022. Meet Shangshu
As night fell, the general arrived at the right time, and the three of them began to practice in the back cave as before. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Qing Ming took out the Mingxin Pill he had obtained during the day and handed it to General Yansheng for study. He held it in his palm and looked at it for a moment, sniffed it, with a puzzled look on his face, and said: "This pill is brown, faintly blood-red, and it seems to smell a little fishy, it shouldn't be a good thing! It's so expensive, I don't know what's the secret! As for the rumors in the market about requiem solidification, if it is true, it must have a great relationship with soul alchemy." ”
He is a senior soul refiner, of course he knows that the elixir should not be taken indiscriminately, and he also warned Qing Ming to be careful at the moment: "Prince Qing Ming, at present, I am only teaching you some internal force cultivation and martial arts routines, and soul alchemy has not been taught yet, not that there are reservations below, but that soul alchemy requires a substance with soul energy, such as the Yunling grass you know, and it must be assisted by soul refining stones, and at the same time, the soul refiner must also have a strong internal force, and if you are not careful, it will damage the soul refiner's body." Therefore, if this Mingxin Pill is related to soul alchemy, and its output is so huge, I believe there must be something strange!"
Qing Ming hid the pill in his arms, so he had to put aside the matter of Mingxin Dan for the time being, and while stepping up his serious practice, he asked General Jiusheng if there was any news of the criminal dungeon tragedy over there.
"The matter is currently progressing slowly, the Criminal Department has strengthened its guards, and the dungeon is full of carefully selected guards. In the past two days since the incident of the Black Butterfly, the dungeon has been quiet and there have been no new cases. ”
Qing Ming breathed a sigh of relief that no one had lost his life, but he was a little worried, if the little flower snake never appeared again, the clues would be broken from now on, and I am afraid that those tragedies would become unsolved cases, and they would be over.
Early the next morning, Qing Ming wore the prince's light purple brocade robe and went to Yun Hui Shangshu Mansion to pay a visit, along the way, Long Xing looked at Qing Ming who was tall in front of him, and thought that his friend was so noble and elegant, and his heart was proud.
Yun Chuan jumped out of the gate to greet him, the servants picked up the horses, Qing Ming, Du Sheng and Long Xing were invited to the mansion, Yun Chuan took Qing Ming's hand and asked, "How did Senior Brother get to the mansion today?"
"I've been raising in the palace these days, and I haven't been to the Jucai Hall to practice, but I've been suffocated! Today, my father allowed me to go out of the palace to visit the elders, and I just missed you, so I came to your mansion first!
Yun Chuan smiled happily: "Don't bother! Haha! His Royal Highness the Prince is coming, my father is proud! He usually adheres to etiquette, does not smile, and does not hide from his senior brother that he used to argue in the collegial panel without results, and he was still a little unhappy, but today he learned that His Highness has come down, and he is in a much better mood! He is waiting in the hall!"
Yunhui Lord's Mansion, compared with the Prime Minister's Mansion, can appear much more exquisite, although the area is slightly smaller, but the carved beams and painted buildings, the color is bright, and the architectural decoration is quite exquisite.
After turning a few small gardens full of shrubs and flowers, and came to the front of the hall, Yun Huishangshu came out with a spring breeze on his face, and invited Qing Ming to sit in the hall.
After a period of greetings, Qing Ming tried his best to express his admiration for the old-timers. Of course, before coming, he did some homework in advance, and learned a lot of Yun Hui Shangshu's deeds and opinions from the people of the research students, Du Sheng, etc., and knew that there have always been many high-ranking officials in his family, and Yun Sheng Prime Minister is the same as Yun Sheng, he is the mainstay of the iron clan of the big country, Yun Hui has traveled to Xuantian Dao countries when he was young, and he has some knowledge, but because he loves to travel, he delayed the cultivation of soul alchemy, so his soul alchemy is actually not very smart, but his eldest son Yun Shi is talented and famous as a young man.
