It had only been half an hour since Zhao Qing had returned home from the Dan Hall in Youshi.
The courtyard door was knocked again.
Zhao Qing stood in the courtyard, slowly put away the long ax in his hand, and glanced at the panel in front of him.
[Acquire proficiency in Mountain Splitting Technique: 3]
[Genzi·Splitting Mountain Technique: Comprehension·Perfection (965/1000)]
It will take a day or two for the Splitting Mountain Technique to break through... I don't know what will happen.
He looked up at the sky, turned around and opened the door for Wang Teng.
Amidst the creaking sound, Wang Teng entered the yard with a spring breeze on his face, carrying a pot of wine.
"Senior Brother Zhao is really hiding his secrets!"
Zhao Qing smiled, feeling a little awkward.
Ever since I got into Pei Jin's car, my life has indeed changed.
But isn’t the contrast a bit too great?
"Senior Brother Wang Teng, please call me Junior Brother. Sit down quickly."
He glanced at the wine bottle Wang Teng placed on the table.
I still like the way you are unruly and call me Xiaoqing...
Wang Teng frowned, then smiled again and said: "That's okay, our friendship is not just a day or two."
Zhao Qing nodded slightly and poured Wang Teng a cup of tea.
Wang Teng took the water glass with a look of reminiscence on his face.
"I still remember that my junior brother brought me two forging magic pills a long time ago."
"It must have been extremely extraordinary at that time, but it's a pity that Wang didn't think of this."
"Now that Junior Brother has entered the Alchemy Hall, it will be winter soon. Time flies!"
Zhao Qing smiled and said, "I have to thank you, senior brother, for taking care of me these days."
"Without senior brother, Zhao might still be chopping firewood on the mountain, and he wouldn't have time to make elixirs."
Wang Teng shook his head slightly.
"Junior brother will enter the alchemy hall sooner or later. How can Wang Teng take the credit?"
"The Qi Gathering Pills that Junior Brother asked me to collect on my behalf during this period are all here."
He took out a storage bag from his body and said again.
"At the beginning, I was extremely puzzled. Why didn't Junior Brother go to the Alchemy Hall to receive it in person?"
"Wang didn't understand some of the deeper meaning until today. Junior brother turned out to be waiting for a suitable opportunity!"
Zhao Qing looked strange.
suitable time?
He shook his head and said: "Senior Brother Wang, there is no need to be like this. Zhao Qing will keep our friendship in mind."
"Senior Brother Wang has sincerely taken care of me. This cannot be false. Senior Brother, you should take the elixir away."
"Don't make it difficult for junior brother."
Wang Teng was stunned and nodded heavily.
"Junior brother, if you tell me, the two years I wasted in the kitchen are not in vain."
"Junior brother, have you ever thought about moving to Jiaziyuan?"
"Due to the trial, many junior disciples were missing from the kitchen, but two courtyards were left free."
"Junior brother, move over here so we can be neighbors."
Zhao Qing's eyes moved slightly, moving to Jiaziyuan?
Jiaziyuan is indeed much better than Dziyuan...
But won’t it be tiring for you to be my wife and dig a cellar?
He shook his head and said, "That's not necessary."
"Senior brother, if you have time, find two handymen to repair the courtyard wall and replace the door."
After the two exchanged some pleasantries, Wang Teng said goodbye and left.
Zhao Qing thought silently that it would not be appropriate to come back with the Qi Gathering Pill he sent out.
Besides, that little pill is not of much value to me now...
The next day, Chenshi.
After Zhao Qing had eaten and drank enough, he arrived at the Alchemy Hall.
However, when he came to his alchemy room, he found that there was no one inside.
Where is Gu Qinghuan?
Have I been let down?
Zhao Qing:......
Also, he is already at the fourth level of Qi Refining, and he is still an outer disciple after all. He probably regretted it the more he thought about it at night.
After thinking for a moment, he smiled helplessly, heated himself some hot water and stopped thinking.
