Chapter 217 Cause and Effect

After a while, the fire master held the spirit stone in his hand and started to imbue the soft armor with the secret method.

Soon, the spirit filling was completed, and the runes on the snake scale soft armor lit up. A layer of cyan light slightly protruded outside the soft armor, and then quickly shrank and disappeared.

"Not bad, not bad." Master Huolian held the soft armor and inspected it carefully before nodding with satisfaction.

On the side, a bald man immediately brought over a ceramic tea cup, which was filled with bright red and bright strong tea.

Master Huolian put down his soft armor, picked up the tea cup, took a sip, stood up slowly, and stretched his muscles.

"Turn around, turn around." Yuan Ming muttered silently in his heart.

Unfortunately, his thoughts could not influence Master Huolian. The latter just stretched his waist and sat down again.

Yuan Ming estimated that the possession time was about to end, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, and his doubts were difficult to resolve.

But at this moment, the "clang" sound behind him suddenly stopped, and the voice of the bald man came:

"Master, it's ready."

Yuan Ming was a little surprised when Master Huolian finally got up and turned around.

As his eyes turned, Yuan Ming also looked over.

However, except for the bald man, there was no other person behind Master Huolian.

Next to the bald man, there was a six-foot-tall "Tin Man" who looked roughly humanoid, but was clearly not human.

The Tin Woodman is wrapped in blue-black iron skin. He only has a human-shaped outline, but no human facial features. Even the body structure seems a bit rough, except for two finely crafted arms.

One of the arms does not have a human palm structure, but is directly connected to a huge casting hammer.

Regardless of whether it is the casting hammer or other parts of the Tin Man's body, there are dark red indented circles distributed on the surface, and there are detailed lines connecting each circle. It looks like one or several circles magnified several times. , unique runes that are severely deformed.

"It's actually this thing that's refining the embryo?" Yuan Ming was even more surprised.

When he was asking this question in his mind, the bald man gave the answer: "Master, although this mechanical puppet is easy to use, it has too many limitations..."

There was some complaining in his words.

"You can eat as much food as you want and serve as many bowls as you want. What's there to complain about? Being good at making low-grade magic weapons is enough in this Black Rock City." Master Huolian glared at him and said.

"But the embryonic iron it refines can actually reach the middle-grade level. Your craftsmanship in carving talismans and filling spirits is not to mention. Why don't we take over the business of mid-grade magic weapons? This revenue can be increased by at least five times. "Here." said the bald man.

"How many times have I told you this? The level of this puppet is not high. Even if it can refine mid-grade embryonic iron, it is not of the best quality. So the magical weapon it creates is just a waste of money?" Master Huolian He frowned and shouted.

"You are just too striving for perfection." The bald man knew that he was angry, so he only dared to mutter in a low voice.

"Hey, if I hadn't been injured in a conspiracy in my early years and couldn't swing the hammer to refine the embryo, why would I have needed to buy Baijimen's embryo-refining puppet?" Master Huolian sighed quietly.

Yuan Ming listened with great interest. It turned out that there was a puppet who could specialize in embryo refining.

What kind of sect is Baijimen? A sect that specializes in producing puppets? I haven’t heard of it in southern Xinjiang, maybe it’s a sect from the Central Plains?

Just as Yuan Ming was thinking wildly, his vision began to become blurry and he fell into darkness again.

…

On the second day, Yuan Ming retrieved the snake scale soft armor and Bagua mirror from Master Huolian.

Although the Snake Scale Soft Armor was a low-grade magic weapon, its appearance and quality were fine, and the Bagua Mirror was also repaired extremely well. Yuan Ming was very satisfied with it, and left after paying the money.

After leaving Black Rock City, Yuan Ming patted the spirit beast bag on his waist, and a green light flew out.

Where the green light fell, a clear crane chirped. The Qingyun Crane stretched its wings and jumped and danced on the spot. Compared to sleeping in the spirit beast bag, it obviously preferred to stay outside.

Yuan Ming stepped forward and stretched out his hand. Qingyunhe immediately lowered his head obediently and rubbed the palm of his hand gently, appearing extremely obedient.

"gone."

Yuan Ming jumped on Qingyun He's back, sat down with his legs crossed, and gave a soft drink.

The Qingyun Crane immediately let out a long cry, spread its wings, and waved powerfully to stir up the airflow, sending its body high into the sky and flying towards the east.

Just two days.

Qingyun Crane pressed down on its cloud head and landed towards a town below.

After landing outside the city, Yuan Ming put away the Qingyun Crane and walked outside the city gate.

"Iron Tiger Town, I never thought I would come here again!" Looking at the familiar plaque, he chuckled.

After saying that, he quickly walked into the city gate.

After entering, Yuan Ming subconsciously glanced at the notice board next to him, and saw that the paper posted on it had faded, and the latest one was a recruitment list, which was for some kind of painter.

Yuan Ming didn't pay much attention. He came to Tiehu Town this time mainly because he wanted to meet the person sent by his father to take care of him.

Although Yuan Ming didn't know if they were still there, he still decided to make this trip.

