As soon as the old man said this, he felt that someone was poking his head in the cabin, trying to get out. When he turned around, he saw it was Xiao Liuzi, his expression tightened, and he said angrily: "Go back and hide it!"
The young man was stunned for a moment, then gritted his teeth, nodded, and retreated into the cabin.
The old man turned his head and saw dozens of men in black suddenly rushing out from the huge waves, all with green gauze covering their faces, carrying ghost-headed machetes, and came riding the waves.
In an instant, the fish jumped up and lined up on the board of the ship, several feet away from the old man and dozens of crewmen, and facing each other.
These dozens of men in black had a cold and fierce light in their eyes, and a cold light flickered on the tip of the ghost-headed machete.
For a moment, both sides were silent, only the rushing water passed by.
The old man looked serious and said loudly: "Everyone, why did you come to my boat at night? If you are robbing money, I'm afraid you are on the wrong track. My boat is full of wild tea leaves, which are not worth much. Everyone.
I’m afraid the trip will be in vain!”
The dozens of men in black were speechless, and suddenly a man appeared from behind.
This man was not covered with green gauze. He was dressed in purple. He held a folding fan in his hand and a parrot-green wrench on his left thumb. He had eagle eyes and thin eyebrows, but had a catfish mouth and a sinister look on his face.
He was green and had a trace of water vapor on his face. He must have been soaked in water all day long and his water properties were excellent.
The man stared coldly at the old man and the dozens of strong men behind him, and slowly shook the folding fan. In fact, he was just showing off. The wind around him was much stronger than the wind he created by shaking it twice.
Halfway.
The eagle-eyed man in purple looked at it for a while, then said calmly: "This tea comes from Xinyang?"
The old man was startled at first, and then said: "Yes, it seems that your Excellency has been staring at us for a long time, but I don't understand why we need to mobilize so many people with just tea leaves?"
Hearing this, the eagle-eyed man in purple nodded and said, "Since it comes from Xinyang, it can't be wrong."
As he spoke, he turned around, stood on the bow of the boat, and looked into the distance.
In the distance, in the dark night on the left and right, two large mountains are silent, with a jade-belt-like river in the middle.
The river is surging and the mountains are vast.
The man in purple took out a piece of candied fruit from somewhere, peeled off the outer layer of oil paper, put the candied fruit into his mouth, closed his eyes and sucked it for a while, then said in a bored tone: "People say, this is the Dragon Gate Dance. I
From a visual perspective, this name is very appropriate. If you guys take a good look at it, I’m afraid you won’t be able to look at it again in the future..."
Suddenly, murderous intent suddenly appeared in his voice, and he said coldly: "Leave no one behind! Kill! Move quickly, take action, be gentle, don't disturb my enjoyment of the scenery!"
As soon as the voice fell, the dozens of masked men in black raised their ghost-headed machetes at the same time, and all started to kill the old man and the dozens of strong men.
The old man looked solemn and shouted loudly: "Men, raise your swords! Come on!"
On one side are the ghost-headed machetes, and on the other side are the plain knives.
The two parties collided in an instant, and a fierce hand-to-hand combat began instantly.
Although those men were strong and strong, they only had basic skills. They were no match for these killers. As soon as those killers charged, seven or eight men were already lying on the board of the ship. Blood was flowing all over the ship. It was miserable.
Suddenly, curses, angry shouts, and the sound of weapons clashing all rang out, covering up the sound of the rushing water.
The eagle-eyed man in purple was still looking at the wonderful scenery of two mountains and a river in the distance, and there seemed to be appreciation in his eyes.
The candied fruit in its mouth kept squirming, and the catfish's mouth also kept trembling, which looked quite weird.
Suddenly he seemed to feel that the noise was a little too loud. He closed the folding fan with a swipe, covered his ears, and shouted: "It's so noisy! It's so noisy! As I said, be gentle, be gentle, and you still do it like this."
The big commotion disturbed my enjoyment of the scenery."
Sure enough, with his roar, the sound of the battlefield became much quieter.
After about a while, the sounds of fighting and screaming disappeared, as if they had never happened before.
