Supporting the old man who was beaten by the fake monk and his face was covered with blood, the sturdy man took out a small red medicine gourd from the coarse cloth jacket on his shoulder, poured out two black pills the size of a sycamore, and stuffed them into the old man's hand together with two pieces of ocean: "You always take this, hurry home!" On the way, I bought two taels of soju and burned it, and I opened this pill and took it, and I could seal this wound for three or two days! ”

With trembling hands, the old man who was beaten and covered in blood trembled and was about to kneel down for the sturdy man: "Master, you are really"

Before the old man's bent knees hit the ground, the sturdy man had already helped the old man up: "This can't be helped, if you want to do this, you really have to break my life!" Besides, I have something to ask you for here, don't I? Let me ask you, is there a player who often comes to Lao Guanyuan, surnamed Na? ”

Blinking his dim eyes, the old man frowned and thought for a moment, and immediately said to the sturdy man: "If you are talking about the descendants of the former Qing Jiumen Admiral's family, then there really is such one!" The players in the old official garden know him as soon as they mention Naye! I heard that he lived in the courtyard house in Jingshui Hutong, and there were two stone drums in front of the door! ”

Politely thanked the old man, and the sturdy man who had already helped the old man to the corner of the street just wanted to walk in the direction pointed by the old man, but the old man stretched out his hand and grabbed the placket: "Master, your great kindness, I feel hot when I say thank you!" Anyway, please leave a name? ”

After repeated pushover, the sturdy man could only arch his hand towards the old man with a persistent look: "The little surname is Xiang, and the name is Leopard!" ”

Bidding farewell to the old man who was muttering his name, Xiang Youbao changed his coat to the other side of his shoulder, and strode towards the direction that the old man had just pointed out.

Although the year is not good and the world is not peaceful, on the streets of Sijiu City, all kinds of shops are lined up. The young man standing at the door of the shop, dressed neatly and shortly, shouted at his own business with a bright voice, while the shopkeeper in a long shirt stood behind the long wooden counter at the height of Qi Ren's chest, flipping through the account book with one hand and a brush in the other, but he did not delay the other two fingers to dial the abacus beads up and down, ticking!

And in the back streets and alleys, all kinds of small traders and vendors carrying burdens are also wandering endlessly. The cries of Beijing accent and Beijing rhyme, like various operas of different genres, make people feel that it is a kind of enjoyment full of vitality when they listen to it.

Inquired all the way, and in less than half an hour, Xiang Youbao, who was quite fast, had already walked to the alley of Jingshui Hutong. Looking at the two obvious stone drums in the center of the alley, Xiang Youbao took out a snow-white white sheep's belly hand towel from his coat and wiped the dust on his face, and then dusted the dust off his shirt trouser legs, and then walked to the gate of the courtyard between the two stone drums, and reached out and knocked on the door knocker that had grown a lot of patina.

In the dull knocking of the knocker, a lazy voice came from afar: "Who is this?" In broad daylight, I knocked and smashed, I don't know that the master is serving the ancestors? ”

With the slight rustle of soft-soled cloth shoes walking on the bluestone slab floor, the owner of the lazy voice obviously saw the appearance of a leopard from the crack in the door, and said very curiously: "Who are you looking for?" ”

Arching his hand towards the eye that appeared in the crack in the door, Xiang Youbao politely said, "Thank you, Naye's house, is this it?" ”

The fox stared suspiciously at the leopard standing outside the door, and the owner standing behind the door said with some vigilance: "This house lives with the surname Na, but who are you?" ”

Stretched out his hand and took out a beast tooth pendant that was obviously many years old, and Xiang Youbao respectfully raised the beast tooth pendant to his eyebrows with both hands: "The junior in the door, I have seen my uncle!" ”

As if gasping for air, the owner standing behind the door hesitated for a moment, and finally removed the rather heavy latch and opened the heavy door.

Looking at the Xiangyou leopard standing in front of the door with a sinking face, the owner with two mustaches and a little slippery eyebrows in the corners of his eyes looked at the leopard up and down, and it took a long time to find a beast tooth wearing a red silk string from his arms, and shook it towards the leopard standing at the door: "The people in the junior door are scattered, and they are talking nonsense!" I'm going to do nine, and the players in the forty-nine city appreciate their faces, and call me to accept the ninth master! ”

Sideways to get out of the door, Na Jiuye was just about to open his mouth to greet Xiang Youbao to enter the door, but as if he suddenly remembered something, he jumped up on the spot, and shouted loudly towards the empty house: "My little aunt, hurry up and help me fasten the capstone, or my ancestor will be in the sun."

Like a yellow warbler coming out of the valley, a crisp and tactful voice gently picked up Na Jiuye's words: "I've already helped you buckle the capstone!" The water plate has been changed, and the leftover food from your ancestors has been picked out! Should I be fed live food today? ”

Obviously relieved, Na Jiu Ye slapped his chest and sighed: "Fortunately, these eighteen ancestors have been raised in three years, and I see that I will be able to appear in one and a half months, but I don't dare to leak any more."

Turning his head to look at Xiang Youbao, who was still standing at the door, Na Jiuye greeted with some reluctance: "It's all here, just come in!" ”

Nodding respectfully, Xiang Youbao raised his legs and stepped over the high threshold and walked into this rather spacious courtyard.

It is completely different from the neat and bright in the ordinary old Beiping courtyard, but in the center of the courtyard where Na Jiuye lives, a dry pond half a person high and two zhang square is built with terrazzo green bricks. The triple clay mixed with porcelain slag is finely plastered with brick joints, and the mirror-like surface is smooth.

