"Although Supervisor Qu only has the cultivation level of the Second Palace, he is quite knowledgeable in the way of alchemy. He is the youngest pharmacist in the department who can refine the Heaven-Mending Pill, and his medical skills are also good. If someone in the team is injured, With Qu monitoring around, you can get timely treatment..."
Huang Jianyuan finally couldn't continue talking at this point, because Lu Jing kept rolling his eyes beside him.
"Do you have any opinions on Inspector Qu?"
"No, I don't have any objections to Supervisor Qu himself, but I have a big objection to him replacing me. I feel that of the two of us, I am obviously the one more suitable to enter the secret realm."
"You are right." Supervisor Huang also admitted, "But the list has been decided. Supervisor Qu will go to the secret realm with everyone. This is Shaojian Guo's decision."
When Lu Jing heard this, he turned around and walked out of the courtyard without saying a word.
Huang Supervisor was helpless, "Where are you going? You are already a formal supervisor. If you are not a student still studying in the academy, can you abide by the rules in the Sitian Prison?"
"I'm going to see Mr. Guo," Lu Jing said, "and I have not failed to abide by the rules of the department. As a supervisor of Si Tianjian, if I see my superior making a wrong judgment, of course I should remind him. This is because I am a subordinate. responsibilities.”
After speaking, Lu Jing ran away without waiting for Huang Supervisor to speak again.
However, when he ran to the Star Observation Tower, he was told that Guo Shouhuai was not here.
"Where did Mr. Guo go and when will he come back?" Lu Jing asked the man in green in front of him.
The latter shook his head and said, "I don't know either. Guo Shaojian has been out a lot recently. In addition to dealing with Mr. Ji and those strange objects that had sneaked into the capital before, he was actually away most of the time. Si Tianjian was also involved in many matters. It’s being handled by a few prime ministers.”
Lu Jing refused to give up, "Then where does he live? I'll go to his residence and have a look."
"Shaojian Guo doesn't have any land in the capital. He either sleeps in the Star Observation Tower or goes to the riverside to look for flowers and willows." The man in Tsing Yi said respectfully.
"Then if something urgent happens, there should be a way to contact him." Lu Jing frowned.
"Are you in a hurry?"
"Of course, it's urgent."
"Then you can leave us a letter, and we will send it to the place designated by Shaojian Guo. He will reply to you when he sees it."
"No need to go to so much trouble. I see you are quite busy. Why don't you just tell me the place and I will deliver it myself."
Lu Jing successfully got the address from the man in Tsing Yi and went straight there without any delay.
The place the man in Tsing Yi mentioned was outside the city, in a small village.
There was nothing special about the village. It was just an ordinary village that can be seen everywhere near the capital. There was a big dog family and about thirty other households.
Although the current world is not good, after all, living next to the capital, everyone can still live a good life.
Lu Jing asked someone at the entrance of the village and found the only family growing camellia in the village.
Then I looked out and saw a boy playing in the mud behind the fence. I waved him over and took out ten cents from my arms. "Let's play a game. I'll ask you questions. If you answer them correctly, I'll win." I’ll give you all this money.”
Lu Jing was originally worried that the boy was too young and might not understand the function of copper coins.
However, children from poor families have long been in charge. After hearing this, the boy, who was only about six or seven years old, immediately put down the mud in his hand, wiped his nose and ran over, looking longingly at the copper coins in Lu Jing's hand.
"Have you ever met a person? Well, he looks a little slovenly, but his eyes are very special, as if he can see through all your thoughts. By the way, he has lost an arm recently."
The boy nodded.
Lu Jing couldn't help but feel happy when he heard this, "Has he been to your house?"
The boy nodded again.
"When was the last time?"
"Just yesterday, he brought me my favorite butter-filled snails."
"Really? Then when did he leave? Did he say where he was going?"
This time the boy just shook his head and then looked at the ten cents in Lu Jing's hand.
"No, you haven't said anything yet, but you are only thinking about my money." As soon as Lu Jing finished speaking, he saw mist rising in the boy's eyes.
"Oh, there's no point in crying. You have to answer well so you can get money, you know."
Lu Jing put back the hand holding the money.
As a result, the boy turned around and ran away. Then he hugged a village woman who had just walked out of the house and started crying.
Lu Jing looked embarrassed.
He quickly explained to the village woman, "I didn't bully him, he cried on his own."
The village woman glanced at Lu Jing and hugged her son tighter.
When Lu Jing saw this, he put down the copper coins in his hand angrily and prepared to flee the scene of the crime.
But at this time, the village woman suddenly said, "Official, wait a minute, there is something for you here."
"Huh?" Lu Jing stopped.
"Master Guo left it for you." The village woman added.
"Do you know who I am?" Lu Jing asked in surprise.
"I don't know." The village woman said, "But Mr. Guo said you would come to him. Before he left, he told me to give you that thing."
"Then why didn't he just give it to me?" Lu Jing muttered, "Ah... I know, it's this kind of clever trick again. He deliberately prevented me from going to the secret realm, and then knew that I would definitely come to him and leave some more. Something to show that everything is under control, an old trick of magicians."
But the village woman had already returned to the house and took out a bamboo tube.
Lu Jing took the bamboo tube, opened it, and found a map inside. No, it was a star map. The dense dots on it were all stars.
Lu Jing was one of the only three people in the entire academy who chose the course of celestial phenomena, but he had not attended the class at all.
I took the star map and turned it over and over for a long time, but couldn't see anything.
So he asked the village woman again, "Does Mr. Guo have any other words?"
"No, he came and left in a hurry this time." The village woman shook her head and said, "Give me this bamboo tube and let me hand it over to the person who came to find him. Then he left without even entering the house. .”
"I knew I had to guess riddles again." Lu Jing had a toothache.
He put away the star map, and then asked curiously, "Can I take the liberty to ask, what is the relationship between you and Mr. Guo?"
The village woman hesitated for a moment and then nodded, "My sister once had a relationship with Mr. Guo."
"Does Shaojian Guo still have someone he loves? Why haven't I heard him talk about it? Where is your sister now?"
"She's dead."
Lu Jing raised his eyebrows.
The village woman added, "It's not what you think. It was five years after they separated. In short, they couldn't be together for some reasons, but Mr. Guo has a good relationship with my parents. My sister After his death, he saw that our life was difficult, so he found work for us so that we could earn some money to support our family.
"Collecting mail for him is one of them, but he has rarely come over in the past six months or so."
