When we returned to the Fairy Spirit Temple, the sun was not high. Yue Anyan was gathering the golden bean sprouts with a wooden target. He had a graceful figure and stepped on the long shadow. He turned his head to look at the visitor who was calmly walking up the mountain with a calm smile on his face.
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The cool temperament on her body is balanced by the warm color of the setting sun in autumn.
"Ah uh... ah uh..."
The donkey, carrying the little one on its back, jumped up in front of the viewer, grinned and raised its head, and showed off its big voice when it had nothing to do.
It was announced that the son-in-law had come back, and the little one was so frightened that he dropped it into his pocket and almost peed.
"Let's just say that the magpies are making noise on the branches this morning, which is a happy event. Brother Feng has done things quickly and is back so soon. It's good, otherwise the mountain is strangely deserted. I haven't heard a donkey bray all day, and I feel uncomfortable all day long.
I can’t even sleep well.”
The old cripple walked out of the kitchen door, wiped his wet hands on his apron, and smiled happily.
There is a magpie nest in the forest to the east of the Taoist temple, which makes noise in the branches every day.
Whenever there is a happy event, the old cripple always talks about the magpie.
"Hey, the donkey also brought some snacks, which are too small, not enough for a plate of chews."
The donkey came up to him, and the old lame man patted the donkey's door. He saw the little badger peeking out of the bag, and he smiled and reached out to pick it up, but the donkey turned his head and pushed it away, preventing him from touching it.
"Uncle Lame, that's the godson the donkey picked up. You can't eat it."
Zhang Wenfeng took out the wine jar and cooked food lotus leaf bag from other pockets on the donkey's back, and handed them to the old cripple.
The old lame man took it with a smile and gave the donkey a slap on the butt. It felt solid to the touch, and he was in a great mood. He cursed "Donkey's day" and went into the kitchen. "I'll hurry up and cook. Let's have some drinks together tonight."
I don’t know whether he was talking to the donkey or Brother Feng.
Zhang Wenfeng took out two more oil-paper bags, walked a few steps and handed them to Yue Anyan, saying: "The preserved fruits sold by Kang's Shop in the dock from the county town look delicious, so I brought some for you."
Yue Anyan took it, with a red mark of "Assorted Preserved Fruits" stamped on the side of the paper bag, and said with a smile: "The viewer is interested."
He took a look at the sky and said, "Second Senior Brother will be back soon. The temple owner has had a hard journey, so go and wash yourself first. I will return the two books to you when I'm done."
Zhang Wenfeng asked in a low voice: "In the past two days, have you noticed any vibrations on the mountain?"
The bag, bamboo hat, saddle and other items were removed from the donkey's back, leaving a cloth bag containing the badger cub tied up.
He bought a few kilograms of cotton berries at the pier. The young badgers like to eat them and use them as food for the little ones.
Yue Anyan shook his head slightly and said: "No. My second senior brother and I searched carefully up and down the mountain several times. We went through all the rabbit holes and found nothing unusual. Go to Tuji Ridge and find out the reason for the abnormal vibration there?
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Zhang Wenfeng pointed to the baby badger crawling on the cloth bag and said, "It was a badger giving birth to its cubs. I will tell you about it in the evening when we are drinking tea." He then asked, "What's going on down the mountain?"
When can we resume work?”
"Second Senior Brother went to Zhangjiazhuang in the morning and came back at noon. He said that the wages were increased by 20%. Those people promised to resume work tomorrow. They have been busy with farm work at home these two days. They will hire more people and strive to complete the work early next month. Uncle Lame
I got it, I was a little angry, and scolded those people for being obsessed with money."
"There's nothing to be angry about. The weather has been sunny for a long time. I'm worried about the weather changing and delaying time. It's good to finish the work ahead of schedule."
Zhang Wenfeng felt calm.
Up and down the mountain, they are in the same world, but they are not in the same world.
Before he went out, he gave the two of them fifty taels of silver each. If there was something to do, they would be responsible for it. The second senior brother could think of more money to complete the matter ahead of schedule. He was very relieved. He didn't care about the money now.
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He carried the things and walked towards the hut, while the donkey carried the little one steadily down the mountain.
After dinner, the three of them sat around in the west hall, boiling water and making tea, chatting.
Under the oil lamp, the light is warm and yellow, and the tea is fragrant.
Yue Anyan found that the atmosphere in the Taoist temple was completely different whether the temple owner was present or not.
Last night, she and her second senior brother sat speechless, and the tea they drank felt bland and tasteless.
