Chapter Twenty-Four: Take the Old Bonsai from Strange Wood
Lao Mai shuttled in several directions in various arched corridors, and finally, in a very wide bonsai open-air exhibition area, he found Mu Qingzi's location. Warm-Color-Small-Say-NetWarm-Color-Small-Say-Net
But I saw that Mu Qingzi was standing in front of a stone platform where bonsai was placed, staring at the bonsai that was obviously a little too small in a daze.
Lao Mai stepped forward and called, "Senior brother in charge, is there anything wrong with finding a junior brother?"
"Senior brother in charge?" asked a question, but saw that Mu Qingzi was still standing motionless, as if deaf, Lao Mai felt strange and shouted again.
Seeing that he still hadn't heard of it, Lao Mai hurriedly stretched out his hand and patted him on the shoulder, only to see Mu Qingzi coming back to his soul as if he was awakened, and chanted repeatedly: "This bonsai is weird, it's so weird,!"
"What's wrong?" asked Lao Mai, puzzled, while looking at the bonsai.
This bonsai tray placed on the white marble slab table is an ochre-yellow porcelain basin, which is a bit mottled and old, and is obviously not newly fired.
The soil in the porcelain pot seemed to be condensed into a piece, and there were dots of green moss and grass flowers growing on the surface, among which there was a very strange big-bellied strange tree head, the roots and branches were all entwined, and it looked a bit like a tree man, only some small branches on the top, and a few small leaves that could not be named.
There is no illustrative nameplate next to the bonsai, only the edge of the porcelain pot containing potted plants is engraved with several seal fonts, earthworm-like curved, and Lao Mai can't understand what is written.
He looked at it repeatedly for a while, but he felt that the soil in the bonsai was a little strange, it looked like it was made of foam plastic, and nothing else was special.
I saw Mu Qingzi frowning and said: "I feel that this strange tree is very old, I used my divine sense to look into it, and suddenly felt that my soul was sucked by it, and I wanted to resist with luck, and I was stalemate, if you hadn't slapped me, I wouldn't have been able to get out for a while." ”
For the first time, this old man does not call himself a poor fool brother in front of Lao Mai, and as soon as he opens his mouth, he is me or something, and he is obviously frightened.
Lao Mai was also taken aback when he heard this, so he unfolded his divine sense and probed in to observe point-to-point, and found that the strange wood tree head didn't feel anything, and it wouldn't suck his soul, but he felt that the soil was a blur and chaos, and it was indeed a little weird to see clearly.
So he retracted his consciousness and said, "Senior brother, I have seen it, I have not been sucked into the soul, but the soil is very strange. ”
Mu Qingzi suddenly realized that "it turns out that the virtuous brother does not have wood attributes, so he is naturally not affected. ”
Lao Mai said: "I think this soil is very strange, not like ordinary soil. ”
Mu Qingzi said: "Why don't we take it back and study it?"
"Now?" said with a smile, "If you want to get it back, you have to find a night's time, take it now, there are cameras everywhere, and if you can't get to the gate, you will be arrested." ”
"Well," Mu Qingzi nodded, "stay until the dead of night, and the foolish brother will use a stealth spell to find a similar tree to replace it." ”
Lao Mai clapped his hands and praised: "Senior brother's plan is very good. ”
So the two of them pretended to go to see other bonsai, and gradually drifted away, walked out of the bonsai garden, and went to other exhibition areas.
Next, Mu Qingzi went to see other exhibition areas about wood, Lao Mai also broke up with him, and continued to go to the exhibition area to browse all kinds of beautiful scenery, or return to the unit, someone asked that there was no topic to talk about.
In the near afternoon, everyone came out of the Expo Park, and it seemed that everyone had gained a lot of gains, and they also bought some gadgets in their hands, so they went to find a restaurant outside the door together, and returned to the summer resort after lunch.
On the way back in the afternoon, passing through a small town with an old environment, from a distance, there seems to be a small market selling potted plants near the farmer's market in the street.
I saw Mu Qingzi old man close his eyes and think for a long time, called to stop the car, got out of the car halfway, asked everyone to avoid the summer villa first, and went straight to the town by himself, and did not see anyone come back until night.
Early the next morning, he saw Mu Qingzi hurriedly transmitting the news and calling Lao Mai to his residence.
Lao Mai hurriedly pushed the door in, and at first glance, he saw that the old strange wood bonsai in the bonsai garden of the Expo Garden yesterday was placed on a table.
I saw Mu Qingzi Lao Dao sitting on the futon, his wide sleeves were actually tucked up, and when he saw Lao Mai entering the door, he said proudly: "Senior brother, the foolish brother really took it for the future." ”
Lao Mai pulled another futon and sat down cross-legged, and couldn't help but laugh: "Senior brother in charge is indeed a good method, and he will take it when he says it." ”
Mu Qingzi laughed and said: "I also got a fake in the potted plant market in that town, and modified it exactly the same with the wooden exercises, which is enough to fake the real thing, so Li Dai Tao stiff, the organizer of the World Expo will definitely not find it, and the real thing has been dropped." ”
As soon as the two of them spoke, they were both laughing at each other, unaware that there was anything wrong with doing this as a high-end cultivator.
