A little after four o'clock in the afternoon, Yan Zixiu got out of the car at the intersection of Daqiaozhuang Road and habitually looked at his watch.

After getting off the bus, I walked two miles on a country dirt road and crossed a small river overgrown with reeds to Xinliang Village, where my home was located.

With no one on the road, he continued to chat with Worry-Free. Worry-free told him that there were several ways to enter the Immortal Mansion, and they could all be explored slowly. What you have explored by yourself is a direct experience, which is very different from the indirect experience that others tell you. Why do you say that it is shallow on paper, and you never know that you have to do it, this is the truth. Yan Zixiu exclaimed, do you still understand philosophy? Do you still know classical poetry? Carefree said with a smile, a little understood. Yan Zixiu is very happy, because he is also a person who likes to read and study, and now he has friends to communicate.

Worry-free reminded that at this stage, it is best to enter the Immortal Mansion in a quiet and unmanned environment. Although the time flow rate of the two realms is different, and staying in the Immortal Mansion for a long time will only pass for a while in real life, it will still affect your reaction speed. Of course, in the future, I will be proficient in entering and exiting, which is another matter.

Yan Zixiu suddenly thought of a question: "What's going on with this ring?" ”

Wu Wu said: "This is the Qiankun ring. It is a kind of mustard seed Na Sumeru's space treasure. You can put a lot of stuff in it. ”

"What is Mustard Na Sumeru? Can small accommodate big? ”

"Time and space are not fixed."

"I don't understand, let's talk about how to use it." Yan Zixiu has always put aside what he doesn't understand at all.

"You guide the Immortal Mansion itself, which is the aura released by the lotus flower, and open it."

Yan Zixiu did as he was told, and sure enough, he saw a large space, like an open-air storage center, divided into twelve areas, each the size of a football field. The six on the left are red and the six on the right are green.

"The red ones store ordinary items, and the green ones can store all kinds of living things, animals or plants. ”

"So amazing? Is it okay to live? Hey, I saw the missing Chinese medicine bag. It looks so small in it. ”

"That's what I collected for you. Red realm time doesn't flow, so it doesn't break. If you want things to come in and out, you still use your mind to guide the aura, as soon as you make contact. Use it more in the future, and the more you use it, the more skilled you become. ”

"The medicine bag is out! Sure enough, it came out. Go in again! It's in again! Come out! Get in! By the way, I'm going to have to put the nine thousand dollars in there. ”

Wu Wu said: "This ring, you can become whatever you want it to become." ”

"Then it becomes a bracelet." As soon as Yan Zixiu's words fell, the ring turned into a bracelet, with twelve jadeites and twelve diamonds reflecting each other. "Turning into a lotus flower again." The bracelet suddenly turned into a lotus flower, with a cyan lotus platform, golden fluff, and red petals. Yan Zixiu counted them, and the petals were also twelve. "Worry-free, this number twelve appears often, what does it say?"

"You'll find out in the future."

"Well, I'm impressed again. Will this Qiankun ring be lost? ”

"How is that possible! Everything is lost, and it will not be lost. ”

"Then I'm relieved, hehe. By the way, no matter what it becomes, it looks so good, won't it be too eye-catching? ”

"You can keep it hidden."

"Can you still hide? Hide! "The lotus flower is really gone, but there is still a feeling in my hand." Appear. "The lotus flower has reappeared." It becomes a ring. "Hidden." "Manifest." "Turn it into a book." "Hidden." "Manifest." ...... "What a good baby. Along the way, Yan Zixiu had a lot of fun. Before you know it, you will arrive at the small river, and the south of the small river is Xinliang Village.

Xinliang Village was newly built in the mid-70s, so it is a unified plan, and each household is five zhang long from east to west and four zhang wide from north to south, which is very spacious. There are four rows in front and back of the village, eight columns on the left and right, with a total of more than 30 families and more than 100 people. The creek that Yan Zixiu has to pass through is behind the village, and there is basically no water except in summer, so although there is no bridge, it can be crossed on foot.

The reeds in the river fluctuated with the wind, and when Yan Zixiu walked through the reeds alone when he was a child, the wind blew the reeds, and he was often a little scared. Now, of course, it doesn't matter.

When the reeds are ripe, they can be cut and woven into mats to sell for money, and Yan Zixiu's grandfather will weave mats. Every year every household in Xinliang Village will receive some. Yan Zixiu witnessed it when he was a child, because of the fight for reeds, Xinliang Village almost fought with Xiaoqiaozhuang on the other side. At that time, an old lady in the village lay down and pretended to be injured and yelled before others touched her, but everyone was stunned and did not fight in the end. "It's all poor words." Looking at the reeds and thinking back on the past, Yan Zixiu shook his head and sighed.

When I went up the riverbank, I kept meeting people in the village. According to the past, Yan Zixiu didn't like to take the initiative to greet people, he was not in good health, he was not in the mood, and he didn't have so much energy. Today is different, he sees everyone taking the initiative to greet him, this uncle and aunt, uncle and aunt, brother and sister-in-law, laughing and shouting. Most of the people in the village are relatively simple, and they all respond with a smile. Since Yan Zixiu is now a township cadre, those who are more snobbish are now greeting him with a smile.