It was almost noon, the busiest time in the city. Yuan Ming passed by Lao Yandai's inn, only to find that it had been closed and operations had been suspended.

He didn't care, and planned to go directly across the street to the lord's mansion to find out the news.

Just walking in the streets, the aroma of wine and food came from both sides. Yuan Ming soon moved his index finger, and the gluttons in his stomach began to scream.

He chose a restaurant with neither too many nor too few guests and walked in.

He saw a dark-skinned young man with a frown on his face, trotting towards him.

"Sir, there are elegant seats upstairs, please..." The young man with thick eyebrows frowned before he finished speaking. He looked at the guest in front of him and felt that he looked more and more familiar, but he couldn't remember who he was.

"Hu Tu, long time no see." It was Yuan Ming who laughed first, "Hehe".

Hearing Yuan Ming's voice and looking at his eyebrows carefully, Hu Tu immediately realized: "Are you Yuan Ming?"

He first showed a look of surprise, then turned to guilt, and then his eyes were a little evasive.

"Oh, are you the boss?" Yuan Ming teased.

He saw at a glance that although Hu Tu's clothes were simple, the fabric was not something that a waiter could wear.

"I... this, this is just a small restaurant, Yuan... Brother Yuan, follow me upstairs, let's talk upstairs." Hu Tu was incoherent for a while, and finally calmed down and took Yuan Ming to the second floor.

The two entered a private room, Hu Tu ordered the waiter to serve a table of banquets according to the highest standards, and then closed the door.

After turning around, Hu Tu immediately bowed to Yuan Ming, feeling guilty and grateful: "Brother Yuan, I have been looking for you for a long time, but unfortunately, I have never heard from you since that separation."

"Why are you looking for me?" Yuan Ming pretended not to know.

"To apologize and to repay my kindness. I wanted to harm you at the beginning, but you didn't blame me, and left me ten silver coins. Otherwise, I would never be here today. If it were someone else, it would be strange if they didn't sell me to mine." Hu Tu said with a serious expression.

Yuan Ming thought to himself, in fact, I sold it too, but I just snatched it back.

"Okay, if you hadn't brought me out of the cemetery, I might have died. Everything is the law of cause and effect." Yuan Ming didn't really sell Hu Tu because of this.

"This time, no matter what, I must thank you." Hu Tu was overjoyed when he saw that Yuan Ming didn't mean to blame him.

A moment later, the waiter brought a table full of good wine and food. Hu Tu didn't care about business anymore and accompanied Yuan Ming to eat and drink.

He told about his experience after parting with Yuan Ming, how he worked hard with the ten silver coins, and finally made a fortune step by step, and finally took root in Tiehu Town and opened this "Ming'en Building".

Speaking of which, in fact, when Yuan Ming came to Tiehu Town last time, this restaurant had already opened, and Yuan Ming even passed by the door, but the two missed each other and didn't meet again.

After a conversation, the two laughed off their grievances.

Just as Hu Tu asked about Yuan Ming's experience, Yuan Ming didn't have time to say anything, and suddenly there was a noisy sound downstairs.

Yuan Ming pricked up his ears and heard the sound of armor colliding, and there were about ten people.

Before he could hear clearly, the noise below escalated into the sound of flipping tables, scolding, and the panicked shouts of guests.

"It's okay, I'll go down and take a look."

Hu Tu frowned, comforted Yuan Ming, and hurriedly got up and went downstairs.

When he got downstairs, he saw the group of soldiers in armor and immediately recognized them as the personal soldiers of the Lord's Mansion in Tiehu Town. His face immediately became a little ugly.

"Sir, what are you doing? I am the owner of this restaurant, and I am friends with the steward Wu Lin in the Lord's Mansion. Please give me some face. No matter what the problem is, let's sit down and talk slowly." Hu Tu paused, then quickly put on a smile and greeted him.

"It's you, you bastard, I'll go to hell with you!"

The leader was a burly man with a full beard, who slapped Hu Tu in anger, hitting him and making him stagger and fall out.

"That bastard Wu Lin introduced a liar from the Central Plains, saying that he was a court painter taught by Wu Daozi, who cheated the lord of a large sum of money and ran away. He has been beaten half to death, and confessed that it was you who introduced the liar to him, right or wrong?" the burly man shouted angrily.

"Ah... it's not me..." Hu Tu was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly explained.

"I don't care if it's you, is that liar called 'Wu Liao' living here?" the burly man shouted.

"He moved to the lord's mansion the day before yesterday and never came back..." Hu Tu said immediately after hearing this.

Wu Liao moved in half a month ago, and he ate and drank a lot here for many days, and kept paying on credit.

When Hu Tu went to urge him, the man said that he was a disciple of Wu Daozi, a painter of the Wu Kingdom, and a painter employed by the court. Any painting he made could be worth the price of his restaurant.

Hu Tu naturally didn't believe it and was going to report to the police to arrest the man, but Wu Liao said that he saw a notice on the city gate and the lord's mansion was looking for a painter. If he took the task, wouldn't it be easy to pay the money?

As a result, Hu Tu was cheated by the Central Plains people again and was fooled by Wu Liao.