Gu Xu turned his head and saw Shi Xiaohan holding his sleeve, his bright almond eyes narrowed into a crescent shape, looking at him with a smile.
"Is it something delicious?" he guessed casually.
"No." Shi Xiaohan shook her head, and the tassel hanging on the golden hairpin dangled with her movements.
"Elixir?"
"no."
"silver?"
"no."
"What is that?" Gu Xu gave up guessing.
"Well... this is it." Shi Xiaohan let go of his hand, then took out a token from his pocket and stuffed it into Gu Xu's hand.
Gu Xu took the token and looked at it carefully.
He saw that on the front of the token, there was a capital number six, which was "Lu", and on the back of the token, Shi Xiaohan's name was engraved in small seal script.
However, at this moment, Shi Xiaohan suddenly snapped his fingers.
The token began to glow with golden light.
Immediately afterwards, the three characters "Shi Xiaohan" disappeared and were replaced by the two characters "Gu Xu".
"What is this?" Seeing this scene, Gu Xu couldn't help but ask.
"This is a token that represents the ownership of my family's No. 6 elixir workshop," Shi Xiaohan introduced in a brisk tone. "My family has a total of six elixir workshops. Numbers 1 to 4 belong to my father, and numbers 5 and 6 belong to my father." Belong to me - of course, they will always be mine.
"Now, I give you my Workshop No. 6 as your birthday gift. It is located in the suburbs of Qingzhou Prefecture. I will take you there to see it when I have free time in the future."
Gu Xu looked at the token in his hand and was silent for a moment.
In the past, Xiaohan often gave him pills.
Those elixirs were very important to his practice, but they were just a piece of cake for her, who came from a wealthy family. They were an insignificant part of her rich property.
But now, she has two workshops, but she is willing to give one-half of them to herself.
"Xiaohan, this gift is too valuable." Gu Xu said in a deep voice.
"Money and money are all external things," Shi Xiaohan looked into his eyes and said seriously, "Compared to you saving my life on Mount Yi, this is nothing."
"Actually, I mainly want to save myself."
"But without you, I would have become a sacrifice for Kong Xuanren."
"You did this...does your father know?"
"This workshop is my private property. I can dispose and transfer it at will without asking for my father's consent," Shi Xiaohan put his hands on his hips and said in a domineering tone, "Also, if you want to change the etchings on the back of it, To read this name, you not only need to snap your fingers, but also need to recite a specific mantra silently in your heart.
"As for the content of the spell, I won't tell you even if I die. So this workshop No. 6 can only rot in your hands. You will never be able to transfer it, let alone give it back to me. "
Hearing her words, Gu Xu smiled helplessly and could only accept the token while keeping this matter in mind.
"I owe her too much now," he thought silently to himself, "What should I do if I feel like I can't afford to pay her back..."
At this moment, Shi Xiaohan suddenly jumped onto the stone steps next to him, stretched out his arms around his neck, and hugged him from behind. Her chin rested on his shoulder, her chest pressed against his back.
He could hear her breathing clearly and feel her heart beating rapidly.
"With this workshop, you no longer need to worry about insufficient elixirs before the sixth realm," she said close to his ear, her breath making Gu Xu's ears feel itchy, "I believe you I will definitely become a saint before the age of thirty."
As soon as she finished speaking, before Gu Xu could react, she instantly let go of her hand, jumped down from the stone steps, and ran towards the other end of the corridor with a whoosh.
When she ran, she even used the "Falling Flowers and Flying Catkins" movement technique. She seemed like a ghost and disappeared from Gu Xu's field of vision in the blink of an eye.
Gu Xu stood there, looking at the place where she disappeared, with mixed emotions.
"This girl...is she shy?"
"Also, doesn't the book say that girls are all soft? Why do I feel differently?"
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Shi Xiaohan ran very fast.
She even forgot that it was breakfast time and just wanted to find a place to hide as soon as possible.
At this time, her cheeks were slightly red, and her heart was pounding like a deer.
Just now, when she handed the token into Gu Xu's hand, she couldn't help but start thinking about his lifespan. The more she thought about it, the more distressed she became. When her mind became hot, she hugged him impulsively.
"My elders often tell me that I am a young lady from a noble family and I have to be an elegant and dignified lady - I have to be reserved in front of boys and not be too proactive, otherwise I will be looked down upon.
"Although I don't want to be a lady, I am worried that he will think I am frivolous...
"Also, Gu Xu is really thin. In the future, I need to find more delicious food and find a way to feed him fatter..."
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As soon as Shi Xiaohan left, Shangguan Jin walked straight towards Gu Xu from the other side of the corridor.
She was still wearing a light green skirt as usual, but her hair was combed into a bun - this was a hairstyle commonly used by unmarried women in the Daqi Dynasty. With silver hair accessories and emerald earrings, she looked elegant. Refined.
