Ding Ning and Shen Yi walked side by side.
In front of them, many huts are stacked on top of each other, which is already a fish market.
"Actually, you can't see anything when you visit the fish market now." Ding Ning turned his head to look at Shen Yi, and said without any concealment: "Even if it is an underground business, there are very few openings during the New Year."
Shen Yi said: "It doesn't matter, there are quiet scenery and lively scenery."
Ding Ning turned his head strangely, looked at the young man in Guanzhong, and said, "It seems that this should not be something someone with your personality said."
Shen Yi laughed, and said: "Senior brother is really discerning. These are indeed not what I said, but my uncle's famous words. There are a few more sentences to follow. I really want to see the scenery of a place, not just when I am quiet. , When it is lively, it needs to be divided into four seasons. It really depends on a friend, not only when he is proud, but also when he is frustrated, when he is down, and when he is in crisis."
If it can be said to be a "famous saying", the person who spoke must be extremely famous, so Ding Ning, who has already entered the fish market, asked, "Who is your uncle?"
Shen Yi said: "My uncle is Shen Huai."
Ding Ning was slightly stunned: "One of the five swords in Guanzhong?"
Shen Yi nodded.
Ding Ning glanced at him, "I didn't expect him to be your uncle, so why don't you learn swords from him?"
There are many swordsmen in Pingchuan, eight hundred miles away in Guanzhong. Shen Huai's reputation is naturally great if he can be recognized as one of the most powerful five-handed swords.
Shen Yi said in a low voice with some shame: "My sword itself was taught by him."
Ding Ning was stunned, and said, "Sorry."
Shen Yi shook his head, and said: "The same sword scriptures create different practitioners. My uncle told me that the key to cultivation lies in the path chosen by the individual."
Ding Ning nodded, and said, "He's right, vision sometimes determines altitude."
"I should have come to Changling earlier, otherwise how would I have thought that there is such a unique place in the world." Shen Yi had already followed Ding Ning into the fish market. The lantern, like a will-o'-the-wisp, asked softly curiously: "There are really trades in everything here, including some forbidden items, can I even buy them?"
Ding Ning glanced at him and said, "You can buy it, but you have to go through some middlemen here."
Knowing that there must be many connections in this, Shen Yi asked even more curiously: "Then can you participate in some underground auctions?"
"Of course." Ding Ning said, "But you must gain the trust of those intermediaries. As a child of the richest man in Guanzhong, there should be no problem if you want to participate. It's just that when you really want to buy something, you still need an intermediary." Bid. Otherwise, many people will know who the thing will end up in, and it will bring disaster."
Shen Yi said sincerely: "I really want to take a look if I have a chance, maybe there will be something useful."
The mutton shop in the west corner sells mutton on the outside, but there are human traffickers on the inside, and the sales are all children brought back from remote places or even North Korea. The tailor shop in the east specializes in the business of talisman vessels of the Great Chu Dynasty. The three stilted buildings near the pond at the bottom are dens for overseas thieves. If you want to participate in the underground auction with all kinds of practitioners' items, you should look for Xue Mazi who sells tung oil, or Lao Zhoutou who sells salted fish.
While Ding Ning led Shen Yi to the deepest part of the fish market, which was also the bottom of the fish market, at the same time, he slowly and softly explained to him the many ways in the fish market.
Shen Yi listened more and more with gusto, but he didn't notice that Ding Ning's speaking speed became slower and slower.
"No matter what you hear from now on, you must not change your expression significantly. Just act as if you are listening to me chatting with you. Don't let anyone notice anything unusual." Suddenly, Ding Ning's words reached his ears. profile.
Because of the slow speed of speech, Shen Yi already had enough time to react, his heart was shocked, but he controlled his emotions very well, and asked softly: "What?"
Li Dingning came to the fish market today just to pay New Year's greetings to that lonely old lady and to have a conversation with her, but just now, he has already sensed a strange and dangerous aura.
"There should be someone who wants to assassinate me. If he dares to do it in the fish market, he is a real desperado, so this matter will involve you." Ding Ning said calmly and slowly: "Although I don't know what it is Who, but my life and yours are in your hands now, so you must carefully listen to and remember every word I say, and you must not make any mistakes."
Looking at the unusually peaceful streets and alleys around him, Shen Yi, who couldn't feel any murderous intent, became more and more shocked, but the seriousness contained in Ding Ning's calm words made him sure that this was not a joke.
"You said, I will do it." He nodded and said softly.
