His gaze shifted back to Xia Junyu's determined little face, and he turned slightly and touched his head.
Ling'er knew Xia Junyu's temper best. He was even more protective of others than Ling'er herself.
To Xia Junyu, his mother is his taboo and cannot be touched.
Every time she thought of this, Ling'er felt sweet in her heart and was very grateful to God for giving her such a smart and well-behaved son.
Feeling Ling'er's touch, Xia Junyu's ruffled fur was instantly smoothed down.
The moment she turned around and looked at Ling'er, her little mouth curled up in a sweet smile.
"Mother."
Ling'er smiled and nodded, "My dear Yu'er, mother will never leave you. This old man was just joking with you. Grandpa just saved our Yu'er, you should say thank you to grandpa."
"Thank you, Grandpa. Yu'er likes you."
The following sentence surprised Ling'er very much.
She knew her son very well and knew that he seldom liked anyone.
Even in Yunhai City, he was only close to Brother Qinglan. Although he called the other three protectors uncles, they were not too intimate because they had only spent a short time together.
Unexpectedly, Yu'er would have such a good impression of this old man whom she had just met for less than half an hour.
That old man also likes Yu'er very much.
Maybe, this is really a kind of fate.
"My dear grandson, my dear grandson." The old man was very excited when he heard this. His beard trembled with laughter and tears welled up in his eyes. He suddenly remembered something and immediately lowered his head to search for it on himself.
"Hey, where's the wine gourd?" He turned around and looked up at the place where the wine gourd was lying and shouted, "Old man, why don't you come back? You are lying dead."
"..." The wine gourd instantly turned into a white light and returned to the old man's hand in the blink of an eye.
I never thought that this wine gourd is such a powerful artifact.
"My dear grandson, this is the first time I meet you, so I don't have any preparations. I'll give you all these candies." The old man said, shaking the wine gourd in his hand. A white jar appeared on his other hand and was handed to Xia Junyu.
Xia Junyu stared at the jar for a while, then turned back to look at his mother, and Ling'er nodded.
"Thank you, Grandpa." The little hand stretched out and took the jar from the old man. After opening it, a colorful light appeared instantly. When the light faded, seven small balls of different colors were quietly lying in the white jar. They looked very beautiful, very much like seven-color candies, no wonder the old man called them candies.
But Ling'er knew that this was not ordinary candy.
These seven colors correspond to different elements: yellow for gold, green for wood, blue for water, red for fire, and orange for earth. In addition, there are black and white, which should be the legendary light and dark elements.
Thick elemental power flows in these seven-colored candies, and this elemental power is very strange. Generally, the elemental power requires the practitioner to awaken the element himself. For example, if a practitioner awakens the water element, he can only absorb the water element. If other elements are forcibly absorbed, it will lead to insanity and explosion and death.
However, the elemental power of this candy is very gentle, and even people who have not awakened the element can take it. And if her guess is correct, after taking this candy, within a certain period of time, the person taking it will have the physique of the element and can use the element's skills.
So this is not a candy at all, but a miraculous medicine that defies the heavens.
Even though Ling'er herself is an excellent alchemist, she is not sure that she can make such a miraculous elixir now.
"Old man, I don't know how to address you."
"Hahaha, little girl, you can just call me Yao Lao. Of course, if you don't mind, you can follow my disciple and respect me as your master..." Thinking of something terrible, he immediately covered his mouth with his hand, then smiled awkwardly and looked at Xia Junyu's little face. "Grandpa didn't say anything, nothing..."
"..." This old man has a lively personality, but he said he has an icy-faced apprentice. You can imagine how boring the scene of them getting along with each other is.
I silently felt sorry for this old man for three seconds...
Yao Lao, the medicine refining elder of a large family is generally respectfully called Yao Lao.
Could it be that this old man is the alchemy elder of some big family
But it was true, if he was not the alchemist, how could he come up with such a miraculous medicine. And he gave it to Yu'er without hesitation.
"I don't know why Mr. Yao passed by here. Does he need any help?" After all, it would be bad for his son to just turn around and leave without saying anything since he had accepted such a valuable gift.
"Ah, I am an old man with a miserable life. I have accepted an unfilial apprentice. Not only does he not play with me every day, but he also doesn't let me go out. Don't you know, he locked me in an empty room, which is very gloomy and scary. I really couldn't stand it anymore, so I sneaked out when he wasn't paying attention. Unexpectedly, he still found me, so I ran away and he chased me. And then..." An accident happened and I fell down.
As for what the accident was, it was seeing Xia Junyu's face that made him fall in love at first sight. Then he got so excited that he flipped over and fell off.
