I wanted to embrace my master and return home

"You need to give him some more time." Cang Mo said.

"Yes, this disciple understands that it's because this disciple is too greedy that Chen Xianjun hates him for nothing."

Cang Mo shook his head with a smile, somewhat resenting that iron cannot be made into steel.

"It would be great if you could be more greedy. This knot in Gu Mou's heart needs you to untie."

Ye Xunliang pondered in his heart for several days, but he didn't understand the meaning of Elder Cang Mo's words.

Gu Mou didn't go to the 24th peak since that day.It just so happened that I received a petition from the villagers of Huaiqi County in the past few days. Huaiqi County is only [-] miles away from Tianfu Mountain. There are eight mountains, one water and one field. It was developed by tea a hundred years ago and is known as the "tea gold capital".

It can be said that one tea is one gold, a word of a tea master is worth a thousand gold, and a thousand gold can hardly buy fragrant tea. Later, due to the trend of interests, some tea ceremony masters in the early years gradually declined.

Just after sorting out the petitions of the villagers and a pile of dense files, before Gu Mou could take a breather, Elder Yugou from Lengquan Peak, the 24th peak whose disciple reported him, came to visit.

Meng Yuci pushed aside the curtain fringe with his hands, and walked towards him with a slender figure. He was dressed in an ancient smoke and green robes, and the corners of his clothes were fragrant as he walked. His pretty face made the guards at the door look sideways.

"Pretty pretty." Gu Mou glanced up.

Meng Yuci covered his face with a fan, and the gold-carved butterflies on the fan were lifelike, as if they were about to fly out in the next second, he smiled and said, "Thank you for your compliment."

Gu Mou knocked a stack of books on the table and said, "What are you doing here?"

"I heard that you bullied the disciples of Xianzhu Peak. Elder Danqing specially ordered me to seek justice." Meng Yuci joked, pulled up a cushion and sat down by herself, her lower robe, which was as misty as a cloud of smoke, seemed to be A flower bloomed on the ground.

Gu Mou stopped his movements, rolled his eyes at him, and said, "Did I hit his apprentice with my hands, or did I curse him?"

"Danqing and I asked him what he did to make you so angry, but he didn't want to say."

Meng Yuci supported his thin and delicate jaw with his hand, and teased: "But judging by your look now, it's not too serious."

"You don't need to know."

Gu Mou was annoyed when he mentioned this matter, and didn't want to talk to him more.

Meng Yuci bowed his head and smiled, his slightly curly long hair was partly tied and partly draped, with only a delicate gold-carved butterfly tied low behind him, and with his other hand, five fingers as white as jade, picked up an ink block and gave it to him. Grinding the ink, the action is not too fast or slow.

"The petition in Huaiqi County was brought up by me. That is my hometown. This time I will go with you."

Gu Mou knew that Meng Yuci's ancestors had been a big family of tea ceremony in Huaiqi County for several generations, and they declined in his father's generation, and several relatives also left their hometown. There is still a smattering of fate left.

"Then let's go together, this matter is not a small one, and the county magistrate said that hundreds of lives have been involved." Gu Mou said.

Meng Yuci: "For this trip, let's take one more person with us."

Gu Mou: "Who?"

"Xianzhu Peak's medicine distribution disciple, Ye Xunliang." Meng Yuci said while shaking his fan.

"... What are you doing with him, are you holding back?"

When Gu Mo heard this name, he couldn't help frowning, but the strange thing was that he didn't reject it in his heart.

"The child is said to be able to distinguish more than 40 kinds of tea. Although he is not proficient, it is considered a skill among us."

After finishing speaking, he smiled, and said again: "Don't underestimate him. Although he can't practice the way of swordsman, he can protect himself with a short sword. Our disciples from the 24th peak are not useless."

Seeing that Gu Mou didn't speak, Meng Yuci knew that he had acquiesced, but there was still a trace of suspicion in his heart, why did Elder Cangmo insist on asking him to recommend that boy who was prettier than him but didn't even have a spiritual root?

Does that boy have any unknown background?

Three days later, Gu Mou, Elder Yugou, Ye Xunliang, Zhang Sichen and others arrived in Huaiqi County with some inner disciples. As expected, the county was full of tea fragrance, and the streets were full of merchants looking for business from other places. Six out of ten stores are tea shops.

"Many foreign businessmen were also killed?" Gu Mou asked as he walked.

"Yes, it's just that this group of people is relatively mobile, coming and going, so they don't attract much attention. The first to find something strange is the local people." Zhang Sichen replied, not following his younger brother like he used to, Ye Xunliang, who seldom spoke, was dressed in a 24-peak red and white gold silk school uniform.

Strange things started to happen two months ago. At the beginning, no one paid attention to them. Later, more and more people died. In just two months, hundreds of people died, and these people died in their sleep. When the family found out, they saw them There is still a happy smile on his face, which is very strange.

"Killing someone in a dream is an illusion." Meng Yu resigned.

Later, when many people died, some insiders revealed tremblingly that they also had a dream one night. In the dream, they saw only a child sitting facing each other with a low table in between. , there are two cups of tea on the left and right sides of the table, the boy invites him to taste the tea, and after he has tasted both cups of tea, the boy will ask him:

That cup wins?

