"Is the beef in the bag?" asked Tiger Girl.

Mingzi nodded and said, "I also packed two pots of white dry and ten meat buns." ”

Tiger Niu nodded happily, rushed forward and hugged Akiko and kissed him on the face.

Akiko smiled "hehe", she had long been accustomed to such intimacy.

During this time, his hair became longer, his complexion turned whiter, and his clothes were changed into new robes sent by Zhong Kunlun. It turned out that the iron Buddha beads that she was carrying had already been put away by the tiger girl. It was replaced by a bracelet of pure gold Buddha beads sent by the master of Xiao Zhai.

Originally, Mingzi refused to wear pure gold Buddha beads. But after the last golden basin hand washing banquet, the heroes present inquired about the origin of Master Mingzi. Some people have already introduced Mingzi as the proud disciple of the abbot of Shaolin Xuanjing, and some people have made up the title of Mingzi's rivers and lakes, called "Golden Palm Stone Buddha". Therefore, Xiao Junnan must wear pure gold Buddha beads to match Mingzi's title of "Golden Palm Stone Buddha".

Hu Niu watched Mingzi put on the pure gold Buddha beads, thoughtfully, and said, "Don't you think the relationship between these four village owners is quite interesting?"

Mingzi also felt something, and asked Hu Niu, "I feel a little strange, where did you see it?"

Hu Niu said with a smile: "The big owner of the Black Dragon Village is the owner of Tian Zhige, and his age is the second among the four village masters. Shi Zhiyong, the master of the second village, is the oldest in Shizhai. Wu Weiqi, the owner of the third village, ranked third in age among the four villagers, and Xiao Junnan, the owner of the fourth village, ranked fourth in age among the four villagers. But the oldest Erzhai owner seems to be the least likable to everyone. ”

Mingzi said: "I think the lord of Shizhai is loyal and simple, and he may be a wooden tongue, so he is not like the lord of Xiao Zhai." ”

Tiger Niu said, "That's not the case, have you noticed the name between them?"

Akiko asked, "What is the name?" I didn't pay attention to it. ”

Hu Niu said: "Tian Zhige, the lord of Dazhai, called Wu Weiqi and Xiao Junnan 'Wu brothers' and 'Xiao brothers' respectively, and called Shi Zhiyong 'Shizhai Lord'; Shi Zhiyong, the second village lord, called Tian, Wu, and Xiao respectively 'Tian Zhai Lord', 'Wu Zhai Lord' and 'Xiao Zhai Lord'; Wu Weiqi, the third village lord, and Xiao Junnan, the fourth village master, called each other 'senior brother' and 'junior brother', called Tian Zhige 'Tian Da Brother', and called Shi Zhiyong 'Shi Zhai master'. A salutation can tell that there is a great distance between them. ”

Mingzi nodded and said, "You don't say that I didn't find out, but you said that I thought it was really like this." Then he shook his head again and said with a smile: "Let's not take care of other people's housekeeping." Let's hurry up, Senior Gu is in a hurry. ”-

Everyone in Heilongzhai knows that Master Mingzi is not only Zhong Kunlun's old friend and sworn brother, but also a martial arts master with Shaolin mastery, so he opens the door to convenience and allows him to enjoy the needs of food and clothing, and no one cares. Although Zhong Kunlun has changed from the "chief village owner" to the "chief consultant", he is busy with daily affairs, and he has no time to ask Mingzi and Huniu what they have done. The four village owners were busy with their own one-third of an acre of land, and they were always on guard against other people's calculations, and they didn't have the energy to care about these two outsiders. So Mingzi and Hu Niu became the most carefree people in Black Dragon Village.

The Taihang Mountains stretch for thousands of miles, and although they are occupied by the Black Dragon Village, there are not only people from the Black Dragon Village. After Mingzi took the tiger girl to visit the Black Dragon Village, he expanded the scope beyond the Black Dragon Village.

On that day, they came to a place where flowers bloomed. The vegetation is flourishing here, and there are many plants that Akiko and Tiger Niu don't know. They didn't expect such a place to exist in the mountains, so they were amazed. And here they met a hermit and fell in love with Akiko. He told Mingzi that his name was "Gu Si" and that his ancestral home was Suzhou.

