The thin, dark boy in front of me is named Lin Cheng, and they have a good relationship.
When he first came to Tianqing County, something happened to Lin Cheng's family. His mother died of illness, but he couldn't afford the money to buy a coffin. At that time, Chen Chao felt soft and gave him some money.
With some friendship established, after burying his mother, Lin Cheng was busy in Peach Blossom Alley and helped Chen Chao a lot.
After that, he went alone to the Xuanming Mine outside Tianqing County to make a living. Monk practice required elixirs to refine elixirs, and making magic weapons required various materials. Therefore, in the Liang Dynasty, ores were mined everywhere.
There is a stone mine around Tianqing County that specializes in mining Xuan Ming Stone. The scale of the stone mine is not large, and it can only produce several thousand kilograms of Xuan Ming Stone every year. However, these Xuan Ming Stones are also necessary for monks to create magical tools.
The imperial court often exchanged this with other practicing sects for other necessities, so it needed a lot of miners all year round.
Although Lin Cheng is thin and small, he is actually born with a lot of strength, which is enough to rival a strong adult man, so he was accepted there under special circumstances. He is not much more or less every month, and he is also paid several days' worth of wages. In Tianqing County
In this place, a few coins are not a small amount of money. If you don't need to practice, it will be more than enough for Lin Cheng to find a wife after working for a few years.
However, cave collapses often occur in the stone mines, and it seems that they are just risking their lives.
"Why are you back?"
Chen Chao glanced at Lin Cheng, a little confused. Everyone at the quarry only got one day off per month. The kid in front of him only came back at the beginning of the month, so he shouldn't show up again this month.
"Several mines over there have collapsed in the past few days. The adults in charge stopped mining and took a few days off. I just have something to give to Brother Chen." As he spoke, Lin Cheng looked around carefully.
Then Chen Chao was pulled into the alley, and he carefully took out a grass with seven leaves from his patched cotton coat. The roots were wrapped in soil by Lin Cheng. The leaves were green, and green juice could be seen on the lines.
It flows, and the brilliance on the leaves flows, and you can tell that it is extraordinary at a glance.
Chen Chao frowned. Although he knew this object was extraordinary, he didn't recognize it.
"It's seven-star grass."
Xie Nandu said softly, "There is a record in the Supplementary Notes. It can be used to refine a variety of elixirs. It has the effect of calming the mind and smoothing the Qi. Judging from the appearance, it is even the top grade among the seven-star grass. It is not as good as your blood demon bead."
The difference in value.”
In the past few years, Xie Nandu, who had not embarked on the path of spiritual practice, except for the Confucian classics taught by great Confucian scholars every day, in her spare time, she read many books on spiritual practice in Bailu's ancestral temple. She has a photographic memory.
With my ability and patience, I naturally learned a lot
thing.
"There is an interesting story related to Seven Star Grass."
Xie Nandu smiled.
In the Collected Relics, it is clearly recorded that a top-quality Seven-Star Grass was discovered in Jianqi Mountain decades ago. It happened that the Supreme Elder of a large sect outside the country had failed in his cultivation and was in urgent need of this thing.
In order to save their lives, the sect sent their disciples to Jianqi Mountain, hoping to buy it at a high price. Jianqi Mountain has existed for a long time and has a great reputation, but it is not a powerful sect, and Seven Star Grass is not suitable for them.
, it had no effect, so I didn’t shirk it and wanted to sell it. But the price offered by the sect outside the square was too low, which was tantamount to taking it by force. Jianqi Mountain was furious and gave away more than ten famous swords in the mountain as a thank you gift.
Armed with a famous sword, countless sword cultivators swarmed in and directly eradicated the outer sect. The poor Supreme Elder had his own head cut off by a certain sword cultivator before he could get the life-saving elixir.
"Is there such a thing?"
Lin Cheng's eyes widened, never expecting that a small herb could kill those gods-like beings, or even wipe out a sect.
"Sword Qi Mountain?"
Chen Chao had no idea about the story itself, but he was somewhat interested in the Sword Qi Mountain.
Xie Nandu explained, "Sword Qi Mountain is a sword cultivator sect outside the square. However, there are no powerful sword cultivators in the sect. It can only be regarded as a second-rate sect. They are not interested in killing people, and their practice is just incidental. They have been doing it."
The only thing I can do is make swords, and now half of the famous swords in the world come from this mountain."
"I think even if there are a lot of swords made and the swords cannot be repaired, there are so many famous swords hidden in the mountain. It's not necessarily that no one is greedy for them."
Chen Chao felt that if Jianqi Mountain wanted to exist in the world, it would not just forge swords. Without its own power, and with so many things needed for swordsmanship, he was afraid that some sword sects would always want to seize it.
Nodding, Xie Nandu said, "Every hundred years, they must release a new sword. It has been the sharpest sword in the world for a hundred years. The monks call it the Hundred Years Sword. And the sword masters of this Hundred Years Sword, every
, are all destined to become the most powerful sword immortals in the world. With this incense and love, Sword Qi Mountain will naturally flourish forever. No one will be willing to take risks to provoke half or the entire world's sword cultivators.
