After a few days of tossing and turning, the group finally returned to Xiaoshan City.

I don't know what the old man has arranged tonight, but he asked the boss to close the pharmacy early, and it was rare to arrange this family banquet, and I don't know what important arrangements are made for gathering a few of our senior brothers, Qin Lao's other two apprentices discussed while walking.

"I said the second brother, the third brother, the master must have his reason for this arrangement, you will know at the dinner table later. ”

Seeing that the two of them were guessing for a long time, Mu Bai laughed.

At this time, the third senior brother looked at Mu Bai and smiled: "You kid is also shrewd, when did you dare to come to teach senior brother?"

After finishing speaking, he was going to chase Mu Bai to make trouble, looking at the two people chasing after him, the second child shook his head helplessly, these two living treasures were like this when they met, and it was a shame that they were there, and this courtyard was also a little lively, but when I thought of the old-fashioned appearance of the boss, it was estimated that I had to reprimand the two of them.

Seeing the boss here, seeing the scene of these two people just frowned, the second child felt that something important was going to happen tonight, and he hurriedly put away his thoughts to see the excitement.

After a while, the boss looked at the laughing two and shouted, "Okay, you two come and sit down in the pavilion, the master will come over later!"

"Father-in-law!"

"Master!"

Seeing Old Man Qin coming, Mu Bai and the four of them hurriedly got up and shouted.

The old man stroked his beard and smiled: "Stand up and do anything, sit down, why do you want so many courtesies in the family!"

After the three rounds of the banquet, Qin Lao looked at his eldest apprentice and said seriously: "Qin Shan! you are my righteous son, and I raised it single-handedly, the three of you brothers were all taken in by me, you are the oldest of the three, in the future, you must take care of the two junior brothers, you have the most old-fashioned personality, but you are not like me at all, and I don't know who you learned from, today I will hand over this pharmacy to you to take care of, as for myself, I will be at ease in the future." ”

"Master, you..."

The boss was about to speak, but Qin Lao raised his hand to signal him to stop.

He turned his gaze to the second disciple and said: "Second brother, you have an easy-going temperament, come to help your senior brother more in the future, and come to him if you have any difficulties, he is your brother, he will not help you, don't hide anything in your heart." ”

The second brother replied with red eyes: "Yes, master, the disciple has written it down." ”

Then Qin Lao continued: "The most reassuring thing for me is that you are the third child, you are in your twenties, and you don't think about finding a family business, you are so out of character, why don't you open your mind!"

Hearing this, the third child scratched his head and smiled: "Master, you don't know my situation yet, I'm a big old man who practices martial arts, which girl can take a fancy to me? Don't worry about me." ”

During the banquet, the five masters and apprentices all hid their faces and cried when they talked about the past, the four of them have been lonely since they were children, and they don't know how much suffering they have suffered, and they all rely on Qin Lao to take them in to get to where they are today.

After the banquet, Old Man Qin dismissed the three people, leaving only one Mu Bai under the pavilion.

"Mu'er, do you know why I left you alone. ”

Mu Bai replied: "Mu Bai doesn't know what the reason is, I only know that the master mentioned the three senior brothers during the banquet but didn't mention me, so it must have something to do with this matter!"

"Hahaha! I can't hide it from you!"

"You kid!" Elder Qin laughed, and then took out a delicate jade box from his arms.

He said in a deep voice: "I actually dug up this treasure in the forest that day, but unfortunately I can't let the three people know, this thing is a ginseng about 600 years old, weighing more than nine taels, and its roots are three feet long, which is extremely rare." ”

"When it comes to price, it's hard to find!"

You must know that "you can't have the heart to harm others, and you can't have the heart to prevent people!"

"At that time, I pretended that this thing was taken away, just to avoid attracting attention, if those three people had bad intentions, we probably wouldn't be able to come back. ”

"Then why did the master bring him to me alone, does it have anything to do with me?" Mu Bai asked suspiciously.

"It's about your future! It's about my dreams!"

Hearing this, Mu Bai's eyes couldn't help but moisten, and he thought in his heart: "His life itself was given by the old man in front of him, if it weren't for him, I'm afraid I would have starved to death! Mother won't support it for another four years! Who is he Mu Bai, and what qualifications can he let this old man do this for him." ”

After being silent for a long time, Mu Bai raised his head and asked, "Is it about that immortal?"

