Without reading the content of the letter, Ji Yuan could guess what was written in it based on his friend's personality.
He opened the letter that belonged to him and took a quick glance at it. It was indeed asking Ji Yuan to help urge Yin Qing to study at Huiyuan Academy in the provincial capital.
Ji Yuan read Yin Zhaoxian's letters and found that the words between the lines reflected the person. Master Yin was worthy of being an official for several years. His handwriting had a sense of grandeur and was much better than when he copied Ji Yuan's handwriting before. He had already developed his own style.
While Ji Yuan was reading the letter carefully, a paper crane dragging a brocade bag struggled out of Yin Qing's arms, then tore open the mouth of the brocade bag and crawled out of it, spread its wings and flew to Ji Yuan's shoulder.
"Wow, you've made progress!"
Outsiders cannot see through the true meaning of the paper crane unless they break the law. If it does not fly, many practitioners will just think it is an ordinary paper bird, but Ji Yuan himself can naturally see through it at a glance.
Ji Yuanming discovered that the spiritual energy of the paper crane increased instead of decreased, and in addition to the spiritual energy, the magic power he left on the paper crane was not reduced at all. He didn't know if it was because he had been staying under the jujube tree.
The paper crane itself does not have any intelligence. It can only be said that it has a spiritual instinct. There is nothing special about the paper. The key to containing spiritual energy and driving the paper crane to fly lies in the invisible words.
In the past two years, although this paper crane was very good at accumulating spiritual energy instinctively, it had never had more spiritual energy than before.
When Ji Yuan reached out and touched the paper crane, he could sense the connection between the hundreds of words on it. Just as he had imagined, the continuity of the words formed a special channel.
It's just that I have been using such a paper crane for a long time, and I am constantly infusing it with the spiritual energy of the power transmitted by my divine thoughts, which makes this passage unbroken like water stains left by running water.
Ji Yuan withdrew his hand, and the paper crane flew off his shoulder and naturally flew into his sleeve.
As if his keen hearing had detected Ji Yuan's voice, Hu Yun woke up after a while. He twitched his ears and opened his eyes to look. Sure enough, he saw Ji Yuan standing beside the stone table, reading a piece of letter in his hand.
"Mr. Ji, you're back!"
Ji Yuan said “Hmm!” and continued reading the letter.
Hu Yun quickly stretched out his paw and pushed Yin Qing a few times, waking him up from his nap.
"Uh…what's wrong?"
Yin Qing woke up in a daze, wiped his eyes, and turned to look in the direction pointed by the red fox's paw.
"Mr. Ji!"
Then when he saw the letter in Ji Yuan's hand, Yin Qing's face fell. He knew without thinking what his father had written in the letter.
"Are you awake? Did you know that your father asked you to go to Chunhui Mansion?"
"knew… "
Ji Yuan nodded.
"In that case, prepare tonight, bid farewell to the Master and your friends tomorrow, and then you can go to Chunhui Mansion."
Yin Qing responded with an "Oh", looked at Chihu and then at Ji Yuan, appearing a little listless.
Ji Yuan shook his head and smiled, turned around and walked out of the courtyard, and a word came to him lightly.
"Hui and I will take Hu Yun to take you to Chunhui Mansion."
After Ji Yuan left, the man and the fox suddenly reacted and cheered to each other in a low voice.
. . .
On the second day, Yin Qing said goodbye to his friends in the county, close neighbors, family members and teachers at the school one by one. Then he packed his book box, took his clothes, silver, four treasures of the study and a fox pendant, and set off for Chunhui Mansion with Ji Yuan.
Ji Yuan felt that he should be considered Yin Qing's elder. Instead of asking other relatives of the Yin family to send Yin Qing off or Yin Qing to go on the journey alone, it would be better for him to send Yin Qing off.
In the past, Ji Yuan always walked when he went out. This time, since he was going to go on a study tour, they naturally hired a carriage.
The curtain of the carriage was now completely opened. Yin Qing sat next to the coachman and looked at the surrounding scenery. He felt as if he was sitting on a bus and looking outside through the window when he was a student in his previous life.
The driver was a talkative man who looked to be in his sixties, but was actually no more than forty years old. Even among the villagers, he was considered one of the more anxious-looking ones.
Not long after the carriage drove out of the county, the driver started chatting non-stop.
"Mr. Ji, we can reach Shunbao County in the evening, and then go to Qianzhou County tomorrow morning. If we are lucky, we can reach Jiudaokou County within five days!"
"okay!"
Ji Yuan responded and continued to look at the white jade slip in his hand. Of course, because of the sleight of hand, in the driver's eyes it was just a scroll of bamboo slips.
When they knew that Ji Yuan and Yin Qing had chartered a car, many drivers vied to be chosen. Ji Yuan was fine because he was Yin Qing, the son of Yin Zhuangyuan. It would be good to have some good relations with him, and it would also give him face if he told others about it.
"Master Yin, look at this yellow horse in front of me. Even though it's an old horse, it has great endurance. And it knows the way to Jiudaokou Laohua Mountain. I have to run there more than ten times every year. Even if I take a nap on the carriage, this horse can pull us there!"
"Oh, that's really amazing!"
