Section 22 Debt Collection
"I haven't asked for the name of Brother Dao yet!" Ye Chao knew that his combat strength had not recovered at this time, and it seemed that for some reason, coupled with the previous fight against the girl together, he and the fat man were still comrades-in-arms, so it was better to show more friendliness.
"My name is Jia Long, I'll talk about it later! Chaos, you're not going to pay off, are you! The fat man narrowed his eyes into a line and stared at the little beast.
"Squeak" twice, the little beast jumped down from Ye Chao's shoulder and ran towards a passage in the cave, and Jia Long immediately followed. Although Ye Chao also wanted to take a look, he thought that it was not appropriate to turn his face with the fat man at this time, so he still held back his curiosity.
According to what Jia Long said earlier, Ye Chao passed through the passage on the left side and soon saw a small medicine garden appear in front of his eyes. The medicine garden is divided into several pieces with a bamboo fence, and sure enough, one of them is planted with a large number of hooks, and the green leaves are particularly attractive.
Ye Chao was excited, trotted a few steps to the edge of the gouge field, looked carefully, and found that there were about twenty or so hooks here, and the three leaves at the top were thick and huge, and they were carefully cared for at a glance, and then looked carefully, the fluff on the leaves that should have been green hook-like was actually golden.
"This is more than 100 years of hooking!" Ye Chao's heart was ecstatic.
Ye Chao stood up and walked to a field next to Gouge, and found that the rice was actually planted, but the rice here looked thicker than the common rice, the rice had been budding, and the golden ears of rice were hanging heavily.
On the other side of the rice field, Ye Chao felt a little speechless, he actually planted a lot of vegetables, onions, garlic, peppers, etc., and built a shelf in the middle, hanging a few green cucumbers, and the small yellow flowers looked exceptionally fresh, which made Ye Chao feel a little thirsty and hungry.
In addition, there are some fruit trees and unknown trees scattered around the medicine garden, the trees are not high, and some have a few red fruits hanging on them, and I don't know if they can be eaten.
Ye Chao looked as he walked, and not long away, Ye Chao saw a bend of clear water surrounded by bluestones, forming a small puddle. Ye Chao probed with his hand, got cold in his hand, and tasted it very sweet.
Ye Chao rinsed the cucumber he had just picked with water.
"Click", the cucumber is very crisp, and it still tastes like the cucumber.
After some searching, Ye Chao found that there were some wooden boxes and wooden hoes on the edge of the bluestone puddle, look at the size of the wooden box, just used to hold Gouge, Ye Chao was not polite, selected a few that were not damaged, picked up the hoe and returned to the side of Gougetian.
Ye Chao concentrated on using a small wooden hoe to move the hook and soil in the field into the wooden box one by one, and the force was not light or heavy, just right, for fear of breaking it a little.
"Click!" A sound was followed by a chewing sound.
"It's just this broken thing, if it weren't for the fact that it's so long, I don't have to wait, and I can change something, Master Dao, I would have changed to tomatoes a long time ago!" Jia Long didn't know when he had finished his business and came to the medicine garden.
"But it's also strange, at most, this thing is to prepare some medicine such as marrow washing liquid or myelin cleansing pill, that is, it has a slight effect in the initial stage of qi gathering, I think you should have passed that stage, why do you need to prepare it for anyone?" Jia Long looked at Ye Chao's busy appearance, a little curious, but he didn't stop it.
"The primary stage of gathering energy? Nothing else? Ye Chao finally filled the wooden box around him, and there were still seven or eight fat hooks left in the field, and Ye Chao was not ready to catch them all. However, listening to Jia Long say this, it seems that the effect is not much different from the liquid medicine he configured.
"What stage are you now? Gas or condensate? Jia Long did not answer Ye Chao, but continued to ask.
Ye Chao just wanted to answer his question about Jia Long, so Jia Long waved his hand and said, "Forget it, let's talk about it later, get out of here quickly and give you this!" As he spoke, he handed Ye Chao a yellow paper talisman, and then walked towards the bluestone puddle.
"Hurry up!" Jia Long watched Ye Chao put all the wooden boxes on the ground into the storage card, and urged a little impatiently.
At this time, there was an afterimage, Ye Chao only felt that his shoulders were sinking, and the little beast was already squatting on his shoulders.
"Your name is Chaos?" Ye Chao stretched out his hand and touched the soft fur of the little beast, but the little beast did not refuse. When Ye Chao stroked it, he felt that he had touched a hard object in his hand, and when he looked closely, there was a small purple-gold bell tied around the neck of the little beast.
"Don't kiss me!" Jia Long urged again.
"Chaos doesn't sound good, you can call Tinker Bell in the future!" Ye Chao said to the little beast, and then the man walked to the edge of the puddle.
"I'll just say it once, you listen!" Jia Long said with a roll of his eyes.
"Wait a minute, I'll close the entire cave, do you see this pool?" Jia Long pointed to the puddle surrounded by bluestone behind him.
"Didn't I give you a talisman just now, you directly tore the talisman apart, held it with both hands, and jumped directly into the water! Don't move or be afraid when you enter! The talisman will teleport you directly to your destination, do you understand? Jia Long looked at Ye Chao after speaking.
"This is a teleportation array?" Ye Chao looked at the puddle that was washing vegetables just now.
"Nonsense, of course! Anyway, after you go in, don't move, or I'll teleport you somewhere else, and I'm not responsible! Garon said and looked at the little beast.
"There's no oxygen cylinder here, will you drown if you jump in?" Ye Chao had never tried it, and asked confidently.
"Afraid of death! You're going back the way you came! But what happened, but it has nothing to do with me! Jia Long said angrily.
