?"
"Never."
"That long?"
Liang Qu calculated that the old monk had been in Pingyang County for about a month. How could he be so good at hiding?
"My dantian is damaged, and I have lost the ability to lock souls thousands of miles away. The opponent's energy is also blurred."
"Thousand Mile Soul Lock, what is that?"
"If you can seize a ray of his energy, I can track him down within a thousand miles."
So awesome?
Grandmaster Zhenxiang is so terrifying.
When will I be able to reach this level?
Liang Qu was envious.
"I can't find it yet. Is it dangerous?"
Liang Qu ate his rice with big mouthfuls.
When he thought that there was a guy who even Master Zhenxiang had to hunt down, hiding quietly in the Huaiyin Prefecture, he couldn't sleep or eat.
"I have stayed in Qingzhou for a year before. The evil monk knows that I am looking for him. As long as I am here, he dare not make any big moves."
The old monk is not in a hurry.
He was a wanderer, so it didn't matter where he was. As long as he stayed in Huaiyin Prefecture, the other party would not dare to show up.
"How is the progress of the practice, benefactor?"
"Haha."
Liang Qu put down his bowl and chopsticks and continued to read books while traveling. Now he has finished reading the entire "Diamond Sutra Subduing Dragons and Tigers"!
"To be honest, Master, I will start practicing tonight!"
(End of this chapter)