Later, when Mingzi and Zhong Kunlun chatted about it, Zhong Kunlun was quite surprised. He told Mingzi that this person's title was "Medicine Master Nameless", and he had lived in seclusion here for many years. For many years, Zhong Kunlun only knew that this person's surname was Gu, and today he only knew from Mingzi's mouth that his name was "Gu Si". Zhong Kunlun said that Gu Si had an apprentice before who was surnamed Hua. When he was not a teacher, he traveled back and forth between the Black Dragon Village and Gu Si's herb garden, selling herbs to the cottage. Later, after leaving the school, it is said that a valley was occupied and a large group of medical talents were gathered together, known as the "Valley of the King of Medicine". But since the departure of this surnamed Hua, Gu Si has cut off contact with Black Dragon Village. However, Heilongzhai is in need, so he can send someone to his herb garden to collect medicine, and after collecting medicine, he only needs to leave the herb money in place, and the two sides do not need to meet. Zhong Kunlun said: "Herbs are also grown in the cottage, but the quality is far inferior to Gu Si's. Therefore, the cottage herbs are used for sale, and those for personal use are purchased from Gu Si. ”

Hu Niu suddenly realized and said, "It turns out that when we went, we saw the silver money scattered everywhere, which turned out to be the herb money you left behind." ”

Zhong Kunlun said with a smile: "This Gu Si is really interesting, he never takes the money we left behind, so we get a lot of favors from him in vain." Therefore, I ordered my subordinates to double the amount of money left in the herb garden, and after years of accumulation, I heard that there were not only herbs everywhere, but also silver coins everywhere. After a pause, he sighed, "This Gu Si must not care about money, I heard that he was born in the Gu Manor in Suzhou." ”

Mingzi and Huniu hadn't heard of "Gu's Manor", so they hurriedly asked where it was.

Zhong Kunlun said with a smile: "The Gu family is a famous chaebol in the rivers and lakes. ”-

"Senior, we're here. The tiger girl began to shout across the herb garden.

Gu Si pushed open the wooden door and saw that it was the two of them, and his face was full of wrinkles and smiled. He said, "I wondered when you two would come." ”

When Akiko arrived, she put down her burden and asked, "Senior, what are you doing today?"

Gu Si stretched out his hand and counted down, and said, "Today, you will remove the grass here, plant the flowers there, and build a pergola in that field, and move all those medicinal herbs in, they will not stand the sun." ”

Doing farm work is commonplace for both Akiko and Tiger Girl. While they were working, Gu Si introduced these herbs to them. Soon, the work in the garden was done. The three of them sat on the ground, Hu Niu took out the food they had brought from the Black Dragon Village, and Gu Si also brought out the medicinal wine he had concocted. The three of them ate and drank and enjoyed themselves.

With the strength of the wine, Gu Si said to Mingzi: "The old man left home at a young age, soaked in medicinal herbs, although there is an apprentice, but I still feel that there is no successor. You get along with me, it is better for me to give you all the knowledge of the herbs you have tasted, first, you can get rid of one of my long-cherished wishes, and secondly, your Buddhists pay attention to compassion for all sentient beings, if you have pharmacological knowledge, you can benefit sentient beings and promote Buddhism. What do you think?"

Before Mingzi could speak, Hu Niu nodded again and again, and said, "Senior Gu, what you say counts, Mingzi is smart, you have to teach him well." "Mingzi used to be in Shaolin, and he saw the masters helping the poor and sick, and he thought that if he could understand medicine and herbs, he could help the masters in the future, which was indeed a good thing. So, he nodded in agreement.

Seeing this, Gu Si was very happy, drank all the wine in the bowl, and said, "Time is not waiting for me, start learning from me in the afternoon." Then he said to Hu Niu, "You can come here too, and remember as much as you can." ”-

Before the fog cleared in the early morning, Wu Weiqi walked out of his door. He walked briskly without any retinue. The dew wet the hem of his garment, but he didn't notice it.

