If you hire a few more maids, you don’t have to carry them so hard - you can carry them together!

Li Mu laughed unscrupulously.

These are all jokes, but recruiting people is a must. Feng Qiuhuang has already opened, so Bai Qiaoqiao and Li Zhien cannot be used as salesmen, and it requires personnel. The daily flow of the store is as high as thousands of stakes, and people cannot be assured to use strangers, so they can only use the family. The four maids, Meilan, Zhuju, are the best candidates, but in this way, the mansion is short of people. The back house is not as convenient as the front yard, and it is not convenient for men to enter and exit, so the maid must be found.

In addition to the maid, the groom also has to find a few grooms. There are two grooms in the family. If there are too many things in the future, two carriages will definitely not be enough. There are still a few more to prepare for emergencies.

While taking a bath, Li Mu thought about things. He was almost done and finished his bath. He wiped his body dry, then put on clean clothes, ate something casually, put on tiger fur, and a "Pangda brand" hat. He called Dugu Jiu to the carriage, and went to the courtyard where Sun Simiao temporarily lived.

...

At the entrance of Sun Simiao's house, there was a sign of no disturbance today. Someone came to ask for treatment, and the servant at the door explained that the miracle doctor should not disturb the medicine today, so please come early tomorrow.

But in fact, Sun Simiao was not refining medicine, he was studying medicine. In his study, there was a table, and there was a porcelain bottle obtained from Li Mu, and there was another thing, which was also related to Li Mu. It was the mahjong he "invented".

After hearing the patient's talk about this mahjong, Sun Simiao asked his apprentice Liu Shenwei to go to the grocery store in Jingdong. Since the day he bought it, it has been placed on Sun Simiao's table. Every day in his spare time, Liu Shenwei would see Sun Simiao sitting behind the table and staring at the mahjong in a daze. He thought his master wanted to play but was embarrassed to say it. He took the initiative to mention it several times and wanted to play with his master for a few times, but unexpectedly he was scolded by Sun Simiao, which made Liu Shenwei a little puzzled and stopped asking over time.

Sun Simiao was born in Taoism. When sitting or meditating, he was used to lighting a burning of incense. Therefore, the study was filled with smoke and was as if it was in a fairyland. Liu Shenwei followed Sun Simiao since childhood and was the disciple who had been by his side for the longest time. Seeing that his master had been sitting at the table for a while, he went to make a pot of tea and gave it to his master to drink.

Sun Simiao seemed to be very interested in what Li Mu had invented, and even ordinary fried tea, he liked it very much. Since drinking it, he has stopped drinking the tea that was fried in the past and only drank the ones that Li Mu had invented.

"Master, please use it."

"Oh," Sun Simiao saw Liu Shenwei, looked away from the mahjong and porcelain bottles, waved his hand, and said, "Disciple, come here."

Liu Shenwei hurriedly put down the tray in his hand, came to the master, and said, "Master, what are you asking for?"

"I didn't give any instructions, I'll tell you some experience."

Liu Shenwei didn't find it strange. Sun Simiao often did this. A word he always said was that you are my closed disciple. Master will teach you all his lifelong experience. How much can you understand depends on your luck. Unfortunately, Liu Shenwei knew that his qualifications were mediocre, so he would remember it carefully every time and then slowly understand it.

Sun Simiao pointed to the mahjong on the table and said, "Disciple, do you see any tricks when you look at this mahjong?"

Mahjong is now popular in Chang'an. After Liu Shenwei came to Chang'an, he also learned to play mahjong. But if there were any tricks in it, he really couldn't see it. He frowned and looked at it for a long time, shook his head and said, "Master, please forgive me for being stupid, I really couldn't see any tricks."

"I don't blame you." Sun Simiao waved his hand, and he looked as pleasant as usual, but Liu Shenwei felt even more ashamed. Almost every time his master said something, he couldn't understand it. The master never blamed him and said nothing but comforting words.

"I also studied it for a long time before I gradually realized it." Sun Simiao stretched out his hand and picked out seven cards from the mahjong plaques, "South, West, North, and Middle" and said, "Li Mu is a god, and the deck he invented contains a very profound truth."

Liu Shenwei was still confused and said, "I really can't understand it if my disciple asks you for advice."

"Look at these five cards." Sun Simiao took out the five cards of "Southeast, West, North and Middle" and said: "This is the five elements."

"ah?"

"The east is Jia Yi wood, the west is Geng Xin metal, the south is Bing Ding fire, the north is Ren Gui water, and the middle is Wu Ji earth, which is the five elements!"

Liu Shenwei suddenly realized and said in surprise: "It's true that it's really hidden."

Sun Simiao shook his head and said, "There are still."

He picked out the 'middle white' and said, "This is the 'three talents'."

Liu Shenwei didn't see it and said, "Master, where are the three talents?"

"The three talents are heaven, earth and man." Sun Simiao explained: "The hair is on the top of a person's head." He stretched out his hand and pointed upward, saying: "What is the top of the head? Heaven is!"

"When you look at this whiteboard, does it look like the ground? It's better to explain that there are naturally people between heaven and earth."

