Chapter 8: Noodles with Cultivation
Yuan Qing, Chinese New Year's Eve, now lives in Ningcheng and is an ordinary office worker.
The salary is neither high nor low, and the tedious and boring work makes him lose his expectation of life, and he goes day after day without any waves.
Ten years ago, he was still a member of the Forbidden Immortal League, twenty-four years old, it was the time to forge ahead, a young mortal-level peak powerhouse, how high-spirited!
Dragging his body like a dead fish, opening the door of the apartment, Yuan Qing's keen sense of cultivator suddenly gave warning, and sure enough, there was an uninvited guest in the living room.
He rolled his eyes, but ignored the man directly, and went to the kitchen to boil water and prepare instant noodles.
"Hey, what's the matter with your dead dog-like expression?" asked the uninvited guest, dissatisfied.
Yuan Qing opened a pack of instant noodles, glanced at him, and said weakly: "I've seen a lot of gods and ghosts, what do you have to do?"
The other party also opened a bag, put it in a bowl, and waited with him for the water to boil.
"My name is Zhao Qianjia and I'm from... Hmm, let's just be from the Forbidden Immortal Alliance. The man introduced himself.
Hearing the three words of the Forbidden Immortal Alliance, Yuan Qing's hands shook slightly.
"I know your past. Zhao Qianjia said.
Yuan Qing didn't speak, and looked at the water in the pot in a daze.
The uninvited guest Zhao Qianjia threw the pieces of instant noodles in his bowl waiting for boiling water into the pot, which finally made Yuan Qing, who was like a dead fish, move.
"What are you doing?" asked Yuan Qing angrily.
Zhao Qianjia looked innocent: "I like to eat boiled." ”
"But I just want to eat bubbles!"
"I'm a guest, shouldn't you accommodate me?"
"This is my home! I'm in charge, there's nothing wrong with that. ”
Zhao Qianjia pointed to the boiling instant noodles in the pot and said, "It's already cooking, can't it be discarded and boiled again?"
“......”
"You see, there's no clear distinction between right and wrong in this kind of thing. Zhao Qianjia meant something.
Yuan Qing interrupted him impatiently and said, "What do you want to say?"
Zhao Qianjia, who didn't regard himself as an outsider at all, leaned on the refrigerator and said, "I want to say that what happened back then was not your fault, you don't have to sink like this." ”
Yuan Qing didn't speak.
Zhao Qianjia raised his eyebrows and said, "That's what you think, right?"
He became interested: "I know that in these days, there is no one who is stupid enough to enshrine an organization that has been rotten for thousands of years, and its rules. ”
"But since you're not convinced, why don't you do something?"
Yuan Qing, who was like a salted fish, glanced at Zhao Qianjia with the eyes of an idiot, and said, "What can I do? Everything I have learned has been wasted, and starting over again is simply a fool's dream! Besides, even if I have the ability to cultivate supernatural powers again, do you think the Forbidden Immortal Alliance will abolish me again?"
Zhao Qianjia sneered and said, "It seems that you really thought about it, but you just foresaw these possible problems very forward-looking, so why don't you just break the jar and break it, so cynical to live?"
"Hmph, whatever you want!"
"If I say that I have the ability to restore your cultivation on the condition that you do things for me, are you willing?" Zhao Qianjia finally showed his fox tail.
He waved his hand to stop the salted fish from giving an immediate reply, saying, "Don't worry, let's talk about it after eating instant noodles." ”
"You're such a weirdo. Yuan Qing said.
In a few words, the instant noodles in the pot had been tumbling countless times, exuding an attractive fragrance, Yuan Qing was too lazy to add eggs, and directly served them in two bowls, which made Zhao Qianjia very dissatisfied.
"Hey, I'm about to become your benefactor, wouldn't it be good to pay for me with an egg?" he grumbled.
Yuan Qing muttered that he had no money, and sucked and ate instant noodles.
On the other side, Zhao Qianjia was not to be outdone, he was busy eating noodles and drinking soup, and from time to time poured mana into the noodles, making it stand upright, shaking its head like a spiritual snake, and shouting: "Look, this is a cultivated instant noodle. ”
Yuan Qing was impatient, squatting aside with the bowl, but he didn't expect Zhao Qianjia to gain an inch, so he directly used his mana to sacrifice a piece of instant noodles, staggered and flew in front of Yuan Qing's eyes, and said, "This is another instant noodles, it has ideals." ”
“......”
After a bowl of instant noodles was tossed and eaten like this, Yuan Qing took the bowl and chopsticks, like an old man who went to the neighbor's house with a rice bowl and came back.
He hesitated, not knowing how to speak.
Zhao Qianjia was not in a hurry at all, and he no longer fiddled with the noodles, but just ate slowly.
A bowl of noodles, a big man, can be solved in three to five minutes at most.
Yuan Qing saw that there were fewer and fewer noodles in Zhao Qianjia's bowl, and he became more and more uncontrollable, and how could he not know what this bowl of noodles meant?
"Is the kid alright?" he asked.
Zhao Qianjia sucked the last instant noodle into his mouth, without a little consciousness of eating, and said: "I've been to see him, he is very good, I should say that he is very good." ”
"There was no problem with you rescuing him from the gangsters, and the gangsters had no hostages and were shot dead by the police, and it was not your own doing. ”
"But your intervention did disturb the cause and effect of mortals, and also changed the fate of life and death for that child and gangster. ”
"If you have to talk about punishment, I think this ten years of salted fish life is enough, not to mention, I don't think there is anything wrong with you. ”
After saying this, Zhao Qianjia stared at Yuan Qing's eyes and said, "So, have you thought clearly?"
......
Half an hour later, Zhao Qianjia left Yuan Qing's apartment, swaggering, and had no intention of hiding his whereabouts at all.
Minister Yao soon received the news that Yuan Qing's name made him subconsciously raise his vigilance, especially when he was associated with a potentially violent element from Wudang like Zhao Qianjia.
In fact, the punishment sentence against Yuan Qing back then was his order. This public case, people at that time were quite complaining, because it is a little different from meddling in human affairs in the ordinary sense, Yuan Qing just saved a baby who was still in swaddling clothes from beginning to end, and anyone who has cultivated is afraid that he will make that choice.
However, the laws and regulations are like mountains, and the rules handed down by the ancestors, Minister Yao is a firm enforcer. But he also kept room within his authority, for example, he did not erase the memories about cultivators and the Forbidden Immortal Alliance in Yuan Qing's mind.
So now, what is the matter with this Zhao Qianjia, who doesn't know what kind of character he has through to the underworld, looking for Yuan Qing?
Minister Yao felt that he needed to contact the Wudang Guan.