"There's no wind..." She stretched out her hand, but she didn't feel any wind.
"You don't care if it blows the wind or not." Shen Yi said this impatiently, and then continued to hum. Seeing that Chuyun stopped talking, He came closer and listened carefully with his ears raised.
Unlike human speech, which relies on vocal cords to produce speech, Shen Yi's speech relies entirely on vibrating the throat to achieve the effect of spitting out human words. Therefore, the voice is very deep and dull, and the timbre also has a hoarse feeling that cannot be ignored.
Oops, to put it bluntly, it's hard to listen to, but Shen Yi is just entertaining himself, not for others to listen to, so why would he care about that?
It was just that Tsurushi saw that Chuyun understood the rhythm and immediately found the melody.
Humming, Shen Yi felt something was wrong and looked back.
"What are you doing? Go read your book."
"I didn't do anything."
"Then why do you come to my place?"
"Oh, I'm going to rest first."
Watching her sit down by the fire, Shen Yi turned his head and continued to pass the time, but soon he felt something was strange. He looked back again and found that although the old witch was far away, her eyes were always on him. Seeing that he was looking over, he hurriedly turned his head.
"Are you sick?"
"No..." She explained in a panic. Shen Yi's eyes were full of suspicion. He turned his head back and wanted to continue humming, but thinking that the old witch would look at him, he couldn't hum anymore.
Throwing away the sharpened wood in his hand, he climbed down from the granite and turned to face her.
Time passed by second by second, and soon it was a minute. During this period, she turned her head countless times, and every time she met Shen Yi's eyes. Finally, she became depressed and said helplessly: "Why don't you continue? ?”
"What should I continue with?" Shen Yi asked back, and Tsurumi Chuyun also fell silent.
Hum hum hum ~ hum hum ~ hum hum hum ~ hum hum...
At this time, a gust of night wind blew by, accompanied by her soft and melodious singing voice. Shen Yi was startled and felt that the world had become quiet.
It was like an invisible hand, gently brushing away, taking away all the troubles in the world.
The wind went away and her singing stopped.
Shen Yi gradually came back to his senses.
"you……"
"is that so?"
"You were just there listening to me humming, right?"
"Do you have the music score?"
"No." Shen Yi shook his head. He just hummed casually. How could he know the music score? Just a few paragraphs over and over again.
Seeing his actions, Tsurumi Chuyun had disappointment in her eyes, but she remembered the melody just now. She sat cross-legged not far from the fire, and a guqin appeared in front of her. The strings were plucked, and it was pleasant to the ear. The sound of the piano echoed in the night sky.
Ding ding~ ding dong ding ding...
Shen Yi also became interested and listened quietly on the side. The music and other things could be made more pleasant by professionals, much better than what he could hum himself. He liked to listen to music in his previous life.
But unfortunately, the other person played the same verses that she had hummed over and over again, and she stopped after a while.
"keep going."
"No."
"Why?"
"I will continue to learn alchemy."
"All right."
Shen Yi said nothing and closed his eyes to digest the red air.
Let’s digest two units of red energy today…
Hejian Chuyun also put away the guqin in front of her, and the atmosphere fell into silence. She looked at the beating flames in front of her absently, thinking about the melody all the time, and glanced at Shen Yi from time to time, secretly thinking that it was a pity.
The tune he hummed must have been lost in ancient times. What Xuanli remembered was also a incomplete part. He didn't know if he could complete it in the future.
Thinking of this, she temporarily put aside the distracting thoughts in her mind, opened the Little Alchemy Sutra, and forced herself to cheer up.
Noticing her movements, Shen Yi opened his eyes and took a look. He found that her beautiful brows were twisted into a ball again, and he couldn't help but shake his head.
"You're really stubborn."
He didn't bother to care about her and continued to use his ultimate move.
But what Shen Yi didn't know was that in the second half of the night, Hejian Chuyun seemed to understand something. He looked at the night sky, and his frown gradually relaxed.
The day passed like this.
…
At three o'clock in the morning, Shen Yi opened his eyes and stood up. After observing the old witch for a while, he found that she was no longer simply reading. She would read for a while, then look thoughtful on her face, and then sit cross-legged under the tree with her eyes closed. Practice on your eyes.
This look made Shen Yi couldn't help but murmur in his heart.
"Is there any progress?"
