Jinyi Night Walk

Xia Xun walked out of the Silkworm Temple and came to the Guandi Hall, only to see Peng Ziqi sitting on his knees under a green pine tree in the corner of the hall, closing his eyes and recuperating.

Xia Xun smiled and said, "Young Master Lao has been waiting for a long time, let's go."

Peng Ziqi opened his eyes, a little surprised: "The talk is over?"

Xia Xun said: "That's right, let's go back. The young master followed me around and was tired after a day. How about Yang hosting a banquet to thank you after I go back? The young master is a martial arts practitioner, so he must have a good drinker."

"No need!"

Peng Ziqi said indifferently: "If you like to eat wine, you can drink as much as you want. I am not fond of wine, and my taste is about [-]% similar to Miss Xiaodi's. I like to eat lighter food."

"Oh?"

Xia Xun laughed: "Speaking of Xiaodi, the young master seems to have a good impression of her. Xiaodi is my personal girl, but I always treat her as my own sister. If the young master really likes my Xiaodi, Yang A certain would like to see it come true."

Peng Ziqi showed some amusement on his face, and said slyly: "I really like Miss Xiaodi very much, sir, are you willing to part with me?"

Xia Xun said: "If you want me to present her as a beautiful maidservant, it is absolutely impossible. What I'm talking about is that the matchmaker is marrying. If you can capture the heart of my Xiaodi, I will recognize her as a righteous sister. Give her a generous dowry, and marry her to your house in a glorious manner."

The smile in Peng Ziqi's eyes grew stronger: "Really?"

"really!"

"A gentleman's word."

"Hurry up and whip!"

"Hahahaha..." The two laughed together.

"Steam a birthday peach with a hundred catties of noodles --- useless snacks, I'm so stupid to read!"

"This little girl is quite fun, isn't lesbian popular in the Ming Dynasty?"

The two had their own ghosts, and there were a few wicked laughs...

In fact, Xia Xun is not fond of wine, no one will accompany him to drink, so this dinner is naturally a meal, a combination of meat and vegetables, eight delicacies of water and land, so he is full.

Early the next morning, shopkeeper Wang from Yang's workshop came to the door in person.Who doesn't care about what the host family treats?As soon as Xia Xun left, the workshop immediately adjusted the best-quality stainless steel, heated and drawn the wire, and made the steel wire according to Xia Xun's requirements. At night, the five-foot-long steel wire had been made, but it was too late to come to the door. Bothering the owner, so as soon as the sky dawned, the shopkeeper Wang came to offer treasures.

Five shiny steel wires were tightly wrapped around a spinning reel. Xia Xun took the reel from the shopkeeper Wang, let go of a piece of steel wire, tried the toughness, and immediately praised it.Shopkeeper Wang was praised by the owner, his bones were a little lighter, and when he left, his steps were brisk, as if he had just emerged from the bridal chamber.

After sending shopkeeper Wang away, Xia Xun returned to the study, untied a steel wire from the spinning reel, wrapped it around a small object, and put it in his sleeve. The spinning reel was connected to the remaining four steel wires. Put it in the drawer at the bottom of the desk, and locked it, then sat on the chair, closed your eyes slightly, as if resting your mind, thinking secretly: "Time, place, tools, what else is missing?"

His fingers lightly tapped on the desk table, making a dense and low sound like drumbeats. Suddenly, his fingers stopped, and the tapping movement slowed down: "Well..., there are still shortcomings. If it can't be perfect, it has to be called. People can't catch their sore feet..."

He stood up and walked out.

In the yard, Xiaohuo was learning martial arts from Peng Ziqi with great interest. Xia Xun stood on the porch and watched for a while. With Peng Ziqi's ability to "teach students according to their aptitude" and Xia Xun's vision, he thought that if Xiaodi endured hardship, he would practice a few times unremittingly. In years, she has the potential to become a "master dancer".

Peng Ziqi saw Xia Xun, she corrected Xiaodi's movement, turned around and walked to the corridor: "Do you want to go out?"

"No, I'm not going anywhere today. You and Xiaodi practice martial arts, and I'll walk around the yard."

Xia Xun slipped into the back garden and ordered everyone not to enter the garden. She was sneaking in there alone, not knowing what she was busy with. When Peng Ziqi and Xiaodi came, they were stopped by the servants. The two watched from a distance. I saw Xia Xun walking alone among the flowers and trees, looking up at the sky, looking at the ground, walking quickly, and walking slowly. After working for a long time, he came back calmly.

Xiaodi asked curiously, "Master, what are you doing?"

Peng Ziqi was also very curious, but she was too embarrassed to ask, so she listened carefully, and Xia Xun replied leisurely, "Young master is composing a poem."

"Wow! The young master hasn't made poetry for a long time, so have you done it yet?"

Xia Xun touched his nose and said, "Well, make three and a half sentences..."

Xiaodi said excitedly, "Let's listen to it." Xiaodi is not blind, although he doesn't read much, but he read with the young master since he was a child, and he can still read.

Xia Xun smiled and said: "The jingle bells are ringing all the way, and a pair of beauties come to the back hall. The odd thing is that the golden lotus is three inches small and measures horizontally."