The eagle-eyed man in purple then turned his head calmly.
In front of him, dozens of corpses of strong men lay staggered on the ship's plank, grinning with a deathly look.
The old man was even worse. He had been stabbed several times and had a ghost-headed machete stuck deep in his heart. He had been dead for a long time.
Blood flowed all over the boat, pouring silently into the roaring river from the gaps, and instantly there was not even a trace of red to be found.
The cold wind blew by, and the eagle-eyed man in purple closed his eyes and smelled the thick smell of blood in the air. The look on his face seemed to be intoxicated.
He took another deep breath and said softly: "The smell of blood is more intoxicating than the scenery."
After he finished saying this, he turned to the killers on the left and right and said, "Go to the cabin and see if there are anyone alive. If there are any, send them on their way together."
The black-clothed assassins on the left and right responded and led five or six assassins towards the cabin.
There is another person in the cabin—Xiao Liuzi!
Just now, Xiao Liuzi saw clearly that his master and the crewmen with whom he lived day and night were all killed by the swords of these thugs.
His liver and gallbladder were split apart, he was filled with grief and anger, and his liver and intestines were torn apart.
At that time, he wanted to rush out desperately and fight these murderous demons.
But when he took a step, he took it back in an instant.
He cursed himself secretly, "Xiao Liuzi, why are you so unlucky? The master didn't let you go out just now, and it's already over. I'm afraid you're going to die today. Didn't the master do this to protect you?"
With a thought in his mind, he secretly thought that he must live, so that more people can know the truth of the matter.
So, without any further hesitation, he suddenly turned around, opened up the pile of cargo boxes and bags behind him, plunged into the deepest part, and then moved the boxes and bags back hard to cover his body.
He was already lean, so nothing could be seen from the outside.
As soon as he hid, six or seven killers took torches and ghost-headed knives and walked into the cabin where he was hiding.
Xiao Liuzi heard their footsteps and tried his best to control his trembling body. He covered his mouth with one hand and tried his best not to make any sound.
But I heard one of the killers say: "There is no one here, they are all dead outside!"
Another killer said: "There is so much cargo piled up in this cabin. It would be troublesome for a person to hide in it. Let's take a lot of effort to move this cargo away and check it carefully."
The first killer's voice came up again: "Is this necessary? When will these many goods be moved?"
Another killer said: "Anyway, we're going to throw them all into the river in a while. It's less troublesome to move them out now, isn't it? Besides, if there is someone, the boss wants to blame him. Who among us can afford it?"
Then there was the squeaking sound of moving boxes and bags.
Xiao Liuzi hid behind the last row of cargo boxes, not daring to come out, and his whole body was soaked with sweat.
Seeing that these killers had moved the goods to only the last three floors, if they moved further, they could find Xiao Liuzi's figure.
At this moment, a killer was heard shouting from the ship's board: "Brothers, hurry up and gather back, our ship and cargo have arrived!"
The group of killers stopped, patted the dust on their hands, and walked out of the cabin with the ghost head knife.
Xiao Liuzi's body softened and he breathed a long sigh of relief. However, the crisis was only temporarily lifted.
On the ship's plank, the eagle-eyed man in purple and dozens of killers stood there, looking behind the ship.
Sure enough, on top of the rolling waves, a cargo ship slightly smaller than this ship was riding the wind and waves, coming quickly towards their direction.
After a while, the two ships lined up, and a wide plank was set up from the new cargo ship and placed on the deck of the cargo ship where the man in Eagle Eyes and Purple Clothes was.
Several people walked out from the newly arrived cargo ship and took torches. The leader turned out to be a man dressed as a Confucian scholar.
These people all stepped across the wooden board and walked up to the man in purple clothes with eagle eyes. The man dressed as a Confucian scholar cupped his hands towards him and said: "It's been a long time!..."
The eagle-eyed man in purple glanced at him and snorted: "It's not too late..."
Then he waved behind him and said: "Move quickly!..."
The dozens of killers swarmed up, walked across the planks erected on the ship, and walked towards the cargo hold of the new ship.
