The bad emperor of Tang Dynasty

I heard from the director who will be the supervisor that the alchemist Abu Musa Jabir ibn Hayan has a very weird temper, but he is kind. He always likes to say some irrelevant words, and he looks a little nervous .

This Arab uncle with a hooked nose and black beard covered half of his face, usually sells medicine at a market stall in Chang'an City.Or sometimes go to deep mountains and valleys to pick medicinal and poisonous weeds to make potions.

Alchemist Abu likes to hang out in taverns and the slums of Waiguo City on the outskirts of the city where Zahu lived. He said he wanted to experience the cultural customs of various ethnic groups, but in fact he secretly collected some strange metal rocks and prepared to refine mysterious metals.

Of course, if the neighbors don’t mind, he can sneak into the medicine warehouse of the traditional Chinese medicine and Tibetan medicine store in the middle of the night to steal medicinal materials, but this guy’s wall-climbing skills are really bad, and every time he alarmed the guard dog in the owner’s courtyard, Or they couldn't turn it out after turning it into the house, and they stayed in the courtyard until dawn, and were finally discovered by the owner. Every time they drove it out with a fire stick or a broom, it would inevitably cause skin trauma.

Although the alchemist Abu has some bad habits of stealing, but since his alchemy research has become an idiot, he only occasionally cares about the medicinal material warehouses of some pharmacies at night, and does not steal property, so everyone in the neighborhood has known him for so long. I just fooled him, turned a blind eye, didn't turn him over to the government for theft, and often helped him when his house had no rice to cook and was freezing in winter, giving him some firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea and so on.

The alchemist Abu's mantra always goes like this: "Hey, kind uncles and aunts, thank you for your kind help, great gods-Allah will bless you, and may you good people have a safe life."

Or he will also add this sentence: "Wait for me, the great alchemist Abu Musa Jaber Ibn Hayan to master the basic attributes of all things in the world'air, earth, water, and fire' By following the laws of mysterious truth, you can turn cheap copper and iron into gold, and I will definitely repay your great kindness..."

But the neighbors would say with a smile: "Mr. Abu, let's support you and your children first. Regarding the issue of alchemy, we really don't understand this kind of strange and obscene technique from the Western Regions."

By the way, I forgot to mention that Abu adopted a xx-year-old boy in the empty tile-roofed house. It is said that when he came to the Tang Dynasty from the Western Regions, he passed Persia and entered the Congling Mountains during his journey. I picked up an abandoned baby who was still in its infancy by Waliang Lake. Its origin is unknown. It is probably a descendant of Turkic nomads, or a member of the Gaochang Kingdom. In short, it looks different from him, a Middle Easterner, and its appearance is more like a barbarian. mostly.

The day before yesterday, after Guo Nuan visited the director who was in charge of the prison, he got information from the old man, and then went to the store the next morning to buy two big roast geese and a pot of high-quality carved wine, and rushed to Abu Alchemist. residence.The director said to hurry up, otherwise if the alchemist went to a remote mountain to collect medicine, there would probably be no one at home for half a month.

The address of Abu's house is quite remote. We wandered around in a small alley, passed through a few lanes, and crossed a few streets. Guo Nuan's head was about to turn dizzy, and he finally found him under the guidance of passers-by. residence.

"Well, it seems to be this one." Looking at a low tile-roofed house in the most remote corner of the street in front of him, a child in plain clothes was struggling to draw water with a small wooden bucket by the well outside the door.

"Hey, little baby, do you know Mr. Abu, an alchemist?" Guo Nuan smiled at the child with what she thought was the kindest face.

"Uncle, you... are here... What are you doing? Are you asking for money? My teacher is not at home..."

Suddenly frightened by the sudden sound of people behind him, even the wooden bucket filled with water fell to the ground, and then water splashed on the child's rough white linen coat.

The child was a little panicked, his eyes flashing nervously with a pair of black grapes, and at this moment his back was tightly pressed against the corner of the brick wall:

"Just now a very vicious uncle came to collect debts with a butcher's knife. He said he wanted to ask for money from five years ago. The teacher ran out, saying he was going out to hide for a while, and asked me to stay and look after the house. He said he was going out to find money. Yes, maybe I can come back in the afternoon."

The child is very simple and cannot tell lies, and then tremblingly completes the unfinished words.

Guo Nuan couldn't bear it, and secretly thought, this Abu, who is so depressed, shook his head again and again. Although he was a little disappointed, Guo Nuan immediately left a message and asked the child to pass it to the alchemist:

"What a coincidence, if your teacher Abu comes back, please tell him that Jing Zhaoyin and Guo Nuan are visiting, saying that there is something important to discuss in detail, and we will visit again tomorrow..."

He left a gift for the child, but seeing him grinning and giggling happily while holding the grilled cooked food, Guo Nuan couldn't help smiling, and his heart was touched a little. It is estimated that this poor child lived with a down-and-out alchemist for a long time. Less hard life ah.

"Hey, dear little Abu, that vicious debt collector didn't make things difficult for you, come on, let the teacher hug you."

Just as Guo Nuan was about to turn around and walk away, suddenly a bearded Arab with disheveled hair popped out from the entrance of the alley. He was a tall, thin, middle-aged man.

After he came out from a hidden corner, he immediately laughed and hugged the child who was fetching water, shouted "little Abu" in his mouth, and at the same time he spun around empty-handedly with the child in his arms, the rough beard on his face Rubbing his immature face, it made little Abu giggle.

"That guy, I thought we've known each other for so long, and it's fine to sell some favors. He thought that he had forgotten all the old debts five years ago. He didn't expect to rush over to collect debts today. This made Mr. Abu very embarrassed, so he had to slip away. Go out, but seeing little Abu alive and kicking, the teacher knows that he has been friends with him for so many years, that guy will definitely not embarrass you, oh hehe."

Alchemist Abu chattered to the child in Arabic, and then he noticed a handsome young man next to him.

"Uh, is there a guest? They also brought shochu and barbecue?" Abu looked at the gift in the child's hand and Guo Nuan standing in the distance, was taken aback for a moment, and subconsciously said in the language of Datang.

"Hello, Mr. Abu, I'm Jingzhaoyin Guo Nuan from Jingzhao Mansion. It's a great honor to meet you." Guo Nuan walked up to Abu in a personable manner and greeted the enthusiastic alchemist .

"The official of Jingzhao Mansion? What are you here for?"

Abu didn't know Guo Nuan's intentions, and slowly put down the little Abu who was holding up high, and asked him to play somewhere else, and then asked kindly.

The person in front of me is a handsome Middle Easterner. There is a kind of kindness and kindness in this personality. Guo Nuan looked very kind, and then smiled gently and said:

"Mr. Abu, maybe I can't help your research on how to refine cheap metal elements into precious gold, but I can combine more than 100 basic metal and non-metal substances that exist in nature. , properties such as 'gold, silver, copper, iron, platinum, tin, sulphur, carbon, boron, mercury, lead' are offered to you, and may perhaps enrich your theory of alchemy."

Before Guo Nuan could finish speaking, Abu's deep brown eyes lit up. In a moment of excitement, he grabbed Guo Nuan's round collar in a fit of composure, then put it down apologetically, and shouted joyfully:

"Say, what do you want me to help you with, as long as you can get this set of theories, I am willing to help you!"

"Dear alchemist, please help me find the refining nitric acid, sulfuric acid, and glycerin, I want to make Nobel TNT high explosive..."