one of my alchemist friends

Chapter 16

The room is also true to its name, the location is secluded, the interior furnishings are minimal, the only few pieces of furniture are unpainted, and the color of the original wood is kept, lining the four white walls, which is a bit like a meditation room.There is an exquisite small three-legged incense burner on the table, which is hollowed out and carved. Mo Chengkong lifted the lid of the furnace and sniffed it. It was cold in the pine. It was different from the soft, warm and sweet fragrance next to it, and its taste was cold and faint. "It's rumored outside that your lord is obsessed with cultivating the Tao. It's true when I saw it today. It's rare to be noble and self-restraining."

He was pouring tea for the two of them, and when he heard this remark, he chuckled: "Xian Jun is absurd. There is still a little rumor about me in the outside world?"

"Not a lot..." Mo Chengkong repeated it in detail, his face turned blue and pale, and he said angrily: "Nonsense! Just because I asked the immortals, you know that I am mediocre? What's so lustful... ...Admiration for beautiful things, understand? This is called interest! Interest! How can it be spread so obscenely?" He was indeed aggrieved.The father threw the burden away and took his mother to travel around. He strictly abides by his duties. Although Pingning City is not very prosperous, it is also well-organized.As for lust, he has no concubine, and there are no other women in the mansion except the maid.

"Alright, alright, let's get down to business." He let out a long sigh of relief, and said seriously, "The two of you must have encountered strict interrogation when they entered the city. The guards in the city were dispatched for me, and this move was really helpless. It's all because half a month ago, my ancestral grave..." His voice lowered a little, "It was planed."

Mo Chengkong smiled: "You have to report this matter to the authorities, we can't control it."

Ning Zeping waved his hands again and again: "The funeral objects are not lost..." "Is it embarrassing?" "No...not much lost..."

Mo Chengkong smiled again: "Your words are interesting. What do you mean you didn't lose them much? Could it be that the gravediggers also stole some arms and legs?"

He lowered his voice a bit: "It's not stealing... it's eating. At the beginning, I also thought it was grave robbers, but who would eat corpses without taking things? A dozen graves, large and small, are turned over every three days. The older ones gnaw twice, and the ones that are a little closer are all in pieces. None of the strong men who were arranged to watch the night came back. My family's ancestors have been there for several generations, and the Ning family will lose all face. The mages and Taoists invited batch after batch, but it was useless."

So it seems that it is not done by ordinary people, or in other words, it is not done by people.Mo Chengkong asked, "Have you invited the Meng Mansion in the suburbs of Pingning?"

"Before I could invite them, they came here by themselves. A group of five people, all men, charged a high price. It seems that they have some skills, but it is still useless. Do you mean that monks are also divided into elder brothers and younger brothers?"

Having described it so far, the two of them already knew it in their hearts.The monks of the Meng family that Ning Zeping was talking about must be the five-member group of robbers who bluffed and swindled.It's a pity that he can't speak up about his family affairs, and he has suffered from being dumb for nothing.

"Don't panic, my lord. I'm not talented. Although I'm not good at learning, I can still be considered an alchemist. Besides, there's this—" Mo Chengkong patted Bairan's thigh, "This friend is amazing. No one in ten thousand , the talent is extraordinary, and the shot is fatal. Do you know what the key is?"

"what?"

"He looks handsome."

"Puff", "Puff", the two of them spurted out all the tea before they swallowed it, and coughed continuously for a while.

"Oh, one of you is not funny, the other is not boastful, you have no concentration." He sat cross-legged instead, playing with the tassels on the fan pendant, "When is the next three-day period?"

"Just tonight."

"Okay. Sir, please bring some freshly slaughtered chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep tonight, and come with us." He got up and stretched, and pushed the door out, "Who can lead me to the guest room for a short rest?"

An old man appeared at the corner, smiling kindly, but his eyes were more focused on Bairan: "I am in charge of Ningfu, surnamed Liu. Come with me, both of you."

"Thank you." The two followed Guanshi Liu to the guest room, and he suddenly mentioned that the guest room had been vacant for a long time without a quilt, and asked the two to wait a moment.Mo Chengkong waved his hand to indicate that I am sleepy, let's make do with sleep, you accompany the old man to pick it up, so as not to run back and forth.Bairan agreed, and left.Liu Guanshi saw that there was no one else, so he quietly asked: "Little brother, is the family safe?"

Bairan already had something to say, and the old man was full of concern, so he told the truth: "My grandfather passed away a few days ago, and my uncle was injured the year before last, but the rest is fine. Why do you ask this? "

"Ah...it's nothing. It's just that I have met your parents and elders a few times and received favors." Liu Guanshi still smiled kindly, but when Bairan mentioned his uncle, there seemed to be a hint of displeasure in his eyes.This emotion went so fast that he couldn't see it clearly, so he didn't ask any more questions.

Summer is approaching, the days are getting hotter, and it is getting dark late.When the three of them went up the mountain, the sky was still dark, and the fiery red on the top of the mountain transitioned to the dark blue above the head, with stars dotted in the middle.Each of the three carried chickens, ducks, beef and mutton, and the bamboo baskets used for loading were solidly woven, and their hands did not get dirty.The meat baskets were distributed among the cemeteries, and the three of them hid among the bushes beside them, waiting for the gravediggers to come.

