Longevity begins with an old woman

Chapter 19
"Friend Lan, long time no see!"

Xu Mu stopped, smiled and cupped his hands.

The beautiful woman in Tsing Yi in front of me is named Lan Shijin, who was his original neighbor.

To be honest, Xu Mu is not familiar with her, just looking at the robes she is wearing, it is clear that the two are not on the same level at all.

The reason why he knew each other was mainly because his wife Ye Yingying had a good relationship with him.

When Ye Yingying was just pregnant, Lan Shijin didn't know where she heard about it, but she enthusiastically came to teach her how to have a safe pregnancy.

Or maybe it's because there are too few people who have children in this city!

But no matter what the reason is, Xu Mu can still say a few words to the other party just by going back and forth like this.

"Look at you, you've lived a good life in the shanty town, and you're a lot younger!" Lan Shijin looked him up and down, with a just-right smile on his lips, and continued: "How is Yingying?"

"It's just a fluke breakthrough in cultivation. Fellow Daoist Lan is over the top! As for Yingying, she's pretty good, and she's put on a lot of weight recently!" Xu Mu laughed.

"That's good! Where's the child?" Lan Shijin asked.

"It's already born, it's a girl!"

"Girl~"

Lan Shijin's voice was a bit long, and disappointment flashed in her beautiful eyes, before she turned to smile and said, "The girl is fine! Congratulations! It's a pity that I don't have time to see it!"

Lan Shijin felt a little regretful.

"There will be plenty of time in the future, as long as Fellow Daoist Lan comes over, you are welcome anytime!"

"That's good! I'll definitely go when I'm free! I still have something to do, so I'll go first!"

"Fellow Daoist Lan, go ahead and get busy!"

"Farewell!"

Like a lady of every family, Lan Shijin saluted slightly, turned and left.

Xu Mu stepped into the pharmacy.

What he didn't know was that after Lan Shijin walked a certain distance, she seemed to think of something, and suddenly turned back.

……

Inside the pharmacy.

"Welcome, welcome, fellow daoist... Alchemist Xu? It's been a while since I saw you! I thought you..."

Shopkeeper Tu, who was cleaning the counter while humming, thought it was a customer coming when he heard footsteps, but when he looked up, it was Xu Mu who hadn't seen him for a long time.

"My life is hard, but I don't die so easily!" Xu Mu laughed.

He took out a bottle of elixir from the storage bag and put it on the counter, and said with a smile, "Help me see what the price of this bottle of elixir is?"

"What? Are you lucky to pick up someone's elixir?"

As Shopkeeper Tu spoke, he pulled out the cork and glanced inside.

"It's Qi Gathering Pill! You're lucky, they're all high-grade!" Shopkeeper Tu poured out a pill, looked at it carefully, and said with a smile.

"Do you accept it?"

"Of course! I want as much as you have!" Shopkeeper Tu sneered.

After all, he is also a person with a shop, can't he afford a few bottles of Qi Gathering Pills?
And based on what he knew about Xu Mu, it would be nice to have two bottles on him.

The only thing he was curious about was where did Xu Mu get it.

As for Xu Mu's own refining, he doesn't believe it.

If Xu Mu had this ability, he wouldn't be driven to the shanty town.

"What about the price?"

"Price? What's the price for two bottles of elixir? I'll give you the original price. How about a bottle of 24 low-grade spirit stones?" Tu shopkeeper said proudly.

He knew Xu Mu's situation, and he didn't want to earn his two low-grade spirit stones.

"This is what you said! Don't go back on your word!"

"Repentance is a grandson!"

Shopkeeper Tu patted his chest and promised.

Xu Mu showed a smirk, and began to take out the pills one by one.

The first bottle, the second bottle, okay, but when it came to the third bottle, Shopkeeper Tu couldn't hold back a little bit, not because he couldn't afford to pay for the spirit stones, but because he was shocked by Xu Mu's arrival of so many Qi Gathering Pills.

He opened them one by one to make sure it wasn't Xu Mu who was fooling him with the empty bottle.

When Xu Mu got ten bottles, he panicked.

"I said, you probably robbed that pharmacy, right? Let me tell you, recently, a lot of foundation-building families have come to settle in our city, so don't mess around!"

Shopkeeper Tu was worried that Xu Mu would go to the doctor in a hurry, so he blamed those Zhuji families.

Whether it is stealing, robbing, or cheating, it will not end well if you provoke them.

"Don't worry! I made it myself!" Xu Mu said with a smile as he took out all twenty bottles.

During this period of time, he refined more than 30 bottles, of which more than ten bottles were eaten by him and Ye Yingying, and only these twenty bottles were left to exchange for spirit stones.

"You practiced it yourself?"

Shopkeeper Tu was stunned for a moment, then sneered and said, "Don't be ridiculous, with your alchemy skills, it's enough to be able to refine high-grade Bigu pills!"

Shopkeeper Tu is a hundred unbelievers.