Let’s start with Jianqi Mountain…”
Chen Chao nodded.
Lin Cheng had already removed the seven-star plant
The grass was handed to him, "I found this in the mine. I don't know what its use is, but I thought you would definitely need it, so I brought it back to you, Brother Chen."
He stretched out his hand, but Chen Chao did not pick it up immediately. He just said, "Did you know that this seven-star grass will save you from having to dig in the stone mine with your life, and you can marry at least eight wives?"
For the rest of my life, I will have no worries about food and clothing."
"So valuable?" Lin Cheng was a little surprised, but his eyes were full of smiles. He was not stupid. When he learned the story before, he almost knew the value of this seven-star grass, but he was still willing to take it.
Coming out has already explained a lot of things.
"When my mother was still alive, she always taught me that if you receive a drop of kindness from someone, you should repay it with a spring. When no one buried my mother, it was you, Brother Chen, who extended a helping hand. With this little kindness, I Lin
I will remember it forever!"
Lin Cheng forced the Seven-Star Grass into Chen Chao's hand, and then chuckled, "Brother Chen, if you really feel sorry for yourself, just give me some money, but don't give it to me in a hurry, I'm afraid I won't be able to bear it and spend it, so just
Leave it with Brother Chen first."
After saying this, Lin Cheng said that his house should be cleaned, otherwise if his mother came back anytime, she would not have a place to stay, so she would not stay here with Chen Chao any longer.
Before leaving, Lin Cheng looked at Xie Nandu and said seriously, "Sister, my brother Chen is definitely a person worthy of being entrusted to him for life. In fact, he can consider it."
After saying this, he ran away quickly.
Don't give Chen Chao a chance to speak.
Looking at the back of the dark and skinny boy, Chen Chao was speechless.
When he extended a helping hand back then, Chen Chao was not really warm-hearted. There were so many miserable people in the world. Even if he wanted to help them all, he could only help a few. But Lin Cheng like that reminded Chen Chao of a certain person many years ago.
As a young man, he suddenly felt compassion, but he never expected that the good relationship he had formed casually would now become more than just repaying each other with a spring of water.
After collecting the seven-star grass, Chen Chao had no intention of selling it just like that. One of the magic weapons found on the young man's body was used to store this type of elixir. There was no need to worry about the loss of the elixir's properties.
"This doesn't seem to be your temperament." Xie Nandu was a little confused when he saw that Chen Chao had no intention of selling the seven-star grass.
In her perception, Chen Chao was decisive and never sloppy, but in some aspects, he was just like a street vendor.
Chen Chao smiled, "I haven't read many books, but I seem to have seen
In one sentence, a gentleman loves money and gets it in a wise way."
Xie Nandu laughed, looking like a blooming pear blossom.
"But... I am not a gentleman. The reason why I keep this thing is probably because I feel that not everything in the world is taken for granted."
Chen Chao took a deep breath, and spent a small amount of money to help someone bury his mother. Then that person would repay him with countless times the good things, and he would accept it with peace of mind? Even if he said it to the heavens, Chen Chao would not admit it.
This principle.
And the reason why he chose to accept it was because Lin Cheng was just an ordinary boy. If others knew that he carried a valuable treasure, it was self-evident what would happen to him.
A common man is not guilty of carrying a jade.
"Who the hell are you!"
Xie Nandu shook his little hand, which was white and tender, without any threat.
Chen Chao smiled and said, "Although I am not a gentleman, I am a good person. I said it when we were in the mountain temple at the beginning."
Xie Nandu was speechless and just snorted coldly.
Chen Chao had nothing to say, so the two of them just went back the way they came.
When I passed the county government office again, it was already afternoon.
Just as he was about to pass the county government office, a clerk rushed out. Because he was too anxious, he even fell in the snow, but he quickly got up, regardless of the wind and snow on his body, and just
He ran towards the distance with an anxious face.
"Where is he going in such a hurry?"
Chen Chao recognized that the man was the clerk who went to look for him that night. That night, the two of them chatted for a while and casually asked the yamen officer at the gate of the county yamen.
The yamen servant smiled and said, "We are here to find Commissioner Chen. Someone from above is here. Commissioner Chen's immediate superior, Commissioner Li from Qingshan County, specially asked Commissioner Chen to come to the county government office. I don't know what happened."
, the magistrate sent him to look for him, he was a little anxious..."
Chen Chao looked at him and remained silent.
The yamen servant also smiled at first, and then gradually stopped laughing.
The two looked at each other without speaking.
Xie Nandu sighed.
The yamen officer was startled and said, "Peach Blossom Alley, where Chief Chen lives, is a bit far away."
The voice became quieter.
After saying this, he quickly reacted. Without waiting for Chen Chao to speak, he shouted to the county government office at the top of his lungs, "Sir, Commissioner Chen is here!"