Chapter 148: The Thousand Years Family (Part 2)

"Mr. Xu's words were exactly the same as what my great-grandfather answered me back then. It was a coincidence!" Zhou Zhenglin said with a surprise smile after hearing this.

"Oh! What a pity." Chen Yuanshan took a sip of wine with a little depressed depression and shook his head and said, "I would have been born hundreds of years earlier!"

Xu Changqing looked at Chen Yuanshan, smiled and shook his head slightly, and said in his heart: "A fool!"

"I will start the furnace and refine the alchemy tomorrow." Zhou Zhenglin took a sip of wine and suddenly said, "Mr. Chen is also a proficient in alchemy. Let's help me these days!"

"The glory is so great!" Chen Yuanshan nodded and agreed without any hesitation.

Xu Changqing frowned and said, "Young Master Zhou, don't you need to choose the time you want to refine elixirs?"

"Pick the time?" Zhou Zhenglin was stunned for a moment, looked at Xu Changqing in confusion, and asked, "Does it take time to choose the time to refine pills?"

Xu Changqing was amused and crying for Zhou Zhenglin's ignorance, and was glad that he knew it early, otherwise the green jade fruits would have been wasted on his hands. He shook his head and said, "If you are refining ordinary elixirs, you naturally don't need to choose the time, but if you refining immortal elixirs like Shangqing Yunqi Pill, you must choose a time that matches the elixir."

When Chen Yuanshan mentioned the Immortal Way, he immediately became excited, came up and asked, "Mr. Xu is also familiar with the Immortal Way?"

"I know a little bit!" Xu Changqing smiled calmly and said vaguely.

Zhou Zhenglin knew that Chen Yuanshan would never end when he heard the immortal way, so he immediately interrupted and asked, "So according to the sir, when should we open the furnace and refine the alchemy?"

Xu Changqing calculated a little and said, "It is suitable to open the furnace and refine alchemy at the third hour of the second day of the sixth month. The furnace for refining the alchemy must be a bronze furnace. Since the elixir of Shangqing Yuqi Dan is mild, it must be kept on low heat. The firewood used for making the fire must be peach willow wood, and other trees will weaken the elixir."

Seeing Xu Changqing being very sensible, Zhou Zhenglin quickly found paper and pen to write down all the matters one by one. Chen Yuanshan also took the opportunity to ask about the reasons for the matters mentioned, and Xu Changqing also answered a little.

After three rounds of drinking, Xu Changqing stood up and prepared to leave. Chen Yuanshan still looked unsatisfied, as if he wanted to hold Xu Changqing back all night, while Zhou Zhenglin stopped him, stood up and sent him off, and asked Chen Yuanshan to stay here. When he came back later, he would continue to discuss the alchemy matter.

On the way Zhou Zhenglin led Xu Changqing back to his yard, Xu Changqing suddenly stopped and turned his head to look at a sealed arch on the left. For some reason, he felt something behind the arch attracting him. Zhou Zhenglin suddenly stopped when he saw Xu Changqing, looked at him with a little puzzled understanding, and asked, "Mr. Xu, is there anything wrong?"

Xu Changqing pointed to the arch and asked, "Where is behind this? Why should we block it?"

"Oh! This is my forbidden place." Zhou Zhenglin said without hiding too much, "Behind the arch is the largest courtyard in the entire South Fence, named Hanyue Xiaoyuan. An aunt of mine lived in the past. She heard that she was the favorite little daughter of the ancestors. But later, she didn't know what happened. The aunt was kicked out of the house by the ancestors and disappeared in the end. The family could not find the person. Later, the ancestor was very upset about this, so he sealed the garden and prevented others from going in and destroying the decoration scenes inside. She lived here for a period of time every year in order to see things and think of others."

"Auntie?" Xu Changqing felt a little excited. He calculated it slightly and inferred based on his mother's age that it should be Zhou Zhenglin's aunt. Adding that inexplicable feeling made him feel that this might be where his mother grew up. When he thought of this, he couldn't help but have an impulse to penetrate the blocked arch and walk in to take a look. In the end, he resisted the impulse and followed Zhou Zhenglin back to the Yuhua Building where he lived.

After Zhou Zhenglin left, Xu Changqing did not rest. Instead, he walked back and forth in the room a little impetuously, and could not calm down for a long time. When it was the hour of Hai, Xu Changqing no longer waited, pushed open the window facing the south wing, performed a ghostly and magical journey, turning into a phantom, passing through the sky above the various courtyards. Although there was an inner courtyard guard patrolling back and forth between the southeast wings, they did not notice that anyone was passing by their heads.

After a few ups and downs, Xu Changqing flew into the Hanyue Small Garden. When he fixed his figure and looked around, the surrounding environment immediately gave him a familiar feeling, as if he had been here before. He saw that the area of ​​this Hanyue Small Garden was indeed much larger than that of other courtyards. On the east side was a small garden, and there was a large pond in the garden. The pond was full of lotus flowers, and a lot of bamboo was planted by the pond, forming a bamboo forest. This bamboo forest just surrounded a two-story building, and only a small path passed through the bamboo forest and went straight to the entrance of the building.

At this time, a part of the memories that disappeared because of the heavenly exile came out of his mind again and were re-imported in Xu Changqing's mind. This part came from his mother. At this moment, he seemed to see his mother playing and living here, and everything around him was extremely familiar with. Driven by an inner force, Xu Changqing slowly walked towards the two-story building in the bamboo forest. He did not suppress this power, but let it go. When he arrived at the small building, he easily found the stairs hidden on one side to the second floor, stepped up to the second floor, followed him without thinking, and walked straight to a room on the east side, and pushed open the door.
Chapter completed!