Wandering

Chapter 103
Depend on!It turns out that Bai Zhongliu's aptitude is better than mine, but it's a pity that he has no chance to become a practitioner.I said to Xiaobai again: "What are you going to do? Or stay in this desolate Erlang Temple? Anyway, I will not allow you to attach to ordinary people again. You have seen what happened?"

Xiaobai: "I know I was wrong. In fact, I am very envious of practitioners in the world. They have the Taoism handed down from generation to generation, and they have the guidance of the master....After 300 years of practice and the two years of cultivation in the world, I finally have a little achievement, so I would like to ask a superior person for one thing."

"What's the matter? I haven't figured out how to deal with you yet!"

Xiaobai: "You don't have to deal with me, I don't make it difficult for you. I have finally gained something in the past two years of cultivation in the world, that is, I can be reborn as a human being in a trance. If I am lucky enough to be reborn in the world, I will forget everything now. I want to ask Yours is - if there is a destiny, please accept me as an apprentice, I want to be a practitioner, and I don't want to be alone like I am now."

"This - I can think about it, but how can I find you?"

Xiaobai: "If you are destined, you don't need to find me deliberately. May I ask the name of the expert?"

"Remember, my name is Shi Ye, and I have left this name in your consciousness with the method of Buddhist sravaka. Even if you are reincarnated, you will still be able to remember this name."

……

"Stone, the mission is complete, can we close the team? What about this corpse?"

"Bury it on the spot, other things will be handled by others in the future, and we don't need to take it away. Anyway, he also served as the Emperor of the Earth for a year, and he has passed the addiction of the Sangong Sixth Court. He died without injustice.  … Xiao Xiao , I want to discuss something with you."

Xiaoxiao looked at me and smiled: "I know what it is, about the secrets of you being a practitioner, right? Don't worry, I won't report it to the higher authorities, and I will help you keep it secret. My grandfather was also a practitioner, you guys He said a lot of the rules."

"Xiao Xiao, your grandfather is a practitioner, why aren't you?"

Xiao Xiao smiled wryly: "Grandpa said that I am not suitable for learning Taoism, but only for learning martial arts."

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Bai Zhongliu is dead, to be precise he is missing, how the farce in Xiaobai Village ends has nothing to do with me.I handed in a report to Director Gu, and reported everything in detail, except I omitted the part where I met the ghost.I told Han Ziying the story of this baiji dolphin, and Ziying was also very disappointed. She pleaded for Xiaobai, hoping that I could really accept this disciple.I am studying alchemy, and if I really want to accept him as a disciple, I am afraid it will take more than ten years, so I am not in a hurry to think about it now.

I also told Feng Junzi about this, and Feng Junzi listened intently with his eyes wide open.After listening to it, he sighed: "Why didn't you call me for such an interesting thing? If I was there, maybe I could think of another way."

"How do I tell you? There is another special operations team member beside me, aren't you afraid of revealing your identity?"

Feng Junzi: "Forget it. The next time you encounter something strange by yourself, please let me know."

As far as I know, Feng Junzi went to the Erlang Temple later, but when he arrived, Xiaobai was no longer there.

Time passed quietly like running water, and what worried me the most was whether Dan Xiasheng could make the furnace of Nine Turns Purple Golden Pill as scheduled, and how many pills could be made in one furnace?But it's useless to worry about this kind of thing.Liu Fei'er, whose fate was closely related to her, didn't know about it, and her life gradually returned to a carefree track.

She said she was carefree, but she was actually a little worried. What she was worried about was her relationship with me.She is indeed in love, and after avoiding everyone, we spend more and more time with each other.She is willing to accept my relationship, but our previous age and identity are really awkward, and this is a problem that needs to be changed gradually.

It's another year of warm spring and flowers blooming, and it's the day of the annual spring outing.With the lessons I learned last year when I made a big fuss about Qiyun Temple, this year the school will not allow students to go far. Our class went to Zhaoting Mountain for a spring outing this year.When the whole class went up to Zhaoting Mountain, Junzi Feng and I thought it was a little funny that we actually went to this mountain for a spring outing.The former mountain god of this mountain was Feng Junzi's "girlfriend", and the current mountain god is my "sister".In a sense, this mountain is our home.What is even more dumbfounding is that when we entered the mountain temple, we actually had to pay for tickets honestly, three yuan per ticket.