In the mountain summer resort, the main purpose of this medicinal herb share distribution meeting is only to hold a distribution meeting, and it is not yet the time to harvest medicinal materials, which is not until the late autumn of October, when you can go to the border deep mountain medicine garden located on the southern border, and the five major sects will assign people to pick them together.
So soon after the meeting, the people of the major sects dispersed one after another, and a few days later, the summer resort returned to its former deserted state, leaving a few people to take care of and maintain it on weekdays, so that ten years later, the major sects will make a comeback and continue to hold another spoils sharing meeting.
As soon as everyone got on the three cars they drove and returned the same way, they didn't say anything along the way, and at noon on Friday, they had already returned to the villa villa, the headquarters of the sect on the outskirts of the city.
On Friday night, Lao Mai went back to the old house in the town for a night, and gave the gifts brought back from Kunming to his sister, brother-in-law and niece, so that his niece Sasha jumped to her feet and complained about why her uncle didn't take her with her.
Lao Mai then understood, it turned out that the school was on summer vacation in August, and the little girl either squatted at home every day, or walked the streets and alleys bored, so she had to promise to go out to play next time she was on vacation, and she must be brought with her, so as to coax her to come back happily.
Lao Mai stayed at the old house until Saturday night, and then returned to his residence in the villa.
Meditated in the bedroom and calmed down to look at his dantian, and found that the liquefied true yuan had probably accumulated to sixty percent, and he thought that when the medicinal materials were enough, he would be able to accumulate ten percent by the end of the year, and then advance to the realm of building the foundation of the Great Perfection, and then see if there were any new things in the talisman skin.
After looking inside, he felt very satisfied, and then he practiced more than ten commonly used small spells such as secret transmission, teleportation, and invisible shadows that he had learned from Mu Qingzi on the way back, and after a day and a night of cultivation, he had all become familiar with them.
At the same time, according to the habit of returning from a business trip in the office, he also bought a lot of local snacks from Kunming and distributed them to familiar colleagues and the little girl in the reception office who often helped him with a small favor.
There was also one in the drawer that he had bought separately, as if he had remembered that he had bought it a long time ago.
The little girl in the reception office was so happy to receive the special snacks from Lao Mai, and thanked her repeatedly: "Thank you, Mai District, the Mai District is a big leader, and you still want to get me when you go out to travel on public leave, and bring me food." ”
Old McHaha smiled: "I usually ask you to help me run errands, and buy some local snacks outside to bring you what you need." ”
The little girl gripped the packets of snacks tightly with a smile and asked, "Is there anything else I need to run errands in the wheat area now?"
Lao Mai immediately remembered the last copy that he had just put in the drawer, hesitated for a moment, and then asked her, "Do you recognize Yu Mu from the Archives Bureau?"
The little girl's eyes suddenly looked a little strange and asked, "You know, is Mai District looking for her?"
Lao Mai said casually: "Please help me bring me a few packs of snacks for her." ”
The little girl seemed to understand something, and readily agreed, and when Lao Mai opened the drawer to take something, she suddenly opened her mouth and asked quietly: "Mai District, do you know that there is a captive party that has been pestering her?"
"What captive party?" Lao Mai didn't react for a moment.
The little girl pouted and said: "That bald Luo, every morning and evening, he keeps being like a fart, who doesn't know the whole city, they all watch the excitement like watching monsters, and Xiao Yu doesn't look like he wants to accept him, but it doesn't matter if he lets him follow every minute, it's so strange." ”
"Bald Luo?" Although Lao Mai didn't look at the slender donkey-faced ugly man Xiao Luo, he still had a little impression of his long-looking black hair, but he didn't understand how it became a bald Luo in the little girl's mouth.
The little girl pouted and said disdainfully: "The top of the head is bald, and the hair around me can't be covered, and I just shaved my big bald head last week, like a bald donkey, it's so ugly." ”
Lao Mai remembered that when he called the old (curator) director of the Archives Bureau to inquire about the recruiters, he seemed to hear him read that Xiao Luo's age was 27 years old, and he thought to himself, what is wrong with you, thank you early for being so young.
The little girl continued: "I don't understand, although Xiaoyu is a little thinner, he is also a white and pure little face beauty, the donkey-faced bald ugly man just follows him to death, and he doesn't want to accept him, why don't you drive him away, and ride in and out with him every day, don't eat free lunch at noon, and go outside to eat those snacks that know Wei is unhygienic." ”
Lao Mai couldn't help but wonder, and then after a little thought, he asked: "This, little girl, let me make an analogy, if there is such a man, who follows you so diligently every day, eating, drinking, and having fun, if you can't fight back and scold and don't return the mouth, you are not willing to accept him at first, but he has been persevering, and after a few years, will you be moved to finally accept him?"
"Is it just him?" the little girl made a fuss with wide eyes and cuteness, "If you can't accompany you three times, you still have to accompany all of them?" Such a top ugly man stands with me every day, and I'm still afraid of the jokes of the people in the agency building, no, no, I can't stand it for a few years, Mom, it's too scary. ”
Lao Mai couldn't help laughing and said: "If you also met him when you first entered the city, you don't know anything, he doesn't let you contact others, and he doesn't let others contact you, and he also instills some girls in this environment, they should be reserved, they should be lonely and self-appreciative, except for him, everyone else is ill-intentioned, you can't get in touch with other boys in the end, will you accept him in the end?"