Please bring your best friends to practice immortality

Chapter 23 Captain Yu’s Dream

The old man smiled coldly when he heard this and said,

"I know what my Ninth Master Uncle is capable of. If we just rely on our Tongxuan Sect's power to find him, we will undoubtedly be looking for a needle in a haystack. Even if so many sects are looking for him, haven't they still not found him after more than 20 years? But he is an old man. Even if he dares to steal this sect’s most precious treasure, he cannot be too comfortable, so I will not tell others the secrets of this sect!”

Speaking of this, he smiled coldly,
"As far as I know...he has been hiding around like a mouse over the years, and his life has not been easy. Now I guess that he is not far away from passing away. His magic power has weakened, so he cannot cover the mirror. I’m so inspired…”

Hum! It has been more than 20 years, and it’s time for you, Uncle Ninth Master, to return the property to its original owner!

After saying that, he smiled at the man again, looked at his handsome face lovingly and said,
"Tian'er, I will tell you a secret that only the head of our sect knows..."

"Oh……"

The man named Tian'er perked up after hearing this.
"Master, please tell me..."

The old man said,

"The ancestor of the ancestor, the fairy, had a rare attribute of Tianling root. He also left behind a set of mirror control techniques that can only be practiced in the Nascent Soul stage. Only by practicing this set of techniques can the treasure mirror be used. The power of the Tianyi Sect has been fully exerted. Now you are also the first disciple of Tianlinggen since the establishment of our sect. When this is over, I will take you to see the Tianyi Sect Master in person and let him accept you as a disciple. From now on, you will embark on the journey. On the great road of cultivation, with your talent, your future achievements will be limitless. When you reach the Nascent Soul stage, you will return to this sect and take charge of the Tongxuan Mirror. With this treasure of the Immortal Family, I will enter the world of cultivation in Dayue through the Xuanmen. It’s not difficult, and with your talent and intelligence, you will definitely be able to carry forward our sect and become famous throughout the ages!”

The man named Tian'er heard this and said hurriedly,

"Thank you, Master, for caring so much for your disciple!"

The old man smiled slightly and stroked his beard and said,

"Good boy, you are my master's disciple, just like my master's parent and son, I should also make plans for you, no need to thank me!"

While the master and apprentice were talking in the car, the merchant ship Gu Shiyi was on was already ten miles away from the city.

Traveling by water is more comfortable than traveling by land. Sitting on a boat can cover dozens of miles in a day without much effort. Gu Shiyi has nothing to do except feed the horses and socialize around. With his clever talk, he can chat with the passengers on the boat. They became one, and after dinner on the second day on board, she had already begun to touch bones on the ship to tell people's fortunes.

"This little brother... Looking at you with three eyes, a round nose, plump lips, and droopy ears, you are a blessed person, but..."

She looked left and right at the boatman in front of her.
"If you still want to know more clearly, let me feel your bones..."

After saying that, he reached out and touched the little brother's chest. He pinched twice on the hard muscles, then moved to the waist and abdomen, touched the person, then turned to the back and patted the buttocks hard.

"Okay, okay... Not bad! Not bad!"

Gu Shiyi touched the beard that was not there at all on his chin, squinted and smiled,
"Are you asking about marriage?"

"Yes...hehe...yes..."

The honest boatman boy blushed when she touched him. He scratched the back of his head and nodded. Gu Shiyi smiled and said,

"Your Red Luan star will move next year. Next year you need to go north. Your marriage will be in the north..."

The little brother thought about it for a moment with admiration on his face.

"Master Gu is right. My distant cousin is in the north of our village. I heard that she will be eighteen next year. My mother said she wanted to tell me about this relative... You mean, she will be My mother-in-law?"

Gu Shiyi smiled noncommittally, stretched out his hand and patted his chest again.

"Then...just wait with peace of mind. I guarantee you will get a wife next year and have a son the year after that!"

"Thank you! Thank you Master Gu for your kind words!"

The little brother took out five copper coins from his arms, thought about it and took back two with a look of pain. Gu Shiyi saw this and grabbed them.

"Brother, for five copper coins, I will give you another hexagram..."

After saying that, he pretended to pinch his fingers.
"I said that within three moments of your absence there will be some gossips that will cause you harm and harm your body. The way to protect yourself is to leave here quickly..."

"Really...really!"

The little brother looked shocked. He was so accurate. He could calculate everything in front of him?

Gu Shiyi nodded seriously,
"You believe me!"

