Chapter 5: Peach Blossom Temple

"Peach blossom nunnery in the peach blossom bush, peach blossom fairy under the peach blossom nunnery, peach blossom fairy people plant peach trees, flowers fall and bloom year after year!" Ling Yun silently read the poem on a simple wooden sign in front of the peach blossom forest, and couldn't help nodding secretly.

"This is what my father did when he had nothing to do, and my father sent his affection to this peach blossom forest, and buried all the mundane things of his life in this peach blossom forest. Duan Xing didn't look very old, but when he talked about his father, he was a little sad.

"Good talent, but the meaning of the poem has a feeling of not encountering talents. Ling Yun looked at the thatched hermitage in the depths of the peach blossom forest with a smile, and said lightly: "This is probably your father talking about his life." ”

Duan Xing's eyes were shining, and he stared at Ling Yun carefully, as if he had seen a confidant.

His father was the strongest person in the Xuanwu Hall in terms of talent and alchemy, and because he had practiced the elixir that could quickly improve his cultivation many years ago, he attracted the jealousy of the City Lord's Mansion, so that he would not have the opportunity to refine the medicine in his life.

He trapped himself in this peach blossom forest, every day, "No > Wrong" novel, www.quledu.com only with peach blossoms, planting trees and drinking tea, although life is leisurely, but the bitterness in the middle can only be understood by Duan Xing.

In the dead of night, he would always see his father standing alone in front of a peach tree. The moonlight shone on his body, and he was like a statue that had been frozen for thousands of years, revealing deep pity.

"Let's go, go see the most powerful alchemist in Xuanwu Hall, I'm becoming more and more interested in your father. Ling Yun squinted, his eyebrows smiling like crescent moons.

Duan Xing didn't dare to slack off, so he also had a lot of deep respect for the two of them because of their mysterious identities and Ling Yun's understanding of his father.

The cobblestone paths are neat and clean, without a trace of dust, and it seems that every stone has been carefully cared for. And there is not much difference in the size or color of these stones, as if they were sketched by a person with a paintbrush.

Who would be so meticulous that they would be so bored as to find exactly the same stone to make a road, and then clean it every day, maybe with a cotton cloth moistened with water? Long Yunzhou only has one feeling, the one who lives here is definitely a weird person.

The peach blossoms are blooming brightly, and thousands of pink peach blossoms are guarding the lonely thatched hermitage in the middle. Although the hermitage is lonely at the end of the path, it can be surrounded by thousands of peach blossoms, and it seems to be blooming in the middle like the emperor of this flower.

The door was ajar, and from the outside, a figure was walking slowly past a corner. Then there was a sound of scooping water, and with the beautiful scenery around it, it was crisp like a paradise.

"Father, I'm back!" Duan Xing stood at the door and said softly, "There are two other distinguished guests who are visiting, and they really want to meet the first alchemist of Xuanwu Hall, so I brought them here." ”

"Since you have a distinguished guest, then you are not invited, you kid, it is really rude. Although it was a reproachful voice, his words were calm, like a gentle mother laughing and blaming her child.

Duan Xing pushed open the door and invited Ling Yun and Long Yunzhou in. The two were also polite and went straight into the house.

As soon as I entered the door, I saw a shy man standing in front of the door with a smile. He was dressed in coarse cloth clothes, his face was full of kindness, and he looked like a scholar with a full stomach, if he was connected with the powerful alchemist of the world, there was nothing in common.

"In the lower section of the city, I am fortunate to meet two distinguished guests, which is really a blessing for three lives. As he spoke, he glanced at Duan Xing, who was standing on the side, shook his head and said, "As for the alchemist, the two of you may have gone for nothing." There are only flower farmers who plant trees here, how can there be such an alchemist. ”

Duan Cheng gave up his seat and made a cup of flower tea for each of them. His flower tea is made of peach blossoms on the outside, with a floral fragrance in the tea, and the aroma is long and lingering, making people feel like they are in a sea of flowers.

"Good tea!" Ling Yun pondered for a while before he said with a smile: "Only an alchemist like you can make such a good tea." ”

Duan Cheng was slightly stunned, then shook his head with a wry smile: "Your Excellency said that I have already said that there is no alchemist here, only a flower farmer who grows trees and raises flowers." Thank you for your compliments, and it is not in vain that I have worked hard to plant these flowers. ”

As he spoke, a cold wind drifted outside, blowing off a lot of petals. It was like a rain of pink flowers, lingering in one place, turning and slowly falling to the ground in a whirlpool.

"Autumn is slaughtering, and peach blossoms can bloom in such weather, which is really not easy. Ling Yun turned his head and looked at Duan Cheng with a deep smile in his eyes: "If my guess is right, this flower is often like this all year round, and the so-called flowers bloom and fall is just a joke." ”

"Sir, you are really a god, this peach blossom forest planted by my father has never withered, and the flowers are in full bloom all year round. If we weren't locked up in this house, it would be a wonder. Duan Xing came to his senses and was excited when he talked about his father's feat.

Ling Yun laughed: "The peach blossoms that don't wither all year round, Ling is really the first time I've seen them." If it weren't for the mastery of pharmacology and the creation of heaven and earth, how could it be possible to make this peach blossom bloom all year round?"