Ding Ning lowered his voice, lowered his head slightly, and even his lips were hidden in the shadows: "I'll take you through several shops in a moment, and the owners of those shops are not ordinary people, and they are all the same as the owner of the underground fish market. It's related. I just don't know which of those shops are open now, and you can go into whichever one opens later. After you walk in, you start to count the time. After 50 breaths, you use the fastest speed Tell the owner of the shop that someone is going to kill people in the fish market, at the ghost dock."
Shen Yi naturally didn't understand why Ding Ning asked him to count the time, but he still memorized every word seriously, and at the same time repeated in a very simple and soft voice: "Enter the shop, count the time, fifty breaths, ask for help, ghost sees the wharf."
Ding Ning nodded calmly, and said: "Just remember, what I'm going to say to you next is just another ordinary chat."
Shen Yi glanced at him and said, "I understand."
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Ding Ning continued to lead the way, walking towards the stilted building where the old woman was.
He also continued to talk about the connections in the fish market, but his heart was filled with unspeakable anger and cold emotions.
As he and his eldest grandson Qianxue said, he didn't want to involve the business lady again because of some old things, and didn't want to use any of her power, but today is just an ordinary visit to the elderly. In this new year, Someone actually forced him to borrow the power of the fish market.
Who is it
His heart became more and more cold and angry, but his thoughts became more and more active, and he considered more and more follow-up matters.
Most of the ponds at the lowest point of the fish market were covered by the roofs of the huts, so there was not much snow falling. At this time, the water surface was only covered with ice two knuckles thick.
Two wisps of fire suddenly appeared in the depths of Ding Ning's calm eyes, and his gaze once again fell on the Mo Hua residual sword at his waist.
At this time, he and Shen Yi had already reached the vicinity of the shops that he and Shen Yi had mentioned.
Among the several shops, only one shop was open at the moment, and there was fire light and the smell of people inside.
And Ding Ning knew that the owner of that shop was in the weapon business, and there were many good swords in his stilted building.
It was there that Li Daoji bought the Last Flower Remnant Sword that day.
People who had nothing to do with each other were somehow related to this broken sword, so it was like a fate that was involved with countless grievances. This broken sword seemed to be like a key to unlock fate. The dust is here, and it has been waiting for him for many years.
"That shop sells swords. You don't need any middleman to go in alone. The owner of the shop has a lot of good swords that are not as good as many practice places in Changling. You can go and have a look and wait for me here. I I'll meet you here after the New Year's greetings." Ding Ning nodded at the shop, looked up at Shen Yi calmly and said.
Of course, Shen Yi understood that Ding Ning's words were just "chatting", and of course he couldn't wait for Ding Ning to come back here to meet him, so he nodded slightly vigorously and said: "Okay, since I only opened this one, I'll take a look around This is it."
Ding Ning smiled slightly, and left Shen Yi here to move on.
Shen Yi looked at him with a little more respect. In such a critical moment, he can still show such a smile, he is really inferior.
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Ding Ning's brows were slightly frowned imperceptibly. The Guijianshou Wharf in front of him was located under several stilted buildings piled with dry firewood. There were no shops nearby, and his sight was obscured. It was really the best assassination on this route. The location, if he changed the location, if he wanted to assassinate someone, he would choose to do it in that place.
The smells he felt at this moment were all heading towards that place, which meant that these people were indeed here to deal with him rather than have any schemes against Shen Yi.
He took a deep breath, and the countless "little silkworms" in his body also seemed to wake up with his breath, surging silently in his body.
Shen Yi was as calm as possible, but after he opened the door and entered the shop, his breathing became uncontrollably short.
"kindness?"
The man with disheveled hair on the inner couch seemed to sense Shen Yi's strangeness instantly, and let out a soft snort.
Shen Yi thought of Ding Ning's warning, and thought that the problem should not happen early, so he immediately took a deep breath, and began to count the time in his heart, and said at the same time: "I come from the Shen family in Guanzhong. I heard that you have many good swords here."
The shaggy man who couldn't see his face in the darkness gave him a cold look, but didn't say much, and moved his body back.
As the blanket covering his body was lifted, while revealing the black sword box below, Shen Yi also saw clearly that he had no feet.
His feet were broken at the knee!
Seeing such a scene, Shen Yi could no longer control his emotions, and exclaimed in a low voice involuntarily: "Your legs and feet are inconvenient... What can I do!"
Having no legs has nothing to do with selling swords, and Shen Yi's exclamation at this time was also very abrupt, but the man with the shaved hair flashed his eyes sharply, instead lowered his voice, and said calmly: "Something happened?"