"That's me!" Haining repeated and suddenly stretched out a hand to his side.
When a maid behind her saw her actions, she immediately stepped forward and handed something wrapped in black cloth to Haining's hand.
At this time, another horse bark came to Su Xing's ears. Looking back, he saw a carriage driving slowly from the corner of the long street. After a while, it stopped in front of the main entrance of Hai Mansion.
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Haining ignored Su Xing's frozen movements, but quickly stepped forward and opened the curtain of the carriage, and stepped into the carriage with light steps.
After entering, she opened the curtain again as if she remembered something, looked at Su Xing who was still stopping in front of the door and stared at her blankly, and urged:
"Hey, why don't you go to the black market?"
"Coming."
Su Xing's mind was confused, and he still didn't realize whether Haining was joking with him or telling the truth. He walked unsteadily to the carriage and walked into the carriage with difficulty while holding on to the wooden frame.
After sitting on the soft and comfortable cushion, Su Xing let out a long breath. The fresh morning air flowed in the carriage, making him feel a little more awake.
"Are you really the introducer of the black market?"
"Of course." Haining raised her head and immediately told Su Xing the ins and outs of how she entered the black market a few years ago.
It turns out that Haining knew about the existence of the black market two years ago. At that time, she first got involved in the spiritual formations. She was dissatisfied with the encyclopedia books that recorded the spiritual formation masters in the world, and without the status of a spiritual formation master, she was not qualified to join the guild.
Find a book to read.
After some knowledge from her, Haining, who was only fifteen years old, learned about the black market for the first time from a servant. It took nearly half a year to successfully find an introducer.
After having an introducer, coupled with her status and financial resources as the daughter of the Hai family, it was not difficult to enter the black market. In the following period, most of the books about spiritual formations that Haining read were from the black market.
Found it.
As for what the black market is, as Su Xing guessed, it is a hidden market that cannot be seen in the light. Most of the things sold in it are items that are not allowed to be circulated in the market by the dynasty, such as some specialties that are monopolized by other regions, or some products that pass through the market.
Things obtained through illegal means.
The black market does not exist in every city, but is a collection of underground markets in several nearby cities. Just like the Maple City black market that the two of them are going to now, it is a combination of the local underground market and the four surrounding cities.
The girl gave Su Xing advice along the way about what to pay attention to, what to do, and what not to do after arriving at the black market.
The young man was confused when he heard it, but he finally remembered it with his unclear mind. As for whether he still wanted to think about it after arriving there, Su Xing didn't dare to guarantee it.
The driving carriage seemed to know the road leading to the black market. Haining never directed the driver once. The carriage just walked slowly. Su Xing only knew that they left the city and walked all the way to the suburbs.
After a while, Su Xing saw the carriage driving into a deserted small village. Most of the thatched houses in the village were deserted and had no air of habitation. Finally, they found themselves in a house that looked larger than ordinary.
Stopped in front of a large stone house.
"Here, put this on."
Haining did not get out of the car in a hurry. Instead, she untied the cloth bag that the maid had just given her and handed one of the items to Su Xing.
Su Xing took it and took a look. It turned out that the black thing was a black gauze hat. He was very familiar with this thing. When he went to and from Yangcheng before, he had also worn it in order to avoid his identity being discovered.
"This is a requirement of the black market. There is a mixture of fish and dragons here, interspersed with young masters from aristocratic families, disciples of sects and desperadoes. Maybe some of them are interested in the treasure you bought and will take note of your appearance."
"You know this thing is of no use to us spiritual formation masters."
For those who have stepped into the threshold of spiritual formation masters, they can remember other people's scents by relying on their spiritual consciousness, without having to see the other person's face at all.
"But there aren't many spiritual formation masters inside." Haining put on his curtain hat and said casually.
Su Xing put on his curtain obediently, looked at the bright sky outside, and asked curiously: "Does the black market open in the morning?"
After Haining put on her curtain hat, the black gauze covered her entire face, revealing only a pair of dark eyes, which were as bright as bright pearls in the dark night.
Even if they are not spiritual formation masters, people can still see some clues from the noble aura of Haining. This kind of innate nobility is probably exclusive to the heirs of big families.
"It's usually at night, but today is an exception."
"Exception?" Su Xing followed Haining out of the carriage.
"So you are lucky. You caught up with the black market's once-in-March auction as soon as you got down the mountain. If you can't buy the earth melt crystal you want here today, then I guess the entire Linzhou won't have it either."
Haining led Su Xing to the door and took out a copper-colored token from his arms. The man in black guarding the door took the token and looked at it for a while, then nodded and returned it to Haining.
"This is the person I brought, don't worry, nothing will go wrong."
After hearing Hai Ning's words, the man stopped intercepting Su Xing, nodded to him in a friendly manner, and let the two of them go.
After entering the stone house, a guide walked up to Haining. It turned out that the interior of the stone house, which looked huge from the outside, was empty without any furniture.
The floor in the center of the stone house was lifted up, revealing a passage leading underground.
Seeing this scene, Su Xing was slightly shocked. He didn't expect that there was a cave under this stone house.
After walking down the stone steps, Xiaosheng took down a torch from the wall and led Su Xing and Haining along the long passage, finally stopping in front of a stone door.
"Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom."
The frequency of Xiaosheng's knocking on the door seemed to be some kind of code that had been agreed upon in advance. After a moment, the stone door was opened from the inside, and the scene inside the door was immediately revealed to the two of them.
It turns out that the end of the underground passage is a large cave. In the center of the cave is a spacious hall filled with tables and chairs. The stone walls on all sides have been smoothed by people, and a circle of open-air platforms have been built above.
There are already many people sitting in the hall, but at a glance, they are all wearing various kinds of curtains and hats. A rough estimate is that there are at least eleven or twelve people sitting in the hall.
Su Xing could only try to spread his spiritual consciousness and guess people's identities based on their aura.
Some people with gentle and elegant auras are mostly sons or daughters of aristocratic families, while those with violent and rough auras are probably knights in the world.
After Xiaosheng saw the bronze medal in Haining's hand, he led the two of them up another flight of stairs and stopped only at the door of a private room.
"Please, you two."
He opened the curtain of the box and made way for the two of them.
Su Xing exclaimed that it was interesting in his heart. He looked at Haining in front of him and saw that the girl had a dull face, as if she was used to this scene.
The two walked into the box - or it would be more appropriate to use an open-air platform to describe this place - and the boxes on each platform were separated by walls, which had a certain degree of privacy.
It's just that the volume of people's speech here still cannot be raised, otherwise there is a possibility that the words will fall into the ears of the people next door.
When the two of them were sitting on the seats on the platform, they saw the lights suddenly turn on in the booth below. A tall, masked man opened the curtain on the side of the booth and walked to the display cabinet in the center of the booth.