From the Red Mansion to Riding a Dragon to the Great Desolation

Outside Yangzhou city.

When entering the city, you have to check the road guides, and the refugees are blocked outside the city. There is a row of sheds under the city wall.

Although the rain from the sky brought spring back to the earth, and even made the fields that were replanted in time ripen within a day, alleviating the disaster, those who were able to replant were the farms of rich families, and more victims of the disaster had already sold their children and daughters to sell their land. , Even if there is land, there is nothing to fill, life is still unsustainable, but because of the rain, the body is healthy, and there are wild vegetables and fruits to satisfy the hunger, and the mood is optimistic.

Chen Xi heard a lot of news among the refugees, and stopped in front of the porridge shed with the word "Lin" hanging on it. This is the congee given by Mr. Lin, the imperial envoy of patrolling salt, to pray for the children. It is well-known among the refugees that the chopsticks will not fall down, and the team is the longest.

Lin Kang, who was in charge of the porridge shed, had been observing Chen Xi for a while. Compared with the yellow and emaciated people around him who were waiting to receive the porridge, even though Chen Xi was dressed in rags and had no shoes on his feet, he was white and clean and looked like Pan An Songyu who came out of a storybook. The most important thing was The most striking thing is that Chen Xi has an outstanding temperament and a tall figure, which is really conspicuous.

Hey, which family's son is in trouble, in this world...

Seeing Chen Xi staring at the porridge bucket, Lin Kang thought to himself that he might be hungry but couldn't bear it, so he brought a bowl of porridge himself: "My lord, pad your stomach."

"Thank you, old man." Chen Xi hung the package and a few bunches of locusts on his shoulders, and took the porridge bowl with both hands. He had been on a hunger strike for several months, and today he just ate a few wild fruits to fill his stomach. He swallowed, but still gave the porridge to the old, weak, sick and disabled family next to him.

"The master of the old man is Lin Ruhai, the Imperial Envoy of Salt Inspection?" Chen Xi cupped his hands and saluted.

Lin Kang hurriedly returned the gift: "My master is the Imperial Envoy of Salt Inspection, and your son is..."

"I'm barely an old friend of the Lin family." Chen Xi thought to himself that I've called Lin Daiyu Sister Lin for so many years, this is not a lie, and then took out two pearls from the package and stuffed them in: "This is a token, please tell the old man to Mr. Lin One sound."

When Lin Kang saw the things stuffed in, his pupils shrank immediately, and he quickly hid his hands in his sleeves, looked around, and invited Chen Xi into the porridge shed, "I dare not take these treasures, please take them back, this old slave will go back immediately." Report to my lord, there is a lot of noise here..."

Chen Xi smiled and said, "It's a token for you to present to Mr. Lin. It's very good here, I'll wait for the old man."

It is said to be a porridge shed, but it is not a separate shed. There is a small yard behind it. Firewood is piled up in the yard, which is connected to the shed for free clinics next to it. The servants and servants come and go busy cooking porridge and medicine.

Chen Xi carried the locusts to the place next door where the free clinic boiled medicine, pointed to the medicine jars piled up in the corner and asked, "Can I borrow one?"

The little stone that Lin Kang appointed to take care of Chen Xi hurriedly picked a good-looking stone and sent it over.

The shed for free medical consultation was also a doctor hired by the Lin family. After the severe drought, it rained continuously, and the refugees had no tiles to cover themselves, and there was no place to boil the medicines. The Lin family directly helped boil the medicines in the backyard. After the rain fell, most of the refugees who were exposed to the rain were healthy. In the past two days, the number of patients dropped sharply, and the medicine jars remained.

Chen Xi cleaned the medicine jar, put the locusts in the jar next, poured water to wash it, drained the water, put the lid on, and put the medicine jar on the stove for boiling medicine.

Xiao Shitou helped to light the fire, his face full of confusion: "What are you going to do, young master?"