It’s too embarrassing, so I won’t go into details.
"So, so, now I, an old man, am living on the streets, homeless. It's really pitiful..." He curled his lips, rubbed his eyes hard to squeeze out some tears, and looked at Ling'er with a miserable face.
The meaning is very clear: please take me in, please take me in, please take me in.
"… "
"In that case, Yao Lao, please come with us for the time being. When you remember where you want to go, you can leave on your own." Ling'er was skeptical about the truth of Yao Lao's words. But she could feel that he had no bad intentions. After all, he helped them, so if he wanted to follow, then let him follow.
"Young girl, you are such a good person. It would be disrespectful for me to refuse such an old man." Before he finished speaking, the pitiful look on his face disappeared, replaced by a smile, and then he moved in front of Xia Junyu.
…
The change was so fast that I couldn't see any sign of pity for him.
The unpleasant farce was temporarily over, and the carriage started moving again. However, the mood of everyone in the carriage had changed to a certain extent, especially the young man driving the carriage.
Originally it was just a job of driving a carriage, but now, I have an additional responsibility.
"Since we are friends, what should I call you?" Ling'er's voice came from the carriage. Her tone was very light, like a conversation between ordinary friends.
"season."
"You seem to be a few years older than me, so I will call you Brother Ji and you can just call me Ling'er. This is my son, his name is Xia Junyu." He turned around and looked at his son who was practicing with his eyes closed.
Yu'er has been practicing more and more recently. She knows that she is afraid that he can't protect her as his mother.
This child is always so sensible that it makes people feel distressed.
"And me, and me. Just call me Yao Lao. We are all family, so don't be too restrained."
"… "
Ling Er smiled inconspicuously. I really don't know who the old man Yao learned this skill of being so familiar with others from. It's so authentic...
Listening to Yao Lao's tone, which showed that he didn't treat himself as an outsider at all, Ji Ji shook his head with a slight smile.
It seems that there will be a lot of interesting things along the way.
…
The vegetation is crisp and the sky is shrouded in clouds and mist. Passing through the bamboo forest shrouded in fog, you can see a bottomless cliff.
Looking down, all I could see was fog, and the cliffs on both sides were steep. I didn't know what kind of danger was hidden there.
The shadow guard in black was also here for the first time. Seeing that there was no way forward, he frowned for a moment and then immediately knelt on the edge of the cliff.
"I am the shadow guard of the Third Miss of the Hua family. The Third Miss has an urgent matter and asked me to tell her that she needs to see Master Jun Qing."
He bowed his head, clasped his hands together, and knelt on the ground with a sincere look on his face. His loud and powerful voice echoed in the canyon.
After a moment, an ethereal voice of an old man came to my ear.
"Let's go forward."
The shadow guard frowned, then stood up, stared at the abyss for a moment, clenched his fists, hardened his heart, and walked forward.
Just when the shadow guard thought he was going to fall into the abyss and be smashed into a meat pie, a rock suddenly appeared under his feet, just supporting the place where he landed. He took the second step, and another rock appeared. This happened with every step.
I walked cautiously, step by step, for a long time, and finally crossed the terrifying abyss.
Looking up, I saw a majestic and towering mountain gate.
It is made of gray rocks, and you can feel the chill before you get close to it.
There was a statue in front of the mountain gate. It was a young boy with a smile on his face and a devilish look in his eyes. He was wearing a fluttering robe of unknown color. There was also an exquisite weapon hanging around his waist. But for some reason, I couldn't see the weapon clearly. When I saw that part, it was as if a cloud of white mist had covered my eyes and I couldn't see it clearly.
The Yinshijun family is not like an ordinary family. The person who can be made into a statue in front of the mountain gate must be their founding ancestor.
However, there are very few legends about the founding ancestor of the Jun family. But even so, it does not affect the influence of this ancestor in the hearts of the people at all.
The design of this mountain gate is very unique. Unlike other families that have handwritten carved plaques, you have to look along the line of sight of this sculpture. The moment you look over, four large purple characters "King of the World" will gradually appear in the air. But it only lasts for a few seconds before disappearing again.
Rule the world. Just from these few words, we can see the extraordinaryness and magnanimity of this ancestor of the Jun family.
Somehow, suddenly a powerful pressure came towards me, as if coming from above, constantly pressing down on me.
Finally, the shadow guard fell to his knees with a "bang".
"Who are you? How dare you break into my house? Why don't you tell me your name right away?"
