Ning Tao pushed open the fenced courtyard door and walked in. The door of the lighted room also opened.
An old man came out of the door.
Eyes facing each other.
Ning Tao suddenly lost control and rushed forward.
The old man raised a hand, making a pause gesture, and said nervously: "Calm down! Listen to my explanation..."
There is a kind of encounter that you can't find anywhere even after wearing iron shoes. It takes no effort at all. The popular saying is that I will watch where you run!
This old man is none other than Chen Pingdao, the Tengu Taoist.
Ning Tao has been looking for Chen Pingdao's whereabouts since he took over the Tianwai Clinic, but Chen Pingdao seems to have disappeared from the world. There is not even the slightest news, let alone finding anyone. Unexpectedly, during this trip to Africa and cave exploration, I actually met him in such an isolated cave treasure place!
This reunion was a coincidence, but it was also God's will.
The anger in Ning Tao's heart faded as quickly as it came. Just now, outside the woods, before Qing Zhui stuck out his tongue to identify the smell, he actually already knew who was hiding in the woods. Therefore, he let Jiang Hao and Qing Zhui stay outside the forest and came here alone.
He was only dissatisfied with Chen Pingdao, not resentful. He was dissatisfied that Chen Pingdao deceived him into taking over the Tianwai Clinic and then fled. He didn't know anything. At that time, even if Chen Pingdao gave him some casual guidance, he would not be so difficult and walking on thin ice.
However, it was Chen Pingdao who started his cultivation career. If it weren't for Chen Pingdao, he might still be working as an intern in a small rural hospital. In the future, he might fall in love with a rural girl, get married and have children, and spend his whole life being ordinary and doing nothing. This is not the life he wants at all. Although Tianwai Clinic has brought tremendous pressure to him, and he may lose his mind because he cannot pay the consultation fee in a certain month, he prefers this kind of life now. Now, even if Tianwai Clinic gives him a choice, allowing him to return to his old days or continue to be the owner of Tianwai Clinic, he will choose Tianwai Clinic instead of an ordinary and mediocre life.
After a brief silence, Ning Tao sighed: "Forget it, I have thought more than once about how to beat you when I see you again, but when I see you, I can't do it."
Chen Pingdao smiled: "Isn't that enough? We have no grievances, why are you hitting me?"
Ning Tao suddenly waved his hand.
Chen Pingdao jumped up, and when he paused again, he was already on the roof of the thatched cottage.
In the same situation, the cultivating doctors were unable to fight, but they were better at escaping.
Ning Tao reached out and touched his wet hair, looked at Chen Ping and said, "With such courage, how did you live for more than two thousand years?"
Chen Pingdao said without shame: "I am timid by nature and never take risks. You see, I have come here to hide from you. It is not a problem for me to live another two thousand years here."
Ning Tao said: "Come down. Your cultivation is far above mine. You are so afraid that I will beat you. Are you not afraid of being laughed at?"
Chen Pingdao had no intention of coming down from the roof. Just as Ning Tao was speaking, his gaze suddenly moved to the direction outside the woods, and his expression suddenly became nervous: "You actually brought two helpers!"
Chen Pingdao is also a natural mediator between good and evil, and has also been the owner of the Tianwai Clinic. Chen Pingdao's eyes can also enter the telescope state and see the innate aura of Qing Zhui and Jiang Hao.
Ning Tao said: "It's my woman. I was just afraid that you would be scared, so I asked them to stay outside. Come down and let's have a good chat. I have something to ask you."
Chen Pingdao looked at Ning Tao suspiciously: "You swear you won't do anything?"
Ning Tao spread his hands and said speechlessly: "I'm really convinced by you. What are you afraid of?"
Chen Pingdao jumped off the roof, but still kept a distance from Ning Tao.
Ning Tao walked to a stone table in the yard, sat on a stone bench next to the stone table, then pointed to the seat opposite and said, "Sit down and chat."
Chen Pingdao did not go over: "It's okay. You sit down and I stand. What do you want to know from me?"
Ning Tao didn't expect Chen Pingdao to chat with him like ordinary people, so he asked casually: "Why are you here?"
Chen Pingdao said: "I have lived for more than two thousand years. This world is not big. How can I not know which place is suitable for seclusion? When Zheng He sailed to the West, I served as the ship's doctor on his ship. Later it happened that I came to Africa and discovered this place. I left the blood lock and came here to plant trees and flowers when I had time. It took me seventy years to build the thatched cottage you see."
It took seventy years to build a thatched cottage, so he was really lazy. If this house were released on Chinese land, the property rights would have expired.
Chen Pingdao stared at Ning Tao: "After I passed the clinic to you, I came here to live in seclusion. I never thought you would find this place. How did you find it here?"
Ning Tao said: "I came here to treat a chief, and found that spiritual energy was released in the cave, so I found this place."
"Didn't even the ghost bat bite you to death?"
"Do you want me to be bitten to death by a ghost bat?"
Chen Pingdao was stunned for a moment and waved his hand hurriedly: "How could I have such vicious thoughts? I can be regarded as half of your master. I will cleanse your marrow and cut your menstrual veins, and I will pass the Tianwai Clinic to you..."
"Hmph!" Ning Tao got angry when he heard this: "You tricked me into signing a soul contract and inheriting the clinic, but you just walked away. I don't understand anything but I have to pay rent. If I weren't lucky, I'm afraid I'm already dead, but you still have the nerve to say you're half my master!"
Chen Pingdao smiled awkwardly: "Well... aren't you living well now? Young people need to experience it. I can see that your future achievements will be great!"
