Yuejiang Castle was built near the river, and because it was located at the intersection of the four countries, it was surprisingly prosperous. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoNot only has the city wall along the river been expanded into a wharf, but the moat on the other side has gradually taken on the appearance of a wharf.

Big boats and small boats dock here, the river is endless, Liu Heng has only seen a similar busy scene in Beiyang Heting, as if there is no pause for a moment.

I heard that this Yuejiang City never has a curfew, and the gates on both sides of the wharf are also open day and night, swallowing a large amount of goods from Beihu, Daxia, and Baiwu, and feeding hundreds of millions of people in Lingyuan, one by one.

The strength of Lingyuan has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and no matter how turbulent the years, few great powers dare to invade Lingyuan.

The last great country that conquered Lingyuan was called Dashang, and it was attacked by Lingyuan head-on just by Yuejiang City, and the Nuo Dynasty collapsed in just one month, which was thousands of years ago.

It wasn't until two hundred years later that a dynasty called Great Xia re-emerged from the ruins of the Great Zhou, but it no longer dared to have the idea of fighting with Lingyuan.

This incident shocked the world for nearly a thousand years, declared the incomparable strength of Lingyuan, made the eight powerful countries submit, and also created a border city like Yuejiang City that often opened the country day and night.

Lingyuan's self-confidence is evident in this subtlety.

Now that it is winter, the cold wind by the river is even colder, but the porters and boatmen who carry goods to and fro on the wharf are shirtless, so that people feel that they are full of heat when they look at it, and they do not feel cold anymore.

Further on, pedestrians huddle each other, almost rubbing shoulders, and even less of the chill.

Although pedestrians are weaving and crowded everywhere, people walk on the sidewalk, cars travel on the road, and the traffic goes to one side, everything seems so orderly, it is a scene that Liu Heng has never seen in other places, "I often hear that Lingyuan is a state of etiquette, but I didn't expect the etiquette, rules and laws to be so deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, which is really eye-opening." ”

These things are inconspicuous, but Liu Heng, who arrived for the first time, still felt deeply shocked, and there was novelty everywhere.

He looked at it for a while, and roughly understood these rules, so he followed the customs of the villagers and continued to walk along with the flow of people entering the city.

As he walked and looked, he saw that in the intersecting alleys, the people who came out of the front and the side stopped, and they had to humble each other for a while before they could tell who came first. In this situation, he walked for a while and saw many times, but he did not hear anyone complain or argue along the way, and when he encountered such a situation, he would stop and wait quietly before continuing to walk.

If you want to say that the people you bumped into are all acquaintances, that's normal, but they all look like strangers, which makes Liu Heng feel surprised.

Raising his head, from time to time he could see birds and monsters skimming through the air, or even man-carrying magic weapons such as dao swords and gourds speeding across the sky. If this kind of thing were in Great Xia or Beihu, it would definitely cause bursts of exclamations, but in this Lingyuan Yuejiang City, everyone seems to be accustomed to it, at most, they occasionally look up and make a casual comment.

Don't look at the coarse linen clothes, like flat-headed people, but for the origin of the Escape Magic Weapon, which birds and monsters are unique to these things, it seems that everyone can say a few words, and even some people dressed as scribes can speak the Tao, Liu Heng heard it casually, and he was also amazed.

The insight of the people of Lingyuan makes people look at each other differently.

About to go forward, the roads in the city are getting wider and wider, and they are no longer so crowded, Liu Heng still stops and goes, listening to the pedestrians around him chatting and chatting, and he is not bored at all.

Wandering around for a while, thirsty and hungry, he bought some small drinks and hot food along the street, and when he paid, Liu Heng had another layer of feelings about Lingyuan.

Expensive!

Daxia and Baiwu have at most five copper plates and one meat cake, which can be sold for one or two pieces of silver here, and the price difference between them is more than a hundred times?

It must be known that a thousand copper plates can be exchanged for one or two pieces of silver, and the money to buy a meat cake in Lingyuan can buy two hundred of the same in places like Great Xia, Baiwu, and Beihu.

It's not just meat cakes, a cup of coarse tea with two copper plates, which has to be sold for half a tael of silver here, and the rest of the things are not cheap.

At first, he thought that Lingyuan was bullying outsiders, but after looking at it for a while, he found that the people who sold tea and cooking cakes not only proudly claimed that they were affordable, but also had excellent business, and the pedestrians who came to buy them praised these people for being kind enough to buy and sell from time to time, only to know that this was actually the cheapest thing in Lingyuan.

"No wonder people in the world often say that it is not easy for the spirit to live in the original place. Liu Heng shook his head, sighing in his heart, he really realized the true meaning of these words.

This is still in the border pass Yuejiang City, where there is a lot of goods coming and going, and if you go deeper into the Lingyuan, the price will only be higher.

