Chapter 144: The Zhou Family in the North (Part 2)
Xu Changqing thought for a moment, then looked at Zhou Zhenglin with an anxious expression, nodded slightly, and said, "I have ten green jade fruits here, and I can probably refine seven Shangqing Yuqi Pills. It is enough for your wife to use at most two. I can give you green jade fruits, and I don't want your money and gifts. Just wait for the day the elixir is completed and I will be divided into four!"
"This..." Zhou Zhenglin hesitated for a moment, feeling that he was in a loss, but then he thought that he was refining the elixirs to make up for his wife's congenital deficiencies. As long as he had the wife's portion, it didn't matter whether he wanted anything else. After thinking it through, he nodded to Xu Changqing and said, "Okay! That's it! It's just that it takes a little time to refine the elixirs, and Mr. Xu may need to stay in my house for a few days."
"It doesn't matter, I'm going to go to Zhoujiazhai to do something!" Xu Changqing took out the ten green jade fruits from his sleeve and handed them to Zhou Zhenglin. Then he looked at Zhou Zhenglin's face carefully and found that his face was the three aspects of blessing, wealth and longevity. With his own aura and method of doing things, I think he will definitely be able to do something in the future.
Zhou Zhenglin quickly took the Qingyuguo, took a jade box from the guard guard, put it in it, and then carefully put it in his arms, fearing that it would be lost. After everything was settled, he asked Xu Changqing curiously: "Mr. Xu, I don't know what to do when I go to my Zhoujia Village? If you can help me, you will definitely help with all your strength."
Xu Changqing smiled and said, "If I want to meet the two little gods living in your Zhou family, I wonder if Young Master Zhou can introduce them?"
After hearing this, Zhou Zhenglin smiled a little embarrassedly and said apologetically: "I'm really sorry! I can't make the decision about the two little gods! My grandfather and great-grandmother both made a statement, and no one was allowed to break the rules. Even if my relatives want to see the two little gods and ask for divination, they can only wait in line according to the rules! I really can't help me."
Xu Changqing was a little surprised and said with a little admiration: "It seems that the style of your Zhou family is very regular! There are very few such aristocratic families now!"
Zhou Zhenglin said modestly: "Sir, you have over the award! What is this?"
Afterwards, Xu Changqing talked with Zhou Zhenglin for more than an hour, and the two sides exchanged some knowledge of alchemy and medicine. Although Xu Changqing was not good at alchemy, his medical knowledge in the world of cultivation and some Western medical skills he had learned before was enough to surprise Zhou Zhenglin and he felt that he had met too late. Xu Changqing also learned a lot of traditional secular medicine prescriptions from Zhou Zhenglin, many of which only require one or two medicines to be modified, which is a good elixir in the world of cultivation.
Although Zhoujiazhai is only more than forty miles away from Chaigou Castle, most of them are mountain roads that need to be detoured, and there are more than one hundred miles in total. If you leave in the afternoon, you will definitely not be able to rush back before dark, so Zhou Zhenglin stayed in the restaurant and returned to Zhoujiazhai early tomorrow morning. Xu Changqing was also placed next to Zhou Zhenglin's room. After dinner, Zhou Zhenglin went to Xu Changqing's room and had a long talk, talking about China's real politics from geographical stories. Perhaps because his identity in the Zhou family was too noble and had no friends, the knowledgeable Xu Changqing was soon regarded as a good teacher by him.
Early the next morning, because he had been talking with Xu Changqing all night last night, Zhou Zhenglin had just gotten into the carriage and fell asleep. Sleep was optional for Xu Changqing. After Zhou Zhenglin fell asleep, Xu Changqing lifted the curtain and looked at the scenery outside the window. At this time, he saw that there were four eight-sided bronze mirrors hanging on the four corners of the carriage tent, and then looking at the carriage behind him the same. Moreover, each guard guard was wearing black clothes and tied a red belt soaked with rooster blood. And whenever he passed the fork, someone would sprinkle a handful of money.
Seeing this situation, Xu Changqing couldn't help frowning slightly, feeling a little strange atmosphere. So he lifted the curtain, came outside the car, sat next to the shaft, hugged the servant who was driving the car, and said, "Hello! I dare to ask about your surname."
The servant obviously did not expect Xu Changqing to say hello to him, and hurriedly replied: "If you say goodbye, please don't have your surname Zhang!"
Xu Changqing took out a Huishangzhuang stamp from his arms and placed it in front of the servant, saying, "I have something I want to ask for advice, so I hope Brother Zhang will tell you!"
"Look at what you said, you have something to ask, the young ones are all in their minds, and they say everything!" The servant who was driving the car was immediately attracted by the money and opened his eyes wide open. He quickly took advantage of the fact that the guards around him who were riding on horseback had not yet noticed it and put the money in his arms.
Xu Changqing smiled, first relieved his vigilance, and asked, "Brother Zhang is the long-term worker of the Zhou family?"
"I think, but others don't want it!" The servant looked at the face of envy, and several servants who were wearing different outfits on the horse said, "The Zhou family's wages are the highest in this area, but the requirement of hiring long-term workers is also very high. Others like me look down on me, so they can only drive carriages outside the village, do short-term workers, and make a living! If the Zhou family's carriages were not occupied by the guests this time, how could it be my turn to drive the car for the young master of the Zhou family? If the chauffeur was smooth this time, they might be attracted by the young master, and it might not be necessary to recruit long-term workers!"
Xu Changqing had already learned that the servant was a talkative person, so after asking a few more insignificant questions, he got to the point, pointed to the gossip mirror hanging on the car and the guards who sprinkled money in the underworld, and asked, "Is this the custom of you people here?"
"You are joking!" the servant said with a smile: "Where is such a custom in the world?"
"Since it's not a custom," Xu Changqing pretended to think, and then asked, "Can you encounter something unclean?"
"How do you always know?" The servant looked at Xu Changqing in surprise and asked.
Xu Changqing smiled, pointed to the Bagua bronze mirror and other items to exorcise evil, and said, "If you didn't encounter something unclean, why should you hang these evil-proof objects?"
Chapter completed!