Chapter 19: Neighbors
"Lan Daoyou, long time no see!"
Xu Mu stopped and said with a smile.
The beautiful woman in Tsing Yi in front of him is named Lan Shijin, who is his original neighbor.
To be honest, Xu Mu and her are not familiar with her, just looking at the robe she wears, you can know that the two are not at the same level at all.
The reason why he knows each other is mainly because his wife Ye Yingying has a good relationship with the other party.
When Ye Yingying was just pregnant, Lan Shijin didn't know where she heard about it, and she enthusiastically came to teach her how to have a safe pregnancy.
Or maybe it's because there are too few people who have children in this city!
But no matter what the reason is, just like that, Xu Mu can also say a few words to the other party.
"Look at you, it's not bad in the shantytown, and everyone is a lot younger!" Lan Shijin looked him up and down, a just right smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and continued: "How is Yingying?" ”
"It's just a fluke to make a breakthrough, Lan Daoyou has won the prize! As for Yingying, she is very good, and she has gained a lot of weight recently! Xu Mu said with a smile.
"That's good! What about children? Lan Shijin asked.
"It's already born, it's a girl!"
"Girl~"
Lan Shijin's voice was a little long, and the disappointment in her beautiful eyes flashed, and she turned to smile and said, "The girl is very good!" Congratulations! It's a pity I don't have time to see it! ”
Lan Shijin was slightly regretful.
"There will be time in the future, as long as Lan Daoyou come, you are welcome at any time!"
"That's good! I'll definitely go when I'm free! I still have something to do, so I'll go first! ”
"Lan Daoyou, just go and get busy!"
"Farewell!"
Lan Shijin saluted slightly like everyone's ladies and turned to leave.
Xu Mu stepped into the pharmacy.
What he didn't know was that after Lan Shijin walked out of a distance again, he seemed to think of something, and suddenly turned back.
……
Inside the pharmacy.
"Welcome, fellow Daoist...... Xu Danshi? I haven't seen you in a while! I thought you were ......"
While cleaning up the counter, the shopkeeper Tu was humming when he heard footsteps, and thought it was a guest, but when he looked up, it was Xu Mu, who he hadn't seen for a long time.
"My life is very hard, but I don't die so easily!" Xu Mu said with a smile.
He took out a bottle of pills from his storage bag and put them on the counter, and said with a smile, "Help me see what the price of this bottle of pills is?" ”
"What? Are you lucky enough to pick up anyone's elixir? ”
As he spoke, the shopkeeper Tu pulled out the cork and glanced inside.
"It's the Qi Gathering Pill! You're lucky, it's all top-notch! The shopkeeper Tu poured out a grain and looked at it carefully, and said with a smile.
"Do you accept it?"
"Of course! How much you have, how much I want! Shopkeeper Tu sneered.
How can he say that he is also a person with a shop, can't he still collect a few bottles of Qi Gathering Pill?
And with his understanding of Xu Mu, it would be good to have two bottles on his body.
The only thing he was curious about was where Xu Mu got it from.
As for Xu Mu's own refining, he didn't believe it.
If Xu Mu had this ability, he would not have been driven to the shantytown.
"Where's the price?"
"The price? What is the price of two bottles of pills, I will give you at the original price, a bottle of twenty-four lower-grade spirit stones, how about it? The shopkeeper said arrogantly.
He knew Xu Mu's situation, and he didn't want to earn his two lower-grade spirit stones.
"That's what you said! No repentance! ”
"Repentance is grandson!"
The shopkeeper Tu patted his chest and promised.
Xu Mu smiled evilly and began to take out bottles of pills.
The first bottle, the second bottle, fortunately, to the third bottle, the shopkeeper Tu was a little nervous, not that he couldn't afford to pay for this spirit stone, but he was shocked that Xu Mu came with so many Qi Gathering Pills.
He opened them one by one to make sure that it was not Xu Mu who fooled him with the empty bottle.
When Xu Mu got the ten bottles, he was a little panicked.
"I mean, you can't have robbed that drugstore, right? Let me tell you, the Foundation Building Period family has recently come to settle in our Fang City, don't mess around! ”
Shopkeeper Tu was worried that Xu Mu was ill and rushed to the doctor, so he hit the idea on the heads of those Zhuji families.
Whether it is stealing, robbing, or cheating, it will not end well if they are provoked.
"You can rest assured! I made it myself! Xu Mu took out all twenty bottles and said with a smile.
During this time, he refined a total of more than thirty bottles, of which more than ten bottles were eaten by him and Ye Yingying, leaving only these twenty bottles to exchange for spirit stones.
"You did it yourself?"
Shopkeeper Tu was stunned for a moment, and sneered: "Don't be funny, with your alchemy technique, it is enough to be able to refine a top-grade Bigu Dan!" ”
The shopkeeper Tu is a hundred unbelievers.
