Chapter 280

On the second day, Shang Xia didn't go out to hunt again, but after greeting Hai Min, he wandered around the city.

After the sun had risen, Shang Xia reckoned the time and turned to a blacksmith's shop in the south of the city.

According to Shangxi's letter, this Wuji blacksmith's shop should be a very secret hidden pile.

However, judging from the tone in which the aunt mentioned this hidden pile in her heart, it was obvious that she knew nothing about this place beforehand, and it might not have anything to do with the merchant.

But in Shang Xia's view, this is also normal. If his expectation is not bad, the family may have already informed Tongyou Academy about the news that he asked Yan Nier to bring back to Tongyou City.

Seventy-eight out of ten of this hidden pile should also be a secret arrangement of the college.

And judging from the news revealed in the letter, the academy is obviously sure that this hidden stake has never been exposed.

Then there are only two possibilities, one is that this hidden stake has another identity cover, and the other is that this hidden stake is always in a latent state, and it is very likely that he is the first person to wake it up.

Thinking of this, Shang Xia couldn't help but silently recited the connection code recorded in the letter again, and then went straight in.

The people of Youzhou are tough, and most of the things made in this blacksmith's shop are weapons such as swords, guns, swords and axes, and many of them seem to be of good quality.

Seeing Shang Xia walk in, soon a bare-armed clerk came forward and said with a bit of a naive smile: "Guest officer, if you like something, you can choose it by yourself. Our shop can be regarded as a city shop." It's an old account..."

Shang Xia glanced at it casually, and heard the knocking sound of "ding ding dong dong" coming from the back of the shop, as well as the heat wave gushing from behind the curtain, and said inadvertently, "Is your shopkeeper here? I want to see him."

The clerk was slightly startled, looked up and down the young Orion in front of him, and said hesitantly, "Brother, what do you want to see my master?"

Shang Xia let out a "huh" and said flatly, "Just say that 'an old friend from Youzhou came to find the third child', just tell me the exact words!"

The clerk gave Shang Xia a suspicious look, then turned his head and lifted the curtain to enter the backyard.

Shang Xia walked around the shop at random, and soon walked to several boxes of arrowheads, picked up a few at random, and considered the quality.

At this moment, the shop curtain was lifted, and an old man with shaggy hair and a smoky face came out. Seeing Shang Xia turn around, he asked with a smile, "Does the guest officer want to buy some arrows, or ready-made arrows?"

Shang Xia threw a few arrows back into the box, and replied with a smile: "Ordinary arrows need to be bundled, and it would be even better if there are arrows made of refined iron. By the way, old man, your family's Ten catties of refined iron, how many hammers do you need to forge?"

The old man did not answer immediately, but when Shang Xia turned his head to look at it, he squinted his eyes and looked carefully, and then slowly said: "The most important thing is the word of mouth in my business, ten catties of fine iron and three thousand Six hundred hammers, one hammer is not much, one hammer is not much!"

Shang Xia nodded slightly, and continued, "Are you using a sledgehammer or a small hammer?"

The old man replied: "Six hundred for the big hammer, three thousand for the small hammer!"

Shang Xia said again: "I just want a piece of refined iron that can be forged nine hundred times with a sledgehammer."

The old man replied: "Then you have to wait for three days!"

After some conversation, the old and the young fell into a brief silence at the same time.

Then Shang Xia smiled and said: "Old man, what is wrong with this junior?"

The old man sighed: "This shop has been in operation for nearly twenty years. If my brother hadn't mentioned it today, what I said just now would have been carried into the coffin."

Shang Xia couldn't help being awed when he heard the words, saluted the old man respectfully, and said: "The junior wants to see the person in charge here, but the senior is in person?"

The old man shook his head and said: "There is someone else you want to see, just go back and wait, you can come back tomorrow morning."

Shang Xia nodded, but when he was about to leave, he suddenly turned around and said, "I said before that there are ready-made arrows here, right?"

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Shang Xia wandered the streets for a long time, almost visited the entire Changfeng City, and at the same time imprinted the layout of the whole city in his mind.

Especially the city lord's mansion where the city lord Yang Hu was located, Shang Xia went around a circle from afar.

The afternoon was very short in winter. When Shang Xia returned to the small courtyard, he brought a pack of donkey rolls, half a catty of sauced beef, and sold a roll of hemp rope and wooden boards. He planned to set up a swing for Xiao Yuanyuan in the small courtyard. .

As night fell, except for the bustling Changfeng Avenue in the city, which was still noisy, the rest of the places had already fallen into silence.

In the middle of the night, Shang Xia woke up from a deep sleep and noticed that someone sneaked into the small courtyard and coughed lightly under the window of the upper room.

After a while, Shang Xia heard Hai Min get up, and he didn't know what to talk about when he was welcomed into the house. There might have been a dispute during the period, but he still lowered his voice. Shang Xia vaguely heard "Tongyou Academy", Words such as "request for help", "identity", and "belonging".

In less than a cup of tea, the two broke up unhappy.

