Taiping Inn

After Li Xuandu left, Gong Guan and Ning Yi still stood on the deck and did not return to the ship.

The two were silent for a long time.

After a long time, Gong Guan said softly: "Mr. Ning, don't worry too much. Li Zifu has gone too far on this road and is destined to not turn back."

Ning Yi shook his head: "He is right."

The tenth person on the Taixuan list sighed: "Don't forget, I also grew up reading the books of saints and was once a disciple of saints. I know what he wants to say, and I know that he looks down on me a little."

At this point, he couldn't help but smile bitterly: "We have had intersections before, and I know he is not a person who pretends to be noble. People, do not think that they are superior to others. There are so many people in the world, why does he look down on me alone? In the final analysis, he felt sorry for my misfortune and angry at my lack of struggle. He felt that I could have come out to help the people, but I imprisoned myself in a cage. "

The palace official unfolded the folding fan in his hand to cover his face below the nose: "In the final analysis, it is the righteousness of the country and the family."

Ning Yi looked at the river outside the boat. At this moment, he seemed to have turned back into the passionate scholar with a bookcase on his back, muttering: "If the country will not exist, how can the family exist?"

On the other side, Li Xuandu parted with the palace official and others and returned to the official road.

At this time, Li Xuandu changed his scholar's dress and put on a neat dress of an ordinary Jianghu man. The upturned cloud shoes were replaced with flat boots, and the cold beauty wrapped the scabbard and handle with coarse cloth. As long as the sword is not drawn out of the scabbard, there is no clue.

Li Xuandu considers himself a pragmatic person. Take the matter of "Tianle Taoyuan" for example, are the women in it pitiful? There are indeed pitiful people, but there are more pitiful people in the world than them. In any case, these women have only lost their dignity and freedom, and outside Taoyuan, there are more people who have not only lost their dignity and freedom, but also their lives. In order to survive, they sell themselves, their wives, their children, and their daughters, abandoning all their dignity to beg for a meal, and even being coerced by the rebels and refugees, and forced by swords and guns to fill the moat with human lives and consume the arrows and logs of the city defenders. There are even more horrifying people who treat living people as "two-legged sheep", no different from livestock?

Is it bitter for the young man and fairy who lost their lover? Of course it is bitter, but it is much better than those who are living a life worse than death. Li Xuan couldn't understand why some people felt sorry for these men and women because they lost their lovers, but why did they turn a blind eye to those people who even lost their lives? Aren't those lives lives?

Or, some people think they are superior to others, thinking that the common people are made of mud, and the air is foul, while these men and women are made of water, and they feel refreshed when they see them, so all their compassion and mercy are only for love and romance? Because a young lady from an official family and a scholar failed to elope, they cried their eyes out, but they were indifferent to the people who fell to death outside the city and starved to death?

Li Xuandu has no father or mother. If he had not met his master, he would have been one of those people who starved to death, so Li Xuandu never thought highly of himself.

Zhang Suqing once said to Li Xuandu: "Being close to power makes some people mistakenly think that they have power." In other words, some people are close to the powerful and mistakenly think that they are also powerful. They look at everything from the perspective of the powerful and think that they are superior to the common people in everything. They are not ashamed of being regarded as slaves, but are proud of it and complacent.

It is too difficult for Li Xuandu to change such a world by his own strength.

This is why Li Xuandu said this to Ning Yi. He didn't want Ning Yi to continue to immerse herself in her own world and turn a deaf ear to what was happening outside the window. He didn't expect his words today to be the thunder that woke Ning Yi up. It was just a knock on the door. Whether Ning Yi could get out of this cage depended on herself.

Li Xuandu didn't want to practice the "Thirteen Swords of Taiyin" that he had just obtained. With his current realm, he was still too incapable of mastering all the Thirteen Swords. At least he had to wait until he returned to the True Realm. If he wanted to return to the True Realm in a short time, he would still have to rely on the "Five Qi True Pill".

At this time, Nan Kezi had already left to return to Donghua Sect to prepare for alchemy. Li Xuandu was a complete layman in alchemy. It was useless to go there early, which was just a waste of time. It was better to deal with other things first.

In addition to the transaction with the palace officials, he also had to go to Tingfeng Tower.

There are four major organizations in the Jianghu, namely: Wenxiangtang, Wandumen, Tingfenglou, and Bailianfang. Although they are not sects, they are better than sects and run all kinds of business.

