"Xiao Langjun, let's go."
Caisi lifted up Yang Zhen who was kneeling on the ground and kowtowed, and led him back.
It was already noon. After Yang Zhen and Chen Fugui came down from the mountain, everyone helped bury Jin's urn in the square pit, filled it with soil, and erected a tombstone. The inscription on it had already been engraved.
After doing all this, Yang Zhen respectfully kowtowed nine times to her biological parents. Everyone around him, including his wife, also paid tribute to Jin's tomb to express their condolences. This burial ceremony is over.
Yang Zhen took off her linen clothes, said goodbye to Chen Fugui, and went to the field in front with everyone. Grandma was playing there with Zhao Yue'er, watching the little girl rolling happily on the grass.
Seeing everyone coming back, Grandma raised her hand and the flying boat appeared on the grass. A group of people boarded the ship one after another, and the spaceship took off and meandered into the sky. Yang Zhen lay on the side of the boat, looking listlessly at the distant green mountains. At this time, a soft and waxy childish voice came to my ears:
"Brother Shitou, I'll give you some jujubes." But it was Zhao Yue'er who came over, holding a few jujubes in her white and tender hands.
"Mommy brought it out. Everyone shared some just now. I left a few for you." Zhao Yuer raised her little head and looked at Yang Zhen with her big eyes, as if to say, I'll leave some good things for you. Share this with my good friend.
Yang Zhen took the dates, looked at the little girl's white and beautiful face, and suddenly smiled:
"Thank you, sister Yue'er."
"Ha!" The little girl suddenly became happy: "Brother Shitou, you called me sister!"
"Didn't he always call you sister?" Mammy teased her: "Did he call you the wrong one before?"
"But Brother Shitou's voice is very sweet today." The little girl tilted her head and said.
"I used to scream with a grimace!" Caiyun was also joking.
Everyone burst into laughter. These people all know that Yang Zhen was defeated repeatedly and was forced to admit her sister's embarrassment.
"Mammy, where are we going?" Zhao Yue'er couldn't be quiet for a moment and spoke to her mama again.
Grandma glanced at Yang Zhen: "Let's go to Qingluo Mountain."
Qingluoshan? Yang Zhen looked at her mother in surprise. This Qingluo Mountain is where the spiritual vein of the Yang family is located. Unexpectedly, grandma quietly arranged what he proposed last time.
At this time, the man who came up from Zhu’s hometown pointed to the mountains in the distance and said:
"Great Elder, madam, in front of you is Qingluo Mountain."
Everyone looked around and saw a mountain peak in front of them that looked like a green snail. There are dense trees on the mountain, and a white line can be vaguely seen running straight down, with layers of white mist filling the entire valley.
"I want to go to the waterfall to play!" Zhao Yuer shouted excitedly.
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The flying boat docked on a gentle hillside of Qingluo Mountain, and two people came to greet it. One of them, Yang Zhen knew, was Zhao Liyu, whom he had met several times.
Zhao Liyu stepped forward: "I have met Senior Sister He Jing and Madam."
Invited by his grandma, he visited Zhao Mansion twice in the past few days, which was considered as acquaintance with a distant relative here. Therefore, he also called Mrs. Qin his wife according to the Zhao family's custom.
The other person was also from Junguan and was Zhao Liyu's junior brother. Everyone introduced him to each other with greetings.
Mammy nodded with a smile: "Li Yu, I'm bringing people from the house to visit this place. Is it okay?"
"No problem." Zhao Liyu replied: "The Zhu family handed over the mountain the day before yesterday. The sect has just taken over and has not yet arranged the mountain locking formation. Senior sister can take everyone for a walk as they please."
"Thank you very much, junior brother."
Everyone found a place under the shade of a tree. Grandma took out a few household items from the storage bag, and several maids started working together. After a while of fiddling, a long table and several benches appeared in front of everyone.
This kind of foldable furniture is one of Yang Zhen's many "inventions" in the past month. Although there are immortal cultivators in this world and many things can be replaced by magic, these simple and convenient "inventions" are still liked by everyone in the Zhao family.
After eating the lunch she brought, grandma made arrangements. The two Taoist priests from the county temple led everyone to the waterfall at the foot of the mountain, while she and Yang Zhen walked around.
"This is the ancestral land of the Yang family. I'm taking our descendant of the Yang family around to fulfill one of the child's wishes." Mammy explained.
The two officials in the county and the government agreed. With the two of them taking them, and the wife who is also a monk, there should be no need to worry about the safety of these people here.
Mammy pulled Yang Zhen up the mountain. She held Yang Zhen and jumped up to some places that were difficult to climb.
