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Chapter 157: Opening the Furnace for Alchemy (I)

Seeing Zhou Qinglan blocking Xu Changqing's way, Huang Juan looked dissatisfied, stood up, blushed, and said in a tender voice. "Hmph! The old lady promised us that we could walk freely in the village, but how could you stop us!"

"You also said that grandma's promise was to let the two little immortals walk freely in the village, and there was no Mr. Xu. Zhou Qinglan chewed the words and sophistry.

"You ......" Huang Juan was still a child after all, and she didn't know how to argue for a while, blushing and stomping her feet.

Huang Shan waved his hand at Zhou Qinglan on the side, and said worriedly: "Sister Zhou, you better not stop my master, my master is amazing!"

Zhou Qinglan looked at Xu Changqing and said with a smile: "I think Mr. Xu, a person who cultivates immortals outside the world, shouldn't bully me a weak woman by force, right?"

"You're pretty good at sophistry. Xu Changqing smiled slightly, quite appreciating his cousin, and said: "Since you are not allowed to go to see the young master of the Zhou family, you won't go! Didn't you say that the old lady of the Zhou family wanted to see me?

Zhou Qinglan was stunned for a moment, obviously she put all her mind on Zhou Zhenglin, she didn't expect this, and she couldn't say anything about the slightest excuse for refusal. It wasn't until Xu Changqing left Tibet that she came to her senses under Chen Yuanshan's reminder, hurriedly chased after her, and shouted: "Mr. Xu, it's better to go see Zhenglin!"

Those practitioners who specialized in cultivating foreign pills in ancient times generally divided the refined pills into golden pills and medicinal pills, of which most of the golden pills failed to be refined, almost as famous as poisons, but there were also successful ones such as the Shangqing Longhu Pill of Longhu Mountain, and the Shangqing Qi Pill of Maoshan belonged to the list of medicinal pills. Shangqing Qi Pill is an elixir refined from a tonic medicine that nourishes the body for thirty-one minutes, and has the effect of making up for congenital deficiencies, and Xu Changqing's master once used this elixir to regulate Xu Changqing's body.

It's just that most of the main drugs of this elixir are pure yang medicines, which are a bit too yang, and they need to be neutralized with pure yin adjuvant medicines, which is Qingyu fruit. Although the main medicine of Thirty-One Flavors is easy to find, the adjuvant Qingyu Fruit is extremely rare, compared to those main medicines, the Qingyu Fruit as an adjuvant medicine is more effective, Xu Changqing was ready to use the existing medicines and Qingyu Fruit to refine a qi-nourishing healing elixir. However, when he thought that the Shangqing Qi Pill also had an effect on the four registered disciples, and that he could use this to get close to the Zhou family, he gave up the idea of refining the Qi Nourishing Elixir.

Since ancient times, it is not a trivial matter for alchemists to open the furnace for alchemy, and it is generally necessary to sacrifice to heaven and earth in advance, and ask the gods to bless them in order to achieve the elixir. Although the Zhou family is a thousand-year-old family, there are not many ancient rituals left, and the ritual of worshiping heaven and earth in the furnace alchemy is a Taoist ritual that has only recently been exhibited.

Zhou Zhenglin obviously not the first time to make alchemy, he specially built a Dan garden on the west side of Zhouzhuang. In the eyes of outsiders, Zhou Zhenglin is not doing his job in the name of his wife. But for the Zhou family, they all expressed support for Zhou Zhenglin's approach. First of all, Zhou Zhenglin has a clear distinction between public and private, although he is obsessed with alchemy, but he has never delayed his business. Secondly, the Zhou family's various businesses outside have declined over the years, and only the business of the pharmacy is more prosperous than before, which is mainly due to some ancient prescriptions restored by Zhou Zhenglin when refining the pills.

At present, most of the people of the Zhou family outside the Danyuan have come to watch the ceremony, although most of them are not very willing to come, but they still need to make a show, after all, the people who are in charge of the power inside and outside the Zhou family are here. Zhou Ranming, the eldest man of the Zhou family, was exhausted by Xu Changqing's affairs during this time, and he could never guess what Xu Changqing's purpose was for coming to Zhouzhuang. When he heard that the two little immortals who were loved by the old lady in the family had always been with Xu Changqing these days, he smelled a smell of conspiracy. This kind of restless day finally forced him to decide to go back to Zhouzhuang and have a complete showdown with Xu Changqing after participating in Zhou Zhenglin's Dan ceremony, so as not to be so worried every day.

"Big brother, why do you always look tired lately?" Zhou Ranyan, the second master of the Zhou family, who was also white, saw that his brother looked tired, so he took out a refined snuff box from his sleeve, handed it to Zhou Ranming, and said: "Try this, I just bought a batch of goods, and the effect is not bad, made in France." ”

Zhou Ranming looked at his second brother, sighed, and said: "Ran Yan, when can you be serious, don't always play with these things! Except for Zhenglin, none of your children and grandchildren are learning from you, smoking opium and playing with women one by one, making the whole family miserable." If it goes on like this, I'm just afraid of ......" said and looked up at the other group of people on the right, and said, "I'm afraid that the people who will be in charge of the Zhou family will become those side clansmen." ”

Although he is also very old, Zhou Ranyan didn't dare to talk back about his brother's lesson, so he could only nod and say yes, perfunctory, Zhou Ranming also knew his brother's personality very well, and didn't say anything more.

Just when the ceremony was held and everyone was preparing to offer incense, there was suddenly a lot of commotion at the gate of Danyuan, and the crowd naturally separated from each other. I saw five people walking in the crowd, three big and two small, especially the two children who led the way in front were particularly respected and flattered by everyone. But no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't get closer, as if an invisible force was blocking them.

Just when everyone's eyes were on the two children, the eyes of the two masters of the Zhou family were all focused on the young man walking behind the children and wearing a cyan robe, and the expressions on their faces were all dumbfounded.

"Little sister?" At this time, Zhou Ranyan couldn't help but scream softly, then turned his head to look at Zhou Ranming, who also had a shocked expression, and asked, "Big brother, what's going on? Why does this person look almost exactly the same as my little sister, who is this person?"

Although Zhou Ranming was mentally prepared, he was still taken aback by Xu Changqing's appearance. Except that Xu Changqing's bones are stiff and he doesn't have that kind of feminine femininity, he is almost exactly the same as the appearance of his little sister Zhou Ranjie in their memory, and he didn't know what to say for a while. However, there were a few other people with the same expressions as them, that is, several old people who were standing in the middle of the Zhou family and were similar in age to Zhou Ranyan, obviously they also recognized Xu Changqing's appearance.