The two immediately packed their bags, and after bidding farewell to Du Yuanwai, they took a passenger boat at Jingzhou Wharf and went down the river. Jin Danzi told Mo Yan on the way that the reason why Ge Hong's Feiyun Ding of the Eastern Jin Dynasty is rare in the world is that it has added a mineral called "heavy stone", which can make the Ding furnace burn to blue without melting.

"Then we can get more 'heavy stones'. Mo Yan suggested.

"Do you think that the alchemists of the past and present don't want this kind of thing, just because heavy stones are so rare, they can only refine some ordinary pills in gold, copper or iron furnaces. This time, we are going to use heavy stone and refined iron to build a Feiyun Ding that is the same as Ge Hong, and it must be able to burn to blue without melting, so that the items and objects that can be used to refine pills in the future will be superb. ”

"Where is the heavy stone?"

"In Dayu County, Anfu, Jiangxi Province, there are occasional precipitated silver-white hard particles in the pebbles and gravel of mountain streams, which are heavy stones, but they are extremely difficult to find like stars, and even if you have money, you can't buy them. ”

"That's not the same as saying it in vain. ”

Jin Danzi smiled mysteriously: "The old man knows that there is a heavy stone hidden in a person's house, and it is enough for us to refine a Xiaofei Yunding, wait for the boat to go ashore on the Jiujiang River, and then go to Dayu County, Nan'an Prefecture by land." ”

Mo Yan thought for a while: "Jin Danzi, you have been here more than thirty years ago, and now the things are not there, and even whether the person is still alive or not is a matter of two words." ”

"It's really pedantic, how do you know if you don't go. Jin Danzi was so angry that he ignored him.

During the few days on the boat, Jin Danzi explained the process and essentials of alchemy to Mo Ran, which were the summaries of his decades of practical experience in alchemy, which was much more practical than the general introduction in the book "Zhou Yi Shen Tong Deed", which benefited Mo Zan.

The passenger ship docked at Xunyang, Jiujiang, Mo Yan and Jin Danzi got off the boat, bought a carriage and went straight to southwest Jiangxi.

After a few days, the mountain gradually rises, the two sides of the road are densely forested and bamboo, the stream is murmuring, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant, and the scenery is very beautiful.

After inquiring with passers-by, I learned that they had come to the Da Yuling North Station, not far from the Meiling Town mentioned by Jin Danzi.

"'The sun moon flies in the south, and the rumors are here. 'Alas, after eighty years, I have revisited the old place, but my eyes are empty and I can't see anything. Inside the carriage, Jin Danzi felt sad to himself.

"Jin Danzi, have you been here before?" asked Mo Yan.

"Yes, every year when the north goose returns here, it will no longer cross the ridge, and there are many plum blossoms on the mountain, so the locals also call it 'Meiling'. The stone post road at the foot is connected to Dayu County in the north, Nanxiong in Guangdong in the south, and Meiling Town is also the key pass between Jiangxi and Guangdong, and we are going there. ”

"Do you say that people with heavy stones live in Meiling?"

"Well, his original name was Mei Jiulin, he was a declining rich man in Meiling Town, and he was also a person in the Kangxi period, especially the Southern Song Dynasty Lu You's 'hairpin head phoenix', so he was renamed 'Mei Fangweng', and over time, the villagers respected him as 'Mei Weng', and he was Yindanzi's father. ”

"Oh, no wonder you're so sure, it's your father-in-law. Mo Yan suddenly realized.

Jin Danzi smiled awkwardly: "It's hard to say, Yindanzi was abducted by the old husband back then, and her father Mei Weng almost vomited blood at that time." ”

"No," Mo Yan patted his head, "Jin Danzi is more than a hundred years old, and Yin Danzi is probably about the same, her father should be long gone." ”

"Extremely pedantic, who said that Yindanzi is about the same age, tell you, the old man was exactly sixty years old when he was a Jiazi, and Yindanzi was only sixteen years old, how old do you say Mei Weng is now?"

"Eighty years old. Mo pinched his fingers and calculated.

"That's right. ”

"Since Mei Weng has a heavy stone in his house, have you and Yindanzi never practiced anything with it before?" asked Mo in confusion.

"Alas, except for Ge Hong's Feiyun Ding, there is no alchemy furnace in the world that can melt heavy stones, so it is still useless. Jin Danzi explained.

There are more and more plum trees between the mountains, and finally the mountains are all over the field until the sky, because the temperature in the Yuling mountain area is relatively cold, although the flowering season has passed, there are still individual residual flowers on the branches, the red and white are dotted with the green mountains, giving people a feeling of desolation and loneliness.

Entering the town, along a small stream forward, under the shade of plum blossom bushes, there is a rather large old house with blue bricks and tiles and eaves of the eaves, the corridor is full of lights, the door is pasted with two big red "happy" words, the guests wear red and green in and out, it turns out that Mei Weng's family is doing happy events.

"Is there a marriage in this family?" asked Mo Yan, holding a passerby.

"Of course, it's Mei Weng again, look at the eighty-year-old man who changes people every year, this is already marrying the eighteenth concubine. The man smiled and walked away.

"This old thing is so shameless, he is so old and marries so many women, he is really ashamed of Yindanzi. Jin Danzi muttered in the car.

Mo Yan jumped into the car to untie the baggage, took out a silver ticket from the paper bag, and then carried the burden and medicine box on his back.

"What are you doing?" asked Jin Danzi.

"People are doing happy events, so we can't come empty-handed. ”

"Well, thoughtful, it's time to meet this old thing. Jin Danzi walked into the plum house with the support of Mo Yan.

There is a housekeeper of Meifu at the gate receiving gifts, and when he sees the silver ticket handed over, he can't help but gasp, and the guests are all dozens of dollars with the gift, at most only one or two pieces of silver, and these two foreigners turned out to be a silver ticket of one thousand taels.

"Distinguished guest, please come with me. The butler hurriedly got up and respectfully led them into the antechamber.

On the chair of the master in the hall sat a thin old man with white hair and two long-lived eyebrows, with dry skin and wrinkles on his face, and he was dozing off in a red groom's dress. The four walls are full of calligraphy and paintings, all of which are the famous sentences of the great poet Lu You of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the front is a picture of Lu Fangweng's "Shen Yuan Folding Plum Blossom Picture", and the couplet is its famous "Plum Blossom Quatrain": Smell the plum blossoms and the wind, and the snowdrifts are all over the four mountains. How can he be incarnated into 100 billion, a tree and a plum in front of a man.

The butler whispered a few words next to the old man with a silver ticket in his hand, and left.

"Where did the distinguished guest come from, and he made such a generous move, I don't know what to learn?" The thin old man saw the money, and his attitude was respectful and polite.

"Son-in-law Jin Danzi visited his father-in-law. Jin Danzi seemed to be extremely reluctant to speak.

"What!" the old man stood up and looked at him in surprise, "Are you Jin Danzi?"

"It's the son-in-law. ”

"Hahaha, if it's really Jin Danzi, why did you make this weird look? I'm blind, retribution. Meon laughed.

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