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Chapter 7 The Elixir of Longevity

Tao Sheng was walking down the street with his precious donkey, Lu Luo, when suddenly it started to rain.When traveling, especially when there are mounts, I am most afraid of encountering this kind of weather.He raised his head and glanced, the air was mixed with raindrops, and Lu Luo was wet, and his hair was shaking.Tao Sheng touched the fur on the back of Luluo's neck, it was already wet, and the water should soak it through in a while.

"We have to find a place to shelter from the rain." Tao Sheng said to Lu Luo.

"Did you hear anything?" Tao Sheng asked Lu Luo.

Green Luo nodded obediently.

"It's really nice, this should be... Song Ling." Tao Sheng said, "The hawkers have all closed their stalls. The sound is in the alley."

There is a simple shed in the alley. Inside the shed is a little girl dressed in black. The girl's skirt has a slit, revealing half of her calf.

When she saw Tao Sheng, the girl stopped speaking.

It was originally a song calling for his companions, but he didn't expect that he could hear it too.

"Don't worry, I'm not a bad person." Tao Sheng put his coat over the girl, covering her calf.

"Who are you?" the girl asked.

Tao Sheng picked up a piccolo between his sleeves and played "Zhi O":

"Zhi Pei Xi looked at his father

The father said sigh to the son, and there is no end in the night

Shang Shen Zhanzai is still coming

I look at my mother

The mother said, 嗟嗟嗟募功營營營營營營營營營營

Shang Shen Zhanzai is still coming

Chek Pei Gang Xi looks at brother Xi

The elder brother said, "I will serve the younger brother together in the night."

Shang Shen Zhanzai is still alive and dead

......"

"Tao Sheng! You are actually Tao Sheng!" the girl exclaimed.

"I wrote this piece when I was nine years old, and just now I heard the girl humming in the distance. When I was curious, I took the donkey and looked for it... The girl's singing is more ethereal and ethereal than my "Zhi O" That's it!" Tao Sheng saluted respectfully.

"Tao Gongzi's songs are rare in the world, and I have always regarded them as treasures."

"Master, girl, do you want a ride?" A driver stopped at the alley.

"Where can I go to shelter from the rain?" Tao Sheng asked.

"Yes, there is the Changsheng Theater nearby."

"Then let's go, can my donkey be led behind your car?" Tao Sheng asked.

"Okay, get in the car," said the driver.

After dinner, the Xiuyanxu group and A Jing were listening to the play.

"A Jing!" Tao Sheng tapped A Jing on the shoulder.

"Tao Sheng!" A Jing was surprised, how much effort was required.

"I didn't expect to meet again after only half a day!" Tao Sheng said.

"Yes, who is this?" A Jing asked.

"Singling people, by the way, what's your name?" Tao Sheng forgot that he didn't ask her name when he was introducing this woman.

"Flying." The woman replied.

"People live up to their name." Tao Sheng said.

"Sister Xian's clothes are wet, just change mine." Li said, leading Xianting to the upstairs wing.

"Sister Li is very warm-hearted." A Jing said to Tao Sheng, looking at Li's back.

Two young men dressed in black with extraordinary heroic spirit walked into the Changsheng Theater.Pu Zhu recognized the dress at a glance, and knew that the two of them were here to find the flies, but kept silent.

"Sister Xian, I happen to have a dark-colored dress here, which is quite similar to yours, you can put it on."

"Thank you Sister Li." Although Hua Ting was very quiet, she was not restrained.

……

"I'll dry this one for you, and I'll sew it up for you in a while, and it's ready to wear." Li said.

"My brothers are already downstairs. They may be in a hurry to leave. I'm afraid they will leave at a young age." Hua Ting said.

"Oh, then let me go. When we meet, I'll give it to you."

"Well, thank you sister."

Li Yan saw that she had tied a knot on her right shoulder, which might be the mark of their clan.

"Brother, wait for me, we can leave." Xianting walked up to the crowd and thanked: "Xianting, thank you brothers and sisters, my two elder brothers Xianzhi and Xianzhen have come to look for me. Call, go ahead."