The person in the dream would answer subconsciously, and the little boy nodded, and everything in front of him dissipated like mist, and the person woke up. The person who woke up thought it was a dream and forgot it within two days, but the person who died couldn't tell. What did they go through, until more and more people died in their sleep, and then those dreamers got the same experience from others, so many people had the same dream, but no one remembered the two The taste of the cup of tea, I don't remember which cup I chose, I just remember that when I woke up, there was a strange tea fragrance in my nose, which was completely different from the tea I usually drink, and it dissipated after a while.

No one remembers the boy's appearance, maybe because he was too young and his voice was indistinguishable from male to female. Those who had a dream once would never have this dream again.

"Is it... the tea tree demon?" Ye Xunliang couldn't help asking.

"It's not like, the character of the tea demon is like its own body, and it rarely harms sentient beings. Generally, after becoming a demon, it hides in the deep mountains and old forests to practice silently, and the tea demon is pure in nature, it is the most docile among the tree demons." Gu Moudao , casually asked Xiao Er to serve a cup of tea.

Ye Xunliang saw that he was finally willing to pay attention to him, and felt a little warm in his heart. After that incident, this was the first sentence Gu Mou said to him.

Gu Mou's anger quickly dissipated, knowing that what he said to him that day was a bit serious, and seeing Ye Xunliang listening obediently with his left ear sideways, his heart softened a little, and he was willing to teach him during this task something.

Suddenly thought of something, he said to Meng Yu expressionlessly: "You can ask him to soak in the cold spring in your peak every month."

Meng Yuci was taken aback for a moment, remembering what happened to Ye Xunliang's right ear, and then smiled and said: "My cold spring is a unique place for healing, and it can also moisturize and beautify the skin. Young Master Xiaoye soaks it once every ten days, and within a year it can be called The female cultivators in your sect used bones to grow grass for him."

After hearing this, Ye Xunliang felt a steady stream of warmth in his heart. He didn't care when his ears would be cured, but he was very satisfied to see that Gu Mou was still thinking about him.

Although Xiaoer is called "Xiaoer", but the trifles in the world, the disseminators of anecdotes and strange records, no one dares to be the number one except them. Gu Mou threw a small piece of silver on the table, and his eyes glowed. Xiao Er said:

"Sit down with us, we want to inquire about something."

"Hey, if you're looking for a young one, then you've found the right person. What kind of miscellaneous books and journals, funny stories about the world, I'll tell you everything about the young ones!"

Xiao Er accepted the money with a happy smile, brought a few more plates of snacks, and pulled a low stool to sit on the side and pour tea for them.

"Did you know that many people in the county fell asleep and never woke up again?" Meng Yuci brushed her hair, looked sideways at Xiaoer and smiled.

Although Meng Yuci is a man, he can be called a beautiful face. His skin is white and his face is like a peach blossom, and he likes to dress up like a man or a woman. When he opened his mouth, he knew it was a man. After a while, his eyes straightened and said:

"Return...Mr. Hui, one out of ten people in our county has had that kind of dream."

"so much?"

Gu Mou frowned, one out of ten had a dream of tasting tea, which shows two points, one is that there is more than one spirit behind it, if there is only one, it is also a very evil thing, it cannot be ordinary What monsters do, and create illusions for so many people at the same time, must go through some medium.

Zhang Sichen and the others also understood a little bit, and said, "Could it be tea?"

"Brother, do you know what kind of tea the people who had this dream drank the day before? Or which tea shop in the county sells the best tea and has the most people drinking it?" Meng Yuci asked, picking up the cup and drinking it Taking a sip of tea, I am amazed at the unique fragrance of this tea.

Xiaoer didn't know why, so he replied: "How could the little one know that the people in our county drink tea every day, and each tea has its own merits, if you want to say which one sells the best tea... then it must be Changchun. The Zhang family of Tang, the Zhang family is a collateral branch of the county magistrate, and has been famous for a hundred years. Their tea house mainly produces a kind of purple tip tea, which cannot be grown by others, and all of them have to be purchased from his family. It is said that the Zhang family’s The previous Patriarch cultivated it himself."

"Purple tip tea?"

Ye Xunliang was stunned for a moment, and then said: "I remember this tea. When I was still in Qi Shiguo, I heard the steward said that the current emperor is good at tea ceremony, so he set up a competition for the king of tea. Huaiqi County also selected several kinds of tea. It was sent to the palace from thousands of miles away to participate in the 'Contest of the King of Tea', and Zijian tea is the king of tea."

Xiao Er giggled, pointed at their cups and said, "Let's take a look, gentlemen."

Several people looked into the cup, only to find that the tea leaves in the cup were slender and long, the leaves were emerald green, but there was a thin layer of black purple at the tip.When Gu Mou ordered tea just now, he only said that he served the best tea, but he didn't know which kind of tea he served.

"This is Zijian tea, no wonder it is so fragrant." Ye Xunliang exclaimed, from the first sip, he felt that the tea was very good.

"That's right, Zijian tea has no unique taste, just one word: fragrant! It is a hundred times more fragrant than other teas, thick but not bitter, and leaves a fragrance on the lips and teeth after drinking." Xiaoer said proudly, with a high spirit.

Someone sitting at a table next to them interjected:

"Wait a minute, little brother. Although this purple tea is good, it is only more fragrant than ordinary tea. If you put a few pieces less each time, it is still the taste of ordinary tea! I think it is not as good as the Jingjia's red tea. Sharp, golden in the red, with a strange tea fragrance."

"Hey, I'm not used to drinking it. It always has a musky smell. Whose tea tastes like that." A friend around him retorted.