Xia Xun laughed and walked away from them, Peng Ziqi asked inexplicably, "What is he talking about?"

Xiaodi looked down at her feet and said, "The young master seems to be saying that our feet are big, strange, a pair of beautiful women, you are not a woman..."

Peng Ziqi said nothing with an embarrassing face.

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Early the next morning, the Yang family had another visitor, this time it was Feng Jianxiao.Xia Xun welcomed Feng Jianxiao into the small study room, and the two chatted in the room for more than an hour before Xia Xun got up to see off the guests.As soon as Feng Jianxiao was sent away, he immediately rushed to the Qi Palace.

Peng Ziqi discovered that Young Master Yang and Prince Qi's mansion did have an extraordinary relationship. This time Xia Xun walked through the side door of the mansion, knocked on the side door, and Xia Xun whispered a few words to the guard who opened the door. Seeing that the eunuch Chengfeng whom he met on the day of the birthday banquet greeted him personally, the door of the mansion was opened, allowing their car to enter the palace.

This is the first time Peng Ziqi has been to a place like the palace. She had never even been to the magistrate's yamen before, but even though she entered the palace, she could only wait on the long corridor, and could only see the high palace walls. And the narrow line of sky above.

Accompanied by Eunuch Shu, Xia Xun rushed to meet the prince.The place where King Qi summoned him was still "An Shan Tang". When he entered the main hall, Eunuch Shu waved his hand to him as a signal. Xia Xun nodded and stopped knowingly.

Xia Xun listened attentively, only to hear a clear and bright voice saying: "The essence of the Tao, the sly and dark, the extreme of the Tao, faint and silent. Ignore the eyes and hear nothing, embrace the spirit and be quiet, and the form will be self-righteous. Be quiet and be sure." Clearly, if you don’t labor your form, and don’t shake your essence, you can live forever. Eyes can’t see anything, ears can’t hear anything, and your heart can’t know anything. Your spirit will keep your form, and your form will lead to longevity.”

Immediately afterwards, I heard King Qi say: "Governing the vassal state alone, the affairs are complicated, and it is often necessary to lead the Jing army, and killing is useless. Even in this palace, there are also many concubines. I am afraid that it is impossible to achieve longevity by doing nothing. Do you have any other methods of the immortal family?"

The clear voice said: "If so, there is only one way to practice alchemy. There are three ways of alchemy, the upper, the middle, and the lower. The difficulty is different, and each has magical effects. I don't know which one the lord wants to learn?"

King Qi hurriedly asked: "I don't know the three ways of practicing alchemy, and what is the way?"

The Taoist said: "The lower vehicle uses the body and mind as the cauldron, and the essence as medicine... This is the method of peace and happiness and prolonging life. The middle vehicle uses the universe as the cauldron, Kanli as the water and fire... This is the method of nourishing life. Method. The superior way, the heaven and the earth are the cauldron, the sun and the moon are water and fire, the yin and yang are the transformation mechanism, and the lead, mercury, silver, sand and soil are the five elements... This is the superior way of prolonging life, which can prove the fairy fruit.

Among the three, the middle vehicle and the lower vehicle all need to sit quietly to cultivate energy and absorb the essence of heaven and earth. For ordinary people, this is the easiest to do. You only need to practice for a long time, concentrate on the way of heaven, and you will have a day of success.However, the best alchemy requires collecting the treasures of the five elements, practicing and making elixir to take. This method has the greatest effect.There is no need to spend years and months, day-to-day meditation, and the gradual path without cultivating fate, but for ordinary people, it is the most difficult. "

King Qi listened with bated breath, and asked anxiously: "This method sounds the easiest, why is it the most difficult?"

The Taoist laughed and said: "Because this method requires the person who takes the alchemy to have good bones and the potential to be a fairy; and the things used to practice alchemy need heaven and earth treasures, which are rare in the world. How can ordinary people have such financial resources to provide alchemy?" needed."

Xia Xun laughed secretly in his heart when he heard this: "The picture is poor, after all, it still has to fall on a word of money in the end. It is ridiculous that these royal nobles, phoenix sons and dragon grandchildren, are omnipotent and omnipotent. For this one and only The ending of life and death, which is the same as that of ordinary people, will also be fooled by these magic sticks. At that time, some lead, mercury, heat and poison will be given to you, which will make you feel ecstatic, neurotic, and finally die. "

King Qi was delighted when he heard this: "What kind of natural and earthly treasure, as long as there is this thing in the world, the orphan can get it. This is not a problem, but I don't know, does the orphan have the root bone to cultivate immortals and live forever?"

The Taoist said: "His Royal Highness is the son of a real dragon. This bone is naturally excellent. If you don't spare money and raise treasures from heaven and earth, let the poor Taoist practice it into pills, take one pill a day, and wait for the body to be purified. Naturally, you will become a fairy, and you will live forever."

King Qi laughed: "This is very good, very good, hahahaha, just follow the Taoist priest, what the Taoist priest needs, just ask, and I will never refuse, I just hope that the elixir will be practiced soon."