Liu Shenwei was confused. His qualifications were mediocre, but he also had the advantage of mediocrity, that is, he would not think like a 'smart person'. When he saw this mahjong, he could not see any five elements and three talents at all. However, after hearing the master's interpretation, he felt that it seemed like that, but he still felt a little far-fetched and could not help but say, "Did Master think too much? The Mahjong Sutra has an explanation, the southeast, west and north refer to the wind direction, and the white-blooded one is the sparrow-"

"Follower!" Sun Simiao was angry rarely, scaring Liu Shenwei so much that he did not dare to speak and kept silent.

"Do you think Li Mu can do such boring things? He took out the mahjong just to laugh at the ignorance of the world. Do you also want to be the ignorant person in his eyes? What does Master teach you on weekdays? Mediocre qualifications are not a problem, but you must have a desire to learn and diligence can make up for your shortcomings. Don't you understand this principle?"

“What the master taught me is that my disciple remembers it.”

"Oh!" Sun Simiao sighed, calmed down his emotions, and continued: "It is not only the three talents and the five elements, you can look at them together. The southeast, west, north and middle represent the five elements, and also represent the direction, which is horizontal. The whiteness in the middle represents the three talents, the world and people, which is vertical. They add up to form a chaos."

Liu Shenwei couldn't understand it anymore and hurriedly asked, "Master, what is chaos?"

"Have you heard of Pangu's story of opening the sky?" Sun Simiao said: "It is said that chaos is like a chicken egg, and Pangu has born. He splits the chaos, and those who are light and clear rise, and those who are turbid and heavy sink, and those who are turbid and heavy sink, and those who are terrible and heavy are sank, and those who are terrible and sunny are the sun and moon. This is the creation of the sky and earth. Think carefully. Is Pangu's creation of the sky and earth similar to what I just said? Looking horizontally, Pangu stands in the middle, in four directions, southeast, west and northwest. Looking vertically, Pangu stands up to the sky, heaven, earth, man, and three talents. Is it right?"

Liu Shenwei was successfully brainwashed by Sun Simiao, nodded repeatedly, and said, "Master is very right, it is true! In this way, Li Mu..." After pausing, Liu Shenwei frowned and said, "Master, it's not right. Li Mu is only seventeen years old this year. How can he be so profound and unfathomable!"

"This is also the doubt of my master!" Sun Simiao picked up the small porcelain bottle on the table and said, "I have treated Li Mu. He is indeed seventeen years old. But there are many doubts on him. Do you still remember the demon star that my master told you? I can be sure that he is that demon star. Everything can happen on the demon star. Just like this elixir, who has lived for so long for the master, has seen the elixirs of the previous dynasty, even the elixirs of the Wei and Jin Dynasties. Nine out of ten are liars, and the remaining one is mostly half-understand or not, and there is no real talent or knowledge."

"But this pill is different, and it is only judged by the residual smell. This is a real pill. Although it is not as good as the legendary elixir, it is also the only one I have seen in my life. From this point of view, there must be a master behind Li Mu...or, he is himself!"

"This is impossible!" Liu Shenwei shook his head repeatedly and said, "Master, I have inquired about it as you told me. Li Mu's origin is well documented. Where is there any master in Mayi? He has no chance to come into contact with it."

Sun Simiao nodded and said, "I think so too, so there is only one possibility."

“What is possible?”

"He is a banished immortal!"

"Ah?" Liu Shenwei was amused and cried, and said, "Master, your guess is too ridiculous. There are no banished immortals? You have been asking for immortals for decades, but you have never seen an immortal."

"I haven't seen it before, but it doesn't mean it's not!" Sun Simiao said firmly: "I passed through Hangu Pass and became an immortal, leaving five thousand words on the "Tao Te Ching". Later, Yin Zi's ascension to the "Tao Te Ching" was verified!"

"Master!" Liu Shenwei said helplessly: "This is just a legend, and no one has seen it with his own eyes-"

"Don't talk nonsense!" Sun Simiao rebuked: "The Taoist tradition has been passed down for thousands of years. If these legends were false and had been cut off, how could there be so many people practicing Taoism and refining alchemy? Even if you, my master, is also an example! I was sick in my childhood, but I lived for about 100 years. If I had not had the Taoist method of health preservation, how could I live for so long? Therefore, it is necessary to practice Taoism and become an immortal, but I just can't understand the method!"

Liu Shenwei knew his master's temper and was open-minded about everything. Only the four words "cultivating Taoism and becoming an immortal" were his life gate. He ignored any rationality when he mentioned it. He did not dare to be stubborn about this matter, so he had to distract himself: "Even if as Master said, there are things to practice Taoism and becoming an immortal, but what is the relationship with Li Mu being a banished immortal? Master, it is impossible. Since he is an immortal, how could he be in the mundane world?"

"That's why I'm called a banished immortal!" Sun Simiao said stubbornly: "Otherwise, how can I explain it? He was a foolish person, but suddenly he became extremely smart. So how can I explain it? When he was enlightened, it was when I saw the demon star coming to the world, all kinds of coincidences happened at the same time. Is there really such a coincidence?"
Chapter completed!