Zhao Rong bent down to release the cat and waved goodbye.
He raised his hand to press his hat, stuffed the scattered utensils he had taken out into his arms, and continued down the mountain with the Tingni Purple Gold Stove in both hands.
The steps are on the moss-covered bluestone steps. Don't dare to walk too fast, otherwise you will slip easily.
This winding mountain path is hidden in the quiet and lush mountain forest. For Zhao Rong at this moment, its advantage is that it is inaccessible, but looking at it, the diagonal path makes him lose his vision of the distance.
, which made him feel a little uneasy.
The sound of the clear spring on the roadside was the only noise in this quiet place.
Zhao Rong hurried on silently.
At a certain moment, Gui's voice sounded in Xinhu. Zhao Rong curled his lips and looked at the Tingni Purple Gold Furnace in his hand. The next second, the divine furnace really changed!
However, what Zhao Rong did not expect was that the divine furnace did not become smaller, but became larger!
Get big!
Zhao Rong was shocked and felt that a mountain was growing in his hands.
His body tilted and he fell straight towards the rushing mountain spring on the right. He quickly let go and jerked back. After getting out of danger, he lost his balance and staggered.
boom!
The spring water splashed, and a few birds flew up in the forest on one side.
Zhao Rong stood up and looked speechlessly at the Tingni Purple Gold Furnace that had fallen into the spring water. It was about five feet tall and wide at the moment, and already half as tall as him.
The cold, clear spring that hurriedly flowed down from a high place encountered an obstacle on its way, deviated from the waterway, overflowed onto the stone steps, and wet someone's cloth shoes.
Zhao Rong raised his eyebrows, "You call this the size of a fist?"
Gui was still astonished by what he saw just after his consciousness gained control of the Tingni Purple Gold Furnace and he reached into the furnace. He didn't speak for a moment.
The angrier Zhao Rong became, the calmer his tone became, "I'm sorry, Zhao's fist is not that big and I can't hold it, so I'm letting you down."
He took a deep breath and looked left and right at the winding mountain roads above and below, "I'll hurry up and change it back!"
Gui calmed down and said in a faint voice: "Cover your hand again."
Ignoring his soaked cloth shoes, Zhao Rong stepped forward and bent slightly to pick up the furnace cover that had fallen aside. He walked into the spring water and prepared to right the Tingni purple gold furnace that had fallen sideways in the spring water.
"It won't take another half-quarter of an hour, right?"
"No need, just three breaths."
Zhao Rong felt relieved.
"What are you doing?"
A woman said.
The sound is cold and transparent.
Like a clear spring soaking Zhao Rong's ankles at this moment, it sent a bone-chilling chill to his heart.
Zhao Rong stiffened and stopped moving his hands.
There is a woman looking at him in the lower left corner.
The mountain air that was fresh and comfortable a second ago is now as dense as mercury in a grave, pouring into the mouth and nose.
Zhao Rong choked his breath.
The leaves moved silently, and the clear spring flowed silently.
A breeze blew through the green forest, mountain springs, bluestones, ancient furnaces, men and women.
"say."
The woman's voice was like a broken silver bottle.
She looked coldly at the bent man above him with his back to him, and the three-legged ancient furnace lying on the cobblestones at his feet.
Zhao Rong raised his eyes slightly, continued to hold one ear of the stove with one hand, and used his body to block the angle of view with the other hand. He quietly put down the stove lid and took out a rag from his arms.
Then, the man turned around and faced the woman who appeared at the corner below, playing with pure white jade Ruyi in her hand, and said blankly:
"Ah, what?"
Lan Yuqing did not repeat her words, but took a closer look at the man's face, which was half covered by the hat.
The next second, she suddenly said: "Take off the hat."
The man was stunned for a moment when he heard this, then nodded with a flattering smile. But where the woman couldn't see him, he arched the sole of his right foot that was submerged in the spring and dug it into the sand.
The man raised his right hand, freed up two fingers of the hand that was holding the rag, pinched the low brim of the hat, paused for a moment, and then lifted it upwards, revealing his entire face in an instant.
