Well aware of the principles of leniency and severity when confessing, Tong Yan hurriedly came over to explain.
"I only poured a little bit of the medicine dregs, and I definitely didn't waste the medicine on purpose! If you don't believe me, you can check it. There is still a lot of bitterness in my mouth, and it took several glasses of water to dilute it a little."
Check? She said how to check.
Shang Xun glared at her, walked to the table and sat down. He saw a used teacup on the table, proving that Tong Yan was not lying.
Seeing that he seemed to believe his words and no longer pursue the matter of pouring part of the medicine, Tong Yan followed him and sat down next to him.
"Master, where did you go just now?"
He took out a red gilded invitation and threw it on the table, "I met an acquaintance."
The calligraphy on the invitation card is very majestic. When you open it, you will see that the calligraphy inside is also elegant and correct, which is very beautiful.
This is a wedding invitation from the Penglai Immortal Sect. The main message is that their young island master will hold a wedding soon and sincerely invites people from the sect to come and have a wedding banquet.
The specific date is the twelfth day after March.
Tong Yan closed the invitation and glanced at Shang Xundao nervously, "Master, can you take me there?"
Shang Xun had said before that he wanted her to go back and form the elixir before going out, and it was absolutely impossible for her to form the golden elixir within three months. If she didn't want to miss this grand event, she must ask for his permission.
"Want to go?"
"I think." Tong Yan nodded repeatedly, then said miserably, "I have never attended a monk's wedding in my whole life, and I have never been to Penglai. Take me there. The pill formation cannot be formed in a day or two.
Yes, no less than ten days and a half."
Shang Xun didn't mean to restrain her deliberately. Besides, as long as he was around, nothing would necessarily happen. After thinking for a long time, under Tong Yan's expectant eyes, he slowly nodded his noble head.
When his wish came true, Tong Yan clenched his fists excitedly, saluted Shang Xun with a cupped fist, and said proudly: "Thank you, master!"
Shang Xun ignored her tricks, pressed her fist and said, "Drink the medicine obediently in the next time. If you don't recover well, then you will stay in the sect for retreat."
"Promise to complete the task! But I really only poured a little bit of the dregs of the medicine just now. If I had known that it was so effective, I would definitely drink not a drop left." Tong Yan felt that Shang Xun probably didn't fully believe him, so he again
Justify yourself.
Shang Xun ignored her and lowered his head to open the invitation and read it again.
After coming here for a while, when he saw him putting the post back, Tong Yan asked, "Master, do you know what happened to the Meng family in Luoshan in the past, and who is Meng Changlong?"
"Meng Changlong?" Shang Xun raised his eyebrows as if trying to recall who this person was, and after a moment he said, "How did you know this person?"
"Meng Gu'an, I heard what they said this morning, what happened to this man."
Shang Xun shook his head lightly, "It's nothing. It's just that this person used to be named Wu Changlong. In order to successfully return to the Meng family, he changed his name to Meng Changlong."
As for why Meng Changlong was born and raised in the Wu family, we have to start with his grandparents.
About five hundred years ago, an astonishing genius in puppetry appeared among the disciples of the Meng family. Whether it was making puppets or controlling magic, he was far superior to his peers.
This person is the second uncle Meng Xu, who is currently the head of the Meng family.
Perhaps the world of geniuses is different from the world of ordinary people. Meng Xu had a very bad relationship with his brothers and sisters in the clan, and his own personality was also very withdrawn and surly.
In the entire family, except for his eldest brother who could talk to him for a few words, the only people who accompanied Meng Xu were a bunch of emotionless monster puppets.
The Meng family's puppetry technique has been practiced for thousands of years, and they have used the corpses of all monsters and beasts to practice it. However, the forbidden technique of humanoid puppetry is a taboo that is not tolerated by the world. No Meng family member is allowed to learn it secretly.
The common methods for refining puppets are: one is to use animal bone artifacts to refine them, and the other is to directly use corpses to refine them.
I heard that the early puppetry technique became well-known to everyone precisely because of the emergence of humanoid puppets. Some even went to extremes, and it was very cruel to kill people and refine corpses in order to refine powerful puppets.
Such behavior aroused public outrage at the time, and countless people surrounded and suppressed the puppet master who refined the living person.
After that catastrophe, the inheritance of puppetry was almost cut off. Only the Meng family quietly escaped into seclusion and barely escaped the disaster.
The Meng family first classified humanoid puppets as a forbidden art and shelved it in a high cabinet. Later, they moved the entire family several times, firstly to hide from the pursuers, and secondly for the sake of the development of the clan. After many twists and turns, they finally settled in Luoshan.
Thousands of years later, Meng Xu, after mastering other puppet arts, was not satisfied with this, so he secretly learned the forbidden arts, and even used his identity to secretly refine human puppets.
By the time the head of the Meng family knew about this, the secret of Meng Xu's refining of human puppets had already been spread to everyone, which also made the Meng family a target of public criticism at that time.
All major aristocratic families have forced the head of the Meng family to hand over Meng Xu and the forbidden arts, otherwise they will not give up easily. Although the Meng family was already a super aristocratic family at the time, they still felt under pressure in the face of so many enemies.
The head of the Meng family had to ask for help from the Qiankun Sect, and the Qiankun Sect did not stand idly by, but Meng Xu's refining of humanoid puppets eventually caused another panic in the cultivation world.
Even the number one sect cannot deliberately favor them at this time.
When the two sides were in a stalemate, Meng Xu appeared. He suddenly announced that he had severed ties with the Meng family. From then on, all his actions had nothing to do with the Meng family.
Then he killed several people from aristocratic families and ran away without a trace.
When Meng Xu reappeared in the eyes of the public, it was already fifty years later. He took countless humanoid puppets to the Wu family to snatch the bride. He kept saying that the bride standing here at this moment was supposed to be his wife, and his face was filled with anger.
He asked the bride why she left him.
At that time, the Wu family was barely considered a first-class family, with status and strength. How could they tolerate others hitting them in the face in front of many guests?
After the bride said that she had nothing to do with him, Meng Xu went crazy and controlled the puppet to fight with the Wu family.
In this battle, Meng Xu's puppet army was defeated, and the Wu family also suffered heavy casualties and was severely weakened.
After this battle, Meng Xu disappeared again. No one knew where he went. It was unknown how long it had passed before the news of his death spread widely among the people.
Although the wedding was interrupted midway through, the bride and groom were already married to the Wu family after all.
After that, Meng Xu never appeared within ten miles of the Wu family again, and the new daughter-in-law of the Wu family successfully gave birth to a daughter named Xu eight months after their wedding.
This person is Meng Changlong's mother.
Not long after she was born, the Wu family became the only family in the entire cultivation world that knew how to use puppetry.
Wu Xu's mother died when she was less than ten years old. Some careful people recorded the death times of Meng Xu and her and found that their death dates were very close.
When Mrs. Wu Shaofu died, it was the days when Meng Xu's death was reported.
Some people say it's a coincidence, while others talk about committing suicide for love, but only they themselves know what it is.
After her mother died, Wu Xu grew up in the Wu family as usual. When she reached the age where she could get married, the elders of the Wu family arranged a marriage and they got married. Many years later, they gave birth to a son.