Yun Legend is right, Yun Hui is very strict about traditional etiquette and belongs to the typical conservatives in the DPRK. Qing Ming speculated that it was because of this that Yun Hui argued with King Qingyuan and others in the collegial panel that day. Things have changed, today Prince Qingming came to the house in person, Yun Hui was very polite, talked eloquently, and the two talked very happily.
After the conversation, Yun Hui sent Yun Chuan to take Qing Ming to visit the mansion.
They came to an independent tower, only to see the tower door on the book "Treasure Pagoda", it turned out that this is Yun Hui when he traveled to study to collect the classics of various countries, Yun Chuan looked proud: "Here, but the essence of our house, the treasure tower stores all kinds of books collected by my father, there are all kinds of rituals and laws of various countries, all kinds of magic tips, customs and customs of various countries, everything!"
When I entered the tower, I felt that the space inside was not as constrained as it was seen outside, but the layout was reasonable and dexterous, and each floor was surrounded by a circle of bookshelves, full of books. Qing Ming knows that the general books in the Xuantian Dao are not much different from what he has seen in the Dao of the world, but the paper here is thicker, people like to use yellow paper, only a master like King Qingyuan can make a light curtain, and the light curtain is also a medium for recording words and graphics, but ordinary people will not.
After visiting the Pagoda, Qing Ming was amazed. He remembered the fact that the little flower snake disappeared in the direction of Shangshu's mansion, but he knew that he couldn't talk directly to the people in Yunhui's mansion about this matter, so he talked to Yun Chuan while visiting the mansion, hoping to find some clues.
After looking at a few gardens, Qing Ming suddenly remembered that he hadn't seen Yun Shi all along, so he asked: "Senior brother, I heard that Brother Yun Shi is the youngest soul refining master in the Great Subject Country, his reputation is far and wide, and the foolish brother admires him very much, and he didn't see him at the last gathering in the Prime Minister's Mansion, I don't know if Brother Yun Shi is in the mansion today, can it be easily introduced? Reluctantly invited, hehe, please don't be surprised! I hope it won't disturb Brother Yun Shi too much!"
Yun Chuan laughed, then lowered his voice, and said: "Senior brother don't say it, I just have this intention, although my brother is talented, he is a strange person, often cold, usually not a guest, and his father is also up to him! He is now fishing in the back garden! I'll take you there!"
As soon as he said that, he turned around, but he was in too much of a hurry, Yun Chuan suddenly sighed softly, raised his left foot, and smiled embarrassedly: "Hehe, my ankle is a little twisted...... However, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, brother, please!"
Qing Ming remembered all kinds of childish performances since he met him, and couldn't help but laugh out loud, stretched out his hand to help him, and the two walked together talking and laughing.
General Watatsu followed, and Long Xing consciously regarded himself as the prince's retinue, and followed Wataru without saying a word.
Turning a courtyard, and walking through a bamboo forest, in front of me is a dry land, the dry land is red soil, the soil is soft, obviously the result of frequent turning, there are no crops, only some sparse weeds. Suddenly, Long Xing, the last of the team, screamed in surprise, jumped away from the spot, and shouted incoherently: "It's so big! It's so big!
When I looked closely, in the place where Long Xing had stepped on it just now, there was indeed an earthworm wriggling, the length and thickness were like a pencil, but it was not as straight as a pencil, but winding and turning, and I couldn't help but feel numb and quite uncomfortable.
Yun Chuan walked over, directly picked up the strange thing with his fingers, shook it in front of his eyes, and then, threw it vigorously in the direction of no one, and threw it back into the dry land, and the earthworm quickly burrowed into the soil and disappeared without a trace.
Seeing Qing Ming and Long Xing's faces full of surprise, Yun Chuan smiled and said: "Don't panic! This one is still small, I'm afraid of this, how can you walk over from this dry land? This land is specially used by my brother to raise earthworms, and it is his special bait! Although it is big, it is an earthworm after all, and it doesn't bite, let's go!"
