Chapter 659: The Prosperity of Dongyuan in Volume 5, the Story of Red Jiao
There is still one hundred and fifty miles from Matou Gu to Dongyuan Town, and Chen Huaisheng can reach it in one day.
This road is the main road from southern Shanxi. Coming from Tianjing Road, bypassing Tongtianbo, less than ten miles away is Dongyuan Town.
Dongyuan Town is actually the throat of Tianjing Road leading to Weihuai Road.
When Chen Huaisheng arrived at Dongyuan Town, it was already dark.
Dongyuan Town is not a city like Huaiyang City. It is a market town connected by several horizontal streets and vertical alleys. There are also several villages around it, forming such a somewhat chaotic place.
It's messy, but it seems very lively and energetic.
Only five miles to the west is Tongtianbo. Dongyuan Town is actually built near the lake. The reason why there are five miles across the lake is because the terrain here is higher.
Further west, the terrain becomes lower and flatter. Once there is a flood and the water in Tongtianbo rises, all the flat areas will be submerged. However, the current location of Dongyuan Town is on high ground and can be reached by the river. Standing on the shore.
Although Tongtianbo is vast in area, the lake is not very deep. It is in the shape of an irregular willow leaf and stands between Weihuai Road and Tianjing Road. Tongtianbo is only twenty miles south, that is Hanshan Road is bounded.
The last time I came to Tongtianbo, I didn't go to Dongyuan Town, but went directly to the east. Time was tight, so I found a helper at the lakeside and went straight into the lake.
This time is different. Chen Huaisheng can safely look at this large market town standing at the southwest corner of Weihuai Road from a fair and objective perspective.
Tongtianbo is not only in Yanzhou, but also in the whole of Hebei. It is the top place among lakes. Not only is it vast in area, but the lakes and swamps are also of various shapes and depths, with some in the center. There are deep lakes, shallow swamps around it, and some areas are swamps and wetlands. There are many kinds of spiritual plants in the lake, as well as many spiritual fish and spiritual beasts.
Because he knew that Dongyuan Town was actually the bridgehead for the Yuelu Sect to break into Weihuaidao, Chen Huaisheng seemed to be particularly low-key.
Fortunately, this is the main road from southern Shanxi. At the same time, it is at the junction of Hanshan Road and Weihuai Road, and the special nature of Tongtianbo, which is rich in products, makes business extremely prosperous.
Chen Huaisheng saw the Kang's Pharmacy run by the Huaiyang Kang family here. It was located next to several other medicine shops. The business was quite good, and there was no discord just because they were colleagues.
Unlike the situation in Huaiyang City, Dongyuan Town is controlled by one sect and eight small and medium-sized clans.
The sect is the Donghe Sect, a dominant family. Of course, this dominance is limited to the area southeast of Weihuai Road. In fact, the Donghe Sect is the minions of the Yuelu Sect.
The eight powerful clans are Zhong, Lu, Mu, Luo, Wu, Yu, Yuan, and Bu. Among them, the Lu and Luo families are of Yao clan descent, while the Mu and Bu families are descendants of Beirong.
Dongyuan Town and its surroundings have a population of more than 200,000. It is also the largest local area in the entire Weihuai Road and has the largest population. It mainly covers most of the Tongtianbo water area, plus Dongyuan Town is a business hub. , and is located at the choke point from southern Shanxi to Yanzhou, so there are many more people begging for food around these factors.
Chen Huaisheng didn't know much about the situation in Dongyuan Town because he couldn't take care of it at all.
First of all, Dongyuan Town was actually deeply penetrated by the Yuelu Sect. Let alone the current Dahuaishan, even the Lingyun Sect never thought of reaching out to Wei Huaidao when it first started. Come in here.
Secondly, the situation here is also very complicated. Although the Yuelu Sect is in a dominant position, none of the eight major clans are without followers. For example, the Yuan family and the Yuan clan of the Western Tang Dynasty are from the same lineage, and they have a long history. In terms of origin, the Lu and Luo families have descendants of the demon clan, while the Mu and Bu families have close ties with Beimo, and also interact with the An, Kang, and Cao families of Huaiyang City.
However, the advantage of this situation is that it is complicated but not chaotic. The Donghe Sect is in a dominant position with the support of the Yuelu Sect, but the eight major families also cooperate tacitly and negotiate with each other. In addition, the local area is rich in products. On the contrary, it makes this place seem particularly prosperous and prosperous.
The inn is owned by the Zhong family of the Eight Great Masters. They chose a spiritual spring. The spiritual energy is much stronger than other places, and the stay is comfortable, but the price is much more expensive.
But Chen Huaisheng could see that many casual cultivators who came and went chose to live here. At least Chen Huaisheng saw a foundation-building casual cultivator and two high-level Qi refining monks settling in.
The inn is equipped with a restaurant, which provides all kinds of spiritual food. The prices are also high and low, with strong local characteristics, that is, there are rich varieties of aquatic spiritual plants and spiritual fish.
Cold Yang Fei Peng, fried purple eggs with golden thread bean sprouts, steamed Thai reed and green bighead carp with bright flowers, plus a bowl of Lingsu porridge.
The taste is not bad, but after one meal, it is Sanlingsha, which makes Chen Huaisheng smack his tongue.
