Fruit fairy

Chapter 6 Rumors of Guizong Token

At this time, the patriarch saw that he turned to leave, and immediately said anxiously: "Master Wu, wait a minute, the old man is willing to give five copper essences as a gift, please ask the master to invite the city master to come and kill the monsters?"

"Bronze Essence?" Hall Master Wu was taken aback when he heard the words, "Jade Essence is a white tiger, Gold Essence is a chariot and horse, Bronze Essence is a child slave, and Lead Essence is an old woman. Is this what you call the Bronze Essence?"

After seeing him nodding his head solemnly, Pavilion Master Wu said thoughtfully, "This copper essence is used by monks to refine high-grade magic weapons. Why do you, an ordinary person, have this thing? How do you know its origin?"

"This..." the patriarch hesitated immediately.

"I delayed my practice because I like refining weapons. It's not difficult to find out in the city. But you suddenly took out five copper essences and asked me to invite the city lord to kill demons. There are many strange things about this matter. If you can't explain it to me today If you get a satisfactory answer, don't blame me for being cruel."

After finishing speaking, Pavilion Master Wu squinted his eyes and released a coercion, which made the patriarch shudder.

"Master Wu, please don't get me wrong, please listen to me, okay?" Patriarch Li immediately said hastily.

A moment later, the head of the Wu hall raised his hand in vain, and a cloud of misty mist enveloped the patriarch and flew into the air, arriving outside the ancestral hall in the blink of an eye.

Standing outside the door were a few members of the Li clan, strong and energetic, standing on both sides in sleeveless military uniforms. When they saw the patriarch, they immediately bowed and saluted.

With a wave of his hand to send everyone away, the patriarch led Hall Master Wu to a secret room in the ancestral hall, took out a brass key from between the wooden pillows next to the bed, lifted the bed board and took out a square, the size of a human head. The copper box, when opened, reveals a few things inside.

"Master Wu, please take a look, has the little old man ever lied to you?"

Pavilion Master Wu didn't step forward, but let go of his spiritual sense and looked around carefully.

After a while, he didn't find anything tricky, then the head of the Wu Pavilion nodded and walked into the secret room to take the copper box, and looked carefully.

The contents in the box were only the size of a pigeon egg, and the shape was irregular. It shone with golden light like ordinary gold, but it felt warm and moist in the hand, and it was extremely hard. The owner of the museum immediately recognized that this object was the so-called copper essence.

And there is also a stack of square silk cloth in the box. When I opened it, I saw that it was written in tiny words, so I read it word by word.

After a long while, the owner of Pavilion Wu looked at Patriarch Li with a slightly terrified expression, and said:

"The silk cloth says that you, the Li clan, are actually miners sent here by the Immortal Cultivation Family. There is only one Cultivation Clan with the same surname as yours for thousands of miles. Could it be that your ancestors really came from there?"

The patriarch hurriedly said a few words modestly, and then said: "That happened a long time ago, and now we have lost contact with each other. As far as I know, Master Wu is also a branch of the family, so he must know that if the branch clan wants to recognize If the ancestor returns to the clan, according to the clan rules, only the monks of the clan must pass the "return to the clan token" to verify the authenticity before they can lead the clansmen to return together, and the suzerain will never accept the branch without monks."

"You inquired carefully." Pavilion Master Wu snorted coldly and didn't continue, it seems that he acquiesced in this matter.

In fact, the experience of Mr. Wu is even more bizarre.

He returned to the clan with the token of returning to the clan back then, only to find that the lineage of the suzerain had been cut off, and there had not been a monk in a hundred years, and the suzerain happened to be near the end of his lifespan, so he suddenly passed on the position of suzerain to him before the world , the result is that the branch becomes the suzerain line.

But what about becoming the suzerain?It still can't change the family's decline.

At this time, patriarch Li bowed apologetically and sighed: "It's a pity that after the sudden death of the patriarch of the previous generation, the 'token of returning to the clan' has disappeared. I can't go back to the sect."

Sighing for a while, the patriarch suddenly remembered that there was still business to do, so he said quickly:

"These five copper essences must have been confirmed by the museum owner. At the beginning, I really wanted to use this as a gift to invite the museum owner Wu to kill demons, but these are relics of the ancestors, so I was reluctant to use the five hundred-year-old Ganoderma lucidum. plant as a gift."

"If those five Ganoderma lucidums over a hundred years old are refined into elixir, it must be possible to increase the life of the city lord by ten or twenty years, right? I don't know if Master Wu can accept these copper essences and transfer the five ganodermas to the city lord for him to take action." Rescue each other once?"

Hall Master Wu looked about forty years old, Shouyuan didn't care too much about it, but these five copper essences were just right for him, so he nodded in agreement, but then he remembered something immediately said:

"The ugly thing is up front. If the five Ganoderma lucidums fail to ask the City Lord to take action, I will only return the Ganoderma lucidum. Can you agree?"

"Thank you, Pavilion Master Wu. My Li family will never forget the kindness and righteousness. If this is the case, please ask Pavilion Master Wu to notify the City Lord immediately?" Patriarch Li bowed down.

