Volume 2: Jade Promise Chapter 10 Black Shop (Part 3)
As the harvest season draws closer, more and more people come to Emerald City.
Tang Zheng went to the Jubao Pavilion in Feishi City and bought a lot of materials.
In addition to practicing every day, he continued to study the wolf smoke beacon furnace.
"It turns out that this can be adjusted..." Tang Zheng kept discovering new things, "One star, two stars, three stars... The highest level can reach the same fire palm strength as a five-star caster. However, the fire palm skill needs to be practiced by oneself."
"Moreover, this is probably the intensity of the spark that can only be achieved by continuously introducing the Sun Main Star into the five Fate Palaces... Only this furnace can do it. With human endurance, it is impossible to introduce five Sun Main Stars in a row."
"But I can't understand the array pattern. I don't know how he did it..."
There are already little rabbits placed on Tang Zheng's desk, just like the horoscope of the girl named Li Qing.
Various postures and colors, so lifelike.
The majestic power of the sun was too difficult to control. If he wasn't careful it would blow the roof off again, so he stopped temporarily.
It's already evening.
Tang Zheng and his friends had been staying in the Tang Mansion for three or four days without realizing it.
Tang Ququan tried every means to get them into the Tang Mansion. He didn't care what was going on. He was more concerned about the beacon stove in his hand.
Although this foundry can only cast very small accessories and is almost impossible to cast weapons, he becomes more and more adept at it the more he uses it.
"Wolf smoke...beacon fire..." Tang Zheng felt that these two words had nothing to do with such a small stove in his hand.
But such a small stove seemed to have magic, attracting him and making him unable to let it go.
He didn't know what force in this furnace attracted him.
But he knew he needed it!
In fact, every time he cast a little rabbit, he felt that the furnace and he were really "compatible", as if he had lost something very important in this furnace.
"But... I don't understand the formation. What's in this furnace?" When he had cast the hundredth little rabbit, he glanced and saw a corner of a book sticking out of the bundle.
That is Lu Yilou’s casting notes!
Tang Zheng remembered that he actually had a foundry craftsman in Feishi City whom he could ask!
But……
There is still a "small problem"!
"Teacher, you are a jerk! You only gave me two notebooks but didn't tell me where Lu Yilou lives. What should I do?" A weak cry was heard from Tang Zheng's yard.
Since Ban Yilou didn't tell him, he had to find someone who knew.
Tang Zheng sighed, put away all the little rabbits on the table, and went to Tang Ququan.
Tang Ququan was talking to his sons.
When he saw Tang Zheng coming in, he looked a little nervous. Then he drove his sons away and called Tang Zheng in.
"My nephew is new to Feishi City . Are you getting used to living here?" Tang Ququan asked with a smile.
"Not bad." Tang Zheng didn't come here to get close to him, "I have something to ask you..."
"Sure, sure."
"Do you know Lu Yilou?"
"..." Tang Ququan's expression suddenly became strange, "I know him."
"What's the matter? Where does he live?"
"Oh, nothing." Tang Ququan shook his head and put away his expression. "Who in Feishi City doesn't know Lu Yilou?"
"Is he famous?"
"Ahem, it's too famous..."
"So where does he live? I want to go visit."
"A flower shop? A gambling house?" Tang Ququan shook his head. "I don't know... I don't know where he is."
"Don't you know where he lives?"
"Pigsty...chicken coop...Anyway, he can sleep wherever he feels tired. Who knows where he lives?" Tang Ququan said with disdain, "He's a five-star warrior. Even if he sleeps at the doorstep of your house, you can't chase him away, right? It's troublesome...very troublesome..."
"A five-star expert!" Tang Zheng had never heard Ban Yilou say that Lu Yilou was a five-star expert!
Seeing Tang Zheng was about to leave after asking questions, Tang Ququan quickly stopped him and said, "My nephew, you came to Feishi City to take the entrance exam. Have you heard that two of the four places for Yisu Academy this year have already been reserved?"
Tang Ququan smiled in a dishonest way, and it was obvious that he had only said half of the words.
"Internal appointment?" Tang Zheng pretended to be very interested.
"One is Jiang Wuyan, the leader of the Zhaixing Sect. Another one is said to be from Wulong Town. I don't know about the other two." Tang Ququan glanced at Tang Zheng's face. "Come to think of it, the one from Wulong Town...could it be you?"
Tang Zheng understood a little bit of what was said.
It was estimated that Tang Ququan got some inside information and knew that the selected student in Wulong Town was surnamed Tang, so he came eagerly to take them into his mansion.
But even if that's the case, what's the point of welcoming them into the Tang Mansion?
Listening to Tang Ququan's question, Tang Zheng shook his head directly: "It's not me!"
Tang Ququan was stunned for a moment, but he didn't believe what Tang Zheng said: "If it's not you, then who else could it be..."
"How would I know?" Tang Zheng laughed, "Before I was twenty, I didn't even have a single fate palace lit up!"
