Someone Is Buying Blood Orchids

"Mr. Nongzhu?" The man was startled. Every cultivator in the Wen family knew that Nong Zhu was Wen Lanfeng's staunch friend. He immediately bowed and apologized profusely! But Nong Zhu wouldn't hold such a grudge. He casually waved his hand and darted into the shop, heading upstairs...

The rooftop pavilion was empty and serene, with a half-open wooden lattice window and an ancient zither placed beside it. Wen Lanfeng stood by the table with his eyes closed and hands clasped behind his back, seemingly listening intently to something. Nong Zhu rushed up, quite curious at the sight.

"Who else did you bring?" Wen Lanfeng asked with his eyes closed. He naturally sensed that another person was coming upstairs.

Nong Zhu walked up to him and chuckled, "Why don't you turn around and see?" Wen Lanfeng slowly opened his eyes, turned his head to look, and was immediately stunned. The expression on his face instantly became complicated. He turned around and said with a wry smile, "Why are you here?"

"I heard you came to Treasure Gathering Basin, so I came to check it out," Lou Yanqing said.

"Hehe..." Nong Zhu, standing to the side, couldn't help but laugh at the guqin on the table. Lou Yanqing, looking at the guqin, was speechless. Wen Lanfeng's old face suddenly turned somewhat embarrassed and angry, and he glared at Nong Zhu and shouted, "What are you laughing at?"

Anyone familiar with the past between Wen Lanfeng and Lou Yanqing knows that Wen Lanfeng went to great lengths to pursue Lou Yanqing! Knowing that Lou Yanqing loved music, he immediately began to study diligently, transforming himself from a complete novice into an expert. Back then, the reason Nong Zhu and Wen Lanfeng became friends was because Wen Lanfeng admired Nong Zhu's excellent flute playing and sought her instruction at the South Sea Purple Bamboo Forest.

"It's nothing, it's nothing," Nong Zhu waved her hands repeatedly, then asked with some surprise, "You're practicing the zither here?"

Wen Lanfeng gritted his teeth in hatred, but with Lou Yanqing present, he wanted to maintain his composure and it wasn't convenient to argue with Nong Zhu right now. After calming himself down a bit, he walked to the window, pointed towards the direction of Spring Sleep Tower diagonally opposite, and said, "Listen carefully to the music coming from there."

Nong Zhu and Lou Yanqing both went over. At first, all they heard was the noise of the street, but then they held their breath and focused, immediately discerning the lingering, sorrowful melody mixed in with the clamor. Upon hearing it, they were instantly captivated. The three of them stood quietly by the window, savoring the subtle sadness in the music...

After a long while, Lou Yanqing let out a soft breath and murmured, "Let bygones be bygones. Life has been full of storms. Even if memories can't be erased, love and hate still linger in my heart. If I really want to let go of the past and let tomorrow continue, then I won't keep asking me about you..."

Silently watching her, Wen Lanfeng murmured, "Love is a difficult problem, dazzling and intoxicating. Forgetting the pain might be possible, but forgetting you is too difficult. You have never truly left; you are always in my heart. I still love you, and I am powerless to change myself..."

Nong Zhu replied absentmindedly, "Because I still have dreams, I still hold you in my heart, I'm always easily moved by the past, and I always feel heartache for you. Don't linger on the unintentional tenderness I felt in the past, don't ask me if we'll meet again, don't care if I'm being insincere..."

"What a sad melody." Lou Yanqing shook her head and sighed, continuing the lyrics that Nong Zhu hadn't finished reciting in her daze, "Why don't you understand? Where there is love, there is pain. One day you will know that life without me will not be different. Life is already too fleeting. I'm so afraid of always having teary eyes. Forget me and there will be no pain. Leave the past in the wind..."

The three stood by the window, each lost in thought. Lou Yanqing, who was the first to come to her senses, stared in the direction from which the music was coming and asked, "Isn't that Spring Sleep Tower? Could it be a courtesan from inside singing and playing music?" She was quite curious; could there really be such a talented woman in a brothel?

"I sent someone over to check, and it was indeed a courtesan singing and playing the instrument." Wen Lanfeng shook his head and smiled bitterly. "However, the piece was composed by Yue Qianchou. According to the courtesan, it was composed by Yue Qianchou and given to her."

"Was this composed by Yue Qianchou again?" Lou Yanqing nodded slightly and said, "No wonder. I guess only Yue Qianchou could compose such an excellent piece. It seems that Yue Qianchou has also been troubled by love. If he hadn't felt the pain himself, how could he have composed such a poignant piece?"

"Yue Qianchou? He did it? Really? You believe it?" Nong Zhu's face was full of disbelief. To be honest, he had heard similar things before, but he had never believed it. Based on his understanding of Yue Qianchou, his supposed talent was utter nonsense; he probably plagiarized it from somewhere. But so far, it seemed everyone acknowledged Yue Qianchou's talent, and now even Wen Lanfeng and Lou Yanqing thought so. It was truly unbelievable.

"You don't think Yue Qianchou wrote it?" Wen Lanfeng asked curiously, believing that Nong Zhu knew more about Yue Qianchou than he did. Lou Yanqing also stared intently through the gauze curtain...

"I'm not quite sure either." Nong Zhu chuckled and immediately changed the subject, "Wen Lanfeng, what brings you here? Do you want to buy some Restriction Breaking Pill? Or..." He glanced at Lou Yanqing, his meaning clear though he didn't finish his sentence.

