Chapter 164: Patrolling the Fishing City, Level 3 Bone Ring

Zhelongfu City has hundreds of thousands of households and a population of more than two million. There are a constant stream of pedestrians and merchants coming and going, so it is extremely difficult to close it off for inspection.

Li Yuan lifted the curtain when he entered the city in a carriage.

"Cooked cakes, freshly baked cooked cakes..."

"Sugar-fried chestnuts, only thirteen cents a pound."

"Selling charcoal, selling charcoal..."

It was still very cold just after the New Year, and there were already many pedestrians on the street, and the hawking of various vendors was endless.

"No wonder old man Hu wanted to fish. He wanted to find a team of masters who are good at hiding and disguising in the city, which is tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack."

Li Yuan shook his head in his heart. Without the Skynet, he could only search door to door to find people, but this was meaningless for masters.

He searched and left, and then he climbed over the wall back. How could ordinary soldiers catch him?

"No wonder the profession of ghostwriters has emerged. Martial artists must be captured by martial artists."

Carriage, Li Yuan ordered, and the disciple driving the carriage slowly strolled down the street, while he scanned the pedestrians on both sides.

After walking around a few streets, seeing that it was not far from the forging shop, Li Yuan simply changed his route and went to the forging shop.

Found Liu Zheng and Wang Peiyao who went down the mountain to handle business a few days ago.

"What's that smell on you? It stinks!"

As soon as Li Yuan entered the house, he heard Wang Peiyao's complaints, and a foul smell also hit him.

"Brother Li."

Liu Zheng bowed his hands and explained awkwardly: "These days, I am recruiting those night fragrance men, so it is inevitable that I have been tainted with some smell."

"Night fragrance men?"

Li Yuan opened the door and sat down: "The Zhao family has been in trouble for so long, is there no one doing this business?"

Night fragrance men are a hard job, but dung tyrants are not.

Ye Xianglang walks through the streets at night, collecting silver from every family, collecting it and transporting it outside the city, but it is also the best waste.

This business has always been fought for by people, and the Zhao family relied on Qiu Zhengxiong's relationship to win it.

"After the Zhao family fell, there were people fighting for it, but they were all small families. The larger families were scared and dared not to reach out."

Wang Peiyao covered her nose and said, "The Zhou family, the first family to cooperate with us, also intervened. Liu Zheng was afraid that his family would eat alone, so he also got involved."

Liu Zheng added:

"Brother Li, this business may look inconspicuous, but it is a big business. The Zhao family only relied on this item before, and earned at least 5,000 taels of silver every year."

"Is it a lot?"

Li Yuan also knew that the dung tyrants made money, but he didn't expect to make so much money. You know, the Zhao family only monopolized the business in several urban areas.

"Each family will share some of the profits. It is estimated that it is not that much, but our family can at least get a share of thousands of taels of silver."

Liu Zheng said.

Li Yuan nodded, and suddenly something happened to him: "I heard that Ye Xianglang went from street to street, and every household had to collect and return the dung buckets?"

"Brother Li also knows about this?"

Liu Zheng nodded: "Cleaning the dung buckets is also included, but this is really hard-earned money, and most dung tyrants will not take a cut, which seems too mean."

"Well, that's it."

Li Yuan's heart moved:

"Then you have to inform all the dung tyrants and ask them to pay attention to the merchants with foreign accents..."

"Don't do it in my name, you can decide the details, spend some money, and try to contact as many families as possible."

"Yes!"

Liu Zheng nodded without asking, and went out to take a shower.

"Brother Li, are you looking for someone?"

Wang Peiyao opened the window, and when the smell in the room had almost dissipated, she got up and poured a cup of tea for Li Yuan:

"I heard that the information in Yunshu Tower is more complete than that in the Supervisory Hall in the Valley, but it's very expensive."

"Yunshu Tower? I'll go check it out later."

Li Yuan nodded. A force that dares to rank on various lists must have a strong intelligence system.

But Jing Shuhu has no reason not to know. I'm afraid he doesn't have it, or he didn't buy it. After all, the time is too sensitive.

Wang Peiyao didn't ask much, but went to the house to get the information he had collected during this period.

Li Yuan didn't look at it either, but put it in his arms first and asked:

"Have those leather shops replied?"

After experiencing the benefits of controlling boots, Li Yuan couldn't forget it.

"I did ask, but..."

Wang Peiyao shook her head and said, "There are many more spirit beasts in the city than in Gaoliu, but they are also more useful.

Half of the spirit beast skins collected by those families are supplied to the Weapon Casting Valley, and the rest are also consumed by various families. Most of them are used to make inner armor and outer clothes, and only a very small number are used to make boots."

She naturally knew Li Yuan's hobby and had already found out clearly:

"The only ones who make boots in the city are the 'Liuhetang' and 'Yangxuezhai'. They are easy to talk to. If there are spirit beast skins, they will be made, but the price is much higher."

"So, spirit beast skins are still rare?"

Li Yuan nodded, took out a few hundred-liang silver bills and handed them over: "You pay attention, if there are spirit beast skins on the market, you have to buy them at a premium."

It is difficult to breed spirit beasts. Most of them are wild and live in deep mountains and forests, making them difficult to catch.

In a sense, spirit beast skins are more popular than spirit beast meat. As soon as they appear on the market, they are snapped up.

"Well, I'll keep an eye on it."