"Squeak" twice, the little beast screamed on Ye Chao's shoulder, Ye Chao looked at the little beast, as if he understood what it meant.
"You're telling me to do what he says!" Ye Chao said to the little beast.
"Squeak!" The little beast nodded.
Ye Chao also knew that it was too dangerous to return the same way at this time, and he still had a lot of questions to ask the fat man in front of him, since he could only fight like this, Ye Chao walked to the edge of the bluestone and looked at the talisman in his hand.
"Ready? Then I'm here I go! Jia Long saw Ye Chao's actions and knew that he chose to follow his own arrangement, so he began to pinch and chant mantras at the bluestone puddle, and with his gesture, the bluestone glowed with bursts of green light, and then the originally calm water surface seemed to be boiling, constantly churning.
As soon as the fat man's spell stopped, he stepped directly on a piece of bluestone, and then surrounded the puddle, constantly stepping on different bluestone parts, and then jumped into the air.
"Master Dao, I'll go first!" Smashed directly into a puddle.
As soon as others entered the puddle, Ye Chao suddenly felt that the ground under his feet began to shake violently, and the fruits and vegetables in the originally peaceful vegetable garden (medicine garden) fell directly from the plants.
"Dead fat!" Ye Chao scolded fiercely, he didn't need to look to know that it must be this fat man who activated some mechanism just now, and the secret realm of the valley was about to be closed.
"I didn't even say hello!" Ye Chao couldn't, so he tore the talisman with both hands and grabbed half of it with both hands.
"I hope he didn't fool me!" Ye Chao jumped into the puddle with Tinker Bell.
In a trance, Ye Chao closed his eyes the moment he just entered the water, and Ye Chao opened his eyes on the way, there was nothing but a ball of green, and it was easy to make people feel very dizzy. When a chill hit, Ye Chao opened his eyes and found himself standing in a small pool, the water was not deep enough to reach Ye Chao's waist. There were still some lotus leaves and lotus flowers in the small pond, and the fat man with mung bean eyes stood by the pool, looking at himself with a wicked smile.
"If it weren't for the Chaos Beast's inexplicable closeness to you, you wouldn't know that you would have died hundreds of times just by the moment you teleported out just now!"
"Brother Jia Dao, don't be joking!" Ye Chao walked from the water to the pond while talking.
"Although we started to have a little misunderstanding, there was nothing to lose on both sides, and we just fought side by side, I still believe in Brother Jia's character!" Although Ye Chao knew very little about the world of cultivation, he was familiar with the world's human feelings, and it was always not wrong to say three points of low words when he met someone.
"Here?" Ye Chao looked around a lot, a dilapidated small courtyard, except for a small pond with lotus flowers planted in the middle of the yard, a few blue-tiled houses could not see anything. Seeing the fat man standing on the edge of the pond with a puddle of water under his feet, Ye Chao knew that this fat man belonged to the kind of cautious and suffocated bad, and he must have some tricks to teleport over without saying to himself, just to see himself like a soup chicken.
"This is my private residence at the foot of Mount Hua."
"Don't talk nonsense, if you cause trouble and implicate the people of Benshan, I won't bother with you. Let's go our separate ways right away. The fat man turned and walked towards a room.
"Why did Brother Jia Dao say this?" Ye Chao was confused.
"Are you fooling me?" The fat man turned around, and the little yellow bean had a fierce light in his eyes.
"Brother Dao, please speak clearly!" Ye Chao's face was sincere.
"Mountain people, I have always had no quarrel with the world in the mountains, as soon as you come to my cave, someone will immediately chase and kill you, isn't it your trouble? Is it still me? ”
Jia Long's words made Ye Chao chuckle in his heart, it is true that Ye Chao encountered this confused battle, and at first he felt that others also coveted that secret realm, and he was involved, but if it is really according to what Jia Long said, then there is something interesting in it.
Jia Long pushed open the door and walked in directly, and the little beast squatting on Ye Chao's shoulder "whoosh" rushed out of the room and followed the room, Ye Chao was in a dilemma. The door of the small courtyard was pushed open directly, only to see an old man walk into the small courtyard, the old man was not tall, slightly hunchbacked, the top of his head was shiny, his face was thin, a pinch of snow-white goatee, he looked in good spirits, holding a cane with a dragon head carving, the crutches were shiny, wearing a sackcloth undershirt, and a pair of cloth shoes under his feet.
"Is this a hermit master?" Ye Chao and the old man glanced at each other.
The old man nodded slightly, opened his mouth and shouted, his voice was loud: "Daoist Jia, it's time to pay this year's rent!" ”
As soon as the old man's words fell, he saw Jia Long running to the old man with a bamboo chair and a smile on his face.
"Village Chief Zhen, such a trivial matter, I bother you to come in person, let Second Brother Zhen say it, I won't go to you right away to say goodbye!" Saying this, he put the bamboo chair in front of the old man and wiped it with his little fat hand.
The old man also sat down politely, "Don't you dare!" Your second brother Zhen has a thin face, and it's always unfortunate to come a few times, either you are not in the house, or it is inconvenient to have hand, I am an old man who has nothing to do anyway, just take the shade at the gate of this courtyard to help you watch the door! ”
"Look at what you said, who doesn't know, the big and small things at the foot of Huashan Mountain, you can't leave you."
"Stop, since you know, then let's not talk nonsense, let's put the tent on the plate!" After the old man finished speaking, he took out a small notebook from his jacket pocket, took a pair of eyes by the way, and turned a page casually.
"This year's rent plus water and electricity usage fees, plus the rental fee of the stall at the foot of the mountain, plus the garbage removal fee, plus the shared fund fee........"