His father's illness was cured and he was still alive and well, but Li Xiuyuan breathed a sigh of relief.
However, he took his guards and returned to the mountain peak where the Polygonum Flower Spirit was entrenched.
"Young Master, look, this stone is indeed a piece of jade, but it is blocked by the stone skin, so it is no different from ordinary rocks." Tieshan walked over from the cliff carrying a huge black stone.
But I saw that the stone as big as a millstone was covered with a black stone skin, and there was a faint crystal green light inside.
"It seems that this thousand-year-old Polygonum multiflorum spirit has not lied to me." Li Xiuyuan waved his hand and said, "Take it back and find a jade carving master to make some jade articles in the future."
"Yes, young master." Several guards immediately helped, carrying the stone and walking down the mountain.
"Young Master, why don't you take the ten thousand taels of silver back with you?" Tieshan said, looking at a box containing silver next to him.
Li Xiuyuan's eyes moved and he waved his hand: "Take it back too, but the money in this box must be used for charity and cannot be used for personal use."
"Young Master, why is this?" Tieshan asked curiously.
"Because in theory, this is not our Li family's money, but the money from the Polygonum multiflorum spirit." Li Xiuyuan suddenly smiled and said: "We can't ignore the money from the Polygonum multiflorum spirit. If we use his money to do good things, we can kill two birds with one stone.
It gained merit and our Li family gained fame."
Tieshan nodded and responded.
When everyone was going down the mountain, they passed halfway up the mountain.
Li Xiuyuan stopped.
He saw the old woodcutter still chopping wood and making elixirs.
This old woodcutter still doesn't know that he has been deceived by Polygonum Multiflorum Essence for thirty years and has been practicing fake elixirs for thirty years. There is no elixir that can be refined in the copper furnace.
"If I don't give him a clue, he'll probably have to practice elixirs here until he dies." Li Xiuyuan thought to himself.
Thinking of this, he walked over
"It's you again, a young man. I have no interest in dealing with you anymore. Leave quickly and don't disturb my alchemy." The old woodcutter said.
Li Xiuyuan said: "I don't want to disturb you in refining the elixir, but I just want to remind you that you were deceived by that so-called god. What you are practicing in this copper furnace is not an elixir at all, it is just an ordinary pebble. Don't talk about refining it."
It's been thirty years, even if you practice for three hundred years, you still won't be able to refine the elixir, so I advise you not to waste your efforts and give up on refining the elixir as soon as possible and go down the mountain and go home."
"What nonsense are you talking about? Is the elixir I practiced fake?" The old woodcutter suddenly became furious: "Get out of here, you are such a hateful young man. If you can't get the elixir yourself, you are trying to make me unable to practice the elixir."
Li Xiuyuan frowned and said nothing.
He felt that this old woodcutter was too obsessed. He had been refining elixirs for thirty years, and now that he told him that the elixir was fake, he seemed to not believe it.
"I'm not trying to prevent you from practicing the elixir, I'm just reminding you." Li Xiuyuan said, "That's it, I'm leaving."
He had no intention of continuing to persuade the old woodcutter. He just told the truth and left.
The old woodcutter was stunned for a moment when he saw Li Xiuyuan and others leaving so happily.
Then he muttered: "Misfortune, this person is the calamity I encountered when refining the golden elixir. He must have wanted to shake my determination to refine the elixir and asked me to open the elixir furnace and take a look."
"But the old god said that the alchemy furnace cannot be opened. Once you open the elixir, you will not be able to practice it and will fail. You must practice a full armor to do it. I remember it clearly. Well, I can't be deceived by his few words. I
I have to strengthen my determination to make alchemy, there are still thirty years, and I will become an immortal in thirty years."
After muttering a few words, he continued to chop wood and make elixirs, ensuring that the fire would not go out.
After Li Xiuyuan came down the mountain, he looked back.
Seeing that the old woodcutter still hadn't woken up and came down the mountain, he couldn't help but shook his head, and then left without looking back.
"Pack your bags immediately, let's go back to Guobei County."
After returning to the village, Li Xiuyuan immediately gave instructions.
This time I came to Wangchuan Mountain just to perform a show. Who knew so many things would happen on the way? Now that I have been out for a long time, it is time to go back.
"Yes, young master." Tieshan responded and began to prepare to leave.
About half an hour later, the convoy was ready, starting from the mountain village and driving all the way to the official road.
"You don't need to send me off, go back." Li Xiuyuan waved.
"Young Master, the younger one will be sent not far away. If you have any orders in the future, send someone to deliver a message." Wu Fei and Han Meng led the men from the village to the official road and stopped.
"Master, have a good trip, young master." Others saluted.
Li Dafu was sitting on the carriage, full of energy, his white hair turning black. He did not look like a man in his late fifties, but more like a man in his thirties.
He waved his hand with a smile and said, "Go back. With my son here, I will have a safe journey."
Both Wu Fei and Han Meng were involved in murder cases, especially Wu Fei, who killed Magistrate Liu and was a robber. The Li family was a clean family, so naturally they would not take Wu Fei and Han Meng with them.
It can be placed in Wangchuan Mountain as part of the Li family's hidden strength.
"By the way, I haven't seen my son for a while. Did something happen at home?" Li Dafu asked on the way.
"The house is very peaceful and nothing happened. It's just that in the days after my father's accident, the servants in the house became a little restless." Li Xiuyuan said.
Li Dafu nodded and said: "When a tree falls and the hozens scatter, it's normal for the servants to be restless."
"By the way, when I went to Xiahe Village, I took in a maid." Li Xiuyuan said; "Because there were a lot of things going on during this time, I forgot to tell my father."
"It's just a maidservant. If my son likes it, it doesn't matter if he takes ten or eight others. There is no need to explain to my father. As for the gold locks you took out of the house last time, you can give them to that woman.
Why? I only saw you bringing back a maid, but not someone else’s lady?" Li Dafu said.
Li Xiuyuan said: "This matter is a bit complicated. Let's talk to my father about it later. Let's talk about the personal maid that the child took in in Xiahe Village. The personal maid is a...widow."
"Widow?" Li Dafu was stunned for a moment, then laughed loudly: "I didn't expect that my son still has the ancient Mengde style. Not bad, not bad."
"Father, don't you think there's anything wrong?" Li Xiuyuan said.
Li Dafu said: "What's wrong with this? Isn't it just a widow? There are so many widows in the world, don't widows stop looking for men? If there is a war and chaos, six or seven out of ten women in the world will
One of them is a widow. They all have to remarry. Besides, she just joins our Li family to be a personal maid. She is not a concubine or a wife. It doesn't matter whether she is a widow or not. As long as my son likes her, that's all.
My father won't mind."
"If my son doesn't like it in the future and feels that his status as a widow is inappropriate, he can give it to someone else in the future. Eleven of his father's eighteen concubines were given away, leaving only a few to serve your mother obediently.
"
Give it away?
A line of cold sweat appeared on Li Xiuyuan's forehead.
Sure enough, the ancient people who were born and raised in the country were terrible, and his father was no exception. He almost forgot that these ancient people had the habit of giving away maids, maids, and concubines indiscriminately.
I remember that in the past life, a famous historical figure, Su Dongpo, gave his pregnant concubine to a friend in exchange for a horse. However, the woman was strong-willed and could not bear the insult and committed suicide.
Even the pregnant concubine is willing to be given away, which shows how terrible this trend is.
But I have to say that this trend is also very popular in this world.
"Young Master, there is a fox blocking the way ahead."
Suddenly, at this moment, the Tieshan horse leading the way stopped and said in a panicked voice.