Chapter VI Miscellaneous Labor

Wen Xiu carried Zhang Ping to the foot of Qingling Mountain, Zhang Ping's heart was mixed, the ups and downs that Zhang Ping experienced in the past few days may not be experienced by most mortals in their lifetime, but the result is not too much, at least you can practice.

After a while, Wen Zhang and the others fell to the river behind a row of thatched huts. On both sides of the river, there was the sound of countless washermen's mallets striking the stones on the riverbank, and many people carrying large buckets to carry the water from the river to the thatched huts, while smoke was curling from the green hills on the other side of the river.

"Who's in charge here?" Wen Xiu said proudly.

The people who were washing clothes by the river all stopped their movements and looked at Wen Xiu with envy in their eyes. A middle-aged man in linen ran from a distance, and his small eyes and thin lips knelt directly in front of Wen Xiu and the others: "Two immortal masters, Xiao Ke is Chen Peng, the manager of the miscellaneous department." Then Chen Peng lowered his head, not daring to raise his head again, nor daring to ask what the two of them were doing here.

"You're in charge here? You know the rules quite well, my junior brother's name is Zhang Ping. On the orders of the master, come to your miscellaneous office to help, maybe when you will go back. You're going to be here to serve well. Wen Xiu pointed at Zhang Ping and said.

"It turned out that Immortal Master Zhang wanted to come to my miscellaneous office to experience, it was really welcome. Chen Peng looked at Zhang Ping behind Wen Xiu, nodded and said.

"The immortal master doesn't dare to be, I am also a mortal, and I will be bothered by the senior brother in the future, and I ask the senior brother to bear with me. Zhang Ping said politely.

"Mortals are also the best among people, and the junior brother entered the Qingyu Sect at a young age, and he will be Tengda in the future. Chen Peng said.

"Alright, alright. I'll leave it to you, if anything goes wrong in the future, I won't spare you!Little junior brother, I'm going back to my life, you have to cherish yourself here, come to me if you have anything!" Wen Xiu turned his head to Zhang Ping and said, and then turned into a long rainbow and flew away.

Zhang Pingda was moved, hugged his fists and said in the direction where Wen Xiu was going: "Senior brother, you are too!"

"Senior Brother Zhang, come with me. Chen Peng got up and patted the dust on his body and said to Zhang Ping. Zhang Ping followed Chen Peng into the larger of the grass houses.

"Senior Brother Zhang, why did you come to this miscellaneous office, were you punished by the master?" asked Chen Peng.

"Well, it's a long story, so don't mention it. Senior brother, what can I do here?" Zhang Ping asked rhetorically.

"Haha, junior brother is quick to talk. We are disposed of in three ways. The three rooms are both the room of the house, the room and the warehouse. The three places are Huanchen, Huanxi, and Huanmao. This is the best place to go, of course, is the warehouse, and there is no effort to check the file every day. The worst is naturally the Huanmao and the power room. Needless to say, the things that need to be cleaned and convenient in the Huanmao place are all coolies, and every day is the hardest. As for where to go, we have a rule here, which is to draw lots. Chen Peng thought to himself, since you don't say it, then I will do things according to the rules, don't blame me when I go to a place where I suffer. Then he took out a stick holder and handed it to Zhang Ping.

Zhang Ping smiled, didn't answer in a hurry, took out a small bottle from his arms and handed it to Chen Peng. Chen Peng's eyes lit up, and as a result, the bottle was uncorked, and more than a dozen Qi Pills were placed in the bottle. Chen Peng smiled and quickly took the pill into his arms.

"Senior brother said with a smile, junior brother, I have just arrived, so I naturally have to listen to my brother's arrangement for everything. Senior brother just asked me to go to the power room, although I am young, but the senior brother has ordered me to go, I will go, so I don't need to draw it!" Zhang Ping said with a smile on his fists.

Chen Peng thought to himself, this kid is not very old but extremely director, just give him a good place. He also clenched his fists and said: "Although this treasury is good, if you enter someone, it is not something I can arrange alone." Why don't you go to the room, although the old saying says that a gentleman does not enter the kitchen. But it's a good place to go, as you'll see. With that, Chen Peng got up and took a waist card and a linen dress from the cabinet in the back and handed them to Zhang Ping.

Zhang Ping got up and took it, bowed down and said, "Thank you, Senior Brother Chen." ”

"Go, the house is on the hill across the river, you cross the bridge and walk along the road to the mountain. Chen Peng waved his hand and said.

Zhang Ping thanked Chen Peng and went to the room. Zhang Ping crossed the bridge and saw the smoke curling on the green hill opposite, in fact, Zhang Ping could find it with the smoke without Chen Peng's guidance.

Zhang Ping walked up the avenue, and in less than a stick of incense, he saw rows and rows of stone houses. Chickens and dogs smell each other here, people are busy everywhere, and two people are fetching water by the well nearby. Zhang Ping walked over and asked, "Two senior brothers, I was sent here by Senior Brother Chen Peng to help." ”

The two men, one fat and one thin, glanced at each other.

"Oh, we're going to add a new person to the room?" said the fat man.

"Yes, it's not easy to enter our room, brother, you have given Chen Peng a lot of benefits, right?" the thin man replied.

Zhang Ping also smiled and said, "What's the matter, it's all thanks to Senior Brother Zhang's kind arrangement to get here." ”

The thin man put down the bucket in his hand, looked at Zhang Ping and said, "Since you are here, you are all brothers, come with me, and I will take you to meet our boss." ”

"Good. ”

Zhang Ping followed the thin man on the small stone road, chatting as he walked, and after a while, he saw four rows of huge stone houses in front of him, each with a large chimney emitting white smoke. In the middle of the four rows of stone huts was a small wooden hut, and the thin man led him into it.

