Volume 2: Jade Promise Chapter 9 Black Shop (Part 2)
Tang Xiaotang and the others all looked confused.
casual?
What is casual?
How could you be like that? Others are eager to avenge your father, but you don't care.
"Is she her father's biological daughter?" Tang Xuan blinked and asked in a low voice.
"Maybe there is something strange about this stove. Master, you'd better be careful." Tang Zixie said nervously.
Tang Zheng smiled bitterly.
Of course there is something strange!
What is the most important thing about a casting furnace? It is the stability and sensibility of the star power.
Just as a good oven has a peephole, a good foundry furnace allows the operator to feel his every movement in the furnace, the clearer the better.
But this beacon stove seemed to be shielded after the star power penetrated it, and it couldn't feel its existence at all, just like a chef cooking with his eyes blindfolded...
"Cooking with your eyes blindfolded?" Tang Zheng suddenly had an idea and repeated this half sentence subconsciously.
"Master, what are you talking about?" Tang Xuan asked.
"Nothing, let's go find Zheng Qian and the others." Tang Zheng put the stove in his arms and left the restaurant under the guidance of the enthusiastic waiter.
Standing at the bottom of the restaurant, he looked up at the name of the restaurant - Miracle Restaurant.
Tang Xiaotang also followed Tang Zheng and took a look: "What a weird name."
Tang Xuan nodded: "How weird!"
The eight outer streets of Fei Shi City are Xuemen Main Street, Cuimen Street, Limen Street and Xiemen Street, which are the four streets facing the inner gate of the imperial school; Huxin Street and Huwan Street where there are no entrances to the imperial school; and Fei Street and Shi Street which are connected to the official roads outside the city in the east-west direction.
The Miracle Restaurant where Tang Zheng and his friends were just now is on Limen Street.
They turned around again and happened to see Zheng Qian on Xuemen Main Street.
"Why are you still standing outside?" Tang Zheng looked at them, all of them sweating profusely, and almost thought that they had carried the horses and carriages and ran around Jade City three times.
However, that's pretty much the case.
When Zheng Qian saw Tang Zheng, he was like seeing his own mother, and tears were about to fall: "We searched eight streets, but didn't see a reliable inn . Either they were full or closed."
"Full?" Tang Xiaotang looked at the inn next door. There was clearly a whole row of empty rooms, more than enough to accommodate their entire caravan.
"What's the logic behind closing down..." Tang Zixie was surprised. "At this time of year, the inn in Feishi City has the best business. How can an inn close down at this time?"
Tang Zheng took his horse from Zheng Qian and took them back to Limen Street, where they had lunch at the Miracle Restaurant.
Zheng Qian and his group of brothers ate so much that they were about to cry.
With such a delicious lunch, they will definitely have enough energy to search eight streets again in the afternoon!
Tang Zheng had been playing with the beacon stove without saying a word.
Just when Tang Xiaotang almost thought that Tang Zheng was bewitched by the stove, Tang Zheng raised his head with a smile on his face: "Have you finished eating?"
"Yeah, yeah." Zheng Qian and the others wiped their mouths with satisfaction and stood up.
"Then tell me what happened that we can't find the inn!" Tang Zheng asked as he put the smoke beacon stove, which was as small as a seasoning jar, into his sleeve.
Zheng Qian started talking right away, starting with how they found the first one, describing it vividly and fluently.
If he continued talking like this, by the time he got to the last store, it would definitely be tomorrow morning.
But Tang Zheng didn't stop him from talking, nor did he seem to listen too seriously, but kept looking out the window...
Soon, he put away the folding fan in his hand, smiled, and interrupted Zheng Qian: "Okay, that's enough."
"Is it... okay?" Zheng Qian blinked several times. "I just mentioned Youfu Inn..."
"Okay, we have a place to live." Tang Zhengdao.
As he was speaking, footsteps were heard on the stairs. A familiar figure walked up and gave Tang Zheng and the others a complicated look.
Tang Xiaotang and the others were no strangers to that figure.
Isn’t it Tang Ququan, the so-called “relative” who was invited by Tang Lao Er from Fei Shi City to go to Tang Family Castle and activate the scaled-down version of the blood formation ?
When Tang Ququan saw Tang Zheng and the others, he pretended to have met them by chance: "Eh? Isn't this the nephew of the Tang family? Are you here in Feishi City to take the entrance exam?"
Tang Xiaotang's mouth was flat...
Wasn't this chance encounter of his a little too abrupt ?
It was already past dinner time, but he ran up to "accidentally meet" without even looking up. His acting skills were really a bit of a headache.
However, no one exposed him.
Tang Ququan cleared his throat and said, "There are many people taking the exam this year, and the inns have all been reserved in advance by the sect disciples. I'm afraid it's hard for you to find a place to stay, right?"
Tang Xiaotang and Tang Zixie looked at each other - isn't this idiot admitting that he was the one behind the fact that they couldn't find a place to stay the whole morning?
"Hello, Tang Ququan, the second son of Tang Yuqing's twelfth concubine and the twenty-second son of Tang Hui, the seventeenth of the Tang family in Qingshu..." Tang Zheng smiled and picked up a cup of tea. He spoke in one breath without any punctuation, almost suffocating Tang Xiaotang and the others' ears.
