I'm actually an alchemist

Chapter 93 The King's Choice
Old Witch Ji's home is at the east end of the village.

There are three slate houses, and the yard is surrounded by bamboo fences.There are also vegetable beds in the yard, and a few tomato seedlings are green and clear.

into the yard.

Gu Liang respectfully shouted into the room: "Uncle, I, Gu Liang!"

After a while, a weak voice came from inside the house: "Come in!"

After Gu Liang and Yang Qing looked at each other, they entered the room one after the other.

In the room, it was very dark.

Light came in through the small windows, illuminating the poor house.

In the house, it can be described as a house with bare walls.

A water tank, a stove, a cabinet, and some pots and pans and chopsticks. In the corner of the room, there is a wine jar.Other than that, there is nothing left.

The old witch Ji is an extremely old man.

He was small and thin, with wrinkled face and sunken eye sockets.

At this time, he was sitting in front of the brazier, smoking a bamboo hookah.

Seeing Yang Qing and the others coming in, the old witch was about to stand up with his hands on his knees.

"Uncle, sit down, sit down!"

Gu Liang quickly held down the old man and said respectfully.

"You sit too!"

The old witch said with a smile.

Seeing the two sitting down, the old witch sacrificed to Yang Qing with a smile and said, "Last night, thank you Mr. Yang for your generous action!"

Yang Qing smiled and said: "The king is my brother, you are too polite!"

"Yes!"

Gu Liang sat carelessly, patted his thigh and said: "Yes, uncle, our family is not polite. You see, Yang Qing and I have never been polite!"

"You guys have to be good in the future!"

After the old man nodded with emotion, he looked at the two seriously and said.

"do not worry!"

Gu Liang patted his chest and said, "I, Gu Liang, will never do anything to offend my brother! From now on, Yang Qing's business is my business!"

Yang Qing also nodded.

"Gu Liang!"

The old Wu Ji looked at Gu Liang and said, "You won't leave when you come back this time?"

Gu Liang was stunned when he heard the words, he didn't know what to say.

He came back this time to find his daughter's soul, and now that he has found it, he will naturally leave.

And, most importantly.

He has no sense of belonging to the village.

"for this I……"

"Don't go!"

The old witch priest looked at Gu Liang with a hint of pleading and said: "I know, the clan has not treated you very well in the past few years, which makes you feel chilled! But this is always your home!"

Seeing Gu Liang scratching his head and looking absent-minded, he obviously didn't want to stay.

After a moment of silence, the old witch said, "Liangzi, I'm going to die soon!"

Gu Liang's complexion changed, and he nervously grabbed the hand of the old witch Ji and said, "Uncle, don't dare to talk nonsense, you will live a long life!"

"I'm 99 this year!"

The old witch priest laughed and cursed, and hit Gu Liang with a pipe of smoke.

"cough!"

Gu Liang choked for a moment, and quickly apologized with a smile: "No, I was wrong, you will definitely live a long life!"

"Who can live a thousand years old!"

The old man shook his head and smiled, but he immediately thought of something.Turning to look at Yang Qing: "However, there are special things!"

He didn't say much on this issue, but looked at Gu Liang with a heavy tone and said: "In the past few days, I have often heard the call of my ancestors. At night, I also dreamed that my father asked me, how is the clan, clansman Okay. He asked me what I have done all these years!"

The old witch said with a helpless smile: "I'm ashamed to say that I didn't do anything. Every time I wake up from my dream!"

"Uncle, you are under too much pressure and thinking too much!"

Gu Liang persuaded: "Uncle, it's not because of you that our village is poor! Besides, without you, the clan would have been torn apart!"

"It's the same now!"

The old witch sacrificed a long sigh and said: "I am a mediocre person, I have no ability and no promise. I am ashamed of the whole family!"

"Uncle, it will be fine in the future!"

Gu Liang held the old witch Ji's hand and said.

"If this continues, the clan will never get better!"

The old witch has lived all his life and can see it all too clearly.It's just that he can't do anything about the current situation of the village.

After hesitating for a moment, Gu Liang said, "Uncle, why can't we move out because this place is so poor? Let's go down the mountain and go to work, even if we pick up junk outside, it's better to be a construction worker than to stay in the village and stay poor all the time." Bar!"

Yang Qing also nodded secretly.

Indeed, this village was the poorest he had ever seen.

The villagers have nothing to do, smoking and drinking every day, and dare not do anything.And here is located in the mountains, there is no arable land.Apart from a few acres of Susukida in the mountains, the villagers have no income.

Is it interesting to stay in such a place?

Unexpectedly, the old witch priest shook his head and said very stubbornly: "No!"

"What?"

Gu Liang said.

The old witch priest did not answer, but stretched out his hand tremblingly, grinded out a yellow clay ring from his pocket, and handed it to Gu Liang.

"What is this? A ring?"

Gu Liang flipped through the ring and asked curiously.

"Take it and have a look, this is left to you by your father-in-law..."

The old witch said.

When Gu Liang heard this, he put it on his finger without saying a word.

"...the patriarch's ring!" The old witch sacrifice ignored Gu Liang's disheveled face, and continued to add: "It is the patriarch's status symbol, and if you wear it, you are the patriarch!"

