Chapter 29: Mother and Son Talk
Seeing that Zhao Lan's expression suddenly became serious, Tong Chen looked at Zhao Lan and asked a little nervously, "Mother, what's the matter?"
Zhao Lan pulled Tong Chen back into the room, closed the door, and then said in a low voice: "Chen'er, my mother asked you, is the alchemist who provided the pills to the Wanbao Trading House in the city your master?"
Tong Chen has been locked up these days, and he didn't know that Tong Yan went to Wanbao Trading House to get back the Qingxin Pill and gave Tong Yan a service, so when he heard Zhao Lan ask this, he immediately looked at Zhao Lan with a very surprised gaze, and blurted out: "How do you know?
"And so it was. Although she had this guess in her heart, Zhao Lan was shocked to get a positive answer.
It turned out that Zhao Lan was also present when Tong Yan gave Tong Yan the pill before, and when she looked at the pill that Tong Yan was holding in her hand, she felt that it was very similar to the pill that Tong Chen gave her before, but she didn't dare to be sure or believe it!
Especially after knowing that Tong Yan had cured a serious injury that even Old Man Qian couldn't cure after only taking two pills of Qingxin Pill, Zhao Lan couldn't believe it in her heart, she couldn't believe that she actually had a whole bottle of the kind of pill that Tong Yan brought back from Wanbao Firm, because according to Tong Ying, the price of the pill has now been fried in Yuquan, and one pill is sold for at least two hundred gold coins.
Zhao Lan told Tong Yan about the before and after Tong Yan went to Wanbao Trading House and took back the pill for Tong Yan to take, and then held Tong Chen's hand and said, "Chen'er, who is your song master?" Although you told your mother before that he was very powerful, but my mother didn't expect him to be an alchemist of this level, how could a character like him appear in such an inconspicuous small place as ours?"
Dongyang Continent is a vast continent, there are cultivators and mortals here, in general, the aura in the central and southern regions of the continent is relatively strong, there are many immortal mountains, and there are more resources of various kinds, so the cultivators are mostly concentrated in this area, and the more prosperous cities on the continent are also in this area, and the northern region is relatively barren because of the land, so compared to the central and southern regions, there are more mortals here.
Yuquan is located in the northern region of the continent, and it is also the extreme north region, not only is the spiritual energy scarce here, but the land is also quite barren, just take the spiritual stone that is extremely important for the cultivation of cultivators, there is only one spiritual stone vein found here, and it is now in the hands of the Zhao family, the largest immortal cultivation family in Yuquan.
Because the Zhao clan's control over this vein is extremely firm, other immortal cultivation sects and immortal cultivation families can't get their hands on this vein at all, let alone being able to easily get the spirit stone, which makes the situation of cultivators who are already difficult to make progress in cultivation due to the scarcity of spiritual energy even more difficult, so except for the locals, ordinary cultivators will not be willing to come to this kind of place at all, which is also the place that makes Zhao Lan feel the most confused, so she asked Tong Chen this sentence.
"Mother!" Tong Chen took Zhao Lan's hand: "Didn't I tell you last time!Master, he came here to travel and met me by chance!"
"Dust, so to speak. You have a lot of fate with your master!" Knowing that Tong Chen's master turned out to be such a powerful character, Zhao Lan still couldn't believe it in her heart, and suddenly, she looked at Tong Chen and said, "Oh! Chen'er, you said that your master came here to travel, then he probably won't stay in Yuquan for a long time, right? If he leaves, what will you do? Is he willing to leave with you? If he doesn't take you away, then where will you find him in the future?"
Unexpectedly, Zhao Lan rushed to this place, Tong Chen didn't react a little, and after a while, he said vaguely: "Hey, mother, these are all afterwords, my master has just come to Yuquan not long ago, how can he leave so quickly, it's not too late to think about what you said when he wants to leave, what do you want to do now!"
Because everything about that master was made up by Tong Chen himself, he was afraid that if he continued to talk about this topic, he would show his feet, so he simply changed the topic and said: "By the way, mother, I have already learned a lot of alchemy knowledge from my master in the last two times I went to my master's place, and after I go to study with him for another day tomorrow, I will officially start alchemy in our medicine garden the day after tomorrow!"
Zhao Lan has been working tirelessly towards the gate of alchemy all her life, but she has not even touched the threshold of the gate for so many years, in her eyes, the art of alchemy is not said to be more difficult than climbing to the sky, and now she heard Tong Chen say that she went to learn alchemy from his master for two days, and then went back one day and planned to open the furnace for alchemy, she immediately concluded in her heart that her son did not know the depth of the road to alchemy, thinking that she recognized a powerful master and blindly wanted to ascend to the sky in one step, so she said in a long voice:
"Chen'er, my mother knows that you are in a hurry to open the furnace for alchemy because you want to help your mother share the pressure with your grandfather Qian, but alchemy is not to mention ten years of sharpening a sword, without a few years of accumulation, even if you have a high talent and strong comprehension ability, you will not succeed, so you don't have to be in such a hurry to open the furnace for alchemy, let's learn more from your master!"
Hearing Zhao Lan's words, Tong Chen smiled slightly: "Mother, just let me try it first, maybe your son and I were born to be an alchemy talent!"
Zhao Lan thought about it and felt that it would be better to let Tong Chen try, and if he failed, he would completely die, so he smiled and said, "Okay, son, since you insist, then you can try!"
At the same time, in the courtyard where Mrs. Tong Jiawei lived, Tong Ying and Mrs. Wei sat opposite each other at the stone table under the locust tree in the courtyard, there were two bowls of tea on the stone table, Tong Ying took a sip of tea from the tea bowl, and in this process, Mrs. Wei sat there without saying a word and looked at Tong Ying, and when Tong Ying put down the tea bowl, Mrs. Wei's voice sounded in the courtyard.
"Master, do you mean that in the future, you will let your step-son replace his eldest brother to escort the caravan of our trading house to and from the goods?"
As soon as the breeze blew, a few leaves fell from the tree and landed on Tong Ying's clothes, Tong Ying's big sleeves waved, and those leaves were waved away, and when he heard Mrs. Wei's words, his pair of thick black eyebrows moved closer slightly: "Ah Yao, I'm just letting you replace Yan'er temporarily, you don't know Yan'er's current situation, how can he still escort the caravan like this?" Ji'er is my second son, since the eldest son is injured, his second son should naturally stand up, is it possible that I want Jia'er, who is not yet 15 years old, to escort the caravan at home?"
Hearing that Tong Ying was dissatisfied with her questioning tone, Mrs. Wei immediately said: "Master, don't get me wrong, I don't mean to shirk for my stepson, I just ......"
Tong Ying's thick eyebrows raised, and he didn't look angry: "Just what?"
(Recently, I have a cold, I am dizzy every day, and the update is not strong, everyone forgive me!)