"Alchemy." Chen Xi replied with a smile, holding the small ear of the medicine pot with both hands and shaking it at a certain frequency.

Little Shitou blushed at first, but when he came back to his senses, he had a look of pity that such a handsome young man was a fool.

But Lin Kang hurried back to the Xunyan Imperial Envoy's mansion with two pearls, instead of going directly to the front yard to ask to see Lin Ruhai, but first talked to his brother Lin An, the chief housekeeper of the mansion.

Lin An was also surprised when he saw the two pearls. Pearls the size of lychees are extremely rare, not to mention that they are golden pearls, the color is very positive, and the two are about the same size. He hurriedly packed the pearls in the box and carried them to find Lin Ruhai.

"...Golden pearls are tributes, and the people are not allowed to keep them privately, especially those of this grade, which are only available in the palace. Lin Kang is worried that the nobles will be in trouble, so he dare not specialize."

After listening to Lin An's report, Lin Ruhai frowned at the golden pearl in the box, and asked Lin Kang to come in for questioning.

"Seven feet tall, just as young as the crown, with handsome appearance, extraordinary manner but gentle and polite..." Lin Kang praised him, and then said: "The young man stared at the porridge bucket as soon as he came, but he didn't come close, old slave I gave him a bowl of porridge, but he gave the porridge to the refugees. By the way, that young man still carried a few bunches of locusts."

The nobleman who has just reached the crown, watching porridge, locusts... Could it be that King Zhongshun, who went south to relieve disasters, came to Weibo for a private visit?

"Prepare the car." Lin Ruhai stood up abruptly, adjusted his official uniform, after thinking about it, he ordered someone to go to the backyard to ask for two sets of regular uniforms, one to change by himself, and a new one to put in the carriage.

In the backyard of the porridge shed, Chen Xi was still making alchemy.

The locusts have been dried and crushed, added the vitality liquid, stirred evenly through the jar with spiritual power, divided into small balls and rolled into balls.

"Extinguishing."

With her small ears, Chen Xi shook the medicine jar lightly, and there was the sound of pills colliding inside.

Little Shitou, who was dozing off, woke up with a start: "My lord, is your alchemy finished?"

"Okay, do you want to try one?"

Little Stone's head shook like a rattle.

Chen Xi withdrew his spiritual power, lifted the lid, and a strong smell of roasted meat gushed out.

Xiao Shitou shook his head more and more slowly, seeing the golden pill that Chen Xi poured out from the medicine jar, his saliva dripping, he was dumbfounded.

Chen Xi sniffed the yellow pill that was as big as a thumb, put it in his mouth, it smelled delicious, it tasted like chewing burnt rice noodles, it might be better to add a little salt, the spiritual energy content is slightly lower than the rain when the sky is raining, after all, it is only spiritual The counterfeit version of Vitality Essence that is concentrated in strength certainly does not have the miraculous effect of living dead human flesh and white bones, but it is no problem to strengthen the body and meet the body's nutritional needs.

Lin Ruhai walked into the courtyard, and the people in the courtyard saluted and called Master.

Xiao Shitou also hurriedly knelt down to salute.

"It will spoil if you keep it, eat it early." Chen Xi took out a bigu pill and put it in Xiaoshi's hand, got up with the medicine jar, turned around to look at Lin Ruhai, and greeted with a smile: "Hello, Mr. Lin."

Chen Xi was born with upturned mouth corners and a lovable smiling face. He also likes to smile, and when he smiles, his eyes are slightly curved.

"Young master is..." Lin Ruhai slowed down, the person in front of him was obviously not the King of Loyalty and Obedience he thought, he was obviously dressed in rags, but he was generous, with a casual style of a gentleman.

"The common name is Chen Xi, and the character is Changqing." Changqing is the name of Doctor Wanhua, a martial arts drama that Chen Xi was playing before he crossed. Said: "Not long ago, you even gave me the title of Water God."

