Hard to be a master

Shen Ziliu had some vague guesses in his heart, hesitatingly said: "Could it be that this place used to be Master's—"

Before Shen Ziliu finished speaking, an old voice came from behind them.

"Are you looking for this family?"

The two masters and apprentices followed the sound, but saw an old woman with white hair and a stooped figure standing behind them, looking at them with vacant eyes as if she couldn't stand the sunlight.The old lady was dressed very plainly, but she was not shabby. She looked like a very ordinary old lady, but her eyes seemed not very good.

Guan Jingxuan was slightly taken aback when she saw her face clearly, and when she was about to answer, the old woman began to mutter to herself again.

"No, it's long gone... This family died more than ten years ago. No one left in this family. The old man was so angry that he died of illness, and the little beast either couldn't give birth to children or all the children he gave birth died young. Married again It doesn't matter how young the girl is... They also invited a lot of Feng Shui masters, but no matter how they changed the house Feng Shui and moved the ancestral graves, it was useless... Hehehe...Of course it didn't work...It's all their own fault..."

Although the old lady's words were inconsistent and her words were somewhat slurred, Shen Ziliu still understood the general idea, and looked at Guan Jingxuan with a little worry, but did not read any special emotions from his face.

The old woman was still thinking about it: "...God is watching, people who are rich and unkind deserve to be punished! Nope, nope, they are all dead... Ahh, there is still a person in this family who is not so bad-hearted I have a child, but they are gone long ago... I was sent away by myself and I will never come back... I will cut off my children and grandchildren, it is true that evil will be rewarded with evil... Evil will be rewarded with evil..."

The old lady also ignored Guan Jingxuan and Shen Ziliu, and only muttered to herself, "Evil comes with evil", and walked away slowly.

Guan Jingxuan watched her gradually disappearing figure, and after a while, she suddenly lost her pace and chased after her. She took out a small white porcelain bottle from her sleeve and put it in the old woman's hand.

"Old man, this medicine can cure your eye disease, take it home and try it."

The old woman was stunned for a moment, then raised the small porcelain bottle to her eyes and squinted her eyes for a while, then shook her head and said, "No need, it's been a problem for decades, it can't be cured...it can't be cured anymore... "

While talking, the old woman pushed the porcelain bottle back to Guan Jingxuan. Guan Jingxuan did not refuse, but took the porcelain bottle and pulled out the cork, and poured some light green translucent liquid that exudes a fragrance of herbs On his hand, he said softly "Excuse me", and then applied the liquid medicine on the old woman's eyelids.

After Guan Jingxuan had finished applying the medicine, the old lady took two steps back in horror. However, when she opened her eyes again, she suddenly found that her vision, which had been blurred for most of her life, had really become clearer. , the eyes don't seem to be so afraid of the bright sunlight anymore.

The old woman opened her eyes slightly: "This... what kind of medicine is this?"

Guan Jingxuan handed the medicine bottle to the old woman again, and said with a smile: "Old man, this medicine is prepared by a master who is proficient in the art of Qihuang, and it will have a miraculous effect on curing your eye disease. Just follow what I just said. The way to do it is to take an appropriate amount of the medicine and apply it on the eyelids once a day in the morning and evening, and when this bottle of medicine is finished, your eye disease will be completely cured."

The old woman showed an expression of disbelief when she heard the words, and stumbled and said, "I, my eyes that have been half-blind for decades...can...can it be cured?"

Guan Jingxuan patiently said: "Yes, not to mention half-blind, even completely blind can be cured."

For a moment, the old lady's muddy eyes seemed to light up. She held the porcelain bottle tightly in her hand and asked cautiously, "Then... how much silver does this bottle of medicine cost?"

Guan Jingxuan said with a smile: "I am destined to be with you, and I will not take any money."

The old woman seemed a little unbelievable. She half-closed her eyes and looked at Guan Jingxuan, then looked down at the bottle in her hand, and when she raised her head again, she found that there was no one else in front of the house except herself.