Broken by Ling Yun's words, Duan Cheng could only smile awkwardly, shook his head and said, "It's all some old things, the alchemist you are looking for has long been buried by me in the peach blossom forest." There is only one flower farmer left in this peach blossom hermitage who wastes his time!"

Long Yunzhou had already been impatient to hear it, and he talked for a long time, just to confirm that this guy was an alchemist. Long Yunzhou actually wanted to say to Duan Cheng, you are an alchemist and a blind person can see it, you are a bit too pretending to be unfathomable, can't you be frank.

"This pharmacist Duan. Long Yunzhou finally couldn't help it, and interjected: "Everyone knows that you are an alchemist, don't deny it." We all heard it when we came here just now, so don't hide it. ”

When he was in front of the gate of Xuanwu Hall just now, those young people had actually been insulting Duan Cheng's father and son, and Long Yunzhou deliberately said that those people said that he was an alchemist, just to end this conversation that he thought was very boring.

Ling Yun didn't stop Long Yunzhou, he just watched with a quiet smile. He wanted to see what this alchemist kept hiding his identity for. If an alchemist always has a bond in his heart, he will not be able to practice good medicine. And the purpose of his coming is precisely to need a capable alchemist.

Duan Cheng stared at Long Yunzhou in amazement, he spoke to Ling Yun elegantly from beginning to end, including his son, and he had always been very peaceful. The young man who suddenly appeared in a domineering tone made him at a loss for a while.

"Yes, yes, I'm an alchemist!" Duan Cheng said after a long time.

"Just admit it, it's such a simple thing, it's not tiring to talk nonsense for a long time. Long Yunzhou felt a big sigh of relief and sat back in his chair with a smile.

Duan Cheng looked at Long Yunzhou in a daze, feeling that you are so excited to stand up just to confirm this problem? Duan Cheng still thought that he was going to rob the house.

Ling Yun laughed, relieving the embarrassment in the hermitage. He stared at Duan Cheng, who was a little stunned, and said, "It just so happens that we need an alchemist with the ability like you, I wonder if you can help us." ”

Since being suppressed by the City Lord's Mansion, Xuanwu Hall has been on the verge of decline. No one came to ask them to refine medicine, and they were limited to family rules, and they were not allowed to go out alone to develop. So they gradually became forgotten, and once in a while they went out once in a while and were said to be a family that sold counterfeit medicines.

A person with an obviously noble identity came to the door to invite, and the shiny silver was in Duan Xing's hand, it is said that Duan Cheng should have cried and said that he had finally met Lord Ming.

But Duan Cheng just smiled, shook his head and sighed: "Distinguished guest, if you came here to tell me such things thirty years ago, I would not hesitate to go with you." It's a pity, it's a pity, you've been here thirty years late, and these thirty years have turned an alchemist into a flower farmer, and I don't have the ambition I had at the beginning. ”

Ling Yun smiled indifferently: "The person who can write those few lines of poetry at the door must still have great ambitions hidden in his chest. I don't think you want to stay here forever, and it's your goal to show what you've learned. ”

Duan Cheng looked at the peach blossom forest outside indifferently, and said with a wry smile: "Thirty years ago, I refined an elixir that can make cultivators quickly condense their qi and improve their cultivation. On that day, I became the pride of the entire Xuanwu Hall, and everyone thought that I was the greatest genius in the history of the family. ”

Duan Cheng suddenly laughed desolately: "Since that day, everything has changed, the suppression of the City Lord's Mansion, the rejection of the family, and the departure of my wife behind my back, this series of blows have long smoothed out my ambition." Do you think you're still seeing the same alchemist who can refine the magic elixir?"

He shook his head miserably: "I have long been a waste despised by everyone, if I can quietly plant flowers here for the rest of my life, then I will be satisfied." ”

The room was unusually quiet, and no one spoke. Ling Yun's face was a little strange, he originally wanted to find a powerful alchemist to refine some pills for Long Yunzhou to take, so as to improve Long Yunzhou's cultivation to another extent.

You must know that alchemists are quite rare people, and it is not easy to find one or two.

But Lingyun didn't expect that the alchemist he finally met turned out to be a waste person who had been tortured by life and became a flower farmer. He couldn't help but sigh a little, if an alchemist no longer had that ambition, then he wouldn't be able to refine any good medicine.

"I see, it looks like we're in the wrong place. Please forgive me for any interruptions. Ling Yun stood up and casually threw a silver ingot to Duan Xing.

"Take good care of your father, he used to be a great man. Ling Yun glanced at Duan Cheng meaningfully, sighed and shook his head and walked out.

Seeing Duan Xing standing there inexorably, Long Yunzhou was a little unbearable. But he can't change anything, Duan Xing is still Duan Xing, he can only follow his decadent father, and all he can help may be the silver that Ling Yun gave him.

Long Yunzhou walked outside, but Ling Yun stood still in front of the thatched house.

He was a little curious, and when he crossed Ling Yun's figure and saw the front of the peach blossom forest, there seemed to be a lot of people faintly.

Listen to the voices to discern that there are several of them, and they are the young men who have just met in front of the gate. It seems that they are looking for trouble.