Each of the four has its own strengths. Among them, Tingfenglou is good at getting information, Wandumen is good at assassination, Bailianfang is similar to a pawnshop and escort agency, and Wenxiangtang is good at forging documents and selling various things needed to travel the Jianghu. For example, the famous human skin mask is mostly made by Wenxiangtang. The road permit that Hu Liang used was also purchased from Wenxiangtang, which was almost real. However, the cost is also quite high. A road permit costs one Taiping coin, which is enough to discourage ordinary people in the Jianghu.

This time Li Xuan went to Tingfenglou to get information about Qin Xiang.

During the turmoil in the imperial capital, almost all of the four ministers' faction were killed or injured. Qin Xiang, as a general promoted by Zhang Suqing himself, naturally could not escape the fate of being dismissed from office and imprisoned. However, Qin Xiang was a meritorious official who recovered Liangzhou and Qinzhou after all, and his contributions were enormous, especially his prestige in the army and among the people was extremely high. If he was killed rashly, it would not only shock the court and the public, but also cause trouble in the army. In addition, the court was in turmoil at that time, so Qin Xiang was only dismissed from office. In the fourth year of Tianbao, he was released from the imperial prison, demoted to a commoner, and sent back to his hometown.

Qin Xiang is from Yinyang Prefecture in Zhongzhou. Yinyang Prefecture is located at the northernmost end of Zhongzhou, which happens to be the junction of Zhongzhou, Jinzhou and Yanzhou. Now Qin Xiang is missing. Not only can the court not find him, but even Li Xuan wants to find him, but he has to spend a lot of effort, and even ask for help from Tingfeng Tower.

But then again, going to Tingfeng Tower to get information is also a big expense. The 1,000 Taiping money he has may not be enough, so before going to Tingfeng Tower, he has to go to Bailianfang first.

Like Tingfeng Tower, Bailianfang is spread all over the prefectures of the world. Sixty miles outside Longmen Prefecture, there is an unnamed small lake in the mountains. There is a villa built by the lake. This is Bailianfang in Zhongzhou.

This villa is very large, with people coming and going, and it looks like a restaurant with good business. However, those who come here are all people from the martial arts world. Ordinary people will never come here in their lifetime, and it is destined to be difficult to get close, because there will be a steward of Bailianfang guarding each intersection leading to the other courtyard. In addition to blocking some ordinary people who mistakenly enter this place, they are also responsible for screening guests. If they are familiar guests, someone will be specially received. If they are new guests who come for the first time, their identities must be identified.

Li Xuandu entered the mountain from a rugged path. The one guarding here was a young woman who was not much older than Li Xuandu. She was dressed dignifiedly, mainly in white, with gold thread rolling edges, and white embroidered shoes with white lotus embroidered on them, all of which corresponded to the name "Bai Lianfang".

The woman asked directly in the official language of the Wei Dynasty: "Is this guest here for the first time?"

Li Xuandu took out a white jade card from the "Eighteenth Floor" and handed it to the woman.

A strange color flashed across the woman's eyes. After all, people who can own a Xumi treasure and are not afraid to show it to others either have a big backer or have unique skills.

Then she looked at the jade card in her hand. The jade card was made of white jade. There was a relief of "A" on the front and a blooming lotus on the back. The woman's face suddenly became more respectful: "So the guest is a guest of grade A."

Bai Lian Fang will divide various guests into four levels: A, B, C, and D. Among them, guests of grade D are new guests who come here for the first time, guests of grade C are familiar guests who have come here more than once and have transaction records, and guests of grade B are distinguished guests with transaction records of more than 500 Taiping coins. 500 Taiping coins is 15,000 taels of silver. Not to mention the casual people in the world, even many well-known and well-known guests in the world can't take it out. After all, there is a huge difference between a net worth of tens of thousands of taels of real estate and tens of thousands of taels of cash directly.

As for guests of grade Jiazi, the transaction amount must exceed 2,000 Taiping coins. When Li Xuandu was still the Purple Mansion Sword Immortal, he often came here to "sell stolen goods", but he became a guest of grade Jiazi in Bai Lian Fang without knowing it.

After the young woman gave a few instructions to the steward who came over to take over from her, she handed the jade token back with both hands and said softly, "Sir, please follow me."