Rain clouds come and go even faster.
The two white-winged eagles in the sky had not had time to return to their nests, and the rain clouds had already dispersed.
The clear cry of eagles resounded through the sky, and without the cover of rain clouds, two immature hawks that had just begun to show their temperament soared straight into the sky.
The warm spring sun shone on my body. Although the clothes on my back were torn by the bark of the dragon's claw pine, the gentle wind blew in along the cracks and touched my whole body like little hands. It felt very comfortable. Not cold at all.
Carrying a bookcase and walking briskly, Yin Xuuge walked out of the gate of Zongxue and greeted the skinny old man in the concierge with a smile.
The old concierge, who was also a member of the Yin family but did not know his name. He only knew that he had been stationed in the Yin family clan for at least a thousand years, and looked at Yin Xuuge blankly. He looked back at the Zongxue gate in surprise, then frowned and shook his head slightly.
"absurd."
The old concierge murmured in a low voice, took out a plate of old peanuts and a small pot of old wine from the closet, sat on the bluestone in front of the concierge, crossed his legs, and drank while basking in the sun, his eyes never leaving Yinxue. The back of the song.
On the street, I found a bank and exchanged a small gold ingot for silver, and a few ingots of silver into copper coins.
A small gold nugget turned into a big bag of silver dimes and copper coins, weighing dozens of kilograms with a jingling sound, and feeling full when held in the hand.
In the drugstore opposite the bank, I took out the gold ingot and bought fifteen Guyuan Pills, which only cost three hundred taels of silver.
After carefully hiding the elixir in her arms, Yin Xuege walked into the butcher shop, grain store and other shops on the roadside, and bought countless random things. Whenever he took out a lot of copper coins or silver coins to pay the bill, he always had a good impression of Miao Tianjie.
In the past seven months, he had been robbed of a total of fifty taels of silver and lost eighteen Gu Yuan Pills. But once today, it all came back.
"Twenty taels of gold, luckily he can carry it with him. Having a cheap brother-in-law is indeed a great joy in life."
With a hint of malice, Yin Xuege began to speculate, if he married Qing He, would he be able to reap some benefits
But after careful consideration and thinking about Qing Lian's skinny body and yellow and thin cheeks, he sighed helplessly.
"It's a waste of money, and no one wants to pay for it. Why buy it back? It's clumsy and can't do anything. It can only make soup in the soup pot."
When he thought of the word 'making soup', he also thought of what Qing Ling said last month in March, it is best to stew a pot of old Gastrodia hen soup for nourishment. One is to moisten the intestines and stomach and soothe the body that has been almost worn out in winter; the other is to dispel the spring cold and strengthen the body.
It was just that I was in a difficult situation at that time, and the money Zongxue had given me always disappeared mysteriously many times, so the matter of supplementation naturally came to nothing.
"Lu Chai Bangzi has no meat at all. If you want to marry off and sell it for a good price, do you have to keep it fat?"
With this bad idea in mind, he hired a porter and asked him to carry a load of all the odds and ends he bought. Then he ran to the market and bought four big, fat old hens, which cost him a total of nine dollars. Money.
"It's a lot more expensive."
Four old hens, actually cost nine pieces of silver
Last year, four identical old hens cost at most seven cents and two cents of silver.
Thousands of years ago, the same old hen, with a few eggs, cost only six cents.
Like eggs, things in the market seem to be getting more and more expensive
This change seems to have occurred after Lin Jingfeng became the prefect of Weicheng.
Carrying four old hens and a large bag of 20-year-old Gastrodia elata in her arms, Yin Xuuge returned home thoughtfully with the porter. When sending the porter away, he gave the porter a full hundred copper coins, and this price made the surprised Qing Ling scream in shock and anger.
"This is robbing people. I used to hire a porter to go around Weinan City for up to sixty coins."
"Now he actually wants a hundred coins. He thinks his feet are inlaid with gold, and every step he takes is sprinkled with gold dust?"
Seeing four fat and strong old hens running around on the ground clucking, Qing Ling, who was originally very happy, looked extremely gloomy.
She stood at the door of her house, staring at the porter's back with unkind eyes, and suddenly turned back to whisper to Yin Xuege.
