Early the next morning, the fat man and I drove out to the largest flower and bird market in Chongqing.

The flower and bird market is full of people, we come here naturally to find suitable soil for planting tea, since Xu Ye let us plant tea trees well, then pick the best soil.

And this must also be the meaning of the Qingniu Dao Chief, he said that this tree spirit and I are quite blessed, naturally not casual.

One of the things that people in the Taoist Sect are very good at is to look at people's faces and measure people's fortunes.

Where to put the weight of the green cow road chief, you must not slack off.

We walked through several shops, and as soon as the shops heard us say that they would buy flower pots to grow tea, they vigorously sold all kinds of soil mixed with farmhouse fertilizer, as well as plastic pots or porcelain pots for potted plants.

I and the fat man are not satisfied, the tree spirit is produced in the deep mountains and old forests, green and pollution-free, this kind of artificial mixed things, always feels a little wrong. Although we don't know much about it, it's good to be natural, especially the kind of mixed soil, which has chemical fertilizers in it.

You know, really good tea will never be fertilized, which is also the reason why the yield of some good tea has not been able to go up, and some particularly special and precious varieties can be called one or two tea leaves and one or two gold.

After looking for a while, we found a shop specializing in bonsai, which was filled with some very high-grade bonsai, and it was not as crowded as other shops, so it seemed much quieter.

The boss was an old man with reading glasses, who was writing calculations on the counter, and when he saw us coming in, he smiled and bowed slightly, and there was no flattery and flattery, and said, "What does the guest officer need?" ”

"We want to plant a tea plant, but we lack pots and soil." The fat man spoke.

The boss nodded, and asked again: "I don't know if the guest officer is for ornamental use or roasted tea?" ”

I thought about it for a while, tea tree essence naturally can't be a landscape tree, and it is impossible to prune it myself, and as for roasted tea, it's not quite right, and I don't want to drink tea to plant tea trees.

"It's not ornamental, it's not edible, it's just to raise a tea tree." I pondered it for a moment and said, a glimmer of hope rose in my heart, this boss seemed to be more reliable than the outside, and at least he would ask for a purpose.

Unlike those outside, as soon as you open your mouth, you can see how fertile the soil is and how good the quality of the pot is.

After hearing this, the old man looked at us in some surprise, then nodded slowly and said, "Yes." ”

After that, he walked out of the counter and said, "Tea trees are different from ordinary flowers and plants, and they need to be natural and rainy, and they need to avoid earthly filth. ”

As he spoke, he took out a one-foot open basin from the innermost part of the store and said, "This is a stone basin artificially carved from stone, and this is the only one in our store." ”

I glanced at the fat man and felt that this old man was reliable and could get to the point.

I took the basin and looked at it, it was indeed excavated in stone, and it didn't even look regular, but the texture was very good.

The fat man asked how much the stone basin was, and the old man directly offered 3,000 yuan, saying that it was purely handmade, and this was the one in the store.

I nodded and agreed, and I didn't bargain.

After that, the old man said: "In addition, the soil for planting tea must also be a pure land from the deep mountains, which is very fresh. Since the guest officer bought the pot, the soil was given away for free. ”

I said okay, the old man invited us to sit down, made a phone call, and explained to me the places that need special attention for many kinds of tea, and summed it up in a few words.

First, fertilizer should never be applied.

Second, the water should be clean, never tap water with bleaching powder, but rootless water or unpolluted well water.

Third, sunshine and rain are indispensable, and it is best to stay away from the hustle and bustle of the city.

Fourth, it must be grounded and cannot be placed on high-rise buildings, such as balconies or rooftops.

I did the math, the first two points and the last point were easy to do, the taekwondo gym we lived in was a small building with a fenced yard in the back.

In terms of water, it's a big deal to mention a little mountain spring water, Xu Ye or Cao Tiankun has it, and they live in a better environment.

The third is a little bit worse, but this is also a helpless thing, I can't leave Chongqing, fortunately, the taekwondo gym is also quite quiet, and the terrain is relatively high, the fog period is more than the urban area, there are no large residential areas nearby, there is no factory, the air quality can not be compared with the deep mountains and old forests, but it is passable.

After a while, the person who delivered the soil came, and we took the soil, paid for it, and drove back to the taekwondo gym.

Back at the accommodation, the fat man and I put the soil into a stone basin layer by layer and compacted it.

The reason why it is layer by layer is because when the old man gave it, he gave it one small bag after another.

Soil is divided into topsoil, middle soil, lower soil, and subsoil.

It is scraped out of the deep mountains and old forests, and there are even some unrotten dead branches and leaves on the topsoil, and the further down the soil is, the stronger the soil is, and the color is not so dark.

After filling it with spring water, I dug a small pit at the junction of the topsoil and the middle soil, and then adjusted the tea plant to a suitable angle and put it in.

Then I took out a toothpick and stabbed the middle finger of my left hand with force, dripping the blood from my middle finger onto the tea plant.

The blood on the tip of the tongue is the most yang, and the blood on the middle finger is the most raw; This means that the blood on the tip of the tongue is the most positive, while the blood on the middle finger is the most vibrant. Yang blood deals with ghosts and evil spirits, and raw blood deals with corpse drought.

At this time, something happened to us that surprised us, as soon as the blood of the middle finger fell on the shell of the tea tree species, it immediately seeped in, disappeared without a trace, and was swallowed.

At the same time, wisps of black-gray mist slowly drifted out.

"I'll go, drink human blood raw, this thing is still a spirit after it has been planted." The fat man was shocked.

Not only him, but the colorful eagle that had been crouching on the windowsill was also surprised, staring at the fog with sharp eagle eyes and making a warning sound. It's been a while, and its third colored feather has almost grown, and it's very bright.

