lead fades away

With Han Shuo's permission, Qing Shi turned around and left the cave, found the disciples who had invited him just now, and told them that Elder Han had agreed to their going out.

These disciples immediately went to look for other disciples who had entered the palace, and called one by one. When they finally went out, Qingshi found that apart from Shen Chenzhou who was not in the elders' hall, even Jiang Zhe was called out by them. Fang was nowhere to be seen.

"Where's Junior Brother Su Fang?" Qing Shi asked.

"Junior Brother Su seems to have realized something yesterday, and he has already gone to retreat in the Jingsi Valley in Neishan." A disciple replied.

— What a coincidence!

Qing Shi chuckled, didn't ask any more questions, and urged the group out of the Unknown Valley.

Perhaps it was Han Shuo who focused on character when selecting candidates. These disciples, especially those who were later selected through Jianjian, seemed to be honest and dedicated to cultivation.It is rare to go out together today, and they are very friendly and friendly with each other. Even Jiang Zhe, who is withdrawn, is greeted from time to time, although he basically just hums and seldom answers.

When they arrived at Yamashitafang City, these people thought about the key question of where to eat.The first thing that comes to mind is of course Dengxian Tower, but even if the price of Dengxian Tower is shared, most of them cannot afford it. Therefore, although everyone knows that Dengxian Tower is the best, few dare to mention it. What was proposed was quickly rejected by others in the name of not being so extravagant.

Qing Shi listened silently for a while, then quickly interjected with a smile, "Ahem, brothers and sisters, have you forgotten me?"

"No way, Junior Brother Yan, where do you want to go, please speak up!" A disciple hastily made way for Qing Shi.

Qing Shi smiled meaningfully, "It doesn't matter where I want to go, I just want to remind you that I asked Elder Han for instructions before I came out—"

The surrounding disciples were taken aback by Qingshi's mysterious words, and all showed blank expressions.

"Don't even think about it. Elder Han has always been generous. He knew that we were out for a drink, so how could he not express anything?" Qingshi asked back and thought to himself, he really didn't express anything, but continued, " So, everyone can go to the place they want to go the most, and don't worry about paying the bill!"

"Ah!" A group of young disciples suddenly realized, and immediately someone shouted, "Go to the fairy tower!"

"Let's go!" Now there was no more hesitation, and the ten people walked straight to Dengxian Tower in unison.

When I really entered the Dengxian Tower, Qing Shi didn't make too much publicity. I just asked for an ordinary private room on the second floor that can accommodate ten people. Order, but drink in moderation, don't go back drunk one by one, I will not be able to explain it if Elder Han finds out."

"Junior Brother Yan, don't worry!" The other disciples hurriedly responded.

When he was seated, Qingshi deliberately arranged Jiang Zhe to be next to him, and stuffed a recipe into his hand, "Order whatever you want, don't be shy, I don't need your spirit stone anyway."

As expected, Jiang Zhe was not embarrassed. With a swipe of his finger on the menu, he found out all the dishes with meat or meat-like names in their names.

Qing Shi twitched the corners of his mouth, but still filled these dishes on the order menu, and when the dishes were delivered, he ordered the delivery guy to place all these dishes in front of or near Jiang Zhe.

The others immediately saw Qingshi's special care for Jiang Zhe, but they had all seen Qingshi take Jiang Zhe out for dinner under Han Shuo's orders that day, and they also knew Jiang Zhe's age and these years. He didn't think too much about being bullied often, and only regarded it as sympathy.

Since all the people here today are foundation-building monks, except for Jiang Zhe, everyone else has been fasting for many years, so most of the dishes they order are mainly immortal plant spirit fruits, but spirit wine. They say that they should be in moderation, but they still drank several altars. A few of the light drinkers were obviously drunk.

Seeing that it was almost time, Qing Shi stood up quietly, walked out of the private room, and called the waiter nearby to pay the bill.

"Your table...will take a while to calculate." The waiter saw that Qing Shi wanted to pay the bill quietly without disturbing others, and said immediately, "Why don't you go to the small room next to you and wait for a while, and I will give you the calculation over there." You sent it?"

"Sure, bring me a pot of tea by the way." Qing Shi nodded in agreement.

"Okay!" The guy immediately opened a vacant small room next to him, invited Qingshi in, then closed the door and went downstairs.

