I'm an immortal in heaven

Chapter 675
Fang Jian followed Mei Xianzhang all the way away from Yanlai Lake and came to a small village west of Bailu City.

The name of this small village is 'Lu'er Village', because the village is built by mountains and water and looks like a deer's ear, so it is called Lu'er Village.

The population of Luer Village is only over 200, and it is an affiliated village of Bailu City. It is not surprising that such affiliated villages are very common, and the bigger the city, the more affiliated villages there will be.

Mei Xianzhang's father used to live in Bailu City, but after his house was ransacked, he moved out of the city and lived in Lu'er Village.

Walking to the small bridge outside the village, Mei Xianzhang stopped. She turned around and looked at Fang Jian with a pair of bright eyes. Fang Jian also stopped and looked at her.

The two people, one big and one small, stared at each other for a while, and then she sat down on the stone steps of the small bridge.

She was wearing thin, patched clothes and old cloth shoes that were also patched.

Although all the clothes are worn out, they are not dirty at all, but since the moment he left Qingxia Temple, Mei Xianzhang has been pressing his stomach with his left hand.

At this moment, she sat down on the stone steps of the small bridge, her left hand was still pressing on her stomach, and her small body leaned forward slightly, so that her entire chest and abdomen were tightly attached to her thighs.

Despite this, her eyes were still fixed on Fang Jian, even though cold sweat was already streaming from her forehead.

Fang Jian patted the third prince and motioned him to stand and wait.

Then Fang Jian walked up the small bridge by himself, walked to the step where Mei Xianzhang was sitting, and sat down beside her.

Then, Fang Jian said, "I'm looking for a man named Mei Qing, do you know him?"

Mei Xianzhang didn't speak, but she looked at Fang Jian with a hint of doubt.

Fang Jian looked at her and continued: "That was five years ago. I went to Beijing to rush for the exam, but I was so hungry that I spent all my money on the way. At that time, I was penniless and hungry and skinny. When I was about to starve to death, a man named Mei Qing gave me ten taels of silver."

"Although I didn't pass the exam later, I still remember his kindness. When we parted, I made a promise with him. When we meet again, I will kill chickens and burn yellow paper to pray for him. I will marry him in the Taoyuan of Yanlai Lake outside Bailu City. Jinlan."

"But I didn't find him in Bailu City. I heard that he moved out of Bailu City and lived in this Luer Village. Do you know him?"

After all, Fang Jian took out a healing elixir from his sleeve and said, "As long as you tell me where he is, this candy will be given to you."

After Fang Jian's voice fell, Mei Xianzhang did not look at the 'sugar' in Fang Jian's hand, but looked away, and let out painful hums and groans from his nose.

Immediately afterwards, Mei Xianzhang's back almost bent down, his face was pale and sweat was pouring down like rain.

Fang Jian lightly pressed Mei Xianzhang's back with one hand, and then asked, "Stomach pain?"

"En." Mei Xianzhang replied weakly.

A flash of inspiration flashed in Fang Jian's hand, and Mei Xianzhang suddenly felt his body warm, and then a sense of drowsiness surged up in an instant.

"Go to sleep, just sleep." Fang Jian said slowly.

Mei Xianzhang closed his eyes, leaned his body slightly, leaned against Fang Jian and fell into a deep sleep.

Fang Jian stood up and hugged Mei Xianzhang in his arms, and then took the third prince into Mei Xianzhang's home in Luer Village.

Mei Xianzhang's home is a house built with rammed earth walls, with only three rooms, a main room, a bedroom, a kitchen, and of course, a dry toilet at the back of the house.
"Sworn brothers!"

Holding Mei Xianzhang in his arms, Fang Jian immediately replied to the repeated inquiries from the villagers of Luer Village, "Yes, Mei Qing and I are sworn brothers. Where is it? Taoyuan!"

"That's right, since Mei Qing and I are sworn brothers, then his daughter is my little niece."

"I found her in Qingxia Temple, she seems to have been beaten."

"Huh? Why did you say 'Go to Qingxia Temple again'?"

After going back and forth, after several conversations, Fang Jian revealed his 'identity' and dispelled the suspicion of the villagers.

Then Fang Jian carried Mei Xianzhang into the bedroom, placed him gently on the bed, and fed Mei Xianzhang the healing elixir.

Mei Xianzhang is a mortal body and cannot withstand the power of the elixir, so he only needs the elixir to heal her injuries.

Fang Jian came to Nanzhou this time because of Mei Xianzhang, because he made a calculation early on and found that Mei Xianzhang in Nanzhou had a relationship with him, a relationship between master and apprentice.