Everyone nodded to meet, and then the three of her left.

The driver who was driving was eating and complained to the other driver, "I didn't expect that this time Beeling was sent here to be such a weak woman."

"Did you really see it?"

"Yes. I took her to the Changsheng Theater. Isn't that an order from above? I have completed this task."

"The person in charge will definitely reward you."

"Don't count on it! It's always boring!"

One evening three days later, A Jing suddenly became depressed. She was unhappy. Li Shuang discovered the problem, and she took A Jing to the Qixia Lake outside the theater for a walk.

Li rubbed A Jing's head and asked her, "What's the matter, little A Jing."

Ajing buried his head in Lishuang's arms, "I don't know what's wrong, it's a sudden and uncomfortable feeling. It seems like it's been backlogged for a long time."

Li Shuang stroked A Jing's hair and said, "Tell me about it."

"I'm out of Qiaocheng, and I've been living a life of fear. There have been a lot of changes in my life recently, and I don't know what to do," said Ajing.

"You are the destiny above ten thousand, A Jing, you have to be more confident."

"I don't know anything about Wancheng's destiny, and it has nothing to do with my life. I'm just a little slave. Before I met Tao Sheng, I didn't think I was a person." A Jing said sadly.

"I actually don't know what to say to comfort... Let me tell you a story, I had two cats, I kept them in a cage, and one day they were bored and neither of them were listless. Suddenly, I opened the cage, When I thought about letting them out to play, their eyes lit up and they jumped out in an instant, so happy." Li Yan was organizing this metaphor while recalling.

"Then what?" A Jing was a little curious.

"Ha, it doesn't matter. Sometimes, people are like cats in cages, living in their own small circles. When fate opens the cage for you, you can be like a cat and be happy. Come out and let the wind out of your heart! Besides, you don’t need to be under pressure at all, you think, I opened the cage to let them come out to play, to make them happy, not to harm them.” Li Tiao also solved some of his doubts and was a little excited.

"I understand, since you have already said that, Sister Li, I am a destiny above ten thousand, and I should be very happy. It is fate that opened the cage for me, so I will go out and play, anyway, there is a ghost The arrangement in the underworld is for me, do you think I am right?" A Jing felt that his burden was being carried by a pair of invisible hands, and he relaxed.

"Yes, I understand it a little bit." Li Shuang looked at the younger sister and said, "Actually, the world is full of wonders, and not everyone has a destiny above ten thousand. Multiplication, multiplication, some are born without even a multiplication... Most people do not know the number of their own destiny, and they do not know the trajectory of their fate... Everyone lives like an ant, even if it is ten thousand times. What about the fate above? Isn't there endless troubles?"

"Having said that, I feel like I'm desperate again." A Jing suddenly acted like a spoiled child.

"Haha, A Jing, you are still young, and there are still many things you don't know! Your ego has not been fully established, so you will be very unstable." Li Yan has exhausted his own language.

"I might be a little stupid."

"There are no smart people in this world. Time will weave an all-encompassing world. No matter who he is, he has the meaning of his existence, and he doesn't have to know what the meaning is." Li said.

"I seem to understand a little bit, but I don't fully understand it yet. But I feel better, not so sad and uncomfortable." A Jing seems to understand, but listening to Sister Li speaks, she will feel very warm, she is attached to this kind of Sincere warmth.

"Good Akyung."

"When did such a rambunctious idiot come to our theater!" Someone in the back kitchen of the Changsheng Theater was babbling.

"It's not that you're greedy for Chunniang." More and more people were watching the show.

"How many times do you want me to say this, don't pester me again!" Chunniang, the cook, shouted hysterically at the weak little man. She even hoped that he would slap her and walk away, but unfortunately he kept pestering her. .She looked at his useless appearance, and she was not angry.

"You said you were with me when I gave you the hosta." He said.

"In your heart, I am the root hairpin?" Chunniang looked at the dead and poor man named He Lai with contempt.

