Chapter 204 The Lu Family's Style

After leaving Guyang Mountain, Song Qingming did not delay any longer and rode the wind back to Qinghe County.

This time, Song Xinyu was successfully sent to Xiaoyao Sect, which was also a relief for Song Qingming. The next step was to consider how to support Qingyu in building her foundation. No matter what, the future of the family would still be in the hands of these young cultivators.

The Song family relied on the stability of Qinghe County in recent years to slowly make up for the deficit of the family's treasure house. The merits of the family members could gradually be exchanged for spirit stones or various spiritual objects. Life gradually became richer, and everyone's cultivation level was more or less improved.

Song Qingyu had successfully broken through to the ninth level of Qi Refining a year ago and could build her foundation at any time. However, the Song family's foundation was still relatively weak, and there was no way to get her a foundation pill for the time being. If she wanted to build her foundation, she would have to rely on the opportunities and luck in the future.

With his own ability, Song Qingming still wanted to help the family train another foundation-building cultivator. This was not only for the sake of the family, but also for his own reliable helper in the future. However, although he had spirit stones on him now, he could not find a way to exchange for foundation-building pills at once, so he could only let Song Qingyu wait.

After returning to Qinghe County, Song Qingming did not return directly to Funiushan, but took a detour to Qinghefang.

As soon as he arrived at the gate of the market, Song Qingming saw from afar on the flying sword that several cultivators were arguing at the gate of Qinghefang. Not knowing what happened, Song Qingming put away his flying sword in advance and slowly walked over here.

"Boy, I have said that there are rules in the market. You can't bring this thing in. Why don't you understand?" A gatekeeper cultivator in the middle stage of Qi Refining pinched his nose, pointed at the man in yellow carrying a cloth bag, and shouted loudly.

"When was this stipulated? Last time we came to the market, we were allowed to bring it, but not this time. If you are not allowed to enter, just return the spirit stones to me." The yellow-clothed man who was stopped was only at the third level of Qi Refining. He was obviously a casual cultivator with no background. At this moment, facing the intentional harassment of the gatekeeper, he was still a little indignant.

"When did the rules of the market change? Do I need to notify you? Even things like monster feces are allowed to be brought in. What do you think of our Qinghefang? You smoked us like this, and it's good enough that you didn't ask you for compensation. You dare to ask for spirit stones. Get out of here quickly, don't force us to drive you away."

Seeing that several gatekeepers were coming forward and wanted to drive them away directly, the yellow-clothed man quickly stepped back and turned around to leave. However, he didn't expect that after they looked behind him, they suddenly bypassed him and came to a young man to bow their heads respectfully.

"Senior Song, when did you arrive? I was blind and didn't see you just now. Please forgive me."

When they heard them calling them senior, the people surrounding the gate of the market, including the yellow-clothed man who had just been driven away by them, all stood there in shock.

Most of them have been hanging around in small places like Qinghe County for many years. It is rare to see a foundation-building senior at such a close distance. All of them focused their attention on the young man.

Song Qingming, who looked calm at this time, smiled and nodded, and then said to the people who came forward to salute: "Since this little brother doesn't know this rule yet, it is understandable. Since he has come here, I think it's better to let him in, so as not to block the door and delay everyone's time. Don't you think so?"

Five years have passed, and now the monks of the Lu family have been replaced by the monks stationed at Qinghefang. Seeing the arrogant and domineering appearance of the monks guarding the gate, Song Qingming could only shake his head helplessly in his heart.

Among the major foundation-building families in Qinghe County, the cultivators under the Huang and Gao families, even if they looked down on these low-level casual cultivators and occasionally bullied others, were always very disciplined on the surface. When Song Qingming was stationed in Qinghefang, the owner of Jinbaotang, Gao Yufu, who was dealt with, was also a cultivator of some status within the Gao family. They did not do the things that cheated people in the market so blatantly, but only dared to do them secretly. After the incident, Gao Yufu was whipped in public by Song Qingming, and the Gao family did not intercede for him personally.

It is precisely because of this that although Qinghefang is only a small market, it is still well-known around Jiangling County. When the monsters were rioting, many casual cultivators chose to come here for refuge.

Although the Song family has only risen in recent years, under the guidance of Song Qingming, they have always been relatively low-key and do not look down on others like these people in front of them; before the Song family was promoted to a foundation-building family, they were a Qi-refining family and were actually looked down upon by other foundation-building families in Qinghefang. That is why most of the current Song family cultivators still have some empathy for these casual cultivators.

Only the Lu family cultivators' behavior style made Song Qingming feel a little disgusted. In broad daylight, they dared to use their power to make money at the gate of the market. I don't know how the patriarch Lu Xingde disciplined these cultivators under the Lu family. It is estimated that it will not take long for the reputation that Qinghefang has finally built up over the years to be consumed by these people.

Although he was a little worried, Song Qingming didn't want to care about this matter now. The people who should worry about the business of Qinghefang are Lu Yuanfeng and the people of the Huang and Gao families. They occupy more than half of the interests of the market, and it is not the turn of the Song family to take the lead.

"What the senior said is true. The juniors and others just now didn't mean to embarrass him. It was because Senior Lu gave our law enforcement team an order not long ago to clean up the image of the market, so we just talked to him about the rules." Seeing that Song Qingming, a foundation-building cultivator who usually looks high and mighty, would speak for a downtrodden third-level Qi-refining cultivator, these people were also a little surprised and hurriedly explained a few words.

When they faced these low-level cultivators just now, they were arrogant and domineering, but now facing Song Qingming, they suddenly turned into a flattering face, which really made Song Qingming feel a little funny.

After saying that, a monk from the law enforcement team turned around and shouted to the people who were still blocking the entrance to the market: "Why don't you go in? Why are you blocking the entrance? Didn't you hear what the senior just said?"

The man in yellow and the others heard this and bowed their heads to thank Song Qingming, and quickly passed through the gate of the market.

Song Qingming smiled and nodded, and followed them into Qinghefang.

After the battle of Duanliu Mountain, as the Huang and Gao families took the initiative to stop fighting and tacitly agreed to their respective territories, the situation in Qinghe County has gradually stabilized in recent years, and Qinghefang has also returned to its former tranquility, but there are indeed fewer pedestrians on the street than before.

After entering the market, Song Qingming first went to the Song family store and gave them some alchemy materials brought from Yangshanfang, and then went to Huang Siyuan's Golden Phoenix Tower.

Since moving back to Funiu Mountain, Song Qingming has seldom come here in the past few years. Now that he has arrived at Qinghefang today, he naturally would not miss the opportunity to comfort his stomach. He ordered a table full of delicious spiritual food in one breath. Now he is considered a foundation-building cultivator after all, so he is not short of these spirit stones.