Chapter 245: Arrogant at first and respectful at the end
Mutual respect is a continuous process that requires slow adjustment, especially for two strangers. Even with Wu Sheng's efforts, it took nearly half a month to complete the first step of mutual respect: Dong Lizi
He curses people without opening his mouth easily.
For this reason, Wu Sheng put in a lot of effort, boiled medicine for Donglizi three times, and went hungry twice with the old man.
Dong Lizi was finally able to stay in bed and walk. Considering his cultivation at the peak of the God Refining Realm, it was not a major symptom. Such a long recovery time was still a bit slow, which Wu Sheng despised.
Before he could leave the house on his own, Wu Sheng made a special trip to see Jing Yue, the Third Senior High School Teacher, just to ask for his resignation. He said that giving elixirs to Dong Lizi was indeed a very difficult task, and it was just a matter of enduring the abuse and humiliation.
The key point is that the old man always said some incomprehensible things, such as saying that the sect wanted him to die and that the medicine Wu Sheng gave him was poison.
He complained to Jing Yue: "This junior knows that senior Donglizi is a little lost in mind, but it is not an option to keep talking like this. As time goes by, rumors spread, and the false ones become true. This junior is not alone, but I am worried about complicating the Danlunzong.
His reputation has hurt Master Jing. After all, this junior is the elixir arranged by Master Jing."
Jing Yue comforted him again: "The sect has its own sect rules. Few people dare to talk about the matters behind the mountain in the sect. Besides, we all know what my uncle is doing and we will never vent our anger on you.
Don’t worry... you have indeed worked hard these days and have suffered a lot of grievances. I see them all, so if you have any other difficulties, please tell me."
In the end, Wu Sheng, who was the first to file a complaint, not only eliminated the old man's opportunity to appeal, but also received a gold reward. With Huang Lian and Peng Yuanshou visiting from time to time, his usual behavior was naturally unmistakable, and Jing Yue saw it all.
inside.
Wu Sheng laid an ambush in advance and waited for a few days. Donglizi, who was able to walk on the ground, did not run to Qianshan to complain. Was he accepting his fate? Or was there some trick?
So Wu Sheng followed him quietly for a few days and discovered that Dong Lizi's activity track was as follows:
Chenshi takes a walk in the pine forest, picking up pine cones along the way. After usually picking up a pile, he will aimlessly hit branches, birds, rats and rabbits while walking.
At this time, I went to the study room to review and revise the past experiences and experiences I had written before, and then added a few new paragraphs - it was already written ten years ago.
Have lunch at noon. After eating the meal prepared by Wu Sheng, go back to the main room to rest and meditate.
Shen Shi entered the alchemy room, lit the firewood, and started tossing around with the bottles and jars in the room. Unfortunately, the bottles and jars were filled with all kinds of soil, gray sand, and no spiritual materials. The Donglizi Sea of Qi was sealed, so it was impossible.
Refining something.
At this time, Wu Sheng would come to the door to watch. After he finished his troubles, he would go into the house to look at the ash he had burned.
During the You time, Dong Lizi might go to the top of the small solitary peak in the back mountain, climb the dangerous rock cliffs, and overlook the red mountains under the setting sun from the top, and sit there until dark.
Then, he would go down the mountain and return to the garden under the moonlight to see if there was anything to eat in the kitchen. If there was anything to eat, he would eat. If not, he would go back to the house to sleep.
He has gradually learned to respect people, ignore Wu Sheng, and do not speak in any case. When they meet, they pretend they have not met. The two people have gone from being enemies to being strangers, as if they are living in the same place.
The two worlds overlap, but do not intersect.
Twice he came down late from the back mountain, Wu Sheng didn't leave any food, and the old man didn't go back to sleep as usual and went to wash and cook the rice himself. He seemed to be proving in this way that he didn't need anyone to serve him.
After a month of cold war, Wu Sheng began to enter Donglizi's alchemy room, put away the bottles and jars, and took out the spiritual materials to make elixirs.
Ingredients were added, and the fire was controlled. After an hour, the furnace was turned on, and a scent of fragrance spread out in the alchemy room. There were three warm bone elixirs lying in the furnace.
