Yu Congwen was noncommittal. Although forty gold bars were very tempting, they were only an appetizer compared to the Ding Ding treasure. If you delay your practice because of the forty gold bars and miss the chance to win the precious medicine for making the tripod, you will not do that stupid thing of picking sesame seeds and throwing watermelons.
"Give them at most one morning. If you can't catch up, you can only blame yourself for your lack of wealth!"
Jia Xiaosha took Mo Lian and the two men and ran towards the Grand Master's Camp under the stars and the moon. The bright moonlight shone on the white snow, and the sight was excellent. The three of them galloped forward on their horses and whipped their whips.
At first it went smoothly, but late at night the wind was biting and the people were shivering, so the three of them had to slow down. Unexpectedly, the temperature was getting lower and lower at night, and the snow that melted during the day actually condensed into ice. Every now and then, people and horses would be thrown into the air.
Even though he was a Grand Master Realm monk, he couldn't bear the fall four or five times in a row. In addition, the horse was also bruised and bruised from the fall. No matter how hard the three of them whipped him, they still couldn't get up. In the end, the three of them had to ride their horses and walk quickly.
By the time the three of them slowly arrived at the grand master camp, it was already two or three o'clock in the morning, and Jia Xiaoyao had already fallen asleep. Even if Jia Xiaosa had a hundred courages, he would not dare to disturb others' clear dreams, not to mention that it was his own fault. Who made himself so rough that he didn't even know that the price of the four-color elixir had increased?
The three of them complained to each other along the way and had quarreled countless times. Coupled with the freezing weather and starvation, they finally broke up on bad terms.
Jia Xiaosha used the moonlight to find Jia's house in the Grand Master Camp, and found a bed to spend the night casually.
After finally waiting until dawn, Jia Xiaosha came to the door of the single-family villa where Jia Xiaoyao lived with a tired look and two dark circles under his eyes.
At a glance, he saw that Mo Lian and Mo Lian had been waiting outside the door for a long time, but they looked tired and listless, and they didn't look much better than themselves.
Jia Xiaoyao hadn't gotten up yet, and none of the three of them dared to knock on the door. They waited at the door for a full hour before hearing any movement from inside.
"Brother, are you finally awake?"
Jia Xiaoyao opened the door and saw three people standing at the door like pillars. He asked happily:
"You are so impatient to report the good news. It looks like you have won a great victory? Didn't Yu Congwen get hurt by you?"
Jia Xiaosha smiled and explained awkwardly:
"The gold bars are missing and it's not finished."
Jia Xiaoyao's smile froze instantly, the corners of his eyes twitched, and he asked coldly:
"One gold bar of the four-color elixir weighs a pound. This has been the market price in the apprentice camp for hundreds of years. His four-color elixir has been stored for such a period of time. After drying, it is probably less than twenty kilograms. Give him twenty bars. The price of gold bars is already high, why is he still not satisfied? Besides, the three of you can't even say a word to each other when you take action?"
"Captain, you don't know something. Ever since you announced that there will be a competition for apprentices with the surname Pang to build the tripod elixir at the end of the year, all the families with the surname Pang have been gearing up to prepare for the competition. They have already doubled the price of the four-color elixir. You Think about it, as long as there is a disciple of the Grand Master Realm in the family, which family wouldn't want to fight for one?
But if you want to break through to the state of Grandmaster Consummation in such a short period of time, how can you do it without the four-color elixir? So now the four-color elixir is basically priced and has no market. Let alone two gold bars per pound, even if the price is ten gold bars per pound, no one is willing to sell the four-color elixir! "
Seeing that Jia Xiaoyao wanted to blame him, Lian Zhupao was so frightened that he quickly explained.
Jia Xiaoyao was silent for a moment. He didn't expect that he had been tricked by him, so he had no intention of holding him accountable. However, I felt very uncomfortable if I had to gamble with forty gold bars against Yu Congwen's four-color elixir. I had been the vice-captain in the apprentice camp for four or five years and had only saved more than a hundred gold bars. I was a little hesitant to take out a third of it all of a sudden.
Jia Xiaosha knew that her eldest brother was reluctant to give up. If he continued to delay like this, once noon passed, Yu Congwen would definitely cheat.
To cut through the mess quickly, I had no time to waste with him, so I quoted Yu Congwen's words:
"Brother, you have to hurry up. Our Jia family can't let Yu Congwen be looked down upon by people in the mountains and valleys! He actually mocked you yesterday -"
"What are you mocking?"
"He said that it would take four or five days for you to collect twenty gold bars. Yu Yueyue wants a thousand gold bars as a betrothal gift. Let me ask you how old you are to be single."
"Fart! Who said I can't take it out?"
Jia Xiaoyao snorted coldly, glanced at Mo Lian and the two, fearing that they would be misled by Yu Congwen, he simply took out twenty-one gold bars, threw them all to Jia Xiaosa, and said as if out of breath:
"Forty-one in total, let's see how this little bastard keeps talking! Let's go quickly, I'm waiting for your good news!"
Jia Xiaosa took the gold bar and hurried to the martial arts camp with Mo Lian and the two happily. After only driving half a mile, he withered. It turns out that the ice on the road is still as smooth as a mirror. Let alone riding a horse, you have to be careful even when walking on foot. If you accidentally kick, you will be thrown into pieces.