Feng Junzi stood in front of Luxue's statue for a long time, looking at her a little bewilderedly.He didn't go to see Luxue, but ran here to see Luxue's statue so engrossed.I poked him and asked quietly: "Mr. Feng, last time you said that Luxue would not come to see you, you would not go to the godswood forest... Why do you have to fight so hard! Go see her."

Feng Junzi: "I'm afraid you are selfish when you say this? If I don't go to see her, I won't be able to get the thousand-year spiritual blood."

"I do have selfish intentions, but it's also for your own good. You obviously want to see her, otherwise you won't have the same eyes when you saw the mountain god statue."

Feng Junzi: "Don't worry, I will. Some time ago, the Living Buddha of Guangjiao Temple went out to wander again, and just came back two days ago.... You inform Han Ziying that a table of vegetarian food will be prepared tomorrow, and I will invite you at Junziju. Shang Yunfei. You don’t need to accompany me, I guess you have something to do tomorrow, look, Teacher Liu is here to find you.”

After Feng Junzi finished speaking, he walked aside, and Liu Fei'er came over and held my clothes.I understood, and walked with her to the backyard of the mountain temple, next to the spring of Xuexi Spring.Seeing no one she knew around, Liu Fei'er said shyly, "Shi Ye, are you free tomorrow?"

"Of course I'm free. Tomorrow is Sunday. What do you want?"

It is true that Liu Fei'er has something to do with me. It turns out that his father will have his 59th birthday tomorrow.Speaking of this, some people may find it strange, didn't Liu Fei'er's father celebrate his 60th birthday in mid-April last year?Why are you still sixty this year?This requires the introduction of the unique customs here in Wucheng.Sixty Jiazi's whole life is lived twice in the local area. The first time is a virtual life, at the age of [-], and the second time is a real life, at the age of [-].I don't quite know how this custom from ancient times came into being?According to the arguments of the old ladies on the street, it is said that it is to confuse the king of hell.

Of course, this custom has undergone a new development in the era of reform and opening up.There are many leading cadres who like to celebrate the birthdays of their relatives and elders, not to mention doing it twice, even if it is better to do it ten times, so that they can collect more gift money.Those who don't have such relatives wish to recognize more godfathers.Mr. Liu's father didn't celebrate his birthday to collect gift money, the old man didn't even want to hold a birthday banquet.But this time Liu Fei'er insisted on holding a birthday banquet for his father, and not in Qingquan Town, but in Zhiweilou.She has an intention, that is, to introduce me to her father. No matter what the future holds, she will lay the groundwork first, so that the old man will be mentally prepared and know that there is someone like me.Unexpectedly, on the same night, Zhiweilou held two important banquets at the same time. One was for Feng Junzi, and the other was for Liu Feier's father's birthday. Han Ziying had to spend some time thinking about it.

Sister Ziying was really bothered. After I told her, she immediately thought of a question - what kind of birthday gift should I give?
Liu Fei'er asked me to celebrate her father's birthday, apparently because she wanted me to make a good impression on his father.Although she didn't ask me to give any presents, I couldn't go there empty-handed.This gift is simple and complex, because I am a person with ambitions, and my ambition is to be the son-in-law of the old man in the future.Therefore, the gift must be expensive, but not vulgar.The Liu family is not a family that is short of money, nor is it an ignorant family. It is a thousand-year-old family. What good things have you not seen?I want to impress the old man, it's too difficult!

After much deliberation, the next morning, Ziying took me to a place, and she said that it might be the only place where I could find the right thing.The place we went to was actually the Xuanhua Zhai of Xuanhua Layman.

The entrance of Xuanhuazhai is not big, but the place to walk inside is not small.Its business scope is stationery, calligraphy and painting mounting and so on.They do both big and small businesses, from writing brushes that cost [-] cents a piece to priceless antiques, as long as customers come to Xuanhua Layshi, they always greet them modestly.I like this kind of businessman very much, because he always treats people the same way, and he doesn't care about the high and low.When we arrived at Xuanhuazhai, a bearded Layman Xuanhua was sitting behind the counter reading a newspaper, and we surprised him by coming.

"Shi Zhenren, Han—Han Daoyou, why did you two come to my small shop?"

Han Ziying replied with a smile: "Xuanhua, can't we come shopping?"

