Chapter 136 Izumo City
Izumo Castle is a small town next to the border of Yunzhou. Although this city can only be built into a small town due to its terrain limitations, it is extremely prosperous due to its geographical location.
Yunzhou is surrounded by mountains and is a huge basin. There are only a few official roads entering and leaving Yunzhou, with only six in total, and Izumo City occupies one of the smaller routes.
It is precisely because of the important transportation hub of Yunzhou that Izumo Castle has a lush scene that is less than big cities.
As the largest inn in Izumo City, Izumo Inn has a very popular business. I don’t know how many travelers, people from all walks of life, or ordinary people, pass by it from now on. It’s just a matter of making money every day in Izumo Inn.
There were crowds of people in the inn. Although it was not yet noon, the hall was already full.
On the second floor of the inn, there are private rooms of all sizes, large and small, for those rich and wealthy guests.
In one of the large private rooms, several young men exchanged cups and sang each other, and there was a lively scene.
A tall and thin young man raised his wine glass and said to the young man in yellow shirt sitting in the main seat: "Xiao Yi, you have joined the Six Yang Sect this time and will soar into the sky from now on. Then you can't forget us brothers."
Lu Yi looked only fifteen or sixteen years old. He smiled and replied, "Brother Cai, what are you talking about? Although we are not fellow blood, we are better than brothers. We will never forget our brothers no matter what."
Several young men cheered loudly and drank another glass and filled it again.
Although Lu Yi's face was calm, he was quite proud in his heart.
Although we have a harmonious relationship with each other because of our elders, how can we be as glorious as today?
The tall and thin man who toasted him just now called Cai Ming, the only son of the gang leader. Although the current young gang leader of the Iron Palm Gang is not arrogant on weekdays, he can't hide the arrogance he said when talking to him and others. Now he is so respectful to himself, who is a son of a criminal elder in the gang, and is almost flattering.
Except for Cai Ming, the other young men are also the sons of middle and senior gang members, with a much higher status than themselves. Now they are all like Cai Ming, and they are flattering and flattering.
This is because I practiced the Qingyang Art to the third level before I was fifteen years old and reached the standard of worshiping the Six Yang Sect.
Since the news came out, not only did the elders of their relatives smile on their faces, but there were also endless people coming to his house to celebrate. The gang leader, who was so serious and powerful on his face, came to the door to congratulate and have several banquets.
Even the outer deacon of the Six Yang Sect came to pick him up today, and the young leader Cai Ming and others spontaneously prepared a farewell banquet for him to entertain him and bring them closer together.
Lu Yi couldn't help but feel unsatisfied.
Although their Lu family is also known as a martial arts family and is considered a force in Izumo Castle, the most powerful one that has appeared in his ancestors is just a warrior in the innate realm.
This time he had the opportunity to join the Six Yang Sect, and thought that as long as he could perform well in the Six Yang Sect and gain a firm foothold, the small Lu family would naturally rise and soar into the sky.
Just like the Nangong family in Jiangnan, wasn’t it because Nangong Yaqin was taken over by an immortal sect and became a disciple of the disciple, and then performed well and entered the ranking of the people’s list, that the Nangong family jumped from a third-class small family in Jiangnan to a top family?
Nangong Yaqin's younger brother, who had a wine bag, even took the position of head of the family and gave birth to a son known as the Flower Picking Prince. He was one of the seven young masters in Jiangnan together with the legendary Young Master Yin Yue, and was famous all over the world.
All of this is because of Nangong Yaqin who joined the Immortal Sect and once stepped into the list of people. Otherwise, the Nangong family would still be the decaying small family that I don’t know where to stay.
As the only disciple in the gang who was selected by the Liuyang Sect in the past ten years, Nangong Yaqin is Lu Yi's role model. He firmly believes that he can lead the Lu family to the top and become the second Nangong family.
However, only Nangong Yaqin was the one who really succeeded so many families who joined the sect, and this was subconsciously ignored by Lu Yi.
With high spirits and confidence, it is Lu Yi's current state.
Lu Yi, who was accepting the flattery of everyone, drank a glass of wine, and his eyes swept through the window, but suddenly stopped.
Seeing this, everyone looked out from the window.
At the gate of the inn, a young man dressed in noble clothes and elegant manners walked into the inn with the hands of a boy who was dressed in great wealth, followed by a strong man like an iron tower and an old man with a peaceful face.
The young man was wearing a moon-white robe, a jade crown and a jade ornament on his head, and an ivory folding fan in his right hand. His face was like a crown jade, and his whole body was like a piece of warm ancient jade. After walking into the inn, the filth in the air in the inn seemed to be swept away with his arrival, bringing an unspeakable sense of purity and comfort to everyone.
His behavior was even more gentle and humble. Even when he talked to the inn waiter, he did not have the arrogance that noble people were used to, which made everyone yearn for.
