Xia Mansion.
In the courtyard of the east chamber, in an elegant room.
Chu Xiu sat by the bed and opened the book box. There was not a single book in it, but all kinds of gourds and wine bottles.
Master Jiang Yuding is addicted to alcohol and is known as the 'wine Taoist'.
As a disciple of a wine Taoist, the first thing Chu Xiu learned after becoming a disciple was making wine.
He took out a green gourd wine flask from the bookcase, opened the gourd stopper, and a strong aroma of wine filled his heart and spleen.
Chu Xiu let out a breath, picked up the wine bottle and drank.
Wine is a potent poisonous wine.
The poisonous wine enters the stomach, and the steam rises.
A little rosy color appeared on Chu Xiu's originally pale and handsome face.
Outside Lingshan County.
In a garden full of various medicinal herbs.
Xia Qingshan, the head of the Xia Mansion, frowned when he read the letter from his uncle, the wine Taoist Jiang Yuding.
"I just made contact with him. His appearance and conversation are first-class." Jiang Rou was still very satisfied with Chu Xiu's appearance.
"Where's the strength?" Xia Qingshan asked.
"Strength..." Jiang Rou hesitated for a moment and shook her head, "He seems to have just been seriously ill, and his strength is temporarily unknown."
Xia Qingshan said calmly: "If you want to marry my Xia Qingshan's daughter, you must at least be on the Fuyao Ranking."
The Fuyao List is a list issued by Tianji Pavilion, one of the three major news organizations. The list includes the most talented people under the age of thirty in nineteen states.
To be on the Fuyao list is to be considered a true genius.
"Brother sent him here probably because he wanted to gain some experience." Jiang Rou said thoughtfully.
"Experience..." Xia Qingshan frowned, looked up at the mountains not far away, shook his head and said, "Under the current situation, we don't have time to practice with a junior."
"Have you not found any trace of that toad yet?" Jiang Rou asked.
Xia Qingshan shook his head.
Two months ago, some medicinal herbs in this medicinal forest died inexplicably, and several Ganoderma lucidum and Curculigo ginseng had scorch marks on their fleshy leaves.
Xia Qingshan and Jiang Rou immediately went to the medicinal forest to check, but found nothing.
Later, three herbal farmers were poisoned and died while collecting herbs.
This shocked Xia Qingshan and Jiang Rou.
Looking at the corpses of the drug farmers, it was found that the three drug farmers had scorch marks on their bodies and contained highly toxic substances in their bodies...
Xia Qingshan did not dare to be careless and immediately sealed off the medicinal forest. He hid in the medicinal forest and waited for seven days and nights, and finally found the culprit who destroyed the medicinal forest...a blood-red toad.
Or rather, toad.
This toad is so fast that it can almost disappear in a blink of an eye.
Before Xia Qingshan could react, the toad had disappeared without a trace.
This was the first time he saw this kind of blood-red toad. Later, he checked some ancient medical books and found that the toad that appeared in the medicinal forest was most likely the legendary beast, the Red Flame Clam.
According to records in ancient books, the Red Flame Vermilion Clam is two inches tall, its body is blood red, and its body contains a kind of extreme Yang poison.
The poisonous mist sprayed out will burn directly, and anyone who touches it will not be cured.
This discovery made Xia Qingshan unable to calm down.
According to ancient books, every time the Red Flame Clam appeared, it was like a plague god passing by, poisoning countless people.
At that time, Xia Qingshan teamed up with the experts of the Xia family to guard the medicinal forest for several days. However, the red flame red clam was too fast and elusive. Not only did the Xia family fail to catch the red flame red clam, but they also The two were poisoned by red clam poison and died.
In desperation, Xia Qingshan had no choice but to spend a lot of money to invite some experts to capture the Red Flame Clam together.
It was also at this time that Jiang Rou wrote a letter of help to her brother Jiu Taoist.
Now, it has been more than two months since the Scarlet Flame Clam appeared, and neither the Xia family members nor the masters invited with huge sums of money have been able to capture the Crimson Flame Clam.
There are even several masters who have suffered.
"How about asking for help from Lingshan Temple?" Jiang Rou suggested, "It just so happens that we have to arrange for Chu Xiu to meet Master Yichen."
"Lingshan Temple..." Xia Qingshan hesitated. The Xia family's ancestors had some conflicts with Lingshan Temple because of this medicinal forest.
Although the relationship was later restored, this medicinal forest has always been a topic that the Xia family and Lingshan Temple avoided talking about.
"Let's go and try Lingshan Temple's attitude tomorrow."
"..."
…
at dusk.
Jiang Rou invited Chu Xiu to have dinner with her.
On the square banquet table, Xia Qingshan, Jiang Rou, Xia Chuxue, and Chu Xiu each sat on one side.
"Don't be formal, just treat it as if you are watching at the Jade Cauldron." Jiang Rou smiled and gave Chu Xiu a piece of braised fish.
"good."
Chu Xiu nodded, glanced at the delicacies on the banquet table, and started to eat.
"There are no zhenqi fluctuations in your body?"
Xia Qingshan, who had been secretly sizing up Chu Xiu, frowned fiercely.
The shape and appearance are indeed first class.
Tall and slender, with sharp eyebrows and starry eyes.
However, there is no real energy fluctuation, which means that it has not been practiced.
