Chapter Seventy-One: Master Drunkard

Staring at the tear-stained but expressionless face in the bronze mirror, Xiao Huang slowly raised the back of his hand and wiped it, his movements were extremely jerky and stiff.

She has seen many, many tears of others, but her own - even if the bitter water flows into her mouth, she can swallow it raw, and she will not try the half sour taste.

Can...... Gong Zixi, who are you? Why does a name alone make my heart ache?

Xiao Huang wanted to use "a dream" to persuade herself to be casual, but the dream was as real as she had experienced it herself.

It was like a thin veil, and the distance between them was very close, but whenever she wanted to grab something, it was so far away......

Walking out of the attic like a lost soul, the thousands of pear blossoms in full bloom in his field of vision and the tinkling stream under the covered bridge suddenly made Xiao Huang look in a trance.

Did she wake up from a dream, or did she go to another dream?

"Yo, this illness just happened to run outside to blow the cold wind?"

The strange ghost walked into the Xue Pavilion with the food box, and when he went up the steps, he saw a figure under the corridor.

He greeted him with a smile and enthusiasm, but he never thought that a certain "ignorant girl" would just stand still, and he didn't care about him.

In his life, except for occasionally being a little angry in front of his little master, how could he have been ignored like this?

He walked over in a distraught mood, and found that Xiao Huang's eyes were looking into the distance without focus, obviously looking like he was wandering beyond the clouds.

"Silly? No, although the old man added a few more herbs, it didn't have the effect of making people stupid, could it be that there was a providence in the dark, so that the old man developed a new medicine. ”

The strange ghost circled around her like a specimen, thinking that if this little girl really became a stupid melon, then he could fool her into making more wine - the requirements are not high, the first batch of thirty or fifty jars for the time being, and if you can't finish drinking, you can still store it first.

Thinking about it like this, he was about to up half of his beard, but the heavens did not fulfill his wishes, and the next second a basin of cold water poured him cold.

"Miracle Doctor Senior?" Xiao Huang blinked, and behaved very calmly at the person who suddenly appeared in front of him, "Do you know what kind of place this is?" ”

Hearing this, the incomparably kind face on the strange ghost's face instantly froze, "The divine doctor is the divine doctor, the predecessor is the senior, what is the addition of the word 'old', what is the old?!" Old man, do I look old? ”

Her words...... It seems that the focus is on the second half of the sentence, not to mention that you mentioned "old" first, didn't you mention it first? Xiao Huang was helpless, and he didn't know what to answer, so he had to keep silent.

Seeing that she hung her head silently, as if she was reflecting on herself and listening carefully, the strange ghost cleared her throat quite majestically and said, "Here, it's called Qingli Villa, is it...... By the way, why don't you wonder why the old man is here? ”

Xiao Huang smiled quietly and said truthfully: "Before I was completely unconscious, I met the Nangong Overseer, so senior, your words here are ......" It is not surprising that the four words were suddenly stuck in his throat.

She pondered for a second and hurriedly asked, "But what happened to him?" ”

"Have you seen Jue'er, in the Lingquan of the back mountain?!" The pitch suddenly rose two degrees.

Looking at the old man in front of him, Xiao Huang was confused, and even his nodding movements became a little sluggish.

"I see, no wonder ......" the strange ghost stroked his beard and pondered, he said that the little master did not have a bad habit of picking up people on the way, and now it was confirmed, and he rarely had a trace of comfort in his heart.

But Qingli Villa is so hidden, how did this little girl find it? He looked at Xiao Huang with doubts, but the latter spoke one step ahead of him and asked, "Senior, what about others?" ”

It is also strange to say, from the time she woke up to this moment, it must have been more than half an hour, but except for the flowers and trees in her eyes, there was not even a ghost shadow around.

"He? Who is it? The strange ghost turned around and raised his head, looked at the sky and the trees, and looked at the water, pretending to be a passer-by.

Xiao Huang was already listless due to physical fatigue, and she was even more lazy to deal with it at the moment, she went straight but also maintained the due politeness, "Senior, can you tell me one or two, you have always been ...... with Nangong Governor"

"What are you superintendent, you are not a person in the officialdom, just call him by his name." The strange ghost squinted and interrupted her, as if there was a light in his eyes, "You don't dare? Or are you afraid of him too? ”

Also? Hearing this word, Xiao Huang's heart suddenly felt a little pantothenic, if there are many people who are afraid of him and regard him as an earthly shaman, then why bother with her again?

"He said, I'm not qualified to ...... yet" Recalling the scene at the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet when she chased Nangong Qijue to the outside of the cold palace courtyard, Xiao Huang said in a gentle and unusually determined tone: "One day, I will let him tell me in person." ”

The strange ghost couldn't help but be a little confused when he heard it, "You've only been asleep for more than a dozen hours, aren't you sleepy again, how can you talk some nonsense?" ”

"I ...... Unconscious for more than a dozen hours? Xiao Huang was a little surprised.

"yes, just a little more." The strange ghost raised his feet and walked back, and added lightly: "Don't worry, you are just overtired and inhaled a few more miasma, and having an old man is a trivial matter." ”

Malaria? Xiao Huang frowned, and a trace of doubt flashed in his heart.

"Let's go into the house, don't stand there stupidly, he will have already returned to Beijing."

"I didn't wait......" Xiao Huang subconsciously wanted to refute, but when the words came to his lips, he realized what the strange ghost said, and then paused, "He's gone?" ”

"Of course, if I didn't have to stay and take care of you, old man, I would have almost crossed the East City Gate at this time." As if to verify the authenticity of his words, the strange ghost also deliberately stopped and raised the food box in his hand.

