I heard from the director of the general's chief that the alchemist Abu Musa Jabir Ibn Hayan has a very strange temper, but he is kind and always likes to say something irrelevant, and he looks a little nervous.

This Arab uncle with a hooked nose and half of his face was full of black beard. He usually set up stalls in markets in Chang'an City to sell medicine. Sometimes he went to deep mountains and valleys to pick herbs and poisonous weeds and make medicines.

Abu alchemist likes to hang out in the outer slums on the outskirts of the city where Zahu lives. He said he wanted to understand the humanistic style of various ethnic groups, but in fact he secretly collected some strange metal rocks and prepared to refine mysterious metals.

Of course, if the neighbors don't mind, he can go into the medicine warehouse of traditional Chinese medicine and Tibetan medicine shops in the middle of the night to steal medicinal materials. However, this guy's technique of climbing over the wall is really not good. He alarmed the dog in the owner's yard wall, or he couldn't get it out after turning into the house. He stayed in the yard and was frozen until dawn. Finally, he was discovered by the owner. Every time he used a fire stick or a broom to drive out of the door, he would inevitably get skin trauma.

Although the alchemist Abu had some bad habits of stealing, given that he had become a fool in the development of alchemy, he only occasionally looked after the medicinal materials warehouses of some medicine shops at night and did not steal property. Therefore, after everyone in the neighborhood knew him for so long, they fooled him, turned a blind eye and did not send him to the government for the crime of stealing. He also often helped him when he was frozen in winter, and gave him some food, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, etc.

The mantra of the alchemist Abu always says this: "Hey, kind uncles and aunts, thank you for your kind help. The great god, Allah, will bless you, and wish you good people peace in your life."

Or he would also add this sentence: "When I, the great alchemist Abu Musa Jabir Ibn Hayan, mastering the mysterious truth and laws of the basic attributes of all things in the world, 'qi, earth, water, fire', you can turn cheap copper and iron into gold, and then I will definitely repay your great kindness...."

However, the neighbors would smile and say, "Mr. Abu, let's support you and your children first. We really don't understand the problem of alchemy. This kind of strange and lewd tricks that came from the Western Regions."

By the way, I forgot to say that Abu adopted a **-year-old boy in the empty tiled house on all sides. It is said that when he came to the Tang Dynasty from the Western Regions, he passed Persia and entered the Pamir Mountains during his journey. He picked up an abandoned baby who was still in his cradle by the Waliang Lake. His life experience is unknown, and he is probably a descendant of the Turkic nomadic people, or a member of the Gaochang Kingdom. In short, he looks different from him, a Middle Eastern person, and most of his appearance is more like the Hu people.

After visiting the director of the supervisor the day before yesterday, Guo Nuan got the information from the old man. Then he went to the store early the next morning to buy two big roast gooses and a pot of carved wine. He rushed to the residence of Abu Alchemist. The director said he should hurry up, otherwise he would have gone to the mountains to collect herbs, and there would be no one at home for half a month.

The address of Abu's family is quite remote. He circles around the alley, crosses several lanes, and crosses several streets. Guo Nuan's head was almost dizzy. He finally found his residence under the guidance of passers-by.

"Well, it seems this is this one." Looking at the remotest corner of the street in front of me, a low tile house, a simple-dressed child struggled to draw water from a small wooden barrel beside the well outside the door.

"Hey, little baby, do you know the alchemist Mr. Abu?" Guo Nuan smiled at the child with a face he thought he was kindest.

"Uncle, you... are you here... for what? Are you urging money? My teacher is not at home..."

Suddenly, he was frightened by the sudden voices behind him. Even the wooden barrel that had been filled with water fell to the ground, and then the child's white linen coat was covered with water.

The child was a little panicked, and his smart eyes of a pair of black grapes flashed nervously. At this moment, his back was tightly pressed against the corner of the brick wall:

"Just just now, a very fierce uncle came to collect debts with a pig-killing knife, saying that he wanted to get the money from five years ago. The teacher ran out and said that he was going out to hide for a while and asked me to stay for the housekeeper. He said that he had gone out to find money and might not come back in the afternoon."

The child is very simple and can't lie, and then he trembles in his trembling words.

Guo Nuan felt a little reluctant and said to himself, "This Abu is so down and out, and shook his head repeatedly. Although he was a little disappointed, Guo Nuan immediately left a message and asked the child to hand it over to the alchemist:

"It's a coincidence. If your teacher Abu comes back, please tell him that Jingzhao Yin Guonuan is visiting, saying that there is something important to discuss and come back tomorrow..."

He left a gift for the child, but when he saw him grinning happily while holding the barbecue and cooked food, Guo Nuan couldn't help but smile, and his heart was touched. It was estimated that this poor child had lived a lot of hard life with a down-and-out alchemist.

"Hey, my dear little Abu, that vicious debt collector hasn't made things difficult for you, come and let the teacher hug you."

Just as Guo Nuan was about to turn around and walk away, a big bearded Arab suddenly popped out of the entrance of the alley with messy hair. This was a tall and thin middle-aged man.

After he turned out from the hidden corner, he immediately laughed and hugged the little child who was fucking water, shouting at Xiao Abu, and at the same time he hugged the child for a while. The rough beard on his face rubbed against his tender face, making Xiao Abu giggle.

"That guy, I thought I had known each other for so long, so I would have to give up on some favors. I thought he had forgotten all the old debts five years ago. I didn't expect that today I suddenly came to collect debts. Teacher Abu was so embarrassed, so I had to sneak out. However, seeing the little Abu jumping around, the teacher knew that after so many years of friendship with him, that guy would definitely not make things difficult for you, oh hehe."

Abu alchemist Jili Gulu said to the child in Arabic, and then noticed a handsome young man next to him.

"Uh, are you here? You also bring soju and barbecue?" Abu looked at the gifts in the child's hands and Guo Nuan standing in the distance, and was stunned and subconsciously said in the language of the Tang Dynasty.

"Hello, Mr. Abu, I am Guo Nuan, Jingzhao Yin of Jingzhao Mansion. I am honored to see you." Guo Nuan then walked up to Abu gracefully and greeted the enthusiastic alchemist.

"What are the officials of Jingzhao Prefecture doing?"

Abu was not sure about Guo Nuan's intentions, so he slowly put down the lifting little Abu and asked him to go somewhere else to play. Then he asked kindly.

The man in front of him was a handsome Middle Eastern man. A kind of kindness flashed in his temperament. Guo Nuan looked very kind, then smiled gently and said:

"Mr. Abu, maybe I'm here this time, although it can't help you with your research on how to refine cheap metal elements into precious gold, I can provide you with the properties of more than a hundred basic metal and non-metallic substances that exist in nature, such as 'gold, silver, copper, iron, platinum, tin, sulfur, carbon, boron, mercury, lead', and maybe enrich your alchemy theory."

Before Guo Nuan finished speaking, Abu's dark brown eyes suddenly lit up. He was excited and grabbed Guo Nuan's robe and collar with a loss of composure, then put it down apologetically, and shouted happily:

"Say, what do you want me to help you? As long as you can get this theory, I am willing to serve you!"
Chapter completed!