Half-demon Raising Immortals

Chapter 23 Jade Vegetables
Early morning.

The streets away from Wanyu Cave were silent.

There are sporadic lighted windows, revealing a few bright lights.

On the empty streets, there are only fallen leaves and debris on the ground.

Lu Tong returned to the tea tavern.

A candlestick was lit on the counter, and Dahan sat behind in a daze, not knowing what he was thinking.

Erhu made a bed with a table in the corner and fell asleep.

"Why haven't you slept yet?"

"I fell asleep and woke up again."

Lu Tong went to pat his head, and the hand felt no longer slippery, but a layer of hard stubble.

"Hey, have you grown hair?"

Dahan smirked and said, "Well, it just grew out."

Lu Tong was a little surprised.

Hair is only growing now, which means that Dahan was not fully grown up before, and will become stronger and stronger in the future.

"Aside from growing hair, what else has changed?"

"Hungry, hungry for pork."

Lu Tong shook his head, took out two taels of silver and said, "Go to the vegetable market tomorrow to buy meat. Let's go upstairs and help me guard the gate."

Enter the elegant room on the second floor.

Sitting cross-legged on the soft couch for tea tasting, Lu Tong took off the glove on his left hand and unwrapped the bandages layer by layer, exposing his left hand.

The palms and backs of the hands were all red.

After wrapping it for a whole day, the surface of the skin has wrinkled and looks like red bark.

After refining the carapace of a teacup of blood beetles, his cultivation improved by leaps and bounds, breaking through to the fourth level of Qi training.

But the remaining bloodstains also expanded several times.

From a small red mark occupying the palm, it spread to completely enveloping the left hand.

Fortunately, apart from looking scary, there is no other discomfort.

After the training at the Butterfly Academy, most of his energy had recovered, so he took out the short knife and carapace without resting, and continued refining.

It is a long way to practice.

Without the support of his relatives and friends, he can only rely on daily diligence and gradual progress.

……

Five days passed quickly.

After the tea tavern closed that day, Lu Tong called Er Hu to the private room on the second floor.

"Er Hu, what news have you heard recently?"

Erhu took out a stack of paper, which was covered with strange marks, looked at it and said:

"The price of a carriage has gone up."

"A lot of monsters have died, and the wages of laborers recruited by the chamber of commerce are higher than before."

"A person died at the intersection of West Street. He was found in the morning. I don't know who killed him. Some said it was a cultivator from another place, and some said it was robbed."

"..."

"The road to Linyang City is open."

"The tiger's mouth outside the city is blocked, and many cargo caravans blocked by ghost fog are blocked outside."

"There are daily fights outside Hukou Pass. There is a foreign chamber of commerce who is ruthless and dares to bleed blood with a knife when trying to grab a position."

"There is a chamber of commerce that pulls carts and all the monsters were killed."

"Some people say that Yiyezong is going to Baizhu Mountain to try his luck in accepting his disciples. Some people say that the newly recruited disciple has already entered the mountain, and he is the third son of Baili's family."

Erhu talked for almost a stick of incense before finally finishing.

After listening, Lu Tong thought for a moment and asked, "A monster from a chamber of commerce was killed. What's going on?"

Erhu flipped through the notes a few times, shook his head and said, "I didn't write it down. I remember what they said about the tiger's mouth, saying that many convoys were stuck outside and fighting for positions every day."

Lu Tong wrote down this matter and asked again, "Where is Yiye Zong taking disciples?"

Yiye Sect does not select disciples from ordinary people like other sects from other places.

Those who can join the Yiye sect are all people with good luck in the legend.

Erhu flipped through his notes again, and said, "This news is not accurate. It was said by the people at the table who drank too much. I asked other guests and they said they hadn't heard of it."

"Okay, go and rest."

After the two tigers left, Lu Tong took out "Jie Zi" and "Di Zhi Yunying City" and began to search for news about Hukou Pass.

Where there is conflict, there is often interest.

The current conflict at Hukou Pass seems to be intense.

……

the next day.

Lu Tong left the teahouse and walked near the west gate.

There are a lot of orphans and half-demons here, half-sized and small, gathering together at the gate of the city to beg.

Hoof and Bird Feather grew up here when they were young.

