Songyang City is an ancient city with a radius of dozens of miles. There are six or seven thousand households living in the city. The streets and alleys are scattered, and it is very prosperous.

Lu Chong came to the inn last time, put on a light blue dress, sat upright at a long table, with a ten-story wooden box on the table. Lu Chong sipped a sip of fragrant tea, and when he heard the knock on the door, a faint smile appeared on his face.

Lu Kai's thin figure walked in from outside. Seeing Lu Chong sitting at the table, he said happily: "My junior is doing well in Dongguang Town."

Lu Chong asked Lu Kai to sit down, hand him a cup of hot tea, and then said, "I have asked my senior brother to deal with Lufang, but his performance has increased a lot, otherwise it will make his senior brother's face look bad."

Lu Kai was very pleased that Lu Chong said this, and then said, "I can have fun in the city this time, I will accompany you."

Lu Chong hurriedly said, "No rush for this. I plan to buy a yard in the city, so as not to stay in an inn every time, and secondly, I plan to retire here in the future."

After saying that, he pointed to the ten-story wooden box on the table and said to Lu Kai: "This is some crocodile oil I got from the Dark Valley Forest. I heard that it is useful for refreshing the meridians, so I brought it to you."

Lu Kai smiled and said, "This is such a good thing. Thank you, but there is no need to fool you with your senior brother! This is a ten-story wooden box of mechanisms."

After hearing this, Lu Chong became cautious and said to Lu Kai seriously: "I would like to ask my senior brother, have you practiced the hand meridian technique?"

Lu Kai looked at Lu Tong quietly for a while and replied: "My junior brother must also know this ultimate technique, which surprised me a little. Although a few people in the upper class of the Lu family know about it, it is still a relatively secret thing. I am indeed practicing the right hand meridian technique. Why did my junior brother ask this?"

Lu Chong nodded and said, "I not only know this meridian technique, but also know that you have not practiced successfully with your senior brother."

Lu Kai said with a surprised look, "How did you know?"

Lu Chong said seriously: "I also accidentally thought of this situation. I have practiced the right hand meridian technique successfully, so I successfully passed the assessment of the wood tool master. Based on my previous understanding of Lufang in Huanglong City, I speculate that if my senior brother wants to pass the assessment, he must also succeed in the meridian technique."

Lu Kai sighed, "Is this true? No wonder I haven't passed the assessment so many times."

Lu Chong took out a pill from his body and handed it to Lu Kai. Looking at Lu Kai's surprised expression, he also said cautiously: "I got this by accident. I used to take a 'Qingling Pill' to successfully pass through the meridians. I hope my senior brother can succeed as soon as possible."

Lu Kai said excitedly: "Junior brother, you are really good. I won't say much about thanks. Senior brother recognizes you as a brother." As he said that, he took the pill with his slightly trembling hands.

Lu Chong said again: "I plan to go to the city first. If I have a good taste of a suitable house, I will ask my senior brother to help me get the price."

Lu Kai said happily: "This is no problem, I'll wait for your news." After that, he picked up the wooden box of the machine on the table and left Lu Chong.

Next, Lu Tong focused on patrolling the Wang family's old houses in the west of the city. There were a total of 17, including three of the big locust trees. Based on the relationship between the big locust trees and the flower beds of these three houses, Lu Tong finally selected a Wang family's old house in Xiyulin Hutong, Songyang City.

This old house is the residence of a declining Wang family's ancestors in Songyang City. In recent years, he opened a restaurant with people in the city. The business was quite prosperous. He bought another courtyard in the city. He rarely came here to live there, and the old house was not repaired, leaving only an old servant here to take care of it.

Lu Tong told Lu Kai about his interest in the old house and asked Lu Kai to help him discuss with the Wang family. Lu Tong was waiting for news in the inn.

The next day, Lu Kai came to the inn and introduced the negotiation situation to Lu Chong. Lu Kai said, "You are really lucky. The Wang family's son is unwilling to come back and recall the poor days before. He said he was afraid of seeing things and thought about his feelings. He planned to sell this old house, but the price was a bit high. It was said that the old house occupied a large area, at least not less than two gold coins. After bargaining, he finally decided to ask for 150 silver coins. I think it is reasonable. What do you think of the junior brother?"

Lu Chong thought that the house in the city could be purchased with only one gold coins, but the location of this old house was smooth and convenient for him to act privately, so he responded readily: "Thank you, senior brother, for your bargaining, I saved fifty silver coins? I think I can buy it immediately."

The house was quickly completed. Lu Kai knew that Lu Chong had little time to manage the house alone, so he took Lu Chong to the Dongmen Market to choose and buy a few slaves, a housekeeper named Huang Linfu, two servants and two maids, so that it was easy to take care of and clean up the larger old house. Lu Kai sent someone to repair the old house. Two or three days later, the house seemed full of vitality.

After the old house was renovated, Lu Chong held a banquet in the yard to entertain Lu Kai. Lu Kai knew Lu Chong's habit of liking quietness and only brought two or three good Lu Fang clan children to introduce to Lu Chong. Everyone was a new generation of young disciples, laughing and laughing until they left for fun.

That night, Lu Chong waited until everyone in the house had already fallen asleep before coming under the tall locust tree. According to the text that had been untied before, Lu Chong walked three steps towards the front of the big locust tree according to the adult's footsteps, then turned around and walked five steps to the left, and then came to a rectangular flower bed. Lu Chong used a hoe to dig down the soil of the flower bed. At about two or three feet, he finally encountered a wooden box.

Lu Chong cleaned up the soil on the wooden box and buried the soil in the flower bed normally. He then carried the wooden box back to the room he lived in and placed the wooden box on the ground to see it.

This wooden box is a square box about one foot and two inches long, seven inches wide and four inches high. There is a rusty small iron lock on the front. Lu Chong pried open the small iron lock and opened the lid of the wooden box and saw several things inside the box.

The top was a heavy bag of purses. Lu Chong took out the coins from the bag, including dozens of black iron coins and more than a dozen silver coins, which were mixed with three gold coins. So many coins were indeed a considerable amount of wealth.

A short knife was pressed under the wallet. Lu Chong picked it up and saw that the short knife was half-moon-shaped, only four inches long and the handle was about one inch. I don’t know what material it was made of. It didn’t look like metal or jade. The surface of the knife had a soft cold air, the handle exuded a woody smell, and there was a groove at the end, but it was smaller than the energy stone. Obviously, it could not be stimulated by the energy stone.

Lu Chong put the short knife aside and took out a wooden box next to the purse. It was an exquisite and quaint wooden box of mechanism. Lu Chong tried to disassemble it and found that he had no idea how to start. This wooden box of mechanism is much more complicated than all the wooden boxes he had seen. Lu Chong gave up after studying it for a while. He estimated that the level of this wooden box of mechanism was not something he could unlock now. There are at least twelve layers or even more than ten thousand pieces of mechanism inside this wooden box.

These two things made Lu Chong a little depressed, but then it surprised Lu Chong. Under the wooden box was a pack of things wrapped in cowhide. When they opened it, they saw two thin pages of the book. There were a few words written on it: Leg vein-opening techniques, one was the right foot vein-opening technique, and the other was the left foot vein-opening technique.

Lu Chong suppressed his inner joy and took out the last wrinkled fur of an unknown beast at the bottom of the wooden box. Lu Chong put it on the table and spread it out and smoothed it out. Only then did he see that this animal skin seemed to be a mutated one, the size of an ordinary map, and there were a lot of words on it. These words were not the kind commonly used now, but the words Lu Chong saw in that book before were exactly the same.
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