After chatting, Li Qi finally arrived at Liu's house.
Li Qiyao looked at the Liu family's mansion.
It looks...uh...
Just ordinary.
It's plain and simple, with no spectacular scenery.
An ordinary room with ordinary decoration covers an area about ten times that of Li Qi's small yard. It looks like... a wooden house in the small yard.
As if he saw Li Qi's subtle expression, Liu Junyi immediately said: "My uncle is frugal and simple, and does not like luxury. This is what a gentleman does."
Li Qi nodded: "That's exactly what it should be."
But Liu Shenzhi didn't seem to like this. He curled his lips: "So I said there is no need to pretend. To be honest, the cost difference in decoration is not big. Just don't use high-quality magic weapons. It has to look like this." , Dad specified that it was a bit——”
Having said this, he quickly stopped and looked around.
Li Qi blinked, knowing that he shouldn't speak at this time.
Although what Liu Shenzhi said is almost correct.
For modern society, who is more expensive, an ornately decorated glass or a medieval wooden beer mug?
The answer is no difference. As long as it comes from the assembly line, the price difference will not be too big. It just depends on which assembly line cost is lower.
Same here.
There is actually no difference in cost between making it look magnificent or simple. As long as you don't use a lot of high-quality magic weapons, it doesn't matter at all.
small book booth
Decorating it like this is purely a matter of aesthetics.
Besides, Li Qi felt that although the courtyard was simple and elegant, it was still very unique.
Li Qi followed the two of them into the courtyard, and saw that there were also rockeries, playthings, crowns, and utensils in front of them. Some were made of fine wood and some were piled with stones. Although they were not expensive, they were very thoughtful.
It can be seen that although the owner here does not use any valuables, he still takes care of them regularly.
As Liu Junyi walked, he introduced: "Brother Li, don't think this place is simple, but a sage said: soak it in the ether and harmony, be imbued with morality, and show it is simple. Although there is no heavenly dragon, matchmaker, velvet bridle, or precious bridle, It is decorated with seven jade jewels and colorful flags and drums, but it also has a unique charm, and its permanent presence can purify people's hearts."
Li Qi knew that the other party was talking to Liu Shenzhi through the stall introduced to him, so he also echoed: "It is covered with grass and silk, and the balcony is decorated with pearls and jade. It looks extremely exquisite. A plate of It can be worth hundreds of thousands, but it is all useless and useless, just for fun, not as good as here."
"It's the same as having no desire, it's element, quality is pure. This is my uncle's teaching, don't forget it." Liu Junyi said to Liu Shenzhi again.
Liu Shenzhi's expression looked a little impatient, and he replied: "Everything without decoration is called plain, and flowers are called colorful seals. I like colorful seals. I prefer to sing and play flutes and drums, and sell gold and colorful satin. It's just style, and I'm not extravagant. What’s the problem with this?”
Li Qi nodded, which was regarded as agreement, but not support. It was regarded as expressing his attitude.
In fact, it doesn't matter. As far as the current situation is concerned, as long as you don't take out exotic animals and high-quality magic weapons to play with, and the decoration style and your own dressing preferences, then it must be what you love.
But he also saw that no matter what the temperament of the children was, the Liu family must always quote scriptures and have reason for everything they said. In addition, they were all Tai students, which already showed their level.
This old man Liu is very good at teaching children, and he does have something.
I don’t know how it compares to offering wine as a sacrifice, or comparing it to my own teacher...
Forget it, this one doesn’t need to compare.
But Liu Junyi continued: "It's not that you are wrong, but that you don't like such exaggeration too much. Your mind has its own turbulence. Simplicity makes people calm, and colorful medals make people anxious. You are too out of touch. It's time to cultivate your temper. .”
"Okay, I understand. I haven't moved out recently, have I? Even entertaining friends here, I feel very peaceful." Liu Shenzhi waved his hand impatiently, and then walked to Li Qi: "Brother Li , let’s not talk about this anymore, after coming in, follow me to a place, and I will show you my results.”
Naturally, Li Qi didn't want to get involved in other people's education issues, so he immediately changed the subject and said, "What results?"
"You will know when you come here. My father and the others should be still working. Let the eldest brother go in and inform them first, so as not to disturb the elders." Liu Shenzhi said.
