Chapter 25: Mi Lun returns
When the young woman heard Wang Ping say that she wanted to find Yu Ji to get the elixir, she was surprised and said: "Is the elixir something you can ask for, besides, there are many kinds of elixir, so you can't eat it indiscriminately!" Grandpa, you said yes, yes. ”
The speaker had no intention of listening, Wang Ping turned his head and looked at Zhao Yun with some excitement, and found that he also heard the meaning of the woman's words. Could these two be some close to Yu Ji?
At this time, Lao Suo suddenly spoke: "I heard that Immortal Yu offended Sun Ce in Jiangdong Wu County, and his head was cut off. The sudden bad news made Wang Ping, who had just seen hope, lose his mind, and he grabbed Lao Suo's shoulder and asked in disbelief: "Is what you said true?" Yu Shenxian is already dead? ”
This grab, Wang Ping used a lot of force, but the old man not only did not feel pain, but squinted his eyes as if he had met a baby, and said to himself: "It's okay, it's okay, it's okay!" Zhao Yun on the side thought that Wang Ping was too hard and screamed that this old man was a little incoherent, so he hurriedly pulled Wang Ping away.
But the old man didn't seem to want Wang Ping to take it away, and raised his arm to block Zhao Yun's hand, and when the old man and Zhao Yun came into contact, he was like a frightened wild cat, and he only stood up and said directly: "This is better." ”
While talking, he grabbed Zhao Yun's arm and tried something, Zhao Yun was already a master of the late congenital stage, when he found that someone wanted to test the true qi in his body, he instinctively hid the true qi under the dantian, and at the same time secretly released a faint true qi to test the reality of that old man.
It's just that Zhao Yun probed all the meridians of Lao Suo's body and found a trace of true qi fluctuations, and he didn't feel the other party's true qi entering his body, knowing that he had misunderstood Lao Suo.
But the old man still held Zhao Yun's arm and couldn't stop shaking his head and sighing: "It's a pity, it's a pity, it's difficult, it's too difficult." With that, he let go of his hand and sat on the board of the boat, and stopped talking.
The two brothers were confused by this old man's actions, and it took a long time for Wang Ping to remember the news that Yu Ji had died, and he sat down on the board of the boat in grief.
Seeing Wang Ping's sad appearance, the woman couldn't bear to ask a little unbearably, "Are you sad that you can't get the elixir from Yu Jina?" ”
Wang Ping didn't look up, just sighed heavily, and listened to the woman continue: "It is rumored that after Yu Ji's head was cut off, he turned into a wisp of green smoke and flew away, and he also said that he would take in an apprentice and tell him to kill Sun Ce in two years. ”
If your head is gone, you can still live, and it is only in myths and legends that you can only live if you turn into green smoke and fly away.
Wang Ping was upset about Yu Ji's killing at this time, and he didn't want to listen to her nonsense, so he waved his hand and said: "Girl, I think you have heard too many legends and stories to tell the truth from the falsehood of things, and besides, how can you know anything about the elixir as a young girl!" ”
The woman snorted a little unconvinced and said, "As the chief purchaser of the Huang Lao Taoist Temple, there are no secrets in this Taoist Temple that I don't know. ”
This purchase can only be regarded as a miscellaneous person in the Taoist temple, and the Taoist priests in the Taoist temple don't know the whereabouts of Yu Ji, and what can she know about this little handyman. After the woman reported her identity, she saw that Wang Ping still ignored her, so she sat back angrily and never spoke again.
Zhao Yun had also doubted the identity of this grandson before, thinking that they had some special relationship with Yu Ji, but just now he tested that old man's physical strength without any true qi fluctuations, if Yu Ji's relatives had to have some skills to protect themselves.