"Master, I didn't expect you to be enlightened today."
"I won't ask about the origin of this money. It must be disgraceful anyway."
"Since you have already done the first year of junior high school, why not do the fifteenth year of junior high school as well? The porter has at least five hundred copper coins in his pocket."
Qing Ling's eyes were wandering and uncertain, as blurry and gloomy as an innocent soul. Clearly, she was imagining some less-than-kind scenarios. With Yin Xuuge's strength, dealing with an ordinary strong porter was a problem that could be solved with one finger.
With a heavy cough, Yin Xuege threw the Gastrodia elata and the bag containing money in her arms into Qing Ling's hands.
"Master, am I that kind of person?"
"What does it mean to have a dishonorable background? Is it possible that I can commit robbery?"
Qing Ling sighed softly and looked at her young master with pity.
"It's not like robbery. You have the heart, but you don't have the courage."
"But if you don't rob, you can sell yourself! The gentlemen from the next door family all wanted to be your father-in-law a few years ago."
Yin Xuuge was embarrassed. He raised his hand and gently slapped Qing Ling on the forehead. Then he flicked his sleeves and walked smoothly into the small martial arts field behind the yard with his hands behind his back.
He took a Guyuan Pill on the spot, and with his hands like dragon claws, he grabbed an old poplar tree with hundreds of years of climate beside the martial arts field. He groaned, and the Guyuan Pill released a large amount of heat in the body like charcoal, urging him to The blood in his whole body started to move.
The muscles squirmed and swelled like snakes, the old poplar tree swayed its branches gently, and a very fine green energy was continuously injected into his body.
Wherever the green energy passes, all flesh, flesh, and bones absorb the breath of life contained in the green energy from the old poplar trees.
His own strength increased bit by bit. With the consumption of Guyuan Dan, his own blood energy rolled like a tide, and the green energy in the old poplar tree was naturally endless. Yin Xuege's mere sixteen years of life, even if tempered to the current level, compared with the climate of the old poplar tree for hundreds of years, his vitality is only one or two percent of the old poplar tree.
The little green energy extracted from the old poplar tree is not worth mentioning to the old tree itself.
What's more, as the Qi and blood in Yin Xuege's body rolled inexplicably, cyan air began to flow in the veins of the old poplar tree. The old poplar tree began some kind of wonderful changes. Its roots drilled deeper into the ground. Every moment it could absorb more water and nutrients, and at the same time, new sprouts gradually grew on its branches and leaves.
The old poplar tree sent a trace of green energy to Yin Xuuge, and he himself had several times the amount of green energy.
And every trace of green energy injected into Yin Xuuge's body consumes about 30% of the medicinal power produced by the Guyuan Dan.
In this inexplicable way, Yin Xuege can exert more than three times the power of each Gu Yuan Dan. When he took one Guyuan Pill, he got the same benefit as three Guyuan Pills for ordinary people.
Moreover, there are many impurities in Guyuan Dan. Taking one Guyuan Dan requires a lot of time kicking and punching to eliminate the impurities from the body.
But what Yin Xuuge's body is absorbing at the moment is the pure green energy from the old poplar tree, which does not contain any impurities; the Guyuan Dan is only used as fuel to promote the circulation of his blood energy, giving him enough power to operate this method.
All the impurities in the elixir were transported into the body of the old poplar tree, sent underground along the tree's veins, and buried deep in the soil, without causing any obstruction to Yin Xuuge himself.
The sky gradually darkened.
Qing Ling sang happily in the kitchen.
She was so heartless that she didn't care where her young master got the money, rice, noodles and so much wine and meat. In her eyes, this is a matter of course. It is his ability to get these things back.
Just like back then, when my master was still alive, he often carried so much money and other things home.
At that time, this courtyard was not as deserted and deserted as it is now. Qing Ling remembered that at that time she was always happy to welcome her master back, and she could always get a few of her favorite candies from him.
"The only thing that makes the young master worse than the master is that he doesn't bring sweets back to Qing Ling."
Frowning, Qing Ling, who was chopping chicken legs with a small ax, was stunned. She almost cut off her own fingers with the axe.
Looking in panic at the ax that was chopped almost against her own fingers, Qing Ling breathed a long sigh of relief and her face turned pale with fear.