Liu Junyi shook his head with a wry smile. Although he knew that Liu Shenzhi just wanted to pull Li Qi away quickly and didn't want to listen to his nagging anymore, it was indeed important to inform his uncle in advance...
There are no servants at home. After all, my uncle doesn't want to do this, but it would be inappropriate to take guests directly to visit the master's house.
If the uncle is doing something private and a guest catches him, that would be bad and would embarrass both parties.
Although the probability of this kind of thing is very low, the existence of etiquette is for this kind of thing, and Liu Junyi will naturally not refute it.
So, he nodded and said to Liu Shenzhi: "Then you take Li Qi to your room to rest for a while, and I will inform my uncle."
"Okay, then Brother Li, let's go." Liu Canzhi couldn't wait and hurriedly took Li Qi to visit his masterpiece.
Li Qi was also curious about what attracted Liu Shenzhi so much, so he said goodbye to Liu Junyi and followed him all the way.
After passing through the small courtyard, we actually didn’t walk very far, only a few dozen steps. However, although the courtyard is not big and the materials used are not very precious, but by arranging the garden in a certain way, it is possible to change the scenery as you move. wonderful.
Li Qi was only led around twice, and it was only a few dozen steps, but he felt as if he had changed places. As the cave turned around, the surrounding scenery suddenly changed.
Li Qi looked at the changes in the surrounding scenes with some surprise.
Even... Zhenzhi didn't respond.
Moreover, it was not because the grade was too high, because Li Qi knew very well that the things around him were all ordinary things, and even those with grade were rare. Just like what he showed, this was a very simple thing.
There was no supernatural power or magic involved, just the arrangement of stones and roads to accomplish this.
It's really... amazing.
Seeing Li Qi's expression, Liu Shenzhi said proudly: "My father said that this is called the method of blinding one's eyes with one leaf. As the saying goes, if one leaves blinds one's eyes, one cannot see Mount Tai. Even a great person will lose his vision if his eyes are covered. Although He has other senses, but what he can’t see is what he can’t see.”
"So, as long as you cover your eyes with a leaf, you can openly block Mount Tai. This way of arranging the garden only blocks the light, but it can give people a feeling of changing the world. To put it bluntly, it is just that stone over there. It just blocked the previous road." Liu Shenzhi said, pointing to the other side.
Li Qi saw a rockery. He walked over curiously, adjusted his sight, and then jumped up.
With this jump, the field of vision expanded, and everything in front of him suddenly became clear, and all the scenes that had disappeared before appeared.
It turns out it's just blocked behind the rockery.
In fact, there is nothing strange at all. It is just blocked and the previous scenery cannot be seen, thus creating the illusion of changing scenery as you move.
I don’t know the true face of Mount Lu, just because I am in this mountain.
But this still shocked Li Qi.
Such attainments are simple to say, but extremely difficult to achieve.
"Your father's level is truly breathtaking." Li Qi was impressed, feeling great interest and awe in this elder whom he had never met before.
Because Li Qi knew that this arrangement... showed the opponent's formation level.
With a few stones and nothing else, you can achieve this level by just placing them in position. If the opponent uses heavenly materials and earthly treasures, or even arrays, flags, arrays, or even many magical weapons to make an array Eyes, I'm afraid I won't be able to get out in this life.
"Okay, don't look at these. It's just a pile of stones. It's strange at first glance. After walking through it twice, you can walk out with your eyes closed. There's no need to bother. Come to my courtyard quickly. Let me show you the good stuff I made recently." After Liu Shenzhi finished the introduction, he didn't pay much attention to the courtyard, and pulled Li Qi towards his backyard.
Indeed, as he said, no matter how well arranged the courtyard is, there is nothing magical about it and it will not change.
If something doesn't change, it won't work no matter how magical it is. If you walk two more times and memorize the route, you can indeed walk out with your eyes closed.
Liu Shenzhi has lived here all year round, so he is probably used to it.
But Li Qi, who had never seen the world before, was amazed and took a few more glances, trying to remember the pattern and layout to see if he could learn anything from it.
Learning has become a subconscious habit of Li Qi. Even when he drinks sugar water, he has to use true knowledge analysis to analyze the proportions to see if he can reproduce it.
Maybe it's a bit crazy, but that's the reality.
Along the way, he admired the many changing scenery on the road. Soon, Li Qi was pulled into the small courtyard where Liu Shenzhi lived.