Wu Weiqi is very excited now. He has this self-confidence, in addition to having a flash of inspiration at the golden basin handwashing banquet and getting Zhong Kunlun's commendation, one thing he has worked hard to handle finally has an eyebrow.

Wu Weiqi is in charge of the mining industry in Heilongzhai, which looks like a fat shortage, but because the sales right is controlled by his junior brother Xiao Junnan, he is just reduced to a producer and has no right to speak.

In his opinion, Xiao Junnan is responsible for the sale of minerals without having to work hard like himself, but also making a lot of money from his own pockets, and can also get praise from all over the village. Wu Weiqi is worried about Xiao Junnan's stall for more than a day or two. But how could he persuade his master Zhong Kunlun to take this stall from his junior brother to himself, he didn't put much thought into it.

It was also a coincidence that Wu Weiqi, who was in the mountains all day long and led his subordinates to work in the open air, happened to meet a group of people. The first person surnamed Wang, claiming to be from the Sword Casting Pavilion, was coming to buy iron ore.

Salt and iron have always been a government monopoly. Because of the special nature of Heilongzhai, the iron ore is jointly operated with the government, and the iron ore mined is purchased by the government. Xiao Junnan only needs to be responsible for sending the iron ore that Wu Weiqi and their hard work to mine to the yamen, and then settle the bill regularly, without worrying about the price and sales. So this job is very easy for Wu Weiqi compared to himself.

But he knew that Zhong Kunlun had always been dissatisfied with this. If Zhong Kunlun was a person who kept to himself, he probably would not have built today's Black Dragon Village. But the monopoly of iron ore turned him into a government worker, which made Zhong Kunlun unhappy. But not everyone dares to collect iron ore, and it is really not easy to transport the ore from the mountains and find buyers, because there are really few customers who have a large demand for iron ore except the government.

Zhong Kunlun also wanted to set up a smelting team to produce and sell his own. However, the top-notch smelting technology is not something that these green forest heroes who occupy the mountains can master. If they produce ordinary kitchen knives, hoes and other iron tools to sell to ordinary people, it is not something that they like 30,000 or 40,000 people are willing to do. In addition, Zhong Kunlun felt more and more limited in energy, so he gave up this idea.

However, the arrival of this Sword Casting Pavilion made Wu Weiqi discover the opportunity. If you can take the lead in building a line, sell iron ore to the other party, or exchange it for the other party's smelting technology, it will be a great achievement. I also have the capital to compete with Xiao Junnan for the right to sell minerals.

He knew Zhong Kunlun's daily routine, so he deliberately rushed before the fifth watch, before Zhong Kunlun was entangled in other trivial matters, to ask the master for credit.

Zhong Kunlun pays attention to health, although he has a wife and concubine, he insists on sleeping alone every night. Wu Weiqi came to the master's residence and met a few masters first. At this time, Zhong Kunlun should have finished washing. Wu Weiqi knew the master's habits, so he entered the courtyard to find the master.

Before entering the door, Wu Weiqi also deliberately paid attention to the sound in the courtyard - Zhong Kunlun would punch in the courtyard every day - the courtyard was quiet. Wu Weiqi wondered in his heart, but he was too excited to care. So, Wu Weiqi pushed the door into the courtyard, but he didn't see the master.

"Master," Wu Weiqi shouted softly. Silence all around. Wu Weiqi listened to the outside of the courtyard, and several of his teachers were coming over. Wu Weiqi stopped in the courtyard, and only then did he feel a little strange. At this time, the ladies walked in from outside the door.

Wu Weiqi said: "The master went out this morning?"

Several teachers shook their heads.

Wu Weiqi said "strange" and went straight to Zhong Kunlun's room. He first shouted "master" twice, knocked on the door again, and saw that there was no response inside, so he pushed the door with his hand. The door is unlocked and opens with a push.

The candle lit by Zhong Kunlun last night had not yet been extinguished, and Wu Weiqi suddenly saw the master lying on the bed. He hurriedly stepped forward to take a closer look, and a chill welled up from the soles of his feet.