big dream master

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At this moment, Shen Luo came to Taolin Town alone.

Of course, he was not looking for flowers, but was entrusted by Lu Huaming to find a restaurant called "Taohuawu" in the town.

The owner of this restaurant is a little different from other restaurants. Not only can he use peach blossoms to make wine, but he can also use peach flesh to make a kind of fruit wine. The taste is sour and sweet, and the smell is fragrant. It is the only one in this Taolin town.

However, the brewing cycle of this kind of peach fruit wine is short, and it is not as full-bodied as other wines, so it can be stored for a short time, so it can only be bought in the current season. Once the time is over, you can only buy it in the next year .

It was also for this reason that Shen Luo agreed to help Lu Huaming catch up with the end of the season and buy two jars of fruit wine.

The business in the town was deserted, and most of the shops were either completely closed or closed their doors. According to Lu Huaming's description, Shen Luo walked all the way from one end of the town to the other, and only saw the "Taohuawu" wine trick at a corner.

This is a small shop specializing in selling wine. There are no tables, chairs, and benches for entertaining. There is only one door stall. Drinks can be bought and taken as you go. The price is quite reasonable. Peach blossom wine is one tael per jug, ten taels a jar, and peach fruit wine is one tael and a half A pot, 15 taels and an altar.

However, on the notice board that hung up, there were two big words "sold out." written in black and white.

Shen Luo looked at those two words, and sighed in his heart, knowing that he was afraid that his trip would be wasted.

But I have already come here, and I always have to go up and ask a question before I give up.

Before he got close, he heard a crisp female voice coming from the shop:

"Why are you such a rogue guest? I have told you dozens of times that these two jugs of wine are reserved for regular customers and cannot be sold to you. Why didn't you listen?"

"Little girl, you keep two altars for regular customers, and the total is only 30 taels. I will give you ten taels of silver, and you sell me a pot. Is this the whole thing?" Outside the shop stall, a graceful man wrapped in snow-white fox fur , begged without giving up.

There is a jadeite pendant hanging around his waist, which is filled with a faint aura, and it is not ordinary at a glance.

Shen Luo stepped forward and came to the side of the fox-fur man, and saw a pretty little girl standing in the stall, but she was only fifteen or sixteen years old, but she had braided hair, she was neatly dressed, and her waist was tight. He was also wearing a gray cloth apron, looking very smart and capable.

"Shopkeeper, is there still peach wine for sale?" Shen Luo asked.

The little girl couldn't help rolling her eyes when she heard this.

Seeing this, Shen Luo realized that the word "sold out" had already been posted outside the store, and he knew it knowingly.

"That... can you sell me a pot, just one pot." Shen Luo said a little embarrassed.

"Here's another one. If you don't sell it, don't sell it. The remaining two jars of wine are reserved for regular customers. If you say you won't sell it, you will definitely not sell it." The girl waved her hand impatiently, as if she was about to close the shutter of the stall. Put it on and go out of business completely.

"Oh, don't..." Seeing this, the fox-fur man hurriedly stretched out his hand to block it, but was stared back by the girl.

The man in the fox fur coat shrugged and stopped.

Shen Luo turned around and was about to leave, suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, he remembered something, and quickly asked: "Shopkeeper, the regular customer you left for these two jugs of wine, shouldn't it be a person named Lu Huaming?"

"Hey, how do you know?" The girl really stopped and asked in surprise.

When Shen Luo heard the words, he was determined.

Before, Lu Huaming said that he would go here to buy two jars of wine every year. It has been seven or eight years, and he is a regular customer among regular customers.

It's just that he didn't mention the fact that the wine was not easy to buy before, so Shen Luo guessed that the regular customer that the little girl was talking about might be Lu Huaming.

"Hey, he can't come this year because he has something to do, so he asked me to come over and help him buy wine for fear of delaying the drinking period." Shen Luo said hastily.

"Oh, how do you prove it?" The girl looked doubtfully at Shen Luo.

"This... He really didn't give any proof." Shen Luo scratched his head, and suddenly felt a little difficult.

"Then how can I trust you, didn't you come to lie to me after hearing your name?" The girl frowned, crossed her waist and said.

