The sun slightly raised its head in the eastern sky. Li Hexiang looked at the energetic young junior brother, not feeling sleepy at all, and continued to tell the story.
For more than ten years after that, Li Hexiang lived an ordinary life, and his wife Yang was also a very virtuous husband and godson. They watched their child Li Changshu grow up slowly under the red flag.
In the year when Li Hexiang turned 40, a catastrophic movement broke out across the country. As teachers, Li Hexiang and his wife could not escape people's judgment, not to mention the fact that Li Hexiang was from a security corps. During that movement, Li Hexiang's wife couldn't bear the humiliation and jumped into the river. The river was so fast that not even a body was found. Li Changshu, who was only a teenager at the time, was also sent to the farm with his father to undergo transformation.
At this moment, Liu Jinyan found him. After not seeing each other for more than ten years, Old Liu is still the kind, fat old man. However, after experiencing the pain of his wife's death, Li Hexiang looked particularly vicissitudes of life and suddenly looked much older.
After learning about the situation, Liu Jinyan found connections with higher authorities to clear Li Hexiang's name, in order not to delay Li Changshu's future. Li Changshu was then taken away by Liu Jinyan, who promised Li Hexiang to take good care of his children.
Li Hexiang was controlled by Old Man Liu to a village on the outskirts of Chang'an. When he got there, someone would come looking for him.
Li Hexiang got on the train heading north. The train stopped and went for several days, and finally arrived at the place Liu Jinyan was talking about.
Li Hexiang, who was unfamiliar with the place, looked at the barren and desolate land and didn't know what to do. Standing at the entrance of the village, I didn’t know where to go.
At this moment, an old man in Taoist robes who looked to be in his seventies came forward and said to him: "You must be Li Hexiang."
The middle-aged Li Hexiang has lost the enthusiasm of his youth and has become much more mature and stable. After experiencing the pain of the death of his wife, he has shown the vicissitudes of time and has become much more restrained.
Li Hexiang replied calmly to the old Taoist in front of him: "Yes, I am Li Hexiang. Who are you?"
The old Taoist in front of me said without much nonsense: "Liu Jinyan is my junior brother, you can just call me senior."
At this time, Li Hexiang realized that the visitor was Old Man Liu's senior brother, and he immediately bowed respectfully. Master Tianfeng was not surprised, and then told him the purpose of his trip.
Over the past ten years, Li Hexiang has not fallen behind in his study of Xuanmen Taoism. Old man Liu would go back to visit him every few years and give him some pointers. Gradually, Li Hexiang also felt grateful for Beiming and knew a little bit about it.
It turns out that the purpose of this trip is to follow the Tianfeng Old Road to an ancient tomb.
This tomb is not an ordinary tomb. Although there are tombs around Chang'an, it is known as the "Emperor's Tomb Concentration Camp". You can dig out an emperor in any hole. In those years, the control was not strict, and many tomb robbers were mostly active in this area. . However, this was also a job that was very difficult to do. If you were caught, you would be shot. So at that time, the business of tomb robbing was really a job that would starve the brave to death and starve to death the timid.
At first, Li Hexiang felt that there was something wrong with this matter. After all, he had been a people's teacher for many years and was a regular person who abided by laws and regulations. However, when he looked at the face of the old Taoist Tianfeng beside him, he had a calm and fairy-like appearance. Slowly relieved.
There was another person traveling with them, named Hou San, who was said to be the successor of the serious Mojin Colonel and a good friend of Tianfeng Lao Dao. This person looks to be in the same grade as Li Hexiang, but he is short in stature and has a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks. He does not look like a good person, but after all, he is a friend of Senior Tianfeng, and Li Hexiang is naturally very polite.
Later they learned that what they were about to enter was not a Han tomb or a Tang tomb, but a Ming Dynasty tomb. The owner of this tomb is not a prince or general, but an alchemist.
Alchemists have been very rare in this profession since ancient times, and there are only a few who are famous. Alchemists are mostly famous for refining elixirs and collecting medicines for longevity, and they are also very proficient in medicine, divination, astrology, and fortune-telling. And the owner of the tomb they want to explore is a leader in this way.
A close disciple of Shao Yuanjie, a famous Taoist priest in the Ming Dynasty.
Speaking of Shao Yuanjie, many people don't understand it now, but one of his apprentices pushed alchemy to the pinnacle of that era. This person was the famous alchemist Tao Zhongwen, who was favored by Emperor Jiajing. The owner of this tomb, Li Liangchu, was in the same line as Tao Zhongwen. He was even better at alchemy, so he was naturally a master in this art.
Li Liangchu was different from Tao Zhongwen. He did not want to associate with high-ranking officials and he only wanted to become an immortal. So he lived in seclusion in the mountains near Chang'an and made alchemy all the year round in order to live forever.
The purpose of visiting his tomb this time was also to complete a piece of karma that Tianfeng Lao Dao owed many years ago.
It turns out that many years ago, the old Taoist Tianfeng suffered serious internal injuries in a battle with the Holy Girl of the White Lotus Sect. The Holy Girl of the White Lotus is also very profound and was not the opponent of the Old Taoist Tianfeng. However, the world is dangerous and the White Lotus Sect has been prepared for it. , the sneak attack succeeded. Although in the end Tianfeng Old Taoist still used the frost sword to kill the saint.
When he was young, Taoist Master Tianfeng had only been out of the world for a few years. However, the news of killing the White Lotus Saint quickly made him shine in Xuanmen, and his reputation became famous for a while.
However, Tianfeng also suffered serious internal injuries and almost died. Fortunately, he met the leader of Hengshan Tiandan Sect, Qingxuan Zhenren, who was wandering around in the past, and saved the young Tianfeng Laodao.
Master Qingxuan saw that Tianfeng had serious internal injuries and was in critical condition, so he gave up an ancestral Xuantian Pill to save Tianfeng. Later, I learned that some of the elixir prescriptions of Tiandan Sect were exchanged for real gold and silver by Li Liangchu during the Ming Dynasty, so that a large part of the inheritance was lost.
In the end, in order to repay Tiandanmen for saving his life, Taoist Tianfeng promised Master Qingxuan to help him find the whereabouts of the elixir. Master Qingxuan was also deeply moved and said that as long as he could find the elixir recipe, whenever someone came from Beiming, he would put aside his sectarian opinions and teach him the alchemy technique of Tiandan Sect.
When I heard this, I could more or less understand the purpose of my trip to Hengshan.
It turns out that the great grandfather wanted to go to Hengshan Mountain to learn the art of alchemy.
Huan Xin suddenly realized it, and then asked: "Did you succeed in going to the tomb?"
Li Hexiang sighed and said, "Success is a success, but it only took ten years."
It was already dawn, and Huan Xin saw that Li Hexiang, who had not slept all night, had tiredness on his face, so the two stopped telling stories. Huan Xin went out and bought a lot of breakfast for Li Hexiang. After the two of them finished breakfast, they also lay on their beds. After all, they didn't sleep all night. The early morning sunlight on their faces was still very comfortable, and Huan Xin quickly fell asleep.
In his dream, he dreamed of the boy in white again.
The young man held the purple-clothed girl in his arms, seemingly in pain. The young man anxiously rode his horse Bai, taking the young man in purple with him, and said anxiously: "It's a pity that my alchemy skills were lost many years ago in Beiming, otherwise I would definitely be able to rejuvenate you with my wonderful skills."
On the vast land, the young man and the girl in purple were galloping around the world.