I was also very surprised, this thing was really a bit unexpected, and my hand did not stop, dropping the blood of my middle finger on the tea tree seed one by one.

There were more than a dozen drops, all of which were absorbed by the tea tree species, and a few wisps of black-gray mist came out of each drop, and the more they went to the back, the fog became more and more light.

Immediately afterwards, the tea tree species actually moved.

"Stop!"

The fat man hurriedly called out to me.

I withdrew my finger, and then the tea plant moved a second time, then a third time.

Finally, with a "click", the shell of the seed cracked, and a slightly gray shoot shrunk and stretched out from the inside, slowly straightened, and then opened a leaf the size of a small fingernail, swaying a few times, as if to greet us.

The fat man and I were dumbfounded, this thing would move even after it had grown into a bud.

"Goo-goo-goo......"

The colorful eagle called again, staring sideways at the tea seed germ, with inquiry and curiosity in his eyes, but also a little vigilant.

Seeing this, I moved my middle finger to the top of the plant again, because I felt that the color of the plant was not right, it was still gray-black, it should be green.

But my action was stopped by the fat man, and he said: "Don't panic, your blood should help it wash away the resentment accumulated when it turned into a demon tree before, like medicine, too much, come back tomorrow." ”

As soon as I heard it made sense, I gave up.

This scene reminds me of the Colorful Eagle, before the Colorful Eagle grows its first colorful feather, Chen Jiutong asked me to feed the Colorful Eagle with the blood of the middle finger mixed with glutinous rice, and then the Colorful Eagle and I have a very wonderful feeling.

In short, I can understand it, its expressions, movements, and even its eyes.

Looking at the little eyes at the middle finger that were rapidly recovering, I couldn't help but feel in a trance.

The blood on his body seems to be really different.

Before, I simply thought that the blood to the yang was because of the changes brought about by the heart of the people, but later it turned out that it was not.

This makes me puzzled, if the yang blood in my body was not brought to me by the heart of a person, how did it come from?

And now, Yang blood is not only to Yang, but also contains a lot of vitality, Qingniu Dao Chang handed over the tea tree essence to me, I am afraid that he has taken a fancy to this.

In addition, vitality can also explain why my wounds heal so quickly; Restoration, isn't it about vitality?

Thinking like this, another person appeared in my mind, Bai Xiangyue!

When I came to Chongqing, it was she who stimulated the Qi energy in my body, and I remember that she was lying on my stomach and said a sentence: Yang Qi is surging and usable.

This sentence shows that she knows what is going on, at least partially.

So, I thought of Rouge Lake again, where Bai Xiangyue and I first met.

"What's wrong?" The fat man saw that I was stunned when he looked at the little tree bud, and patted me.

I groaned for a moment and said, "I want to go to Rouge Lake." ”

"Holy! You are crazy! The fat man was taken aback and said, "Bai Xiangyue is a demon, don't go to her bottom, otherwise it won't do you any good; Curiosity kills cats, and it kills people. ”

I frowned, Miao Miao also warned me about this, but I always felt unwilling, and the most important thing was that I didn't think Bai Xiangyue was hostile to me.

Rouge Lake was the first destination I reached when I came to Chongqing alone. After that, it seems that some inexplicable changes began to occur from there. In addition, there is Wanfu Cemetery, where there is a big ghost, Bai Xiangyue must know it.

"I still want to go."

I shook my head, some things have to be figured out after all, and it's not like that to be kept in the dark.

The fat man was speechless for a while, and when he saw that I was resolute, he sighed and asked, "Then when are you going to go?" ”

"The night of the full moon in four days!" I said that the full moon is the most yin, and if you want to find out something, it is the most appropriate time to go, even if it is the most dangerous.

The fat man's face became even more unsightly when he heard this, and he said after a while: "Okay, since you must go, then I won't force you to stop you, but you remember, I will only give you half an hour, if you haven't come out in half an hour, I will inform Xu Ye to prepare to save people!" ”

I nodded, half an hour was almost there.

However, although I decided to go in person, I did not miss the opportunity to take a two-pronged approach, calling Zhou Jianbing to collect information about Rouge Lake, focusing on the official and the developers who wanted to develop this area.

……

The next thing was the waiting time, and the next morning, I dropped another drop of middle finger blood on the young leaves of the tea sapling.

Although the blood of the middle finger is also seeping in, it is much slower, and some of it even flows down the leaves to the roots.

When the blood had completely penetrated, I noticed that the color of the leaves had changed to a little greenish-green, not the black-gray color it had been.

The tea sapling shook slightly, as if beckoning.

After that, three days later, the first thing I did when I woke up every day was to feed a drop of middle finger blood to the tea sapling. After three days, the color of the tea sapling has completely changed to green, which is the same as a normal sapling, but strangely, its height has not changed, and it seems to have stopped growing.

But I'm not in a hurry, this thing is a living tea tree essence after all, and some differences are understandable.

……

Time goes by the fourth day, the full moon.

At ninety o'clock in the evening I had everything ready, and the fat man drove me and the colorful eagle to Rouge Lake.

By the time we arrived, it was almost the hour, and most of the year had passed, and there was no change next to the Rouge Lake, and it was still full of lights, and I don't know how many women were looking for a life here, and I didn't know how many men didn't return here at night. You can smell the smell in the air from afar.

At this time, I am no longer the same person I was half a year ago, and I faintly noticed that the entire Rouge Lake and the surrounding red light shops seemed to merge into one, and a strange atmosphere lingered over the lake.

In the sky, a full moon kept moving through the dark clouds, and from time to time it cast a ray of silver light like a thin veil.

The fat man parked the car and looked at me seriously: "I'll be waiting for you in the car, you must be careful, this place is very evil." ”

I nodded, got out of the car, and headed towards the lake with the colorful eagle.

……