As he spoke, he took the lead and walked away, he had just twisted his ankle, and walked up on the soft dirt road, limping slightly, looking rather funny, as if he was laughing at them.
Qing Ming was secretly unconvinced, so he immediately followed. Long Xing walked on tiptoe, walking on thin ice, looking from a distance, it looked like a goose egg with long legs dancing a ballet.
Walking through the red clay dry land, there is a dense bamboo forest, and in the depths of the bamboo forest, it turned out to be a sparkling pond. A tall man in a straw hat was standing on the shore fishing, holding a fishing rod in one hand and leisurely brushing his two mustaches in the other, watching the water intently.
Yun Chuan greeted in a very low voice: "Don't make a loud noise! My brother hates the fish that others scare him away!"
As soon as the words fell, the man did not look back, and suddenly said loudly: "I hate you as a nasty ghost, and often scare away my fish!
As he spoke, he bent down and inserted the fishing rod into the soil on the shore, clapped his hands, turned around, and arched his hands with a smile: "The prince has arrived, and he has missed the distance, forgive me!"
Qing Ming returned the salute, and was sighing in his heart that Yun Shi was really powerful, only to hear General Dusheng smile and say: "Senior Brother Yun Shi, don't come to harm!
It turned out that the two of them were the senior brothers of Jucaitang back then, Yun Shi said with a smile: "The small skill of carving insects is not enough to worry about! The junior brother's Qingying series of divine skills are now more sophisticated?"
Du Sheng said: "The little brother usually doesn't dare to relax in practice, if you want to talk about diligence, I really don't dare to say anything." After all, this Qingying Skill is not a soul refining technique, it is just some high-level fist and foot skills, and it can't be compared to Senior Brother! Just now, Senior Brother made this Yuancong Technique, and Junior Brother never saw you use Soul Refining Stones, or spiritual objects such as Rue Spirit Grass, but why?"
Yun Shi couldn't help but feel a little proud, but he still said calmly: "In the past few years, I have been looking for masters, and I have a lot of experience, and now, simple soul refining techniques such as Yuancong Technique, for me, there is no need to use soul refining stones or spiritual objects, just now I picked a little bit of the spiritual energy that my body normally emitted from between my beards, it is enough!"
Everyone suddenly realized and sighed.
Yun Shi pointed to a row of bungalows in the bamboo forest on the other side of the pond and invited: "That is a private place down there, everyone admire your face, go over and have a cup of tea!"
When I got closer, I saw that the original row of houses were all made of bamboo, and even the roof was made of bamboo tiles.
Passing by the first few rooms, I heard the noisy sound of buzzing, and glanced in through the window, Qing Ming and Long Xing were shocked, it turned out that those rooms were full of all kinds of weird cages and glass boxes, which contained hares, pheasants, squirrels, snakes, etc., all kinds of small animals, and a huge fish tank in the corner, in which different fish of all sizes swam around. The foul smell in the room overflowed, and Qing Ming felt a little churning in his stomach.
Yun Shi smiled proudly and led them to a room at the end, which was neat and beautiful, with bright windows and neatly arranged, which was completely different from the room just now.
Yun Shi personally made tea, and he was already familiar with General Watari, so the guests and hosts had a very happy conversation.
Near lunchtime, Yun Chuan urged everyone to go back to the hall so as not to miss the meal time. Leaving the bamboo house, everyone took a shortcut in the bamboo forest under the leadership of Yun Shi.
Suddenly, Qing Ming saw something faintly patterned behind a bamboo shoot, and his heart sank. But he was the central figure of the visitor, and his every move was noticed, and he couldn't act at will, so he handed a color to General Watatsu behind him, and he immediately understood, quickly bent down and reached out, picked up a piece of cloth, and hid it in the sleeve of his robe.