Then he started thinking about what Lu Zheng said yesterday.
The alchemy materials of the Bai Whoring Sect are split 50-50 with the Purple Pill Pavilion...
It doesn't matter if I am greedy for some Qi Gathering Pills and suppress the pill success rate. After all, there is always a loss in pill refining.
But what if we really get it all for nothing and just split the accounts...?
Zhao Qing found that it was neither good nor bad whether he did it or not.
If you really want to become a moth with them, even though Pei Jin is protecting you, there is no free lunch in the world, so there will always be some risks.
But if he didn't do it and he knew about them, he would be in bad luck now.
What a deal!
Zhao Qing suddenly realized that when he met Pei Jin, there was no way out.
Even if Lu Zheng didn't come to see him yesterday, he would still be in the same situation when he passed on the news about Yu Yiyi.
What would someone else do if they encountered this situation?
He thought silently and found the answer from many cases in his previous life.
If we can't draw a clear line with Zidan Pavilion...
Then eat both!
The elixirs refined for the Purple Pill Pavilion will also reduce the elixir success rate, and seize the time to arm yourself and improve your strength.
The connection with the Bloody Clothes Building must also be strengthened...
Boom, boom, boom.
A knock on the door interrupted his thoughts.
Zhao Qing sensed it slightly, Gu Qinghuan?
"come in."
The woman pushed open the door and entered, holding a pot of grass in her hand and placing it under the window sash.
Zhao Qing glanced at the grass and ignored it.
Instead, he looked at the junior sister in front of him: "Why are you here so late?"
Gu Qinghuan turned around and closed the door, and said calmly: "Qinghuan knows the rules, so he hesitated before coming and wasted time."
rule?
Zhao Qing was confused: "What rules do you mean?"
The woman stood on one side and said calmly and gracefully: "There are many senior sisters in the workshop who are in the alchemy hall. This is not a secret. Qing Huan enters this door, and she is one of the senior brothers, whether it is a Taoist companion or a medicine slave. That’s just the way it is.”
Zhao Qing:......
So damn upright.
"Then why are you hesitating?"
The woman smiled slightly and said bluntly: "Of course I am hesitant to choose senior brother. Is there any better choice in the future?"
Zhao Qing was stunned.
Why didn't I notice you were so stupid yesterday?
You just have to choose, why don’t you say it out loud.
Can't you even say something about being delayed?
He simply stopped talking nonsense, pointed to the talc and Glauber's salt on the ground and said: "Grind the medicinal materials. This is what Junior Sister Sun has not finished grinding. You can grind it."
Gu Qinghuan nodded slightly, squatted on the ground and started picking up medicinal materials.
"Junior sister Sun grinds it with her feet." Zhao Qing reminded.
The woman paused, silently took off her boots and socks, took off her outer robe, and stepped her onion toes on the sharp saltpeter.
Zhao Qing glanced at her exquisite figure and met her clear eyes, feeling a little surprised.
Quite obedient?
He didn't forget about business. Whether this woman can stay depends on whether she has any problems, and her talent and qualifications are secondary.
"Where is home?"
"Qing Huan grew up near Tianshui County."
Tianshui... is a bit far away.
"What is the family doing for a living? Are there any monks?"
"There is only one sister, and she is mortal."
Only one sister...no father or mother?
Zhao Qing suppressed his doubts, glanced at the woman's blushing ears again, and met those crystal clear eyes again.
There is always an indescribable awkwardness in my heart.
It was like... when he was looking at her, she was also looking at him.
"Are you looking at me?"
Gu Qinghuan nodded softly: "I'm a little curious."
Zhao Qing said again: "Do you know that what you are doing now is what the medicine slave did?"
"Qing Huan knows."
"With your cultivation, you can now be considered an outer disciple. Do you have any regrets?"
The woman lowered her head to look at the newly developed medicinal materials, leaned over and smoothed it out, and then stepped on it again with her delicate little feet.
"If Qing Huan regrets it, will senior brother let me leave?"
