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Chapter IV Ancient Way of Tea Horse

Imperial Calendar August 16, 2006

The ancient path of the tea horse, which passed through the entire Yingyang County, was also the only path that led to the Xu Capital. Wen Qubing sat on a bamboo chair and was carried away by his subordinate as he thought about the key points of participating in the Auction.

Patriarch, Xihong is already in the capital preparing. Adding us in, we should be able to gather most of the Wen Family's elites.

"..." After hearing what you just said, I can't help but to worry. "

Wen Qubing looked at his trusted aide, the man who wielded the blade by his side, Wen Qingwei.

Wen Qingwei was a strong man who held one blade in his hand, and charged into battle while being brave and fearless. On the other hand, Wen Xihong had a rather scholarly disposition, like a scholar with long sleeves and dance skills. He often acted as the representative of the Patriarch, running around to communicate, and was good at using concealed weapons.

However, the latter was actually persuaded by Wen Qubing to change his surname and become a loyal captive. This kind of thing was not uncommon among the two of them, and if it wasn't for Wen Qubing being too young and having no daughter, they could use the method of annexation to allow talented people to change their surname and join, to inject vitality into their own bloodlines. This was a practice that was common for many large clans.

Spending a large amount of resources to cultivate, Wen Qingwei and Wen Xihong were both at the fifth level of cultivation. When they first entered the High Rank, they could be considered outstanding despite their age, but compared to the business at the Wen Family, two of the fifth level was not enough to suppress the crowd.

There were low, middle, high, earth, and sky ranks that fell. Every two levels was a level higher than the previous levels, and for example, Wen Qingwei and Wen Xihong, they would gradually complete Purification and prepare to enter the advanced level five High Rank.

Once you enter the High Rank, you can basically use it to scare people. After all, the Earth Stage s at the next level up are around tens to hundreds of people on the ground, and there are at most ten Heaven Rankers at the ninth level, and ten at the tenth level … Even before Feng Shen, he didn't know whether or not there was one, and now it was absolutely impossible.

To be able to set foot on the High Rank at the age of twenty, one's aptitude, hard work, and cultivation cannot be lacking. Even if it was in a large clan or big sect, they would all have outstanding results and be proud of it, but their Wen Family development was too fast, and their manpower would not be able to keep up, so they had to completely rely on being low-key and mysterious to confuse the crowd. If people knew what was going on, even if it wasn't a calamity, they would never have a peaceful day.

"..." Only the lack of High Rank is a headache. "

Wen Qubing frowned, protecting Wen Qingwei who was at the side, then continued: "This is not a problem, with patriarch, you personally …"

"Cough!"

"..." This is a weapon and armor that we personally prepared. All our brothers are able to unleash their battle prowess to the maximum, so it is very advantageous for them to fight in battles of the same level. " Wen Qingwei said: "If forced by the combination of weapons, it can still increase my strength by one level, or even one level. It's not impossible to fight with Earth Stage."

"..." Fight your mother! "

"Uh, Patriarch, why did you …"

"Are you speaking vulgarly? If you don't say it directly, I'm afraid your stubborn brain won't understand … "I should have said this a long time ago. Don't rely too much on the equipment I gave you. This will only hinder and overdraw your growth …"

"I have always kept this in mind!"

Lifting his fist, Wen Qingwei's expression was solemn as he took the stance of taking an oath. Wen Qubing glanced at it and snappily said: "What's more important than this is that don't think about fighting with others everyday. To cultivate one's combat prowess, one had to be able to exert it normally and stabilize one's performance. Who would risk their life to push someone to a corner every time a fight broke out? How could this be considered combat power? It's fine if you love to die, but your brothers under you are doing the same thing as you. They're all dead, so when we go to capture some prisoners, you want me to go up there myself? "

Although he looked crude, Wen Qingwei was not stupid, and was able to tell the concern in his heart after hearing these words. To climb up to the top, the Patriarch would usually be ruthless and use his own family members as pawns. As for his family member, although his reputation was not good, he could be considered kind and compassionate to his subordinates, and even the one who wanted to substitute him for him in the beginning, was finally convinced.

In this era, people like the family head were rarely seen, and even a bit out of fashion. He really couldn't understand why a kind-hearted person would inherit his father's teachings and start a business like this …

They travelled for a few days, sometimes carrying bamboo chairs, sometimes swapping out to carriages and horse rides. After a round of travel, they arrived at Xu Du by the evening of the next day, and arrived at the old capital city of the Yingyang County.

, who had rushed over earlier to the city gate, was already waiting for the patriarch and the other brothers to come in. The patriarch of the Ling Family, who had come with him, did not dare go into the city.

"Patriarch!"

A white robed scholar with a scholarly mask on his head, Wen Xihong was in high spirits as he bowed towards the patriarch, and then hugged Wen Qingwei. He was very happy.

"All the preparations have been completed, the funds have been gathered. Without considering the military equipment sent to you, there is now a quota of two thousand eight hundred gold coins for you to use, Patriarch. If there is a need, I can ask for the support of a few large banks to allow you to display your skills in Auction."