Wen Lanfeng said with slight annoyance, "I had no idea Yanqing would come. I just wanted to see who Niu Youde really was." Lou Yanqing was somewhat surprised. Didn't he know that Niu Youde was Yue Qianchou?

"Hehe! Did you see that?" Nong Zhu laughed.

Wen Lanfeng stared at the Spring Sleep Tower diagonally opposite the window and sneered, "I've lost all interest in seeing him now. How powerful can someone who spends all his time in brothels be?"

"What is he doing in a brothel?" Nong Zhu asked in surprise.

"What else can he do? Everyone knows this, don't you know?" Wen Lanfeng sneered. "Not only does Niu Youde now live in Spring Sleep Tower, but it is said that the madam of Spring Sleep Tower has become his concubine, and many people have witnessed the two of them spending every day together."

Nong Zhu's face darkened instantly. Before he came, he had heard about Niu Youde and Yin Baikang joining forces to write poems in a brothel, but he didn't think much of it. As for what happened afterward, he had been traveling with the two girls and really didn't know.

She had traveled a long way with Ziyi and Furong, but he was hiding in a brothel, living a carefree and dissolute life... Nong Zhu chuckled coldly with a gloomy face, "He really is a shameless fellow."

Lou Yanqing and said, "Is there some misunderstanding? I saw him at the Ghost Manor. He was a man of great poetic spirit and a clear understanding of the world. He doesn't seem like the kind of person who would act recklessly. I think we should clarify things before drawing any conclusions."

Hearing her say that, Nong Zhu's expression finally improved a little. But Wen Lanfeng was taken aback and said, "Poetic and bold? Wen Lanfeng sleep is unaware of dawn, everywhere the birds are singing, last night the wind and rain sound, how many flowers have fallen! Yanqing, do you think someone who can write such lewd poems for a brothel is poetically bold?"

Lou Yanqing blushed slightly upon hearing this, but fortunately, her expression was hidden by the veil. She then fell silent and did not say anything.

Nong Zhu's face, which had just recovered, darkened again. She snorted coldly, "So that's why I couldn't find him. He's hiding in a brothel. I'll have to pay him a visit."

In the backyard of Spring Sleep Tower, Yue Qianchou moved a chair and sat by the small lotus pond, listening to the Hundred Charm Demoness singer from the front hall. He felt an unbearable toothache and couldn't sit comfortably no matter how he tried. From the first time she sang, he guessed that she had come to see him, and later Yan Yu confirmed that she really had come to see Yue Qianchou.

Mo Shaojun hurriedly turned into the back door of the front hall, approached and bowed, saying, "Sir."

"How's the reservation for the Restriction Breaking Pill going?" Yue Qianchou asked, turning his head. He had originally wanted to go to the Treasure Pavilion himself to check, but his current status was so powerful that he would cause a commotion wherever he went, making it inconvenient to go to crowded places.

"The World Commerce Association first presented ten Restriction Breaking Pills for all parties to test their effects on the spot. When pre-orders officially began, all five thousand Restriction Breaking Pill were snapped up in less than a quarter of an hour. The Ice Palace of the Di Rong Kingdom and the Cloud Palace of the Dongzheng Kingdom received the most pre-orders, each getting one hundred pills. The remaining four thousand or so pills were divided among nearly three hundred other forces, but not many were actually received. As for the other individuals, they didn't even have the chance to order any before they were all snatched up by the major forces," Mo Shaojun said.

He was very arrogant at the Treasure Pavilion just now. While everyone else was crowding around in the hall, he, because of his Niu Youde, had made prior arrangements with the World Commerce Association and entered through the back door, wandering around the counters where the goods were sold.

"Without the support of Bing Chengzi and Hu Changshou, Yin Baikang would be hesitant to make this money! It's only natural to give them some benefits." Yue Qianchou said, stretching out his hand. Mo Shaojun immediately handed him a jade tablet.

The Treasure Pavilion was the largest trading place in the Treasure Gathering Basin. Many buyers and sellers didn't want to appear in public, so they used the Treasure Pavilion to display their buying and selling information. Whether buying or selling, all items were clearly priced and displayed on a sign in the Treasure Pavilion. Of course, the Treasure Pavilion wouldn't work for nothing; it would take a 10% commission from each transaction. The jade tablet Mo Shaojun gave him contained the daily listed transaction information. Yue Qianchou requested that he send over the updated listing information every day.

"Seven Star Blood Orchid?" Yue Qianchou muttered as he scanned the Divine Sense. He glanced at it briefly and was suddenly drawn to the familiar words. He discovered that someone was buying up large quantities of Seven Star Blood Orchid, offering 20 million high-grade Spirit Stones per plant. This was slightly cheaper than the auction price in the Huaxia Cultivation World, but not by much.

Bulk purchase? Yue Qianchou frowned. He was quite familiar with the Seven Star Blood Orchid; Utopia had planted a considerable amount of it. As far as he knew, the Blood Fruit produced by the Seven Star Blood Orchid was excellent for helping cultivators break through to the Nascent Core Formation stage Nascent Soul Realm. But now, Seven Treasures Pill were being sold at bargain prices, only two million high-grade Spirit Stones each. Who would actually spend ten times that price to buy the Seven Star Blood Orchid, which required so much effort to cultivate?

Could it be that someone has a large quantity of Youtan Poluo Flower and wants to acquire a large number of Blood Orchids to refine the Seven Orifices Exquisite Pill? That seems unlikely. Yue Qianchou's gaze was filled with suspicion. Could it be that the Seven Star Blood Orchid has some other miraculous effects that he doesn't know about, besides the two functions he knows about?

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