It was only half a year since the two of them met last time. With Xu Mu's talent, even if he refines Qi Gathering Pill without sleep, he still can't reach this level.

What's more, with Xu Mu's family background, he can't make a lot of troubles.

"Anyway, believe it or not, I put the pill here, do you want to take it or not?"

Xu Mu spread his hands.

"You really practiced it?"

Shopkeeper Tu still couldn't believe it.

It's really too big a gap.

"Do I have to lie to you? Besides, how can I grab so many pills with my strength!" Xu Mu said helplessly.

He knew it was going to happen.

"That's true!"

Shopkeeper Tu finally believed a little.

He looked Xu Mu up and down, and only then noticed that he was much younger than before.

"Have you broken through?"

"Ok!"

"No wonder!"

Shopkeeper Tu suddenly realized, or rather, he could understand a little bit.

"Quickly calculate the price!"

"Okay! According to [-]% of the words, the total is..."

Shopkeeper Tu fiddled with the abacus, and calculated it by dividing by five and two. He raised his head and said, "Rounding up, it's a total of 440 low-grade spirit stones!"

"No! Didn't you say that the original price is the same! How can it be changed to [-]%!"

"Because you are my grandfather! Grandpa Xu Mu! Can you?"

People, you can't give up Lingshi for the sake of face, right?

Speaking of which, Xu Mu and his father's generation suffered a lot from shouting grandpa, but not much.

"..."

Ok!

you are vicious!
Xu Mu had nothing to say.

"You really made this elixir?"

When paying the bill, the shopkeeper Tu was still a little worried.

A few hundred low-grade spirit stones is a trivial matter. If he offends that family, his small family can't stand it.

"Don't worry, I cherish my life more than you! I have a wife and children, and you are alone!"

"What's so bad about being lonely? I can listen to music every day and be a bridegroom every night, but you can only do it once!" Shopkeeper Tu proudly said.

"That's not necessarily the case!" Xu Mu said instinctively.

"What? You still want to take a concubine? Can you do it with your body?"

"..."

Hey!
Who do you look down on?
Old man but...

"Don't gossip with you, my wife is still waiting at home! Hurry up and exchange the Lingshi for fifty parts of Qi Gathering Pill and one hundred bottles of Bigu Pill!"

"One hundred bottles of Bigu Pill? Are you crazy?"

Shopkeeper Tu looked at Xu Mu as if he was insane.

Even if the cultivation level is high, one bigu pill can only last for one day, and one hundred bottles can last for three years, even if there is no need to keep so much in stock.

Besides, don't you know how to refine Bigu Dan?

Too much money to burn panic, spend your own money to buy!

"Don't ask so many questions, hurry up and get it for me, what's the matter? You still don't earn money if you have Lingshi?"

"I just don't want you to lose money! When the time comes, my wife will run away, so don't blame me!"

"I wonder if you kid can say something nice! You're cursing me here, I don't look like your father at all!" Xu Mu complained.

But he also knew that the other party was kind, but his mouth was a bit smelly.

"This is a kind reminder! If you insist on buying it, it's up to you! But when you leave the store, you won't be able to return it!"

"I know, I know!"

Seeing that Xu Mu was a little impatient, shopkeeper Tu turned around and entered the back hall, took out all the bigu pills stored, and called the lazy boy out to help look after the store.

It's rare to make a big deal, so you must go to Goulan to reward yourself.

With the recent continuous movement of people from other places, a lot of fresh blood has been added to Goulan, and a lot of new songs have been released. He has long wanted to listen to them.

After the transaction was completed, Xu Mu walked out of the pharmacy and went to the market, preparing to replenish some daily necessities before going back.

With one hundred bottles of Bigu Pills and the luck points he has accumulated recently, he is going to raise his thunder swordsmanship to the perfection level.

The physique becomes stronger, educate the young people well.

As a result, as soon as he went out, he was stopped by someone within a short distance.

"Fellow Daoist Xu, please stay!

Dressed in Tsing Yi, the dignified and noble blue brocade came towards him gracefully.

"Fellow Daoist Lan, what's the matter?" Xu Mu asked a little puzzled.

Didn't the other party say something was up just now, why did they come back suddenly?

"Fellow Daoist Xu, can you take a step to speak?" Lan Shijin asked to clean up.

"of course can!"

Xu Mu nodded in agreement.

The other party has a good relationship with his wife, and has a good reputation over the years. Xu Mu is not worried that the other party will harm him.

Led by Lan Shijin, the two entered a nearby tea house.

Lan Shijin took out a spirit stone and ordered two cups of spirit tea.

The water is clear, the tea is green, and the fragrance is curling up!
"Fellow Daoist Lan, just say something, don't be so polite!"

Xu Mu took the spirit tea from Lan Shijin, put it gently on the table, and said.

"Since Fellow Daoist Xu said so, then I won't beat around the bush!"

She was holding a teacup, her jade fingers were slender, her red lips were slightly parted, and she took a sip, her every move was full of elegance.

