The man was stunned for a moment. Then, the malevolence on the corner of his mouth gradually became clear. ""Who the h.e.l.l are you?""

""I f.u.c.king call it Ainphent,"" he replied with a smile.

Then, the malevolent smile on the man"s face became a twitch. ""Master An …""

An Xuan said, ""Don"t be so polite. I"m in a good mood today so I won"t beat anyone up. You guys gather a hundred silvers for me and then don"t use lying to earn money from this mess.""

If you can do it, then go. If you can"t, then help me think of a way.

People like you can"t be taught, and the best way to do that is to beat them to death.

""However, even if you are killed by your parents, your parents wouldn"t be able to live long if I were to beat you to death.""

The man didn"t even dare to say a word. The few of them gathered around and took out the silver taels, but it was only seventy or eighty silver taels. ""It"s really not enough. Why don"t you wait a minute, I"ll borrow some?""

An Zeng shook his head, ""You bunch of liars are really despicable … give me half of it.""

The man was stunned. He didn"t understand what he meant.

An Zhan took forty taels of silver from the man"s hands but didn"t take the rest. ""If you take all of your money, you will go steal, rob, and harm others.""

I"ll leave these for you. With this as capital, I"ll rent a shop outside of the Heavenly Enlightenment Sect and learn how to cook snacks.

I can see you when I go in and out … Oh, right. The shops outside of the Heavenly Enlightenment Sect are mostly mine. I"ll give you a discount and rent you a good seat.

""It doesn"t matter if it"s tasty or not. The people from the Heavenly Enlightenment Sect will prop up this snack bar for you.""

""Thank you, Master An!""

That man cupped his fist. ""I am truly loyal to you, Master An. I concede.""

An Zhan waved his hand, ""Hurry up and f * ck off, say something along the way.""

If your food doesn"t taste good after a month, I"ll go and hit you every day, three times a day, and perhaps even supper. ""

The man left in a hurry, not daring to say another word.

An Zhan placed the forty silver taels into the scholar"s hands. ""Idiot, take this silver taels and find an inn to stay in for the Imperial examinations.""

If you win, remember to be a good official.

""If he doesn"t, then we"ll go to those b.a.s.t.a.r.ds to open up a cashier"s shop.""

The scholar replied, ""I … will.""

He took a tael of silver from An Zeng"s hand, then turned around and left.

An Zhan"s expression changed slightly, and he called out to the scholar, ""What"s your name?""

The scholar stopped and turned to say, ""My name is Gu Zhaogong.""

""Where are you from?"" he asked.

The scholar replied, ""From the south-western border.""

""At the southeastern frontier, the war is going on day and day, and the people are going away, and life is miserable,"" he said.

""Even so, they added a few dozen taels of silver to send you to the capital for the exam. Yet, you spent one tael of silver to resolve the situation.""

Gu Zhaogong sighed and said, ""The villagers have brought me a total of fourteen taels of silver. After I sold my a.s.sets, I received fifteen taels of silver.

Right now, the villagers haven"t moved fourteen taels yet. I think if I don"t need it, I"ll give it back to them when I go back.

But even so … I was wrong, I was wrong.

Whether the silver was mine or the folks", I was wrong.

The property was not mine but the property my dead parents had saved up, and I had sold it, unfilial.

""Now that you"re gambling with this silver, you"re even more unfilial.""

""Where do you live now?""

Gu Chao said, ""Under the Ming"an Bridge.""

An Zhan asked, ""The imperial court has reserved seats at the inn for all of you who are partic.i.p.ating in the imperial examinations. Even if there are no seats at the inn, there are plenty of inns. Why are you staying under the bridge?""

Gu Chao said in unison, ""Because I can"t bear to spend money. I wanted to break the chess game just now because I think I can win.""

I know it"s mostly a hoax, but since I was a child I"ve always played chess and thought I could work it out. ""

An Zizhi pointed at Xiao Qi and said, ""My brother is missing a gentleman, you can follow me for now.""

I could teach him other things, but not learning.

""I don"t care about where you live or eat three meals a day. How about I give you another ten taels of silver a month as compensation?""

