Chapter 423: Meeting Feng Qingming, the "Fellow Traveler"
Chapter 423: Meeting Feng Qingming, the "Fellow Traveler"
Because Xiao Zian was really curious about other people's gifts, he pestered Rong Shu and insisted that the latter tell him.
Lin Jingyue's gift was the Wutong Guqin, which was not only a top-grade magical instrument, but could also be played as an ordinary Guqin in normal times. It was obtained at the auction of Wanbao Pavilion and sold for 35 spirit stones.
Di Chuchen's gift was a pair of goggles. He first bought suitable jade at a gambling stone field for 30 spirit stones, then polished it into a lens and engraved a small formation inside.
When refining and quenching the weapon, it is not only light-proof and dust-proof, but the small array engraved inside also has a dialysis effect. When combined with spiritual consciousness, one can clearly see all the reactions that occur in the materials during the refining and quenching.
Rong Shu tinkered with two pairs of goggles, keeping one for himself and giving the other to Di Chuchen.
This is also the only two "gifts" that Rong Shu made by himself.
The gift from Master Chen Wudao was a fishing rod, which he got from Wanbao Pavilion.
The master often appeared and disappeared mysteriously, coming down the mountain from time to time. Sometimes he would become a storyteller on the street; sometimes he would become a fisherman in the mountain streams...
This fishing rod can be folded into an ordinary crutch. When fully extended, it becomes a fishing rod with a built-in umbrella. By pressing a switch on the handle, it can be opened into an oil-paper umbrella.
The price of this "fishing rod" is not high. Apart from the basic protective small formation, it has no other special uses. The price is 6 spirit stones.
Rong Shu felt that his master had no shortage of good treasures, and a convenient and ingenious item like this might be even more appreciated by him.
After comparing one by one.
Xiao Zian came to the conclusion.
He put his hands on his hips and laughed triumphantly, like a peacock spreading its tail: "Then Junior Sister has prepared the most gifts for me, hahahaha..."
Leng Mingjing, who was drinking tea nearby, saw this and shook his head helplessly.
"Junior Sister, you just came back. Go back to Weixing Peak to rest for a while. Later, come to Xianzhu Peak to find me."
"Wuhua, come with me back to Xianzhu Peak first."
After saying that, Leng Mingjing stood up and prepared to leave.
Xiao Zian, who didn't hear his name being called, hurriedly asked, "Big Brother, what about me? What about me..."
"You, whatever you want."
Xiao Zian: ...Huh?!
Seeing Leng Mingjing and Wu Hua ignoring him as if he were air and leaving one after another, Xiao Zian turned back to Rong Shu angrily: "Hmph! Junior Sister! Let's go! Senior Brother, I'll go back to Weixing Peak with you!"
What else can Rong Shu do about this?
As for my own fourth senior brother, I can only do what I like and pamper him.
"Okay, Fourth Brother."
"..."
On the way back to Weixing Peak, Rong Shu's expression became restrained. She asked Xiao Zian in a low voice:
"Fourth Senior Brother, before the Heroes Conference began, there were rumors about Senior Brother Wu Hua and Second Senior Sister... Did you find out who was behind it?"
Lin Jingyue's identity as the eldest daughter of the Lin family is little known.
Perhaps someone within the top forces in Zhongzhou, such as Wenxin Academy, knows Lin Jingyue's true identity, but they would never reveal it casually.
As for those second- and third-tier forces that deliberately stir up trouble, they don't have the ability to investigate Lin Jingyue's true identity.
It is even more unlikely that they would know about the interactions between Wu Hua, Lin Jingyue and Yan Mingyuan, the young master of the Yan family.
However, under the influence of public opinion at that time, there were too many people who blindly followed the crowd or took advantage of the situation, which made the situation a mess.
Rong Shu could only slap the faces of those who jumped the fastest and suppress public opinion.
Rong Shu didn't need to be reminded of what happened afterwards. A powerful person like Xiao Zian, who grew up in a prominent family, never believed in coincidences or accidents. He had already started investigating privately.
The Alchemist Guild is spread all over Zhongzhou, and the Xiao family has spies and connections everywhere.
After a lot of unraveling and following the clues——
In the end, the Xiao family's secret agents found out the person who was stirring up trouble behind the scenes.
"I did find out." A cold and gloomy light flashed in Xiao Zian's eyes.
