Lu Sheng was stunned for a moment.

Yanshan City is no better than Jiulian City. A restaurant in Yanshan City is worth at least ten dollars if placed in Jiulian City!

And there are actually fifteen restaurants here! This is simply no ordinary big deal! Just these fifteen restaurants, even if he sells all the property of the Lu family, he may not be able to buy them.

Because apart from the superficial money, if you want to open a restaurant in these places, there are too many things that need to be managed behind the scenes. Going up and down, at least one million taels of silver notes. This time, most of the Lu family left again.

What a rich man is! This is! !

At this time, Lu Sheng fully realized what it meant to throw money at someone, and what it meant to spend millions of dollars! What does it mean to be kept?

And not to mention money, just the power of connections behind Mr. Chen. Once he agrees, not to mention the complete solution to the problem of medicinal materials and supplements, as well as finding martial arts, etc., it will probably be too easy.

Yanshan City is no different from Jiulian City. It is an important town in the central region, guarding the throat between the Northland and the Central Plains. The city guards here have direct connections with the upper echelons of the imperial court.

To be able to establish a foothold here and become the richest man, Mr. Chen's background is definitely far beyond Lu Sheng's imagination. It's definitely not as bad as the young man's comment I saw yesterday.

Facing Chen Yunxi's confession, Lu Sheng knew that if the woman confessed, it would take a lot of courage even if the atmosphere here was open. But Chen Yunxi did just that.

He took a deep breath and looked at the girl in front of him.

"Put your things away first."

When Chen Yunxi heard this, she looked at Lu Sheng carefully, then looked at the business contract in her hand, bit her lip gently, and put the business contract away.

"Brother Lu, you"

"It's not that I don't have a good impression of you. In other people's eyes, your long legs are a flaw and a congenital disability, but in my opinion, your legs are your most beautiful thing." Lu Sheng couldn't help but said these words. It's almost impossible not to vomit or feel unhappy.

When Chen Yunxi heard this, she thought it was Lu Sheng comforting her, but when she looked carefully at Lu Sheng's eyes, she only saw frankness in them. Suddenly, she knew that the other party was telling the truth. Lu Sheng really liked long legs, not those petite and exquisite girls.

"But." Lu Sheng changed his tone, "Chen Yunxi, are you sure you really know me? Do you really know what kind of person I am? We have only known each other for a few months, and what you have seen about me is also You haven’t really fully understood the side of me that you usually have in college, and I haven’t fully understood other aspects of you either. I don’t want my future partner to regret the decisions I’ve made when he discovers other sides of me. ."

What he said was actually more because he didn't want Chen Yunxi to be involved in his life.

He has a modifier and has encountered ghosts and monsters, but he is not as willing to be ordinary as ordinary people. He wants to strengthen himself and is not willing to live like ordinary people, relying only on luck and others' contempt and neglect. He wants to control his own destiny in this dark and dangerous world!

This is what he wants. And this kind of life and pursuit is full of dangers. Starting a family too early will only become a weakness for others to capture.

After hearing what Lu Sheng said, Chen Yunxi was unusually not disappointed, but her eyes were even brighter.

"Brother Lu regards money as dirt, Yunxi knew she was right!" She stared at Lu Sheng with watery eyes.

"Since Brother Lu is unwilling for the time being, Yunxi will listen to him and will get to know you well and everything about you. Accept everything about you!" After she finished speaking, she covered her red face with her hands, turned around and ran away with a cry.

Lu Sheng looked at her leaving back and was speechless.

"Is this counterproductive??"

Shaking his head, he returned to school and continued class.

Unknowingly, a day passed, and Wang Ziquan did not appear during this day. Song Zhenguo took the time to check out the rental house where he was staying temporarily, but there was no one there. Feeling a little worried, he made an appointment with Lu Sheng. If Wang Ziquan didn't come the next day, they would go find him together.

After one night, the next day, Lu Sheng walked into the school on the clock as usual. When Mr. Lu started giving lectures, Wang Ziquan was not there again.

Mr. Lu called his name and asked a few questions about his family's situation.

"The student rents a house next to Wang Ziquan. I didn't see any lights in his room yesterday. He seems to have gone out." A scholar who looked very frail stood up and answered.

"Have you gone back to your hometown?" Mr. Lu frowned, "You should also ask for leave for the students when you go home. It's outrageous! He doesn't want to be recommended for this year's annual exam, right?"

The annual examination also requires joint recommendation from the college, and a list must be submitted, otherwise you will not be able to pass the examination. If your performance in the academy is too poor, you will not be recommended, and you will not even be qualified to take the annual exam.

"The annual exam is coming soon, Ziquan will never be so confused." Song Zhenguo whispered and stood up quickly. "Master Lu, perhaps Ziquan encountered some emergency. I know his cousin in the city. I will go and ask about the situation later."

"Well, go ahead. Classmates should help each other." A hint of approval flashed in Mr. Lu's eyes.

Then the matter was revealed and the meaning of reading the scriptures continued.

