Meng Wanwan woke up in complete silence.
Everything was pitch black; she reached out her hand but couldn't see her fingers.
Suddenly, she felt something move on her eyes.
The sound of recitation echoed in my mind.
"Oops, Master, I'm sorry, did I sit on your head?"
Meng Wanwan...
No wonder she can't see it.
Niannian shifted her bottom to the side, and then a series of faint blue lights appeared in front of Meng Wanwan's eyes.
Then came the dimly lit passageway.
Meng Wanwan sat up and looked around: "Tsk, Niannian, have we really entered a cemetery?"
Niannian: "I don't know if it's a cemetery, but this place was definitely carved out by man."
Meng Wanwan stood up and looked at the materials used to repair the passageways on both sides, saying, "They are fired bricks, so they must have been built by ordinary people."
Niannian: "Hey! Could this be the old lair of Tan Menggong? Aren't the people of Tan Menggong all mortals?"
The term "old nest" is used very cleverly.
"Let's take a walk." Since she was all alone now, she didn't need to ask anyone else's opinion.
Meng Wanwan told Niannian to go back to her space and tell Meng Xiuyi, so that the others wouldn't be worried if they couldn't find her. She then took her small fan and wandered aimlessly along the passageway.
The passageways here are very wide, even comparable to the streets of small towns in the world.
She had initially thought it was just an ordinary, low-lying tomb, but what she found after turning a corner shocked her for eight hundred years.
"Holy crap, what did I just see?"
After the winding bends, there is a passageway that seems to stretch endlessly, with countless spirit stones embedded in its ceiling.
That's right, it's a spirit stone.
A single spirit stone can emit a faint light, but if they are densely inlaid together, the light will be as bright as a searchlight.
Even thieves have their code of honor! Meng Wanwan resisted the urge to steal the spirit stones.
After all, tombs are full of traps and mechanisms; what if one is triggered?
Although she had the desire to steal, she lacked the courage.
But the next moment, her audacity grew.
Every ten feet along both sides of the passageway was a recessed space, and Meng Wanwan examined the first space.
Oh my!
The counters and shelves were covered in dust, obscuring the contents.
Meng Wanwan went inside and opened the drawer of the counter.
"Frog Fun!" A pile of dazzling spirit stones almost blinded her.
At this moment, Niannian also came out of the space: "Wow, Master, these are all top-grade spirit stones! Is this really a tomb? The way the burial items are buried is quite unique, it's actually in the form of a shop."
Meng Wanwan had already put spirit stones into her storage bag.
She didn't know if it was a tomb, but anyway, she wouldn't take these spirit stones; even if some people came, they wouldn't be able to keep them.
We're rich! We're rich!
This time, the Meng family is no longer just poor because their father is poor!
Yes, it can be a pot of Wafufu!
Meng Wanwan put all the spirit stones into her storage bag, only to discover that there was another layer of cardboard covering the spirit stones.
Meng Wanwan lifted it up and found a piece of paper underneath.
"This looks like a contract."
Meng Wanwan took out the contract, opened it, and sure enough, the words on it were the lease agreement for this shop.
The final signatory was a man named Li Erniu.
Below his name is the name of his contractor, Baili Qing.
Meng Wanwan: "!"
"Baili Qing? Niannian, please check my eyes, are they okay?" Meng Wanwan felt goosebumps all over her body.
Is Baili Qing Baili Chuan's younger brother?
That unlucky guy in the painting who got knocked out by his brother and left on the ground?
Niannian was also shocked: "Master, is the Baili family's business expansion really this outrageous?"
Meng Wanwan also thought it was quite outrageous.
She put the contract away and then began to examine the goods inside.
The goods were neatly stacked on the shelf, covered in dust.
Meng Wanwan picked up a box, gently wiped off the dirt, and then opened it.
Then I froze.
"Talismans..."
This box is actually selling all sorts of talismans.
Is this already so high-end, even though it's only the first shop?
Meng Wanwan took out a talisman, channeled her spiritual power, and then unleashed it. A small wind array immediately formed above the passageway.
Niannian: "Wow, it still works! And it looks like it's an intermediate-level talisman."
Meng Wanwan: "It's a Wind Gathering Formation. Only a formation master could draw such a useful talisman."
Meng Wanwan stopped talking and directly stuffed all the items on the shelf into her storage space.
We're rich! We're rich!
Meng Wanwan thoroughly searched the shop again, inside and out, until she pulled out the half-talisman hidden under the goods before moving on to the second shop.
The second shop Meng Wanwan visited seemed to be a store selling ordinary goods; the drawers contained only some gold and silver coins. The goods had deteriorated over time and were worthless.
Meng Wanwan specifically checked the drawer's hidden compartment, but there was nothing underneath.
The block was very long, and Meng Wanwan was worried that she wouldn't be able to search it all out on her own, so she told Niannian to go to other shops to check if there was anything else that could prove the location.
Meng Wanwan then embarked on a solitary robbery.
At this moment, Meng Wanwan looked at the spirit stone above her head again.
Haha, trash.
As expected, this passageway is a commercial district.
The shops here sell all the daily necessities of ordinary people and cultivators, including food, clothing, shelter, and transportation, and some of them are even particularly exquisite.
This is not just for show; it bears real traces of commercial transactions.
Meng Wanwan couldn't remember exactly how many spirit stones she had collected, but she was certain that the goods she had collected were worth far more than spirit stones.
After they finished searching, Meng Wanwan had three contracts in her hand.
Meng Wanwan was in a great mood: "There must be people living here. This is a commercial district, so there must be residential areas as well. Let's speed up and go through this area before those people come in."
She excitedly laid out the contracts one by one as she did so.
Having lived in this world for almost ten years, this was the first time she had ever experienced the thrill of making money.
That's great!
“Baili Qing, Baili Qing, eh…” Meng Wanwan looked at the third person’s name and was somewhat shocked.
“Helian Xue? Niannian, her surname is Helian!” Meng Wanwan pulled Niannian, who was bouncing around, over and pointed to the name on the paper.
Niannian: "Could it be related to the Helian family?"
Meng Wanwan's lips curled into a wicked smile: "Could it be that the Baili family and the Helian family had some kind of relationship before? Is the Helian family hunting down the Baili family members because of love turned to hate?"
Nian Nian...
That's outrageous.
But no matter how you look at it, the Helian family shouldn't be associated with the Baili family.
Moreover, shouldn't the Helian family be from Xiaoshanyou? How come they left their names here?
Meng Wanwan couldn't figure it out, so she stopped thinking about it.
We packed everything up and quickly took Niannian to find a residential area.
After bypassing this commercial district, Meng Wanwan witnessed what outrageous things truly meant.
Surprisingly, there is a huge fishpond here.
Lotus flowers are planted in the fishpond, and there is a small boat beside the fishpond.
Even after all these years, the lotus flowers in the fishpond are still in full bloom, and you can see the fish swimming below by parting the lotus leaves.
Meng Wanwan looked at the lotus pond and fell into deep thought.
Seeing her lost in thought, Niannian jumped onto her head and bounced twice: "Master, what's wrong?"
Meng Wanwan rested her chin on her hand, frowning as she said, "Don't you think this lotus pond looks familiar?"
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