The astrological platform is the highest point of this back mountain, and there are several paths to the open area below. The open area at the foot of the mountain is the place where each hall cultivates on weekdays, and they are bounded by rivers or paths, without interfering with each other.

Standing on the astrological platform, you can see it all, the cultivation disciples below, sometimes more, sometimes less, in short, there are special people to organize and arrange, unlike Li Yiming, no one cares.

With nothing to do, Li Yiming cleaned up the astrological platform and the stone room inside and out several times, and the place where he lived looked a lot more exquisite. is still at Mrs. Jingyi's place, and a useless big water tank was moved, and it was used to gather water for irrigation, fish and flowers, and the days were still impressive.

Planting grass and raising flowers is Li Yi's specialty. After all, after staying in the countryside for so many years, all the work is easy to do. However, the Jingyi master seems to be a lot poorer, with three meals a day, coarse tea and light rice, meditation and practice, and few words.

The black fish under this mountain are also fat, and there are countless of them, and they are not afraid of people at all. If you want to eat, just go to the river to catch it while there is no one below, it is more convenient and fresh than buying it in the vegetable market. There are a lot of red-headed ducks gathered by the river, and I don't know how many duck eggs I can pick up every day, plus the duck meat is firm, braised and barbecued.

Blackfish, duck eggs, red-headed ducks, in addition to these, there are roe deer passing by, but it is not easy to catch. I've been thinking about how to catch a roe deer to try it, but I don't have any experience in this. If the dog and the black fur were there, they would have figured out a way.

Sometimes, some wild ginseng is planted on the cliffs. I caught a black fish and stewed it, and brought it to the master. At first, she only drank a few mouthfuls of soup, but later she was able to eat all the soup and meat, and she also recognized Li Yiming's cooking skills. It's just that the two talked very little in detail, and they didn't mention anything about the transmission of gong.

In the past few months, there have been not a hundred ducks, but eighty. The number has not decreased, but has increased. I don't know if it's grown naturally, or if someone is raising it. Anyway, you just have to eat. Eat and drink to your heart's content, and enjoy yourself.

I don't know how many months have passed, and sometimes I see that those disciples under the mountain have also achieved a little success in the five cultivations, and I am very envious. And the disciples below, every time they can see someone on the compass of the astrological platform watching them cultivate, they also feel very strange, and later they learn that it is a little disciple of the astrology hall, the one who opened the five-colored golden flower.

Those who don't know think that she has learned some advanced exercises in Jingyi. Li Yiming himself knows where he has learned any exercises, that is, raising flowers and planting grass all day long, touching fish and catching ducks. I haven't done anything serious.

After some time, even in the golden autumn, the weather gradually turned cooler, and it was almost dark on this day, and a disciple was practicing alone below.

I saw that he was repeating an action without listening, as if he was drawing a talisman in the air. This small body, as well as this image, seems familiar.

"Senior Brother Bai Jun." Li Yiming shouted from a high place.

Seeing that no one dared to shout, Wu Xiu was already very strict, and it was not the first time that Li Yiming had seen it, if these disciples were not serious in their practice, they would be served by their senior brothers with sticks.

Bai Jun looked over and saw that someone was calling him on the high platform, so he recognized it as Li Yiming at a glance, and climbed up with his search.

"Senior Brother Yiming, who are you?"

Li Yiming invited him into the stone room and replied, "Oh, this is my residence. ”

Bai Jun looked around and said, "Comfortable, junior brother is much more comfortable than us." ”

"It's okay, you don't have to practice, just wander around all day?" Li Yiming replied casually, served him a bowl of duck soup, and said, "Senior brother, let's eat?" ”

There was a duck leg floating on top of a large bowl of duck soup, Bai Jun picked it up and gnawed it, ate it in just a few bites, and then drank the duck soup in one gulp.

There are still some unfinished words, and they say: "Good taste, good craftsmanship of junior brother." ”

"Is this a dish?"

"Yes, it's the red-headed duck in the river below, it tastes good, right?"

"Oh, I see."

I filled another bowl, and said while eating: "This red-headed duck is used by Baicaotang to practice medicine, and I heard that it is not an ordinary duck." ”

That being said, Bai Jun didn't care at all, where was Wuzi, and said vigorously: "It's delicious, it's delicious." ”

"I don't know that yet, well, whatever. There are so many, and no one will find out if there are a few less. ”

"Well, yes, that's what the junior brother said." Bai Jun didn't care about stealing it at all, he only knew how to eat it. A few bowls of soup and meat are half full.

Bai Jun hiccuped, sighed and savored, and said, "Delicious, delicious, I've never eaten something so delicious." ”

"In this situation, I really want to chant a poem."

"Eat duck and drink soup, relieve fatigue and heal, sit alone on the star platform, forget everything in the world! Alas! ”

"Ouch, Senior Brother Bai is a good poet!" Li Yiming praised.

Where does he know what good poems and bad poems are, just echo it.