As a monk, Pavilion Master Wu accepted his worship calmly, and then said: "I will lend you the secret room."

Pavilion Master Wu put away the copper essence and returned the copper box. He sat cross-legged and took out the sound transmission talisman and said a few words. After rubbing his hands together, the sound transmission talisman turned into a flame and flew out of the secret room, disappearing in an instant.

After finishing the official business, the owner of the Wu Pavilion asked seemingly casually: "There is one more thing I want to ask the patriarch. Do you know where these copper essences come from? If you can tell the truth, Wu will definitely give you a generous gift."

He took out a small emerald green porcelain bottle, held it in his hand and said:

"There is a purple cloud pill in this bottle, which has the effect of strengthening bones, removing silt, moisturizing tendons and restoring strength. Although this pill is useless to us monks, it is also well-known in the mortal world. After taking it, the body will be strong and healthy Adding years to your life is no problem.”

Unexpectedly, the patriarch smiled wryly and said: "Master Wu also said just now that our clan is descended from miners, and this copper essence is naturally obtained by our ancestors digging in the crypt, but this crypt is now It has been collapsed for decades, and there is still groundwater gushing out of it, so the owner of the Wu Pavilion must have already guessed where the cave is, right?"

Pavilion Master Wu was stunned for a moment, then raised his finger and gestured towards the lake: "You mean that the crypt is under the lake? But it is rumored that the ancestors of your lineage are two brothers who came here Seeing that it is surrounded by mountains and rivers, this is where I settled down."

Patriarch Li said with a chuckle: "These rumors were deliberately released by the previous generations of patriarchs. They are nothing more than putting money on their faces."

After Pavilion Master Wu sighed, his originally expectant expression suddenly became gloomy. He thought that if he got a few more pieces of copper essence, his blood-devouring golden skull mace could be refined to a higher level of spellcasting power. But at this time, the hope was shattered.

After a moment of silence, Pavilion Master Wu suddenly remembered something and immediately said:
"There is a crypt in the lake, why didn't you tell me earlier? Doesn't that mean that this snake demon has already escaped? No wonder this monster has not come up to breathe in the past three days. What a mistake."

The patriarch could only add: "It has been decades since the crypt collapsed. It must be filled with silt and lush with water and grass. It shouldn't be so easy to be discovered by it?"

"I hope so." Master Wu got up and left after finishing speaking.

In the yard, Li Can stared at the scene in front of him in a daze.

Only three days later, the leaves of the fruit trees in the courtyard fell to the ground, and the original emerald green leaves turned gray and withered and yellow.The same is true for the newly ripened sweet dates, which are still soft to the touch after falling to the ground, as if rotten, and emit a little fishy and musty smell.

"Throw it away quickly, these dates have been infected by poisonous gas." Li Can said to his brother immediately when he saw that he picked up a date and held it in his hand.

"Mother, is it the same for other fruits in the family?" Wang Shi heard the sound, so Li Can asked about it.

After coughing a few times, Mrs. Wang nodded, looking a little sluggish and not refreshed.

"Hey, it's really a leak in the house and it rains overnight. Even if the fruits at home can't be sold, they can be preserved for a period of time. But now they have changed color and started to rot. How can they be sold?"

Wang shook her head helplessly, and coughed several times after she finished speaking.

"mother."

At this time, Li Miao, who was playing not far away, yelled suddenly and ran back, holding a few dead sparrows in his hands, looking very happy.

After Li Can saw it, he quickly asked him to throw it away, and reprimanded him severely.

So Li Miao came to Wang's side feeling aggrieved, and when she was about to say something to ask her mother to support him, she suddenly shook her mother, looking dizzy, and quickly stopped her to support her and shouted.

"Mother, mother, what's wrong with you?"

Wang was still talking hard, saying that she just didn't sleep well at night, but Li Can knew in her heart that her mother must have had an early attack due to the poisonous gas.

When drinking the detoxification well water in front of the Rizu Temple, the mother said that one of them had been ill for a long time and was weak, and the other was too young to resist, so she insisted that she only drank half a bowl of detoxification well water, and divided the rest between him and Li Miao. half a bowl.

The detoxifying well water, which was already at the end of the queue, was already a bit insufficient, and Wang shi only drank half a bowl, so he couldn't bear it now.

After taking his mother back to the house, Li Can asked his younger brother to push him straight to the lake.

"The comer stops."

As soon as Li Can arrived at the lake, he was stopped by his disciples before he saw the shadow of Pavilion Master Wu.

After explaining his intention, the disciple waved his hands again and again and said, "Master has given all the detoxification pills to Patriarch Li, and there will be nothing left for anyone to ask for. Please go back."

Li Can begged the disciple several times, but he was still indifferent, and replied:
"You are not the only one who came here to ask for pills. Before that, more than ten people have come here to ask for pills, but they are all gone. If you listen to the advice, send your mother to Sifang City as soon as possible. Maybe you can save her by finding a medical center." One life, no matter how late it is, it will really be too late."

In desperation, the two brothers returned home quickly, and when they looked at their mother, they found that her face was already covered with a layer of gray air, her breathing was weak, and her body twitched occasionally, which turned out to be a little more serious.

(End of this chapter)