"Brother, what exactly are you looking for?"
Shen Yi looked at Ding Ning who was squatting down, carefully looking at the traces between the bricks and tiles, and even sniffing some scents, and couldn't help asking softly.
Since Zhou Yuan, he knew that his senior brother who was born in the market could not be deduced by common sense. Maybe he started to enter the Liling Lord's Mansion just to find some clues about cultivation. After all, the Minshan Sword will be coming soon. Come on, everything Ding Ning does is for the Minshan Sword Club.
However, walking in the Liling Lord's Mansion for several days in a row, and staying for a long time every day, Shen Yi felt more and more that what Ding Ning did had nothing to do with cultivation, especially at this moment, Ding Ning's behavior seemed to be investigating the case.
Ding Ning's brows were deeply furrowed. He didn't answer Shen Yi's question right away. Some dust stuck to his fingers and he kneaded them carefully. Then he stood up from the broken wall and broken tiles, looked at Shen Yi and said: "Your family is a wealthy family in Guanzhong. You should know more about the cost of this kind of mansion than I do. You have followed me to see the Liling Lord's Mansion many times these days. Do you think such a mansion has so many diners? , how much do you spend on weekdays?"
Shen Yi was stunned for a moment, and replied: "According to the building system, with such a large population, the cost is too high. It takes a careful calculation to estimate it. Senior brother, why are you asking this?"
Ding Ning still did not answer his question, but said: "Lord Liling came to Changling as the son of Chu in the third year of Yuanwu. Although the mansion of Lord Liling has been continuously expanded for nine years, it has finally formed this appearance. .”
"Senior brother, do you mean that Mr. Li Ling's wealth is too bizarre?" Shen Yi finally came to his senses.
Changling is more luxurious than Liling Monarch's Mansion, and there are many mansions that occupy a larger area, but those mansions are accumulated over many years, or some people who built those mansions lived in Changling for many years before building the mansions. accumulation.
However, if the previously intact Liling Monarch's Mansion was completely converted into gold and silver and piled up in front of our eyes, then these gold and silver appeared in a few years.
Thinking of the items that he saw in the streets and alleys these days that were not considered gorgeous, but the materials were extremely exquisite and luxurious, Shen Yi couldn't help thinking that the intact Liling Mansion had been converted into gold and silver piles in front of him. If so, what an astonishing mountain of gold and silver it would be.
"The vast majority of people in the Changling Mausoleum of Chuzhizi Mansion have never entered before, and even if they entered, it would be difficult to take a deep look at it, but now they have seen it clearly. Some wealthy families have swollen faces to pretend to be fat, and spend money like water outside to win a lot of money. It is famous, but the inside of the house is extremely simple, the places that can be seen are bright, and the places that cannot be seen can be saved." Ding Ning glanced at Shen Yi, and said: "Mr. , but you and I have been wandering around the Liling Lord's Mansion for several days, but you can see that he is really the same, in simple terms, he is really rich."
"It is impossible for Emperor Chu to let him bring so much money. If he is willing to let him bring such a huge sum of money to Changling, Emperor Chu will not let him be a proton." After a pause, Ding Ning looked at Shen Yi. Emphasizing the tone, he said: "If it is said that it is funded by a certain wealthy family... No one can afford such a huge sum of money all of a sudden."
Shen Yi took a deep breath, a little shocked, and said heavily: "That's right, it's impossible for Xie's family to get out such a huge amount of money in a few years, unless they use their ancestral property, but if it wasn't for the university It is difficult to continue in a disaster year, who will use the ancestral property?"
Ding Ning said: "There are still some people who will use their ancestral property. For example, they have suffered a catastrophe and their family is gone."
"It's been a catastrophe, and the family is gone?" Shen Yi's eyes widened involuntarily, "You mean the old dignitaries?"
Ding Ning nodded.
Shen Yi looked at him in shock, "Which company can afford such a huge amount of money?"
Ding Ning stretched out his hand, put his thumb and index finger up in front of him.
Under the sunlight, Shen Yi saw a very faint layer of fluorescence on his fingertips.
It is impossible for ordinary people to see what kind of fluorescence this is, but Shen Yi knows it.
This is pearlescent.
Gold and silver take up too much space and are too heavy, and it is easy to be seen if transported by a convoy, so the rich in Daqin generally like to exchange gold and silver into pearls and gems.