Zhao Yun put down the doubts in his heart and comforted Wang Ping: "Senior brother doesn't need to be bored, I think that Sun Ce has not been able to hurt the land immortals, there must be many untruths in these rumors, after asking Mi Xiang, let's go to Jiangdong to try our luck, maybe we can find any clues." ”
After listening to Zhao Yun's enlightenment, Wang Ping's mood was much better, and he also felt that Yu Ji would not be killed so easily, maybe he could really find him in Wu County. But the woman next to them pointed at them and shook her head, as if to say, "Big fool! ”
Mi's sea boat is much faster than the fishing boat, the boat docked on the shore, everyone went down the boat ladder in turn, Wang Ping saw that the old man was old, afraid that his legs and feet were not effective, so he took the initiative to help the woman help him get off the boat, and when he got to the shore, Wang Ping saw that the woman kept smiling at him, so that he felt very happy, thinking that the beautiful girl really likes to be warm-hearted, this style of helping others I want to carry forward well!
But this beautiful girl not only did not say thank you, but deliberately made things difficult for Wang Pingdao: "On the boat, you didn't believe what I said, and regarded me as an ignorant little handyman, but now you are so enthusiastic, you have nothing to do, you will not have any intentions against me!" ”
Wang Ping was choked by him for a while and didn't know what to say, thinking that this good person was difficult to be, and wanted to turn around and leave after spreading his hands, but at this time the woman shouted loudly behind him: "I'm angry to make a joke to you!" ”
Wang Ping wanted to hear what she was going to say, so he stopped, but he didn't look back, and the woman continued: "Forget it, I don't care about you, I advise you before parting, you'd better not go to this Wu County, and when you find out the truth and are completely dead, come to the small grass hut by the sea to find me!" After finishing speaking, he didn't care about Wang Ping's reaction and left with Lao Suo.
Wang Ping looked at her and hesitated a little in his heart, listening to her very positive tone just now made Wang Ping a little unclear, whether to believe her words or not? Maybe there will be an answer when I see Mi Xiang.
After the two of them and Wang Ping distanced themselves from each other, the woman opened her mouth and asked the old man: "Grandpa sent me a message on the boat that he wanted to accept him as an apprentice, but why didn't you identify him when he got off the boat?" If he really goes to Wu County, do you want us to chase after him? ”
Lao Suo replied disapprerovingly: "Since he has asked me, why should he use me to find him, I will take you to Xiapicheng first, and it will not be too late to collect him when I come back!" The woman seemed to have questions, but she didn't dare to speak easily.
Lao Suo saw her concerns and said kindly: "Don't worry, grandpa didn't accept him as an apprentice for that matter, besides, even if he cultivates for decades, he can help anything, I'm just afraid that no one will take care of you for me in the future, so I have the plan to accept apprentices." ”
The woman listened to Lao Suo's words and even smiled happily into a crescent moon shape, but she thought to herself that with my grandfather's doppelganger to accompany me, why do I need that kid's protection, but it's not bad to keep him by his side as a servant.
The two brothers went straight to the salt courtyard when they returned to Mifu, and people who did not eat salt for a long time would be weak and even swollen and ulcerate, so in the troubled times, salt and grain and iron became war materials, and the Mi family was the largest salt and grain trader in the north.
Mi Xiang, as the dean of the Salt Academy, may have eaten too much salt, and his voice was very hoarse, but this special voice did not bring special surprises to the two brothers, because what Mi Xiang said was exactly the same as what the grandfather and grandson said.
At this time, Wang Ping suddenly remembered what the woman said when she was on the shore, could this woman really have anything to do with Yu Ji or did she really know the secrets in the Huang Lao Taoist Temple, including knowing the whereabouts of the elixir!
Thinking of this, he pulled Zhao Yun and ran to the beach, he had a stomach of doubts and needed the woman's help to answer, but the grass house was found but there was no one inside, and after asking the fishermen on the shore, he knew that the grandson had gone elsewhere, and it seemed that it would take a few days to come back.