It's only been half a year since the two last met, and with Xu Mu's talent, even if he refines the Qi Gathering Pill without sleep, he can't reach this point.
What's more, with Xu Mu's family background, he can't toss a few times.
"Anyway, believe it or not, I put the pill here, do you accept it or not?"
Xu Mu spread his hands.
"Did you really do it?"
Shopkeeper Tu still didn't believe it.
It's really too big a gap between the front and back.
"Do I have to lie to you? Besides, with my strength, how can I grab so many pills! Xu Mu said helplessly.
He knew it was going to happen.
"That's just as well!"
Shopkeeper Tu finally believed a little.
He looked Xu Mu up and down, and then noticed that he was much younger than before.
"Have you broken through in your cultivation?"
"Hmm!"
"No wonder!"
Shopkeeper Tu suddenly realized, or rather, he was able to understand a little.
"Let's calculate the price!"
"Good! According to ninety percent, it is a total of ......"
The shopkeeper Tu tossed the abacus, calculated it by dividing five by two, and raised his head and said: "Rounded, there are a total of four hundred and forty lower-grade spirit stones!" ”
"That's not right! Didn't you say at the original price? How did it become nine! ”
"Because, you're my grandfather! Grandpa Xu Mu! Okay? ”
People, you can't just want spirit stones for the sake of face, right?
Speaking of which, Xu Mu and his father's generation, although Grandpa Sheng suffered losses, it was not much.
“……”
All right!
Count you ruthless!
Xu Mu had nothing to say.
"You really refined this elixir?"
At the time of checkout, the shopkeeper Tu was still a little uneasy.
A few hundred low-grade spirit stones are a small matter, in case he offends that family, he can't stand it.
"Don't worry, I'm more desperate than you! I have a wife and children, and you are alone! ”
"What's so bad about being alone? I can listen to music every day, every night for the groom, and you can only do it once! Shopkeeper Tu said proudly.
"Not necessarily!" Xu Mu instinctively spoke.
"What? Do you still want to take a concubine? Can you do it with your body? ”
“……”
!
Who do you look down upon?
The old man is ......
"Don't gossip with you, my wife is still waiting at home! Hurry up and exchange the spirit stone for me for fifty copies of the medicinal materials of the Qi Gathering Pill, and a hundred bottles of Bigu Pill! ”
"A hundred bottles of Bigu Dan? You are crazy? ”
Shopkeeper Tu looked at Xu Mu like a neuropath.
Even if the cultivation is high, one pill of Bigu Dan can only last for one day, and a hundred bottles are enough to eat for three years, even if there is no need to save so much.
Besides, aren't you able to refine the Gu Dan yourself?
The money is too much to burn, so I spend my own money to buy it!
"Don't ask so much, you hurry up and get it for me, what? You still don't earn spirit stones? ”
"I just don't want you to lose money! When the time comes, my wife will run away, don't blame me! ”
"I said, can you kid say something nice! Curse me here, it's not like your dad at all! Xu Mu complained.
However, he also knew that the other party was kind, but his mouth was a little stinky.
"I'm a kind reminder! If you have to buy it, it's up to you! However, when you leave the store, you will not return it! ”
"Got it, got it!"
Seeing that Xu Mu was a little impatient, Shopkeeper Tu turned around and went into the back hall, took out all the stored Bigu Dan, and called the lazy young man out to help look after the store by the way.
It's rare to make a big deal, and you have to go to the hook to reward yourself.
With the recent arrival of people from other places, a lot of fresh blood has been added to the hook column, and a lot of new songs have been released, and he has long wanted to listen to them.
After the transaction was completed, Xu Mu walked to the market after leaving the pharmacy, preparing to replenish some daily necessities and go back.
With a hundred bottles of Bigu Dan and the Qi Luck Value he had accumulated recently, he was ready to raise the Thunder Sword Technique to the consummation level.
The physique becomes stronger, and the young people are well educated.
As a result, as soon as I went out, I didn't go far before I was stopped.
"Xu Daoyou, please stay!
Dressed in green clothes, the dignified and noble Lan Shijin walked towards him.
"Lan Daoyou, what's the matter?" Xu Mu was a little puzzled.
Didn't the other party just say that something was wrong, why did he suddenly come back again?
"Xu Daoyou, can you take a step to speak?" Lan Shijin made a please clean up.
"Of course it is!"
Xu Mu nodded in agreement.
The other party has a good relationship with his wife, and his reputation over the years has been very good, but Xu Mu is not worried that the other party will harm him.
Led by Lan Shijin, the two entered a nearby teahouse.
Lan Shijin took out a spirit stone and ordered two cups of spirit tea.
"Lan Daoyou has something to say, don't be so polite!"
Xu Mu took the spiritual tea handed by Lan Shijin, gently placed it on the table, and spoke.
"Since Xu Daoyou said so, then I won't beat around the bush!"