A top-grade pearl is worth tens of thousands of gold, and the weight is not heavy, especially the pearl powder, not only for beauty and beauty, but also loved by the rich and powerful women in Changling, and even has a certain nourishing effect on practitioners.
Therefore, among the jewels and treasures, the dignitaries of Changling especially like pearls.
In the family of a wealthy family that is truly as rich as an enemy, what is piled up in the treasure house of the family is not gold and silver, but pearls.
Only when there are a certain amount of pearls, when the pearls rub against each other during transportation, will there be very fine pearl powder on some things in full bloom or in the corners of the ground and walls.
"The Lu family!"
Shen Yi knew the answer himself, looked at Ding Ning in shock and said.
Among the old dignitaries in Changling, only the Lu family has such astonishing wealth.
"When the Lu family was raided, although an astonishing amount of property was copied, the legendary ancestral library was not discovered." Ding Ning looked at Shen Yi and nodded.
Shen Yi swallowed hard, and murmured: "It's actually because of the Lu family's support... But senior brother, you expended so much energy, is it just to find out the supporters behind Lord Li Ling?"
Ding Ning was silent for a moment, and said, "This will have a lot to do with it in the future."
Shen Yi couldn't understand, in his opinion, even though the Lu family and Lord Liling colluded, Lord Liling had already returned to the Great Chu Dynasty. From now on, Lord Liling would become the emperor of Great Chu. What does it have to do with Ding Ning
"somebody is coming."
Ding Ning didn't explain too much, he turned around and looked behind him.
Shen Yi didn't care about it at first, the Liling Monarch's Mansion seems to have become a library of materials for countless people around him at the moment, with countless people walking in and out every day, he can imagine that in the future, many houses and even courtyard walls in Changling will have Liling Wood and stone from Lingjun Mansion.
However, when his eyes followed Ding Ning's, his body trembled unconsciously.
He saw a young man.
The young man's clothes and body looked extremely clean, but it felt extremely dusty to him.
And he can be sure that this young man is a practitioner, and he must be many times stronger than him and Ding Ning.
Moreover, the young man's face was exceptionally calm and solemn.
Seeing the gazes Ding Ning and Shen Yi cast on him, the young man bowed deeply to Ding Ning, but did not say a word.
Ding Ning frowned slightly.
He had seen this kind of solemn look many times, so he could immediately feel the special meaning of this young man.
"You know me?" he asked looking at the young man.
The young man slowly raised his body, and said respectfully, "Ding Ning of Baiyang Cave."
Ding Ning looked at him and asked, "What do you want from me?"
The young man still said respectfully: "As entrusted, can I have a private talk with you?"
Ding Ning frowned slightly, but didn't say much, nodded his head very simply, and said, "Okay."
Then he moved and walked towards the secluded dilapidated house on one side.
This young man is naturally Li Yunrui. Seeing Ding Ning's demeanor, a strange light flashed in his eyes. The moment he followed Ding Ning into the deserted house, he took out something from his sleeve and handed it to him. To Dinning.
Ding Ning frowned even deeper.
He looked at a one-foot-long square object wrapped in the most common coarse cloth in Li Yunrui's hand, and asked, "What is this?"
Li Yunrui looked at the clean and dignified eyes of this Changling street boy, shook his head, and said, "I don't know what it is, I just want to hand this thing into your hands... Besides, there are only you and me in this world." Knowing this, only I know that this thing is in your hands."
Ding Ning pondered for a while, he didn't pick up the thing in Li Yunrui's hand immediately, but his perception gently penetrated into the texture of the coarse cloth and landed on the things inside.
In the next moment, his eyes became more dignified.
"You don't know what's inside?"
He raised his head, looked at Li Yunrui, and asked this question seriously.
Li Yunrui shook his head.
"good."
Ding Ning nodded, took the thing wrapped in coarse cloth, and held it in his hand.
Li Yunrui saluted deeply, turned and left without saying a word.
Ding Ning looked at the young man's back, and real respect began to appear in his eyes.
He knew that this young man was from Da Chu.
He also knew that it would be difficult to see this young man from Dachu in the future.
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Li Yunrui walked out of Liling Monarch's Mansion, and then walked slowly along the secluded streets towards the Weihe River.
On the bank of the Wei River, he glanced at the direction of Lushan and Dachu, and then he calmly stepped into the cool water.
When the river water submerged his body, he slowly and gently released all the true energy and heavenly energy in his body, then he closed his eyes thinking of the spring flowers blooming in the alleys of Dachu City, and plunged himself into the darkness.