What should I do if my junior brother becomes a bad old man?

The spring wind blows to Bikong Mountain, and the sun is no longer warm in winter, but begins to emit a pleasant warmth.

The winter snow has just melted, and the ice layer above the creek has also become a thin piece. The stream gurgles and flows under the thin ice, making a pleasant sound.Ren Xun broke through the mountain gate that had been closed for the winter, and let the cold mountain wind blow away the stale air that had accumulated in the cave for the whole winter.

It was clear that another year had passed, but Ren Sha had no idea about it, only that the weather was warm and the air was clean recently, and it was already a good time to sort out chores.

Ren Xun has been living in seclusion here alone for a long time, and she can't count how many cold and heat she has experienced.He once sat alone on the East China Sea fishing for 500 years, and once dreamed in the South China Sea for a thousand years.For him, the winter and spring of a year are just like the rising and setting of the sun every day. It is just a moment, and the hundred years he has lived here in seclusion are actually just a short period of his life. It's really not worth mentioning.

Ren Xun stood at the door and pinched a quick wind tactic, letting the wind collect the dead branches scattered around, make a pile, and send them to the woodshed in the backyard, and remove the remaining dust in the cave by the way.Another Yushuijue was used to make the water from the spring wash every corner of the cave and fill the water tanks in the alchemy room.He did these things easily and lightly, and he didn't find them troublesome.He lived alone for a long time, and these were all things that had to be done.

Although he didn't need to do this kind of chores himself, he only needed to use a few small spells, but by the time he finished it, half a day had passed.He saw that the sun was westward, turned around and closed the mountain gate, and went to the alchemy room to refine Bigu Dan.

When the weather is fine, Ren Xun often collects medicine on the mountain with a medicine hoe, puts it at the door to dry, and makes a batch of pills when he makes up a prescription.Among the elixirs he usually refines, Bigu Dan is the simplest one, and the ingredients are only Poria cocos and sesame seeds.Poria cocos was picked by him himself from the pine roots. As for the sesame seeds and other things, they were gifts from the villagers down the mountain. The nearby villagers often came with gifts and begged him to take the weak and difficult children of the family as apprentices.

However, Ren Xun has no heart of compassion, and is even more troublesome if he is not interested in these ordinary children, and he always just ignores them.If the other party insists on refusing to leave, he has no choice but to give away the refined medicine for a pill, just to buy a cleansing.But the action may have backfired—every year since he gave away the pills, he seems to be seeing more people with their children.

Different from other chores, alchemy is a meticulous job.Even to make the simplest Bigu Dan, you have to sit upright in front of the stove and watch the fire, adding a piece of charcoal or a little wind from time to time.Keep the temperature steady, turn on the furnace at the right time, not a moment earlier, not a moment later.Although Ren Zhen is proficient in the Five Elements Taoism and is not afraid of fire, she still prefers water by nature. After staying in front of the alchemy stove for a long time, she always feels that her skin is dry and her eyes are astringent, which is extremely uncomfortable.

It was only at this time that Ren Xun felt that it might not be bad to accept a child from the mountain to be a boy in the cave, and usually do chores like watching the fire.

But this kind of thing can only be thought about, it is not easy to feed the apprentice, not only to prepare three meals a day, but also to prepare new clothes for the New Year, and the child is naughty, no one knows what trouble he can cause .All in all, if you raise an apprentice in the cave, you must have ten times more chores.Ren Xun didn't want to cause trouble for himself, so this elixir... he should make it himself.

Ren Xun set up the alchemy stove, touched the charcoal under the stove, lit the fire, and started alchemy.

The steps required for alchemy are very meticulous, even if you make a slight mistake, the quality of the elixir will be greatly reduced.Ren Xun was carefully adding all the ingredients into the alchemy furnace, when he heard a door knock outside, he lost his mind a little, and with a shake of his hand, he poured the sesame seeds that should have been placed in two batches into the alchemy furnace.

Ren Sha frowned—I don't know who came so unluckily.