After being dazed for a while, the old woman suddenly knelt down and kowtowed several times in the direction where Guan Jingxuan was standing just now, and said excitedly while kowtowing: "The gods have appeared...the gods have appeared... "

At that time, the two people who had concealed themselves with blindfolds had easily jumped into the courtyard wall and entered the mansion without a sound.

Shen Ziliu approached Guan Jingxuan and joked, "Master, how does it feel to be treated as a god?"

Guan Jingxuan said: "It feels like it's a good thing we walked fast, otherwise I would have really suffered from the old man's loud noises, and my kindness would be in vain."

Shen Ziliu suddenly realized: "It turns out that Master is doing good deeds? But just now, I saw Master's expression when he saw the old woman for the first time, as if he knew her?"

Guan Jingxuan said, "I do know each other, but that was decades ago."

Shen Ziliu said: "Childhood sweetheart? Sweetheart?"

Guan Jingxuan couldn't laugh or cry and said: "When I left home as a teacher, I was only a child of a few years old, so there would be no sweetheart."

Shen Ziliu immediately asked: "What about now?"

Guan Jingxuan was taken aback by the question, and then asked back: "Does it look like you have a sweetheart as a teacher?"

Shen Ziliu asked without hesitation: "Lingxifeng?"

Guan Jingxuan couldn't help but reached out and knocked him on the head, angrily and amusedly said: "It's impolite, if you want to call Master Uncle, no matter how bad you are, you should call 'Yin Lan Shangzun', right?"

Shen Ziliu argued: "In terms of seniority, isn't Master a generation higher than him? I am Master's apprentice, why do you call him Shishu?"

Guan Jingxuan thought for a while, if Xiaoliu came to pay homage to Mrs. Wen's family in the future, the two would be senior brothers, and now he doesn't want to be called senior uncle, so he didn't get too entangled in this, and instead said: "Then why do you think he is doing it for you?" Teacher's sweetheart?"

Shen Ziliu curled his lips and said, "Because he is too kind to Master."

I have been with Guan Jingxuan for two years, although I have seen Ling Xifeng only a handful of times, Shen Ziliu knows that every time Ling Xifeng comes back from Kunlun, he will bring some rare treasures to Guan Jingxuan, and he will always come to Guan Jingxuan after retreating Shaking around, and never giving him a good face from the beginning to the end.

Guan Jingxuan shook his head and said: "Xifeng and I have a very good friendship and take good care of me, but it's not what you think. In fact, for a long time when we first met him, Xifeng didn't like to see him very much. Mine. Wei Shi is two years older than him, so he often treats it as his own little brother who is at odds, and lets go if he can. After a long time, after getting to know each other, Xifeng probably lost his temper because of Wei Shi. People don't dare to get close to him, so they gradually became friends with Wei Shi. Xi Feng is a typical disciple of Wujian Peak, his mind is full of cultivation, and the reason why he didn't like Wei Shi at first was because he couldn't get used to being a teacher. The appearance of the teacher not thinking about making progress. Therefore, such a thing as a "sweetheart" does not exist in his world at all. What's more, as a teacher, a person who has no thoughts about Feisheng at all, just muddle through alone, or Don't give other people's road to cultivation of immortality side effects. Knowing that there will be a difference, why bother to trouble yourself."

Shen Ziliu said: "Then Master doesn't plan to find a Taoist companion?"

Guan Jingxuan smiled and said: "What kind of Taoist partner are you looking for! As a teacher, it would be good if you can take care of yourself."

Shen Ziliu was immediately happy, Guan Jingxuan squinted at him, and said, "You are so happy as a teacher without a Taoist companion?"

Shen Ziliu took Guan Jingxuan's arm, and said confidently: "My apprentice is naturally very happy. If this is the case, the master will belong to me alone."

Guan Jingxuan sighed again and shook her head but did not refute, she thought to herself, let the child act like a baby now, after a few years the apprentice grows up and has his own lover, it's not all the water that was thrown out.

