At this time, in the "Huashengju" Inn, Gongsun Yan and Xing Kuai had just gotten up and came to the restaurant to have dinner. When they saw them coming down, Fan Hong whispered:
"Mr. Chu, something bad has happened. Something happened in the city last night. The Nanjun Mansion was destroyed!" After saying that, Fan Hong stared at Gongsun Yan and Gongsun Yan.
Hearing this, Gongsun Yan and the others were "shocked" and immediately asked:
"The government was destroyed? Do you know who did it?"
"I don't know, but the military master below has ordered that no one in the inn is allowed to go out. People from the capital law enforcement team are ready to ask questions at any time." Fan Hong replied.
"Okay! Got it, go and do your work!"
Gongsun Yan said, and the two of them began to eat slowly, waiting for the interrogation.
Not long after, there was a rush of footsteps from the direction of the stairs, and then a few soldiers came up. There were not many people in the restaurant. As soon as the soldiers came up, they began to carefully check each guest. After some questioning, they did not find anyone suspicious.
Immediately go to the next house to inspect.
Gongsun Yan and the others immediately left the room and rushed to the outskirts of the capital.
He originally planned to go to the Taiyuan Hospital to inquire about Uncle Jiang's situation and learn more about the situation in the Northern Dynasty, but considering that the city was now heavily guarded, he had better go out to avoid the limelight first.
After leaving the city, Gongsun Yan disguised himself as a Chu official and soon came to the gate of "Xinglong Villa". The villa looked a little dilapidated, but there were still servants guarding it.
Seeing Gongsun Yan and his two men approaching, the servants immediately came to question them.
Gongsun Yan took out the access token to the villa and walked in directly with Xing Kui.
The inside of the villa looks similar to the outside. Many places have signs of man-made destruction. Weeds are overgrown everywhere and no one has taken care of them. The flowers and leaves in the past and the prosperous scenery no longer exist.
They went directly to the living room of the Fan family, where a maid came out to receive them. When they saw Gongsun Yan, the maid recognized him and quickly invited Gongsun Yan to come in and sit down. Then she ran to the back to inform Fan Qishan.
Not long after, Fan Li helped Fan Qishan in. Fan Qishan saw Gongsun Yan and said excitedly:
"Mr. Chu, you are here. I thought I would never see you again."
Fan Li also hurried over to meet Gongsun Yan and the other two.
After the four people sat down, Gongsun Yan said:
"I didn't expect that less than three years after leaving here, Huachen Kingdom would suffer such a change. Mr. Fan, are you all okay?"
"Alas! How can I feel better like this? To be honest, sir, my Fan family's business has been robbed. Only this dilapidated villa and a half-dead inn are left. Now they are just hanging on.
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"Well, I roughly know the situation. We stayed at the inn last night. Fan Hong told us a lot of things, but he doesn't know my specific identity." Gongsun Yan said.
Fan Qishan and his son then told Gongsun Yan what had happened in the past few years.
Fan Qishan burst into tears when he talked about his sadness, while Fan Li on the side looked ashamed. The Chamber of Commerce, which had been passed down for thousands of years, had been occupied by others, and he felt ashamed of his ancestors.
From Fan Qishan's narration, Gongsun Yan learned that at that time, the troops of the Rampant Kingdom came in. In a hurry, Fan Qishan took his family and some servants to hide in the mountains in the middle of the lake.
At first, the soldiers who looted the villa also wanted to climb the mountain to find out what was going on, but there were hidden piles, traps, etc. in the lake surrounding the mountain. After rowing there, the boat capsized, and several more people tried to swim over, but they all died. In addition, the appearance
It looked like a barren mountain, so they gave up the idea of climbing it.
Hearing that the alchemy room had not been looted, this was undoubtedly the best news for Gongsun Yan. He immediately comforted Fan Qishan and said:
"Mr. Fan, with all the people in the family, how can there be any eggs left intact? In such a time of national calamity, the Fan family is lucky enough to be able to save its people. As the saying goes, 'You can keep the green hills without worrying about having firewood.' Money is something outside the body. As long as you cheer up
Get up and you will find it again."
Hearing Gongsun Yan's words, the expressions of the Fan family father and son immediately perked up. Fan Qishan raised his hands and said to Gongsun Yan:
"Then I'll rely on you to lend a helping hand."
Fan Li immediately went down to inform the cook to prepare for the banquet. Gongsun Yan asked Xing Kui to stay and chat with Fan Lao. He immediately went to Huxin Mountain to see if his two disciples' alchemy skills had improved.
Through the secret passage of the Fan family ancestral hall, Gongsun Yan quickly arrived at the alchemy room.
When he suddenly appeared in front of Fan Yu and Fan Ling, the two little guys were immediately shocked, and then they rushed in front of him and paid homage. The two little guys had grown much taller. It had been nearly three years since they left, and Fan Yu was already ten years old.
One year old, Fan Ling has just turned nine.
The maid on the side also quickly brought tea. Fan Qishan was afraid that the two little guys would be lonely, so he later assigned a maid for them. However, it was stipulated that from now on, the maid could not leave Huxinshan without permission.
But since her clan members took refuge here, everyone in the Fan family has become aware of this place, and their restrictions on her have been relaxed a lot.
Gongsun Yan asked the two of them to stand up. He looked around and found that except for the alchemy area on the high altar in the central hall, which remained unchanged, other places were filled with "materials."
Except for a small number of alchemy materials, most of these "materials" are grains, dry food and other foods. It seems that Fan Qishan intends to use this place as a "refuge".
Gongsun Yan immediately began to check the conditions of the two little guys. As soon as he came in, he found that both little guys had successfully built the foundation! This surprised him greatly. In less than three years, the two of them could still build the foundation without any guidance.
The success of the foundation shows that their understanding is extremely high!
He carefully checked the conditions in their bodies and found that everything was normal; then he asked them to bring the recently refined elixir for testing. The two little guys ran out quickly, and not long after, they each came back with a big box in their arms.
In front of Gongsun Yan, the two little guys carefully opened the box. Inside were all neatly arranged porcelain bottles with labels on them. Gongsun Yan inspected the elixirs refined by Fan Yu and Fan Ling one by one, and according to the marked dates, they
Check.
These pills were all tasks assigned by Gongsun Yan to the two little guys three years ago, including refining the "Life-Extension Pill", "Divine Power Pill", "Zhuyan Pill", "World-Saving Pill", "Fushu Pill" and "Energy-Gathering Pill"
etc., although they are common elixirs, to ordinary warriors these are "miraculous medicines".
He carefully inspected and smelled almost every bottle of elixir, and sometimes even took one or two pills. Gongsun Yan discovered that as the days went by, the two little guys' level progressed rapidly and had their own characteristics. In the past three years,
In the past month, the elixirs refined by the two of them have reached the level of middle-grade elixirs.
Gongsun Yan was secretly surprised. The two little guys' alchemy skills were between the two, but they had reached his own level. Gongsun Yan didn't realize that his face was slightly red. The quality of the elixirs refined by these two apprentices was now on par with his own.
It's almost the same, but I don't know what the elixir success rate is.