Having just had lunch, Guo Lintian returned with a few auction items.
"You've all eaten." Looking at the few bags on the table, Guo Lintian asked with a smile.
"Uncle Guo, let me go and buy you some." Bai Xiaofei got up and said.
"I've eaten some outside." Guo Lintian waved his hand, "Come and see what I've bought. You could say you picked up a small leak, these would have cost more than double if you bought them outside!"
"Oh?" Chen Ge was surprised.
Guo Lintian opened the several boxes in turn.
He only saw that there were some herbs placed inside, but Chen Ge had no research in this area and did not know what they were.
"This is Beidou grass."
"This is five hundred years old wild mountain ginseng."
Guo Lintian pointed at the things in the box and introduced them in turn.
"It seems that these ground stalls still have quite a lot of good things." Chen Ge nodded along, although he hadn't studied it, he had heard of some herbs, not to mention the five hundred year old wild mountain ginseng first.
It was the withered grass called Beidou that was lying in the box. Chen Ge vaguely remembered that when he was a child, he had heard Chen Ducang talk about it, and it belonged to the type that had a price but no market.
"They're not the same as the carpets on the street."
"It's just that what is brought is not enough to be sold publicly at an auction. But out there they also belong to an existence that is sought after by countless cultivators and large families."
Guo Lin Tian carefully put away a few boxes, to be able to get these at a low price, it would not be a loss to attend the auction on the island this time.
"No scams?" It wasn't that Chen Ge hadn't attended auctions before.
"Of course there are, in a way, as long as one pays the entrance fee of twenty thousand dollars, one is eligible to be here, most of them are sincere in wanting to sell things, but there are also opportunists, so there is no shortage of fakes present on these grounds, it depends on whether one can recognise them or not."
Guo Lintian nodded his head and continued to explain.
"So." Chen Ge responded thoughtfully.
"If you don't understand, let me know if you come across anything you want to buy, although I don't have too deep an understanding of herbs and heavenly treasures and the like, it's better than you." After Guo Lintian put it away, he turned to Chen Ge and said.
"Thank you, Uncle Guo." Chen Ge bent down slightly.
"There's nothing to thank you for." Guo Lintian smiled and waved his hand in question." Right Chen Ge, you went out last night to find out what happened, I guess you must have returned late?"
"Nothing at all." Chen Ge shook his head.
But thinking of the old crone who helped himself last night. Chen Ge immediately got up and headed outside." Uncle Guo, I'm going down to take a look first."
He had to go to the old crone to ask for clarification, what happened last night had left Chen Ge confused until now.
Chen Ge knew. As long as the old crone was willing to tell himself the truth, then all these secrets could be solved.
"I'll go with you!" Bai Xiaofei put down the things in his hands and immediately followed.
After the two of them went downstairs together, Chen Ge scanned the downstairs, only to see that the matzah was still placed at the door, but the old crone was nowhere to be found.
"How strange." Seeing this scene. Chen Ge frowned slightly.
"Brother Chen, what's strange?" Bai Xiaofei followed Chen Ge's eyes, but didn't see anything.
"Nothing. Go out and have a look around." Chen Ge shook his head, not wanting to tell Bai Xiaofei yet until he figured it out himself, for fear of causing him trouble.
He himself still needed the old crone's help to save him, and Bai Xiaofei was afraid that he wouldn't even have the chance to struggle back.
As soon as he left the house, Chen Ge saw that there were dense stalls on both sides of the otherwise empty road. The streets were filled with people, and the sounds of loud talking and noise filled his ears.
If he didn't know, he would have thought that he had arrived in a vegetable market.
"I don't know why, but these stalls last just a few hundred metres ahead, and there's no one further on."
"They'd rather squeeze in here than keep leaning forward. It's really incomprehensible." Bai Xiaofei leaned in next to Chen Ge and said lightly.
"Probably because they won't let it." Chen Ge knew why, but didn't say so.
Walking to the middle of the crowd. Chen Ge could still see those bloodstains on the ground not far in front of him, the blood had dried up long ago, but it still appeared dark red.
"Let's go. Go and take a look." Chen Ge put his hands behind his back and walked towards the inside.
Behind Chen Ge a dozen metres or so away, two men in grey clothes followed not far behind, one of them, the old man in grey clothes who had nearly made a move on Chen Ge last night, the man the young girl had called the Third Elder.
"Is that him?" The grey-clothed old man stretched his neck to look ahead.
"That should be him, this is where the young lady met him, this size, this age. We haven't seen anyone else who fits the criteria all day today." Another man pointed to the wooden building where Chen Ge had come out and said.
"Follow him, we must not let this man disappear from our sight." The grey-clothed old man nodded, his eyes fixed on Chen Ge in the middle of the crowd, "It's really hard to find him after stepping through iron shoes. Our family has spent ten years trying to find the Nine Turning Yuan Shen, but we never thought it would be such a coincidence that it would just appear in front of us out of thin air."
"That's also the young lady's luck." Another person spoke up and echoed.
"Does the master know about it?" The old man in grey led him forward, following behind Chen Ge.
"I know, the news that Master returned early this morning said that he would immediately arrive at Qing Jiao Island." The other man continued.
"If you look at it now, the time is almost up."
"In this way, you continue to follow that young man. I'll go back and pack, remember never to lose him, if we let him disappear from our sight, it will be difficult to find him again."
"And keep him safe!"
The old man in grey threw down a sentence before turning around and walking towards the back.
After the man nodded in response, he directly lifted his feet to follow Chen Ge. Keeping a distance of about ten metres, so that not only would he not lose him, but he would also not be easily discovered.
Chen Ge did not know what was going on behind him.
After being discovered last night. He had directly withdrawn his true qi completely into his body, so that he could avoid the risk of being discovered to the greatest extent possible.
Thinking about the old man who had suddenly appeared, Chen Ge was a little worried in his heart.
"There's still a gun seller here?" Bai Xiaofei followed behind Chen Ge as he walked forward. When walking past a ground stall, his eyes suddenly widened.
In front of the man in a mercenary uniform, there were several of the Federation's latest production assault rifles, and next to them were a dozen boxes containing matching bullets.
"There's really nothing strange in the big world." Chen Ge couldn't help but feel saddened as well.
The two of them continued to turn around. Apart from the firearms they had just seen, most of them were herbs or things that they could not name.