When Zhao Qing heard this, he finally felt more comfortable.
It's better to regret it, so as not to waste your energy, or to stop losses in time.
He knew in his heart that if he taught Gu Qinghuan the various alchemist experiences provided on the panel, she might be able to do better than him.
Of course, all this is predicated, and you have to enter your own home.
He nodded simply: "Of course I'm willing to let you go. The door is right there, just push it."
There was a smile in the woman's eyes, and she was so beautiful.
"Qing Huan has brought all the spiritual plants that he has raised for two years. Naturally, he will not regret it."
Zhao Qing got up and made himself a cup of spiritual tea. This was something he must do every day when he went to the Alchemy Hall.
After all, he is no longer a handyman now, he has to get used to the environment in private.
"Have you ever thought about becoming an alchemist here before?"
"Of course I've thought about it."
"Then why do I never regret using you as a medicine slave?"
Gu Qinghuan's eyes flashed with doubts, and he asked: "Senior brother, do you think that medicine slaves are inferior to Taoist companions or alchemy masters?"
Zhao Qing was silent for a moment, seems to make sense?
There is a gross truth to this.
He looked directly at the woman: "Do you think you are humble now?"
Lu Qinghuan blushed, but with a smile in her eyes, she shook her head gently and said, "No."
Zhao Qing pulled off her inner lining, revealing her snow-white shoulders.
However, before he could ask a question, the woman continued: "There is nothing so despicable about a man having sex with a woman."
"The lowly ones are the drug slaves that no one wants."
Gu Qinghuan took off his clothes completely, leaned forward with his exquisite body, and placed his pretty face in front of Zhao Qing's eyes.
"Senior Brother, do you know that there are many female cultivators in Dancaofang who are addicted to Dancao?"
Zhao Qing nodded slightly.
Silently pondering what Gu Qinghuan said... Are the lowly ones the drug slaves that no one wants?
"Senior brother, do you know that there are some female cultivators in Caofang who once worked as medicine slaves in the alchemy hall... But the Nanze incident has left too many senior brothers. They have been abandoned and now they have no one to rely on but to be humiliated?"
Zhao Qing looked thoughtful, this was the first time he heard about it.
But think about it, it is true.
He became interested and nodded: "Go on, I want to hear it."
Instead, Gu Qinghuan shook his head and changed his words: "I know that senior brother is not attracted by Qing Huan's appearance, so he is willing to try this door."
"Senior brother, are you curious about Qing Huan's family affairs?"
Zhao Qing handed over the teacup: "I'm all ears."
Gu Qinghuan took the tea cup, curled up her legs and leaned on the corner of the bed.
"Qing Huan has no father or mother since she was a child. She has been with my sister since she can remember. She is thirteen years older than me."
"My sister taught me how to read, write, calligraphy, painting, music and dance. Senior brother, do you know what she does for a living?"
"What do you do for a living?"
Gu Qinghuan looked back in memory, asking and answering questions. "She is lowly, useless, and has a miserable life and few blessings."
"My sister is a brothel girl. She is not a nun like one of the many wonderful people in Danxia City, but a woman in the world who can do anything she wants."
"When I was young, she took me wandering around Tianshui County, wandering in the land of smoke and willows."
"But he protected me very well. He said he wanted to sell me at a price and find a good family to marry me in the future."
"If I slacked off in dance practice, she would beat me with a willow stick and tell me that I would have to be a prostitute like her."
Gu Qinghuan looked down at the marks on the soles of his feet.
He smiled and said, "Did Qing Huan go through so much hardship just to find a wealthy family with a good family background?"
"I had enough of that kind of life, so I ran out and left my sister."
"Later, I visited a martial arts school, and fortunately, an old man taught me my family's skills, and I started to learn the path of immortality."
"I was twenty years old that year. I had my spiritual root tested in Danxia Sect and went to Dancaofang."
Zhao Qing nodded silently and stopped thinking about humiliating the woman in front of him.
Her sister is a prostitute... Gu Qinghuan has finally escaped his fate.