When it gets dark, the rich aroma of gastrodia hen soup comes from the kitchen. At the same time, Qing Lian also fried three meat dishes and stewed an elbow, served with old hen soup and two vegetarian dishes. This was a luxurious meal that Yin Xuege and Qing Ling had never had in the past three years.
Three years ago, Yin Xuuge's father passed away.
The family has undergone major changes, the servants have dispersed, and all income has been cut off. With only twelve taels of silver from the Zongxue each month, even Yin Xuuge can barely meet his daily physical needs. At that time, Qing Ling's biggest dream every day was a piece of elbow skin and a big chicken leg.
"If you have elbows and drumsticks every day, it's perfect."
Looking at the dishes she had carefully prepared, Qing Lian held her hands in front of her chest and sighed.
"Whether the young master is robbing or selling his body, well, as long as Qing Lian has elbows and drumsticks, the rest doesn't matter."
After spending an afternoon in the backyard martial arts field, the power of an entire Gu Yuan Dan was finally exhausted.
Yin Xuuge was sweating profusely, and there was a faint smell of blood in his sweat. The gain he received on this day was even greater than the improvement he had received in one month in the past few years.
Relying on the green energy selflessly provided by the old poplar tree, he increased his strength by half in one afternoon.
Calculated in this way, in seven days, he will be able to reach the power of a cauldron. After all, seven months ago, he already had a strength of eighty-nine.
"It seems that the Yin family in Weinan is just an ordinary small family. After all, the ancient city of Weinan is nothing in this world."
Through the progress I made in one afternoon, and then comparing the strength I gained after practicing according to the teachings of the Yin family in the past few years, I realized that the cultivation method mastered by the Yin family in Weinan is very different from my own.
Although there are various other factors involved in this, the position of the Weinan Yin family in this world is clear.
"Lin Jingfeng is only the third son of Weihou, or even the heir apparent of Weihou."
The Yin family in Weicheng is not strong, but it is the number one family in Weicheng. This shows that the standard of Weicheng is like this. Then Lin Jingfeng was sent to Weicheng as the prefect. One can imagine the value of his role as prefect.
"What kind of good place can a son who does not have the right to inherit Weihou perform his duties?"
There is a well beside the martial arts arena.
After taking off her clothes and pantyhose, fetching a few buckets of water, rinsed her body vigorously, and put on the new clothes that Qing Ling had hung on the wooden rack beside the martial arts arena, Yin Xuege returned to the restaurant with satisfaction.
Qing Ling was already lying on the dining table, staring blankly at the oily and red pig knuckles in the basin.
The pork knuckle has a strong aroma of herbs. Yin Xuege is a practitioner. He must add certain medicinal materials to each of his dishes, so as to nourish the body and relax the muscles and activate the muscles.
"start."
Yin Xuege didn't talk nonsense. He waved to Qinghe and gave a loud shout.
Qinghe pulled off a chicken leg, sniffed the chicken leg intoxicatedly, and then bit into it slowly and affectionately.
"Master, if you rob someone from now on, I will hand you a knife."
Qinghe hummed inarticulately.
"If you sell yourself, I will ask for money for you, and it will never be less than a copper coin."
The Yinxue singer held up her chopsticks and froze in mid-air.
If he was robbing someone and Qing He handed him the knife, this scene would be weird but acceptable.
But he sold himself and Qinghe went to ask for money. What does this mean? Is she his old madam
"Talk nonsense and concentrate on eating."
Yin Xuege is a cultivator, and the power of a Yuan-Guarding Pill has completely dissipated and turned into huge power stored in his body. So now he was very hungry and his eyes were dazzled by hunger.
Qing Ling looked shriveled and thin, but she was also in a panic due to lack of oil and water in her stomach, and she also ate and drank a lot today.
It only took the master and servant a quarter of an hour to finish the table full of food and wine, and then they sat at the table and hummed happily while stroking their swollen bellies.
"The pork knuckle is good. You can add some cinnamon to make it more fragrant."
Holding the toothpick and picking his teeth slowly, Yin Xuuge looked at the beam and spoke lazily.
"Tomorrow, go buy a pig head and bring it back. Dad used to like pig heads."
