You cultivate immortality, I cultivate merit

Xia Yu slowly turned her head and stared at Shi Xiaoliu in amazement: "Xiaoliu, are you speaking from your heart?"

"Of course, doesn't our Sister Lan deserve the best?"

"Okay, what you said makes sense. I can't imagine a scenario where she has someone around her."

Shi Zelan opened her eyes, looked at Xia Yu in front of her, and then looked at Shi Xiaoliu opposite her.

"Why do I feel like you two were gossiping about me just now?"

"No."

Shi Xiaoliu and Xia Yu said in unison. After Shi Zelan looked them both up and down, he said generously, "It doesn't matter if you say it. Anyway, I should be a very outstanding person in your hearts."

Shi Xiaoliu nodded, Xia Yu looked at him deeply, and then nodded slowly under Shi Zelan's sharp eyes: "Yes, you are very good."

"Duplicity."

Shi Zelan smiled, then sighed and said to Xia Yu: "Xia Yu, are you worried that if you stay, you will have to face the fact that your old friend will eventually grow old?"

Xia Yu moved from the carriage to the compartment in an instant. Shi Xiaoliu made way inside and quickly observed the situation around him.

Shi Zelan went straight to the frame. She turned around and said to Shi Xiaoliu and Xia Yu, "I'll sit in the front. You can be more comfortable."

Shi Xiaoliu looked at the expression on Xia Yu's face and said to Shi Zelan, "Change your clothes. You are too conspicuous like this."

Shi Zelan stretched out his hand and immediately turned into a coachman in short clothes.

She turned to Shi Xiaoliu and said, "This should be appropriate."

Shi Xiaoliu nodded and said to Xia Yu, "She is still a child, don't bother with her."

Xia Yu laughed out loud after hearing what Shi Xiaoliu said: "Xiaoliu, don't you feel guilty when you say that?"

Shi Xiaoliu said seriously, "In my heart, you and she are both children."

"Haha, Xiaoliu, in our cultivation world we don't care about age or seniority. Instead, we rely on our abilities and capabilities."

Shi Zelan stretched out her hand and tapped the door of the carriage. After the door closed, she smiled and said, "Even if you want to fight now, you won't disturb the people on the roadside."

Shi Xiaoliu was about to reach out and pull open the door of the carriage, but Xia Yu reminded him, "Let her misunderstand that we are fighting in the carriage. We can discuss going that way."

Shi Xiaoliu pointed ahead with his finger and said to Xia Yu, "If you let her drive, then we won't be able to decide where to go."

Shi Zelan has always been casual when driving, the kind of person who drives wherever he goes.

They stopped by the river that day. Shi Xiaoliu and Xia Yu looked at the swollen river and turned to ask Shi Zelan, "What big thing do you want to do?"

Shi Zelan sighed: "I don't want to do anything.

Let's go, it's still early, let's keep going."

Xia Yu directly drove Shi Zelan to the carriage: "You talk to your brother Xiaoliu, I will drive."

Shi Xiaoliu and Shi Zelan were sitting in the car. Shi Xiaoliu asked curiously, "Sister Lan, you really didn't park the car here on purpose?"

Shi Zelan affirmed: "I just closed my eyes and meditated for a while, and then the car stopped. I was more surprised than you."

Xia Yu reset the direction of the carriage and headed north. They looked up and around from time to time, but they never had the chance to see Kunlun Mountain.

In the spring of the following year, it was already dusk when the carriage arrived outside the capital. They stopped not far away, and the three of them were all feeling very excited.

Shi Xiaoliu sighed: "The city wall is still the same as before, but I am no longer the same person."

Shi Zelan looked at the soldiers guarding the city wall and said, "Yes, this is the first time I see soldiers guarding the city wall, and I am very excited.

This time, I watched them from a distance, feeling very calm. Xia Yu listened to what they said and laughed, "I think we are still as excited as before, but we don't show it outwardly like before."

The three men turned around and went to a crowded place. They stopped their horses, put reins on the horses like the people around them, and hung them on a tree on the side of the road.

At night, there were still people arriving late who came here looking for a place to stay. In the end, Shi Xiaoliu and the other two squeezed into the carriage and sat down.

The atmosphere outside the city was solemn, and the smell of medicinal herbs was everywhere.

After Shi Xiaoliu and the other two looked at the stars for a while, they closed the carriage door.

The carriage became dark, but it did not affect the vision of Shi Xiaoliu and the other two.

"The person on the throne is probably seriously ill."

Shi Zelan conveyed the message to Shi Xiaoliu and Xia Yu: "The dragon energy has weakened a lot, but the power of faith is strong. This emperor has made great contributions to the world."

Shi Xiaoliu sighed and said, "We came at the wrong time. The inspection at the city gate will be much stricter tomorrow."

"Fortunately we picked some herbs on the way."

The three of them talked for a while and then took turns meditating and practicing.

The sky brightened, and after the city gate opened, Shi Zelan sat on the carriage, and the carriage followed the crowd towards the city gate.

At the city gate, officers and soldiers checked people entering the city with serious expressions, paying special attention to the household registration cards of some young people.

When Shi Zelan drove the carriage into the city, the officials at the city gate looked at most of the herbs in the carriage and, knowing that they were from the south, they let them pass.

Before Shi Xiaoliu and the other two entered the city, they had already discussed staying in the inn this time, but they had to find a way to deal with the carriage.

The three of them deliberately avoided the area near the imperial city and instead chose an inn near the city gate.

The waiter welcomed the people and carriages into the inn from the back door, looked at the herbs on their carriages, and immediately reminded them: "Go to the medicine shop at the east end to check the market.

There is no shortage of medicinal herbs in other places now."

Shi Xiaoliu immediately said that after placing the things in the room, they would go to the east end of the city to sell the herbs, and also take the carriage out of the city to dispose of it.

The waiter didn't expect Shi Xiaoliu and the other two to be so anxious, but thinking that they believed him, he reminded them, "After you leave the city, don't go to the north. The prices there are lower."

Shi Xiaoliu and the other two nodded immediately. They went up to the second floor of the inn and stayed in a middle-class room. They quickly went downstairs and went to the backyard.

The three of them led the horses out of the inn, and in front of them the owner was talking to the waiter.

"What are these three guests doing in such a hurry?"

The waiter smiled and said, "They are herbalists. They said they came to the capital to check the prices of herbs."

"I don't think they look like herbalists."

"When they were at home, they studied for several years. They stopped going to school last year because they wanted to travel around."

Shi Xiaoliu and the other two walked out of the inn's back door. They were all thankful that they had bought real horses and carriages in the previous city.

After asking passers-by, they went to the drugstore at the east end and saw that everyone was queuing up, so they asked the people in front of them.

"You guys want to sell medicine?"

"Yes."

"Turn over there, to the back door. The young master is collecting herbs at the back door." (End of this chapter)