Zhang Wenfeng gave an overview of this mission, omitting some irrelevant matters. He did not mention the fruit of drunkenness.
The second senior brother briefly talked about how he went to Zhangjiazhuang for business, and then went on to visit two villages in the past two days to assess how many seedlings were recruited. Finally, he asked for instructions: "I met a ten-year-old child in the test today, who turned out to be a rare ice traveler. I don't know what we are doing."
Will the Taoist temple be accepted?"
He remembered that his master once said that Taoist temples do not have special training methods for the three elements of wind, thunder and ice.
I wonder if there is any suitable practice method in the secret room?
He did not tell the visitor about some of the gossip he heard from the women in Zhangjiazhuang, about giving outsiders easy benefits, nor about taking care of the dozen or so apprenticeships in the village, or about the Zhang family's awkward remarks about why their elbows were turned outward.
He has great ambitions in his heart and does not care about those ordinary people. I believe that the viewer will not care about it and will not say anything about it.
Zhang Wenfeng glanced at the senior sister and said with a smile: "Feel free to accept it. Even if our Taoist temple does not have the corresponding exercises, I can go to the Daolu branch to copy them. Then the senior sister will give you guidance and practice. You can accept it if you have wind or thunder qualifications."
"Sure, I understand. Let's go there again tomorrow."
After talking about the main business and talking about planting in the fields, when the time came, the three of them went to the main hall to offer incense and do evening classes.
After the evening class, Zhang Wenfeng carried the dried intoxicating flower petals in a small cloth bag to the East Hall Pharmacy, lit silver bone charcoal in the copper stove, and slowly roasted the intoxicating flower petals on a low fire.
This thing can only be baked at night. It took more than an hour to get a handful of dried silk that looked like tea leaves.
The fishy smell is gone and the fragrance is fragrant. Put it in a porcelain bottle, label it and store it in the medicine cabinet.
On the morning of the 15th, the second senior brother went out for a run. After returning, he stopped going out. He also did not go to other villages to test the apprentice seedlings in the afternoon. He recharged his energy and prepared to swallow the Qingqi Powder at an auspicious time in the evening.
The next morning, the second senior brother had early classes as usual. He took medicine for the first time to break through, but it ended in failure.
He looked slightly haggard and disappointed, but he concealed it well.
Zhang Wenfeng and Yue Anyan comforted him for a while. They knew that the second senior brother was older and it was still unknown whether he could overcome the current hurdle. They both hoped that the second senior brother could become a fellow disciple.
Never leave, never give up, go through wind and rain.
Life on the mountain goes on as usual, with the donkey carrying its godson running around. Since the badger cubs were born to play with, except for meals and morning and evening classes on the mountain, it was hard to see a shadow.
Zhang Wenfeng relaxed and rested for two days. He used copper coins to predict the auspicious time. At 4:00 on the 17th, he started the fire, hung the mirror in the southeast direction, and began to refine the second furnace of Qingqi Powder. He had to take advantage of the fresh feeling to accumulate more energy and refine it.
Drug experience.
Senior sisters helped light the fire and kept vigil, and everything went smoothly.
As the day and night passed, the medicine refining cave was filled with the aroma of medicine. Zhang Wenfeng silently estimated the time, removed the remaining charcoal from the stove, placed the palms of his hands against the semicircular copper buckles, and slowly activated Yuan Qi to turn into the energy of the medicine furnace for final refining and baking.
He was calm and free of distracting thoughts, and soon used his spiritual consciousness to "see" the high-temperature steaming scene inside the stove.
The mist swirls and swirls, and the dust mixes with each other.
All kinds of subtle changes are right in front of you, showing a very regular whirlpool shape from left to right.
The Yuan Qi in his body was consumed rapidly, and when he realized that he could no longer continue, the mist in the furnace suddenly lost control, and the vortex spread out and rolled around in all directions.
He could no longer see the scene inside, and a helpless smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
Listening to the irregular trembling and buzzing sounds in the furnace, he knew that the furnace medicine had been used up.
The success fell short, but it was almost done.
Let go of your hands attached to the copper buckle and circle around the slowly calming stove.
His success last time was actually due to his entering a magical realm and being able to control the use of every trace of Yuan Qi in his body. The spiritual consciousness that was opened to him in that realm would be of great benefit to him in refining medicine in the future.
Yuan Qi is not strong enough. Next time you refine the medicine, or at a critical moment, take a dose of Qingqi Powder in advance.