"Uh..." Tang Ququan's expression changed several times.
"Yeah, that's it." Tang Zheng smiled and waved his hand, then turned around and walked out.
…
Emerald City is already overcrowded.
The Changyuan Leng family pays great attention to talent cultivation, and there are various types of academies.
However, there are only four aristocratic academies, and the number of admissions each year is so small that it is like a huge crowd trying to cross a single-plank bridge.
Zheng Qian would go out to look for an inn every day, but now there was no need for Tang Ququan to play tricks, as all the inns in Feishi City were really full. Warriors who came late and could not find a place to stay in the inn could be seen everywhere and had to live on the streets.
"Hey, hey, hey, don't just wander around the streets!" The only information Tang Zheng got about Lu Yilou was that he had no place to live and was wandering on the streets.
But because the examination of Yisu Academy is approaching, Feishi City is full of people living on the streets!
He was simply seeing a ghost!
There were no people having fun in all kinds of brothels and gambling houses. They were all turned into inns.
Zheng Qian and the others were all sent out by him.
Search, search, search...
Feishi City is much larger than Wulong Town. How easy is it to find a homeless person?
Zheng Qian spent three days searching, and every person he asked answered, "Lu Yilou? Oh, I saw him go that way..."
Ask the next one and get the same answer.
The constant "over there" seems to have no end.
Zheng Qian and his companions circled Feishi City at least ten times and could only return to the Tang Mansion in disappointment.
"Boss, let me analyze it for you." Zheng Qian came back exhausted. "Today I have interviewed 70 people in total, 30 of whom I interviewed yesterday. Most of them have seen Lu Yi Lou the day before yesterday, yesterday, and today, but we just can't see it. This means that the 'Lu Yi Lou' we are referring to and the Lu Yi Lou they know may not be the same person."
"Hmm?" Tang Zheng listened patiently.
"If that's the case, we need to first figure out what their serious 'Lu Yi Lou' is."
"So what do you think it is?"
"It may just be a code name. According to my analysis, I can find a beggar eight out of ten times based on what they point to, so 'Luyi Building' may be related to beggars."
"Then?"
"Lu Yiluo may be a person who does not exist at all. Everyone in this city calls the beggar Lu Yiluo..."
Tang Zheng nodded thoughtfully.
Zheng Qian’s analysis is not unreasonable, no, it should be said that it makes a lot of sense.
However, just as Zheng Qian finished his analysis, a drunken voice came from the door.
The man standing at the door was about twenty years younger than Ban Yiluo. He was wearing a red shirt and a pair of loose green shorts. His look was as sharp as it could be.
He burped and said, "Not every beggar is a beggar... Oh, that's not right, burp... Not every Lu Yilou is Lu Yilou... Gulp... That's not right either, not every beggar is Lu Yilou!"
Tang Zheng's eyelids twitched several times: "Are you Lu Yilou?"
"I'm not Lu Yiluo, are you?" Lu Yiluo stood unsteadily in the corner. Without saying a word, he slid down and fell asleep against the corner.
"He...is he really Lu Yiluo?" Zheng Qian blinked.
"Sure enough, as soon as Brother Zheng made his analysis, he was immediately slapped in the face!" His brothers all rubbed their foreheads helplessly.
…
Lu Yiluo fell asleep drunk and immediately fell asleep, which made the people in the Tang residence worried.
It turns out that in Feishi City, Luyilou is not a general term for beggars, but a general term for troublemakers.
Wu Xing’s strength is enough to set up his own sect, but he just wanders around with a wine jug, eats in restaurants and plays in gambling houses, without paying for drinks or gambling.
The troops stationed in Jade City had sought him out for "tea and talks" before, but every time he admitted his mistakes, his attitude was so good that it made people feel embarrassed, and he would just turn around and do whatever he wanted.
The key point is that he is a five-star strong man, he doesn't kill people, he doesn't set fires, and he just steals and flirts with girls every day. If he is convicted, he won't be locked up for more than two days, but if he is not convicted, he is really a nuisance to Feishi City.
After listening to the descriptions of the servants in the Tang Mansion, Tang Zheng curled his lips and glanced at Lu Yilu who was sleeping in the corner.
Ban Yilou praised this person to the sky. In his story, Lu Yilou was a typical example of positive energy. He had dreams, was positive and self-taught, and vowed to make a name for himself on the road of foundry.
However, Tang Zheng also saw the real Lu Yilou.
To be honest, it feels a bit like meeting netizens from thousands of miles away and being "dead in the light".
"Master, do we want to move him to the bed?" Tang Xiaotang said embarrassedly as she looked at Lu Yiluo who was drunk in the corner of Tang Zheng's room.
"No need." Tang Zheng shook his head, "Let's wait until he wakes up!"
Lu Yiluo slept restlessly and kept mumbling to himself.
Tang Zheng vaguely heard that he seemed to be calling a name in his sleep...