The two masters and apprentices walked in while chatting. The interior of the house was larger than the outside, with winding and deep corridors, neat and symmetrical wing rooms, the entrance courtyard and the garden in the back hall were very spacious, and the houses with different functions were also carefully divided. Carefully.Although it is now dusty and dilapidated, it is not difficult to see how luxurious the house was in the past.

When he walked to a side room in the backyard, Guan Jingxuan suddenly stopped in his tracks, and casually pushed open the door, a large cloud of dust fell on his head.Shen Ziliu quickly released his spiritual power to prop up a shield over the heads of the two of them. Unexpectedly, the dust was blown by the airflow when the door was opened, and suddenly changed the direction of falling, bypassing the shield and rushing straight towards the two of them.Fortunately, Guan Jingxuan had the foresight to cast an enchantment around the two of them at the same time as he opened the door, so that he was not covered in ashes.

After the flying dust cleared, the furnishings in the room could be seen at a glance by the light coming in from the door.There are no windows in this room, and there are more than a dozen cabinets and boxes of different sizes scattered all over the room. The lids of two boxes are not closed, and it can be seen that the inside is full of piles of dust that have already covered a thick layer of dust. Old things like pots, pans, candlesticks, mosquito nets, and many bottles and jars are piled up in the corner space next to the wall. It seems that this is a very ordinary utility room.

After looking around the room for a while, Guan Jingxuan muttered to himself: "Sure enough, it's not what it used to be..."

Shen Ziliu looked at Guan Jingxuan and said, "Is this the master's former home?"

Guan Jingxuan withdrew her gaze, turned her head to see Shen Ziliu's cautious expression, smiled back at him, and said, "That's right, this is my home before entering Kunlun."

Shen Ziliu said: "Master, would you like to talk to the disciples? Why did this place become like this, and what the old woman said just now..."

Guan Jingxuan didn't answer immediately, but took a step back and closed the door again, then led Shen Ziliu to the grassy backyard, found a stone table among the weeds half a person's height, took out a floating cloud fan and brushed the two sides of the table. The accumulated dust on the Zhang Shi bench sat next to Shen Ziliu.

"About 50 years ago, there was a family of merchants named Guan in Yangzhou who made their fortune in shipbuilding. Later, they were involved in any profitable business. The Guan family has been merchants for three generations, and the family business is so big that the local government has to pay three However, since their fortune, the Guan family has become rich and unkind from top to bottom. In order to gain more benefits, they have done many outrageous things secretly, but because the government is behind them, no one can do it. Shake it a little bit."

"The old woman I just met at the door was a very ingenious embroiderer in Yangzhou City. There are many embroiderers in Yangzhou, but no one can beat her. At that time, several major embroidery villages in Yangzhou were closed. In control, the Guan family has always wanted to recruit the embroiderer, but the embroiderer is very displeased with the Guan family's behavior, and is quite arrogant. The embroidery workshop does not have any business relationship with the Guan family. Moreover, this embroiderer is very talented in embroidery and weaving. Every piece of embroidery from her hands is exquisitely crafted. It is also top grade, and it pales in comparison to hers, it can be said that she alone overwhelms the limelight of all the embroidered villages and embroidered women in Yangzhou City, and the Guan family has always had a grudge against her because of this."

Shen Ziliu actually guessed what happened after hearing this, but he still asked, "What happened next?"

Guan Jingxuan said: "Later, this embroiderer suddenly suffered from an incurable eye disease overnight, and was unable to embroider ever since."

Shen Ziliu frowned and said, "Did someone from the Guan family do it?"

Guan Jingxuan said: "On the day before suffering from eye disease, Xiu Niang and a friend of the chief executive reunited on the street. The two sat down and had a good chat over tea. The old friend knew that Xiu Niang liked to drink tea, so I specially gave it to her. Xiu Niang was very happy to accept a pack of Emei white buds she brought back from Sichuan, and she brewed a cup and drank it that night. After one night, Xiu Niang's eyes were broken. Disappointed, she gradually disappeared in the embroidery world. However, half a year later, that acquaintance of the chief executive became the principal of the largest embroidery shop under the name of the Guan family."