Seeing that my little brother is still doubtful,

"If you don't leave, the villain will come!"

The little brother made a fuss, got up and left, but he was caught as soon as he got out of the cabin door. Someone screamed,

"Xiao Qi, why are you hiding here..."

After saying that, without waiting for him to speak, he shouted to the forward deck,

"Boss, Xiaoqi is hiding here!"

"I...I...I'm not hiding...I, I..."

Wang Xiaoqi really came out to ask Gu Shiyi to tell his fortune. He was so anxious that he couldn't speak when he was yelled at. The captain of the boat was called over and kicked him on the butt. ,
"Wang Xiaoqi, you've run out of food tonight! Why don't you go and catch up on your work!"

The three of them left after making a fuss. Gu Shiyi chuckled and counted the five coins in his palm, then smiled at the clay figurine hiding in his back collar and said,
"Yan'er, you are really amazing. You just read that old guy's hexagram book for two days, and you can actually calculate it so accurately?"

Li Yan'er crawled out of her loose men's clothes and said ashamedly,
"I calculated this and that, and the king heard it!"

The king is a very clever person. When he got on this boat, he couldn't hide the movement of the boat. When Xiao Qi came in just now, the owner of the boat outside was already looking for someone. Gu Shiyi said with a smile,

"Whether he figured it out or heard it, didn't he get five copper coins?"

The king, who was standing behind the door making decorations, twisted his body and relaxed his muscles and bones.

"Tell me about you, you are making so many coppers, but you are not making a shabby amount of money by defrauding these people in Xialiba!"

Gu Shiyi carefully collected the coins.

"You don't understand this. No matter how small a mosquito is, it's still meat. The old guy has taught me that when traveling in the world, you should eat and drink, and don't let go of any money you earn...otherwise you think I have been with the old guy for so many years. What do you rely on to travel around the world without starving? Isn't it just to save more money, get into less trouble, and find that you don't apply oil to the soles of your feet?"

I don’t know if it was Wang Xiaoqi’s appearance that completely convinced everyone on the ship of Master Gu’s fortune-telling skills. At dawn on the third day, someone knocked on Gu Shiyi’s door.

"Who is it?"

Gu Shiyi poked his head out of the quilt with disheveled hair, and the captain's voice came from outside,
"Master Gu, um... um... I have something urgent to ask you to do!" "That's it..."

Gu Shiyi sat up,
"Wait!"

She stood up and put on her clothes casually, tied up her hair casually, pulled on her cloth shoes and was about to open the door. Li Yaner and the king beside her looked at them with unbearable expressions.

"Eleven, you... please put on your clothes!"

Gu Shiyi lowered his head and saw the pair of conspicuous bags he was wearing.

"Oh……"

He smiled and weighed his hands.
"I've been eating well recently, and I've actually grown a little..."

After saying that, he took the wide cloth belt and tied it carefully, then put on his clothes, and then went to open the door!
In fact, she has been hanging out with the old Taoist priest for a long time, and she has no sense of being a woman at all. Her behavior is more masculine than a man, and no one will doubt her pretending to be a man. Either the two lumps of flesh on her chest are too conspicuous, or she is so arrogant and open. She put on her clothes and went out. I guess when people first saw her, they didn’t even think about her status as a woman!
Gu Shiyi opened the door and smiled when he saw it was the captain,
"Dong Yu's family is up so early. What's the urgent matter? Haven't these two holy cities not arrived yet?"

The captain said bitterly with two dark circles under his eyes,

"Master Gu, it's not so early. I haven't slept all night!"

Gu Shiyi was surprised and looked him up and down.

"What's going on with Yu Dong's family?"

The captain sighed and said,

"Ever since our ship sailed out of Xuancheng Pier, I have been dreaming about a girl every night, Master Gu...please figure it out for me...what's wrong with me?"

Gu Shiyi had a bad smile on his face after hearing this, waved his hands repeatedly and said,

"You... are not under my control. Maybe you have been on the boat for a long time and have thought about that. When you get ashore, Yu Dong's house can go find someone to solve it!"

The captain had a sad look on his face and waved his hands repeatedly, saying,

"Oh, Master Gu, it's not like this, it's not like this... Listen to what I'm telling you..."

It is really strange to say that after their ship left Xuancheng Pier, the ship owner had the same dream for several nights in a row, that is, he dreamed of a woman in red crying to him,
"Yu Lang, please... let me go! Let me go! Please let me go!"