"That person was a little unexpected to me."
Rong Shu asked, "Who is it?"
Xiao Zian: "Feng family, Fifth Miss Feng, Feng Qingming."
"I remember that you and her once met, little junior sister."
"It's actually her..." Rong Shu was stunned.
She was almost forgetting this "fellow villager" who was suspected to be a time traveler.
Because they didn't have much in common, Rong Shu didn't have any idea of "fellow villagers meeting, tears welling up in their eyes" to recognize each other. Apart from the initial brief understanding of Feng Qingming, he forgot about her.
"Why is she targeting Senior Brother Wu Hua? How did she know Second Senior Sister's true identity? And she also knows about the entanglement between her, Yan Mingyuan and the other two..."
For some reason, Rong Shu always felt that something was wrong.
To say that Feng Qingming is a "time traveler" is a bit of a stretch, but previous investigations into this person revealed that Feng Qingming has not changed much in his likes and dislikes since he was a child.
Each of the six major families has a formation set up to test the family bloodline.
If Feng Qingming was reborn by taking over another body, or if she traveled through time, how did she avoid detection?
But if not... why did they use modern ideas to open a shop? Why did they come up with birthday cakes...
If this were just an ordinary secular world without monks and magic, then opening a shop and doing business, and becoming popular in several cities, would indeed be considered a big business.
But... this is the world of immortal cultivation.
Feng Qingming herself is not incapable of cultivation. She is from the Feng family, one of the six great families, and stands at the top of many people.
As a result, he put the cart before the horse and started messing around with the snacks of the secular world.
You know... monks all have to practice fasting. The first thing is to give up their appetite for ordinary grains.
Even though Rong Shu and Duan Yuyan eat and drink every day in the Shenfeng Imperial City, that's because they only go to restaurants that specialize in cooking spiritual food.
Taking spiritual food can also help consolidate one's own cultivation.
Rong Shu has thought that maybe people have different pursuits. Maybe Feng Qingming just wants to eat and drink, live a stable life, and hold the script of the heroine in a farming novel?
But then she learned that Feng Qingming was also trying hard to compete for cultivation resources within the Feng family, and was trying every means to get close to Feng Qingwu, a promising candidate who could compete for the position of the next head of the Feng family.
...Feng Qingming is a person full of contradictions, as inconsistent as he can be.
"It's still under investigation. Logically speaking, Feng Qingming wasn't even born when Third Senior Brother went to Zhongzhou as a young man. They are not of the same generation at all. Where did this hatred come from? Do you want to ruin Third Senior Brother's reputation?" Xiao Zian curled his lips.
He was also very puzzled.
Not only does it ruin someone's reputation, but it also uses that bloody drama of a "grassroots poor boy" stealing someone's fiancée from a wealthy family.
It feels like...much ado about nothing.
If Xiao Zian were to do it, his first thought would be to find ways to ambush Wu Hua when he was acting alone, send assassins to assassinate him, and wipe out the root of the problem.
Rong Shu: "Since this person is targeting Senior Brother Wu Hua and has ill intentions towards him, we must immediately find her out and not allow her to continue using underhanded tactics behind his back."
If you are a thief for a thousand days, you can't guard against thieves for a thousand days.
What's more, Rong Shu is about to leave Zhanming Mountain and will have to stay in the Jixia Academy for a long time and is not allowed to go out.
Lin Jingyue returned to the Lin family.
Emperor Chuchen returned to the Kamikaze Dynasty.
Leng Mingjing and Xiao Zian stayed behind on the Zhanming Mountain. The former needed to guard the seal at all times and could not go down the mountain, while the latter had an agreement with the ancestor of the Xiao family and could not leave the Zhanming Mountain until he reached the fusion stage.
In the entire Zhanming Mountain, Wu Hua is the only one who can walk outside.
If Wu Hua encountered any conspiracy...
Even though Rong Shu knew that Senior Brother Wu Hua was very powerful and that there was no longer the hidden danger of Baili Yan, he still couldn't help but worry.
she thinks……
It’s time to meet the “fellow villager” who is suspected to be a time traveler.
It just so happened that the "execute first and report later" token given to her by the fifth senior brother had not been used yet.
If he was sure that the other party really had ill intentions towards Wu Hua...
Then she must solve this hidden danger personally before going to the Jixia Academy!
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