Ning Zeping was a little uneasy. After all, he had never faced that thing directly, but he could tell its ferocity from the tomb guard's death: "Are the three of us all right?"

Bai Ran remained silent, while Mo Chengkong was slapping him for mosquitoes: "Don't worry. In fact, it's enough for the two of us to come. It's not a big deal, do you think you're not a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death? I'll bring you a lot of experience." ah."

Ning Zeping felt like crying, so he shut his mouth sensiblely.

A black shadow suddenly appeared in front of his eyes, heading straight for the meat basket.After looking around, I sat down and lit the barbecue with peace of mind.

"This monster... seems a little silly." Ning Zeping observed for a long time and gave such an evaluation.Coincidentally, it hit the hearts of the two of them.

No matter, catch it.Mo Chengkong jumped out first, and released the fairy rope to tie the black shadow tightly.The black shadow screamed in shock and rolled all over the ground.There seems to be something wrong with this stature...

"It's not a kid, it's a kid." He poked at the coiled rope on the ground and said this.

擒鬼

The three surrounded him, Ning Zeping took out a torch to light it up, looked carefully, and said: "Wrong catch, wrong catch, he is just a half-grown child, not those monsters who dig graves."

The rope roll also echoed: "Little... I was just passing by. I haven't eaten for several days. I don't know if these meats have owners. You adults have a lot of them, so let me go, ah."

"My lord, aren't you afraid that he is in the form of a monster to win sympathy?" Mo Chengkong squatted on the ground to check the fire. The fire was very weird. Not only did he not need to lay firewood, but he didn't feel any burning sensation at all. The light of the fire was pure Youlan, together with the surrounding graves, looks like a cluster of will-o'-the-wisps.He got up and patted the soil on his hands, and changed to pinching the rope to curl his face, "Whose child will come to the barren hills at night, and sit in the graveyard to eat. Look, look, and bite me. The teeth are good, how dare you eat?" Said he hasn't eaten for a few days?" The rope roll struggled to get up, hit him with his head, and cried in anger: "Master, I didn't lie, it was you who bullied people first!" Tall, with a baby's round face, and a childish voice, about twelve or thirteen years old.

Bairan picked up the neglected stick that was thrown aside, inspected it carefully, and handed it to Mo Chengkong, saying: "The name of this burning object is 'Qingyanlai', which is specially used for on-site roasting of food in the banquets of various aristocratic families. It's not an ordinary thing. You can identify this stick again." He took the hand and weighed it, and groped along the middle to both ends, and there were nine lotus carvings in total.The combination of the stick and the lotus flower combined hardness and softness. He immediately thought of a certain immortal cultivator, the Lingchuan Gao family who was famous for his practice of the stick.The Gao family took the lotus as the family totem, and the number of lotus carvings on the sticks ranged from one to nine.The closer the blood, the more lotus carvings.And on the stick that this young boy is holding, there are exactly nine lotus carvings.

Mo Chengkong put on a smiling face, embraced him affectionately, and said in a harmonious voice, "My lord, is this stick yours? Who is Gao Yisheng?" Gao Yisheng is the current head of the Gao family, and asked A master of Daoist method.According to legend, there is only one son under his knees, and he is strict in governing the family and teaching children.Since he took over, the Gao family has become more and more prosperous, and it has become one of the three major immortal sects in the world of cultivating immortals along with the Bai and Leng families.

Just now he heard what the man in the green shirt said, and he already felt something was wrong.At this time, he didn't dare to expose himself too much, so he lied: "I picked up the stick. Gao... I don't know who that Mr. Gao is."

Mo Chengkong suppressed a three-point smile, pretending to be sorry and said: "Really? I thought you were the son of my old friend. Coincidentally, I know the owner of the stick, so I might as well pay it back for you." Blinking at Bairan again, continue , "Fortunately, you are not. My old friend is very strict in family management, has a very bad temper, and does not care about people. If he knows that his son left home without authorization and ran hundreds of miles away, he is afraid that he will arrest his son in the street. Broken leg. Tsk tsk tsk, do you think it's miserable." The word "broken leg" is specially accentuated and said to someone.

The rope roll really took the bait, and his knees softened and he knelt down and begged: "Fellow Taoists, please forgive me! I will do it, I will do it all. Don't call my father!" At the end, he did not forget to add, "He will really kill me! .”

"It's enough to be so good earlier. Come on, brother, let me untie you." The child was really afraid of his father, his legs were weak and he couldn't stand up, so he was picked up in the end. "Anything I ask you answer, don't lie."

"Ah."

"Who is your last name, how old are you, where are you from and where are you going?"

"My name is Gao Jian, and I will be twelve years old next month. I'm from Lingchuan, and I don't know where I'm going."

"Who is Gao Yisheng to you?"

"My father."

"Come out alone?" Anyway, it was the young master of the sect, with no guards around him, not even a bag.He blinked and said in a low voice: "Actually, I ran away from home. I took a walk, and I accidentally walked far away."

Mo Chengkong had no choice but to say, "Master Gao, you are leaving the house without leaving the house."

Blinking and scratching his head: "What do you mean?"

"Except for this outfit and club, you probably don't have any other belongings." Xiaopeng