After a while, either one person or two people were carrying boxes of unknown goods and walked back to the ship of the man in eagle-eyed purple.
I saw these killers all grinning, thinking that these goods must be very heavy.
While they were busy carrying the cargo, the hidden little Liuzi saw that no one was paying attention to him, so he quietly sneaked out of the cabin and quietly moved to the stern of the ship.
But under the boat, the waves were rough and the current was very fast.
Xiao Liuzi took a deep breath, gritted his teeth, and mustered up the courage to jump into the waves...
The sound of him jumping into the water was completely submerged in the sound of the waves.
The killers moved the new ship's cargo to the cabin, moved some of the original tea cargo boxes out of the cabin, threw them into the water, and then gathered the tea cargo into a pile.
He also vigorously placed the newly arrived heavy cargo boxes behind the tea goods, and secretly and irregularly gathered them into a pile.
After doing this, the scholar-like man raised his fist towards the eagle-eyed man in purple, returned to the boat, removed the wooden planks, and his boat swayed and disappeared at the end of the river.
But when the killers took off all their black clothes and green gauze, they were all dressed in the same colors as the ship's crewmen before.
The eagle-eyed man in purple waved his hand and roared: "Sail the boat! Jump over the dragon gate!"
The waves rolled and the cargo ship started slowly again.
After a while, he accelerated his speed and rushed straight out of the Longmen Jump between two mountains and one water...
............
Su Ling locked himself in his own room for a day and night, concentrating on studying the pills.
In order to find out how the pills were refined, Wang Jun was sent to the entire Longtaifang City in Kyoto to buy smoke, salt, sulfur, lead and mercury blocks, cinnabar and fire wood.
I even bought a small alchemy tripod.
He went to Guo Baiyi's house without any trouble and asked for some alchemy books.
Only Guo Baiyi, a man of extensive knowledge, really has these things.
Su Ling first opened the stolen pill and looked at what was inside.
But I looked at it in confusion, and I didn’t know what the ingredients were.
Then he found a small mill, put the pills that had become lumps into it, ground them into powder, raised them carefully, and watched intently.
Finally, after his unremitting efforts, he discovered that in addition to the commonly used alchemy ingredients, this pill seemed to have added a special medicine - ginkgo.
Su Ling knew that ginkgo can astringe lung qi, calm phlegm and asthma, unblock blood vessels, protect the liver, and improve insufficient blood supply to the brain.
However, if it is taken excessively for a long time, it can cause poisoning.
Could it be that the poison really comes from ginkgo?
In order to test his idea, he asked Fang Xi for some ginkgo. Fang Xi was generous and gave Su Ling a bag without taking any money. He only said that it was poisonous if eaten too much.
Su Ling said that she had a headache and maybe lacked energy and blood, so she tried using less.
When Su Ling returned to the room, he couldn't wait to pour some ginkgo fruits, spices, mixed with sulfur, smoke, salt, lead and mercury chunks into the alchemy cauldron, lit the fire, and used the bamboo fan to fan.
On fire, he started practicing elixirs in a serious manner.
Because Su Ling was too focused on this, he ignored the bad business and left it all to Du Heng and Wang Jun, which made the two very busy.
The two of them ran in and out, looking into Su Ling's house from time to time.
But he saw that Su Ling's house was filled with smoke, like a fairyland.
Du Heng just thought that Su Ling didn't know that something was wrong and was obsessed with the art of alchemy. He often complained to Wang Jun, saying that it was inappropriate for Su Ling to leave a good doctor and go to make alchemy. What if something happened?
How can a naive person who has seen through the world of mortals be worthy of Zhang Zhiyue from Fei Snake Valley in Nanzhang?
Wang Jun said: "Young Master must have his own reasons for doing this..."
In fact, he was murmuring in his heart, wondering what Su Ling was going to do.
The two of them were busy working in the bad hall when suddenly.
The only thing I heard was a "bang--" sound like thunder, which made the window lattice paper in the hall tremble.
The two of them were so frightened that they dropped what they were doing and ran towards Su Ling's house as fast as they could.
As soon as he arrived in the backyard, he saw thick smoke billowing out of Su Ling's room, like a kiln, with sparks flying inside, and a strange smell of burnt, slightly medicinal aroma.