Seeing Chuyun looking so serious, Mian He didn't bother her, and went out to relax after a short time, catching some game to reward himself from time to time.
Tsurumi Chuyun's state lasted for two days. On the third day, she stopped reading at all and was comprehending something under the tree. Shen Yi didn't respond when he called her, didn't eat anything, and Shen Yi didn't even sit down. See her change.
Seven days later, when he saw her face getting paler and paler, Shen Yi finally panicked and hurriedly went outside to catch a rabbit, roasted it and put it in front of her to seduce her.
"Old witch, old witch... do you want to eat?"
"Old witch? Old witch! Wake up!"
He waved the roasted rabbit back and forth in front of her, but no matter how he yelled or waved it, Tsurumi Chuyun didn't move at all, and didn't even have an expression, as if he had passed away.
In a hurry, he stretched out his paw and felt her breathing. She was still there, she was not dead yet, but she didn't wake up.
"What's going on?" Shen Yi couldn't understand. He only knew a little bit about the training of spiritual masters.
He didn't dare to shake her awake at all, for fear of causing more serious consequences.
The smell of roasted rabbit kept entering his nose. It failed to seduce the old witch, but instead made Shen Yi greedy.
He could only run to the side and glance at Tsurumi Chuyun worriedly from time to time.
"The old witch won't train herself to death, right?"
After thinking about it, he still didn't eat the roasted rabbit, but put it into the storage space. He wanted to close his eyes and digest the red gas, but after checking, he found that the amount of red gas in his body had dropped to less than two hundred units. Come on, these days, I just cut wood when I have nothing to do, or strengthen myself. If I consume more red energy and the amount of red energy is not enough to be consumed naturally, I will really be hungry.
Dismissing this idea, Shen Yi could only sleep with his eyes closed. It had been a long time since he had shared Chen Xingyun's perspective. Let's try his luck tonight.
However, he was still awake. He was half asleep and half awake. He noticed something in the middle of the night. He opened his eyes and looked at the fire. He found that the old witch had woken up at some point and was looking at the flames in a daze.
Shen Yi was stunned, almost suspecting that he was hallucinating and seeing things wrongly.
"you're awake?"
"Ah? Oh, you're awake." She spoke with a sense of weakness, and continued to stare at the flames in a daze after her words fell.
After calming down, Shen Yi thought for a moment and asked, "Do you want to eat something?"
"Huh?" The sudden words made Hejian Chuyun a little off guard. He looked at Shen Yi blankly for a while, and finally nodded.
After that, Shen Yi took out the rabbit meat from the storage space. She thanked her before taking it. She hadn't eaten for more than ten days in a row. Now that she had something to eat, she didn't dare to eat it too fast. She chewed it in small bites and carefully The rabbit meat must be chewed into pieces before swallowing.
While eating, Shen Yi consoled him: "I've seen your hard work. Stop practicing when you wake up. Hurry to your Zhu's house. I can still hold on until then. You'll delay me for a few more days." It’s really useless.”
"I am done."
"If you don't succeed, I don't expect you to succeed...Wait a minute! What did you say?"
"I said I'm done." Tsurumi Chuyun said lightly while eating. For a moment, the atmosphere became weird.
Shen Yi looked at her, eyes widened: "You've really made it!"
"Um."
Hejian Chuyun still answered calmly. Shen Yi was stunned for a long time, but it felt a bit fake.
That's not right, becoming an alchemist means that one can get money and status at one's fingertips. Even if one's own talent and destiny are stretched, he will be respected by major families in the future.
The old witch's reaction was wrong, too bland, and it felt like she was talking about an insignificant thing.
"You're not lying to me, are you?"
"I did not lie to you."
"Then what have you become?"
"..." Tsurumi Chuyun was speechless, "I have achieved nothing... I have realized the Dan Fire."
"Where is the pill fire...?"
"My pill fire is now beginning to take shape, and I haven't released it to you yet." She said weakly, and Shen Yi became even more suspicious after hearing this.
"Then why do you react like this? Shouldn't you be happy to become an alchemist?"
"I should be happy...but...but I need money."
"How much?"
"I have no idea."
"Then what do you want the money for?"
"Buy the alchemy furnace." He Jian Chuyun said these three words while looking at him.
After hearing this, Shen Yi couldn't help but narrowed his eyes. After thinking for a while, he said, "Don't look at me like that. I don't have any money."