Lan Yuqing stopped playing with Jade Ruyi and squinted her eyes carefully to look at the smiling face of the man.
After a while.
She frowned slightly.
He climbed up the steps, step by step, and approached the man standing next to an ancient furnace that had fallen to the ground.
Zhao Rong saw that the woman was getting closer and closer to him, and his smile became more and more "flattery". The sole of his gripping foot had sunk deeply into the sand and gravel, so that his whole body was slightly tilted to the right, but because he was "respectfully"
Even though I bent down, I couldn't see anything.
From the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the gap between the lush trees on the right, silently calculating the distance. His right hand, holding the rag and hat, rested on the ear of the Ting Ni Purple Gold Stove. He stretched out a finger to touch the stove surface, touching the time.
It has already exceeded three breaths.
Gui asked if he wanted to close the furnace, and Zhao Rong silently waited.
He didn't know if he had been discovered, and luck and determination intertwined in his heart.
So he was waiting for an expression from the unknown woman, no matter how subtle it was, and he would immediately make up his mind to run or stay.
However, this woman remained expressionless, and she kept looking straight ahead without looking at him, which made him even more uneasy.
Seeing the woman getting closer and closer, Zhao Rong's mind was like a string, getting tighter and tighter.
The sound of the soles of his feet hitting the bluestone steps sounded loudly, and Zhao Rong felt absurdly that it was in sync with his own heartbeat.
Boom, boom, boom...
Finally, after she took a step forward, the two of them were only three meters away, and this was already a faint red line drawn in Zhao Rong's heart.
Zhao Rong secretly made up his mind, said something to Gui, and in the next second he was going to close the furnace and jump out. He jumped up and ran away, desperately jumping from the gap in the dense forest, not knowing what would be waiting for him below...
The woman took another step.
Zhao Rong narrowed his eyes, but opened them wide in an instant, and hurriedly shouted in his heart to stop.
Because a cold and clear voice sounded again.
"What are you doing here cleaning the stove?"
Lan Yuqing turned her head slightly and asked. After speaking, she glanced at the man's ordinary face, his handyman clothes, and the stove lying in the spring water.
"Returning to Xiangu... The incense ashes in the stove were soaked in cat urine last night. I don't know which evil wild cat did it. The smell is a bit too strong... Alas, today is a holiday, so Deacon Chen in the temple asked
The little people moved it out and washed it. Alas, you smell it, the smell is still a little bit, but it can't be washed away... Another brother went down the mountain to get firewood and ashes. That thing should be..."
Lan Yuqing saw the handyman in front of her holding the rag and explaining in a somewhat bewildered manner. He also took a few steps forward, spread his hands and opened his arms. His body exuded the smell of cats, as if he wanted to confirm something to her.
She frowned and tilted her head, covering her mouth and nose, "Don't come over here! I know it."
After saying that, he quickened his pace, passed by the man and the stove that had fallen into the spring water, and climbed the steps to leave.
Zhao Rong opened his arms to both sides, holding a rag and a hat in his hands. He stood there with an innocent look on his face, watching the Taoist nun leave. When he saw her back disappearing around the corner, he stood silently for a while. Suddenly
He blinked, shrugged, put on his hat again, exhaled lightly, and returned to the stove.
"Sorry." it said.
Zhao Rong raised his eyebrows.
First time.
"It's okay, let's go now. This road is not as safe as I thought."
Zhao Rong looked again at the direction where the unknown Taoist nun just disappeared. Then, he bent down and held the furnace ears with both hands, preparing to straighten the Tingni purple gold furnace that had fallen forward, "By the way, put it away quickly."
, how can I hold it if it’s so big?”
"Yes, but it can only shrink to its original size of one foot at most."
Zhao Rong asked curiously: "Why?"
Gui said in a faint tone, "Because... it is refining elixirs."
Zhao Rong felt a chill in his heart.
He quickly straightened the Tingni Purple Gold Furnace with both hands, lowered his head, and looked inside.