"Su Ling...what are you talking about?", "Sir..."
Du Heng and Wang Jun rushed into the thick smoke one after another. The thick smoke only made them cough and sneeze, and their noses and tears came out.
Looking at Su Ling's room, everything was covered with a layer of black dust, and the alchemy cauldron was leaning to the side.
Su Ling squatted beside the alchemy cauldron in a daze, with a dazed look on his face, and his whole face turned black.
That's a bit funny.
The two of them hurried over and pulled Su Ling up. Du Heng asked, "Su Ling, what are you doing?"
Su Ling pointed at the crooked alchemy cauldron, bared his teeth and said, "Refining alchemy..."
Du Heng was confused for a while and shouted: "Are you making elixirs? Are you blowing up the house? What on earth can't you think about?"
Su Ling wondered in a daze whether his method was wrong or he added too many things, which led to the explosion while practicing.
Du Heng saw that he was dumbfounded and silent, with a shady face. He looked at the alchemy cauldron leaning to the side, waved his hand in front of his eyes, and jumped to his feet and said: "It's over, it's over, I must have blown my head."
....."
Su Ling was upset by Du Heng's screams, so she said angrily: "You just blew your mind..."
With that said, he pushed the two of them out, locked the door, and continued to study his great cause of alchemy.
Du Heng stamped his feet and shouted: "Practice, practice, I will blow you up and no one will care about you!"
The two had no choice but to go to the front hall again and continue their business.
However, it won't take a moment.
"Bang——" A sound louder than before came from behind.
Du Heng and Wang Jun looked at each other and ran in panic again.
This time, Su Ling's house can be described as a cave filled with smoke.
Su Ling's entire body became black, almost blending in with the thick black smoke.
Wang Jun and Du Heng were also really panicked and didn't even notice Su Ling.
Du Heng said anxiously: "It's over! It exploded into ashes..."
Suddenly, in the black smoke, two rows of white teeth were pointed at them.
Only then did they see clearly that it was Su Ling who had become a black man.
"Young Master...you are..." Even Wang Jun was a little helpless.
Su Ling was secretly upset and kicked them out again.
He gritted his teeth and said, "I don't believe it, I can't handle this little broken pill cauldron!"
Then I thought of that Fushenzi. After all, this guy is also a Taoist sect. Even if he has learned a little bit, he is still better than me.
However, Su Ling should be happy. If this great fairy comes, I'm afraid the roof will be blown through.
Wang Jun and Du Heng had to work in the front hall again.
However, the "bang——", "bang——" explosion sound like a cannon would be heard from time to time.
The two of them were nervous at first. They went in several times but were kicked out by Su Ling who was getting darker and darker.
So much so that later on, the sound of bang bang bang could not be heard without stopping, one after another.
The two of them are used to it, but you look at me and I look at you, with helpless smiles on their faces.
Su Ling burst into laughter in the room.
A person came to the door of the bad hall.
It was Guo Baiyi dressed in white.
After finally squeezing into the crowded Bad Hall, when he saw Wang Jun and Du Heng, he asked with some confusion: "The business of Bad Hall is so good, why don't you see Su Ling?"
Du Heng grinned and said, "He? He was setting off firecrackers in the backyard, playing with exploding barrels..."
Guo Baiyi was even more puzzled: "Set off firecrackers? This is not a new year or a festival, let's set off firecrackers..."
Wang Jun smiled bitterly and said, "Sir, you'd better go to the young master's room at the back and you'll know after a quick look."
Guo Baiyi nodded, and then the confused person walked towards Su Ling's room.
As soon as he walked into the backyard, he smelled a strong burnt smell, which made Guo Baiyi choke with runny nose and tears. He coughed endlessly and almost kicked his legs to return to his position.
Guo Baiyi covered his mouth and nose hard and just walked a few steps.
But out of the thick black smoke, a dark-looking man jumped out, dancing like a black-haired monkey.
Baring his very conspicuous white teeth, he said with great joy: "It's done...it's done! I, Su Ling, am really a genius!"