Ning Tao said: "Forget it, I never thought I would meet you here, let alone settle a score with you. We won't talk about the past. Tell me, was the dog tripod your tripod that day? "
Chen Pingdao shook his head: "Although I am called Taoist Tengu, that is not my cauldron. It is the cauldron of a middleman between good and evil in the Linggu era. I have used it to make elixirs, but the effect is not good. I often use the Meixiang Cauldron. Use it, that cauldron is easy to use, it is also a refining cauldron used as a middleman between good and evil in the ancient Ling Dynasty.”
"Does everyone in the middle of good and evil have a cauldron of their own?" Ning Tao asked.
Chen Pingdao said: "That should be true. When the clinic is upgraded to a certain level and your cultivation reaches the corresponding level, there will be a cauldron dedicated to the owner of the clinic. The clinic will probably give relevant instructions, but... "
"But what?"
"But I'm not sure. As you know, it hasn't been upgraded since I took over the clinic. It's not at the level of my own cauldron."
"You've never leveled up?"
"Upgrading means the rent will increase. How stupid am I to upgrade it? I work hard to make elixirs, cure diseases and save people, and punish evil people. Every day is very hard. But even so, my lifespan was deducted five times. "Two hundred years at a time is equivalent to deducting a thousand years of my life. Otherwise, would I be so old?" At this point, Chen Pingdao suddenly became angry, "Sometimes, I want to burn down the clinic." !”
"How do you manage your business?" Ning Tao has always been curious about how Chen Pingdao managed the clinic to the brink of bankruptcy.
Chen Pingdao smiled bitterly: "I went around looking for patients with good thoughts, merits, and evil thoughts, but they didn't believe it at all. Occasionally, some did. When it came to signing the prescription contract, how many people were willing to sign it? Especially those who Evil man, if you want to cut off his hands and legs, if you want to kill him, will he still sign obediently? "
Ning Tao got to know Chen Pingdao better. Not only was he lazy and timid, he was also a bit pedantic and did not know how to adapt. Just imagine, if Chen Pingdao had also found a Taoist monk like Qing Zhui to help him deceive the evildoers, then he would not have run the Tianwai Clinic to the brink of bankruptcy.
"There are fewer and fewer good people in this world, and more and more evil people. It is difficult to earn medical fees. Alchemy requires money, but the clinic is not profitable. I feel more and more boring. While I am practicing medicine, I am also looking for an heir. God will pay off. , I finally found you. I'm not suitable for running a clinic, but you are..." As if he was worried about offending Ning Tao, Chen Pingdao changed the subject: "By the way, you haven't upgraded the clinic. Is the current rent higher than 40%? Hundred?"
"Four hundred?"
"I don't think so. It's hard to earn a good and evil rent of two hundred, let alone four hundred." Chen Pingdao looked certain.
A disdainful snort came from Ning Tao's nostrils: "Four hundred? I'm currently charging four thousand a month for rent."
"Ah?" Chen Pingdao's jaw dropped to the ground in shock.
Ning Tao said calmly: "In addition to the rent of four thousand, I also opened two doors of the calligraphy library."
Chen Pingdao walked quickly to the stone table and said impatiently: "Tell me quickly, what's inside those two warehouse doors?"
Ning Tao said without curiosity: "Why should I tell you?"
Chen Pingdao was stunned on the spot. He was very anxious, but Ning Tao didn't want to tell him. He was really embarrassed to ask. Yes, when he first tricked Ning Tao, Ning Tao was still a student and didn't understand anything. He even concluded that Ning Tao could only live for one month, but he didn't expect that Ning Tao not only upgraded the clinic to a monthly rent of 4,000, but also He is a deceitful loser who has opened the two doors of the library of scriptures and calligraphy. What qualifications does he have to ask others
Ning Tao smiled: "However, if you tell me how far this clinic will eventually be upgraded, I will tell you what is in those two warehouses, and I can even take you back to the clinic to have a look."
Upon hearing this, Chen Pingdao waved his hands hurriedly: "No, no, no, I won't go into that clinic again even if I die. I lied to you once, and I feel very guilty in my heart. I won't lie to you a second time, you ask me I don’t know how far the clinic will eventually be upgraded, because no one has ever done it. Also, I don’t know where it comes from, so don’t ask me this question.”
"Do you know the origin of the broken cauldron? Whose cauldron is it?" Ning Tao asked.
Chen Pingdao said: "I don't know about this either. I have used it to practice elixirs, but the effect was not good."
Ning Tao felt an indescribable feeling in his heart. This guy didn't know that the Broken Cauldron was a cauldron used to repair magic weapons. Now it seemed that he was not unjust in running the clinic like that.
"Then how did you become a dog? You should know this, right?" Ning Tao stared at Chen Ping and said.
Chen Pingdao said: "It's not a change, it's the upper body. When the soul leaves the body and enters the dog's body, I can control the dog. But I believe you are far from that state now, right?"
Ning Tao nodded. He had only entered the Dan Formation Stage now, while Chen Pingdao was talking about the Out-of-body Stage, and there was still a Nascent Soul Stage in between. Of course he couldn't do it.
Chen Pingdao smiled proudly, finally regaining some face.
Ning Tao asked again: "I am only in the elixir formation stage now. When you were in the elixir formation stage, how big was your inner elixir?"
Chen Pingdao gently stroked his silver beard, chuckled, raised his right hand, and circled a shape the size of a ping pong ball with his thumb and index finger, and then said in an old-fashioned way: "You are only so big, you are in the elixir formation stage now." , how big is your inner elixir?"
Ning Tao stretched out his hands and made a volleyball shape.
Chen Pingdao staggered and almost fell off the stone bench.