"Oh." He saw that Chu Yun was a little disappointed, and Shen Yi quickly asked: "Now that you have realized the Dan Fire, what are you going to do next?"
She shook her head and replied: "I don't know either." Then she spread the mat on the ground and lay on it to sleep.
Shen Yi tilted his head, constantly analyzing in his mind how true or false her words were. If she lied to herself, did she want the money in her storage space? Or do you simply want to let yourself eat that stone?
She can't lie to herself for long, right? By the time she realizes it, the poor old witch will suffer the same fate, but if it wasn't a lie, her reaction is completely unlike someone who has just become an alchemist.
"Old witch!"
It was difficult to be sure for a moment. Shen Yi walked to her and asked some questions to test her. But what confused him was that as soon as he said three words, the other party pulled down his collar a little, revealing his snow-white neck.
"You can touch it if you want. I'm sleepy and want to sleep."
"..."
…
As soon as he woke up the next morning, He Jian Chuyun took Shen Yi straight to Longchun Town and entered a treasure shop to look for the alchemy furnace that suited her needs.
With the help of the shopkeeper, she got a rough idea of the price of the alchemy furnace, and then casually found an excuse to leave.
The pill furnace was not expensive. The cheapest one cost fifteen taels of silver, and the most expensive one cost more than a hundred taels. However, she was short of money and couldn't afford any of them.
However, since she had just become an alchemist, she would not refine elixirs that were extremely difficult to make into elixirs. She planned to start with relatively basic elixirs such as Yun Beast Dan, so she took a fancy to one that sold for eighteen taels of silver. The alchemy furnace.
After coming out of the treasure shop, she wandered around the town. When she met someone, she would catch her and ask, "Where is the Longchun Town Secretary?"
Her purpose is simple, that is to make money!
Eighteen taels of silver, before her, might have been enough for a meal, but now without the financial support of the family, if she wanted to get eighteen taels of silver, it would not be possible overnight using ordinary or normal methods, so she Be prepared to take some risks.
The so-called "Township Department" is one way. This organization specializes in dealing with some things that ordinary people cannot handle. For example, if evil spirits or bandits appear somewhere and need to be exterminated, you can come to the Town Affairs Department.
Unlike Cha Yingsi, the latter takes action on his own. Although he has a lot of power in his hands, he is not free. There are many things that members can't just do if they don't want to, because that is their responsibility.
The Town Secretary is outsourced to bounty hunters, so it is relatively free. If the price offered by the employer is not what they want, they will not take the business.
But it's a pity that Tsurumi Chuyun asked for a long time and didn't get an answer. Most people either waved their hands and left in a hurry, or simply ignored her.
It wasn't until he asked the last man in a long gown that the other man gained some patience and said, "Girl, don't look for the Town Secretary. There is no Town Secretary here."
"There is no town secretary, why...why?"
"Are you from a big city?"
"yes."
"You don't understand this. Our Longchun Town is such a small place. Who is going to set up the town affairs department?" After saying that, the Changshan man shook his head and left.
Tsurumi Chuyun frowned, somewhat unwilling to accept it. How could she make money without the Town Secretary?
Feeling troubled for a moment, she found a step and sat down, with a glum look on her face.
In the conscious space, Shen Yi focused on her perspective and wanted to say something, but finally gave up and changed his words: "Old witch, what should you do now?"
"I can..." Tsurumi Chuyun just wanted to say what can he do? But mid-sentence, she remembered something, suddenly stood up, and walked out of the town.
"where you go?"
"I have an idea."
"any solution?"
"Caiko Village."
"Caizi Village?" Shen Yi's eyes were full of doubts. He had no memory of this "Caizi Village" at all, and he had no memory of ever going to Caizi Village.
"Where is this?"
"A village full of evil spirits."
"It's strange why you know this place."
"Don't you remember what those two people said on the carriage more than ten days ago?"
"What?" Shen Yi couldn't remember. At first, he didn't listen carefully to what the two brothers were talking about. He only started to prick up his ears when they talked about what happened in Tsurumi Mansion.
Hejian Chuyun reluctantly told Shen Yi that she had just remembered that there was an evil spirit in a place called Caizi Village. The whole village collected twenty taels of silver to hire someone to kill the demons, but the No one took this commission.
Twenty taels was not much, but it was enough for her to buy an alchemy furnace. (End of chapter)