"Hey, boss, we've got a new guy. You help him arrange it first, and I'll withdraw first. The thin man said.

"Okay, you go first. ”

There were two people in the room sitting there chatting, and suddenly they all looked up at him when they heard the thin man's voice, and after the thin man left, the two looked at Zhang Ping again. Both of them were slightly chubby, except that one of them had dark skin and large eyes. The other is pockmarked and taller.

"Hey, I'm new, what's your name?" said the darker-skinned man.

"My name is Zhang Ping, and this is the waist card token given to me by Senior Brother Chen Peng. ”

The black fat man took Zhang Ping's waist card, glanced at it and gave it back to him and said: "My name is Feng Ren, his name is Wei Chengli, they are all stewards here, we have four rooms here to divide people into four groups, and now there is still one person in the three groups, so you can go to the three groups." Look at the row of stone houses in front of you, the third room from left to right, you go there to find Xie Zhuang and say I'll let you go. ”

"Okay, Senior Brother Feng, Senior Brother Wei. Zhang Ping clenched his fists and said. Feng Wei and the others also smiled at him and nodded, and Feng Ren waved his hand at him and motioned for him to go.

Zhang Ping also exited the wooden house and walked to the third stone house. The people in the third stone house were very busy.

"Second brother, quickly bring the blood ginseng given by Elder Cheng, this Elder Cheng must add this blood ginseng to eat Wuchen chicken!" said a swarthy and sturdy man.

"Old Five, hurry up and chop that firewood, do you still want to have dinner?"

"It's not right for you to say that, third, I'm much more tired from chopping wood than you are from kneading dough, let me rest for a while. A little fat man said as he sat on the ground with a ladle and drank water.

When Zhang Ping knocked on the door and came in, the little fat man was sitting on the ground facing the door and looked at him: "Who are you looking for?"

"My name is Zhang Ping, and I was just sent here, and it was Steward Feng who asked me to come to Steward Xie. This is the sturdy man who was stewing chicken, looked back at Zhang Ping and said, "Hey, you see that someone is finally here, and there are seven people in the other groups, so let's group six." How many times have I nagged Feng Ren, and now I sent a child. ”

"Children will also grow up, and they will grow fat if they don't grow up! What are you anxious about, you see that the fifth child was not very thin when he first came, and he can already be slaughtered and eaten meat. Hey, don't put all the blood ginseng in it, and leave a few whiskers to eat at night. The second child who was chopping vegetables next to him said.

"Where's the sixth, where's the sixth?" the sturdy man asked.

"The sixth child went to fetch water, and he will be back soon. "The third is back.

"Okay, he'll come back in a moment and ask him to keep an eye on me, and I'll bring this newcomer to familiarize himself with the environment. The sturdy man said.

"Okay!"

The sturdy man walked up to Zhang Ping and said, "Your name is Zhang Ping, I am the boss here called Xie Zhuang, and the one who looks like me over there is my younger brother and second brother called Xie Yong." The one who kneaded the dough was the third Dong Lin, and the fourth was sick and lying on the bed. The fifth child is the little fat man, named Shang Zhengyang. The sixth child went to fetch water and came back in a while. You'll be our seventh brother from now on! Let's go, I'll take you to see where our three groups live. ”

Zhang Ping followed Xie Zhuang to the courtyard behind the stone house. There is an aspen in the middle of the yard and a well on the side. There are wooden houses on both sides and directly in front.

"This is where you will live in the future. You don't have to do anything these days, just watch us work, and get familiar with it first. Put on your clothes and waist tags, and then go to the storeroom to get your stuff. ”

Xie Zhuang walked into a room on the right as he spoke, and Zhang Ping followed in. There was only one bed, some tables and chairs, and a cupboard in the room.

"You take a rest here first, and don't forget to go to the storeroom when you're free, and I'll go back." After Xie Zhuang finished speaking, he waved his hand and walked out of the room.

Zhang Ping patted the dust on the stool with his hand, put the package on his back on the table, and sat down. Zhang Ping looked at this room, this room is really simple, wooden tables and wooden stools, some of which have cracked. There was also a dusty futon in the corner of the room, Zhang Ping got up and pulled the futon to the middle of the room, patted the dust on it with his hand, and then sat cross-legged on it, meditating on the beginning of the cultivation. Although Wen Xiu took the cheats, he remembered the initial exercises of cultivation.

Thirty-six weeks passed in a blink of an eye, Zhang Ping's body still didn't feel anything, he slowly opened his eyes, took out a small white medicine bottle from his arms, took out a black nail-sized pill and continued to exercise. After another thirty-six weeks, Zhang Ping felt for the first time the place where the aura was, something very peculiar, as if it was not possessed by this world. You can't see it, you can't touch it, but it does affect your body, and breathing is just perception, because the most direct and deepest contact between the human body and the outside world is through breathing, through the ups and downs of the chest, the aura is placed in the chest, sinking into the dantian, and scattered into the hundred veins, and even the fingertips seem to be flying with you. That comfortable feeling makes you want to inhale the aura again, but the aura is like silk, how can it be so easy to find... You can only get more aura by constantly exhaling. Zhang Ping sat on the futon all night, he seemed to forget himself, forgot others, just wholeheartedly to find the place of aura, but in the end only got the first trace, one night to no avail. But it was this trace of aura that supported all that he had, and he was excited in his heart and felt that he had hope.

The next morning, when the rooster crowed, Zhang Ping slowly opened his eyes, stood up and stretched.

"Cultivating immortals, cultivating immortals, no wonder so many people are obsessed with cultivating immortals, the feeling of this aura entering the body is so wonderful, what kind of feeling will it be if you really cultivate immortals?" Zhang Ping muttered to himself and walked towards the warehouse...