"Dear guest, please come in, please come in, what are you two looking for?"

I also cupped my hands at him and said, "I want to give a birthday gift to an elder. This elder is a child of a scholarly family. It's really hard to choose this gift. Layman Xuanhua, what do you recommend?"

Layman Xuanhua: "The most popular ones in my store are the Four Treasures of the Study. The Four Treasures of the Study around Wucheng are famous all over the world. I have collected a lot of high-quality goods. Master Shi can pick them out."

Ziying waved her hands and said, "The treasures of the scholarly family in Wucheng will be missing the four treasures of the study since ancient times? No matter how good the things in your store are, they won't be on the table in front of others, or they will look arty."

Han Ziying's tone was loud, and Layman Xuanhua asked a little surprised: "Wucheng scholarly family? The Mei family is impossible. Are you going to celebrate the birthday of the Liu family?"

I nodded: "You guessed right, it's Mr. Liu's family."

Xuan Hua waved at the two of us: "Then there's nothing you want here, close the door and follow me to the back, I have some stuff in my possession for you to pick."

Xuanhuazhai still has several rooms to go, the loud voice of Layman Xuanhua startled Qixin, she came out from the back room, saw me and Han Ziying, and said hello lightly, but seeing her The eyes are still happy to see us.After asking about our purpose, the four of us came to a warehouse together.Entering this warehouse, I almost thought that the cultural relics store had been stolen, but Xuanhua really collected a lot of good things.

There are a few calligraphy and paintings from the Ming and Qing dynasties, but Xuanhua advised me not to give them away, because they are flashy, a waste of money and won't catch Mr. Liu's attention.There are also a few pieces of porcelain from the Song and Yuan Dynasties, but Qi Xin said that these are not good.Antiques are real antiques, but if they were just ordinary vulgar objects hundreds of years ago, that is, it took hundreds of years for these porcelains to become valuable things.In the end, Han Ziying picked out a very special thing for me, a suet jade pen wash.

This brush wash is about eight inches long and five inches wide at its widest point. It is in the shape of a gourd when viewed from the plane, and has two pools, large and small.The edge of the surrounding pool is not carved with dragons or phoenixes, but rather quaint lotus leaves in a rolling shape, with smooth and exquisite curves. This craft alone is not a vulgar thing.Its material is Hetian white jade, which is commonly known as suet jade.The real suet jade is not pure white, but fat white, with a slight bluish-yellow luster in the milky white, warm and pure.Jade articles, especially jade articles with a certain age, feel very important to the hand. When you hold it in your hand, there will be a pure and peaceful atmosphere coming from your fingertips, which shows that its former owner was also an elegant scholar. (Xu Gongzi's note: Ancient jade can indeed feel the difference in this characteristic, and the value is not only in the craftsmanship and material.)
"Okay, that's it, Xuan Hua, I'll buy this one."

"Renren Shi has a good eye, which is really suitable. But I have not been able to date this jade, I don't know when it was made."

Ziying said: "The most important thing is fate. The age doesn't matter to me. We bought it, how much?"

When it came to the price, Layman Xuanhua was a little embarrassed: "Originally, if Zhenren Shi likes the things in my store, he can just take them. But this store is also the property of the Zhongnan School, and I can't make decisions about some things. How about it, I Just give it to Zhenren Shi according to the received price, even if I give you a fraction, the total price is [-]."

My hands barely trembled, so expensive! 5 yuan could buy an ordinary commercial house in Wucheng at that time.Han Ziying turned around and asked me: "Shi Ye, we don't have so much money in our hands now. Why don't we make an advance payment from Zhiweilou's working capital?"

I'm not good at managing money, and I don't like managing money.In fact, my money is earned by others, and Ziying manages most of it for me.After the Chinese New Year, I gave my parents [-] yuan, and last month I gave them another [-] yuan. Now my savings, the dividends from Zhiweilou and the money earned from Luxue Tea Room are only about [-] yuan. I really can’t afford it. This pen washes.But Zhiweilou's money is not equal to my money, so it may not be appropriate for me to use Zhiweilou's working capital to buy birthday gifts.

Before I could answer, Qixin said with a rare smile: "Senior brother, let me guarantee Shi Zhenzhen, let them take this thing first, and pay later. Heshou can't be delayed."

(End of this chapter)