Sun Song, the son of the deputy gang leader, couldn't help but exclaim: "When did there be such noble men in this city? Such behavior and attitude must be no children from ordinary families. Who do you know?"
He Yi, the son of the gang chief, followed and said: "I was fortunate to meet a prince at the birthday party of a great man. The prince's demeanor and temperament are nothing more than that of that prince. The nobleman's noble character is actually comparable to that of His Highness."
In fact, he wanted to say that he was more noble than the prince, but when he spoke, he felt that it seemed a little too much, so he changed his words.
Another man said, "This young master must have passed by this place, so he is so close. Why don't we go up and make friends and make a good relationship?"
Everyone was about to say yes, but Cai Ming, who was sharp-eyed, found that Lu Yi's face was beginning to look ugly.
As the protagonist of this banquet, Lu Yi has been the center of flattery in the past few days. At this moment, someone suddenly appeared and snatched his glory. The limelight suddenly overshadowed him, and Lu Yi's mentality suddenly became unbalanced.
Cai Ming hurriedly said: "When did you guys learn to judge people by their appearance?"
Some more sensitive people had already reacted after seeing Lu Yi's face, but only a few of them were slightly dull and asked, "What do you mean?"
Even Lu Yi suppressed the unhappiness in his heart and looked at him curiously.
Cai Ming pointed out: "Which young man's clothes are gorgeous, it can only mean that his family is rich and his behavior is modest, which only means that he is well-read."
"But look at the person guard behind him, he is just an acquired warrior, at most, better than you and me, and that's not surprising. Although the old housekeeper was quick-witted and had practiced his fists for two days, he had no internal strength. From these two people, he could see that the young man was just an ordinary wealthy family. Princes and Dukes, children of aristocratic families, don't even think about it."
After listening to Cai Ming's well-informed analysis, Lu Yi couldn't help but realize it.
"Which of the families I'm waiting for here is not a wealthy family? How can that young man be worthy of my hard work to make friends with?"
Cai Ming turned to Lu Yi and said, "Not to mention Xiao Yi, his about to join the Six Yang Sect is the world's immortal sect. No matter how huge the world's wealth is, it is meaningless to the people in the immortal sect."
The remaining people had already woken up and knew that Cai Ming's actions were to flatter Lu Yi by belittling the young master. So they couldn't help but defame the young master to nothing and praised Lu Yi to heaven.
Lu Yi swept away the depression in his heart, happily accepted everyone's toast, and swallowed the wine directly.
On the other side, Huang Qi, led by waiter, had already arrived in a private room on the second floor, and was facing Lu Yi and the private room.
Since leaving the temple that day, after another three days of itinerary, Huang Qi and others finally arrived in Izumo City and arrived in Yunzhou.
Huang Zhen took the menu and submitted several delicacies in one go, all of which were the dishes that several of them loved.
Along the way, under Huang Qi's deliberate influence, Huang Zhen's arrogant attitude that he only cared about himself on his usual days had gradually been erased and began to know that he had taken care of others.
At least I will do it for others to see.
Huang Zhen said curiously: "Brother, isn't there any property in this city that is my Huang family?"
In the past, whenever I went there, I basically built the inns by the Huang family. Today, Huang Zhen did not see the familiar word "Huang" on the plaque, so I asked this question.
Huang Qi smiled and said, "There are, there are, but there are no inns. Although this place is a small town, the various forces behind it are complicated. No one from outsiders can open large-scale industries that make money here."
The main industries of the Huang family were concentrated in Jiangnan. First, because Jiangnan was the most prosperous place in the Song Dynasty, and second, because the Xianwu Sect in various states was mixed outside Jiangnan.
Although the Immortal Martial Sect itself has no sense of money, the forces that depend on them to survive are different. Just like this small Immortal City, this Immortal Martial Sect was opened by a force called the Immortal Martial Sect, which was founded by an outer disciple of the Six Yang Sect. The Six Yang Sect is a second-class Immortal Martial Sect in Yunzhou.
It is precisely because the Iron Palm Gang has maintained an intimate relationship with the Six Yang Sect for many years and is protected by the Six Yang Sect that it has grown to this point.
If it weren't for this, Izumo Inn, which is a daily gold-fighting gold, would have been swallowed by the jealous people so much that they didn't even have bones left. How could this be the glory?
Huang Zhen has never left Jiangnan. Jiangnan is full of inns opened by the Huang family, so this situation will happen only after leaving Jiangnan.
In the states outside the south of the Yangtze River, the forces of each sect are as complicated as the roots of an old tree, and go deep into every corner of various industries. In addition to confrontation, they cooperate with each other, and intertwined to form a huge network of forces hidden in the dark.
For the sake of their own interests, under the hindrance of these sects, the relevant government orders of the court will never be effectively implemented.
This led to the continuous decline of the prestige of the court, which led to the people of various states only recognize the immortal gate and do not recognize the imperial gate, and worship the immortal gate more than the imperial gate.
Chapter completed!