The captain didn't take it seriously the first night, but he had this dream every night after that. In the dream, the woman in red was crying miserably. Last night, the woman was crying with blood and tears flowing from her eyes. His face suddenly became swollen and his eyes were bulging, which frightened the captain out of his sleep. He jumped up from the bed like a carp, wiped his hands with cold sweat, and rested for a long time before falling asleep again, but as soon as he fell asleep In the past, I dreamed that the woman was crying and begging him with two tears of blood. The captain was so scared that he didn't dare to sleep anymore, so he stayed up all night. He remembered that Wang Xiaoqi said yesterday that the guest on the ship was a capable person. Came here early in the morning to look for Gu Shiyi.

"Master Gu, please let me see. I am afraid I have attracted some evil spirits?"

If evil spirits are really attracted, he has to find a way to get rid of them, but now that the boat is on the river, he can't abandon the boat and go ashore. It's still ten days away from the Double Saints. If he can't sleep for ten days, it will be fatal. !

Upon hearing this, Gu Shiyi's originally teasing smile faded. He looked at the captain up and down and saw that there was a black air lingering between his eyebrows. Sure enough, he had provoked something unclean. Gu Shiyi looked at the corners of his eyes again. Then I asked him to turn his palm out and look at it, and his expression immediately became weird.

"Dong Yu's family, you...you...are indeed the peach blossom evil spirits you have provoked!"

The captain was shocked when he heard this.

"What should we do? I heard that Monk Miaolian from Guangci Temple in the Twin Holy Cities is an eminent monk who has achieved enlightenment. He knows that the Buddha's light shines everywhere. As long as the Buddha's light shines like that, no evil spirits can escape. But we are separated from each other. The Holy City is still ten days away, how can I survive these ten days!"

The captain had a worried look on his face, Gu Shiyi smiled and comforted him,

"Don't worry about the Yu Dong family. First, tell me what you did in Xuancheng. I guess you probably got into trouble with this in Xuancheng..."

Gu Shiyi didn't say the last half of the sentence,
"It's hard to say that I have betrayed my daughter's heart. I am obsessed with you!"

The captain lowered his head in thought and murmured,
"I didn't do much. I just shipped a batch of goods to Xuancheng and then picked up a batch of tea in Xuancheng. It's just that the goods are a little short. I plan to wait a little longer..."

When he said this, his expression suddenly froze. Gu Shiyi understood immediately when he looked at his expression.
"How is it, but you remembered?"

The captain's face began to look strange, and he hesitated for a long time,

"But...but I...I only stayed on the flower boat for two nights..."

"Oh...so you caused this on the flower boat?"

Gu Shiyi's expression changed. Look, this is the question. Sure enough, it's because of a woman!

The captain shook his head,
"I'm not provoking anyone. I'm just entertaining two familiar guests at the mall..."

After a pause he said,

"I was too scared to look at the face of the woman in the dream carefully. Now I remembered that the woman in red was the oiran on the flower boat. Her price was high, and the overnight fee for one night was 80 Two taels of silver, I am just a small businessman, I can't earn much from just one trip to deliver goods, I have to support my family..."

Gu Shiyi started to murmur in his heart when he heard him talking about the oiran.

"Oiran... in red..."

The captain continued,
"Those two nights were just about going to see the singing and dancing, giving some money, and she came over to propose a glass of wine and say a few words..."

After thinking about it for a while, I suddenly remembered something.

"That night there was a fire on the flower boat. I heard people say later that the boat was burned down and everyone was fine, but she was the only one missing..."

Gu Shiyi's expression changed when he heard this.
"What do you mean without her?"

The captain thought for a while and shook his head and said,
"I don't know. I just heard from the old madam of the flower boat that after they counted the number of people on the boat, the girl, the nurse and the servants were all there, but she was missing. They thought they were burned to death on the boat, but there were two A girl said that she jumped into the river from the third floor with her, and they haven’t seen her since they were rescued ashore..."

The more he spoke, the tighter Gu Shiyi's brows furrowed, and finally twisted into a knot. She remembered clearly that the woman helped her to the third floor by herself. Although she jumped off the ship first, at that time, the surroundings Many ships have come to rescue people. How could the woman be missing?

Thinking of this, Gu Shiyi asked again,

"What did the woman from Yu Dong's family say to you in the dream?"

The captain thought for a moment and said,

"They kept asking me to let her go. I...I...I didn't bother her at all...I only saw her twice. I was not on the boat when the front was on fire. How could I...how could I just follow her?" Am I involved?"

Captain Yu was puzzled!
(End of this chapter)