In Xia Qingshan's eyes, without cultivation, he is equivalent to a useless person.
I'm afraid that my hands don't even have the strength to tie a chicken.
"Didn't your Master Jiu Taoist teach you martial arts?" Xia Qingshan took a sip of wine and felt a little strange in his heart. My uncle is still very strong and knows a lot of martial arts skills. Why does the disciple he accepts even have real energy fluctuations in his body? nothing?
Hearing this, Jiang Rou and Xia Chuxue pricked up their ears.
In fact, like Xia Qingshan, the two of them are also secretly paying attention to Chu Xiu.
"As for martial arts, Master taught me the Supreme Induction Chapter." Chu Xiu mused while eating, "In addition, he also gave me morning lessons, and I had to draw my sword three thousand times every day."
"That's it?" Xia Qingshan frowned.
Taishang Induction Chapter, a Taoist introductory mental method, can be purchased at any Taoist temple or bookstore.
Drawing the sword three thousand times is even more inexplicable.
What's the use of drawing a sword without practicing swordsmanship?
Jiang Rou and Xia Chuxue, mother and daughter, were also speechless.
The name of Taishang Induction Chapter sounds quite impressive, but in fact, it is the introductory mental method of Taoism. Almost every Taoist priest in the nineteen states in the world has a copy.
Chu Xiu thought for a while and said while eating: "Master also taught me wine making, medicine recognition, cooking skills... and playing the piano."
When he mentioned playing the piano, Chu Xiu's eyes lit up and a smile appeared on his face, "Master said that I have achieved some success in my piano skills."
"My brother knows how to play the piano?" Jiang Rou was a little dazed. Why didn't she remember that her brother knew how to play the piano?
Chu Xiu nodded and said softly: "Master has a piano score, which is very powerful."
"So, you don't know anything about martial arts?"
"Understood." Chu Xiu said.
Xia Qingshan was startled for a moment, then he immediately reacted, "The Supreme Induction Chapter?"
"There is also the art of drawing swords." Chu Xiu added.
Xia Qingshan's entire face turned dark.
"This person..." Xia Chuxue had nothing to say.
Jiang Rou was also speechless. She looked at Chu Xiu and asked hesitantly: "Why does my brother want to accept you as his disciple?"
My brother, the wine Taoist, is not weak, and he knows a lot of martial arts techniques.
Now that I have accepted a disciple, there is no reason not to teach anything.
"Maybe it's because I'm lazy." Chu Xiu complained while eating, "Except when I was sick, Master took care of me for a while.
The rest of the time, Master does almost nothing except drinking.
I am the one who makes wine, I am the one who buys groceries, and I am the one who cooks..."
"..."
Xia Qingshan, Jiang Rou, and Xia Chuxue's eyes were a little erratic.
These three people are very familiar with Jiang Yuding, the wine connoisseur, and they all understand the wine connoisseur's character quite well.
Especially Jiang Rou, who is the wine Taoist’s biological sister.
"Brother is not recruiting a disciple, but a young Taoist boy." Jiang Rou secretly complained.
Father and daughter Xia Qingshan and Xia Chuxue had the same thoughts as Jiang Rou.
"This uncle is drunk and confused, and he still wants Chuxue to marry this kid?" Xia Qingshan shook his head secretly, completely giving up the idea of testing.
I picked up the chopsticks and was about to pick up the vegetables when I was stunned.
Jiang Rou and Xia Chuxue were also stunned when they looked at the almost clean banquet table.
Only Chu Xiu calmly put the food in his mouth.
His movements of picking up vegetables were very graceful. At first glance, his speed was neither fast nor slow; when he looked carefully, the entire table was empty, leaving only some vegetable soup, bones and thorns.
Xia Qingshan, Jiang Rou, and Xia Chuxue's family looked at Chu Xiu blankly.
After Chu Xiu calmly drank the clear soup in the bowl, he stood up and said warmly: "I've finished eating. Aunt, uncle, and cousin, please use it slowly."
After saying that, he turned around and left.
The pace is steady and the posture remains tall and straight.
Xia Qingshan, Jiang Rou, and Xia Chuxue's family stared at Chu Xiu's back for a long time.
"This kid is not doing well at your brother's place, is he?" Xia Qingshan looked at his wife Jiang Rou hesitantly.
The entire banquet table, more than ten dishes, and the time spent talking were all gone.
The speed of eating makes it hard not to think too much.
Jiang Rou was speechless for a moment.
Considering the alcoholic nature of my elder brother, a Taoist priest, taking on a disciple is probably no different from taking on a servant.
"He ate too quickly." Xia Chuxue wondered.
Just now, she felt that she had been secretly paying attention to Chu Xiu.
But he didn't realize at all that Chu Xiu had eaten the entire table of food.
It seemed as if he had been eating forever, and it seemed as if he had finished the food in one go.
"It's indeed a bit fast..." Xia Qingshan pondered, and suddenly his heart moved. Thinking of what Chu Xiu said before, "drawing the sword three thousand times a day," he couldn't help but said silently, "Drawing the sword three thousand times a day, his hand speed is naturally not as fast as it is." slow."
"Uh..." Xia Chuxue was speechless for a moment.
Drawing a sword three thousand times a day just for the convenience of eating faster?
"What is my brother thinking about?" Jiang Rou held her forehead.
There was never a moment when she felt that her brother would be so unreliable~.