Wang Peiyao was secretly shocked. The treatment of the true disciples was beyond her imagination.

She was obviously from a poor family, but it had only been a short time since she got involved in luxury items like 'spiritual beast boots' and 'spiritual beast belts'.

Fortunately, she seemed to be not interested in rings and necklaces, which were the big spenders...

"By the way, do you have rings and necklaces made of spiritual beast bones?"

Li Yuan asked.

The appearance of the five-step snake skin belt made him feel that the items that the military talisman could control seemed to be much richer than he had expected.

The belt was fine, but what about the rings and necklaces?

"Ah?"

Wang Peiyao subconsciously straightened his back, almost thinking that he could read minds, and stammered:

"Should, should there be?"

"Let's go shopping!"

"Shopping, shopping?"

Wang Peiyao opened her mouth, her face slightly red: "Well, I, I'll go wash my face."

...

It was noon at this moment, and the streets and alleys were still crowded with people, and the noise was very lively.

"The jewelry store is in front."

Wang Peiyao dressed up carefully, and she looked very pretty in a simple martial arts robe.

With her as a guide, Li Yuan strolled slowly, sweeping back and forth with his peripheral vision. Except for the snack stalls, there was no need to stop one by one.

Because of the news of the departure of the Sanyuanwu army, the number of merchants coming to Zhelong Mansion was much less than in previous years, but there were still many good things.

Daoye Li was rich and powerful. He would buy any items that he thought were useful or rare, whether they were of a certain rank or not.

By the way, he also looked at the weapons of the people passing by.

The lights of various colors intertwined in his eyes. Before he even got to the jewelry store, Li Yuan felt his eyes were a little sore.

"If I want to see the whole city, my eyes will be dazzled."

Li Yuan rubbed his eyes and followed Wang Peiyao into the jewelry store. The first thing that caught his eye was all kinds of gold and silver accessories, jade and agate were everywhere.

There were many women in the store choosing, and they all had good looks and figures.

"Miss, sir, what do you want?"

A maid came up to greet him.

Wang Peiyao looked normal: "Are there any jewelry related to spirit beasts?"

"Are you talking about spirit beast bone accessories?"

After the maid confirmed, she bowed slightly: "The spirit beast bone accessories are in the back, please follow me."

"Yes."

Wang Peiyao responded.

Li Yuan scanned the entire store. There were some weapons shining on the three floors, but most of them were from customers or their swords and sabers.

The ornaments on the walls and cabinets did not emit the light of weapons.

"Aren't they all weapons?"

Li Yuan pondered the principles of the Weapon Scroll, but he always felt that the boundaries of some weapons identified by the Weapon Scroll were a bit vague.

But he thought that bone ornaments could be counted as weapons, because the earliest ancient ornaments could also be used as weapons.

This jewelry store was very large, with five entrances in front and back. This end was a store, and the end was also a store. It spanned two streets and occupied a larger area than the forging shop.

"Please come this way, two guests."

The maid greeted, and Li Yuan's eyes lit up from a distance, and he had already seen the light of weapons.

Bone ornaments are indeed considered weapons!

The small store was much quieter than the one on the front street. It was obviously not as popular as gold and silver. In addition, it was also related to the price.

"How much do these things cost?"

Wang Peiyao was responsible for talking to the maid.

Li Yuan paced by himself, picking out those with light from the many accessories.

Bracelets, rings, necklaces, jade pendants, hairpins, etc.

There were more than ten pieces of non-graded ones, seven pieces of grade one, three pieces of grade two, and the highest one was a grade three bone ring.

[Spiritual Fire 𫐉 Ox Bone Ring (Grade Three)]

[Made from the bones of the Spiritual Fire 𫐉 Ox, soaked in medicinal soup, and forged by fierce fire, the nature of the ox has not dissipated...]

[Control requirements: Ox shape]

[Control effect: Grade three (dark blue): heat insulation, fire resistance

Grade two (blue): water nature, spirituality]

"Spirituality!"

Li Yuan took the bone ring in his hand, it was slightly hot, and then turned cold again.

He squinted slightly, the control blessing of this ring was indeed different from that of a weapon.

[Spirituality: The Spiritual Fire 𫐉 Ox died but did not dissipate, the spirituality remained, and control could cleanse the spirit]

Good stuff!

Li Yuan's eyes lit up slightly. This bone ring was more direct than the belt. It was actually related to "spirit". This was too rare.

However, he did not bother Wang Peiyao to bargain. After she negotiated the price, he bought all the bone ornaments.

After leaving the house, Li Yuan went to several other jewelry stores and spent more than a thousand taels of silver in less than half a day.

Then he asked Wang Peiyao to lead him to leather shops, "Liuhetang" and "Yangxuezhai" and other places selling boots.

This time he was not so lucky. Before, Wang Peiyao and Liu Zheng bought all the stocks, and Liujia only bought two pairs of first-level Liuhe boots.

After walking around more than ten streets, seeing that it was not dark yet, Li Yuan simply ran to the nearest Canshen Temple.

He urgently needed incense of level three or above.

...

"This kid is looking for someone like this?!"

Outside the Canshen Temple, Jing Shuhu, who was mixed in the crowd, had a black face.

Let you be a bait, you go shopping with a woman? !

Another jewelry store, another leather store...

"Good boy!"

Jing Shuhu was so angry that his teeth itched, but he still followed him into the temple and only asked the disciples of the Supervisory Hall to spread the news.