Chapter Seventy-Eight: Child Labor (II)
The fire boy was stared at by Yu Xiu, and a look of fear appeared on his face, and he trembled.
Yu Xiu took out a talisman coin from his sleeve and said, "Do you want talisman money?"
The boy hesitated, but nodded. When Yu Xiu saw it, the smile on his face was even bigger.
He grabbed the fire boy and threw it on top of a corpse talisman so that his body was contaminated with corpse qi and froze for a while, then he returned to his body, wrapped the fire boy in the corpse charm, and pocketed him.
The fire boy was wrapped in a corpse talisman by Yu Xiu, and kept struggling, trying to get out, but to no avail.
Yu Xiu didn't pay attention to its movements, and took care of himself in the cave to pack his things and prepare to leave.
Yu Xiu came here only to make alchemy, not to cause trouble, since the fire boy is related to the Taoist priest in the mine, in order not to anger the other party, provoke the Taoist priest to lead the army to kill, it is better to take the boy and leave early.
When Yu Xiu packed up his things, and filled a bag full of sulfur saltpeter and other things, and was about to lead the horse away, the fire boy in the bag suddenly burst into tears.
"Uh-huh!" the boy cried bitterly, like a baby, attracting Yu Xiu's attention.
He looked down, and suddenly saw that the red light on the fire boy kept flickering, as if the candle flame was being blown by the wind and was about to be extinguished.
This is a sign that the soul is unstable and about to be destroyed.
When Yu Xiu saw this scene, he was quite surprised: "This boy, would you rather die than give in?"
The fire boy is transformed from the soul and obsession of the tragic dead, even if he has spiritual intelligence, it is not high, and this kind of crying rarely appears in the spirit of low spiritual intelligence.
Yu Xiu pondered for a moment, squatted down, and untied the talisman tied to the fire boy.
As soon as the talisman was untied, the boy snapped and knelt in front of Yu Xiu, it leaned down and kept kowtowing, looking miserable and trembling, lest it anger Yu Xiu.
Seeing it kowtow, Yu Xiu frowned slightly and said, "If you are willing to leave with me, the money is enough." ”
But when the fire-burning boy heard this, he shook his head. It knelt in front of Yu Xiu, gesturing with its own hands, sometimes pinching its own neck, sometimes pointing in the direction of the mine.
When Yu Xiu heard this, he chuckled and said, "You mean, someone will kill you?"
The fire boy hurriedly shook his head, and he got up again, made movements such as mining and burning the stove, and then grabbed his neck and feigned death on the ground, and soon he got up again, making a show of power...... After a few movements, Yu Xiu was dumbfounded.
In the end, the fire boy stood in front of Yu Xiu, pointed at himself, and then pointed at Yu Xiu, his little head kept shaking, and he didn't dare to look.
Yu Xiu looked in the direction of the mine, remembering the miserable situation of the miners, his heart moved, and asked, "You mean...... Once you're gone, someone in the mine will start killing people?"
When the fire boy heard this, his body flashed red, and he kept nodding.
Yu Xiu looked at the boy who nodded like pounding garlic, and his eyes were even more surprised. Without waiting for Yu Xiu to speak, the boy began to reach out again, wanting to say something.
Yu Xiu guessed, and after a little effort, he finally figured out what the boy meant.
It turned out that the Taoist priest in the mine used the lives of the mine slaves to restrain the fire boy, and if he disobeyed, he would kill the mine slaves. If it disappears, it will kill all the miners.
Yu Xiu looked at the fire boy standing in front of him, his brows furrowed.
The life and death of the mine slaves has nothing to do with him, even if the Duan family kills all the mine slaves, Yu Xiu will not lose a single hair. But for the fire boy, it was completely different.
"No wonder this spirit would let the miners go privately. Yu Xiu remembered the previous incident, and secretly said in his heart: "This boy is the obsession of the tragic death of the mining slave, perhaps in its heart, the mining slaves are its relatives......"
According to the situation just now, once he forcibly leaves with the fire boy, this thing will be broken because of obsession and die in heaven and earth.
The fire boy saw Yu Xiu put away the talisman, the red light on his body flashed slightly, and he was not calm.
"A spirit, so righteous. Yu Xiu thought about it, and sighed lightly in his heart: "That's it." ”
He looked at the restless spirit in front of him, crouched down again, and asked, "Does anyone know that you have been here?"
After receiving an affirmative answer, Yu Xiu smiled and asked, "Then can you do me a favor?" he pointed to the copper pill furnace hanging on horseback.
When the fire boy heard this, his little face showed hesitation.
Yu Xiu immediately took out the talisman money from his sleeve, put it in front of it, and said, "If the gunpowder is refined, this thing is yours." ”
At this moment, the fire boy was slightly red, nodded like pounded garlic, and refused to let go while holding the coin.
Yu Xiu explained to the fire boy in detail, telling him to keep his mouth shut and not to tell others about helping him, if he revealed it, the lives of the miners would be in danger.
Hearing that the matter was related to the lives of the mine slaves, the boy did not dare to disobey.
However, he couldn't directly collect the fire boy for his own use, and Yu Xiu still felt pity in his heart. But soon, his heart was filled with joy.
I saw Yu Xiu walking into the cave with the fire boy, and as soon as the Dan furnace and medicinal materials were put out, the fire boy took the initiative to get into the Dan furnace and waited for Yu Xiu to refine the medicine.
After the Dan furnace was placed in the fire pit, the flames in the pond immediately wrapped around the Dan furnace, and it was like mist, and the clusters were melting, and there was no wave at all.
And the yellow light on the purple copper Dan furnace is also faintly emerging, extremely stable, without the slightest trembling.
This situation was completely different from when Yu Xiu was refining the pill, and it gave rise to great expectations in his heart.
Half an hour later, the fire boy suddenly came out of the copper furnace, with a dizzy look, it turned around a few times in place, and fell into the fire.
At this time, the copper furnace was also slightly shaken, and the yellow light on the furnace wall was closed.
"The medicine is done!" Yu Xiu's heart tightened, he didn't care about the scorching heat of the Dan furnace, and directly reached out and took the Dan furnace out of the fire.
As soon as the copper furnace was opened, a strong smell of gunpowder rushed into the nose, which greatly lifted Yu Xiu's spirits.
He directly took off the Taoist robe on his body, spread it in front of him, and then held the purple copper pill furnace and poured the things refined inside on it.
I saw particles of gunpowder pouring on the robe, shaped like dansha, black as ink, and faintly shimmering with the luster of metal under the light of the firelight.
"Nine pins of gunpowder. Yu Xiu looked at the gunpowder in front of him and immediately judged.
The color of Jiupin gunpowder is black, which is similar to inferior gunpowder at a rough glance, it is black gunpowder, but because of the addition of lead and mercury, it has a golden gas, the color is shiny, and the smell is prickly.
Seeing that the fire boy easily refined the gunpowder, Yu Xiu turned his head to look at it, his eyes flickering.
"Do you want to give it a hand and take this thing away completely?"
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"Daozi used sulfur, sand, lead and mercury to combine medicine, and took it to seek immortality. —"The Continuation of the Path: Miscellaneous Wisdom"