Dong Lizi leaned in front of the door, silently watching Wu Sheng refine the elixir without saying a word, and left quietly when the elixir was completed.
Wu Sheng ignored him and used a freshly cut bamboo tube to collect the Raw Bone Pill, seal it, engraved the name of the pill, took a bamboo slip to write down the usage, and placed it on the cleared pill shelf.
The next day, Wu Sheng started another furnace. Dong Lizi still leaned in front of the door and watched silently, then left. Wu Sheng also left the bottle of black ginseng pills on the shelf.
Then came the Rhubarb Pill, Jingning Pill, Ningxiang Dew, Rheumatism Pill, Anthelmintic Pill, and even Chemotherapy Pill, Pulse Protection Pill, and Nine Bottles of Spiritual Pills, all neatly stacked on the shelf. The alchemy room finally had some atmosphere of an alchemy room.
On this day, Dong Lizi entered the alchemy room and stood in front of the alchemy shelf and looked at the bottles one by one. Sometimes he opened the alchemy bottles to smell the fragrance and look at the color of the alchemy. Sometimes he took the bamboo slips and pondered the explanatory text on them.
After standing in front of the alchemy stand for a long time, his silver-white beard trembled, he suddenly turned around, quickly selected different kinds of soil next to him, put them into the pottery pot, and lit a fire to refine them. The operation was extremely smooth, and his movements were full of expression.
Everyone's demeanor, perhaps only at this moment, he accidentally revealed his greatness as the second master of the Danlun Sect.
But when the furnace was turned on, the result was still clods of clay. Donglizi looked at the charred soil and couldn't help but smash the pottery pot into pieces.
In the evening, Dong Lizi came back from the mountain with scars all over his face. This had happened before, when he accidentally fell down while going up and down the Little Solitary Peak. He didn't eat either, so he went back to the house and fell asleep.
Wu Sheng came in and placed a bottle of elixir, a bowl of rice porridge, and a plate of marinated meat beside the bed.
Dong Lizi reached out from under the quilt and took out the elixir bottle. When he saw the words "Birth Bone Pill" engraved on it, he got up, poured out the elixir and applied it on the wound.
After applying it, he threw the elixir bottle out of the room and shouted: "Don't try to trick me!"
The next day, Dong Lizi came to the water tank and looked at himself inside for a long time. Then he came to the alchemy room again. He wanted to read the text about Shenggu Dan again and smell the fragrance of the elixir.
The elixir bottle was on the elixir shelf. When I was about to reach out to get the bone elixir, I found another elixir bottle next to it, but there was no name or explanation.
Out of curiosity, Dong Lizi took the elixir bottle, pulled out the stopper and poured out the elixir. A purple elixir lay on the palm of his hand.
Dong Lizi looked at the elixir, his lips trembled for a moment, then he threw it far away from the door, rushed out of the elixir room, and shouted to Wu Sheng in the distance: "Who are you?"
Wu Sheng came over, picked up the elixir, blew away the dust, and bowed: "A few years ago, I saw this elixir, called Yang Yang elixir. This elixir is a first-class elixir with great efficacy.
Outstanding, it is said that it was popular in Qi. At that time, the juniors were envious and kept thinking about when they could ask for advice from the alchemist. They never thought that it turned out to be a senior. Disrespect!"
Dong Lizi looked at Wu Sheng coldly: "Snob, you are arrogant at first and respectful later!"
Wu Sheng smiled: "As an alchemist, I naturally rely on alchemy as the foundation of my life and practice. Facing an alchemist who only insults others and gives up on himself, I have the capital to be arrogant; if I change to another one who can practice alchemy,
The genius who made the aphrodisiac pill and other wonderful elixirs asks me to serve him respectfully, so why not? It’s natural to be arrogant at first and respectful at the end!"
Dong Lizi sneered twice and asked, "Where did you steal this aphrodisiac pill?"
Wu Sheng said: "Senior, haven't you been making elixirs with clay these days? Junior learned it after seeing it."
Donglizi shouted: "Fart!"
Wu Sheng smiled and replied: "If you don't believe it, senior can try again."
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