Leaving the city, by the large lake in the back garden of the Prefect's Palace.
On the huge stone foundation where Tingyu Tower originally stood, layers of wooden supports have been erected. Among the supports, a tall building that is seventy-nine similar to the former Tingyu Tower has taken shape, but it seems to be even taller.
, it seems that it will not take too long to be completed, and the scene of high-rise buildings and green embankments by the lake will reappear.
This is probably what Lu Sifan looked like when he was a child.
However, on this day, there were no craftsmen at the construction site on the stone foundation. There were only a large number of palace attendants and guards surrounding them from a distance, facing outwards, as if they were guarding something important. They did not dare to breathe, let alone
Turn back.
Outside the stone foundation, on the edge of the big lake, on a white stone platform extending out of the water, several people are gathered together. The strong man in the middle, in a coarse short-sleeved shirt, with black and yellow skin, is the silversmith. At this moment, he is holding a pig iron in his hands?
The black ball looks like a black ball, looking up and down.
Beside him, Luo Chuan was the closest, hiding half of his body behind the silversmith, with his face almost touching his shoulder.
Opposite the silversmith on the other side were Shadow and Qianxue. These two people had naturally seen this kind of thing before, and they were not curious at the moment. Instead, they were staring at a huge silver ingot held by Qianxue.
The silver ingot was in the shape of a treasure boat. The four sides of the silver ingot were engraved with black lines, making it look heavier and heavier. There was a blood-red mark on the bottom that looked like a signature and a talisman. I don’t know what kind of vermilion paint it was painted with. Looking at it,
Bright and spooky.
"How is it? Can I still plant it?" Luo Chuan asked.
After looking at it for a long time, the silversmith took the black seed and bumped it in his hand. "Of course it can be planted," he pointed at the big lake in front of him, "but do you want to plant it in this lake?
"
Luo Chuan was stunned and asked, "Isn't it meant to be planted in water?"
The silversmith scratched his head and said, "It's naturally planted in water. I mean, just so... upright?"
Luo Chuan understood what the other party meant. A fire parasol tree was as big as a fire phoenix tree, and even though it was covered up by him in the side hall, the lotus seeds this time might be quite extraordinary, so he should find something to cover it up.
But he looked around and saw that the three lakes in the garden were all for ornamental purposes. There were mostly paths with flowers and plants around the lakes. The closest to the lake was the Tingyu Tower, which had not yet been renovated. He looked at the silversmith and asked
, "What on earth is this? How long does it take for it to bloom after planting, and how big is it when it blooms?"
"It must be a lotus. Look at the size of this seed. If it really matures and blooms, it may not be nearly ten feet in size, and there may be more than one." The silversmith said with some uncertainty, "As for what kind it is,
I can’t tell how long it will take for it to bloom after planting. If it doesn’t work, just plant it and wait. It must be a good thing, and you have to plant it before you see it.”
Qianxue handed the silver ingot in her hand to Shadow's hand, then looked around and said, "Lotus seeds must be planted in water. The only thing standing on the water around this garden is the banquet hall.
In my opinion, we can just dig a hole on this platform and plant it, and then let the craftsmen build another small building with a glazed roof on this platform before it matures and blooms. Anyway, this Tingyu Tower is not
They are also being built, one behind and one in front, one big and one small, so others won’t be surprised when they see it.”
"Okay," Luochuan looked down, found a relatively central place and tapped his foot, looked at Qianxue and asked, "Did you dig here?"
Qianxue did not take action, but looked at the silver ingot in Shadow's hand and asked the silversmith, "Can this thing be suppressed?"
The silversmith was not annoyed, he just smiled honestly and said, "Gold overcomes wood and produces water, so it is most suitable to use silver to suppress it."
Luochuan went to Shadow to look at the silver ingot and asked, "When the lotus blooms, find a red rope and tie one end to the silver ingot and the other end to the lotus stem?"
"No, no, no," the silversmith pointed to the dark lotus seed with a smile, "When the seeds take root and sprout, throw the silver ingot to where its root is, and the silver ingot will be the same as the one with a radius of dozens of feet.
The land is integrated into one. In this way, even if the lotus becomes alive in the future and wants to run away, it will not be able to move unless it can take its own roots with the dozens of feet of land. Of course, as long as
Once this silver ingot takes root, ordinary criminals will not be able to remove it without using any special skills."
Luo Chuan's eyes lit up when he heard this, and then he looked at the silversmith and said, "Senior Silversmith, this thing... isn't cheap?"
"It's not expensive, it's not expensive, and we don't need the money from the prefect," the silversmith waved his hands repeatedly, then looked at Luochuan and said, "When the lotus flowers bloom, the sheds here will also be erected. The prefect will leave one nearby for our disciples.
It’s a good place to practice..."
Luo Chuan said in surprise, "Senior has accepted another apprentice?"
The silversmith said, "We don't have any apprentices, but the other brothers and sisters always have one or two good seedlings in their hands."
Luo Chuan became even more surprised when he heard this, "Senior is also from a sect on the mountain? I don't know what sect he is from?"
"Our sect is not well-known, even the prefect doesn't know about it," Silversmith said with a smile. Luo Chuan didn't ask further, just said, "It's okay to reserve a seat, but senior, you need to know that this place
But the harem garden of the prefect’s house..."
"Yes, we know," the silversmith said honestly, "if you let female disciples come, men will not be so lucky."
Qianxue was listening, and couldn't help but laugh lightly and sarcastically said, "Could it be that the Grand Administrator wants to take advantage of the female disciples in his sect? In their sect, even the female disciples are probably blacksmiths."
Luo Chuan didn't take it seriously and looked at Qianxue and said, "If the lotus blooms, Qianxue, you can come here to practice, right?"
Qianxue glanced at him sideways and ignored him.
Luo Chuan was not embarrassed. He walked back to the previously selected position and stepped on it. He was about to squat down and try his luck to blow a hole there when he was pushed away by Qianxue. She didn't see how she moved. The white stone ground there
Frost formed within a six-foot radius, and then it made a "crack" sound.
Qianxue pressed it casually, and the thick ground shattered into fine sand and gravel, then collapsed and fell, leaving only a neat circular hole on the ground. Three feet below the hole was the dark water surface.
.
The silversmith walked over with the dark lotus seed in one hand and put it down from the center of the pit. The lotus seed fell into the water with a "pop", then submerged into it and disappeared.
The four people in Luochuan gathered around the pothole and looked down. They waited for a long time without any reaction.
Luo Chuan squatted down, his eyes sparkling with stars, and he looked deep into the water. He could vaguely see the black lotus seed still under the water, "I'm afraid this thing is not mature. I got it last time."
Don’t you still have a bag of dust when you arrive?”
Shadow raised her hand, and a black cloth bag flew into her hand from a short distance away. The bag was opened, and the silversmith leaned over to take a look. He couldn't help but clicked his tongue, "If it's just this thing, it won't use so much breath. Any more would be a waste."
, a handful as big as a fist is enough.”
Upon hearing this, Shadow stretched out his hand, and green light enveloped a ball of black gold sand-like soil the size of a fist, and fell from the center of the hole on the ground.
After a while, there was still no reaction under the water.
Luochuan couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. He stood up, spread his hands and said with a smile, "It seems like this thing..."
Before he finished speaking, Qianxue on the side reached out to grab him and flew backwards. At the same time, the silversmith and the shadow each took a few steps back.
Just as a few people left the vicinity of the pit, a blue light shot out from the bottom of the water, blasting the stone platform near the pit into pieces...!!