You cultivate immortality, I cultivate merit

Chapter 367: Too Much

Shi Xiaoliu and Xia Yu breathed a sigh of relief at the same time. Shi Xiaoliu loosened his grip and glared at Shi Zelan: "God is fair, it's just a matter of time."

Shi Zelan looked back and forth at the two of them and said, "I just made a slip of the tongue, really."

Xia Yu felt much more relieved and said to Shi Zelan, "There is always a way out.

Your cultivation is more difficult than ours, but your future gains will definitely be greater than ours, right?"

Shi Zelan nodded. She was very satisfied with her current situation, because as long as she continued, she would be able to successfully build her foundation.

On a rainy spring day, Shi Xiaoliu and two other people sat under the eaves. They reached out to take the wet paper bird and watched it disappear in their palms.

Shi Xiaoliu said to Xia Yu and Shi Zelan: "The Pavilion Master arranged for Second Senior Brother to live on the top of the mountain for a few days."

Xia Yu and Shi Zelan nodded at the same time, and Xia Yu immediately said, "My uncle is also going to live on the top of the mountain for a few days."

After Shi Zelan looked at the two of them, she said, "Aunt Bachun is coming to the top of the mountain to accompany us for a few days."

The three of them looked at each other, and Shi Xiaoliu sighed: "Second Senior Brother from the Medicine Pavilion usually doesn't care about the trivial matters outside. It's rare that he agreed to live on the top of the mountain for a few days."

Xia Yu smiled and said, "My father is in seclusion practicing, my uncle is here, he just came to see me, he will leave soon."

Shi Zelan sighed softly: "Aunt Bachun's visit to the mountaintop is probably related to her cultivation or some other mess."

Shi Xiaoliu sighed and said, "That man won't follow us, will he?"

"No, this is not a place where just anyone can come."

Xia Yu answered Shi Xiaoliu affirmatively, but Shi Xiaoliu was still a little worried: "Aunt Bachun is good in every way, but this man seems to have lost her heart."

Shi Zelan understood what Shi Xiaoliu was worried about, and she said with certainty: "Eighth Aunt is quite clear about the importance of major issues."

The three of them hurriedly cleaned up the open space on the top of the mountain, and then cleaned up the area around the residences of the three elders. Only then did they rest.

They stood on the side of the mountain looking down, and another group of people accompanied the alchemist in circles on the mountain.

Shi Xiaoliu shook his head after seeing this and said, “These people come again and again, and they never give up.

Don’t they think about whether the government will allow this piece of forest to become the final resting place for a private person?”

"They should have thought about it, but they were outnumbered and the government had no choice but to accept reality."

"Haha, so naive."

Shi Zelan listened to their conversation and said with emotion: "After the gold mine is dug, the mountain will be empty.

When we last visited, there were not many trees left on the mountain.

In the future, avalanches in this mountain forest in winter will be too common.”

"It's not impossible for mudslides to occur when it rains."

Shi Xiaoliu responded with some concern. They hoped that the guards could do a good job in defense.

They stood on the side of the mountain, looking at the misty drizzle. The Taoist shook his head again, and then the man just left.

After the Taoist priest walked out of the mountain road, he said to the people who followed him with a very unpleasant look: "You don't need to introduce any business to me. It's not good for me to come here again and again."

After he finished speaking, he flagged down a passing carriage and jumped on it, then said to the driver, "They are charging for renting a carriage."

The driver asked the Taoist where he was going, and then he shouted to the people standing by the roadside, "Who paid for the trip?"

The Taoist priest poked his head out and said, "You guys don't want me to make a wasted trip, so you don't even give me the round-trip fare, right?"

Finally, there was a shameless person who stepped forward and paid the driver for renting the carriage. As the carriage passed by, the Taoist priest leaned over and said to the man, "Hey, the man who paid for the carriage, listen to my advice. Don't run around with them next time."

After the Taoist priest finished speaking, he closed the car window.

The group of people who stayed behind all looked unhappy.

The person who paid the fare listened to the Taoist's advice and stopped a carriage and got in.

Without waiting for the people who came with him to react, he had already told the driver to hurry up.

On the top of the mountain, Shi Xiaoliu and the other two withdrew their spiritual consciousness, and then went back to their rooms to meditate and practice.

The officers and soldiers guarding the gold mine looked at the spring rain at this time, and felt more worried.

Nothing grows on this mountain anymore. The soil is very loose, and the spring rains are incessant.

The guards built some blocking buildings around the gold mine and also found a way to dig several trenches on the top of the mountain.

The leader of the officers and soldiers sought help from the Yangzhou government, and the government also arranged people to check it out.

The visitor thought that we should try to plant more trees on the mountain in spring.

Therefore, in recent days, officers and soldiers have transplanted a lot of saplings from the surrounding mountains.

But distant water cannot put out a nearby fire. Now the officers and soldiers can only hope that the spring rain will stop falling.

When the spring rain stopped, Shi Xiaoliu and the other two felt much more at ease.

They stood on the side of the mountain waiting for the arrival of Master Qicheng and his group. It had been several days, and Shi Xiaoliu and the other two estimated that they should be here soon.

Last night, Xia Yu sent a message to Master Qicheng, saying that they were on their way.

In the morning, Xia Yu told Shi Xiaoliu and Shi Zelan the news, and then the three of them stood on the edge of the mountain for a long time.

Shi Xiaoliu looked up at the sky and said to Shi Zelan and Xia Yu, "I think they will come in the evening."

Shi Zelan looked at him and said, "I hope so."

Xia Yu himself did not dare to fully trust the arrangement of Master Qicheng. He said leisurely: "It doesn't matter if we come during the day, just make sure they provide all the cover."

In the morning, there were real birds flying in the sky, and white clouds floating naturally in the blue sky.

In the afternoon, Shi Xiaoliu and the other two sat under the eaves, busy with their own things until evening.

Qicheng Zhenren and his party arrived at the top of the mountain when the sky was full of colorful clouds.

Shi Xiaoliu and the other two greeted the people, watched them move out of their residence, and then waited until they had packed up everything.

The sky had grown completely dark. Master Qicheng and Xia Yu were talking under the eaves while Shi Xiaoliu greeted his second senior brother.

Shi Bachun followed Shi Zelan to her roof. The moonlight was bright, and Shi Zelan saw the tired look in Shi Bachun's eyes at a glance.

"Auntie, why don't you go back and have a good night's rest? We can talk again tomorrow during the day."

Shi Bachun shook his head: "Even if I go back to my room, I can't fall asleep for a while.

Lan Jie'er, I'm very happy to see you and Xiaoliu, you two are both doing well."

Shi Zelan looked at her for a while and asked, "Eighth Aunt, have you had a hard time these past few years?"

Shi Bachun was stunned for a while after hearing what Shi Zelan said: "My life is not completely bad, it's just that I want too much.

Then others can't give me what I need, and I covet the little kindness they give me. "