Yin Qing praised, stretched out his hand and slapped it forward, knocking back Hu Yun who was about to stretch out his claws to scratch the horse's butt.
"Uh, Mr. Yin, what were you filming just now? Why do I feel like..."
The driver just saw Yin Qing patting his hand forward, and seemed to vaguely see a shadow under his palm.
"Oh oh, hit the mosquito! I saw a mosquito trying to bite the horse!"
"Oh, the mosquitoes in autumn are poisonous, but I am not afraid of my yellow horse. Young Master Yin, you have delicate skin and tender flesh, please don't get bitten."
Yin Qing glared at the red fox sideways, then subconsciously looked at his hands.
He is not a child raised in a wealthy family, and he has been working all year round. However, he has become more and more delicate and fair over the years, and it seems as if he has never suffered any hardship since childhood.
Ji Yuan saw Hu Yun's behavior. This red fox had an unstable mind and was innocent, which was a good thing, but it was not good for him to think he was great just because he had some minor magical powers. It seemed that he would have to suffer.
“Woof woof woof… Woof woof woof…”
At this time, several large dogs suddenly rushed over. They were probably domestic dogs living in a village near the city. They ran back and forth and barked at the carriage.
Almost at the same time as the dog barked, Hu Yun quickly fled into the carriage and hid behind Ji Yuan.
The driver was outside waving his whip to drive the dog beside the carriage.
"Go away... Get away from me, go away, I'm whipping you!"
As he spoke, the driver whipped his horsewhip, but the dogs were only frightened and ran away a few steps for a moment, but soon gathered around him and barked again. The barking of the dogs lasted for more than a mile before it finally died down.
"These damn dogs are really weird today, following me from such a far distance!"
During the whole process, Hu Yun hid beside Ji Yuan and didn't dare to move, which made Ji Yuan laugh. Once bitten by a dog, he became a fox demon and was still afraid.
Yin Qing was also holding his stomach and trying hard to hold back his laughter.
This time was different from the last time. There was no risk of getting lost. We turned directly from the official road of Shunbao County into Qianzhou County, then passed through Qianzhou and Jiudaokou. We were able to find a suitable inn before nightfall. We arrived at the entrance of Laohua Mountain outside Jiudaokou County in the early morning of the sixth day.
A carriage was hired to bring it here, and the rest of the way was on their own. Originally, they could have asked the carriage to take them to the ferry, but Ji Yuan had something else to do in Laohua Mountain, so they decided to just have the carriage take them to the foot of the mountain.
After paying the balance in copper coins and saying goodbye to the carriage driver, Ji Yuan took Yin Qing and Hu Yun into Laohua Mountain.
However, after walking on the cargo road in the mountains for a while, Yin Qing discovered that Mr. Ji had taken them on a detour and was walking deeper and deeper into the mountains. He was not afraid, but was a little curious.
"Mr. Ji, aren't we going to the ferry? Why are we going into the mountains?"
Ji Yuan turned to look at Yin Qing and Hu Yun, who was lying on the book box behind Yin Qing and was equally curious, and smiled mysteriously.
"There is a pool of water in this mountain. I'll go see if there are any fish!"
The two men and the fox walked for half an hour, passed through the bushes and forests, and arrived at the clear water pond in the center of Laohua Mountain. The deep green water pond made Yin Qing feel creepy.
"Mr. Ji, are there any fish in here? I feel like there might be a big snake or something..."
"Yeah yeah… "
Hu Yun also nodded fearfully behind Yin Qing.
Ji Yuan ignored the two and walked directly to the edge of the pond, reaching out to grab the Qingteng Sword behind him.
At this moment, Yin Qing and Hu Yun's eyes widened. They suddenly discovered that a sword appeared out of thin air in Ji Yuan's hand.
Hu Yun was fine. Although Yin Qing had seen the magic of the jujube tree and had Hu Yun, a fox who was obviously a fox demon, it was the first time he saw Mr. Ji himself display such extraordinary means.
Then they saw Ji Yuan hanging the green sword two inches above the water surface. He did not make any other movements. After a few breaths, a small silver fish floated to the surface of the water with its belly turned upside down, apparently stunned by the sword energy.
"Hey, it really exists!"
Before Ji Yuan could finish his words, another slightly larger thread suddenly floated up.
"Hmm! Another one? Another one?"
Ji Yuan simply waited for a while, but he didn't see the third one float up. It seemed that no one had come to catch the silver qiaozi for two years.
Yin Qing and the fox looked at each other in bewilderment. Can this catch fish
Ji Yuan took a branch nearby, pulled the two silver fish in front of him, reached out and grabbed them. They felt cool and smooth to the touch. The gills, mouth, scales and tail were all intact. If an ordinary person saw them, they would definitely think they were just two rare fish.
Without looking at it any more, he cast a spell to make a thin circle of water waves and wrap it around the fish's body. Then he took out a dry lotus leaf that he had prepared long ago from his sleeve and wrapped the two silver holes.
"Let's go, let's go to the ferry. We have delicious fish soup today!"
Ji Yuan couldn't hide the smile on his face. He held the dry lotus leaf bag in his pocket and urged Yin Qing and Hu Yun to leave quickly. Although the Bishuitan Lake was ownerless, he always had a guilty feeling that he had taken away the fish from someone else's fish soup.