Chapter 24: An Island in the Sea

As the head of the Mi family who started with commerce and trade is naturally a shrewd person, Mi Tu spent most of his life of efforts and finally knocked on the door for the Mi family in the official career, he used countless money to send his eldest son Mi Zhu to the position of another driver, the so-called one person got the Tao chicken dog ascended to heaven and even Mi Fang, who had no ability, is now sitting on the Taishou of Donghai County, and their Mi family can finally get rid of the identity of a businessman.

But the older and more demonic Mi Tu looked at this increasingly chaotic world, he was very worried that the foundation of the family would be swallowed up by others, although he recruited tens of thousands of servants as private soldiers, but he knew that there was no general who could lead alone, these people could not play a role at all, this time I learned that Mi Lun's two righteous brothers are masters of martial arts, and I liked it very much, and specially arranged for Mi Gui to greet him personally, and treated the two brothers as guests at the VIP level, and the VIPs of the Mi family can enter and leave the Mi family at any time.

This arrangement made Mi Gui, one of the three major housekeepers of Mi Mansion, very surprised, and he said with some puzzlement: "To become the guest of honor of the Mi family, you must be a powerful person or an elderly wise man, is it too much for the head of the family to treat these two little brothers like this." ”

Mi Tu smiled and walked to the door of the house, looked at the distant backs of the two brothers and said: "The troubled times are coming, it is the time for the warrior to reflect the value, and it is the blessing of our Mi family to be able to have a relationship with the emperor, maybe in the future we will have to rely on the help of those two young people to get through the difficulties!" Mi Gui seemed to understand something, and pointed to the north with his finger, Mi Tu nodded, returned to his seat, closed his eyes and recuperated, and stopped answering.

Later in the evening, Mi Fang also returned to the mansion, as soon as he came back, he called a few good clansmen to drink with him to celebrate his promotion to the position of Taishou, Mi Fang also knew that in the morning in the Taishou Mansion, thanks to Zhao Yun's action, he was not so embarrassed, so he also asked someone to invite their brothers to drink together.

After arriving, the two brothers met Mi Ji, the young steward who was going to take them out to sea, the housekeeper and steward of Mi Mansion were not low-level subordinates, but the best ones personally selected by Mi Tu from the family, this Mi Ji is now serving as the vice president of the Hai Yuan in the Five Academies, and only the Hai Yuan has a vice president in the Five Academies, because the head of the Hai Yuan is very mysterious, and even the head of the Mi family cannot be summoned and driven by the Mi family when he is not in the mansion all the year round.

Wang Ping had a very good impression of Mi Ji, so he just talked to him one night, because in Wang Ping's opinion, it seems that the people at this table are all some lustful dogs and horses except Mi Ji, and sure enough, after a few jars of wine, these people began to brag and pat the horse, at this time, Wang Ping also saw Mi Ji's boredom, so he used the excuse that he would go to sea tomorrow to find the island, and pulled Zhao Yun and Mi Ji to leave in advance.

Walking on the road, Wang Ping looked at the gloomy sky, and from time to time there was lightning drawn out and worried about tomorrow's trip, Mi Ji promised that it would not rain, and he also told the two that the night of Donghai City often saw the appearance of flashes, legend has it that this light is not lightning, but the light of a strange treasure on the sea, so Mi Ji has liked the sea since he was a child, and when he grew up, he has been specializing in navigation, thinking that he will have to go to the deep sea to explore if he has the opportunity in the future.

After Mi Ji left, Wang Ping ran to the courtyard and continued to look at the special lightning, he looked at it for a long time, and when Zhao Yun came to his side, he said to Zhao Yun in disbelief: "It's the first time I've come to Donghai City, everything here is strange to me, but this light looks very familiar, as if this lightning has always been imprinted in my mind, and it wasn't until tonight that I finally saw its body!" ”

Zhao Yun smiled angrily: "I see that you are dizzy after drinking too much, hurry back to the house to rest." Wang Ping also felt that he was indeed a little drunk, shook his head, and said with a smile: "Senior brother, do you say that there are really immortals in this world, or that there are immortals?" Zhao Yun's body paused instantly, turned around and muttered: "Yu Ji is called a land immortal, if there is someone who can easily defeat a land immortal, then he should be an immortal!" ”

Wang Ping looked at Zhao Yun's expression gloomy, knowing that what he had just said touched the weakest heartstring in his heart, so he quickly opened the topic and said: "This day has changed so fast, you can see the stars, you will definitely be able to go to sea tomorrow, let's go back to the house and sleep." ”

The next day was really a sunny day, Wang Ping and Zhao Yun followed Mi Ji to the Mi family's ferry early in the morning, which was built outside the east gate of Mi Mansion, and the very large dock warehouse was readily available. The two brothers followed Mi Ji into a small sea boat, and when they were ready, they heard him shout and lift the anchor, and the boat sailed into the sea with the wind.

Nakajima is not very far from the land, standing on the bow of the boat can quickly see the outline of the island, as the saying goes, the mountain runs a dead horse, Mi Ji told the two to reach Nakajima at least two hours.

The two brothers looked at the sea and felt a little bored, so they followed Mi Ji to visit the sea boat, Mi Ji is not the vice president of the sea academy, whether it is steering or controlling the sails, he is a good hand, he told Wang Ping that the most important thing about this sea boat is the direction, if you get the wrong direction, you may never be able to return to the land, so the sea ships generally sail by the coastline, do not dare to go deep into the sea. Along the way, listening to Mi Ji talk about the knowledge of navigation opened Wang Ping's eyes, and he praised Mi Ji's ability in navigation, just like the master of the divine realm, which was admirable.