Lu Sheng glanced at Song Zhenguo and saw his brows furrowed, as if he was worried about Wang Ziquan. He concentrated and remembered the midnight boat ride he had been to before. Maybe if you ask Song Zhenguo, you will get some clues.

The lectures he listened to until the end of school were not difficult for Lu Sheng. With his postgraduate academic ability, it was easy to cope with these things and pass the exam. So there is no difficulty.

But for Song Zhenguo, it was very difficult to learn these things once he was distracted. After class, he was still at his desk sorting out the contents of the scriptures that Master Lu had explained before and recording them in his case.

"Brother Zhenguo." Lu Sheng walked over and said softly. "I feel like something is wrong. Ziquan is usually the most cautious and cautious about schoolwork, and he is more cautious than any of us when it comes to schoolwork. How come he didn't come to class for two days in a row?"

Song Zhenguo slowly put away his pen and ink, also looking puzzled.

"That's exactly what I thought of, so I decided to ask about the situation."

"Let's go together. I'm a little worried too." Lu Sheng said seriously.

Song Zhenguo glanced at Lu Sheng in surprise. In fact, he had asked the classmates he usually played with before during class. No one, male or female, who seemed to be very close to him in the past, was willing to go out and ask for help. As soon as they heard about this, they all made excuses to evade it. This made him see clearly what these so-called friends were, and he was convinced.

But he didn't expect Lu Sheng to come over and say that he wanted to inquire with him.

"Okay, Brother Lu, please wait a moment while I pack up my things."

"good."

After Song Zhenguo packed up his things, the two of them quickly left the college, got on the pre-booked carriage at the door, and headed straight into the city.

Both of them were a little worried along the way. Wang Ziquan's character valued the college exams more than anything else. How could he suddenly disappear?

In a powder shop along Jinyuan Street in Shancheng City, the two quickly found Wang Ziquan's cousin, Chen Hong. He is the owner of this shop and has taken charge of the business by himself at a young age.

"Cousin Ziquan? No, if he wants to go home, he usually comes to ask me and asks me to help him carry things back, books, clothes boxes, etc. Speaking of which, I haven't seen him for several days. "Didn't my cousin go to a party with Brother Song before?" Wang Ziquan's cousin Chen Hong asked doubtfully.

When Song Zhenguo heard this, his expression became more and more worried. He looked at Lu Sheng and exchanged glances with him.

"Yes, he did have a party with us before, but we haven't seen anyone else in the past two days, so we came to ask."

"Oh, speaking of which, my cousin came to my place at midnight the night before yesterday and asked me to get some good sachets and gouache." Chen Hong laughed, "I think it's spring in all likelihood. My heart is so excited! Hehe, the sachets and gouache are still held in the style of a young girl, tsk tsk tsk.”

"Night before yesterday? When was it?" Lu Sheng suddenly asked, his expression becoming a little strange.

"About Ugly Time. Anyway, it was very late and I was already asleep. My cousin woke me up and insisted that I come down to get something for him. Alas, I was woken up too late. I'm still impressed now." Chen Hong touched it Chin said. "Speaking of which, it's so late to get the sachet and gouache." There was a smile on his face that every man would understand.

Song Zhenguo was a little stunned, frowning, wondering what was going on.

But Lu Sheng had some speculations in his mind and his heart became heavy.

Song Zhenguo looked at Lu Sheng's expression and knew that he had a suspicion, so he quickly said goodbye to Chen Hong.

After leaving the store, he pulled Lu Sheng into a corner on the street.

"Yue Sheng, tell me, have you come up with any clues? Zi Quan didn't even mention his cousin, and he went out the night before yesterday. But didn't he go drinking with us at Huafang the night before yesterday?" He The expression is serious.

Lu Sheng stared at Song Zhenguo seriously.

"Zhenguo, actually, that night, after we left, I also went back to the boat."

Song Zhenguo was stunned: "Yue Sheng, why are you going back? It's so late, the boat is probably closed too, right?"

"It's closed." Lu Sheng said solemnly. "I just went because I forgot my purse on the boat, so I went back to look for it. I didn't expect it."

"What didn't you expect??" Song Zhenguo's expression also became solemn, affected by the atmosphere in Lu Sheng's words.

"I didn't expect that there was no one in the boat. There were red lanterns hanging everywhere." Lu Sheng narrowed his eyes and continued. "I quickly entered the room we stayed in before. There were two more large lanterns hung in it, but there was still no one there, not even the cleaners. Later, I found the money bag and ran away quickly Out."

"There is no one. Could it be that..." Suddenly Song Zhenguo seemed to have thought of something. "Could it be that Ziquan went to find his cousin in the middle of the night to deliver gouache and sachets to the girl who painted the boat? But since you have gone back, what?"

"It's very possible!" Lu Sheng also thought of it, "Stop guessing, let's go directly to Huafang and ask."

Song Zhenguo nodded after hearing this.

Without saying a word, the two stopped the carriage again and headed straight to the Songbai River. It was getting late at this time, which was just the time for a night out and drinking wine.

Song Zhenguo took Lu Sheng to find the Huafang they had been to before, which was named Yingying Huafang.