Gu Zhaogong shook his head. ""No.""

""Why?""

Gu Chao said in unison, ""That"s too much. Three meals a day plus a place to stay is enough. I don"t want any money.""

""I can see that your brother is extremely charming. In the future, he might even be a great character. To be able to enlighten him is my luck.""

""Do you know how to look at faces?""

Gu Chao nodded. ""I like to read books and read all kinds of books, so I know a little about feng shui.""

But there are some books that are so mysterious that most of them are deceitful. ""

An Zhe couldn"t hold back his laughter. ""You"re also a straightforward person. When you asked around, you told Old Huo, the concierge, that I was the one who sent you.""

""My name is An Zeng. From now on, you will stay at my place until the imperial examinations start.""

Gu Zhaogong leaned forward slightly. ""Thank you.""

Dean sighed: ""Such a person would be fooled if he was stupid. It would only take a long time for him to remember.""

An Xuan said, ""Xiao Qidao happens to be lacking an official. I can teach him how to cultivate, but he"s not that good at it.""

""This scholar seems to be okay, just keep him.""

""There are people who pick up money or trash. You pick up people.""

""A few days ago, I picked up Long Jing, now I picked up Gu Zhaoge, I don"t know how much I picked up in the future.""

""You are the s.l.u.t...""

Skinny Du laughed and said, ""You f * cker.""

The three of them strolled around for half a day, making Xiao Qitao recognize many places, before finding a restaurant to eat lunch.

After that, An Zizhi got Skinny Du to bring Little Seven back, and he went to the Gathering Shang Garden alone.

Now, An Zhe was the most respected guest of the Gathering Merchant Guild. It could not even be said that he was a guest.

Thus, when the shop a.s.sistant at the entrance of the Merchant House saw An Zhe, he greeted him from afar.

After having a few jokes with the waiter, An Zeng went to see Zhang Yifu first.

The head storekeeper, Zhang Yifu, had been in the Gathering Shop for more than fifteen years, and he was extremely respected.

It was precisely because of him that the reputation of the Merchant House became greater and greater.

Seeing that An Zaiyue had arrived, Zhang Yifu quickly stood up. ""I was just worried, but my savior has arrived.""

This old man was extremely interested in the compet.i.tion and treated it as if it were a good friend.

That was it.

""What"s wrong?""

Anjou was dragged into the room by Zhang Yifu, who adjusted to the dim light of the room.

Zhang Yifu said, ""These things … These are the things that were left behind after the last war in Empyrean Terminus Palace. They are the stone essence spirit"s stone sh.e.l.l.""

The stone sh.e.l.l was abnormally hard, unless the Violet grade divine artifact was able to shatter it. ""Roaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!!!!!""

Just think about what happened that day. Even an expert like Tan Song, who used a Flowing Maple Blade that was a Purple grade divine artifact, could only cut a hole instead of splitting it open. One could imagine how solid this stone sh.e.l.l was.

""After the war, no one noticed these shattered stone sh.e.l.ls, so I found a chance to collect them all.""

Zhang Yifu looked at the gravel and said, ""I originally thought that as long as this thing is finished, it would at least be a piece of metal armor. Selling it would be a huge profit.""

However, the problem he was facing right now was how to process the gravel.

""If I can"t cut through ordinary things, where can I find a purple grade divine tool?""

An Xuan said, ""It doesn"t necessarily have to be cut with a purple grade divine artifact. If there is an artificer master, then it can naturally be refined with a purple grade cauldron.""

""But I don"t think we can find such a master artificer in the Yan Kingdom.""

Zhang Yifu sighed, ""That"s not it. Therefore, I had no choice but to watch on helplessly as such a good thing is ruined.""

An Zhan said with a smile, ""I can"t waste it. How about this … I"ll take the items with me first. I"ll leave a deposit of 100,000 taels of silver for the shop.""

If he could really forge armor, I think he wouldn"t give it to others so cheaply, giving my brother, Du, a skinny man.

""If I fail, then these 100,000 silver will be my compensation to the Iron Sword Academy.""

Zhang Yifu repeatedly waved his hands. ""You can take the items. Silver is absolutely not to be left behind.""