"I said, Senior Brother Li, you are now a disciple of the Astrology Hall, what exercises have you learned? Can this Taiyi Xuantian Sect have a breakthrough? ”

"No?" Li Yiming replied, not wanting to say more.

"Then you can always learn the art of divination and stargazing?" Bai Jun then asked.

"Not either."

"Then what are you doing here?" Bai Jun was very puzzled, everyone was learning their own martial arts, but Li Yiming didn't learn anything, so he didn't know why. Besides, Li Yiming still opened the five-color golden flower, and he must have attained something in martial arts. This point spread among the disciples of the same class, saying that he was accepted as a disciple by Master Jingyi, and he was undergoing intensive training, and he would definitely achieve great things in the future.

Can this? Except for raising flowers and grass, learning nothing is also incomprehensible.

I thought that I was the slowest progress among the disciples in this class, and I couldn't do a simple air drawing, and I was scolded by my senior brother every day. Thinking of nothing else to learn, Bai Jun felt both envy and sympathy.

"Alas, Senior Brother Bai, I won't hide it from you, Senior Brother, in the past few months since I came up, I have been idle and tidying up, I'm afraid it has been wasted a lot. Master Jingyi doesn't pass on anything to me, so I can only climb high and look far away every day, watching you senior brothers improve their exercises day by day. ”

Bai Jun, who understood this, comforted: "This matter, junior brother doesn't need to be too anxious, everything is a chance, I think you are not a thing in the pool, and you will be successful in the future." It's not like me, I'm not good at learning, I'm ostracized by my brothers all day long, and my master also says I'm incorrigible, I really want to leave, and go home to be a teacher. ”

"Senior Brother Bai, don't think so, I finally came in, how can I give up so easily?"

The two of them didn't know who was comforting whom, and who was encouraging whom, so they talked about their interest, and touched the bowl with duck soup and wine.

Soon, the rest of the duck soup was at the bottom, and there were only a few remaining duck racks, and the two of them shared and ate them.

"Senior Brother Bai, come to me if you have time in the future, Senior Brother, I have enough duck soup."

Li Yiming said and said: "It's convenient for me here, and no one will come, so you can come directly if you want to come." ”

Bai Jun spit out the meat residue remaining in his mouth and waved his hand, saying: "I'm afraid it won't work in the last few months, and I don't know when I can come back again, winter is coming, and the new disciples have to go to retreat and cultivate, and when they come out, they don't know that the Year of the Monkey is the month of the horse." ”

"Cultivating what?"

"The second weight of Taiyi Xuantian Sect."

Hearing this, Li Yiming became angry and thought, "Didn't you say that you want to go home and become a teacher?" This is also a retreat and cultivation, and I really can't believe what this scholar says. "But it's not to blame Bai Jun, Qi cultivation and martial cultivation are both routine things after entering the mountain, but Li Yiming is a special case.

"Senior brother, come back next time when I get out of the customs, you don't know that you can't eat anything in retreat, keep a thought." Bai Jun said again.

"If you don't eat or drink, won't you starve to death?"

"Well, there are two ways, one is to take the marching pill, and you don't need to eat for a month. This second is the turtle breath gong. Those of us who are new to the Turtle Breath Gong have not yet practiced the Turtle Breath Gong, so we can only take the marching pill. With that, Bai Jun took out a white pill and showed it to him.

Li Yiming took this pill, which was a little smaller than the Transformation Pill and the Qi Refining Pill, and it also exuded the fragrance of grains. I don't know if this thing can be copied, but if it can be copied, it may be of great use in the future.

asked: "If you eat one pill, you can last a month, senior brother, can you give me this one as a souvenir?" ”

After eating most of Li Yiming's duck before, the so-called cannibalistic mouth is short, Bai Jun hesitated and said, "Well, okay, this one will be given to the junior brother." ”

Li Yiming didn't know that this thing was very common here, and the disciples who practiced could collect it by themselves. Baicaotang refining, take as much as you want. When it was first used in the army, there was no need to carry grain and grass on the march. This is modified and is dedicated to retreat. In addition to being used as food, it can also strengthen concentration, which is helpful for spiritual practice.

Li Yiming's purpose in asking for it is to copy some. After a few days, the snow will cover the mountains, and you may really starve, and it is a good thing to have this self-defense.

"Then, thank you, senior brother."

Bai Jun waved his hand and said, "You're polite, you're polite." I also ate a good meal of you today. However, the people of this Baicaotang are not easy to mess with, and the junior brother should not be discovered by them. ”

It has always been believed that this red-headed duck grew naturally, and it turned out to be free-range in Baicaotang. If you don't pay attention to this, you will commit the taboo of stealing from Xuanqingguan, and it's a big deal not to eat it. There are also dozens of duck eggs, which were pickled into salted eggs by Li Yiming, and it is estimated that they can cope with it for a while.

Even if he found out, he was not afraid, and Master Jingyi also ate a lot.

"Remember, I'll take notice."

After sending Bai Jun away, it was already dark. Li Yiming lit a duck oil lamp and began to study this marching pill.