Qinghe raised her head and glanced at Yin Xuuge, nodded and agreed.
"My master likes pork head meat stewed in clear soup and then sliced. If paired with Ruyiju's Laojiao wine, he likes this."
"Then go buy two more pounds of Ruyiju's Laojiao wine."
Yin Xuuge dropped the toothpick and smiled lightly. He wanted to say something more, but his expression suddenly changed.
As soon as night fell, it started to rain outside. The spring rain sprinkled on the ground, which was very moist and gratifying.
After practicing to his level, body tempering can be regarded as a small achievement, and his facial features are much sharper than ordinary people. On this day, he continuously extracted the green energy from three old trees and blended it into himself, and his five senses were enhanced several times.
Just now, the sound of rain outside suddenly disappeared.
Not only that, the sounds of dogs barking, people talking in the distance, and the whirring sound of the wind blowing through the treetops were all gone.
The surroundings were as quiet as if they were in an ancient tomb on a barren mountain. It was so quiet that it made one's heart palpitate, and it was so quiet that one could feel chills in one's heart.
He quietly stood up, picked up Qing Ling's collar, and without making any sound, stuffed her into the closet in the corner of the dining room.
Qing Ling's expression changed slightly. Strangely, the small ax she had just used to chop the chicken legs was pulled out from nowhere.
Just holding the ax in her hand, Qing Ling carefully closed the closet door quietly without making any sound, leaving only a crack.
Yin Xuege quietly jumped up, his figure jumped more than ten feet high, his left hand hung on the roof beam, and his right hand grabbed on the roof beam. He grabbed a long black sheath knife and carried it behind his back. .
His hand grabbed another handful from the roof beam. This time, he brazenly grabbed a powerful crossbow with a bow arm that was two feet four inches long.
A black crossbow with a bloody crossbow string and three powerful arrow runes engraved on the crossbow. This is the "Geefeng Crossbow" that is standard in the country and is used exclusively by the patrolling lawmen. It has great lethality and even poses a great threat to Qi practitioners who have completed their body tempering and have begun to eat the wind and drink the dew.
This type of standard long-range weapon with high lethality cannot be retained by the private sector at all.
Yin Xuuge's father died in the line of duty three years ago. This Gale Crossbow killed eighteen opponents in that battle, and the crossbow was stained with blood. This crossbow, along with his father's sword, official uniform, etc., were all sent back to Yin Xuege's home for worship.
This kind of matter is clearly stipulated in various laws of the country, and the homes of heroes are allowed to enshrine the relics of martyrs.
But Yin Xuege must make a commitment to these weapons that are extremely lethal and threaten serious Qi practitioners. Once this kind of equipment is taken away and a crime is committed, he will also bear joint and several liability - but Yin Xuuge is not yet an adult, so the joint and several liability is slightly smaller.
There was something wrong with the sound outside at this moment, and Yin Xuege instinctively thought of the several small-scale, short-term talismans that could block all sounds and vitality fluctuations taught in sects, as well as other similar objects.
Someone used these things to surround the entire yard.
Now even if Yin Xuege yells in the yard, outsiders can't hear her.
On a spring rainy night, everything is silent, which is a good time for murder and arson.
After extinguishing the candles in the dining room with one palm, Yin Xuege moved to the window and looked out through the gap between the window edges.
"Sure enough, Dad, you are still greedy. You have blessed me by placing these two treasures of yours on the beams of the restaurant and eating spicy food all day long."
Yin Xuuge smiled coldly, if the long sword and the powerful crossbow were enshrined on the incense table in the main hall tonight, then everything would be over and the trouble would be big.
Shadowing Zhuo Zhuo, three figures could be seen crossing the wall that was one foot or two feet high. They landed silently, like ghosts.
Yin Xuuge looked at their actions, and his heart suddenly sank slightly.
These guys are extremely skilled, at least they are all masters of body tempering with a strength of one cauldron.
Three people, with his current strength, he may have no choice but to kill them.
He raised the Gale Crossbow, looked through the window paper, and activated the crossbow without saying a word.
Amidst the strange whistling sound, a dark red three-edged bone-piercing wolf tooth arrow whizzed away.
(End of chapter)