""I am not short of money,"" he said, putting down the banknotes.

Zhang Yifu didn"t know what to do. Hearing that An Zaihai had arrived, the head teacher, Zhuang Feifei, walked to the door and said, ""Elder Zhang, please accept it. He doesn"t lack money. 100,000 taels isn"t too bad for him.""

Last time, we sent most of the money to the border, so the store was not open for business.

""Besides these stone sh.e.l.ls, I"ll sell him another piece of information that"s worth 100,000 silver.""

An Zhan said with a smile, ""I"d like to know what kind of information is worth 100,000 taels of silver.""

""Come with me.""

Zhuang Feifei glanced at An Zhe, then walked up to the second floor with a wave of her slim waist.

As An Zaihai walked behind Zhuang Feifei, he felt that the way the woman walked was extremely beautiful.

After the two of them went upstairs, Zhuang Feifei asked the Red Luan to make tea. The Red Luan knew that it had something to discuss, so it quickly left after serving the tea.

Before he left, he glanced back at An Zhe, and there was a strange light in his eyes.

An Zhe was an idiot. He could see through the treasure with a single glance, and he looked at the woman as if she was an idiot.

""Speak, what news are you talking about? It"s worth 100,000 silver.""

Anjou asked.

Zhuang Feifei looked at the dispute, ""If there"s no business, if there"s nothing that needs to be discussed, can"t you come to me?""

An Zhan shrank back. ""Of course, aren"t we here today?""

Zhuang Feifei sneered, ""If nothing happens, you will come?""

An Zhan smiled embarra.s.sedly. ""Let"s talk about the matter of the news.""

Zhuang Feifei sighed and said, ""Didn"t you keep asking me to search for Star Pattern Meteor for Little Liu"er a few days ago? That thing is purple rank, and a fingernail-sized piece is also priceless.""

How could it be easy to find?

""However, recently, I received some news that I know who has it … Furthermore, you seem to be very interested in this person as well.""

""Who?""

""Li Changlu!""

Zhuang Feifei replied, ""I"ve only just received the news. It"s said that the underworld people who tried to a.s.sa.s.sinate the empress dowager and Duke Yan have good gifts that can numb their vigilance.""

Didn"t a box say that there were three treasures in it? So there really were.

One of them was the Flowing Maple Blade, now in the empress dowager"s hands.

There was also a piece of meteorite that was about the size of a thumb, its value was inestimable.

I don"t know what the other thing is. ""

""According to the information I received, the Star Pattern Steel Empress gave it to Li Changlu to think of a way to sell it, so that he could continue to build the brocade palace.

""Li Changlu didn"t come to the market, he went to another auction house. It was opened in Fang Guancheng by the people of Da Xi.""

An Xuan said, ""A piece of meteorite the size of a thumb. If we can get it, we can build a pill furnace for Little Liu"er. That would be a Sub-Divine Artifact.""

Zhuang Fei Fei smiled, ""Only you dare to say that. Sub-divine artifacts … Those people who concoct pills, if they can get a piece the size of a fingernail, they will go crazy. Even if the pill furnace only has 1% Star Pattern Meteor, in the eyes of those people who concocted pills, it could also be called a G.o.d Equipment.""

However, in your eyes, it is only a furnace made of pure star pattern meteorite that is called a divine tool. ""

An Xuan said, ""Tell me the name of that auction house.""

Zhuang Feifei asked, ""It"s called Qing Zhai, do you still plan to buy it?""

An Zhan shook his head, ""I can"t afford it … If this thing was someone else"s, I could only sell it.""

However, this item is in Li Changlu"s hands, so there"s no need to buy it. ""

Zhuang Feifei took out a piece of paper from her sleeve and handed it to An Zeng, ""You can use this.""

He opened it and saw Li Changlu"s whereabouts.

He wasn"t the only one who was staring at Li Changlu.

""Thank you.""

Anjou stood up to take his leave.

Zhuang Feifei asked, ""Then what are you here for?""

""To tell the truth?""

Zhuang Feifei nodded, ""To be honest.""

After a moment of silence, An Zhan said, ""Just looking at you, for that word "big sister".""