Gu Liang was dumbfounded, he almost cried.

"Uncle, aren't you cheating on me!"

Gu Liang shook his head and rolled down, "No, I'm wrong!"

But he couldn't pull it off no matter how hard he tried: "Why, what's the matter, why can't I take it off?"

"Stop pulling!"

The old witch priest grinned and said: "This is the ring of the witch clan. If it is you in the past, you can easily pull it off. But now that you have awakened the soul of the witch, the ring recognizes the owner, and you can't pull it off. of!"

"uncle!"

Gu Liang was angry, annoyed and helpless.

He never expected that he would be tricked by the old witch.

"Why do you insist on letting me be the patriarch!"

Gu Liang helplessly begged for mercy: "There are so many young people in the village!"

"Because only you have awakened the bloodline and awakened the soul! Therefore, only you are qualified to be the patriarch."

The old witch Ji changed the subject and said, "Didn't you just ask me why the people in the village can't move out?"

Gu Liang was taken aback when he heard the words, and asked curiously, "Yes, why?"

On the side, Yang Qing shook his head helplessly.

Gu Liang is also easily distracted by others.

"For this reason, only the patriarch and the witch priest are qualified to know!"

The old witch said seriously: "Now, you are the patriarch, you have the right to know!"

The old witch priest took a puff of cigarette and said: "Actually, the reason why our clan wants to stay in this place forever is because our ancestors swore that as long as our witch clan is alive, we will guard this place for a day!!"

When Gu Liang heard this, he frowned in confusion and said, "Guardian?"

On the side, Yang Qing heard these two words, coughed, got up and said, "You guys talk, I'll go out for a stroll!"

This matter obviously involves the core secrets of the Wu clan.

Moreover, the old witch priest left him here to listen, obviously out of spite.

Yang Qing is not that stupid.

After he got up, he went out without waiting for Gu Liang to speak.

Seeing Yang Qing go out, the old witch priest sighed regretfully.

……

The mountains in the early morning are beautiful.

Thin white clouds surround the mountainside like a veil.

Gentle and charming.

In the valley under the clouds, the village is quiet and smoke is curling up from the kitchen.

Yang Qing walked aimlessly along the stone road in the village.

The bluestone road after the rain is slippery and clean.

There are moss and weeds in the gaps between the stone slabs.

In the gully beside the road, the accumulated water after the rain merged into a stream and flowed out of the village.

Go forward, there is a wooden attic beside the road ahead.

The attic is also built with stone slabs, but it is covered with gray tiles.

A fair-skinned Miao girl with a silver bracelet on her wrist, her chin resting on her hand, was sitting on the attic, leaning against the fence, quietly looking at the beautiful mountains.

This scene is beautiful.

But it's a pity that Yang Qing is not her family, but just a passerby.

……

Smoking a cigarette, enjoying the fresh mountain air.

Yang Qing went straight out of the village, looking at the cloud-shrouded mountains and forests, he couldn't help but feel the interest of exploring.

Maybe there are incredible treasures in the mountains and forests.

What's more, maybe there is a sapphire blue lake behind the green hill. In the lake and mountains, there is a woman as beautiful as a fairy, wearing beautiful neon clothes, taking a bath, and then leaving on a cloud.

However, after walking around, Yang Qing found nothing but caught a fat girl's hare.

When we returned to the village, it was already past eleven o'clock in the morning.

The villagers have come out.

It's still the same, the men are dressed in the clothes of the 90s and [-]s of the last century, sitting lazily at the door of their own houses, smoking and chatting.The women carried the baskets with the children in them, bent over and led the cows, and came and went in the village.

Yang Qing shook his head and walked straight to Gu Liang's yard.

Outside the yard, Yang Qing immediately saw Gu Liang sitting there, smoking a cigarette, thinking about something.

At this time, Gu Liang's face was solemn and deep.

"What's wrong? Convinced?"

Yang Qing walked over, sat beside him, took out a cigarette and gave Gu Liang one and asked.

"Can this be seen?"

Gu Liang was surprised.

"You can tell just by looking at you!"

Yang Qing laughed.

"Hey, I can't do it either!"

Gu Liang smiled wryly and shook his head, "The old witch sacrifice gave me a reason to stay!"

Gu Liang took out his lighter and lit a cigarette.

After taking two puffs, he gently exhaled a wisp of green smoke, and said with a wry smile: "Actually, the ancestors of our Wu clan once made an oath, saying that as long as the Wu clan exists, they will guard this place for a day! Speaking of which, isn't it funny? of?"

Gu Liang cursed angrily and said, "Tell me, what kind of fucking ancestor is this? Isn't this cheating offspring?"

"Then what do you think!"

Yang Qing asked with a smile.

"Hey, what else can I do!"

Gu Liang put his hands behind his head and lay down on the ground regardless of the wetness of the ground.He looked at the white clouds in the sky, and sighed: "Who made me unlucky, with such an ancestor."

"Hey, the ancestors are unreliable, but this oath must be kept!"

Gu Liang said helplessly: "If you don't believe what you say, then I'm not Gu Liang!"

Well, it's a big king!
Yang Qing nodded.

……

(End of this chapter)