He now has some purple gold money, some jade, and hundreds of thousands of taels of worldly gold and silver.

When he came, he really didn't expect that the price of Lingyuan was so amazingly expensive, and he had already scattered all his net worth, and the big head was in Ding Le'er and He Bo, and the rest of the worldly money and things were secretly stuffed into the big mouth, so now there are only these.

"Fortunately, I followed the ship all the way, and I took over the errand of escorting the delivery ship, and most of the food and clothing were on the ship, otherwise sooner or later there would be a time to make a fool of myself. Thinking of this, Liu Heng couldn't help but be a little surprised.

But even so, he suddenly had a sense of money crisis that he hadn't had for many years, and he was thinking about how to make more money.

There were pedestrians running briskly next to him, and there were also pedestrians behind him who kept overtaking him, all talking excitedly to their companions.

"Hurry up, Cihelou is going to hold a poetry meeting again today!"

"Recently, the Lingyuan Secret Realm will be opened, and I heard that there are a lot of talented foreign scribes here, and it is rare to have such a grand event, but don't go too late!"

"I don't know what kind of scribe from a foreign country is?"

"I heard that the Legalist who went to Great Xia, the Spell Family in Beihu, the Ghost Family in Youzhou, and the Buddhist Family in the Outer Regions of Northern Xinjiang, this time will send the top Junjie to come, I don't know if I will meet it, don't disappoint!"

Liu Heng was stunned when he heard it, and from the words that these passers-by said inadvertently, he suddenly had a new understanding of the world.

"It shouldn't be a lie, after all, the original body of the Beihu Heavenly God Sect is indeed a mantra, so to speak......" Liu Heng's face became a little weird, "My Daxia is a Legalist, then Beihu is a Curse family, Youzhou is a ghost family, and the outer regions of Northern Xinjiang are Buddhists? Could it be that in the eyes of the Lingyuan people, the world is like this?"

"I have also produced a lot of geniuses in recent years, such as the son of Wensong and the son of Changliu of the Luanshan Academy, the son of the Taoist Baimingmen, the son of Bai Ran, etc., I heard that there are also some fame in the southeast, I don't know which is stronger or weaker than the scribes from other regions?"

Liu Heng raised his eyes to look, but saw that the Crane Tower was close in front of him.

Closer, you can feel the outstanding temperament of this crane tower standing out from the crowd, proud and independent, ancient rhyme, and its own style, which is indeed extraordinary.

"Can a genius cultivated in the border city be compared with the top heroes of other domains?" Liu Heng's eyes flashed slightly, as if he was smiling, and he also followed the flow of people towards the Crane Tower.

Perhaps because of the great name of the crane tower, it occupies a large area, in addition to the high-rise building itself, there is a vast site. The lake that introduces the living water of the big river is not frozen, the sparkling waves, the winter lotus gently shakes, the wooden bridge and corridor on the lake are like weaving like a net, and the plum blossom is dotted in the meantime, and the winter lotus is in contrast to each other, in the snow and mist, the scenery is unique.

Crossing the wooden bridge in front of the building, you can see the crowd downstairs, which is very lively.

"Everyone, everyone!"

A few guys were shouting hoarsely, "Today's poetry meeting, thanks to all of you, but there are too few seats in the building, I can't invite you all to go up, please forgive me for the offense!"

Hearing this, some people in the crowd who were blocked outside the building opened their mouths.

"Isn't it just a dime for one person, it seems to be how expensive it is, get up quickly, let me in!"

Then many people also shouted, but Liu Heng was speechless, just going upstairs to ask for a dime of purple gold!

Generally speaking, a large purple gold coin can be divided into ten jiao, but one dime is also worth 100,000 taels of gold. Even in this frighteningly expensive Lingyuan Yuejiang City, you can buy a million meat cakes, right?

The price......

"This guest officer is slow. Who would have thought that the fat man who seemed to be the shopkeeper said with a smile when he heard this: "It is indeed such a rule on weekdays, but today is a little different." ”

"Tell me, what's different today?"

Someone in the crowd below questioned him.

The fat man stretched out a finger and said, "If you want to go upstairs today, each guest officer will have a whole lot of money." ”

As soon as these words came out, the crowd immediately burst into an uproar, and many people directly scolded angrily.

"You're a fat man, you've got into the eyes of money, right?"

"You dare to sit on the ground and raise prices!"

"Who has ever seen a business like you!"

Hearing countless scoldings, the fat man was still smiling, "Ladies and gentlemen, this time is different from the past! We have invited all the sons of the Luanshan Academy from the Crane Tower, and there are also a lot of disciples from Baimingmen, and some genius scribes from the foreign regions have come, in order to make up the grandest poetry meeting of the year, the owner has spent a lot of effort, and the price is naturally different!"

As soon as these words came out, the scolding around immediately subsided, and exclamations and discussions erupted.

"And!"