Qing Shi didn't drink a few sips of wine, Shen Chenzhou was not around, and the rest of the people were not familiar with him enough, and few of them took the initiative to strike up a conversation with him. After this meal, he spent most of his time in Jiang Zhe There are cloth dishes and dishes on the body, but they are also very busy.

Stretching out of boredom, Qing Shi was thinking why the tea hadn't been delivered yet, when there was a knock on the door.Because the footsteps sounded the same, there were nine fellow monks sitting next door, Qing didn't care at all, and said directly, "Come in!"

The door was pushed open, but the person who came in was not the clerk from Dengxianlou, but Ximen Hao, whom Qing Shi hadn't seen since his injury, holding a tray like a shop clerk, with teapots and cups on it, wearing a mask on his face. He walked in with a smile.

—Damn, how did he pop out? !

For a moment, Qingshi couldn't help feeling horrified, and instinctively wanted to rush out the door, but Ximen Hao was standing at the door, how could this door be so easy to get out?Qing Shi only moved his toes, and then showed a look of astonishment unabashedly, "Brother Ximen, why are you here?"

"Of course—" Ximen Hao smiled slightly, and closed the door behind his back, "Come here for you."

"Ah?" Qingshi could only pretend to be ignorant, and said with a dry laugh, "I didn't expect Brother Ximen to make a joke."

"Junior brother Qingshi, I dare not joke with you." Ximen Hao walked to the table with a tray, put it on the table, glanced at Qingshi with a half-smile, then turned and sat down opposite him.

Qingshi couldn't figure out why Ximen Hao came here, and wondered how he knew he would be here, and more importantly, how he replaced the buddy from Dengxianlou to deliver tea to him, so he couldn't act rashly for a while, so he continued to pretend to be confused "Senior brother Ximen's words are unfamiliar. If you have something to do, just tell me, and the younger brother should do his best."

"Since the younger brother has said so..." Ximen Hao smiled, threw a piece of metal sheet on the table with his hands, and slid along the table to Qingshi.

Qing Shi glanced at it and saw that it was the ordinary thin piece stuffed in to balance the weight of the two shoes, and his heart tightened immediately, but there was still only surprise on his face, "This is——"

"Junior brother, don't pretend to be confused with me." Ximen Hao narrowed his eyes, and there was a kind of evil spirit that he had never seen before, "Today's time is limited, let's get straight to the point, I will put it in my shoe for you." I am very interested in that little thing, you can set a price, whether you sell the finished product or the blueprint, it doesn’t matter! But as far as I am concerned, I really hope that you will sell yourself to me directly.”

"Senior brother Ximen, you are really joking now!" Qing Shi immediately lowered his face and his tone became cold.

"Joking? If the younger brother thinks I'm joking, then I'll make the younger brother laugh more heartily!" Ximen Hao smiled heartily, and then his face turned around, raised his eyebrows, and said coldly, "What about that time?" Although I withdrew halfway, an hour later, I returned with the spirit dog. Although you have left, the smell has not dissipated, so the spirit dog quickly brought me to Elder Han's valley."

He sat on the chair quietly and calmly, and did not express anything to Ximen Hao's threatening statement.He couldn't understand Ximen Hao's reason for coming, and he didn't want to be caught by someone because of his careless words.

"Although the Elder's Hall was built in that valley, there was no restriction at the entrance of the valley. I walked in easily. Although I didn't dare to go deep, I could still smell your whereabouts through the spirit dog - the Elder's Hall and Elder Han's cave. But two diametrically opposite directions!" As he spoke, Ximen Haohu laughed again, "Speaking of which, it hurt a lot that day, right? I heard from Su Fang that you haven't left the cave for several days. , it can be seen that the injury is not light."

"Senior brother Ximen, the more you talk about it, the more confused I become." Qingshi also smiled, still innocent and innocent, "It's stalking and getting hurt again, ah, why did Junior Brother Su Fang appear in this?" I don’t even know, are you very familiar with Junior Brother Su Fang?”

Ximen Hao's smile immediately cooled down, "Yan Qingshi, you don't want to toast or eat fine wine."

——You can sit here and negotiate conditions with me, which means that you dare not give me a fine wine at all!

Qing Shi sneered in his heart, but there was still a calm smile on his face, "Senior brother Ximen, could it be that the brothers next door specially invited you to tease me? You are both red and white, really. Thanks for your hard work!"