Shen Luo thought about it for a while, and immediately made up his mind.

As soon as he raised his hand, water steamed up in his palm, and a water curtain was spread out in front of the girl, with streamers floating on it, and Lu Huaming's image appeared vividly on it.

"Miss, please look, if I don't know Lu Huaming, I definitely can't do this, right?" Shen Luo asked.

The girl glanced at the water curtain scroll, her eyes lit up immediately, not only because she realized that the man was really Lu Huaming, but also because she was amazed by Shen Luo's magical technique.

"It seems that you really know Big Brother Lu, so you can help him get the wine, but he hasn't paid for it yet." The girl nodded and said.

"It's okay, I'll pay, I'll pay." Shen Luo shouted hastily.

The girl collected the silver, and immediately turned around and went to the shelf behind, took down the last two jars of peach wine, put them on the counter at the stall, and pushed them to Shen Luo.

When Shen Luo was about to pick up the wine, two big hands beside him suddenly reached out and clasped fists at Shen Luo.

"Fellow Taoist, can this peach fruit wine be passed to the next jar?" the graceful fox-fur man asked with a smile all over his face.

"Buying for someone else, I can't let you." Shen Luo bowed back, not wanting to entangle too much.

"Don't want a pot, just a pot, just a pot." The fox-fur man immediately changed his words when he saw this, and stretched out a finger without the slightest hesitation.

Shen Luo turned his head to look, and saw that his handsome facial features were full of anticipation, his amber eyes were shining with anticipation, and his Adam's apple couldn't help but move up and down as he swallowed his saliva.

Looking at it like this, it can be seen that the wine worm in his stomach has been seduced.

Chapter 1424 Undercurrent

In fact, Shen Luo had already seen that the fox-fur man's heels were not of the human race, but of the demon fox clan.

Because of the relationship with the Jade Fox Clan in Jilei Mountain, Shen Luo had a good impression of the Fox Clan, and seeing that he had never shown any demonic aura before, nor had he used any tricks to confuse or even force the girl to sell wine, he couldn't help but look up to him in his heart.

Seeing the man so addicted to alcohol at this moment, she felt a little bit of compassion, so she asked the girl to drink a jug of fruit wine for the man from Lu Huaming's wine jar.

Seeing this, the man in fox fur couldn't believe it, and then he was overjoyed, bowed to the bottom, and gave Shen Luo a big gift.

"No, no." Shen Luo quickly picked him up.

"Haha, what do you call fellow daoists, I owe you a jug of wine this time, and I'll pay you back next year." The man in fox fur rubbed his hands and said with a big laugh.

"Shen Luo, I bought the wine for a friend. I'm not addicted to alcohol." Shen Luo laughed.

"So it's Fellow Daoist Shen, I'm under Fox Bugui. Brother Shen, you should be able to tell that I'm from the Fox clan, from the Qingqiu lineage." The man who said his name was Fox Bugui laughed.

While the two were talking and laughing, the girl had already made the wine, and gave the jug and jar to the two of them respectively.

After receiving the flagon, Hu Bugui immediately picked up the flagon and took a sip. His brows and eyes were first wrinkled, then relaxed, and he could not help but smack his mouth.

Shen Luo put all of Lu Huaming's wine into the storage ring, smiled and shook his head.

"Brother Shen also wants to go back to Chang'an? That's just a good time to go together." Afterwards, the two chatted for a while, and when they heard that Shen Luo was going back to Chang'an City, Hu Bugui immediately said.

Shen Luo hesitated for a moment, then agreed.

On the way back to the city, neither of them was flying against the wind. Hu Bugui took out two paper-folded white horses from his sleeves, chanted a few spells in his mouth, raised his hand and threw them, and the origami paper turned into two tall horses .

Shen Luo and the two rode up and headed for Chang'an City along the official road.

Chatting along the way, Shen Luo realized that Hu Bugui had actually been lingering in Chang'an City for several days. It was because he accidentally heard the name of peach fruit wine, which aroused the wine worm in his stomach, and hurried to this peach forest. town.

But after all, we have just met each other, and it is a big taboo to talk lightly and deeply. Shen Luo and the two just chatted about the spells and talismans that they are interested in. Door.