After the visitor left, Haimin lay down again, but under Shang Xia's induction, she kept tossing and turning, obviously unable to fall asleep.

Shang Xia got up early in the morning and made a swing under the pear tree. Seeing that Hai Min looked haggard when he got up, he asked, "Didn't you sleep well last night? There are few things in winter, so you can go back to sleep after eating."

Haimin smiled, unable to hide his depression, but still concerned: "Going 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 she stopped for some reason, and let Shang Xia's big hand caress her shoulders. She didn't know whether her face was shy or cold, but it was redder and more translucent. up.

Shang Xia could clearly feel the trembling of Hai Min's body, he only pressed his hand for a moment, then raised it again to greet Hai Yuanyuan who had just woken up, and left the house.

Shang Xia first came to Wuji blacksmith's shop, and soon met the old blacksmith 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 explained the address of the meeting.

A pot of 30 ordinary arrows and a pot of 12 arrows made of fine iron were added here. After Shang Xia left the south gate as usual, he turned west.

Ten miles to the west of the city, with Shang Xia's eyesight, he quickly discovered the maple forest with an area of ​​only ten mu.

Shang Xia took the longbow slanted across his shoulders in his hand, and then walked into the maple forest.

"There is no prey in such a small forest!"

A sudden voice startled Shang Xia.

Shang Xia suddenly turned around, only to see a man with broken eyebrows and short beard, wearing a short silver-gray robe, standing more than ten feet away from him.

A Tier 4 warrior must be another Tier 4 warrior!

Shang Xia almost groaned in his heart. He would not underestimate himself. He was confident that for warriors below the fourth rank, it was impossible for anyone to get within twenty or thirty feet of him without hiding his own perception.

Those who can do this, apart from adding means like the Tranquility Cloak, can only be warriors with a cultivation base far above him at level 4 or above.

It's just that Shang Xia never imagined that Tongyou College could actually plant a hidden pile of fourth-order warriors in Changfeng City!

You must know that Tier 4 warriors are no better than others. Even in a holy place of martial arts like Bailu Fudi, Tier 4 warriors are enough to become elders.

Shang Xia tried his best to maintain his composure, cupped his hands towards the visitor and said, "I've seen you, senior!"

"Shangbo's grandson, it's no wonder that the old man will come forward to protect you. You should be the last person to meet Boss Kou. Once your identity is revealed, hehe..."

The visitor casually took two steps closer, looked Shang Xia up and down and said casually.

Shang Xia was slightly taken aback when he heard the words, and couldn't help but said: "Did senior misunderstand something? The junior came here this time, but he didn't come here to seek the protection of the senior."

Hearing the words, the visitor stopped, then slightly startled and said: "Then why are you looking for this old man?"

Shang Xia recounted what he heard in Yanlaiju that day, and at the same time briefly talked about the current situation in Tongyou City that may not have time for him.

It's just that what Shang Xia didn't notice was that during the process of his narration, the visitor's expression was rather strange.

At the end, Shang Xia remembered one thing, and said hastily: "I haven't asked Senior how to address him yet?"

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 the way it is. From my junior's point of view, if Fantongyou City can be freed, I don't think I will let this junior ask for help from Mr. Bu. I just don't know Mr. Bu's plan for this? "

Mr. Bu said in a deep voice: "Although the old man has kept his name for twenty years, he is not ignorant of the current situation in Tongyou City. Hmph, after all, they are still too impatient and want to swallow the entire Coral Forest Profound Realm. Now Now the entire Tongyou City may have been sealed by a space barrier, and I want to be a turtle, but the shell is not hard yet."

Shang Xia couldn't help being stunned when he heard the words, but thinking of this person's identity as a Tier 4 warrior, he was very likely to be an old acquaintance with Kou Shanzhang, Ji Wenlong, and his own grandfather, so he was naturally qualified to criticize Shang Xia's plan in Tongyou City.

It's just that he always felt that this Mr. Bu was vaguely resentful in his tone besides his words.

But thinking about the 20-year latent life of the person in front of him, Shang Xia can naturally understand.

It's just that I don't know what is the reason that made this Tier 4 warrior willing to do so.

Just when Shang Xia's thoughts were scattered, he suddenly heard Mr. Bu say: "So, the purpose of Tongyou City asking you to come to this old man is to deal with Yang Hu?"

Shang Xia thought for a while, although there was still a matter of collusion between the forces of Jizhou and the Changbai Holy Land of the Cangling Realm, but all the crux would eventually fall on Yang Hu, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that he was dealing with Yang Hu.

Seeing Shang Xia nodded, Mr. Bu said again: "Then you and I think we can deal with Yang Hu who has been in Changfeng City for 20 years?"

Shang Xia deliberately said, Mr. Bu, you have been lurking here for twenty years, don't you have any hidden power and means?

But when the words came to his lips, he said, "I don't know if senior has any suggestions?"

Mr. Bu took a deep look at him and said, "Come with me, there may be a good show going on nearby!"