"The so-called spiritual veins are earth veins that can continuously cultivate the spiritual energy of heaven and earth," Grandma explained to Yang Zhen as she walked: "On the one hand, these spiritual energy will continue to escape, and on the other hand, they will continue to be absorbed and pulled by the earth veins. Over time, They will gather in some prominent places. Therefore, where the spiritual veins are located, a large amount of spiritual energy either gathers in the valley, where the spiritual energy is not easy to disperse; or on the top of the mountain, where it is easier to absorb the scattered spiritual energy from the world. These are the places where the spiritual energy is most concentrated. , is what we usually call spiritual eyes, most suitable for immortal cultivators to meditate and practice..."
"So let's walk up the mountain first and find the place where your mother practiced."
The two of them soon reached the top of the peak, and there was indeed a unique scenery here. The top of the mountain is flat, with woods and grassland, and a wooden house standing in the middle of the grassland.
Mammy opened the door first and went in. The ajar door of the wooden house creaked open, and there were indeed traces of someone living inside. There are tables, futons, beds, desks and dressing tables, and even a small crib. It's just that these household items are covered with a thick layer of dust. There were no other small items, and they had obviously been taken away.
"It seems that your parents and you all lived here back then," Grandma sighed: "One of them reads and writes, the other practices magic, and there is a little life to accompany them. They have lived a good life. Bar!"
Last time at Zhu's house, Jin left a lot of items, which were all put into storage bags by grandma to give to Yang Zhen later. This time in this wooden house, the two of them had nothing to take away.
"Just stay here. The Zhu family hasn't touched anything here. I don't know if it's because of the requirements of the lease agreement at the time, or because they don't really manage this place." Grandma was a little confused.
The two came out of the wooden house. Grandma closed her eyes and felt it for a while, then walked in one direction.
She could vaguely see a mountain road in the direction she was walking, surrounded by overgrown weeds and sloping dead branches of shrubs and small trees. After walking about two hundred steps, we came to a stone wall. There was a spring below. The spring water was so clear that you could clearly see the colorful pebbles at the bottom. Thick vapor curled up from the water.
"This is where the spiritual eye is," Grandma walked closer to feel it and commented:
"The spiritual energy is very pure. Although it is a first-order low-grade product, its quality is no worse than some second-order ones."
"So, the Zhu family is willing to spend more spiritual stones because the quality of the spiritual veins here is good?" Yang Zhen asked.
"It shouldn't be," Grandma shook her head: "Although it's better, it's not worth so many spiritual stones."
"Mommy," Yang Zhen finally couldn't help it. He had been holding back this question for a long time: "Do you think that was the reason for the spirit stone mine I mentioned last time?"
"I mentioned this to the people in Junguan. They specially asked Master Kanyu to come over yesterday to have a look. They can say with certainty that there is no spirit stone mine here. According to its step-by-step range, the nearest spirit stone mine is from here. It's also five miles away, at least two hills away."
"But I always feel that the Zhu family's behavior at that time was a bit strange." Yang Zhen muttered.
"Let's talk about it later. I'll take you to see the cave." Grandma didn't take it seriously either.
The caves are generally built near the spiritual eye, and the spiritual energy of the spiritual eye is absorbed through some small traction formations or spirit gathering formations. This place has been abandoned for several years, and those formations will definitely not exist. Naturally, the cave can no longer be found through the direction of the spiritual energy. However, in front of the foundation-building monk's spiritual consciousness, the hidden cave was quickly found.
This was a dark and damp cave, and it was also empty inside. The two of them went in for a while and then came out.
It seemed that nothing could be found, and Yang Zhen was a little disappointed.
Mammy was mentally prepared. She smiled and comforted Yang Zhen: "You kid, you just have a lot of thoughts. If there is anything here, the Zhu family will definitely take it away. Otherwise, such a small place will not be left. Are you afraid that they won’t be able to find you if you let the people from the county watch?”
At this time, they were standing outside the cave, with a gurgling stream at their feet and a jungle of shrubs opposite them. Through this forest, you can faintly see jagged and strange rocks standing on cliffs.
Grandma was in a leisurely mood, thinking about Yang Zhen's depressed look, and thought that this child's serious temper was quite funny.
"You little rock, don't turn into the weird rock in front of you." She muttered.
Suddenly, her expression gradually turned serious.
"Little Shitou," she said, "Mommy is in trouble this time. You may be right."
"What's wrong?" Yang Zhen didn't react.
"There is indeed something strange about this place. There is a formation on the strange rock in front, a hidden formation." She said coldly.