When they arrived at the gate of Chang'an City, Hu Bugui put away the two paper-made white horses, and the two walked into Chang'an City.

As soon as Shen Luo walked into the city, he heard a "ding dong" hammering sound. Following the sound, he saw seven or eight bare-chested wrestlers gathering at the base of the city walls on both sides, waving huge iron swords. Hammer, smashing steel drills as thick as an arm into the ground.

Behind those wrestlers stood a few people wearing official uniforms of the imperial court. Looking at the styles of the official uniforms, there were both those from the Ministry of Households and the Ministry of Industry. They seemed to be repairing the city wall.

Shen Luo took a few glances, didn't pay much attention, and left with Hu Bugui.

When they approached the inner city, the two parted ways. Hu Bugui claimed that he was going to stay in an inn called "Zhongming Yayuan" in the east of the city. It was not a fairy inn, but an ordinary inn.

Because the wine brewed by the inn is good, Hu Bugui chose to live there.

Shen Luo went directly to the Tang government, where he also had a small garden that Cheng Yaojin had arranged for him at that time.

When they parted, the two left each other's addresses and only said that they could go to each other if they had something to do.

When Shen Luo came to the Tang government, he immediately found that the atmosphere here was a bit different.

The defense force outside the gate has more than doubled compared to before, and the identity verification at the gate is also very strict. If Shen Luo hadn't already become acquainted with the Datang government, he would have had to struggle a lot to get in.

He asked an acquainted guard commander, and found out that it was because of the "Yanhe Conference" to be held.

"This Yanhe Conference is not the same as the last Three Realms Martial Arts Conference. It sounds like it is a peace of evolution, but in fact there is an undercurrent. Everyone is worried that the demons will not accept the punishment conditions, so they just overturn the table." Commander said.

"After all, it's in Chang'an City, the center of the human race. How dare they make a fuss?" Shen Luo was a little surprised. Didn't all parties express their opinions before the meeting?

"Hey, it's not because in Chang'an City that everyone is wary of rats. They are afraid that the two races of demons and monsters will really ignore them and come to a dead end. At that time, it will be the same as the Dragon King of Jinghe back then, causing countless deaths and injuries. After all, those monsters But it may not be really moral." The commander sighed.

"Since we're worried about this, why don't we hold it in Chang'an City? Wouldn't it be better to change it to another place? Could it be that those demon and monster sects don't allow it?" Shen Luo guessed.

"That's right! They're not stupid. How can they really put their life and death at risk and leave it to the immortals and the human race? I think the public statement before the meeting may be perfunctory." The leader said.

"Then there is something to be discussed in this meeting. Both sides were afraid of each other before, and they were both testing each other." Shen Luo nodded secretly after hearing the words.

"That's the situation on the surface, and we don't know what's going on behind the scenes." The commander said with a sneer.

It is rare that an immortal master is willing to chat with him about these things, and he is also happy to share them, but as he himself said, the inside story he can know is limited, and what he can talk about is limited.

Shen Luo bid farewell to him, and was about to leave, when he suddenly remembered something, and asked again: "By the way, where are those major sects placed after they came to Chang'an?"

"This...it's hard to say. Some of them are familiar with the Tang government, so they live in the guest courtyard of the government office according to the arrangement. Some of them have their own guild halls in Chang'an City, so they all stay in their own guild halls. There are also some, such as Mount Putuo, who have a good relationship with Huasheng Temple, so they temporarily live in Huasheng Temple outside the city." Commander Lue hesitated and said.

"Where did the people in Jicheng live that day?" Shen Luo asked again.

"Oh, they, they have quite a few shops in Chang'an City. I heard that they lived in the Tianji Hall in the east of the city. I heard that the young master who has mastered haganism has also left Tianji City. , came to Chang'an." After thinking for a while, the commander said.

Shen Luo was overjoyed when he heard the words.

After asking about the location of the Tianji Hall, Shen Luo took his leave and left.

He originally planned to pay a visit to Cheng Yaojin first, and then went directly to the Tianji Pavilion, but after he went, he was told that Cheng Yaojin had gone to discuss matters with the national teacher Yuan Tiangang, and he would not come back for a while.