Seeing that Qing Shi refused to admit it, Ximen Hao narrowed his eyes again, looked him up and down for a while, and soon smiled in relief, "Forget it, you don't want to be honest with me, and I can't force you, but I do I came here with sincerity, and now I will show it to my junior brother."

Qing Shi blinked his eyes, did not answer, and only put on a posture of listening attentively.

"Junior brother stared at me, presumably because of Shen Chenzhou?" Ximen Hao didn't wait for Qing Shi's reaction, and continued on his own, "Although I don't understand why you stared at me because of Su Fang, but Since you can hide such an ingenious thing on me, it must be easy for you to tamper with Su Fang... Forget it, I will find a chance to discuss these things with you in detail later. I don’t know, this Dengxian Tower has already been surrounded by monks from Xianchumen, and only two monks from the Guangyuanying stage came, not to mention Han Shuohan Zhenjun, one of the nine great transformation gods in the upper world.”

Qing Shi was stunned for a moment, thinking that it is no wonder why Han Shuo's expression was a bit wrong before going out, it turned out that it was because he was used as bait and his conscience was disturbed, but then he wondered how Han Shuo knew that Ximen Hao would find him, and why Ximen Hao Knowing that there are traps here, but still coming here.

——A while ago, I avoided suspicion too thoroughly, but now I am deaf and blind!

Qing Shi was secretly annoyed, Ximen Hao raised his eyebrows and smiled, "Is it strange why I know that there are tigers in the mountain and go to the tiger mountain? In fact, I was also forced to do nothing, Han Zhenjun really guarded against you, I stared at you for several days. I didn't find an opportunity. I thought that when you and Shen Chenzhou were going to Fangshi that day, they would attack you, but the child from Wuzong Valley came to make trouble—but fortunately, I didn't attack, otherwise I would have been blocked by Han Zhenjun and forced to die that day. It's not the child of Wuzong Valley but me."

"Under-hand?" Qing Shi finally couldn't help but asked back.

"Hehe, junior brother Qingshi, you ruined my work in Xiantrumen, and forced me to lose my foothold here. I have to find some capital to go back to work, right?" Ximen Hao repeatedly emphasized that hurry up, but when he spoke It was still unhurried, "Speaking of which, if it weren't for the collision that night, I really didn't know that you were also a capable person. Fortunately, I still think that Su Fang's rare goods are good to live in. It turns out that you have eyes but don't know gold inlaid jade." , missed the real treasure."

Qingshi couldn't help getting goosebumps, and said with a fake smile, "Brother Ximen, what you said will make people ambiguous."

"Junior Brother Qingshi, if I take such a big risk to come here, will I have no cards in my hand? How about we first talk about why Fairy Fengxi's boudoir name is written on the title deed of Plaything Hall? Or, let's talk about Yu Wei Junior brother, what do you think of your earnest teachings to Lord Yu Wang? Junior brother, there is nothing in this world that can be hidden from others, just to see if someone checks it! But don’t worry, I’m here today just to express my love to you. Sincerity, there will never be any unreasonable actions, after all, so many people are staring outside, I don't have the confidence to take you away alive." Ximen Hao Xiaoying took out a dark knife that was much smaller than the index finger The golden plaque was pressed on the table and pushed in front of Qingshi, "This is my sect's token, please keep it well, junior brother, if one day you don't want to hang out in Xiantrumen, I will definitely sweep the couch to welcome you."

Qing Shi glanced at the sign, and saw the word "Nine Streams" engraved on the upward side, surrounded by strange engraved patterns, which looked like a keepsake.

Ximen Hao never took his eyes off Qingshi's face, seeing that he didn't show any strange expression after seeing the sign, he couldn't help but slightly frowned, and asked with a little doubt, "Isn't it possible that the younger brother doesn't recognize this sign? "

"Why should I recognize it?" Qing Shi squinted at Ximen Hao, he really didn't understand at this moment.

"Well said." Ximen Hao laughed again, "It seems that I was wrong... But it doesn't matter, since I gave this thing, I won't take it back, junior brother, take good care of it, maybe someday in the future I can use it It's on."

——Mysterious, what the hell is it!

Qing Shi sniffed lightly, observed carefully again, and made sure there was no mechanism foreign object on it, then stretched out his hand and put it away together with the previous piece of metal sheet.

