Bai Yangbai looked at her contemptuously and sneered: "You want to be my master? Don't dream, what do you have to be my master! And let me kowtow to you? You're not afraid of losing your life at a young age! ”

He Angelica was not angry, and said frankly: "Generally speaking, I am indeed not as capable as you, otherwise I wouldn't have to sit here and negotiate terms with you in a good voice." Besides, Han Yu, one of the eight masters of the Tang and Song dynasties, once said, the teacher does not have to be better than the disciple, there is a specialization in the art industry, I can't be inferior to you in every aspect, there will always be some places that are better than you, aren't you in my hands now? ”

Bai Yangbai snorted coldly: "Cut, carving insect skills." ”

He Angelica sighed: "Everyone has their own ambitions, since the Taoist chief is unwilling, then I can't force it." Anyway, time flies so fast, I just talked to the Taoist chief for a few words, and the time for a stick of incense has arrived. Dao Chief, you're running out of time, it's time for me to help you make a choice. As he spoke, he took out a snow porcelain vial from the newly bought blanket, opened it and smelled it, and said with a smile, "This is given to me by someone else, I heard that it is a good medicine, I see that you are really pitiful, so I will do a good deed and give you a pill to eat!" ”

Bai Yangbai stared at the vial vigilantly and asked, "What kind of medicine is that?" ”

He Angelica's index finger just covered the "Medicine Master" on the bottle, she caressed the vial lovingly, and replied briefly: "Good medicine." She didn't lie, this bottle was a "good medicine" that Duan Xiaolou gave her to replenish her body.

Bai Yangbai shook his head resolutely and said, "If you don't eat it, I won't eat it if you kill me!" If you dare to force me to eat, I'll scream indecent! ”

He Angelica was stunned, with a regretful look on his face, and said softly: "Don't you want to eat?" If you don't eat it, don't eat it, I'm better talking. As he spoke, he suddenly stood up, clasped Bai Yangbai's shoulder with his left hand, grabbed his collar with his right hand, and made a gesture to pull it away, so frightened that Bai Yangbai begged softly, "Good girl, female king, there is something to discuss!" ”

He Angelica said: "Quickly kowtow to the teacher!" ”

Bai Yangbai shook his head again and again: "You are more than 20 years younger than me, and you will worship me if you want to apprentice!" Why don't you worship me as a teacher, and I will pass on your two stunts, blending incense and boudoir secret techniques, how about it? Keep your future husband only like you, and don't like other wives and concubines! ”

He Angelica's subordinates pulled it fiercely, and Bai Yangbai's torn clothes were torn apart - Bai Yangbai's face turned pale, and he shouted in a low voice: "Master is above, please accept my worship!" Master asked me to kowtow, and I had to untie the acupoints on my legs first! ”

He Angelica patted his ring jumping point with his left hand, and still pulled his collar with his right hand.

Bai Yangbai felt that his numb lower limbs were gradually becoming conscious, his eyes gurgled, and he suddenly raised his voice and laughed loudly: "Haha, hahaha!" Girl, in front of everyone's eyes, you are pulling and pulling at me as a monk like this, and spreading it is very bad for your reputation! The old man is dedicated to the road, and he has no intention of being a woman, please let go quickly! Immediately attracted the attention of many people in the restaurant, and the guys in the restaurant also came over to inquire about the situation.

He Angelica had expected that this old fox would not obey, she made a very panicked look on her face, and shouted in a voice bigger than Bai Yangbai: "Ah, yes! Dao Chief, no! I've seen a big poisonous spider get into your collar, take off your shirt and shake it! Otherwise, if you are poisoned to death, others will think that you were poisoned after eating the food in the restaurant! Or are you now bitten by a poisonous spider, that's why you're babbling here? ”

When the man heard this, he was so frightened that he hurriedly retreated a few steps, hid behind a desk and shouted: "Oops, then you quickly take off your clothes and throw them out of the window!" Daoist, you are a monk, don't get involved in our restaurant to eat lawsuits! Take off your clothes, or I'll call the nursery!" ”

Bai Yangbai didn't expect He Angelica to be a chess player, so he admitted defeat very sensitively, knelt down with a "plop", kowtowed three times at her feet, and shouted: "Qianjun meets Master!" ”

He Angelica knew that "Qianjun" was Bai Yangbai's number, and since he had already apprenticed, her goal had been achieved, and she didn't want to be too embarrassed for him, so she nodded and said, "Apprentice, please get up." "She had heard Zhu Quan say in her previous life that Bai Yangbai is the descendant of Wuyi Mountain's big gate, and the first rule of the big door is to respect the teacher, so although Zhu Quan is a prince, he has to go to the ground when he sees Bai Yangbai. Now that Bai Yangbai has kowtowed to his teacher, she is not afraid that he will repay the debt, not to mention that she still has many weaknesses in him.

Bai Yangbai got up from the ground, as spiritless as a frosted eggplant, and asked, "Master, what other discipline do you have?" ”

He Angelica thought for a while and said, "I can't think of anything for the time being, you can go!" ”

Bai Yangbai asked incredulously, "Let me go?" So, am I really leaving? You...... Master, you're not going to chase me, are you? "This female demon star went to great lengths to let him worship her as a teacher, didn't she want to use her as a master to make some demands on him? Let him go easily now, if he avoids her forever and doesn't meet her in the future, then if he doesn't listen to her orders, it won't be considered a deception to destroy his ancestors. In this way, isn't she wasting all her efforts?

