Chapter 18: The Secret of Immortality

When the carriage returned to Yangzhou, it was already afternoon. Huang Yi got off the cart and felt his stomach growl with hunger.

The two of them first deposited five boxes of cloth at the post station. Bought two biscuits on the side of the road. Only then did he sneak up on the carriage and send it back to the guest inn.

It's just that I just arrived near the guest inn. Before he could figure out how to go around the back door, he felt a pair of angry eyes staring at him.

Huang Yi saw that his actions were exposed, so he had to snort, and went up hard: "Haha, I hope to be early." You look so good today. I think I'm going to get rich. ”

"Early?" Lao Ji's eyes seemed to be about to erupt flames: "It's almost dinner, what's early?" The old man sees you, no matter how good he looks, I'm afraid I'm going to die of anger." ”

Huang Yi lowered his head, like a child who was scolded by his husband for doing something wrong. Let Lao Ji not fight back, and scold not back.

Lao Ji scolded for a while. Seeing that Huang Yi was so well-behaved and didn't talk back, he felt bored. said angrily: "The old man has to be busy, get out of here." I didn't even buy vegetables today, and I didn't let people do business? It's useless, and I don't buy vegetables. ”

Ji is useless, it is said that he is the son of Lao Ji. It's Lao Ji's apprentice again, and it's still a guy in the inn.

Huang Yi saw that Lao Ji's fire was finished. He didn't dare to stir up the ashes of the fire, so he hurriedly ran away.

Huang Yi and Zhang Bao were separated at the post station. Huang Yi promised that after recovering from his injuries, he would go to those evil envoys to settle accounts.

Zhang Bao suddenly said with a calm face: "Zhang Bao doesn't know how to thank you." If it weren't for you, I'm afraid I'd really have to be a beggar in Yangzhou for the rest of my life. After this incident, Zhang Bao has a deep understanding. Now I feel that prosperity and wealth are not so important, the important thing is to cherish the people around you. I have decided that after selling the fabric, I will return the money and go home to be filial to the second elder of the family. Companionship is the most precious filial piety. ”

Huang Yi's body was stunned. I couldn't imagine that the unreliable Zhang Bao could say such a thing, and I secretly admired it in my heart.

When Huang Yi returned to the Yangzhou Martial Arts Hall, it was already late. Huang Yi's face finally became swollen a lot, and he glanced inside the martial arts hall. But for some reason, I ran away and didn't want to go in. Walk straight through the door.

There is a bridge diagonally opposite the Yangzhou Martial Arts Hall, and Huang Yi has never crossed it. Because across the bridge is an abandoned manor. Among them, weeds are overgrown. Most of the buildings have long been in disrepair, eroded by wind and rain, and have fallen into decay and collapsed. There was only one small cabin, and it was a lonely corner. You're in, what can you do?

Huang Yi didn't know why he came here this time.

There are big trees in the manor. Huang Yi didn't recognize it, he had never seen this kind of tree. I saw it, thin and tall, with few branches and red leaves. I was curious and wanted to go over and study it.

As soon as I walked over, the door to the cabin was opened. I saw two figures rushing out. One of the voices rang out: "I thought it was some great treasure, but it was a ghost thing that wanted to kill people." Male, run. ”

I saw the backward figure and said: "Ling Shao, wait for me." Alas, poor our new home is moving again. ”

The figure in front of him really stopped and waited for him: "It's just an abandoned manor, what kind of new home? Well, now it's really famous. ”

"Hey, don't talk about it, let's run away quickly! I don't know where I'm going to run this time. I've seen portraits of the two of us in many places in the city. The figure behind followed. The two of them were about to run out of the manor.

The two turned out of the corner of the manor, and saw Huang Yi standing under the big tree curiously probing them. I was shocked and thought, "I've found the door so soon?"

When the two of them saw Huang Yi's appearance clearly, their hearts were settled.

"Big brother, we meet again. I didn't expect to meet you here. Said the boy who was previously known as the Majestic Birthday.

Huang Yi was stunned.

Huang Yi has been in the Sui Dynasty for less than ten days, and there are not many people who have spoken to him. It wasn't until I saw the two of them clearly that I remembered. It was the two boys who were caught in Lao Feng's bun shop the day before yesterday.

At this time, you can see that they are going to evacuate. I was curious and asked about it.

It turned out that the two had been orphans since childhood. He had no education. The two of them have been abducting and stealing since they were children.

Now, although both of them are sixteen or seventeen years old, they have no skills. Even the technology for stealing is very limited.

The day before yesterday, at the door of Lao Feng's steamed bun shop. Huang Yi saw that the two had blue noses and swollen faces, and they were beaten severely after they missed.

This morning, for fear of causing trouble to my sister-in-law, the two didn't go again. I thought, steal some copper coins, so I can mix up food and clothing first.

It's a pity that the rich can't afford to mess with it. There's no money to mess with. The two of them didn't find a suitable target in the morning.

Towards noon, the two finally saw a gorgeously dressed woman holding an oiled paper bag and running past them in a panic.

The two glanced at each other and quietly followed.

But the woman was very alert, and turned around the corner, and turned from the south of the city to the north of the city. It wasn't until they were rumbling with hunger that the woman stopped.

After looking left and right to see that there was no one, he dug a hole in the mud with his bare hands. He buried the oil in it.

The two were overjoyed. After the woman left, the two of them immediately dug up the things desperately.

Who knew that the silver didn't say, and he didn't even see a valuable thing, but there was only a broken book that neither of them could understand.

I don't know how it was finally known, and the two were searched and arrested by the whole city.

Huang Yi asked them to take a look at the book. I saw that the book was only a dozen or so pages. On the other hand, it turned out that some of it had been torn off. I don't know how many are behind, but it's a veritable 'broken book'.

When I opened the book cover, there was only one sentence on the general outline.

"Heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are used as dogs. Huang Yi looked at these ten words and wondered: "Isn't this the Tao Te Ching?"

Huang Yi flipped again. The content of the book has finally changed.

I saw that in addition to the fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters of the Tao Te Ching, there were more than a dozen humanoid drawings in the book. None of the postures are in the same direction. It is guided by various symbols such as red dots, arrows, etc. It seems to be talking about some kind of cultivation method.

On the side of the book, it is densely packed with notes from people who have read the book. And Huang Yi glanced at it randomly, but on these notes, he saw a terrible note.

"Cultivating to the extreme, can you live forever?"

"It looks like you're really in trouble this time, and you've touched something you shouldn't touch. I'm afraid that you can only take this book away from Yangzhou. Don't come back for the rest of your life. It was a matter of life and death for the two of them, Huang Yi looked at them solemnly and said.

"Don't scare us, big brother. Could it be that the woman is the second wife of the Yangzhou general manager? It's a big deal to return the things to her and get a beating. The boy known as the young man said.