You can't afford ordinary monks at all. Of course, there are cheap ones with ten or twenty spiritual stones, but they are basically vegetarian dishes, and they are also third-level common spiritual plants with low spiritual energy.
Wealth and Dharma couple are in the same land, and the word "wealth" is at the forefront, which can be deeply reflected at this time.
Chen Huaisheng deliberately ate slowly because he wanted to take advantage of the restaurant to truly feel the charm of Dongyuan Town.
There is no reason why it is so lively. "Even the Tianhe Sect has come. I don't know how lively this year's Water Saint Festival will be."
"Haha, it's not just the Tianhe Sect, Da Zhao and Xi Tang There are people coming over there, are they all here for Yin Ba?”
"People from Da Zhao and Xi Tang are also here? Which family is which?"
"I heard that they are the Wanxiang Sect and Huaxi Sword Sect of Da Zhao. Two or three families are also here from Xi Tang, and the Yuan family is They must be here. They are of the same line as the Yuan family here. It seems that there is also the Dugu family..."
"Youzhou Ning family and Dading sect are also here. I just saw their people, Cang Hai's There were also casual cultivators and cultivators nearby. Who would have thought that this Water Saint Festival would attract so many people's attention. It was not so lively in previous years."
"Who let the red dragon escape? Where is Tongtianbo?" A feeble voice said: "The Yuelu Sect has been pursuing them for more than ten years. Wasn't the reason for the fierce battle with the Lingyun Sect because of this red dragon? The evil beast escaped into Tongtianbo."
"Oh, there is such a thing, tell me, what happened?"
"Yes, the Red Dragon in Transformation? How come you haven't heard of it? Don't be too pretentious, hurry up..."
"It's a long story..., who's inviting me to this meal?"
"Go away, you motherfuckers. We all managed to get together and have fun together. Why are you spoiling the fun?"
"This thief is here again." Don't worry, you will offend the public..."
"You have to have a glass of stone jelly to soothe your throat, right? Hey, I want the one brewed by the Lu family, the other ones don't have that taste..." That one was weak. The voice seems to have seen the hope of free drinking, and the spirit is much better, "Uh, wait a minute, don't rush me, I have to think about where to start,..."
Chen Huaisheng felt that the people at the nearby tables were quite interested.
It can be seen that this group of people should be mainly casual cultivators from Wei Huaidao. It is not ruled out that there may be casual cultivators from Tianjing Road in Jinzhou or Hanshan Road over there, and they are all familiar with each other.
A brief exploration with the spiritual sense shows that the level of the spiritual realm of these people is complex, ranging from high to low.
The tall and thin man among them, who said nothing, must be at the peak of foundation building. The other short, fat man with a smile on his face, who just listened without speaking, must also be at the peak of foundation building. About fivefold.
It’s as low as those guys who are making noises. From the fifth level to the eighth level of Qi training, they are all making friends and shouting at each other.
This group of about ten people was divided into three tables, but they all knew each other, at least they all knew each other, so they didn't have so many scruples when talking.
“Here comes the wine!”
When the bartender brought three pots of stone frozen spring, the sick-looking old man, who was at the ninth level of Qi Refining, poured himself a glass and poured it carefully. He took a big mouthful, smacked his lips, raised his head and said, "The story of the red dragon is a long story. Everyone knows that there are two possibilities for the origin of the red dragon. One is that it was transformed from a dragon egg, and the other is that it was transformed from a red dragon's egg. Change,..."
There was silence in the hall.
The casual cultivators present are at least in the middle stage of Qi refining, but they don’t know much about the changes in the origin of this strange beast. In their opinion, shouldn’t this red dragon be the Was it born from a male and female dragon?
At first glance, except for one or two people in the crowd whose expressions remained unchanged, most of the others looked puzzled and full of expectations. The sickly old man was even more proud: "Haha, don't you understand?"
" Okay, stop being so pretentious and say it quickly! Isn't three bottles of wine enough to soothe your throat?" A red-faced old man at the ninth level of Qi Refining said angrily: "You guys are not cultivators, how can you think so much all day long? Thinking about those things? "
"Yeah, just because you haven't seen it, it doesn't mean you haven't heard about it. Didn't the Chonghua Sect in Fuyang attack and kill many people the year before last? It is said that the Chonghua Sect has lost its vitality because of this and is planning to move south to Da Zhao."
"Ah, don't you even want Wolong Ridge? Didn't you gain the advantage of the Youzhou Ning Family and Fengyi Sect in vain? And the Yuelu Sect should also be relieved. It has only been a few years since the Chonghua Sect moved from Da Zhao. It has been less than ten years, right? Sneaking back to Da Zhao?"
"Then our Yanzhou will be in chaos for a while. Once the Chonghua faction leaves, Fuyang and Wei Huai will be in chaos, so don't worry. It is said that there are monsters causing trouble. Just the few people inside will have to think differently..."
"Don't think about it. It would be nothing if it was normal. Now that the monsters are so powerful, who would have thought about the precarious days like the winter before last. If the Chonghua sect in Fuyang didn't attract the monsters in Wolong Ridge, maybe Those monsters rushed to Wei Huaidao. I don’t know whether you and I can still drink and eat meat here.”
“Hey, if those third- and fourth-order monsters really come. Now, we have no home or room, so at worst we can just throw up our legs and run away. If the road to Hanshan is not good, we can cross the river and run to Weijun and Sijun..."
(End of this chapter)