The two in the room talked again, and the Taoist said goodbye and left. Xia Xun was waiting outside, and just met the Taoist. He was around fifty, with a clear face, piercing eyes, and an elegant demeanor. .Wearing a green preaching scarf on his head, a very simple Taoist robe with a collar, a pair of straw sandals under his waist, and a pair of yellow silk tassels around his waist, he floats out with a feather fan in his hand.

Seeing Xia Xun, the Taoist didn't look sideways, and went out without hesitation. He really looked like a man of Taoism.

Xia Xun shook his head slightly, then entered the hall, and saw King Qi standing up excitedly from the table, Xia Xun hurriedly bowed down to meet him, that King Qi had a very good temper today, stopped him with a smile, and asked: "This king wants you Have you settled down for what you did?"

Xia Xun said respectfully: "Yes, I have found a well-connected seller. Now in Yanggu County, I have rushed to have a chat with him in the past few days."

"Okay, the sooner the better."

Xia Xun said: "Yes, but although I have established a relationship with this person through some friends, if I buy such a large amount of goods at once, I am afraid that the other party will have doubts about my sincerity and ability. The prince is eager to get rich. If the sect proceeds step by step, it cannot be delayed, so...the sect needs a token from the prince, to make that person believe that I have enough money to eat his goods, and believe that the sect can become his trusted customer..."

King Qi suddenly smiled and said: "So that's the case, why bother to beat around corners, Xiao Shuzi, give him a palace piercing card from my palace, I want ivory."

"Yes, my lord." Eunuch Shu hurriedly took the order to retreat, and after a while, he came back with a waist card.This ivory waist card is carved with crouching tiger cloud pattern, with a hole in the middle, which can be tied with a silk ribbon. Below it are five big characters "Qi Wangfu Palace Guard", and on the back is engraved: "Where the guards carry this card, those without a card will follow In the law of sin, the borrower is as guilty as the borrower.”

As soon as Xia Xun got the heavy waist card, Xia Xun felt relieved: "The big thing is done!"

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Leaving Prince Qi's mansion, walking halfway, suddenly heard the noise of people on the side of the road, Xia Xun looked out from the window, and saw a group of palace guards and people dressed as eunuchs, walking past the wall with paint buckets in their hands. brush, leaving a dazzling red streak on the wall where it passed, and several well-dressed rich gentry followed behind with their skirts in their hands, shouting loudly: "My house has been built for decades. Well, how can you just tear it down?"

"Stop talking nonsense, the emperor's will has allowed the prince to choose a place to rebuild the palace, and the prince has chosen this land. All the places in our circle will be demolished, and there will be no delay."

"Elder-in-law, father-in-law stay behind, military lord, this military lord..., please do me a favor..."

"Don't chase, it's useless to tell us, go talk to our Master Gongzheng, maybe the Lord will be lenient..."

The people in front walked away, the people behind chased, chattering all the way, Xia Xun's car followed all the way, Peng Ziqi understood the general idea, and couldn't help but angrily said: "Isn't this just changing the way to make money? The dignified king of Qi , Why is it so... so..., no, a prince who lives in seclusion, how could he come up with such a method, this must be some wicked and smokey person who gave the prince a bad idea, and he is not afraid of having children... ,snort!"

Even though she came from a powerful family, she is a girl after all, although she can hear some words, she is too embarrassed to say them.

Xia Xun felt guilty for a while, and quickly put on an appearance filled with righteous indignation, and echoed her in denouncing that wicked bastard who was smoking and had no children... Then he retracted and sighed secretly: "Tan There is nothing you can do about being such a lord, the one who cheated you is Feng Zongqi, not me, brother, I am just a dead Taoist friend, not a poor one, Amitabha, sin, sin..."

Back in the mansion, Xia Xun immediately shut himself in the study, took out the spinning reel, on which the five steel wires were neatly entangled, Xia Xun put the ivory waist card and the spinning reel together, and wrapped it with a cloth handkerchief. Wrap it up, put it back in the drawer and lock it, and call out the door: "Come here, please come over, Uncle Xiao."

Manager Xiao came, and when Manager Xiao went out again, everyone in the house knew the news: the young master is going out again, this time the young master is going to Yanggu County to meet a businessman, and it will take about a month to go back and forth time.

"You want to leave Qingzhou?" Peng Ziqi rushed to the study and asked Xia Xun.

"Yes, go to Yanggu County."

Peng Ziqi frowned, she thought it would be good to protect him for three months in Qingzhou City, but she didn't expect to travel all over the country with him, alone and widowed, it was really inconvenient.

"Where to go?"

"Yanggu County."

"how long?"

"About a month."

Peng Ziqi frowned: "When are you leaving?"

Xia Xun said: "Today is the second day of junior high school? Let's leave early tomorrow morning. What's the matter?"

Peng Ziqi really wanted to ask him what he meant by the poem he made yesterday, and whether he had already seen through his identity. If so, she would use the pair of big feet that the brat said to leave a few on him. Sharp shoe prints.But when she saw the intriguing smile on Xia Xun's face, she became furious, so she turned around resolutely, resolutely, and resolutely, with her chest up and her chin up, walking like a proud peacock out.

Behind him, came his hateful low laughter...

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