"Chunniang, I can't live without you."

"Go away! Don't bother the old lady again!"

Chef Chunniang and He Lai didn't have an end, and the person who watched the joke in the back kitchen had something to do.

"You people, the cooking is not very good, and the jokes are all over the place. One is better than the other." Chef Zhang complained and did not forget to cook the meat.

"Chef Zhang, I'll get the food." Ye Xing called Chef Zhang and walked into the back kitchen of the Changsheng Theater.

"It's all ready for you." Chef Zhang smiled and gave Ye Xing a drawer.

"I thank Chef Zhang for them." Ye Xing took the cage and walked away with a smile, his movements light and polite.

Chunniang saw Ye Xing's clean and handsome appearance, but when she looked at He Lai's face, she couldn't help but feel a little depressed.Don't get angry.

"Chunniang, Chunniang, please forgive me, tell me what's wrong with me, I'll change it, I really can't live without you." He Lai still begged bitterly.

"Why are you so useless!" Chunniang slammed out the door.He came to catch up.

In the evening, a group of people eat around the table.

"When I set off, I saw a strange thing." A Jing said.

"What's weird?" Li Yan asked.

"There is a car full of children, and the children are very beautiful. The car first wanted to stop at the main entrance of the Evian Museum, but the manager felt it was inappropriate and urged it to stop at the side door."

"and then?"

"Those children were brought in one by one. I waited outside. After a while, they turned into dead babies and were moved out, as if there were a few fewer." A Jing recalled, and stopped his chopsticks. .

"Is there such a sinister thing?" Tao Sheng also frowned.

"Evian Museum should be the industry of the greedy people." Pu Zhu said with a frown.

"The greedy people..." A Jing said.

"Yes, the greedy clan is an evil force composed of two groups. It should have spread to the corners of Fenghua City." Pu Zhu said.

"Which tribe's property is this Evian Museum?" Pu Piao asked.

"Anyway, the greedy people will definitely not hand over the core industries that benefit a lot to the three slave branches." Li said.

"What are the three branches of slavery?" A Jing asked.

"It's the Golden Seal Clan, the Suoying Clan, and the Debt Clan. They are the three most bullied and trampled clans in this world, and they do not belong to the Greedy Clan. In order to fight against the Spirit Clan, the Greedy Clan accepted these three small clans. Clan, collectively referred to as the three slave tribes." Tao Sheng said and took a sip of tea.

"These external clans have been bullied and oppressed, and their lives are not as good as slaves out of Qiaocheng." Pu Piao said.

"Ah, it seems that the greedy people are really as rumored." A Jing said with affection, "When the housekeeper was in charge of us before, it was better to be a slave here than to be assigned to the greedy people. What, we never know why he said that."

"The guest officer heard of Renrui and Renhua?" The attendant on the side suddenly spoke.

"You are..." A Jing raised his eyes to see the man, but did not say the word "Cheng Mu".Tao Sheng also knew everything at a glance.

"The youngest is Ye Xing." He said, pouring tea and water with a smile, ignoring the expressions of A Jing and Tao Sheng.

"Little brother, what are Renrui and Renhua you just said?" Li Fei asked.

"The Renrui and Renhua of the Evian Pavilion have recently been the sweets in Fenghua City. A large number of wealthy businessmen and dignitaries came here for this purpose. Didn't the guest officials come for this?" Ye Xing raised an eyebrow and said, Ah Jing saw it and was really uncomfortable.

The group of people from Xiuyan Market looked at each other, A Jing and Tao Sheng also looked at each other.

It was Li Fang's younger brother Li Fang who reacted and said hurriedly: "Brother, forgive me, we are ignorant and ignorant. We pass by this place and don't know what is going on in the Evian Pavilion? Please let me know."

"This Evian Pavilion is spread all over the world, and it is said to be a branch of the Immortal Clan at the head of the greedy clan. Some people have cultivated a person who can make people immortal, and a person who can make people look beautiful. People are flocking to get it! It's so lively!" Ye Xing described it with rapturous eyebrows.