"Well done, there are gangs behind the Auction, who are the local gangs hosting it?"

"Xu City's black market is managed by the Guangyang Gang, it's just a third-rate gang, the entire gang is only at level 5, their strength isn't really worth it, but they have backers, other than the support of the Master of Xu Capital's Gao Family Department 1, they also …" Wen Xihong frowned and said cautiously: "Rumor has it that they are outside the Star-moon Lake."

Speaking of Star-moon Lake, even though Wen Qingwei was arrogant and brave, his expression changed. After all, this kind of Evil Sect that had been passed down for a long time was not something that he could casually afford to offend.

Within the Empire, the most well-known major powers and organizations were collectively known as the Seven Sects, Eight Sects, and Nine Paths.

The seven families were led by the Emperor Hall's Lee Family at the center. The counties of the six great provinces were divided into six families.

The eight sects were the eight most orthodox sects. Some of them had a long history, while others had disciples of their own. If the eight sects joined together, they would be able to move the mountains and rivers.

They might not necessarily be friendly to each other, and would often fight and drag each other down. But no matter what, they were opposites of the seven families and eight sects, and it could be said that they were enemies of the entire world. They could still open up their own spaces for survival, and that alone was not something that could be underestimated.

The most important thing was that regardless of whether it was the seven families, eight sects, or nine foreign sects, none of them lacked the combat power of Earth Stage. There were even Heaven Stage Expert s guarding them.

Realizing this point, the Wen Family people present all had a much more cautious expression. Even though they were not cowards, they all knew the consequences of provoking a top-notch power, and that was not something that they should do now.

Wen Qubing said: "How is the investigation into the Auction going?"

"They were all people who sold themselves due to their poor families or those who committed crimes. Their families that were sold by the government were basically all commoners with poor standards."

Wen Xihong said: There is a local Gentleman with the surname Zhou, who was informed yesterday, caught by the officials quickly. On the same day, the entire family was imprisoned, and the female family members were sentenced to be sold by the officials, those are all beauties from influential families painted by the Wen Group, their looks are well protected, their skin is tender, but the surprise is that they were happy, and they did not let the Patriarch come here empty-handed.

"..." I don't have to run this level of business myself. " Wen Qubing said: "Is there any news about the investigation that I ordered?"

"A bit of an idea. The head of the family has a really strong premonition. There's something fishy about the origin of that fragment …" Wen Xihong looked left and right, "This is not a good place to talk, let's first return to the shop, then I'll report to the Patriarch."

No one would have any objections to this arrangement. However, when everyone was about to leave, there was a sudden commotion at the city gate. A red carriage was stopped by the soldiers.

The horse that was pulling the carriage had dragon stripes on it, so it was obvious that it was from Ao Long Country. Its status was definitely not low, and the moment it was stopped, a guard angrily came forward and asked.

As long as one was not blind, one would be able to recognize that this was a carriage of the Loong Clan Clan. Not to mention the Xu Capital, even if it was in the capital, the soldiers there would not dare to casually stop a carriage of the Loong Family Clan.

The group of Wen Family s followed the Patriarch's gaze and quickly discovered something amiss. Tsk tsk tsk, how could they have known that the situation would change so abruptly, the guards and soldiers of Loong Family were surrounded by the city gate guards, and the two sides clashed. Some of the Loong Family soldiers angrily pulled out their swords, and acted as if they were intimidating, but the city gate guards had intense reactions.

The servant girl beside the carriage cried out in disbelief. A group of soldiers rushed over and knocked the screaming servant girl out with the backs of their sabers. They even forced the door open and pulled out a bride in red.

The bride's head was covered with a red cloth, which did not reveal her face, but from her posture it was obvious that she was a beauty who had been pulled out without any resistance, followed by the carriage being seized and pulled away. The whole process, although abrupt, happened very quickly, and before the commotion had even spread, it had already ended, as if everything had been arranged beforehand.

Wen Qubing watched everything, and did not say a word. Wen Xihong laughed: "These past two days, many families in the city have been raided illegally, and this might be related to them, it seems like she is a beauty, if she is auctioned, we can't do it."

Before he even finished speaking, Wen Qingwei had punched him in the chest and gave him an inappropriate look. Wen Xihong was stunned for a moment, then recalled an unconfirmed rumor that had been spread throughout the clan.

"..." It was said that when the Patriarch was young, he had an engagement with a woman who was from a side branch of the Loong Family. There were two little guesses about it, but because the Wen Family had declined and because they were dealing in human beings, the other party immediately rescinded the engagement and married him. This was a big taboo of the family head. No one dared to ask, no one dared to bring it up.

"..." It can't be, can it? Furthermore, that girl should have already gotten married a long time ago …

Worried that they would bring up the Patriarch's unpleasant memories, none of the supervisors dared to speak. Not long later, Wen Qubing smiled.

"Let's go!" Wen Qubing laughed: "I have to admit, seeing this, I feel really good. It really is ugly. "