As the elixir entered her stomach, wisps of spiritual light began to glow on Mei Xianzhang's small body. Although it was only a elixir, for a mortal, its medicinal power was enough to heal all the obvious injuries and hidden diseases on her body, and the remaining The power of the medicine will still accumulate in her body, continuously nourishing her physical body.

'Sigh the law'

Not long after Fang Jian fed Mei Xianzhang the elixir, the third prince's hiss and a man's exclamation suddenly came from the yard outside.

Fang Jian quickly turned around and ran out, and then saw a man with wicked eyebrows lying on the ground, clutching his chest and screaming.

"What's going on?" Fang Jian asked the villagers of Lu'er Village outside the yard.

But those villagers dispersed in a hurry, and those who did not disperse waved their hands again and again to express that they did not know what happened.

Fang Jian glared at the third prince, but the third prince blinked and said that he was wronged too. Although the third prince could not speak, it was a Tianma after all, and it could communicate with Fang Jian with its divine will.

After receiving the third prince's wishes, Fang Jian finally understood that this guy thought that the third prince was a good horse and wanted to steal the third prince, but was scared by the third prince and rolled to the ground. The third prince didn't kick him at all.

Fang Jian turned to the man and asked, "Are you okay?"

"It's all right?" The man lay on the ground and groaned in pain, then pointed to the third prince and said, "Your horse kicked my hoof, you have to pay for it! Otherwise, I will sue the officials and say that you hurt people with your horse!"

Fang Jian smiled and said, "Oh, how much compensation do you want me to pay?" '

The man rolled his eyes, first glanced at Fang Jian's clothes, then at the third prince, and concluded that the man in front of him was definitely a rich or noble young master, so he said, "I want you to pay 100 Two, your horse kicks too hard, and I’m afraid it won’t be cured without 100 taels of silver.”

Fang Jian thought for a while, he wouldn't argue with a mortal, so he offered 100 taels of silver to settle the matter.

But at this moment, a piece of broken tile suddenly flew towards the man on the ground, and hit the man's forehead with a 'slap' sound.

"Ouch", a lump of blood swelled up on the man's forehead in an instant, the man turned over and stood up, turned around and looked in the direction where the tiles were flying, and cursed immediately after seeing clearly; "Well, you little one!" You bastard, dare to beat you, Grandpa Shao! See if I'm not skinning you!"

After speaking, he rolled up his sleeves and walked towards Mei Xianzhang who was standing in front of the main entrance of the hall, but before he could take a few steps, a silver light blocked his way.

When he stopped to take a closer look, he saw that Fang Jian was holding a silver ingot and handing it to his eyes.

To be honest, although he wanted to extort 100 taels of silver from Fang Jian, but he had never seen such a large ingot since he was so old, and he was stunned for a while.

"Take the silver and get out of here." Fang Jian raised his left hand and patted him on the shoulder and said.

Hearing Fang Jian's words, without saying a word, he raised his hand and snatched the silver from Fang Jian's hand. It didn't hurt to throw in the blood bag, and the anger in his heart disappeared without a trace.

"You're smart, I'll take this money to see a doctor first, and I'll come to you later." After speaking, he put the money in his arms, turned around and ran out of the yard.

When the villagers outside saw that Fang Jian easily took out 100 taels of silver to send Shao Laizi away, they all stared at him with wide eyes.

After Shao Laizi left, those villagers who hadn't dispersed wanted to come into the yard to say hello to Fang Jian.

But Mei Xianzhang took the lead and said: "I don't welcome you here, you are not allowed to come in."

Hearing Mei Xianzhang's words, those villagers were stunned outside with embarrassment on their faces, neither entering nor leaving for a while.

Mei Xianzhang ignored them, but turned around and went into the kitchen, and started cooking at the bottom of the stove.

Fang Jian smiled slightly. His apprentice seemed to have a weird temper.

So Fang Jian sat down on a crooked broken stool in the main room, and after about an incense stick, Mei Xianzhang prepared the meal and brought it to the table in the main room.

Fang Jian took a look, Mei Xianzhang made two dishes, one was stir-fried cabbage and the other was stir-fried mushrooms, but because of too little oil, both dishes were fried a bit dark.

And Mei Xianzhang only ordered a bowl of rice, the rice in the bowl was very thin, and the grains were very broken, very small, it looked like the worst quality rice he had bought.

"Won't you make me a bowl?" Fang Jian asked with a smile.

Mei Xianzhang took a mouthful of rice and said: "You have money for Shao Laizi, don't you have money to eat?"

"Hahaha." Fang Jian laughed and said, "Why do you call him Shao Laizi?"