I saw the other person's eyes flickering, and he put down the teacup and said, "I thought my life was different. However, when I went back to find my sister, I learned something that I couldn't accept."
Lu Qinghuan took a deep breath and slowly spoke with her red lips: "Gu Qingci, you are not my sister."
Zhao Qing frowned slightly.
Could it be that you are an orphan too?
However, the woman's next words left him speechless.
"Gu Qingci is my biological mother!"
The woman smiled lightly and looked at Zhao Qing: "Senior brother, are you surprised?"
Zhao Qing smiled bitterly and nodded, having figured out all the plot in his mind.
"When my mother was thirteen, she had a lifelong love affair with her childhood sweetheart, but she was abandoned when she was ten months pregnant."
Gu Qinghuan shook his head and sighed: "What a vulgar story."
"And after I arrived at the Alchemy Hall, I saw many senior sisters entering the Alchemy Hall, and I saw them coming in and out of the Alchemy Hall."
"Qing Huan suddenly realized that her sister was right. The most important thing in a woman's life is to find a good family."
"I seem to be back in Tianshui County again, studying my lessons and practicing music and dance every day, waiting for the price."
She looked at Zhao Qing and said.
"But Qing Huan is not an idiot like my sister. Qing Huan is waiting for someone who will not give up."
Zhao Qing nodded slightly to express his understanding.
Then he asked, "Why do you think I won't always give up?"
The woman shook her head slightly: "The human heart is like the sea, so naturally Qing Huan cannot understand it, but my senior brother gave me the desire to give it a try."
Then your trial and error cost is a bit high...
"What if I made a mistake?" Zhao Qing said.
"Will it be the same as my sister? Zhongmiaoju is a good place. When my life is about to end, the ancient Buddha of Qingdeng will die."
She raised her head and said: "So Qing Huan doesn't think the medicine slave is inferior. As long as the senior brother will not abandon Qing Huan, Qing Huan has nothing else to ask for."
"Senior brother, have you ever been to Caofang Ting Paiyuan?"
"There are many senior sisters there who are addicted to pills, and there are many senior sisters who have been abandoned by others. They are... very similar to my sister."
Zhao Qing fell into a long silence.
Gu Qinghuan turned out to be such a person, so was he going too far?
How could I, Zhao Qing, be so virtuous as to let such a pitiful woman risk the rest of her life...
Even though he hadn't done anything to the woman in front of him, he already felt pressure for no reason.
Zhao Qing took the robe on the stone platform and covered Gu Qinghuan's graceful body.
He sighed: "You can stay away from marriage for the rest of your life, so you don't have to gamble the rest of your life."
Gu Qinghuan lowered his head to adjust his robe, with three thousand black hair hanging down, and whispered: "Don't marry? Has Gu Qingci been teased all his life, and Gu Qinghuan has been afraid of him all his life?"
"A pair of sisters, a pair of mother and daughter, it's just a ridiculous story."
Zhao Qing was speechless, just shook his head and said: "If you regret it, you can leave here now."
The woman suddenly raised her head, and her clear face was filled with glistening tears.
"Qing Huan originally thought about it this way, but senior brother tested me on the medicinal properties of calamus yesterday..."
"Am I useful to senior brother, right? Useful people will not be easily discarded."
"Before coming to the Alchemy Hall, Qing Huan had already figured it out. If you miss this time... you will lose."
Zhao Qing silently took out his pipe...
He understood a lot of people and a lot of absurdities in an instant.
Gu Qinghuan stretched out his slender arms and touched Zhao Qing's clothes awkwardly and stiffly.
"Qing Huan is not stupid."
"If senior brother really wants Qing Huan to be a medicine slave, Qing Huan will accept it."
"Qing Huan is loyal to senior brother, and senior brother will not abandon Qing Huan like a worn out shoe. Even if Qing Huan has to kneel down and serve her for the rest of his life, Qing Huan's life will be considered complete."