It didn't take two hours for them to come to the middle island, this island is an oval shape from the sea, and there are more than ten miles in radius, the place where their ship docks gathers hundreds of people to live, and after finding a fisherman to inquire, they know that the Huang Lao Taoist Temple is in the easternmost part of the island, and the two brothers abandoned the boat and went straight to the east, Mi Ji also wanted to follow them after settling down with the crew, but how could he keep up with the pace of the two brothers was quickly pulled into the distance.

The further the island went east, the higher it became, and when they arrived at the Taoist temple and looked back to the west, the entire island would be in full view. The Taoist temple is built next to the cliff, in addition to the main hall, there are only a few grass houses, the main hall is hung with the four big characters of Huang Lao Taoist Temple, although everything is so simple, but there is indeed a kind of taste of returning to the basics, which makes Wang Ping believe that this is the cultivation place of Yu Ji immortals.

The two brothers entered the main hall with apprehension, there were not many Taoist priests inside, Wang Ping asked for an older one, and the result was that this was indeed Yu Ji's dojo, but Yu Ji had been wandering outside for decades and had not returned. Wang Ping was very depressed when he heard this result, and Zhao Yun was still a little unwilling, so he asked the old Taoist priest if there was any elixir in the temple, and they could exchange it for gold, silver or other things, but the old Taoist priest shook his head and said that he had never heard of any elixir.

When Mi Ji ran up to the Taoist temple, he saw the two brothers standing on the edge of the cliff in a daze, he stepped forward and asked, "The two of you have found the Huang Lao Taoist Temple, why don't you go in to pray for blessings but are in a daze here?" Wang Ping sighed and replied: "We didn't come here to pray for blessings, we just wanted to see Yu Ji's immortal side, but unfortunately we didn't have this fairy fate!" Mi Ji said after hearing this: "It turns out that you are looking for Yu Shenxian, I heard Xiangzi say that not long ago, Yu Shenxian appeared in Wu County, Jiangnan and rescued a lot of people. ”

Before he could finish speaking, the two brothers pressed him down excitedly, and Wang Ping asked even more excitedly, "Who is Xiangzi?" Take us to him! Mi Ji was confused by the two of them and replied: "Mi Xiang, the director of the Salt Courtyard just came back from Wu County a few days ago, and he is now resting at Mi's house. ”

The two brothers drove Mi Ji to the boat, and when they arrived at the ferry, they found that several fishermen were standing in front of the boat and waiting, it turned out that their fishing boat brought too much seafood to bring more people out to sea, so they wanted to separate a few people to take the Mi family's sea boat, Mi Ji knew that the latter agreed, because the seafood harvested by these fishermen were sold to the Mi family's shops, so many people were familiar with Mi Ji.

On the boat, Wang Ping wanted to find a place with few people to sit down and rest, as soon as he sat down, two people squeezed over, Wang Ping turned his head and saw that it was an old man with a little woman, this woman looked at the age of twenty-eight, a simple dress was difficult to block her beautiful figure, she combed her hair upside down and tied it into a ponytail, leaving only some bangs and sideburns, and the handsome little face had a pair of childish big eyes, but it was decorated with long eyelashes, like a pool of clear water, and there was a lovely temperament when looking forward to it.

Wang Ping looked at her, only felt that there was no irritability in his heart in an instant, and a feeling of joy surged to his face, yes, Wang Ping was laughing, and it was still that kind of silly smile, the woman was also very cute, and she didn't dodge, blinking her big eyes and glaring back at Wang Ping, and asked the old man next to her curiously: "Grandpa, this person is evil, you can see that saliva is flowing out." ”

But Wang Ping was still smirking as if he was deaf, Zhao Yun, who was sitting next to Wang Ping, really couldn't stand it and slapped him on the top of the head, but Wang Ping didn't care and waved his hand to Zhao Yun and said: "Senior brother, I didn't drool, this girl is good-looking, I look at her with appreciation, and there is no obscenity in my heart." As soon as the words fell, the people around laughed, and the little woman helplessly said to the old man: "I thought it was an interesting fool, it's boring." Wang Ping didn't have the slightest sense of shame, but enthusiastically wanted to continue the conversation, but the woman really didn't want to pay attention to him, so he changed places with Lao Suo.

Wang Ping was a little disappointed when he saw that the woman deliberately avoided him, and remembered that he had failed to find Yu Ji on the island, and his heart was even more lost, and his face slowly became gloomy. Wang Ping wanted to be quiet for a while, but the old man next to him came and kept chatting with him about the story of the island, the old man said that the island used to be a big mountain, and then the sea continued to rise, and finally there was only a top of the mountain, and said that there was a strange treasure on the bottom of the sea, and every thirty-six days it would shine.

Wang Ping heard that he seemed to know a lot of secrets on the island, and thought that this old man might have seen Yu Ji It is better to learn something from him, Wang Ping said: "Old man, you are an old wise man at first glance, I wonder if you are lucky enough to see Yu Shenxian of Huang Lao Taoist Temple?" ”

After hearing this, the old man was stunned for a moment, and just wanted to speak, but was grabbed by the arm of the woman next to him, and the woman asked Wang Ping for the old man: "Yu Shenxian, hehe, it's really interesting, why are you looking for Yu Shenxian!" Wang Ping had a very good impression of this woman, and he didn't want to lie to her, so he just said vaguely: "I am looking for Yu Ji Immortal to ask for some elixir for the elders in the family, does the girl know the whereabouts of the immortals?" ”