The fat man cleared his throat and said loudly: "Today we will open a magic circle to evaluate the poems and texts of various families, and those who win the first prize will not only get a thousand big coins, but also have the honor of climbing to the top to view the scenery!

"Can you make it to the top?"

"Is this true?"

The exclamations around him rose again, and then he remembered the sound of scrambling to ask, and the voices of the people were boiling, as if they were excited because of this.

"Nature is true. The fat man said proudly: "Although I have collected a lot of money, the guest officers who enter the building eat and drink are free! This time the three-story building is opened, and only 1,000 people can be allowed to enter, and the number of places is limited, so if you want to enter the building, please hurry up!"

"I'm coming!"

"Collect the money quickly, let me in!"

"Here!"

"It's kind of interesting. Liu Heng pondered slightly, seeing that the crowd was enthusiastic, he shook his head and smiled, quietly used his body to squeeze to the front, took out a purple gold coin and handed it over.

"Guest officer, please. The fat man who received the money smiled, and very earnestly invited Liu Heng into the building, and shouted inside, "One on the third floor!"

Hearing someone answering inside, he smiled at Liu Heng again: "The guest officer just goes up to the third floor, and he can sit casually after he goes up!"

Liu Heng nodded in response, and when he was about to leave, he suddenly paused, and asked more, "I pay the money, can I participate in this poetry meeting?" If I take the first place, can I get a lot of money and climb to the top to watch the scenery?"

The fat man was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but look Liu Heng up and down carefully, and he didn't know what he was thinking, but he still smiled and said: "Childe has the heart to participate in the poetry meeting, it is naturally better, I welcome him from the Crane Tower!

"That's fine. ”

Liu Heng smiled and walked towards the building.

Because of his words, he attracted countless strange eyes, and when he walked away, a little guy in front of the door of the building sneered, "What is this called? The toad wants to eat swan meat, and it is delusional." ”

"I don't follow my own example, I don't know where I got my confidence?"

"I've seen a lot of people like him, and if I see the poems of other sons later, I'll be too ashamed to say it again. ”

A few little guys whispered, one of them looked the most clever, his eyes rolled slightly, and then he smiled slyly: "I can't help him if I dare to fight poetry later, you can see it......"

"Shut up!"

The fat man saw that he was busy, but this group of little guys was still gossiping, so he couldn't help but glared and scolded: "If you are idle, go in to help entertain the guests, if you talk here again, let me go immediately!"

As soon as he became angry, several small servants were suddenly silent, and they all went back to the building with a smoke, and the fat man frowned slightly, and finally couldn't care about these idle things anymore, and shouted while busy collecting money: "Don't worry, you guest officers, there are still more than 600 seats, and you will not start until you are full! Don't be busy walking away from the guest officers who can't get in, you can also watch the rare poetry fighting scene in the past few years outside the building! Don't miss it when you pass by!"

As soon as these words came out, the crowd around them became more anxious, those with money were busy paying money to enter the building, and those with no money hurriedly scattered in all directions, just to occupy a good seat first, waiting to watch the wonders of Doushi.

Liu Heng entered the building, only to find that the building was hollow, there was a vast lobby, and there was a feeling of not being high when he looked up. There are stairs on each floor, and only the side is surrounded by a circle of private rooms for people to stand and sit.

I heard the fat man say that he should go to the third floor, which is the highest floor where the Crane Tower is open now, and Liu Heng is quite satisfied. When he went up to the third floor, there were not many people coming, so he randomly found a private room by the window and sat down, looked out, and found that the onlookers downstairs were gathering more and more, and he couldn't help but be a little surprised.

"It's so lively?"

"Guest Officer ......"

Seeing him sit down, there was a small servant ready to come to entertain, and a small servant hurriedly ran to the stairs, looking around, seeing Liu Heng's eyes lit up, and hurried over.

"Erbai, you go somewhere else, I'll entertain this guest officer. The newcomer looked like a clever guy, pushed the previous guy away, and asked Liu Heng diligently, "What does the guest officer want to do?"

Liu Heng glanced at it casually, and had some impressions of this little guy, he should have seen it downstairs, but seeing that he was more eye-catching than the little guy in front of him, he didn't say anything, and said with a smile: "You guys are all the special dishes and famous wines of the Crane Tower, and I will try them, and you can just look at the rest." ”

spent a lot of purple gold money to have a meal, since he dared to say that the food and drink were free, he naturally couldn't treat himself badly.

The little guy rolled his eyes and immediately responded, "Wait a minute, guest officer." ”

Seeing him leave in a hurry, Liu Heng didn't pay much attention to it, and looked at the lobby of the building again.

If you want to say the most crowded place in the building, it is the lobby. When he entered, he saw a lot of people sitting in the lobby, most of them dressed as scribes or Taoist priests, and they were chatting happily, thinking that they should be the protagonists of this poetry meeting. (To be continued.) )