Xiao Huang stepped forward and asked, "Then ...... Did he say anything when he left? ”

"Oh, you really forgot about the old man if you didn't mention it." The strange ghost entered the door and placed the food box lightly on the table, and then slowly opened the lid until the whole room was filled with a strong smell of bitter medicine, and he saw no sign of the word.

Xiao Huang knew that he was deliberately appetizing, so he patiently held his breath and waited for the following, but finally heard a slightly disgusted lament, "Before leaving, Jue'er told him to let the old man take you as a disciple...... Alas, I couldn't get his way, so I reluctantly agreed. ”

After the strange ghost finished speaking sadly, he actually found a relatively distant position to sit, and his face was full of a bit of emptiness.

Xiao Huang was stunned for a moment when he heard this, would Nangong Qijue bother to speak more for the sake of others? No matter how powerful her three-dimensional thinking is, she can't imagine such a picture.

It's really hard for him that a generation of miracle doctors has lived for most of his life, and he can still say a sentence full of loopholes.

Turning his head to look at the old man who was sitting straight on the Nanmu chair and obviously waiting for her to kowtow to the teacher, Xiao Huang suddenly pulled the corners of his lips and smiled silently.

"The younger generation has something unknown."

"What's the matter?" The strange ghost looked at her suspiciously, "Tell me about it." ”

"My predecessors are famous, and admirers are eager to take me in, why do you insist on taking me as an apprentice?"

didn't expect Xiao Huang to dismantle himself so directly, and the strange ghost had a sense of embarrassment in front of the junior, and he blushed and asked: "Since the old man is so rare, then why do you refuse to apprentice?!" ”

Before he finished speaking, he said with a look of arrogance: "Of course, the old man admits that he is curious about your medical skills, but if you worship me, the old man will definitely teach you what he has learned all his life, will you still lose your little girl, or do you think that the old man and I don't have the ability to teach you?" ”

The senior said seriously...... "She just doesn't want to be favored for no reason."

Xiao Huang sighed deeply in her heart, she was used to being alone, although she had thousands of theoretical knowledge in her mind about getting along with people, but she didn't have a lot of practical experience.

Mentally, she believes that being alone can avoid a lot of unnecessary trouble, so she uses some kind of social relationship to "tie" two strangers together—even if it is the most mundane in interpersonal communication, it was a phenomenon that she could not understand before.

And now, "there is only one bowl of tea, which is really in a hurry, and I hope the master will not be surprised." ”

After hesitating, Xiao Huang finally opened a blue and white cup that was upside down on the table, and then made seven points of tea and served it steadily to the strange ghost under the gaze of a kind of expectation called anticipation.

There is a specialization in the art industry, and she recognizes a miracle doctor as a teacher, how can she be counted as the one who climbs high, not to mention that the old man has talked about this, if she refuses again, won't she seem to know how to lift?

When the strange ghost heard the "master", he smiled and said hello three times, and there were a little tears in his eyes in the tea room.

"Because the apprentice is throwing himself into the mountain gate this time, it is inconvenient to kneel three times......"

"Master, am I the kind of mean old antique who sticks to worldly etiquette?" Someone has a straight face, but his heart is happy.

Between the unpleasant experience of accepting apprentices last time, the strange ghost never expected Xiao Huang to be so upright this time, and he didn't let him really take the grace of saving his life to the point of talking about things.

Anyway, he's still a kind old man, and that kind of villain behavior can be avoided - it seems that his bitter plan is quite successful, and yes, he can't be planted in the same place twice.

was so reasonable to the new master, but it made Xiao Huang feel good, and she bowed to the strange ghost without being rude.

As for the kneeling and kowtowing link, it is logical that her "former master who went west" was exempted - in the spirit of respect for the deceased, the first teacher is the greatest.

That used to be an excuse she used in Nangong Mansion to get rid of the strange ghost and want to take her as an apprentice, but now the recycling of resources is extremely handy.

After all, she grew up in a social environment that called for equality for everyone, and now she really doesn't want to agree with the so-called discipline and humility behavior of kneeling down to people at every turn.

"Ahem, that...... What is important to you, boy? ”

Although it was an extremely ordinary word of concern, Xiao Huang heard the "conspiracy" atmosphere in it, and she just wanted to find some reason to prevaricate the past, but she was caught off guard and saw the strange ghost holding up the "master" style.

"From now on, you will be the second generation of exclusive disciples in my sect, and I will definitely train you well as a teacher, but for the sake of your initial recovery from a minor illness, you can rest for now......"

The second generation? Alone? So there is actually only one sect of miracle doctors in your old mouth...... No, two people? Xiao Huang was a little speechless, she seemed to suddenly understand the reason why the strange ghost was in such a hurry to accept apprentices.

"However, apprentice, you have to be really idle, you might as well think about what good wine you can brew, you don't need to be too old for a teacher, just the kind you brought to Nangong Mansion last time, it's a pity that there are no plum blossoms in the current season."

The strange ghost shook his head with great regret, the jar of plum blossom brew that Nangong Qi had hidden had not been found to this day, and he felt a pain in his heart when he thought about it.

Is her future direction to open a winery? Xiao Huang couldn't help but secretly sweat for himself.

After just a few words, the old man's momentum collapsed in an instant, and he suddenly became a humanoid three-dimensional person with a very exciting way of thinking...... Wine bugs.

"Apprentice, look at the pear blossoms outside, how many teachers can prepare for you, oh yes, there are still a lot of maple sunflower daffodils or something in the back mountain, if you can use it, the old man will also pick it off......"

As the strange ghost said endlessly, the green tendons in the corners of Xiao Huang's eyes jumped violently, she seemed to have foreseen those poisonous flowers and plants and her own difficult days in the future.

In other words, is it too late to break away from the master-apprentice relationship?