"Fellow Daoist Gu, I almost forgot that today is your birthday," she said with a subtle and appropriate smile on her face, "I wish you a rising sun, a life as long as a pine tree, and good fortune."
Figuring out other people's thoughts and observing other people's personalities and preferences from details is what Shangguan Jin is always good at.
Her birthday wishes were undoubtedly words that Gu Xu loved to hear - rather than wishing him a "happy birthday", he obviously wanted to hear a wish for him a "long life and wealth".
"Thank you." He responded with a faint smile.
"This is the gift that the Chief of Staff asked me to bring you," Shangguan Jin said as he took out a scroll from his sleeve and handed it to Gu Xu, "To be honest, the request of the Chief of Staff today made me Very surprised. Because he never gave anyone a birthday gift before."
Gu Xu raised his eyebrows slightly and reached out to take the scroll.
Driven by curiosity, he unfolded the scroll slightly and found that it turned out to be a star map - every star in the sky, every star field, and even the trajectory of the stars were accurately drawn on On the picture, there are clear small text annotations next to it, which looks dense, neat and detailed.
What surprised him was that there was no trace of extraordinary power on this star chart, it was just an ordinary scroll.
"I thought the Chief of Staff would give me some powerful magic weapon," he thought in his mind, "For example, the 'substitute bracelet' and 'empty-breaking bead' from last time are very good and can help me at critical moments. Run for your life.”
But he quickly put this thought out of his mind.
After all, receiving a gift from the chief executive is an unexpected thing. It was impossible for him to ask for any more gifts.
"Speaking of gifts, I have prepared some for you myself." At this moment, Shangguan Jin spoke again, interrupting his thoughts.
While talking, she took out a few pieces of white paper from her pocket.
The edges of the paper were jagged and looked as if they had been gnawed by a dog. They had obviously been torn from a book.
She handed the white paper to Gu Xu's hand.
Gu Xu took a closer look and was surprised to find that these were three extremely high-level paintings - they did not use color, and purely used different shades of ink to outline the characters and backgrounds. The lines were dense, clear and smooth, and they looked like brush strokes. Simple and complete, full of meaning.
"Fellow Daoist Shangguan, these... were all painted by you?"
Shangguan Jin nodded calmly.
Gu Xu stopped talking.
The reason why he was surprised was not just because of Shangguan Jin's painting skills.
The main reason is that the protagonists of these three paintings are all himself——
The first picture shows him standing alone on the top of Laoshan Mountain, facing the waves of the sea, with his back to the buildings on the mountain, his clothes fluttering;
The second picture is of the Lantern Festival night. He stands as a victor on the lotus-shaped arena in the middle of the Luo River. Countless lanterns are hung on the bank.
The third picture is in the illusion of "Reviewing the Old Pot". He is standing among the mountains and forests, using a large golden net to cover the heads of "the fallen people" flying in the sky.
Each painting is exactly the same as the scene at that time, as if it had been captured by a black and white camera.
"I didn't expect you to be so good at painting," Gu Xu was silent for a moment and praised politely, "You are so versatile."
"It's just a hobby," Shangguan Jin said with a smile. "It's hard to draw with a magical power like 'Tiansuan' but not realistic."
Gu Xu immediately understood that Shangguan Jin's method of painting was to use the magical power of "Tiansuan" to turn scenes into data, then convert data into scenes, and finally reproduce them on white paper.
Just like when he used "Bowen Qiangji" to learn how to draw talismans a few months ago, it was a very "cheating" behavior.
At the same time, Shangguan Jin also took out the picture album and showed Gu Xu a few pages, including the sunrise in the East China Sea, the spring scene in the Luohe River, the earing miscanthus, the morning rain and dew, the dragonfly sitting on the lotus leaf, and the Lantern Festival night street Playful children... It can be seen that she is very good at discovering the subtle beauty around her.
"These are my usual exercises."
"So lovely."
"If you look good, you have to record it so you can watch it again and again."
"Yes." Gu Xu didn't know how to respond.
"If I have free time in the future, I would also like to draw the entire Luojing City. Fellow Daoist Gu, what do you think?"
"Okay, I'm looking forward to it."
Shangguan Jin smiled faintly: "You will go to Longmen Academy tomorrow to participate in the selection of 'Guest Teaching'. The Chief Secretary said that he will go there to watch in person, and I will accompany him. You must perform well!"
"I will definitely do my best!" Gu Xu put the paintings and scrolls into "Xianyunju" and raised his fists jokingly.
Later, Shangguan Jin went to the retreat room to study Gu techniques, while Gu Xu walked along the corridor to find Shi Xiaohan.
The girl ran in a hurry and didn't even eat breakfast.
In half an hour, when the public kitchen stops selling breakfast, she will definitely regret it because she is hungry.
ps: The monthly ticket for September has been paid off. Every 450 monthly tickets in November will add one chapter, and one chapter is currently missing.
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