Chapter 5 Ancestors
Although Xu Chuan has not been able to practice in the past three years, he has read a lot of books on practice, including a miscellaneous notes about the spiritual fruit in the world, which records the theory of Yang Fruit.
Yang fruit is like a ball, and it is purple all over, with a strange fragrance. Eating it can nourish yang energy and strengthen the body. However, Yang fruit will only be born in Yang soil. Yang soil is a magical soil for many cultivators to refine magic weapons and cultivate spiritual materials, which is difficult to find in the mortal world.
"Let me see..." Xu Chuan couldn't help but reach out and took out a fruit from the sack. The fruit was quite heavy, and the whole body was cold. There were subtle patterns on the skin, purple all over, and a strange fragrance floated out, making people want to take a bite.
"It's definitely Yangguo. I didn't expect that I could see the real Yangguo." Xu Chuan couldn't help but feel a little excited. It was one thing to see in the book, and it was another thing to see it.
The spiritual objects in the world have been almost plundered by those cultivators, and the imperial court has listed some spirit stone ore veins as forbidden objects. However, his innate heart and poor roots and bones are not good, so he needs such spiritual objects that strengthen their bodies the most.
"Sir, please accept it. Although this fruit is ordinary, this is the only thing a villain can do to take action." Li Mingze said repeatedly.
Xu Chuan couldn't help but look at him. Seeing Li Ming's appearance, he obviously didn't lie. The latter did not know that this was still a spiritual fruit that could strengthen his body.
He pondered for a moment and said, "Okay, I'll accept it, but I have something to ask you, let's go in and talk."
Xu Chuan held a yang fruit in one hand and pulled Li Ming's arm with the other and was about to walk into the mansion. At the same time, he ordered the two servants in front of the mansion to carry the sack in, but the two servants raised their butts for a long time and only barely moved the sack. Xu Chuan couldn't help but blush for the men. Li Ming grinned, turned around, grabbed the sack with one arm, and picked it up directly.
"What a lot of strength." The two servants with strong physiques were full of admiration.
Xu Chuan looked at this scene and remembered that Li Ming had to rush up to hold on in the hall. When he captured the village chief of the Li family, he walked quickly and threw him back to the lobby from the yamen gate. He was indeed born with divine power.
"Is this Li Ming... not an ordinary person?"
Xu Chuan muttered in his heart, but when he watched Li Ming walk up to him with a sack, he didn't look like a hidden master. He could only press down on his doubts and bring him into the mansion.
When Jie Yu passed by, Yuewu and the two girls saw Xu Chuan coming back with a village man. Although they kept a smile on their faces, they couldn't even look at Li Ming. Li Ming's skin was dark and looked quite handsome. Unfortunately, his status was too low. When he saw the two girls, he felt his eyes lit up. However, when he thought that this was the residence of the county magistrate, he must be the female relative of the county magistrate, so he didn't dare to look at it anymore and followed Xu Chuan with a sack.
Sitting in the hall, Xu Chuan looked at Li Ming who was a little cramped and couldn't help but smile, asked him to put down the sack in his hand and sit aside.
Xu Chuan held the fruit in his hand and asked, "Brother Li, what's the name of this fruit?"
Li Ming grinned and said, "I call it melon, it tastes so sweet, I just can't eat too much. I can fill it for three or five days if I eat too much. My stomach will feel bloated."
"Oh? Tell me carefully." Xu Chuan said repeatedly.
Seeing that the county magistrate was interested in this fruit, Li Ming thought that the county magistrate had never seen such a novel thing, so he spoke enthusiastically.
It turned out that there was a vine growing in his field. The yang fruit was born from this vine. It took only two months to ripen once, and only one fruit would be born every time.
Hearing this, Xu Chuan glanced at the sack without a trace, and there were at least sixty or seventy fruits in the sack... That was the harvest in more than ten years.
"This fruit tastes good and is full. The villain originally wanted to have more variety, but no matter whether it is planting fruits or cutting off vines, it cannot survive in other fields. Only that vine can bear fruit all year round, even in winter. Speaking of which, the little one's bite of land is also good. Other people's wheat grows slowly, but my wheat grows very fast." Li Ming said with a smile.
After hearing this, Xu Chuan already knew that the place where the vines grew must be Yangtu. Looking at Li Ming's honest appearance, Xu Chuan's heart moved slightly. Although Yangtu is precious, the preciousness of Yangtu is not inferior to Yangtu. If he could find a way to get the Yangtu and Yangtu vines...
As soon as the thought came to his mind, two options suddenly popped up: "First, conceal the origin of Li Mingyang Fruit and Yangtu, take it for yourself, luck-100."
"Second, tell Li Ming the origin of Yang fruit and the importance of Yang soil, and help Li Ming keep this secret, luck 20."
Xu Chuan was suffocated.
Are you getting a mistake?!
He just had an idea and asked him to choose directly?
No, it is better to say it is a warning than an option! If you take Yangguo vines and Yang soil for yourself, you will get the treasure, but he will have to pay the painful price of reducing luck by 100. On the contrary, if you are a good person and you will not get any treasure, you will have a fortune of 20.
Haha, think he will be afraid?
Anyone who knows how to do business will choose one.
Use 100 points of luck to exchange for Yangguo vines and Yang soil, which is worth it.
Of course Xu Chuan is not afraid, but he is not a businessman either.