"I want to ask how the environment in the shanty town is? I want to move there with Yue Ning for a while!"

Yue Ning is Lan Shijin's daughter. Her full name is Leng Yuening. She has been a neighbor for more than ten years, and he has only met her once. She is a cold girl.

"Moving to a shanty town? Fellow Daoist Lan, are you kidding me?"

Xu Mu's face showed shock and disbelief.

Not to mention other things, just relying on the magic robe on the other party, he will not be reduced to the point of living in a shantytown.

There is also the other party's husband, who is on the ninth floor of Qi training and is about to build...

and many more!

He suddenly remembered that the gray-robed old Xiu who led them to Chi's house to find work seemed to be Lan Shijin's husband.

In other words, the other party is now a widow! !
wrong!

Even if her husband died, with their family's wealth, they wouldn't be able to live in a shanty town.

He originally wanted to go to the dental shop in Fangshi later to see if there were any vacant houses, and planned to move back to live in Fangshi. Now he has already paid the deposit.

Why is the other party still turning against him?
Could it be that you can't rent a house?
Xu Mu said secretly.

Lan Shijin smiled wryly and shook her head.

"I'm not joking with Fellow Daoist Xu, the thing is like this..."

Lan Shijin briefly explained the cause and effect, and Xu Mu suddenly realized.

It turned out that it wasn't that the other party didn't have enough money, but that the new families were constantly expanding their territory in Fangshi, and Lan Shijin's original residence happened to be located in the area designated by the other party.

If her husband was still there, she would be able to bargain, but now that her husband is dead, she offended the Chi family.

No one is secretly playing tricks and killing them all. They are considered lucky, and they dare not bargain with others.

Originally, she wanted to find another place to live in Fangshi, but now there are basically no vacant houses in Fangshi.

The major families have no place to live, and are desperately driving people out of Fangshi, where she can find them.

When she went to the pharmacy to sell pills just now, she saw that Xu Mu was in good spirits, and realized that the shanty town might not be as bad as she imagined, so she thought about making do with it for a few months, and after the beginning of spring, she would take an airship with her daughter and leave Baishifang City.

Her husband died, and she offended the Chi family, so she couldn't live here anymore.

She came to Xu Mu just to find out about the situation in the shanty town, if possible, she would live there for a few months.

"I can't guarantee this, but I've lived here for a few months and haven't encountered any major troubles!"

At that time, he was targeted because he was too weak. With Lan Shijin's situation, no one would dare to provoke him.

"If Fellow Daoist Lan wants to move there, there happens to be an empty house next door to me, you can go and have a look!"

"Really? That's great!"

With Xu Mu as an old neighbor, she can rest assured, and can quickly adapt to the surrounding environment without much trouble.

Anyway, she won't live there permanently, and when the airship opens, she will leave with her daughter as soon as possible.

"I wonder if you can trouble Fellow Daoist Xu to take me to see it?"

"This, of course it's fine!"

Originally Xu Mu wanted to go to the market to buy things, but because of Lan Shijin, he had to postpone it until the next day.

The matter of renting the house went smoothly. Xu Mu took Lan Shijin to find Yaren. After looking at the house, he signed the contract on the same day and paid half a year's rent.

Xu Mu can only say that he is really rich!

People in the shantytowns basically pay once a month, and some can't wait for another month. Like Lan Shijin, who pays half a year at a time, it is definitely the only one.

When visiting the house, Lan Shijin also took a look at Ye Yingying, which made Ye Yingying very happy.

Although Ye Yingying never complained, staying at home alone was miserable, but a teenage girl was bored at home every day and had to take care of her children, how could she be happy.

In the previous life, he would have suffered from jade jade disease long ago.

This is why Xu Mu is willing to take the initiative to help Lan Shijin.

With her here, my wife at least has someone to talk to, so she won't be too boring.

As for himself, he is either cultivating or refining alchemy every day, so he doesn't have much time to spend with his wife and daughter.

After the house was settled, Lan Shijin's mother and daughter didn't move in immediately. They had to deal with the affairs over there, which probably took five or six days.

The next day, Xu Mu replenished his living supplies at the market and walked towards a nearby bookstore.

Now that his first-level fire defense technique has reached its peak, and there is no way to advance, he thought about purchasing a second-level fire protection technique practice method and began to practice, and he is now in the middle stage of Qi training, and he can start to practice second-level spells up.

As for the spell encyclopedia he originally bought, it did record a lot of second-tier spells, and even third-tier spells.

But considering the price of its two low-grade spirit stones, you can see how dry its records are!

Xu Mu only accumulates ten luck points a day now, so he must use it sparingly, so he wants to buy a book with a detailed introduction, preferably with a lot of annotations, so that he can get started faster and save money in the early stage. A lot of luck value.

After entering, he soon found the cheat book he wanted, but when he saw another thing in the bookstore, he suddenly felt that the cheat book in his hand was not good.

(End of this chapter)