However, before he arrived, Li Qi heard a bird-like chirping sound.
It was as if he had raised many birds, and the sound was crisp and pleasant.
Li Qi was a little curious about what it was.
But when he walked in, Li Qi saw the source of the sound.
Not birds or anything like that, but countless... insects.
A square-foot bamboo cage contains hundreds of insects, shaped like large flies, with the back half of its body twisting like a large maggot, and it keeps chirping like the sound of a yellow magpie.
Those chirping sounds just now were made by these insects!
However, Li Qi didn't feel disgusted. Instead, he stepped forward curiously, looked at it, and said, "This is... a Gu worm? But I haven't seen it before. Is this the research result you mentioned?"
"That's right! This is it. Although it looks disgusting, I named this thing the Witch Silkworm. Look at what they are capable of." Liu Shenzhi was like a child showing off a toy. In the middle, pick up a piece of armor and stomach.
Li Qi could tell that this was a magic weapon. It looked like a ninth-grade magic weapon. It should be handmade. It looked... a bit like Liu Shenzhi made it himself.
The quality is considered good among the ninth-grade ones, but it can be seen that there are still many flaws. It was probably built in a hurry and there was no time to polish and repair these small flaws.
Then he saw Liu Shenzhi lift the armor and stomach and throw it into the bamboo cage holding the witchcraft silkworms.
As soon as the armor stomach fell into it, I saw the witchcraft silkworms that had been chirping lazily before, suddenly seemed to go crazy, quickly clinging to the armor stomach, and then started to gnaw!
Even if the armor stomach is made of metal and makes a harsh crunching sound when bitten, it cannot resist the gnawing of these magic weapon silkworms!
Although it cannot be seen with the naked eye, the stomach is indeed being chewed by these magic weapon silkworms.
Even the runes on it and the Qi built up were all eaten together, with only a few missing.
"This thing will probably take two-quarters of an hour to eat. Brother Li, please wait. You will know how powerful it is later. As for my father, he is not in a hurry. He is probably still busy with his own affairs. Even I The eldest brother also has to lay down for a quarter of an hour before he can see him, so we can rest here." Liu Shenzhi said, asking Li Qi to watch this strange scene carefully.
Li Qi was also curious about the scene that Liu Shenzhi valued so much, so he stayed and waited to see what these so-called witchcraft silkworms were capable of.
After all, this is a Gu worm. Liu Shenzhi actually learned to cultivate Gu worms?
Was it the witchcraft magic weapon that I gave him that inspired him? It sounds similar, but how did he do reverse engineering? Moreover, these Gu worms do not have the characteristics of the Gu worms that Li Qi is familiar with...
It's not so much a Gu insect as it is... another type of magic weapon?
It's not like the life forms cultivated by witches, but just like machines. However, these bugs are indeed alive, able to move, and can even reproduce.
It's just...very mechanical.
It's as if someone has set that they must reproduce and eat, rather than making choices with self-awareness like living beings.
Although this difference may not seem obvious to insects, after all, insects have no brains and their instincts are enough.
But if you enlarge the number, you will find that some of the Gu insects cultivated by witchcraft can transform into monsters. Those with extremely high talents can get rid of their animal nature, make decisions with their own consciousness, and finally transform into monsters.
But no matter how many of Liu Shenzhi's so-called Gu insects there are, they can't turn into demons. They can't do things 'outside of the setting' and can only act according to the established logic.
This gap is much larger, equivalent to the difference between weak artificial intelligence and strong artificial intelligence, which is an essential difference.
Time passed quickly, and Li Qi discovered that these wizard silkworms had slowly eaten one third of the stomachs. They seemed a little tired, and their efficiency began to decrease rapidly.
Seeing this, Liu Shenzhi took out some broken demon souls and threw them among the Gu insects.
I looked distressed when I lost it, it was not cheap to think about.
These Gu insects absorbed the demon souls and soon became energetic again, speeding up their gnawing.
Seeing this, Li Qi guessed that these broken demon souls... were the energy source of these Gu insects?
After a while, the stomach was completely eaten.
After eating, these magic weapon silkworms began to spin silk.
It's not just random spitting, but it's spinning in specific places according to a certain pattern.
The spit out silk threads actually formed the appearance of a piece of clothing.