Zhao Qing stared blankly at the tearful eyes in front of him, and found that he had no desire at all, and only felt that his mind and heart were entangled.
He knew that he was not the only one to Gu Qinghuan.
If he hadn't gone to Dancaofang, this woman would be like this one day.
Handing over everything just to try to make up for the shortcomings of half his life.
Zhao Qing sighed slightly: "How can you be loyal to me?"
"The words are pale, Qing Huan can't make senior brother believe it."
"However, senior brother can feed Qing Huan the Bliss Pill, or lock Qing Huan in a circle... If Qing Huan is lucky enough to break through to the late stage of Qi refining, I am willing to use the secret method of spiritual consciousness to entrust life and death to senior brother."
Zhao Qing was moved. For the first time, he felt something different about Gu Qinghuan.
He felt the turmoil hidden under the calm words of the woman in front of him.
Painful, lonely, and hysterical.
Twisted, struggling, but full of hope.
She searched through the mud and filth, searching for a destination where everything could be settled.
Zhao Qing whispered: "Even if you are addicted to elixirs? Will you leave your life and death to others?"
Gu Qinghuan nodded, her black hair hanging down from her shoulders, gently tugging along with her beautiful forehead.
"In the storybook, there is a kind of life that can only live in deep valleys, called Shang aphid."
"The life of an aphid is short, only one day."
Zhao Qing raised his eyebrows: "Why only one day?"
"Because... the aphid will suck the miasma in the deep valley regardless of its own safety."
"The aphids infected by the miasma will turn into colorful wings and no longer regain their original ugliness, but they will also die from it."
"The aphid sucks the colorful miasma, so the colors are bright. However, its life span is short and it cannot last all day long."
"Qing Huan's biological mother died when she was thirteen years old, and the prostitute in Tianshui County is just a shell."
"But Qing Huan knows that on the night that was destined to give birth to me, Gu Qingci never regretted it."
The woman's pretty face was pale, and a sad smile appeared on her lips.
"Qing Huan is willing to let senior brother do whatever he wants. I just hope that when his life is about to end, the person in front of him has not changed."
"After Qing Huan dies, senior brother can go to Tianshui and let Tianshui County take a look at senior brother."
"If Qing Huan is abandoned, then..."
Gu Qinghuan tensed up instantly, and a miserable cry echoed in the alchemy room.
Zhao Qing pulled the messy hair in his hand and pulled Gu Qinghuan's pretty face in front of his eyes.
"Zhao hasn't abandoned you yet, shut up."
The woman smiled and nodded: "Okay."
Lu Qinghuan nodded with all his strength, and bright red blood dripped from the pulled hair.
Zhao Qing slowly let go of his black hair.
The panel appeared in front of me.
【Gu Qinghuan】
[Bond: Chance encounter]
His eyes flashed. This was the first time that the panel appeared without double cultivation.
meet by chance?
Zhao Qing shook his head slightly, and then they met by chance.
He glanced at Gu Qinghuan's graceful body, and his beautiful dancing posture yesterday came to his mind. He raised his hand and threw the clothes to the woman.
How stupid...
"Put it on."
Then he took out his identity token and threw it to Gu Qinghuan.
"There is a spirit gathering array in the alchemy hall. With this token, you can open the ban on the alchemy room. You can stay here temporarily."
The woman took the clothes and was at a loss: "Brother...where are you going?"
Zhao Qing frowned and took off the storage ring from his slender finger.
The spiritual power penetrated, and it was filled with books and clothes, as well as several Qi Gathering Pills and a few spiritual stones.
He took out the other party's identity token, glanced at it, and put it into his spiritual ring.
Outer door, Gu Qinghuan.
…
Gu Qinghuan watched Zhao Qing turn around and leave the alchemy room, his eyes dull.
She collapsed on the bed, tears running down her cheeks and soaking her hair.
Her delicate body couldn't stop trembling with sobs.
After a long while, she got up and put on her clothes, leaned over to pick up the pill materials on the ground, and placed them on the stone platform by categories.