So he decided to choose two, and the 20 points he gave was still good luck.
So Xu Chuan said:
"Brother Li, I want to tell you some of the foundation of this fruit. Whether you believe it or not depends on yourself."
Then he told Li Ming all the magic about Yang Fruit, which encouraged Yang Qi, strengthened the body and was the spiritual fruit. Once a practitioner discovered this Yang Fruit, it would definitely be a disaster, not a blessing, and if he found Yang Earth, it would be even more snatched by the cultivators.
Li Ming had a simple smile at first. He thought the county magistrate wanted to tell him how to plant fruits. As a result, his face became pale the more he heard. He didn't know that Yangguo was a spiritual fruit at all. Thinking about the village chief who could frame him because he covet his family's fields. What other benefits could those cultivators find Yangguo? The more Li Ming thought about it, the more he was afraid that mortals were weak, and he was afraid of the strong in his bones. As soon as Xu Chuan finished speaking, Li Ming hurriedly stood up and said:
"Sir, what should I do?"
Seeing that he understood the powerful relationship so well, Xu Chuan thought in his heart that Li Ming was not stupid, but his personality was a little simple and simple, and smiled and said, "You don't have to hurry. Let's go with you and see the Yang soil. We just need to transplant the Yang soil and Yang fruit to a hidden place."
As he said that, he had already stood up. Li Ming looked at Xu Chuan's back and was already grateful and hurriedly followed.
When he came, Li Ming came here. He was strong and his steps were flying, but Xu Chuan didn't have the strength to call Li Ming to get into the county magistrate's car and rushed to Lijia Village with a dozen or so officers.
"Look, that corrupt official's carriage."
"How did the dog official go outside the county town?"
"Mom, didn't you say yesterday that the county magistrate opened his eyes and finally handled the right case? Why did you call him a dog official?" A child pulled the stout woman next to him and said.
"That's a blind cat hitting a dead mouse. Son, you study hard and become an official in the future, so you can do it." The woman said.
When the child heard this, he shook his head suddenly: "No, I will not be an official, I will be a cultivator and fly around in the sky."
"Don't dream." The woman shouted.
...
The sounds outside the carriage were heard one after another, and Xu Chuan could hear them clearly. He had been used to this group of troublemakers... But when he thought of the minus 17 value of his public opinion, he also felt a headache.
Li Ming, who was riding in the same carriage, felt uncomfortable when he heard the discussion outside. He used to think that Xu Chuan was a corrupt official and a bad official.
But after this incident, he had already completely changed. Listening to the discussion outside, he felt a little angry, but when he turned around, he saw Xu Chuan closing his eyes to rest, looking dull, and he couldn't help but admire him more and more. Although the county magistrate was a few years younger than him, his mind was indeed not comparable to ordinary people.
They walked all the way to Lijia Village. The group of people sent their official clothes to be too ostentatious, which directly caused a sensation in Lijia Village. The official was ordered by Xu Chuan, but said that the county magistrate came to the countryside to inspect without any fuss.
But how could we not make a fuss about it? When did the county magistrate go to the township?
The great master of Xuchuan County and Li Ming walked into the field and after searching, Xuchuan easily confirmed that a piece of black soil the size of a bowl was sun soil. There was a dry vine like a whip growing on the soil. If Li Ming hadn't said it was still alive, Xuchuan would have thought the vine had died.
"Yang soil the size of a bowl can grow yang fruits and affect a large wheat field. It is indeed spiritual soil." Xu Chuan sighed in his heart, ordered Li Ming to bring a shovel, and immediately dug two feet deep and dug out the soil.
Li Ming and others also quickly started to help. This scene fell into the eyes of the villagers of Lijia Village who were watching from a distance, and it was really a blowout.
"The county magistrate and the commissioner went to the field together."
"The county magistrate also farms?"
"This is the county magistrate and our people who share the joys and sorrows."
There was a lot of discussion and the people were in full swing.
As soon as Xu Chuan dug out the sun soil, a reminder popped up in his mind: "Public opinion is 80, reputation is 80, luck is 5."
Xu Chuan was stunned and couldn't help but wonder, what happened?
But this was not the time to wonder. He and Li Ming put the soil in a sack, and Li Ming carried it on his own yard.
Xu Chuan ordered an official to wait outside, but he followed Li Ming into the yard. The yard was neat and had a bit of a worldly aura. Xu Chuan nodded slightly. It seemed that Li Ming's parents were still a particular person back then.
There are three rooms in the courtyard. Li Ming lives in the main room. The one on the south side is piled with miscellaneous items. The east room is vacant. Xu Chuan came in and saw that the house on the east side was lit during the day. He couldn't help but wonder: "That's it?"
Li Ming was half a step behind. When he heard Xu Chuan ask, he quickly explained: "Well, that's my ancestors. When my parents left, they said that the candles and incense in the portraits of the ancestors could not be cut off. If they were cut off, there would be disaster. If the ancestors kept blessing my family with peace and safety."
Xu Chuan smiled and was about to say superstition, but he thought that he was offering sacrifices to his ancestors, so it was really not good for him to say so.
He looked carefully at the portrait hanging on the wall in the room. The painting showed a black-haired middle-aged Taoist, who put one hand on his waist and pointed upwards with the other.
"Um?"
Xu Chuan suddenly looked at him.
Look at the portrait.
The candlelight flashed in a slightly dark room.
Chapter completed!