Chapter 97 Vigilance
Tianluo Road and Xianlin Road are adjacent to each other. If you are rushing at night, it will take only two or three days to get from Tianluo City to Wanhua City.
Because of the time left, Wang Daoling suggested that he simply rest in Tianluo City for a day, and he happened to take this opportunity to accompany Fang Shiyu. When he came to such a strange place, he would not use his own carriage when he went shopping. After all, Tianluo City is so big, locals are more familiar with the streets and alleys. So after the sun was three o'clock the next day, Wang Daoling rented a travel tool from Wanjia Inn, and went shopping with Fang Shiyu and Mohen.
Jingzhou, which is close to the blue moon period, is the most pleasant season of the year. The sun is warm outside but not sunny. All kinds of flowers, plants and trees are planted all over the city. When the breeze blows, the fragrance is everywhere, and the whole city seems to be shrouded in the fragrance of flowers. It is said that this is not the most beautiful. The Wanhua City at this time is called fragrance and beauty!
In such a beautiful season, there are many people going out to shop. The streets and shops on both sides are crowded with people. Many restaurants on the roadside have already opened their doors to do morning tea business. Many locals in Tianluo City have adapted to it. On such a morning, when they come to the restaurant, they have a few close friends or besties and sisters, lazy to make a pot of tea and order some snacks and pastries...
A kind of life that permeates the whole city, presented to the three people shopping like a picture.
Without going to those small shops, the inn carriages went straight to their destination--the highest-end Tianluo silk fabrics and garment shops in Tianluo City. There is a reason for the expensiveness. There is a special place to park carriages at the side door of this shop called Tianluofu. Although there are many carriages parked, these customers are scattered in large shops and they will not appear crowded.
"Welcome to the guests!"
As soon as she arrived at the door, a beautiful little girl in her early twenties came forward to greet her. The little girl was wearing a long skirt made of Tianluo silk, which attracted the attention of Fang Shiyu and Mohen. Sure enough, even if she was a cultivator, as long as she was a woman, there was no one who didn't like beauty. The two women entered the store and were immediately attracted by the various styles of Tianluo silk products in the store.
"Take them around and take whatever you like, and I will pay for it later!" Wang Daoling glanced around at the first glance, and saw a rest area in the store, where many men were already sitting there.
Fang Shiyu and Mo Hen were taken to Neiting Shopping Area by the beautiful little girl, but Wang Daoling did not follow him.
How desperate is it to accompany a woman to shop?
There are all kinds of tea and pastries in the lounge area, and there are bookshelfs next to them, with some popular novels on the market. Wang Daoling found an empty seat to sit down, and didn't read books and eat, but just lie down slightly, closing his eyes with gratitude. Before, in Xiangnandao, his nerves were a little tense, especially in the last seven or eight days. In addition, there was an inseparable Luo Hanxing nagging around him, and it was rare that he could close his eyes quietly like now, just like now.
Even in Tianluo City, those who can come to shop are considered as the rich or noble group. The men sitting in the rest area are calm, as if they don’t care how much money their own women in the inner court will spend.
"Yongzhi, in a few days, the annual Wanhua Festival in Wanhua City will begin. When are you planning to set off?"
"Tomorrow!" The man named Yongzhi replied, then lowered his voice and said, "How could he take the one from home here today? Don't you think about it with me?"
"Hahaha..." Another man smiled in a tone that men knew, "Except for the selection of the courtesans in Wanhua City and the auction of the Hundred Fruits, this year is the year when the daughter of Wanhua Valley is married once every four years."
"Brother Jian Fang, I don't want to think about you and you, that's not something you can get with more money!"
"Yes..." The man named Jian Fang sighed and said with endless regret: "You and I are both merchant families. The first condition for marrying a daughter in Wanhua Valley is to cultivate aristocratic families. Even if I do not have the talent for cultivating stars, my family must be a cultivating stars family...!"