"Senior Brother Pu, look at this..." Li Shuang's face was solemn, he already understood the joints, and looked at Pu Zhu.Pu Zhu's heart was half-hearted, and he said, "Thank you, little brother, for telling me that I will go to the Evian Museum tomorrow to open my eyes." Pu Zhu said.

A cat jumped out of the window into the guest room of the Evian Pavilion and sniffed.

It found a treasure bottle that smelled of balsam.

The cat's eyes stared at the sleeping man, and it was estimated that he would not wake up.So it was brave enough to pour out the small bottle, and there were several small pills flowing out, white and round, fragrant and glutinous, and it ate it whole.

The cat washed his face, the man suddenly started snoring, the cat was guilty of a thief, turned around and jumped away.

"This person is really a good thing, look at my face, it's really beautiful." Chai Dunhun said to the mirror with self-pity.

"Miss is like a flower like a jade, but now she's more watery." Ziyi Empress said.

"Let that firewood get me some more."

"Yes." Empress Ziyi said.

Wang Le looked at the pair of people on his car with radiant faces and smiling faces, and continued to drive.Conjecture: What's so tricky about this Evian Museum?This man changed his appearance when he went in and out.

Wang Lei was the driver who took A Jing and Tao Sheng to the Changsheng Theater.

The moonlight in the middle of the night reflected in a dilapidated and poor hut.

Dong Dong Dong, someone knocked on the door.

"Who is it?" The woman was feeding the child when she heard the voice growling outward.

"It's me, open the door." The man's voice, the woman recognized, was her man.

"coming."

The man burst into tears when he saw his wife holding the baby who had finished breastfeeding.

"What's wrong with you, what's wrong with you, talk." The woman was a little flustered.

The man looked at the child and looked at it carefully, "This baby is with me. If it's not good-looking, I won't use it to refine Renhua, but I have to keep it alive, otherwise I'll use it to refine Renrui."

"What are you talking about?" The woman was confused.

The man was buried in his wife's arms, sobbing and crying.

The next morning, the group got up early, Li Shui and Pu Zhu's younger sister Pu Si bought tofu brains from Grandma Yu outside the door.There are chicken bean curd brain, beef vermicelli tofu brain and sweet bean brain.

"Ajing, why did you come to Fenghua City?" Lishuang asked.

"I have to ask Tao Sheng, I came with him." A Jing said while eating the fans' tofu brain.

"I originally went to Xiuyan Market to apprentice, and the elders in my family felt that A Jing and Xiuyan Market also had a chance. I thought it was a good thing for A Jing to visit when I was a teenager, so they went together. Fenghua City is our only way."

"It's a good thing to worship a teacher. The Xiuyan Ruins are very big, and all the teachers are also highly respected. Do you have a letter of worship?"

"Yes, the elders in the family said that we should get started first. As for the master, we will meet by fate when we see it."

"Ah."

"Sister Li, how did you come to Fenghua City? Isn't Xiuyan Ruins very good?"

"Xiuyan Ruins got news that there is a catastrophe in Fenghua City, we are respecting the teacher's order to come and see first."

"Is it more serious than the Evian Pavilion?"

"Ah."

"When we go to the Evian Museum in a while, we should observe more, act according to the opportunity, and don't be reckless, so as not to startle the snake." Pu Zhu said.

Everyone nodded colorfully.

When A Jing saw Ye Xing was serving dishes, he slipped away and said, "Cheng Mu, you have a nice beard."

"Shh, I don't want others to know that my beard is fake." Ye Xing said.

"Why did you become Ye Xing again?"

"It's a long story, I'm serving dishes. I'm on duty in the morning, and you can talk about it when you come back." He was busy delivering the dishes.

In the same morning, Laiyun Town next to Fenghua City.

"Don't worry, Aunt Zhang, we are taking our children to enjoy happiness." Grandpa Laugh said while pinching his beard.

