In the early morning, Lin Ji woke up from his sleep.
In the garden, the sound of gardeners tending flowers and plants could be heard faintly.
There seems to be some movement in the kitchen.
Lin Ji yawned lazily, stood up and walked out of the room.
It was still dark, but there was some light in the east.
"Master." A somewhat soft voice sounded.
It was Xiaohua, the maid who got up early, who saw Lin Ji getting up and said hello casually as she passed by.
"I know you came back yesterday and Butler Fang arranged breakfast. You see..."
"Prepare it after half an hour." Lin Ji ordered.
Watching Xiao Hua leave, Lin Ji came to the garden.
I woke up in the morning after a long absence and did a slow Tai Chi exercise, not sure if it was right or not.
Anyway, he cut it in half according to a watermelon, so that’s about it, right?
Half an hour later, after exhaling a breath of turbid air, Lin Ji felt comfortable all over.
In addition to some pain in my neck, it was caused by Zhaoer's knife last night.
After a while, Xiaohua appeared again and said that breakfast had been prepared.
Lin Ji responded and was about to go to the restaurant to eat. But after taking two steps, his eyes suddenly fell on an inconspicuous green bud in the flower bed.
The green buds looked familiar, in this season when even the holly looked sallow, but the green buds were shiny and full of vitality.
Lin Ji raised his eyebrows, came closer, grabbed the green bud, and pulled it up.
"Oh, sir, please don't pull my hair." Ah Lu covered her head and was pulled out of the soil.
Lin Ji suddenly smiled and narrowed his eyes when he saw Ah Lu.
After rescuing it from Mu Kai last time, he just threw it in the garden and left it to fend for itself. A few months later, the little guy seemed to be living well.
Suddenly, Lin Ji's hand loosened up and only the green buds remained.
Alu's hair was pulled out again.
It squatted down on the ground, stood up like a normal person, and a branched sprout sprouted from the top of its head.
"Master, could you please stop pulling my hair?" Ah Lu said with a bit of complaint.
Lin Ji raised his eyebrows slightly and threw the green bud in his hand into the flower bed: "Can't it grow?"
"It hurts, and it will grow back, but it will damage my cultivation." Ah Lu said seriously, "A Lu also wants to practice. It's okay to pull it out occasionally, but it will have some effects if you pull it out too much."
"Okay, I'll listen to you." Seeing Alu's seriousness, Lin Ji stopped teasing him.
Taking Ah Lu to the restaurant, the butler Fang An was already waiting here.
He first bowed slightly to Lin Ji, then saw Ah Lu who was following Lin Ji, and also said hello: "Grandpa Lu, you want to have a meal today too?"
"Just like the master." Ah Lu said carelessly.
This scene surprised Lin Ji.
"Fang An, what did you call it?"
"Grandpa Green." Fang An didn't know why and said subconsciously, "Grandpa Green said it is more than 200 years old this year. At such an old age, there is nothing wrong with calling it grandpa."
Lin Ji glanced at Ah Lu, who knew that Ah Lu was nodding with satisfaction, looking like a teachable child.
Fang An continued: "When Grandpa Green suddenly emerged from the soil, we were all shocked. But after Miss Lu came, she said that Grandpa Green was an elf raised by the master, so we were relieved
Come."
"I forgot to explain to you earlier. It was my fault."
"Sir, what are you talking about?"
Lin Ji didn't like being served by others when eating, so Fang An left quickly.
On the table are some pickles, a bowl of preserved egg porridge, and the cook also fried leek spring rolls.
It was obviously not the first time that A Lu had eaten in a restaurant. He filled himself a bowl of porridge in a familiar manner, then grabbed the spring rolls and ate them crunchily.
Lin Ji watched with interest.
"Are you used to human rice?"
"You'll get used to it." Ah Lu nodded repeatedly and added, "But I can't eat too much. They are all dirty things and are not good for me."
As he said this, Ah Lu's hands did not stop. In just a short moment, there were only two spring rolls left on the plate.
Lin Ji couldn't help but hit its hand with chopsticks, and it finally restrained itself.
After eating breakfast, Lin Ji yawned.
There was nothing going on in the Jiantiansi Yamen. If anything happened, Wang Zheng would take care of it. He didn't want to go out.
After running around for a long time, it’s not too much to take a two-day break now and then.
Anyway, Jingzhong would be the same with or without him.
I don’t know why the monsters gathered in the mountains and forests outside the capital, forcing Sun Heya to take action personally. Obviously, the matter is not trivial.
"Fortunately, I'm not from the Jingzhou government office, so this mess has nothing to do with me." Lin Ji let out a long sigh of relief.
But thinking of this, Lin Ji's eyes suddenly fell on Ah Lu.
"Ah Lu, have you heard about what's going on in the mountains and forests outside the capital?" Lin Ji asked casually.
Originally, Lin Ji was just thinking about hitting a pole with or without jujubes. After all, Alu is a plant spirit, and he can understand things in the mountains and forests to some extent.
But he didn't give much hope. After all, Alu had been hiding in the garden all day, so she might not know more than he did.
But what Lin Ji didn't expect was that Ah Lu nodded.
"A few days ago, Ah Zi went through the thunder tribulation and couldn't hide anymore." Ah Lu said with an innocent face, "Not only the demons, but also many human monks like me are also looking for them in the mountains and forests."
Lin Ji's expression froze.
"Wait a minute, please speak slowly, how do you know this information?"
"When Azi went through the tribulation, I was watching from the side."
"Did you sneak out of the city?" Lin Ji was surprised.
"I can escape to the ground." Ah Lu said.
"Azi?" Lin Ji asked again.
"Like me, he is a grass and tree spirit." Ah Lu seemed to have not realized the seriousness of the matter, and said calmly, "When I followed the master to Beijing, before I was captured by that Mu... Mu or something, I was...
Help Ah Zi hide her aura."
Ah Lu seemed to have remembered something happy, and said with a smile on his face: "I saw that Ah Zi was approaching the catastrophe of transformation, so I helped him. Before he passed the tribulation, he even sent me a message to let me go.
Help it protect the law."
"Is there anything else?"
"I helped give Ah Zi its name." Ah Lu was obviously quite proud of this matter.
Just like the elders taking care of the younger ones.
Lin Ji asked: "What kind of legs does Ah Zi have?"
"Purple ghost ginseng." Ah Lu replied.
Lin Ji had never heard of this kind of spirit plant, but if it could be cultivated to the point where it transformed into a plant spirit, it was definitely a treasure from heaven and earth.
Otherwise, there wouldn’t be so many people and monsters looking for it.
However, Lin Ji did not intend to get involved in this matter. It was too difficult to find the plant spirits in the mountains and forests.
Lin Ji was going to go back and find out what the purple ghost ginseng was used for.
"Speaking of which, I have never asked you." Lin Ji looked at Ah Lu, "What are you?"
"The master asked me what kind of transformation I am?"