Seeing that Qingshi accepted it, Ximen Hao nodded in satisfaction, and said, "Since junior brother accepts my sincerity, I will send another message, you can tell Shen Chenzhou, whether I or Wu Zonggu, although one is To prevent him from advancing, one is to take his life, but in the end, it is just using other people's money to eliminate disasters for others, hoping that he can get the debtor and the debtor, and if he can't settle the debtor, such a It’s bound to happen again in the future.”

Qing Shi smiled lightly, "Although I still don't understand what Senior Brother means, I will definitely pass on what Senior Brother said to Senior Brother Shen."

"Very good." Ximen Hao stood up and bowed his hands to Qingshi, "The green mountains will not change, and the green water will flow forever. I believe you and I will meet again one day."

"Brother Ximen, you have been joking all the time today, what are you saying goodbye, do you want to leave Xiantrumen?" Qing Shi asked with a smile.

"Of course I have to leave. If I don't leave, I won't be able to take this rare physical body back with me." Ximen Hao glanced out of the window meaningfully, then turned around quickly, and added with a smile, "By the way, think about that Youwutang will eventually come back to you, and when that time comes, we might as well talk about today's deal in earnest——I'm really interested in that little thing of yours!"

Qing Shi continued to smile, noncommittal.

Ximen Hao didn't say much anymore, he smiled at Qing Shi knowingly, pushed the door and walked out.

Qingshi still didn't move, and he breathed a long sigh of relief when he could no longer hear the sound of people around him, but before he had time to think about it, there was another sound of footsteps outside the door, followed by a knock on the door. The door rang again, but this time it was pushed open before he could answer, and the shopkeeper of Dengxianlou came in with the bill in person, and held it in front of Qing Shi with a smile, "Guest officer, your bill."

Qing Shi couldn't help but look at the shopkeeper a few more times, and subconsciously suspected the relationship between him and Ximen Hao—no, it should be said that it was the relationship between Ximen Hao and Dengxianlou, but when he squinted at the numbers on the bill, these conspiracies were immediately dismissed. Throw it out of the sky.

——230 eight medium-grade spirit stones? !

——A table of customized dishes on the fourth floor is only ten high-grade spirit stones!

——Could it be that you ate 23 tables in one go? !

The corner of Qingshi's mouth twitched suddenly, and he quickly scanned the bill carefully, and immediately found that there should be several jars of spiritual wine ordered after he went out, all of which were the most expensive and best kind, and Jiang Zhe, who had a big belly Han is eating with his belly open today. If he doesn't settle the bill quickly, I'm afraid this number will continue to increase.

——No wonder the shopkeeper came over in person, such a sum of money can only be collected by the shopkeeper himself!

Qingshi endured the severe pain and pulled out the spirit stone, making up his mind to hand over the bill to Han Shuo—no, Jiang Zhe's uncle Ruan Xixian Jun also had to see it!No, no, you can't just watch, you have to pay for it! ! !And those bastards next door, don't expect yourself to ask for benefits for them in the future, even if Han Shuo wants to give them, he will withhold them all! ! !

While cursing secretly, Qing Shi stood up with the bill in hand, not in the mood to pay attention to the smiling face of the shopkeeper of Dengxianlou, stepped out of the small room, and went back to the next door.

It was even more lively over there than when he was there. A few disciples who were already drunk were completely intoxicated, and they were urging each other to drink with their arms around each other. Only Jiang Zhe was still sitting in the same position without saying a word, and he had nothing to do to deliver food to him. Now he even put down his chopsticks, and just watched the other people making noise with a blank expression.

Qingshi really wanted to throw them all out of the window one by one, just to let Han Shuo, who was said to be waiting outside Dengxian Tower to surround Ximen Hao, see what kind of incomprehensible disciples he had taken in, but considering that Han Shuo The consequences of being shameless... Qingshi could only grit his teeth and endured it.

"Everyone, it's almost time, it's time to go back!!!" Qing Shi coughed heavily.

"Junior Brother Yan, what are you in a hurry for? You haven't finished your wine yet. Come, let's have a drink!" A disciple raised his glass drunkenly and immediately caused several other disciples to laugh loudly.

Qing Shi smiled coldly, ignored the disciple's toast, lowered his voice a little, and said again, "Everyone, Elder Han and the two immortals from our sect have also come to ascend the immortal tower."

There was a sudden silence in the private room.