"Yes, in the future, I will go to the Lin family in Qing Oi City to be a book boy. There is a great prospect!" Uncle Cai helped.

"What the two masters said is, you old woman, let go! Useless things." The man took the child and handed it over to Uncle Cai.

Uncle Cai gave the man a golden lump. "Take it!"

"Thank you, Lord Cai! In the future, there will be goods for you two! I really met the God of Fortune!" The man was sweating profusely with joy.Push his wife and leave, "Let's have another one."

Grandpa Xiao and Uncle Cai put the child in the car outside the door and got into the car with a smile.

"The third one today." Uncle Cai said.

"Let's go, go to Miss Li's house to see." Grandpa Laugh said.

In the same morning, the bedroom of Jin Caicai, the hostess of Shenxie Pavilion.

"Why did I marry such a useless thing in the first place!" Jin Caicai got angry and threw the hosta in two pieces.

"Don't be angry girl, you are still pregnant with a child," said Mama Wei.

"Look, Shenxie Pavilion is all under my control! What's his use?"

"Master Ling can still be a side when he is outside."

"That's not because I decided everything for him, and let him show his face. He is just like a person. My fine lines have grown up, look at it, Mama Wei." Jin Cai was furious.

"How can there be any fine lines, the girl is so watery!"

"I won't go to that aunt's birthday party." Thinking of giving such a big face to the aunt, Jin Caixuan became angry and hated, "The aunt is an old woman, and she looks better than me because she has eaten a lot of people. When you are younger, don’t worry about anything, don’t ask. I’m working hard! Those who worry about it are getting old! If you go there, you will be laughed at by that aunt.”

"I'm going, now this Fenghua City, the Evian Museum is in full swing, the girl sees it, you know it's no big deal." Wei's mother stroked Jin Caicai's hair, "The girl will always be the best looking in this Fenghua City, wait for the child After birth, let's take a few human flowers to eat, it will definitely be more beautiful than that auntie."

"Mama Wei, how is the lady preparing?" Ling Fengfeng shouted from outside the door. "It's almost time." Mama Wei said, instructing the little girl to embroider red and embroider purple to help Jin Caicai get dressed.

Ziyu, who is in Shenxie Pavilion, is no longer the little slave who came out of Qiaocheng that A Jing saw. She is now the dancer of Shenxie Pavilion. Called Fragrance.

"You know Xiangying was beaten," Xianglian said.

"How's it going?" Xiangyu asked.

"I'm not human, I can't see people, I've been kicked out." Xianglian said.

"Then I'd rather be beaten." Xiangyu lowered her eyes.

"You think too much, Xiangying is sold to a leper as a concubine." Xiangqin sneered, as if mocking her fate, more like her own future.

"What crime did our clan commit, and our fate is like this?" Xianglian was sad, her eyes moist.

"Mrs. Jin is going out. It's a big deal to see how she dresses up." The calm Xiangyu didn't have a trace of waves on her face.

"They are both slaves, this Jinyin clan looks like a person anyway... We are not as good as beasts." Xiangqin was tired of saying this, gathered up her dress, and walked away.

"Brother and sister, you are crying. Go ahead and hug Mommy." Mrs. Tao Xijuan looked worriedly at Chen Mi, who was missing her soul.

"Mom, mom, mom..." Tao Qianqian hugged her mother Chen Mi, and Chen Mi's face was ashen.

"What can I do?" Xijuan looked at Tao Lian.

"The factory brother's life is just over three months, and the doctors in the house are helpless." Tao Lian said.

"This orphan and widowed mother, what will you do in the future?" Mrs. Tao Xijuan looked at her husband, the unconscious factory brother, and the dying younger brother and sister Chen Mi. She was also worried, but she was also thinking about a solution.

"It's a big deal. There are two more pairs of bowls and chopsticks in my house." Tao Lian also had a sad face, "This is Chen Mi. If the factory brother leaves, Chen Mi will probably follow." Xijuan looked at Tao Lian and said : "Master, it's not that things can't be turned around."

(End of this chapter)