Qin Lao shook his head and laughed: "I really don't know how long your brain is, how can you be so smart, normal people know one by smelling, smart people draw inferences from one another, you simply know ten by smelling one!"

Mu Bai said modestly: "Grandpa, don't laugh at me, I guessed it based on this series of things! ”

Mu Bai said, the old man was surprised: "Oh? ”

"Yes!"

"Disciple can say it, if you say it wrong, grandpa don't laugh at me. ”

Then he said: "At that time, I listened to my grandfather talk about the immortal all the way without saying a word, grandpa saw it in his eyes, but he didn't ask me, and then grandpa said that there was a medicine to be collected, but abnormally did not let Master Zhang and the three of them go, and after coming, grandpa said that he did not pick this medicine, but I saw a little mud sticky on the side of grandpa's sleeve, so I guessed that grandpa picked the medicine, but concealed the truth, grandpa didn't say, I didn't ask, today grandpa took out this thing to show me, which means that it is related to me, thinking of this, I speculated that it is related to the immortal." ”

The old man was surprised when he heard this: "Mu'er, grandpa's idea made you guess correctly, word for word!"

At this moment, Old Man Qin turned to look at the crescent moon in the sky, and sighed: "Grandpa, if you were so smart and not so reckless, it wouldn't be like this now, but then again, if I had learned to forbear, it wouldn't have been me, and I wouldn't have met the four of you senior brothers." ”

"Actually, my grandfather was also fortunate to enter the fairy gate back then, but for many reasons, he was finally expelled from the mountain gate. ”

"Hey, I'm so emotional when I think about it now. Not to mention these past events, the matter has come to this, and everything before has been put down. ”

Hearing this, a glimmer of light flashed in Mu Bai's eyes, and he secretly wrote down the matter, grandpa said to let it go, but how could he let it go, if he had the opportunity in the future, he would definitely export his evil anger for grandpa! Then he looked at the old man Qin excitedly and said: "Grandpa used to practice in the immortal gate, and he just took out that ginseng, does grandpa have a way to send me to that immortal gate?"

"Yes! I have a solution. ”

"Ever since you heard about the immortals, I know that you have secretly made up your mind to give it a try, and you are stubborn, and I will not persuade you anymore. ”

"The day after tomorrow is the ninth day of the ninth month of September, I will take you to the city lord's mansion to meet the city lord, that person is the elder of the Xiaoshan Sect who guards here, he was the sect he led me to back then, this person is very fond of alchemy, this 600-year-old ginseng is rare! I will give him ginseng, he can give you a chance to go to the sect to participate in the entrance test. ”

Hearing this, the tears in Mu Bai's eyes couldn't hold back any longer, and then he knelt on the steps of the pavilion and said: "I haven't repaid the kindness that grandpa gave me, how can I let grandpa pay such a price for me, thinking that the six hundred years of ginseng are the old-age things prepared by you, grandpa, but now because I want to give it to others, how can I bear it!"

"Grandpa, I don't want that fairy fate, you can stay here, if you use it for me, I'm afraid I'll feel guilty for the rest of my life!"

Old Man Qin kindly looked at Mu Bai who was kneeling, and didn't help him up, he asked himself if he deserved to bow down!

Then he said: "Mu'er, you heard grandpa say, such an opportunity is rare, even if you have this ginseng, it may not be able to give me how long to prolong my life, you need him more than me, if you really become an immortal, I am afraid that grandpa will not have this century-old ginseng at that time!"

"Grandpa has never married in his life, and when he arrives, what he hopes most is that you brothers and sisters can have a good life, if you can become an immortal, that is the most gratifying thing for grandpa. ”

Then Qin Lao helped Mu Bai up and said with relief: "Go back and have a good rest, grandpa, my body is still strong, don't worry about me." ”

Mu Bai knew that his grandfather had already decided, otherwise he would not have taken out the ginseng today, so he had to stop refusing.

In the middle of the night, Mu Bai lay on the bed, looking at the crescent moon outside the window, unable to sleep all night, silent outside the house, only vaguely heard a few dog barks from the distant alley.