This voice was exactly the same as the old man's voice he had just heard. Could it be that it was just a playback of a recorded voice
Otherwise, why would this old man ask me again? I had already made it clear before I came in.
The pressure from above was so overwhelming that in just a moment, the kneeling shadow guard was sweating profusely and could hardly hold on any longer.
"Reply...Report...Sir...I...was entrusted by someone...to deliver a letter to...Young Master Jun Qing...I have no ill intentions...Please inform...Sir..."
He was out of breath when speaking a simple sentence, and it looked extremely difficult. There was nothing he could do, because his current condition was really too bad. Maybe others couldn't understand that feeling, it was like a mountain pressing down on him.
On the small hill next to the mountain gate, an old man with a white beard who was sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed in concentration slowly opened his eyes.
He stretched out his hand and waved towards the place where the shadow guard was kneeling. The secret letter that was originally placed in the shadow guard's space pocket actually flew out and fell into the old man's hand.
Seeing the letter disappeared, the shadow guard was very anxious and wanted to reach out to grab it. However, he did not have the ability to do so, so he could only watch the letter fall into someone else's hands.
"I originally thought that Xiao Qing was a young man who was not fussy about trivial matters and did not care about fame and wealth. Among the many young people in the Jun family, I was quite optimistic about him. But who would have thought that it is difficult to paint the bones of a tiger while painting its skin, and you can know a person's face but not his heart." After reading the letter, the old man spread out his palm, and the letter instantly turned into powder and floated in the air.
"Since you are just a messenger and you have some courage, I will not pursue your crime of trespassing alone. You don't need to deliver the letter. The owner of the letter no longer needs you to deliver it. You are free now. You can go down the mountain now."
He had already received the news of the change of dynasty in the Hua family. The current Hua family should no longer want to cling to the Jun family.
But Xiao Qing really disappointed him.
The reason why he chose to get engaged to a woman whose status was not commensurate with his own must be because of the Hua family's secret method of improving spiritual power.
Alas, these young people nowadays are really getting worse than the previous generation.
If the ancestor saw the current situation of the Jun family, I wonder if he would regret founding this family.
He waved his big hand gently towards the kneeling shadow guard, removing the pressure from him.
"Go ahead, young man."
After hearing the old man's words, the shadow guard was stunned for a moment, then turned and left.
Just after the shadow guard left, two men wearing black suits and holding long swords walked out.
"It's strange. I clearly heard someone talking just now." Man No. 1 stood in front of the mountain gate and looked around, but he didn't see any people, not even a mosquito.
“Brother, did you hear it wrong? Did you not sleep well because of the trouble made by my sister-in-law, so you have hallucinations? Hahaha…” Man No. 2 looked at Man No. 2’s serious expression and said jokingly.
Man No. 1 blushed and coughed dryly, "What nonsense are you talking about? It might be something happening somewhere else. The old man is going to be released from confinement in the next few days, so we have to check carefully and not make any mistakes. Otherwise, you and I can only be brothers in the underworld."
"Yes, yes, that's right, brother. Let's go look somewhere else."
"Let's go."
…
Lingxin, who was knocked unconscious and carried away by Uncle Zhong, finally woke up half an hour later.
"Oh, my neck hurts." I had just woken up and my mind was still not clear, but I subconsciously felt a little pain in my neck. I reached out and touched it, then gently turned it a few times.
His thoughts gradually became clearer, and his memory returned. His confused eyes gradually became fierce, and then he stood up suddenly and opened the curtain of the carriage.
Damn it, she remembered that she was knocked unconscious by Uncle Zhong.
"Uncle Zhong! Uncle Zhong! Get over here!" The damn old guy was really rebelling against her. Not only could he not help her vent her anger and teach those blind people a lesson, but he even dared to attack her!
Although he is different from the ordinary servants in the mansion, the master is the master, and a servant, no matter how high his status is, is still a servant!
“Uncle Zhong! Uncle Zhong! Where the hell did he go?”
I thought Uncle Zhong was driving the carriage outside, but when I lifted the curtain I only saw his useless cousin Liu Jinjing.
Seeing Lingxin wake up, Liu Jinjing immediately put on a gentle and harmless smile.
"Cousin, you're awake. Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere? If you feel uncomfortable, tell your cousin. Although your cousin is not proficient in medicine, he is an outer disciple of the Medicine Alliance after all, and he knows more about medicine than others." Although he didn't like this cousin very much, he had no choice, because she was the daughter of the Ling family.
"Cousin, where is Uncle Zhong? He dared to knock me out. I want to ask him for an explanation." Could it be that he knew that he had caused a big disaster and fled while she was still asleep