Then he went to the window sash, picked up the spiritual plant he had brought, and carefully picked off the dead leaves.
Zhao Qing's identity tokens were scattered beside the alchemy furnace.
Lu Qinghuan picked it up, checked it, and then put it away close to her body.
"Sister, Qing Huan is a little scared..."
·
Alchemy Hall, Room 25.
Zhao Qing knocked on the door.
"Junior Brother Lu, it's me."
After a while, the door opened a crack, and Sun Qian blushed and said, "Senior Brother Zhao."
Zhao Qing nodded slightly and pushed the door open.
Lu Zheng was refining elixirs at the moment, and the prepared elixir materials were placed on the stone table.
Sun Qian silently made tea for Zhao Qing, and then stood aside happily.
After burning a stick of incense, Lu Zheng fired out several streams of spiritual energy, which condensed into elixirs.
"Senior brother, what do you think of my furnace treasure?"
Zhao Qing turned his head slightly and glanced at Lu Zheng in surprise.
Although this guy is not very serious, his alchemy skills are really passable.
"When it comes to Baohua Yulu Pills alone, Junior Brother Lu is better than me." He said.
Lu Zheng smiled.
"Why did senior brother come to my place? That junior sister should have already arrived, right?"
Zhao Qing nodded: "We've arrived."
"I'm here to find some materials for the Qi Gathering Pill. If you have any copies of the recipe, please give me some copies. There is no paper and pen in the alchemy room, so it's not convenient."
Lu Zheng showed a look of understanding and nodded slightly.
He took out a lot of elixirs and prescriptions and put them all on the table: "Senior brother, just use them."
"Then Zhao won't be polite to you."
Zhao Qing directly took three pill recipes and a lot of pill ingredients and put them all into Gu Qinghuan's storage ring.
Anyway, you don’t come up with alchemy materials yourself, so it would be nice to be able to grind out an alchemy master.
Now that he's on Pei Jin's ship, the Dantang family has a great business, so there's no need to save for him.
"Whenever Senior Brother Zhao is free, let's go to the city together. There are a lot of new pills in Cuifang."
Zhao Qing's eyes flashed and he said with a smile: "Tomorrow, it's a bit late now."
…
When Zhao Qing returned to his alchemy room again, his eyes suddenly lit up.
The original gauze curtain was opened, and warm sunlight came through the window.
Lu Qinghuan was dressed neatly and was dressing up in front of the bronze mirror. With her graceful curves, her appearance was even better than yesterday.
The woman turned to look at Zhao Qing, her eyes full of tenderness: "Brother, you are back."
Zhao Qing approached Qingli's face, looked at her carefully and said, "Not bad, you are much more energetic than when I saw you yesterday."
Gu Qinghuan's eyes moved slightly: "What's the use of that?"
"Senior brother, do you think Qing Huan is dirty?"
dirty?
Zhao Qing was surprised, he really hadn't thought about this.
"Qing Huan is still a virgin, senior brother can use it as he pleases."
…
Zhao Qing was speechless, why could this woman always say lustful words so plainly.
He shook his head slightly: "You are thinking too much."
"There are elixir recipes and elixir materials here. You can figure out the Qi Gathering elixir by yourself. I will teach you when you have a better understanding of it."
Gu Qinghuan took his storage ring and wore it on his slender finger.
He smiled and said, "Senior brother, if you don't take Qinghuan Yuanyin, Qinghuan will feel a little uneasy."
Zhao Qing raised his eyebrows and held his well-defined neck with his big hands: "It's better to make the medicine slave worry about gains and losses."
The woman's fair face turned red, a hint of dark green appeared on her delicate lower jaw, and then she gasped violently.
"Qing Huan will understand this feeling of worrying about gains and losses..."
Zhao Qing said nothing. He found that this woman could always touch him with extremely strong words, and it was difficult to explain the feeling in his heart.
Could it be that I am too soft-hearted?
Let’s observe it for a while first and then talk about it.