One of the most common changes is that after everyone has responded, they will be stunned when they take a closer look at him: Zixiu, your complexion is so good, but it is very different from before. Yan Zixiu thought of an answer on the way, and replied that he had met a clever Chinese medicine doctor and had taken care of it. This is not lying, the master who can create the Pharmacist Immortal Mansion is not the most brilliant Chinese medicine practitioner?

Yan Zixiu's house is in the first row, and the left side is against the middle road. There are two courtyards in the east and west. The courtyard on the east side was originally built by grandparents when they built a new village. Later, my grandparents found it inconvenient to do a bean sprouts business in the countryside, so they moved back to Shiheji. The courtyard was left to Yan Zixiu's house. The two rooms left by the grandparents have long been demolished, and four main houses of the 2+2 style have been built, two east houses and a gatehouse facing east. The west courtyard is also a four-room main house, which is 3+1 style, with a kitchen and a gate facing south. Between the east and west courtyards, there is a moon gate that communicates.

As soon as he entered the gate of the west courtyard, Yan Zixiu saw his mother Cifeng sitting in the yard peeling corn. He shouted, "Mother, I'm back." ”

Mother Cifeng, 48 years old this year, has fair skin and looks very young. She raised her head when she heard the voice: "Zixiu is back." Hey, why do you look so good? ”

"I met a clever Chinese medicine practitioner who helped me to regulate my body." As he spoke, Yan Zixiu put the leather bag on the table in the hall, pulled a small bench, and went to the yard to help peel the corn. Peeling corn is to take off the corn kernels from the dried corn cob, generally with a screwdriver, every two or three rows, and then peel by hand. If someone grows a few acres of corn, then the job is really done. Speaking of peeling corn, there is also a joke. When Yan Zixiu was four or five years old, he also wanted to participate in corn peeling, but he was too small and weak, so the adults washed out the corn cobs in a row. That's not enough, you have to pull out a single row of corn kernels every four or five. Finally, the corn kernels on the cob are as thin as battlements of the city walls. Let the kid rest and peel it again. Everyone laughed at him, you do a job for a lot of money, and it costs a lot of money for adults. The whole process is actually to coax him to play.

The mother said, "That's so thankful. You see what is suitable at home, and bring some to others later. ”

Yan Zixiu thought that he couldn't see the kind master for a while, and he was a little depressed: "I've met once, but I can't find him for a while." "I thought to myself, Master is like a dragon that sees the beginning but not the end, and I don't know when we will see each other again.

The mother asked, "You're not going to work today?" ”

"I took three days off. No, I feel like I'm in good health, so I'll come back and let you see, so that you and I can rest assured. I'll do some more work for you, and I'll be back to the village early the day after tomorrow morning. Anyway, there isn't much official business these days. "Yan Zixiu's hometown, calling his father big. His father, Yan Sheng, worked as the deputy director of a winery more than 60 miles away, and only returned once a week or two.

"Yes, the work should be tight, and if you can ask for less leave, you can ask for less leave."

The two of them chatted while working, and after a while, it was more than six o'clock in the afternoon, and it was getting late. The mother said, "You go to the Westinghouse and get two carrots and a sweet potato to wash, and I'll make tea." "The country cooks dinner, called roasted tea.

Yan Zixiu washed the carrots and sweet potatoes, and he had an idea, and asked worry-free: "Can I use the flavor enhancement elixir?" ”

Worry-free said, "Yes." ”

Yan Zixiu was overjoyed: "Hurry up." ”

With a flick of the wings, a white jade mutton fat net bottle appeared in the air, and some transparent water mist spilled out and landed on the carrots and sweet potatoes. Yan Zixiu sent it to the kitchen house, then lit a kerosene lamp, placed it next to the dustpan containing the corn kernels, and continued to peel the corn.

"Zixiu, it's time to eat." After a while, the mother's voice came.

"Okay." Yan Zixiu moved out the small dining table, went to help serve the meal, and said to his mother, "Mother, a classmate lent me some artificial corn threshers, and I will use the rack car to pull them back on the official road tomorrow morning." "In the countryside, the highway is called the official road.

"That's a good thing, it's so man-intensive to peel corn. Everyone is busy, and they can't invite anyone if they want to. If there was a threshing machine, it would be much easier. ”

Dinner is steamed buns, cold carrots, sweet potatoes and rice soup. Yan Zixiu tasted the carrots, wow, it was delicious; I took another sip of sweet potato rice soup, wow, it was delicious. He is not a gourmet, he can't say such vivid and delicate words, he only feels refreshed physically and mentally, and every cell is singing hymns.

The mother was also very relieved to see him eating with relish: this child is in good health, and his meal is sweet.

"Mother, you eat too."

"Okay." My mother took a bite of the carrot and said, "Hey, why are the carrots so delicious today?" Well? The soup was also particularly delicious. ”

For a while, neither of them wanted to talk, so they buried their heads in eating.