Chapter 1 Lin Chen
Hongchen Inn is the largest inn in Ping'an Town and the most popular inn in the world.
Today's Hongchen Inn is as lively as ever, and a black sword body is also hanging by the door of the inn as always.
Among the onlookers, someone stood up and said, "Boy, I see that your sword body has been hanging here for several days. Although your sword body looks good, it is not a sword, and it is definitely not worth the price you mentioned! I think you don't waste your time, I will pay thirty taels of silver and you sell it to me, how about it?"
In the inn, a young man about sixteen years old was sitting on a stool near the sword body. After hearing the man's words, he looked up slightly and said, "I have already said that one thousand taels of silver will never bargain!"
When everyone heard this, they shook their heads.
Ping'an Town is just a small town. Not to mention whether anyone in the town can afford a thousand taels of silver, just say that this sword womb is not worth such a high price! You know, even the sword in the best sword shop in the town is only capped with thirty taels of silver. What's so special about this sword womb? It's true... this sword womb is terrifyingly black, which is a characteristic, but if you look closely, you will find that... it is actually rusted!
Not to mention what material is your sword tire made of, but rust alone is destined to be worth such a price!
Just as everyone shook their heads and laughed at the boy's ignorance, someone walked out of the crowd, walked to the boy's face, and said, "I'll buy your sword!"
"You?" The boy looked up at the person standing in front of him. When he saw the other party take out a silver note of 1,000 silver patterns from his arms, a hint of panic flashed in his eyes, and immediately said, "You are late. My sword body is going to sell for 2,000 taels of silver now!"
The man took out another silver note from his arms, which was also one thousand taels, and the two pieces added up to two thousand taels.
"No, no, I said it wrong. I want to sell three thousand taels!" The young man immediately changed his words.
"You kid, don't be greedy!" The boy kept changing prices, and even the onlookers couldn't stand it anymore. Before the sword buyers could speak, they had already started to curse.
"Your sword body is not trying to sell it at all, right?" asked the sword buyer, and at the same time took off the hat on his head, revealing a handsome face. He was a young man.
"You..." the young man spoke, but his words were interrupted by the young man.
The young man said, "Since you took out this sword tire and didn't want it to be sold, you raised the price to 1,000 taels, because you know that no one in Ping'an Town can afford it! Secondly, Hongchen Inn is mostly people in the Jianghu, or at least 90% of those who come to Hongchen Inn are from Jianghu! Where the Jianghu people are, the news spreads very quickly. You hang the sword tire here and raise the price to the point where others can't afford it. Once the news spreads, it will naturally attract many people to come and watch the fun. This is your purpose, right?"
The boy sighed, nodded, and said, "You are right, my purpose is indeed the case, because I want to find a martial arts expert."
"Why do you do this?" the young man suddenly became interested and asked.
"Because I want to rescue my sister!" the boy said, his expression became much dimmed. He said, "My sister was kidnapped by bandits thirty miles away. I have to find a way to rescue her, otherwise..."
The boy said, his eyes turned red. A little girl fell into the hands of a group of bandits, and you can imagine what would happen to her.
"Nonsense!" Someone said, "Although Ping'an Town is not a big town, there are countless heroes gathered here. How dare those incompetent bandits come in and capture people openly?"
"That's because they learned that we have a martial arts secret book passed down by the family!"
The young man shouted: "To be honest, my ancestor is also a martial arts practitioner. His family has a martial arts secret book passed down. However, the descendants did not have the talent to practice martial arts, so they never took it out. However, for some reason, they let the bandits know. They broke into my house and searched and smashed it. Not only did they stole my martial arts secret book, but they also kidnapped my sister whom I depended on for. Today, I am here to ask you, who can rescue my sister and take back the martial arts secret book, I will give the martial arts secret book and this sword fetus!"
Hearing the boy's words, everyone suddenly watched each other, look at me, look at you...
Even the people who just shouted that "those bandits are useless" didn't say anything.
There is a Qingzhu Mountain thirty miles away from Ping'an Town. The green bamboos on the mountain are forested. It was originally a treasure land with excellent scenery, but twenty years ago, a martial arts expert came to this mountain to establish a "Qingzhu Sword Sect".
The so-called Qingzhu Sword Sect is a nest of bandits. On the surface, it claims to be a sect of the martial arts sect, but in private he indulges his disciples to do evil everywhere.
At the beginning, there were many righteous people who wanted to kill the Qingzhu Sword Sect to eliminate evil in the world, but they all came to an end, and some even joined in it. Over time, no one took care of the Qingzhu Sword Sect and became more and more unscrupulous in their work. Although everyone scolded them for being useless, if they were asked to kill them, they would never dare to do it!
Seeing the people who were clamoring before, the boy suddenly disappeared. The boy was disappointed, but a voice suddenly sounded in his ears: "I can help you!"
"You?" The boy turned his head. This was the second time he asked such a question. He said: "Those bandits are very powerful!"
Everyone nodded. Although they looked down on the bandits in their hearts, they had to admit that their martial arts were indeed good, and the sword skills of their "head" Liu Zhiping were already very powerful. Most people could not take his sword at all!
The young man smiled and said, "I will introduce myself first. My name is Lin Chen, and I am a swordsman."
"Swordsman?" The young man was suspicious. He looked up and down at the young man and asked, "But I didn't see you with a sword..."
"Because I don't have a sword." Lin Chen explained.
"If there is no sword, how can you call it a swordsman?" someone asked.
"Is it because there is a sword in your hand and a sword in your heart?" someone said.
Lin Chen looked up slightly and looked at him. Just as he was about to speak, he saw the man suddenly laughing and asked, "Do you think you are Li Jianxian?"
Everyone burst into laughter.
Lin Chen shook his head and stopped looking at him. Instead, he turned to the boy and said, "Wait here, I'll come back before sunset."
Immediately, the gate of Hongchen Inn was out.
Chapter completed!