Yangzhou, south of Xuzhou is Yangzhou, which is the territory of Yuan Shu. It is rumored that Yuan Shu is chaotic and unreasonable, only knows how to drink and have fun every day, and never cares about the suffering of the people, but his subordinate Sun Ce is a tiger general, and it took him half a year to help him sweep away the separatist forces in Jiangdong, this is a good time to cultivate the people's livelihood, but Yuan Shu not only did not give benefits to the people, but took the opportunity to do something that the world spurned, and Yuan Shu became the emperor.
For a time, the government and the opposition were shocked, and all the princes were clamoring to attack Yangzhou, and even Sun Ce broke away from Yuan Shu's army and erected a banner to crusade against Yuan Shu in Wu County.
It's just that Wang Ping doesn't care about this kind of big thing, he will go to the beach to see if the grandson has returned these days, but after more than ten days, he still hasn't seen anyone.
Fortunately, Mi Fu takes good care of them and doesn't bother about eating, drinking, and living, Mi Ji and Mi Xiang will often find him to drink, and even Mi Zhen, the eldest lady of Mi Fu, likes to chat with them to relieve boredom, but the torment of waiting is too uncomfortable.
After another three days, there was finally good news that Mi Lun was coming back.
Early in the morning, Mi Zhen shouted that the two brothers went to the ferry to meet Mi Lun, and heard Mi Zhen say that her third brother bought a large amount of grain in Xiangfan, and went down the river by boat to facilitate transportation, and then rented a sea boat to Wu County, and finally came to Donghai City after more than ten days.
When the three of them came to Mi's ferry, they saw Mi Lun and a rich old man standing on the shore discussing something, and as soon as the three of them got close to Mi Lun, they left the old man and hugged his brothers excitedly, and even Mi Zhen, who was standing next to him, said that Mi Lun was eccentric.
At this time, the rich old man stepped forward and asked, "Does the third prince agree with the old man's proposal just now?" Mi Lun shook his head firmly and said: "The Mi family only has a small stock of iron tools, and they are preparing to make some farm tools to facilitate the farmers in the grange to harvest grain, so we still use silk and salt as the freight this time as agreed before." ”
The old man didn't get angry when he couldn't make sense, and said with a smile: "Since Mi Gongzi refuses, then I haven't mentioned it." After saying that, he turned his head to look at the sea, and vaguely saw that there were two or three other ships coming this way.
After a while, the old man said a little anxiously: "It is estimated that it will take one or two hours for this grain ship to dock, and I don't have many people, but I am afraid that it will take a lot of time to load and unload after a while." ”
Mi Lun didn't want to delay the time to reunite with his brothers, so he said: "Why don't you ask someone to transport the silk and salt to the ship first, and after these are loaded, it is estimated that the grain ship will dock." ”
The old man was going to invite them on the boat, but when he heard that it was just what he wanted, he began to arrange for people to load the ship, and Mi Lun also called the Mi family servants who were waiting on the shore to unload the grain to help.
When the three brothers were in Luoyang, it was a good day for the spring flowers to bloom, and they had not seen each other for nearly two months since that farewell, and Mi Lun had been drifting at sea for more than ten days and was bored and uncomfortable, so he had just arranged for his subordinates to run back impatiently to tell them what they had seen and heard along the way.
Mo about an hour, the sun gradually became dazzling, at this time the old man and a strong middle-aged man came to them together, the old man said a little breathlessly: "Mi Sangongzi, although this day is not hot, but the light of the human eyes is uncomfortable, I am a little too old to bear, or I invite everyone to get on the boat to drink tea and rest, and when the loading and unloading is completed, we will directly deliver on the ship." ”
Several people also felt a little dizzy at this time, and Mi Zhen was even more tired, so she accepted the invitation of the old man after discussion.
At this time, there was an old man fishing next to the grass house not far from the ferry, and he seemed to be muttering: "You kid has persisted for more than ten days, why do I want to see you today, but you only care about talking to people but let me be exposed to the sun here, I curse you to get on the boat and get off the boat easily!"