"I heard Ding Zihao from the Ding family say some time ago..." Yongzhi lowered his voice again: "The married daughter of Wanhua Valley is amazing..."
"He just talks. There is a daughter married outside Wanhua Valley at home, but that is his sister-in-law. How did he know if it's wonderful?" Jian Fang said disdainfully: "He has tried his own family..."
After a pause, he didn't say it directly. The man who asked Jian Fang to skip this paragraph and continued: "He is just a unilateral imagination. In terms of beauty, not to mention the courtesans in Wanhua City, what is the difference between the courtesans in Tianluo City every year? It's not better than them? In terms of taste, he can be more diverse than the girls trained by the Flower Building? After all, it's just that there is the identity bonus of Wanhua Valley!"
"That's right..." Yongzhi immediately agreed with his friend's analysis, and then sighed: "Don't look at the endless glory in our world, but that's just a hundred and eight thousand miles away from the cultivation world..."
"This is true. I met Ding Zihao's sister-in-law at a high-end banquet. In terms of age, it's time to be in his early forties, but you don't know that his face is still similar to his twenties, and his skin is so great... better than the seventeen-year-old concubine I had taken some time ago!"
"Isn't there any rumors outside that women married in Wanhua Valley age very slowly. Even when they reach hundreds of years old, they are like beautiful women in their forties. And they live long, and they are rumored to be able to live beyond 150 years old!"
"It's like a martial arts innate master..."
Wang Daoling listened interestingly. This was the first time he heard the discussions of ordinary senior officials about star cultivators. Especially since he was about to go to Wanhua City, where he was about to trade 100 fruits, it seems that Wanhua City will be particularly lively this year.
Wang Daoling became vigilant about the Wanhua Valley mentioned by the two men.
According to these two men, Wanhua Valley married women in the valley every four years, and only married families with the Xingxing family. Looking at the long-term line, Wanhua Valley has no longer penetrated into some small and medium-sized families in the Xingxing world. After years of accumulation, perhaps some small and medium-sized families have been controlled by Wanhua Valley. At this time, those small and medium-sized families can in turn provide high-quality female offspring to Wanhua Valley. Such an invisible net made by women is stronger than any alliance of interests.
"It seems that you should be cautious when traveling to Wanhua City this time." Wang Daoling closed his eyes and thought to himself: "The three central states are obviously more powerful. Otherwise, the Luo family's caravan would not need to be broken into pieces and carefully dispersed to trade resources. In addition, the matter of Xiangnan Road this time is so strange, it may not have passed like it is on the surface. Moreover, when Wang Daoling left the team, he did not see Luo Tianying. According to the Yuecang Sect's style, there are even bigger events to happen later! It seems... the Luo family has been thinking about competing with some sects in the middle for control of Xiangnan Road."
Thinking of this, Wang Daoling had some plans in his mind. No matter what, before returning to the assembly point after the three states trade trip, he would have better handle another constellation. At the same time, the second stone of the Heaven-Booning Stone has been raised, and he can start to raise the third one in the near future. According to time, it is still one and a half years before it will be a problem for him to raise three more pieces, but he doesn't know whether the five pieces can meet the needs of Aries. He has a feeling that once the "pseudo-star palace" of Aries is raised by the Heaven-Booning Stone, there will be some unexpected gains.
"It's a pity that there is still no second level of the Daluo Zhoutian Sword Formation. In one and a half years, it's enough for me to get the third-level flying sword made of Black Star Iron required for the second level of the sword formation." Wang Daoling muttered in his heart: "The vibrating gold has been refined into a portable Tang sword, which is barely enough at this stage. This time, the three states trade still have to trade some first- and second-level materials, and those people in the family should be able to use it. Besides... the Twelve Star Palace is also a gold-swalking beast!"
When Wang Daoling thought of the things at home, he suddenly had a headache. It is really not easy to raise such a large number of people, and they are all cultivators.
Chapter completed!