It is easy to refine the Bigu Pill, and it was easy to refine the high-grade pill, but because of the indifferent visitor, this time the pill can only be refined to the middle-grade.

Ren Zhen didn't intend to open the door, since the alchemy started, it couldn't stop.Otherwise, not only will a pot of good materials be wasted, but even the alchemy furnace will be damaged.Of course Ren Sha would not stop what she was doing for the visitor outside the door who did not know who it was.

What's more, over the years, Ren Sha has never received any serious visitors.

The people who usually come to him, apart from the villagers who bring their children to ask for medicine, are the slaves of rich and noble families who treat him as an ordinary Taoist priest and ask him to practice rituals; He treats him as an ordinary spirit, and comes to fight and kill; some white rabbit spirits and vixen spirits from the local mountains, perhaps because they have taken a fancy to his beauty, have just formed a human shape, and have not yet learned the human language, so they twist their buttocks and come to the door. wink at him.

Usually, anyone who came to ask for advice, he would point them to go to the Xuandu Temple halfway up the mountain, and the little goblins on the mountain were nothing, just kicked their butts and drove them away.Only those cultivators are hateful, they don't distinguish between black and white, and they often break down the mountain gate first, so Ren Xun had to go down the mountain to find a carpenter to help repair it several times.

Hearing the sound of knocking on the door outside, the person who came probably didn't come to find fault.That being the case, there is no need to pay special attention.

After thinking about it like this, Ren Sha put away all distracting thoughts and set up a small magic circle in the alchemy room that could eliminate outside interference.

It takes much less time to refine Bigu Pill than other pills, but it also takes nine hours.By the time Ren Xun took the elixir out of the furnace and put it in a small porcelain jar, it was already a night.Ren Zhen stretched her waist, released the magic circle set up in the alchemy room, and was about to adjust her breath, when she heard another knock on the door.

The people outside... didn't leave all night?

Ren Sha frowned again.

Ordinary visitors, who don't have such patience, can wait here overnight.Besides, even though it was early spring, it was still very cold at night on the mountain, which was hard for ordinary people to bear.

The persistence of the person at the door made Ren Xun smell troublesome.He didn't open the door right away, but just stood in Dan's room and listened carefully.

There was a knock on the door for a while, and it took a long time to stop, but the sound was not as loud as yesterday.Apparently the people outside were a little impatient too.But that person obviously had to come in, even though Ren Xun didn't go out, the person still kept knocking.

No matter what happened to the person outside the door, he couldn't keep knocking like this.If it really breaks the mountain gate, it will be another trouble.Carpenter Li at the foot of the mountain had already reminded him that the mountain gate had been broken too many times, and if it was broken again, it would be impossible to repair it.

It is easy to rebuild the two doors, but it is rare to want such good wood as before.Thinking of this, Ren Sha, who hates trouble the most, sighed, and walked to open the door resignedly.

The people outside the door were indeed not the villagers nearby.

The man was not young anymore, wearing a half-old green shirt, with a thin body, he looked like a Xibin from a wealthy family.

Seeing this man's attire, Ren Xun had a rough idea in his mind, and opened his mouth and said:

"If you want to do something, go down this road to find Xuanduguan."

After he said this, he turned his head and was about to close the door, but he heard the man calling urgently behind him:

"Brother, it's me. I'm back."

Hearing that the stranger who came to the door opened his mouth and called him senior brother, Ren Xun felt a shiver in his body.Conditioned reflex generally quickly closed the mountain gate.

Master said earlier that he does not plan to accept any more apprentices.What's more, that person said "it's me" as soon as he appeared, obviously thinking that Ren Zhen should know him.

Ren Xiao has a lot of old acquaintances, but almost all of them met thousands of years ago.The person in front of the door didn't have any aura on him, he was obviously just a mortal, and if he had known each other for nearly a hundred years, it should have been only a matter of a hundred years.Ren Zhen calmed down for a while, then traced back the memory, and finally remembered that he seemed... There used to be a junior.

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