Shen Luo had no choice but to go back to his small courtyard to rest, and then went out again towards the evening, heading towards the east of the city.

Chapter 1425

In the evening, Chang'an City was very lively. Many lights were lit up on the streets. With the evening wind blowing, the wine flags hanging outside danced with the wind, spreading the aroma of the restaurant's food and drinks in all directions.

In each square city, there are more small wine shops and food stalls, all kinds of food from all over the world gather, and the mist of steamers and soup pots is everywhere.

Shen Luo walked among the bustling crowd, feeling the thick smoke and fire, and the impetuous mood from the previous period, subconsciously calmed down.

This Yanhe Conference is different from the previous ones. Only some big sects will participate, not to mention ordinary people, even the heads of low-ranking sects are not qualified to participate, and most of them may not even know about it.

Therefore, the impact of this meeting on the people of Chang'an is far less obvious than the increase in rental and sales prices of houses in the city.

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The Tianji Pavilion is located in Juehuafang in the east of the city, which itself is a large garden. After several expansions, the Tianji Pavilion is almost entirely included.

Shen Luo came to the entrance of the Tianji Hall, but found that the gate was just a very inconspicuous carved vertical door, with two black doors closed, with two bronze animal heads inlaid with rings on it, and 81 brass door nails lined up.

He went up and knocked on the door a few times, but there was no response from inside. After waiting for a while, he saw the bronze animal head on the door suddenly opened its mouth and asked, "Who is calling?"

As the animal head opened and closed its mouth, the copper ring held in its mouth also made a "jingling" sound.

"Junior Shen Luo, come to pay a visit to Senior Master." Shen Luo said.

After speaking, there was another silence.

After a while, the two bronze animal heads opened their mouths at the same time, and the copper ring inside was pulled down, and the two seemingly thin black doors slowly opened inward, making a heavy friction sound.

The gate opened, and inside was not a courtyard, but a not-so-wide walkway, with two towering white walls on both sides, carved with patterns that looked like Suzakus.

Shen Luo just stared at it for a few times, and felt a burst of fiery air blowing towards his face. This was indeed a small guardian circle.

He straightened his clothes and started walking. As soon as he reached the end of the path, a young man dressed as a disciple of Tianji City immediately came up to him.

After the two greeted each other, the disciple said: "Senior Shen, the city lord is still retreating in the secret room, the elder has already gone to invite him, please come with me to the living room and wait."

"Okay." Shen Luo naturally responded.

After that, he was led by that disciple to walk through the corridor of the guild hall.

Not long after Shen Luo walked, he felt a little dazzled. The corridors criss-crossed around him were very complicated, almost like a maze. If there was no one to lead the way, Shen Luo would feel lost too.

In addition, there are magic circles and organs hidden in the corners all over the corridor. There are no less than seven discovered by Shen Luo along the way. Although the power is unknown, the number alone is enough to make the intruder's scalp numb. .

After passing through this veranda area, the front view suddenly widened, and a pond filled with water vapor appeared not far away, with fields of lotus leaves scattered on it, full of greenery.

Shen Luo stared at a towering reef in the pond for a moment, suddenly his eyes flashed, and he saw a faint metal shadow passing through the gap between the reefs, with fine scale marks on it, which looked like It's an anaconda.

Seeing Shen Luo's stature pause, the disciple smiled, but he didn't mind revealing the secret, and said:

"Senior Shen, don't be surprised. That's the Yanshu puppet of our Tianji City, and it's Xuanwu, one of the four beasts guarding the Tianji Hall. This is not a secret, and many people know it."

"Oh, the magic circle at the entrance is also one of the four beasts?" Shen Luo asked in surprise.

"That's right, that's the Suzaku Magic Formation, and there's a Suzaku beast entrenched in the ground, but it doesn't show up on weekdays, only when the guild hall is attacked." The disciple explained.

Shen Luo watched the past all the way, only to feel that his eyes were opened, and with the disciple's explanation, he realized how terrifying the number of protective measures in this Heavenly Chance Hall was. After seeing it, he couldn't help but exclaim in his heart.