The three of them sat on the ground and got angry for a long time. Finally, they thought quickly and decided to go around the mountain and wait until the sun came out and the ice melted before they started galloping.
The three of them had no choice but to lead the horses over the mountains and ridges. There was knee-deep snow under the woods. Although it was difficult to walk, luckily they didn't slip and they could barely move forward. It's just that the low mountains around the apprentice camp are steep and steep, and there are several narrow cliffs that require three people to carry horses on their backs. Jia Xiaosha was so angry that he yelled:
"Horses are for riding! Not for riding me! I think we should just throw them away."
"Throw them away now. What are we going to ride when we get down the mountain? This place is more than 150 miles away from the martial arts camp. Can we walk there by then? It's almost eight o'clock now, there's no time!"
Lian Zhu Pao also wanted to throw the horse away, but for the sake of Yu Congwen's four-color elixir, he had no choice but to swallow his anger.
"I have an ominous premonition that even God is against us at every turn. Yu Congwen's four-color elixir may not be destined for us."
Mo Chuxin muttered worriedly, last night he felt cold, dizzy, chest tight, and weak. This situation was probably no match for Yu Congwen. However, this kind of secret cannot be disclosed casually. You have become a Grand Master Realm monk and still have a cold. If you tell it, you will easily be laughed at. Moreover, this Jia Xiaosa is greedy and ruthless. Once he is no longer useful, he may kick me out just like he did with the eight great masters before, so that he can share the elixir equally with Lian Zhu Pao.
"Old Mo, if you are timid, you can go back home, I will never force you to stay!"
Lian Zhu Pao also had a bad temper. Ever since he came up the mountain, he had been complained by Jia Mo and his two brothers. When I asked for advice below, everyone nodded like a fool, and when they encountered any difficulties on the way up the mountain, they gave me a bad look. Jia Xiaosha is a child of the Jia family, and she is protected by an older brother who is the captain. I couldn't bear to glare at me. Who are you, Mo Chuxin?
"Who are you looking down on? Isn't it just a horse? Can it trouble me, a great master monk?"
Mo Chuxin was tempted to kick people when he saw Lianbao, and he must not let their evil plan succeed. He grabbed the horse's hooves with both hands, put a horse on his shoulders, and spoke to the general:
"You have to carry your own horse, and it's your grandson who needs help!"
After saying that, he climbed up the narrow cliff. Lian Zhupao followed suit, picked up his horse and ran away, leaving Jia Xiaosa standing there stunned.
Yu Congwen and the six instructors waited quietly until eleven o'clock, but Jia Xiaosha and others were nowhere to be seen. The six instructors urged Yu Congwen to quickly swallow the four-color elixir and advance to the Grand Master Consummation Realm.
"There's still one hour left. People can't stand without trust. I can't let them look down on me!"
Yu Congwen has practiced the exercises over and over again several times to adjust himself to the best state. Based on his past experience, as long as he takes a sufficient amount of elixir at this time, he will definitely be able to successfully advance to the Grand Master's perfection state!
However, Yu Congwen believed that Jia Xiaosa was a man who kept his promise and would definitely deliver the forty gold bars to him as promised - no, he came to deal with him.
Time flowed slowly like a quiet river, and half an hour passed unknowingly. The apprentices in the martial arts camp had gone home for dinner one after another. Only Yu Yueyue and Lin Xiaoyu stared expectantly at the gate of the martial arts camp.
Just as Yu Congwen was preparing to run the technique again, suddenly there was the sound of rapid footsteps in the distance. I saw Mo Chuxin taking the lead and running in like a whirlwind. The Grand Master monk took a step of about ten meters in one step and moved like the wind. In less than a minute, he rushed to the opposite side of Yu Congwen and said breathlessly:
"Jia Xiaosa was on the way here with the gold bars. His horse fell into the ravine. Lian Zhu Pao and he were riding on the same horse. They didn't run that fast!"
Yu Congwen stared at Mo Chuxin, who was panting like an ox, for a long time. He didn't look like he was lying. asked curiously:
"Falled into the ravine? When did you go out?"
Yu Congwen thought that these three people were eager to win the elixir, so they set off before dawn. It was probably that the light was too dark and they fell into the ravine because they couldn't see clearly.
"I——cough cough cough!"
Mo Chuxin was about to explain a few words when he suddenly saw a lot of people surrounding him. He immediately realized that telling embarrassing things like a man being ridden by a horse would only bring humiliation to himself. My throat just felt so itchy that I couldn't control it and started coughing.
"Brother Mo, please speak slowly if you have anything to say. Don't worry, there's still half an hour left! I feel relieved when I see you coming - you are indeed gentlemen who keep your promises."
Yu Congwen complimented empathetically, "As the saying goes, you can't hit the person who gave the money without reaching out. To come here in such a hurry shows your sincerity!" I wanted to comfort Mo Chuxin, but Mo Chuxin couldn't stop coughing. He squatted on the ground and coughed for about ten minutes. This made Yu Congwen very worried. If Mo Chuxin fainted from coughing, would the martial arts competition be held? I couldn't help but walk over and want to give him a pat on the back.
Before Yu Congwen could take action, another figure came running from a distance. Compared to Mo Chuxin, who was at the Grand Master level, his pace was much slower. He shouted loudly from afar:
"Keep a man under the sword——Keep a man under the knife!"