Mei Xianzhang said: "He is a ruffian from Lu'er Village and a thug of the 'Black Dragon Gang' in Bailu City. Didn't you see that the people in the village are afraid of him? You gave him 100 taels this time, and next time he will Dare to ask you for 1000 taels, he will always rely on you."

Fang Jian said: "Then you are not afraid of him? You just hit him with a tile."

Mei Xianzhang said: "Have I received fewer beatings? But they just couldn't beat me to death, otherwise I would have died long ago."

Fang Jian couldn't help sighing when he heard this. They couldn't kill you because you were destined to be my apprentice. How could you die so easily?

"Don't say these irrelevant things, are you really my father's sworn brother?" Mei Xianzhang asked Fang Jian: "He never told me."

Fang Jian said: "It's not important, the important thing is that I will be your elder from now on."

Mei Xianzhang paused slightly after hearing the words, and then said: "I'll talk about this later, I just want to get Kuixing Yan back first."

Fang Jian asked: "What about after you come back? Can you come with me?"

"No." Mei Xianzhang said: "After Kuixingyan is coming back, I still have to take the imperial examination to fulfill my father's last wish."

"Take the imperial examination?" Fang Jian looked slightly surprised, "But you are a woman?"

Mei Xianzhang said: "There is always a way. I heard that Mr. Shu talked about "The Female Consort", and the female consorts in it are women disguised as men to take the imperial examination."

Fang Jian heard this, and immediately said to Mei Xianzhang: "Women disguise themselves as men to take the imperial examination. If they are discovered, they will be beheaded."

Mei Xianzhang twisted a small stone out of the rice grains in his mouth, threw it away and continued eating.

After several bites in a row, Mei Xianzhang said: "The problem is not this."

"What's the problem?" Fang Jian asked.

Mei Xianzhang said: "The problem is that I can't read. The fool Shao Er from the east of the village told me a trick."

"What's the trick?" Fang Jian asked.

Mei Xianzhang hesitated for a moment, then took a few mouthfuls of food, and finally said: "You cured my stomachache, I can tell you, but you are not allowed to tell others."

Fang Jian smiled and said, "Okay."

Then I only heard Mei Xianzhang say: "Shao Er's idiot said that it is easier to take the imperial examination if you can read and write, but it is not easy to take the imperial examination if you can't read and write."

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Fang Jian was stunned and didn't react for a long time. After he did, he sighed deeply.

Mei Xianzhang asked, "Why are you sighing?"

Fang Jiandao: "I'm feeling sorry for Shao Er's idiot, who has such intelligence. I really underestimate the heroes of the world."

Mei Xianzhang ate all the rice at the bottom of the bowl, not a single grain of rice was left, and the clean ones were as clean as the washed ones. After Mei Xianzhang put down the bowl, he raised his head again and asked Fang Jian: "Can you read and write? ? By the way, I remember you said that you took the imperial examination before?"

Fang Jian nodded and said, "Yes, I will."

When Mei Xianzhang heard this, she immediately jumped off the chair under her that had been repaired many times, and then ran back to her bedroom. When she came back, she was holding a dozen copper coins in her hand.

"I only have seventeen coins, do you think it's enough? Can you teach me to read and write?" Mei Xianzhang asked Fang Jian holding seventeen copper coins in his baby fat hands.

Fang Jian glanced at the copper coins in her hand, then smiled and said, "I'm not short of money, but if you want me to teach you how to read and write, you have to worship me as your teacher."

"Okay." Mei Xianzhang said, "How do you worship?"

"Kowtow three times and serve a cup of tea." Fang Jian said.

'Boom' 'dong' 'dong' As soon as Fang Jian finished speaking, Mei Xianzhang knelt down on the ground and kowtowed to him three times.

"." Fang Jian was a little surprised, as his apprentice, he seemed to be too decisive.
After kowtowing, Mei Xianzhang knelt on the ground, raised his head and looked at Fang Jian, his eyes were full of longing for knowledge: "Is there water if there is no tea?"

"Yes." Fang Jian said.

Mei Xianzhang immediately stood up, ran to the kitchen to scoop up a bowl of water, handed it to Fang Jian and knelt down in front of Fang Jian: "Master, drink water."

"Cough cough." Fang Jian coughed, first got up and helped Mei Xianzhang up, and while helping her pat the dust on her knees, he said: "Now you have worshiped me as your teacher, and I am your master, master master , I will be your teacher and your father in the future, do you understand?"

Then he took a sip of the bowl of water from her hand, and then Mei Xianzhang nodded with a serious face and said: "Understood, dad."

"puff!"

(End of this chapter)