He Angelica sat back at the table, holding chopsticks in his right hand to pick up vegetables, waving his left hand like a fly, and said impatiently: "You go, I will look for you again when I have something to do for the teacher." ”

Bai Yangbai dared to bow his head angrily, and said in his heart, what kind of score does a ten-year-old girl pose, even the emperor will not speak to him in such a tone! He was afraid that He Angelica would change his hexagram again, so he didn't dare to stay longer, grabbed his signboard of "cloth clothes and gods", and ran out of the restaurant without looking back.

Zhenjing breathed a sigh of relief, and finally had a chance to ask: "Xiaoyi, why do you want an old Taoist to be an apprentice?" He also said that he was a charlatan! ”

He Angelica shrugged and said, "It's hard to explain. "With your wisdom, it's hard to explain to you.

The guy at the restaurant poked his head out from behind a table not far away and asked, "Guest, where is the poisonous spider?" What about the Taoist Chief? ”

He Angelica pointed out the window and told him succinctly: "It's all run out, man, come and settle the bill for us, pack all our dishes, and wrap the five catties of snacks I want." ”

With a large bag of food out of the restaurant, He Angelica and Zhenjing first went to hire a carriage, and then went to the money village to pick up the stored things, and drove back to the Taoist temple. In the evening of the same day, He Angelica went to Kuqiao Courtyard and exchanged five taels of silver for the note of Zhenjing's arrears of rent, and when he returned to the East Chamber, Zhenjing had already followed her instructions and brought a bucket of cool sweet spring water from the medicine house.

He Angelica handed the rent arrears note to Zhenjing, and said with a smile: "Here you go, tear this apart, from now on, you will be free, and it can be regarded as vulgar." ”

Zhenjing took the note, and even though she couldn't read, she held it in both hands, turned it over and looked at it many times, and finally she carefully tore it into pieces. Turning her head, she saw that He Angelica was putting together the medicinal materials she bought today and the medicinal materials she had brought from the medicine house before, and put them into the sweet spring water to soak them, and then took them out and roasted them on the stove.

Zhenjing asked curiously, "Xiaoyi, what are you going to do here?" Your illness is not cured, do you still need to take medicine to recuperate? ”

He Angelica roasted the medicinal herbs while mysteriously saying: "These medicines are not for me to eat, it has greater use, I will count on it, and I will tell you when the time comes." ”

Zhenjing asked again: "Then why do you want to wash and bake it, are you afraid that the medicinal materials will not be clean?" ”

He Angelica shook his head and patiently explained to her: "I just looked at them one by one, the color of these medicinal materials is not good enough, and the purest medicinal properties are still in the bones, so they have to be washed and baked three times before they can come out." Then he instructed Zhenjing, "You can also come and help, go and pour some wine, wash the bag of jujube I bought from the dry goods store, and soak it in that big jar of spirits." ”

"You ran into the dry goods store in the morning, just to buy dates? Are you going to make medicinal wine? Zhenjing opened the paper bag and saw the jujube, and couldn't help exclaiming, "What a big jujube!" What kind of date is this? ”

He Angelica soaked the dried medicinal herbs in water for the second time and introduced: "This kind of big black jujube is called 'Shayu Jujube', which is a variety of jujube from the Western Regions, and these nine jujubes cost nearly two taels of silver. Anyway, this morning, I didn't let me go into the dry goods store, because I was afraid that your housekeeper would be too expensive to let me buy it, and I couldn't explain it to you for a while. ”

"Two taels of silver?!" Zhenjing raised her willow eyebrows and screamed, "You said you spent two taels of silver just to buy nine dates?" Two taels of silver! We ate so many dishes at noon, and we ate and took them, and we haven't spent a tael of silver yet! Two taels of silver can buy more than 100 catties of rice! Two taels of silver can buy ten old hens! ”

He Angelica just wanted to calm her excited emotions when he suddenly heard a footstep outside the East Chamber, and he was running towards them quickly, so he went out to take a look.

Zhenming ran into the courtyard of the East Chamber, and saw He Angelica standing at the door looking at her faintly, and his scalp immediately became a little numb. I don't know why, every time she sees He Angelica, her heart is always cautious, and there is an indescribable sense of fear.

In the past, when he lived in the countryside, Maaki could still see a white shadow hanging from the big willow tree at the head of the village until he was six or seven years old. She pointed it out to others, but others couldn't see it, and laughed at her for talking nonsense. She was so frightened that she cried, and then a Granny Zhang told her that she called this called "Yin and Yang Eyes", which children occasionally have, but they will not be able to see it when they grow up. Later, she went to Shuishangguan to become a sister-in-law, and gradually she couldn't see those "strange shadows". Why does every time she sees He Angelica, she always has the kind of shiver that she had when she saw a "strange shadow" when she was a child?

He Angelica smiled lightly: "Master Zhenming, how can you have time to come here to play?" It's cold outside, so come in and sit. ”

Zhenming hurriedly waved his hand and said, "No, no, I have to rush back to decoct the medicine for the master...... It was my master who asked me to come, I, I won't go in and disturb your rest......"

He Angelica raised his eyebrows: "Oh? Is she too sick? ”

Zhenming nodded and said, "Yesterday morning, Master, her back pain disease happened again, remembering that last time Miss He said that she had picked atractylodes or something, and she wanted to make a cushion for her to treat low back pain, let me ask when I can ......."

He Angelica smiled: "Cushions? Okay, I'll send it to Mrs. Shi tomorrow morning, it's really rude, I was still thinking about it before, but then I forgot about it in a hurry. ”

Zhenming breathed a sigh of relief and immediately said goodbye: "Then I'll go and talk back to Master, Miss He, go back to the house quickly." ”

He Angelica smiled: "Go slowly." Looking at the back of Zhenming's departure, the smile on her face spread even more, too good to ask for a cushion for low back pain? Then she'll have to work overnight.