"..." Tang Ququan didn't expect Tang Zheng to remember it so clearly, and his face immediately turned red.
"You have considerable power in Feishi City." What Tang Zheng was referring to was, of course, the fact that he had prevented Zheng Qian and the others from finding an inn to stay in the entire morning.
Tang Zheng had never expected that a descendant of a noble family who was so far away from the direct line of the family could still have such a good influence in one area.
Tang Ququan was thick-skinned, and he ignored Tang Zheng's sarcasm and said, "That's right. Since my nephew has come to Feishi City, as an elder, I have to greet him. You can just stay at my house."
"Ah?" Tang Xiaotang and the others all stood up.
Do they still remember what Tang Ququan said when they first met him?
Something like "Although I came to help you out of blood relationship, I cannot bear the responsibility of calling you my brother", something like "You should be grateful, but don't just cling to me and have unreasonable expectations". It's only been less than a month, and in the blink of an eye, they are calling me "little nephew" all the time and even inviting them to live in their home...
How could someone be so shameless!
"Master..." Tang Xiaotang and the others looked at Tang Zheng in embarrassment.
"Is it free?" Tang Zheng looked at Tang Ququan with a smile.
"How can I charge room fees for my own nephews staying at home like I would at an inn?" Tang Ququan waved his hand. "I am a well-known figure in Feishi City. Why should I let others laugh at me for no reason?"
"Is there anything to eat?" Tang Zheng asked again.
"It's not as good as Tangjiabao, but it's not too bad in Feishi City."
"In that case, I'll bother you for a few days. We'll move out when we find a suitable place." Tang Zheng nodded immediately and waved to Xiaotang and the others.
"No rush, no rush, you can stay as long as you want..." Tang Ququan said hurriedly.
Tang Zheng and his family have nowhere to live anyway, so it’s not impossible for them to live in Tang Ququan’s house first.
However, Tang Zheng still winked at Tang Xiaotang and the others.
Anyone who is Tang Zheng’s student will understand that look at a glance!
"What did the Master say?"
"If someone shows kindness without any reason, he is either a traitor or a thief!"
…
They didn't know what kind of courtesy Tang Ququan was showing, but when Tang Xiaotang and the others entered the Tang Mansion, they treated it as a shady shop, and checked every door, window, and lock very carefully, and then kept a close eye on their belongings.
Their inspection was very blunt and was carried out right in front of Tang Ququan, almost making him explode with anger.
The place assigned to Tang Zheng to live was an independent courtyard, which was similar to the one he had lived in Tangjiabao. Of course, that courtyard no longer existed and had been completely demolished and rebuilt.
Tang Zheng didn't care what kind of drama Tang Ququan was playing. Anyway, whether Tang Ququan wanted to commit adultery or steal, he would have to come to him on his own, so Tang Zheng didn't need to worry about it.
Tang Zheng closed the door of his room in the courtyard and took out the beacon stove again.
"It would be great if Master Lu Huang was here." Tang Zheng sent in another ray of star power, and he lost perception as soon as he entered, and was unable to control it at all.
He had a shaky foundation in casting and started late, so the only thing he was most proud of was his ability to control star power.
But the stove in his hand didn't give him this opportunity at all.
What kind of foundry furnace is it if you can't control the fire?
Tang Zheng couldn't understand this furnace, but he always felt that the black hole that made the star power lose its perception also had a deep attraction...
"How about we just cast it and see?" Tang Zheng took out a piece of ice stone the size of a fingernail.
He used the method of accumulating power and applying pressure to quickly process it. After removing the impurities, he threw the ice stone into the wolf smoke furnace...
call.
An unknown wind arose.
Before Tang Zheng could inject star power, the sparks in the furnace actually rose up on their own.
Tang Zheng subconsciously drew the star power in the furnace closer to the ice stone. Unexpectedly, the star power in the furnace was as easy to use as his own fingers, and it was easier than using his own star power to control the fire...
The key is that he didn't suffer any loss at all!
He can devote all his energy to casting.
Under Tang Zheng's shaping, the piece of ice stone quickly turned into the shape of a little rabbit, which was very lifelike and cute.
Tang Zheng's ability to control star power was already good. After pulling the star power for a while, a transparent little rabbit fell into his palm.
Although this furnace seemed to be a semi-finished product and the cast little rabbit still needed to be polished before it could take final shape, he stared at the unpolished little rabbit with more and more shock in his eyes.
Just now, from beginning to end, he did not use even a little bit of his star power!
In other words, the furnace in his hand can be used even by ordinary craftsmen who have not lit up the Palace of Life.
An ordinary craftsman is absolutely unable to handle ice stone, nor can he use ice stone to complete casting.
But with this stove, nothing is impossible.
Tang Zheng couldn't help thinking that if he really became an instructor at Yisu Academy, he would have such a furnace and could recruit students with poor talents. They didn't need to have too strong star power, they just needed to work hard to practice star power control...
"Miracle Restaurant...Who is he? And who killed him?" Tang Zheng watched the sparks in the furnace die out and suddenly became curious.