She held the teacup, her jade fingers were slender, her red lips opened lightly, and she took a sip slightly, and her every move was full of elegant taste.
"I would like to ask what is the condition of the shanty town? I want to move in with Yuening for a while! ”
Yue Ning is Lan Shijin's daughter, her full name is Leng Yue Ning, she has been a neighbor for more than ten years, and he has only seen each other once, she is a cold girl.
"Moving to a shantytown? Lan Daoyou isn't kidding me, is he? ”
Xu Mu's face was shocked and incredulous.
Not to mention anything else, just with the robe on the other party, it will not be reduced to the point of living in a shantytown.
There is also the other party's husband, but the ninth layer of Qi cultivation is about to be built......
Wait a minute!
He suddenly remembered that the gray-robed old cultivator who led them to the Chi family to find trouble seemed to be Lan Shijin's father-in-law.
In other words, the other party is now a widow!!
Wrong!
Even if her husband dies, with their family's background, they will not go to live in a shantytown.
Lan Shijin smiled bitterly and shook her head.
"I'm not joking with Xu Daoyou, here's how it ......"
Lan Shijin briefly explained the cause and effect, and Xu Mu suddenly realized.
It turned out that it was not that the other party's money was not enough, but that the new families were constantly expanding their territory, and Lan Shijin's original place of residence happened to be located in the area demarcated by the other party.
If her husband was still there, she would be able to bargain, but now that her husband is dead, she has offended the Chi family.
No one is secretly playing ghosts, and they are all killed, they are already lucky, where do they dare to bargain with others.
Originally, she wanted to find another place to live in the market, but now there are basically no empty houses in the market.
The major families have no place to live, and they are desperately driving people outside the city, and she can find them there.
When she went to the pharmacy to sell the pills just now, she saw that Xu Mu was in good spirits, and realized that the shantytown might not be as bad as she imagined, so she thought about making do with it for a few months, and after the beginning of spring, she and her daughter took an airship and left Baishifang City.
Her husband died, and she offended the Chi family again, so she couldn't live here.
She looked for Xu Mu to inquire about the situation in the shantytown, and if she could, she would go over and live for a few months.
"I can't guarantee that, but I've lived there for a few months, and I haven't had any major trouble!"
He was targeted because he was too weak at that time, and with Lan Shijin's situation, no one should dare to provoke him.
"If Lan Daoyou wants to move over, there happens to be an empty house next door to me, you can go and see it!"
"Really? That's great! ”
With Xu Mu, an old neighbor, she can rest assured that she can quickly adapt to the nearby environment and have a lot less trouble.
Anyway, she won't live permanently, and when the airship is opened, she will leave with her daughter as soon as possible.
"I don't know if you can trouble Xu Daoyou and take me to see it?"
"Well, of course!"
Originally, Xu Mu wanted to go to the market to buy something, but because of Lan Shijin, he had to postpone it until the next day.
The matter of renting a house went very smoothly, Xu Mu took Lan Shijin to find the tooth man, and after looking at the house, he signed the contract on the same day and paid the rent for half a year.
Xu Mu can only say, what a rich man!
The people in the shantytown basically pay once a month, and some are eager to delay it for another month, like Lan Shijin, who pays half a year at a time, is definitely the only one.
When she came to see the house, Lan Shijin also looked at Ye Yingying by the way, which made Ye Yingying very happy.
Although Ye Yingying has never complained that it is boring to stay at home alone, how can a teenage girl be happy when she is bored at home every day and has to take care of her children.
If it had been in the previous life, I am afraid that I would have had jade disease long ago.
This is also the reason why Xu Mu is willing to take the initiative to help Lan Shijin.
With her, her wife at least has someone to talk to, so she won't be too boring.
As for himself, he is either cultivating or refining pills every day, and he doesn't have much time to spend with his wife and daughter at all.
After the house was settled, Lan Shijin's mother and daughter did not move over immediately, they had to deal with the things over there, and it was estimated that it would take five or six days.
The next day, Xu Mu finished replenishing his daily necessities at the market and walked towards a nearby bookstore.
Now that his first-order fire control technique had reached its peak, and there was no way to advance, he thought about buying the cultivation method of the second-order fire control technique and starting to cultivate, and he was now in the middle stage of qi training, so he could start cultivating the second-order spell.
As for the encyclopedia of spells he originally bought, there are indeed many second-order spells recorded today, and there are even third-order spells.
But considering the price of its two lower-grade spirit stones, you know how dry its record is!
Xu Mu only accumulates ten Qi Luck Points a day now, and he must use it sparingly, so he wants to buy a copy with a detailed introduction, and it is best to have a large number of annotated spell cultivation cheats, which can allow him to get started faster and save a lot of Qi Luck Value in the initial stage.
After entering, he quickly found the cheats he wanted, but when he saw another thing in the bookstore, he suddenly felt that the cheats in his hand were not fragrant.