Lu Tong glanced at it, walked up to a strange half-demon with a human head, a snake body, eagle claws, and bird wings, and asked, "Excuse me, I have some news."

People are weak in body and strong in spirit; demons are strong in body and weak in spirit.

The blood pulse is suddenly weak, which can produce half-demon offspring.

But between the half-demon and the half-demon, the blood is extremely chaotic, and it is extremely difficult to conceive offspring.

The half-demon in front of him has at least three bloodlines: human, snake, and eagle, which is really rare.

The weird half-demon glanced at Lu Tong, and asked back, "Why are you looking for me?"

"The group of little half-demons under the city gate are your subordinates. There are a dozen little guys helping you. You must be well informed."

"how do you know?"

The weird half-demon instantly became alert, a pair of eagle claws clasped the ground, and the snake tail stopped swinging.

Lu Tong took half a step back and explained: "Ten years ago, I was begging for a living here, and I understood the rules here. Just now, after the little half-demon was begging for money, he secretly glanced at you."

The little half-demons are easily bullied, and most of them seek refuge with the big half-demons.

Most of the money collected has to be handed over.

Therefore, when most of the guards are not paying attention, the little half-demons will often hide some of them privately.

The weird half-demon relaxed and asked, "What are you asking?"

"What happened outside Huya Pass? I heard that a monster pulling a cart from a chamber of commerce was killed."

"Well, there is such a thing."

The weird half-demon narrowed his eyes and looked Lu Tong up and down.

Lu Tong took out a dozen copper plates and weighed them in his hand.

The weird half-demon shook his head.

Lu Tong took out another three or five, and said, "It's almost there, this is not your family."

"Okay, give me the money first."

Lu Tong threw half of it out, kept the other half in his hand and said, "Let's talk."

"Hey, this news is quite big. The monster that was killed was the Jade Vegetable Chamber of Commerce. His family had several batches of vegetables from other places, which were delayed by the ghost fog. I heard that the vegetables were about to go bad, so I was in a hurry to jump in the queue to pass the customs, but I didn't expect to be sent down black hands."

"Who did it?"

"I don't know, who would dare to admit such a thing, the Jade Vegetable Chamber of Commerce is not a small force."

Lu Tong sneered and said, "Isn't that the foreign chamber of commerce?"

"Huh? You know and still ask?"

A sullen breath rushed to his forehead in an instant.

Lu Tong didn't know any foreign chambers of commerce.

It's just that Erhu said that there was a foreign chamber of commerce who was ruthless, so he tried it out.

Unexpectedly, this strange guy really hid his secrets.

Lu Tong weighed the remaining copper plates, turned around and left.

"Wait, I still have news. Those people from other places came from Jushui Lake. I know their details."

Lu Tong took two more steps before stopping, turned around and said, "Tell me."

The weird half-demon stared at the copper plate, smiled flatteringly and said, "This..."

"Tell me first, I'm different from you?"

"The group of out-of-town people transported fish from the intercepting lake. The intercepting lake is a lawless place. Fishing there is done with your head up. The folk customs are very strong. Many people call them fishermen bandits."

Cutshui Lake, Lu Tong had seen this place in the book.

There is no sea near Yunying City, but the intercepting lake described in the book looks the same as the sea.

Boundless, turbulent water.

There is also a spiritual tide under the water surface. Once the ship hits the tidal dividing line, it will be cut in half instantly.

The lake is very dangerous, but the fish in Jieshui Lake are full of vitality and the price is high.

There has been an endless stream of monks, half-demons, and monsters who have ventured into the lake to fish.

"anything else?"

"Gone."

"Ok?"

"It's really gone, that's all there is in total."

Lu Tong threw out a copper plate, turned around and left.

After leaving Ximen, he did not return to the teahouse, but walked towards the vegetable market.

In the morning, there are not many people in the market.

Less than [-]% of the vendors put vegetables on the chopping boards, and most of the vegetables looked stale.

Lu Tong walked into a shop with a "Jade Vegetable" jade sign hanging at the door.

The quality of the vegetables here is obviously much better than outside.

But there are few varieties, and many shelves are empty.

He walked to the counter and asked the boy behind him, "Is your shopkeeper there?"

(End of this chapter)