Above the dry pond, the dense gourd vines climbed on the frame carefully built with bamboo poles, and the newly born emerald green gourds hung down from the dense branches and leaves, which made people like it when they looked at it.

On the thick wooden planks built in the shape of the word "eye" on the dry pond, a girl with big pigtails and a moon-white jacket skirt was holding a white porcelain bowl the size of a palm, and carefully used a pair of bamboo chopsticks to throw the writhing turtle insects in the white porcelain bowl into the dry pool.

Maybe I didn't think that there would be a living person at this time, but when I saw Xiang Youbao walking into the yard, the girl wearing a moon-white jacket and skirt whispered in surprise, lowered her eyebrows and whispered to Na Jiuye: "You are really a visitor, and you don't say a word!" ”

As she spoke, the girl in the moon-white skirt jumped lightly from the thick wooden plank on the dry pool, put the white porcelain bowl in her hand towards the edge of the dry pool, turned her head and walked towards the house: "Do the rest of the work yourself!" ”

looked at the girl who ran back to the house with some doting, Na Jiuye smiled at Xiang Youbao half-helplessly, half-embarrassed: "The old girl raised at home has never gone out much, and she hides when she sees a living person."

With a smile of understanding, Xiang Youbao looked at the dry pond built in the middle of the courtyard, and snorted lightly: "Smell this, Uncle Shi, this is the scorpion you are serving?" ”

Nodding unexpectedly, Na Jiuye led Xiangyou Leopard towards the north house in the courtyard: "Inside the door, there are thirty-six birds, seventy-two beasts, and one hundred and eight insects, each with its own number of doors!" If you are a good hand at waiting for insects in the door, your master can be regarded as the number one person! Speaking of which, your master is okay? ”

Walking half a step behind Na Jiuye humbly, Xiang Youbao responded in a respectful and harmonious voice: "His old man is fine, he just misses his uncle, so I went back to Beiping from outside the gate, and I went to the door to say hello to my uncle first." ”

With a sneer, Na Jiu Ye raised his hand to open the curtain hanging at the gate of the north house, and said with a somewhat sarcastic tone: "I'm afraid that your master is not thinking about me, but thinking about the fragment of the 'Alien Beast Diagram' in my hand, right?" ”

Walking into the north house, Xiang Youbao did not immediately respond to Na Jiuye's question, but immediately knelt down towards the huge beast fang enshrined on a table of eight immortals, and kowtowed respectfully three times!

Looking coldly at the obedient and saluting Xiang Youbao, Na Jiuye hesitated for a moment, and then took three sticks of incense sticks from the table of the Eight Immortals and lit them, and inserted them into the incense burner placed in front of the huge beast's teeth.

Among the rising cigarettes, a faint smell that smelled like grass filled the entire North House in a moment, and several grasshoppers raised in the gourds placed on the table of the Eight Immortals seemed to be stimulated by the smell of this incense, and they let out a pleasant hissing sound.

Picking up a smoothy gourd, Na Jiuye opened the lid on the gourd, and let a golden-colored gnats slowly climb onto his palm, while squinting his eyes at the leopard who had just stood up: "Back then, your master fought with the seniors in the door, and trained the eight fighting beasts within a year, and swept the face of the elders in the door. What does your master think now? ”

Standing in front of Na Jiuye with his hands down, Xiang Youbao still had a deferential look: "When I came, the master explained, no matter who the alien beast diagram is, as long as the craftsmanship in the door is not lost, there is no alien beast diagram can play a unique job!" The master also explained that when he broke into the Kanto region, it was the uncle who quietly sold the three-headed crickets he was waiting for and made up ten oceans for him. ”

Nodding slightly, Na Jiuye's face showed some trance when he remembered the past: "It's hard for your master to remember this thing back then."

The expression on his face became more and more submissive, Xiang Youbao reached out and took out a thumb-sized golden translucent stone from the placket of his close-fitting clothes, and handed it to Na Jiuye's eyes with both hands: "Master has something to say, uncle, you must wait for a worm king who can fight all over Beiping City and can't find an opponent!" Master Keqiao found a philosopher's stone outside the gate."

Without waiting for Xiang Youbao to finish speaking, Na Jiuye, who was originally sitting on the chair steadily, jumped up suddenly, and grabbed the golden translucent stone that Xiang Youbao handed to his eyes!

Sniffing at the end of his nose, and then scraping off a little bit of golden translucent stone powder with his fingernails and tasting it, Na Jiuye couldn't help laughing: "Hahahaha dot the golden stone!" But after walking around the Sijiu City, there was a piece the size of a fingernail in the Rui Prince's Mansion in the past, and when the treasure was hidden like a piece of flesh, he relied on the piece of philosopher's stone to wait for the worm to walk sideways in the Sijiu City! This time"

Peeking at Na Jiuye, who was immersed in great joy and excitement, Xiang Youbao said appropriately: "The master also gave me the recipe for the golden stone."

With a big wave of his hand, Na Jiuye sat back on the chair with a golden knife: "Don't give me your crooked ideas!" A piece of philosopher's stone, plus a recipe with a bit of goldstone, just want to exchange the fragment of the beast diagram in the master's hand? Your master can really figure it out! Go clean up your own room and stay first! After two days, the scorpion in my dry pond will be opened, and you will carefully tell me about the recipe for some gold and stone! ”

A hint of cunning flashed imperceptibly in his eyes, and Xiang Youbao nodded respectfully: "Thank you Uncle Shi for taking it in!" ”

I couldn't put it down and played with the philosopher's stone in my hand, and Na Jiu Ye slapped his thigh suddenly after Xiang Youbao walked out of the north house: "I'm fooled again!" Put the wolf cub in the door, can you still not take a piece of meat, you can be fooled"

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