Everyone's face changed drastically, and they knelt down.

"Water God!"

Lin Ruhai swayed, his knees softened, and he also knelt down.

"I don't like people kneeling down on me. The water god is what you call it. I just borrowed the Dragon King's dragon beads to spread the rain. You have to thank the Dragon King." Chen Xi waved his hand, the breeze blew, and the people nearby were supported by the wind Standing up involuntarily, "Master Lin is a little weak, the newly baked Bigu Pill can strengthen your body, do you want to try it?"

When the rain fell, Lin Ruhai didn't get wet, and the rain water he found afterwards didn't have miraculous effects. Now the four members of the Lin family are still sick. The youngest son has had a low-grade fever for many days, and the daughter has also had a cough in the past two days. Mrs. Since her youngest son was born, her body has not been recuperated, and Lin Ruhai is worried.

"Thank you Changqing Immortal." Lin Ruhai bowed his hands deeply.

Chen Xi fell to the ground, grabbed a few bigu pills and gave them to Lin Ruhai: "At most one a day, don't take more."

Xiao Shitou moved his mouth, wanted to say something, looked at Chen Xi, and shut up again.

Chen Xi took another one to Lin Kang, "Thank you for the porridge, old man. A good man will be rewarded with good rewards."

Lin Kang was trembling with excitement: "Don't dare, little Lin Kang, Lord Water God called me by my name..."

Chen Xi looked at Lin Ruhai: "I will go to the lower world this time, and I will experience a few years in the human world, but I have no place to settle down. The young lady of your mansion is destined for me. I wonder if your mansion has an idle courtyard?"

"There are some." Lin Ruhai was considered a person with long sleeves and good at dancing, but now his tongue was dull. It was not until the carriage entered the city that he forgot to return the pearl in his arms, so he couldn't stop calling for Chen Xi, who was in the carriage ahead. He hurriedly explained to Lin An, the butler who came with him.

"Hurry up and go back to the mansion, and order people to clean up the Tingzhu courtyard, so that my wife can get ready to welcome the fairy driver."

Lin Anzao sent someone back to deliver the letter, but the master ordered him to come down, and he quickly responded, and asked the guards to take him on horseback to take a shortcut back to Lin's mansion.

There are many people in the courtyard of the porridge shed, and the coming of the water god will spread quickly. Some people hide the bowls brought by the gods and prepare to take them back as family heirlooms. The elixir bestowed on him made his whole face glow red, as proud as a peacock.

Xiaoshitou was surrounded by a group of uncles and aunts, and his mother snatched the bigu pill by the ear, and wanted to leave it to his grandma who was sick in bed. Tell people the story of the water god alchemy.

"It's locusts! The elixir is made from locusts!"

Someone said: "Someone met an immortal ten miles away from the city and told him that there is no locust god in the sky. He also said that locusts can be eaten, but they must be cooked."

"There are refugees going to catch locusts."

In the Lin Mansion, his wife, Jia Min, supported his sick body and ordered someone to sweep the courtyard. He was skeptical of the words of the housekeeper: "Sometimes you will be a nobleman in Beijing, and then you will be a fairy. Isn't the master confused?"

"It's really a god. It's the water god who patrolled the river to rain a few days ago. Clouds flew up under his feet. How could there be a fake? The god also said that the master was weak and gave him an elixir, and said that he was destined to be with our girl. It was only during training that we settled down in our residence."

The big housekeeper said, then turned back and ordered to tidy up a alchemy room in Tingzhuyuan, find a better alchemy stove, choose two boys to light the fire and watch the stove, and prepare enough firewood and charcoal.

The carriage crossed the streets and alleys and approached Xunyan Yushi's Mansion, and Chen Xi saw two acquaintances.

"parking."

"Call—" the coachman reined in.

Chen Xi opened the curtains, put his arm on the window sill, and shouted to the two whispering not far away: "Where are you two fellow Taoists going?"